4 Sunday, May 18, 1938
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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
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
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'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
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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. ' -