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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
May 10. 1949 (Tuesday)
Southern Oregon Historical
Society, county officials and
others plan to discuss propos
ed operation of a museum in
the courthouse at Jackson
ville. '
Seth Bullis and A. C. Allen
Jr. are elected directors of
the Oregon Shakespearean
Festival association.
20 YEARS AGO
May 10. 1939 (Wednesday)
Representatives are being
commissioned for the third an
nual national catfish derby at
Emigrant lake next Sunday.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Chick
ens are now big enough to
scratch in the neighbor's gar
den, and get fried in his
skillet."
30 YEARS AGO .
May 10, 1929 (Friday)
Central Point students hold
a health parade.
Table Rock Grangers form
a pool to buy rock salt for
cattle.
40 YEARS AGO
May 10. 1919 (Saturday)
Main st. between Front and
Bartlett sts. is to be roped
off tonight for Victory week
celebrations. L
Local bread prices are re
ported about to jump one cent
a loaf.
50 YEARS AGO
May 10, 1919 (Monday)
The P. and E. railroad is
sold to J. R. Allen of New
York.
Mayor Canon proclaims May
25 as a city clean-up day.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. What island prison in
San Francisco is nicknamed
"The Rock"?
2. An unexpected legacy,
profit, or othar piece of mone
tary good fortune is called a
w-f-1?
3. Against which country
was the slogan, "Millions for
defense, but not one cent for
tribute," directed?
4. Griffjfh Stadium is the
name of an American league
baseball park in which city?
5. The Japanese Premier at
the time of the Pearl Harbor
attack was Hideki T ?
6. .The southernmost city in
the world is in Chile; name it.
7. The term "great white
plague" is applied to what dis
ease? 8. Who -wrote "The Man
Without a Country".?
9. Name the capital of Por
tugal. 10. During the administra
tion of which President was
the Spanish-American war?
Answers: 1. Alcairax. 2.
Windfall. 3. France. 4. Wash
ington, D.C. 5. Tojo. 6. Punta
Arenas. . 7., Tuberculosis. 8.
Edward Everett Hal. 8. Lis
bon. 10. McKinley.
Disappointing Legislature
The Oregon legislature, which adjourned last
week after 115 wrangling, bickering, back-biting
days, accomplished some good things.
These good things, however, were largely ob
scured by what we believe were the major fail
ures of the session, and
shallying which marked
deliberations.
In fairness, it should
eral criticisms of the legislature cannot, in many
instances, be applied to individual members. We
have heard only good reports of the performance
of Jackson county's delegation, for instance.
Senator Edwin Durno, Representative Eve Nye,
and Representative Bob Duncan, who served as
speaker of the house, earned reputations as fair,
sensible and idealistic members, even when they
disagreed, as they somtimes did. -
LJERE are some of the
session which we feel
A badly-needed new
handling of juvenile offenders was enacted.
The county home rule amendment to the con
stitution, approved by the people last November,
was spelled out by legislative action, and will per
mit counties to set up their own forms of govern
ment to replace the outmoded and archaic system
in use at present.
"First - step" legislation to protect migrant
laborers, and insure sanitary conditions for them,
was enacted.
A big step to alleviate long waiting lists at
Fairview home, partly through a rejuggling of the
functions of institutions, was taken.
A STATE code covering small-boat safety was
Anti-discrimination measures, although some
what watered down, will provide some added
protection for racial minorities and the working
rights of older people.
Enabling legislation to permit creation of
community colleges was enacted.
Provision was made for special classes for
retarded children (although they will not start
until 1964) ; for special education of gifted chil
dren, and for children of migrant workers.
While the session failed to take any affirma
tive action to protect
things as secret union elections, it set up a com
mittee to study labor-management relations, out
of which may come desirable legislation m the
future.
THE judiciary was strengthened by giving the
over lower courts.
In addition to the juvenile code, the session
also enacted a new traffic code (retaining, how
ever, the basic rule), and provided for public de
fenders in the larger counties (those of more
than 100,000 population).
It abolished the coroner system, and provided
instead for medical examiners, in most cases
county health officers.
It enacted a five-dav
officers. This will complicate administration, but
is'only fair to the hard-working men who police
our highways.
It took steps to raise
needed development (although it used a round
about and questionable
THESE things add up
should go to hard - working committees, to in
dividual legistors, and to dedicated private
citizens, who were convinced of their worth and
labored long hours to secure their enactment.
There was also a large body of legislation
which must be time - proven before it can be
known, conclusively, whether it is good or bad.
Many other measures were "housekeeping" bills;
others were either good or bad, according to one's
predilections, and about
neutral unless one has a
lhere were also the
these we consider to be
FRST major deficiency was lack of any for
TTTO fr4
vvaxu. luvn. xii me X1C1U. UX LOAauUll. All lilLCllJIl
committee to study taxation was OK'd, but that's
Standard Operating Procedure.) The state will
face a prospective deficit
uuu at the start of the 1961-62 biennium, and al
most any tax program will have to go to the peo
ple for approval. No provision was made for this.
lhe budget for the current bienmum was pre
cariously balanced at about $313,000,000. bv a
patchwork revision of the existing income tax
law, by using surplus funds now on hand, and by
one - shot measures
which will be later unavailable.
We'll probably scrape
but a king-sized fiscal headache will greet the
legislators in January 1961 if there is no special
session convened meanwhile.
THE session also maintained basic school sup-
which, because of increasing costs, means that an
increased tax load will be placed on local prop-
i 11 i i i , i i 1. -i
ei ly, or mat scnooi sianaaras win De lowered.
The state board of higher education's reauests
for buildings was cut in half, despite the need to
prepare for a vast increase in student loads in the
years just ahead.
Other institutional building needs were slight
ed notably at the new
where a rehabilitation building, the. whole heart
and reason for a new institution in the first place,
was scrapped.
the indecisive shilly
so much of the session's
be pointed out that gen
accomplishments of the
do it credit:
legal code covering the
union members in such
week for state police
legislators' pay, a badly
way of doing it) .
to a lot of constructive
which it is possible to be
personal interest.
legislature s failures. And
serious.
of upwards of $70,000,-
to speed up collections
through this biennium,
correctional institution.
Dennis the
Its 4 eicciB emu. fM gonna
Matter of Fact aisop
HOPING FOR THE BEST
Paris - The NATO com
mander, Gen. Lauris Norstad,
not long ago asked Gen.
Charles de
Gaulle for
special per
mission to
place medium
range Ameri
c an nuclear
rockets on
French soil
for the dura
t i o n of the
4ospb Alsop oenin crisis.
The only purpose was to
strengthen the Western deter
rent for the critical period
that lies ahead. Assent by Gen.
de Gaulle would not have in
volved any long range com
mitment.
Yet the French Chief of
State refused to make even a
limited and temporary: com
promise in nis long dispute
with the U. S. about nuclear
weapons. He continued to in
sist that France must have en
tire control of any of these
weapons that are placed in
France. Congressional action
would have been needed to
give up the American "key to
the cupboard" of the nuclear
warheads. Hence Gen. Nor-
stad's plan was blocked.
,. ..... .) t .. :
THE incident was not in it
self enormously important.
Judging by the how-exposed
Pentagon faking about the bal
listic missiles emplaced in Bri
tain, new rockets based in
France would probably ; not
have been ready in, time for
the expected climax" of the
Berlin crisis. None the less de
Gaulle's refusal of Norstad's
request cast a glaring light on
the divergences among the
Western allies in their ap
proach to Berlin.
The difference is not great
between the French, the
West Germans, and the Amer
icans. Gen de Gaulle's rejec
tion of emergency rocket
bases is exactly comparable to
the President's often repeated
formula - "I won't give an
inch (but I won't mobilize a
man either)!" The difference
is between the Germans
French, and Americans, on
one side and the British on
the other.
In brief, the British think
the Soviets mean business at
Berlin. They are deeply fear
ful of the outcome. To avoid
the worst outcome, they are
ready to go pretty far to con
ciliate the Soviets. The other
Western allies are not ready
to make the kind of conces
sions that are talked about in
Britain behind the scenes. But
they are not ready, either, to
make the obvious military
preparations to support a firm
stand.
pRIME Minister Macmillan
nointed out to Gen. de
Gaulle and Chancellor Aden
auer that their strong posi
tions on Berlin implied a
need for special military nren-
arations. In both cases he
met with a blank response.
Undoubtedly, Gen. de Gaulle
is a special case, since his
analysis of the Berlin prob
Well-earned salarc
f - I
ployees and higher .education faculty were pared
ji j i t i
aown lo a level wnere we may wen see a depar
ture of some of our best professors and civil servants.
rHE highway commission was by-passed, with a
nnrlc-hflrrel Timo-ram fn Hmlfl a flnlnmrnn riv
er bridge, and by failure to enact a 1 cent per gal
lon gas tax. increase to keep the freeway program
on scneauie with ieaerai
billboard reo-nlatinn was
derland" slogan for auto licenses was approved.
And there were other sins of omission and
commission which will come back to haunt the
members.
All in all, despite the
a disappointing session -r- particularly for one
which started out with such high hopes and higher
promises. E.A.
Menace
make myself a buxom.4
lem, is known to be decidedly
somber.
"It wiU probably end badly,
perhaps very badly indeed.'
All these divergences raise
many questions about the fu
ture, most of them extremely
unpleasant. The most unpleas'
ant and most urgent of them
all is the question. "What if
the British are right?"
This reporter happens to
believe that the British are
wrong. But even if you are
convinced that the Soviets
will not risk a nuclear war
for Berlin, and even if you are
also convinced that the other
Western allies will not sur
render under threat, the ques
tion still demands an answer.
fNE remembers far too well
" catching the last plane out
of Manila with the solemn as
surance of Gen. MacArthur
ringing in one's ears," that the
Japanese would "never dare
to attack the Philippines, and
would surely direct their as
sault against the Netherlands
Indies." This was altogether
convincing at the time. Yet it
was this judgment, wholly
logical by every outward test,
that produced Pearl Harbor.
If the U. S. fleet in the Pa
cific had not been waiting in
Pearl Harbor like a sitting
duck, there would have been
no Pearl Harbor. The situa
tion today differs in a hun
dred ways from the situation
in 1941. But the chance of So
viet error at Berlin would
surely be greatly reduced if
the Western powers made the
effort to achieve a state of
real military readiness, in
stead of contenting them
selves with' what may be catt
ed Eisenhower-McElroy-stand
readiness.
(Copyright 1959, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Communications
Second-Clasi Voters?
To the Editor: In your front
page item of Wednesday, May
6, regarding the Phoenix
school election you say that
"Voter's Complaint Said Un
founded," then at the end of
this item you say that "not
more than 10 people were af
fected." What about these 10
people? Are they to be con
sidered second class-voters?
Aren't they entitled to their
ballots (which they didn't get)?.
Your statement sounds very
contradictory.
Two interested voters, ;
L. and V. Reid,
Route 4, Box 429F,
Medford
Editor's note: The last two
paragraphs of the story read
as follows:
Mrs. Florence Drake, school
district clerk, told Mekvold
that those supervising the elec
tion did run out of county
ballots during the last 10 min
utes. However, those who did
not have the ballots were
asked to wait until others
could be prepared. Some wait
ed and others did not, she
said '
Not more than 10 people
were affected, Mrs. Drake
stated.
uifM - pnoea fnr stare em-
matching iunds. JNeeded
"iunked. A "Pacific Won
accomplishments, it was
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
A REAL UNITY
Washington - On the sound
principle that once bitten is
twice shy, all but the most
smile - happy
optimists are
e m p h asizing
that the Big
Four foreign
ministers con
ference at Ge
neva has no
guar an tee of
even a modest
William S.
WMt . as it should be.
It will do nobody any good
to forget that the trail of
international meetings with
the Soviet Union is studded
with the ruins of Western
hopes. It is a trail weU mark
ed, in a word, with broken
Russian promises.
Indeed, the West may be
hard put at Geneva to find
enough justification (and al
most any kind of justification
will do) for agreeing to hold
the real conference toward
which the world is looking.
This, of course, is a summit
meeting between President
Eisenhower, Prime Minister
Macmillan of Britain, Presi
dent De Gaulle of France and
Nikita Khrushchev of the So
viet Union.
ALL the same, it is never
useful to approach any op
portunity in the fixed notion
that nothing good can possibly
come from it. And quite apart
from . this general principle,
there is practical and specific
reason to look toward Geneva
with a basic and realistic; if
limited, confidence.
- For the profound fact is this:
Whatever may happen at the
actual conference table in Ge
neva, the leading members, of
the Western alliance have
wisely prepared to maintain
the unity of all in the West
in the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization.
The Big Four have pledged
not merely to keep the smaller
NATO partners generally ad
vised of what; they, the big
fellows, say and do at Ge
neva. Much better, the big
fellows are committed to
maintain running contact with
the NATO Treaty Council all
during the Geneva confer
ence. This is no mere empty legal
ism, no gesture of "niceness."
If anyone supposed it to be
so, a talk with the diplomatic
representatives here' of the
smaller allies ' will quickly
change his mind. This is a
promise of real meaning; of
a meaning hardly less real
than the great reality it rec
ognizes. : j
Neuberger Reveals
Reasons He Voted to
Confirm Clair Luce
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune
Washington Correspondent
Washington -(Special)- Sen '.
Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.)
said he did not go along with
Sen. Wayne
Morse in op
posing Clair
Boothe Luce
to be ambassa
dor to Brazil
because he
found no
"m e a n ingful
grounds for
voting against
A- Bobt. Smith the &PP 0 i n
ee." "I deplore and regret
Mrs. Luce's political attacks in
the past on Presidents Roose
velt and Truman," said JNeu-
berger, recalling that he had
worked hard for the election
of both these Democratic
leaders.
: This apparently was an
oblique reference to Morse's
criticism of Mrs. Luce for hav
ing said in past political
speeches that Roosevelt "lied
us into war."
Others Vole tor Luce .
Neuberger noted that most
of the Democratic liberals vot
ed to confirm Mrs. Luce, in
cluding Sens. Hubert Hum
phrey, John F. Kennedy, Paul
Douglas, Estes Kefauver, War
ren Magnuson and Henry
Jackson.
"Furthermore, my philoso
phy in such matters is to live
and let live. Why recriminate
and always seek revenge?"
asked the senator in his week
ly newsletter.
He recalled tnat last year
he had been willing to approve
the appointment of Wendell
Wyatt, Astoria attorney, to
the U.S. Tax Court, "despite
his partisan statements when
he was Republican state chair
man" during the Morse-McKay
election campaign of
1956. Morse blocked the ap
pointment by letting it be
known he would oppose Wyatt.
Neuberger said he ; hoped
the same tolerance would be
shown in the future for Demo
cratic politicians appointed to
high office. ,
In continuing her battle
against the loyalty oath re
S. WHITE
THIS great reality is that the
strength of the West lies, in
the end, upon the simple fact
that in NATO 15 nations are
banded together, all for one
and one for all. Between them
they make up a massive mili
tary force and, almost equaUy
important, a hardly less mas
sive political force.
What Geneva must do and
will do, if the Big Four live
up precisely to their promises,
is to give the smaller Western
nations a sense of genuine
participation in the decisions
in which technically they, will
not be a part.
Canada, Belgium, Italy and
the others, though not sitting
at the table, will not be ex
cluded from what goes on.
Through the common NATO
council they will all be "in
the act" on the Western side.
It is clear that the consultative
arrangement between the large
and small partners can be
made the most generous and
useful ever granted by the
large to the small.
There is no reason, for ex
ample, why the smaller pow
ers cannot make proposals to
the actual negotiators for the
West, the Big Four, as the
conference ' goes forward,
There is thus no reason why
the smaller powers indirectly,
but nevertheless importantly,
influence the conference itself
through their recommenda
tions to their bigger allies.
TF THIS is done, as there is
"- every reason to suppose it
will be, all the power of the
West will properly feel a part
of whatever bargain is struck
or rejected at Geneva. And
all the power of the West-
and this is, after all, the true
and ultimate safeguard from
the Soviet Union-will remain
truly together.
Thus, without coddling our
selves with wishful thinking,
it is possible to say that before
a single negotiating session
has finished at Geneva a sub
stantial Western victory is al
ready within our grasp. This
is a victory for all Western
unity. And it is all-Western
unity that most of all, in this
and every succeeding confer
ence of any and every kind,
will be the real target of the
Soviet Union.
Such a victory 'would be a
fitting reward in the late eve
ning of life to a man recently
a visitor here, Sir Winston
Churchill. It was this man,
more than any other, whose
mind drew up the Western
alliance when it perceived 12
years ago that the Iron Cur
tain was descending.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
quired of scholars who wish
to take advantage of the edu
cation loans and grants bill
passed by Congress last year,
Rep. Edith Green did some
extensive digging into past
periods when oath-taking even
spread to cover members of
Congress.
Congress is now consider
ing legislation to knock out
this loyalty oath. Reed college
and 8 other institutions have
refused to participate in the
education aid program be
cause of the oath, while other
schools have participated but
protested all the same.
Congresswoman Green testi
fied on how the requirement
of oaths can spread in a cli
mate of fear and distrust. She
cited the Civil War period,
when Congress in 1862 passed
the so-called "ironclad oath"
bill requiring all persons hold
ing offices of -trust or profit
under the government to sub
scribe to a long oath as to
their past, present and future
loyalty.
Requirement Passed
Although it didn't cover
congressmen, some lawmakers
began to take the oath volun
tarily, possibly to demonstrate
how loyal they were. Then
a resolution was introduced
requiring all senators to take
the oath. It passed.
But Delaware's Senator Bay
ard, Mrs. Green went on, re
signed his seat in protest over
what, he called the unconsti
tutional oath requirement. In
a brilliant farewell speech,
Bayard said he regarded "all
test-oaths as useless and de
moralizing acts of tyranny."
Bayard said he agreed with
"a brilliant and distinguished
advocate" who said of test
oaths: "They are the first weapons
young oppression learns to
handle; weapons the more odi
ous since, though barbed and
poisoned, neither strength nor
courage is necessary to wield
them." -
Senator Wayne Morse says
he received five letters from
Oregon citizens who were
chastizing him for not grow
ing a beard to help promote
the Centennial. He wrote back
pTILUa
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Here it is, one-third of the
way through May, already.
. And that makes it more
than one-third of the way
through 1959, too. Tempus
is just fugiting along like
anything, but then, it al
ways does, and each year
it seems to go a little faster,
somehow.
".
March . and most of April
had weather such as we usual
ly have during May, and ex
cept for a couple of days,
May so far has had weather
such as we usually have dur
ing March and April.
No one knows "what June
will be like - except that the
crab grass will get in its first
licks. And we hope there
won't be too many thunder
storms. The orchardists have
had a bad enough time al
ready this year with frost, and
a bad hail season could be
rough.
It is difficult to ascertain
just how much the orchard
ists' cloud - seeding opera
tions, which they are discon-
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
More today about the town
of Pondosa - which appears
to have been , settled upon as
the inhabited place nearest to
the pin point on the map that
is known as the "geographi
cal center" of the United
States.
What is a geographical cen
ter? It's just what it says. It's
the center of a given geo
graphical area. It is establish
ed by a complicated system of
mathematical measureme n t s
and computations. What does
it mean to the town nearest to
this pin point? Not much. It
is supposed to have some
tourist possibilities, liut I
doubt it. How far out of your
way would you go just to see
a pin point that is the geo
graphical center of the U.S.?
Not very far, I'd guess.
BUT-
This IS significant:
Ever since it was establish
ed, the geographical center of
the United States has been
moving steadily WESTWARD.
Nearly 300 years ago George
Berkeley, an English church
man, Bishop of Cloyne, coined
the magic phrase: "Westward
the course of empire takes its
way."-About a century later,
John Quincy Adams plagiar
ized Bishop Berkeley to this
extent: "Westward the STAR
of empire takes its way."
Keep your eye on the West.
Great things are in store
for the WEST.
CJPEAKING of the West, my
colleague of the Mail Tri
bune, Eric Allen, takes a
crack at our mythical State of
Jefferson "otherwise classi
fied," he says, "as a State of
Mind." He adds:
"As for this newest 'state
proposal, it is a nebulous af
fair, designed, apparently, as
a rallying point for those who
oppose what are feared as en
croachments on independence
in thought and action of "big
government,' whether it be at
the state or national level . . .
"Go your ways, good people
of the State of Jefferson. We
choose to exert our independ
ence by acknowledging that
No Man Is an Island - nor is
a state, even a state of mind."
TUT! Tut! Eric.
Tf Platn 2n-rvM oenturips
ago, could dream of the per
fect state, why can't we here
in Southern Oregon and Far
Northern California dream of
the perfect state?
In the greatest of his di
alogues, The Republic, Plato
outlined his plans for an ideal
state. He believed that the pur
pose of the state is to train its
citizens to be upright and vir
tuous so that they may be
truly happy. He knew this
ideal state could never be
formed in an imperfect world,
but he held it up as a goal to
ward which people should
work.
And-
His thinking was made an
immense impression through
out all the 20-odd centuries
that have followed him.
I
F PLATO could dream of a
State of Mind, why can't
WE dream of a State of Mind?
If man can't DREAM of per-
f e c t i o n, how can man
ACHIEVE perfection?
that he at least had a mus
tache, which was all he could
offer the cause.
One of them wrote back
and demanded he do better.
So Morse advised him to go
to his farm at Eugene and get
one of the senator's Angora
goats, which have adequate
beards, and lead' the goat
around the state.
"Then you can say you are
the only man in the state who
could get Morse's goat," the
senator said he told his per
sistent constituent.
tinuing this year after 10
years, affected hail, but it
does seem to us, without any
scientific observation to back
us up, that hail has been
somewhat less severe the past
few years, compared to what
it was before the program
started.
Meteorologists are cautious
chaps, and disinclined to make
any rash statements about the
effects of cloud-seeding. But
we know of a couple of forest
rangers who will swear that
when they were using air
planes to seed the clouds a
few years ago, the number of
lightning 'strikes in the south
ern part of the county was far
fewer than normal.
In addition, Copco seems
pretty satisfied with the
cloud-seeding they have been
doing for some years to in
crease snowfall on the area
from, which they obtain the
water to turn their generators.
But it is, of course, difficult
to prove anything. Maybe the
fruit men have "the right idea
in seeking a research project
to learn more about what hail
is, how it forms, why it forms,
and what - if anything - can
be done about it.
Anyway you look at It,
fruit- raising involves a cal
culated risk. If it isn't frost,
it's hail, and if it isn't hail its
bugs or disease, and if it isn't
that it's poor prices, and if it
isn't any of these, it's irate
residents blasting at 'em be
cause of smudge. To hear 'em
talk, one wonders why they
stay in the business at all.
Here's one last (we hope)
smudge story, ' about the
man who took a friend for
a ride the other morning
right after a heavy orchard
heating session. In the car
with them was the driver's
dog, a small canine with
normally-white paws which
were blackened by an early
morning romp. The dog be
gan barking furiously at a
bunch of equally-discolored
cows in a nearby field.
"What's he barking at?" lhe
owner asked bis friend.
"Don't worry," was the
reply, "it's just the pet cell
ing the cattle black." " .
We found a note on our
desk last week, which read
as follows:
This is "Be Kind to Animals
Week." :
They're our own defense
less brothers.
To top it off, come Sunday
next,
Let's start being kind . to
mothers. r
We haven't had a typo
graphical - error story her
for a couple of weeks now
(maybe our Phoenix friend
has just given up, cause we
still have the darned things
In the paper). But w have
a contribution from another
volunteer typographical-error-spotter
for today a
headline which read, "First
State Land Conversation
'Act Created Town of Clat
sop." Our correspondent
commented, "First time I
ever heard of a town built
by talk. City council, take
note."
The flu (or, rather, the "flu
like illness") which has been
going around, is no fun.
Still, we know ofone re
cent victim who got a certain
evil pleasure, even while ly
ing in his bed of pain, in
watching this wife do all the
chores that he usually does -carrying
wood, emptying the
garbage can, cutting the
lawn, and so on.
Taking over for him, she
also took over his Levi's - or
"blue jeans" - as suitable at
tire for such tasks.
When he got well enough
to get out of bed again, he
found in his pockets assorted
small change that hadn't been
there before, an open (ouch!!)
safety pin, bobby-pins, a stick
of chewing gum and the stub
of a pencil.
Well, as we always say.
women who wear the pants
in the family (even tempor
arily) are entitled to put what
they want in their pockets
which apparently even rival
the collections in their purses
on other occasions. But they
shouldn't criticize the contents
of the pockets of small boys.
Another story on the re
lationship of the sexes is
about the minister who was
giving a newly-named eld
er of the church instructions
on his responsibilities. He
should, the minister de
clared, always have control
of his household, as the book
of Titus recommends. The
young elder suggested, rath
er wistfully, that the auth
or of the book of Titus must
have been a single man, as
no . married man would
make such a difficult rec
ommendation. A lot of people consider
themselves ahead of the times
when they aren't even going
in the same direction.