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SUNDAY APRIL 26. 1959
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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 26. 1949 (Tuesday)
Bears put in. an appearance
at Crater Lake National park,
indicating that spring has ar
rived even at that altitude.
Mayor Diamond Flynn
shows off the sights of-Medford
to a delegation of offi
cials from Klamath Falls.
20 YEARS AGO
April 26, 1939 (Wednesday)
The old Tolman mansion, a
landmark since pioneer days,
is destroyed by fire as lack of
water frustrates the Ashland
fire department.
?rom Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Some
of the fair sex have their sum
mer furs ready for wearing.
They range from the hide of
the cunning fox to the tail of
the slinking coyote."
30 YEARS AGO
April 26, 1929 (Friday)
Crops in the Table Rock
district are improved by re
cent rains.
A portable saw mill will
cut timber to reopen the Blue
Ledge mine. ;
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40 YEARS AGO
April 26, 1919 (Saturday)
Work starts on irrigation
ditches in the Talent district.
Army fliers en route to the
Portland Rose Show will visit
the Rogue Valley.
50 YEARS AGO
April 26, 1909 (Monday)
A. total of 111 automobiles
are registered by Medford
citizens.
R. G. Wilson, a Salt Lake
City mining man, purchases
the Bradshaw. orchard at
Eagle Point for $60,000.
What's Your I.Q.?
Mine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. A baseball playing field
is called what?
...... j
2. What sort of surgeon
specializes in remodeling hu
man features?
3. " In which city was the
Declaration' of Independence
signed?
4. In what country is Bag
dad? . - ' ,
5. Name . the author of
"Ivanhoe."
6 Correct the following
sentence: "The aim of all his
efforts were to gain peace."
7. In which city is The Lit
tle Church Around the Cor
ner? . ,
8. What is a tennis playing
field called?
9. Where
Coast?
is the Ivory
10. In dry measure, how
many quarts are in one bush
el? ,
Answers: 1. Diamond.- 2.
Plaslic surgeon. 3. Philadel
phia. 4. Iraq. 5. Sir Walter
L -ott. 6. " . . . was to gain
r;ace." 7. New York City,
t. '"'ouri. 9. French West
Africa. 10. Thirty-two.
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Ashland Looks Good
We take our hat off to Ashland.
Time was, and not too long ago, when this
pleasant community had a statewide reputation
as being sort of sleepy, unprogressive, and averse
to change. Fund - raising projects traditionally
died a painful, lingering death. Bond issues for
civic projects were defeated. Merchants, resi
dents, the city itself, resisted change, new ideas,
improvements.
But, based on recent events, it looks as though
a fresh new breeze, .brisk and invigorating, is
blowing in Ashland.
riRST of all, when the time came last fall to
raise money to keep the Oregon Shakespeare
an Festival in operation, what city did more than
any other to raise the money? Ashland did.
In general solicitation, it not only exceeded
Medford, which is about three times its size, on a
per capita basis, but also in total amount.
And last week, after a sometimes-heated cam
paign, voters flocked the polls and approved by
a better than t'wo-to-one margin the issuance of
$1,250,000 in bonds to build a big new junior
high school.
The school not only will take the place of the
59-year-old building now in use it also is a
vote of confidence in Ashland's future, for it will
be built to care for more students than now attend
junior high, and will be expandable to house even
more'in the more-distant future.
F THESE actions are any criterion, Ashland has
emphatically rejected a role as a dead-or-dying
city, populated by mossbacks and defeatists.
It has shown self-confidence and aggressive
optimism, which cannot help but be reflected in
the overall tenor of community life.
Ashland, once before, was a booming and op
timistic town, a major railroad center. It invited
the famous John MacLaren, who designed Golden
Gate Park in San Francisco, to lay out Lithia park
probably the most beautiful small-town park in
the west, and perhaps the nation. In those days it
supported the school which is now Southern Ore
gon College; it had Chautauquas each year and
built a big building to house them.
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GRADUALLY, somehow, the aggressive spirit
slipped away.
But no more. Once again the college is the
center of the cultural life of the community.. The
Shakespeare Festival, which for some time re
ceived stronger support outside of the city than it
did there, has been re-adopted as Ashland's own.
The voters have shown their willingness to pay
for the needs of education which are, indeed,
the needs of Ashland's future.
- Businessmen have organized to keep the city's
economic climate good, and to help it grow.
Ashland has earned a salute. More power to
it. E.A. .
A Legislators Life
Since sharp and sometimes rather general
criticisms of the Oregon
have appeared in this space not infrequently in
the past few months, it should be pointed out, in
all fairness, that such criticisms do .not necessari
ly apply to individual members. .
It has often been pointed out here what a
difficult job is faced by members of the legisla
ture. The wonder of it
women are willing to make the sacrifices.
Among these sacrifices is the intangible, but
nevertheless very real one of being on the re
ceiving end of criticism. It rankles particularly if
one feels it is not merited in one's own case.
A ND a legislator is "damned if he does and
damned if he doesn't."
For instance, the Roseburg News-Review the
other day carried a long article by its able editor,
Charles V. Stanton, in which he criticized the leg
islature in terms very similar to those used in
this column but for opposite reasons.
We have argued that the state must maintain
a certain level of state services (particularly in
educational support) if it is to do justice to the
people it serves. This implies the need to collect
the taxes needed for such a program.
Stanton's article, on the other hand, was criti
cal because the legislature has shown what he
feels is too little disposition to cut down on serv
ices to match the state's income.
A CONSCIENTIOUS member of the legislature,
"V reading botri papers, might well come to the
conclusion that he just can't win. He's going to
be lambasted no matter what he does.
The solution is for him to . follow his con
science, vote according to his convictions, satisfy
himself that' he is right, and then to heck with
the critics. .
If he feels motivated to answer them, so much
the better. For it is only in full and frank dis
cussion of the state's needs that the people can
obtain a sufficient understanding of them.
WE WONDER if it would not be a good idea
" for the legislature to have a one-week recess
sometime along toward the end of the session. ,
While it.Is possible to be too far removed from
the legislature properly to assess its accomplish
ments, it is also possible for a member to be too
closely concerned with the problems of the mo
ment, thereby losing a sense of perspective and
the "large view" which a legislator needs..
If there were such a recess, members' could
return home, relax a little, and have a chance to
find out, on their home ground, what their con
stituents are thinking. E.A.
legislature as a whole
is that enough men and
Dennis the
Matter of Fact
MR. MISSILE GAP
Washington - For the past
ten days, . Washington has
been preoccupied with the suc
cession at the
State De
partment. The
occup a t i o n
was needless.
Christian A.
Herter was
the obvious
and almost
nec e s s a r y
choice to suc
ceed John
Ins-ph Alsno
Foster Dulles; and he is also
a man of proven stature, char
acter, and courage, who ought
to do a first rate job.
No one, meanwhile, seems
to be at all preoccupied with
the succession atthe Defense
Department, although the
early departure of Secretary
of Defense Neil McElroy was
foreseen some time-ago. It is
taken for granted that when
McElroy goes, his Under Sec
retary, Donald Quarles, will
get the top job. Certainly the
President will have the ut
most difficulty in finding any
other replacement for Mc
Elroy. Yet the succession at the
Defense Department really
deserves . more attention than
the succession at the State De
partment, if only because the
right name for Donald Quarles
is "Mister Missile Gap."
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QUARLES has been a lead
ing defense policy-maker
during the whole of the last
six years, when the world bal
ance of military power has
tilted so dangerously against
us. He has had much authori;
ty over our missile programs,
and the missile gap is the
worst of our problems.' He
currently opposes the mea
sures that might bridge the
gap. And if he had had his
way in the past, there" would
be no mere gap, but a vast
unbridgeable, inesc apable
abyss. '
These are rather serious
things to say about the fore
ordained next Secretary of
Defense; but they re easily
documented. In brief, when
Quarles first entered the De
partment as Assistant Secre
tary for Research and De
velopment, the American' long
range missile program was in
a condition that was appalling
to contemplate.
The cause of this condition
was bad specifications. The
development of compact, rela
tively light . weight H-bomb
war-heads had not been fore
seen or allowed for by the Air
Staff. Missile designs were
therefore required- to carry
war - heads , of impossible
weight and size. Thus the
missiles under development
were then either doubtfully
useful or actually impossible.
In the first category were
Snark and Navajo projects,
both now. terminated. In the
impossible category was the
Atlas as then conceived, as a
Try and
-By. BENNETT CERF-
JOHN CAPLES, of the potent advertising firm of B.B.D. and
(X, lists seven questions that must be answered in the affirm
ative for an ad to be successful: 1. Does your ad attract the
right audience? 2. Does
your ad hold the audience?
3. Does your copy create
desire? 4. Do you prove it
is a bargain? 5. Do you es
tablish confidence? 6. Do
you make it easy to act?
and 7. Do you give prospect
a reason to act at once?
Mr. Caples is the origina
tor of three , advertising
catch-lines that I'm sure
you will remember: "They
Laughed When I Sat Down
at the Piano," "They
Grinned When the Waiter
Spoke to Me in French,"
and "Sixty Days Ago They Called Me Baldy."
The honeymoon is over, concedes Walter Caffery, when the bride
groom stops helping with the dishes and does them by himself.
O ldtt. by Tlnrmnrr Cart. SWribuM tar Xiac 7eetum Sr&dfctu. -
Menace
By Joseph AIsop
vast, hopelessly unwieldy
missile with a takeoff weight
of 450,000 pounds.
ON THE initiative of the
Air Force's Assistant Sec
retary for Research, Trevor
Gardner, a committee was
named to review the long
range missile program under
the leadership of that great
scientist, the late John Von
Neumann. Without the Von
Neumann committee's report,
we should probably have no
serious long range missile pro
gram to this day. But the
changes the committee pro
posed were tepidly received
by , the Air Staff, and they
were actively opposed by
Donald Quarles. The dogged
insistence of Gardner, the
bold determination of his
chief, Secretary of the Air
Force Harold Talbott, were
both needed to secure accept
ance of the Von Neumann
Committee report.
. The principal initial change.
was the complete re-design of
Atlas, as a workable missile
built around the new, much
lighter weight warheads the
Atomic Energy Commission
was perfecting. Somewhat lat
er, the decision to add the
Titan project also grew out of
the Von Neumann report.
Without Titan, this country
would not even be in sight of
having a long range ballistic
missile capable of being placed
in a fully hard pad. But once
again, Ronald Quarles sharp
ly opposed the inauguration
of the Titan project; and Tal
bott and Gardner had to fight
with tooth and claw to win
the day.
PVEN the re-design of At
las and the order for Ti
tan would have been fruitless,
however, without - the estab
lishment in Turkey of missile
watching Radars. Nothing but
the grim, indisputable intel
ligence derived from these
radars could have driven the
Eisenhower administration to
spend the necessary sums for
serious . development of the
big missiles. But once again,
Donald Quarles fought the
whole plan for the missile
watching radars. The project
was smuggled through, with
out Quarles's concurrence, by
the Talbott-Gardner team. In
truth the country owes much
to these two men, one of
whom was later disgraced,
while the other was briskly
dismissed for his pains.
Such is the early Quarles
record, in the formative peri
od. The later record has been
beginning. Indeed, the great
tragedy of the hapless Mc
Elroy's service as Defense
Secretary has been his choice
of Quarles as his chief ad
visor. But with the missile
gap growing more perilous
with each passing month,
"Mr. Missile Gap" will no
doubt become Defense Secre
tary when McElroy goes,
(c) 1959 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Stop Me
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
THE SENATE AND HERTER
The unanimity and speed
with which the Senate con
firmed the nomination of Sec
retary Herter
are impres
sive, and ob
viously they
were meant
to be. The
Senate was
repairing the
damage caus
ed by the fum
bling and un
gracious way
Walter
Lippmann
in which the appointment was
made.
It is not easy to explain
why the President and Mr.
Hagerty did so much to cre
ate the impression that the
appointment was being made
reluctantly and with reserva
tions. Mr. Arthur Krock, in
his penetrating account of the
affair, is no doubt right that
in the beginning the President
was suffering from an emo
tional reaction to the very
bad news from Walter Reed
hospital. But, as Mr. Krock
goes on to point out, this still
leaves unexplained the mys
tery of why, after the results
of Mr. Herter's medical check
up were known in Augusta,
after Senator Dirksen and
others in the know had said
that the appointment would
go to Herter, Mr. Hagerty was
still casting doubt upon it.
A possible explanation is
that the President was until
the last moment under strong
pressure from supporters of
some rival for the office.
This is an unpleasant and
embarrassing subject to dis
cuss. But for the long run the
explanation which will do the
least damage is that the Presi
dent avoided facing up to the
grim facts until Mr. Dulles,
who had tried to resign some
weeks earlier, insisted that
the President face up to them.
The shock was great. Even
then the President shrank
from taking the final step of
naming Mr. Dulles' succes
sor. During this hesitation he
opened himself to pressure to
appoint someone other than
Mr. Herter.
rpHE action of the senators
reflects not only their high
opinion of Mr. Herter. They
have also given notice to the
President that he has a Secre
tary of State who carries
great political weight, and is
not to be treated as a minor
underling. The Senate has not
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paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. X
Not All Moslems
To the Editor: I read with
interest the letter of Mr. Park
er Bailey of March 18, re
garding "Mid-East and Bible."
In his letter he suggested
that the Arabs are Moslems.
May I, respectfully, invite his
attention to the fact that this
is not quite correct. Some of
the Arabs are Moslems. Arab
Christians who are at present
nearly nine millions existed
long before Arab Moslems. In
deed some of the great Arab
thinkers are Arab Christians,
including George Antonius,
Fayez Sayegh, Charles Malik
and others.
Neither Moslems nor the
Arabs have ever claimed to be
God's chosen people. Indeed,
the concept of chosen people
and superior race is alien to
Arab thinking. It is true that
the Arabs, both Moslem and
Christian, are descendants of
Abraham even more than Ben
Gurion, a Pole, whose ances
tors might have been convert
ed into Judaism several hun
dred years, ago from amongst
some of the Slavic tribes. One
wonders whether Elizabeth
Taylor, who was recently con
verted into Judaism, is also a
descendant of Abraham.
The opposition of Arab Mos
lems and Christians to the
Zionist Jews is because Ben
Gurion and his supporters are
intruders in' Palestine against
the will of the Arabs, capital
izing on humanitarian senti
ments and misinterpretation
of the Bible.
Mohammad T. Mehdi
Director
Arab Information Center
Ferry Building
San Francisco 11, Calif.
Wagon Train
To the Editor: It has been
nigh two score years since
it was my pleasure to inter
view the last known survivor
of the first covered-wagon
trains to set out for the prom
ised lands of the west and
who still had memories of that
great trek.. There may have
been others, of course, but it
was my privilege to meet
them. The one in question
was Mrs. Snelling over in the
far eastern Oregon country
of Summer lake. She was a
girl of five, coming with the
well-known Bachelor party of
Lippmann
only confirmed Mr. Herter for
the office, but it has done all
that it could do to confirm his
influence after he is in the
office.
Both abroad and at home
this is salutary and important.
For in the complicated nego
tiations, which Mr. Herter is
conducting, it would be a fa
tal handicap if Dr. Adenauer
or General de Gaulle or Mr.
Macmillan were given the im
pression that the Secretary of
State does not have the confi
dence of the President, and
that there is an appeal over
his head through others who
have the ear of the President.
The Senate has struck a migh
ty blow against such shenani
gans. For the unaniomus sup
port of the United States Sen
ate is something that few of
Mr. Herter's predecessors
have ever enjoyed."
AT HOME, the action of the
Senate is a useful offset
to the thunder on the right.
This thunder is still in the dis
tance. But it is unmistakable.
It is designed to intimidate
him. The purpose of the in
timidation is to prevent him
from negotiating a modus vi-vendi-the
theory being that
in war, cold or hot, anything
short of unconditional sur
render is appeasement.
In times like these the easi
est and cheapest position for
a politician or a public man
is to demand the uncondition
al surrender of the adversary.
The extreme position is often
regarded by the gullible, who
do not know the difference
between patriotism and patri-
oteering, as the bold and firm
position. But the extreme po
sition is a phony. It takes
much more boldness and firm
ness and internal courage to
be moderate and rational than
to be a jingo and a verbal
fire-eater.
Mr. Herter is a moderate
and a rational man. For evi
dence of this, we have only to
read his answers to the exam
inations by Senator Morse be
fore the Foreign Relations
Committee. These answers are
a model of how a statesman
in a very powerful country
ought to talk about the issues
of life and death, and they re
veal a moderation and a ra
tionality which have their
roots in an unfrightened and
serene spirit.
(Copyright 1959, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
cations
that country Her most vivid
memory was the whipping she
and three others near her own
age got for straying from the
wagon train, out of sight near
a mile away before being
found.
Her people found, as others
of that beginning hegira did,
that the roving red-men of the
plains gave them no trouble
at all. She said they appeared
really more curious than
friendly, many of them never
having seen a white woman,
especially the young Indian
males whose black eyes were
ever on the maturing girls of
the party.
To the Indians all, the ox
yoke and, wagon-wheel were
the most astounding. They
walked and rode beside the
plodding, protesting oxen,
never the willing worker as
is the horse, feeling of the
yoke-end and the bows pinned
atop, to make sure their very
eyes was not playing false
witness. The steel-tired wagon
wheel of still greater surprise.
As she related to me, "The
greatest concern to the lead
ers of our wagon-train was
the chance of one of the In
dians being run over, as the
Indians would persist in crawl
ing under the high-wheeled
wagons to see the mysterious
things go round and round,
more astonishing ' it seemed
that our most modern inven
tions of the day are to us of
today."
This should not be too sur
prising to us wherywe remem
ber that the only method of
weight transportation was via
the horse's back, directly on
it or just behind the horse
swung on two trailing sticks
known as the travois, cross
ed and resting on a saddle on
the horse's back. Truly-quite
a leap forward to the big
cargo-planes today.
F. J. Clifford,
Route 2, Box 200F,
Central Point
Not the Russians
To the Editor:
It's coming through uie
ceiling,
It's coming through the
floor,
It's coming in the window,
It's coming through the
door.
It's not the Russians, nor
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
SEXLESS TROUT
Tokyo -(UPD Prof. Tokyo
Yamamoto of Nagoya Univer
sity has developed a breed of
"sexless" rainbow trout
through the use of hormones,
it was announced today. In
stead of expending energy
pursuing the opposite sex,
the sexless trout just grows
indolent and fat and thus of
greater commercial value, it
was said.
Stop that pouting, rainbow
trout,
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
You'll remember, of course,
the two young escapees from
San Quentin who held a San
Francisco woman at knife's
point for six hours, threaten
ing to kill her if officers
moved in to capture them.
Possessing high and deathless
courage and quick wit, she
talked them out of it and they
surrendered.
One of them was sent to
Folsom, California's maxi
mum security prison. The
other (who had been sent up
for burglary) was ordered to
the California medical facility
at Vacaville for psychiatric
examination. He complained
bitterly.
"I'd like to know," he told
newsmen, "the reason for
sending me there to a nut
house. I'm not a nut. If you
place a man where nuts run
the yard, you don't know-I
might end up a nut."
A LOT of us would like to
knftiB his rpnsnn for In
coming a burglar when so
many more richly rewarding
callings were open to him.
"PROM the Salem Statesman:
"The Russians are learn
ing that grants (of money) do
not always win friends. After
Nasser got mad at the Soviet
Union over its interference
in Iraq, the people of Yemen,
a small sheikdom which is
federated with the United
Arab Republic, stoned a group
of Soviet officers and techni
cians who arrived to imple
ment a development program
which probably meant com
munist financial aid for Ye
men's economy.
"Maybe we should just let
the Russians burn THEIR fin
gers on foreign aid."
V7"OU know, there's really a
thought there.
Leaving out the Marshall
Plan which was a relative
ly inexpensive device to put
our friends and allies back
on their feet after a long and
cruel war in which a large
share of their cities was de-
stroyed-we haven't got much
friendship out of the billions
we have spent for foreign aid
Maybe it might be better,
as the' Stateman suggests, . to
let the Russians take the grief
for a while and listen to the
cries of COMMIES, GO
HOME!
FROM the Redding Record
Searchlight:
"If Governor Pat; Brown
wants to save a little money
to help balance the budget, he
might ask the state depart
ment of mental hygiene to
straighten out its mailing list.
"It's list includes the Record-Searchlight,
and that's
fine. But it also includes the
Courier-Free Press, which
was consolidated with the
Record-Searchlight back in
1841, and the Shasta Courier,
which merged with the R-S
several years ago.
. "That would be understand
able, but the department
mails two separate envelopes,
each containing the same
news release, to each of the
three, so that SIX identical
news releases arrive at the
same time."
ONE of the reasons why
governmental budgets keep
on expanding and expanding
and expanding is that when
once started, governmental
enterprises and their accom
panying appropriations NEV
ER DIE. They just go rolling
on down through the years
like this mailing list that
bripgs six copies of the same
thing to the Record-Searchlight..
spacemen,
But more deadly, I'm
sure.
It gets into my bathroom,
and
Even in my dresser
drawer.
I can't see out my win
dow, Nor out through my'
French door,
. So I must venture outside
To see my friend next
door,
He greets me with:
"What's the score?"
"They're going to smudge
some more."
E. M. Frederick,
809 South Peach St.,
Medford
Your pot of gold's been
found-
The hormone route will
make you stout
And lazier, pound for
pound.
The lowly ling may linger
lean,
The sprat may not get fat,
And "pity too the pinched
sardine-
And what they're selling at.
Low price tags. Yamamoto
states,
For you need not be brook-
ed-
And since your sertual drive
abates,
By love you won't be hook
ed.
We ran across a word
we'd never seen the other
day - ferroequinophiles. It
was used to indicate "iron
horse enthusiasts" that is,
locomotive hobbyists. We
are in doubt as to whether
or not it is a real word, or
one coined for the occasion,
but It doesn't matter very
much, since it IS descrip
tive, and it also opens up a
whole field for word-coiners.
Presumably a railroad
locomotive mechanic would
be a ferroequinotechnician,
and one who makes a study
of locomotives would be 9
ferroequinoligist.
We've all heard the ancient
riddle: What has four whppis
and flies? The answer, of
course, is a garbage truck.
we ran across a switch on
this. What four-wheeled ve
hicle costs more to run than
an automobile?
The answer: A erocerv cart.
silly.
A classically - minded
young man, who also reads
about the doings Of the leg
islature, has suggested that
the current one be dubbed
the "Phoenix session." be
cause it first kills, then re
vives, so many measures
that it reminds him of the
legendary bird which is re
born from its own ashes.
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R. E. Nealon, the Mail Tri
bune's correspondent of many
years in the Table Rock dis
trict, dropped in to the office
the other day and told us
about his two cats - one of
them white, the other gray
with white markings. -
One morning during the
"big smudge" season, the cats
were off playing in different
directions. Came milking time
and they arrived at the barn
for their customary squirt of
milk.
They chanced to meet in
front of the barn. The white
one was a dirty gray; the gray
one almost black. Not recog
nizing each other, they hissed
and spat and almost got into
a fight before they finally de
cided they were friends after
all.
We suppose it was in
evitable, the "signs of the
times" story told us last
week - about the two small
youngsters who were en
gaged in a name-calling con
test, each trying to outdo
the other in finding a
crowning insult. Finally the
little girl wrinkled her
brow, concentrated, and ex
claimed, "You you you
old smudge pot!H"
The springtime !s budget
time for agencies of govern
ment, a time of much hand
wringing and worry, both for
budget committeemen and
for the public employees
whose offices depend on sup
port for the amounts of money
the budgeters allot.
One classic tale is about the
county department head who
asked for more people on his
staff. One hard - headed bud
get committeeman asked him.
Why don t you put the men
you have to work?"
He replied, "Can't do any
thing with 'em. They just sit
there with their feet on their
desks."
What happened to HIS bud
get doesn't need telling.
We've also heard about
one small town which, like
many others, had difficulty
finding enough people to
serve on the budget commit
tee. Finally the city fathers
started keeping a list of
people who during the year
had registered . complaints
about the city, or signed pe
titions for or against this or
that. Comes budget time,
they are called, reminded of
their "interest in civic af
fairs," and asked to serve.
In other words, "Put up or
shut up."
A reporter was in one of
the law enforcement offices
in the county the other day.
He watched with interest as Q
a secretary snatcnea tne tele
phone, hurriedly dialed a
number, listened for a few
seconds, then said, "Say,
bring me over a candy bar
with nuts in it, will you
please?"