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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
f 10 YEARS AGO
-Sac 27. 1949 (Monday)
Holiday week end death
toll reaches Sll - 420 killed
1 In traffic accidents.
The Lloyd Matthews fam
; lly, route 3 box 346, Medford,
: received a set of twins for
; Christmas - bora at Commu
nity hospital.
20 YEARS AGO
Dec 27, 1939 (Tuesday) -
Nearly 7,500 Christmas tur
keys remain unsold in valley.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Christ
mas deaths totaled 633-41 8 in
traffic. The Finns did better,
they killed 700 Russians in
war during same week end.'
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30 YEARS AGO
See. 27. 1929 (Thursday)
State Senator A. W. Nor.
blad assumes governorship of
state; last rites held for Gov
ernor Patterson.
City returns to normalcy
after biggest Christmas in
years.
40 YEARS AGO
Sac 27, 1919 (Saturday)
Over 100 persons die Christ
mas day after drinking illegal
liquor containing wood alco
hol.
All dogs in county must
have licenses after January,
sheriff warns.
SO YEARS AGO
Dec 27, 1909 (Sunday)
Bogus Oregon apples are
being sold in London; some
carloads have Bear creek la
bels.
Rnsehall firms in Pnrtlanrl
team to withdraw from
Northwest league.
Vhst's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct ii superior;
even or eight is excellent; five or
ix is good.
1. Dec. 26, the second day
of Christmas, is a holiday in
one state; name it.
2. What city in the United
States is called The Mound
City?
3. The sinking of what TJ. S
battleship had much to do
with precipitating the Span-
lsn-Amencan war?
4. Do vou associate the
name Gutenburg with paint-
, ug, sculpture, or printing?
S TV what r-rti l nf tm- An fVio
S three monkeys. See No Evil,
; Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil,
belong?
6. Four of the five senses
are sight, hearing, touch and
. smell; name the turn.
11 S&s
J 7. Does one set, or sit, in
r a chair?
t - 8. Where is the largest part
of the world's crop of pineap-
. pie grown?
9. Where is the United
v States gold depository? .
-; 10. What are the ends of
T the earth's axis called?
Answers: 1. South Carolina.
2. St. Louis. 3. The Main. 4.
Printing. (He was first lo use
movable type.) 5. Japan. 6.
Taste. 7. On sits. 8. Hawaiian
Islands. 9. Ft Knox. Xy. 10.
Poles.
Parks for the Future
Speaking of America's scenic and natural
resources, someone has aptly said that "what
isn't saved in the next few years isn't going to be
saved at all."
A man who has spent most of his lifetime sav
ing them, and persuading others they should be
saved, is Horace M. Albright, former director of
the National Park Service and one of the best
known and most respected conservationists in the
country. At a dinner in his honor in Washington
it was announced that friends of Horace Albright
had created a Lectureship in Conservation at his
alma mater, the University of California.
It is an appropriate testimonial to an inspiring
conservationist who followed in the footsteps of
the late Stephen T. Mather in building America's
great national parks system.
THAT SYSTEM, great as it is, must continue to
grow as the recreational demands of the Am
erican people continue increasingly to press upon
the nation's rapidly diminishing natural pre
serves. . ,
Winthrop Rockefeller, whose family has done
more than any other in America to advance
through private means the protection of scenic
areas, said the other day that "forty times" the
amount of land now devoted to national parks
and the like would be required by our exploding
population within another forty years.
Ideally, he was right; but in view of the bit
ter resistance of every kind of special interest
against setting aside such areas or even pre
serving intact the ones we have we as a people
will be lucky if we are able to increase our exist
ing system of national preserves by even four
times.
THERE ARE many practical places to begin,
already designated by the National Park Serv
ice, but the funds are lacking. Seashores areas
are of prime importance, of which the proposed
Cape Cod National Park should receive priority
No. 1. Others on the Gulf of Mexico, on the Great
Lakes, on' the Pacific Coast, must be acquired
within a very short time if their quality is not to
be dissipated by the real estate speculators who
have already taken over so much of our vanishing
shoreline.
In the interior, probably the most urgent situa
tion is in the Glacier
North Cascades of Washington, twice as much of
which ought to be preserved as is proposed in the
utterly inadequate present plan of the Forest
Service which now controls it.
The surest way to protect it would be for Con
gress to take it out of
Service altogether, establishing instead what
could become one of the Northwest's and the na
tion's finest national parks. New York Times.
HeSheds 'em Like Dirty Shirts
In 1956 when Adlai Stevenson suggested that
testing big bombs be discontinued he was imme
diately subjected to a ferocious attack by Vice
President Richard Nixon. Mr. Nixon questioned
Mr. Stevenson's patriotism and sanity.
, As the boys say, a lot of water has gone over
the dam since then. It is now official Republican
Party doctrine to favor the ending of A bomb
tests. President Eisenhower switched this year to
the new doctrine and, of course, Mr. Nixon quick
ly fell into line.
THIS is the most interesting facet, we think, of
the Nixon character. He can shed principles
and convictions as fast as dirty shirts. He spoke
so firmly and so eloquently in 1956 on the neces
sity that big bomb testing be continued one would
have thought it was a very deep conviction that
Mr. Nixon would stand squarely upon henceforth,
no matter how strong the attacks against that
stand.
It is said in some quarters that Mr. Nixon is
the most able politician Washington has seen in
many years. He instinctively knows, they say,
which way to go on a big issue and exactly when
he should point in that direction. What he has
had to say on an issue in the past is immediately
pushed aside when necessity demands and off he
sails with the prevailing
People who don t like him call" him tricky
Dick. His admirers say it
him elected to the White
dleton East Oregonian.
Try end
-By BENNETT CERF-
TJTJMORIST JIM THURBER recalls that, "The late Harold
Ross usually looked harried and aggrieved, but he was
at his worst just before a new issue of his beloved New
Yorker magazine went to
press. On one such oc-
casion, he ran into Doro
thy Parker. 'I thought
you were coming into the
office to write a piece last
week,' he challenged her.
'What happened?' Mrs.
Parker turned upon him
the eloquent magic of her
dark and lovely eyes.
'Somebody was using my
pencil,' she explained
sorrowfully."
One would-be New
Yorker cartoonist in thet'
thirties complained to
Boss, "Why do you reject drawings of mine, and print stuff
by that fifth-rate Thurber?"
Ross rallied promptly to the defense of his artist Thurber
and his own reputation as an editor. "Third-rate," he cor
rected. Then the ia was th girl from Kansas who cams to the San
Diego naval base to announce. "I want to mux? a sailor and rear
siflmlrglTt'
Peak Wilderness in the
the hands of the Forest
winds of public opinion.
is exactly what will get
House next year. Pen
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Stop Me
Harold
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Dennis the Menace
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Matter of Fact
Bv Joseph Alsop
THE MUMMY'S HAND
Avon, Conn.-What beckons
home the traveler? What sym
bolizes and exerts the magne-
tism of the
happy past at
C h r istmas
time? In this
traveler's case,
it is a mum
my's hand.
On a book
case in the li
brary, in its
own air-tight
Joseph alsop glass box, the
mummy s hand reposes be
tween two Lowestoft vases,
both badly chipped, amid sup
porting platoons of family
photographs. There the hand
has been these fifty years and
more, a iaaing la Del an
nounces that the hand was
bought in Thebes in 1850-
a somewhat grisly souvenir.
evidently of a long forgotten
grand tour of the Mediter
ranean.
In life, says the label, the
hand belonged to "a person
age of the court" of that
Egyptian Ozymandias, the
Pharoah Thutmose. Maybe it
was snobbishness, then, that
dictated the purchase of this
singular, fragmentary me
memto mori from some The-
ban tomb-robber. Nineteenth
century Americans were odd
ly fascinated by court per
sonages, as anyone must real
ize who has noted the preva-
iance ol unbelievably boring
courtly memoirs in old li
braries. In any case, the passage
of time long since quite trans
formed the mummy's hand.
At least two generations ago,
it had ceased to be a souvenir
or even a curio. It had be
come part of the familiar fur
niture of a family's life, never
considered as a thing-in-itself
(for then, beyond doubt, some
one would have put it out of
sight). It had begun, in fact,
to be regarded with positive
affection as something - that-had-always-been-there.
rpHE farm house where these
words were written, and
where the writer was born,
is full of things-that-have-al-ways-been-there.
They range
in peculiarity from a depress
ed etching of Connecticut's
lost charter oak, allegedly
framed in the fallen oak's
own timber, all the way to
the fang of a saber-toothed
tiger that was given by the
first Roosevelt to a bitterly
disappointed great nephew,
who wanted a tricycle. All
of them beckon home the
traveler, but the mummy's
hand beckons most strongly,
because it is by all odds the
most peculiar deposit in this
many-layered sediment of the
years.
At this season, the beckon
ing is more than ever com
pelling because, at this sea
son, ghosts walk too. For
grown-ups, to be sure, each
recurrent Christmas always
tends to resemble one of those
melancholy visits to a beloved
scene of childhood-those visits
which reveal that everything
was smaller, less full of won
der and more dustily ordinary
than the child's eyes saw. Yet
the ghosts walk all the same,
and this house is full of them.
In the past from which
these ghosts return, sleigh
bells roused the house at 6
ajn., because breakfast was
at seven on the farm; and
stockings had to be opened
before breakfast. The next
sounds were the cheerful calls
of "Merry Christmas" from a
grandmother who was capa
ble of gayety even before
dawn and long before the first
cup of coffee. Thereafter,
with a grown-up apiece to
help, the children opened the
huge white cotton stockings
originally made, quite prob
ably, for giantesses suffering
from elephantiasis.
rpHEN there was a vast
farmhouse breakfast in the
dining room hermetically seal
ed for the occasion. The seal
ing was needful because the
"big presents" were now laid
out in heaps in the library,
each heap by a customary
chair. Even the shape of the
big presents must not be pre
maturely glimpsed by the
breakfasters.
Alter that, a procession
formed and marched into the
library, chanting, for the sec
ond high moment of the day.
And after the big presents
were all open, and some, in
evitably, had been broken,
there was the long drive to
a larger tribal stronghold, for
a fearful and wonderful feast.
(Besides turkey, there used
to be a pig with an apple in
its mouth which always, un
happily, proved more exciting
to look at than to eat). And
after that, there was lethargy
mingled with interior unease,
It is not and cannot be
quite like that any longer-
thank God, one is inclined to
say, when one thinks of stock
ings at 6 a.m. and three
courses for breakfast at 7. But
the ghosts of the past impose
duties in the present. Hence
the Christmas of the next gen
eration has its own establish
ed ritual, less taxing but no
less elaborate than the Christ
mas of the generation now
regretting middle , age.
THE need for private ritual;
the need for-permanency;
the importance of permanency
in objects like the mummy's
hand as well as permanency
in a family's habits-these are
the points (if any) these
Christmas time reflections are
intended to suggest. .
Ritual and permanency are
increasingly difficult, no
doubt, in an American society
increasingly fluid and mobile.
But surely much is lost when
the automobile becomes more
important - than the hearth.
Surely the next generation
needs the sense of belonging,
the sense of being part of
a continuum, mat permanen
cy and family ritual always
give. At any rate, if one has
this sense, one is grateful for
it, even in middle age, and
even after many years of
wandering this world that
tends to seem more danger
ously impermanent with ev
ery passing decade. ,
Copyright 1959, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
This is written on Christ
mas Eve.
That prompts a question:
Where does the word
CHRISTMAS come from?
F
T comes rrom the early
English term CHRISTES
MASSE, which means Christ's
Mass. The words "Christes
Masse" were quickly com
bined into the word Christ
mas. The word is used widely
throughout the world, but its
origin is English.
rriHE date for Christmas
in
-a. most lands is Dec. 5.
How did that come about?
In the year 354, by order
of Bishop Liberius of Rome,
the Dec. 25 date was adopted.
It was noted later that this
date would fall within the
rainy season in Palestine, so
that the shepherds would not
have been in the fields at
night, as they were . when
Jesus was born.
The early church fathers
possibly chose Dec. 25 be
cause the feast of the sun, or
winter solstice, was a familiar
Roman feast day celebrating
the victory of light over dark
ness. It is interesting to note
that the Armenians, who were
the first people in the world
to set up a Christian state,
celebrate Christmas Eve on
Jan. 6 by eating fried fish,
lettuce and boiled spinach.
They believe that Mary ate
boiled spinach the night be
fore Jesus was born.
On Christmas Eve, Santa
Claus comes down the chim
neys and brings gifts to good
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
Washington The wrecker's
role taken up. by Senator
Wayne Morse of Oregon in the
Presiden t i a 1
nomin a t i o n
raises both a
short and a
long question
The first is:
How much
damage may
be done to se-
rious can
didates, who put months and
money and desperate effort
into their campaigns, by a
single bitter man such as this?
The second, and far more
important,, is this:
How long must our system
of selecting nominees for the
Presidency go on at the mercy
of the sentimental disorders
of the preferential primary
or popularity contest
method?
What Morse has done (and
at least it may force some to
look anew at the primary sys
tem) is this: he has "agreed"
to enter the Oregon primary
of May 20 as a Presidential
aspirant, but not with the
slightest hope of becoming
President. The inevitable ef
fect of his participation will
be to split the liberal vote and
so to work heavily against at
least one serious liberal Presi
dential candidate, Senator Hu
bert H. Humphrey of Minne
sota. Another slightly less
liberal but nevertheless still
liberal aspirant, Senator John
F. Kennedy of Massachusetts,
may well be hurt, too. Assur
edly he will be if conservative
rivals for the nomination are
also in the primary.
.
rpHE irony of it is that Morse,
too, is liberal beyond
words. Indeed, he considers
himself the most liberal of all
liberals. He spends much of
his time denouncing his more
conservative party associates.
But for some months now he
has been also attacking its two
most liberal Presidential con
tenders, Humphrey and Ken
nedy. (They did not agree
with him last year on the la
bor bill nor did anybody else
in a Senate of 100 members
except the late Senator Wil
liam Langer of North Dakota).
Oregon's law permits a man
to be entered in a Presiden
tial primary without his con
sent. Morse has presented
himself as not self-propelled
and has declared he would
have "preferred" not to be put
in. Of course, however, he
still need not have made the
sacrifice. He had only to say
he would not treat the thing
seriously.
One of his motives is gen
erally reckoned among his
fellow Democrats to be an ef
fort to harm his Democratic
Senate colleague from Ore
gon, Richard Neuberger. Neu-
berger is up for reelection to
the Senate next year .and
Morse wants to see him de
feated for renomination. The
assumption here is that Morse
will try to arrange to have
Neuberger also put into the
Presidential primary, against
his wishes, in the hope of
making him look bad when
the Presidential votes are
counted. If this seems strange
ly unclubby, as between one
liberal Democrat and another
from the same state, so it is.
THE truly interesting point,
hnwwpr la nnt that TVTnr-co
little girls and boys. Whence
came the name Santa Claus?
It started with a real per
son -Saint Nicholas, the
youngest and one of the kind
est bishops in the history of
the early church. During the
Middle Ages, he gradually be
came the patron saint of
schoolboys. From that it was
an easy step to patron saint
of all children.
In The Netherlands, both
young and old still celebrate
his feast day.
How did Saint Nicholas be
come Santa Claus?
Well, the Dutch settlers in
America brought the feast of
Saint Nicholas with them to
new Amsterdam, now New
York City. The feast, with its
giving of gifts, caught on
with English-speaking chil
dren. The Dutch name for
Saint Nicholas is San Nicho
laas. English children, trying
to say San Nicholaas, espe
cially saying it quickly and
excitedly, changed it over into
Santa Claus. Try it yourself.
If you say San Nicholaas very
fast, you'll get an approxima
tion of Santa Claus.
One word more on Saint
Nicholas. In the Dutch ver
sion, he is kindly and lov
able, but he is also strict. If
Hans and Katrina have been
good children, they find
gifts in their wooden shoes.
But if they have been BAD,
they find only a bundle of
SWITCHES there.
The Dutch think of Santa
Claus (Saint Nicholas) as
William S.
White
S. WHITE
is doing what he is doing. To
those who know him such a
course would have been easily
predictable. The real point Is
that the primary system al
lows such a thing to be done
at all. Most states wisely re
tain the practice of deciding
in state party conventions
which contender should be
backed for President.
Primaries were adopted by
some in the notion that only
in this way could "The Peo
ple" instead of the dreadful
"Bosses" select a party's Presi
dential nominee. (Whoever
finishes first in a primary is,
generally speaking, entitled to
the suppot of that state's dele
gation to the national nomi
nating convention.) .
.The reform looks good and
democratic. But in practice it
is open to flagrant abuse if,
happily, not often in so spec
tacular a way as Morse's way.
Most politicians and public
officials know perfectly well
but do not say out loud
that it is a bad system on the
whole. If can, for example,
lead to victory for the man
simply willing to make the
most irresponsible promises or
showing the toothiest grin.
The final and best irony of
all would be if Morse's action
should lead some of the states
to face up to the fact that the
primary system should be
greatly tightened, if not
junked altogether.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Features Syndicate, Inc.)
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
THE POLITICAL
DOLDRUMS
The political campaign is
about to have its official op
ening, and there are in the
running two
R epubllc-
an and sever
al Democratic
candidates.
Of none of
"them c a n it
be said that
he has identi-
fied himself
clearly with
any large na
tional concern or taken a po
sition which distinguishes him
clearly from his rivals. None
has aroused more than what
may be called the enthusiasm
of a faction. As of now the
only issue within either party
or between the two parties is
who can be nominated in the
conventions and who can win
the elections.
Considering the size and
the import of the questions
which the next President will
have to deal with, it is strange
and it is disconcerting to find
that there is as yet no prom
ise and no prospect that the
campaign of 1960 will begin
to prepare the minds ' of our
people for -the future which
is at hand. .
" Yet in this campaign there
will come to power the new
political generation. With the
retirement of Eisenhower, the
old Generals and Chiefs of
the World War and of the
post-war period will give way
to their successors. These suc
cessors will have their own
battles to fight, not the same
old battles which Roosevelt
and Truman and Eisenhower
fought. But as of now, the Re
publicans are stuck with the
ideas of the Eisenhower inter
lude and the Democrats are
stuck with the ideas of the
Truman administration.
VET we know that at least
- some of the candidates,
indeed all the serious candi
dates, are aware that at home
and abroad we are entering a
new period. At home we are
entering it because of the
need to meet the mounting
and unfilled needs of our
growing and urbanized popu
lation. Abroad, we are enter
ing a new period because the
brief years of our material,
dressed in the robes of a
bishop and riding through the
streets on a white donkey.
The English visualize him as
a gentleman dressed in a long
tail coat and a squarish bea
ver hat.
How did our picture of a
roly-poly old gentleman with
long white whiskers and a
fur-trimmed coat get its start?
It is generally attributed to
Thomas Nast and his famous
drawing "Santa Claus and His
Works," which appeared as a
Christmas picture in Harper's
Weekly in 1866.
Whence came the reindeer?
That legend is supposed to
have originated among Sandi
navian settlers in America.
Cartoonist Nast included the
reindeer, the pack of toys and
the stockings hung at the fire
place. That - brings us down to
Christmas Eve of the year
1959 which, oddly enough, is
a Christmas Eve with about
as little SHOOTING WAR
throughout the world as man
kind has seen in many a century.
Walter
Lippmann
ewimiccc
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Man (talking to wife in
downtown department store
the day before Christmas,
accompanied by several
children): I certainly wish
the stores would close to
we could go home."
Two young matrons talking
with each another were over
heard as follows:
Young Matron No. 1: "Did
I tell you my husband traded
in our '52 Ford for a '59 Pon-
tiac?"
Y.M. No. 2: "No, how won
derful. But how are you going
to pay for it? He doesn't even
have a job."
Y.M. No. 1: "So what? If
we can't make the payments,
it won't make any difference
whether they take away s
Ford or a Pontiac."
A lone news staff mem
ber was working late one
evening in the quiet office
last week, and chanced to
sneeze. A sepulchral voice
came over the intercommu
nication system from the
"back shop." It said, "Ge
sundheii." Two thines attracted our
attention last week - the fog,
which suddenly vanished the
other day, and the higher-
than-ordinary number of com
munications.
A young man we know
wrapped up both of them with
Lippmann
economic technological, and
military supremacy are over,
Why then is the campaign
so listless, so vacant, . so unin
teresting, and ' se ' unimpor
tant? Some would say be
cause the people are lulled by
their material comforts and
are drugged by the official as
surances that all is well and
that nothing will happen to
them. But this, leaves unan
swered, indeed it ' begs,; the
question which is why: 'in
these momentous times our
people have been lulled and
drugged into apathy -and com
placency? v . v: -
i a ,
I VENTURE to think, that the
answer to the question is
that the party system is not
working as it is meant to
work. It is throttling debate
and it is stifling ideas. This is
because the opposition party,
that . is the Democrats, are
not functioning as an opposi
tion. They complain about
Eisenhower, But they do not
challenge him. They criticize
Eisenhower. But they accept
and follow him. Yet without
an effective opposition there
cannot be a serious campaign
debate which will enlighten
and educate the country.
rpHE leadership of the Demo-
cratic party is shared by
the Democratic Congressional
leaders on the one hand and
by the Truman office holders
on the other. Speaking broad
ly, the Congressional leaders
are concerned with domestic
affairs and the Truman office
holders are in charge of the
party's position in interna
tional affairs. Beyond the
three-mile limit Sen. Johnson
defers to Mr. Truman and Mr.
Acheson. Inside the three-
mile limit they defer to him
This cooperative arrange
ment - if that is the right
name for it has neutralized
the Democrats as the opposi
tion party. On the domestic
front Sen. Johnson has ac
cepted without question, and
indeed with some fervor, the
basic dogma of the Eisenhow
er administration. This dog
ma is not, as is often said,
that the budget should be
balanced in time of prosperity
and that inflation should be
avoided and that the currency
should be kept stable and
sound. The basic dogma - is
that defense and public im
provement must be tailored
in order to balance the budg
et at the 1954 level of taxa
tion.! The ark of the covenant
is the rates set by Secretary
Humphrey when he reduced
taxes in 1954.
Having accepted the dogma
that these 1954 rates are un
touchable, unless they are re
duced, the Democrats have
disqualified themselves from
criticizing the Eisenhower
program. They are unable to
look forward, or when any-
look forward, for when any
more probable than that in
times to come it will be neces
sary to divert to public spend
ing some larger part of what
now goes to private spending.
It is conceivable, but it is
not likely, that some money
can be saved by a reduction
in armaments. It is more like
ly, however, that more mon
ey will have to be spent on
armaments because the weap
ons are becoming more and
more costly. In any event the
civilian needs of our people,
beginning with our schools
and medical services and go-
this comment:
"I'd rather speak of 'fog
cicles,' "That 'dorn both bush and
tree,
"Than philosophize quit
foolish-wise
" 'Bout man's perversity."
"Fogcicle." incidentally,
is his word for the ice form
ed on bush, grass, leaf and
tree after a prolonged pe
riod of freesing, foggy
weather.
Xavier Widmer dropped us
a nice note the other day to
wish us a Merry Christmas
and Happy New Year, and in
it he quoted a poem which
he thought might well be pub
lished, and we agree.
Mr. Widmer didn't tell the
source, but if memory serves
correctly, it was either writ
ten, or quoted by, Ex-Gov. Os
West, the old indestructible
now in his 86th year.
Here's how it goes:
How do I know my youth
has been spent?
Cause my get-up-and-go has
got up and went.
But in spite of all that, I am
able to grin
When I think where my
get-up-and-go has been.
Old age is golden, I've
heard it said.
But sometimes I wonder, as
I go to bed.
My hair's in a drawer; my
teeth in a cup,
My eyes on the table - un
til I get up. .
Ere sleep dims my eyes,' I
say to myself.
Is there anything else I
should lay on the shelf?
But I'm happy to say, as I
close the door,
My friends are the same as
in days of yore.
When I was young, my slip
pers were red.
I could kick up my heels
right over my head.
When I grew older, ray
slippers were blue,
But still I could dance the
whole night through.
Now I am old, my slippers
are black.
I walk to the corner and
puff my way back.
The reason I know that my
youth has been spent.
My get-up-and-go has got up
and went.
But I don't really mind
when I think with a grin.
Of all the places my get-up
has been.
Since 1 have retired from
life's competition
I busy myself with com
plete repetition. , -
I get up each morning and
dust off my wits.
Pick up the paper and read
the obits.
If my name is missing, I
know I'm not dead.
So I eat a good breakfast
and go back to bed.
Happy New Year!
Japanese Freighter
Rescues 12 Crewmen
San Diego, Calif. - (DPI) - A
Japanese freighter Friday res
cued all 12 crew members
from the sinking tuna clipper,
Sea Boy.
The Coast Guard said the
freighter, Laplanta Maru re
sponded to the 125-foot Sea
Boy's "May Day" distress sig
nal, and the entire crew was
transferred safely.
ing on to the replanning and
the rebuilding of our cities,
will demand a rising share of
our expanding economy.
It is the business of the
Democratic opposition to pre
pare the way. It is their busi
ness to do it even if they can
not be elected on these issues
in the year 1960. But this is
what they are not doing. What
they are doing thus far is to
make it as likely as possible
that they can elect, not a
President, but a Congress.
ON the international front,
Mr. Truman and Mr. Ach-
esor have caused the Demo
crats to miss the bus. For
what they have done is to op
pose the President's effort to
find an accommod ation.
Thereby they have handed
him a monopoly on "peace." ,
Moreover, they have confirm
ed the old and very unfair
but very damaging partisan
argument that under the
Democrats all three wars of
this century have broken out.
This is not only bad poli
tics. It is an unsound and un
tenable position. For an ac
commodation will be sought
as long as the Soviet govern
ment wishes to seek it. The
sound position for the oppos
ing party is to raise the ques
tions which will confront the
country if and as the accom
modation increases. These are
at bottom the questions of our
capacity to arouse ourselves
to the effort, to put ourselves
under the discipline, which
the formidable challenge and
competition we are facing
will demand of us.
(c) 1959 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.