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Friday, May 8, 1959
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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 0, 20, 30,. 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 8, 1949 (Sunday)
Sacred Heart and Commun
ity hospitals here plan open
houses to observe National
Hospital day.
A. Democratic picnic honor
ing Moore Hamilton and Frank
DeSouza is scheduled at Tou
Velle park today.
20 YEARS AGO
May 8, 1939 (Monday)
Roy Rogers, government
frost meteorologist, reports
unheated valley orchards sus
tained frost damage last week.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A con
traption has been invented
that hoes, mows, and culti
vates lawns and gardens. It
is equipped with a gasoline
engine, but the operator sua
has to walk around with it."
30 YEARS AGO
May 8, 1929 (Wednesday)
Straw Hat day is set for to
morrow. The Barnes circus is sched
uled to visit Medford .soon.
40 YEARS AGO
May 8. 1919 (Thursday)
Medford subscribes $266,'
000 to the Victory Loan drive
Major R. W. Clancy is on
his way home from service in
France.
50 YEARS AGO
May 8. 1909 (Saturday)
Ladies of the Greater Med
ford club order the first of
three public drinking foun
tains.
The Ashland coal mine is
sold to Eastern interests.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct it superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. As an artist, with which
musical instrument was Pa-
derewski a renowned musi
cian?
2. Is the .Grace Line an air
line, a railroad line, or a ship
line?
3. If one mixes yellow and
blue pigments, what color re
sults?
4. Wedding inv itations
should be mailed not earlier
than how many weeks before
the wedding?
5. From where did the U.S.
obtain the cherry blossom
trees planted in a park in the
nations capital?
6. Which of these is . the
capital of Texas, San Antonio,
Austin, Dallas, or Ft. Worth?
7. From what part of the
animal are chuck steaks of
beef cut?
8. A country lying between
two potential enemy countries
is sometimes known as a
"h. r state"?
9. What was the name of
Abraham Lincoln's fiancee,
who died?
, 10. Correct the following:
"The burglar was more
frightened than him."
Answers: 1. Piano. 2. Ship.
3. Green. 4. Four weeks. 5.
Japan. 6. Austin. 7. First five
ribs. 8. "Buffer state." 9.
Ann Rutledge. 10. ". . than
he."
AN INSIDE JOB
Knoxville, Tenn.-flJPD-Police
quickly, solved the "theft" of
$150 Wednesday night from
John Maples. The money had
fallen through a hole in Ma
ples' pocket-into the hollow
center of his artificial leg.
Recession
We've heard that the recession is over. Is it?
Let's take a look at the "Oregon Business Re-
t i .i ii i .e i :
view, a puDiicauon 01
research of the University
few excerpts:
"Bank debits in Oregon during March surged
upward 16.9 per cent above the levels 'of March
1958...
"Fmn1mrmfrit. in nnnapripiiltural industrv dur-
JjmiVJMWMW w Q
ing March 1959 jumped 4 per cent above the
March 1958 level. All sectors shared the improve
ment, with contract construction showing a 13
per cent year-to-year gain and lumber and wood
products manufacturing and the "other manufac
turing" sector eacn recording a gain oi per
cent
"TnrlPY nf man hours
to . . . the highest March standing since 1956. m
"Average weekly earnings of production
workers in nonagricultural industry . . . represent
ed a rise of 6 per cent above the March 1958
level . . .
"I UMBER production in the Douglas fir region
L of the Pacific northwest in March 1959 rose
1.4 tier cent above the level of March 1958 and
was 9.3 per cent above the average weekly pro
duction in February 1959. New orders were also
higher than the levels of both a month earlier
and March 1958. ..
". ... Total building contracts (for February
1959), excluding public works and utilities, were
44 per cent above February, 1958 . . . For the first
two months of 1959, Oregon's total value of build
ing contracts, exclusive of public works and utili
ties, was 40 per cent above the comparable period
of 1958.
"The value of building permits issued in Ore
gon during March 1959 was 30 per cent above the
total reported in March 1958. Gains, reported in
most sections of the state, were significantly high
er than the losses that appeared in a few com
munities.
"Agricultural income,
receipts from farm products marketed (govern
ment payments excluded)
in February 1959 relative
mulative totals for the first two months of 1959
showed a rise of 6 per cent above the comparable
period of 1958." -
HHERE were a few less - optimistic spots not
shnwn in t.hpsp favnrablp niint.nt.inriR. hut. t.he
overall report indicates that up to this point, 1959
is starting out far better, economically, than 1958.
We see no reason at
should not have a generous portion of returning
erood times which it seems evident Oregon will
enjoy in the foreseeable
(For instancein Curry, Jackson and Jose
phine counties, bank debits the number of
checks drawn on banks
tween February and March this year, and 34.6
per cent between March of last year and March
this year.)
Our "layman's" interpretation of these econo
mist's figures results in our answer to the ques
tion we asked at the beginning:
Yes the recession is over. E.A.
'The Cut of His Jib'
Once, when a state
man who later turned
murder suspect, we asked the desk officer why
the patrolman had made
"Was there anything
we asked. "Did the officer know the, car was
stolen?"
"No," replied the
didn t like the cut of his
THIS may seem a pretty flimsy excuse on which
to stop a car going down the highway, ap
parently oTbeying all the laws of the land. And it
would be flimsy, too, except on the part of a
conscientious and experienced officer. We would
n't advise a rookie to try it. He might wind up
being sued for false arrest.
But the veteran police officer like experi
enced veterans in many
might almost be called a
Actually, we presume
nize, perhaps even - subconsciously, . small signs
which sets a valid suspect
law-abiding citizen out
if, to the inexperienced
difterence.
JjHYSICIANS experienced in diagnosis, too,
1 sometimes can spot what is wroner with a
patient as they walk in
manner of walking or appearance to get a pretty
good idea what the trouble is before he performs
any more detailed diagnostic procedures.
This talent, of course, isn't really a "sixth
sense," at all. It is merely a higrhlv developed and
refined talent for observation and for drawing
valid conclusions from such observation.
Sherlock Holmes, the classic detective of fic
tion, based most of his amazing powers of de
duction on acute observation.
' So there we are. back
whose ability to see what others don't see, arrive
at a conclusion, and stop a murder suspect, is
described as a dislike of
Over? Yes
me Dureau 01 Dusmess
of Oregon. Here are a
in manufacturing rose
as indicated by cash
fell less than 1 per cent
to February 1958. Cu
all why southern Oregon
future.,
rose 14 per cent be
police officer arrested a
out to be wanted as a
the arrest.
suspicious about him?"
desk sergeant. "He just
jib.
fields develops what
sixth sense. .
it is an ability to recog
apart from an ordinary,
for a Sunday drive, even
eye, there-is no overt
the door using the
to the state patrolman
"the cut of his jib."
E.A.
Dennis the
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iKNOWMMfeE IN THERE. MR. WILSOH I
I CAN HEAR VA KBBPlH' WtV
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paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
Training for Humanity
To the Editor: I didn't re
alize it at the time, but dur
ing the time I was in school
we were taught humane ed
ucation through the material
in our readers as we ad
vanced from grade to grade.
So, by the eighth grade we
had learned to respect our
teachers and parents. We
were taught that the Golden
Rule applied to our relation
ship with both animals and
our fellow-man.
Some place along the line
we were subjected to lessons
in courtesy, honesty, fair
play, truth and justice. When
ever a pupil overstepped too
far, he was punished-gener-ally
by being switched with a
limber branch of a tree, and
the boy himself was sent to
fetch it. Sometimes little
girls cried but never did any
parents come to raise an ob
jection. More often the boy
was punished again at home.
Now we have progressive
education:' And children ad
vance from disregard, impu
dence and disrespect to defi
ance of teachers and parents.
Soon they have progressed to
vandalism, sadism, immoral
acts, larceny, use of narcotics
and more serious crimes. In
fact, according to FBI statis
tics, more crimes are com
mitted by teenagers than any
other age group.
So when it is too late we
have Child Guidance Clinics,
Mental Health Clinics, and
the taxpayer is burdened with
the upkeep of detention
homes, places for wayward
girls and delinquent boys, for
the many attendants, enforce
ment officers and all the
many other expenditures.
' It seems' to me that school
authorities are overlooking
something. Let the children
be trained, their hands, their
intellect, and above all, their
hearts. Let them be taught
to have pity for the animals
that are at our mercy, that
cannot protect themselves,
that cannot explain their pain
or their suffering and soon
this will bring to them recog
nition that higher law, the
moral obligation of man to
protect and care for the weak
and defenseless. Nor will it
stop there,' for this, in turn,
will lead to that highest law
man's duty to man..
Mrs. Francis Hollis,
. Foothill Road, Route 3,
Medford.
Lions Pay Tribute
To the Editor: Some experi
ences of life are beyond the
eloquence or the grandeur or
the glory of words. A long ill
ness terminating with death
cannot be described or under
stood by mere words, as could
the laughter by a child or the
power of friendship. So, in
this time of sacredness, per
haps silence might be very
golden.
"To hold friendship as an
end and not a means. To hold
that true friendship exists not
on account of the service per
formed by one another', but
that true friendship demands
nothing but accepts service in
the spirit in which it is giv
en," is a part of the Lions
code of ethics. If silence were
ever golden, it is in the mem
ory of a person and their
friendship.
In loving tribute, in mem
ory of Lady Lion Lois Hart,
the Crater Lions join hands,
the Lions of the world, Lions
of all races, Lions of all creeds
and religions. What this Lady
Lion has lived for, and loved
for, through us shall never
perish from the face of the
earth.
Frank M. Wilson, D.M.D.
President of Crater Lions
Medford .
Menace
Paper Stage
To the Editor: What a
blessed privilege it is when
fading daylight ends toil of
the day that started with its
beginning, and with supper
over, the weary bones and
muscle can relax by the fire
warmth that is still of com
fort morning and evening, to
peruse the evening paper.
forms a stage that portrays
passing events of happiness
and sorrow and people in
volved in them.
Enigmatic, bewhiskered Fi
del Castro of Cuba, double
flanked with local police to in
sure his life while a guest here,
evasive as to plans for that
tragedy-ridden land, denials of
Communism that don't fit in
with extensive lists of Reds
dug up by our sleuthing col
umnists. Pitiful remains of the
two Martin girls, their happy
Christmas gathering greenery
with family and car swept
from the stage to oblivion till
the rising water reveals its
grim evidence. That moun
tain of courage and resolu
tion for his country, John
Foster Dulles, mercifully
pushed back into the wings as
a new man takes over the
critical affairs of state. Horse
and rider on Medford streets,
reenacting the colorful pony
express days, so quickly out
moded by the dot-dash 'talk
ing wire.' And now, the wire
less radar bouncing back from
swift journey to the moon and
Venus with, little news save
that they are still there and
not just their once-made light.
The faith restoring pictured
news of our President taking
over his role of President in
masterly manner as he is sup
posed to do.
Let us hope, and hope is but
a prayer, that with knowledge
gained and wisdom given him,
he can meet with our freedom
dedicated allies to the un
wanted, the thankless and
fruitless summit meeting with
the scheming and crafty
would-be world enslavers of
the Kremlin, whose only
thought has been to make and
break solemn arrived at
agreements to their selfish
advantage. That out of it can
be born something more help
ful and worthwhile than past
experiences with them have
demonstrated.
And so to bed, for it's most
nine by the warning hands of
the clock, the day's papery
stage folded and to be handed
to a good neighbor who wel
comes us to their TV to enjoy
an occasional program that
our time-screened inhibitions
allow us to enjoy.
F. J. Clifford,
Route 2, Box 200F,
Central Point.
M.T. Prejudice Claimed
To the Editor: Enclosed is
an item on consolidation of in
terest to voters in the Talent
and Phoenix districts. I do not
expect to see it printed in the
columns of the Medford Mail
Tribune because so - far they
have taken a very prejudiced
attitude in the items that have
come out concerning this con
solidation question. We know
that several items favoring
consolidation of Talent' and
Phoenix and giving facts of
interest to the Talent and
Phoenix voters have been
withheld from your columns
and from your letters to the
editor page.
We hope that you will be
able to take a more fair atti
tude in this matter in the fu
ture by printing both sides
of the question.' I'm sure you
will as the Mail Tribune
prides itself on being an in
dependent paper and you
should take pride in allowing
the people in these two areas
Many Presidential Nominees Still Not
Approved;
By RAYMOND LAHR
Washington - (UPD - Presi
dent Eisenhower sounds frus
trated and unhappy about
Senate delays in handling his
nominees for federal jobs. He
should brace himself for even
rougher treatment in the elec
tion yeir of 1960.
He could learn what to ex
pect by asking former Presi
dents Hoover or Truman what
happened to batches of nomi
nations they sent to a hostile
Senate during the last year of
a presidential term.
Eisenhower has grumbled
about the Senate at his two
most recent news conferences.
He was miffed not only by at
tacks on Clare Boothe Luce,
who later resigned as ambas
sador to Brazil, and Secre
tary of Commerce Lewis L.
Strauss. He complained also
about inaction on nominees
for postmastership, federal
judgeships and U.S. attorney
jobs.
Small Percentage Confirmed
The record shows only 15
of 990 postmaster nominees
have been confirmed this ses
sion, but more wiU get Sen
ate approval. Nominations for
judgeships and U.S. attorneys
are moving slowly but not as
slowly as can be expected
next year.
Democrats in the Senate
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
Although there are many
who think so, it seems to me
misleading to suppose that the
Russians have
staged the
Berlin affair
as a distrac
tion in order
to divert at
tention from
their ambi
tions in Iraq
and in the
Middle East.
The stakes in
Germany are much bigger for
them and for us than in Iraq.
For in Genhany the Soviet
Union and the Western alli
ance, each armed with nuclear
weapons, confront one anoth
er directly. Neither can or will
surrender its vital interests to
the other, and if they cannot
find an honorable and accept
able modus Vivendi, there may
be no alternative to a great
war. Ti
As compared with this, the
cold war about Iraq and Iran,
though important and dra
matic, is nevertheless second
ary. The oil of Iraq must find
its market in the West. The
Soviet Union has no need of
it, in fact no use for it. The
Soviet Union will, therefore,
not go to war to seize Iraq as
it would most probably go to
war to hold Eastern Europe
The West, for its part, will
not go to war about Iraq be
cause when the chips are
down, Iraq with its oil fields
like Egypt with the Suez Ca
nal, must have a trrading ar
rangement wltn the West.
THE practical conclusion to
be drawn from this is that
however bad things may look
in Baghdad, the one thing
to vote independently by pre
senting both sides of the con
solidations issue more fairly.
Mrs. Ray Burnette,
Rt. 1, Box 388,
Talent, Ore.
Editor's note: The Mail Tri
bune has taken no position
on the consolidation question
as it affects Phoenix and Tal
ent, and has endeavored to
present the various sides of
the issue. If it has failed to do
so, it was through inadvert
ence. No communications on
the issue, which otherwise
met requirements for "letters
to the editor," have been with
held. The enclosure referred
to appears elsewhere' in to
day's paper.
Count Your Blessings
To the Editor: Well, this
year's Oregon legislative fi
asco is over. While our tax
money has obviously been
wasted, let us remember the
old hymn, "Count Your Many
Blessings, Name Them One
by One."
While the legislature was
squabbling over tax measures,
many bills died in committee.
Some of these were "special
interest" legislation that was
not good for the general pub
lic. Unions are disgruntled be
cause their pet bills were also
in the casualty lists. It cost
them much time and money
with nothing to show for it.
For this they promise some
heads will roll.
However, it showed them
one thing, and that is, real
statesmen are not bred in
union halls. In plain language,
those that can be bought are
often not worth the price.
Leila A. Morrow,
531 North BarUett st.,
- Medford. . ...... .
Walter "
LipDDiann
Worse Treatment Due in '60
will not be eager to let life
time federal judgeships go to
Republicans when they scent
a chance to install a Democrat
in the White House after the
1960 election. If they stall,
they will merely follow a, bi
partisan custom.
A couple of pages in the
congressional record for Dec.
14, 1932 tell the story. Al
though under nominal Repub
lican control, the Senate then
voted 44 to ,37 against taking
up nominations.
Sen. Joseph T. Robinson of
Arkansas, then Democratic
leader, said his side felt no
appointees should be con
firmed for jobs running be
yond March 4, 1933, when
the Roosevelt administration
would be taking over. A Re
publican Senate did the same
to President Wilson in 1920,
he said.
'Bad Precedent'
Speaking for the Republi
cans, Sen. Charles L. McNary
of Oregon confessed that he
may have been an unwitting
participant in the 1920 action
but said it was a bad prece
dent. "When his ox is gored, he
regards it as a bad precedent,"
said Robinson.
To that lame duck session
of Congress President Hoover
submitted 1,662 postmaster
Lippmann
above all that we must not
do is to write off -Iraq, and
then treat it as a Communist
satellite in the same class with
North Korea and North Viet
nam. Even though the Iraqi
Communists may dominate
the government, which they
have not yet done, we should
not regard the situation as
final and irreparable. Egypt
has taught us that as between
Arab nationalism and Soviet
Communism there is much
flirtation, there may even be
a heavy affair, but there has
not yet been any indissoluble
marriage.
The main reason for this,
so I venture to think, is that
there is no common frontier
between any Arab state and
the Soviet Union. With ,the
exception of Albania, which
is not much of an exception,
the genuine Soviet satellites
are all countries into which
the Red Army has marched,
and could march again. For
this reason, Iraq, which does
not touch the Soviet Union,
is not likely to become a sat
ellite. For the same reason,
Iran, which does not have a
common frontier with the
Soviet Union, is a great risk
if ever there is a break-up of
the Shah's regime.
OUR wisest course in the
Middle East is to refrain
from any threats of promises
which, in a show-down, we
could not carry out. In our
relations wltn the Iraqi gov-
excited and reserved. We
ernment we should be un-
should make it plain, but
without excessive rhetoric,
that we believe in the inde
pendence of Iraq that we be
lieve and support her inde
pendence of the great powers
including the Soviet Union
and the United States that
we believe in her right and
her capacity to find her own
place in the Arab world.
This is a realistic policy. It
is no "dyamic" and it is not
dramatic. But it is all that
the traffic will bear.
The old policy has collapsed.
It was based on the illusion
that Iraq could be aligned
with the West by subsidizing
and arming an oligarchy that
was aligned with the West,
and that this artif ical arrange
ment could be regarded as a
military bastion against the
Soviet Union.
The architects and support
ers of the old policy looked
upon themselves as hard-boiled
and tough-minded realists.
But the structure they built
disappeared in a night. Let
us then beware of those who
would like somehow to resur
rect that old policy.
IN THE light of what has
happened in Egypt, in the
light of what has happened to
Nasser's affair with Russia, in
the light of what has happen
ed to Nasser's imperial dream
of making Cairo the center of
the whole Arab world, the
time has come to discount
heavily the catastrophic view
of the Middle East.
The Arabs are a community
from Morocco to the Persian
Gulf. But nobody is soon, if
ever, going to unite them in
a single great state, not Nas
ser or any other Arab, not
Mr. K. or any other Com
munist. For as long a future
as we can see ahead, there,
there will be many Arab
states, and there will be no
one great settlement, good,
bad, or indifferent, of the
Arab's relations with the oth
er or with the rest of the
world.
(c) 1959 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
nominations. None was con
firmed. Of 128 nominees for
other civilian jobs, 57 were
not confirmed.
The Republican controlled
Senate in 1948 failed to act on
830 postmaster nominations
and 277 other appointments
of President Truman. How
ever, Truman won the 1948
presidential election and kept
the jobs for Democrats any
way. President Eisenhower
upset Democratic hopes in the
same way by winning in 1956
after the Democratic Senate
had failed to act on 628 of his
postmaster nomination.
Strauss Nomination Different
The Strauss nomination is
something different inasmuch
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
POLITICS OF VIOLENCE
Washington - The politics
of violence and of violent self
righteousness is not only un
pleasant; it is
also not even
good politics
in the most
"pract i c a 1"
and expedient
sense.
He who
takes up this
sword will
WilllamS. , -t ,
white by it, and
most of all because he has no
perspective, no sense of hu
mor. And even if he does not
actually destroy his career he
will walk at length in a sour
and heavy air. He. may be a
correct man and even a man
honesUy devoted to duty; but
in the end he will walk alone.
For politics is the science
of people. And people, as has
perhaps been remarked once
or twice before in human his
tor y, - are queer chaps. They
may quickly forgive the sin
ner, real or alleged. But they
will not like the cold, correct
saint - perhaps because there
are no truly cold saints, and
never have been.
rpHESE observations refer
back, for the purpose of
looking forward, to what has
recently been topic "A" in
Washington. Topic "A" was
the implacable campaign of
Senator Wayne Morse of Ore
gon to destroy President Eis
e n h o w e r's appointment of
Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce to be
our Ambassador to Brazil.
It will be recalled that Mrs.
Luce, though confirmed by a
7 to 1 Senate majority over
Mr. Morse's frantic opposi
tion, at last resigned her post.
She felt, she said, that Sena
tor Morse had destroyed her,
usefulness.
Mr. Morse has a brilliantly
wounding tongue. (So, too, it
is true, has Mrs. Luce; but she
is ' a private person and her
rhetoric is her own business
and hers alone.) For years
Morse has used that tongue to
cut down his enemies, and
even his impersonal critics.
An end will come to all
things, however. Now Senator
Morse's actions are condoned
only by the excessively "lib
eral" followers of an exces
sively "liberal" Senator.
Even in our brave, new
world, few really endorse the
policy of making politicial
warfare on the women folk,
even if motives may be the
very highest. Fewer still now
endorse the kind of invasion
of privacy involved in Sena
tor Morse's attempts to pry
out from a private physician
information concerning a pri
vate patient, Mrs. Luce.
INDEED, it would be easy
to dwell long upon this
arresting fact: professional
liberals of Mr. Morse's sort -
hotly and rightly and along
with many others have de
nounced in the past tech
niques quite similar to the
kind he felt it right to em
ploy against Mrs. Luce.
This, however, would be
only to put an all-too-fitting
shoe upon the other foot; it
would serve no useful pur
pose. No, this column is in
tended mainly only to prove,
or, at any rate, to argue the
case with the evidence at
hand, that nobody can afford
the politics of violence and
as cabinet members do not
have fixed terms and serve at
the pleasure of the President,
There have been Senate bat
tles over cabinet nominees,
but only seven have been re
jected when brought to a vote.
Charles B. Warren, Presi
dent Coolidge's nominee for
attorney general in 1925, was
the only cabinet nominee re
jected since 1868.
In 1945, a Senate commit
tee recommended against
Henry A. Wallace, who was
President Roosevelt's nominee
for secretary of commerce. He
squeaked through, however,
later a procedural gambit by
his opponents failed on a tie
vote.
S. WHITE
that nobody can long profit
from it.
This is one of the genuine.
the bedrock, facts of 'political
science." Far-right politicians
learned it to their cost a few
year sback. They had a great
time of it for a while - those
led by the late Senator Joseph
R. McCarthy in thrusting
their views down nearly
everybody's throat. They did
this, a small, howling minori
ty though they were, simply
by endless shouting that there
was something traitorous in
not agreeing with them.
The professional liberals
have for a time been making
some headway in their own
urgent efforts to thrust simi
larly fringe - minority views
down present - day throats.
Unlike the far-right wingers,
the professional liberals do
not employ the brutal weapon
of attacking other people's
loyalty. Their argument is
not that those who differ with
them are criminals, but only
that they are Insensitive fools.
,
rvUR system will not long
" function under this sort of
politics, either from the right
or the left. For it is based
upon the great assumption
that it is possible, and even
necessary, to conduct political
debate as civilized discourse.
This assumption is that grown
up men and women can differ
without suspecting each other
or evil or intolerable incom
petence. There is, In household
terms, this illustration: a man
may quite fairly accuse his
wife of a persistent and will
ful policy of squeezing the
toothpaste tube in the middle
against all thrift and reason.
He will not, however, if he
has any perspective at all, go
on to say that she is, there
fore, sabotaging the economy
of the United States and so
helping to destroy the free
world.
The political system, when
it becomes overtired, simply
expels violence and wili have
no more of it, as a stomach
will at last accept no more
unsuitable food. This is what
happened to the men of the
frantic right wing. It will hap
pen now to the men of the
frantic left wing.
(Copyright, 1959, by' United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)-.
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