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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
Nov. 2. 1948 (Tuesday)
Nine Jackson county towns
are casting votes for city offi
cials today.
A wealth of local artistic
talent has been revealed in
downtown store window ex
hibits. 20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 2. 1938 (Wednesday)
Lights on Cottage st. have
been asked for as a deterrent
to crime and accidents.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "From
now until election day, can
didates for Governor and
Senator will concentrate their
efforts in Multnomah county.
Some think Multnomah coun
ty deserves it, and some are
tender-hearted."
30 YEARS AGO
Nov: 2, 1928 (Friday)
Medford businessmen and
other citizens map final plans
for their drive to elect A.
W. Pipes Medford's next
mayor. !
Table Rock farmers breath
a sigh of relief as the pheasant
season closes and they can
relax their vigil against ma
rauding sportsmen.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 2.. 1918 (Saturday)
"Burn insence to protect
against influenza," the Japa
nese Art Store urges in "Local
and Personal."
"A bunch of jolly Marine
recruits numbering 50 went
South Wednesday afternoon,"
the Ashland correspondent re
ports. What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five of
six is good.
1. Who was instrumental in
Samson, of Biblical fame, be
ing captured following a hair
cut?
2. A lanameter is an ap
partus for examining and
classifying w ?
3. A person suffering from
acrophobia would have a mor
bid fear of being near the
water, at great heights, or
underground?
4. At 6 'per cent interest,
how much would it cost for a
$100 loan for one month?
5. On what date each year
does the Federal government
end its fiscal year?
6. One would most likely
find a Bunsen burner in a
bakery, coal mine or chemical
laboratory?
7. A rod is a distance of
162 feet, 33 feet, or 66 feet?
8. In round numbers, what
is the approximate circum
ference of the earth in miles?
9. There are 16 ounces in
an avoirdupois pound; how
many ounces are there in a
troy pound?
10. Tovarisch is a term used
by Russians. Does it mean
friend, or foe?
Answers. 1. Delilah. 2.
Wool. 3. At great heights.' 4.
50 cents. 5. June 30. 6. Chem
ical laboratory. 7. lGVi feet.
8. 25,000 miles. 9. 12 ounces.
10. Friend. -
Candidate Recommendations
CONGRESSMAN: Vote 102, Charles 0.
Porter.
- GOVERNOR: Vote 104, Robert D. Holmes.
LABOR COMMISSIONER: Vote 106, Nor
man 0. Niisen.
STATE SENATOR: Vote 108, Gordon
Hudson.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE: Vote 110,
Robert B. Duncan.
COUNTY CLERK: Vote 113, Bereth P.
Hopkins.
COUNTY COMMISSIONER:, Vote 116,
Chester H. Wendt.
COUNTY JUDGE: Vote 119, Earl M. Mil
ler. SHERIFF : Vote 121, Joseph D. Walsh.
(City of Medford)
COUNCILMEN: Roy P. Wilkes (Ward I)
and Stanley Stark, (Ward IV).
The election campaign of 1958 will be over
tomorrow, and the voters
the next day.
As campaigns so. it
ly interesting nor edifying one. In the major
races, few real issues were developed, and in
the campaigns for local offices the appeal for
votes nas been largely on
tnan on matters of substance.
Making the choice between candidates has,
as a result, been difficult in some instances, in
others less so.
AS IS ITS custom, the
presents its recommendations on candidates,
We do not expect all of
win. Nor do we assume the prerogative of tell
ing anyone how to vote."
But, the above are our choices, based on fa
miliarity with all the candidates, and observation
of many of them over a
mendations are made only in the hope that they
may prove helpful to uncommitted voters.
IN THE Congressional race, the choice is easy.
Charles O. Porter is completing his first two
year term in office. He has been an aggressive,
active, busy congressman. He has made mistakes,
and profited thereby. His service to constituents,
in answering mail, processing inquiries, and so
on, has been the most effective the Fourth District
has ever had. He has, as he promised in his cam
paign two years ago, devoted a substantial por
tion of his time to foreign affairs. He has gotten
things done for his district. He has not hesitated
to take a stand on matters of controversy. He is
both realistic and idealistic, and his courage and
intelligence are unquestionable. His opponent we
believe to be basically a fine man, despite some of
the shoddy tactics of his
qualifications of experience, ability, character
and attitude, we believe
now have a really
have much invested in him. We recommend the
reelection of Charles O.
IN THE Governor's race, we have two relatively
young men, both able and intelligent, both
p-enerallv liberal in outlook. We believe Bob
Holmes, despite some mistakes, has made an ex
cellent governor, and should be permitted to car
ry out the program which he has started during
the past two years. He has had the courage to do
some unpopular things which he felt should be
done. We believe Bob Holmes merits reelection.
Norman 0- Niisen,. the state labor commis
sioner, has made an excellent record in office,
particularly in some of the touchy issues coming
under the jurisdiction of his office. His opponent
also appears qualified, but we believe Niisen has
earned another term, and recommend him with
out hesitation.
POR THE state senate seat from Jackson county
we give a slight edge to Gordon Hudson, the
young businessman taking his first flier at pol
itics. We do so on the basis that he is youthful and
energetic, and has no axes to grind save serving
the county. Dr. Durno is too closely associated
with the tightly-knit and clannish medical pro
fession, in our opinion, to serve as a legislator
with a broad outlook. We wish a candidate with
more experience in public service were running.
Lacking that, we suggest a vote for Hudson.
In the race for the house of representatives,
we have one candidate who is outstandingly qual
ified, Robert Duncan, now seeking his second
term. Despite attempted distortions of parts of
his record during the campaign, it is a fact that
Duncan made an outstanding name in the house,
and has a good chance of being speaker next year
if reelected. Our choice for the second seat would
be either his wife, Marijane, who has had legis
lative experience as her husband's secretary, or
Mrs. Eve Nye, whose interest and activity on be
half of schools and in other fields amply qualify
her for office. ,
'
COR county clerk, we believe Bereth P. Hopkins
has earned another term. No one acquainted
with the way she has operated the office can suc
cessfully maintain she has been anything but effi
cient and forward-looking. We have frequently
disagreed with her on policy, but never on the
way in which she lias run this largely administra
tive position.
We also believe that Chester H. Wendt has
earned another term as county commissioner. He
has been able, friendly and accessible. His ex
perience is of value to the county, a qualification
lacked by his personable opponent, and one
will make their choices
has not been a particular
a personal basis, rather
Mail Tribune herewith
those recommended to
period of years. Kecom
campaign. But on the
Fourth District voters
top-flight congressman, and
Porter.
Dennis the Menace'
yA know vimMm? Joey savs he 60$ for blonds;
Roscoe Drummond
Reports ...
(Drummond Is substituting for Walter Lippmann,
during the latter's trip, to Russia.)
THE BOOMING WEST
Seattle - You can't travel
through the Southwest, from
Texas to California, and uo
the Coast to the Pacific North
west without realizing that the
people of the United States are
today literally leaping to fol
low the prescient advice of
Horace Greeley, "Go west,
young man, go west!"
People are coming West in
droves; they have been com
ing for a decade and more
and there is no let-up. The
effects are visible on every
hand and become more visi
ble almost every day.
The whole balance of pow
er in the United States-political,
industrial, and economic
is continuing to shift west
ward and southward radically
and rapidly. We are just be
ginning to feel the conse
quences. The greatest magnet
for this shift are the 17 West
ern states from the Dakotas
and Texas to the Coast.
And the whole South, once
the poor colonies of the East
ern bankers, is running sec
ond.
Only the Eastern and North
ern states are slumping behind
the rising percentages of na
tional growth.
THE breath-taking shift in
nnniilatinn ilna Wcclflm
T M V W . ? V. .J k 1 1.
states have been gaining more
than twice as rapidly as the
rest of the nation immedi
ately brings new political
power in its wake. By the
1960 census the 17 states of
the West will have 18 more
members of the House of Rep
which will be of value on
luomg une iiiciunueiii.
COR county judge, we pick Earl H. Miller,
whose experience in city government, busi
ness and public service equip him for the job.
Joe Walsh has made an excellent chief dep
uty sheriff, and should do just as well in the elec
ted position in charge of the office. He is young,
personable and adjustable, with wide experience
and training in law enforcement and administra
tion. In the two races for city council in Medford,
we unhesitatingly pick Roy P. Wilkes in Ward
I and Stanley Stark in Ward IV, on the basis of
ability and, more important, attitude toward the
office. Both are forward-looking and progressive,
and will serve the city well.
FJNALLY, we should mention that all those can-
i ... . .
uiudtcs wiiu are wnnout opposition on the bal
lot (for supreme court, circuit court, district
court, superintendent of public instruction, coro
ner, mayor of Medford, and Medford city coun
cil) merit the confidence of the voters, and should
receive a complimentary vote of approbation.
These recommendations are, as indicated,
purely advisory, and made on what we hope is
an impersonal basis. Because onp. ranrHrlntp is
recommended, it does not mean we disapprove
of the other, but simply feel that, under the cir
cumstances, one is oetter tor the particular office
than the other. '
May the best men or women ! win. E. A.
Measure Recommendations
No. 1: Vote "Yes."
No. 2: Vote "Yes."
No. 3: Vote "Yes."
No. 4: Vote "Yes."
No. 5: Vote "Yes."
No. 6: Vote "Yes."
No. 7: Vote "Yes."
No. 8: Vote "Yes."
No. 9: Vote "Yes."
No. 10: Vote "No."
No. 11: Vote "Yes."
No. 12: Vote "No."
No. 13: Vote "No."
Medford sidewalk
"No."
resentatives than they had in
1940. With the accession of
Alaska and almost certainly
Hawaii in another two years,
the geographical center of
gravity will be further west,
and there will be 19 Western
states with four more Sena-
tors and two or three more
members of Congress.
It is not so much accidental
as it is a reflection of this
trend that in 1948 and 1952 a
formidable contender for the
Republican Presidential nomi
nation was a Californian, Gov.
Earl Warren, that , the Chief
Justice of the United States is
a Californian, the same Mr,
Warren, that the Vice Presi
dent is .a Californian, Mr.
Nixon, and that for several
years the 1960 Republican
Presidential possibilities have
been dominated by California
names - Vice President Nixon,
Sen. William Knowland, and
Gov. Goodwin Knight. And if
the state's Democratic Guber
natorial nominee, Edmund
(Pat) Brown, wins on Nov. 4,
another Californian will em
erge in the national Demo
cratic picture.
rpHE fact is, as you can see
with your eyes by little
more than looking out your
window, that since the be
ginning of World War II,
arid in part because of the
war, the West first-the South
next - are booming and bur
geoning above the rest of the
nation in every category of
economic, industrial and fi
nancial growth.
The essential ingredients of
a court which is already
measure, No. 51. Vote
Washington Report
By William S. White
BITTERSWEET
Washington - Curiously
bittersweet legacies have
come to Vice-President Rich
ard M. Nixon from his vast
exertions in the Congression
al election campaign.
He has "so
c o nsolidated
himself with
the organiza
tional Repub
licans that he
is the undoub
ted head of
the GOP, in
the place of
President Eis-
wiiiiam s. white enhower. This
rarety is freely accepted even
by some members of the
President's own Cabinet.
But Mr. Nixon has also
hardened or rather circum
stances have hardened a
public view of himself as a
bitterly divisive politician
that already had been rather
widely held.
The first of his new inheri
tances the practical accep
tance of him throughout the
party structure as "the boss,"
two years before President
Eisenhower is officially to
bow out is logical and only
fair. It was Nixon, who for
better or worse, really direct
ed the Republican campaign;
it was Nixon who took the
pressure and the heat.
THE second interitance
the deepened image of the
Vice-President as only a dark
and scowling guerrilla fight
er is not logical and not fair
in the view of this columnist,
who is no uncritical Nixon
admirer and never was. The
Vice-President simply is the
victim of an odd emotional
process that bears little re
semblance to the objective re
ality. The truth is that Nixon was
a world away from the Nixon
of the 1954 Congressional
campaign. Then, he repeated
ly dropped innuendoes sug
gesting that a very large part
of the Democratic party had
a doubtful patriotism.
It was in plain fact a mean,
tough Nixon then quite
mean enough and tough
enough, if never quite so bad
as the Democrats claimed.
This time, however, he said
nothing remotely of this sort.
Rather, he went out of his
way to declare that there was
no "party of treason" save
for the Communists. Indeed
and here is the great irony
his reported words were not
any sharper than those of the
President himself. And in
some important instances they
were not even as sharp.
VTEVERTHELESS, nob ody
A" has denounced the Eisen
hower speeches one-tenth so
much as the Nixon speeches
have been denounced.
Nixon in 1954 was doing
what the President did not
care personally to do fight
ing for a Republican Congress
in behalf of the President's
administration. It has been
generally "forgotten, but the
this growth from 1940 to 1958
have been compactty com
piled by the "U. S. News &
World Report" and can be
put briefly as follows:
West
108
455
379
930
770
55
South North
Employment
Personal Inc.
Bank Assets
Cap. Spending
Manufacture
Population
80 44
411
364
285
160
531
693
554 411
25 25
This tremendous growth in
the West and in the South is
visibly greater because it
starts from a lower base, but
it has been steady for the past
18 years and shows no signs
of halting.
DR. WALTER P. Webb of
the University of Texas,
president of the American
Historical Association makes
this interesting point in his
"U.S. News & World Report"
interviews:
"The North had a trinity of
industrial resources in coke
and coal, limestone, and iron
ore. These ushered in the age
of steel and gave the North
its industrial supremacy.
"The South today has a
similar industrial trinity-the
trinity of hydrocorbons which
are oil and gas, plus sulphur
and water. This is the trinity
of the Age of Chemistry. Only
in the South do these three
elements exist in juxtaposi
tion. In the next 50 years the
South may be the economic
opportunity No. 1 of the na
tion." Coincident with these de
velopments, the Republicans
have been gaining some in the
South and the Democrats con
siderably in the West. After
Nov. 4 it would not be sur-'
prising to see the three Coast
states represented by three
Democratic Governors and
five Democratic Senators with
two more probably to come
later from Alaska.
(c) 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Ine.
President knew what was in
those Nixon speeches then.
And repeatedly and unreserv
edly he praised Mr. Nixon for
them.
In 1958 the President him
self was doing what Nixon
was doing - and saying words
at least as harsh. Nixon, how
ever, is the sole villain of
those who, because of outrag
ed partisan feeling or in
simple distaste, disliked this
year's GOP tactics.
Why is this so? No strictly
rational and adequate explan
ation is possible. True, Mr.
Nixon had a bad record from
four years ago and, to some,
from the time he first entered
Congress in 1946. True, the
President's words were large
ly discounted by a public that
sensed he did not really mean
them.
But there are also these
considerations:
In 1954 at least Nixon was
working far more for Presi
dent Eisenhower than for
himself-and indeed he would
have been this time had the
President chosen to exercise
his own traditional party
leadership rather than hand
it over to his junior. v
1
rpHE President was quite
-- content to accept both the
methods and the results of
the Nixon campaigns in
both years.
And arguably at least
it surely would seem to be
as bad to say harsh things
and not mean them as to
say them and mean them.
Nothing measurable can ex
plain that words which are
entirely permissible for the
President are entirely imper
missible for the. Vice-President.
The only answer to the rid
dle seems to be this:
Nixon has become a cliche
figure to the Democratic and
allied opposition just as Har
ry S. Truman was to the Re
publican and allied opposi
tion. All legend to the con
trary, Mr. Truman never said
of the Republicans things as
deeply wounding as Franklin
Roosevelt said. Just as, in this
campaign at any rate, Mr.
Nixon has said nothing worse
than President Eisenhower.
But when the Republicans
seek to put a name to reckless
extremism they automatically
cry "Truman." And when the
Democrats seek . the same
they automatically cry "Nix
on." (Copyright, 1958 by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Soviet author Boris Pas
ternak rejects the 1958 Nobel
prize for literature. In a brief
telegram to the Swedish
Academy in Stockholm he
says:
"Considering the meaning
this award has been given in
the society to which I belong,
I must reject this undeserved
prize which has been present
ed to me.
"Please do not receive my
voluntary rejection with dis
pleasure." O ??????
He probably reasoned
he'd rather be a live nobody
than a dead celebrity.
Who are we to judge him
harshly
We don't live in communist
Russia.
DESPOTS tend to act like
despots.
Back in 1935 an ANTI-
NAZI German journalist (over
on that side of the water they
call them journalists ; on
this side the term "journal
ist" is regarded by some news
paper men as slanderous) in
curred Hitler's wrath by win
ning the Nobel peace prize
His name was Carl von Os-
sietzky. v
Hitler compelled him to re
fuse it.
IN OUR own United States
of America, we often in
election years grow weary of
the hogwash and the ballyhoo.
We shouldn't.
We should take it in stride.
After aU, with all its de
fects, our government is the
best government on earth and
every day in the year we
should gee down on our knees
and give fervent thanks that
we live where we live.
MORE foreign affairs:
Western diplomats, as
sembled in Geneva for critical
atomic talks, are increasingly
pessimistic about prospects of
agreement with the Soviets to
halt nuclear tests.
'The conference is assemb
ling in an atmosphere rang
ing from official cautious op
timism to privately frank pes
simism. SHUCKS!
What difference does it
make?
Everybody knows a com-
Matter of Fact
The Harriman Poll
Washington In a some
what gingerly way, the forces
of Gov. Averell Harriman
IA- J"H have now
:1 made their
own pre - elec
tion tests of
the New York
voting trend.
The r e s u 1 ts,
which are
doubly inter
esting because
of their source,
i 1
4osph Alsop S"uw a luain.-
ed but not necessarily deci
sive gain for Harriman's chal
lenger, Republican Nelson
Rockefeller.
The poll, sponsored by lead
ing members of the Harriman
campaign staff, took the form
of a rather careful sampling
of 100 representative election
precincts m New York City
where a Democratic candidate
normally has to win by a
heavy majority to carry the
state.
In 1954, for instance, Gov.
Harriman carried the state by
less than 12,000 votes, with
a majority of 698,655 votes in
New York City. The recenUy
conducted poll revealed
enough switches from Rocke
feller to Harriman to cut the
Governor's 1958 majority in
the city to 610,000 votes, as
suming that the same number
of voters cast their ballots
this time. The drop in the pro
jected majority implied a drop
of about six percentage points
in total voting strength.
THERE are several things to
be said about this straw
in the New York wind. On the
one hand, the Harriman poll
is considerably more comfort
ing to the Governor than oth
er, more limited tests, which
have showed drops in his city
voting strength of 12 percent
age points and more. Futher
more, the Harriman forces
argue, with a good deal of sur
face logic, that the Governor
can stand a limited reduction
in his city majority, because
he is going to do much better
upstate this time.
Last time, an astute last
minute take in the grand man
ner, credibly attributed to
Thomas E. Dewey, persuaded
many tens of thousands of up
state voters that Harriman
meant to slash the state sub
sidies to upstate public-
schools. The fake certainly
cost Harriman somewnere be
tween 200,000 and 300,000
votes. No such trick can be
played this year, since Harri
man is too well known and
has done most ' of his fence-
building upstate. If you credit
Harriman with a favorable
change in the upstate vote
that is no more than equal
to the unfavorable change in
the New York City vote, then
he wiU be elected again by
another narrow marjority.
0N THE other hand, the
Rockefeller, forces claim
their man will do better in
New York than the Harriman
poll suggests. There are also
strong indications that the
Tammany leader, Carmine De-
Sapio, is concentrating all his
effort on getting out a big
vte for his Senate candidate,
Frang Hogan, and paying very
little attention to the Gover
nor. In addition, the Harri-
man-DeSapio row over Hog-
an's nomination has produced
unfavorable repercussions in
some upstate areas.
Add that New York City
registration is up, but some
people say that the vote will
be down all the same. Add
further that the Rockefeller
forces only claim that their
own poll3 show a neck-and-neck
race, although they are
ostentatiously exuding confi
dence. Altogether, anyone
would be a fool to forecast
the New York outcome, with
out a vastly larger collection
of straws in the wind.
CONCERNING this most in
teresting state contest in
many years,' at least one fat
prediction can certainly be
made, however. The outcome
will effect the future of both
parties in an almost unpre
cedented manner. If Harriman
wins and Rockefeller loses,
the strongest effect will be
felt among the Republicans.
For in this event, it seems
quite likely that the more con
spicuous Republican surviv
ors this year will all belong
to the extreme conservative
wing of the party. The lessons
a great many Republicans will
happily draw from this result
can be too easily imagined.
... If Harriman is defeated by
Rockefeller, on the other
hand, both parties will be
quite sharply affected, especi
ally if Harriman's defeat is
balanced by a victory for De
Sapio's Senate nominee, Hog-
munist's work isn't worth the
paper it is written on and will
be broken whenever the time
comes when breaking it will
be expedient.
The thing to do is to keep
talking. Talk is cheaper than
shooting. Personally, I stiU be
lieve that communism is so
foul that in time it will fall
of the weight of its own foul-ness-if
we can just keep talk
ing long enough.
'42 jsr
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i -
By Joseph Alsep
an. In this event, the influence
of the Northern city bosses in
the Democratic Party will be
immensely increased. Among
the Republicans, in contrast
the expected successes of a
few of their, Right wingers
will be almost obscured by
the quite dramatic triumph of
Nelson Rockefeller, who is so
far to the left of most Re
publicans that you can hardly
tell him from Harriman.
(c) 1958 New York Htrald
Tribune Inc.
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
Potluck came close to being
an election casualty this
week. You see, the same un
fortunate fellow who handles
the Communications" col
umn also puts this one to
gether, and a glance around
Pages 4 and 5 today will re
veal he's had a job on his
hands this week end.
Anyway, the shouting will
die down tomorrow night,
the last-minute charges will
be hurled, and then things
wul quiet down to the rela
tive" peace of election day,
when no electioneering or
campaigning is permitted -
and rightly so.
The passions of the cam
paign will begin to cool and
senses of humor will begin
to return.
Elections are sure a messy
way to run the government.
But we don't know of a better
way. Do you?
A staff member of ours,
who had an assignment one
night recently, found a ride
to Ashland to cover the
event so that his own fami
ly could have the car to go
io the movies. When the
family decided on what
show to see, where did they
go? Ashland, of course.
A young couple was driv
ing from Medford to Port
land recently to show off the
new baby to relatives.
Along near Albany, the
husband sniffed and asked his
wife if, by chance, the baby
needed a "change."
Indignantly, she pointed
out the big paper mill which
they just were passing.
.
The one-way grid In
downtown Medford is work
ing pretty smoothly, now,
with west-bound traffic roll
ing along Main and east
bound traffic on Eighth. Bui
long-time residents of the
city still occasionally have
to resist old, ingrained hab
its of driving, - including
couple ox the city officials
who shared the responsi
bility of planning and set
ting up the grid, who were
overheard recently admit
ting that each of them had
caught themselves on sev
eral occasions starting to go
the wrong way on one of
the one-way streets.
A local radio announcer
was going through a series of
news bulletins recently, which
described the selection of the
new Pope. At one point he
said:
The Roman . Catholic
Church has a new pope, and
he has chosen the nickname,
John."
LAMENT OF MIDDLE AGE
The hula hoop just sends
me
Into a frensy, and bends
me.
Life's really droll.
My equator's gyrating.
By-grating, high-rating.
The hoop won't roll.
I should have started
younger;
A thousand-fold I hunger
To emulate the youngsters
Despite the barbs of
punsters.
Yike's, I'm old!
That isn't the last word on
hula hoops. The following
may not be, either, but we
sort of hope that it is. Any
way it should be. The piece is
swiped from the Salem Capi
tal Journal, and quotes a col
lege professor describing the
phenomenon:
Actually, what is invoivea
is the conservation of angular
momentum, something that
should certainly be conserved
bv aU and sundry. It is merely
. it i a.
necessary to exert a smau dui
carefully regulated impulse
(the product of force x time)
by allowing a hypersensitive
sacroliac to impinge on a
small portion of the interior
rjeriDherv of a snorc secwon
of the hoop. The impulse, ap
plied with some discretion,
serves to produce a change in
the aneular momentum of the
hoop, and if the force of this
impulse is so directed that
there is a small vertical com
ponent of this momentum op
posing the force of gravity
which acts uniformly over the
plane of the hoop, then the
resulting horizontal motion
wUl be maintained with rare
uniformity to the amazement
of all beholders who do not
realize that the whole deal is
just as easy as falling off a
log."
Y