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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. 4 Sunday, September 7, 1958 i MEDFOKDt&JTRIBUNE "Everyone In Southern Oregon Beads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT, SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday mos. B.oo Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 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 sis.uu Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of jacmon county ' United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising 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. iV NEWSPAPEI PUBIISHEIS -ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL NATION A L tut I ASSOC ASSOCllATCGfN till iin IlllllllllSt Flight rp Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune .10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 7. 1948 (Tuesday) A landslide at Crater Lake Sunday sent a cloud of yel low dust 1,000 feet into the air, causing some to think it was a fire. Prof. Knute Froysaa has come to live in Medford and teach the violin. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 7. 1938 (Wednesday) A free-for-all at the Upper Applegate dance last Satur day night has led to charges of assault and battery and riotous conduct. ' From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Wild blackberries are now at their best and several were seen departing with pails Tues day." : 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 7, 1928 (Friday) Steelhead fishing is getting better in the Rogue. A record 122 carloads of pears left here yesterday. 40 YEARS AGO w Sept- 7, 1918 (Saturday) One hundred draftees from Nevada who passed through here on a train this morning nearly denuded the rosebushes on the Southern Pacific depot parkway of all their flowers. Organization for the local Red Cross drive was com pleted at the library last eve ning. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. In what island group is theisland of Leyte? 2. Gun turrets are ' struc: tures on naval vessels; on what other instruments of combat are they built? 3. -Finland has a Commu nist government; true or false? 4. Is a goblet a small tur key? 5. The designer of the Stat ue of Liberty in New York Harbor was of what national ity? 6- Insects have how many legs? . 7. With what singer do you associate the song "Sonny Boy"? 8. Is the area of Soviet Rus sia equal to, or less than, the area of North America? 9. Pakistan is an independ ent nation; true or false? 10. "Knee high by the Fourth of July," refers to. what common U.S. crop? Answers: 1. Philippine Isl ands. 2. Airplanes and tanks. 3. False. 4. No. (A drinking vessel.) 5. French. 6. Six. 7. Al Jolson. 8. Approximately equal to. 9. True. 10. Corn. TRUCK KILLS BOYS Harman, Va. - (UPD - A soft drink truck sideswiped a bi cycle carrying two young boys Friday and crushed them to death. Police said Sammie David Bentley, 9, and Jerry Gene Mullins, 10, apparently brushed against the truck and fell under the wheels. Washington (UPD The' gov ernment says the number of Americans filing new claims for jobless compensation is still shrinking and dropped by 20,800 to 275,100 in the week ended Aug. 30. . ; Minority Problem An irritated reader of the Mail Tribune wrote a letter to this newspaper's "Communications" column last week. The letter, printed Friday, sought to place the blame for juvenile delin quency on the adults of Jackson county, wThere, he said, it belongs. We'll go along with him part of the way. Wherever one finds a kid in trouble, one usually finds an adult, or adults, who have failed. Also, it is easy to blame the entire commu nity, and there may be some justice in his charge that teen agers "have no where to go, nothing to do." ' . DUT that is only part of the problem. Those communities with the finest recreational facili ties for young people also are plagued with the problem. Delinquency is not unique in Medford or Jackson county it is a nationwide problem, and in many places it is a far worse problem than it is here. Erecting a teenage center (a worthy project, certainly), isn't going to solve it; nor is organ izing softball or baseball or golf tournaments; nor is restoring the old roller skating rink. Juvenile delinquency just fsn't that simple. IN JACKSON county, the school superintend- ent's office says, there are more than 20,000 youngsters aged 4 through 19. And the juvenile office reports that its total case-load for one year was 675 children in all categories. Of these there were only 247 (188 boys and 59 girls) who were in the official "delinquency" category. That is a pretty small percentage, and bears out what has been stated here and elsewhere over and over again that the vast majority of young people are decent, self-respecting, useful members of the community. Nonetheless, this minority does constitute a problem. The big questions are: What are the causes? What are the cures? And what do we do to handle the problem until that far-off day when it may be solved? We don't have the answers, and we don't think our correspondent does, either. . -, B UT this much we do facilities for teen agers not the entire answer; a continuing interest on the part of the entire public will help a great deal, but this, likewise, is not the entire answer; police agencies, juvenile authorities and others who must' deal with the problem daily will have to continue their activities, sharpen their skills and understanding. And we know that this is not the entire answer either. " ' If we had the whole answer we would be delighted to "stick our neck out" a little, as our correspondent suggests. Buunfortunately, 'this newspaper has no franchise to'issue edicts solv ing all society's ills. What we can do, have done, and shall con tinue to do, is to report the news, good and bad ; to call attention to the problem and to attempts at its solution; and to make those suggestions which we feel might be of some help. - TVIE ANWHILE, though we have the . utmost sympathy for kids who get off on the wrong font. - we cannot but belie ve that vounp- neocle. themselves, have some J J. T- -1 J? 1 .'I. CunuucL a oeiiei wxucu is leimurueu uy uie ord of the thousands and thousands of young men and women who do NOT get themselves into trouble. And in this connection, let us quote a widely renrinten" clinninrr which most recentlv aDneared in the Wenatchee Daily week by a subscriber: "Always we hear the plaintive cry of the teen .. agers: "What can we do ? r "Where can we go ? : ' "I can make some suggestions. Go home. Hang the . . storm windows. Paint the woodwork. Rake the leaves. Mow the lawn. Shovel the walk. Wash the car. Learn to cook. Scrub some floors. Repair the sink. Build a boat. Get a job. . "Help the. minister, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army. Visit the sick. Assist the poor. Study your les sons. And when you are through and not too tired read a book. . "Your parents do not owe you entertainment. Your village does not owe you recreational facilities. The world does NOT owe you a living. "You owe the world something. ' "You owe it your time and energy, and your talents so that no one will be at war or in poverty, or sick, or - lonely again. "In plain simple words: Grow up; quit being a cry-baby; get out of your dreamworld; develop a back bone, not a wishbone; and start acting like a man or a lady. - . - "I'm a parent. I'm tired of nursing, protecting, help ing, appealing, begging, excusing, tolerating, denying myself comforts for your every whim and fancy-Just because your selfish e go instead of common sense dominates your personality, and thinking, and requests." WE HAPPEN. to disagree with some of that quotation, believing that parents DO owe something to their, children. But there is more than a grain of truth in it and again this is proven by the wholesome, intelligent and self-respecting activities in which most teen agers engage, in their churches, their schools, neighborhoods, homes and jobs. And by the same token, most : parents are responsible, worried people, anxious to do right by their offspring. Some of them fail their children,' and some of the children fail their parents and as a result society suffers, and must do what it can to cor rect these failings. ' But "curing" juvenile delinquency is only a part of the bigger problem of building a better world. That is a task for everyone, E.A. - know: More recreational will help some, but are responsibility for their - ' C J 1 IX. World, sent to us last Dennis the Menace This is a sons about how Him. il O W&U Matter of Fact WAR FOR THE ISLANDS? Washington The use of American armed forces, if this proves necessary to defend iMC" ""HUM Oupmov - anrl x JmK,M&J the Matsus, is now very nearly a fore- g o n e conclu sion. , Therefore it is also' an even bet if any thing, , rather better than j i . . i JosDh aisod inai mis coun try will be drawn into the fight for these little islands in the Formosa Straits. Que- moy is fairly effectively block aded already, and the Chinese Nationalists do pot have the power to ward off 'an attack on the scale that the Chinese Communists seem to be pre paring. ' There are a good "many reasons for thinking thai" the official' American policy of "keeping them guessing" masks an actual intention to fight if need be. The most important reason is sply the pattern of attitudes within the Administration. Those with the most serious shares in the decision, to fight or not to fight, are the Presi dent, Secretary of Siate John Foster Dulles and the four Joint Chiefs of Staff. Of the Chiefs of Staff, only Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor has been cautious and hesitant, voicing th ekind of doubts that Gen. Omar Bradley also voiced be fore the decision to respond to the challenge in Korea. THE Navy, in the persons of of Adm. Arthur Radford and Adm. Felix Stump,, has the largest share of respon sibility for Chiang Kae-shek's heavy, continuing commit ment on the offshore islands. Hence the Chief of Staff , of the Navy, Adm. Arleigh Burke, is strongly opposed to any backdown or surrender. The same line has been vig orously taken by the Chair man of thp Joint Chiefs, Gen. Nathan Twining, and the Chief of. Staff of the Air Force, Gen. Thomas White. Secretary of State Dulles, meanwhile, is passionately convined that any backdown or surrender on Quemoy-'. or the Matsus will surely im perial Chinese Nationalist re gime on Formosa. He further argues that this kind of Chin ese Communist triumph will lead on to other very grave Western reverses throughout Asia. Hence Dulles is the most determined of fighting if we must. In this frame of mind, Dul les would be formidable, even if he were alone. Long ago, President Eisenhower sur rendered to his Secretary of State an unprecedented share of the decision-making power in the field of foreign rela tions. With three of the four Joint Chiefs powerfully back ing him, Dulles seems all but certain to carry the day with the President. . A S AN indication of Tiow f- how far the thing has gone already, it can be stated that a minimum defense line in the Formosa Straits . was traced at the top government al level before Secretary Dul les's flight to see the Presi dent in Newport. Certain bare rocks that hardly deserve the name of islands were classi fied as expendable. But Big Quemoy, Little Quemoy and the five major islands in the Matsu group were all placed on the "must-defend" list. Such is the trend within the American government.' The trend in the Chinese Com munist government is equal ly clearly marked. The only hopeful sign is Peking's do mestic propaganda. The Com munist leaders have not as yet flatly promised their own people that they will "libe rate" the offshore islands. But the domestic propaganda tone has been growing ominously sharper in the last days. much Cbiveoy Bctis uo&sz UrtS By Joseph AIsop Meanwhile, Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai have deeply engaged their international prestige, by quite openly warning leading members of the diplomatic colony in Pe king of their intention to drive Chiang Kai-shek's troops ou of Quemoy and the Matsus at all cost. Besides various Asian diplomats, this warning nas been bluntly given to the British charge d'affaires at Peking, A. D. Wilson. The Chinese leaders have added. rather grimly, that they would not be deflected from their purpose by American inter vention. TN ADDITION, it can now be stated that the Chmese Communist military prepara tions are on an even more massive scale than had been generally supposed. The rede ployment of their most im portant air units to 'airfields thneatenting Quemoy, the Mat sus ' and Formosa proper has already been disclosed. But it has been learned on high authority that strong Chinese Communist armed forces, numbering about 200,000 men now, have also been as sembled in costal Fukien dur ing the last month. The only possible purpose is to pre pare for an attempted landing on the offshore islands. ' - An ' immediate landing at tempt is not expected, al though such an attempt is en tirely possible. Here in Wash ington, the best authorities in stead envision a series of hard er and harder tests of Amer ican intentions, beginning with the semi-blockade of Quemoy already mentioned, which must of course be brok en somehow if Quemoy is to be held. If this view is cor rect, the crisis will develop by stages and rather slowly. But for all the reasons above given, the .final prognosis is very far from optimistic, (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS President Eisenhower sol emnly warns Red China that he will not hesitate to commit American armed forces to the defense of the Nationalist Chi nese offshore islands IF HE FINDS THAT NECESSARY TO THE SECURITY OF FOR MOSA. IlfHAT does it mean? It means that we're tell ing the Chinese Reds in no uncertain terms that we'll de fend with all our. military might the remnant of the Chi nese nation that retired to the island of Formosa rather than submit to communism. WHY do we tell them that? I wouldn't know. But I'll hazard a guess. . About a decade ago, we practically announced that we wouldn't fight to defend Kor rea against communist infil tration and seizure. .As a result,- the Chinese Reds MOVED IN, thinking they had a cinch. We DID fight. The Korean, war followed. NOTE this: President Eisenhower DOESN'T say in his statement (the language of which was evidently considered very carefully) that unless the Red Chinese quit shqpting at, the little flyspeck islands of Que moy and. Matsu we'll go to war. He says we'll go to-the de fense of these islands IF WE FIND THAT NECESSARY TO THE SECURITY OF FOR MOSA. We might not find that "necessary." Our com mitment isn't to defend these tiny islands, which are within gunshot of the Chinese main land. V Washington Report By William FORMOSA BASTION Washington The fires so recently and so barely damped in the Middle East are now springing up in the Far East. The tire less arsonists of imperialist commu n i s m are transfer ring their f li c k e r i n g torches from the Persian William S. White Gulf to' the western Pacific. This is the one area in which the United-States before this has elected to stand and fight in the long cold war contest with the Kremlin. For those odd little faraway islands now under Communist China's pressure Quemoy and the rest are in the same Yellow Sea waters that lap Korea. And in Korea, so long ago it seems now, we took the lead in history's first war for col lective defense under the United Nations. . The little islands cannot pass from Nationalist China to Communist China without raising some threat to the main island of Formosa. For mosa cannot pass from ' Na tionalist to Communist con trol without breaching what is left of the'Western position in the Far Pacific. ' , KOREA, in the light of the soft settlement of that war we made after the Eisenhower Admi nistration came to power, can no longer be a thoroughly dependable bas tion. Since then, too, Indo china has been enfeebled by Communist aggression. Thus, both Japan and the Philip pines each vital to us could be put in peril by the fall of Formosa. Formosa, moreover, is the base of the Nationalist China government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, to which the United States is pledged in half a dozen ways. That Chiang and his estab lishment ire at best old and tired isv hardly debatable any more though in truth there was a time -when any criti cism of him was regarded by many ias practically the equiv alent of spying for Moscow. But what Chiang is and what his establishment is are not the vital points. Nor is it vital that, - politically, the "Gissimo" is an undoubted embarrassment to us with our Western allies. WHAT is controlling is sim ply the security of an in dispensable base called For mosa. And as the one member of the Western alliance able Today & Tomorrow By Walter lippmann THE GAME AT QUEMOY The offshore islands around Quemoy are, it would seem, pieces in an elaborate game which is be ing played for high political stakes.' There is no reason to think that k ?PY I the bombard- v ment. of Q.ue; v miam mm it nartnf a plan to in vade and con quer Formosa. Walter Lippmann But there is good reason to think that the Red Chinese are striking in order to injure the prestige of Chiang Kai shek, who. has committed so many of his troops in the off shore islands, and at the same time to' cause the United States to lose face before the people of Asia. . . The timing of the Red Chi nese action is, it seems to me, significant. The action is nice ly calculated to come to a climax just about when 'the regular session of the General Assembly meets this month in New York. This, plus the fact' that there appears to be no . military build-up on the Chinese mainland for anyjnow Deing expionea againsi laree action, mdicates that the Red Chinese, with Soviet blessing, are engaged in a political maneuver. If this maneuver succeeded entirely, it could unseat Chiang, it could oust the United States from Formosa, and it could bring Red China into the U.N. IlHAT is the maneuver? V One can only guess, since it is the policy of the Red Chinese, as it is the policy of our government, to keep everyone guessing. My own guess, which I can not prove, is that Peiping and Moscow are pushing us into a dilemma. One fork is to stand by and to let some of the littler islands fall while Que moy is battered and block aded. The other fork is for S. W.iitt to bear this responsibility, bear it we must. Many may have, forgotten, but it was from Formosa, then in their hands, that Japanese mounted their massive assault upon the Philippines in World War II. Others the Chinese Com munists could mount a much heavier assault now from there, if they had the island. On Formosa there is now an American "military advis ory group." These American officers officiaUy have no function of command. They are, however, like profesors-to-pupils to the Chmese. And if the professors should give "suggestions" it is unlikely that the pupils would be un heeding. In and around For mosa we have very consider able sea-air power. Now, in all these circum stances, the Administration is being much criticized for a policy of "keeping them (the Communists) guessing" re garding in just what circum stances we would fight to keep secure the offshore islands. . ' rP IS understandable that many are weary of the sen timental fiction that- Chiang is a great and powerful ally, and of the Administration's long obsession with unreality in the Far East. But to say that the Administration has been bemused in the past is hardly to prove that realism would be served by freeing the Communists of all uncer tainty and anxiety as to what we might do now. For Chiang must be sup ported but on our own terms not for Chiang's sake but for the sake of Formosa. No more, Chiang, no more For mosa on our side. No more Formosa, no more center of power for the Western posi tion. ' Many fear that deliberately enigmatic United States., in tentions might bring on a major war. But too little enig ma would be far more likely to do just that. "Any public announcement of what we would do and not do that we would fight for this island but not for that island and so on would be to invite Com munist assaults . upon the ex empted islands and also to involve us in more and more clamorous demands from Chiang himself. . To disclose one's probable military action is to foreclose any effective action at all. Our antagonists have surely well understood this fact, and it is precisely their exploitation of this fact that creates for us the greatest of all our prob lems. (Copyright, 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) the United Stales to intervene to defend these islands and then to be denounced in the General Assenjbly, where on the Chinese question there .is a substantial majority against us. In the days to come, we may - find that we have to choose between abstaining, which would be a shattering blow to Chiang's prestige, and intervening, which would be deplored and condemned not only by all the uncommitted nations but also by most of our closer allies. This dilemma, which may be the objective of the Com munists, is at the same time the work of our friend, Gen. Chiang Kai-shek. It is he who has locked up such large forces in the island, it may be, against our -own recent ad vice to disengage them. In any event, it has been Chiang who chose to stake his future in Formosa on a reckless gamble in the offshore i& lands. What Chiang wants now and always is to entangle the United States in a full scale war with Red China. We have become involved in a truly entangling alliance, which is us. OUR people should note this fact, that when there was trouble in the Middle East, we turned to the United Nations to find the way out But in the Chinese trouble, Mr. Dulles .cannot turn to the United Nations. Ineeded, he must avoid the United Na tions. For in our Chinese pol icy, we stand very much alone. Not only do we stand alone. In the game now being play ed, we have-lost the initiative to Peiping. For Mao is free to go after the off-shore islands in nibbles rather than in bites, doing just enough to make it embarrassing for the Presi dent not to defend the islands, doing not enough to justify an j IPOTQJUJCCt (By M-T Staff and Contributors) A member of the Mail Trib une staff (not the farm editor, incidentally) recently found an attractive little green plant springing up outside the back door of his home, not far from the garbage can. . Lazy .by nature, he let it grow for a while, even though he suspected it was a weed, rather than some sor. of flower. Besides, he sort of liked its fresh, green look. It grew and grew. One day he took a real look at it and joked to his wife, "That looks just like a cornstalk." It continued to grow, and pretty soon our non-agricultural friend decided, defin itely, it WAS a corn stalk. His suspicion was confirmed when it started to tassle out, and then two ears of corn became apparent next to the stalk. Well, he's just as proud of that lonely little corn stalk now as if he'd planned the whole thing, and is hoping there will be enough warm weather for the ears to come to maturity. But where the seed came from, and how it got outside his back door, he has no idea whatsoever. He's just grateful. On day during the past summer this newspaper r ceivod a letter for its com munications column which struck the proofreader as a bit of pure nonsense. After reading it he penciled on it a note, which read: "Yikes! What a way to spend 4cl" Know what "mish" is? We do. thanks to a corres pondent who reported on a iriena wno nas a nabit of raid ins the icebox and who. one day, found a small portion of left-over meat and a small Dortion of left-over fish- neither large enough to -sat isfy his huneer. He mixed them together in to a tasty dish mish. A woman about whom we have heard the other day approached the mobile registration booth operat ing in this area,, thought it looked somewhat familiar, and examined it carefully. She discovered it once had been her husband's hoi dog w;agon. And in discussing it With one of the registrars, she found her old kitchen table was being used for the registration books. There's probably a moral there, somewhere, but w haven't found it yet. r - , We don't vouch for the au thenticity of this, but some of our courthouse sources do - about the man who has never been known to pay for his own coffee during a coffee- break. His method of operation (or, as Sgt. Friday would say. "M.O.") is to pick out a num ber of good-natured, sociable people, go to the coffee shop with them with only 8 cents and a check book, and then, when it comes time to pay, edge away to the magazine rack and become deeply en grossed. If pressed for payment by his colleagues, he produces Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances th 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 olumn do not necessarily rep re lent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the ease. Why Saturday Changed' To the Editor: I am a farm wife and had to smile to my self when I read your edito rial about "What Has Hap pened to Saturday?" I can tell you. The farmers have been forced to change their shop ping day to a week day be cause along ' with groceries they like to pay a few bills. Copco is closed, telephone offices are closed, lumber yards, courthouse, insurance offices are closed, even some dry cleaning establishments are closed in the afternoon. Besides, on a busy day we may as well walk the 10 miles from home as try to find a parking space anywhere near the center of town, so we de pend on outlying markets where parking is no problem and avoid the crowds. Medford should look within her city limits for the solu tion of a "dead" Saturday. Mrs. Ray Doran, , Table Rock, Ore. . intervention, which might mean war. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Ine. the 8 cents, and. acts embar rassed. As a last resort he brings out the check book and offers to write a check. This always works. Our sources sav he's nvr been known to pay for bis or anyone else s coffee, despite the fact that well-known and sharp attorneys have attempt ed io corner mm. We've heard of a man who rented a trailer for his vacation, then put a dent in it while using it When he returned it to the rental agency he scolded the pro prietor for failure to in clude such facilities as an electric cord, and did it so hard the man was so em barrassed he didn't notice iha rianf. fttiv man' - - -- TT .AW, we are told, so admired this technique that she's think- i - . .. . 9 ui using u on mm, should the occasion ever' rise. And' speaking of domestic felicity, there's the couple whose dish-washer wouldn't work. The husband checked all the fuses carefully, could find none' that looked blown out, and suggested that it must be a break in the cir cuit, and for his wife to call the electrician. She, however, went to the fuse-box herself, poked and pulled in random fashion, substituted a couple of new ones for the ones she sus pected, and presto! the cir cuit worked again. And do you think she's let her husband forget this? Silly, silly, silly question! Did you ever wonder where mothers learn all the things they tell their daugh- i . A(manwe know won a vic tory over a temperamental cat last week. . , - The cat, it appears, believes he should have something new and different each time he's fed, and refused one day to eat the dish fixed for him earlier. The man of the riniin picked up the food dish; took a jar of cat food; opened it; took an empty fork and stirred the food already In the dish; put the lid back on the Jar and put it away, and then put' the dish of food, un changed except for stirring, in front of the cat-which pro ceeded to eat it with relish. - A man could be said to be ; out of touch with current reality if he were heard to ask: What's a Hula-Hoop? And one of the irreverent -young men in the office in-' quires if the drum major-' . . , . ... . cues mis year win Be using them in place of batons. We think he hopes so. We spent a few minutes last week trying to convince.. a man who came the office, and who admittedly had had about a dozen - too many drinks, that- we. don't pur chase poetry .for publication in this newspaper. We don't even print It, usually, and the exceptions are usually light hearted things which wind up in this corner. i Like, for example, the fol lowing: Life magazine photogra phers Have turned of late to making blurs, Strapping cameras to the skis . 7 Of skiers, to depict their knees In misty Christies on the slopes. Apparently the lensman hopes To symbolize life's quick- ening pace By fuzzing up a slalom race. But "Misty Adieu to Sen ators" Which ran last week, con- trarily stirs Nostalgia in constituents hearts As each man, framed in fog, departs From Capitol Hill. The fog reflects " Time's passing, according to the text. Flanders, Martin, Irving , Ives, - Headed for r e c 1 u s i v a - lives, Jenner, Smith and Know- ; land too Appear in smeary photos. True. It might just be a smear campaign, Except that Life," time and again Has cpme out so decided- ly ' In favor of the G. O. P., Or international tensions, - which Caused the lensman's hand to twitch. , ' We hope, however, they'll . desist. . For further blurring won't be missed.