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40 years ago.
IB TEARS AGO.
May 19, 1947 (Monday)'
H. :'S. Deuel, former mayor,
appointed chairman of the local
committee to support operation
naval reserve.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: An Iowa
police vice squad raided a church
"bingo" social. The event was
a legal fizzle, but at least ,got
the police to go to church.
TEARS AGO
May 19. 1937 (Wednesday):
W. E. Boeing; head of Boeing
Aircraft - company, -Seattle, and
Mrs. Boeing, visit :Medford mu
nicipal airport.
M. E. Coe, principal of Jack
sonville school, receives notice
that the school is admitted to
Northwest Association of Second
ary and Higher schools. -
30 TEARS AGO
May 19. 1927 (Thursday)
P. S. Woodin, president of
Southwestern Mining Bureau,
speaks at Copco forum.
A total of. 500 more out-of-town
automobiles has been reg
istered in Medford this year,
compared to 1926. .
,40 TEARS AGO
May 19, 1917 (Saturday)
Woodmen of the World, in
response to an appeal from the
head consul, will hold a patri
otic program at Woodman hall
"Wednesday.
From Local and Personal col
umn: City council holds informal
' conference to .discuss plans for
reorganizing the city's finances
under the Hansen plan.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; fre or
six is good.
1. Did King James ban the
establishment of a printing press
in the "province" of New York,
in 1686 or 1768?
2. Name the noted French ar
tist who painted "The Gleaners,"
"The Angelus" and "The Man
With the Hoe."
3. Bible: John I mentions a
feast in Jerusalem which Jesus
attended. Was it Passover, Tab
ernacles, or Purim?
4. Are snowflakes four, six,
or eight sided?
5. Name the American Negro
; scientist who was born in slav
: ery and who died several years
ago, after having achieved
world-wide fame among agricul
tural scientists.
6. A tangelo is a cross be
tween which two citrus fruits?
7. Is the wild horse in the
" western United States complete
ly extinct?
8. Is former Secretary of Ag
riculture Clinton P. Anderson
now a member of the House of
Representatives?
9. Is it correct to use "noth
ing like" in the sense of "not
nearly" or "comparable to"?
. 10. "To know that we know
what we know, and that we do
not know what we do not know,
this is true k e." Thoreau.
Answers: I. 1686. 2. Joan Fran
cois Millet 3. Which particular
one is uncertain. 4. Six. 5. Dr.
George Washington Carver. 6.
Tangerine and grapefruit. 7. No.
reduced numbers still roam re-
mote areas in the west. 8. Sen
ate. 9. No. ("He is not nearly so
spry, or comparable to John.")
M. "Knowledge."
MAIL TRIBTTOxt
Editorial Correspondence
New York, N. Y., May 15 Have just returned from luncheon
with a friend down on Wall Street. He has practiced law there
for over 50 years, being a judge between times. He is (needless
to say) an old friend and looks it, but doesn't feel that way, par
ticularly since his daughter presented him with twins. That makes
his grandchildren total four and he enjoys them tremendously
when he has a chance THEY live in St. Louis!
Wall Street is typical of New York, only this time a trifle
more so. That , is, occupation No. 1 on Manhattan island today is
tearing down and then building up bigger and higher if not better.
Near the old friend's office the din is terrific, the dust is dense,
and the confusion for a country boy from Oregon thrice con
founded. It has probably been true for years but on our visits we
never noticed it before. They have no traffic rules or regulations
in the New York financial district. No stop and go signs, no red,
green or yellow lights, and very few motor cars FORTU
NATELY! The stock market is still going tip as it has for so many years,
but for the visitor prices here are surprisingly low. One can get
a shoeshine sitting, in a rocking chair, with red carpet treatment
for only 15 cents, a haircut for $1.25, and a newspaper note this,
Jerry for a NICKEL! We had luncheon at a club on Pine street,
including cherry stone clams, and it did not cost US a cent!
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One fine sporting event, the afternoon baseball game, Is rap
idly disappearing in this neck of the woods at least. Only on the
weekend do they appear, and not always then. The reason? Well,
in a word MONEY. Day games except on Saturday and Sunday
seldom pay. Also there is "TV." It is not easy to sell "TV" base
ball during the day, it is much easier at night. So Time Marches
on, and with it, the afternoon baseball game!
'
However, we intend to take in an afternoon game before we
leave if we have to cut out church to do it. Let us all sing:
"Auld Lang Sine."
The weatherman continues to misbehave. Had a cloudburst
and a real ding-dong thunder storm last night, being caught en
route to dinner by the former but were safely in our hotel for the
latter. At times it did not appear so safe, with chain lightning
flashes all around and about half of them too close for comfort.
A hotel not far away was struck, starting a fire in the coffee shop
which was put out before any great damage was done. One of the
skyscrapers on. Broadway was hit, a cornice knocked off which
clipped a young school boy on the shoulder he was rushed to a
hospital, but the report is he will be released today. He was en
route home from a movie. He will probably give up night movies
for a time and pay more attention to his home work.
The weatherman behaved much better in the "good old days."
We lived here for three years as a cub reporter and May never
behaved like this. In fact, we wrote a story once after an inter
view with the-city weather bureau and the theme was "It's the
climate, New York boosted as .a summer resort." Unless we are
mistaken the article made a hit with the N. Y. City Chamber
of Commerce.
Note for E.T.: The Wall Street odds are three to one AGAINST
the Dodgers winning the National league pennant THIS year.
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One great improvement in New York over four years ago.
Today the streets are kept clean. On our last visit uptown New
York was filthy. If Mayor Wagner is responsible, he should be
given a medal of merit by the city Board of Health. R.W.R.
New York City, N.Y., May 16th It is impossible to keep up
with the N.'Y. Weather man. He is always six steps ahead of your
correspondent. Yesterday was so hot and humid that even the baby
hippo over at Central Park stayed under water, and the pigeons
allsamee as Union Square did not have enough gumption to chase
a peanut. But today as this is written there is a leaden sky, a wind
straight from the Newfoundland icebergs, and ye editor wishes he
had brought his overcoat. However, there is no complaint from
this department. We came here in May to escape the heat, and any
cooperation from the Weather Man is deeply appreciated.
-.
Saw the "Damned Yankees" play the Kansas City Athletics
yesterday afternoon before a small crowd mostly school chil
dren and as usual the Damned Yankees won. We were terribly
bored both by the. game and the result. The Athletics belied their
title, as they seemed to be suffering both from the humidity and
hook worm. The Yankees were not much better but were lucky
as usual. They made all their runs in the first inning, a total ot
three, but only one was earned, the others being the result of er
rors by a shortstop named DeMaestro, who let a grounder escape
him and threw over the head of the first baseman to let in anoth
er run.
It is a mystery to us how the Yankees pay expenses, but the
answer is probably local pride. They win with deadly monotony,
and when they have a day off and lose, your correspondent never
attends. It is the same or about the same in the world series
the D.Y.'s always come through when the chips are down and
they have to. We should think they would be bored too, winning
all the time, but they don't seem to be. We can't speak for the
local fans, but we are sure the visiting firemen would go more
often to see the Yanks play if they would announce in advance
that their opponents will win.
Mickey Mantle is hitting over .300 but is below his average of
a year ago and far behind the average of Babe Ruth's record
year. He is a good-looking muscular lad, with a cherubic face, and
still in his 20s, so it would be foolish to sell him short. But this
sports expert will-be surprised if he ever comes close to Ruth's
home run achievement. We have seen him play several times and
to us seems, to lack the killer instinct. He is good natured and
somewhat phlegmatic, too much so to reach the tippety top. (Note
to E.T.: if you wish to file a modest wager we are wrong, OK, pro
vided you don't overlook the result in your next income tax.)
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Had luncheon today with a classmate they are getting scarce
but those left impress us as choice. This one was an editorial writer
on the N.Y. Herald-Tribune for many years but is now retired
and lives on a small farm near Plainfield, N.J. He keeps fit by
chopping trees, cutting hay (with a scythe) watering and cutting
the grass and drinking a pint of Bass ale for breakfast. He could
Upass for 20 years younger than he
Co. will advertise the reason.
Bill is of that rare and refreshing species, a liberal Republican,
who "likes Ike" but does not believe that the U.S.A. would suffer
a fatal wound if a Democrat should occupy the White House. We
had a nice and amusing talk which we HOPE he enjoyed as much
as we did.
Of course to come from the coast to New York and not see a
I show would be foolish. But we have no desire to make the circuit,
and to date so many big "hits" are reported that we are pretty
much at sea as to the one we will honor first. It is easier to figure
those we will skip No. 1 on- that list is the prize-winning (Pulit
zer and Critics) "Long Days Journey" by the late Eugene O'Neill,
starring Mr. and Mrs. Fredric March. No doubt it IS tops from a
critical standpoint, but we simply couldn't take three and one half
hours of soul searching in an attempt to reach the essence of real
ity. We decline the honor of being placed in the "T.B.M." class but
we do seek something fairly wholesome and lighthearted. R.W.R.
Editorial Comment
IT SURE WONT
Note: In Editor Bud Forrest
er's editorial column of the
Pendleton East Oregonian "Ac
cording to latest figures released
by the Oregon Liquor Control
Commissin, Oregon leads all the
48 states in per capita expendi
ture for liquor. That's one piece
of information that win not,
we're sure. aDtear in any cham
ber of commerce brochures."
We're- sure it won't either.
Sunday, Mar l' 19S7
is, but I doubt if he or Bass &
But it makes us wonder if states
east of the Mississippi include
that little bombshell, the mar
tini, in the category of liquor.
Eugene Register-Guard.
OLDEST DOCTOR?
Waunakee, Wis. (HI Dr.
Austin M. Blake, 93, has prac
ticed here for 69 years. It's be
lieved here he's the oldest prac
ticing physician in the country.
Blake said he made inquiries
himself, a few years ago and
found nrtne older.
Dwr ZAT Ml
Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsep
GHOSTS IN DAMASCUS
Damascus This is a city
with the strange charm of an
oasis, set in a rich green garden
amid the sur
round i n g
dusty br o w n
of the desert
hills. One can
understand the
irritat ion of
an c i e n t Da
mascene, when
the Hebrew
prophet gave
Joseph Aisop preference to
his own beloved , rivers, Abana
and Pharpar.
But all the same, for any mod
ern American observer, Da
mascus at the moment is a city
haunted by warning ghosts. Spe
cifically it is-, haunted by the
peevish ghosts of the small
minded French policy makers
who took such offense because
their British opposite number
failed to consult them about the
Baghdad Pact. -
The British, they said, were
insolently taking over. The Bri
tish, they charged, were flag
rantly ignoring France's historic
connection with the Levant. In
point of fact, that connection no
longer consisted of much of any
thing, beyond the underground
wiring of the French Secret
Service left, over from the time
when France had real power and
responsibility in this country
ant.', in Lebanon.
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BUT that did not matter. The
wiring was used. Funds were
lavishly transmitted. France's
bitterest enemies in Syria were
aided, abetted and subsidized in
order to increase opposition to
the Baghdad Pact and to make
sure that Syria would not adhere
to it.
So far, indeed, did wounded
national vanity go.
What the French did then, has
a lot to do now with Syria's
increasing subjugation by pow
erfully anti-Western forces. And
for any sensible American, the
ghosts of this past French folly,
gibber a shrill warning because
the American policy makers are
now exactly imitating the Bri
tish mistake which provoked the
French Folly.
We are now, in brief, engaged
in replacing the vanished Bri
tish influence with a new Ameri
can influence as the necessary
safeguard of the vital Western
interests in this part of the
world. As the Jordanian drama
showed, the process has already
gone startingly far..
It was to President Eisenhow
er that Lebanon's wise President
Camille Chamoun sent a person
al message that the curtain
could be. definitely rung down
on all the Arab lands if Jordan
fell into anti-Western hands.
Again, it was to - President
Eisenhower that Jordan's young
King Hussein turned for a guar
antee against Israeli attack
which would free his hands for
action.
Here again, it was President
Eisenhower who sent the Sixth
Fleet as a stern warning to "Is
rael arid a strong hint to the
Kremlin. And it was American
influence too, apparently, which
somewhat excitably . and impru
dently seceured the simultaneous
movement of the Turkish Army
towards the Syrian border.
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OTHER evidence might also be
cited to show how our long,
inane condition of non-policy in
this same area is belatedly being
cured. But enough has been
said to prove the point.
Any other American course
would certainly be fatal. But as
this reporter learned in London,
we have reached no prior de
tailed agreement with our Brit
ish allies about 'this new course
of ours. Bermuda was the great
opportunity, and the opportun
ity was missed. That means in
fact that we have launched upon
this immensely tricky, danger
ous and delicate new course
without taking the smallest pre
cautions against sparking the
old but extensive British wiring
throughout the Middle East in
just the same way that the Brit
ish sparked- the French wiring
in Syria.
It does ' not matter that the
THE MBATl LBAVE
Western bacon the United States
is trying to save in the Middle
East is primarily British. It does
not matter, either, that the Brit
ish no longer have the influence
and power to save their own ba-
BRITAIN vanity can also be
wounded, British suspicions,
(of American designs on their oil
holdings for instance) can also
be too easily aroused. The Brit
ish also are capable of commit
ting follies for these reasons,
One could see the danger signals
in the reactions of British public
men, the British press and the
British officials out here to the
American role in the Jordan
crisis.
There .are plenty of future
sparking points. Iraq is one. The
obscure oasis of Buraimi, where
the British are squabbling with
the Saudi Arabians, is another,
And the sooner the American
policy makers take the rather
easy steps needed to avoid trou
ble, the more prudent they will
be.
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Religion and Science
To the Editor: I would like
to register my friendly reaction
to Mr. Kraus' letter in the Mail
Tribune of May 9, in which he
says "many people think reli
gion has given us our civiliza
tion Science has founded the
true religion."
As I see it, science and true
religion have always worked to
gether to improve our lives and
conditions here on earth, but
fundamentally they are two dif
ferent propositions. All indica
tions both in and outside the
Bible point to the fact that there
is a Supreme Being and Power
we call God behind true relig
ion. Certainly science did not
give this earth the laws it is
obeying. The seasons come and
go in their due time; a farmer
must obey the law of nature to
be successful. After science had
found the law that electricity
obeys and functions in, they
were able to invent the many
things we have that help to
make life so much more pleas
ant. What liftlA T Vnnw artniit his
tory it seems to me religion and
civilization have alwayi gone
hand in hand. There is abundant
proof that American Indians
have once been a highly relig
ious and civilized people. Arti
cles of tempered copper have
been found which indicate that
they were further advanced in
science than we are today. Why
then, did science stop its good
work among them? Could it
have been for any other reason
than that they had drifted away
from God and religion so they
lost the inspiration science has
to have to do its work?
- Why is it South America is so
backward compared to us? Can
you find any better reason than
the Spaniards came there to
seek gold and the pilgrims came
here primarily to have the priv
ilege of worshiping God accord
ing to their desire? The Bible
has proven itself true in every
thing it teaches.
The spirit of the inscription
on our coins has much to do with
the fact that we are the most
irfiranriiri and blessed Nation in
the world because, "In God We
Trust'
John F. Peterson
Box 71
Talent, Ore.
School Taxes Too High?
Tn th Frlitor: On Monday,
May 20, in the rural school dis
tricts an election wm De neia iu
armrov the budget over the 6
per cent limitation. Anyone in
terested in keeping their taxes
from being raised should be
and
By Walter
THE CASE FOR FOREIGN AID
In arguing the case for the
foreign aid appropriation, it will
be best to admit at the outset
that there can
be no such
thing as an ex
act estimate of
the amount
that is neces
sary. Thus, be
tween January
when he sub
mitted the
budget and
Walter Lippmann mia - April,
when he wrote his letter to
Speaker Rayburn, the President
had reduced his own estimate
by a half billion dollars. Or by
more than 10 per cent. The re
duction is in military aid. Yet
apart from the uproar all over
the country about the size of
the budget, had anything been
happening in the outer world
during those three months to
explain such a big reduction in
the military estimates?
Nothing had happened to
make it more probable or less
probable that either the old esti
mate or the new estimate is too
big -or too small. The old esti
mate was an educated guess, in
the last analysis, by the Penta
gon, as to how much arms and
how much subsidy are needed
from us for NATO, for Korea,
Formosa and South Vietnam,
and for those other allies or
clients with whom we have mili
tary pacts. The new and reduced
estimate is simply a re-educated
guess as to what our military
allies can get along with. Be
tween January and April, ac
cording to the President's letter
of April 18 to Speaker Rayburn,
it became possible to save $500,
000,000 mainly because of "new
management techniques through
which lead-time financing has
been reduced."
All this goes a long way to
explain why Congress is not pro
foundly impressed by one esti
mate rather than by another, or
prepared to accept the view that
the estimate in April is more
final and authoritative than the
estimate in January.
TTAVING admitted the diffi-
XM- culty of "making estimates,
we must ask ourselves what we
are trying to estimate. It is the
cost oi carrying what are, in
fact, two related but essentially
distmct policies. One is the poli
cy of support and subsidizing our
huge network of military alli
ances. At least three-quarters of
all the money devoted to foreign
aid is earmarked for this pur
pose. Here there are two kinds
of questions which Congress can
ask. First, is it a vital American
interest that we should maintain
our various military alliances,
which extend from NATO in
Europe to Korea in Eastern
Asia? Could we do without all or
even without some of these alli
ances? . And second, could we
maintain them effectively at less
cost? If so, on whose judgment'
as to how to do this should we
rely? x
On the whole, Congress sup
ports overwhelmingly the alli
ances, and is not disposed to
run the risks of any drastic re
duction in military aid. It is the
second of the two policies, that
of earmarking money for civil
ian economic development,
which needs to be explained and
justified. This policy is address
ed not so much to the problem
of preventing or winning a war
with the Soviet Union but to
the epoch-making problem of the
relationship between the indus
trially developed countries of the
West and the under-developed
countries of Asia and of Africa.
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THE argument which I find
.J ICUUI.CU iU Xl9
element as follows. There have
come into existence since the end
of World War H some 19 new
nations in Asia and Africa. They
contain about 700,000,000 peo
ple, ana tnere is among them
a mounting demand that, having
won their political independ
ence, they shall proceed rapidly
to raise their standard of life.
This cannot be done without
the investment of capital in the
basic productive capacity of each
there and vote against it.
We cannot go on with this
taxation. We will be assessed
on 30 per cent of appraised value
the coming year instead of 25
per cent as of this year, a raise
of five per cent on the already
inflated valuation. This alone
should take care of any added
school needs. Our school tax is
already out of reason. If there
is such a dire emergency, put
our schools on a 12-month basis.
This will furnish schooling for
one-third more children, with
one-third less teachers and build
ings. Our teachers are already
paid on a 12-month basis. Any
business will go broke paying
their employees on a 12-month
basis and only operating nine.
Our school buses should be
run to transport children to
school only, nothing else. In
Klamath county the parents
haul their children to athletic
events and entertainment. Too
much tax money is being spent
on athletics, and too few receive
benefit from it. If you think your
taxes are too high, go vote Mon
day. Earl and Dorris Scheble
Route 1, Box 413
- Medford, Ore.
Today
Tomorrow
Lippmann
country in roads, ports, trans
portation, machinery and the
like. The under-developed coun
tries have virtually no capital
of their own. There are two
main ways in which capital can
be raised in an under-developed
country. One is by loans on very
easy terms from North America
and from Western Europe. The.
other is by forced savings at
home, which is the way that the
Soviet Union developed its in
dustrial economy.
It is often said that the capital
should be provided by private
investors. For a number of rea
sons they are not likely to pro
vide enough capital in the places
where it is most needed. Thus
American private investment
abroad has been averaging about
$2,000,000,000 a year during the
past two years. But most of this
money has gone to Canada, to
Europe and to other "developed"
areas. About $400,000,000 has on
the average gone to Latin Amer
ica. Asia, Africa and the Mid
dle East have averaged $200,
000,000 a year. But of this the
bulk has been invested in the
countries of the Middle East
where there is oil.
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rpHERE are a number of rea--
sons why there is a shortage
of Western private capital avail
able for investment abroad. One
is that the political risks in the
under-developed countries are so
considerable. Another is that
owing to the unprecedented and
revolutionary policy of full em
ployment, which now prevails
in Western Europe and in North
America, there is high demand
and great business activity. As
a result,, there is, on the one
hand, a big demand for the in
vestment of capital at home. In
Western Europe at least there
is, on the other hand, owing
to tne much wider distribution
of income which is available for
consumption, a drying up of sav
ings for investment.
Thus the managing director
of the International Monetary
runa, Mr. Fer Jacobsson, said
recently that "practically no Eu
ropean country has at the mo
ment any surplus funds avail
able for new foreign loans. Even
in Switzerland with its ample
flow of savings, the amounts be
coming available on the capital
markets seem at present to be
invested altogether within the
country, with the result that in
the second half of 1956, there
were no foreign loans issued on
the Swiss market."
"CTAILING adequate private in-
vestment m the under-de
veloped countries, there are two
ways left to them. One is to copy
tne boviet Union, as China is
doing, and to raise capital by
extracting it forcibly from the
people, particularly from the
peasants. The other way is to
provide a fund of public money
in tne western world from which
capital can be borrowed on
terms that are politically accept-
aDie, ana are not too hard eco
nomically for countries that are
very poor.
Such a fund is needed, and
this country will have to be the
main, though by no means the
sole, supplier of capital. We can
not in fact stand aside. We can
not refuse to be concerned with
the needs of these newly created
nations. We cannot say that we
do not care whether or how
they meet the demand of their
people for relief from , their
grinding poverty.
Copyright 1957.
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Important news:
Prime Minister Macmillan
tells the house of commons that
first reports of the british hydro
gen bomb test in the Christmas
islands in the Pacific yesterday
indicate that the FALL-OUT
FROM THE BLAST WILL BE
ALMOST' NEGLIGIBLE.
WHY IS that so important?
This is the answer:
British atomic scientists have
been working on a bomb that
would have tremendous explos
ive power AT THE SPOT but
yery little radioactive fall-out
to kill or maim people hundreds
of miles away.
This is- the BIG issue:
How can such a bomb be de
veloped without EXPERIMEN
TAL TESTING of the principles
involved?
PUT IT this way:
Suppose you are trying to
mix a bug poison that will kill
noxious insects without fail but
won't hurt people.
How are you going to develop
such a formula if you are not
allowed "to try experiments as
you go?
OPPOSITION TO the testing of
nuclear weapons is perfectly
understandable. Atom and hy
drogen bombs are grisly and
horrible things. I'm sure we'd all
be DELIRIOUSLY happy if ev
erything pertaining to them
including the secret of making
them work could be taken
out and sunk in the deepest deep
of the deepest sea and FORGOT
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors) t
This is a true story.
A youngster of about four
years was listening to the radio,
over which the announcer was
extolling the virtues of a certain
brand of "ladies toiletries,"
which phrase he repeated sev
eral times.
Finally the youngster turned
to his mother and remarked,
"Momma, I thought only dogs
had that kind of trees."
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One of the nicest things
about the kind of jobs those
of us here in the news room,
do is the fact that we come
into contact with all sorts of
nice people, with all sorts of
problems. Sometimes we can
help: sometimes we can't.
But nine times out of ten we
have a pleasant chat with our
callers or correspondents.
Sometimes the correspond
ence itself (and we receive
three heaping armloads of mail
every day) brings with it en
joyable tidbits of humanity.
We received a letter the
other day from a reporter for
a 4-H club (we'd guess him to
be aged between 10 and 13).
On the front of the envelope,
in youthful but very plain
handwriting, was w r it t e n
"Please Hurry." On the back
of the envelope appeared:
Thank you.
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Ever see people as tax-conscious
as they are these days?
Even last November, when prop
erty taxes came due, we don't
recall as much fuss about taxes
as there is these days. WelL
something of the moral of the
story is mailed to us by our
Illinois Valley correspondent,
Helen Bottel, who tells about
the owner of a grocery store in
Kerby, who, in 1944, bought the
store.
That year his personal prop
erty taxes, on equipment and
stock, came to $7.97. This year
his personal property taxes, on
about the same number and
quality of items, totaled $136.
It sort of sounds as though
he either wasn't paying enough
in 1944, or was paying too much
in 1957.
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Once in a while we feel"
-trong enough to tell our read
ers, in this space, about typo
graphical errors in the paper.
(At other times, we just can't
bring ourselves to do it.)
Anyway. Be tie Hoskins
spotted one in last Sunday's
paper. The story was about
the Jacksonville School ban
quet and prom recently, and
it mentioned the "outer space"
theme "with a large' rocket
ship in the center of the flood."
Something ' to do with a
modern Noah, Belte thinks.
If we didn't know by the
calendar that it was May. we'd
know by the kind of weather
we've had the last three weeks.
One day it's hot and sunny; the
next if s cold and rainy: the next
it's warm and overcast. There
have been hail and thundershow
ers, as well as bright, clear days
with a brassy sun.
A few flies have shown up In
our part of town, but no mos
quitoes yet, anyway."
JENKINS
TEN FOREVER.
But this cannot be.
When the atom and the hydro
gen bomb came into the world,
they CAME TO STAY.
We have to learn to live with
them.
T ET"S GLANCE for a moment
J at gunpowder.
When it came into the world,
it was a grisly and horrible
thing. Befort the advent of gun
powder men who died in battle
died by the comparitively clean
thrust of a sword or a spear or
an arrow. Bullets and shells,
when they came along, TORE
AND SHATTERED AND SPLIN
TERED. 1ITE MUST remember this: ,
" Gunpowder "has its USE IN
PEACE as well as in war. Dyna
mite followed powder. Dynamite
immensely increased man's abil
ity to get useful things done.
Atom and hydrogen bombs
hold the same promise.
TlfHEN WE object to experi
" mental study of atom energy
in ALL of its forms, useful
as well as destructive we put
ourselves in the position of the
ostrich that supposedly, when
something unpleasant or danger
ous appears on the horizon, hides
its head in the sand.
Atom and hydrogen bombs
can't be disposed of by hiding
our heads in . the sand. Their
possibilities are terrible, but we
have to recognize they are here.
We HAVE to learn to live
with them.