FRIDAY, JUNE 6. 1958
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
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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
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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
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Newlnn and Vnltair. HiH that fhpisvstem wln'. or combination. We
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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.
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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
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LEONARD T. CARNEY
GARRY MOORE LO Jl t H Mf ifl
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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.
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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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