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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
iO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 8. 1946
(It was Monday)
Water outlook varying from
good to ample forecast for
Klamath, Rogue and Umpqua
river water sheds for 1946.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Upstate
Democrats are again fighting
each other valiantly, when they
should be battling Republicans.
20 YEARS AGO
April 8. 1936
(It was Wednesday)
Second project expected to be
approved soon for Medford air-
Dort improvements; total cost
about $80,000.
Two cases of smallpox re
ported; arrangements made for
vaccinations of all elementary
and high school students in mea
ford.
30 YEARS AGO
April 8, 1926
(It was Thursday)
School officers of Jackson
county hold annual meeting at
Medford High school.
Representatives from western
Oregon interested in revision of
O&C land grant taxes leave for
Washington, D. C, hearings.
40 YEARS AGO
April 8, 1916
(It was Saturday)
Reginald G. Rowland to con
duct Medford concert band;
weekly summer concerts sched
uled. From Local and Personal col
umn: The Rogue River Fish Pro
tective association held a brief
meeting last night at the public
library, at which time the propo
sition to initiate a law to close
commercial fishing on Rogue
river was discussed.
Whai's the Answer?
Can You Gel 4 of the 77
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Rsporl
1. The 1956 Republican nation
al convention meets in Chicago,
San Francisco, Philad e 1 p h i a,
Denver or St. Louis?
2. Legal cases on boycotts usu
ally are or aren't in connection
with labor disputes?
3. Picketing the White House
is or isn't forbidden by law?'
4. There are (a) 4, (b) 6, (c) 8,
(d) 10, or (e) 12 furlongs to a
mile?
5. The Daily Worker is a Re
publican, Democratic, Socialist,
C o m m u nist or Independent
newspaper in New York City?
6. Jordan now Is or isn't in
favor with the Arab bloc headed
by Egypt?
7. The Metatarsal Arch is in
Rome, Italy; right or wrong?
The Answers: 1. San Fran
cisco. 2. Usually are. 3. Isn't.
4. Eight. 5. Communist. 6.
Is. 7 Wrong (it's in the ball of
the foot).
Polite Young Man
and $180 in Cash Gone
Amarillo, Tex. 0J.R)
Deputy Sheriff Bud Combee
walked into an Amarillo store
Thursday but a polite young
man behind the counter told
him the owner was "out lo
lunch" and advised Combee
lo come back in an hour.
Combee did and found the
owner, Tex Crossetl. tied up
in the rear of the store. The
polite ycung man and $180 in
cash were gone.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Germany and 'Israel Again
In answer to a request from Ashland, a few days
ago, we presented our solutions of the German prob
lem in western Europe and the Israeli problem in the
Middle East.
Apparently some of our readers took our sugges
tions rather more seriously than we did. At least
several have taken the trouble to point out wherein
our proposals had serious flaws.
No doubt of it.
Had we come forth with the sure-fire answers to
these two international $64,000 questions, we would
soon receive invitations from the President to enjoy
free room-and-board at the White House along with
Robert Montgomery, the elocution expert, and Sher
man Adams, the sharp shooter on policy and politics.
OF COURSE the solutions offered were not flaw
less. Nor do we admit the result of any extensive
research or profound study.
We were asked for our opinion of what should
be done, and we gave our answers, with a sufficient
amount of glibness -and informality we thought to
indicate that while we were perfectly serious in our
recommendations and thought them worth consid
eration, we did not expect them to be adopted by the
UN or the uncrowned heads of Europe AT ONCE,
nor because of them receive immediate summons to
a conference with Secretary of State Dulles.
IN FACT we carefully pointed out that we only knew
tha atiswprs nnH were clad to offer them alone with
several other million Americans similarly informed
and self-assured. But apparently our ngnt ana ironical
rep-isfer. narticularlv with one of our
Ashland subscribers who
to task for playing Soviet
How?
"Rv favnrfner the disarming and neutralizing of
Germanv. so "the bear that
immediately take over.
The onlv course to pursue, continued our commu
nicant, would be as follows:
Germany SHOULD be reunited but also rearmed.
It should be allowed to join up with the western pow
ers and then Russia should be told to chase itself
and leave Europe alone or words to that effect. The
result we are told would be to stop Russia in her
tracks as far as western Europe is concerned, and she
wmilrl then have tn return to the "status QUO ante".
nr if her imnerialistie. ambitions must be satisfied.
they would have to be satisfied toward the East, that
is m Asia where Russia belongs anyway ana not m
the west. Whereupon peace Messed peace would
once more descend upon
world at least tne western
tne answers also !
"Nice work if you can get it."
IN FACT we grant that this would be a "consumma
tion devoutly to be wished." It -would be, from the
American standpoint, the PERFECT solution.
But how could it be done?
In considering these problems it is, in other words,
as important to consider what CAN'T be done as
what CAN be.
And placing a united rearmed Germany on Soviet
Russia's western borders a member of NATO, just
happens to be, as we see it, one of the things that
CAN'T be.
We doubt if there is a qualified student of the
European situation who would deny that if any such
proposal were seriously offered much less any at
tempt made to carry it out Russia, whether under
its present government or some other, would fight to
prevent it. As we have often remarked Russia prob
ably doesn't want another world war in this atomic
age anymore than does the United States, but there
are limits to its anti-war resolutions arid restraints.
And a reunited, rearmed and rejuvenated Germany
on her western border as a part of NATO would be
passing that limit.
A S FAR as that is concerned we can't conceive the
" United States would ever agree to a united and
rearmed Germany allied with Moscow.
So assuming a peaceful solution is desired, both
of these proposals must be stricken out, and we hope
our neighboring communicant will agree and do so.
.
THAT was why we named as one of our important
conditions to any solution in western Europe the
neutralization of Germany, with its security and that
neutrality guaranteed by the USA and England on
one hand, and if POSSIBLE, Soviet Russia on the
other.
Probably Germany would not like that disarma
ment provision particularly. But the question before
the House is not what Germany or any other nation
would like, but what can for the sake of world peace
be accomplished.
And considering what militarism has done to
Germany, we should think it possible, at least, that
giving back her original status as one nation under
one flag, she would be willing to use the money for
merly devoted to maintaining a huge army and navy,
to the development of her country via peaceful pur
suits, particularly a.long industrial and cultural lines.
Mebbe not, but wouldn't it be worth a try?
AS WE see it, another thing CAN'T be done.
The nation of Israel can't be destroyed.
It exists, it is growing and prospering, the civilized
world would never submit to its extinction either by
the Arabs, or anyone else.
But surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered as
it is by its enemies it can't survive for long without
outside assistance.
Therefore we suggested the establishment of a
neutral zone, with strong defenses against any sur
prise attack by either side and a reiteration of the tri
partite pledge that armed aggression would be resist
ed by extending immediate armed aid to the non-
Sunday, April 8, 1958
verv solemnly has taken us
Russia's game !
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portion oi it. bo ne Knows
Heavy Pressures From
Threaten Highway Legislation
Washington (CQ) Highway
pressure groups may cause the
multibillion-dollar highway pro
gram to fail again this year, be
cause of their stands on taxes
Today and
By Walter
LEADERSHIP AND STRADDLE
A great deal is being said
abroad and here at home about
how ' necessary and urgent it is
that this coun
try give firm
and clear lead
ership to the
non- commu
nist world. It is
easier to say
that than to do
it.
But I won
der whe t h e r
waiter Lippmann the President
and Secretary Dulles have not in
fact come to think of the world
situation in terms other than
that of leadership, whether, in
deed, they are trying to lead.
In the past few months Mr.
Dulles has found himself en
tangled in an extraordinary
series of dilemmas in issues in
which he is damned if he does
and damned if he doesn't. He has
been caught in the Goa dilemma
between Portugal and India, in
the Jakarta dielmma between
the Netherlands and Indonesia,
in the North African dilemma
between France and the Algerian
Arabs, in the Palestine dilem
ma between Israel and the Arbs,
in the Baghdad dilemma between
Iraq and Egypt, in the Cyprus
dilemma between Britain and
Greece, in the Persian Gulf di
lemma between Saudi-Arabia
and Great Britain, and so on
and on.
rpHIS is all rather different from
what it used to be in the pre-
Geneva phase of the cold war.
Then the issues were between
Communists and anti-Communists.
The line of leadership was
self-evident. But now the issues
which plague Mr. Dulles are
often primarily among our allies
and the peoples that we are
courting.
Mr. Dulles is in theory a be
liever, as he said in his famous
1"
rflil itM --ft'.aaJ
Matter of Fact ey
"KHRUSH AND BULGE"
London The visit of "Khrush
and Bulge" as almost every
Englishman now calls Khrush
chev and Bulganin tells a
great deal
about current
Soviet policy.
If the Eisen
hower admin
istration is not
careful, this
visit just con
ceivably could
also tell a
great. deal
about the long
Joseph Alsop
range future
of
the Western
Alliance.
The circumstances of the Sov
iet leaders' visit to London are
decidedly odd in themselves.
The British leaders swear that
their invitation to Khrushchev
and Bulganin was like one of
those impulsive suggestions
"Oh do come for the week end
if you ever visit Kalamazoo"
which are not meant to be acted
on.
At the summit meeting at
Geneva, the French had already
agreed to visit Moscow. British
Prime Minister Sir Anthony
Eden was being pressed by
Khrushchev and Bulganin to
come to Moscow too, which he
had no intention of doing.
TUT why don't you visit
tLondon?" said Eden to the
Russian bosses, well remember
ing the months of fruitless ef
forts to persuade Stalin to come
to Britain in glory in the inti
mate war years.
"Why we'd just love too," said
Krush and Bulge, Very much
in the bright, ruthless manner
of someone promising to visit
Kalamazoo the very next week,
and to bring the children as
well. And that put the fat in
the fire.
The fiie at times has been
fairly hot. Lord Salisbury, who
is probably the most respected
single politician in England after
Sir Winston Churchill, is known
to have detested the whole idea
from' the outset. There were
other difficulties about the visit,
even before Krush and Bulge
went to India and announced
that the British had been close
collaborators of Adolf Hitler.
After the Indian excitement,
there was serious discussion of
aggressor whoever the non-aggressor might be.
THERE are the two proposals, in brief, which we
offered in answer to a request to give our solution
of two of the most complicated and perplexing of
present day world problems.
That both have serious flaws we don't doubt. And
we welcome HAVING them pointed out.
But in a matter like this we don't like to be taken
too seriously just seriously enough! R.W.R. .
and minimum wage provisions.
Legislation to build highways
passed the Senate last year but
failed just before adjournment in
the House when trucking and
Tomorrow
Lippmann
Life magazine interview, in tak
ing a clear position so that for
eign governments will not mis
calculate. In actual practice, be
ginning with Quemoy and Matsu
and going on to Palestine, he has
devoted an immense amount of
his energy trying to make clear
choices in the dilemmas which
confront him. I am not attempt
ing here to criticize or to judge,
but only to describe, when I say
that a large part of our current
policy is to work out ways of
straddling the many horrid
choices with which we are con
fronted. The old much simpler days are
past when there was one great
adversary and leadership, con
isted in opposing him. The great
adversary is stul there, to be
sure, but he is playing a second
ary part in the troubles of
France in North Africa and of
Great Britain in the Middle
East.
THE President and Mr. Dulles
give the impression of being
men who are not so much trying
to lead a grand alliance as they
are to disentangle themselves
from its quarrel and to become
if possible mediators. This is
their line. Cyprus, in Palestine,
and in effect in North Africa.
They are trying not to become
involved and committed and not
to offend either side too much.
Naturally enough, no one is very
much pleased.
One wonders where the policy
of straddle is heading, and what
conception of America's role in
the world is implied by it. Are
they trying to accomodate them
selves to the idea that there is
an irresistible revolutionary tide
of anti-Western passion rising in
Africa and Asia, that they can
not hope to resist it, that they
might in some places manage to
appease it? It sometimes looks
that way.
(C) 1956, New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Joseph AIsop
disinvitation, but this increas
ingly popular social innovation
still causes embarassment in
London. Then Khrush and Bulge
said they would like to come for
a whole fortnight, and were told
they could come for- only eight
days. Finally, Georgi Melen-
kov came, a sort of pilot engine,
as, the wholly unexpected lead
er of a routine post-Geneva tech
nical mission and without being
asked at all.
THE theme in London now Is
how tough the British gov
ernment mean to be with their
not exactly longed-for visitors.
Long official talks have been
scheduled, partly to reduce the
amount of time Khrush and
Bulge can spend in the Malen
kov imnner, Malenkov having
behaved rather like Sen. Ke-
fauver running in a particularly
difficult primary. Soviet doings
in the Middle East are to be a
prominent topic in the talks.
Some members of the cabinet
even hope that the talks will
end without the usual smoothly
amiable communique and in
public disagreement.
In these peculiar circum
stances, then, what on earth are
the Russian motives? Why
should the blood-stained Mal
enkov be quoting Robert Burns,
handing candy to children and
all but going on his not incon
siderable belly to ingratiate him
self with Hugh Gaitskell and
others among the most courage
ously anti-Communist faction in
the Labor Party? Why should
Khrushchev and Bulganin so
obviously hanker to put on a
similar act?
The answer is fairly obvious.
In the Middle East, not to men
tion Malaya, the Soviets are lit
erally probing for Britain's
vitals. If the Middle Eastern
oil sources are ever shut off,
Britain will be publicly bank
rupt within 30 days. In the
total political chaos that will
then ensue, almost anything can
happen.
TF the British leaders and people
also feel that they have been
badly let down by the American
government, a British defeat in
the Middle East will quite cer
tainly be accompanied by par
oxysms of anti-American feeling
here. Obviously, this is the mo-
Lobbies
rubber groups hotly protested
tax hikes aimed at them.
This year the House has as
signed the financing and build
ing phases to separate commit
tees. The House Ways and Means
committee recently approved a
bill to tax trucks and cars the
same for highwayi with one ex
ception. Trucks weighing more
than 26,000 pounds would be
charged $1.50 for every 1,000
pounds.
Opposite Sides
In the opposite corners over
the $1.50 levy are the American
Automobile association and the
American Trucking associations,
heavyweights among the road
lobbies. The AAA says trucks
should pay more for roads; ATA
says trucks already pay four
times as much for highways as
cars do. Each group is so adam
ant that lawmakers pouring over
highway legislation see little
ground for compromise.
The other big roadblock in
front of lobby agreement is the
provision authorizing the Secre
tary of Labor to set minimum
wages for workers building federal-aid
highways. The National
John Heavy and Highway Con
struction ommittee, a labor or
ganization, and the Associated
General Contractors of America
are fighting over the wage ques
tion. The labor group was formed
in 1955 to press for prevailing
wage clauses in any highway leg
islation under consideration. Its
support comes from the AFL-CIO
Teamsters, Carpenters, Laborers
and Operating Engineers unions.
The organization maintains the
federal wage-setting power is
necessary to prevent "maraud
ing" and "predatory" contractors
from staking out the Interstate
Highway System as their "pri
vate club."
Higher Cost Seen
But the 6,500-member AGC
says the provision would "un
necessarily increase" the cost of
the highway program by raising
wages above their proper levels,
It also claims the wage power is
an invasion of states rights.
Here agin there appears little
area for compromise. Each group
asserts it is fighting for a prin
ciple which cannot be sacrificed,
even for the over-all highway
program both admit is so vital,
Even if the highway bill sur
vives bouts with those lobbies,
it still must withstand punches
from lobby organizations against
any federal highway program at
all, even though most lobbies ap
prove the idea of an expanded
highway program.
In that class fall the railroads
that say Uncle Sam's roads wUl
help their trucking competitors.
The American Farm Bureau Fed
eration wants the states to build
roads with the fuel taxes cur
rently going into the federal
Treasury.
Defense Groups
Much of the defense from the
lobby attacks will come from the
Eisenhower Administration and
grass roots support, harnessed by
such groups as the American Mu
nicipal association. President El
senhower says the highway pro
gram is vital to the nation. The
American Municipal association
has held meetings in cities in the
East, Midwest and South to whip
up enthusiasm for the road pro
gram. The lawmakers in this election
year will try to find a way
through the controversy. But sev
eral of the lobbies are set to keep
up the fighting until the last
minute.
(Copyright 1956, Congressional
Quarterly)
Oregon Manufacturers
Directory Lists 2000
Salem (U.R) More than 2000
firms are listed in the new Ore-
g o n manufacturers directory,
the Oregon Development Com
mission said Friday.
The directory lists all manu
facturing establishments which
employ four or more workers,
except for logging and lumber
concerns.
Information for the directory
was obtained at the 26 local of
fices of the State Unemployment
Compensation Commission.
Copies may be obtained from
the development commission in
Portland, public agencies and
Chambers of Commerce.
ment Khrushchev and Bulganin
are trying to prepare -for.
They cannot suppose there is
much chance of doing business
with Britain now. But they are
going all out to convey the im
pression that Britain will be
able to do business with the
Soviets later, when and if Brit
ain is in desperate straits, and
feels utterly deserted by Amer
ica, and has nowhere else to
turn.
The gamble is an extremely
long shot, for this is still a singu
larly stout hearted country. But
the gamble costs Khrush and
Bulge nothing at all, except
eight days of their time. And
one must add that the Washing
ton policy makers seem to be
doing everything possible at the
moment to improve Khrush and
Bulges' gamble.
Copyright 1956, New York
Herald Tribune Inc)
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Photographer Carl Landis
claims to have attended about
600 weddings in the past 10
years. And he doesn't like cake;
doesn't eat ' it; complains about
it loudly at each wedding recep
tion. His standard joke on such
occasions was to ask for cherry
pie and dill pickles.
Last week, at a wedding re
ception, he was called to the
center of the. floor at St. Mark's
church and formally presented
with a cherry pie and a jar of
dill pickles.
Ate 'em, too, then and later.
One of our feminine staff
members tramped down town
last week to buy a new spring
hat. She looked, and looked
and looked. Finally she re
turned to the office with a
brand new, 75 cent feather to
put in her old hat
!
A man we know, who has two
sub-teen daughters, slept late the
morning of April fool's day, and
arose, g-oggy and sleepy, to ask
the girls to bring him, please, a
cup of coffee. They obliged with
exceptional alacrity. He took a
large swallow and nearly chok
ed as he found the girls had used
salt instead of sugar.
The daughters, incidentally,
had filled a small sugar bowl
with salt to perform their chore.
Later in the week the lady of
the house, in a sudden burst of
housewifeliness, started clean
ing all the small sugar and
cream containers. Unwittingly
she dumped the one full of salt
into the big sugar bowL
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
By FRANK JENKINS
Thanks to the Wisconsin pri
mary election, politics is again
in the news.
ine Wisconsin primary was
built up by professionals the
term "professionals" includes
newspaper and radio COMMEN
lAiUKb (the real newspaper
and radio people just tell the
news) as a test between Presi
dent Eisenhower and Senator
Kefauver.
This build-up has been possi
ble because Wisconsin has no
party registration and voters can
mark any ballot they choose.
WELL
" On that basis
With the vote better than 80
per cent counted as thi3 is writ
ten, 400,000-odd Wisconsinites
have voted for Ike and 300,000
odd have voted for Estes.
If every state outside the po
litically petrified South follows
the Wisconsin primary pattern
inc November it will be a land
slide for Ike.
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER, at
his press conference the day
after refused to comment on the
Wisconsin voting. Senator Kefau
ver says the Wisconsin primary
appeared to show great unrest
among the farmers and thus indi
cates that if nominated he can
carry Wisconsin against Eisen
hower in the fall.
He adds:
"Since the present administra
tion offers no SUITABLE relief
for, the farmers' distress, I be
lieve I can carry the farm belt.
I think the results also show, the
farmers are voting for my pro
gram and me."
TITHAT is his farm program?
" As nearly as can be judged
from his utterances, it Is a pro
gram of high subsidies for as
nearly ALL farm products eg
possible. Personally, I believe
that over the long pull the farm
ers of America I mean the
REAL farmers will be intelli
gent enough to recognize that
the subsidy system, which pro
motes and encourages surpluses,
will wreck American agricul
ture. IF YOU have followed the po
litical news and the political
pontificating carefully, you
must have noticed that former
President Truman has figured
rather largely in it.
He made a speech in New York
and in it he charged that the
Eisenhower administration is giv
ing the people a false, optimistic
picture of foreign affairs as a
measure of political expediency.
He "disclosed" that his next
speaking engagement will be in
Iowa, to a farm group, and when
asked what he would tell the
farmers there he replied that
he'll tell 'em, that if they vote
Republican they should have
their heads examined.
He "disclosed" that if he goes
to Europe .this summer, as he
hopes to, his main purpose will
be to receive an honorary degree
at Oxford University. He added
that "for three years Oxford has
been trying to give me a degree."
And so on, including com
ment on the forthcoming mar
riage of Prince Rainier to movie
queen Grace Kelly. He got into
the news in a rather big way.
TRUMAN is regarded by the
inside political professionals
as a distinct possibility for the
Democratic nomination in case
of a deadlock between the Ke
fauver and the Stevenson fol-loweni.
So our friend, on preparing
an eye-opener cup of coffee the
other morning, salted his own.
He almost choked, again.
Staff member brought
around a note about herself the
other day, and attached a note
to the note which queried: "Is
this In a too vain vein?"
Oh, the dangers of modern
life!!
We are told about a man who
used to be a baUet dancer. When
he retired from that profession,
he became a carpenter and
builder. These two skilled and
rather specialized vocations nev
er seemed to bother him.
But the other day he sneezed,
threw his back out of joint, and
went to bed for a week.
He's a determined man,
though. Crick in the back or no,
he's going to join members of
the ballet company due here
next week for some advance ex
hibition dancing.
Youngsters aged 1 through
12 had an Easter egg hunt
last Sunday in the Butte Falls
city park, sponsored by the
Butte Falls Lions club. Ev
erything went pretty much as
planned, and the youngsters
hunted the eggs on schedule
despite three inches of new
snow in the park.
A Jacksonville woman made a
trip to Portland over the Easter
week end. Before she left she
mailed an Easter gift to a friend
in that city an apron. She had
Easter dinner with another
friend in Portland, and received
as a gift an apron. Calling at
the home of the friend to whom
she had sent an apron, she re
ceived a gift which had been
purchased and wrapped earlier
an apron.
She never wears an apron.
There's a hospital some
where on the Pacific Coast
(not In southern Oregon)
where the proprietors own a
pet cheetah the south Amer
ican cat much like a small
' leopard. It's usually on a leash,
but occasionally gets loose
and wanders around, much of
lis own accord. A friend who
recently visited there says,
"He is a beautiful thing, espe
cially when he looks straight
at you, and you're not sure
whether to flinch, pat him on
the head, or turn and run."
FJC writes to tell of a recent
police alarm, when officers
were summoned to a local mar
ket to check on a still, quiet
form lying on the doorstep, cov
ered with a blanket.
The policemen felt for a pulse
and found one, then summoned
an ambulance which took a lit
tle time to arrive. When the su
pine man, quite well dressed,
was being picked up, he rolled
over and inquired indignantly
what all the fuss was about.
The officers asked what he
was doing lying there. He re
plied "Restin'." They asked his
name. He said, "It's me. So
what?" "Where do you live?"
"None of your business."
"Where's your home?" "Ain't
got none."
He was given one temporar
ily in the' city drunk tank. Or
so FJC says he was told.
Congressional
Quiz
(Copyright, 195
Concessional Quarterly)
Q. True or false The typical
"big-city" Congressman repre
sents more people than the aver-r
age Congressman from a farm
area.
A. True. A Congressional
Quarterly analysis shows that
the average member from a big-
city Congressional district repre
sents 378,000 persons, compared
with only 310,000 for the typical
rural Representative. If all dis
tricts were the same size, the
big cities would gain about 12
seats in the House.
Q. True or False? American
cities currently dump more than
one-half of the pollution from
their sewers into waterways.
A. True. U. S. Public Health
Service statistics show that sew
age purification will have to be
stepped up if the nation is to
supply the demand for clean,
fresh water in decades to come.
While the proportion of sewage
being adequately treated has in
creased since 1930, the nation
has grown so much that a great
er total pollution load is being
dumped into waterways.
Q. True or False? Former Con
gressmen are barred by law from
lobbying on the floor of Con
gress.
A. False. Ex-Senators and ex-
Representatives enjoy a unique
privilege in being able to enter
the chamber floors. Much to the
despair of some interest groups
around Washington, this also is
true of ex-Congressmen working
as lobbyists.
An ordinary watch crystal will
crack under 50 pounds of pres
sure, laboratory tests have indi
cated. .