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PULISHEKS ASSOCIATION National editorial ociQn rj.ljJHr-llg.'.iTSi-OTl Flight 'i lime Medford pnd Jgctecu County History fim tr la of The Mail Tribur 18, gO. 90 nd 40 years 30. w v ' u- 10 YEAJtS ,9 Jur10, IMS (Xuactaf) Blis$ Hn't iiinior Amm tKHbqgI cor9 will gjonsor a vaudeilJ9 show Monfiay, A new city tract, built-upofnternationgl with a 250-gBllon-pertpinut pump, was brouSiP to Medford Sat- urdc J ir. Cfliar J4o Ml- nott. Sun 19, 1U (TftlciKlt?) t ,ttic court jury Tue Oda9 (Xina swsra iant' eQpOrintn11t o Ilihrr'f better jalnt, jjuiitf of itstult '; rom ArthP i'rrj' Y Smuriap Pat column: "In th rural arvss 4919 Dicf simis . - ' . . S . , w & . vV I ASS are bloom onorftil jncC9." A goodizVt roi Wttck- cs J. J. Woodft th ftumfn fly, scale tl) north ygll C th Jacksoav hotel. FiBrrr local an 9 trt5nal column: "MedfSrd arM valley 0 residents are urged to bring specimens of fruit an8 veget ables for exhibition gt the Chamber 0d$ Commlrcf for tourist exhibits. 0 40 YEStf 9 0 Jur) l lflf (fiff) Theexodiptchool Etch ers fjm the citybgan on thl afternoon trains. From local and gronal colUWn: "The Elk Cretfc it chery has received 30,000 ainbcg) trout eggs ftom the famous Madison valley, !tIont.,( toT liberating in the Rogue river." What's Your I.Q.? 0 Nina or tea?) correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six, is goodL 1. In the Bible, is a "Sab bath day's journey" a long or a short journey? 2. During WW II where was the Pacific Fleet Head quarters? . 3. On Centigrade thermom eters, what is the boiling point of water? 4. (Correct the following sentence, "He cannot go with out he gets permission." 5. Is the carotid artery in th arm. neck or thigh? . Saccharin, is a coal-tar efluc& tru or false? . tm i,tu of Nations 3lt tuPtro in -ffich c "SUtl V. S. territory 3T ttli4 "Swtrfl' Ictbox"? A 5afno tho 3tltimor law- &mKa .in?Birtd to write 9avai Anthtm while G3ettifi4 ttotr4 British ship Jt. MeMtnry? 1 tlealrt wai born be- t c Cftrist? 1. A. ferT short li'.Mbt eal Harbor. 3 1 "He cannot w . . - - -- la e5 lermission )H . Sana. f. Sonova. r 1v . Vyancic Scoil wAAv.tnui vi g02fiW to4olirs of Venice Ua SAturtt? y obtaining rliw. -Oolt, orP motor Mte tarlUbCft 21? th city's fa 5 Ci ciciils Seiutrnit th speed of g574rti effective Editorial Correspondence . . . Mt. Kisco, N.Y., June 10 We are moving about from place to place almost as fast as our rented "Chevy" can go not quite, for it's a 1958 model and can go 90 miles an hour nd over without squeaking. However such, short pauses are not conducive to composition or very extended observation. In our tour of New York and New England thus far we are convinced of the following, to wit: Recession jitters are on the decline. Ed Sullivan on TV Sundays is also declining. Joy was universal on Sunday when the "Damned Yan kees" lost a doubleheader to Cleveland. The weather this year is cock-eyed, summer is not only late in coming but the consensus is there "ain't going to be none."' The defeat of the "Damned Yankees" caused slightly less joy than the defeat of Senator Knowland in California caused gloom. In our travels it has been constantly apparent that the feeling in New England against the "Damned Democrats" is only approached by the feeling in the South against the "Damned Yankees." While the above conclusions are not exactly world-shattering, they do represent in a wandering of over three weeks, the only impressions of any definite character regarding public opinion hereabouts, we have obtained. We are now in Westchester county, New York, which is only about as far from the New Canaan-Darien area in Con necticut as Ashland is from Medford. The two districts are very similar in that they are popular places for the New York City business "elite" to reside. The nearest approach to it on the Coast would be the peninsula south of Francisco, Marin county, and Beverly Hills near LA. New Yorkers in the upper brackets at least work in New York, but they don't live there. They live up here and of course in New Jersey and Long Island, anything to get away from the Bubbling Babylon of Greater Manhattan. Some of them drive to their offices five days in the week, more take the train for a ride anywhere from 45 to 75 minutes, and return each evening by the same mode of transportation, at around 6:15. . On week ends most of them stay home and work around the place with a round of golf perhaps sandwiched in, and maybe a few a polo game. In short it is nice work if you can get it, and partially accounts for the fact that the population of Manhattan is slowly but surely declining and the popula tion of the state isn't. But it is a beautiful section of the country, and the citizenry basically are of a very wholesome and hard work ing type. Many are rich, some are not, but the rank and file average up about as they do in any other part of the coutitry. There is one marked exception the Chamber of Com merce type does not exist. Neither here nor in the New Canaan area do the people want new industries or in fact any industries at all. They, as communities, welcome new residents but they don't welcome corporations, side tracks, smoke stacks or what have you. They are either content with things JUST as they are, and wish to keep them as is, or they want to get new residents who will fit into the gen eral scheme of things, and the more that come of course the higher the real estate values will go, and the more their Small retail business sections will expand. In fact we never walked through a" more up-to-date and .attractive business fection than the one in New Canaan, but it would scarcely expend further than the Medford business section from the S.P. tracks to the Bear Creek bridge. We were told that many people in this area go to shop in New Canaan this may or may not be true but we did drop into a men's furnishing store that might have been transported from West Wilshire boulevard or Madison a ve. - . . - v Of course where the Pacific Coast has it all over this part of she country is the climate. We wouldn't live here if we f ot paid for it and we can't imagine anyone paying for it gven in counterfeit money! Everything is snowed up in the winter, and parboiled in the ha been very nice and cool for tomorrow is for 75 degrees about the same. That adds up to more suffering for the poor pedestrian than 100 in the shade and the usual humidity for this time of year in the valley. We note from our Oregon yon is dead and Senator Knowland of California isn't po litically of course. Mebbe so, but we wouldn't one, or celebration for the other. Hells Canyon legislation, per se, probably is dead, but the principle that it symbolized, namely public power as op posed to private, power, isn't. Our prediction is that govern ment aid to power projects in Oregon, if not outright owner ship and federal operation, will soon be revived and give a tremendous boost to the state's economy. The basic reason will be simple, namely only via the control or at least the participation of the government or state (or both) can the people of Oregon secure the maximum benefits potential. in its tremendously valuable system of waterways. The plain truth is private power can't, by the nature of things, do the job as well. It may take a long time to convince the people of this truth, but eventually, as we see it, it will be done. As for Senator ; Knowland of California, his alibi is he only campaigned once a week before the primary but is go ing all out for the election. So he lost the skirmish, but is going to win the battle. We believe the GOP Senate leader is whistling in the graveyard. He is stuffy intellectually, muscle-bound, un imaginative and hopelessly reactionary. He even supported McCarthyism and voted against the late Wisconsin' senator's censure. Also he is a foe of ORGANIZED labor, even though he consistently denies it. The more he campaigns the more clearly the people of California should see him in his true light and the less they will want him to run THEIR state. R.W.R. Try and ly BENNETT CERF- "TP7ELL, SIR," nodded the explorer, "there was that lioness, . big as lif e, and me with no gun. So I just sat down and stared at her." "Did it work?" asked the wide-eyed young lady. "Perfectly, my dear. I haven't quite figured it out yet. Sometimes I think it may have been because the place I sat down was on the top branch of a very tall tree." Carl Little has a neighbor in Houston who reminds friend that not all of his . family have struck it rich. There's one branch ' of the clan up in New York." he ighed, "that's genuinely con cerning me. They live in six dinky rooms at the Waldorf." "Color television," points out Art Linkletter, "makes all men equal. Regardless of race, creed or color, you come out purple and yellow, With green lips." J ,C 195. by Bennett Ctrf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate. .. ' summer. Since our arrival it shade, but the prediction in the shade and humidity clipping service that Hells Can OK any burial service for Stop Me Dennis the Menace 'flOUT A AMLUOM KEEM LITTLE TO 56 WITH GQMuOOY WAT UKfcS TO tYAiA: Matter of Fact SPUME? Algiers Until you have lived a little in this fantastic Algerian atmosphere, events here tend to appear either i n comprehen sible or down right incred ible. So per haps it is more useful to try to convey the a t m o s phere than to ana- 1 - 41. - : 3: Joseph Alsop iye uie mm- vidual events. What, then, makes the at mosphere so fantastic? For one thing, of course, Algeria has been at war for more than three years. All wars have a way of heightening experi ence even experience far from the front line so that even the diners on the peace ful, lamplit terrace of the Hotel Saint George have a lit tle the air of dancing at the Duchess of Richmond's fa mous ball before Waterloo. The civilians, God knows, are far safer than they would be in any automobile on any major highway. But the scene acquires its own inevitable drama because one sees the young officers, who are also enjoying their meals in the bright evening air, and one knows they will be off on operations tomorrow and dead the next day. TO this natural drama has now been added a political drama of surpassing fascina tion. And. the essence of the drama is an immense moral choice by the professional of ficers of the French Army. Other, more sordid actors also throng the stage. There are the Algerians of French extraction, of course, who have great interests at stake. Much more important, there are also that group of men from metropolitan France who have claimed the leader ship of what they call "the Al gerian revolution." This second group, headed and wholly controlled by the dark, saturnine Jacques Sou stelle, has experienced a most bitter disappointment. They clearly thought they would be called to leading posts in the new government of Gen. de Gaulle. They now know that they can hope for nothing of this sort. . BEFORE de Gaulle was le gally voted into power, these same men were orches trating the shouts of the mob, "The paratroopers to Paris!" The paratroopers were then ready to obey the call and they could then have taken Paris with ease. How tempt ing, therefore, for this same little group to try to set the stage for a renewal of the for mer outcry! How they must long to fly to Paris with the paratroopers, now chanting a pious new slogan, "We must rescue De Gaulle!" , But the complex interplay of civilian interests and civili an ambitions sinks into insig nificance beside the ferment in the French Army. If the Army does not march with the civilians, the latter will shortly cease to have very much importance. But what will be the Army's choice? Ten years of unceasing, bitter, fruitless war have made of most of these French professional Army officers a new breed of men, quite dif ferent from any one has seen. Consider, for example, the following footnote to the fa mous "affair of the tortures." THE use of a grim third de gree was unavoidably ne cessary to extirpate terror in Algiers. Gen. Massu, in whose hands the decision lay, is a deeply religious man, who suf fered a severe crisis of con science before issuing the ne cessary order. In the end, he gave the order. But first he himself submitted to the tor tures that he ordered, and he CAR'S TO RI06 IN. AN I rlAVS By Joseph Alsop further commanded all other officers involved in the mat ter to do as he did, so that they might say they had in flicted no suffering on others that they had notjorne them selves. The hardness, the moral doubts and the strong sense of personal style that are im plied by this story make an explosive combination. The Israeli Army is where such men belong, for in a , nation besieged they would have no moral doubts. But in the French Army, these men have become totally alienated from the bustling, prosperous, vig orously bourgeois France of today. And for that very rea son, they are all the more imbued with a passionate pa triotic longing for a France with great aims and a great but ill-defined faith". In their alienation, they cannot see that a France which is neither besieged nor drunk with conquest cannot possibly live its life on the in tense level they demand. Be low this level of intensity of life, they think, both men and nations become mere cab bages. AND with no experience of political processes, they can only dimly perceive that artificial efforts to achieve this intensity of living can easily and rapidly lead to the Fascism so many of them fought in the resistance years. Add that their own experi ences have quite naturally filled them with a loathing of the parliamentary weaknesses of the Fourth Republic. Add further that they have an al most religious faith in the un qualified integration of Al geria into France and an enormous effort to make "complete Frenchmen" of Al geria's wretched Moslem masses. Add finally that they have begun quite rightly to doubt whether Gen. de Gaulle is really willing to take the whole enormous step that they desire, precisely because the vast majority of French men of France do not desire it. One can then understand the inner ferment that caused the officer members of the Committee of Public Safety to sign the insubordinate mani festo that the Algerian com mittee of Public Safety ad dressed to Gen. de Gaulle. A high authority said. this was mere "spume on a great wave of change." But it is not spume. It is a symptom, rath er, of a choice in the making. For what that may be worth, this reporter remains convin ced that the men of the French Army will finally make the right choice, to re turn to the discipline proper in the Army of a great coun try. But it has to be added that the final outcome is not certain yet. 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 column do not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. Philosophical Lawn-Tender To the Editor: One thing is in its glory these days our old obnoxious enemy crab grass. But according to what a young woman suggested in a magazine article, it can be forced to lose its power over dispositions by calling it a humoristic name. The comedian Peter Porter of the December Bride pro gram gave me the idea to call it Peter's mother-in-law. Why not? Peter hates his mother-in-law like we hate crabgrass,' only his retaliations are re stricted because his mother-. v. - I Washington Report By William POLITICAL 'PRO' Washington On the plain test of getting things done, Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas is the ablest Senate major ity leader in many decades. This is the re luctant esti mate even Jt who do not like him, his ideas or poli cies.' WUlam S. White as man, Johnson is at times a hard-as-nails handful. Like most bril liant people, he suffers fools only in excessively frank, eye rolling pain and impatience. He has great practicality, and again great sentimentality; a very demanding approach and again a very considerate ap proach. He is, in short, a genius in politics, or at least in parlia mentary politics. His conduct is unpredictable in its details, and often brusquely so. But his achievements in general are so extraordinary as to make him, if this one measure be used, almost undeniably the outstanding Democrat in the country today. IN HIS forum and in his field that is, in the Sen ate and in legislation he could master any half dozen of his rivals all at once with out raising any great sweat. He could never do this by speaking; he is an indifferent orator, but a good listener when he wants to be. He could do it and many times has through his peculiar talent for personal negotiation and per suasion. It is an almost indescrible kind of persuasion in which Johnson is perfectly capable of having his way either by cajoling the person with whom he is dealing or by simply ordering him, both point-blankedly and kindly, to do as he is told. To have a face-to-face go round with him at the top of his form is to undergo a dizzy ing series of personal exper iences. Miss Mary McGrory of the Washington Star has coined for this process the term "the Lyndon Johnson A treatment." It must be exper ienced to be appreciated. But is is possible to say with some confidence that if Johnson ever should meet Nik ita Khrushchev, say, ordinary charity would require a small sigh of half-compassion for a hapless Russian. THROUGH the "A treat- ment," or lesser variations of it, Johnson has solidified the Democratic party in the Senate into an organism of massive power where it used to be a collection of competing blocs. Most any leader can "sell" his plans and purposes if, like a door-to-door salesman, he cuts his prices on demand. But the Senator never cuts his prices. More likely, he coolly raises them and the other fellow somehow feels, all the same, that he is getting the better of it. Thus Johnson has Demo cratic isolationists voting for foreign aid, and Deep South ern Senators accepting civil rights bills. It is this very success, how ever, that brings to him most of the criticism that comes from advanced Democratic liberals. They put him down as a crass "operator" and then call for his help on their own designs. They suggest that he lacks political convic tion. He was an early protege of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and some of his intimate friends are old Roosevelt New Deal liberals men like Tom Cor coran, Ben Cohen, Abe Fortas in-law is supposed to be hu man. To add to your simulated fun, pull enough crabgrass and shape into a torso, but beware of leaving her on the cold wet ground, her poor finger joints might get stiff, and she'd lose her possessive grasp, also her back might ache. Anyway it has afforded some laughs, and while we laugh we are desensitized to the diabolical power of crab grass or Peter's mother-in-law whichever we prefer calling the , terrible pest. Surely there isn't a Peter in reality who has a mother-in-law like comedian Peter has. As for myself, I was very fond of my little southern mother-in-law. No conflicts ever took-place between us, rather enjoyable companion ship. It was . as it should be and I've missed her. Emma Lou Carpenter, 811 Sherman st., Medford. - S. White and James Rowe Jr. Most of the newer Demo cratic liberals are far from the Johnson camp. But many of the older liberals the Rowes, Corcorans and so on entirely understand his oper ating premise. This is that at titudes of fight, fight, fight don't carry you very far un less you have the troops nd that you can't keep enough troops without compromise sometimes. ... . DEEPLY sensitive to every form of criticism, Johnson is excessively sensitive to it from any liberal source. It is a state of mind that is not helped by his awareness of the fact that he has been of more practical service to some lib eral causes public power and public housing among them than have most of his detrac tors put together. And as a "pro" he has none of the emotional approach of most of the advanced liberals. They think in visions of cru sades; Johnson thinks in terms ofvotes. They see him as a straddler. He sees them as shrilly insisting upon the im possible rather than sensibly settling for the possible. Johnson, a tall, rangy man with a ranch background, is far more Western than South ern. Nevertheless, Texas is historically a Confederate state. These facts powerfully work . against the possibility that the Democratic conven tion of 1960 would ever give him what he insists some times with loud, unprintable Texanisms he doesn't want a n y h o w: the Presidential nomination. Too, he is popularly identi fied though to an exagger ated degree with the Texas "oil and gas millionaires. And in 1905 ne suiiered a heart attack. Finally, there is no guarantee, of course, that hies legislative skill could be translated into the adminis trative skill needed in the White House. (Copyright. 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Financial note: A New York savings bank is giving away everything from desk lamps and skillets to cameras and steak knives to attract more savings. All you have to do to "get one of these gifts is to open a new savings account with at least ten dollars. HOW come? .It's like this: This particular bank is con fident that the United States of America has a big growth ahead of it. It knows this big growth will call for new in vestment capital which is created by SAVING. That's about the long and the short of it. A WORD of advice: IF YOU want to get ahead in this period of growth and expansion because of rising population and RAPID technological advancement lies ahead of the USA, here's a good three-point rule to follow: 1. Work hard while you work. 2. Play hard while you play. 3. SAVE A LITTLE MON EY OUT OF EVERY PAY CHECK. TTMMMMM. Let's add a fourth point: Don't pay 'too much atten tion to the politicians who will be gunning for your vote with promises of something for nothing. There is NO SUCH THING as something for nothing. FINANCIAL note No. 2: Stocks in New York edged higher Thursday with the leading averages bumping their highs for 1958. Railroad shares appeared to have cross ed into new high ground with most of them showing frac tional gains in response to a senate bill that would au thorize government guaran tees on private loans to the railroads to the extent of 700 million dollars. (The roads need the money to buy new and more modern equipment. Their present earnings are insufficient to provide for their needs.) THE railroads need more than lnans Among other things, they need permission to be MORE COMPETITIVE. They need permission to abandon lines and services that are unprof itable. They aren't allowed to do these things without government permission. Suppose you were running a hamburger stand and pay ing rent and taxes and hiring help and your business began to run down but GOVERN MENT WOULDN'T LET YOU QUIT. In that event, you'd be in a bad fix. (By M-T Staff Down in Yreka recently, they had a contest for "Miss Siskiyou County." Judging was to take place at 8 p.m. Today and Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann MACMILLAN TALKS Washington Although Mr. Macmillan came to Wash ington, with plenty to talk about, it is fair to say that what has mattered most is not the substance of the talks but the manner. He has been able to show that the heads of governments can meet and talk without a crashing crisis, without resounding decisions, and without at least at this writing grandiloquent declarations of the great in disputable, but largely unde fined, general ities. The omis- Walter Lippmann sion of the customary rhetoric after a meeting of the Prime Minister and the President would in itself mark the event as notable. We know that the biggest subject of the talks was posed by the growing anxiety in Great Britian that the recess ion, in which so much of the non-Communist world is in volved, could put an unbear able strain upon the reserves of sterling and of the curren cies which are needed to fi nance world trade. There is not now a crisis, and in fact, as respects Great Britian and the sterling area, the reserves are bigger than they have been for a long time. What worries the British govern ment is that these reserves are thinner than is safe and prudent, given the possibility that the recession may con tinue, and bring about an in ternational liquidity crises, that is to say, a run on the international banking system We know too that in the British view there are three remedies which can be chosen All depend primarily upon the United States, though in all but one of them West Ger many and other countries with a hard currency are bound to be involved. One remedy would be to find a way to underwrite, that is to say to reinsure, the re serves of the sterling area. A second remedy would be to enlarge the capital reserves of the International Mone tary Fund. A third remedy, which would horrify most Americans, would be to in crease the value of the outer world's reserves by increas ing the sacrosanct price of gold. A S THINGS stand, no deci xx sions have been taken and the Administration has made no commitments. But at the top among those responsible in these matters, the problem is understood and is being studied sympathetically. The indications are that in the next session of Congress, not in this session, the Adminis tration will come forward with a program of measures built around the Monetary Fund and, it may' be, on an other international banking institution. If this happens, and if the recession does not in the next months become deeper and more critical, Mr. Macmillan will have been justified in his refusal to act in Washing ton with a greater' sense of urgency.' THE 'general international outlook, as it must have appeared in the Washington talks, is subtly different than it has been in the past. Al though the cold war goes on, the problems which the West ern governments have to deal with cannot be reduced to the single issue of the con test with Russia. It is impos sible, for example, to have any certain views about the future in Europe until it be comes clear whether Gen. de Gaulle will succeed in pacify ing Algeria. Everything must remain provisional until trie outcome there is known. Beyond the big question about the success of Gen. de Gaulle, there looms up, still in the distance, the question of what is to happen in the two Germanys, and between the two Germanys when Chancellor Adenauer leaves the scene. Iins DO not know what will ' happen. What we do know is that we are closing phases of the post-war system as it has developed under the Fourth Republic in France, under Adenauer in Germany, under Truman, Acheson, and Dulles in this country. . , and Contributors) Prior to this, the contest ants were guests for a dinner but at the request of some of the girls, it was a "light, buffet" sort of thing. It seems that in prior years, the girls had been fed big, bountiful dinners, and had complained that their vital statistics were thrown out of whack as far as beauty-contest juding is concerned. One of the girls once com plained that, at her best, she was 36-20-34, but after that dinner she measured a not-so-good 36-22-34. Today being father's day it is appropriate to report on a husband who loaned his wife the family check book to use while shopping,, and then, as an after th6ught. gave her a foun tain pen filled with red ink. Men who smoke and those who don't "sometimes get into mild misunderstandings. One of the young men on our staff, who once in a while smokes a pipe, but most of the time doesn't, declares that one of the hazards of the busi ness is "people who talk around, or through, pipes or cigars. Maybe, he suggests wistful ly, someone someday will write a pamphlet entitled "A Handbook of Translation for Those Who Must Live or Work with Pipe or Cigar Smokers." Now who do you suppose he was talking about? The reporter who usually covers the courthouse beat reports that a couple of county officials some tune ago dropped in to a tavern in another state, and were mistaken for law enforce ment officers. One of the two recently was observed poring over a catalogue of police emblems. Perhaps, our man comments, he plans to look more authen tic next time he travels out pi the state. . ' Every profession has its hazards. Witness the frustration of our farm editor, who placed a call for a rancher who lives in the Applegate the other day, to ask him some farm type questions. The rancher was not in,' so our F.E. left a message asking him to call back. He did so after a while, but the F.E. was out. When he got back he fdfcnd this note on the desk. "John Doe of the Apple gate returned your call. He said he had to get the roof on his barn before the rain came, and he wouldn't be available until evening." A man we know has ob served the uniforms worn by sheriffs' deputies in many of the western states. He is awed and impressed, and suggests that some of the local fans might rell take up a collection to out fit our deputies similarly. One recent visitor, he de clares, from Arizona, wore a "Sheriff of Cochise" type of uniform, complete with an ornately carved western gunbelt, worn low on his hip, and a cactus embroider ed into his shoulder-patch. Observing the many people who visit our office, day in and day out, offers edifica tion, gratification, and, oc casionally, a little amuse ment. They bring or send in their stories, their articles, their "items" and announcements, in virtually every form imag inable. . Some of them are written in minescule handwriting on tiny scraps of paper; others come in impressive-looking envelopes of large dimensions; some are typed and some are scrawled. We have seen sto ries come in written on paper napkins, and typed on em bossed stationery; in tiny en velopes not much bigger than the postage stamps that brought them, and in manila folders, or crumpled up in the bottom of a pocket. Observing this flow of news (most of which is welcome, for that's what we're here for), one of our workers de clares that he is tempted to find somebody who wants to make a quick buck. Then he will be given a large brief case, loaded with bricks. His instructions will be to come up to the city editor's desk, plop the brief-case down, and say, "Got a little news story here. It might re quire a little editing." A meeting of Republi cans was held at the Girls Community club recently. Perhaps it is significant, in this time of Democratic suc cesses at the polls, to report that when the room was be ing cleaned up after the meeting, someone found what was described ' as a "well-worn rabbit's foot." -
