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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
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
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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.