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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 16. 1946
A serious shortage of fruit
pickers now exists in valley or
chards and City School Superin
tendent E. H. Hedrick urges to
day that students employed in
the fruit remain on the job for
a few days.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Dirt is fly
ing on the rural roads, and the
Portland front of the state po
litical campaign.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 16. 1936
Jackson county yesterday re
ceives from the department of
the interior a check for $92,
369.59, in payment of the coun
ty 1933 share under the O and
C land grant tax refund bill.
A new record for visitors at
Crater Lake National park is set
today when the season total
reached 170,469.
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 16. 1926
Th Southern Oregon Pioneer
society is planning a meeting in
this city Oct. 7, for tneir auin
annual reunion.
Moving pictures of the first
air mail flight to Medford, tok
en yesterday by H. L. Bromley
n thm Pnrw-n nnhlicitv depart
ment, have been dispatched to
San Francisco to be developed
and returned by air mail.
40 YEARS AGO
C. IS. 1916
A large crowd witnessesd the
final day's program at the fan-
grounds this afternoon.
It is estimated that 2.000 per
,;.ttfH Pnainff CamD at
the armory last night.
SO YEARS AGO
Cm 111. 1906
Amos Walker announces his
French Coach stallion Ven
guer" has taken first prize in his
class at the state fair in saiem.
TnHunm Mimtv Kpmres third
tv exhibit
pitriiuuiii ... '
competition receiving a percent-
o o - . nn.cihl 100
age oi oo uui " i -
points and Is awarded a prize
OI iUU.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 15JS FditorUl Research
Report
r
i who nr the two livirig de
feated Republican nominees for
Vice President?
AHlai F. Stevenson inner-
pH much stock in a successful
Illinois newspaper through his
mother, father, granaujmer
uncle or former wile?
3. The Jewish Day of Atone
ment is Rosh Hashonah. Yom
Kippur, Purim, Pesach or Chan
ukah? .
4. No President has been) elect
ed in this century without carry
ing New York: right or wrong?
5. The Istaqlal is a nationalist
' movement in Cyprus. Morocco.
Malta, Puerto Rico, Egypt or
South Africa?
6. The Duke of Windsor did or
didn't have a coronation as king
of Great Britain?
7. President Johnson had the
same initials as another presi
dent, namely ?
The answers: 1. Chief Justice
Warren and Senator Bricker. 2.
Mother. 3. Yom Kippur. 4.
Wrong. S. Morocco. 6. Didn't 7.
Andrew Jackson.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Who Won LxLst Tuesday?
The esteemed Oregonian is having rather a hard
time to interpret the recent primary and election re
sults as outstanding victories for President Eisen
hower. The governorship race in Utah for example is cited
as exhibit No. 1. In that state the amazing troglodyte
J. Bracken Lee was beaten by 60-year-old George D.
Clyde, the former favoring repeal of the federal in
come tax and refusing to pay his own and the latter
eschewing all issues but one: the personal popularity
of "Ike" and his coattails, which proved sufficient.
Well, that w-as a Republican victory of sorts, but
hardly one we should think to crow about.
MO. 2 victory, according to the Oregonian, was that
of Senator Wiley, former chairman of the foreign
relations committee over Representative Glenn R.
Davis, isolationist and McCarthyite.
If President Eisenhower had yielded to the pleas
of Senator Wiley and his friends to give at least a nod
of approval to the man who had so staunchly sup
ported him and his foreign policies, there would be
more cause for White House jubilation. But to do that
would have enraged the McCarthyites of that state,
and President Eisenhower soughte refuge in the plea
that he did not regard it as proper for the President of
the United States to take sides in the primaries of his
own party.
At the time it was freely predicted in Wisconsin
this refusal of any White House endorsement would
defeat Wisconsin's senior senator. But it did not.
This result we should surmise was more a personal
triumph for Senator Wiley and a personal slap-in-the-face
for McCarthy and McCarthyism than a notable
triumph for General Eisenhower.
A CCORDING to press reports President Eisenhower
did enter the state election in Maine to the extent
of writing a letter to a Maine newspaper editor endors
ing the congressional candidates of his party and the
GOP candidate for Governor. Whether or not this
was done, there is no doubt that the Republican can
didates made "We like Ike" their main issue and riot
only was the Republican candidate for Governor beat
en, but at this writing it appeal's one or two of the
congressional GOP aspirants suffered the same fate
if so, an upset unprecedented in Maine's entire polit
ical history.
THE OREGONIAN did not find cause for Kepubli-
can rejoicing in this upset but played it down by
chiding Adlai Stevenson for repeating the time-hon
ored slogan As Maine goes so goes the nation. If
Adlai said that we are sure he said it with a smile, but
according to the report to this paper he only said "it
indicated a Democratic trend" and naturally showed
pleasure that the trend was in favor of him and his
party and against the opposition.
TP to this writing the Oregonian has made no com
ment on the primary results in Washington state.
We agree with the Oregonian, however, that in this
case "it would not be wise to draw broad conclusions
from such fragmentary data." But the pro-Eisenhower
Oregon Journal a few blocks away did draw the con
clusion from the victory of Senator Magnuson in the
"popularity contest" with Governor Langlie, that the
GOP better look to its political fences in that progres
sive and prosperous commonwealth and do it before
election day comes around. We think this is sound
advice.
TN SHORT the primaries and elections on Tues
day last did show a definite trend in favor of the
Democratic party, and away from President Eisen
hower, and the magic potency of his coat tails. It
would however, as we view it be, as foolish to deny
this, as to contend SERIOUSLY that as Maine went m
September the nation is bound to go on November
6th. That would, to quote
"silly." R.W.R.
Is Nixon a
The Oregonian complains that to date the presi
dential campaign has been lacking m.the zippety
zoom of the party conventions."
Sayeth our favorite breakfast-table daily, quote
"Perhaps what this political campaign needs is a little
more of the zippety-zoom of the recent conventions. Cer
tainly it is deadly dull now, with the president wearing the
dignity of his office, Adlai Stevenson having been advised
to eschew his quips of '52 and strike a statesmanlike pose,
'and humorless Wayne Morse and sobersides Douglas McKay
confronting each other locally.
"The experts are saying the national campaign is a 'horse
race." Who knows, maybe race horses run faster when
they're sporting lively racing colors."
Well we admit we miss the improperly termed
"wise-cracks" of Adlai, so poignant, refreshing and
original in the 1952 campaign, and we have often been
depressed bv.the complete
las McKay. But we have
somewhat amusing, and in spite of the presumptive
warnings of his professional advisers, Mr. Stevenson
still gets in a few "asides" which show that his native
wit, and sense of proportion are still there, although
under wraps for the time
DUT we wonder if humor isn't where you find it and
u the Oregonian is too restricted in its search?
Take the two Salem papers for example, the
Statesman and the Capital-Journal. Isn't their present
juxtaposition somewhat amusing?
Did the Oregonian observe that while occupying
the same building and being printed on the same
press, the two papers are poles apart in editorial qual
ity and beliefs, particularly as far as that increasingly.
Sunday, September 16. 1958
the Oregonian, also be
GOP Asset?
lack of humor in Mr. Doug
and still do find the latter
being no doubt
controversial figure, Vice President and heir-apparent
Richard Nixon, is concerned?
Editor Swasrue thinks
rrnsfalfp tn invite "Slink
Republican ticket in Oregon, observng that his efforts
.1 : i iv . J ifiri 3 i : . i 1 1
uiu me party no guuu in ivo aim implying uiey win
do no good this year.
THE EDITOR of the Capital-Journal takes issue
Richard" to the skies.
Everything said against
and the speech Mr. Nixon
quote one of the best this
life."
We don't know whether
stop was pulled out on dear
Nixons simple but idyllic family life to alibi that
$18,000 expense fund or not, but there is no doubt that
as far as speech making is concerned, the former Cali
fornia Senator is a second Wm. Jennings Bryan and
a slicker politician. But after all, does ability to de
liver a speech eloquently and persuasively, necessarily
qualify one for the White House?
The greatest speech he
that is a splendid tribute to "the gentleman from Cali
fornia" by the Capital-Journal editor, but it is hardly
an answer to the Statesman's argument The same re
mark was made about the late W. J. Bryan of Ne
braska, hundreds of times, but somehow the American
people regardless of party, never seemed to want him
to be PRESIDENT. They didn't doubt his integrity
however, as in the case of Nixon. They only doubted
his judgment.
Nixon is a good talker, an excellent hand shaker,
but just isn't of presidential calibre.
And this goes for many Republicans.
They like to hear him talk, he is smooth as silk,
plausible and eloquent. Moreover, judging by recent
efforts he has abandoned his "call 'em communist"
line, which for so many years was his favorite method
of getting votes.
But to like to hear a man talk and approve his
verbal reform is one thing to want him as President
or next in line to the presidency is quite another.
And in our judgment, the Salem Statesman is
100 correct, as is frequently the case, in seriously
doubting the wisdom of calling on "Slick Dick" to
tour Oregon to make votes for the Republican ticket
R.W.R.
Today and
By Walter
SUEZ: THE AMERICAN VIEW
1 1, would be a mistake for any
one in London or Paris to sup
pose that the American attitude
on Suez is
softer and
more pacific
than it would
be if there
were no ,na
t i o n a 1 elec
tions. The
American
view, which
has the pre
ponderant sup
port of those who think about
Suez at all, is that no case exists
which would justify a resort to
force, and that the use of force
by France and Britain alone
would almost certainly involve
them and the Western world in
incalculable risks. .
We do not believe that Nasser
has as yet committed an aggres
sion which caUs for a military
reprisal. We do not believe that
by the reoccupation of the canal
zone and the overthrow of Nas
ser, the vital interests of the
West could be made secure. We
believe that reoccupation would
be the beginning of an endless
and indecisive guerrilla war, a
war of sabotage, sniping, am
bushes, and assassinations. We
think this guerrilla war would
be much harder to cope with
than the rebellions in Algeria
and in Cyprus.
So we very much hope that
we shall not be confronted with
an accomplished fact, and com
pelled to say we cannot approve
and that we must stand aside.
TN our view Nasser's rejection
of the 18 nation proposal for
operation by an international
board was to be expected and
does not justify a rupture of ne
gotiations. It has always been
evident that Nasser would re
fuse, and that the 18 nations
would not use force to compel
him to accept, the proposal
for International operation of
the canal. The task of diplomacy
has been,, and stiU is, to inject
into Egyptian operation a reas
onable and reliable measure of
international influence.
There are two ways of going
at this. One is to begin at the
Dulles end, to propose an inter
national board to operate the
canal, and then to compromise
at some point where there is
Egyptian operation but import
ant international advice, assist
ance, and supervision. The oth
er way is to begin at the Nehru
end, which starts with interna
tional advice and supervision,
and then to negotiate for ways
of making them practicaUy ef
fective. It is a question whether there
is a real difference, a real attain
able difference, between the
American and the Indian plan.
If, as seems probable, interna
tional operation . is impossible
while international supervision
would have united the London
conference, it might have been
Walter Lippmann
the Republicans made a
Dick" tn pamnaio-n fnr thp
him, it claims, is "bogus"
made in Corvallis was,
writer ever heard in his
in that speech the tremolo
little "Checkers" and the
ever heard m his life"
Tomorrow
Lippmann
wiser to unite on the Indian
plan.
rpHE American desire to settle
the Suez dispute by negotia
tion is not based on the old il
lusion about Nasser and his am
bitions, but on the conviction
that the Western position in this
dispute is -weak and vulnerable.
Great Britain and France have
never before raised the question
of international operation after
1968 when the company's con
cession is to run out. They have
now raised the question before
Nasser has violated their rights
to the use of the canal. Our
view, or at least the view of
many among us, is that it is a
mistake not to seize upon Nas
ser's offer to negotiate a mod
ernized version of the Treaty of
1888, which guaranteed to all
nations free and equal use of
the canal. For this would put
ui in the position to hold him to
account if he plays politics or
profiteers.
Such a treaty, signed not only
by the Western powers as in
1888 but by the new powers of
Asia as well, would be some
thing not to be regarded lightiy.
It would establish international
rights in the Middle East on a
clear political and legal founda
tion. Then, if there was a seri
ous and willful violation of
those rights, there would be a
case which does not now ex
ist for collective action.
"V'ASSER has big and danger-
ous ambitions, and his seiz
ure of the Suez Company is un
doubtedly intended to be the
first major overt act in his cold
war against the Western power
and influence in Africa and the
Middle East. His was a shrewd
ly calculated move. He acted jn
an unfriendly manner. But he
acted entirely within the boun
daries of Egypt, and therefore,
there was no military aggres
sion. He did what he did, what
under international law he had
a sovereign right to do. He has,
of course, gained great prestige
in the Arab world. But if he
will agree to an international
treaty which makes explicit the
international right of the users
of the canal, he will not have
won an unconditional victory
So far as the canal is concerned,
he wiU have shot his bolt.
What is to happen in the oil
fields and or the pipe lines will
happen no sooner if we negoU
ate such a treaty than if Britain
and France, with the rest of the
world standing aside, resort to
force. We are on notice, how
ever, that in the Middle East the
old order is changing and that
we must get ready for it, that
we cannot afford to be as un
prepared for other changes as
we were unprepared for Suez.
(Copyright New York Herald
Tribune Inc.) ,
Breaks in the trans -ocean
cables can usually be traced
down by shore stations to within
one-half a mile.
Matter of Fact
WAR OF NERVES
Washington British Prime
Minister Sir Anthony Eden's pro
posal of a "users' association" to
control traffic
through the
Suez Canal
simply serves
to underline
the real issue
in the Suez
crisis. Can the
Egyptian d i c
tator, Col. Nas
ser, get away
with kicking
the Western powers in the teeth?
Eden s proposal was not a seri
ous proposal, in the sense that
neither he nor anybody else seri
ously expected Nasser placidly
to accept it. The proposal was.
instead, another salvo in the war
of nerves being fought out be
tween the Western powers on the
one hand and Egypt, with the
backing of the Communist pow
ers and the Arab states, on the
other.
In this war of nerves, the ob
jective of the British and the
French, at least, is to demon
strate as pub
licly as pos
sible that Nas
ser cannot get
away with
kicking the
West e r n
powers in the
teeth. The
B r i t i sh and
French purpose
is. at the verv
least, to force Nasser to perform
a public backdown, and at best
to get rid of him once and for all.
To this end. the British and
French want to demonstrate, as
a prelude to further action, that
Egypt cannot run the canal. This
is why the Suez Canal Company
has "authorized" the non-Egyptian
pilots to quit their jobs.
which will have the effect of
crippling canal traffic. The Eden
proposal is likewise designed to
put on Nasser the onus of pre
venting ships from passing
through the international water
way. BUT, if Nasser flatly rejects the
Rritich nrnrmcal nnrl afioc
the Western powers, as everyone
expects, what happens next?
Eden talked of using "other
means" of bringing Nasser to
heel. These other means boil
down to two, both exceedingly
distasteful and dangerous.
One is to use economic and
political methods to bring Nasser
down, over a period of time, as
old Mohammed Mossadegh was
brought down in the end in Iran.
But an attempt to bring Nasser
down by starving out Egypt
would alienate the whole Mos
lem world. Moreover, rather
than quietly withering on the
vine, Nasser would certainly
turn to the Soviets for aid, which
might well be the first step in
the Sovietization of the Middle
East.
The other alternative, of
course, is to use troops and air
craft carriers to teach Nasser
his lesson. At the very least, this
would mean an ugly little war,
SI
1 Ariti
'If . jl
Stewart Alsop
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From a Pioneer
To the Editor: My next-door
neighbors, who are visiting in
Medford, have sent me a clipping
from the Mail Tribune, an edi
torial of Sept. 11, "The Real 1956
Issue."
I am deeply gratified, and at
the same time amazed that there
is . any newspaper editor left in
the U.S.A. who will write this
sort of editorial. I do not need to
tell you of the attitude of both
large Portland papers.
My own father, about 1870,
"took up" a small tract of land,
80 acres, in Umatilla county, 25
miles east of Pendleton. Shortly
after that he married and we
children arrived. My earliest re
collection (I'm the youngest) is of
little home and very hard
working parents, and hard-working
neighbors everywhere. Our
little farm was the best of wheat
land; my parents had planted an
orchard of fruit trees; a spring
of cold water gushed up from
the garden and flowed through
meadow pasture land. I believe
all of the neighbors that I first
knew were like my parents, the
first to till their soil. We had
little money, but we always had
the best of food. My father haul
ed pine wood from the foot hills
of the Blue mountains for our
fuel. All these pioneer people
made the soil blossom, and "civ
ilized" it for future generations.
But nobody at first had any great
wealth. Later, of course, some
few have bought up many of the
small farms. I believe my brother
and I got our first "learning" in
the original school house in our
district.
Now I tell you all this to let
you know why I so greatly ap
prove of your editorial. There is
in my mind simply NO ANAL
OGY between these that I knew
and Douglas McKay's "Give
Away." All four of my grand
parents came to Oregon in 1847
and helped clear land in the Wil
lamette Valley. There is most
surely no analogy between what
they got and the present "Give
Away." I only speak of my an
cestors because I know direcUy
about them. The same is true of
all those early pioneers. .
y j ond stewan a..p
in the Middle East, with British
and French troops probably
forced in the end to occupy all
Egypt.
At the most, it might mean
world war.
THIS ultimate danger cannot be
ruled out, especially since
Nikita Khrushchev has promised
Egypt the help of "volunteers",
if Egypt is involved in a "just
war against the imperialists."
Yet the British and the French
governments are genuinely con
vinced that their vital interests
will be destroyed if Nasser is al
lowed to get away with the
canal take-over. And thus the
use of British and French troops
in the canal zone cannot be ruled
out either.
With one eye on the election.
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles has been trying frantical
ly to dissuade the British and
French from resorting to force.
But bis position is complicated
by the fact that his own kick in
the teeth for Nasser inspired
Nasser's counterkick. For the
manner of Dulles' abrupt with
drawel of the American offer of
aid to Egypt in building the As
wan High Dam without any of
the usual diplomatic niceties or
delays was nothing short of a
calculated kick in the teeth.
The kick was largely the re
sult of Congressional opposition
to the dam. But it was based on
a grave miscalculation that
there was nothing much that
Nasser could do about it. The
plain fact is that American pol
icy in Egypt, which has contrib
uted heavily to the present crisis,
has been based on a whole series
of miscalculations.
FOR example, when American
Ambassador Henry Byroade
reported from Cairo in the
Spring of 1955 the Soviet offer
of arms to Egypt, the offer was
blandly written off as a bluff
which it was not. Again, when
Nasser caught the American
government completely off base
by nationalizing the canal, it
was hopefully assumed that the
Soviets would be nice about it,
and restrain Nasser, because
"then don't want to run any
really dangerous risks in the
Middle East."
Instead, in Cairo Soviet Am
bassador Kisselev has encour
aged Nasser to go the limit. At
the London conference Soviet
Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepi
lov backed Nasser to the hilt.
And in Moscow Khrushchev
talked about Soviet "volunteers"
for Nasser's "just war".
Altogether, the record of
American policy in the Middle
East has been less than brilliant.
It may be that the British and
French, in their desperation,
feeling Nasser's knife across
their jugulars, will resort to
force despite every American ef
fort to dissuade them. If so, the
American government will bear
a heavy share of responsibility
for the consequences, which are
incalculable.
Copyright 1956, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.
Letters submitted for publication must
When my neighbors get home
we are going to enjoy so much
discussing your editorial. And
thank you again for writing any
thing so reasonable and fair. I
can only guess that some sincere
Republicans actually believe
there are "favored people" who
should have the cream of every
thing. (Mrs.) Delia P. BlaisdeU
5112 N.E. 13th ave.
Portland 11, Ore.
About 'Give Aways'
To the Editor: I feel it fitting
to answer local Republicans
about the "give aways." They
are also artists in using figures
to fool the people. First, I am
not against private ownership
as long as they can and will do
as well for the people as has
government ownership. But they
have not, and in building the
three low level dams on the
Snake river, have not given what
I think is the proper considera
tion to our present generation,
to say nothing of a short 50
years in the future.
Their sole thought is monop
oly and quick profits, with a
quick refund from the govern
ment to let the same taxpayers
indirectly assume their invest
ments. And while we are on taxes,
DID any private corporation
ever pay any taxes? Of course
not we, the consumers, pay
every cent, and we also pay a
terrible fee to them only to be
our tax collectors.
As to TV A, the people in that
area, as the vast majority will
testify, are more than satisfied;
so satisfied that a local group
stopped President Ike from forc
ing the Dixon-Yates contract
down their throats. And in the
same figure juggling that the
boys thought we would swaUow,
what has been the savings to the
taxpayers on cheaper power?
We Democrats cannot afford
TV time, but thank God we can
still think clear.
L. J. D.
(Name on File)
Ashland, Ore.
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff end
Contributors)
If you want to mail out a
whole bunch of circulars or let
ters or something, the thing to do
is to go to the post office and get
a permit. Then you can print on
your mailing piece basic infor
mation about the permit, dump
em into the mail, and pay the
post office in a lump sum, rath
er than licking all those stamps.
(Ugh!)
Well, one piece of mail we got
recenUy was sent out that way.
Up in the corner where the stamp
usually is. appeared the correct
permit information, and the in
scription: "U.S. Pastage Paid.
Special tax on glue, now, may
be?
Newsman Bill Jenkins. In
the high desert county at Kla
math Falls, advocates every
one learning how to use a bow
and arrow.
"With the vast strides al
ready made in the perfection
of atomic and hydrogen
bombs." he says, "we may be
needing this skill one of these
here days."
Our Jacksonville correspond
ent and her husband, Mr. and
Mrs. C. S. Hoskins (we are in
formed by an anonymous source)
recently completed a new. pink
and white house. After it was
done, they realized there was no
special place provided for their
two black labrador retrievers,
"Panther" and "Jet."
So the Hoskins plunged into a
"dog house" project, building a
miniature replica of their own
house identical in structure,
roofing and color scheme.
Still another crucial decision.
also involving animals, has to be
made at the Hoskins residence.
our informant declares. This is
whether to change the name of
their cat, "Miss Muffet," to "Mrs.
Muffet" now that she has attain
ed the dignity of motherhood of
three fuzzy kittens.
The district attorney and his
staff of two deputies and two
secretaries learned, rather to
their amazement, last week.
In the columns of a weekly
newspaper, that there are now
three deputies. The DA and
his staff are in a flurry of curi
ousity about the "third dep
uty," wondering what Ms name
is, what he looks like- and why
no one ever sees him.
Parking meters, at best, are on
ly an uneasy solution to the prob
lem of keeping things moving
down town. Witness the distress
of a woman we watched from our
office window last week.
She parked across the street,
got out, and started toward the
parking meter with a penny in
hand. But a car and trailer had
parked in front of her, and the
trailer took up about half of her
parking space. Not realizing this,
she saw only that there was no
meter by her right front fender.
She walked to the rear of the
car, and found a meter half-way
between her car's rear door and
rear bumper. She then walked
back to the front to make sure
there was still no meter there.
There wasn't.
She paused a moment In what
looked like puzzled meditation,
then .walked stiffly to the rear
of her car, deposited the penny in
the meter for the space left be
hind her car, and walked deter
minedly away.
' A man was walking down
the street the other day with a
toddling girl, obviously his
small daughter, trailing behind
him. She trailed further and
further behind, which he knew
without looking, in the way of
lathers, and he held out his
hand saying. "Come here,
honey."
He then looked around and
found he was reaching for the
hand of a third pedestrian, fe
male, aged about 20.
. .
Each day a reporter calls the
weather bureau to get data on
the climate and the forecast. The
efficient weathermen are usually
ready for his call, and start right
out with the forecast for Western
Qregon.
Last week the reporter called,
and thp weatherman started out:
"A bit windy today . . ." The re
porter copied it down dutifully,
and read it back.
"Woops " the weatherman "I
meant the wording, not the
weather, was windy."
A young man we know spent
an evening last week going
from door to door on Winchest
er ava, to remind people that
Oct 6 is the deadline for regist
ering to vote.
As he reminded them, he
earned the title "The Pied Pip
er of Winchester" by collecting
a following of three dogs, two
cats and about eight children.
LADIES! HEAR THIS
Seneca, S.C. ttl.R) A gentle
man in nearby Honea Path be
lieves in the power of advertis
ing as witness the following ad
in the current issue of the weekly
Seneca Journal: "Would like a
nice reliable wife between the
ages of 24 and 35. I have a nice
home, nice income, don't drink,
smoke, am good church member.
Contact Box 142, Honea Path,
S.C."