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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE :Medfordteibiwb "Iveryore in Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by I MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 j ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC ALLEN. JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Teleg. Editor 5 I CHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor LIVE STARCHER. Society Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Med ford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PT Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 J Daily and Sunday S mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only-One year $420 my Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle J Point, Jacksonville, Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv J er. Talent, and on motor routes: . Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sundey 1 mo. 150 . Carrier and Dealers copy 10c ' All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford -umciai riper or Jacfcson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU ! OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative : . WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC, Of ; fices in New York, Chicago. De . troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B. C. rjjS' NEWSPAEI . PUBLISHERS ''ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL assocTat TMilUllgU-IHa Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 27. 1948 (Friday) The Beagle area of Camp fhite is offered for sale as government surplus property, 1 William McAllister, Med ford attorney, speaks at Young Republican club. lo YEARS AGO Feb. 27, 1938 .' CCC camp near Rogue River, Camp Wimer, has new Ijy installed nine-hole golf ; From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The Older Girls have started talk ing about housecleaning, and k few have the little men jnauling rugs with a broom handle." iO YEARS AGO f"eb. 27, 1928 (Monday) KMED, Mail Tribune ra flio station, granted increase pf 20 meters operating on 1100 kilocycles. I Medford to be division point for West Coast Air Transport petween Portland and Cali fornia points. 40 YEARS AGO Fire Chief Lawton starts Jiouse to house inspection of fireplaces, stoves and flues. : From Local and Personal fcolumn: "W. A. Folger, the bounty food administrator, spent Wednesday at Gold Hill pn food conservation busi pess." I What's Your I.Q.? Vline or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five or is is good. 1. The minimum age to iualify for U. S. President 21, 35, or 40 years? ! 2. Bible: Does the O. T. mention a daughter of Jacob? ; 3. Capons are castrated boosters, drakes, or peacocks? 4. By the old-style calender, what was the date of George Washington's birthday? 5. The begin Jan. 2001? 21st century will 1, 2000, or Jan. 1, ; 6. House centipedes have 10, 15, or 20 pairs of legs? , 7. Yosemite Falls are locat ed in Colorado, California, or Wyoming? 8. Prior to World War I, to which empire did Hungary belong? : 9. Will an object weighing 20 pounds fall at a rate 20 times as great as an object weighing one pound? : 10. Two countries in South America have no seacoast; name them. Answers: 1. Thirty - five years; 2. Yes (Dinah); 3. Roost ers; 4. Feb. 11; 5. Jan. 1. 2001; 6. 15 pairs; 7. California; 8. Austro-Hungarian empire: 9. No.; 10. Paraguay and Bolivia. PIL FOUND NEAR PARIS : Paris (IP) French oil fever, which has sent oil stock soaring since "black gold" was discovered in the Sahara got another boost today with feports that oil has been found less than 25 miles east Of Paris. At the Pethorep Co. Which has been drilling for the last 15 months near Ccecy en Brie, made a strike Sat urday. Laboratory reports on samples showed today a light Oil with high percentage of gasoline. - -y 7 X-X Editorial Correspondence . . . Tucson, Arizona, Feb. 24 West begins and ENDS. This rodeo, but it isn't a blue one. sky not even a puff of a cloud and the mercury must be about 65. But the banks haven't opened yet, the "Sunset Limited" arrived believe it or not ten minutes ahead of time. And to enliven the atmosphere after' the three-ring circus has gone, a new bank ers from all over the state are hotel, with the usual identifications in their lapels and gin and-tonic, if they wish, for breakfast. The bank being opened is On our last visit here a Mr. DeAutremont was President and was good enough to have the tive home, just outside of the city. He died comparatively a young man, several years ago, but Mrs. DeAutremont and children also grandchildren live1 here winters. No one lives here summers if they tioning has not made the seashore or the High Sierra so demanding during the hot "dog days." The Tucson DeAutremonts mont brothers who held up the kiyous many years ago and train crew. Efforts have been made to get Hugh DeAutre mont the only one now worth saving paroled. In view of what .Leopold the "thrill-killer" has been granted on the basis of rehabilitation there would seem to be some argu ment at least in favor of showing similar "mercy" to Hugh But thus far there has apparently been no progress in this direction. It was Clarence Darrow who saved Leopold from the electric chair, largely on the plea that juveniles are not morally responsible as adults, and should not be treated as adults by the courts. We have an idea this truth will be more generally recognized as time goes on. ' Before we forget it, we must give the Devil his' due. We have now completed a trip on the S.P. of approximately 1,300 miles. The final lap of over 500 miles on the "Sunset Limited" was the best. Nearly 550 miles in less than 12 hours is not as fast as a jet-liner but it is fast enough for the undersigned, particularly when the journey is made in bed at night. One has to sleep somewhere, why not on a train? the air lines have given up "sleepers" it seems. All in all A-l service. We missed Ike and Mamie by 24 hours. Naturally Phoe nix, northwest of here, played up their selection as a winter and beauty resort for Mr. and Mrs. "President" in grand rhetorical style. Listen to this banner on the Phoenix morn ing paper for example, quote: "SKIES SMILE ON IKE AND MAMIE FIRST LADY'S BEAUTY GRACES SUNNY SjCENE" And there was a five column picture of the "Beauty and the President" with a three-star general in a stiff salute, and 25,000 cheering Phoenicians in the airport background. Judging by the front page play, Los Angeles and Tucson were not similarly enthusiastic as far as the selection was concerned. At least neither the Times nor the Tucson Citizen waxed lyrical the Los Angeles paper was content with "25,000 greet President and wife" and the Citizen put in its banner chiefly a plug for the bright and balmy Arizona weather! Our taxi driver from the station a swarthy Mex ican with a Chaplin mustache and eyes bluer than Jack Benny's said the selection by Mamie will mean a million dollars to Phoenix. He didn't say so but we suppose he meant Mexican pesos! Tucson is only a couple of hours motor trip from the Mexican border so, like Montreal, is bilingual Spanish and English instead of English and French. It is hard to get a job here in a retail store at least unless you can talk Spanish. The signs at the S.P. depot are in the two languages, and there are more .Mexicans seen on the street here than American tourists in Mexico When in LA we taxied out ment center close to Beverly tractive development, where Newhall, who for a great many Old Stage road, but is now living in Los Angeles. The drive out Wilshire was an eye-opener, about the only familiar sight was the Ambassador hotel with green lawn in front we should guess that is one of the highest priced front lawns in existence. New apartments and office buildings completed and in state of construction all over the place: But tne taxi ariver, a young coiurea ooy uus time with a bright yellow visored cap and an ox blood slip over, said "They is lots of boys out of work in this town lots of 'em." Learning his passengers were from Oregon, he confided he had left his home in Portland only a few weeks ago. Well, LA as usual is a sort Hyde." If there is anything more shoddy, soiled and nutty than the people one sees in Pershing Square and environs (excepting the Biltmore of course) we have never run across it! And yet the drive from Pershing Square to the ocean at Santa Monica is a delight if one chooses the residential dis tricts. We can't imagine anyone wishing to live in Los Angeles, with only the Pershing Square section as a guide to what this overgrown cosmopolis really is, yet, as noted the residence sections in the outer areas, particularly to the west, are extremely attractive. Also, there was no smog Sunday, the skies were overcast but no rain and the air. was cool and bracing. Before leaving LA we went to a Thrift Drug store at the corner of Fifth and Hill to make a purchase. When we got out of the place, couldn't get into a shower quick enough. What a shoddy mess! The all-day lunch counter was going full blast as usual, and as we passed we noted a sad-looking young couple he looked sick and she didn't look well they had large bowls of soup and cups of coffee before them but their main meal was in a soiled paper bag held between them from which they were extracting various and sundry viands. It was a really pathetic sight, and it did represent "THRIFT" but somehow in that depressing atmosphere more the Los Angeles than the Scotch variety. R.W.R. , Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Washington President Eisenhower, on Republican con gressional demands for the firing of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson: 'Tor any group of congressmen either formally or in formally to raise a question concerning my appointments to the cabinet would not seem to be in order." Havana, Cuba Juan Manuel Fangio, champion racing driver, on his abduction by Cuban rebels the night before he was scheduled to compete in Cuba's Grand Prix: "All the lime I enjoyed the same comfort I could have found in a hotel." Washington Rep. John J. Rooney (D-N.Y.) on the prob lems of U.S. participation in the Brussels World's Fair: "This is one of the greatest snow jobs ever perpetrated on the House of Representatives by Madison Avenue and the hucksters." ' ' San Jose, Calif. Mrs. Helen Cordry, suggesting that her son, Thomas W. Cordry HI, may have been impelled to the "urge"' murder of a neighbor girl because his parents gave him inadequate instruction about sex: "It was probably much too rigid. We told him you have to take very good care of girls. I think maybe my thinking was too old-fashioned. If we had it io do all over again, I'm afraid we'd do it the same way." - Thursday, February 27. 1958 Well, here we. are where the is the Monday after the annual The sun is shining in a clear building is being opened. Bank making their quarters at our the Bank of Southern Arizona. family for dinner, at his attrac can help it, although air-condi were related to the DeAutre "Shasta Limited" in the Sis- crazy kids killed four of the City, which is something. to the Metropolitan apart Hills, a most gigantic and at we called on Mrs. Charles years made her home on the that wonderfully expansive of civic "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. SSr- Today 6" Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann Mr. Eisenhower himself has, as we know, asked Con gress to clear up the un certainties of I h e Constitu tion on the question of a disabled Pres ident. There is, moreover, an Adm i n i s t r a t i o n bill i tt. 3 : n Walter Lippmann JJepai uikui ui Justice which was introduced in the House of representatives last spring. There is, therefore, nothing indelicate about discussing the problem, which should be done with the kind of matter-of-factness that a sensible man adopts when he makes his will. Yet, while some progress m . 1 seems to nave Deen maae, Congress continues to be hesitant to act, rather like a A t 1 i man wno, Knowing xnai ne ought to make a will, puts off going to see nis lawyer. There are several reasons why Congress puts off action. They are all, so it seems to me, aspects ot one general reason. This is a search for a "solution" of the problem which will suit everybody now and in all conceivable contingencies in the future. No such solution will ever be found, and it is useless to look for the kind of solution which will cover everything that a writer of mystery stor ies might imagine, as, for example, a secret criminal conspiracy to oust a President and to usurp the office. In dealing with this problem, as with any other of the struc tural questions of. the Consti tution, we must assume that the great officers of the state are - honorable and honest men, most particularly in the highest matters. If we do not make this assumption, we find ourselves in a hopeless com plication of suspicions, trying to find some way where everybody concerned in the decision is able to check and balance everyone else. AT the level of common sense in practical affairs, the problem falls into two parts which can .be and, I think, should be dealt with separately. The first part has to do with a case where, in the words of Representative Keating who is a leader in the field, there is "a temporary disability declared . by the President himself." The second part, which Mr. Keating calls the "real prob lem," arises "when a disabled President either refuses to ad mit his disability or is physi cally unable to dp so." . - Taking the two cases sepa rately, we find that the first case is easy to deal with and the second is rather puzzling. When the President himself declares that he is for the time being disabled, which is the first case, there is gen eral, though not unanimous, agreement that it is the in tent of the Constitution that the Vice-President should act as President t until the Presi dent himself declares that his disability has ended. There are some lawyers who think that to clarify this proposition a Constitutional amendment is necessary, or at least desir able. But there is high legal authority for thinking that in this case Congress itself has the power to declare what the Constitution means. NOW it would be prudent and sensible, in my view, for Congress to act promptly on the first part of the prob lem. It is not entirely incon ceivable that if Congress had clarified this point, the Presi dent, when he was stricken last autumn, might have de volved his powers temporar ily to the Vice-President. This might well have been . the wisest thing to do both as to the effectiveness of his office and in the interests of his own health. t Be that as it may, since agreement is possible on this part of the problem, Congress should act even though there is not as yet agreement on the second and much more puzzling part of the problem. It is something of a puzzle to decide what shall be done in case a disabled President is enfeebled, is unconscious, or worse still is irrational. The problem is who in the government is to raise the question of the President's disability, and who is to de cide finally whether he is dis abled. My own view is that the initiative in raising the ques tion should be in the execu tive branch, in the Cabinet and in the White House itself. On the other hand, the final power to decide the question should be in the Congress. In other wordsr if the President is disabled and un able to make his own deci sion, the fact of his disability will have to be made known by the members of his own official family, presumably, I should say, by the Secretary of State. Under modern con ditions of publicity, it would be quite impossible to con ceal the President's disability as was done in the cases of Garfield and Wilson. WHEN the question of the President's disability has been raised, the Vice-President should go to Congress, or if necessary, call it into spe cial session. He should com municate the facts of the President's condition and should ask Congress to vote on his assumption of the pow ers of the Acting President. The legality of the proceed ings could be tested promptly in the courts, say on the ques tion of the Acting President's appointment of a postmaster. Neither this, nor any other solution, is foolproof. But for this one it can be said, I be lieve, that if Congress does nothing at all, leaving things as they now are, something very like this solution prob ably would have to be impro vised if an emergency arose. (Copyright 1958. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Douglas Fir Plywood Prices Decline Again Portland (IP) Prices on Douglas fir plywood Wednes day suffered" their fourth $2 drop in less than .two months. . Some mills quoted sanded plywood at $64 a thousand square feet -inch .index AD grade. ' -; Industry spokesman blamed overproduction for the sag ging market. Output was run ning about 10 per cent in excess of demand. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A MOVIE PRODUCER not unknown for battles to the death with the English languages was trying to interest a big box-office star in a new property he had acquired. "It's a tremendous story!" he en- thused. "All about four wonderful people: a woman, a man, and a dog!" The star still was trying to puzzle that one out when the producer delivered an other haymaker. "You real ly should sign again with me," he urged. "Nobody out here knows you half so well as I do. I'm familiar with all your shortcomings and your longcomings, too!" A young Lothario drove the . pretty debutante from the big city out to a lonely spot along ' lake and suddenly stopped the car. "We must be out of gas," he said not too sadly. Without a, word, the city gal pulled a flak out of her reticule. "Hot diggety!" enthused the Lothario. "Scotch or rye?" "Gas," answer the deb. - O 1358, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate. No Easy Solution in Sight for French North African Troubles By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent France is facing a critical situation in North Africa. It is qmbroiled in a serious dispute with Tunisia, its former pro tectorate, over the bombing of a Tunisian village near the Algerian frontier. ;jLJ under 'severe S?c" criticism by the United States because some of the planes used in the bombing were American. The State Department says the planes were supplied sole ly for use in the North Atlan tic Treaty defense area in Europe. To make things worse, the rebels in Algeria have opened a new offensive and have en gaged French forces in four sectors. The Algerian revolt, of course, lies benina tne entire situation and behind most of France's present grave troubles. France and Tunisia accept ed the diplomatic "good of fices" of the United States and Britain in the Tunisian dispute. Murphy Negotiates Robert Murphy, deputy under-seccetary of state, is now in Tunisia negotiating with President Habib Bour guiba. x Murphy is a diplomatic "trouble-shooter" of note. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this :olumn do not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. Adult Classes To the Editor: On behalf of the adult education program, I wish to thank you for your splendid assistance in present ing the winter-term classes to your readers. The response was very favorable and I hope that it is a step further in meeting the needs of the com munity. Thanks again for your par ticipation. ' Lindsay M. Vinsel, Director, Adult and Vocational Education, Medford Public Schools. - Sloan Campaign Committee Set Portland (UV-Formation of a committee to support Gor don Sloan of Astoria in his candidacy for the Oregon Su preme Court was announced today. Sloan was appointed last week by Gov. Robert D. Holmes to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court. He will be required to run for elec tion to succeed himself in that position. Announcement of the com mittee was made by its chair man, Judge J. O. Bailey, re tired justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. Others on the committee include: Harvey DeArmond, Bend; Orval Thompson, Albany; Al Flegel, Roseburg; Wendall Wyatt, former state Republi can chairman, Astoria; Edgar Smith, Ben Anderson, Moe Tonkon, Robert Leedy, R. W. Nahstoll, the Rev. Roy Fedje, and Mrs. Clyde Gideon, all of Portland; Prof. Kenneth J. O'Connell, Eugene; Anthony Yturri, Ontario; William Walsh, Coos Bay; Mrs. War ren McMinimee, Tillamook; and Dr. Joseph P. Brennan, M.D. and John Kilkenny, both of Pendleton. YOO 5HO0L0 SIGN WITH But he seems to be faced with an almost imrossible task in attempting to bring France and Tunisia together. The bombing of the Tuni sian village of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef was an offshoot of the Algerian rebellion. President Bourguiba now insists that Murphy must go into the entire Algerian issue in his attempt to mediate. Premier Felix Gaillard of France, trying desperately to keep Algeria out of inter national politics, rejects that Is Different Algeria is not, as were Tu nisia and Morocco, a French protectorate. It is politically apart of France itself, with representation in the French Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop STORMY WEATHER? London For some years now, the British Treasury has had the habit of sending an expert mission of inquiry to the United States every six months, just to sniff the American economic air and to see which way the American Joseph Alsop e C OTIOmiC winds are blowing. The Treasury's habit is a practical acknowledgement of the American economy's abso lutely decisive influence on the welfare of the Western nations. The usual British Treasury mission left for Washington just the other day nearly three months ahead of the . usual schedule. And this premature return for an other sniff and another look is a mark of the intense con cern that the American recession-depression symptoms are beginning to cause here in London. From this distance, it is not very clear whether the leaders of the Eisenhower administra tion are aware of the fact. But in London you do not have to be a trained weatherman to forecast a politician and eco nomic typhoon over here, if the economic climate in the United States continues to worsen. rpHERE will be no storm of course, in fact the sailing should be good for the British economy, if President Eisen- sures are successful. Further more, the British Treasury ex perts still have a marked and heartening confidence in the American officials who prac tice the strange arts of eco nomic management. In truth, the British Treas ury is about the only place in London, these days, where you are still likely to hear a good word for any part of the U. S. government. All the same, the big "if remains. If the trend in the United States is not corrected, what will ,be painful for us will also be downright" catas trophic for Britain. This is inherent in the unhappy situ ation inherited by Britain's quiet, coolly able and most impressive new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Derick Heath coat Amory. The best way to describe this situation is to say that Britain is like a bank with sadly, inadequate reserves. The effect of a continued Ameri can recession will be to drive the bank's customers to draw heavily on their bank bal ances. If this goes on too'long, it can become a run on the bank. In basic terms, it really is almost as simple as that. 1I10RE specifically, the money now on deposit in London, mostly from coun tries of the sterling area, cur "CORONER CASES" In those cases requiring the services of the county coroner, most peo ple seemingly do not understand that they still have a free choice of th funeral director they want to handle the funeral arrangements. If you should be unfortunate enough to have to call the coroner regarding the loss of a loved one, remember to call the funeral director of your choice AT THE SAME TIME! He can be of immeasurable help in relieving you of many of tht troublesome difficulties involved in "coroner cases." DAY OR NIGHT -PHONE SP 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL. DIRECTORS Parliament. Hence Gaillard holds that Algeria is( purely of internal French concern. But every attempt to end the revolt since it broke out on Nov. 1, 1954, has failed. Upwards of 500,000 French troops have failed to crush the rebels. Legislation pro viding for a large measure of home rule for Algeria has failed to provide a way out. Finally, there is serious di version among French leaders in Paris over the extent of home rule to be granted. Trouble-shooter Murphy is quoted as expressing opti mism over his chance .of ar ranging ah agreement be tween Tunisia and France. If he does success, he will be a diplomatic miracle man. rently amounts to consider ably more than 3,500,000,000 pounds. Britain's present hard money currency reserves are only about 900,000,000 pounds or approximately a quarter of the amount on deposit. Many of the most important depositors are raw material producers, like Malaya with its rubber, Rhodesia with its copper and Kuweit with its oil. Most of them " are ac customed to making much of their incomes by sales to the United States. So they are automatically hard hit when raw material prices drop .and there is less American, de mand for their raw materials. The most extreme case, at present, is Rhodesia, whose whole development program is based on a world copper price more than 2V2 times higher than the current world price. As yet the phenomenon is spotty. For example, Aus tralia's wool is still doing pretty well, which is lucky because hard times, for the Australian depositor would be a bleakly inconvenient devel opment for the British bank er. At present, too, Britain is selling her manufactured goods high and buying her raw material! cheap, which is profitable while it lasts. But if the raw material pro ducers continue to be pinched, they will begin to' ask bank er Britain for long-term cred its. Next they ' will present heavy drafts on their balances in London. Then they may ask for parts of their balances in hard currency. They will end, if the process reaches its worst conclusion, by breaking the British bank altogether, THUS the long, courageous, uphill fight to defend the stability of Britain's money and to hold Britain's highly nrofitable position as the bank of the sterling area can end in final defeat. All this, mind you, will only occur if the American reces sion continues and deepens. But if all this does occur, the political consequences hard ly bear thinking about. One cannot really calculate the re actions of a Britain .finally defeated in the economic struggle by bad times in America. But one can be sure these reactions will strain the Western Alliance to the break ing Doint and beyond. And one can be sure this will offer the Kremlin just the oppor tunities that the Kremlin has been waiting for very long and very hungrily. In truth, the eminent Brit ish Treasury economists and experts who are now making their quiet, anxions inquiries in Washington are human symbols of the staggering and total responsibility for the Western future born by Presi dent Eisenhower and his Ad ministration. (Copyright 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Tragedy in the news: Five members of a Win chester, Kentucky family a young couple and their three small children, ranging in age from two years to six perish in a fire that swept their six room frame house.. rpHE cause? A member of the family got up early .to start a fire in the stove. KEROSENE was used to hasten the job. The kerosene EXPLODED. scattering flames in every di rection. The home was a fiery furnace in a matter of min utes. THE lesson? A Tt. i cimnla on4 rrrim The builder of the fir broke the NATURAL LAW that decrees that kerosene and other; petroleum deriva tives will explode when im properly handled. Punishment was swift and merciless as is the case when natural laws are flouted. If you break the natural law of gravity and leap off a high cliff you must die or be mangled on the rocks at the bottom. THAT brings to mind rath er disturbingly, one must admit the aftermaths of three celebrated cases of law breaking that are presently in the news. There is Leopold, who with a companion now dead killed a little boy in Chicago in the long ago. It was a thrill kill ing. They wanted to know what it would feel like to take a human life. After serving long years in the penitentiary, Leopold has been paroled. THERE is Roger Touhy, a gunman and a hired killer in the old days of gangland wars. In gangland slang, he was known as a "torpedo." He mowed 'em down at so much per head. He may soon be paroled. - THEN there is Hugh D'Au tremont, who with his twin brothers Roy and Ray held up a train at the summit of the Siskiyou with intent to rob and in the course of the holdup shot down the de fenders of the mail. He hopes that a parole for him may be considered. WHAT shall we say of these . evidences of mercy rone pf them an accomplished fact and the others under study for breakers of the law that says THOU SHALT NOT KILL? THAT question isn't easily answered. We must remember that vengeance isn't the sole pur pose of punishment.- We hope and we must CONTINUE to hope that rehabilitation of wrongdoers is possible. If our civilization is to be true CIVILIZATION and not mere ly the agent of savage venge ance, we must seek in every way possible to rehabilitate those who have departed from the straight and narrow road of rectitude. But we must be sure, I think, that it is hope of reha bilitation and not mere maud lin sentiment that animates us when we show mercy to those duly convicted of law breaking. HELP US! We Need Clothing, Shoes, Dishes, Furniture. W Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army SPring 2-4230
