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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, Medfard, Or. Sunday, Dec 6, 1939 "Everyooa IB Southern Onftm Rd Th Mall Tribune , tublUhed Dll except Saturday ij MIJJFtrRli PRINTING CO 33 North fl St Ptl SP ROBLR1 W RUHL.' Editor ' FERB GREY Advert!) Manager CEPA1JJ LATHAM Buiifieae Mgi . ERIC W ALLEN JR. Man ring Kditor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telef Editor RICHARD JHWETT Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHES Women Edttot DALE ER1CK8QN Circulation MT An IndeMndent Nrwtpaper , Entered a aenmd elaaa matter at Median Oreeon under Art of Mareh 3. 1SS7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mat lln Advance Copy 10e Dall- and Sunday 1 Tear SIS 00 Daily and Sunday moa S OL Dall and Sunday 3 moa 449 Sunday Only One year SO0 ' By Carrier in Advance Med ford Aahland. Centra) Point. Est la Point JarkaonvMe. 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AV lan'e Vancouver IC - 77 NIWSPAPII k PUIIISHIRS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EOlTOIIAt Flight 'o Time Medford snd Jackson County History from the files of TN Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30. 40 and 50 years ago. ; 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 6. 1949 (Tuesday) Twenty-four firemen fought blaze at West Side pharmacy . last night Jackson county public wel- fare costs quadrupled In last 10 years to $954,678. : 20 YEARS AGO Dec 6. 1939 (Wednesday) y Russia boycotts League of t Nation sessions on Finland at- tdclc l From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "To I curb the flu epidemic, a war ;P has been declared on sneezing f in public; this comes under I- head of Nasal Disarmament." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 6, 1929 (Friday) Two local grid stars, rated as first string members of Oregon team next fall. Greatest crowd in city's his tory turns out to greet Santa Claus. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 6, 1919 (Saturday) French troops threaten to cross Rhine unless Germany signs peace treaty. Edison Marshall, local au thor, will have first book pub lished in March. SO YEARS AGO Dec. 6, 1909 (Monday) Oregon is in grip of wjrst snow storm in years; isvery section of state has from two to nine inches of snow. W. E. Johnson purchases Joe R a d e r orchard of 500 acres near Eagle Point for $50,000. What's Your I.Q.? Nina er tea correct it enperiari seven er eight is eiesB'v ; five a sis is good. . . ,- 1. A sailboat is to its tiller as an automobile is io its windshield, engine, steering wheel, seat, or brakes? 2. Unscramble the following names of flowers: KNIP, AHAILD, YILL.' 3. Correct the following: "As soon as I saw him, knew it was him." 4. Which' three words of the following are most closely re lated: Punt, Kick-off, Full back, End, Touchdown, Guard? 5. In which hand does the Statue of Liberty hold the torch? 6. What number increased by Vi, 13, and Vi of itself equals 125? 7. Add the next three num bers in this sequence: 3, 12, 6, 6, 24, 12, 12, 48, 24, -, -, -. 8. A box is 3 inches wide and 1 inch deep; how long must it be to hold 15 cubic inches of sand? 9. Which of the following words is a different part of speech than the rest: Rabies, lovely, rapier, infants, atom? 10. How many pecks in a bushel? . Answers: 1. Steering wheel. 2. Pink, Dahlia, Lily. 3. ". . . was he." 4. Fullback, end. guard. 5. Right. 6. Sixty. 7. 24.96. 48. 8. 5 inches. 9. Love ly (adj.). 1Q. Four. On "Practicality There are many words in the English Iangu age which are misused. "Practical" is one of them. The two senses we have in mind are these "Practical-Of, pertaining to, or manifested in, prac tice or action . . . Capable of being turned to use or account . . ." Thus it is seen that respectable word, and a But too often it is used as an excuse not to do something which needs doing, or is "capable of being turned to use isn't practical." This usually means the idea, won't have anything to do with it, and that it wall cost too much money he thinks. THIS type of excuse is used in many contexts. Schools aren't "practical" when they fur nish instruction m anything except the three Ks, Parks aren't '"practical" because they aren't "productive" they which can be measured Art and music aren't "practical" because (usually) the objector doesn't know enough abou them to enjoy them. . . . Trees on city streets aren't "practical" because they take up room which might be put to better ("more practical ) use. THE list is long, and The fact is that "impractical" things are often the most important. Religion isn't very "practkal" to most people but to many it is one of the most important things in Me. Matters of the mind, of the spirit, of the intellect, of the sensibilities, in many cases pro duce nothinsr physically what make life worth thinking man apart in the animal kingdom. So. when vou are told that something "isn't practical," be sure you IS Dcing UStiU. db &uie ii keep from doing anything at all. &.A. On Community Pride The other day, the Pendleton East Oregonian commented on United Fund dnves m Uregon. It said: , "Whv do the citizens of some Oregon com munities consistently meet their United Fund obligations, and why do Whv do the employees variably answer the call to United Fund or any other ivic duty and why do others consistently refuse? "There isn't a single things are wrapped up in the answer pride in self and pride in community, attitude toward one's family and one's neighbors, understanding or failing to understand the words 'I am my brother s Keeper, a sense "TE PROBABLY would get close to the an- swer if we asked two DeoDle of whom Raymond Rees, the Uma tilla county president of speaking the other day. une, a weaitny man, gave $3 to the United Fund. The other, his employee, gave $25. "Perhaps Frank Jenkins, the editor of the Klamath Falls Herald and News, has the answer. We found this at the head of his column one day last week : U ! ET'S crow a little today. " "'Iirthe league in which it plays, KLAMATH WAS THE FIRST TO GO OVER THE TOP IN ITS UNITED FUND DRIVE. " That's worth crowing about. 1 ' " 'How did it happen? " 'The workers worked. The people gave. The workers worked because they are proud of their area. They want it to be the kind of area that people will want to live in. The- people gave because they too are proud of their area and want it to be the kind of place people will want to live in.' "Is this why Salem United Fund obligations year after year? If you know those cities well you probably would say that Mr. Jenkins' formula fits them. Even a cas ual visitor to Medford or Salem gets that strong feeling of community pride. A FRIEND recently told us he had the rea son for United Fund failures. 'When Unit ed Fund fails in a community,' he said, 'it's be cause you have too many people who have no misgivings about spending a chunk of their pay check every week for whiskey but complain about having to pay taxes for schools.' "Maybe he's right. But we don't know where to go from there. We've never understood the man. who camplains that $7.50 is too much to pay for a book but pays the same amount for a bottle of whiskey without a murmur. "Some persons require no urging. Others re fuse to help, no matter how strongly urged." a THIS J)rings home strongly the United Med- ford Crusade's present situation at about 85 per cent of its goal, and inching along slowly. Well is Medford a town with 'pride? Is it a town where people put more value on whiskey than on schools? Is it a town where the United Fund is going to fail? The UMC drive could be finished off tomor row if everyone who hasn't yet donated would do so today. Checks can be mailed to Post Office Box 5000, Medford. E.A. I 99 practical is a perfectly useful one. or account. As: it jus' the speaker doesn't like don't produce anything in dollars and cents. rather sad. tangible. .But they are living. They are what set understand how the word iou 1 juot an ca,uoc tu others consistently laii of some companies in way to answer. Many or no sense 01 cnaruy. a psychologist to study the United Fund, was and Medford meet their Dennis the Menace ' W mimr VIHEGAZ IH fffltf-ATOMIZER? Druirimcnd Reports (Walter Lippman is again traveling abroad. Roscoe Drumond reports from Washington in his absence.) ' The "Non-Regulatory" Agencies Washington - Doesn't it strike you that the Federal Communications Commission (which regulates or non-regu- lates television) and the Fed eral Trade Commission (one of whose jobs is to protect the public against misleading ad vertising) are bestirring them selves an awfully long time after the horse has been stolen? And are still raising doubts whether they have the right to lock the barn door even at this late date? The F.C.C., which was created by Congress to license and regulate the television and radio industry, is suppos ed to be the watchdog of the public interest. This is the job for which the commission ers were appointed. They are supposed to be expert and active in doing it. But when the first stories began to appear hinting that something was rotten in the quiz shows, the F.C.C. didn't sense anything . wrong; at least they did virtually noth ing about it, except send off one or two half-hearted letters of inquiry. When the coached contestants began to lie to the New York County Grand Jury, the F.C.C. showed no suspicion no activity. When the witnesses began to change their testimony to the New York District Attorney,' the first reaction of the chairman of the F.C.C. was to talk about how little authority he thought the commission had. TSN'T it odd that it was not 'until after the House inves tigating sub-committee had exposed the whole sorry mess, that it wasn't until public opinion had become really angered, that it wasn't until the President, who appoints the regulatory-or non-regulatory-agencies, had remarked on the "awful thing" TV had done to the American people, that the F.C.C. suddenly aroused itself and decided that, maybe, there was some thing it ought to do? And the same with the Fed eral Trade Commission. Why wasn't the F.T.C. first to spot, expose, and do something ef fective about misleading tele vision commercials? They are the "experts." Theirs is the duty. They have the law in their hands with which to do it. But it was only after it felt In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Let's talk today about Farhad Adjoodani, who is the son of Mahmoud Adjoodani, director of foreign exchange students at the Iranian em bassy, in our capital city of Washington. YOUNG Farhad, age 17, had a falling out with his girl friend, Sandra Boliek, who was spending the week end at the home of his parents. The quarrel arose out of the fact that Sandra had been going out with other boys while young Farhad was at college in Youngstown, Ohio. He lost his temper and slapped her. He took a pistol out of a trunk and threatened to shoot himself. Then he ran into another room, and a shot was heard. When other mem bers of the family rushed into the room, it turned out that the cartridge in the gun was blank. Instead of a tragedy, it was only a tantrum. ANYWAY, the week end was spoiled and young Farhad drove Sandra to her home in nearby Georgetown. But he was still all shook up, and on the way to Georgetown he opened the car window, stuck the gun outside and started blasting again - still with blanks. This time the cops stepped ' ' ' the sting of public protest, that the F.T.C. opened its eyes a little wider and began to think that it might really do something about enforcing the law. What I am pointing out is that for some reason it wasn't the regulatory agencies, the F.C.C. and the F.T.C, which suspected, uncovered, or ex posed the offenses in the in dustry they were supposed to be watching, and it wasn't until after they began to be scorched by public opinion that they showed any evi dence that they thought they had much to do about it. T Y this time it would be un--'-'derstandable if many peo ple had forgotten what the House Sub-committee on Leg islative Oversight was origin ally investigating. . Its assign ment was to check up on the practices and procedures of the Federal regulatory agen cies to see if they were ade quately doing their job? It was this sub-committee which discovered some of the F.C.C. commissioners were taking emoluments for making speeches to the industry and were receiving travel and ho tel expenses from those they were supposed to regulate. It was this subcommittee which brought out Bernard Gold fine's activities and other such matters. But in the end this House sub-committee - in an action which gave it no pain was in the middle of massive head lines from its investigation of the rigged quie shows. It seems to me a fair conclusion that the Harris committee would never have had to in vestigate the quiz shows if the F.C.C. had been doing its work alertly -and with single- minded loyalty to the public interest. My point is, why do the two big regulatory agencies have to wait for a full-blown Con gressional investigation to marshal public opinion before they can carry out their du ties under the law? Doesn't this raise doubts about , the caliber of the commissions themselves and, raise the question whether they are not more the servants of the in dustry than they are of the public? (Copyright 1959 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) in,' collared him and took him to the station-where Farhad's identity was disclosed. Be cause he was the' son of a for eign diplomat and as such had DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY, they turned him loose. QO much for the incident. Now for the point of it. Defending his actions, young Farhad said: "I think I acted as ANY American boy would. I've been in this coun try almost six years, and I'm quite familiar with your cus toms. TTMMMMMM. I hope he's wrong. One has to admit that in similar circumstances SOME Ameri can boys might g'o off their rockers and slap their girl friends and then dash into an adjoining room and pretend to shoot themselves and then come" out of it and while driv ing the girl friend home go off the deep end again and start shooting up the town with blanks-finally, winding up in the police station. But if young Farhad really believes that is one of our old established customs, I'm afraid his observation of us during his six years of residence here has been inaccurate. Our teenagers aren't all that stupid. Matter of Fact By Jeseoh Alsop HELPING NIXON Washington - As is often the case nowadadys, there is a wide difference between the public presentation of the President's foreign trip, and rr: jfcrw- nrartiral py- X u'v I pert judgment mm . u The trip has jjjl been pres edtothecc iJ L 1 r y a 1 ground tou present- n coun- j JtL, y ground tour in II V peace, which U mm: LmJ is to culmin- a"p ate, in Paris in a grand effort to secure Western unity before the sum mit meeting with Nikita. S Khrushchev. It will of course be good public relations for this country, for the President to visit India and the other places he plans to visit. But good public relations will not serve the cause of peace. For the long run, in fact. foreign visits that are merely aimed to generate "good will" serve hardly any pur pose at all. The kind of good will that is generated in this manner is approximately as durable as dry ice. As to the trip's climax, every exper ienced diplomat agrees that if any real progress towards Western unity is made at Paris, it will be made by the hard, detailed negotiations of the Foreign Ministers. TTERE, then, is this great, i-i- ceremonial, time-consum ing,- effort - demanding Presi dential journey. Here is this world - wandering version of the President's triumphant European tour last summer, What durable results can be expected of it? The answer is provided by looking back to the European tour. That one produced no durable results of much im portance in Europe. Nothing was decided in any of the capitals the President visited, The President's glowing pres ence naturally evoked an answering glow of friendship, but this was forgotten pretty soon after the cheering crowds dispersed. The residue, in Europe, was very smaU in deed. But the European tour produced results that still en dure in the United States. In fact the tour was one of the two main episodes - the other was the Khrushchev visit here which created the so-called "peace issue," and led to last summer's dramatic Republican recovery. Its val ue has been registered by the inquiring Dr. Gallup, whose poll results show Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon rising from 39 per cent of the na tional vote in July to 53 per cent in November, with Sen. John F. Kennedy dropping from 61 per cent in July to 47 per cent in November. WITH any luck at all, the new tour will consolidate and improve the effects of the emergence of the "peace is sue" last summer. If this hap pens, moreover, there will be two consequences of high po litical importance. The Repub lican Darty will benefit in general, and Vice President Nixon will benefit in partic ular. The highly impressive Nixon rise in the polls that began last August abruptly upset the "Nixon-can't-win" strategy, of the Vice Presi dent's only Republican com petitor, New York's Gov, Nelson Rockefeller. Another political harvest from this new Presidential tour will as sist Nixon even more. This does not mean that the Vice President had any hand in the new trip. He did not. It does not mean either that the President is taking this tax ing trip with domestic polit ical purposes foremost in his mind. He is a great believer In good will, even as a com modity in international trade. ;Yet it. does rather strain credulity to suppose that the President has altogether ig nored the possible domestic- political benefits of his for eign-political effort. He very much wants a successor who will carry on where he has left off, which means a Repub lican successor. There are clear signs, too, that he is not unwilling to help the Vice President become his suc cessor, while doing- nothing positive of course, to vblock the rival candidacy of Gov. Rockefeller. IT WILL help the Vice Pres ident materially, for in stance, to appear in the role of Acting President in these next weeks. He will gain by presiding at Cabinet and Se curity Council meetings, as the President has invited him to do. And if you suspect that this kind of quiet but useful aeip lor nutou u aimiess ana 1 1 : i , J unintentional, you only need to look at the recently pub lished list of the "New Yorkers for Nixon." Not nearly enough atten tion has been given to the presence among the "New Yorkers for Nixon" of three of the President's closest cronies, W. Alton Jones of the City Service Oil Co., Barry T. Leithead of Cluett, Peabody & Co., and William E. Robin son of the Coca Cola Co. These members of the Augusta Golf Club set do exactly what the President wants in politics. It is hard to imagine their being mistaken about what he wants in the present instance, (c) 19S9 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 of a pen name or initia' for 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 ca. Personal Santa Visit To the Editor: We are in sympathy with parents and the problem that Santa Claus presents. Unfortuately, retail Santas are often distraught by the large number of children clamoring for their attention. As mothers, we feel that a personal visit from Santa would eliminate disappoint ment and frayed nerves. Our Santa would be glad to call at your home with a surprise for your children and a merry "Ho, Ho, Ho!" Anyone interested . could call SP 3 4400 for further information. Jean Gilbert, President Epsilon Sigma Alpha, 501 Oregon Terrace, Medford. Santa Disappoints To the Editor: I've never written a letter to the editor before, but after viewing Santa's arrival Saturday I stood, with my three children, as did hundreds of other par ents, for over 30 minutes watching Santa circle town and the roped-off area where he was to land. Finally at 10:30 Santa settled down in the small spot designated for him. After we brushed the dirt from our eyes there' he stood. The looks of happy anticipa tion on the faces of the thrilled youngsters was worth every bit of dirt and wind, but What did Santa do? He waved a couple of times and disappeared through the crowd. Couldn't he have at least made one circle around the square and spoken to a few boys and girls?' If you could have seen the look of disappointment on the faces of the young bewildered chil dren, the tears that ran down some of their angelic faces, as parents tried to make them understand that they had to go "down town" to see Santa and wait again for 30 minutes to an hour to get to talk to him. I certainly feel that his ar rival could be a little differ ent. Of course the merchants of "downtown" wanted the people "down town," so why not just drive him to a desig nated spot "down town" and make these little ones happy and not confused? I'm sure hundreds of par ents agree with me. And after all, "Santa is for children." Mrs. E. Smith, Mrs. D. Bottjer, Route 4, Box 358H, Medford. EPID Questions To the editor: The latest story in the Mail Tribune on the continuing campaign of Mrs. Ann Todd against the Eagle Point Irrigation Dist rict, and those coming in con tact with it, indicates that the district attorney issued his statement without learning all the facts. Had the district attorney questioned witnesses, as well as the principals, he would have found that Mrs. Todd was not evicted from the of fice of EPID on the day he states, and that she (Mrs. Todd) used the telephone in the EPID office to call the city marshal before she left. Upon the marshal's arrival, Mrs. Todd asked him to make an arrest. The district attorney would have also found, that the trouble was not over the heat in the office, but was caused by Mrs. Todd telling the other person involved to shut up. This was the second time this had occurred in public. It is hard for this writer to believed that Mrs. Todd could have undergone such a change of heart as to not want to swear out a warrant between the time she left the EPID of fice and her arrival at the DA's office. Why else would she have gone there? . Cliff Moore Route 1, Box 624 Eagle Point, Ore. Editor's note: No complaint was filed. (By M-T Staff and Contributors) A Mail Tribune "column filler" (called to our atten tion by Mrs. Ellen A. Lyn ner): "Adjust your son's skin diving goggles to fit tightly and wear them to peal (sic) onions ..." ' Ear plugs would seem to be more appropriate under ' the circumstances, io pro tect one from what Mrs. Lynner calls "those dulcet bell tones of an onion." "Dear Potty:" (writes a Santa In a Hurry To the Editor: The familiar "Ho! Ho! Ho!, Merry Christ mas Boys and Girls," was sadly missed by scores of children at Hawthorne Park when Santa arrived by heli copter. The Retail Merchant's Asso ciation must have had him on a very close schedule as HIS lack of time to walk around the roped off area and wave to the children on all sides certainly made for many dis appointed and sobbing young sters. Many hundreds of people responded to the publicity coverirfg Santa's arrival but very few were even reward ed with a glimpse of him. I'm sure the couple of min utes it would have taken for him to do this would have given a lot of little ones a big thrill to remember. It's a good idea, but let us be more fair next time .to all concerned. Gail B. Laurine (Mrs.) 396 Pierce rd:, Medford. An Idea To the Editor: While the president and his party are making social calls upon thh big-wigs of Europe, Asia and Africa, don't you think it would be nice for them to stop in at some ot tne prisons and slave labor camps and say hello to our American boys who have been there so long, and wish them a Merry Christmas, and tell them we sure do think of them a lot? John C. Stille Shady Cove, Ore. Say It Isn't So! . To the Editor: Here we have it, the weather lore prediction for the three months of win ter 59-'60 "in a nutshell". The month of December presumably will be two-thirds foggy days with one-third sunshiney weather. January ditto, with a heavy emphasis on fog all month. Third win ter month, February, the ouU look is for fair and brighter; probably extreme cold. In short it points to an un usual winter' for Rogue river valley, never quite anything like it in history before. Bert Kissinger 520 Boardman St. Medford. Likts CARE Ads ' To the Editor: I want to tell you what a very fine thing I think you are doing by print ing the CARE ads for hungry children. I assume that you contribute this space to the cause. We who have been so blessed as to never know hun ger, should never be satisfied till we have done everything within our power to remove this curse from the rest of the world. I know that God will bless you for doing what you can. Marie Ottosen ' Route 1, Box 251 Eagle Point, Ore. Building Materials To the Editor: The evening of Dec. 2 as I was relaxing in my easy chairk there was Page 1 of the Medford Mail Tribune. Elation reigns su preme when we read that one of our friendly home loan as sociations is going to build a spanking new building right flat dab in the middle of Medford. We really go into orbit after reading the descrip tion of materials to be used steel, glass, aluminum, and concrete. This will be an im pressive building and we are sure that the loggers, mill operators, wholesalers of lum ber and wood produces, and retail lumber dealers wish them well. Enuff said! Charlie G. Fox Jr. 1434 Kings highway Medford faintly disrespectful reader). "A poet stated that Rosa ceae designated by a different nomenclature would emit a similar pleasing aroma. "Just the same, I cannot comprehend that labelling my holiday repast Melleagris Gal lopavo et Vaccinium Oxycoc cus made the turkey taste any better or the little red berries any less 'pizon.' However, if a quarter century hence some disciple of Hippocrates in forms me that I am the victim of a carcinomous invasion, I shall not implore him to d'es ienate what Th Christmas dinner was respon sible. "I think there has been too 'Much Ado About Nothing ' " Our reply to the above: "Floccinaucinihilipilifiea tion." There! L.G.W. (And you'll find it in the Oxford English Dictionary ihe BIG one.) A little girl was lying on her back, singing. Soon she turned over on her stomach, and started sing ing another song. "Playing a game, dear?" asked her mother. "Yes," she replied. "I'm a phonograph record, and I just turned myself over." Now let us turn, as we often do, with pleasure, to the pages of the Hoover Hi Lite, and learn what mem bers of Mrs. Shepard's class had to say about their cur rent study-subject, frogs: The frog has a sticky tongue. He catches flies with his tongue. Th frog has long legs. It jumps with jls legs. It sleeps in the win ter. He can dive. Pamela Dubs First comes the egg. And then comes the tadpole. And then the tadpole grows hind legs. And then he grows front legs. Then his tail goes away. Now he is a frog. Donna Root The frog is first a tad pole. The frog is a friend if you can catch him. I had a frog. The frog hibernates in winter. That means to sleep. Ned Sickles One of our s h a r p-e y e d young men spotted two classi fied ads close together in a column of the San Francisco Chronicle one recent Sunday. He wonders if there is any connection between the two. They said: "For Sale Head and body after death. Male. $6500 now." "What ever happened o Ken Hildebrandt?" Remember our story of last week about our new re porter (young, single, male, wishful)? And the difficul ty he had with early-morning calls from nice-sounding young women? Well, after that item ap peared, he passed us a note which, if we recall correct ly, went something like this: "Kindly make it clear that I am not opposed io re- . ceiving calls from young ladies at odd hours. Callers, however, should be be tween 21 and 25 years of age, blonde, blue-eyed, be tween 5 feet 2 and 5 feet 5, and (approximately) 36-25-36. Some leeway is per missable in regard to either the first or second 36." Later he added verbally that the "blonde" part could be expanded io include red heads. His note also listed his telephone number which unfortunately we seem to have mislaid. We read somewhere about i man who was driving a large truck along the high way, and every so often would stop, get out, go around to the back, stick a pole into a cage on the truck, and swish it around vigorously inside the cage. A police officer saw this happen several times, and fi nally stopped him to inquire the purpose of this maneuver. "Well you see," the man said, "this truck has a capac ity of two tons, and I've got a four-ton load of canaries, and I've got to keep at least half of them flying." After a visit to Europe, a tourist explained ihe differ ences between four of ihe countries he had seen, as follows: "In England, you can do anything except that which is prohibited. "In France, you can do anything, including that which is prohibited. "In Germany, you can't do anything, except thai which is especially permit ted. "In the Soviet Union, you can't do anything, even that which isn't prohibited." .