In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Ike announces that he will ask
co.-ess to POSTPONE excise
and corporation tax cuts sched
uled to -take effect the first of
next April.
He tells his news conference
that the BUDGET DEFICIT
makes the request necessary.
llfELL, if you're going to
" SPEND, you've GOT TO
TAX. Especially when you're al
ready in debt up to your ears.
TNDER present law, corpora
V tion tax rates will drop five
per cent on April 1, 1S55. Ex
cise taxes that is to say, sales
taxes under another name on
liquor, tobacco and some other
items are due to be returned to
pre-Korean war levels on the
same date.)
A General Electric scientist
says in New York that SOLAR
batteries of silicon probably will
furnish enough power someday
for household uses in sunny
areas.
Two questions:
1. When is someday?
2. What if you're in the middle
of the week's wash and the
sun goes under a cloud?
TN THIS nation that spends ap
proximately two-thirds of all
the money raised by local tax
ation for schools, I wonder how
many of us can name offhand
without looking it up the eight
fundamental rights of the indi
vidual guaranteed by our con
stitution in the so-called Bill of
Rights, which included the first
ten amendments to the constitu
tion as originally ratified?
Here they are:
1. Freedom of religion, free
dom of speech and of the press
and of the right to petition.
. 2. The right to keep and bear
arms.
" 3.. The right to be free from
the quartering of soldiers m
your home without your consent.
4. The right of the people to
be free from unreasonable
searches and seizures.
" 5. Guarantee against being
held to answer for a capital
crime without indictment by a
grand jury, or being put twice
in jeopardy of life and limb for
the same offense, or being com
pelled to testify against yourself,
or to be deprived of life,, liberty
or property without due process
of law.
. 6. The right to a speedy trial
by an impartial jury.
7. The right to a jury trial in
ease of minor and well as major
debt. . .. ,.:
:- 8. Guarantee against excessive
: t;
Is That So?
By Eugene Burnt
Ranger-Naturalist
; MEDFORD (OREGON). MAIL TRIBUNE FIV$
Who am I?
Among my big family, some
are accomplished underground
gardeners and dig 65 feet for
water. Some are undoubtedly
the world's greatest architects.
Some sightless ones practice
chemical warfare.
Our great mother is .perhaps
50 times the size of each of her
30,000,000-member, one -generation
family. We can do what no
man can: control the sex charac
ter and bodily structure of our
young, producing whatever is
immediately needed for the wel
fare of our colony.
Teeming by the billions, we
are seldom seen and then us
ually only a comparatively few
of our favored royalty, the
princes and princesses, who
alone can fly.
The queen - mother, confined
with her smaller escort in a cell
from which she can never es
cape, may live from 5 to 50
years. During that time she may
lay an egg every second
around 20,000,000 a year! She is
attended by servitors: they bring
her pre-digested food, caress her,
contain workers who build
structures 40 feet high. If man,
in proportion, built as skillful
ly, he could erect a building as
high as Mt. Everest with cham
bers four times as high as the
pyramids of Egypt. Yet the
workers are blind.
Some Have No Heads
Up to 16 per cent of our pop
ulation may be soldiers: they
are blind, some have no heads
as such, and an extra-heavy,
horn-like covering. They are fed
pre-digested food because they
have no eating apparatus.
Should an enemy attack, these
soldiers without hesitation rush
to the fight, sacrificing them
selves. Because none of us can digest
our main source of food which
is dead wood, some workers cul
tivate well-tended mushroom
gardens underground; others
have one-celled parisites living
in the hind gut which change
the cellulose of the wood into
digestible sugars. This sugar-like
material the workers give to the
rest of the colony.
I am: A. an ant; B. a locust;
C. a termite; D. a cockroach; E.
a bee; F. a wasp.
I am C, a termite.
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groom her, occasionally nip her,
and as her eggs drop, rush them
off to be stored in chambers
above. Should she cease laying,
her children do not feed her; she
dies of starvation; her corpse is
devoured; and a new egg-producing
machine installed.
"Among our 1,800 kinds, some
unusual punishments.
(The other . two of the . ten
original amendments to our con
stitution have to do with con
struction of the constitution and
with the rights of the states. ,
TT IS worth remembering that
the battle for these fundamen
tal rights began back in the
eleventh century in England in
the reign of Henry I. It is worth
mentioning! I think, that the
first Henry, who was a son of
William the Conqueror, was
PREVAILED UPON BY HIS
WIFE to grant the people the
first draft of such individual
rights.
In English-speaking countries,
you see, women have been tak
ing part in politics for quite a
span of time. ' "
Free: By special arrangement
with the editors of the Encyclo
pedia Americana, my panel of
judges will award each week to
the reader who sends me the
best question on nature and
wildlife a complete 30-yolume
set of this world-famous refer
ence work in a handsome Seal
craft binding.
Each week, new questions
will be considered. Sorry, I
simply can't answer your many
friendly letters. Please address
your questions to: IS THAT SO!
co Medford Mail Tribune, Box
575, Sausalito, Calif.
New Tree Farms
To Be Dedicated
Dedication ceremonies , for
four new tree farms will be held
this evening at a meeting of the
Southern Oregon Conservation
and Tree Farm association.
The event will follow at din
ner meeting in the Pioneer room
of the Jackson hotel, starting at
7:30 p.m. A considerable number
of SOCTFA members and others'
interested in the forest industry
in southern Oregon are expected
to attend.
New tree farms include those
owned by Medford corporation,
William Schmidt, J. W. Fitzger
ald and the Sams Valley Irriga
tion association.
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