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.The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning; January 21, 1934
KNi&WS GIRL'
By JOAN
CLAYTON
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- "No Favor Sways tjs; No Fear Shall Atop"
From Firt Statesman, March 28, 1851
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TN adopting a rule which prevents any amendment from
X the floor on appropriations
.of representatives that body takes a long step backwards. It
is a further abdication of its legislative responsiDiuty, a iur
ther confession that it will not function according to its con
stitutional and historical character. The rule was forced
through at the behest of the administration, although many
democrats revolted and the
jority of only five.
The growth! of parliaments
on its insistence on control of
historic in "the middle of the 17th century when the indepen
dents in parliament sought to curtail the money-raising de
mands of Charles Stuart. By this amendment the president
becomes the appropriating authority through control of the
committee on appropriations.
out what he intimated in his
escence of the executive and legislative departments of gov
ernment. It was this which prompted Sen. McNary to de-
clare his message was the finest repeal of the constitution
he had ever heard .
The cause of human liberty
is centralized in the hands of one man or a small group of
men. There is no necessity in this emergency for congress to
abdicate. The president has the veto power over legislation
which should be sufficient without reaching out to impose
gag rule in the j chambers which are considering pending
measures. Were such an amendment to be proposed in a re
publican congress the so-called friends of the people, the
congressional progressives and
like the Portland Journal would
suggestion. But! now never a
self-styled friends of liberty.
Accept or
7T1HE arbitrary action of the legislature in passing an
X other sales tax," says the Oregon Grange Bulletin,
'after the people had spoken in no uncertain terms against
this system of extracting pennies from the poor, leads to
the thought that if democracy is to work, the results of
elections must be accepted alike
who lose.' !
: . A question! arises over what is meant by "accepting".
In the case of the sales tax of last summer, which was re
jected by the people, every party acquiesced in the verdict
and no sales tax was ever, levied or collected. Does accept
: mean however that the question
that is the meaning, how may
ment? For the! grange was long active for an income tax,
presenting it time and again after it was rejected by the
-people. And the grange did not "accept" defeat on power
' I 'll t !-. 1 'L 3 1 J 1 ' 1- XI 1.
mu jegisiauon wnicn n endorsed ana wmcn me peupie re
jected at the polls.
' The pending sales tax should be examined on its mer-
its, and not discarded because
sales tax, somewhat different
ago.
In a popular government
ouiesce in the decision of the
jneans should require them to
' or to continue to work for legislative changes they deem ad
visable. Out of long experience
minorities often wind up as majorities.
j Just an Echo!
"Looks like coming government ownership ot railroads.
Next It may be a tryout ot single tax In every state. In Oregon
this Henry George idea was tried and failed two or three times.
- By the way, where is W. S. U'Ren, or was his heart not fully in
It and he was merely working only tor the money there was
in It? What a glorious opportunity there would cow be to win!
Everything is 1 being tried and, with the consent of Portland,
Blngle tax might be resurrected and put through." H. I. GUI
" tn Wood burn Independent.
Yes, there was once a
ation on land. But the pendulum has swung in the other di
rection, and now the cry is universal for relief of real prop
erty from taxation. The income tax was designed to afford
such relief , and it does to the
sales tax is another effort to
tax puts all the burden, on the
erty, incomes, sales, and improvements on real property. We
think the state outside of Portland has enough sense not to
attempt a single tax, which is
ern forms of -wealth creation
The liquor commission promises that every county In the state
will soon have a ram store. Not that there has been any deficiency
that was noticeable, especially since repeal: but so the state may be
getting revenues from sale. It will be interesting te observe whether
the patrons will stick to their bootlegger when the state store comes
tn. Price will no doubt be a factor;
ox quality oy tae state stores. At
aiae west was airaid the bandit who asked for her "poke" ot
money would smash her nose It she resisted. Mae was wise to hand
over the money. She saved her face anyway; and that seems to be
uaw vuici. aua iu iuet
"1 ' n A MnnhltMlt. WAV. AM 1
i.v mm mm tiauuu, .a v ermont, eenoing a sen
ator and a representative to congress. Termont keeps the faith of
: Calvin fnnTMita .V . Ji , . v
vwu,n imvu wo ycuuiuuiu swuigs sue wiu nave company.
. .Xt i8" to look taoogh Carter Glass Is the only republican
left la she senate. Inat aa wa .ti. f k..
v. .v . -1 "vw 7 . . .
w vo wiu wai rcpuoucan ia uie
What chance wfil tha tve
Jury, ten ot whom are middle-aged
tiAW -will Va. ritl. I .
, a. "
. Spokane Is having a ski tournament today, but they had to
. ravw ui
Rule
bills submitted to the house
amendment carried by a ma
has beeri largely conditioned
the purse. This battle was
Thus he seems te be carrying
presidential message, the coal
is jeopardized when power
the demagogue newspapers
wail loud and long over the
complaint is heard from these
Acquiesce?
by those who win and those
may not be resubmitted? If
the grange advance the argu
the people voted against a
in character, some montns
minorities must always ac-
majorities, but that by no
surrender honest convictions
the grange must realize that
movement to put all the tax
extent of its collections. The
relieve real property. Single
land, relieving personal prop
certainly not adapted to mod
and transfer.
plus perhaps a' better guarantee
least the brands should be honest
. . .
" ""w yu. awua eeems
uregoa delegaUon la congres.
T - miri.ut urM..t- v..
married women? Well, maybe
a. - . a . T
uis7 awt w ogie tne dames.
uvu u.a uucaan mountains-
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Health
By Royal S. Copeland, M.D.
NOT SO long ago I tola you nome-
thlng about earache. Ia that article
it was pointed out that repeated at
tacks of earache may b a stgn of
some serious dis
turbance. That
condition re
quires Immediate
attention and U
neglected may
lead to perma
nent damage and
distressing deaf
ness. A report print
ed in a recent
number of the
New Tork State
Journal of Medi
cine, states that
defective hearing
is uncomfortably
prevalent among
Dr. Copeland
school children. This state of affairs
Is unfortunate and should be dealt
with vigorously.
Though complete deafness is not as
common nor as difficult to detect as
partial deafness. It Is all too com
mon. To prevent it. It Is of the
greatest Importance that defects in
hearing be recognized at an early
age.
Testing the Hearing
Early recognition of this handicap
Is exceedingly difficult with the facili
ties at the command ot the public
schools. The usual watch-tick test,
the use of the tuning fork and the
whisper test, are excellent methods
of testing the hearing. Unfortunate
ly, these are not very practical when
examining a large number of chil
dren. In addition, these tests are not
thorough enough to detect partial
deafness. I am glad to say that the
use ot these old-tlmo methods is no
longer necessary. A new instrument
has been devised. By the use ot this
device, as many as forty children
can be examined in a period ot fifteen
to twenty minutes. The results of
such examinations are more than
gratifying. X hope it will be made
available to all schools.
I cannot say too much about the
Importance of early recognition ot
impaired bearing tn children. Bear
in mind that a child who is Ustlesa,
Inattentive or backward in his school
work, may be so only because his
hearing ia impaired.
"ProbUm" Child
I believe that aQ children absent
from school because of an ear, nose
er throat condition, or because ot the
after effects ot scarlet fever or some
other infectious disease, should be
taken to the physician, for a careful
examination of tha hearing. This
procedure Is also advised for children
who show marked backwardness in
their school work, especially those
with faulty speech, and all who are
referred to as "problem children".
When teachers, as well as parents.
realize the significance of ear disease
and are instructed In the means of
preventing this disorder, the preva
lence of deafness will be greatly di
mlnlahed.T I am more than confident
that when proper measures are taken
for the relief of ear defects the wel
fare of our children win be greatly
advanced.
Do not overlook the signs ot de
fective hearing. Bear ia mind that
this, as weft as poor vision. Is a com
mon cause of backwardness In
school. Neglect ot such defects ts a
serious stumbling block to the prog
ress of the afflicted child. '
Answers t Health Qaeeiea
B. P. Q. Would nasal catarrh
cause halitosis?
A. Yes. it is possible. Clear UP
the underlying catarrhal condition.
(CopvriaM, 1U, X. F. 8H lcj
GRAND SIASTKK VISITS
HOLALLA, Jan. 29. Georre
f. winnow, Tillamook, grand
maatMP at - nraran fMA Yallnw
lodges, visited the MolaUa lodge
Wednesday night. The meeting
was attended by almost 100 mem
bers from Canby, Rock Creek, Sil
verton, Portland; Salem and Mo-Ulla.-Addresser
by Winslow and
Adam Knight, Canby grand secre
tary of the encamnment. wr tha
Ifeatves jit tail ejenjnj.
fry
Bits for Breakfast
By R. J. HENDRICKS
The case of C. J. Helt,
reformed In Oregon prison:
S
The magazine section of the
Sunday Oregonian has been run
ning a series of articles, conclud
ed in the last issue, "by C. J. Helt,
as told to Hal M. White," with
Bensatlonal headlines and pictures,
telUng about the long service ot
Helt in the Oregon penitentiary
tor train robbery, after a career
of crime in California.
S
In a few words: Mr. Helt, away
back under the administrations of
Governors Lord, Geer and Cham
berlain, served a long term in the
Oregon prison, and, as he himself
told it, endured a lot of incon
veniences on account of the poor
accommodations and indifferent
fare there.
He was hard boiled, a recidi
vist, consorted with Harry Tracy,
made an unsuccessful attempt to
escape, and suffered the then pre
scribed penalty of a flogging at
the whipping post. Some time
thereafter, concluding from , the
lessons of his own experiences
that a career ot crime did not and
could not pay, he took to reading
books in the prison library and.
all by himself, with" no prompt
ings from the administration at
the institution, reformed. And. as
the story goes, he did well after
final release; accumulated prop
erty fast; was lucky in real estate
deals, and has gone straight; is
now a successful poultry breeder
near Eugene.
S
He laid on a good deal ot "sob
stuff" In his story, and made it
appear rather raw in its details.
There was complaint concern
ing prison conditions during sev
eral periods In the time Helt was
serving b,ia sentence. In one of
these periods, there was especial
ly vicious propaganda, and Rev.
Thomas L. Eliot, the famous min
ister of the Portland Unitarian
church, preached a hot sermon
to his large congregation, con
demning the purported abuses at
the Oregon institution, In which
he charged that the food was scant
and awful and the punitive prac
tices horrible.
The late A. N. Gilbert ot Salem
was superintendent ot the prison
then, and he wrote Rev. Eliot a
letter, inviting him to make a per
sonal investigation; to come un
announced and incognito, choos
ing his own time, and, making
himself known only to him (Gil
bertj or the warden, who was
then Henry Brophy, he would be
given all the time he wished, and
every opportunity, to make in
quiries.
a
Rev. EUot so came. He spent a
good deal ot time interviewing the
key men on the Inside from whom
the propaganda was chiefly com
tng. More than that. Rev. EUot
was given a meal with the in
mates, at one ot the tables at
which they were regularly served,
and with the a a m dishes and
utensils they used. This, also
without the least chance for ad
vance notice.
a
1 The upshot?, Rev. Eliot wrote
Superintendent GUbert a letter ia
which he acknowledged that he
had been misled, and, more than
this, ho preached another sermon,
In the course ot which ho apolo
gized for the injurious strictures
ot his former one. That settled
that Rev, Eliot was an honest as
well as aa able man.
Of course, he did not find, and
did not expect to find, Ideal con
ditions ia the Oregon peniten
tiary. The buildings were old. They
were not wen fitted or arranged
& Meatlfij jgej, eiea for
the dark days when they were
erected and furnished. They have
been much Improved since the
time Mr. Gilbert had charge; but
some of the handicaps ot faulty
construction and arrangement ner-
slst to this day.
As to the old whipping nost and
cornoral nnnlshment. thesa devices
and practices are aU but things of
the past in nearly au American
prisons, and happily so.
But Mr. Helt. who furnished
the material for the Oregonian
articles, while he paints his own
experience in connection with
them as black as he could find
English words adequate for the
purpose, goes on to say that It was
after this horrible nightmare of
his soul that he beean readme
books, and thus was led to what
he describes as his reiuvenatlon
and reformation.
Is it too much to sav that, in
his case, he is blaming the very
horse that carried htm safely over
the stream? And that oerhans. in
his case, no other horse would
have been strong and tall enough
to bring him xver?
Mind von. this is not Justify
ing the use of that horse in other
cases of this kind.
The best equipped and one of
the best managed prisons in 'the
world is the Minnesota state peni
tentiary at Stillwater In that state.
No corporal punishment is em
ployed there; no "bull pen."
either, ' and no solitary confine
ment, in the old sense of complete
darkness and a blanket and bread
and water for definite terms.
The wrltpr. last vr nw th
solitary confinement cells in that
prison-i-only four or five of them,
for over 1300 Inmates. And, at
that time, ther were emntv. Thev
are dark, and solitary. But when
one Is used, the man who has
broken a rule of the Institution
is given ample and clean bedding,
and, at .meal times, he is furnish
ed adequate food to preserve his
health, but limited as to variety.
He is told that he may remain
in solitary" as lone as he likes
an hour, a day, a month, or long
er. And he may cut his time as
short as may please his own
whims. He may be restored to his
former status and quarters the
minute he Is ready- to acknowl
edge the error he has committed,
and promise to behave himself
thereafter.
The average penalty? Two or
three days.
There had. last year, been no
successful escape from Stillwater
prison tor 24 years. Of course.
there are few attempts, rhnnrh
tne number of men outside the
walls, on. "trusty" duties, as in
the farm employments. Is always
considerable, proportionate to the
whole -population. Farm industries
are various, an eh as creamery,
with a cheese factory planned
etc., etc., with more land in pros
pect, in order that all the hams
and bacon, etc., might be prepared
there, from hogs raised oa the
place.
H
In every state of tha union, ex
cepting seven, cornoral nnnlah.
ment has been abolished. It has
also'gone the war of the rack and
thumbscrew la all the federal pri
sons. Including those ot the naval
ana military arms of our govern
ment
The seven states in which cor
poral punishment is stlU used, for
offences committed in their atata
prisons, are all in the south. They
are: Arkansas, the only punish
ment Mississippi; 15 blows ot the
strap aUowtd. fiouifc, garaU&a, ga
i CHAPTER FQTT-SEYEN x '
) Patricia was on her feet, was
struggling with tha window. The
curtains blew into her eyes, whipped
past Into the room, billowing like
flying banners, stiff and wringing:
wet. The garden, lost in swooping
darkness, was a sheet of solid rain.
Tugging, sobbing she rot thi win
dow down and saw the neat round
hole that cut the glass. A bullet
hole! Someone hidden in the fury
of the night had stood outside,
taken careful aim, pulled a trig
ger. Julian, concentrated en his
cards, his white head a perfect tar
get had never known what struck
him. He had been alive one instant
dead the next
i Who, then, had opened the win
dow? Who had turned off the
light? Where was the murderer
now? As a last and final touch of
horror, Patricia guessed. The mur
derer was in the house. Screaming
she fled -from the room, through
the half open doof into the dark
ness ot the corridor, running blind
ly, bumping against the walls. She
knew one thins only. Somehow she
must reach a telephone. She darted
for the living room.
The storm was shrieking with a
thousand tongues. As she reached
the foyer there was a roll of thun
der and a flash of lightning, un
earthly blue. The foyer was bnl
tiantly illuminated and the long
and curving stairs. A man was
coming down the stairs, a flash
light in his hand. The girl saw him
and he saw her. The man was Bill
MeGee. His sinister triumphant
smile was the last thing Patricia
saw. The walls seemed to rock in
ward, the floor seemed to melt be
neath her feet She sighed, swayed
and slid unconscious to the floor....
Somewhere far off Patricia heard
a dull and muffled engine throbbing.
like the purring of a giant engine.
Her head ached, ached. She opened
vague eyes, tried to rise, moaned
and sank back again. A bar of sun
light shone on a bright green car
pet That puzzled her. In the gray
ness of half-consciousness she re
membered rain, pouring rain. She
was about to close her eyes again
when in one sickening instant it all
came back, the scene in the card
. room, Julian sitting open-eyed with
a bullet in his brain, her frenzied
flight toward the living room, Bill
McGee moving down the stairs. He
was coming toward her. Where
were the servants?
"Annie," sereamed the girl.
"Annie. Annie."
No one answered. The echoes
died te brassy silence. She was
quite alone. She swung her feet to
the floor and somehow stood. She
stared dazedly at the bed where
she had lain, a strange bed, fastened
to the wall. The small, cheerful,
sunny room was entirely unfamil
iar. The floor was swaying oddly
beneath her feet The distant throb
bing too was odd. AU at once she
realized-that she was aboard a
boat In a kind of frenzied panic
she staggered to the porthole op
posite. Outside was a waste of sun
lit water.
. There was a door, locked. The
girl hammered, pounded, shouted
to exhaustion. No one answered.
How had she got here? Who had
brought her here? Dropping to a
chair she wept in weariness and
bewilderment and despair. It was
a long time before she tried to
think it out When she thought it
out she felt the beginning of fear
intolerable. She had fainted. It was
Bill McGee who had brought her
here.
"Kidnapped," Patricia said aloud.
It was Bill MeGee who had
brought her here and Bill McGee
had murdered Julian Haverholt
She felt that she was living
through some evil dream. This
could not be true. At any minute
now Julian would be shouting at
Never Kick a Hot Stove Door
Shut With Toe oi Your Rubber
By D. H. Talmadge, Sage of Salem
"When winter comes can spring
be far away?" Apparently it can
not. It makes an effort to with
draw now and then, but without
much success. Thus far this sea
son.
History is a record ot momen
tous events, some ot which arc
secondary, and others ot which
are not worth the space they take
on the clock. I said as much to a
visitor from up valley one day
this week. But it didn't prevent
him from telling me of what his
pa once told him ot seeing Dan
Rice's circus here back in the
'60s. If the story is true, and it
may be in part Dan Rice was the
first man to bring a circus into
the Willamette valley.
The statement has an historical
flavor, and is probably as exact
as much other history. It is pos
sibly true, as the visitor said, that
the attractions ot the Rice ag
gregation included Tom Thumb,
Commodore Nutt and the two
Warren girls, the four most fa
mous dwarfs in the world; the
Kentucky giant Colonel Bates,
and the giantess whom he mltl
mately married. Miss Swan, each
of whom was almost eight feet
tall without high-heeled footwear,
which boosted their height to
somewhat more than eight feet;
prison farms, and also in Tennes
see and Alabama. Texas, 20 blows
allowed. Virginia, where Its use is
restricted.
The reader must know that prt
toners la the south are largely
black, and that they are segre
gated, even In penal Institutions,
from the- whites. But the reader
will be surprised to know that of
late the proportionate number of
white to black inmates has been
increasing , in. other words, there
is mora reformation among the
bad colored folks than among- the
bad "poor white trashy
. y-XCoatlwB4 pa Taday),
"
The doer opened slowly. A man stood there, a young man with a stupid
brutish face whoa she had never seen before.
her door, his arms full of the morn
ing papers. Julian. He was dead,
murdered. This was the morning of
his triumph and he was dead. The
girl bent her head and sobbed for
him. Julian Haverholt had been her
enemy; he had been her friend. He
had given her all he knew how to
give; he had tried to rob her of
her heart's desire; he had loved
her in the only way he knew; he
had done his best to wreck her
life. She had quarreled with him;
she had laughed with him; she had
hated him hot she had been fond
of him, too ell that was nothing
now as the. man himself was noth
ing. "Julian," she whispered in the
silence, "Julian."
She was sitting very quietly, her
eyes bleak and despairing, fixed
upon the porthole, upon the danc
ing sunlit waves, when she heard
the rattle of a key, Instantly she
sprang to her feet and backed
against the wall. The door opened
slowly. A man stood there, a young
man with a stupid brutish face, a
man whom she had never seen be
fore. He carried a tin tray of food.
"I guess you're hungry," he said,
ealra and matter of fact
"Let me out of here," Patricia
cried and made a mad rush for the
door.
"That wont do no good," he an
nounced indifferently and kicked to
the door. He asked a second time,
"Are you hungry?"
"You've got to let me out of here.
Open that door, I tell you, open
that door. You can't do this to
me!"
"What are you going to do about
it sweetheart?" he inquired, sUil
indifferent but grinning slightly.
She stood very still. A bitter
realization of the futility of any
protest stopped her. Tears, hys
teria, pleading, threats would never
move this man. "What are you go
ing to do about it?" he had asked
her. Indeed what could she do 7
She sat down again. Her hands
were trembling as she smoothed
her skirt but her voice was steadier
as -she said:
"Where are we?"
Without troubling to answer, the
other placed his trsy upon a table,
poured out a cup of tea and hand
ed it to her.
"You better drink that"
She drank the tea, she ate the
burned toast the badly cooked
eggs, the strips of thick, frizzled
D. H. TALMADGE
and a monstrous elephant which
later had Its name changed and
became the "Jumbo" of the Bar
num 4k Bailey show.
I am willing to let the dwarfs
and the giants stand for what
they may bo worth, but I am un
able to Bwallow the "Jumbo"
story.
r-ernaps something it wrong
with me, but it Is a fact that I
have had only two really good
laughs la two weeks. Eddie Can
tor, who has been cavorting
through the - Goldwyn spectacle,
"Roman Scandals." at tha r.mnd
during the week, caused one of
taese laugas. tad W. a Fields In
"Tilly and Gus" at-another the
atre ceased th,e other. And now
Ton know the aort: of grouch I
V- -i
bacon, while her companion loung
ed against the bunk watching her.
"Feel better now, sister?"
She said In a low, savage voice,
"111 feel better when Bill MeGee
hangs for the murder of Julian
Haverholt" ,
"I guess he won't" the other re
plied, with an odd, unexpected
chuckle.
"Wont what?" she demanded
sharply. ,
"I guess Bill wont hang this
trip. Maybe, you don't know it but
Bill, he's smart You'd be sur
prised."
Terror clutched at her heart She
felt the sweat spring into her
palms and bead her forehead. She
saw the man stretch a languid arm
into the bunk, lift a smart pigskin
bag and drop it to the floor. It was
her own bag, the bag that she had
packed the night before.
"Aren't yon going to unpack,
sister?" He added significantly,
"Youll be with us quite a spelL"
The girl swallowed with a dry
throat
mat does Bill want with me?"
"Hell tell you himself. Hell
come aboard at nine o'clock. BQl
probably will want to see you first
thing."
With which statement he left the
room, dosing and locking the door
behind him. The slow hours drag
ged by. Patricia paced up and down,
evolving in her mind a thousand
futile plans. Darkness fell slowly.
Outside the water turned from blue
to gray, from gray to black.
As night closed down, the girl's
panic grew. She beat upon the door
and the unyielding glass of the
porthole. That got her. nowhere.
She sobbed and stormed. That got
her nowhere too. There must be
some way out What was it? Press
ing her hand against her aching:
head she tried to think and thought
of nothing.
They were coming in to shore.
She had first seen the twinkling
lights of land with a wild hope
that had long since vanished. She
was trapped below. Suddenly, after
a long time, there was a bumping
and a scraping, the stateroom rock
ed to and fro, the engine ceased its
throbbing. They had docked! Bill
was aboard, was coming below. She
heard his footsteps outside her
door. He was in the room.
Cr Be Continued)
1932, Ij Krat Fcttura Syndicate. In
A person should, of course, be
able to laugh heartily when some
body falls and breaks a leg or
something, but I can't. Just
gloomy.
What a grand thing is content
ment! Dolph Eitch, at Dover
Crossing, said his name may not
have been so darn elegant as
some names, but you had to ad
mit it was catchy.
Never kick a hot stove door
shut with the toe ot your rubber.
Seems as If you should hare
known better than to do that
Who's afraid of the nice warm
rain?
An eastern irreconcilable de
clares in a news weekly that pro
hibition will soon be restored to
the national constitution. I reck
on he just felt like saying some
thing. Motion picture advertising In
eastern newsnanera fat aaisl tn Ka
showing the effects of the drastic
censorsnip system set up recently
by Will Hays. The new regula
tions forbid "leg art" and pic
tures ot nudes or semi-nudes. Not
in effect here aa yet Or is it?
Following every "roar" the
film producers order a clean-up
ot indecent and misleading adver
tising. The NRA roar may be ef
fective. Probably the busiest daytime
block in Salem is Liberty street
between Court and State. Bnt the
greatest traffic Is carried by Com
mercial street tn. which wheels
are turning day and night
. An elderly man tells me that
he fears he Is breaking down, be
cause when he eats aa onion on
Sunday he can still taste It next
Friday. Shucks! that isn't a sign
of a breakdown. It shows only
that he has "tumbled" to some
thing. The most interesting news from
southern California these days
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