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4 Sunday, Mjy 11, 1958
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Flight 'o Time
Medford and Jackson County
History frorn the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 11. 1948 (Tuesday)
Jackson County Federal
Savings and Loan, association
opens branch office here.
S Sams Valley school present
ed its May Day program with
open house and pageant.
20 YEARS AGO
May 11. 1938 (Wednesday)
Dr. Walter Bedford, 'presl
, dent of Southern Oregon Nor
mal school, reelected presi
dent of the Oregon Shake
spearean Festival association.
From ..Arthur"
Perry's - Ye
Smudge Pot column:
"The
sun beamed warm and bright
yesterday. A number of citi
zens husked their coits."
30 YEARS AGO
fMay 11. 1928 (Friday) .
Two Portland pulp and pa
per specialists in Medford to
discuss plans to establish a
pulp and paper mill here.
From local and personal
column: "In portions, of Jo
sephine county, gold dust is
till an accepted medium of
exchange." -
40 YEARS AGO
"May 11, 1918 (Saturday)
Plans for a grand review
of all home guard units in the
.state will be held in Portland
for Oregon s first war corner
ence May 22 and 23.
From local and personal
column: "A chicken dinner
will be served tomorrow aft
ernoon in the North Griffin
Creek school house."
What's Your I.Q.?
fci: - tmm iiwtt la atinariar!
seven or eight ie excellent; five Of
ere is seed.
1. YTha wrote "The Pil
grim's Progress"?
2. Bible: What is the Eighth
Commandment of God?
v 3. Name the first . woman
to cross the Atlantic by plane.
4. In which New. England
State was Calvin Coolidge
born?
5. In which city was the
Declaration of Independence
signed?
6. Eels are born in salt or
fresh water?
7. What name isgiven to
the study of the motions of
heavenly bodies and their
supposed influence on terres
trial events and human af
fairs? . ..
8. Beside the white rats
and mice, what other rodent
is commonly used in labora
tory experiments?
9. Mosquitoes have a total
of four, six, or eight legs?
10. How many Justices are
there on the United States
Supreme Court? .
Answers:.!. John Sufiyan.
2. "Thou shalt not bear false
witness against thy neigh
bor." 3. Amelia Earhart (Put
nam). 4. Vermont. 5. Phila
delphia, Pa. 6. Fresh water.
7. Astrology. 8. .Guinea pigs.
8. Six. 10. Nine.
Nixom "Day
Whoever coined the
than rich was right.
For to be rich and pursued by bad luck is no
game at all. Not to be rich but lucky is as things
go, a very good break.
But the "pay-off" is,
pursued by Lady Luck,
also be rich. (At least
nara to avoia ii.)
A LL of which is a prelude to the fact Vice
President Richard Milhouse Nixon, was
stoned and spat-upon by college students in
Lama, Peru on Ihursday.
This is only the most
fact Mr. Nixon was born,
in his mouth another
but with Lady Luck
shoulder, where she has
As Shakespeare observed in "Twelfth
Night": .1 v
"Some are. born great,
Some achieve greatness
And some have greatness thrust upon them."
AS ANY objective survey of Vice President
Nixon's life will
"Lady Luck," he had
him.
But for his discovery
Los Aneeles Times and the fmancial aid it
brought, he would never have been elected to
congress.
But for Alger Hiss,
promoted to the Senate.
But for the Communist scare, and of course
Mr. Nixon's skill in immediately capitalizing
on it he would never have been chosen as Pres
ident Eisenhower's running-mate.
A ND now with this inexcusable outrage in Peru,
" and as the VP observed, making it "no time
for any defender of freedom m today s world to
show cowardice, what
Nixon from being the
the Republican party m 1960? ,
As we see it, NOTHING!
X7E WOULD not go so far as to place this de
" plorable incident in the same category his
torically as President Franklin Roosevelt's "day
of infamy when the
Harbor, but Richard Milhouse Nixon would
so thats that!
But this does not necessarily mean Mr. Nixon
will be the 35th President of the United States.
He probably will if "Lady Luck" doesn't de
sert him. But in manv nuarters Miss "L.L." has a
reputation of being a very, very fickle mistress !
K.W.K.
Amen
According to the Roseburg News-Review, thai
excellent -newspaper is being flooded with letters
of sympathy from all over the state, hoping for
the quick recovery of its editor and manager
Charles V. Stanton, who suffered a cerebral
hemorrhage 10 days ago, and is still confined
to a hospital. .
' The Mail Tribune heartily joins in such sym
pathy and hope, as do all newspapermen in the
state.
PHARLEY STANTON for 16 years, has not
"onlv directed the policies of the News-Review
but it is hardly an exaggeration to say that he has
1 r T-i -r-r , ii i t a n i
oeen tne iNews-iteview. nis tnougntim ana vig
orous editorals. his devotion to his communitv. as
well as his capable business direction, will, even
for a brief period, be greatly missed.
However this is, of course no time to compose
an obituary, for we share the News-Review's be
lief that:
"Although Charley's pen may gather dust for a.
while you can be certain that with recuperation start
ing in, as soon as he is able his influence will be felt
again on the editorial page and elsewhere."
To which the Mail Tribune adds a solemn
"amen." R.W.R.
Supererogation
We note among the many, tributes and best
wishes above there are the usual number of mes
sages phrased this this:
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"I may not agree with him all the time but,"
etc., etc., etc.
That is a familiar and frequent refrain in the
newspaper editorial business, and we wish' it were
less familiar and less frequent. v . .
For it is what President Woodrow Wilson
liked to call "sunereroeration" that is "unneces
sary and superfious."
T LEAST we don't know an editor and we
1 Icnmv several wlin evnepts. nr pvon wante
100 agreement from anyone as far as his edi
torial opinions are concerned.
There was a time around the middle of the
19th centurv when most of the American neonle
were too busy clearing out and up the wilderness,
or 'Irvine tn o-efc snmet.hincr mnre than a mere
5 - 0 . ------
grub-stake to pay much attention to political mat
ters local or national. There was also far less edu
cation, communication and a much lower level
of intelligence than is the case today.
" .
'J'HAT was the era of outstanding personal jour
Greeley, and later, Charles A. Dana, held sway
and they exerted such an amazing editorial in-
99
phrase "better be lucky
if you are consistently
the chances are you will
you will have to work
,
recent example of the
not with a silver-sDoon
bit of luck politically
hovering over his right
hovered ever since.
demonstrate, thanks to
"greatness-thrust" upon
of a "want-ad" in the
he would never have been
can possibly prevent Mr.
presidential candidate of
Japanese attacked Pearl
of Infamy
Dennis the Menace
'IfS QCO0 ttUfeg SO
Matter of Fact by AisoP
THE WORD ON LABOR
Washington - Senate Ma
jority Leader Lyndon B. John
son and most of the members
of the Labor
Commit tee,
.both Demo
cratic and Re
publican, are
now working
hard to re
port a labor
reform bill
within 10
days. ...
Jm.nh Alinn . ' Ane K, O m-
mittee will be hard ; put to
draft a measure of such "con
sequence in quite such a short
space of time. But it is virtu
ally certain that a bill will
reach the Senate floor very
soon. It is also cetrain that the
bill will be taken up as soon
as it is ready. And the Senate,
at least, is likely p vote the
bill by a large majority.
It is not at all certain, on
the other hand, whether the
labor reform bill that the
Senate approves wttl be ex
treme and punitive, or mod
erate : and ' constructive. The
betting is in favor of modera
tion and cpnstructiveness. Yet
this is the issue on which the
old conservative Republican
Southern Democratic coali
tion can most easily , spring
into life again;!'?"' " ' V
: :-.-
THIS remarkable develop
ment, until recently quite
unforeseen, must be largely
credited to Senate Republi
can Leader William F. Know
land. Senate taction on labor
union reform was possible be
fore Knowland made his sur
prise attempt to transform
the bill regulating labor prac
tices. But Knowland's sur
prise made action certain. It
forced a commitment to re
port a bill later,; as the only
way :. to insure defeat of
f luence throughout New
New England that a great majority, of the nus
bandry not only got their news from these papers
but their opinions as well. When a settler was
asked how he was going to vote he answered,
"Don't know, ain't got
"Them days has gone" forever and it is
good for the country, as well as American jour
nalism, that they have.
Today the people don't go to the press for
their opinions but for the facts upon which they
can intelligently base their own opinions. A much
more enlightened, wholesome and desirable situ
ation in a democracy.
tins DON'T expect these few words of mild
disapproval to change overnight the time-
honored reader reaction
however. It seems to have very deep roots, based
upon the false assumption that to express ap
proval, of one editorial somehow binds one to
express approval of all.
This is about "as sensible as to assume that
to praise the cook for
necessitate hosannas for
and onions for which the customer, might , have
a violent allergy and distaste.
A LL editors appreciate expressions of approval
they wouldn't be human if they didn't
but as indicated, we know of none who feel
such approval needs to be modified always by
denying that this "Uk"
endorsement of editorials in the future, in the
past, or as a whole. ' .
..
IN SHORT, sufficient unto the day is the edi-
Finally, if what has never happened SHOULD
happen, and some subscriber, apparently in pos
session of his faculties should run up the stairs,
burst into the sanctum and inform the under
signed the opus presented yesterday was a mas
terpiece, as were all of his eff orts, the aforesaid
"undersigned" (speaking ndw not for the pro
fession but for himself alone) MIGHT say,
"Thank you stranger," but he would think as
follows:
- "You are a cheerful
want?" V
WSC4N 6TILL 6 FRfcSNDS.
Knowland's formidable series
of amendments.
This fact, in turn, indicates
the state of Senate sentiment
on the subject of labor union
reform.' The key vote that
defeated the first Knowland
amendment to the pension
and welfare fund bill was 53
to 37, with 10 Republicans
and 43 Democrats voting
against Knowland. But in
that total of 43 Democrats,
there were at least 12 and
probably as many as 16
Southerners who would have
liked to vote with Knowland,
They did the opposite only
because Lyndon Johnson
solemnly promised them a
later opportunity, to vote on
the same issue in a more
orderly and well-considered
manner.
nrrmi'. truth i that, -the revela-
- tions of ' the investigating
committee headed by Sen
John L. McClellan have filled
the whole Congress, and es
pecially, the Senate, with a
deep impatience.: The' doings
of the more outrageous labor
unions, like Jimmy Hoffa's
teamsters, have immensely
harmed the entire labor move
ment. There is the same de
sire to do something about
it that existed in the old days,
at .the end of the great de-
eression. when-the doings of
the more outrageous blue .sky
operators had discredited
whole sectors of the business
community. The result, then,
was the passage of such laws
as the Securities and Exchange
Act.
Unlike the brokers, invest
ment bankers, utilities ty
coons and the rest in the
early '30's, most labor leaders
now realize that corrective
legislation is inevitable. The
more f arsiehted leaders, head?
ed : by Walter Reuther and
York state-r-in fact all
my Tnbune yet." ;
to the editorial column
the soup course would
the meat course of liver
involves any blanket
liar, wonder what YOU
R.W.R.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
This modern world note:
The two spacemen who
went up eight miles in a bal
loon the other day to see what
they could see ran into a NEW
space mystery. They report
they heard unexplained
voices. One of the mysterious
voices SAID SOMETHING
ABOUT GOING IN FOR
HOT COFFEE.
TtlORE about modern life:
ifx fen uninvited guests are
spending the night in the
Atomic Energy commission
headquarters at German
town, Md. The 10 are mem
bers of the National Commit
tee for Non - Violent Action
against Nuclear Testing.
They have vowed to camp
in the building until the com
missioners hear their plea.
VyHAT to say about it?
Well, one could go into
a long - winded discussion
about the unwisdom of fail
ing to keep our powder dry
at a time when a powerful
and unscrupulous enemy
might attack us at any mo
ment. But let's put it this way:
Suppose, instead of camp
ing in the Atomic Energy
commission building and in
terrupting the undoubtedly
important work that is going
on there these admirable al
though somewhat over-idealistic)
people had spent their
time working industriously
on their probably neglected
lawns, thus making two
blades of grass grow where
but one blade had grown be
fore. In which way would they
have benefited their country
most?
VOU answer it.
I'm afraid I'm prejudiced
against OVER-idealism.
TIME Out while we go liter
ary for a moment.
Who tirst used this famous
line about making two blades
of grass grow where but one
had grown before?
rpHERE'S some doubt about
it.
In a letter to M. Moreau,
written in 1765, Voltaire Vol
taire was his pen name; his
baptismal name was Francois
Marie Arouet) said: "He who
makes two blades of grass
grow in place of one renders
a service to the State."
In his Voyage to Brobding-
nag Jonathan Swift, who is
regarded as one of the most
brilliant minds in English lit-
terature, puts the same
thought in a slightly different
way. He makes one of his
characters say: "Whoever
could make two ears of corn,
or . two blades of grass, to
grow' upon a spot of ground
where only one had grown
before, would deserve better
of mankind and do more es
sential service to his country
than the whole race of poli
ticians put together."
Swift, who was born in the
Jim Carey of the Electrical
Workers, even admit it may
be desirable.
The A. F. of L. group,
headed by George Meany and
Al Hayes of the Machinists,
were ready to fight to the
death against any legislation,
until Knowland sprang his
surprise. But they were then
called to Lyndon Johnson's
office and confronted with
the alternatives "Know
land's amendments now or a
bill later." Faced with this
choice, they glumly agreed
to cooperate on a bill.
THE betting is in favor of a
morlprat.A anr? rmctrimtiva
bill because it now seems
likely. that two key Republi
cans, Ives of New York and
Cooper of Kentucky, and two
key Democrats, McClellan
and Jack Kennedy of Massa
chusetts, will be able to agree
about what needs to be done.
If such an agreement is
achieved, the bill will insure
honest management of union
funds. It will include certain
provisions desired by the
vast majority of labor, such
as a condemnation of "sweet
heart contracts" between
business men and corrupt
labor union' leaders.And it
will also include highly con
troversial "union democracy"
provisions at least requiring
all labor unions to hold elec
tions of officers at reasonable
intervals and with a secret
ballot. '
Sen. McCleellan's own pro
posals go much further than
this and he is the bellwether
for other Southerners. If he
joins the others in backing a
moderate bill, tne line-up that
defeated Knowland can prob
ably be re-formed.' In that
case, the more Violent amend
ments of the labor-haters will
be defeated on the flo6r. As
it happens, McClellan is a
wise man. He knows that the
kind of bill Kennedy, Ives and
Cooper can and will accept
is also the most likely kind to
pass the House and become
law. That is the grand incen
tive to compromise.
(c) 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
JENKINS
middle 1600's, didn't think
much more of politicians and
their works than a lot of us
do today.
NOW, fcack to the news.
President Eisenhower has
appointed Dr. Arthur Flem
rrfing to take over the federal
post" of - secretary of health,
education and welfare.
The job was vacated by
Marion Folsom, who has just
resigned. .
A QUESTION:
. If; when
Folsom re
signed, the job had just quiet
ly i been allowed to die, how
much- would AYOU have
missed it? - ,
At the moment, I don't
know how much it costs to
run the job. ButJL expect you
could have used "your, share of
the cost in ways that would
have been more pleasing to
you than what you have got
out of the. department of
health, education and welfare.
That isnH '. just a cynical
crack. I think-government is
too complicated and that, we
would all benefit greatly , by
simplifying it and cutting
down the cost.'
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
EISENHOWER AND
THE PENTAGON v
Washington The layman
and outsider, who has never
commanded great . forces in
war, or even
worked inside
the Pentagon,
must ask him
self how he is
to decide what
to think about
the Eisenhow
er - MjcElroy
Plan to reor-
w siter Lippmitnn ganize the De
fense Depart
ment. He canj of course, wait
to be told by those who know
more than he does about such
affairs. Or he can, if he is
a little bolder, ask questions
which he would like to hear
discussed. ' ;- ,: - - -
I am emboldened to do this
because the question which
seems to me important is not
one which only military men
are qualified to answer. It is
a question of how- great and
complicated human institu
tions ' are governed by more
or less ordinary ' men!" The
question is a real one, so it
appears to me, in a piece of
legislation whose "meaning,'
as the President has put it,
a that ? 'strategy ''.' ; . must be
under unified control."; ' -
The crux of the question
is who is to direct, and how
is he to determine how to
direct, the strategy which is
under his unified control? Ac
coming to tne new Dili, a
Presidential appointee, the
Secretary of Defense, is to
make the great strategical
decisions and to direct the
control of their application.
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NOW there is no question,
it seems to me, that once
a decision has been taken it
should .. be carried but with
out vetoes or obstructions.
Under the present law, and
even more perhaps under
present practice, the Secre
tary of Defense does not have
full authority to enforce a de
cision upon the separate serv
ices. There cannot be serious
objection to giving him that
authority. .
But .then we arrive at the
real question. How are. these
great . decisions to be made?
It is all very well to say that
they should be made by the
Secretary of Defense. But
Secretaries come and go. They
are chosen' form lists of po
litically available men. They
come from banking, from law,
f r om . professional - nolitics.
from the automobile business
and the soap business. How
Lumber Prices Show
Leveling Off Signs
Lumber prices last week
showed, signs of leveling off
or remaining steady, accord
ing to new releases - f r o m
lumber market services.
Crow's L umber market,
Portland, reported that green
Fir dimension market leveled
off after rising steadily since
mid-April. - Prices on -all
gardes of green dimension
and studs still are strong, it
said, and demand has been
moderately active on both the
rail and cargo markets. ' ' "
Random Lengths, Eugene
lumber market report, said
that much of the market
strength at the mill is based
on well-filled order files and
continued low production.
The service said the transit
selling market has hit a pla
teau which . is considerably
above the mid-winter low but
below its mid-April peak. ,
IP
1 hVL
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
The pony has departed
from lhe car lot across the
street. May his meadows be
green, and may he never
be used for "promotion"
again. Hit departure, coin
cidentally enough, cam
during - "Be Kind to Ani
mals Week."
...
We are sympathetic with
the print shop which made
a typographical error on most
of the Republican - ballots to
be used in the county next
Friday, because "typos" are
awf uUy easy to make. Pre
sumably the members of the
counting board are sympa
thetic, too. u . -
But, since they'll have - to
paste on the corrections with
gummed stickers, they'll prob
ably lose their sympathy be
fore the day is over and the
taste of stickum has left their
mouths.
There's been a big hassle
over water rights to the
Colorado river down south,
with arguments ' pro and
eon as to how much water
does a man who has spent the
first fifty years of his life
far away from strategic prob
lems go into' the Pentagon,
hang up his hat, sit down at
the Secretary's desk, and
make the decisions which he
is supposed to make? j '
THIS is the question of how
great establishments,
which are administered by
career officials, ' can be di
rected and controlled by lay
men. The answer, is that the
layman at the top, be he Sec
retary of Defense : or Presi-;
dent of the United States, can
make the difficult decisions
only by hearing the - issues
argued by qualified ' experts.
How are Mr. McEIroy and his
successors to decide whether
Missile A or Missile B should
get the available 'funds? Only
by having the issues argued
by the contending experts,
much as a judge in court de
cides highly 'technical patent
cases.
It is fair to'-sayy-1 think,
that if the layman' at the top
does not hear the issues ar
gued, he does not really de
cide them. He merely en
dorses the decision of some
subordinate who has his ear.
THIS brings us to the ques
tion which I should like
to hear thoroughly discussed.
Does the proposed reform of
the Pentagon make it more or
make it less probable that the
Secretary of Defense "and the
President will hear the' great
issues of strategy thoroughly
argued out? Reading the new
plan, and the official state
ments which are being made
about it, I do not know
whether or not -it promotes
or it decreases the effective
analysis of the -issues to be
decided. v -
There is reason for wonder
ing about this in view of
President Eisenhower's theo
ries and practice as to how
the head of a great establish
ment - should run his office,
It is fair to say, I think, that
by and large his idea of a
good organization is one in
which the chief does not have
to listen to arguments but
can approve agreements when
his subordinates have argued
them out. . ? . ,
It is hard not to wonder
whether in this plan for the
Pentagon he has not gone a
long way towards compelling
the professional military men
to reach agreed conclusions
before the issues have been
adequately argued put before
their civilian superiors.
' . . . f
rpHESE doubts are not al-
-layed by what the. Presi
dent said at his. press, con
ference a week '.ago. about
running his own office. No
one, he said, "can do the best
job by just sitting at a desk
and putting his face in a
bunch of papers. Actually,
the job. when you come down
to it, when you think of the
interlocking staffs and asso
ciates that have to take and
analyze all the 'details of
every question that comes to
the Presidency, he ought to
be trying to keep his mind
free of inconsequential detail
and doine his own thinking
on the basic principles and
factors that he believes are
important." " ,
This description of a top
executive, which omits en
tirely the necessity of decid
ing issues by hearing them
argued, is ground lor wonder
ing whether at the center of
the nroposed reform there has
been adequate and dear dis
cussion of how decisions are
to be made.
(c) 1858 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
should go to who, and what
it's worth, and so on, so it -comes
as no particular sur
prise to note that govern- '
men! attorneys testified
their claims on the water
include enough for 785
skunks,. 463 coyotes, 57
cougars, 261 bobcats and.
112 gila monsters.
Up north, one political can
didate claims that he refuses
to deliver a "sack dresa
speech" the kind that "cov
er - everything but touchea
nothing."
Discussing the "You Auto
Buy Now" Campaign, on
. farmer 'remarked, "Maybe
you outa buy it. but with
the parking situation the
way it is in Medford, where
do you put it when you
come to town?"
The same .sales campaign
reminded a man we know of
an eager automobile buyer
in The Dalles.
There was a car lot acrosa
from the police station, which
had a two-toned red and white
car for sale. A resident who
had business in the police de
partment drove up in his own
red and white car, parked it
in front of the car lot, and
ran. across the street. Coming
out a few : moments later he
saw his car was missing.
Investigation showed that
a prospective buyer had
spotted the parked car, liked
it, and offered to buy it. An
overenthusiastic salesman,
thinking it belonged to his
company, told him to take
it for a ride to try it out.
It all ended happily a few
minutes later when the would
be buyer returned the car to
the - distressed owner, ;- and
calmed down the worried
salesman. -
On of our young men Is
developing schixoph ttnia i
these, days, as the seasonal
, duel develops between fish
ing - rod and . rug - beater,
lawnmower and golf dubs.
He is a man lorn asunder.
The j'Blitz-Wemhard com
pany, Oregon's only brewery,
has had a phenomenal -response
to its offer to send
an "Oregon Do - It - Yourself
Kit" to anyone in the free
world. Orders poured in from
all Vover,, and ; for aU over,
until the 60,000 little Douglas
fir trees, the feature of the
kit, were all sent out, and the
planting season was too far
advanced. .
But Blitz, which was rather
overwhelmed by the response,
is still accepting applications
to be filled next fall when
the trees can be safely plant
ed again, and reportedly has
about 20,000 of them already.
- At a meeting of the Sis
kiyou Pioneer Sites Foun
dation a visitor was over
heard to remark, "These
people cant be pioneers.
They aren't eld enough!" j
, .
The office philosopher has
a suggestion for those who
turn a cold shoulder to the
current plans for extensive
recreational development in
the county.
. Bear in mind, he says, that
recreational possibilities are
a factor considered extreme
ly important by any industry
when it decides to look for
a new location.
Our farm editor thought
fully remarked that all the
' barefoot lads and lassies
aren't down en the farm,
because he's seen quite a
few of them along the city
streets recently.
.
That young minister who's
been quoted here several
times, recently not long ago
remarked that his business is
a little like the old saying
about the barefoot shoemak
er's children.
He's so busy spending time
with other people's families
to help them gain a happy.
Christian life that he doesn't
have time enough to spend
with his own.
.
An old-timer in this area
recently dedared that after
you've stayed in the Rogue
valley long enough to wear
out one pair of shoes you
never can forget it, and are
bound to return. .
.,'
.. During a recent convention
in - Meoiora, ucKet-iaxers at
the door during the evening's
dance were - using rubber
stamps to mark the hands of
those who entered. This would
enable them to come and go
without buying a ticket each
time. The stamp being used
had been borrowed from a
grocery store, and it said 65c.
One cute, rather chubby.
young thing sidled up to one
of the ticket-takers and said
coyly "But you must know
that I'm worth more than 65
cents."
Quickly he replied, "That's
per pound, honey per
pound,"