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1 ,4 . 9 t I MAIL TRIBUNE, M4for4. Or. Sunday, Oct. 25, 1959 "Everyone us Southern OreffOB Published DU except Saturday by MJJiFORP PRINTING CO S3 North Fli St Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W BUHL. Editor "HERB GREV Advertising Manager GEPALD LATHAM Business Mt ERIC W JR. Managing Kditor EARL. H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHEB Women i Edltof DALE tRICKSQN Circulation Mr An Independent Newspaper Entered at semnd elasa matter at Medforrf Oreeon under Act of March 3. 189T SUBSCRIPTION RATES f R Mil in Advance Copy 10e. Dan- and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday moa am. Dailv and Sunday 3 moa 4.23 Sunday Only Ona year $4 JO Rv Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Bade " Point. Jacksonville. Gold HiB Phoenix Shady Cove Rof u Rlv er Talent and on motor routes Dally and Sunday 1 year 918 00 Daily and SunOay 1 mo 130 - Carrier and Dealers c op J lOe All Terms Cash in Advanca TTIciaJ Paper of City f Med for Official Papei ot J season Coonty . United Press International Wire TKEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION a A"vi-H;fn Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO, INC Of- In Nra York. Chicago. De- roit, San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B C NEWSPAPEt i PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION Si .MATIONAL EDITORIAL Right 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of Th Vail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 year ago. f It YEARS AGO t Oct. 25, 1949 (Tuesday) i Rep. Harris Elliwortb Z pledges his support in obtain ? ing Congressional approval of bureau of reclamation plans i for developing the Rogue ba- sin's water resources. ? Donations towards pur C chasing the first Mercy t Flights air ambulance reach c$i,ioo. y ' - ! 20 YEARS AGO . Oct. 25. 1939 (Wednesday) . f Medford takes a long stride f in acquisition of a short-wave t radio receiver for one of the Y two city police cars. '. From Arthur Perry's "Ye -Smudge Pot" column: "The !; bird hunting is not at its $ peak, and everything has been ', shot for a Chinese Pheasant, but the parrots on the H. Flewher bakery wagons." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 25. 1929 (Friday) Jackson county has built 21 miles of new roads this year. Pear ripening tests are now underway in New York City. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 25. 1919 (Saturday) TKe Jacksonville railroad may be extended to the Blue ,edge mine. . . A sugar shortage is blamed on the fact that Prohibition has caused people to eat more ; candy? ; 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 25, 1909 (Monday) Jadee Hanna says he-will file a decision on the M. F, ' Hanley, ciy of Medford case 'soon. - Prof. O'Gara wages war . against local insect pests in ? earnest. ; : What's Your I.Q.? . Nma or ten eorreet i superior! seven or ekiht is excellent; five or six is good. l . In what country Is Jo- i hannesburg? . ; . - - v 2. "Little Nell" is the hero - ine of which of Charles Dick- - (fts' novels? p ,. C 3. What, candidate for the Presidency in 1912 delivered : a speech in Milwaukee after being shot in the breast? t 4. Which of these . was a ; famed Jndian scout: Jesse -James, Bill Cody, Wild BUI 'Hickok? " 5. Is hominy made from wheat, corn, oats or barley? 6. What famous university ;lis at New Haven, Conn.? 7. What is the "Keystone of an arch"? f 8. What military man was J nicknamed "Vinegar Joe"? I 9. From what country did Texas proclaim its independ ence in 1835? t 10. The thistle is the na f tional emblem of what coun j try? :-V ... , Answers: 1. Union of South r Atfrica. 2. "Old Curiosity t Shop." 3. Theodore Roosevelt. 4. Cody and mew, a. ,osa. C Vale. 7. ine cenier owu o r that holds the arch. 8. Gener- ; al stiliweu. J Scotland. 9. Mexico. 10. Russia vs. China? One of today's most fascinating foreign rela tions speculations concerns Russia and Red China the Union of Soviet the People's Republic of These two giants of allies. But will they remain so? Will their differ ences in. industrial progress, in organization, in resources, in tradition and philosophy, create jealousy and active emnity sufficient to break up meir wonting parcnersnip i The distinguished British philosopher, Bert rand Russell, thinks that such a development is not at all impossible: - w m m w w ' IN FACT, the other day he forecast that the 1 U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R., once allied in the fight against Nazi Germany, may once again join in an alliance, based on fear of the rapidly rising power of the Red Chinese. A few months ago this would have seemed fantastic. But it isn't quite as fantastic today. The Khrushchev visit to this country, . the Camp David talks, and, in more particular, Khrushchev's rather cool reception in Pieping when his declarations for world . peace were pointedly ignored, all tend to lend; substance to such a theory. ' TfHERE is little question that at the moment Russia presents the greatest physical danger to the west. But its pattern for world conquest has shifted in emphasis from strictly military aggression to economic and ideological fields. All these take more time, and a subtler ap proach, than open warfare. Meanwhile, as Rus sia has gone on with its industrial and scientific revolution, it has created . a new class the bureaucrats, teachers, scientists and technologists which in some ways corresponds with the famed "middle class" which . sprang from the industrial revolution in - This class, which by tremendous influence in affairs in Russia, is mostly well-fed, well-paid, well-housed and comfortable, by Russian stand ards. . .. .. ;.: ... .. AS IT grows in power well serve as a stabilizing factor in Russia. It is not inconceivable tha. a political system of sorts, other than the jungle of the communist heirarchy, could evolve. As the Russian standard of living rises (and Khrushchev seems determined that it shall), more and more Russians will have a stake in peace and stability, as cated viewpoint on internal and world affairs. : If this evolution happens (and it can happen only, in the absence of be a declining menace to OHINA, on the other , any such evolution and now India; its experiments with the brutal commune system; its saber-rattling over Quemoy and Matsu these give thing" but the raw power stages of communist dictatorship. Its progress in industrialization is limited. Its ideology, still is undergoing development, and may change from day to day. There are strong evidences of a power struggle near the top. And its population, some one-quarter of the world's, is in large part illiterate and backward. . . PERHAPS most important of all, as . China nvAtna in afin rL ein i - will nlfiA mirt-wv-r oa n in sMcugui; su lb win aisu giuvv ao a menace to Russia a fact which Russia must r alize. So, while it is laden with ifs and buts, specu lation as to a future split between the communist nations is not entirely without cause. In the meantime, this nation must keep its eyes open, its defenses strong and intact, and its economic sinews undiminished. - . And if it seems fantastic to think that Russia and America could ever again be allied, remem ber that less than 20. years ago they were allies, fighting Japan, Germany and Italy which are now close friends of this nation. History takes some odd, quick , turns, some times. E.A. No Paradox It is not paradoxical, at the same time as speculating on a Russian-Chinese rift, to point out that the best long-range hope for peace rests in international cooperation through the United Nations. ; " " The U.N. has been as ineffective as it is for a number of reasons, but chiefly because it has little authority in its role as a keeper of the peace. If it is to gain in effectiveness, it must be strengthened. This sounds fine, but make no mistake sac rifices are involved. COR ONE thing, a truly effective United Na r tions would require that each member relin- iquish a certain degree And that, most understandably, sticks in tne craw of a lot of people. ' ..... But, as we see it, yielding a degree of national sovereignty to an international organization is no worse, . in principle, than when these United States yielded a degree of sovereignty to the fed eral government And the choice appears to be between this, and continued international power politics and chaos with the ever-present threat of annihilat ing var. E.A.' Socialist Republics and China. tne communist worm are the west. its very nature exerts government and party and influence, it may well as a more sophisti world war), Russia will the west. : , hand, shows few signs of Its forays into Laos, Tibet no hint that it is in any of its own sovereignty. Dennis the "tell KEEP 71W UP tWTlllOO Today & Tomorrow By Walter CHOPPY WATERS After the talk with Mr. Khrushchev at Camp David, it was believed in Washington that before the Presi dent's visit to Moscow in the spring, there would have to be a meet ing at the summit. But before there could be a meeting at Walter lippmann the summit there had to be an understanding among the Western allies, including West Germany, about the. po sition to be taken. Berlin and the German question are, of course, the sticky point, on which an understanding is needed. For it is plain that if and when Macmillan, de Gaulle, and Eisenhower- meet Khrushchev, they must have a common policy on how to stabilize the situation in West Berlin. But this is easier said than done. For there is an impor tant difference of view be tween Germany and -France on the one hand, Britain and the U.S.A. on the other." The basic difference is that we are prepared to negotiate about Berlin whereas our continen tal allies do not wish to ne gotiate anything which would alter the status quo. : This difference explams the reluctance of Gen. de Gaulle to accept the President's pro posal 'for a summit meeting of the Western allies. Such a meeting would be a failure unless France and Germany yielded to the President and agreed to treat Berlin as a negotiable question. The Presi dent would have to insist. For if he yielded to Gen. de Gaulle and Dr. Adenauer by agreeing that the status of Berlin is fixed, unalterable, and non-negotiable, the diplo matic venture on which he embarked last summer would be wrecked. GIVEN the basic differences among the Western allies, it is very doubtful, therefore, whether the best way to re solve it is by a face to face encounter among the heads of the Western governments. For on the basic difference, there can be no compromise. How ever much it may be disguised in the public communique, either we negotiate with the Russians or we do not nego tiate with the Russians. We cannot take the view that we are willing to negotiate about the future of West Berlin but that nothing in the existing situation may be changed. As this difference has de veloped among the Allies, one view or the other must pre vail ' - either that of Paris Bonn or that of Washington London before we can safe ly deal with the Russians. The foot of the difference lies in the question of the rec ognition of the East German state. Everyone knows that if a new. statute for West Ber lin is negotiated - which guar antees its freedom and the right of access the price will be in one way or another a de facto recognition of the East German state. Bonn and Paris are not willing to pay this price. In the last analysis the British and we are pre pared to pay it. That is what divides us, and it is this dif ference which will have to be resolved before we can begin to deal seriously with the So viet government. TN ALL probability the dif- ference among the Allies cannot be resolved quickly, Dr. Adenauer, is preparing for a crucial election in 1961, and he cannot voluntarily agree to anything which recognizes, the legal existance of the East German . state and the fact that there are two Germanys. Gen. de Gaulle, who in fact wants two Germanys and does not want a reunited Germany, 4 Menace SIVE ttSA NICKEL.': Lippmann is supporting Dr. Adenauer's campaign for re-election in 1961. There is no other Ger man in sight who is so useful to the French national inter est. At least until that election is over, until Dr. Adenauer has a new political mandate, Bonn and Paris have a strong interest in not engaging in a serious negotiation about Ber lin with the Russians. In this country there exists the same difference of opinion about negotiating. It is led by members of the Truman ad ministration, by Mr. Truman himself, Mr. Acheson, and Mr. Paul Nitze. Their thesis is that the status of West Berlin is not a negotiable question, that the right policy for this country is to refuse to discuss the status of West Berlin, and to defy the Soviets to do any thing about West Berlin. They think, it would appear, that the Soviet government will be over-awed by our firmness. And if it is not over-awed, they are prepared to fight some kind of "limited" war, These retired Truman offi cials, like old soldiers, are in my view trying to relive "the battles in which they won their fame and their glory. But while they are right in insisting that the cold war will go on, their preoccupa tion with their own past his tory is preventing them from grasping and dealing- with the new phase of the cold war. A rigid and unchanging diplo macy, which is what they ad vise, will not work in the present phase of the cold war, rWILL not work because it compels the country to op pose aU moves toward accom modation. This is an impos sible platform from which to exercise world leadership. Moreover, this negativism contains within it an ugly thing, which is quite evident and quite well known every where. This ugly thing is the belief that without perpetual tension and fear the democra cies cannot be induced to sup- In the Day's Hews By FRANK Whatever may be our opin ions of the complicated case of convict-author Caryl Chess man during the nearly a doz en years in which he has fought off death in the gas chamber, I think we must all agree that Governor Pat Brown has been intellectually honest in his decisions. Governor Brown is, and long has been, opposed to cap ital punishment. On innum erable occasions, he has spok en out against it. He regards the death penalty as a hold over from the Dark Ages. Moreover, there is the estab lished fact that the offense of which Chessman stands con victed did not involve the taking of a human life. BUT -Under California law, death is the penalty of the crime for which Chessman was tried and found guilty. Governor Brown has made it clear that he has no doubts as to Chessman's guilt. He is under oath to uphold the laws of his state. He is aware that the California legislature has not only refused ' to abolish capital punishment but has also refused to remove the death penalty from the law under which Chessman was found guilty. It took courage, along with strong moral convictions as to the RIGHTNESS of uphold ing the law, to do what he did. But he had what it took. Let's give him credit. A BRIEF review of the Chessman case may be in order here. He was convicted in 1948 on 17 counts of kidnaping, Matter of Fact THE SEEING EYE Kyoto-A frail figure; a quietly sardonic manner; a sharp-pointed, almost birdlike face in which I At 1 me wnoie ex 5 pression is t strangely con- Mi centrated in Js the brilliant, a intently glanc ing eyes-these ' g are tne oui- fi !i ward traits Li i "E I which give iospb AJsnp Shujiro Shi- mada a personal style as strongly marked as the fam ous styles of Sherlock Holmes and Poirot. The comparison is not al together out of place, either, since Professor Shimada is one of the latest heroes in a marvellous detective story that has been going on for nearly three centuries. The heroes of the earliest chapters were Chinese schol ars who all but formed a poli tical underground. They had to be secretive because their first attempts at scientific analysis of the old Chinese classics were also attacks on all the established political orthodoxies. And from the time when those obstinate, learned men crabbedly defied the Emperor Chien Lung hif self, detective exploit has suc ceeded detective exploit. CONSIDER, for example,' the way the Swede, Bernard Karlgren, resolved many a century in the most ancient texts by quite literally recon structing the Chinese pronun ciation used before 1000 B.C. But in truth, I find romance in almost every incident -in the long effort to sort facts from -antique fictions, and to locate . piece after missing piece of evidence, in order to recover the wonderful truth about the Far Eastern past.. In this long story, Profes sor Shimada is one of the two or three chief figures in a new and much needed chap ter. In brief, when Far East ern art began to be seriously collected towards the end of the last century, almost any likely looking, time-darkened picture was cheerfully at tributed to the great early masters. Then came the awful discovery that the whole sys tem of attribution . was as phoney as a three-dollar bill. To make a bad business worse, the Peking and Kyoto art-fakers were even better than their European counter parts. (There is one still prac tising as a refugee from China port the necessary armaments, or trusted not to appease the adversary and to sink . into cowardice and lethargy. What lies at the root of this thing is the belief that the democra cies cannot be led and that they must be terrorized. . It is true that the great in ternational measures of the war and of the Truman ad ministration lend-lease, the MarshaU Plan,; NATO - were pushed through Congress by popular terror and fear. But that cannot go on forever. The time has come, now that. the post-war era is end ing, when our leaders will have to learn how to persuade and convince the people, not merely to frighten and stam pede them, into doing what is necessary for. them to do. JENKINS robbery and attempted rape. The death penalty was im posed for seizure of two girl at gunpoint and acts of sex ual depravity. You will note that he DIDN'T commit murder. On that point, which has been made much of in the case for clemency for him, the Sacramento Bee said the oth er day: "True, he did not kill his victims. But one of them is in a mental institution, at least partly as a result of her ter rifying experience. The Los Angeles Times remarks: 'She is cut off from normal human satisfactions as effectively as if she were dead, and the cutting off occurred when she was 17, on the threshold of living.'" There are ciimts that are morally more deeply shock ing than murder-let's say more shocking than killings in sudden anger and hot blood. . . . , IN CONCLUSION: ' Most thoughtful people are convinced tha AS A DE TERRENT OF CRIME capital punishment is a failure. The record of killings, as recited daily in the press, leaves that rather clear. All history preaches the lesson that it isn't so much the SEVERITY of punishment as the CERTAINTY of punish ment that deters people from committing crimes. But as long as the death penalty is the law, it should be enforced, as laws are in tended to be, and not squeam ishly dodged in celebrated cases. ... in Li v By Joseph Alsop who has long since surpassed the famous mass-producer 'of modern Vermeers, Van Meeg eren.) For a wfyile, therefore, the greatest experts simply threw up their hands in de spair, even declaring that no pictures at all had survived from the earliest and best periods, lROM this slough of schol- arly despair, Professor Shimada and one or two others are now rescuing their colleagues. They, are in fact now laying solid foundations for solid understanding of Far Eastern art, just as incompar able Bernard Berenson laid the foundations more than 50 years ago for Italian art. The task is harder; for the litera ture is far vaster, and many of the most important pic tures are not as yet on public exhibition. Yet bit by bit, the task is being done. I went to Professor' Shima da to find out how the task was being done. The result was as happy and enriching a day as I can recall in a good many years. Through a long, leisurely, marvel-crowded, morning, we looked at choice pictures from the collection Professor Shi mada somewhat ferociously guards in his capacity as cur ator of the Kyoto Museum. Above all, I shall not soon forget the imaginary portrait of Bodhidharma, founder of the Zen sect, painted in his old age by the Japanese mas ter, Sesshu. This, surely is one of the mightiest religious pictures of all time, more in tense, more strange and far more deeply contemplative than the best . El Greco. But there were other, almost equal marvels too. . . THEN, through a long, leis urely and cheerful lunch, we talked most of the after noon away. I heard about the umrammeiea tradition m Far Eastern art. It began with Chinese Jackson Pollocks of the eighth century A.D:, who sometimes painted with their hair, and sometimes turned their backs on their pictures and splattered ink over their shoulders. Only the written record of their eccentricity survives. Yet Professor Shi mada has traced the tradition they established from artist to artist, from picture to picture, down through all the succeed ing centuries. Again, I heard of the new work that Professor' Shimada has just begun. The superb mountain landscape by the Sung painter, Fan K'uan, now locked in a cave in Taipei, represents a decisive moment in art for Professor Shimada. He likens it to the moment when the symphonic form Communications Letters to the Editor must beat the name and address ot the write) although nder cer tain circumstances tne use of a pen name u initial for publica tion is permissible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edi all letters with an eye to clarification ana condensation Letters submitted for publica tion must tint exceed 400 words Key Log To the Editor: One of my cherished guide - posts for probing into problems of to day came into being more than three score years ago with my very first picture taken of the logging ndustry, then on the old Manistee river in Michigan. This .guidepost of mine was not born of the several yoke of oxen used in snaking white-pine logs out of the brush to the loading skids where they were cross hauled onto wide -bunked sleighs and walked, trotted and raced in downhill runs to the river dump. My guide-post was born when the 'sun start ed shining on both sides of the road' closing down the logging - camps. That was when the river-rats took over and continued the travel of logs ,to down-river to the waiting saw-mills. Sometimes by lack of water or hidden obstruction, a log jam built, up and stopped eve rything. The big question then was to find the key-log that would loosen the jam and restart the logs down river. It wasn't among men on shore or teetering on logs, shouting curses with waving arms and clenched fists. It was often the obscure 'simple minded' guy staking his life on the spike-ended and hook hinged hickory peavey who was out in the middle, prob ing and prying at what . he judged was the key-log and with others of his kind help ing, the whole mass of jammed logs started groaning into a writhing living mass as the 'rats' raced on spiked shoes to shore safety. All too often one or more didn't make it, which is typical of life every where. Today, we face imminent disaster by union labor insti gated strikes that have cre ated a log-jam on our river of commerce. Where can the key log be found? It is not in the accused profit-taking of indus try that foreign competition has screwed down till our own industry is pulling stakes PTQU2C (By M-T Staff and Contributors) . VHW'TlHWI.M .Wll ll. I', lll.kJMJMMrtMMiaM The FODD, whatever that is, still is parked across the street. . Overheard, a young wom an who was host to a partic ularly talkative relative, to husband: "My ears are hoarse from so much talk ing!" Salvatore Quasimodo. - a n Italian poet, has been named Nobel prizewinner for poetry: Which inspired one of our young men to declare: ' "As Everett Acklin might say, 'Dat kwazy quasi-poet, Quasimodo." Wayne Scott, sports edi tor of the Klamath Falls Herald and News, tele phoned the results of the Medford Klamath football game a week ago (score. Medford 44, KF 7) to the Portland papers. In ' each telephone call, he started out by saying, "I want to report a murder." One of our young (well--relatively young) men has a charming wife and three chil dren. His mother-in-law came to visit the other day, and the six of them went to a local restaurant for dinner; At this particular : restau rant the management gives out pieces of candy to chil- took final shape in the work of Beethoven. And now he means to trace the variations of this form defined by Fan K'uan through the hundreds of years and painters that came after. I heard many other things, too, about such curious mat ters as the methods of 12th and 13th century Far Eastern an criticism, cut i never heard what I came to hear- how Professor Shimada per forms his chosen task. "Look at the brushwork and study all the literature, was all he would say. So can only report that the new chapter on art in the great Far Eastern detective story is being written by a com bination of vast learning and a seeing eye. to go to foreign lands and its low-priced labor to manufac ture their products. To my humble way of thinking, it is foreign aid that President Eisenhower refuses to have any log-jam loosening peaveys prodding into. There is . no denying the good it does, even if tinged -with stoning of our embassies and the cry of "Yankee go home." But as one union official told me, "So long as our gov ernment continues to ladle out billions in foreign aid, so long is union labor going to de mand a bigger take in this wealth their work - creates." This may be judged rank heresy but it is hard facts as this writer sees it. F. J. Clifford, Route 2, Box 200F, Central Point, Ore. Would Like Letters To the Editor: I am writing this letter as I have learned the name of your paper through the organ of the Youth Council For Interna tional Contact. The reason of writing is that because I like to have a friend in your coun try but I do not know how to get one. So if I can have a cooperation of your paper which has so many readers it will be a great help to me. If you can publish this let ter in your paper I would more than appreciate it. In the event of receiving so many answers as a result of that publication it will be no prob lem for me, because our or ganization has so many mem bers and I cac. divide those answers among the members. Perhaps you can not afford any space. In that case I like to ask your favor to pass this letter to some schools or some youth clubs and urge them to cooperate with me. I hope this did not cause you any inconvenient. Yours ve'y tuly, Ryoza Kasaka, Nc .44 3-chome Arata-cho, Hyago-ku, Kobe, Japan. P.S.-Let me introduce my self briefly: I am 18 year old boy and am attending Senior High school. Our organization, Youth Council For Interna tional Contact, has tens of thousands of members throughout Japan. Its purpose is to create a friendship and understanding internationally. We are trying to introduce your country to Japan with best of our knowledge. dren in parties that come for dinner. After dinner, the three youngsters, and the charming wife, each received a Diece of candy. The theory is that the res taurant thought that the mag's charming wife was his daugh ter, and his mother-in-lay was his wife. This is undoubtedly com plimentary to both wife and mother-in-law, but what about our young (?) man? And he d nrobablv best ret used to having his wife whis tled at. . In a local science class schoolroom the other, dsy. the conversation turned to why hurricanes are always called by feminine names. "Shucks," declared one bud ding scientist, "they have to. Who ever heard of a himi cane?" -.. This one is silly. President Eisenhower I s one of the most personally popular presidents in many years-so much so, ia fact, that there has been some joc ular talk in certain circles about his being declared in some far-future year, a saint. This has led, of course-, to the equally-jocular proposal that, in such an event, his home town, Abilene, Kansas, should be renamed. The name, of course,: would be - "St. Ike's." And this, in turn, led one of our young men into the following flight of fancyr- As I was going to St. Ike's I met a man with seven tikes. The seven tikes had seven bikes. ; On these they'd mounted seven mikes, Into which they mouthed "I likes." ' Nor have I seen, nor heard, the likes Of going to, or from, St. I Ike's. I - - - A high school girl was telling ' her : mother about ''her home economics class. "And do they lei you eat what you cook?" mother in quired. "Let us!" tRe girl declared. "They MAKE ef." Since Oregon's Centennial year has almosl gone, the facial adornments seen so fre quently earlier have almost disappeared. We know only of two that are left-both of them in the newsroom. And we have a suspicion that even these hardy beards will be gone soon. So this is probably the last that we'll have to say on the, subject of beards-Centennial beards, anyway. A writer for the Spadea Syndicate, a man who signs himself as Wibberley, is beared. And he comments, in part, as follows: "If a man should wish tep increase in humility, which is something to be desired in this brash and' feisty age, he would be well advised to grow a beard. Nothing is so con ducive to patience and toler ance for one's fellows as being bearded; nothing makes a man so conscious of his own shortcomings as to be set off from his contemporaries by a fine set of whiskers. "I know of what I speak! . . Perfect strangers think noth ing of approaching me to in quire into the health of Ru dolf, the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Men and women with whom I have not even a nodding ac quaintance want to know if I do not itch at the height of summer and I have gravely dealt with many inquiries about the problems of drink ing soup when fully whis kered. Q "All these intrusions woula be resented by the clean-shaven, who are never called upon to answer why it is that every morning they scrape their faces, peering out of sleep laden eyes into a steamed mirror in their bathrooms. . . The humble bearded man will have nothing to do with such follies. He abolishes the steamy mirror, the never- quite-clean razor, the whole ordeal of shaving whose pur pose is to impress his fellows, and permits his beard to grow, casting aside the folly oj physical attraction . . ." Thus, the bearded. Boot polish is far frem nutritious. Its flavor not very de- . licious. But some men declare, and even will swear ' That licking it's highly judicious. y e r 4 J O t
