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a short journey?
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was the Pacific Fleet Head
quarters? . 3. On Centigrade thermom
eters, what is the boiling point
of water?
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sentence, "He cannot go with
out he gets permission."
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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.
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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." -