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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 21, 1946 (Monday)
Mayor Clarence A. Meeker
elected vice president of the
League of Oregon Cities.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Fossils
have been unearthed indicating
man roamed California 4,000 to
8.000 years ago. These are the
first fossils discovered in a long
time, outside the halls of con
gress or a state legislature.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 21, 1936 (Wednesday)
What is believed to be the
first trailer house fire in this dis
tric was reported yesterday by
Mrs. Irene Waldo, state Town
send speaker, Portland.
With election only 13 days
way, Jackson county candi
dates are now touring the rural
areas.
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 21. 1928 (Thursday)
Ticket agents of eastern rail
roads arrive in Medford for an
auto trip through the valley.
Fred Lockley, special writer
on the Oregon Journal, in town
in the interest of proposed East
ern Oregon Normal school at
Pendleton.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 21, 1916 (Saturday)
One hundred and fifty dele
gates from the Sunday schools
in the valley attend 25th annual
convention of Jackson county
Sunday schools.
An advisory board appointed
by governors of Washington,
Oregon and Idaho to consider a
cooperative plan for marketing
fruit products of the states.
SO YEARS AGO
Oct. 21, 1906 (Sunday)
From Meadows precinct comes
some of the largest apples yet
brought into the county exhibit
building.
A plain, old fashioned gourd
U one of the attractions at the
county exhibit building this
week.
What's the Answer?
Can Too Get 4 of the 7 T
Copr. 19SS Editorial Research
Report
1. If the Presidency and Vice
Presidency both become vacant,
the Secretary of State becomes
President: right or wrong?
2. St. Patrick's Cathedral in
N". Y. is smaller or larger than
St. Peter's in Rome) or about the
same size?
3. The rich Ploesti oil produc
ing center is in the Middle East,
Russia, east Texas, Rumania,
California or Venezuela?
4. Which Presidential wife
was nicknamed "Lemonade Lu
cy" because she wouldn't serve
liquor or wine in the White
House.
5. Official head of the Church
of England is the Archbishop of
Canterbury. Queen, Prince of
Wales, Prime Minister, or Arch
bishop of York?
6. Founder of Girl Scouts of
America was Harriet B. Stowe,
Louisa Alcott, Juliette G. Lowe,
Mrs Herbert Hoover, or Julia
Ward Howe?
7. A bushmaster is a garden
er, bird, teacher in Australia,
snake or nurseryman?
The answers: 1. Wrong: U s
the Speaker of the House. 2.
Smaller. 3. Rumania. 4. Mrs.
Rutherford B. Hayes. 5. The
Queen. 6. Juliette G. Lowe 7.
Poisonous snake.
MAIL TRIBUNE
"We Like Ike, " But
Well, it is all over but the shouting. At least Re
publican "GHQ" thinks so.
President Eisenhower has as usual followed the
advice of his political chiefs-of-staff. He has come to
Oregon, and also as usual enjoyed a personal triumph.
He did not fail to give his blessing to Douglas Mc
Kay for the US Senate, and Elmo Smith for governor,
and now all Messers. McKay and Smith have to do is
look wise, shake a few hands and count up their ".coat
tail" majorities. That is the GOP theory at least.
The President even remembered Leonard Hall's
admonition to point out he was not TELLING the
people of Oregon HOW to vote he was merely tell
ing them how it would please him so much if they
voted as he desired in the GOP book of proper pro
cedure quite a different kettle of fish, though we can
detect none without a microscope.
flELL, mebbe so.
But we have an idea it won't be as magical or
as simple as the "GHQ" wise-boys think.
In the considered judgment of this paper, at least,
Messers. McKay and Smith are two of the weakest
candidates the Republican party has ever put up for
important office, in the history of the state.
They are both for Ike, of course, and he for them.
That MIGHT or might not elect them, but one
thing is certain: the more voters of this state look up
their records the clearer it will become that their sup
port is only lip service and expediency that at heart,
both of these men are not Eisenhower Republicans but
Herbert Hoover Republicans and the most confirmed
and extreme reactionaries at heart, to boot.
FOR example: Elmo Smith is in agreement with
Former Secretary McKay on most everything. He
believes issues, (he never mentions them), don't count
only votes. He can see nothing wrong in the Al
Sarena case precedent, or exploiting wild life refuges
for the benefit of the oil companies.
Smith was the only member of the State Senate,
in fact, to oppose the League of Nations resolution
favoring thaforganization as a step forward in secur
ing world peace. He was the only senator to vote
against all three bills to condemn racial discrimina
tion. He was, like McKay, 100 for the "give-away"
of Tidelands oil. He opposed setting up a game con
servation commission in
out teachers in public schools to sign a loyalty oath;
against teacher-training at Portland college, against
a minimum salary for teachers; he was against unem
ployment insurance and so forth and so on ad infin
itum. .We don't mean to say that ex-Governor McKay
had he been in office would have agreed with Senator
Smith on everything but we do say they are political
kinfolk and hold to the same basic political philos
ophy. "llfE CAN'T believe that the voters of Oregon a
' majority of them, at least wish to have Oregon
represented either in the US Senate or at the State
House in Salem by men of this type, even if they have
the endorsement of the President of the United States,
as leader of their own party.
Few of them, we believe, are for states-rights as
far as racial discrimination is concerned, but still few
er of them are against states rights when it comes to
their freedom to make their own decisions as to candi
dates they wish to represent them, and those they do
NOT. R.W.R.
"The Old Army Game
We applauded when President Eisenhower said
he would not get down in the gutter with Joe McCar
thy and trade smear punches.
We would applaud again if he would refuse to in
dulge in the rough and tumble of what is generally
known as "practical politics."
But the pressure of the political "pros" in his party
has apparently been too much we would not say
"Ike" has become "just another politician," but he has
adopted the professional politician's technique, which
is to claim all possible good lies in one party, and all
the evil, in the other.
This may not be "wicked nonsense," but it is non
sense, and it is hard to believe the President doesn't
realize it.
TAKE the Eisenhower claim here in the Northwest,
for example, that there have been no "give-aways"
in the field of public power and conservation during
the present administration: We quote
"No, there have been no 'give-aways.' We have not dis
mantled the great dams of the northwest. We are building
still more dams generating more power for all the peo
ple." We wonder where? Certainly not at Hells Canyon,
where the measure providing for federal power was
defeated largely due to the strong pressure brought
against it from the White House. We believe the rec
ords will also show that only one federal project ad
vanced in the present administration has escaped the
fatal stigma of "creeping socialism." That was the
Upper Colorado River development.
HOW did this happen?
T) XT iT
jlvc1uii wv. j. is uie expense 01 producing pow
er would be so exeat that no orivate nnwer cnmnanips
or combination of them
project (2) not chiefly for
ana reclamation, had the united support of nearly
half a dozen states, most of them strongly Republican.
(3) The Orivate nmvpr lnhhv. instead of snpnrHno-
thousands of dollars to defeat this bill, did not spend
Sunday, October 21. "HSB
Oregon; he voted to single
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would look at it. Such a
power but for irrigation
Matter of Fact By Jo and Stewart Alscp
SATELLITE DRAMA
A year or so from now, our
exciting Presidential campaign
may have come to seem a com
paratively trivial event, com
pared to the
ferment tha t is
now rising ever
more openly in
the Soviet sat
ellites in East
ern Europe.
The astute
George F. Ken
nan is now pos
itively talking
jo&epb aisop oi an exten
sive disintegration of Moscow's
authority within the Soviet or
bit." The fascinating spectacle
of the ferment rising behind the
Iron Curtain is also causing in
tense and rising excitement
among the American policy
makers. Informed people are
really beginning to ask whether
this may not
be the great
turning point
for which the
world has
waited so long.
The question
is almost cer
tainly over
optimistic. Yet
ample proof is
now available
Stewart Alssp
of the accuracy of George Ken
nan's startling evaluation. If not
a turning point, the ferment in
the satellites is at least a new
political process of the very
highest significance. The follow
ing proofs may be cited:
TN POLAND, first of all, the
drive for increasing independ
ence from Moscow is now going
with a rush that is almost fright
ening. It began, in effect, in the
struggle within the Polish Com
munist party after the Poznan
riots. Marshal Bulganin himself
went to Warsaw to try to
strengthen the hand of the loyal
ist faction, in which the leading
figure is the Polish-Russian army
Commander Marshal Rokossov
sky, who used to be Stalin's
Viceroy in Poland. But despite
Bulganin's effort, the party's
nationalists headed by Premier
Joseph Cyrankiewicz won a re
sounding success.
Since then, the Polish press
has displayed an incredible
freedom. Even "Tribuna Ludu,"
the official newspaper in War
saw, has announced within the
space of a single week that the
American Marshall plan for
Europe was really a good thing
after all, and that the Stalin-era
industrialization of Poland had
proved a total failure. Yet these
surface signs in the press have
only reflected a larger develop
ment. ...
CURRENTLY, the pro-Musbor
vite, Hilary Mine, is being
driven from the Polish Presid
ium. Wladislaw Gomulka, the
nationalist, Titoist - Communist
leader sent into outer darkness
by Stalin, is now returning to
a dominant post in the Polish
party. Most astonishing of all,
Gomulka is openly advocating
the dismissal of the Russian of
ficers who now serve in the Pol
ish army at all levels from bat
talion upwards, and even calling
for the withdrawal of the two
Russian infantry divisions still
stationed on Polish soil.
In Hungary, another member
of the Soviet Presidium, Mihail
Suslov, made an effort to stem
DM
a cent and gave it their blessing, if not active support.
HTHE CRY of socialism, creeping or otherwise, was
never raised, although no informed person would
deny that if "TV A" was "creeping socialism," this billion-dollar
burden placed by the government on the
taxpayers certainly was . . . even more so! It is a safe
assumption that had this project promised to produce
power that could compete successfully in the open
market with private power, the same forces that de
feated Hells Canyon would have defeated this.
FINALLY and obviously this federal "venture
niLu Buwiauaiu waa uut
at all, but approximately a
WE ALSO wish the President would not try to con-
"vc uic uiti o uiaL
reality a "New Deal" party
terested in small business and the "little man" as the
leaders of the Democratic party claim it ISN'T.
Ihis is so obviously in
the two parties and such
catch flies for the campaign period only, that to have
a man of the unquestioned
standing of General Eisenhower adopt it, is depressing
VERY.
Why the pretense?
Most of the "pros" think this sort of make-believe
makes votes, but we doubt it.
There are exceptions in both parties, of fourse,
but by and large the Republican party DOES repre
sent the cause of the Big Man and Big Business and
any impartial poll would show it, whereas, again, on
the whole, the little man, the workers, the small farm
ers, form the chief support of the Democrats.
There is nothing improper in this on either side,
but it does form one of the chief issues between the
two major parties. We can see no more reason for
President Eisenhower to maintain the GOP is the par
ty of the "little man" than for former Governor Stev
enson to maintain the Democratic party is the party of
General Motors and standard Oil.
It is the old, old army game playing both sides
of the street. But we doubt if, for either party, such
plain hocus pocus makes many votes. R.W.R.
the rising' tide of nationalism,
similar to Balganin's vain ef
fort in Poland. Suslov went to
Budapest to secure the continu
ance in power of the Soviet
stooge, Matyas Rakosi. He got
a dusty answer. When Anastas
Mikoyan followed Suslov to
Budapest Mikoyan was con
fronted with the accomplished
fact of Rakosi's removal in favor
of Erno Gero. And now Imre
Nagy, who is the approximate
Hungarian counterpart of Go
mulka in Poland, has also been
brought out of retirement and
restored to power.
There are hints, too, of the
future formation of a Southeast
European federation of Com
munist states, comprising Hun
gary, Rumania, Bulgaria and
Yugoslavia, under the general
leadership of Marshal Tito of
Yugoslavia. Favoring such a
project was one of the chief
crimes for which Tito was con
demned by Stalin.
.
"VTOR is this all. On this side of
the Iron Curtain, and espe
cially in the Italian Communist
party, the spectacle of the satel
lites driving for a partial inde
pendence of Moscow has clearly
had a downright intoxicating ef
fect. Not long ago, the Italian
Communist hatchetman, Luigi
Longo, led a group of comrades
on a pilgrimage to Belgrade. De
spite the Soviet Presidium's fa
mous circular declaring that the
Yugoslav Communists were not
true Leninists, Longo made two
important speeches in Belgrade.
In both he lauded the Yugoslav
Communist ideological contribu
tions to the skies and more
startling still, he never once even
mentioned Moscow's ideological
authority.
Finally, the ferment in the
Eastern European satellites is
apparently receiving encourage
ment from the opposite end of
the Soviet orbit, from the Chi
nese Comunist leadership. Ed
ward Ochab, the Polish Commu
nist party secretary, recenUy
visited Peiping. According to
credible reports, Ochab was re
ceived by Mao Tse-tung, and was
told, in effect, "more power to
your elbows in your effort to be
independent."
Put all these details together,
and they make a coherent and
dramatic picture. Not all the im
plications of the picture are
favorable, to be sure. For exam
ple, independent Western Euro
pean Communist parties will
have far more mass appeal than
obvious Moscow stooge-parties.
But if the poles press a demand
for Russian troop withdrawals,
and if the Soviet evacuation of
Poland actually takes place, the
time to talk of turning points
may well come in the end.
(C) 1956 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Metz Wounded When
Gun Discharges
Clifford Metz, 48, of 112 Wash
ington st., Medford, accidentally
shot himself in the leg while
getting out of his car to go deer
hunting yesterday in the Hill
crest orchards area, according
to Sacred Heart hospital.
The bullet wound tore some
muscles out of the front portion
of his thigh, according to hospi
tal attendants.
His condition is
not serious.
ill me l ituilli; liuiuiwtbt
thousand miles from it
uic vriauu viu j. di ty ia ill
only more so and as in
conflict with the records of
transparent "molasses to
fine character and high
Today and
By Walter
ON TITOISM
Aid to Yugoslavia has been
United States policy for about
eight years, since 1948 when the
great break oc
curred between
Stalin and
Tito. The aid
has been given
in order to
help Tito main-
25 'J pendence, and
there is every
reason to think
as the Presi
MM
Walter Llspmana
dent declared on Monday, that
the policy has been successful.
To be sure, we are not well
informed about what has been
going on recenUy during Khrush
chev's visit to Belgrade and
Tito's return visit to Yalta. But
there is much objective evidence
which goes to show "that the
essential principle of Titoism,
which is national independence
from the dictation of Moscow,
is not only strong in Yugoslavia
but is spreading in the satellite
orbit, especially in Poland and
in Hungary.
VlfHAT we are seeing is a grow
" ing separation between Com
munism as an ideology, a secu
lar religion, and a social move
ment and the Soviet Union as
a great power and an imperial
state. In the reign of Stalin the
spread of Communism and the
increase of the power of the
Soviet state were meshed one
with the other.
Thus the line of the Iron Cur
tain, which has brought Russian
power into the center of Europe,
was an old Russian objective at
least as long ago as the middle
of the Nineteenth century. When
at the end of the war Stalin's
army reached that line, he in
stalled Communist governments
on his side of the line. But there
is every reason to suppose that
his primary object was to found
a Soviet empire, using the Com
munist ideology as one of the
ways of binding the empire
together.
In Stalin's time, moreover,
the Communist parties in the
outer world, in Italy and in
France notoriously, were used
not so much to advance Com
munism in their own countries
as to serve the interests of the
Soviet Union.
.
THE historic importance of Tito
ism is that it has been a re
bellion against Moscow's use of
Communism, as an instrument
of Russian imperialism. From
the end of the World War unta
Tito's quarrel with Stalin, the
Soviet Union treated Yugoslavia
as, in the old days, the empires
used to treat their colonies: As
countries which were not to be
developed for their own advan
tage but were to be exploited
for the advantage of the im
perial power.
This anti-colonlallst rebellion
has spread beyond Yugoslavia.
It is very active in Poland and
in Hungary, and it is working, so
it would appear, inside the pow
erful Italian Communist Party.
In principle, the men who have
followed Stalin in Russia have
accepted Titoism. There are, they
have stated publicly in the Soviet-Yugoslav
communique aft
fn The Day's
Market note:
Grains turn lower on the Chi
cago Board of Trade. Heaviest
selling appeared in wheat. Pres
sure on wheat prices was based
on beneficial rains in the Texas
Panhandle.
But selling in wheat would
have been heavier, traders say,
if it had not been for a 30-day
forecast that rain will be sub
normal in the Southwest.
HOW come?
It's Old Man Supply and
Demand.
He's a powerful character
in spite of what the politicians
say.
LIVESTOCK market note:
Hog prices are steady and
25 cents LOWER at the East
ern corn belt markets ON
SOMEWHAT LARGER FARM
SHIPMENTS.
Supply and demand again.
Man can tinker with it, but
he can't beat it.
THE California Farm Bureau's
cotton department is consid
ering concentrating on promot
ing cotton sales In competition
with synthetic fibres. The pro
gram was suggested at the de
partment meeting in Visalia.
Will it work?
I don't know.
But, over the long pull, it will
work BETTER than subsidizing
overproduction of cotton and
storing the surplus up in ware
houses. THIS better-world note:
Two Americans and a Ger
man were awarded the 1956 No
bel prize in medicine jointly
today for evolving a simple
method of charting the interior
of the human heart.
The winners are Dr. Andre
Cournand, who is 61, Dickinson
Richards Jr., who will be 61
on October 30 (both of Colum
bia University in New York)
and Werner Forssmann of Bad
Kreusnach, West Germany.
L0
Tomorrow
Llppmann
er Tito's visit to Moscow last
June, different roads to social
ism. About the application of
this principle, there is, it would
seem, still much argument. For
there must be very considerable
anxiety in Moscow, not only
among the Communist Old Guard
but perhaps also in the army,
at the rapidity with which in
Poland the ardent vigorous na
tionalism of the Poles is break
ing out all over the place.
. .
WE MAY regard Titoism as the
counterpart within the Com
munist world the world be
tween the Elbe and the Pacific
of the national uprisings which
in the non-Communist world ex
tend from Morocco to Indonesia.
Titoism is the anti-colonialism,
the anti-imperialism, of the Com
munists. Moscow may be able
to restrain it, here and there
to set it back. But there is every
reason to suppose that in Tito
ism, with its national autonomy,
rather than in Stalinism, which
is -a form of Russian imperial
ism, lies the future of the world
wide Communist movements.
This will pose, indeed it is
already posing, problems which
require a reexamination and a
reappraisal of many of the con
cepts which have served us dur
ing the Stalinist period of the
cold war.
...
ON THE one hand, as Moscow
ceases to be the governing
center of all Communist move
ments, we shall see the Soviet
government acting more and
more like a conventional great
power, like a conventional inv
Derial power, less and less as
a militant crusading power,
There is already much evidence
of this change. This does not
mean that there is going to be
agreement, much less that the
Soviet government will give up
its Russian objectives to ex
clude us from the Far East, to
establish herself in the Middle
East, to push back or to liquidate
the Atlantic aUiance. What it
means is that the Soviet govern
ment will be playing the game
of rower politics in the conven
tional way, being able to count
less than it did under Stalm on
the local Communist parties.
This does not promise inter
national harmony. But it will be
better than what we faced when
Communism and Russian power
were one and the same thing.
...
AN THE other hand, in the
" under-developed countries we
must expect the Titoist Commu
nist Darties to have a mucn
greater popular appeal than the
Stalinist parties. Communism as
n means of social revolution and
reconstruction will less and less
be handicapped by the spectre
nf Russian imDerialism.
We cannot afford to dourn
that Titoist Communism will be
a most formidable challenger
For Stalinist- Communism, inas
much as it threatened subservi
ence to another empire on the
make. and. to SDeak frankly, a
white man's emnire at that, car
ries within itself to some con
siderable degree it own anti
dote.
fTnrnrriah 195B
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
News Frank j.nkin.
THE story oi tnis ra awaru
in medicine and physiology
dates back to a 1929 experiment
bv Forssmann, then a Berlin
urologist who was -curious about
the functions of the heart.
He sat down one night behind
an X-ray screen and mirror and
pushed a flexible tubular instru
ment known as a catheter from
an Incision in a vein in the crook
of his arm clear into his heart.
His colleagues warned him to
stop what they regarded as a
suicidal exploit. He did so only
after REPEATING the experi
ment to show it could be done
without fatal results.
That was the beginning of
what Swedish experts (Dr. Al
fred Bernard Nobel, donor of
the Nobel prizes, was a Swede)
describe as "the indispensame
technique to obtain true and
nrecise answers to what goes
on inside the human heart and
circulatory system."
UNUSUAL heroism in the
cause of research, do you say?
The answer is no. Back in 1900
Dr. Walter Reed (after whom
Walter Reed hospital in Wash
inffton is named) led a group
of army doctors in a series of
heroic experiments designed io
discover the causes of yellow
fever, then one of the dread
scourges of mankind. Several of
the doctors, as well as a number
of soldiers, volunteered to De
iniected with gerrhl of yellow
fever so that they could study
the course of the disease.
Two of them DIED as a re
sult. But their experiments prov
ed that yellow fever is spread
by the mosquito and showed how
the disease might be controlled.
BUT, you may insist, that was
a LONG TIME AGO.
How about Richard Ogg, the
Pan American airline pilot who
ditched his plane so successfully
the other day that ALL ON
BOARD WERE SAVED. True,
he didn't die. But he and his
passengers would have died but
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
Estimating the size of a crowd
at a political (or other kind) of
gathering is an "iffy" proposi
tion for a reporter. At best, he is
lucky if he can get and estimate
not toe far out of line.
In Portland the other day, this
problem was underlined by the
two daily newspapers and their
estimates of the crowd which
greeted President Eisenhower.
The Oregonian set the figure at
100.000; the Journal at 500,000.
They both did it, moreover,
in great, big, black type across
the top of the front pages in edi
tions which came out about the
same time, too.
Stat police officers, we like
fo believe, are good driven
Including the one who, the
other night, became irritated
at the "driver behind" him
that "refused to dim his
lights." The officer finally
turned around to look at the
offender and found the light
was coming from the brilliant
fuU moon.
One of the young men who put
his newspaper together in our
printing department was driving
to work the other day from his
home in the Applegate area. His
wife was beside him. She re
minded him he hadn't kissed her
yet that day.
He proceeded to reach over
and do so. Just as he did, a deer
leaped onto the road in front of
the car; the car smashed into it;
the grillwork in front was dam
aged to the extent of about $50,
and the deer was killed.
That's a pretty expensive kiss.
Notice to the Southern Ore
gon college Newt Bureau,
which occasionally sends us
notes about local students:
Jan Gilhousen, second-year
student at SOC and a report
er on the Sisikyou. the cam
' pus newspaper, is the SON of
Al Gilhousen. Camp Baker
rd., and NOT his daughter.
One of our faithful community
correspondents claimed a "prize
excuse" for not getting her copy
in on time for the Sunday paper
last week. As she was getting
ready to write out her commun
ity's news, she noticed her type
writer was pretty dusty, so she
got the vacuum cleaner to dust
it..
As she went over it with the
vacuum hose, the ribbon flipped
up and zoomed through the hose
and into the dust-bag all except
the last half-inch, to which she
clung madly as she searched for
the shut-off switch.
It was a brand-new ribbon, too,
and it took her a long time to
pull it out of the vacuum, inch
by inch, and rewind it.
Three ladies were carrying
on a lively conversation on
West Main st. in Medford the
ether day which Is not un
usual by itself. But it was not
ed that all three are teachers
at Central Point, work in the
same building, and came all
the way to Medford before
holding their little huddle.
. .
A former Mail Tribune news
man, new living in tne ay
area, was passing through Gold
en Gate park the other day when
ha nnttprl some sort of came
being played on one of the fields
in that magnificent pane, as a
fnrmor snnrtswriter (among oth
er things), he didn't recognize
the game, and stopped to watch.
Tt turned out to be Gaelic foot
ball, with "Kerry" and "Cork"
teams playing for tne iaenc
Football Association champion
ship.
'You never saw such a game,
or more particularly, sucn
crowd, in your life," he said in a
recent letter.
'All the Shantv Irishmen in
San Francisco were there, dress
ed in their Sunday best . . .
Everybody spoke with an ac
and the clothes they
tmri wr riffht Out Of Dublin. I
stood alongside an old red-headed
lady who must have been re
lated to everybody on the Kerry
team. Every time somebody on
the Cork team did anything, she
swore at the top of her lungs
and yelled foul!'
"... 1 never am completely
understand the game," he con
l.irfoH "hut T cheered when the
old lady cheered, and got along
famously.
.
A rather long press release
from an insurance company
arrived the other day. and we
found it comforting, somehow.
It discussed the problem of
dots, or specks, or eurley-cues
in front of the eyes. After dis
cussing them at some length, it
concluded that if they persist
one should see a doctor, but
that they also could be tempor
ary and result from anger,
fear, worry, poor physical con
dition, nervous tension or high
blood pressure.
"If they clear up after the
election, or when an unwel
come relative goes home, you
can be pretty sure they were
emotional," it concludes.
Whewll
for his coolness, his skill and
his grimly courageous presence
of mind in the face of grave
emergency.
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