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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.
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'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.
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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.) ;
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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.