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4 Sunday, May 18, 1938 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MedfordWTribune "iTenroDe So southern '-rf on Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO S3 North Fir St Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor RZRB GREY Advertising Man a eel GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr RIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Society Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Fy Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday fl mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. - Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of CKy of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION JLdvertising 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. rT NEWSPAPER iisssssl , PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCfATPCtN 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 May 18, 1948 (Tuesday) Dr. Harry K. Newburn, president of the University of Oregon, will be guest at an "All Oregon" banquet at the Medford hotel tonight. Several hundred ' Jackson county people were on hand this afternoon to greet Harold E. Stassen,- Republican presi dential aspirant from Minne sota. 20 YEARS AGO May 18, 1938 (Wednesday) First general orchard smudging of the season oc curred in the upper and cen tral Rogue River valley early this morning when the mer cury dropped to 33 degrees and as low as 27 degrees in some spots. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "South ern Oregon residents are warned to look out for coun terfeit dollars while looking for the genuine." 30 YEARS AGO May 18. 1928 (Friday) Construction is under way this week on the new $30,000 one-story building which will house the new A..W. Walker dance pavilion. This year's rose show should exceed in" every way the one which was given last spring, for the roses are at their best in the valley. 40 YEARS AGO May 18, 1918 (Saturday) George Maddox of Medford leaves this afternoon for Chi cago where he joins the Red Path Lyceum Bureau Opera company. The frost season officially win nri Mondav when Floyd D. Young, the government frost expert, leaves tor ron land. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; oven or tight i excellent; five of six is good. 1. Did Casey hit a home run or did he strike out? 2. If you travel on the earth until vnnr matph registers tWO UUMA J - O hours fast, have you been go ing eastward or wesxwara. 3. D.id St. Paul visit Bithy- nia and Egypt? 4. In which chain of islands are Kiska and Attu? s 5. What national business organization did Eric John ston serve as president? 6. Name the character in fireek mvtholoey who fell in love with his own reflection in a pool? 7. Quetzalcoatl was a god of what people? 8. There are mosquitoes in Alaska; true or false? 9. What did Little Jack Horner eat? 10. By what nickname is Portland, Oregon, known? Answers: 1. He struck out. 2. Westward. 3. No. 4. The Aleutians (Alaska). 5. U.S Chamber of Commerce. 6 Narcissus. 7. The Aitecs. 8 True. 9. Christmas Pie. 10 The Rose City. W1 Time To Take Stock As expected, the query as to why the United States is so disliked throughout the world, pre sented in our last offering, was quickly and to the communicant satisfactorily, explained, to wit: "SOVIET RUSSIA." That's all there is to these outbursts of hos tility and hatred from the grass-root masses, of large sections of -the globe, and we are told the fact that Vice President Nixon was the chief victim, proves it. "fELL we wish fervently that was true. It " would be a great relief to know, that but for the machinations, infiltrations and exhorta tions, of Russian agents throughout the world, supplemented by inflamatory radio broadcasts from Moscow, the USA would now be enjoying the good will, respect and affection, that the country did enjoy, only a few years compara tively speaking ago. THAT would, we believe, take a great load from the mind of the present administration. For hostility that has no roots, is merely the result of clever, false and persistent propaganda, can be sucessfully challenged and eventually oyercome. Enmity on the other hand, that is native so to speak, that has merely been exploit ed by outside influences, but not produced by them, presents a much more serious and difficult problem. That President Eisenhower shares this view, and sees something more than "Russia" in the picture, was clearly brought out in his press con ference last Wednesday. He put not communism, but envy and jealousy as probably the chief exciting causes. THE Oregonian however; which incidently has increased in editorial in recently montns nas made me oest summa tion of the situation. with particular reference to the "Nixon incident" that we have seen to date. Here is its conclusion : It is natural to distrust the rich and powerful, but that is not the complete answer. We have not stood squarely on the principles of freedom and justice which' we claim are our guides. We have dealt with dictators in Latin America and elsewhere when that appeared to be to our advantage. We have given our assistance where it might pay us best in military and economic returns. Latin Americans feel we have taken them for granted while we have sought the favor of Europeans, Asians and Africans. As President Eisenhower is said to be, most Americans are hopping mad at the insults to Vice .President Nixon, the flag and our country generally. But let us cool off enough to take a good look at our foreign policy and then stand by our principles, come spite or medals of honor. That is .excellent sense. Of course under the circumstances a "hoop la" hero's-welcome for the chief victim of the disgraceful mob actions in South America, Rich ard Milhous Nixon, was natural moreover it was deserved as the envoy of US neighborliness and goodwill, did behave very well under, ex tremely trying circumstances. But it should not end adds, quote : It is a frustrating experience to be top dog ... to be caught in the middle and clobbered from both sides. Isolationists will make much of the apparent failure of our world-wide good neighbor policy, thanks for which are expressed in showers of stones, garbage and spittle on our vice president and in burning of our books. , We cannot say to hell with it, however, and retire to our own half-continent. To do so would be to hand the rest of the world over to communism and even tually to wither away from lack of the oil, strategic metals and other necessities we must obtain from our neighbors. Our country soon would be easy prey to the Communist Empire. , . We cannot say, either, that the violence against us was merely a Communist plot to make us look; bad. That Communists stirred up. the mobs in South America and in Lebanon is clear, but there had to be resentment against us for the Reds to ignite. We must ask ourselves why so many hate us when we have , been so generous. THAT is what was emphasized in our Thursday editorial when we cited the sad and frustrated lament of Alec Guiness at the tragic ending of "The Bridge on the River Kwai "What have WE done," that has been so wrong, so mistaken,, so inept that the peoples not of one or two countries, but so many, should hold us in such low esteem? It is easy and comforting to come up with a scape-goat and blame it all on Communism. But the real lesson that such an experience as the Vice President endured teaches, will be lost, if as President Eisenhower intimates, and the Oregonian advises, we don't pause long enough to take a sharp look at our hole-card, and perhaps with the aid of the best corps of international psychiatrists obtainable, find out what other reasons than Russian intrigue have caused such a "decline and fall" from the envi able position this Great Democracy once held, in world opinion. R.W.R. De Gaulle Versus Stassen General de Gaulle and Harold E. Stassen are as far apart temperamentally as they are geo- 1 11 1 i ii I I il T grapmcaiiy, dui as inis is written tney nave one thing in common. . - ' They have both come to the end of the road. Their "zero hours" them both either to return to power or oblivion. General de Gaulle has announced he is ready to take over the government of p ranee, Mr. btas sen is making his final appeal to the Republi cans of Pennsylvania, to name him their candi date for Governor on Tuesday. If either of them fails that is the finish stature tremendously there, as the Oregonian have arrived. It is for Dennis the l 'V - . Qj '6oy.' A&W PEOPlg EVER MISSIN'A GOOD NOUS OH T&mSlQH? Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann DAYS OF TROUBLE Washington Now the Vice President and his wife are back home, and after all the official regrets and apologies have been re ceived and ac cepted, the im mediate ques- i.: t .. Shf is how it hap- Nixons were Walter Lippmann exposed to these outrages. It is manifest that the whole South American tour was misconceived, that it was planned by men who did not know what was the state of mind in the cities the Vice President was to visit. For what has happened should never have been allowed to happen, and those who are re sponsible for the manage ment of our relations with South America must answer to the charge of gross incom petence. It is essential that this charge be investigated either by the Foreign Relations Com mittee of the Senate or, per haps preferably, by a panel of specially qualified private citizens. We must fix arjd we must correct the causes which led our officials into th's fi asco into what it would not be exaggeration to call a dip lomatic Pearl Harbor. Unless and until this is done, there is no chance that we shall profit by the lessons of this bitter experience. We must know why the planners of the trip were so ignorant, so ignorant about so many countries, so ignorant of what it is suitable and what it is not suitable for the Vice President of the Unit ed States to do when he goes abroad. Beforo we can do anything to improve our position in Latin America, we must deal with those who have made such a mess of our position. . ' I It is almost certainly a co incidence that simultaneous ly there are crises in Lebanon and in Algeria and that . in each there have been violent manifestations against the United States. In South Amer ica the hostility which has been shown: is directed pri marily at our own acts of ommission and commission. In Lebanon and in Algeria we E for the foreseeable future at least. If either succeeds, they will enjoy a political resurrection which for be reminiscent of Napoleon s return from Elba; and for Stassen would' be somewhat akin to Grover Cleveland's return to the White House after his defeat for a THE result as of this the gods. , We can have our hopes however. We hope for the world that General coup d etat dies abornin ; and while we have no such concern about ex-Governor Stassen, we rather like the guy in spite of his occasional lapses in good judgment, and hope he wins the GOP nomination. fNE thing can certainly be said in Stassen's v favor. He doesn't lack courage, resourceful ness or determination. He is taking on one, of the strongest and best oiled party machines in the country, with insuffi cient funds, no Upper Bracket backing a sort of Yankee political Don Quixote, fighting the orthodoxy of a reactionary conservatism, instead of . the. windmills of a decadent chivalry. 7E DON'T know who " perhaps the driver Ford but whoever he boss well. ' . s As so often happens too often perhap we just can't resist the appeal of the "under dog." Menace are not principals but are en tangled in the quarrels of oth ers. About Lebanon .the evi dence is not clear but there are grounds for suspecting that there are Syrians and Egyptians who are interven ing in a bitter internal strug gle which centers on the re election of President Cha moun. There are reports that as many as 500 have infiltrat ed themselves into Lebanon, The violence they are per petuating has a strong resemb lance to the raids for the present suspended against Israel. So far as we are concerned, it is clear enough that the Eisenhower Doctrine, which has a lot of fine print under neath its resounding declara tion, does not apply. The Leb anese case is one for the Unit ed Nations, it may be for a special session of the General Assembly. TThe events in Algeria are the most important of all. They may well be the central crisis in the North African story, the crisis which leads either to catastrophe or to the beginning of recovery. Un til now there has never been a government in Paris which was strong enough to win the Algerian war or. strong enough to negotiate a settle ment of the war. The center parties in France, which lie between the Communists on the left and the semi-Fascists on the right, have been paral yzed by a very powerful min ority composed of the French settlers in Algeria, the vested interests in France which do business there, and portions of the French Army. In the present crisis, the adventurous and extremist wing of the this minority have seized power in Algeria and -are attempting jto impose their Algerian policy on the govern ment in Paris. It is hard to see how this issue can be compromised, as it was a little while ago when the Tunisian town of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef was bombed and the Paris government did not dare to disavow the act. For then the defiance of the French gov ernment was concealed. Now the defiance is open and avowed. So there is at issue now the sovereignty of the French I Republic. the French general would second - term. -. writing is in the laps of sake of France and the de. Gaulle's proclaimed his Sancho Panza is J of Harold's delapidated is we wish him and his Matter of Fact THE BEACONS ARE LIGHTED - Washington In older days, beacon fires . burning on the hilltops brought the news of danger and disaster. But now the warning- is con veyed by the smoke of in c e.n d i arized libraries of the U. S. informa t i o n Service. There is jospb Aisop noming very surprising, to be sure, about the shocking developments in South America, in Algeria and in the Lebanon. Those who followed these situations had long foreseen trouble of this sort, just as those who f oUowed the Soviet and Amer ican rocket-development pro grams long foresaw the So viet triumph with the Sput nik. Indeed, the Sputnik and the orgies of violence in Algiers, Caracas and Beirut have a major point in common. Both unmistakably revealed an al ready existing state of affairs that had been hidden from the American people. The Sputnik disclosed the loss of the American military lead in the Eisenhower years. The more recent events disclosed the comparable loss of the American political lead, in the same period. rpHIS loss of our political lead is no localized phe nomenon, either. Within the last fortnight, pro-Communist forces have made important gains in Indonesia. They have won a striking electoral suc cess in Laos, which 'will ef fect Laos's bigger South East Asian neighbors. And they were actually trying to set fire to, still another U. S. I. S. library in Burma (for once in a way unsuccessfully) at the very moment when Vice Presi dent Nixon was showing such courage under attack in Ven- ezula, halfway 'round the world. Futhermore, the .putsch in Algeria and, only a little less directly, the disorders in Leb anon, threaten the very heart of the Western Alliance. Be cause of Algeria, France's fu ture role in the Alliance is now an open question. Be cause of the explosion in Leb anon, the Middle Eastern oil- jugular of Britain and the rest of Western Europe may per haps be cut before long. In this respect, indeed, these lurid events most emphatical ly differ from the Sputnik, which only revealed the exist ing state of affairs without greatly changing it. CONSIDER, for example, the very great and very ter rible changes that are likely Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name end 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 From Bishop Dagwell To the Editor: On behalf of the board of directors of the Rogue Valley Memorial hos pital, I wish to express our appreciation for the splendid publicity you have given the hospital, not only at the time of its dedication ceremonies, but throughout the period of the financial campaign. We are conscious of the fact that this channel of communi cation has been very helpful in avoiding some misunder standings in the community and also - in promoting good will for our hospital. Benjamin D. Dagwell, The Diocese of Oregon, 1200 N.W. 23rd ave., Portland. Project Not "Slums" To the Editor: There has been quite an amount of dis cussion concerning the elimi nation of the Jackson County Housing project. As a tenant, I would like to state my opinion. The only half-way reason able argument we can get when we start discussing this problem with the authority is that it was built durjng war time to ease the housing short age and has now served ;its need and should now be torn down. I disagree with this whole heartedly for these reasons: At present the way prices, em ployment, wages and the rent situation stands in Medford, they should consider building some more of these projects. Thps so-called pressure groups floating, around fight ing to have it torn down Bet ter sweep 'off their own back steps before calling this proj ect a slum district, fire haz- ard-or any other of their pet names. I contend that if they want to tear this project down because it s not fit to live in, they had better go one step farther for the people's and the city's benefit and inspect some of the rentals and tor sale property that are adver tised, and tear them down, Joseph Alsop to occur if the crisis in Leb anon is not brought ' under control. The President of Lebanon, Camille Chamoun, is now re living a familiar pattern. In 1952, Chamoun's predecessor, President Bechara El Khoury, was seeking to amend the Lebanese constitution so that he could succeed himself in office. On that occasion, groups friendly to Chamoun demonstrated against the con situtional change. The Leba nese Army Commander. Gen. Shehab, held aloof fromthe struggle. So Bechara El Khoury had to flee the coun try for a while, and Camille Chamoun was elected to the presidency. In the present instance, Ca mille Chamoun is seeking the same constitutional change for the same purpose. The same Gen. Shehab, as these words are written, is pleading that arthritis prevents him from taking strong action. But now the disorders are the direct result of a flagrant attack on Lebanese independence by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser; and of Chamoun is defeated, it is Nasser who will win the real victory. - A S ONE of the West's stout- est friends in the Arab world, Camille Chamoun furth ermore has an Importance that Bechara El Khoury altogether lacked. Another leading Wes tern friend in the Middle East, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, has already succumbed to Nas ser's attacks. If Nasser can also pick off Chamoun in the Lebanon, the chain reaction will almost certainly become quite uncontrollable. King Hussein of Jordan, the govern ment of Iraq and every other Western friend in all the Mid dle East will be at once ex posed to the most deadly peril. And if these friends are lost, the oil-jugular will be cut. Western and American in terests are similarly threat ened in almost every other quarter of the globe at the moment. There is no use bla ming "Communist agitators," either, for aU these many perils. The plain truth is that the peril might have been avoid ed, or at least contained by greater, wiser and bolder American leadership. Despite many previous errors of pol icy, the United States still stood at the head of the world in 1952. Despite the great los ses since 1952, the United States can again stand at the head of the. world, given the needed leadership . which could well be provided, in this reporter's opinion, by Vice President Nixon. But the end of the road is now clearly discernible, if we go on as we are going, (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) the case. '-: . '- too, because a good share of them are in far; worse shape and away : but - of reason on price. - : ; If they thin they aren't making any money on this housing project, wait until they get their park and start paying taxes and up-keep. Or do they plan on the people who were evicted from the project doing this for free for the privilege of sleeping in their wonderful park? When we people in this project want to to slumming we go looking at some of these rentals or for sale jobs and that's mighty expensive slumming! R. S. (Name on file). Thanks and Farewell To the Editor: My family and I wish to express 'our thanks and appreciation to the friends and acquaintances we leave behind in Medford. The appointment tC'the U.S. Na tional cemetery at Baltimore for superintendent training gave such short notice we were not able to see all our friendly folk to say "Sayo- nara." Our good neighbors on Eu clid, our business . contacts with Medford's . merchants and my office associates, the faculties at Medford High, Hedrick Junior High and Roosevelt annex schools these and others made our too-short stay in Medford one for pleasant memories. Lt. Col. John E. Johnson and Family, Formerly of Medford. Adventure of a Miner - To the Editor: This is the story as told to me by an old friend who for two years was a partner of the famed pros pector named Ed Schiefflen, only a few weeks prior to the latter's last rich discovery, made while camped at a cabin on the head of Days Creek in southern Douglas county in May, 1897. As a small lad. young Ed l came to southern Oregon with his parents from Pennsylvania (By M-T Staff and Contributors) A large bird (it looked I like, a vulture) gave the oc cupants of a , Volkswagen quite a start the other day as they were driving in the Sams Valley area. The car stopped at a crossroads, and the bird started spiralling dowr toward nt. T h ey thought it might have mis taken the wee car for a small brown rodent. Speaking of small foreign cars, they can come in handy, sometimes. , We have been told of the driver of one of them who was zipping along a, country road, 4 and started to pass another, larger car, just as a truck pulled out of a side road, and headed right for him. He held his breath, and squeezed in between the car and the truck. We have also been told about a woman a county employee who is thinking about going on a three-day. horseback trip. She has never ridden a horse be- In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS WeU! WeU! So the Russkies have an other Sputnik out in space! A BIT of advice: x- Let's keep out hats on this time. We' know now that the Russkies fizzle as often as we do. They kept their early fizzles a secret but,- like all secrets, it leaked out. But ' Let's give .'em credit. This one's a big one. It weighs a ton and a half . . . maybe. That's a lot of Sputnik. If you can leant to shoot a .22 rifle you can learn to shoot a BIG BERTHA. And don't forget that a WELL DIRECTED .22 rifle buUet will kill just as dead as a half -ton shell from a Big Bertha. A good slogan for-Americans in these parlous days: THE BIGGER THEY ARE, THE HARDER THEY FALL! If we tackle the problems of ths hair-trigger modern world in that spirit we 11 come out all right." ' : SPEAKING of problems: In these days when the news is full of French' names, pity the poor radio announc ers. For example: We of the newspaper just PRINT the name of the latest French pre mier PFLIMLIN. The radio boys have to try to PRO NOUNCE IT. It can't be done by any body but a Frenchman, that is. It contains two of what the French caU "nasals," and a French nasal is impossible for anything but a French throat. A SUGGESTION: Just call it FLAM-LAM and let it go at that. He'U have to , take it on the lam sooner or later anyway (1854) and settled on a dona tion land claim in section 27 about one mile south of Wood vUle, now Highway 99, Rogue River, where he grew up and went to school. (There is a gulch near there . named for liim). - " " Being of a romantic nature, endowed with adventure and having an older brother work ing as a miner in Arizona, Ed's thoughts turned to jour neying to the ;. new frontier where a scouting party was under orders to form in rout ing some bad, Indian rene gades south of the north bor der. After serving as a civilian scout, "Big Ed," as he was called, began his career as a full time prospector. - While searching in the Tombstone hills, he was told later by the head scout, "AU you will find is your tombstone." But being optimistic and. not easily dis couraged, he finally filed on three claims at Tucson and later got his brother and a partner to grubstake him, and the three set to work to devel op some of the richest silver mines ever to be discovered. After selling out for a mil lion dollars each, ' 20 ' years later, Big Ed returned to Woodville again for the last time, where he had driven in a four-horse Concord stage coach, and later to Roseburg, finally to Day's creek alone. Probably Big Ed kept his rich find weU covered up as there is no record to our knowledge of the strike ever being found or re-discovered yet. Ed's young friend always believed the gold quartz was found oh the Myrtle creek slope. Big Ed Schiefflen's body was . buried at Tombstone, Ariz., among the hills he la bored in, and that made him famous as a prospector. Bert Kissinger 520 Boardman, Medford. fore. Our farm editor com, ments that, if she does, on thing is for sure the tax payers won't have to worry about her being on her loes - well, her feet anyway for some time afterward. The city councU last week was rapidly moving through a large number of routine street - javing ordinances. Since they are aU well-studied by the professional staff, and the councilmen are usuaUy familiar with them, they are ordinarily passed with littte further consideration and less debate. Anyway, one of the council- men came to with a jerk, last week, when he found he'd voted for a new street in front of his home. Realizing he'd have to pay a paving assess ment, he was last heard plain tively talking to his col leagues, "Now let's talk this one over a little more." At another official city meeting this one of the budget committee' mem bers were discussing an item of $2,000 for repaint ing the exterior of the city hall and reparing windows. One member asked, "Would it be he same as it is now white?" City Manager Bob Duff noted, in a quiet voice, that the building is green. It has been for several years, too. A young man in our office sat down at the counter of a local cafe the other day, and feU into conversation with two small youngsters seated nearby. He reports that he learned four things: 1. That when the counter stools are spun, they "cry"; 2. That they would like to own their own restaurant so they could get as many hotdogs, hamburgers and ice cream cones as they wanted free; 3. That, mommy's cooking . is good but not as good as that in restaurants, and 4.. That they were having malts whils daddy is "taking a beer." "Man cannot live by bread alone." 'a minister was teaching his Sunday school class of junior high and high school .youngsters recently. After a short talk, he asked them if they knew . what is better than bread. "Meat" was the reply.' ' A man was arrested on-, a charge of shoplifting recent ly, and was taken to the po lice station where the ar resting officer started mak ing out . the property-room tag for the stolen goods taken in evidence. These included instant coffee, wine, beer, a jar of cherries, and a cucum ber. As he was working, the sus pect casually reached - out, took the - cucumber, and bit a large hunk out of it before the officer could stop him. Sa'diy, the officer erased "one cucumber" on the property report, and carefully wrote in "one used cucumber" As a post script, it- could be noted that the suspect plead ed innocent, and his trial was set for June. Officers now are wondering" what sort of shape the "used cucumber" will be in to present as evi dence at the trial. A young man who hasn't yet noted his first wedding anniversary declares that those women who complain thaj the old-fashioned type. ,of bedstead isn't good ' enough, should rest happy. . He states it is a common, complaint that the modern low-slung bed is the kind where the ' bed-slats keep falling out. A farmer In the Phoenix area got meat on the table the easy way, and at the same time eot rid of one ""of the birds which had been raid ing his garden. As he went to do his milk ing, he saw a crow sitting on an electric fence. He walked up to it. It didn't move. He tapped it with a stick, and the bird toppled off the wire to the ground dead. . A local photographer about whom w have heard received a hurry-up assign ment on a Saturday after noon recently. Forgetting that his youngsters had been washing the car. he grabbed his camera and backed swiftly down the driveway. He heard and felt a substantial "thunk" as the rubber hose, tied to the bumper, stretched to the limit and broke. A father we know under took to assist his son with his spelling home-work, after the lad had brought home some unsatisfactory grades in that subject. The father armea him and drilled him, each evening for several days. Came the day of tne test, and the boy missed only one word the word which the father -had misspeUed on his drill-sheets. ' -
