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4 Sunday, November , 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORL "Everyone u Southern Ore on Hed Th Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fty St. Ph. SP 2-4141 " ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR, Managing Editor ZARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Woimn'i Editor DALE ERICKSON. CircuUUonMgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION FATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday mos. 8 00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.2a Sunday Only One year 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: Dally and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 ' Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance "dfflrlal Paper of City of Medford Official Paperof Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire - "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU - OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representativer 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. NEWSPAPEI rutiiSHCtt 'ASSOCIATION 3 NATION At EDITORIAL lAsgocfjTgN Flight fo Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Not. 9, 1948 (Tuesday) Forrest Wilson left county jail today, after serving two years for a crime a jury has ; decided he did not commit. County schools' plan to ob- itrve 'National Education week. .20 YEARS AGO Mot. 9, 1939 (Wednesday) C. C. Furnas, the incum tbent, is reelected mayor of 'Medford. - From Arthur Perry's "Ye .Smudge Pot" column: "As usual, the stay-at-home vote was large. So was the vote that neither stayed home, or .voted. Hereabouts, it was a "perfect day, for doing every ; thing but voting." SO YEARS AGO Not. 9. 1928 (Friday) A KMED program broad cast has been heard by a man In Nova Scdtia. High school students plan to "burn a "Fiery M" on the aide of Roxy Ann and serpen tine through the business dis trict tonight to arouse interest In the Medford-Ashland grid iron tussle. 40 YEARS AGO Not. 9. 1919 (Saturday) Medford irrigation district surveyors, working in the Eagle Point district, report seeing a large cougar just above Eagle Point . Prominent citizens of Med ford wait on the county court to take up the matter of se curing a permanent fair grounds on the Pacific high way between Medford and Ashland. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or tan correct is superior; aavon ar eight it excellent; five oi is is good. 1. Which European country was known in ancient times as Hellas? 2. What sport does the name Walter Hagan suggest to you? 3. What system of weight is used for weighing gold? 4. Name the originator of the drawings "Believe It or Not," who died in 1949. 5. What does the abbrevia tion cwt signify? 6. Which state of the U. S. is the largest producer of raisins? 7. Vicuna is another name for what animal? 8. Which country is the largest producer of coffee in the world? 9. What is believed to be the oldest form of preserving milk? 10. Who is known in history as "The Father of Medicine"? Answers: 1. Greece. 2. Golf. 3. Troy weight. 4. Robert L. Riploy. 5. Hundredweight. 6. California. 7. Llama. 8. Brazil. 9. Cheese. 10. Hippocrates. One Last Look Those who do not enjoy, as we do, taking one last parting look at election results are advised to turn elsewhere. We are going to indulge once more, and then quit honest Perhaps the one most striking result was the almost universal and emphatic "NO" vote given to money-spending and taxing proposals or to proposals which sounded as though that's what they might be. , This was true on the state ballot, and it was true on local ballots all over the state. rOR instance : New tax base proposals were turned down in a couple of Lane county districts and by the city of Milwaukie, plus perhaps some others which we may have missed in scanning newspapers from elsewhere in the state. In Portland, voters turned thumbs down, 4 or 5 to 1, on proposals to build a new bridge, and another big capital improvement program. In Salem, an armory construction program, similiar to the one completed here several years ago, passed by a slim margin, but voters in the county at large turned it down by a strong ma jority, thus killing the joint county-city-state-federal proposal. ' . IN CANBY, voters rejected a plan to dig another! deep well which was designed to bolster the city water supplies, wrhich have been inadequate. In Coos and Cuny county, a proposal to levy a small tax for the support of the Coos - Curry Pioneer and Historical association was killed. Union county defeated a proposal to levy taxes in excess of the 6 per cent limitation for construction and maintenance of county roads. In the little town of Amity, the less than 200 voters turned down a proposal to issue $21,000 worth of bonds for the construction of a new mu nicipal building. 'AND so it went. On the state ballot, down went the veter ans loan provision, presumablyHbecause the words increasing funds was included m the ballot title, and voters may have thought it would cost something. (It wouldn't.) The urban redevelopment proposal was beat en, possibly because the ballot title referred to "financing" methods, which may have been taken as a tax program. (It wasn't.) The proposal to "modify county debt limita tions" passed, and quite possibly because the word "modify" was understood to be "reduce" instead of "increase," which it really meant. The legislators salary increase was beaten. The state power development was soundly de feated. It may have been lack of them) , or again it development spells "money" to some voters. Yes, "taxes," "funds," "money" and "develop ment" were dirty words on the ballot. . - , A FEW other observations of possible local in- terest: , . In Eugene the voters had before them, for the second time in two years, a proposal to add fluor ides to the city water system. Two years ago it was beaten by a majority of about 500 votes; this time the margin of defeat was more than 2,000 votes. ' In Milwaukie, voters approved a '"dog con trol" ordinance. . And (our final comment on candidates in the election) Congressman Charles O. Porter won Douglas county (his opponent's home) by a 1,000 vote margin, carried all the counties in the dis trict with the single exception of Josephine, and came out with an over-all margin of just under 16,000 votes almost the exact margin by which he was defeated in his first race against Harris Ellsworth four years ago. E. A. The "Dumping" Problem We haven't conducted any public opinion poll, but wre would hazard the off-hand guess that the county planning commission (and presumably later the county court) will have substantial sup port in their efforts to control what is now vir tually uncontrolled dumping of trash, rubbish and garbage in the county. We saw how the good people of Jacksonville rose up in .wrath against a garbage dump near them even when assured that it would be con ducted under strictly regulated conditions far from sight. We have also noted reaction to an area along Sardine creek which apparently has been used for private dumping, although practically everyone for miles disclaims it. IT IS just another sign that the county is "grow- ing up." In the early days there were few enough peo ple and enough square miles that a little dumping of trash here and there offended practically no one. If it bothered you, you just went somewhere else, and there were plenty of other places to go. But today people are living closer and closer together, and there aren't plenty of other places to go any more. . Indiscriminate dumping is an eyesore, a nose offender, unsanitary, objectionable and thorough ly reprehensible, and enough people are getting sufficiently irritated to demand that something be done about it. Dumping also, unfortunately, is about the only way we have at present to set rid of the monu mental mountains of waste which Americans pro duce. ; The answerobiiouslv: is to Dermit dumnine-. but only in. certain places, and under controlled conditions. E.A. . beaten on its merits (or could have been because Dennis the Menace . Ouir hcwn oNJbey! Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. . Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the saper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Critics Criticized To the Editor: Miss Helen Webster, head librarian of the Jackson County Public Li brary, has been the target for various attacks, most of them unwarranted in view of the fact that she is guided at all times by the library law. Miss Webster, having com pleted courses in library sci ence and technique, is quali fied. Her performance of dut ies calls for no criticism from others less trained and quali fied. A poor "housekeeping" job in a branch library calls for exhortations to better work by the main librarian. It should not be construed to mean a personal attack upon the branch librarians by Miss Webster, and certainly no in sult to an individual, but merely a reminder that there are proper procedures which should- be ' followed. Books borrowed from branch libraries and kept be yond time limit are books taken out of circulation. Miss Webster's admonitions to se cure prompt return of overdue books is only her desire to make them available again to the entire county. There is a proper manner in which a county library should be operated. Ignorance does not excuse violations, nor does it excuse inefficiency and poor service in a branch li brary. Regular training class es are provided by Miss Web ster. So often the case is that those who are least efficient and loudest complaining are those who refuse to attend these training classes and avail themselves of a little understanding. The student clerks employ ed in the Medford main li brary receive far less than branch employees, yet theirs is a spirit of full cooperation and eagerness to study and learn to better serve the pub lic. They receive corrections as frequently as do the branch librarians, but they will not be seen to indulge in self-pity and charge Miss Webster with personal attacks and insults to themselves as individuals. Such cooperation by the em ployees' in the branch libraries of Jackson county could do much to better services to pa trons, and end bickering which curtails services to the public. A bit more coopera tion also would relieve Miss Webster of discouragement which she surely must suffer for attempting to give the best possible service, and it would reward her for her devotion and earnest application to her duties in the efficient manner in which she tackles the prob lems. Rather than constantly complaining, critics might weU go forth to attempt, as honestly as Miss Webser, to be better, more efficient li brarians. Mrs. Virginia Card P. O. Box 145 Medford Idle Property To the Editor: In January of 1958, I came to Medford and purchased property on Pioneer Road with plans of developing this area into a comfortable ranch. We moved here in June with full inten tions of building our home on the forty acres. After my wife had ridden over those roads once, that led from our property to Medford, she re fused to live out there until something was done about the roads She is employed oc casionally 5 by the Medford schools and felt that it would be too dangerous to travel on these roads daily, should it be necessary for her to do so. As a result of this, we had to change our plans entirely. I have full time employment in Medford and we have pur chased a building site closer He's coin the eesTHeow. lto. Medford on much safer roads. Until something is done to improve the Pioneer and Dark Hollow Roads, our land stands idle. We came from California but formerly are from Min nesota and Iowa. Both my wife and I have driven on many country roads, but have never encountered such appal ling road conditions such as those in the Dark Hollow and Pioneer District. You want people to come into the vaUev and make their home, yet you Drovide dang erous and unsafe roads for them and their children to travel upon. I ask you, do you really think this is a fair situation? r C. H. Johnson Property owner on Pioneer rd. 851 West 13th st., Medford From Gorden Hudson To the Editor: I take this opportunity, to extend my heartfelt thanks to all of the citizens in Jackson county who were so helpful in my campaign, and who supported my efforts at the polls. This was my first venture into politics, and it was not only enjoyable but education al as well. To those who feel politics is a "nasty business. I can only extend my sympa thy. The senator-elect, Dr. Ed win Durno, will serve Jackson county well, and to him my congratulations and best wish es. I know that those who cast their votes for me will now rally behind Dr. Durno and give him their earnest sup port. - It was a close and clean race and a real pleasure. Gorden Hudson Windsor and Dell wood aves., Medford Slow Progress To the Editor: As the par ents of two youngsters being "double shifted" in Roose velt school my wife and I are increasingly concerned over the apparent lack of planning which has so slowed the pro gress at. Wilson. Many par ents feel the same way. The bated issue was ap proved by the voters in Nov ember 1957. Why couldn't the ensuing months have been sufficient to get a construction crew going early this spring? A visit to Roosevelt shows that both teachers and stu dents are unduly rushed get ting a day's work done in a half day. To many youngsters this must be an upsetting ex perience and I'm sure it puts an added pressure on the teachers. - When the voters" are willing to approve progress, it would seem most desirable if all stumbling blocks could be re moved and the desired result be achieved expeditiously. I think it is not too late to hope that lost time be recover ed at an early date and every effort be made to catch up on the construction schedule vot ers thought they were getting. Veldon J. Diment 213 Portland ave. Medford. Commissioners Berated To the Editor: This is an open letter tu uur county com- missioners. ' The residents on Dark Hol low rd. have been informed there are no funds in the budget for widening Dark Hol low rd. I wonder if it is in the budget of the parents of the children to have them maim ed, bruised and their blood spilled on the road, because of your ignorance of the hazard that exists on the road? Or is it that you and your Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop BIG ELECTION SECRET Washington-The big secret of the 1958 election has been a pretty open secret for a pretty long time in horse racing circles. In brief, you cannot expect to win many races if al most all your entries are spavined, stringhal ted -ios;Db ajsup or ami ciea with glanders.' If you examine the Incredi ble election returns in detail, it really does turn out to be almost as simple as that. AU across the country, wherever the Republican entry was not visibly ready to be carted pff to the knackers yard, this ex ceptional animal made a re spectable showing or actually won his race. The minor cases of this sort were almost more impressive, in some ways, than the big, glittering, attention -"getting ones. In Massachusetts, for ex ample,, the Republicans seem to have composed their ticket by searching under stones, tracking down creatures that were making odd noises in tije wall, and other macabre ex periments in natural history. The sole candidate apparently chosen on the theory that he might attract a few votes, was Christian Herter Jr., who ran for attorney general. VOUNG Herter did not win.H to be sure. Nothing less than a direct intervention of the Almighty could have car ried him to victory when the leading Democrat, Sen. Jack Kennedy, was literally taking just under three-quarters of the total vote. But whereas Kennedy's opponent lost by a majority of over 850,000 votes, young Herter at least lost by a perfectly respectable total of less than 90,000 votes. No other case comes to mind, when a difference in the qual ity of "candidates made a dif ference of close, to 800,000 votes in the margins of the lead men and the rear man in a party-team. - The story in New York is too obvious to need underlin ing. There "(if another image may be borrowed from the animal world) Nelson Rocke feller turned out to be a po litical eagle. He carried the senatorial candidate, Kenneth Keating, to safe harbor be yond the storm waves, like the wren stole a ride in the fable. TN Oregon, again, the Repub flicans found a pretty good entry for the governorship in young Mark Hatfield, and he Roscoe Drummond Rep orts (Drummond Is substituting for Walter Llppmann, during the latter's trip to Russia.) MEANING OF THE ELECTION Washington - Now that the returns are in, . the size of the Democratic national victory and the significance of the Re publican New York state vic tory - plus its defeats-stands out even more sharply. What distinguishes the Democratic sweep of the new Congress is that it stems from every section of the country and bowls over long-held Re publican strongholds. The Democrats have taken everything in California for only the second time in this century.' They widely upset Republi cans throughout the Mid-West -in Indiana, Wisconsin, Ohio, political cronies don't give a hoot? How can you and your county engineers have the un mentionable gall to tell us we must continue to tolerate the hazard and put the lives of small children in serious jeop ardy? It is hard for clear thinking Americans to under stand why funds can't be made available. These are children of taxpayers going to school, financed by state and local taxes, -traveling roads (pardon me, single lane paths) built by county and state. Why. in the name of com mon sense must we subject them to danger of being killed, maimed and crippled because somewhere you can't find the funds and time to re build the road. You have wasted enough money turning weeds and gravel over in the last four years to rebuild the road "back right. If you had there wouldn't be some 30-odd bruised children in this dis trict. Any more blood spilled on Dark Hollow rd., as well as in the past is definitely on your hands, and we hope it weighs on your conscience until you fix the road. The next funds that "won't be able," will be your salaries from the public trough, be cause irate and justified voters of the district will see to your removal. Gordon and Eloise Logan, , Route 4, Box 421-A, Medford. was tidily elected in this in creasingly Democratic state. In Pennsylvania, once again, the Republicans found anoth er good man to run for the Senate, in the person of Hugh Scott, and Scott won quite comfortably. About the only respectable Republican on the Minnesota ticket was Sen. Ed Thye; and his case turned out like that of young Herter. He did not win, but he made a decent showing that contrast ed sharply with the general debacle in that state. Minnesota also provided one of .- the instances that prove the rule from the other side of the medal. Rep. Coya Knutson, in addition to her celebrated family troubles, was a thoroughly lightweight candidate; and in Minnesota the Democrats therefore lost Mrs. Knutson's House seat. In Maryland, too, the Democrats decided they could force the unappetizing mayor of Balti more, Thomas D'Alesandro, on the local voters; and thus the dim Republican, J. Glenn Beall, was thoughtfully as sisted to keep his Senate seat. It is perfect nonsense, in fact, to talk of these 1958 re sults in terms of a gigantic, irresistible tidal wave. What looked like a tidal wave was first of all the sum of a long series of local Republican choices of candidates obvious ly likely to repel the maxi mum number of votes. Wher ever the Democrats commit ted comparable follies, as they did here and there, they also suffered. FT several states the false semblance of a tidal wave was also assisted by another kind of Republican folly. For some reason, many Republi cans have always liked doing meaningless ideological gym nastics better than running for victory. The consequence, this time, was the interjection of the so-caUed right-to-work issue into several state elec tions, with results that were dramatic enough to require separate analysis. . In the main, however, this election has chiefly illustrat ed the decay of state Republi can organizations, their wide spread failure to recruit able, m o d er.a t e and impressive younger men, and, their gen eral preference for dreary, old hacks and selling-platers. It has also illustrated the vigor ous parallel rebirth of the Democratic state organiza tions, and their wicked prefer ence for vote-getters on the ticket. No doubt the Republicans could not have avoided a mod est setback in this . off-year. But they surely." deserve the fullest credit as sole architects of their own disaster. . . : Kansas, Michigan, Wyoming, Minnesota, and Iowa. They took back both Sena- torships in West Virginia. They elected a Governor of Vermont for the first time in a hundred years. And what does this mean for 1960? One answer ddesn't even involve opinion: The Democrats have already won control of the Senate" in the next Congressional election. By taking more than 60 seats in the new Senate, the Demo crats can't possibly lose con trol of the Senate in 1960 even it there were a monu mental Republican landslide. The reason is that two years hence there will be only 10 Democratic Senate seats at stake outside the Solid South -which will be solid for Con gress even if not for the Presidency - and if the Re publicans should win them all, the Democrats would still keep control. AN THE Republican side, both its limited victories and its key defeats tell the same story. The over - riding political fact is that the Republican Right-wing was decimated. Wherever the Republicans lost, it was almost uniformly the extreme Republican con servatives who fell by the wayside. Wherever the Republicans won, it was almost invariably the Republican liberals - the Eisenhower Republicans, the "modern" Republicans who withstood and in New York turned back the Democratic avalanche. The sensational triumph of Governor-elect Nelson Rocke feller is the most vivid ex ample. His vote matched the ascendancy of Thomas Dewey at his peak. He showed that defeat is not built into the Re publican Party, that the Demo cratic landslide had nothing inevitable about it But the Rockefeller victory is only part of the evidence. The progressive - minded Kenneth Keating held the New York Senatorship away from the popular Frank S. Hogan who ran ahead of Gov. Harriman and who, with the , IPOTLUOC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Politics or, rather, the election and the reporting of it - dominated the lives of newspaper people this week. This is a chore, a big one and an exhausting one, and we're darn glad that major elections only come every-other-year. But despite the weariness, despite the late hours, despite the recurring and endless columns of fig ures, figures, figures, news paper workers generally have fun during elections. There is excitement, for one thing - the genuine excite ment of watching democracy's most important function in process. There is also the fact of being among the first to know how things are going, and the ' concomitant urge, strong in newspaper people, to let others know. (That's our business, after all.) And there is also a fascina tion in watching the reactions of people of candidates both successful and unsuccessful; of strong advocates of this candidate or that measure - as the returns come in. Some are despondent, some are elated, others have all the varying emotions in between. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS More election aftermath: An early bird boom for Nel son Rockefeller for President is starting. "Rocky for Presi dent" clubs are already springing up. He himself Is turning a deaf ear to all such talk. He is mak ing it clear that he feels .he has a big job ahead of him as governor of New York. WATCH Nelson Rockefeller ' ' He has what it takes to be a big factor in our future. He is gifted with an amazing and rather indescribable charm. When he talks to peo ple, he neither talks DOWN to them nor talks UP to them. He is just his natural ' self, And, in the process of being his natural self, he manages to convey clearly the impres sion that he is genuinely in terested in the person to whom he is talking. COMETHING else worth watching: r At this early hour, when the: returns are not yet com pletely tabulated, -it appears that the voters of Oregon were in a rather economical mood on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of the year 1958. The dispatches report that voters 'in a few Oregon dis tricts OK'd money measures on the ballot but they turned down EVEN MORE money measures. That showed up rather plainly in the state-wide voting. If that trend Is confirmed when all the votes are count ed it will be important. It will be important because it will be an indication that voters are coming to realize that the only way to check the RISE OF TAXES is to spend less money for the things that are paid for with tax money. massive machine backing of Tammany's Carmine De Sapio, was favored to win. And in the 17th Congressional district where in 1954 and in 1956 Democrat- Anthony B Akers came so near to defeat ing the conservative Republi can Frederic Coudert that Mr. Coudert did not run again, lib eral Republican John Lindsay held th seat by a wide mar gin. ... . rpHERE are other examples. -- In Pennsylvania where un employment was still high and the Democratic tide took David Lawrence into the Gov ernorship, Hugh Scott, an au thentic Eisenhower Republi can, emerged victorious. In Oregon the liberal Re publican candidate for Gov ernor upset the Democratic Governor, Robert D. Holmes, and began a Republican re surgence in a state which in recent years had become solid ly Democratic in all state wide offices. The Republican defeats teach the same lesson. Nearly everywhere the right - wingJ Republicans brought defeat to the Republican Party. Mr. Knowland was rejected in California. Sen. George Ma lone was defeated in Nevada, Sen. Frank Barrett in Wyom ing, Sen. Chapman Rever comb in West Virginia, and Sen. John Bricker in Ohio. In diana Republican Harold W. Handley, who ran in the im age of the retired Senator Jenner, also lost out Only in Arizona did the Republican Right-wing fare really well in the decisive re-election of Sen. Barry Goldwater. Modern Republicanism showed its strength in victory and in defeat. (c) 1958 New York Harald Tribune Inc. Some are calm and others excited. But all are intense and in terested. It is quite a show. On of the most graceful losers, we sea by an upstate newspaper, was Gov. Bob Holmes. A Salem paper had a picture of him and his conqueror. Mark Hatfield, both grinning broadly and shaking hands. This waa just before they sat down at a board of control meeting with Stat Treasurer Sig Unander (who, it will be re called, was defeated by Hat field in the primary elec tion). At they gathered. Holmes grinned again and remarked, "Sig and I ar forming a club for man whom Hatfield whipped. We'll call it tha 'Had by Hatfield dub'." Following the election, a group of celebrants was ob served debating the desirabili ty of passing around a bottle of liquid spirits. One member of the group, looking sharply at another who was somewhat less than tip-top condition, pointedly suggested instead that a bottle of iced tea would have more salutary results - in some cases anyway. And in another cat, ona of tha veterans of tha local political wars was heard muttering to himself, "I gotta grow a new set of tail feathers." Lee Bex, who operates a typesetting machine for the Mail Tribune, was the center of attention last week, after rolling a "perfect" 300 game at the bowling alleys here. He received congratulations, prizes, had his picture' taken, and generally was the center of flustered and happy atten tion. r He seemed to thrive on it. A man who takes a philo sophical view of things, how ever, composed the following slightly off-beat ode to Bex' achievement: Pondering on immortality From morn to setting sun, I wonder where Lee Bex would be Had he rolled three-hundred-one. . v . . The office philosopher (Jg) declares that too, many druggists take too long to type out tha instructions on a prescription bottle. Takes . 'em as long to do tha typing as it does to fix up tha medi cine, ha says. - The same young man also believes that there is one ab solutely fool-proof way to be called back to work on your day off. Just get ready to start stack ing a large pile of fireplace wood, he says. In almost two years, this has never yet failed to bring a call from the office for some special extra work. ' A youngster, tha son of a real estate man, recently gave a description of his father which was revealing, but whether it described why his dad entered real estate, or tha results of that trade, is unclear. "My dad's a great talker," ha said. ,, A Medford woman who re cently had her fifth child re ceived from her sister a bit of verse commemorating the oc casion. She liked it so much she sent it to us because she thought it worth passing on. We think so too. Here it is: , SONG FOR A FIFTH CHILD Mother, Oh Mother, come shake out your cloth! Empty the dustpan, poison the moth. Hang out the washing and butter the bread, Sew on a button and make up a bed. Where is the mother whose house is so shocking? She's up in the nursery, blissfully rocking! "Oh I've grown as shiftless as Little Boy Blue (Lullaby, rockaby. Lullaby Loo!) Dishes are waiting and bills are past due (Pat-a -cake, darling, and peek, peek-a-boo). The shopping's not done and there's nothing for stew And out in the yard there's a hullabaloo. But I'm playing Kanga and this is my Roo. Look! Aren't her eyes the most wonderful hue? (Lullaby, Rockaby, Lullaby Loo). "Oh cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow. For children grow up, as I've learned to my sor - row, So quiet down, cobwebs! Dust, go to sleep! I'm rocking my baby. Ba bies don't keep." .
