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4 Sunday, April 19, 1959 MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDWTRIBimE "Everyone it Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MTJ3FORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fii St. Ph SP 2-6141 . ROBERT W BUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager GEPALD LATHAM. Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR. Managing F.ditor EARL H ADAMS. Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at MedforH Oregon under Act of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail" and Sunday 1 year (13.00 Daily and Sunday S mos. 8 00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year S18.00 Daily and SunUay 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City at Medford Official Papet of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST -HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver B.C 0 NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION MAT I O N A I EDITORIAL ASfsbcUTHS Flight ro Time Medford and Jackson County History from the file of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30. 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 19. 1949 (Tuesday) Further discussion of fund raising for the municipal swimming pool is expected at tonight's meeting of the Med ford city council. Twenty six Phoenix con solidated school district vot ers approve a $250,000 bond Issue for erecting a new high school. 20 YEARS AGO April 19. 1939 (Wednesday) Curry county anglers com plain that up-river miners are muddying the Rogue. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: . "The first barefooted kids of the season showed up Wed., on residential streets." 30 YEARS AGO April 19. 1929 (Friday) Shotgun blasts halt a chari vari on Williams creek. A railroad for the Blue Ledge mine is planned to pro vide speedy transportation to market of copper there mined. 40 YEARS AGO April 19, 1919 (Saturday) Miss Hazel Brown accepts a position at the Eagle Point state bank. Lady motorists are given free lessons on carburetor care by Seely Hall. 50 YEARS AGO April 19, 1909 (Monday) Capt. Nash says he may erect an , eight-story hotel in Medford. j Clouds prevent frost, and a record pear crop is in sight. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. "When in the course of human events," are the first words of what famous docu ment? 2. Complete this proverb: "Too many cooks . . .." ' 3. The first Republican party in the U. S. was found ed by Thomas Jefferson, John C. Fremont, or Abraham Lin coln? 4. In which city did the million - dollar Brink robbery occur? 5. For which purpose are fresh fruits more important in the diet: as regulatory foods or source of protein? 6. Persons married for 50 years celebrate their silver, diamond, or golden wedding anniversary? 7. At what place was the first permanent European set tlement made in New Eng land? 8. "Wooden overcoat," is a slang term for what object? 9. Salt water can be made fresh; true or false? 10. One cubic yard equals how many cubic feet? Answers: 1. Declaration of Independence. 2. ". . spoil the broth." 3. Thomas Jeffer son. 4. Boston. 5. Regulatory. 6. Golden. 7. Plymouth. 8. A coffin. 9. Tue. 10. 27-. EX-CHAIRMAN DIES Oneida, N. Y. -(UPD- Pierre pont B. Noyes, 88, former president and board chairman of Oneida, Inc., one of the world's largest silverplate manufacturers, died Wednesday. Marijane Hits Back Marijane Duncan read an editorial in this space entitled "Shilly-Shally Session." It made her mad. She sat down at her typewriter and wrote an excellent rebuttal. It appears on Page 5, and we commend it highly to our readers. Mrs. Duncan, as Jackson county people know, is the wife of State Rep. Robert Duncan of Med ford, who is making a name for himself through out the state as the speaker of the house. She serves as his secretary, is close to the leg islative picture, and her remarks deserve the re spectful attention of anyone attempting to assess what this session is accomplishing. JN OUR editorial a week ago, we declared: ". . . If the overall impression is not of indecisive shilly-shallying, we don't know what it is." We expected something like Mrs. Duncan's letter when we also said: "Such a verdict is bound to cause irritation to some of the more conscientious and able legislators who have been working hard at their jobs, doing the committee chores to which they are assigned, and expending their best efforts for what they think is the right kind of legislation." 'Much of what Mrs. Duncan says we agree with, devoutly. W E AGREE when she Personally, I would earned tax dollars) on an excellent educational system and buildings for higher education than almost anything." We agree that some of the bills which have, been defeated, have been our "pet" bills. They are also the pet bills of a lot of other people such things as billboard control, the apparent de feat of increased state aid to hard-pressed school districts, the cutting of i appropriations for badly needed new buildings. We agree that far too many people are un aware of the state's needs, and are concerned only with taxes. I7E DO not believe, however, that the legisla- ture has a "mandate" to keep taxes down. Look, for instance, at the number of local bond issues which have been passed throughout the state since the November election. Look at the marked difference in the econ omy. Yesterday's recession - influenced anti - tax vote may well be today's complaint, "Why doesn't the state do something?" We maintain, instead, the legislature received only one mandate to do what it believes is necessary for progress and well-being in a fast growing state. llE AGREE that the problems faced by the legislature are vastly difficult and compli cated. We agree that compromises are necessary. We do not agree that the legislature, now al most 100 days into the session, was on safe ground in cutting a welfare department deficiency appro priation $700,000 below what the welfare com mission and its administrators say is necessary. We agree that it is all the needed buildings colleges in the next year HPHE functions of an editorial writer are to com ment on events 01 the interpretation of them. This involves value-judgments, and editorial writers are just as fallible as anyone else. But it is our considered opinion that the legis lative session, viewed overall, IS a shilly-shally session, divisive and indecisive, and unresponsive to the state s needs of the moment, which lie chiefly in the fields of education, institutional care, and taxation. Many good things have been accomplished. The accomplishments cited by Mrs. Duncan are to the credit of the legislature. But they are far short of what we would like to see. "UR growing spnse of dismay at the legisla- ture's record has been heightened by reason of the high hopes and ideals many members ex pressed at the beginning of the session. Nowhere have we seen these so well stated as in an article which Mrs. Duncan herself wrote early in the session, and which appeared in the Mail Tribune of last Feb. 26. We quote, in part: "The plain fact is that Oregon is a growing state, that costs have risen, and that our needs have become much greater in fields such as education and public welfare. Legislators who in the past have served on such committees as ways and means and taxation had come to grips with those hard truths long ago, but it evidently had not been faced up to by the Hatfield people until after election. Now that it has been, there is a public reaction that is akin to shock. "This is an unfortunate situation, and it was not unavoidable. Taxpayers and voters are not children; they are home-owners, parents, heads of families. We know that the cost of living has risen for all of us; we know, too, that our standards are not what they were 10, 15, 20 years ago. "We understand that we cannot stand still and atrophy as families, as groups, as communities. We do , not want this. We want to move ahead, to grow, to progress. But, unfortunately, progress has a price. The big question today is: are the people of Oregon going to be willing to pay it? "How badly do we want one of the best educational systems in the country, for instance? How badly do we want fine, modern highways to drive on? How much are we moved by. the plight of those less for tunate, the mentally ill, the retarded, the blind and the deaf, those in straitened circumstances through no fault of their own? "Do the farmers want an improved agricultural program for this state? Do the businessmen want plan ning for new industries, development of our resources? Do the lawyers want better laws and better courts, the doctors, improved health conditions and research? Are all these, in the words of the Governor in his inaugural address, 'merely desirable'?" How well are these questions being answered by the Centennial session of the legislature? It is with reluctance we have come to the conclusion, not well enough. E.A. says: rather spend mine (hard- increasingly evident that will not be built at our or two. day, and to give his own Dennis the r J rm II MY GOT AHV AT 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 tc 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 paper; in fact the contrary is often the case (Editor's note: If the woman who wrote "I dare you to print this" will let us know her name, and al low its use with her com munication, we'll lake the dare.) Research Needed To the Editor: An old Eng lish phrase . my grandma brought from England that she . continually admonished complainers with, was: "What can't be cured must be en dured." The native Yankee version went thusly: "The tail must go with the hide," and truly so. For just as the hide buyer despised paying the same price for the almost worthless tail, this he must do to get the valuable hide. So all of us must remember as we endure the soul as well as nose and lung trying smudge of springtime, this we must do to have the $10,000, 000 pear crop "hide" that is a grub-stake for hundreds of valley residents and of real economic value to all of us in this high, mountain ringed valley so conducive to the raising of the lucious pear that are the envy of others world over. Now if my time battered old brains have recorded cor rectly, it was House Speaker Duncan who advocated cer tain research work and the setting aside of where-with-all to do it. My choice would be the finding of lesser nuisance laden frost controls. Nature provides three: the wind is one, but it takes enormous horsepower to move large columns of air, ruling that out. Clouds are also a good preventive of frost, but that seems out of our reach. It's close kin, fog, is helpful. In the fall and early winter when ground warmth acts on the chilled and moisture laden air, we get fog naturally, gen erally unwanted. It would seem that some research along this line might bring most helpful results. At least it seems worthy of more exper imentation than has been had in the past. Something besides just talk should be done or we may find the tail wagging the dog, which could be far from funny. As I sat mumbling aloud corrections of this, grandson Larry emerged from the bed room where we had bundled him, "daughter Mary'lln and family elsewhere after an all night run down from Tilla mook for a long cherished week end at grandma's. He asked, "Smudge, what's that?" Just imagine. F. J. Clifford, Route 2, Box 200 F, Central Point. Bear With It To the Editor: Fifty years ago my father cleared the land and planted his pear orchard. He is gone now but my mother and hundreds of other small (and large) orch ardists' entire livelihood de pends on their pear crops. My husband was' an orchardist and I a pear packer and we raised our family with our wages. Hundreds of workers depend on the pear industry for their living. Our packing houses are the hub of the en tire industry of our valley. Our merchants depend on these wages earners as their customers. Our Pear Blossom Festival was the celebration of our Spring anticipation of a successful fruit year. I now am a waitress at Woplworths and I know our business depends on the com ing pear cropv. My hands, my uniform are a soiled mess in this smudge but I am proud Menace tub. poor FARM ? ' of my weathering of this if it means saving our fruit. Where have our homes and clothes come from, dear nei bors of Melrose eve., if not paid for directly or. indirect ly from our pears? And how are the few hours of breathing this smoke going to really injure our health? My doctor says my health is 100 per cent perfect and I have lived here all my 52 years. The few dollars cleaning is a smair loss to what it would be if we have a complete loss of our pears. Bear with us, Newcomers. You'll not be sorry in the long run. , Mildred Bray i 1830 North Riverside ave. Medford. Cost of Examination To the Editor: This being "cancer month," we are con stantly reminded by radio, T.V., magazines, and posters, to help fight cancer with a "check up, and a check." I don't know what a "check-up" consists of, but I wouldn't be satisfied with just having my blood pressure taken, and my heart checked. However how many of us can afford to pay from $50 $100 for a physical examina tion? My husband's last exam cost $65, and it wasn't "com plete." Wouldn't it be a great step forward in the fight, if a complete exam could be priced within the range of most of us? We are told that our health and our lives cannot be counted in dollars and cents. I wonder if the doctors and hospitals agree. .We've always felt we "couldn't afford to be sick," but can we afford to stay healthy? How many of us have paid $300-$400 for dentures we cannot wear, and $50 for glasses that can't be used? (Name on file) Central Point. On Insurance To the Editor: This is part ly a reply to Mr. Cole Holmes' letter concerning "uninsured motorists." (April 15). It is silly or outrageous to suggest stopping all cars at the border and requiring evi dence on insurance when all that should or could be done is to show proof when re newing license, tags. 1 At least it would protect a person or his property from neighbors or relations who look "down their nose" or openly brag and boast, "Why, I've never bought insurance since me moved. to Oregon." Quite a few local people "go to work" or "go to the store" without ever seeing or traveling on a main road or highway and its the back roads or side roads that are more dangerous or risky to travel or drive over than any tiisrhwav fOni- nnininnV O"- ' ' J v ' I ' - r We had an experience witfr a drunken neighbor once uninsured on a back road and it taught us to watch out with the people in your own vicinity. This man ran my husband off the road and up a mountain-side and still managed to side-swipe him. The authorities got after this person, but he just moved out. Some people think they can't afford insurance (of any kind) when really a per son can't afford not to have insurance. (On everything!) (Name on file) Central Point Matter of Fact THE OLD MEN GO Washington-Within a short fortnight, Konrad Adenauer has accepted transfer from the Chancel lorship to the Presidency of West Ger many; and John Foster Dulles's i li ne s s has at length driven him to lay down the of- ins-ph aisod Ilce i secre tary of State of the United States- The Dulles resignation, cli maxing an amazing display of stoic fortitude, coming at a desperately critical moment in our affairs, is a deeply poig nant episode. The most ordi nary human sympathy com pels one to wish that this as tonishing old man might have achieved his grimly pursued aim. It was a modest aim, after all. It was no more than to hang on, still in harness, still pulling the coach, until the West had turned the Berlin corner. Man's fate is often cruel, but it seemed extra cruel, somehow, jthat the few months of extra time that Dulles wanted so badly-that he bore such suffering to gain -were not in the end granted to him. By the same token, it is a great misfortune for the Western allies. "POR the short run, in truth, the loss of Dulles means the loss of the greatest single element of strength in the Eisenhower administr a t i o n, and the departure from the stage of the one Western lead er whose knowledge and au thority could not be challeng ed, even by his most bitter enemies. Viewed in a longer perspective, however, the de parture of Dulles has another meaning, directly linked to the meaning of Adenauer's in tended half-retirement. These two great changes in the West's leadership mean the beginning of the end of a whole era. Dulles and Ade nauer, like Eisenhower and Macmillan . and De Gaulle, were old enough to expert ence the first World War, not as mere boys, but as grown men. Dulles, who rose in the world more rapidly than the others, was even a fairly sig nificant junior member of the cast in the drama at Ver sailles. The present era's tone has been set, its outlook has been determined, its leader ship has been provided by these and other men who saw the first war, made their ca reers in the inter-war years, and reached command posi tions as a result of the second war. THAT is the era which is now ending. It will come to its real close, for all practical purposes, when Dwight D. Eisenhower steps down from Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann DULLES AND HERTER With the announcement that Mr. Herter would repre I sent us at tne x oreign Mims- ers meeting, Mr. Dulles had already put aside the specul a t i o n and the hope that he might conduct the coming nego tiations about Germany. Now, in sub mitting his resignation, he has opened the way for an early decision on his successor and a clarification and strength ening of Mr. Herter's author ity in the coming meetings. There is no disguising the fact that Mr. Herter's position in the forthcoming negotia tions will be difficult, even should he then be our Secre tary of State. It could be come an insurmountably dif ficult position if here and abroad Mr. Herter is judged by the measure in which he duplicates the role of John Foster Dulles, and is judged on specific questions as to whether he adheres to what are supposed to be the views that Mr. Dulles would have held. There are two things we must bear in mind. The one is that it is impossible to duplicate the role played by Mr. Dulles in this administra tion. The other is that if Mr. Dulles were able to conduct the coming negotiations, he would not and he could not stand pat on all of the old formulae. While he was still active -he said so much. THE relationship betveen the' President and Mr. Dulles has had no precedent since the United States be came a world power in this century. Although Mr. Dulles has been loyal and scrupulous in deferring to Mr. Eisen hower, the fact is that in our foreign affairs he is the man who has been really at. the Lippmann By Joseph Atsop the Presidency. In many re spects, it has been a great and fruitful era, particularly marked by a total revolution in the relations between the United States and the rest of the world. But a new era has been long overdue, nonethe less. . Ideas, at bottom, are what make an era; and the dearth of seminal and fresh ideas in these last years -has become downright frightening. In our domestic politics, the con servatives still sound like parodies of Herbert Hoover, while the Left wingers are still pale and timorous imita tions of Franklin Roosevelt. In foreign affairs, the great innovations were made after the war ended; but the first Truman administration was the cut-off point NATO, for which the keel was laid in 1948, was the last big ship to go down the long abandon ed ways. The second Truman admin istration was wholly barren of fruitful new departures (for the brave response to the challenge in Korea, though admirable. in itself, was only a decision to cope with a dis aster which had been invited by the preceding Truman Louis Johnson disarmament program). Under Eisenhower, despite the talk of a "dynamic new foreign policy," the bar renness continued. With all his stature and energy and angry determination to hold the line for freedom, John Foster Dulles offered no fruit ful new inventions-for there was nothing novel in such de vices as SEATO, which mim icked NATO, but lacked NATO's substance. TIME did not stand still after 1949, however: On the contrary, the last decade has witnessed a gigantic upset of the world balance of power, owing to the Soviet Union's military and economic growth. It has witnessed, too, a long series of upheavals in the ex-colonial areas like the Mid dle East, on which the West ern allies' are still heavily dependent. Yet no reasonably safe and sure and reliable way of coping with either of these huge and ominous proc esses has even been suggested by any of the existing West ern leaders. In short, Secretary Dulles carried on a holding opera tion, not always successfully but with great courage and self -sacrifice. It is downright tragic that he should be re moved from the scene at the very moment when the need is greatest for his special tal ent and his unusual strength of character. But the need is also great for the fresh ideas that ,are always born when a new era starts, under the auspices of new men with fresh outlooks. Copyright 1959, New York Herald Tribune Inc. - - summit. The world has be come used to the idea that this is what an American Sec retary of State is supposed to be. This creates a special obli gation on Mr. Eisenhower. It is the obligation to convince the world that he himself is participating in-the decisions, and that what the new Secre tary of State says is the au thentic and authoritative voice of the United States government. It will be very poor businss to let the notion get about that the Secretary of State lacks authority, and that there is a last appeal over his head to the Walter Reed hospital. IF THE President, seconded by Mr. Dulles himself, deals clearly with the question of authority, then there is every reason to believe that Mr. Herter is highly qualified for the office. He is a success ful and experienced politi cian and public man. He is also a man with a large ex perience in foreign affairs. This is a very unusual combi nation. Mr. Acheson and Dul les were not politicians, and both paid dearly for it Acheson in being persecuted by Congress, and Dulles in appeasing those who had per secuted Acheson. By contrast with both of them there was Cordell Hull, who was a very astute politician but with little knowledge or apti tude for foreign affairs. By and large under our system the office of Secretary of State is not one that calls for an expert in foreign af fairs. Under any President, but particularly under a President like General Eisen hower who is not a politician, it is very necessary that the Secretary of State be an old hand, in fact a professional, in the art of politics. He does not need to be an expert in foreign affairs to know, as one might, say, the precise differences between the, (By M-T Staff This is from the Hoover HiLite, publication of Hoover elementary school: Kent Clinkinbeard drew this picture for you. It shows the pioneers coming to Ore gon. It took a long time to travel here in those days. They did not have cars then. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS They say money talks. Let's talk about money for a moment. French money this time. WHY French money? Well, the French are overhauling their currency system. The French unit of money value is the franc, just as ours is the dollar. For a long time, they've been doing business with paper francs. They're starting today to mint a METAL franc. This metal coinage will be silver. . The five-franc silver piece will be "worth" ; 500 present-day francs. That is to say, the government will DE CREE that its value will be 500 francs. There is some ac companying mishmash to the effect that at the same time the money is increased 100 times in value prices will be scaled down 100 times to match. That is probably govern ment moonshine. What these new silver francs will be actu ally worth over the long pull will depend on how much in the way of goods and services people will be willing to ex change for them; ' That is the REAL value of money. fiUESTION: How much will these new francs be worth in terms of American money? The answer is NOT MUCH. The present exchange value of the paper franc-meaning, if you are touring France, how many of them can you buy for a dollar-is m the broad, general neighborhood of a quarter of a cent. So the new French five-franc silver piece won't buy any houses and lots It might buy an American postage stamp. r A NOTHER question: Why is the French gov ernment making this change? One suspects it is for psy chological reasons. The French are a rather realistic lot-as evidenced by the way they're apt to invest their savings When they want to put some thing by for a rainy day, they're inclined to go out and buy some GOLD-on the black market, or wherever they can get it-and take it out in the back yard and bury it. The French government probably thinks the French people will have more confi dence in metal money than in paper money. That suspi cion is buttressed by the fact that the new money is being called "heavy francs." Arabs and the Kurds. But he must, of course, be an educat ed man with a trained mind who can work with experts and decide between them. In all these respects, Mr. Herter seems to me to fill the bill admirably. I am fortified in this estimate by knowing how excellent are his rela tions with Congress, and how greatly he has restored the morale and the discipline of the fnreien service since he came into the Department of State. II TE must be on guard ' against those who, if there is any departure from the of ficial formulae of the past, will cry out that flexibility is appeasement, and that any thing different is another Mu nich. There are a lot of peo ple here and abroad who are opposed to negotiation with Communists. They like to be lieve that this is the real view of Mr., Dulles, and they will invoke his name as against any effort to work out by give or take a new modus vivendi in Germany. They will have to be made to understand that while nothing substantial can or will be given or taken in the two Germanys and the two Berlins, the existing situation needs to be repaired and ren ovated if it is to endure. It is like a house which needs a new roof and a coat of paint. To be sure, it will not then be exacting the same house which it used to be. On the other hand, without the new roof and the paint, it will not for long be the same old house either, and in the end it may be no house at all. ( (c) 1959 New York Herald ' Tribune Inc. and Contributors) Potluck Editor -Dear Sir: . In the interest of greater misuse of the English lan guage, here is a P.P.S. (in " free verse) to your item ia the Sunday, March 29, Pot luck column re lamas and llamas. ' A one-L lama, he's a ' priest; A t w o - L llama, he's a beast; A three-L lama', that's a pretty bad fire. Profoundly yours, (Mrs) Laura R Gansel Eagle Point, Ore. . . The smudging (or. if vou're within earshot of Clifford Cordy, orchard heating) last week, brought out all sorts of reactions in people - rage, ir ritation, despondency, unhap py acceptance. The orchard ists like it probably least of anyone, because it costs them so much money. One of the reactions to the smudge came from versifiers. Here is a sample, from one of our young men: Smug pigeons, unbudging, Put up with the smudging. Millions of smidgeons - -Of smudge. Silly pigeons. Here's another, this one from Mrs. Delbert Casey of Central Point: ' My eyes are weeping. My nose is loo. None would believe I'm not really blue. The skies are dark. The sun can't shine. i ne pois are smuaging Are they getting paid time and half for over time? The trees which are appear ing, one group at a; time, along Main street are, most of them, Japanese privet. This is variety of tree which some times is used for hedges, and can be clipped for shape. As a matter of. fact, this has been done with the ones here now. ..They have been grown tall and their trunks trimmed, so that they will be s!;m along the bottom where psople pass, and bunchy and leafy above, where they give the best effect. Mrs. Edith Eden, the foster mother and nursemaid of the trees, provided this informa tion, but was absolutely aghast at a suggestion that, when grown bigger, the trees might be trimmed into shapes appropriate to the stores they grace a shoe, for instance, for Norfield's, a bow tie for Barker's, or a book for Swem's. Advance word from New York thai erstwhile Shakes- -pearean Festival actor Dick , 1 , - n. . . uianam naa a pari in a iy drama last week sent many local people to their sets that night. They were disap pointed when it turned out . that Dick had what amount-. ed to a "walk-on" role, and appeared in front of . the cameras for all of about 10 seconds. . . Members of small town, vol unteer fire departments sel dom, if ever are paid in cash, for their efforts. Their re ward comes from doing some thing for their community, and because of the friendships they make with other volun teers. There's an esprit de corps, too. One veteran fireman put it this way: "We're all good eggs here. The bad eggs just get discouraged and leave." Another member of the same department insists -that sirens should be ban- ned from all TV programs. Quite a few of them have - been off the couch and out the door, suspenders flying, before they realized the siren came from the TV set, not from the town alarm. . . Informality and friendliness are marks of the small town, we are told by a resident of one, who likes it. He reports the story of one of his com munity's oldest and most re spected citizens who had a knack for making newcomers welcome. In doing so, he had several tricks. One of them was to approach a new neighbor bearing a measuring cup. "Say, I hate to impose on you folks," he'd say, "but the wife is hakins a cake and forgot about the sugar. Wonder if I could borrow a cupful?" In five minutes he'd be back with the sugar. "Didn't really need it at all," he'd say with a disarming grin. "But I couldn't think of a better way to get acquainted." Churchwomen in the same small town recently tried the same technique to get new comers interested in their group. One of them called a new neighbor, in vited her to a meeting, and asked her to bring the bis cuits. She did. .
