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and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 28. 1946 (Monday)
Leo K. Potter, route 2, Med
ford, elected foreman of grand
jury drawn at opening of Octo
ber term of circuit court.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The pan
cake season is now at its peak,
with more water in the syrup,
than in the iiquid soap.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 28. 1336 (Wednesday)
The 1937 city budget totaling
S147.03S.98 approved and adopt
ed by city council and public
hearing last night.
Miss Myrtle Otterdale, chief
operator for the Pacific Tele
phone and Telegraph company,
Medford, vacationing in Mexico
City, returns here Nov. 3.
30 YEARS AGO
Cct. 28, 1926 (Thursday)
Gold Hill bridge when com
pleted next May may be a gold
bridge in fact as well as in
name.
Medford fire department, with
its chief, Roy Elliot, is consid
ered the best in Oregon, in hold
ing fire losses to a minimum.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 28. 1916 (Saturday)
Rogue valley fruit packers are
confronted with a serious car
shortage.
Parent-Teacher circle of Jack
son school recommends Miss
Anna Jeffrey, candidate for
county school superintendent.
50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 28. 1906 (Sunday)
J. M. Hurley, who owj a
fruit farm two miles east from
tewn on Foothills rd., has four
acres which will bring him $150
yer acre this season.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Dr. J. F. Reddy leaves
Medford Saturday evening for
a brief trip to Spokane. Wash.
What's the Answer?
Can Yon Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 195S EditorUl Research
1. More persons voted in the
U.S. presidential election of 1952
than ever voted in any other
election anywhere; right or
wrong?
2. Pennsylvania in 1952 voted
for Eisenhower by a wide or
thin margin, or for Stevenson I
a thin margin?
3. "Of the people, for the peo
ple, by the people" is a phrase
from the Declaration of Inde
pendence, Constitution, Gettys
burg Address or Pledge to the
Flag?
4. Federal excise tax on auto
tire casings is higher or lower
per pound than on inner tubes
or the same?
5. An avowed Socialist was
once elected to the U.S. Senate;
right or wrong?
6. Which state has auto tags
bearing the legend "Land of
Enchantment"?
7. The New Testament con
tains more or fewer books than
the Old Testament, or the same
number?-
The answers: 1. Wrong. 2. For
Ike by relatively thin margin.
3. Gettysburg Address. 4. Higher
per pound on casings. 5. Wrong.
6. New Mexico. 7. Fewer.
New Hampshire was the first
state in New England to organ
ize a fish and game department. ,
It was set up in 1865.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Is It "National Suicide "?
How many people, we wonder, have read the
speech delivered by former Governor Stevenson, urg
ing suspension of further H-bomb tests?
Judging by the G.O.P. reaction, not many Repub
licans. Certainly former Governor Thomas Dewey of New
York could not have read it, or he would never have
termed it "an invitation to national suicide" or the
product of a candidate unaware of the facts of life,
who had failed to think the problem through and
needed to be awakened from his sleep.
Whafc complete and utter distortion and nonsense !
A NY fair-minded person would willingly match the
time spent on studying this problem by Adlai Ste
venson the past six or seven months, and the time
spent by the famous "bridegroom on the wedding
cake.
In fact, there is nothing new, impulsive or sensa
tional about this proposal as far as Mr. Stevenson is
concerned. Listen to this extract from the speech in
question, quote:
I proposed last April that the United States take the ini
tiative by announcing our willingness to stop these tests,
"calling upon other nations to follow our lead," and making
it clear that unless they did we would have to resume our
experiments, too. That was my proposal. It was simple. It
was SAFE. IT WAS WORKABLE.
And since that time both Russia and Great Britain have
declared their willingness to join us in trying to establish
that kind of a policy.
So I say: What are we waiting for?
It seems to me that we should lose no more time in start
ing to make the most of what appears to be a better climate
for progress in this imperative field.
Therefore, if elected President, I would count it about
the first order of business to follow up on the opportunity
presented now by the other atomic powers. I would do this
by conference and by consultation at whatever level, in
whatever place that the circumstances might suggest would
be most fruitful. w,
In the meantime and, frankly, because bitter experience
has proven that we cannot rely on the firm agreement of one .
bloc of world powers we will proceed both with the pro
duction of hydrogen weapons "and with further research in
the field.
What is there "suicidal" or superficial about that?
It is the alternative, as we see it, that WOULD be
"suicidal", namely: this blind persistence in this mad
rat-race for atomic supremacy, the defeatist attitude
that nothing can be done, and the blunt refusal of the
Republicans to take the leadership toward world bet
terment instead of world
strongest power in the world
U.S.A. to assume.
What really is bothering Republican "G.H.Q." is
not so much, we believe, the "suicidal" nature of the
proposal, as the fact that a Democrat beat them to the
punch.
In their political lexicon that is an unforgivable
sin. There is little doubt that if the same proposal had
been made by Harold Stassen and the disarmament
expert came close to making it there would not only
be no complaint from Mr. Tom Dewey or anyone else
at the G.O.P. headquarters, but a loud -acclaim of
great leadership and progress.
However that may be in the Leonard Hall school
of practical politics it is not only a question of whose
ox is gored, but whose ISN'T.
TTHE FACT that so many atomic scientists of the
highest standing throughout the country have come
out to publicly approve the Stevenson proposal is also
extremely irritating to G.O.P.G.H.Q., and worse than
that many of them registered as Republicans .have
declared they will vote for Adlai Stevenson.
One of the latter is Professor David R. Inglis, sen
ior physicist at the Argonne National Laboratory and
formerly on the staff of the atomic research laboratoy
at Los Alamos. Said he, in a recent public statement,
quote :
"In spite of my Republican past, I am for Stevenson be
cause I am deeply troubled by the threat of atomic annihil
ation. The almost unimaginable destructiveness of hydrogen
weapons puts us in a crucial predicament that few of us real
ize. We are in the midst of an ever-mounting arms
race of which we can see no end save the disastrous one
We should stop the further testing of H-bombs and
announce that we will not start again unless some other na
tion goes on testing them.
"Such a secession of tests would seriously impede the
development of new horror weapons about equally on both
sides and is the one type of arms limitation that can be ade
quately monitored without area inspection This
proposal makes good sense. Not so President Eisenhower's
rejoinder that there would then be no purpose in developing
ICBM's without developing their hydrogen warheads. This
. is an interesting disclosure of the state of the art but com
pletely mifses Stevenson's point that we should confine our
selves only to stopping those developments that we can be
sure the Soviets are also stopping."
I
S THIS also "an invitation to national suicide" or
exactly the reverse?
Professor Inglis concludes as follows: '
"It is not enough to point to mutual deterrence as suffi
cient safety for the present and let the future take care of
'itself. The revolutionary technical developments now in pro
gress can't be undone by a future generation. The arms race
is rapidly getting more difficult to bring under control while
we continue without a national policy to control it even as '
Rome burned while Nero fiddled. I am for Stevenson be
cause J believe he WON'T fiddle."
AS Mr. Stevenson has pointed out the atomic ex
" perts are not a unit in backing his proposal. But
they are not a unit opposing it or on anything. There
is reason to believe, however, that a majority of them
favor his H-bomb limitation plan because it faces up
to the most serious challenge the modern world has
ever met, instead of dodging it or falling back on the
time-honored "alibi" it CAN'T be done! ,
Whether taking this stand will make or lose votes
for the Democratic candidate we don't know. We will
have to leave that to those with crystal balls that work
and the wise boys (after the event) on November 7th.
But we do know this this action is only another dem
onstration of the man's courage, intelligence, and the
high quality of his vision, as
Sunday, October 28. 1956
destruction - which, as the
it is the plain duty of the
well as his statesmanship.
K.W.K.
2
Matter of Fact By Joe and Stewart Alsop
AFTER THE BLOOD BATH
The tragic and terrible blood
bath in Hungary has now very
publicly revealed the real inner
tmwm w e a k n ess of
ct'tl the "National-
1 f ' jrjr;-"' movement in
fcf V??. (KM the Soviet Un-
Bt 'a. . : . 4 j?tB inn'c Furnncan
satellites.
On the one
hand, the Pol
ish and Hun
g a r i a n drive
f or f r e e d o m
from Kremlin
great popular
domination is a
movement, sus
tained and borne along by a
strong surge of popular opinion.
Gomulka in Poland had the peo
ple squarely behind him because
he had shown he also opposed
Kremlin domination; and for
this same reason, Imre Nagy in
Hungary had the people behind
him too, at least until he turned
the tanks and aircraft on them.
But although Gomulka and
Nagy have been dissident Com
munists, long out of favor and
even in danger .w
oi ineir lives oiCiima
because of
their national
ist tendencies,
they are stiU
Communists all
the same. And
the surge of
popular opin
ion which has
carried them to
Stewart Alsop
power is not only nationalistic.
It is not only a surge of opposi
tion to the rule of Poland and
Hungary from .the Kremlin in
Moscow, It also tends very
strongly to become an anti-Communist
surge.
It is hard to judge the events
in Budapest from this distance,
but the American officials best
qualified to form an opinion are
rather unanimous that Nagy was
squarely caught in the above-outlined
dilemma. When he took
over the Hungarian Premiership
the students and workers in the
Budapest streets were not mere
ly shouting for "National-Communism."
They were actually
shouting for no Communism at
all.
T'HUS the new government
with Nagy at its head, strong
ly National - Communist as its
make-up appears to be, was just
as much threatened as the prior
Hungarian government headed
by Erno Gero and Andros Hege
dus. Therefore Nagy called in
the troops, actually including
Soviet troops, to restore order
in the capital and to insure his
government's authority.
The very fact that Nagy or
dered this blood bath casts
doubt on the future course his
government will take. Will it, or
will it not continue to live up
to the National-Communist pro
fessions that originally won
Nagy popular support? It will
hardly be easy for Nagy in Hun
gary, after using the Red army s
guns against the Hungarian peo
ple. Yet even for Gomulka in
Poland, where he has thus far
maintained complete mastery of
the situation, the future can
Wanted More
Charley Sprague, editor of the "Salem Statesman"
and former Governor is, of course, staunchly Repub
lican. But in sharp contrast to most of the other Repub
lican leaders and editors in Oregon, he is always fair.
And he is so well informed, (partly, no doubt, as
a result of his brief tenure as delegate to the United
Nations), particularly regarding this country's for
eign policy and world affairs that we seldom miss his
"It Seems to Me" column, although this department is
usually on the other side of the tracks, politically-speaking.
WE WERE particularly
1 i? li .
ui oojecuve ana iactuai iauness wnen in a recent
offering of mail we found the Republican party
termed the "party of peace" and the Democratic
party of course, "the party
Only a short time ago
sort of partisan flap doodle and nailed it to the barn
door, only instead of calling it flap-doodle Editor
Sprague called it "twaddle" which, of course it is.
We quote :
This talk about Democrats being the war party is twad
dle. Stevenson's policies would probably closely parallel
Eisenhower's. They might even be more imaginaUve
As I see it "peace" is not a major issue in this presidential
campaign.
Entirely time !
And where, with all his nprsnnal charm "Ike"
does lack the aualitv of imao-ination. Adlai Stevenson
has it in abundant measure.
QF COURSE, Editor Sprague is whole-heartedly
for thp Prpsirlpnt hut nnlilro en manv t.nn manv
of his party contemporaries he refuses to Tall, for
"I f ll 1 -N ft J J 1 1 -
example, ior uie roruana uregonian s iantastic meory
of sainthood and the exudation of an "aura," but sup
ports his case with common sense, wisdom and facte.
Tr. is rpDTPttnMp rhpvo ' ar nnr mnrp Rflitfir
Spragues with his well written and enlightening "It
1 i H 1 il 1 ..1 T"l 1-
seems to lue column in tnis overwneimingiy itepuo
lican state overwhelming that is as far as the journ
alistic representation is concerned, as contrasted with
the registration. R.W.R.
hardly be taken for granted.
The plain truth is that new
Polish and Hungarian govern
ments are altogether different,
and in an altogether basic way
from the Yugoslav Communist
government which they are seek
ing to imitate. Marshal Tito and
his comrades are not recent im
ports, after all. They are the
former leaders of their country s
wartime resistance. In wartime
they fought side by side with
the Yugoslav masses.
THIS very nativeness, this local
origin of their power was
what made it possible for the
Yugoslav Communists to defy
Stalin, it also gives Tito's gov
ernment a special kind of se
curity at home which Polish and
Hungarian "National - Commu
nist" governments cannot hope
to enjoy.
The new Polish and Hungarian
governments are somewhat in
secure, because the Polish and
Hungarian Communists, wheth
er of the nationalist or the
Stalin-stooge brand, were orig
inally carried to power in the
baggage train of the Red. army.
Unlike Tito, they are conspicu
ously imported articles. The
question must always be in their
minds, as the events m Hungary
have now so hideously indi
cated, whether they can main
tain their power without the
Soviet backing which was the
first source of that power.
Gomulka is clearly going to
try to do so. He has already in
dicated he wants the Red army
to "leave Poland. Despite the
blood bath, the betting still is
that Imre Nagy wiU also make
a bold attempt. Abandoning National-Communism
at this mo
ment would be too stultifying,
too inconsistent and probably
too dangerous. Even Nagy, even
after the blood bath, can hardly
change his course.
TUT in the eyes of the masters
of the Kremlin, the difficul
ties that loom ahead of Gomulka
and Nagy must look very im
portant indeed. "Suppose they
try and fail," the Soviet leaders
must now be saying to them
selves. "Suppose that instead of
National Communist govern-
ments, independent of us but
still closely linked to us, we are
eventually faced with Polish
and Hungarian governments as
hostile as those we knew before
the war."
The possibility exists and can
not be denied. No doubt it was
the thought of this possibility
that caused the Soviet leaders
to come up to the very brink
of using military power to re
store their control in Warsaw.
No doubt, for this same reason,
the Kremlin regarded Nagy's
need for force in Budapest as
a heaven-sent benefit.
And for this same reason, one
should wait to forecast the final
shape of Soviet policy. At least
until Gomulka has led his
planned mission to Moscow and
returned to Warsaw without un
due mishap.
Copyright 1956,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
"Statesmen
impressed by this quality
i m i . i
of war."
the Statesman took up this
,
Today and
By Walter
THE H-BOMB TESTS
Were the hydrogen bomb tests
not involved in the campaign,
and therefore at once exagger
ated and over-simplified, what
precisely is the
substantial
sue between
President Eis
enhower and
Gov. Ste v e n
son? Basically
it is whether
the testing of
the big hydro
gen bombs pre
Waiter UssmaJiB
sents a special
problem, requiring a- special
solution, distinct from and dif
ferent from the problems posed
by all the other weapons, in
cluding the atomic bombs and
the smaller hydrogen bombs.
The Governor's position, when
it is precisely defined, which it
has not always been, is that the
big hydrogen bombs are a special
problem which can and should
be dealt with without waiting
for a general agreement cover
ing the regulation of all arma
ments. The President s position
is that the big H-bombs are not
a special case and that the test
ing of big H-bombs cannot and
should not be limited unless and
until there is a general agree
ment, with satisfactory safe
guards of inspection and control,
on all weapons.
On this basic issue there is
little doubt, I submit, that the
Governor has the better of the
argument. It does not follow, I
hasten to add, that the Gover
nor's solution of the problem is
satisfactory. What cannot be de
nied successfully is that the big
hydrogen bombs are a special
problem, and a close reading of
the President's statement of
Tuesday including the accom
panying memorandum of the ex
perts goes a long way to justify
this conclusion.
.
THE explosion of big hydrogen
bombs is a special problem
because the fall-out is not con
fined to the country which is
testing the bomb-It can and it
does pollute the air of neighbor
ing countries.
When, for example, the So
viets exploded a big bomb last
September, there was a fall-out
in Norway which was about ten
times as highly radio-active as
the normal atmosphere. Accord
ing to the specialists "the absorp
tion rate was about one-tenth of
the international norm for dan
gerous radiation." This was all
very well. But it did not reas
sure and it did not please the
Norwegians. For the fact was
that poison was being dumped
on Norway without their having
anything to say about whether it
should be dumped, about how
often it should be dumped, and
what was the legitimate amount
of poison that could or should
be dumped upon them.
The Norwegians were in the
position of a man who finds that
every now and then his neighbor
puts some arsenic in his morning
coffee, accompanied by the as
surance that it is not enough ar
senic to kill him. There is no
denying, it seems to me, that be
cause of the fallout on other
countries the testing of hydrogen
bombs is the legitimate concern
of the international community.
The testing is a proper and a
necessary subject of internation
al regulations. And no nation,
especially not this nation, can
afford to have a policy which
refuses to recognize that the
world community has a legiti
mate interest which must be pro
tected.
TN THE Tuesday document
from the White House, the ac
companying memorandum of the
experts admits the basic fact
that the big bombs are a special
problem. The President's state
ment itself attempts to argue
away the importance of this basic
fact. But in section two of their
memorandum, the experts speak
ing of fall-out, say that the phe
nomenon of fall-out from atomic
weapons has been known since
the first tests in July, 1945. The
experts then go on to say that
fallout "acquired a greatly in
creased importance with the ad
vent of early thermo-nuclear
(hydrogen) weapons, although
the objectionable fall-out of an
atomic explosion, especially the
component Strontium-90, is the
result of atomic fission, which
is the specific reaction in exist
ing small atomic weapons."
The question we may ask
about this not very qlear sen
tence is, why did fall-out ac
quire increased importance with
the first hydrogen bomb tests?
The answer of common sense is
that the much bigger ' bombs
caused a much bigger fall-out.
The President's own statement
confirms the conclusion that
there is a real difference be
tween the smaller and the bigger
bombs.- In spite of the casuistic
argument that all bombs have
some fall-out so why single out
the big ones the President says,
"It is true that tests of very large
weapons would probably be de
tected when they occur. We be
lieve we have detected practi
cally aU such tests to' date.
Why have we detected thera? Be
cause the fall-out is not con
fined to the territory of the So
viet Union. This would seem to
settle the issue as to whether or
not the big. hydrogen bombs are
a special problem. "
MS
Tomorrow
Lippmann
THE President and the Gover
ernor have also had a differ
ence of opinion, as to how an
agreement to suspend the testing
of the big bombs could be en
forced. The Governor has said
that if the Soviet Union broke
the agreement by exploding a big
bomb, our reply would be to re
sume exploding our own bombs.
The President's argument has
been that we could do nothing
and that we would be set back
dangerously in the race of arm
aments. . Neither, of them, it seems to
me. has visualized correcUy the
situation which would exist: Let
us suDoose that an international
treaty had been negotiated in the
United Nations which stipulated
that bombs of a certain size
big enough to cause fall-out and
big enough therefore to be de
tected may not be exploded,
Let us suppose, which I believe
we ought to insist upoTT, that the
treaty stated that the Ulegal ex
plosion of such a big bomb is an
international crime of which the
United Nations shall at once take
cognizance.
The violation of the treaty
would at once precipitate an in
ternational crisis. The United
States and its allies would have
the right to take the position
that the violator of the agree
ment has committed an act which
was preliminary to war, like mo
bilizing on the frontier of a
country, and that counter-measures,
collectively if posible, sin
gly if necessary, were justified.
The reply to a violation would
not be, it seems to 'me, anything
so tame as Gov. Stevenson's sug
gestion that our own testing be
resumed. Nor would it be any
thing so abject as doing nothing
except complain that we had lost
the race of armaments. What
would happen is that the viola
tion of an agreement of this crit
ical character would either pre
cipitate war or sanctions that
were the very nearest thing to
war.
AN INTERNATIONAL treaty
to suspend the testing of
bombs big enough to be detected
abroad, big enough therefore to
pollute the air abroad, would
if it were properly negotiated
stand no greater chance of befng
violated than many of our other
agreements for example the
agreement which enables us to
stay in West Berlin.
Like those agreements it
would be observed unless the So
viet Union decided to start the
Third World War. And if the
Soviet Union decided to do that,
it would not start the war by
testing an experimental bomb.
It will start it by using the prov
en bombs it already has.
(C) 1956 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The Big Question:
What is REALLY GOING ON
in Poland and Hungary?
IT'S HARD to say, because of
the complete censorship that
prevails, but this seems to be
about the answer:
Two kinds of communists are
fighting for power. One kind
wants to get out from under
Russia's thumb and run its own
affairs, kowtowing to Moscow
at every turn, smiling when the
Kremlin smiles, frowning when
the Kremlin frowns and going
along with the Kremlin toward
the objective of a communist
dominated world.
ON THE basis of what sweeps
thrduffh the Iron Curtain.
that seems to be about the size
of it at present.
This is the big point:
In Hungary, Russian guns.
aimed by Russian eyes and trig
gered by Russian fingers, are
SHOOTING DOWN Hungarians
who don t want to go along
whole hog with Moscow.
T SUSPECT at least, I hope
that back of these two kinds
of communists are millions of
Poles and Hungarians who -want
no truck with the whole foul bus
iness of communism and yearn
for the wonderful time back be
fore World War 2 when they had
REAL LIBERTY.
Our long range hopes lie with
these silent masses. Our sympa
thies lie with them. Our sympa
thies are so STRONG that the
time MIGHT come when we
would be willing to FIGHT side
by side with them in the sacred
cause of human liberty.
we Americans are a strange
people. Claiming to be hard-,
boiled realists, we reach at times
such heights of idealism that we
stand ready to DIE in the cause
of human liberty. In our career
as a nation, we have demon
strated that over and over.
BUT
As of NOW
Our job is to remain clear-
eyed and INTELLIGENT. We
are, and should be, pleased to see
hitherto monolithic communism
breaking into KINDS OF COM
MUNISM. We are pleased to
see COMMUNISTS FIGHTING
COMMUISTS. When communists
are busy fighting other commu
nists they won t have any time
left to FIGHT US. -
That's the long and the short
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
A crowd of 1,500 or so per
sons was at the Medford airport
Friday for the arrival of the
vice president of the United Stat
es. Among the crowd were secret
service agents state police, city
police and deputy sheriffs, alert
to the least danger to the life
of the vice president.
Oblivious to the crowd, the ex
citement, and the armed officers
of the law were a couple of kids
and a dog, returning from a
hunting jaunt in nearby fields.
Both boys were carrying shot
guns.
There was a beautiful rain
bow Friday afternoon, when
the sun came out brightly after
shower. There was an imme
diate dispute amongst parti
sans in the newsroom. Some
claimed it was arranged to
herald the arrival of Vice Pres
ident Nixon. Others, however,
pointed out that, from where
they sat. it ended in a pot of
gold the first National bank.
A woman we know went visit
ing the other night," while her
husband was busy with some
overtime work. She called on a
young couple who live half-way
across town.
A couple of days later she tele
phoned them, asking, "Have you
seen a stray earring?" The fam
ily hadn't, but the husband, at his
wife's suggestion, started search
ing in the overstuffed chair
where their guest had sat
He found five pencils, three
crayons, a comb, a balloon (de
flated), a large blrd-in-a-caga
whistle and the missing ear
ring.
(P.S. The couple have chil
dren as if you didn't know.)
(P.P.S. The visting wom
an, incidentally, got lost In the
wilds of west Medford on her
way home.)
The wife and mother-in-law
of a news staff member parked
the family car at the court
house the other day, and spent
most of the day inside. One of
them called the newsman so
he'd know where the auto was,
if he needed it. Their business
finally completed, they walk
ed to the Mail Tribune, waited
quite a while when he com
pleted his work, then found
they had to walk all the way
back to the courthouse where
the car had been all the time.
This is about a young woman
(we'll call her Jane Smith be
cause that isn t her name) and
a young man (we'U call him John
Doe for the same reason).
They had a date the other
night, and after a pleasant eve
ning he took her home. Then he
went home to Ashland, and she
immediately got absorbed in a
project, the nature of which has
no bearing on this story. After
a while, she noticed her wrist
watch was missing, so she look
ed up Doe's name in the Ash
land telephone directory and
placed the call. A sleepy voice
answered.
"Will you look in your car and
see if I left my watch there?"
Miss Smith asked the voice.
"Alright," the voice replied,
"but I hope it isn't, because I
don't think my wife would like
it." .
Jane thereupon learned, to her
horror, that not only are there
TWO John Does in Ashland, but
the time had slipped by and it
was 2:30 a.m. She hasn't quite
recovered yet but she does
have her watch back. .
Last year rfnd this have bid
sort of mixed up weather, to
the confusion of local flora.
Last week Mrs. Avis Weisen.
118 North Filth st, 'Central
Point, reported that an Easter
lily given her by her son last
year, has just bloomed for the
second time this fall. A day er
two our favorite feminine col
umnist and women's editor re
ported she has a tulip which
has bloomed several months
ahead of schedule. The next
day it snowed. And the leaves
aren't all off the trees yet.
An editor of our acauaintance
was greeted by a vast accumula
tion of mail, most of it political,
the' other day. Alone amidst the
propaganda was a statement
from a department store.
He looked at it and signed.
It's a relief to see a bill these
days."
of the present situation.
LET'S not kid ourselves.
We've kidded ourselves too
often in the past. ;'
Let s not let anybody Kid us.
We have let other people kid
us too often in the past.
WE SIMPLY MUST remember
that in what is presently
happening in Poland and Hun
gary and what may happen in
the other satellites of Russia
there are THREE parties:
1. The communists who want
to run their countries independ
ently of Russia.
2. The communists who want
everything run from Moscow.
3. The REAL MASSES ur
THE PEOPLE who want to be
FREE UTTERLY of the whole
foul mess of communism and get
back to the time when there was
real liberty in their countries.