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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
! Feb. 2. 1948 (Monday)
: State Representative O. H.
! Benetson of Medford is in
I Washington, D. C, in an ef-
? fort to save the Camp White
hospital.
The hamburger price war
S5J
in Central Point is continuing
J today according . to reports
1 this morning from owners of
t Paulsen's and Fabers mark-
ets
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 2, 1938 (Wednesday)
It will be possible to ac
eomodate only 250 persons at
the banquet to be given in
honor of the United States
Senator A. Evan Reames by
the Jackson county chamber
of commerce.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Ken
Denman is the bouncing fa
ther of a proud OSC co-ed,
In about 18 years."
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 2. 1928 (Thursday)
Failure of the Overbeck
and Cooke, brokerage firm in
Portland involved a number
of Southern Oregon people
including several in this city
and in Ashland.
The annual conclave of the
United Artisans will be held
in Medford Aug. 10, 11, and
12.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 2, 1918 (Saturday)
A meeting of representative
women from nearly every
community in Jackson coun
ty was held Friday in the of
fice of the home demonstra
tion agent to lay out plans
for war emergency work.
From local , and personal
column: Members of the Jack
son county draft registration
or selective service board are
now wearing neat little
bronze badges which they re
ceived recently from the gov
ernment.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct is superior;
seven er eight is excellent; five er
six is good.
1. What do these have in
common: ageratum, alyssum,
amaranth? ,
2. Bible: Pentateuch con
tains how many books?
3. Are persons with large
heads more intelligent than
others?
4. Did the North American
Indian aborigines eat oysters?
6. A mid-west city has the
letter K as the middle letter
of its name, and the first
three and last three letters
identical; what is its name?
6. Who is the patron Saint
of the family?
7. On what island did Napo
leon Bonaparte aie?
8. In Jewish and medieval
popular belief, who was Lilith
held to be?
9. In what Eastern State is
the so-called "Underground
Pentagon?"
10. For what sport were the
Marquis of Queensbury rules
divised?
Answers: 1. They f are
flower-bearing plants. 2. Five.
3. No. 4. Yes. 5. Oshkosh.
6. St. Joseph. 7. St Helena.
8. The first wife of Adam.
9. Maryland; (at Raven Rock
Mountain. 65 miles away from
tzr.cMnerton. B.C.). 10. BOX-
Ing. " " .
Can Democracy Survive?
We have been looking over an article on
American Civilization
new idea. At least it is
The author claims the major threat to this
country and the survival of free democracy
does not come from outside our borders, but m
side.
It does not come from Soviet imperialism, but
from national inertia.
this claim, attention is
for the sinking: of the Lusitania by Imperial Ger
many, the United States
ened to the "Germany
today the Kaiser or
control the world at least the western world.
A GAIN when "Madman Hitler" rose to power
the American people failed to realize their
peril, and had Japan not staged her "Pearl Har
bor" Hitler would today have supplanted tne
House of Hohenzollern as monarch, of all he
surveved.
Now the country and western civilization are
threatened by the greatest peril in history, but
had "Sputnik" never been iired into orbit, tne
people of this country
fused to have recognized the challenge and met
it. As it is only a few
. -
tists" are aware of the gravity ol the situation,
and in lieu of another "Lusitania" or "Pearl Har
bor" the writer fears the "noble experiment of
a free democracy will end in defeat and disaster.
WELL, as observed,
nndoroi'miorl unrJ
But as we view it,
piece of Swiss cheese full of holes.
In the first place it is entirely speculative.
The author doesn't know no one CAN
know what would have happened in 1914 and
1939, IF what did happen had NOT happened.
For, the sake of argument let it be assumed
that the Lusitania had never been'sunk, and von
Tirpitz had agreed to Woodrow . Wilson's ulti
matum and in good faith discontinued unlimited
U-boat warfare.
Without that warfare and the U.S.A. could
Germany have brought France .and England to
their knees?
We don't believe so.
was winning .the war,
waffe" or shock-troops.
But that, too, is plain
this argument or any other on what CAN'T be
known, when there is so
"The Kaiser was beaten, Hitler was beaten,
the United States played
haps a decisive, role in
take some time for Uncle
reality of his peril. But he did awaken, in time
to do the job, and for that let us all be duly thank
ful. - '
i
THIS is not to maintain there is no validity to
the claim that old' General Apathy is one of
he maior threats to tb.e
of American democracy.
is particularly serious today m view of the Rus
sian challenge for the control of the world and
some claim the control of
DUT the point is at least as we see it that you
can't have your cake and eat it too, in this
field anymore than m any other.
As has often been pointed out in this depart
ment, on the basis solely
properly and in the shortest possible time, a strong
and ruthless dictatorship such as communist Rus
sia's, is clearly superior to a "government of by
and for the people such
By the nature of things a democracy has to go
slowly. Also by the nature of things, a dictator
ship with absolute control of the police, the army
the navy and the air force at any time does not
have to.
Soviet Russia could
Khrushchev and his pals
this country were attacked, President Eisenhower
could no more declare war, than he could fly to
the moon and in view of recent scientific claims,
the latter would be easy in comparison.
DUT what does Communist Russia pay for that
advantage?
The answer in a word is SLAVERY the
people of Russia completely regimented and ab
solutely ruled, down to the smallest detail of their
lives, by "One Man," aided and abetted by a se
lect group of ideological gangsters all respon
sible to no one.
However, if that form
to be more efficient than free democracy, won't
it, in the raging competition between nations,
eventually triumph?
There, brethern, IS the question !
Khrushchev says it will.
Uncle Sam shaking his head vigorously says
"by cracky it won't!"
And naturally all Americans or almost all
agree with Uncle. -
CO DO WE.
It is with us, however, not a matter of any
knowledge but' of faith faith that there is so
deeply imbedded in the human race,- regardless
of color, creed or previous condition of servitude
a passion so strong for freedom, liberty and the
dignity of the individual,
-ment denying these things can long endure. In J
Sunday, February 2, 1958
recently which presents a
new to us.
To support and document
called to the fact that but
would never have awak
Uber Alles" danger ana
his descendants would
would have absolutely re
mainly "egg-head scien-
. J . 1 I I
it is a new idea to the
vutriiar all lnfprPSt.inO" (TP P.
it is, like the proverbial
It was the U Boat that
not the Kaiser's "Luft
conjecture. So why base
much that CAN be?
an important, and per
both victories. Also it did
Sam to awaken to the
efficiency and success
Nor deny that this threat
outer space.
of getting things done,
as we m America have.
declare war tomorrow, if
so decided. But unless
of government proves
that no form of govern-
ibu told mio ee Nice to zoey, didn't yoo ?
Wu? DIDN'T
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
MR. K AND THE
APPETIZERS
What has been coming out
of Russia recently makes me
wonder whether Mr. Krush-
c h e v and the
other ruling
men have had
any c 1 e a rer
idea than we
have had in
the West
about what
business might
be done at the
Walter Lippmann Summit. The
Kremlin, to be
sure, has published a list of
proposals it would like us to
accept. And we, in turn, have
put out a list of proposals
which we say that the Soviet
Union ought to accept. But
the common characteristic of
the two lists, if each is regard
ed as a whole, is that both
are based on the idea of un
conditional surrender the
Russian on the surrender of
the West, and our list on the
surrender of the Russians.
This must be known to Mr.
Khrushchev and his col
leagues, and therefore the
question is why he keeps on
calling for a meeting at the
summit when on the face of
the public record there can
be no agreement reached
when we get there. The
answer to this question may
be that as long as the West
stood opposed to a meeting, as
long as Mr. Dulles just didn't
want to negotiate with the
Russians, the Kremlin had a
free ride for its propaganda.
The Soviet Union wanted to
negotiate for peace. Mr. Dulles
did not want to negotiate for
peace. Who, then, was the
hope of the world? Could any
thing have been easier?
But, once the Western posi
tion began to unfreeze, as it
has been doing since the
NATO meeting in Paris in
December, the Kremlin has
been having to face the prac
tical problems of a meeting
at the summit. I am inclined
to wonder whether this does
not account for what Mr.
Khrushchev said to the NATO
Ambassadors at the cocktail
porty in Moscow on Monday.
H
E SAID, in his off-hand
that negotiations should start
with the simple issues before
Editorial Comment
DEPLORES SOUTHERN
PACIFIC NEGLIGENCE
The SP president, In a state
ment commenting on the sys
tem's earnings and problems
says, "Frequently local groups
oppose attempts to modernize
our operations and necessary
approvals of state regulatory
commissions are often difficult
to obtain, but it is unrealistic
to keep running empty trains
which serve no public need."
That's an interesting state
ment, especially in view of
efforts in . Southern Oregon
to have the SP resume pass
enger train service over Siski
you line. We believe every
one wants the railroad to en
joy a profitable operation, but
also they want it to fulfill its
public service obligations.
In the case of Southern Ore
gon, where the railroad en
joys a complete monopoly on
other .words in spite of
terially of the "police state" it has within itself,
as has often been said,
truction.
THAT we believe.
But we also believe
accompanied by "works" by deeds by throw
ing General Apathy overboard and realizing the
free world is in a battle for its life for survival
and we can't muddle along under the good old
baner of "Business'As
battle, automatically or
they came to the more dif
ficult ones. "It is like a meal,
First, you have appetizers
Then soup and fish. Then, the
main course. We should do
the same. Let us agree on
simple things first."
What makes this so interest
ing, and it may be so signifi
cant, is that it differs so radi
cally from the idea of a grand
meeting at the summit for
the pretended purpose of deal
ing with all the great issues in
one over-all package settle
ment. In the big ponderous
letters which the heads of the
governments have been writ
ing to each other, there is a
pretense on each side that it
wishes, while the other side
does not wish, to settle every
thing at once.
At the cocktail party on
Monday, Mr. Khrushchev dis
owned the over-all approach,
which can be nothing but
propaganda, and recommend
ed the kind of approach
from the smaller to the larger
issues which alone could mean
a serious and sincere negotia
tion.
I
F THIS is correct, then It
meeting of. the summit be
comes a practical possibility
the Kremlin is concerned, as
we in our own way are con
cerned, that it should not end
in a disastrous disagreement,
If such a disagreement is to
be avoided, the meeting must
be given business to do which
is small enough to be manage
able, like the Lacy-Zaroubin
business about cultural ex
changes, and is yet appetizing
enough to lead on to more
business.
If what Mr. Khrushchev
means is that he wants a big
meeting with a small and very
limited agenda, he is likely
to be listened to carefully.
But hs must realize that
even a small and limited
agenda will have to be negoti
ated carefully. One might
hope it would be negotiated
m the spirit and with the
competence of the Lacy-Zaro-
ubin negotiations. For Mr.
Khrushchev, as an old habi-
tute of cocktail parties, should
know that what some people
treat .as a mere appetizer,
others would regard as a
whole meal.
ran transportation, it sum
marily discontinued its Ash
land-Portland passenger trains
on the Siskiyou line. The
schedule was slow, the equip
ment old and outmoded. The
railroad refused to seriously
consider the use of modern
equipment and improved
schedules.
The i n a d e q uate Oregon
statutes on the regulatory
powers of the public service
commissioner left this area
almost helpless to oppose the
railroad's discontinuance of
the passenger trains.
While we are pleased that
SP continues to be one of the
prosperous railroads of the
nation, we remain distinctly
uphappy over its failure to
make a reasonable attempt to
provide this area with a pas
senger train service. Ash
land Tidings.
the high efficiency ma
the seeds of its own des
that such faith must be
Usual" and expect that
easily, to be wron.
K.W.R.
Matter of Fact by joh
THINGS TO COME
Bonn, Germany Germany,
France and Italy joined to
gether in a single, supra-na-
ti o nal major
power, and
fully equip-
Ded with the
J whole pano
ply of modern
war-including
nuclear wea
pons that is
beginning to
be dis c e r n i-
Joseph Alsop
ble here in
Bonn.
None of the three govern
ments concerned has made a
clear decision to take this
new direction whi;h can so
radically alter the whole
power-map of Europe and the
Western world. Even in the
German government, where
the impulse originates, there
is quite extensive disagree
ment about the desirability
of the new direction.
Yet the German, French
and Italian governments, al
most unnoticed, have set their
feet upon the road. With no
fanfare, with no public dis
cussion, they are marching
down the road together. For
several highly practical rea
sons, one suspects they will
not find it easy to turn back
later on.
THE obscure organization
that marlrs flip npnr direc
tion is called the German-French-Italian
' Military-Technical
Committee. It appears
to be the brainchild of Ger
man Defense Minister Franz
Josef Strauss, a singularly
tough and brilliant butcher's
son with a singularly sharp
perception of modern power-
realities. Its ostensible pur
pose is to cooramate ana
"standardize" weapons de
sign and production in Italy,
France and Germany.
Unlike the other numorous
bodies that are supposed to
coordinate and standardize the
weapons of the NATO forces,
the new Franco-Italo-German
committee really seems to be
doing its job. At a recent Bonn
meeting Strauss, French De
fense Minister Chabsn Del-
mas and Italian Defense Min
ister Paolo Tavianl reached
agreement in principle on a
new, very fast, lightly arm
ored, heavily armed tank
which they think will be
greatly superior to any cur
rent American tank design.
Germany will manufacture
the engine and chassis. France
will provide the armor and
armament and complete tne
assembly. The engine and
chassis are also designed for
use in weapons carriers, spec
ial command cars, mobile
light rocket-launchers, and so
on. Parts of some of these
other vehicles will be pro
duced in Italy. The result, if.
all goes well will be a whole
family of tanks and other
military vehicles produced
by the combined efforts of
France, Italy and Germany,
and used as standard equip
ment in all three national
armies. Other, similar results
are expected with other wea
pons types.
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Thank God for R. R. V.
To the Editor: In answer to
B. P. (name on file):
Somehow, I feel you have
misconstrued the phrase
"write em and invite 'em
At least, that's the impres
sion I have from your very
irate letter of Jan. 29.
What "those guys" on TV
mean is that we should all
invite our rich friends and re
lative from other parts of the
country. I mean the ones who
are living in the "lands of
plenty" like California, Wash
ington and all points East.
They make terrific wages in
those places, I understand, and
everybody is simply rolling in
foldin' money. It should be
no problem at all for them to
afford to visit our "p o o r,
down - trodden" valley and
drop some of their extra
wealth to us "peasants."
Don't .you agree?
As for the furniture and
other factories, they also are
loaded with those. In fact,
the whole country is positive
ly f'polluted" with ttte darn
things. It's really a crying
shame that Medford has such
nasty, clean air.
Having just returnea irom
'.visit in Mexico City, Calif-
, ; T
ornia ana vanuus yi,
have but one sentiment to
offer at this point. Rich or
Door, what ever I may be,
thank God I live in the Rogue
River Valley and the U.S. A.!
G, Farfan
723 South Newtown
Medford.
Trust In God
To the Editor: It seems odd
to me for a nation to stamp
Pray for peace" on our mail,
and state "in God we trust
on our coins, and then spend
S30 billion for the upkeep of
our nation, and $40 billion
Alsop
TUT this part of the Mili
tary - Technical Commit
teee's work is, so to speak.
only the bit of the iceberg
that shows above the surface.
The indicator of the future is
the authoritatively reported
decision of the three Defense
Ministers to examine the pos
sibilities of collaboration in
the crucial nuclear area, in
cluding eventual production
of nuclear weapons.
The French are of course al
ready at work on their, first
A and H bomb designs. They
have therefore been charged
with drawing up proposals for
tri-national collaboration in
the nuclear area. These pro
posals will no doubt be ex
amined at another meeting of
the three Defense Ministers
and their Military-Technical
Committee which is scheduled
to be held in Rome in early
spring.
The French proposals will
necessarily include the shares
of the bill for this hideously
expensive development effort
that the French Defense Mini
stry would like to have paid
by its partners and of course
Germany above all. Here is
one of the major hurdles on
the new road; for German
Finance Minister Etzel will!
certainly oppose any addi
tional defense outlays with all
his might.
As Etzel is now severely
straining NATO by his obstin
ate refusal to go on paying
the "support costs" of the
British divisions in Germany,
his arguments will have much
force. By the same token, the
Germany Foreign Ministry is
far from enthusiastic about
the new road, partly because
of a marked lack of enthusi
asm for Defense Minister
Strauss, and partly because
the diplomats have doubts
about isolating Britain by
forming a purely continental
Franco-Italo - German group
ing, There are the same un
certainties in the French and
Italian governments.
IF ONE takes a long view,
however, it is pretty ob
vious that the march down
the new road is likely, to con
tinue. On the one hand, the
French are determined to be
come a nuclear power, . yet
they lack the resources to do
the job alone. On the other
hand, despite the deep doubts
everywhere felt in this coun
try, Germany will not long be
content to be the only major
Western nation without nu
clear weapons.
The Franco-Italo - German
power-merger loresnaaowea
by the Military - Technical
Committee is the obvious solu
tion. It may be a bit stagger
ing to find France consider
ing this kind of collaboration
with Germany,, after all the
water that has flowed under
the bridges of history. But
the stream of history ' has
many unexpected turnings.
And there are other, even
deeper reasons for eventual
Franco - German nuclear col
laboration, which must be ex
amined In a further report.
name and address of the writer.
for military arms and per
and
sonnel. It appears to me that
there is more trust in the
money, and little . if any in
the Lord.
But after this war is over,
which will surely come, then
we will know where our trust
ought to have been.
Consider the condition of
the world today, if the United
States and England hadn't
shut the doors on immigra
tion we would both be pov
erty-stricken by now, ana
things are not getting better
but worse.
I read in the paper a while
back an article by a leading
scientist that people would
have to pass laws to prevent
h a b v murders
would have to take place, and
these things are already
under serifcus consideration in
some nations today. And the
end is not near?
But for those of you who
do trust in God and believe in
him, he foretells of the things
that will be in the last genera
tion (a period of about 20
years or a little more). Read
Matthew, chapters 24 and 25,
begin at verse 3 of chapter
24, note verse 34 of chapter
24. Also chapter- 23 : refers
these days, or I should say
to the leaders, judges, preach
ers, and those who are elected
and appointed over the peo
ple, i
T. M. S.
(Name on file)
-' Empire, Ore. '
Thank You, Nice People"
To The Editor: Having de
termined to start the New
Year by' being kind and
neighborly, and noticing that
we are nearly to February,
we thought we had better be
gin. Do you suppose you could
(By M-T Staff
We've been reading a
neighboring daily newspaper
with more - than - usual dili
gency recently, since they
took a smugly superior crack
at the M-T for a couple of
typographical errors that crept
in.
We acknowledge the errors
(remember those "lVi-year-old
boys" we reported as
being arrested for illegal dis
charge of firearms?), but are
confident that sooner or later
we'll catch the teasing paper
in something just as silly.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The latest scare:
Brigadier General Homer
Boushey, deputy director of
Air Force research and de
velopment, tells a luncheon
group in Washington . the
moon will inevitably become
a military base for launching
space attacks on the earth.
He says a base on the moon
could be used to rain massive
destruction on the nations of
this terrestrial globe. He
thinks we'd better beat the
Russkies to it or ELSE.
ABIT of advice:
Don't jump in the lake
yet.
So many, many people
know so many things that
ain't so.
This may be one of 'em.
TELETYPE chatter:
Authorities are in sharp
disagreement over what to do
about the current wave of
juvenile delinquency.
One expert says commut
ting fathers (who live in the
country and work in the Big
Town) should spend- more
time at home.
Another expert advises
"psychodrama" in which de
linquents act out their "ag
gressions" for psychologists
to analyze.
Others say TEAR DOWN
THE SLUMS.
TIMELY question:
Has anybody given any
though to a few old-fashioned
sessions in the wood shed?
I reckon not.
That's too practical for this
modern age. )
WALTER Reuther tells a
congressional committee
in Washington this morning
that today's wage levels hav?
nothing to do with inflation
that the economy is in trou
ble only because purchasing
rawer hasn't keot up with
increased ability to produce
His idea is that all we need
to do to keep prosperity roll
ing in high gear is to raise
wages and cut prices.
Cynical thought:
I wonder if he ever tried
to run a hamburger stand and
make a living at it. .
T ET'S close on a note of
common sense.
Education Secretary Mari
on Folsom says this morning
the United States is at a seri
ous disadvantage because
Dractically all its citizens
speak only English. He adds
that Americans are weaker in
the foreien language field
than any other major people
in the world.
What he means is this:
How are we going to run
the world if we can't tell the
neoDle in foreign countries
how we want to run in
pet)-
print a 'thank you, nice
pie in your Communications
column? And, seriously, we
wouldn't even know where
to begin.
We do wish to express our
deepest appreciation for the
snowball of helpfulness your
paper began last August.
There have always been lots
of wonderful people in this
weary world, but that article
you ran brought to light a
whole new crop.
By the time you printed
that story, we had been charg
ing tranquilizers at a local
drug' store for months. Even
though the money didn't come
pouring in, as we had hoped
it would, the kind words of
encouragement from nearly
everyone we met, many of
them strangers till that time,
gave us the will to continue.
Phone calls, letters, suggested
solutions and even praise for
our services, made us feel
that maybe the whole business
might be worth while after
all.
We are especially grateful
to the doctors and hospitals
for their active support and
willingness to help wherever
possible.
Finally and always, you
people out there, we are a
public service. WE ion't call
you, YOU call us, and we give
what assistance we can. We
intend to continue to serve
you as efficiently as possible,
BUT we sincerely hope you
won't ever need to call us!
Doyle and Carol Waltermire
Medford Ambulance Service
P. O. Box 1214, Medford.
and Contributors)
When we do, we'll let you
know.
A week or so ago Md
ford police were called to
stand by while a local hotel
evicted a tenant for non
payment of his bill. He left
all right, but failed to take
with him the personal be
longings tucked away in th
drawers of the dresser. Offi
cers reported these included
75 neatly stacked empty
bottles which once held
win and vodka.
One of our staff membera
orders eggs from a poultry-
man in the county, and they
are delivered periodically to
the office.
Our man, whose feats of
absent - mindedness i o m e
times awe his fellow workers,
on occasion forgets to take
his eggs home the same day
they are delivered, and his
colleagues are awaiting the
day that some of the eggs
hatch out in the well-warmed
room, covering us all with
baby chicks.
In anticipation of that time.
one of the gals took down
those two little paper birds
we mentioned last week, and
placed them atop the current
egg-crate. This amused HER,
even if it didn't amuse HIM.
The heavy rains of the
last two weeks have
brought problems for many
people not least of them
the employees of a bank
and finance company in one
of our smaller communi
ties. Sewers under the bank
backed up. forcing the rela
tively numerous bank em
ployees needing the use of
a restroom to cross the
street to the finance, com
pany, " where the two or
three workers generously
shared theirs.
Not everything seen in tha
sky is a Sputnik, flying sau
cer or meteor. Our Illinois
Valley correspondent, Helen
Bottel, writes that reports of
a falling, flaming object re
cently near Smith River,
Calif., alerted a coast guard
cutter, the sheriffs depart
ment, and a number of in
dividuals to be on the lookout
for unidentified flying ob
jects. The alert was called off
when it was discovered that
the bright flashes were caused
by a local . chicken fanner
who used a flare gun to scare
off seagulls.
There have been various
reactions to the M-T's new
column, "Diary of a Bird
Watcher." Some poo pie,
who are less interested in
birds than in other, less ex
otic occupations, wonder
why we print it. They would
understand if they heard
the enthusiastic comments
of those who ARE inter
ested in birds and other
beauties of nature. One Saw
fan of the column reports
that he has sighted what h
thinks was a pair of eagles
on his property near Phoe
nix huge birds with wing-
spans of about seven feet.
His only doubt was about
their beaks. Do eagles have
yellow or gray ones, he
wanted to know.
An almost-6-year-old w a
telling her mother about going
to the dentist for some tooth
work for the first time.
"It hurt a little when h
put the needle in," she said,
but I didn t say ouch. I
couldn't!"
Telephone operators, like
other humans, like to chat
with each other during their
spare moments. The other
day a group of them had a
lengthy and serious discus
sion. They reached two con
clusions regarding their re
spective husbands: Their
socks seldom matched, and
they prefer their eggs soft,
boiled.
One of the county exten
sion agents is still snorting
about the remarks made by a
r'so-called cowboy" in one of
the nationally televised pro
grams, who remarked tnai a
horse should be rubbed down
all over every night with
horse linament.
The agent curtly remarked
that would be one way to
make a r. retty lively horse of
an old nag.
The story's going around
the courthouse about the
county official who has been
muttering to himself about
filling out the forms for em
ployees' withholding taxes.
Some of the employees
think this is a form of
poetic justice, for the offi
cial is one of those .con
cerned with handling coun
ty tax payments.
A recent remark by an ob
server of the contemporary
scene may not be true, but
sometimes it SEEMS true:
Every time three Ameri
cans get together, they elect
officers."