4 Sunday, April 12, 19S9
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Medford and Jackson County
History, from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 12, 1949 (Tuesday)
Medford city councilmen
will convene tonight to dis
cuss how to raise funds to
complete the Hawthorne park
swimming pool.
Outboard races were held
on Emigrant lake Sunday.
20 YEARS AGO
April 12, 1939 (Wednesday)
; Ted Shawn's dance troupe
presents a program depicting
episodes of American history
at the Holly theater.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
smudge rot column: Quite i
a number oi the Older uiriS
are busy every afternoon
playing conflict bridge."
30 YEARS AGO
April 12, 1929 (Friday)
The high school safe is
blown and investigators find
$100 missing.
The state game commission
turns down pleas for an earlier
upcxixiig UX llie uuul scaauu.
40 YEARS AGO
A 14-year-old local youth
swipes a horse-drawn milk
wagon and goes for a ride.
Jackson county s quota in
the victory loan drive
$526,950.
is
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SO YEARS AGO
April 12, 1909 (Monday)
Ashland seeks a new hos
pital and a Carnegie library.
Improvements for Crater
Lake national parkv including
blazing a trail for horses and
the erection of new buildings,
are announced.
T
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine ar ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. If a person is reported to
be in the arms of Morpheus,
what would he be doing?
2. What is the name of the
British national anthem?
3. Each year a "Mummers"
parade is held in Philadel
phia, Pa.; is this event in
March, October, or January?
4. The flesh of calves when
sold for food is called what?
5. Who was the only U.S.
President to remain a lifelong
bachelor?
6. Name the capital of Hun
gary. 7. Correct the following:
"Bacteria was found to be
abundant."
8. Name the five senses.
9. The writing material in
lead pencils is lead; true or
false?
10. Where, in Virginia, was
the first permanent English
settlement made in America?
1. Sleeping. 2. "God Save
the Queen." 3. January 4.
Veal. 5. James Buchanan. 6.
Budapest. 7. "Bacteria were
. . ." 8. Sighi, hearing, smell,
taste, touch. 9. False. 10.
Jamestown, Va.
Rubber Workers
Strike in 1 1 States
New York - (CPD - Rubber
workers were on strike
against U.S. Rubber company
plants in 11 states Friday be
cause of failure to reach
agreement with the company
on contract terms covering
pensions, insurance, severance
pay and working conditions.
Two Approaches
In a filing cabinet in this office, there is a fat
folder filled with arguments, propaganda and
information about automobile liability insurance.
Much of it deals with two controversial pro
posals with compulsory automobile liability in
surance (as proposed by former Gov. Robert D.
Holmes), and with a compulsory "uninsured mo
torist" clause on automobile liability insurance
policies (as proposed by Gov. Mark Hatfield,
and as passed by the legislature last week).
Both proposals seek to solve the same problem
that which arises when an innocent person is
hurt or damaged in an automobile accident, and
when the guilty party has neither the insurance
nor the financial resources to make it up to him.
DUT they approach it differently.
The compulsory insurance proposal, briefly,
would require each motorist, before receiving a
driver's license, to offer proof that he can compen
sate anyone he injures through his own fault,
either through insurance or some other means.
The uninsured motorist proposal, on the other
hand, requires insurance
liability policies a clause
tection to the policy owner for personal injuries
inflicted by another motorist who is at fault in
an accident,-and who has rio liability insurance
of his own.
0 0 0
THE latter bill, as passed by the Oregon law
1 makers, in effect will charge conscientious mo
torists an extra few dollars a year to protect them
from the actions ' of
motorists. '
This is the chief argument against it that it
penalizes those who are
responsibilities, and does nothing to penalize
those who are not.
There is nothing against such a clause . of
itself. It offers a means
himself and his family.
it compulsory, that s something else again. .
It could even have a
number of people buying
cause of the extra cost.
protection, it does nothing to get. at the heart
of the matter the motorists who own no insur
ance. ' - -
YREGON at present has a "financial responsi
bility" law. It does not require a showing of
financial responsibility
other provisions) for all
require such a showing
involved m an accident,
cl&U"'
proponents of compulsory insurance simply
seek to extend this to require such a showing: 6f
financial responsibility
at all not after the first accident.
Arguments against this, as marshaled by in
surance companies, are impressive. And it prob
ably is true that it would create as many problems
as it would solves particularly for the insurance
companies. They mention such things as "politi
cally determined" insurance rates, difficulty of
administration, the need to set up insurance pools
for high-risk drivers, and so on. . .
IN ANY event, Oregon will have a chance to try
out the uninsured motorist clause for at least
two years and see how it works.
But we have yet to be convinced that a com
pulsory insurance law, despite somewhat clouded
records in Massachusetts and New York, cannot
be written to satisfy many of the objections, and
still place the burden of extra insurance where
it belongs on those who do not now cany any
for the protection of others rather than on those
who already are carrying such protection. E.A.
Insurance 'Merit Rating9
Another facet of the automobile insurance pic
ture is attracting attention, in California.
There, insurance companies are finally getting
around to charging lesser premium rates for safe
drivers than for those with accident records.
There is, first of all, the "standard rate,"
which all new drivers will be charged.
If a driver has a three-year record of no acci
dent claims and no serious traffic violations, he
will receive a 20 per cent reduction in his
premium.
T'HOSE who have one claim, or one traffic cita
VU. 4-1 mi xi.
uuimg Liie uuee-eeu penui, win pay uie
standard rate.
Butthose with two or more accidents or traffic
convictions will pay progressively hieher rates.
up to a maximum of just double the standard rate
for those with five accidents or convictions.
Such a "merit ratinsr"
from time to time by a few companies, but it has
not. been universally successful, without all com
panies participating. If the California experiment
proves effective, it will be extended to other states
where records of drivers and accidents are kept.
WE HOPE the plan is successful.
?? Not only is it fairer for safe drivers t.n
pay less than for reckless ones, but such a sliding
scale could well be an incentive for safer driving.
Admittedly the reckless driver is not exclu
sively motivated by his. pocketbook, but if he
finds himself paying more than double thejnsur
ance premium that his neighbor does, he might
tend to slow down a bit. E.A.
agents to include in all
which would give pro
other, less-conscientious
attempting to fulfill their
for -a driver to protect
But when the state makes
tendency to decrease the
liability insurance, be
And while it will increase
(insurance, bonds, or
motorists. But it does
after a driver has been
and before he can drive
.
before a person can drive
svstem has been tried
Dennis the
THAT'S IN CASE I
A POOT BEEP 0URIN THE NIGHT
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
NEW CHALLENGE
Washington - A great chal
lenge to. American statesman
ship, lying even beyond all
Berlin crisis
' s o 1 u tions, is
tant view. No
solution over
Gerrrtanv can
i be good if it
leaves the
Western alli-
ance less
strong, less
united. And it
is increasingly clear that Al
lied unity cannot be long
maintained without revolu
tionary changes in Western
world trade policies. If armies
must march on their stomachs,
so must nations. And the free
nations cannot march in useful
comradeship until we make
truly enlightened bread-and
butter arrangements, trade
arrangements, mat will re
move the. ever-present pros
pect of economic cold wars
within the West itself.
Indeed, the Western allies
are divided now by more than
their differences over the best
political and military ap-
proach to make to the Rus
sians at the prospective sum
mit conference. The United
States is alone in its 100 per
cent devotion to reunification
of Germany as the absolute,
top "must." This is conceded
in official quarters here. (We
are so adamant because we
believe that without reunifica
tion sooner or later the big
war will come).
T1RUE, the West Germans
-S- aro frtv rpi inifinfinn Vnif
really only for a kind. They
have no wish to be dumped
into a common German sea
in which East Germany, with
its hated Prussian tradition
and its long indoctrination in
Soviet communism, might
control the common tide. The
West Germans want reunifi
cation only if it will not sub
merge the civilized structure
they fyave so painfully raised.
The French are far more
concerned in not weakening
the West's military posture in
Europe bythe withdrawal of
single infantryman than in
only German reunification.
And the British, who are
relatively the closest to our
position here, are not by a long
way so desperately devoted to
reunification. There are two
good reasons. Britain in all
the West suffered more and
longer from German milita
William S.
White
Matter of Fact
LONG ROAD
FROM LANCHOW
Washington . Among the
tiny number of Americans
who know the factors in the
W nrobleml there
is almost
breathless ex
citement about
the rebellion
in Tibet. It
can, they say,
shake the Chi
nese Commu
nist regime
vastly -more
e ,, a 1
Jos-pb Alsup lh ux u u xi u x jr
than the rebellion in Hungary
shook the Soviet regime.
Everything depends, of
course, on whether the Peking
government can swiftly drown
Tibet in blood, as the Moscow
government drowned Hun
gary. If that happens, the re
bellion will merely have re
vealed to Asia the ruthless
ness of Chinese Communist
imperialism.-Judging by Jaw
aharlal Nehru's reaction, the
Asians are more likely to be
intimidated than indignant.
But the war-like Khambas
of Eastern Tibet have already
maintained their rebellion for
two years. The attack on the
Dalai Lama is quite likely to
inspire the tribes of northern
and western Tibet to join the
Khambas. Altogether, the
odds would seem to be against
Menace
GET THIRSTY FOR
S. WHITE
rism in World War II. And the
British, the historic world
traders, are increasingly hard
hit to make trade ends meet.
.
CONTINENTAL Europe, and
West Germany in particu
lar, are flourishing Incredi
bly, West Germany has now
passed Britain in total exports.
This is not an easy thing for
a bloodily drained ally to take
from a country that helped
wreck the British economy in
war and has' since been
brought to trade eminence by
the generosity of those she so
savagely fought.
All this explains the obvi
ous worsening in British-Ger
man relations that now finds
old Konrad Adenauer speak
ing of Britain with open bit
terness. And "matters are not
being " improved by sugges
tions that Mr. Adenauer has
no intention of relaxing his
control in kicking himself up
stairs from the chancellorship
to the presidency of West
Germany.
A Germany reunited by
whatever means might soon
put the British in an even
worse competitive world trade
relationship. To ask them to
accept reunification as the
highest Allied aim is to ask
them to accept again, as re
peatedly they have done for
a decade, a disproportionate
sacrifice in the service of high
Western policy.
,
THUS, two enormous facts of
life press against our in
sistence that reunification
must be the indispensable. The
first, the memories of those
who suffered from the. old
Germany, is beyond help. But
we can do nothing about the
second. Our statesman can
find a way not endlessly to
put British economic life un
der handicap from the power
ful new Germany we have
in mind.
Militarily, the Western alli
ance is one for all and ah for
one; there is an assured help
ing hand from the strong to
the weaker. But no Berlin
politico - military accommoda
tion can properly alter the
vast postwar change in the
economic balance of power in
Europe. It is this balance
which must be redressed by
the economical helping hand,
if we are to maintain the mili
tary balance of power that
alone can give us some long
term safety from the Russians.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Bv Joseph Alsop
prompt suppression of the re
bellion by t"he simple tech
nique of human massacre.
And if this rebellion, which
has simmered along through
the last two years, actually
continues through another
year, what then will happen?
GEOGRAPHY is the only
- reason why this immense
ly grave question really ex
ists as a question. Geography
not only gives the tough Ti
betan mountaineers an ines
timable advantage over the
better-armed Chinese soldiers,
who are not used to a country
with lowlands 14,000 feet
above sea level. Much more
serious, geography also quite
fantastically multiplies the
cost of maintaining adequate
Chinese anti-guerilla forces
in Tibet.
The Chinese armies now in
the country have been much
exaggerated. They do not num
ber more than 60,000 men;
but they are now being has
tily strengthened. They' can
certainly suppress the rebel
lion by next autumn at the
latest, if they can only pre
vent the rebels from planting
their summer crops in Tibet's
limited area of arable valley
land. But 120,000 men is a'
conservative estimate of the
total force that will be needed
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In these days, how to get
the money with which to pro
vide the governmental serv
ices that people want is a
problem. Here's how one
small community back in the
Middle West has been solving
it:
Mayor Earl M. Roudebush
of the town of Canfield, in
Ohio (population 1465 at the
last census) admitted the oth
er day that he has fined mo
torists $202,000 in the past 30
months in what in Ohio is
called the mayor's court. '
That's somewhere in the
neighborhood of $140 per in
dividual of his town's popula
tion. So it stands to reason
that he didn't confine his
fining to the home town folk.
They wouldn't have stood for
it.
If he had tried it, there
would be another mayor by
this time.
THAT raises a question:
Whom riiri Yio fine'
One assumes that he levied
the fines on outside motorists
who went through town at
speeds, higher' than the local
limit.
In other words, a speed trap.
rpHAT suspicion is confirmed
- by the fact that he made
his admission before a commit
tee of the Ohio legislature that
was conducting an investiga
tion of Canfield's traffic prac
tices. Mayor Roudebush was
equal to the occasion. He told
the committee: '
"I don't do it for revenue.
"It's for highway safety."
TTMMMMMM.
He has a point there.
It is generally conceded
that excessive speed contrib
utes to highway accidents.
And
It is more or less general
ly assumed that CERTAINTY
OF PUNISHMENT causes peo
ple to be more careful about
infractions of the law. Sup
pose you knew that every
time you did something you
knew you shouldn't do, you'd
be hauled into court and
fined? You'd be inclined to DO
IT LESS, wouldn't you?
Besides, the money came in
handy. It paid for a lot of
SERVICES that otherwise the
people of Canfield would
have had to do without or
pungle up for themselves.
rpHAT brings up an ancient
tax maxim that goes some
thing like this: i .,. ..
"That tax is best which gets
the most feathers with the
least squawking from the
goose."
The mayor of Canfield has
obviously been following that
rule. , .
for this kind of summer cam
paign, if the. rebellion does
not conveniently collapse.
r
N SUCH anti-guerilla oper
ations, moreover, many of
the guerilla-chasers will have
to be widely dispersed in
small packets. The packets
will unavoidably require air
supply from Lhasa and other
Tibetan centers; so there will
be an additional need for
some transport aircraft and
aviation gas. With their sup
porting aircraft, the fuel for
the planes, their own ammu
nition and their food, forces
numbering 120,000 men in
Tibet will surely need a min
imum of 10,000 tons of sup
plies each month. That is the
lowest tonnage figure, after a
wide allowance has been
made for the Chinese soldier's
knack of doing much with
little.
The tonnage of supply may
seem trivial, until you take
a look at the best of the avail
able supply routes. This is the
new military road, running
from Lanchow in northwest
China, through the barren
wastes of Tsinghai, and across
uncounted terrible mountain
passes to Lhasa. No road in
the world traverses such fear
ful terrain, so ideally suited
to guerilla attacks on con
voys; and the length of the
whole road is close to 1,200
miles.
Furthermore, a truck set
ting out from Lanchow for
Lhasa cannot carry a pound
of other supplies if it carries
its own fuel for the round
trip. Thus the convoys of
military supply trucks must
be sustained by great num
bers of additional trucks, to
establish wayside fuel depots.
Considering the character of
Chinese transport, 10,000
trucks is a fair minimum esti
mate of the over-all number
needed to lay down 10,000
tons of supplies per month
in Tibet. And this is no job
that can be taken over by
coolies, either. For there is
no food along the road, and
the A-frame brigades could
not even carry their own
rice requirement out of Lan
chow. AGAIN, a special call for
10,000 truckss may seem
relatively trivial, until you
consider that this is nearly a
quarter of the entire road
Education Costs High, Going
Higher: Here Are the Reasons
By HELEN B. SHAFFER
(Editor's note: Costs of
t education are going up all
the time-both the costs of
educating boys and girls at
home in grade school and
high school and the later
costs of sending them, away
to college. The following
article tells some of the rea
sons why.)
Washington - Spending on
the education of American
young people will ' total at
least $20 billion in the cur
rent academic year. The bill
for public and private educa
tion has jumped from $14 bil
lion to $20 billion in only
three years, and the forecast
ers say it will go on up to at
least $30 billion by the mid
1960s. This is plainly something
more than a result of creep
ing price inflation. The rea
sons why school costs are go
ing up much faster than other
costs are not hard to find.
There are more children to
educate than there used to
be; more of them are finishing
high school and going to col
lege; and more money is be
ing spent on each pupil. All
this requires more buildings
and more teachers. And sala
ries of teachers have had to
be raised. In the end, the addi
tions along the whole line
translate into dollars-billions
of them.
Figures Show Why
A few figures demonstrate
why the costs of education are
rising so rapidly. Total school
enrollment, from kindergarten
through college, has shot up
in five years from 36 million
to 43 million. The proportion
of children 14-17 years old
who are in school has risen
from 79 to 90 per cent since
1940, and in the same period
the proportion of young peo
pie 18-24 years old who are
in school or college has risen
from 13 to 22 per cent. Aver
age expenditures per pupil
in public schools have increas
ed in ten years by 72 per
cent. Average salaries of class
room teachers have gone up
75 per cent in ten years.
Nearly one-half of the cost
of higher education) is defray
ed from public funds, but stu
dents at state universities are
far from being wards of the
taxpayer. Unless they live
close by, they have to pay
out substantial sums for board
and room. A government sam
Dling survev indicates that
total expenditures of college
students, including tuition
charges, run on the average
at about $1,700 for the aca
demic year in public institu
tions of higher education and
at about $2,200 in private in
stitutions. Tuition Fees Differ
The difference is accounted
for mainly by larger tuition
fees in private colleges and
universities. The average tui
tion charge in state universi
ties is only $225 as against
nearly $800 in private univer
sities. The fee m many cases
is considerably higher. Prince
ton's tuition of $1,200 is going
up next year to $1,450. The
minimum inclusive fee for tui
tion, room and board at Vas
sar is $2,550.
Increased college costs are
offset to some extent by in
creased availability of schol
arship funds for able and
needy students. The Office of
Education found that $66 mil
lion in scholarships was dis
tributed to 237,000 students
in 1955-56, and both totals
are undoubtedly larger today.
Though scholarships rarely
pay all student costs, college
men often are able to find
jobs that will pay as much
as one-fourth of their total
expenses. Various loan pro
grams, federal, state and pri
vate, provide another source
of aid.
Opposition Stirred
Costs of education could not
transport capacity of Commu
nist China. Fuel for transport,
air transport, and road trans
port in fact constitute the
three most critical shortages
in China today. A prolonged
and obstinate rebellion in
Tibet will impose an increas
ingly unbearable strain in all
three critical shortage areas.
And this strain will come just
when Communist China's mo
rale and resources are already
strained to the uttermost by
the vast upheaval of the com
munes program.
Certain results are easily
predictable. The inhuman dif
ficulties of the communes pro
gram will at least be doubled
by continuing rebellion in Ti
bet. The difficulties between
Russia and China will also be
increased, since Russia will
surely be asked to help out.
And if, if, if the Tibetan re
bellion is really long continu
ing, the equation ot tne com
mune plus the strain of Tibet
can just imaginably equal a
general explosion.
"Tiis sounds like daydream
ing, and at tnis stage it is
daydreaming. But it is some
times useful to contemplate
the other side's troubles, when
the Western alliance has so
many troubles of its own.
go up the way they have,
however good the reasons,
without stirring strong oppo
sition. Most of the controversy
now is overv the amount of
spending necessary to main
tain educational facilities of
high quality and over the ex
tent to which higher education
should be subsidized. Some
persons insist that a good deal
of school money is going into
luxury facilities and frill
courses not essential to a good
education. Others question the
advisability of trying to give
(By M-T Staff
They're fewer, but longer
and bushier, these days.
Beards, that is.
The men, apparently, are
being separated from the boys.
Those with the determina
tion (and adequate hirsute tal
ents, too, of course) have stuck
with the Centennial beard
raising bit. Those without suf
f i c i e n t determination, or
whose wives have equal deter
mination, or those who suffer
from itchy faces - haven't. The
select few are sporting what
are, by now, some pretty im
pressive whiskery displays."
One of these hardy souls,
who" dubs himself "Old Snort
er," and whose name would be
familiar to Mail Tribune read
ers if he permitted us to print
it, is reported to have a rather
astounding growth. In com
menting on it, he wrote us the
following note:
To jabs at whiskery you
and me.
To heed them, should we
orter?
But let me say to kith und
kin
(No matter if a her or him)
Much longer is my beard
lo be
Before it's any shorter.
We learn by a clipping from
the Denver Post, thoughtfully
mailed to us by Mrs. W. D.
Cousineau of Roberts rd., that
people in the mile-high city
are having their Centennial-
whisker problems, too.
With at least one Denver
resident, it . took a reverse
slant. This man had worn a
mustache for 11 years, but as
soon as everyone else started
growing face hair, he shaved
it off, and was quoted by the
Post as saying, "I didn't realize
how uncivilized face fur look
ed until all this Centennial
whisker-raising started."
And he added that, given
time, he might grow it back
again - but NOT before the
Centennial is over and all the
beards shaved off.
Mrs. Cousineau wonders,
"How many 'native whisker
raisers here feel the same
way?"
Do you suppose it's just
jealousy?
The new styles for ladies,
we are led lo believe, call
for short skirts and stock
ings of various hues from
blue to red. One olderster,
on learning this, was over
heard to remark, "And I
thought her legs were blush
ing because her skirt was so
shorll" ,
Last week we discussed cat
nip briefly, using as our au
thority the Oregon department
of agriculture and Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary.
John Q. Stewart of Grants
Pass read our paragraphs, and
contributed some additional
information of his own, as fol
lows:
"Catnip has a small white
flower with dark-colored dots
in the throat of the corolla. In
Sunday's M-T your column
stated that the flower is blue.
There used to be lots of it in
western Pennsylvania. As far
as I ever observed, cats were
indifferent to its pleasant odor.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
CAMPUS CUTUPS:
1. He: May I borrow your handkerchiei.'
She: Got a cold?
He: No, my shoes need
polishing.
2. Hinkle: Can you think of
anything worse than raining
cats and dogs?
Hankie: Yes. Hailing taxi
cabs. 3. He: Honey chile, will yo'
all marry me?
She: Oh, Truman, this is so
Southern!
K lot of money was riding
on a set of doubles coming up
on a Palm Springs tennis
court, and an argument de
veloped on who was to get the
first serve. A big producer finally pulled a quarter out of his pocket.
"Only one way to settle this," he announced. "Everybody will throw
up."
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a full high school education
to pupils obviously not
equipped to benefit from it.
On the college front, ob
jection is voiced to proposals
for federal scholarship aid.
Some estimates place as high
as 100,000 a year the number
of able high school students
kept out of college by lack of
financial resources. But crit
ics of mounting educational
costs contend that where there
is a will to obtain higher
education, the student will
find a way.
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Of all the 'yarb' teas, catnip
was the mildest of all. Forget
just what it cured, but it was
good."
There's been considerable
sound and fury in the de
bate over school consolida
tion and reorganization,
lately, and the comment we
like best about it is the one
reported to us by one of our
young men. who overheard
someone declare: "I've list
ened lo both sides so long
that I'm as confused as they
are!"
Members of 4-H clubs in the
county who are planning to go
to Corvallis via wagon this
summer are getting ready for
the big trek. Among the busi
est is Glenn Klein, county 4-H
agent.
Recently he's been scouting
the route, looking for suitable
camping places. He isn't doing
this in a wagon, or even on
horseback as the pioneer
scouts did, but in his tail-finned
Dodge.
Also, we have it on good re
port, he's making sure that
all camping sites have showers
or baths nearby. Which mo
tivated our farm editor, who
has a small streak of cynicism
in him somewhere, to remark,
"We hope the group can at
least find a good supply, of
buffalo chips for their camp
fires." .
. It is interesting to watch
the current promotions of
automobiles, one one hand,
and boats, on the other.
They're not exactly in com
petition with each other
except for the consumer's
dollar. We have heard it sug
gested that while the auto
men sloganize "Live Better
by Far. With a Brand New
Car," the boatmen should
come up with one of their
own, perhaps "Sign a
Note and Buy a Boat."
There has been much fren
zied activity this week end,
what with the Pear Festival,
Sportsfair, and all.
One of our staff members,
ruminating on this, looked
moodily up into a flowering
tree the other day, then wrote
down the following:
BLOSSOMS AND
TRANQUILIZERS
Pears may suffer from decline.
But never do their spirits sink.
In fact, they seem so sound of
mind
I sometimes wonder if they
think.
"Our lives are fruitless," men
may say, ,
But pears, sun - smooched,, on
pliant boughs,
Sway in the gentle breeze all
day,
And never wrinkle up their
brows.
Parasites may plague them,
true,
But all neuroses they avoid.
I've never seen a peer grow
blue.
I've never seen a pear an
noyed.
A word lo our teenage
friends: Youth is glorious,
but it isn't a career.
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