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FRIDAY, JUNE 6. 1958 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE 5 A Writer, Philosopher Will. Durant Gives Advice To 1958 Graduates By I'nlted Press International The name, Will Durant, ha been one of the best known i American intellectuals since 193 when he accomplished the miracl of writing a book about philoso V '! tvT y WILL DURANT phy so readable it became a best teller and stayed one. Now. 32 years later and at the age of 72, he is laboriously com pleting with a 39-cent ballpoint pen a 3-million-word work in sev en volumes, sweepingly titled "The Story of Civilization." Du rant says he reads 500 other books for every ope he writes. This monumental history has been undertaken by a chipper fel low with silky white hair who has Merchants To Hold Sale A Silver Dollar Special Sale, sponsored by members of the Klamath Merchants Association, will be presented in connection with this year's Basin Celebration, It was decided at Tuesday morn lng's meeting of the association held at the Chuck Wagon. The sale, to be held June 27 and 28, will coincide with the open ing of the season for Western dress. The merchants agreed to advocate -Western dress for em cloves beginning June 27, and it was suggested that everyone wear Western hats Beginning June at. Bill SteDDe. president of the ro deo which is a key event of the celebration, was a guest at the meeting, and said thauhe had se cured prizes for the largest and smallest hats. Other Basin Celebration Council officials who were guests at the meeting were Warren Parr, presi dent; Warren Woodard, chairman of the Junior Rodeo; Kathy Galla gher, chairman of the Kiddies Pa rade; John Heilbronner, in charge of special events and Kay Bellin ger, secretary. The meeting was attended by 20 members of the merchants assoc iation, and presided over by Lewis Wayburn, president. Installation Of Reverend Slated LAKE VIEW Formal installation of the Rev. Leo Scheelk as pastor of the F rst Lutheran uiurcn Lakeview, will be held at 8 p.m Wednesday. June 11. with the Rev Emil Leising of Gardnerville, Ne vada, performing the rites. The Rev. Scheelk has been the acting Ti.-wtnr sinre October. 1957. Thp sermon will be delivered by the Rev. Armin Mueller, pastor of St. Luke's Lutheran Church Reno. Members of the congregation are invited tn a buffet supper to be served by ladies of the guild at the narsonace. 822 Mill view Place. At this time the parsonage will be- dedicated by the .pastor, he impudence to be witty, world y and warm as well as learned. This week Durant took time off rom writing the last of his his orical volumes to compose an iddress to his grandson's prep ichool graduating class. His wife, vlio takes a keen and often criti cal interest in his work, typed it or him. Saturday he will deliver t at the commencement exer cises. Editor's Note: Graduation time is at hand for hundreds of thousands of American boys and girls. What advice should they be given as they go out into a troubled end dangerous world? What will be their most press ing problems? A wise philoso pher, an internationally known historian, answers the question's in the following dispatch. It is part of a commencement ad dress which Will Durant will de liver this weekend at the Webb Preparatory School, Claremont, Calif. Among the graduates he will be addressing his own grandson, James Easton, 16. By WILL DURANT United Press International A task has been assigned to me, and I propose to go through with it as modestly as its inherent im modesty will permit. If now I dare to address you, it is not as one white with wisdom, or prac ticed in the ways of the world. but as a fellow student nanai- capped with senility, yet as eager as ever to learn something' be tween every rising and setting of the sun. You must season my platitudes with a grain of doubt, and grant me tne loierani auuw- ances that youm musi always make for age. Mv first request to you is De healthy. It is mostly within your will. In manv cases sickness is a crime; you have done something physiologically foolish, and nature is being hard put to it to repair your mistake. The pain is the tui tion you pay for your instruction in living. Care of the health should be a required course, for at least an hour each week, in Adventists Set Vacation School Vacation Bible School will be conducted at the Seventh Day Ad- ventist Church, Mam ana Morn mer streets, beginning Monday, .lunp 9. continuing for two weeks. Theme of the school will be "The Kino's Ariventureland. Interesting and worthwhile proj ects are planned in the craft divi sion with Mrs. Joyce Unrue as leader. Thrilling and instructive Bible stories will be told by Mrs. Cecil Humphrey. Mrs. Koy uug oan is director of the school. Elder Konaia ftegiey, pasim ui the Klamath Falls Seventh Day Adventist Church will lead tne de votional service with Mrs. Kegley at the piano. Leaders of the vari ous departments will be: Mrs. Don Howard, junior department; mrs. C. Chaffee, primary; Mrs.- Don Benjamin, kindergarten, umers assisting will be Mrs. William Har rell. Mrs. Don Chrowl. Mrs. Ivan Graham, Mrs.. Harry Morgan, Ce cil Montgomery. A welcome is extended. every year from kindergarten to Ph.D. Such a course would include thorough instruction in diet. Our bodies are what we eat, plus what our ancestors ate. Don't let restaurants tempt you; they are the vampires of the stomach; they will burden your flesh in pro portion as they lighten your purse. One of the cardinal errors of our time and land is to continue in a warm and sedentary life the diet that once served to provide necessary muscle and heat. Let us keep our inners clean. The hos pitals are littered with people who have put too great strain on their digestive organs and have allowed an excess of imports over exports to disturb their internal economy. Do some physical work every day. Nature intended thought to be a guide to action, not a substitute for it. Thought unbalanced by ac tion is a disease. Cut the lawn, clean the car, paint the house rather than the town, help with the dishes after the evening meal. Help your wife with her work, and let her help you with yours. Hus band and wife should be help mates. Marriage disintegrates when it is only a partnership in sex, play, and conspicuous ex pense. , SEX ' After hunger, is our strongest instinct and greatest problem, na ture is infatuated with continu ance, and dolls up the woman with beauty and the man with money to lure them into propa gation; and so it gives to us males such sensitivity to the charms of woman that we can go quite mad in their pursuit. Sex then becomes a fire and flame in the blood, and burns up the whole personality which should Be hierarchy and harmony of desires. Our civilization has unwisely stimulated this sexual impulse Our ancestors played it down knowing that it was strong enough without prodding. We have Blown it up with a thousand forms of incitation, advertisement, empha sis, and display, and have armed it with the doctrine that inhibi tion is a mistake whereas inhibi tionthe control of the impulse- is the first principle of civiliza tion. Don't let indoctrination de termine your desires. MARRIAGE Was orobablv developed not onlv for the better care of chil dren and property, but to save us from the tyranny ot sex. in mar riaee that instinct is eiven abund ant freedom, but it is channeled within limits consistent with so cial order. But submitting to mar riage we can take our minds off sex. and become adult. Marrv as soon as you can keep the wolf from the door. You will be too young to choose wisely, but you won't be much wiser in these matters at 40. There's no fool like an old fool in love. We parents should help you to get started in wholesome married life: Help you with money, and if you will permit us with coun sel. Don t let your cnoice oi a mate be determined by the acci dent of association at a time of physiological needs; dont buy a erab baa in a coma. Let at least three months intervene between acquaintance and betrothal, and between betrothal and marriage. The difficulties of marriage are far less than its rewards. Onr touch of a woman's hand can bi a paradise, if the touch is not foi too much. Napoleon said that the only happiness he had ever knowi was in loving his children: anc I hope you won t nave ennaren without marriage. CHARACTER Comes on a par with health: in tellect may come third. The great est task assumed by such schools as this is to transform egos into gentlemen. A gentleman, as my wife once defined it. is a person continually considerate. Kind words cost so little and are worth so much I Speak no evil of any one; every unkind word will soon er or later fly back into your face. and make you stumble in the race of life. De vivis, rather than de mortuis, nil nisi bomirn. To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves; let us be above such transparent ego tism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say notning. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say. RELIGION Has been along with the family and the teacher, a tutor of character. For 50,000 years or more man lived as a hunter be fore he took to tilling the soil. Probably man's native character as it is today was formed in that hunting lite. He had to be greedy because the food supply was pre carious and irregular: he had to be pugnacious to fight for food and mates: he had to be easily stimulated to reproductive ecstasy. because a high birth rate seemed desirable. What are now, through excess, our major vices, were then virtues qualities making for survival of the individual or the group. When organization devel- iped, and social organization be ame the chief tool of survival, hese powerful impulses had to be estrained. They were restrained y a moral code transmitted hrough parental authority, family iiscipline, and religious instruc tion. That moral code, though against the grain of the flesh, was accepted partly through fear of parents, and very much through belief that the code came from an all-seeing God who would re ward every virtue and punish ev ery vice. I am not sure that civil ization could have come without such religious sanctions of the moral code. Those of you who specialize in science will find it hard to under- from the world than you give. Don't take them too seriously Expect to reform the government only after you have reformed hu man nature and your own. Cor ruption is natural in governmen' because it is nature in man. Don't be .frightened by the internationa situation: it is normal: man is f competitive animal, individual!) and in croups: peace is war b other means. I believe that inlei ligent fear will keep us from in ternational suicide. Evils usuall beget their cure through their ex cess; so now the balance of ter ror is making" for peace. How good it is that the military competition is changing to econo mic competition! Let the better MUIIU leilglUll, Ull t'55 yOU ICei, as , , nnmhinatiAn VIA Newlnn and Vnltair. HiH that fhpisvstem wln'. or combination. We I r harmony of the spheres reveals a cosmic mind, and unless you real ize, as Pascal and Rousseau did, that man does not live by intellect alone. We are such microscopic particles in so vast a universe that none of us is in a position to understand the world, much less to dogmatize about it. Pascal trembled at the thought of man's bewildered minuteness between the two infinites the immensity of the whole and the complexity of each part; "These infinite spac es, he said, frighten me Let us be careful how we pit our piti ful generalizations against the in finite scope, variety and subtlety of the world. MONEY Build an economic basis under your life, but don't get caught in the rat-trap of money-making as a profession; that, too, like sex, can be a consuming fever, and brings only fitful pleasures, no healthy happiness. Your wife will have the responsibility of stimu lating you to develop all your creative capacities, but I hope she will not insist on your keeping up with all the Joneses in the, town If you become an employer, your relation with your employes will count for more in your happiness than adding a zero to your wealth. Give every employe the ull equiv alent of his share in the product. Don't live in a boastful and self ish luxury based on taking more are witnessing in America an He gelian synthesis of capitalism and socialism, taking the virtues ol each: and this merger, I believe, will be more productive of goods and happiness than the fearful Communism of Russia or the self ish capitalism of the not very Gay Nineties. See, even in depression time, the relative happiness and exuberance of the American peo- Dle. killing one another ecstatical ly in the precipitate pleasure of their holidays. INTELLECT I take this for granted in your case; indeed, our scnoois nave nut too much stress on intellect. too little on character; we have sharpened our wits even while weakening our restraints, in my youth, I used to talk about the hnndaoe of tradition: now. as oe- fits old- age. I distrust tne ictisn ism of novelty. We exaggerate the value of newness in ideas and things. It is so much easier to be original and foolish than to be nrioinal and wise. For every truth there are a thousand possible er rors; let us not try to exhaust the possibilities. Most of you now will go to col ege, and the sharpened competi ion among individuals and na ions will force you into intellec ual specialties. The stress on sci ence today is so strong that col ege, if I may pun a bit. will give you only a passing acquaintance 4iih literature, history, philoso phy, music and art. But don t let ourselves be fragmented. When your formal education is complete. jive at least two hours a week lo rounding yourselves out with these llowers of civilization. Make friends with great poets Sophocles. Euripides. Virgil. Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Mo- nere, uoetne, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Whitman. Acquaint your selves with the world's supreme art Egyptian, Indian, Greek, and Roman architecture and sculp ture, Arabic mosques and decora tion, the Gothic cathedrals, Rcn-i aissance painting, music from Bach to Rachmaninoff. Study the great statesmen from Hammurabi and Moses to Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt. Sit for a while at the feet of great thinkers ; conlucius, Socrates, Plato, Aris totle. Zeno. Epicures. Archime des, Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, rrancis Bacon. SDinoza. Newton, Kant, Schopenhauer, Dar win, Nietzsche, Einstein. Enjoy great prose writers Isiah. Jere miah, the authors of the Proverbs and the Psalms. Demosthenes. and Cicero, Rabelais and Mon taigne, Milton and Swift, Voltaire and Rousseau, Hugo and Balzac, Tolstoi and Dostoievski, Emerson and Anatole France. Follow man's odyssey with great historian! Herodotus, Thucydides, Tacitus. Gibbon, Macauiay, Guizot, Miche- let, Froude, and Tame. Walk humbly with the great saints Buddha. Jesus. Augustine, Fran cis of Assisi, Gandhi. I shall not hold you educated unless you make many of these geniuses your friends. Cultivate them, and you will be molded by the company you keep. THE MOUNTING HERITAGE These and the whole world of knowledge, technology, morals, manners, government, literature, philosophy, and art are your heri tage, which has grown incredibly through the centuries, and it so rich that you will never be able to absorb it all, to reach the bottom of this fortunatus, purse of the race. This is the patrimony that each ot us inherits on enter ing civilization. Good health to you, good work. good fortune, good character, good children, good grandchildren! Drink the brimming cup of life to the full and to the end; ana thank God and nature for its brac ing trials and challenges, its edu cative punishments and rewards. its priceless gifts and inexhausti ble treasure of beauty, wisdom, labor and love. OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT inquire DREWS MANSTORE Ph. TU 4-4122 FOR SALE Aster Plants 3D01 $1 Peonies and other plants 207 E. Main Bostonian Named To Lead Christian Science Church ELDER JOHNSTON SPEAKS . The DulDit of the First Presby- terian Church will be filled during the 11 o'clock worship service bun dav. June 8. bv Elder Jim John ston, of the First Presbyterian Church, Medford. Soloist for the service will be Mrs. Walter Bador ek. Special organ music will be of fered by Mrs. George Mclntyre. I STOKEV owHto 1 1038 Main TU 4-6248 LEONARD T. CARNEY GARRY MOORE LO Jl t H Mf ifl I yv SSi -'ft ..l I warn -i Leonard T. Carney of Boston, was todav named Boston presi dent of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston. Afi. rnrnpv's nrtnntntmpnt was announced by The Christian Sci-I ence Board of Directors at tne annual meeting of the denomina tion attended by more than 7,0001 Christian Scientists from many parts of the world. He succeeds Miss Mabel Ellen Lucas of Brook- line, Massachusetts. He will serve a one-year term . A member of the Board of Trus tees of The Christian Science Pub lishing Society, Mr. Carney holds degrees from Grinnell College, Iowa and the Harvard Law acnooi. A native of Marshalltown, Iowa. he has been an authorized teacher of Christian Science since 1934, and a Christian Science nractition cr since 1919. From 1943 until 1947 he served as a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship. TV Humorist Heads Drive Garry Moore, one of the na tion's television humorists and em cees, will head the 1959 Easter Seal campaign as national chairman. Paul Dietrich, Los Angeles, president of the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults, made the announcement in con nection with the opening of the 1958 Nationwide Staff Meeting in Chicago's Pick-Congress Hotel. Nearly 150 professional workers for the crippled are attending the sessions. The 1959 Easter Seal appeal will be conducted February 27 to Easter Sunday, March 29. Moore said, "My deep thanks for the confidence you have placed in me by your invitation to be national Easter Seal chair man for 1959. I am happy to ac cept this position, and 1 do so with much appreciation. I hope the year 1959 will bring much satis faction and many achievements to the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults." 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