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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, MeaYere1, Or. ' - Sunday, Nov. t, 15 "Iei;oot la Southern Orecoa Beada The Mall Trlfcune Published IM1 except Saturday by MUJIDHD PRINTING CO U Worth ffa St Pb SP 2-ll ROBERT W HCHL Editor ITERS GHI AdvertW! Manager GERALD LATHAM Buslncaa Ml IRIC W AXAEN JR. Managing ftdrtoR. CAFJL H DAMS Oty editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JWETT Sport Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women Editor DALE PUCKS' N Circulation May An Indeoendent Newspaper Enterea a sernnd class matter at Medfor Orerow under Act at Marrh 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By M a in Advance Copy lOe . Da 11- and Sunday 1 Tear $15 00 Daily and Sunday S moa t-0t Dail-v and Sunday 3 mot 4.13 , Sunday Only Ona year tM. By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point. Earl Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo 1-50 " Carrier and Dealerscopy lOe All Terms Cash In Advance OffleW Paper ot City Hearer Official Paper at Jackson Comnty , United Press International FqD Leased Wire " MEMBCT OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION . Advertising Representative: WEST HOIJDA CO. INC Ot- flees in Ne York. Chicago. De troit San rvaneisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland St Louis. At- . Ian VarTraver B C gS NEWSPAPER i PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION E0ITOIIA1 1 Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files ot The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 nd 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Hot. 8. 1949 (Tuesday) Weather bureau forecasts sufficient rainfall to alleviate fir danger in forests. , Central Point school district patrons approve $500,000 bond issue for new high school. " "saaas '20 YEARS AGO Hot. 9, 1939 (Wednesday) Jackson county receives check for $37,275.91 as half .payment of Oregon California land grant refund, v From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Word from the rural areas says ap ple cider and sauerkraut are fermenting busily, in accord ance with the laws of nature, nd contrary to the late Vol stead Act." 30 YEARS AGO Not. 2. 1929 (Friday) First transient of the sea son applies for shelter in city Jail. Interest running high in Medford-Ashland football game on' Armistice Day. 40 YEARS AGO Not. 8, 1919 (Saturday) Dr. E. H. Porter returns from California and reports six inches of snow on the Siskiyous. Government plans to deport all alien radicals and agita tors. SO YEARS AGO ' Not. 8. 1909 (Monday) County assessed valuation for th's year shows decrease of $150,000. Bert Andersbn sells farm in Central Point to R. D. Hoke of Florida for $27,500. Yhal's Your I.Q.? Nine e tea correct is saperieti seven or eight b excellent; five et sis is feed. 1. What is the length of the term of office of a U. S. Sena tor? ' 2. In which State is Presque Isle? 3. Account of the resurrec tion of Jesus appear in which four books of the Bible? 4. In which U. S. city is a large Cherry Blossom Festi val held each year? 5. Which species of . bird lays the smallest eggs? 6. Three States have a coast line on the Pacific Ocean; name them. , 7. Is a pinnace a kind of lace bodice, the high spire of a cathedral, or a kind of boat? 8. An object on the rim of a rotating wheel travels faster through space than an object resting near the hub; true or false? 9. Which is the more buoy ant - salt or fresh water? 10. What is the chief food of spiders? "- Answers: 1. Six ym. 2. Maine. 3. The four gospels Matthew. Mark. Luke, and John. 4. Washington. D.C. 5. Kerning Bird. 6. Washing ton. Oregon. California. 7. Kind of boa. 8. True. t. Sail water. 10. Insects. eg NATIONAL Two Pieces of Mail ' Within a few hours of each other, two "inter esting pieces of mail landed on the desk. The first was a report, written at our re quest, on the progress being made on drawing up an initiative measure, for a vote of the people next year, on the control (or elimination!) of billboards on the state's highways. The other was Volume 1, Number 2 of the "Outdoor Council News," the publication of the ii j r -1 J1 f .4. A J recenuy-iormea wregon ouuiicu ui vuwuw vertisirig an association of firms which erec and sell space on billboards. . . THE Council, as mentioned here recently, was 1 formed as an industry "policing" organiza tion, as well as a promotional -group. The most interesting our mind, was under a tary Industry Action Calls Baldock Sign Halt. Tke story recounted how the council has pasSj ed ."a resolution to refrain from erecting addi tional outdoor signs along the Baldock freeway from Portland to Salem." It added: "The action is dramatic proof that the policy of. the outdoor advertising industry continues to be coop eration to the fullest degree with local and state gov ernment and civic groups in preserving Oregon's scenic beauty." v DROOF? We've always heard that the proof of the pudding is in ing about it. Or even passing resolutions saying wnai a aencious puaamg 11 is. We shall, therefore, continue to wait and see, The billboard industry starts at a position of disadvantage, because of the billboards which already have sprouted way. We noticed in the the other day a comment are continuing to be which lies through some tive rural scenery,, at an ever-increasing pace. And, it should be noted, this resolution cov ers ONLY the 45 or so and Salem and makes hundreds of miles of Highways 99 and 30 now the thousands of miles TTJRNING to the other piece of mail, we learn that the Hiffhwav Protective Committee, which is the grouo planning the only a week ago, the last to work out details of a to the voters. At the most recent were considered, as follows: L To ban all signs other than on-site official informational and directional signs on the Inter state and on State Throughways, with no refer ence to federal standards. It goes beyond the federal standards in that roadside service signs are not permitted, even 2. To apply federal highways, and ban all state throughways. 3. To eliminate all highways, even roadside advertising on throughways, leaving roadside services free to advertise , ,- THE committee, we are nuvwivi uu fJ twOisiiiy vuu x wcxijr wugu -a. 1 vs -a. a, uiivr rather more moderate No. 2, or No. 3, which appears to be sort of a But be it noted, that far, far beyond the rather i " .iiL. ciaimea, resoiuuun 01 me the short stretch of the Baldock Freeway. Uur informant adds: "The committee is pretty stringent measure should be offered than has been considered at the legislature. This is because they feel the public wants billboard elimination, rather than mere regulation, and they feel the legislature was controlled by pressure groups, whereas when the pub lic gets a chance to express itself on the matter, it will be found that thty do object to billboards and don't want them around." The Outdoor Council, have to get a lot tougher with itself if it expects to avoid billboard regulation or even elimina tion. It may be recalled adopted code of ethics pledges members "To erect advertising displays only in those areas where business or industry is or may be a per mitted use." E.A. , And More Mail Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri , is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. . He hasn't said so, yet And most speculation about him has centered around his "dark horse" possibilities, along with Adlai Stevenson. : How then, do weknow he's a candidate? Easy. We received from his office last week a copy of a speech he delivered in Alaska. MOW it is normal to receive mail from Ore 1 gon's two senators, and from the congressman from this district, and from Vice President Nixon, and from Sen. Harrv Bvrrl of Viro-inia Csavino - j - . o -".J O the budget is too big) or from Sen. Homer Cape hart of Indiana (deploring the farm program)! T".-J. 1 J.T. ;t T i ? xul wnen uie man Degins w arrive irom a Dreviouslv-unheard-from senatnTv t.hpn we Irnnw. deep down, that we have on our nanas. Oh, yes we've received mail from Sen. .Tapir Kennedy of Massachusetts recentlv. and or-enf gobs of it from the committee supporting Sen. IJ1iknv TJ TT, U Hfl , Lf r t a story in this issue, to headline reading "Volun the eating not in talk up along the new free Salem Capital Journa! to the effect that they placed. 'along this route of Oregon's most attrac miles between Portland no mention of the other of lesser highways. initiative measure, met in a series of conferences measure to be presented meeting,' three proposals on a limited basis. standards to Interstate general advertising on advertising on Interstate services, and all general there. , told, has yet to decide middle ground. ANY of the three goes modest, but loudly pro- r i ir l uutaoor council aoout well agreed that a more in short, is going to . '.that its own recently- a presidential aspirant Dennis the Menace p ;M ' MATS MORE OK FIRST PRIZE Ifi Drummond (Walter Lippman .is again reports from Washington in his absence.) ON RESUMING UNDERGROUND TESTS Washington - It develops that Governor Rockefeller was not, as some thought, making an issue with the President-or with Mr. Nixon -when he recenUy advocated that the United States resume underground nuclear 1 testing (from which there is little or no fall-out hazard) unless the Soviet Union accepts an ef- factive inspection system without undue delay. Mr. Rockefeller and the Ei senhower administration are saying the same thing al though, interestingly enough. Mr. Rockefeller said it first. What they are both saying - and, I think, rightly - is that unless the Soviets give some sign of agreeing to methods of policing a test ban, the U.S will not keep its temporary suspension in force .. indefi nitely. Governor Rockefeller, show ing an interest in affairs be yond his Albany duties and why not? - makes his point explicitly. The administra tion only says, for the record that if an agreement cannot be reached reasonably soon (the negotiations have been going on more than a year) the U.S. will have to review its voluntary suspension of test ing. Mr. Rockefeller urges that, under such circum stances, the U.S. undertake further underground tests. They add up to the same thing. ' ; . - JOME will earnestly argue that for the U.S. to resume even 1 underground nuclear testing, while the Geneva ne gotiations are still in progress would reduce, if not destroy, tile chances of reaching an agreement, that it would be "provocative" at a time of apr parent cold-war thaw and would hurt our position with the neutral countries. These are important argu ments. They cannot and should not be lightly dismiss ed. But it is my conviction that the balance of argument is on the other side. Is there any reason to doubt that the Soviets would like to get the West to accept an in definite end to testing with either no inspection or feeble inspection? That is the posi tion they took for many months and have thus far agreed to very limited and from our viewpoint complete ly inadequate - inspection. Is there any reason to doubt that the Soviets would like to persuade or inveigle the West into a continuous de facto suspension of testing which would be stretched out indefinitely into the future by stretching out negotiations indefinitely into the future- with still no agreement on in spection? It seems to me that this is the clear purpose which the Soviets have in view in dragging the negotiations on so long without ever agreeing to the core of inspection. THIS leads to the heart of the matter. I believe that it would further,, rather than impair, the chances of getting the Soviets .to agree to ade quate inspection if they are ever going to agree by let ting it be candidly clear that we will not only refuse to ac cept a test ban without real controls but will not accept a continuous de facto suspen sion without real controls. Let us be clear-headed about this. If we think it fool hardy to accept a nuclear test-ban agreement without inspection, then we must make it clear that we will not turn an uninspected tempor ary suspension into an indefi nite stay. They are the same thing and that is exactly what the Soviets want. It is accurate to say, I think, that the Soviets will hold out for 'a test ban. without effec tive inspection if they believe , ...A NBT fOZHEti 7WE DOG SHOrV? Reports traveling abroad. Rescoe Drumond they have any chance of get ting it. If we show we are likely to keep on extending the temporary suspension, they will keep on rejecting effective control. Now that the negotiations have been going on so long, surely the best way to find out whether the Soviets will agree to something adequate is to serve notice that they can't- get a permanent end to tests without inspection by our continuous extension of the temporary suspension. Premier Khrushchev has said that he is quite willing to negotiate a step-by-step dis armament agreement. There is no better first step than an enforceable ban on nuclear tests. Our prime purpose must be an agreement with ade quate safeguards,' whatever the effect on our popularity rating with the wishful neu trals. (Copyright 1959 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) ; Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the .'writer, although under certain circumstances. the use pf a pen name or initia tor nublieation is oermlssible. The Mail Tribune' reserves the" right tc Wit all Utters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must net exceed f400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often he ee Let's Have Fun! To the Editor: Come on Grandma, whele is your fight ing spirit? Let's have fun with the trick or treaters. Let's watch their eyes spar kle and shine when you act afraid, let's not call their big paper sack a. gun,, and let's be glad if lfig brother or sister takes the. little ones around, or even if a happy young mother is hiding out front' so the little ones won't soap your windows. Pop some corn, Grandma, wrap in wax paper, suck a sucker in the top. It isnt how big the gift, but the sur prise you should show when you see them, all dressed, up. This is so much more fun than having our clothes lines cut. our windows soaped, etc I can t believe our husbands ever called Halloween a reli gious day nor our fathers. They were truly out for de struction. How rough it must have been in our grandmoth er's day. Myself, I'm mighty glad and proud I am a mother and a grandmother in this day and age. Come on Grandma, let s have fun on Halloween. -Let's grow old gracefully! Mrs. E. Lmgren, . Box 4300, ' Grants Pass, Ore. She Found Treasure To the Editor: My attention was called to your "Letters to the Editor" column of Nov. 4. We1 personally have no com ment on the letter written by Mrs. E. G. Croucher. - How ever, I wonder if you Would care to print a letter that was received in our office from a Mrs. Margaret Cox? We have contacted Mrs. Cox and have her full permission to pass her letter on to you. Robert H. Dolph, General Manager; Radio Station KWIN, Ashland, Ore. Gentlemen: I have found the silver dollar treasure!!! No, not the thousand dollars, but a thousand dollars worth of knowledge of our beautiful park; a thousand dollars worth of fresh air, sunshine, and exercise. I have learned the name of just about every tree, shrub, and flower in the park (with the help of the little booklets, "Self-Guiding Nature Trail, Number 1 and 2,'1 obtained at the office of the Chamber of Commerce.) I have learned how beautiful our park is in the FalL I have 1 Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop GOD SAVE THE RIGHT OPPORTUNISTS Hongkong - Is the Chinese Communist regime approach ing the stage, familiar from Soviet experi- e nce in the 1930s, "when the revolution eats its own vnnnff?" r o Only the fu- "-C1 ture can an- T""1 swer this gris ly but inter esting q u e s- 4osDB AlinD uuu- qui me question has now been vivid ly posed by an article in "Red Flag," the super-authoritative journal of the Chinese Com munist party's Central Com mittee. The article is ominous ly entitled, "Rightist Inclined Opportunism Is an Attempt to Open the? Road for Reviving Capitalism." ,- In this article, the unnamed sinners- are not merely charg ed with a dire desire to revive capitalism. They are compared to the Russian Mensheviks - a grim comparison, since the late Yysmnski was apout tne only Menshevik left unkuied after 1925. And . they are de scribed as "traitors to Marx ism-Leninism,"., whose "social ism is only another name for surrender to the bourgeoisie. . T UMPED in with these sin- J ners "in our party" are also "middle peasants in ru ral areas (who) are still long ing to step on the capitalist road." These ingrates are re gretfully said to "enjoy some influence among the laboring peasants." Concerning the whole lot, "Red Flag" says fu riously: ; ,f 'One grain a'i mouse drop ping may spoil a whole pot of soup,' as a peasant saying has it. Very clearly, the Right ist inclined opportunist influ ence (must be) completely wiped out." ' '. In this farrago of indigna tion and menace, there is no repetition of .the previously common calls for reform of the sinners by comradely brain washing. Now, the phrase is "completely wiped out." Moreover, the two ui- n e s e , characters officially translated as "wiped out" are the same as the two charac ters that were translated as "liauidated." both when the weeds were being plucked seen colors impossible for any human artist to duplicate. have climbed, stretched, leaned, leaped, run,, walked and incidentally, lost a few pounds of excess weight. And last but not least, have learned that television doesn't have a monopoly on the entertainment field in Jackson county. Anyone who thinks otherwise; can just turn the dial on their radio to 1400 KWIN, and it will be proven to them in short order. Oops, gotta go. Just heard another clue, and I know where the thousand dollars is. "Shaped like a moon." It is 75 degrees south and 25 degrees west of the "Sea of Fertility,' on the far side of the moon, and I'm going after it. Please have the thousand ready. Margaret (Mrs. J.C.) Cox, Route 1, Box 205, Talent, Ore. What Next? To the Editor: Looks like we have some juvenile delin quent labor unions who are certainly old enough to show some cooperative tendencies of adulthood in setting ex ample for others. President McDonald and his stooges not only are defying the federal government, but are openly and flagrently flouting Presi dent Eisenhower's plea to hold down wage demands that the steel union heads know fuU well 'is the imderlying cause of our burgeoning inflation when a ten dollar bill is hardly a starter in food for an average family week. The ; steel . industry grimly holds to a 2 per cent advance limit and also for a change in work-rules that will do away with feather-bedding costs that makes competition ' with foreign industrial products near impossible. This looks like honest endeavor to com ply with Ike's plea against in flation. A hard to understand fea ture of the public endangered hassel was a poll taken by a U.S. News and World Report team of reporters just before the strike started, that showed the rank and file of steel workers strongly opposed to a strike,-their reasons being that no strike ever helped them as prices of, things they had to buy rose immediately, sometimes before, so that wage increase benefits help none at all in lost hours of work. Now we have the unions of freight - train . operators and what are left of the once num-' t 5 w y from among the hundred! flowers and during the earlier i blood purges of undesirable j elements. i TN THE dark, dead Stalin days, such an article in the Soviet press would have meant that rivers of blood would flow before" long, in both the party and the coun tryside; China : today is less predictable. Maybe the Chi nese revolution will not eat its own young, or will at least put of f this customary ritual meal for a little while. " But suppose that the "Red Flag" article does not foretell what it seems to foretell. Even so it certainly leaves few re maining doubts about the process , in China which has produced such an article. This is the process that began with the call, last year, for "a great leap forward" and the ensu ing order herding the whole of the Chinese peasantry into the rustic labor camps known as "communes." The basic decision behind these events was clearly a de cision to take a gteat deal more from the already hard pressed Chinese masses, in or der to finance a much more ambitious program of indus trial investment. When this decision was executed, the ini tial consequences to the peo ple were shocking enough to cause a period of recoil. The recoil began with a long conference of the entire party leadership held in the great Wuhan industrial com plex at the end of last year. After this conference, Mao Tse-tung handed over his post as Chairman of the govern ment, to Liu Shao-chi. More important ; still, this confer ence was followed by a long period of rather open policy debate about the great deci sion above-mentioned. LAST JULY the debate reached its open climax, with suave published hints that the true mark of the transcendentiy great man was not mere immunity to error, but willingness to recognize and correct his own errors. The transcendentiy great man in question was - almost cer tainly the deified Mao. After all, Mao had been the first to proclaim (in the exact tones of Big Brother in f1984") "Communes are Good!" The recoil ended later in the summer, however, at another long conference of the whole party leadership at Lushan. Here the faking of statistics on the "great leap forward" was admitted.. The wilder or ganization and doctrinaire ex travagances of the communes were also officially dropped. But the communes themselves were retained, and the basic decision to take-more from the people in order to indus trialize faster was strongly re affirmed. Those opposed to this decision were then stern ly condemned as "Rightist in clined opportunists." One can only say, God save the Right ist inclined opportunists and their friends the peasant in grates. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Today's topic: Miss Evelyn Rudie. Age 9. IQ, 140. (Anywhere in the middle 130s is considered to be genius class.) Home? - Hollywood -of course. WHAT did she do? " Well, she took a notion to go and see Mrs. Eisenhower. So, sayin' nothin to nobody, she cracked her piggybank for $125.90 and took off for Baltimore, which is only a hop, skip and a jump from the White House. She took off via American Airlines jet. (The AA explained later that any one over 8 can fly unaccom panied by an adult if full fare is paid.) . WHYthi dent's the visit to the Presi- wife? When located in Baltimore erous passenger-trains in a hassel with heads of railroads for sizable wage increases, continuing.- feather - bedding practices that the union claims, and justly so, that would knock many of their members out of . jobs, even when.no work was done to justify the job. If all this does not smack of some phases of juvenile delinquency, please! A.,, ' - " I i,J 1 " J ieu mis oewuaerea wnier what does? Coupled with the raw and downright propa ganda heard on some of the radios and pictured on the TV, is it little to wonder that an increasing number of our citizens are losing faith in what was, and seeking an an swer in the to be? in true Russian, brain-wash twisting, comes .Union. President Mc Donald with charges almost too asinine to repeat, that the steel companies are fomenting strike against the public. What next, Oh Lord, what next? F. J. Clifford, Route 2, Box 200F, Central Point, Ore. PTILUC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) The current "great debate" (a sample of which appears elsewhere on this page) con cerns Halloween-how it should be celebrated, whether it is good or bad for moral character, and so on. ApparenUy Ashland resi dents were visited by more, and older, goblins than was the case with many Medford people. On one hand, we tend to agree with the traditionalists, that it is a harmless and ex citing pursuit for little tykes -say up to about the age of 6 or 7. Beyond that, however, our milk of human kindness tends to curdle slightly. This is where innocent fun begins to change, ever so slightly, into disguised blackmail. When it gets to this point, we agree with Graham Dean of the Ashland Daily Tidings, who commented: "In the early hours of the evening, groups of as many as 9 and 11 children, many in their late teens, moved up and down Siskiyou boule vard in regular battalions. All of them were equipped with bags large enough to hold a week's supply of grub. 41 At one residence, where the householder made inquiry, a group of young visitors commented that they had come some distance to 'do the town.' "At another residence where the householder kept count of the number who came to his door, the total reached an astounding 94, and the ages ranged from toddlers ac companied by their parents through junior high school. "Unless memory is short, trick or treat' started out simply to be a neighborhood event, in which children of the immediate area went around to the doors of neigh bors. That was' quite another thing from the . mass on slaughts which were conduct ed last week end." a . And when one reads of large-scale vandalism, re sulting . in at least one death in this country, be cause of Halloween, maybe it's time, as Graham says, to call a halt-particularly to the stupidities which only a teen agar of a re markably retarded mental ity can accomplish. Of course, there's fun, too. We know of at least two households which . on Hallo ween entered into the spirit of things and gave as good as they got. In each case the wife of the family draped herself in a sheet and, as her husband opened the door to the "trick-r-treaters," came out the back door, around the house, and descended on the junior invaders with groans and moans. In some cases the results were spectacular, to put it (her absence from home cre ated quite a furor) she ex plained that "the last time I saw Mrs. Eisenhower she told me she and the President had enjoyed me SO MUCH, so I thought I'd talk with her and see if -she could get m a part in a TV series. (She once posed with Mrs. Eisenhower at the White House to promote Savings Bonds.) A WORD of explanation: Evelyn isn't just a stage- struck infant. Several years ago she made a hit as the spoiled brat star of TV's "Eloise" in "Playhouse 90 She earned $60,000 in 1957. add last year she signed a six year talent agency contract that is expected to 'bring her close to a million dollars. OHE chose the right profes sion, you see. If you want to earn a LOT of money, and have what it takes, ENTERTAIN people. People will pay ANYTHING to be entertained. Historical note: It always has been that way. The min strels and the troubadours of the Middle Ages, for example. They lived high on the hog. ONE more point: Evelyn's 140 IQ told her that if she wanted to be a SMASH HIT she must GET INTO THE NEWS in a big way. She acted accordingly. I N conclusion: What's an IQ? Maybe we'd better go into that. IQqu short for "intelligence quotient. Intelligence quotient is a measure used by psychologists to express a per son's intelligence. Modern in telligence tests are based on findings published in 1908 by Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon. Tht intelligence quo- mildly. One little one, aghast, could say nothing but a trem bly " 'Top it, you old noggin, you!!!!" . ' Then, with the smaller (or less dangerous) ones, a good gimmick, when faced with the demand "Trick- or treat." is to say, firmly. , "I'd like a trick, please." That stops 'em cold,, almost every time. . ' Also, it is sometimes effec tive to look BEHIND the youngsters,, get a look of ter ror on your face, and say, "Look out-there's a ghost be hind you!!" One small boy is sflll a little quavery about that one. ' And some of the kids com ments are fun, too. Such as: (The last one of a group at the candy bowl): "Hey, I didn't get enough!" i (Another, looking distaste fully at the toffees): "I don't like THAT kind!" (And another, pulling off a gruesome rubber mask and mopping his forehead): "Gosh! This is hot!" A youngster in school was telling about his new puppy. The teacher helped him along by asking que- . tions. The sise, color, hairi ness, and so on, were dis cussed. Then the teacher asked. "Is it a male or a female."- Proudly; the youngster said, "Neither. It's a Husky!" And that leads naturally into another story. This starts with the man who kept finding a paper on his doorstep, although he didn't subscribe to it "Prob ably just sample, copies,", he continued. ' But in a day or two he spied an irate neighbor com ing over to claim his copy of the paper.. And soon an. other copy appeared mysteri ously pn the porch. A quick inspection of the backyard fence, an observa tion of the dog's habits; and apologies to the neighbors, soon got , things . back to normal. - (It is rumored, In unkind circles, that -.the dog did a better job of delivering the paper than the regular car rier.. But this we are inclined to discount.) Dwight Curraa, ef 327 South Orange street mailed a letter to his sister. Miss Ceclia Curran, re cently. The only un usual thing about it is that after her street address, he put down "Smog 28, Calif Guess where she Uvea. Cur ran also reports he's writ ten to others and given a similar address. Each has arrived promptly in Lot Angeles. . . - A woman doc tor-a psychia trist, as a matter of fact-was attending a meeting at which a certain character kept both ering her with his rather im portunate and, to her, offen sive attentions. After a while he left, and a companion asked her why she had been so mild with him. Why should I get angry?" the feminine head-shrinker asked. "After all, it's his problem." ' - A word to the wiset If you're dog tired at night, you've probably either been growling all day, or else barking up the wrong tree. tient is based on the individ ual's MENTAL age and his CHRONOLOGICAL age, or age in years. The IQ is found by dividing the mental age by the chrono logical age and multiplying the result by 100. A boy of 8 years who has the mind of a 10-year-old would have an IQ of 10 divided by 8, multiplied by 100, or 125. Persons with an IQ of 90 to 109 are classed as normal, or average. BACK in 1937, Terman and Merrill published the re sult of their testing of 2,904 children. Their , IQ's were marked as dots on a chart. A line was drawn connecting the dots. The line took the shape of a bell. The number of su perior children was small and matched almost exactly the number of mentally defective children. The high, full part of a bell-shaped line fell at 100. This is the point at which child s mental age is the same as his age in years., It was found that almost half the children rated as normal, or average, while .03 per cent were as low as 30-39 and .03 per cent were as" high as 160-169. This was believed to show that about half the members of our society are normal m intelligence, and that there are about as many persons of low intelligence as there are persons of high intelligence.