FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Sunday, February 23, 1958
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Medford end Jackson County
History from the files of The
Aail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 23. 1948 (Sunday)
Ward B. Spatz reelected
president of the Fruit Grow
ers league of Jackson county
at organization's regular meet
ing. A. D. Harvey, Medford con
sulting engineer who recently
returned from Brazil, de
scribes hydro-electric develop
ment in that country at Pro
fessional Engineer's club
meeting.
20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 23, 1938 (Tuesday)
i Application for return of
Lo Frank Hicks, fugitive
from the Jackson county jail
since last June, filed with the
governor's office at Salem.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
' Smudge Pot column: "A
down-in-the mouth, instead of
the usual . cheery, chipper
robin, lolled on the courthouse
lawn yesterday, and had noth
ing to sing about."
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 23, 1928 (Thursday)
Mason Ehrman company,
wholesale grocers of Portland
and Medford, purchases stock
and business of Medford Gro
cery company.
From local and personal
column: "Mr. and Mrs. R. W.
Price made a 28-mile hike on
skis and snowshoes to be in
Ashland Monday night to visit
with friends."
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 23. 1918 (Saturday)
Head waters of various
trout streams in this area
have been closed to restock
them.
: From local and personal
column: "The work of dis
mantling and tearing down
the beet sugar factory at
Grants Pass is progressing
.rapidly."
: What's Your I.Q.?
'Nina or ten correct is superior;
avail or eight is excellent; fiva er
.' sis is good.
" 1. Who is honorary presi-
"dent of the American Red
Cross?
1 2. Bible: Was Ahab, Omri,
"or Zimri the husband of
"Jezebel?
1 3. A chromosome is a
measure of time, a pastel
jpainting, or a part of a cell?
" 4. What Part of a quart is
one gill?
5. Is the starboard light on
a ship red, green or amber?
e. Is the .actual weight of
a ship denoted by its dis
placement tonnage or gross
tonnage?
7. Who wrote "The Con
quest of Peru"?
8. Name - the last Dutch
Governor of New Amster
dam (New York).
9. The eastern terminus of
the Panama Canal is on which
ocean?
10. Name the previous
names of Leningrad.
Answers: 1. The President
of the U.S. 2 Ahab. 3. Part
of a cell. 4. One-eighth. 5.
Green. 6. Displacement ton
nage. 7. William H. Prescott.
9. Peter Sluyvesant. 9. Pa
cific. 10. St. Petersburg and
rPetrograd.
Let the People Decide
As a foreword
If the Mail Tribune thought "Pay TV" would
drive out "Free TV" we would be leading the
fight against it.
We regard the "TV" station here as a genuine
community asset, and our hope is that like Rip
Van Winkle, it "lives long and prospers."
Nor do we blame the "TV'industry or any
part of it that has convinced itself "Pay TV"
WILL drive out "Free TV" for doing all it legiti
mately can to defeat it. Any business big or
little would do the same.
DUT we would emphasize "LEGITIMATELY."
And deliberate "misrepresentation" is NOT
legitimate.
Yet the TV industry in the USA has for many
months, conducted a nation-wide campaign of
"misrepresentation" doing everything in itsi
power to make the people of the country believe
particularly the TV listeners that if "Pay TV"
comes in their cherished and FREE "TV" will
go out.
As stated in a foot-note to an "anti-Pay TV"
communication recently, "there is no evidence
whatsoever" to support the claim that "Pay TV"
would eliminate "Free TV".
And there ISN'T!
There is no more validity to this "crv of
Wolf" than there was many years ago to the cry
that radio would ruin the "Victor Record Busi
ness ana eventually take tne place ot news
paper
As a matter of fact, the Record Business
and the newspaper business as a whole never
"had it so good," and the "TV" hasn't, as also
predicted, when it was perfected, driven out the
radio and it won t.
In other words, just as prosperous coexistence
has been possible in all those fields we are con
vinced, if and when "Pay Television is given
a trial a similar prosperous coexistence will be
established in that area.
BUT as a communication in today's "letter-box"
niTtrc liie -I ,1 mrm r v I t n m ri- o ! V-r cawi n
oiiuwo, liuo juugmciib 10 nut onaicu uy oumc
local TV fans, particularly those who listened
to a "KBES-TV" blast against "Pay TV" on the
local station February 2nd.
And to refute our statement, there is no evi
dence "Free TV" can't stand up in competition
with "Pay TV", our communicant declares among
other things that the Vice President of Zenith-
Skiatron" declared in this , propaganda-show,
quote :
"Our aim is to supplant Free Television."
What more evidence is wanted, we are asked,
than that by a representative of the Zenith Radio
which initiated the fight for "Pay TV" and is
its recognized leader;?
We grant that claim surprised us.
For ever since Zenith started its campaign for
"Pay TV", we have received frequent reports
from that company and in practically every one
it was clearly stated there was no intention to
"SUPPLANT" Free TV but only to SUPPLE
MENT" it. Their aim was to give those of the
American audience who wished to pay about 30
cents a day, for better TV programs the oppor
tunity to do so. In short, we couldn't believe it.
So we called up the Zenith Radio corpora
tion in Chicago, told them about this local
claim,- and asked them to explain.it.
We got Joseph S. Wright, Vice President of
Zenith, the man charged with making the state
ment, and after some conversation he dictated the
following, quote:
WE. COMB OVER TO TUB WINDOW AM' LISTEN
TO THESE GIM3 SJNS SWEPT ADDA SCWETHltf'l'
I understand a local TV station is spreading the
false statement in Medford that subscription TV will
take over and make the public pay for present TV
programs. This is part of a campaign of propaganda
agreed upon by a group of stations at a meeting called
by CBS in Washington, D.C. on January 13, 1958, to
try to scare Congress and the public into prohibiting
even the limited test of subscription TV service
authorized by FCC.
With subscription TV there would be added to
present programs a few hours a week of great new
movies like "The Ten Commandments" and plays
like "My Fair Lady" which the whole family could
see for less than one ticket to the movies and without
interruption by advertising.
These are the programs advertisers can never af
ford to put on and they would add greatly to the
pleasure of television without taking away the present
advertising programs.
Anyone quoting any Zenith official as saying this
would supplant advertising TV is a liar and simply
carrying out the orders of the New York network
officials who just plain don't want any competition.
(Signed) Joseph S. Wright, Vice Pres., Zenith Radio
Corporation, Chicago, IU.
THAT certainly is clear enough!
So we come to the "misrepresentation"
phase of this controversy. We are not accusing
our correspondent of the slightest guilt in this
direction, she merely took the local broadcast
as undoubtedly did many others at its face value
and honestly believed some official of Zenith
radio had declared the aim of that company was
to drive "Free TV" out of business.
We believe she will now admit she wTas
mistaken.
Certainly no reasonable or fair-minded per
son would deny she wras.
MOR will the "alibi" that it was not the Vice
President of Zenith, but one Robert Hall, not
of Zenith, but of "Zehith-Skiatron" whatever
that is! and not a Vice President but a member
of the board of directors of that concern, fool
anyone. Zenith is not connected in any way, Mr.
Wright declared, with Skiatron.
This sort of fakery and double-talk will not
Misrepresentation by TV
Alleged by Zenith Officer
Chicago, Feb. 22 (Special)
"I am not surprised by the
action of the House and Sen
ate commerce committees in
adopting resolutions to delay
subscription television pend
ing further Congressional ac
tion, E. F. McDonald Jr., pres
ident of Zenith Radio Corp.,
said here today.
"Members of these commit
tees were put under terrific
pressure by sacks of mail
from constituents who had
been frightened by a cam
paign of deliberate misrepre
sentation into believing that
even a limited test of sub
scription TV would deprive
them of .the advertising pro
grams they now receive," he
added.
McDonald's statement con
tinued:
"The campaign originated
with the heads of the three
TV networks, who decided to
use their astounding power to
mold public opinion to kill
off subscription television be-'
fore the public had a chance
to see it and decide for them
selves whether they liked it.
"Affiliated stations con-
ducted fear campaigns in
which they told their audi
ences that subscription tele
vision would make them pay
for the programs they are now
receiving, and urged them to
write letters of protest to their
Congressmen. This generated
hundreds of thousands of let
ters to members of the Con
gress, and resulted in the res
olutions to delay the test
"I am confident that either
Congress or "the Department
of Justice will air the facts
about this misuse of the air,
and that ultimately subscrip
tion TV will have the tradi
tional American chance to
offer its services in the mar
ketplace, so that the people
can make their own decision."
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer,
although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial
for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. "
Pay TV Opposed
To the Editor: Last week a
Mail Tribune editorial entitled
'What The People Really
Need" in which the second-
mentioned item was three
years of Pay TV. The editor
is entitled to his opinions,
certainly, but the editor's note
at the bottom of Mr. Graham's
answer to that editorial needs
clarification.
"No evidence whatever that
pay TV would eliminate free
XV"? '
Where did you look for evi
dence? If you will accept the
word of the vice-president of
Zenith-Skiatron, "our aim is
to supplant free television."
In my tattered dictionary
"supplant" means "replace,
and if you doubt that he said
it, the local television station
has a tape-recording of his
nationally televised com'
ment.
If you will not accept Skia-
tron's stated goal as evidence
take a look at the entertain
ment they have negotiated to
present. There are the Dodg-
for a minute pull the wool over anyone's eyes and
hide the fact the entire purpose of this "propa
ganda-show" was to make the American people
believe that the company that originated the
drive for "Pay TV" and has led and still leads
the fight for it, publicly admitted the purpose
of that effort was to deprive the American people
of "Free TV" altogether.
THERE is the angle.
And that is what we mean by "misrepre
sentation." The sad feature is that this sort of
fraud has made great progress with the TV audi
ence as a whole, TV owners naturally being
opposed to any proposal that would force them
to pay for a service they now get free.
That, of course, is not true. They will only
pay for extra features if they want them, and if
the 3 year trial demonstrates they don't want
them, obviously "Pay TV" will fail and 'fade
out as other moves lacking the support of public
approval have done.
A ND here we come to the crux of the entire
problem as far as this paper is concerned.
We feel that "Pay TV" not to "SUPPLANT",
but to SUPLEMENT "Free TV" would render in
the line of higher-grade and more diversified
entertainment a genuine public service.
We feel equally certain that if the combina
tion of free and paid T.V. were given a trial it
would succeed and the American public after
such a trial would demand its continuance.
And that is all the Pro-Pay TV groups now
demand and all the FCC has allowed not a per
manent license, just a 3 year TRY-OUT. What
could be fairer or more democratic? No one in
cluding the Delphian Oracle can tell just how
the dual system WILL work out, anymore than
it can be told what the wTeather will be next
Christmas.
The only way the facts can be determined is
to try it out. And then as above indicated, let the
people decide as eventually they always do.
Judging by the frenetic and frantic efforts of
the TV Tycoons to prevent such a trial not even
allow the people an OPPORTUNITY to decide
they must greatly fear what the nature of the peo
ple's decision would be! R.W.R.
er's and the L. A. Rams, both
of whom played on our free
channel last year. Tell me
please how you can take the
Los Angeles Rams off free
TV and put them on pay TV
without eliminating part of
free television? Once the
professional games, the spec
ial events and the big variety
shows (stated targets) are on
a pay basis there can, con
ceivably, still be free televis
ion. But only if the station
can subsist on the revenues
from Kiddy Kartoons, Fem
inine Fancies and a visit to
Historic Virginia and only if
Mr. Graham's veterans would
care to watch them.
One other comment. "What
the People Really Need"
mentions the extra entertain
ment for a "very ' small
charge." The first experiment
in Oklahoma charged $9 per
month. The first application
filed this year asks $30 per
year plus $1 per special
event. Is this a "very small
charge"? What do the people
really need?
For one thing, fewer to
tell them what they really
need and somebody to ask
them. Practically nobqdy
ever does. And if they ask,
one comment is most likely
to be, "throw rocks at TV
because we are a captive
audience with one channel,
throw rocks at SP because
we are captive customers
with one train line," but while
you are having fun, count the
local daily newspapers.
Jane Gillaspie,
636 ' West Fourth,
Medford
Matter of Fact By Stewart Alsop
11 rvi
The City Junk Pile Again
To the Editor: Although we
no longer live in Medford.
we have been hearing about
the junk yard controversy
the one located on Hilton rd.
We used to own property in
that area, and were there long
before 1 that wrecking yard
was put in. We know by sad
experience how this unsightly
mess has lowered property
values in the vicinity. When
we were ready to sell we had
the appraisers from one of
the local banks come out to
tell us what financial help
they would give to whom
and this is the answer they
gave us:
"We came out to see your
place, but didn't even get out
of the car for we saw the
wrecking yard and would not
loan anything at all on any
property near it."
Now we hear that all of
that district has been taken
into the city limits of Med
ford. I would think that your
City Council would refuse, a
license to such an unsightly
mess and see that it is moved
out of city limits, thereby re
storing the proper valuations
to the homeowners who have
been so unhappy with a junk-
heap for a front yard.
- "An Unhappy Seller,"
(Name on File)
RACE FOR THE MOON
Washington Although lit
tle attention has been paid to
it, the United States is now
engaged in
race with the
Soviet Union
at least as im
portant in
terms of pres
tige and prop
aganda as the
race for the
first earth sat
ellite. We are
Stewart Alsop m a race to
be first to shoot the moon.
President Eisenhower has
acknowledged that he and his
advisors, underestimated the
global psychological effect of
the Soviet triumph in launch
ing the first satellites. The
effect of the appearance of
a visible blotch on the face
of the old familiar moon,
which has peered down on
the earth for so many aeons,
is likely to be even greater.
This is why, in the wake of
the Soviet Sputniks, a very
high priority was assigned to
an Air Force project for
hitting the moon with a stag
ed missile.
The current Air Force
schedule which represents,
it should be understood,
more a hope than a certainty
calls for the first moon shot
before the end of this year,
perhaps by mid-summer or
even earlier. The vehicle will
be a Thor rocket, equipped
jvith a booster to kick its
speed up to the necessary
escape velocity of around 24,-
000 miles an hour.
mHE experts are sure that
-- this fantastic speed can be
achieved. They are not so
fsure that the incredibly com
plex and sophisticated aiming
and guidance system required
actually to hit the moon can
be perfected so soon.
For consider the problem
involved. Earth and moon are
separated by more than 215,-
000 miles, and both bodies
are moving at great speeds
Thus shooting the moon might
be compared, in the simplest
terms, to bringing down a
fast-flying goose with a bola
from the top of a speeding
automobile.
In other words, the first
nation to shoot the moon sue
cessfully will display to the
world a most significant tech
nical proficiency in the vital
field of ballistic guidance.
Thus in a symbolic sense, the
first moon shot will have
more real strategic signifi
cance than the first satellite
launching.
Among the experts, there
is some dispute about the pur
pose of a moon shot, one
theory is that the warhead
of the missile should release
certain gases on the surface
of the moon, which would
convey to the scientists im
portant information about at
mospheric and other lunar
conditions. The gases would.
however, be invisible from
the earth.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Financial note:
Government experts believe
the lowering of reserve re
quirements for banks by the
Federal Reserve Board will
spur the nation's "faltering"
economy.
The move will allow banks
to loan as much as three Bil
lion additional dollars.
TWO questions:
1. Will it help?
2. If so, how much?
I Could Not Sleep at Night
To the Editor: Nation-wide
publicity about inhuman trap
ping of wild animals is elicit
ing strong support for S.2489
the humane trapping bill
introduced in Congress by
Senator Neuberger and other
Senators. Congressmen have
reported heavy mail for the
support of the bill.
Various types and sizes of
humane traps are being de
signed to kill the animal al
most instantly. These are now
being demonstrated in some
parts of the United States. In
Canada great progress has
been made and many trappers
now use humane traps suc
cessfully. Inventors and manu
facturers of the humane de
vices are conferring with wild
life conservationists and hu
mane societies discussing these
traps aiming at humane oper
ation and how to promote
their use. Mr. McCabe is un
duly excited. I do not think
he will have to use salt or a
lasso.
M. B. Berry,
Shady Cove, Ore.
P.S. Will you please print
the following poem in con
nection with my letter.
If I had set a trap of steel
I could not sleep at night.
The pain-crazed eyes of dying
things
Would shine so fiercely
bright.
There in the dark around my
led
Shv creatures I would see
With swollen, frozen, bleed
ing limbs
For mercy begging me.
I'd hear the anguished fright
ened cries
Of little furry balls,
Imprisoned, struggling
through long days
While no one heeds their
calls.
I'd see those wild and free-
born things
Which should live in peace,
With glazing eyes look up at
me
In pleading for, release.
If I had set a trap of steel
I could not sleep at night.
The pain-crazed eyes of dying
things
Would shine so fiercely
bright.
From "Our Dumb Animals'.
Mina M. Titus,
M.B.
PERSONALLY, I think it
all depends on who wants
to borrow" money and how
much and WHAT FOR.
For example:
If this new expansion of
credit enables you to borrow
five hundred dollars to go
to Las Vegas for a week end
binge and you spend your
week end in the gambling
palaces along The Strip and
lose your $500, it won't have
done much to check the re
cession.
B'
UT
you have CONFI
DENCE in the future
And if your confidence is
justified
And if this new expansion
of credit enables you to bor
row the new capital with
which to expand your busi
ness and hire more people
and add to the growth and
development of your commu
nity and in the end MAKE
SOME HONEST MONEY FOR
YOURSELF
WELL
In that, event
The lowering of reserve re
quirements by the Federal
Reserve Board, thus making
more loanable money avail
able to people who know how
to use additional capital prof
itably, will be a real stimulus
to our nation's economy.
B
UT NOT otherwise.
If sound business people
lack the CONFIDENCE to
borrow the money and use it
wisely and constructively and
profitably this new credit that
has been made available
won't help much.
THE alternative is to pack
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certain dyes which would on
impact color a sufficient area
of the moon's surface to be
visible from the earth, at
least through telescopes. The
dye would have little scien
tific meaning. But with the
lesson of the Sputniks in
mind, the advocates of a visi
ble dye are likely to have
their way. The main initial
object of the race for the
moon is psychological. Pure
ly scientific experiments can
come later.
There is no really solid
basis for judging the likely
winner of the race for the
moon. Ever since the second
Sputnik firing the intelli
gence experts have been
waiting anxiously for anoth
er shoe to drop. The Soviets
had been expected to launch
further satellites at the rate
of one a month indeed, they
had boasted that they would
do so.
One theory to explain the
long gap since the second
Sputnik launching is that the
Soviets have purposely held
back on satellite launchings,
to avoid a sense of anti
climax, and that they are now
concentrating all their ener
gies on winning the race to
the moon.
There is no doubt that the
Soviets can provide the nec
essary thrust to achieve es
cape velocity. But there is
some belief probably wish
ful that their guidance sys
tem is not sufficiently sophis
ticated for a moon shot. There
is even some evidence, taken
seriously by the experts, that
some weeks ago the Soviets
attempted a moon shot which
failed.
IT ANY rate, the race for
iha mnnn ie nn nrA thle
time, at least, the responsible
American authorities have ac
knowledged to themselves
that we. are in a race. The
race for the moon is only a
part, of course, of the whole
race for space.
All three services are pre
pared to launch further satel
lites this year, so that, as
one space specialist put it,
"space will soon be lousy with
hardware." Project Pied Pip
er, the Air Force program
for a television-equipped re
connaissance satellite is suf
ficiently advanced so that the
first crude spy satellite may
be launched this year.
There are even serious
plans for shots at Mars and
Venus to follow the first moon
shots. And the grand prize
true manned space travel is
now considered to be won,
whether by the Russians or
ourselves, in the rather near
future.
(Copyright 1958. New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
POTLUCK
By M-f Staff and ,
Contributors)
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
A WELL-LIT TOURIST teetered up to a traffic cop and
gulped, "Where am I?" "Brother," laughed the cop, "you
are smack in the middle of Fifth Avenue and Forty-second
Street.
"Never mind the the de
tails, offisher," said the
tourist airily, "WHAT
CITY?"
In Texas, the story of George
Washington and the cherry
tree has been subjected to
variation. There, a sturdy
Houston lad is asked by his
pappy, "Who chopped down
this here mesquite tree?" "I
did," confesses the lad.
"You admit it!" roars the
astounded father. "Son, you
just climb into our second
DC-7 and fly yourself up to Oklahoma, Texas isn't big enough for
boys who can't tell a lie."
They tell of a restaurant in Lisbon that is patronized so liber
ally by spies from all nations that the menus are printed in code.
C 95 fey BM8U CjjX Pjttfifclltf j far glgf rwtwa Syfttoetl.
Valentine's day was a
little more than a week ago,
but we've just heard of the
highly practical Valentine's-;
day gift a local husband
purchased for his wife a
qew windshield wiper for;
her side of the car. i
A visitor to Medford re
cently was an Indian the
kind from India who has a
dark skin. In discussing his
adventures in this country, h
was asked if he had encoun
tered much discrimination be
cause of his color.
He reported that' in most
parts of the south he had only
minor difficulties. But once,
in Washington, D. C, he
went" into a restaurant, and
was pointedly ignored by tha
waitress.
After waiting for 25 min
utes for service he finally be
gan to recite poetry in a loud
voice in his native Indian
dialect.
He was waited on immed
iately. -
The office philosopher
(jg) comments that while
some husbands may be a.
bit leery of their wives
working in ofices with oth
er men, and vice versa,"
mixed company gives less'
of an opportunity for worn-,,
en to band together to for-,
mulate rules of conduct for;
husbands. Or, he added as,'
an afterthought, to lake in-
formal polls of what a hus
band's behavior should be.",
. Frank Christian, mayor of
Talent and candidate for
county commissioner, is sorfc
of looking forward to display:
ing his talents at the old-time
political rally coming up ia
Eagle Point next month.
Among the features will be
contests in roping, and one in
donkey-tail-pulling. i
He was rated as a top hand
cowboy in the early 30s ii
Canada. .
-
A restaurant in a nearby r
community, located close tor
a high school, has a sign,:
painted in the school's 1
colors, "Student specials.";
One of our reporters asked
if he could buy one, but
was told they were reserved r
for students only. Gross dis
crimination, he thinks. ' ?
A family gathering was
held recently in a Jackson,
county community, and dur
ing the course of the evening
home-made movies taken dur
ing the excitement around the
tree at Christmas time were
shown. ' r
One of the adults asked of
the films: "Are they very
long?" -
An 8-year-old replied: "No.
Just a 15-minute comedy.""
A ski shop recently ad-
vertised, "Used skies from
$5 to $35." Perhaps the
Sputniks and the Explorer:
have taken the newness off.
Sometimes typographical
errors are funny, and some
times they're sickeningly UN
funny. Here's one that's sort
of appropriate, somehow,
which appeared in a recent
issue of this paper if we can
get the conscientious printers
to reproduce it the way it ap
peared without correcting it:
"Frequent rinsingof thecar s
jasjjo jCt;b3j3 n!M spisjapun
the highly corrosive action ot
salt which many highway de
partments use to melt ice."
There's the old saying
about ministers' sons going
wrong, and the one about
cobblers' children running
barefoot. A modern - day
counterpart could, we sup
pose, be County Engineer
Paul Rynning, who is in
charge of road maintenance
and repair for the entire
county, and who was heard
to complain recently that
he can't drive into his ga
rage because of the poor
condition of the alley be
hind his house.
County Clerk Bereth "P.
Hopkins has had trouble re
cently with her dogs. (One of
her assistants was quick to
point out that it was the ca
nine variety not her feet.) j
Anyway, her Great Danjs
had a litter of seven pups ndt
long ago, and since they wer
born they have been growink
rapidly, and testing their
rather formidable muscles.
Thursday night, we learrj,
they tore down their dog
shelter. ;
t
Planning, like charity
begins at home, it was re-
marked in the county court-;
house recently. Planning!
Technician Jack Eaton has;
been trying to figure a way'
to enlarge the county em4
ployees' parking lot. I
i
A youngish female we know
is rather violently opposed to
the use of alcohol as a bev
erage a feeling she summed
up recently by stating wit
conviction, "When I grow urj,
I'm going to be an abolitiori
istl" !