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MAIL TRIBUNE, Mtdford, Or. Sunday. Nov. 15, 1959 MEDFOBDiWrWBUllS "Sveryone ib Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" Published I11 except Saturday by VP.DFOVin PRINTING CO 33irV St Ph 2-611 ROBERT W RUHL Editor HERB GRETY AdvertW! Manager GET-ALU. LATHAM Business Up ERIC W ALLEN JBV Managing Urtnor BARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHAKD JWWETT Sports Editor Dl.IVE STARt'HER Women's Editor DALE ERJCKSPN Circulation HC An Independent Newspaper Enterea a s-nd class matter at Medfor Oreron under Art Of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dail- and Sunday 1 Tear $15 00 Daily and Sunday mm " Daili n Sunday 9 mot 4.23 Sunday Only One year S4.20 . - : t ArfttsnMMMfora Ahlanri Central Point E a 1 1 e ' Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv- t" i . mwA m. mntflr ronUS DaU7 and Sunday 1 year tl8 V) uailv ano aumay j m Carrier and Dealers copy 10c AH Terms Cast- In Advance OfflcW Paper of City f Med'orS orriiiai papei oi jicmqp United Presp International run Leasea wire "MEMBET? OF AUDIT BUREAU r tiw umnua 4 J -1-!.... DanrMantaHva WEST HOI.IPAV CO . INC Of fices In Nev. York. Chicago. De- , Troll. ami ni.. Seattle. Portland St. Louis, At- lan' Vancouver B C NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION EDITORIAL Flight o Time Medford and. Jackson County History from the files of Th Mail Tribune 10, 20, '30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 15. 1949 (Tuesday) The drive to purchase an air ambulance for Jackson county passes two-thirds mark today. ' Money Is ready to trans form Jacksonville coiujt house into museum. - 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 15. 1939 (Wednesday) Senator McNary assured that Argentina trade agree ment will be favorable to pear crop here. . , - Cancellation of Grants Pass Roseburg football game possi ble due to flu epidemic. - -' ,;" 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 15, 1929 (Friday) . Consolidated mining takes over Blue . Ledge mine and plans early operations. Stock losses believed cause of several New York suicides. 40 YEARS AGO Nov.s15. 1919 (Saturday) Joyriders take local auto; police locate it in back of liv ery stable. . Valley fruitgrowers meet to stabilize production. 50 YEARS AGO Nov. 15. 1909 (SundayJ Ladies of the Greater Med ford club are going ahead with plans to "plant trees on every street in Medford. Frank Woolridge, 11 years old, of Applegate, produced skins of 11 bobaats which he has killed by himself near his home. c What's Your I.Q.? Nine or .ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five et sis is good. .' il. What country's postage stamps bear the .name "Hel vetia?" 2. Who were the coverers of radium? cc-dis- . 3. Does human hair grow faster in winter, or in sum mer? . 4. Name the building in Philadephia where the Dec laration of Independence was signed. 5. Is water compressible? - 6. What was the name of the forest in which Robin Hood's band of outlaws lived? " 7. Does the likeness of Lin .coln on the penny face to ward the right, or the left? s 8. It is said that "Monday's -child is fair of face;" what is ;Tuesday's child? ; 9. Dogs bark, horses neigh, elephants trumpet, what sound does the giraffe make? t. 10. Name the author of '"The Big Fisherman." - Answers: 1. Switzerland. :2. Pierre and Marie Curie. '.Z. In summer. 4. Indepen dence hall. 5. No. 6. Shtr wood Forest. 7. Toward the right. 8. ". . . full of grace." 13. None. 10. Lloyd C. Doug Tlas. - 1 NATIONAL Looking Ahead Each day, in the United States, more than 1,000 persons observe their 65th birthday. The net increase in this older-age level is some 800 to 1,000 per day. This is between 15,000 and 20,000 per month, between 300,000 and 370,000 per year. In 1954-55, there were 14,069,000 people of 65 years of age or over in this country; last year the number was estimated at. nearly. 1,000,000 more than that. , The older group, in fact, is the fastest grow ing age group in the nation. "117HILE the longer life-span brings possibilities to many for warm, happy and productive years added on to life, it also brings its problems personal, sociological, economic. It was to discuss these problems, and to seek ways and means of solving them, that represen tatives from four southern Oregon counties gath ered in Medford yesterday. ; The discussions covered a wide range of sub jects, including housing, employment, recreation, income, social security, vocational training, health and rehabilitation, and the role of organized society in these various fields. YESTERDAY'S conference was not expected . to come up with pat answers to all the prob lems facing our older generation, and the thou sands who join it every month. But it is a step .in finding solutions which will permit older people to live their lives in dignity and security. It is almost criminal that, at present, too many of them are lonely, unwanted, defeated, for no other reason than age. E.A. ) Who Knows His Friend? How well do you know your best friend? Or your next door neighbor? , Not very well. Not very well at all. ' A silly, statement? Sounds like it. But con sider . i . A human being lives both in space and time. A friend is at the next desk, or at lunch with you, or with you through an evening of conver sation, for only a small part of his daily life. If he is a co-worker, you see him, at most, eight hours per day and most of that you are con cerned with your own responsibilities and pre occupations. ' ' QF THE 24 hours in a day, one is in active 7 communication with any other person only a small fraction of the total. Yet, of our friend, we feel we can say, 'T know him well." , But what about the other hours of the day ? Do we know what he thinks and feels and experiences? And what about all the years during which you never knew, him at all? How about all those experiences which fashioned him into what he is?- Of these you can. know but the tiniest frac tion. ; . 'cU'V-:V": ':'vS: : Your mind impinges on his, and your per sonalities converse, in only one small corner of your, and his, total consciousness and experience. , . TOO, there is the matter of daily experience. The man you "know well" today may not be, fully, the same man you met for coffee yester day. He has, perhaps, heard of the death of an old acquaintance. And he is incapable of telling you the total effect this has had. on him, for even he does not know. But he is not the same man he was the day before. Perhaps he read a book the evening before which had a profound effect upon him. Today he looks and talks like the same man; but he is not, for something new and different has been added to his make up; Who among us is "the same" as we. were ten years ago, or a year ago, or even last week? No one. Life is change. No one is quite the same per son today that he was yesterday, or will be tomorrow. - . Each of us lives mostly alone, and within our selves. And we do not even know ourselves, very well. E.A. Film and Flesh For an expert cartoonist, it is not difficult to convert human images into caricatures. But the reverse process converting cartoon characters into human beings (by means of real actors) is a far more difficult chore. We received in the mail the other day a pic ture of Dermis the Menace, showing two ver sions the original cartoon boy, and the young ster who is playing the part in a new TV program. The real flavor of Dennis, the real, cartoon Dennis, is gone in the flesh-and-blood versions. THE same was true when moviemakers attempt ed to put Dagwood .and Blondie Bumstead on film with human actors. Their pictures may have been amusing enough, but they certainly weren't the Blondie and Dagwood who are so endearing in the comic strip. And when humans have attempted to imper sonate other cartoon characters Popeye, Skeezix and the others the results are, in a word, de pressing. - v On the other hand, when a good cartoonist draws a living person, he not only can capture the man's appearance, but also can deftly empha size a particular trait of character, giving punch and meaning to the result. . It isn't "real" but it is really realer than real, JS.A. . . . J J v. Dennis the Menace PlAS, PAL! KINS THE COmeiL &m A 79UCfDQfVN: Matter of Focf THE "PEOPLE'S" COMMUNE COMES ' Hong Kong - This is the story of the transformation of a once tranquil, once prosper- ous corner of v old China, on If l the Fukien J coast, into one J tp the agricul tural laoor i camps that the Chinese Com. mitnieia nail ft W. "People's U. I 1 Communes." Jnspb Alsnp IJllS district, which I have called Hard- scrabble because all the names in this true story have had to be changed, . had already made considerable contribu tions to China's "great leap forward." By : autumn, 1958, the Hardscrabble people had lost their ancestors' graves, the temples of their faith, their bits of jewelry, and worst of all, much of their summer crop. This last loss occurred because Communist Party Secretary Li had all but driven the folk from the land in order to realize Chair man Mao's latest inspiration, the backyard iron and steel furnace whjch produced no iron or steel. THE neglected fields yield ed so poorly, that the heads of Hardscrabble's seven col lective farms dared not re port their true crop totals. The state then took 40 per cent of the sweet potatoes and no less than 60 percqnt of the rice under one pretext or another, basing its takings, too, on the over-reported crop totals. Thus the Hardscrabble : cupboard was left all but bare.' : Meanwhile, in September, the combined party-and-gov-ernment headquarters in two rooms in Hardscrabble's larg est village had been thrown into a convulsion of excite ment by the arrival of new secret instructions from high er up. As most of China had been Communized long since, it speaks volumes about the continuing isolation of the country distrcts . that ,. even Party Secretary Li was as tonished and excited by the sudden orders to merge all Hardscrabble's collective farms in one vast labor camp. For a fortnight, the secret in structions were secretly dis cussed by the District's party members and activists. "But there are always big mouths among the cadres," explained Chief Clerk Cheng, the escaped cadre who is the source of this story. "So the people heard, and many klled their pigs and ate them." a THE pig-eating was a natur al reaction to the new stage on the road to the earthly paradise. For now everything, literally everything but the clothes the people stood up in, was to be handed over to the all - powerful, all - nourishing state. Articles of personal use were classified as "means of subsistence" and left to the people. AU else was classified as "means of production" -even cooking pots and all "means o production" were taken by the commune. Even so, the people were not un happy ; when Party Secretary Li called them together in a series of big meetings to ex plain the commune to them. "It was necessary to go by steps, in order to avoid trou ble "from the reactionaries and counter revolutionaries," ex plained Chief Clerk Cheng, whc- still uses the old jargon. "Everything was promised from free haircuts to free medical care and especially plenty of free food, and this raised the people's hopes. Of course none of the promises were kept. I did get one free haircut; but that was aU." So the commune built its mess halls, for now no one was to eat at home in the old bourgeois way. They were rough shocks, constructed in the ruins of the temples, with the bits of building material the great backyard blast fur-, H-s-i-y-v'-a we f ' J By Joseph AIsop nace program had not con sumed. "The plan for barracks for the people could not be fulfilled," because there was nothing to build them with. But the mess halls grandly .opened, offering a first menu of rice gruel for two meals and cooked rice for the third meal; and Party Secretary Li pointed out that a rice diet like this was truly luxurious in view of the bad harvest that summer. "Earlier, he had made a speech, announcing a record harvest," sad Chef Clerk Cheng. "But. naturally aU the people knew he was just blowing up the balloon, as they call it:" AT FIRST, while the ancient partitions between the fields were removed "for tractors," the discontent was not too great. The winter crops, wheat and barley in the rice land and corn in the sweet potato fields,, were planted on schedule. But be fore long the commune's slen der rice stock began to run out, and soon the mess halls were serving only sweet po tatoes. "They were not the best sweet potatftes either," said Chief Clerk Cheng. "The state took the best. But if you had good labor credits, you could have you'" sweet potatoes pre pared . in ' ' several different ways.' And the, commune also had a shop in the village where you could buy a special dish of sweet potatoes cooked with shellfish and flour paste. But few had the money to buy." . -.- . By the onset of winter, the people were very hungry. - so hungry that at one of the self- criticism meetings there was an outburst of protest from the farmers who said they could not work their allotted 12 to 16 hours a day on.such a diet. After that Party Sec retary Li allowed top graded workers a cup of rice gruel once -a day. But another sec ret instruction from higher up, that the entire winter crop was to be delivered or sold to the state, eventually leaked out. After that, the work in the fields fell off frighten ingly. "Cadres and farmers are like cats and mice," said Chief Clerk Cheng. "When the cats are away the mice play -but the farmers instead of play ing just don't work. Finally Party Secretary Li had to send the militia into the fields with their rifles, seven mili tiamen to each work team of 30 farmers. Six stacked their rifles and worked in the field, too, and he seventh guaded the weapons. SO THE people of Hard scrabble, daily more fam ished, did their field labor at gun-point. They were famish ed in the midst of plenty, too, for the granaries of the state's crop bureau were bulging and the commune still had many animals despite the pig-killing. But every egg that was laid, every pig that was slaughtered had to be deliv ered to the People's Libera tion Army, which . was in heavy force in Fukien after the attack on Quemoy. The granaries were guarded by armed men at all times, and they were never opened ..ex cept to send away truck loads of rice on requisition from the state. "By March, the sweet pota toes we had left were aU rot ten, but they were still eating the last of them when I got away," said Chief Clerk Cheng. "On my way to Hong Kong I did hear they had finally opened the state gran aries; for the commune's own stocks wtre gone. But all they gave the people was the stuff that is left over after making sweet potato flour, which had been stored for use as animal feed." Truly, as Chairman Mao himself has proclaimed, "Peo ple's communes are Good!" (Copyright 1959 Mew York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Drummond Reports . (Walter Lippman is again traveling abroad. Roiee Drumond reports from Washington in his absence.) EISENHOWER: ENDING IT IN A RUSH Washington - Dwight Ei senhower is climaxing his eight years in office different ly than anybody expected when he undertook a second term. He is working longer and harder. He is applying his energies more exactingly, is a fuller participant in the de velopment of policy than many believed likely. He is sparing himself less than he himself forecast. He is initiating and carry ing through an ambitious ven ture in personal, diplomacy which, in the end, will make Franklin Roosevelt and Wood row Wilson look like stay-at-homes. In his nine-nation Decem ber trip to Europe; the Mid dle East, Africa, and Asia, he is, at no small risk, expend ing his strength, not acting to hoard it. He is maintaining, even in creasing, his standing with the American people and his au thority with Congress, despite the no-third-term amendment and despite his party's losing three consecutive and ever larger Congressional defeats. . .. . f . . HHHERE are manv who fir- -- ured that, all things considered,- Mr. Eisenhower would be spending a good part of his last 12 months packing his bags and restless ly marking time until he could escape to retirement. Mr. Eisenhower may be pining to retire, but he is do ing the opposite of marking time., He may be packing his bags, but not to go to Gettys burg; rather tq go to Rabat, Athens, Istanbul,, Delhi, Ka bul, Teheran, Rome, Paris, Moscow, and points east. - For the next 12 months Mr. Eisenhower is going to be do ing what he most wants to do, what he deeply believes he would be remiss if he didn't do-namely, use the vast pres tige of the Presidency and the accumulated trust and good- will, which leaders and peo ple on both sides of the iron curtain have in him, in a ma jor new effort to cut back the cold war in a way that will strengthen, not weaken, the cause of freedom. This 'means that, far from letting his administration in its final months wane and wither, the President is dedi cating it -to: a mission which he hopes .njay be its . best achievement. TN THE l?-day trip he is about to jnake, the Presi dent s visit to India may prove most significant of all. ' It coyldn't come at a better moment. For the past 10 years Prime Minister Nehru has, with sin cerity and forbearance, sought to stand as a friend of Com munist China, trusting its promises of peaceful co-existence and turning the other way when it abetted the war in Indochina and crushed In the Day's News By FRANK As this is written, Mr. Nel son Rockefeller, governor of New York, scion of one ' of America's wealthiest families, ex-holder of many positions of trust and responsibility in the federal government, is in the West in his first major political foray to assess his chances of winning the 1960 Republican Presidential nom ination. His tour took him first to California, where his opposi tion lies. It also brings him on to Oregon and Washington. The political pundits indicate that what he finds out in the course of this swing through the West will go far in deter mining whether or not he will be a candidate for the High est, most glamorous and the MOST RESPONSIBLE poli tical position in the world. Mr. Nixon, the man Mr. Rockefeller will have to beat if he is to become the GOP nominee, is a Westerner. He has been here often, and is certain to be here often again. And if he is to get the nomi nation he will have to have the solid support of the West. WE OF the West have been visited by Mr. Kennedy, who is often referred to as the most likely candidate for the Democratic nomination for President. We have been visited by Mr. Humphrey, who is certainly, up to now, the busiest of the Democratic candidates. We have been vis ited often by Mr. Stevenson, and it may be taken for grant ed that unless ne counts him self out of the race he will come out to see us again. It is not improbable that Mr. Lyn don Johnson of Texas, a Southerner, will find an oc casion to visit us. As of this writing, the Re publican nomination seems to lie between Mr. Nixon and neighboring Tibet. But now Chinese Communist troops, after earlier intrusion into Indian territory, have invad ed northeastern Kashmir, at tacking Indian border patrols, killing nine and capturing five. . . Mr. Nehru is face to face With a difficult, anxious, and grim decision. Will he try to defend Indian sovereignty with military forces inferior to those of Red China in the hope that Peiping will back down? Will he affront educat ed Indian opinion and risk losing his grip on the Indian masses by capitulating to the Communist demands? Will he cast -aside the policy of neu trality as outdated and in adequate and invite assistance from the West? : - THESE are hard and harsh alternatives. It is not for us to judge what is best for India. We shouldn't forget that we were still talking about our isolation behind two oceans when the fleet was sunk at Pearl Harbor. We must not press our collective security upon India, but we should be ready and willing. No one could have better credentials to counsel with -if not counsel Mr. Nehru than President Eisenhower. He is going to Delhi at a crucial hour in history. At stake is Mr. Nehrti's leader ship of India. At stake also Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initia tor publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right tc edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the ce. - ' Filtration Plant Questions To the Editor: The residents of Gold Hill win soon be ask ed to vote on a $120,000 bond issue to build a water filtra tion plant. It is proposed to pay off the bonds and interest in 20 years, at the rate of $10,000 per year. Thus the real cost will be $200,000. This does not include the cost of operat ing the plant, figured at $3, 808 per year. This, they say, would pay for the lime, alum, chlorine' and other materials needed, plus the part-time ser vices of a man to run the fil tration plant. This; proposed plant wiU cost at least $13,808 a year to the people of Gold Hill, in addition to the amount they now pay for taxes and water bills. Our entire city tax bill this year amounted to only $11,256.50. It has been figured that each water user would pay an a dditional $4.75 per month, or $57 per year. At Monday night's meeting at the Gold Hill Grange hall, it seemed to me that some of the people present were mis led by.the quoted figure of JENKINS Mr. Rockefeller. It is quite otherwise in the case of . the Democratic aspirants. Their number is legion. One some times wonders, reading the political prognostications, if ANY ' Democrat of promin ence ISN'T an aspirant. ALL THIS is quite in order and as it should be. IF THE TIME EVER COMES WHEN GOOD MEN. DON'T WANT TO BE PRESI DENT, IT WILL BE A SAD DAY FOR THE U.S.A. ' IN THE past, it has been our not - too - admirable cus tom to regard Presidential campaigns as three ring cir cuses FAR SURPASSING the best offerings of Mr. Barnum or Mr. Bailey or Mr. Ringling - or any.of our other wizards of the sawdust circle. We have more or less taken it for granted that the best show man will win. Here's a thought: Why not abandon that an cient and never very praise worthy concept? . Why not - in this admitted ly critical period of our his tory - say to ourselves in this campaign that gets near er with each day that passes that our whole future and the future of our children and the future of our grandchil dren and of THEIR children and their children's children rests upon our getting, in this Presidential term that is ap proaching, the BEST LEAD ERSHIP THAT IS OBTAIN ABLE? 117HY NOT forget, all the " political hogwash of the past and concentrate on get ting leadership of the highest quality available? Why not judge ALL aspir ants for the Presidency in that light and that light only? It is at least an intriguing thought. pT!LUC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Christmas is coming. Wanta know how we know? Well, the "sick" jokes are taking on their annual yule tide flavor. Last year it was: "I don't care WHO you are, fat man. Get those reindeer off my roof!" " This year, the first of the season's crop to come our way is: "Look, you guys, I don't care WHAT star you're fol lowing. Get those camels off my lawn!" Also we have it on good report that some eager bea vers actually have Christ mas lights up in front of their house. Well, happy Thanksgiving, friends, in another week and a half. That man in Phoenix is at it again. After all, he's been quiet for a couple of weeks now. The mail brings a triple of- is Pre m.i e r Khrushchev's leadership of the Communist bloc because Mr. Khrushchev cannot remain simultaneously an ally of Red Chinese aggres sion and of the cause of end ing the cold war. He also must choose. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. $4.75 per month, and they as sumed that it would include the $3 they now pay, so that the only extra cost would be $1.75 per month. V Obviously the city of Gold Hill cannot pay $13,308 per year, by collecting only $1.75 per month extra , from each water user. That would raise only $4,165 per year, not $13,808. Do we really need a filtra tion plant? Orie , Moore, Health department represen tative, stated that the twice- a-month tests taken , of Gold Hill water have been, " entire-' ly satisfactory. Chlorine is now added in sufficient quantity, to kill any harmful bacteria or ;,germs." A filtration plant ? merely - re moves other impurities, and it is strll necessary to add chlorine. The engineer said that it would require as much chlorine, or probably more, if a filtration plant is built. . Since .the chlorine is added after the water is filtered, we would still be drinking as much or more chlorine than we are now. Of course we do usually have muddy water for several weeks during the rainy wea ther. A water filtration plant would end this trouble. , The question is whether we each want to pay ,$57 per year for that purpose. - ' . .. . - Vera Stewart . Gold Hill, Ore. On Answer To the Editor: It is inter estingly odd that in all my reading no mention has been made of the obscure, the real pay-off born of the rigged quiz-show hassel. It is not the glaringly sorry spectacle of Van Doren and others who fell for the fast buck, .how gimlet-eyed Uncle Samuel got most of the cash award first bite pf the misery bought mess of pottage. No, the real pay-off is millions of TV viewers and the many who were not given the answers and coaching to make the showing appear really real. It is all these who can and likely do, walk a little more erect, head a little higher, confident-eyed as it dawns on them that they are not so dumb, that others are not that smart as the TV winners were made to appear. It almost makes the sordid affair worth while, like the little moron hammering his head because it felt so good when he quit it. And for proof of the puddin' that can and has been found down on the vest, this time it came in an o. b. .Potpourri column that told of an IQ test -made on a group of youngish professional and business col lege and high-school gradu ates of 34 year age average that out of the 32 questioned, 28 spelled the Prime Minister of Russia the wrong way 28 times and one spelled it right. Also of 28 of these test run ners, 14 of them spelled the name of the President of the U.S.A. right, the others were wrong. , i All of which goes to prove that despite the deceiving IQ-up-lift from quiz-kids . bur geoning on into the big money fering of typographical er rors, and his comments. " No. 1 "It is not unreason able for Congress to create national porks in areas con genial to such projects." (Comment: "A most appropri ately descriptive summation got by the censor!") No. 2 "The maize of steel reinforcing bars that will serve to strenghen the slab can be seen above." (Comment: "Corny.") No. 3 "The item, a nine tone tractor, was delivered to 17 VS. Navy men and scien tists Oct. 20.". (Comment: "Tones of color, or tones of sound? I'm curious to know whether it looks like a rain bow or sounds like a pipe organ.") THANKSGIVING LAMENT Alas! No berries in our bcwl Because of aminoiriazolel ' Perhaps . the, amlnotriazole .and cranberry hassle will have died down by Thanksgiving (let us hope so, anyway), and we can turn to other, things such as other ways of pro tecting our field crops. . . , . Such as corn. One knowledgeable young man on our staff informs us that it is far, far better to put up a scarecrow to scare crows out of our (hypothetical) corn patch, than it is to shoot at them with a shot gun. . With the shotgun approach, he warns, you may save some of your corn crop from the pesky birds, but it's difficult enough to eat . hot, buttery roasting ears without stopping to spit out bb shot. , , For whatever it may be worth, the Medford Safety Council's most recent meet ing was on Friday, the 13th of November. No casualties were reported. The Wasnington Biological Survey puts metal bands j on the legs of birds to study their migration habits. The bands are stamped "Wash. BioL Surv." ,., . - A letter from a citizen com plained: t'Sirs, I shot one of your peW crows and followed the instructions; I washed it, bioled it and surved it.- But it still tasted terrible."' ' A deaf old .laay entered a church. As she was set tling herself into her seat, , an usher espied - her ear trumpet, came over and whispered, "Listen, madam, just one toot and out you So." : ' -v 'v ' . - T ' An Indian came to the trad ing post to do business, ac companied by his squaw and their 17 children. . Looking them over, the white trader asked, "Don't you have constant cfuarreling and bickering with all those children?" "Oh, no," the Indian re plied. "We're just one big Hopi family." ; From the Salem Capital J o u r n a 1: "Gov. Hatfield trades in his damaged Cad illac n a Lincoln,;' his of- ' fice pointing out that it seemed better to have a smaller, ..more., maneuver- ' able car. I don't think the Lincoln people are going to. like that reasoning. Deft-nition- Lincoln-Jhe world's biggest compact car." ' Father: "Well, son.what di you learn in school today?" Son (proudly): "I learned t say 'Yes, sir' and. 'No, sir' and 'Yes, ma'am and 'No, ma'am'." ' Father: "Really?" Son: "Yeah." Next year is leap year. . Which brings to mind the old, old rhyme which we have all used since time immemor ial to remember how many days going in each, month. Our only trouble with it was that it was so bollixed up we could never remember any of it beyond the second line. So, in an access of con cern for our fellow man's welfare, we have recast the verse into memorable (may be) form, as follows: Thirty days hath September, April, June and November. Thirty-one have all the rest, Except for February's pest. Twenty-eight for her, I hear, Except one more on each leap year. Well anyway, it rhymes, which is more than the orig inal one ever did. things shows plainly that peo ple are not that smart. So, my condolence to the many who will persist in be lieving what they prefer to believe. Like our erudite teen ager grandson trend of the day remarked, "my mind is all made up, don't confuse me with facts." F. J. Clifford Route 2, Box 200F Central Point
