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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, Medford1, Or. Sunday, Jan. 10, 1960 Uzi0KD&iSfcTl "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. SS North Fir St.. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD T. LATHAM, Bus. Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR., Mng. Editor EARL H. ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER, Women' Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. A T I rj ... Vn..'n nl Entered aa second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 . Daily and Sunday S moa. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 Bv Carrier In Advance Medford 'Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er, Talent and on motor routes, Iliflv and Sunday 1 year S18.00 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c AU Terms -asn in auvancc ' Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International TJJ.I. Telephoto Newspicturea . MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULAHUW3 A -1 ..l.inn Panivcuntativ. htct ti(-t ttav ro INC Of In New York. Chicago. De- Seattle. Portland, St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. OlV NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAl gbn!'!iin;.'HJi.H Flight o' Time Medford end Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 10. 1950 (Tuesday) Extensive damage done by rain, snow, and winds up to 75 miles per hour which hit Medford last night; six air planes turned over at airport and two-car garage carried 30 feet off foundations. Some congressmen protest Truman's proposed budget of $42V4 billion; say too high for peace time. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 10, 1940 (Wednesday) Prime Minister Chamber lain declares that Britain will give extensive support to Fin land in battle with Russia and that events in war with Ger many so far are preliminary when compared to what will come. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A lo cal bunco-artist is swindling old people out of their money Instead of their votes as oth ers do." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 10, 1930 (Friday) House backs Hoover's pledge to support prohibition. Boundary board decides to cut costs of operating the Butte Falls school as result of controversial hearing. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 10, 1920 (Sunday) Report on file stating irri gation can be secured in val ley for $125 per acre. Victor Berger, socialist from Minnesota, denied seat in house. SO YEARS AGO Jan. 10, 1910 (Monday) Medford one of most widely known small cities on coast because of apples and focus of national attention on propos ed new state of Siskiyou. Several persons convicted in the Sugar Trust scandals last Dec. 17 sentenced to one year in prison. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; even or eifht is excellent; five or six is 1. Who are buried in Pot ter's fields? 2. With the perfection of what instrument do you asso ciate the name Sperry? 3. A pint of oil will cover a water surface an acre in area; true or false? 4. Does the United States Supreme Court hold sessions the year round? 5. Was the Declaration of Independence signed in Phila delphia in 1775, 1776, or 1777? 8. In which state is Cape Cod? 7. Is the polar bear a warm blooded, or cold-blooded ani mal? 8. Who was Mary Todd? 9. What bridge do you asso ciate with the height of sales manship? 10. What crooner has been called "The Voice"? Answers: 1. Paupers. 2. Gy roscope. (Also bombsight) , 3. True. 4. No. 5. 1776. 6. Mas sachusetts. 7. Warm-blooded. 8. The wife of Abraham Lin coln. 9. Brooklyn Bridge. 10. Frank Sinatra. I Watchword It's a little late, perhaps, for New Year's reso lutions. But it's never too late for good ideas and good thoughts. Therefore, we reprint a quotation from the noted architect and city planner, Daniel Burn ham, which we found in The Argus, weekly pub lication of public affairs in Seattle: A NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION For All Men Who Are Leaders in Civic Affairs "Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that -a noble, logical dia gram, once recorded, will never die but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be Order and your beacon, Beauty." We commend this resolution to city and coun ty officials, members of boards and commissions, and all others who serve the public, in this first year of a new decade a decade which will call for imagination and thought and work if this area is to fulfill its potential. "Let your watchword con, Beauty." E.A. Tugman "Retires" We (that's the "editorial we," meaning the writer of this piece) cannot recall a time when Bill Tugman wasn't somewhere around, writing vigorous editorials, and flailing the dickens out of anyone standing m A list of his achievements and services to the people of Eugene, of Lane county, of the Gardi- ner-Reedsport area of the Lower Umpqua, and of the state as a whole, would never fit within this column, even in small type. He has been, and still is, one of the state s distinguished citizens. DUT WILLIAM M. TUGMAN has retired. He has sold the little weekly newspaper, the Port Umpqua Courier, which he bought several years ago to run while "in retirement," after eavmg the editorship ot Guard, a position he filled with distinction for many years. As he indicated m his spirit is willing but the conserve his strength. His retirement is a loss to Oregon lournalism. But, in his other spheres plans to remain active. And these are many. DILL TUGMAN is a man, with a twitching, somewhat scraggly mustache, and eyebrows which rival those of Wayne Morse or John L. Lewis. We still cherish our earliest memory of him sprawled comfortably on a couch in our fam ily home, slowly, almost drawlinglv, discoursing on higher education, highways, parks, and a doz en other subjects which his encyclopedic mind found of interest. His interest in everything and anything of significance has persisted He is also the one Register-Guard's masthead the statement that "a newspaper is a citizen of its community" a statement the R-G still carries proudly there, and one which is proloundly llTTH THE death recently of Robert W. Saw yer of Bend, and with the retirement of Bill Tugman, Oregon's newspaper fraternity has lost two of its most respected members. We are profoundly loss is in that field only, and that he'll be around many more years, working for more parks, bet ter roads, a higher standard of political honesty, and boosting Oregon and the Lower Umpqua for I all they're worth. E.A. Disaster Planning Police agencies and fire departments are our first line of defense in disasters. But in a major disaster, such as the one which blew a good part of Roseburg off the map last August, they will need help. And, it appears, help would be forthcoming, both from official agencies, and non-go vemmen tal sources. A conference on just such a. problem last week revealed that about the only thing which is needed is (a) a table of organization to show who would be in over-all charge during a major disaster, and (b) a mutual understanding of he roles the various agencies would play, and whose orders they would take. MO ONE can say what would happen in the event of a disaster, for such are, by definition, almost always unexpected and unpredictable. . But last week's conference showed that police and firemen, civil defense personnel, communi cations people, the Red Cross, utility executives, city and county public works agencies, the Na tional Guard, have all given thought to their roles if disaster should strike. We pray nothing of the kind ever happens. But if it does, there is assurance that a lot of peo ple will know exactly what to do and how to do it What is still lacking is a plan for centralized direction and responsibility. E.A. and Beacon be Order and your bea the way of progress. the Eugene Kegister- farewell editorial, The flesh is weak." He has to of activity, Bill Tugman lean, almost cadaverous throughout the years. who first placed on the true. grateful that Tubman's Dennis the 6ee wmz; Do I take youR pipe to&cco ? 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 initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to 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 case. Rain, Dams and Fishing To the Editor: What a lifter upper is the gusty beat on roof and window-pane by the "good gray rain," as Ben Hur Lampman of the Oregonian used to so beautifully weave it into singing words. Yes, the good gray rain, the first soak er since last March 30, has re newed hope, and hope is but a prayer that the atheist, if such there really be, must ad mit has smoothed away the worried wrinkles from many a brow here in southern Ore gon and down across the bor der California way. "But why worry at all?" has been the querulous question. What can you do -about it? Admittedly very little. But this drywell, no stock-water drouth, does give us a most grim measuring stick that rightly admitted and used can resolve the time-consuming differences in uses of Rogue River water, its waters now too late to welcome the wait ing salmon to their spawning beds upstream. With a high dam at Lewis creek holding back cool sur plus waters, some could be released at the proper time to bring the steelhead and sal mon upstream, and thus pre serve their annual cycle run. Surely, with knowledge gain ed of space travel and nuclear war sufficient to make life im possible here on earth, a sim ple device could be contrived to lift the frustrated salmon below the dam to freedom above. But an organized, stubborn minority blocked the building of the Lewis dam, quite the same as an organized stub born minority of construction engineers with union strike power delayed the Talent project a full year, leaving Emigrant dam unfinished and low-level water runoff lost. The same 'sportsmen' resist ance was used at TVA Muscle Shoals dam site. But a lucky quirk in Congressional horse- trading got the dam built, and now for a 50-cent price, for yearly license, the holder can fish at the dam, above the dam, below the dam or any other dam place on the long TVA watercourse, catching all the fish he can lug home. And may we add, with ed itorial indulgence, that no such fishing has been had hereabout within memory of the oldest inhabitants. F. J. Clifford, Route 2, Box 200F, Central Point, Ore. Panther Story To the Editor: One of our former old prospecting and mining friends told me that some 60 years ago now, while hunting in the "Fiddlers Gulch" area two miles south of Rogue river he had an es capade with a big cougar. This was the way it all happened: Instead of walking around a long cluster of manzanita bushes, he and his smaU track ing dog meandered under neath the bushes on a varmint trail. About half way through, a big panther that evidently had been asleep jumped over him and the dog. He said he never did know which were the more startled. He was carrying the muzzle end of his rifle backwards and the whole incident only took seconds. The big cat dis appeared before the hunter could reverse- his gun and get aU set to shoot. Another time when he was only 17 years old a mother bear kept him up an oak tree for two hours over on Birds eye creek. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman St.;. . Medford. Menace Editorial "Appalling" To the Editor: Your editor ial in the Jan. 7 Mail Tribune was appalling-. You refused to meet Mr. Stone or to at tend any of his factual lec tures. Mr. Stone spent almost 16 years digging out these facts. You say, "Superficially, he makes a logical case." If you had attended any of his lectures, or had taken the trouble to discuss with him personally, you would have realized the merit of Mr. Stone's proposed 23rd amend ment to the federal constitu tion. Another quote, "This ut terly wild-hair notion," was endorsed by two Democratic states, Wyoming and Texas, with Democratic governors and legislatures. Would they have approved any "wild-hair notions"? Many of the finest people of this community took the time and effort to hear Mr. Stone, and your statement that this proposal is "Silly? Absurd? Asinine? Unthinkable?" is a reflection upon their intelli gence. Many of those who attended said it was the most powerful and enlightening discussion on a national question they had ever heard. This state ment could be made because so much of the real truth of our news is withheld by the news services and its editors. Mrs. G. S. Jennings, . 218 Saginaw dr., Medford. ' Mrs. E. M. Wallin, 2109 E. Main st., Medford. Editor's note: Mr. Stone could not have convinced us personally, if he could not do so in writing. The "meat of the coconut" is not in what he said; it is in the proposed amendment itself, and in what it would do to this country. From Forester To the Editor: I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and your staff for another year of excellent co operation. The year 1959 was one of the toughest fire seasons that we have encountered". This re sulted in a great deal of ac tivity to be reported to the public. We, as a public agency, feel the public should be in formed of our activities at all times. Without your help we could not do this. Due to the extreme pres sure of fire activity, we realize that it was sometimes quite difficult for members of your staff to contact one of us and get the complete story in time to go to press. Through it all you were most patient and kind; and we are most grate ful to you. Curtis Nesheim, District Warden State Department of Forestry Table Rock rd., Medford. Taxi Fares To the Editor: In order to clarify some misunderstand ing regarding increased taxi fares we wish to express the foUowing facts: During the hours of dark ness on the nights of Dec. 18 and 19, fares to outlying dis tricts were increased and va ried from 25c. to a: dollar. Those districts having few street - lights and no yellow lines down the middle of the road or curbs had the great est increase. . , Dec. 18 and 19 the U. S. Weather Bureau recorded ze ro visibility during the hours in question. ' ' . Runs that normally would take 8 to 12 minutes would take 26 to 35 minutes. To the best of our knowl edge all fares were notified Matter of Fact EISENHOWER'S QUEST Washington - The Presi dent's message to Congress merely c o n firms his pre v i o u s an nouncem e n t. "The quest for p e a c e," in his own phrase, is to be the grand theme of the last Eisenhow- joseph alsop er J'ear 111 the White House. But what kind of peace is the President -seeking, on what terms, and with whom? These uncomfortable ques tions are rather insistently raised by the peculiarities of the Administration's handling of the disarmament problem. Here is the peace problem, after all, which everyone agrees is absolutely central. Here is a problem, too, which representatives of the Eisen hower administration have been continuously discussing since the first meeting at the summit in Geneva. It might have been supposed that the Administration must know its own mind about disarmament, after talking about it in the United Nations, in negotia tions with the Soviets and elsewhere, from 1955 onward. BUT IN July, 1959, when the oncoming visit of Ni kita S. Khrushchev gave re newed urgency to disarma ment, the President appointed a new commission headed by the distinguished Boston law yer, Charles A. Coolidge, to study the disarmament prob lem and come up with a solu tion. At the Paris meetings of the NTAO Council and the Western heads of government, disarmament was barred from the agenda by the American participants, on the specific ground that they would not know what to say about it un til the Coolidge Commission had reported. Now, at last, the Coolidge Commission has re ported. After comment and perhaps amendation by the Defense and State Departments, the re port will go to the National Security Council. There, by the middle of this month, the NSC's majestic machinery will turn out a final "position before entering the cab or told when calling by telephone ex actly what the fare would be. Your taxi-cab driver works on a commission basis there fore, we are sure that most folks would not want or ex pect the driver to work under these extreme hazardous con ditions and not receive a fair return for his night's work. Many, many people have expressed their gratitude that we continued to operate dur ing these two nights. In answer to several tele phone inquiries, there has been no general increase in taxi fares. Food for thought for those who were critical of the in crease for two nights-the peo ple of Medford enjoy the low est taxi fares on the West Coast. Yellow Cab Company By Carl F. Kellenberger 145 North Central Ave. Medford Two Suggestions To the Editor: Here is a suggestion for each of two cur rent local problems: The first one is for City San itary Service. Why not get property for a sanitary fill on Roxy Ann? It could be hidden from the road and be far from any habitation. I believe Roxy Ann is made of earth and it might be the right type. . The second suggestion is for the Mail Tribune. I'm glad you mentioned the water shortage in your news columns and thus started it raining. Now I feel it behooves you to edi torialize as to just what and where we need in precipita tion. Thus you will continue your record of guidance to this area. Veldon J. Diment, , 213 Portland ave., . Medford. Move the Locomotive To the Editor: Saturday, Jan. 15, as I understand it, is the deadline for the park committee to give its report on the Jackson park loco motive. Let's hope they have really looked at it in the eyes of the residents so closely involved. Have they asked themselves how they would like to look from their front room window each day, or many times a day, and see nothing but the Big Black Iron Horse"? Granted, we do not live in an exclusive residential area, but after all, it is our home and we had planned on living here for some time. Now it looks as if we'll be here from now on, as who would buy a home with a locomotive parked in their front yard? Please, Mr. and Mrs. Park Committee, vote for the train being moved to another part of the park so we may enjoy the view too. Mrs. E. L. Pidcock, 744 West McAndrews rd., Medford. Bv Joseph Alsop paper." Thus the govern ment's mind will be finally and unequivocally made up. Secretary of State Christian Herter, and the hew Ameri can representative on the ten- nation Disarmament Commis sion, Frederick Eaton, and the President himself at the sum mit, will then be ready to talk about disarmament with full self-confidence. A LL this seems odd enough. It is still more odd that all these voices of the United States, while able to talk about disarmament, are not likely to be able to talk about a great deal of disarmament. This is indicated, at any rate, by what transpired in the Coolidge Commission. The Commission was re quired to come up with some thing "constructive," so that the United States could "take the lead." But almost every influence within the Adminis tration also discouraged the Commission from tackling the real core of the disarmament problem. This is, of course, nuclear disarmament. There were two reason for this. The most important rea son was the prevailing theory, largely originating in budget mania, that the Western na tions are morally, politically, and above all economically powerless to stand up to the "hordes" of Russians and Chi nese, if both sides are depriv ed of nuclear weapons. No one has explained why the West ern nations, which used to maintain large conventional forces, have become so inca pable of doing so today. But this is accepted Administra tion doctrine. The difficulty of nuclear control, even if centered on the means of delivery, was the other reason why a plan of nuclear disarmament was not attempted. Obviously, rea son two gained great added force from reason one above Together, they left the Cool idge Commission under the necessity of adopting the su perficial approach to the dis armament problem. This is Today & By Walter INGLORIOUS ENDING The steel strike has been called off in a way which leaves the public without any means oi de ter mining whether the result is just or unjust, wise or un wise. It is evi dent that the companies lost the c r i lr a Tint Lippmann there does not exist any impartial and de pendable report on the issues which enables anyone, from the President down to know whether the companies have conceded more than they could afford to concede. For the President has steadfastly refused to countenance offi cial fact-finding as the basis for a settlement. As a result, no one really knows what the Nixon-Mitchell settlement means. , The President, so he said last July, has been acting on the notion that there must be no government intervention because "we have got thor oughly to test out and use the method of free bargaining." We have now had the test What happened in the test? What happened was that the government intervened m the person of the Vice Presi dent. He used the carrot for the union and the stick for the companies. He coerced the companies into yielding not all but most of what the union was fighting for. More over, it would appear, he in duced them to agree that they will not raise steel prices at least until after the election. The strike was not settled by "free bargaining." It was settled by a political fix. rpHE PRESIDENT, whose -- mind has no doubt been on other things, seems never to have realized that in this struggle the process of free bargaining was exhausted very early in the day-almost certainly by July when the strike actually began. It was evident from the beginning that the two great monopolies were committed to a test of power, not to a process of bargaining. The test was which of them could hold out the , longer against the other. In July when the strike be gan there were reasons for thinking that the companies were stronger. Their custom ers had large stockpiles. La bor unions were unpopular as a result of the McClellan exposures. The public was op posed - fo another round of wage-price increases. And there was some question whe ther Mr. McDonald was in solid control of his union. But as time went on the balance of power began to favor the union, chiefly be cause, I imagine, it was in creasingly evident that if Con- ?TlUeC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Sometimes we wish we had one of those tiny tape re corders which can be used without anyone knowing about it. If we did, we'd hide it in the newsroom some Friday known as "testing Russian bona fides," by trying out just a tiny bit of disarmament as a start. rpHE FIRST test considered was Gen. Lauris Norstad's plan for a common Soviet Western warning and inspec tion system in Central Eu r o p e. Some reductions of troop strength were added to give the Norstad plan a dis armament flavor. It was then pointed out, however, that this was only thin-out under another name. At these grim words other tests were sought. The test of good faith now recommended is reported to be a general, controlled reduction of nu merical troop strength by the Soviet Union, the United States and their allies. In any case, the plan with which the United States is supposed to take the lead" seems all but certain to be cumbersome without being very bold. But if we dare not lead! boldly, why pretend to lead at all, except for political-advertising purposes? Why not say to Khrushchev that we want disarmament just as much as he does, but how does he propose to go about it m detail? And u we can not consider nuclear disarma ment, where is the quest for peace supposed to end? In these circumstances, is it not more important to seek ways to close the missile gap? It may be crude to raise these points, yet they are points of substance, (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. - Tomorrow Lippmann gress had to intervene to set tle the strike, it would not be very tender with the com panies. It is significant that the Nixon-Mitchell interven tion succeeded because they were' able to threaten the companies with the certainty of Congressional, action. CJO WE have come to a crude and embarrassing ending to an inglorious and misman aged policy. I have reason to know that it is denied in of ficial quarters that the strike could have been settled any earlier. But I think it is argu able from the record that a settlement on the Nixon Mitchell terms could have been had at any time. All that was required was to give labor the carrot of the con cessions and then to do to the companies what. Mr. Nix on did to them, to use the big stick of a threat of special legislation in Congress lead ing to some kind of compul sory arbitration. If the President had real ized that the period of free bargaining had ended even before the strike began, the second strike could have been handled by measures which were rational, which protect ed the public interest, and en lightened public opinion. By July there should have been an official fact-finding report on the issues and official rec ommendations for the settle ment. When that report had been debated, and a predomi nant public opinion had been formed about it, the next step would have been to enforce the findings by calling on Congress to grant the power to do so. . Presumably, it would not have been necessary to go as far as to call Congress into special session or to use the powers if Congress were called and the powers were granted. The Nixon-Mitchell deal shows that the threat to do all these things would probably have been sufficient. IN ACTING in, this fashion the Administration would have stood on the solid basis of an impartial report, and this report would have had to deal with the crucial ques tion that Mr. Nixon has left up in the air. ,This question is whether or not the concessions to labor are inflationary in that they justify and require a rise in steel prices. If the report had found that the concessions were inflationary but that smaller concessions would not be,-the union would have been forced by the threat of compulsory arbitration to ac cept the lower terms. All in all, we can be glad that the strike is not to be resumed. But there is nothing else to be glad about, (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. . (that's the only time when the news staff in full is usually here) and record some of the conversations. Here is a partial list of the subjects which were dis cussed, more or less, this past Friday, amid the clatter of typewriters: 1. Oysters. 2. Scallops. 3. Peanut brittle. 4. Coffee. 5. Poker. 6. Diets. 7. Children. 8. The 2 3rd amendment (proposed). 9. Certain other pers. newspa- 10. How long the "lead" to a story should be. 11. Style in newswriting. 12. Weather. 13. 10-year-old Mail Trib unes. (On January 11, 1950, the paper carried a picture of some airplanes which had been turned upside-down by guests of wind. Several hun dred copies of that edition were printed before it was discovered that the picture was put in the page upside down, thus making the planes right-side-up. This incident has a certain notoriety in the newsroom.) 14. The temperature inside and out. 15. The poetry of T. S. El liott and e.e. cummines. 16. Colds (the common va riety). 17. Radio programs. 18. .The problems of local hospitals. 19. The problems of local irrigation districts. 20. Some things about man aging editors (Ha! They didn't know this one was over heard!). 21. Sports cars. 22. Vacations. 23. The people who write letters to the editor (general ly favorable). 24. Time-copy and overset (this is purely shop-talk). And so on. The amazing thing is that so much work gets done. But it does, somehow. And life would be far less interesting for everyone involved if it weren't for some of these dis cussions. There are only 305 shop ping days until Christmas. There is a theory about the 'power of the press," and whether or not it is really powerful or not, and how, depends on who's talking. Now, however, we have learned about another power ful influence in society, the clergy. To prove our point, we quote from "The Church man," the publication of the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon, as follows: There comes a time when the church must stand up against our secular society. The clergy at St. Mark's, avid fans of the Medford High School Black Tornado foot ball team, had planned all season to attend the champi onship game in Portland. The week before the game was to be played a petition was sent by "several" citi zens in Medford complaining about the game being sched uled in Portland on Friday night, claiming that a Satur day night game would enable more Medford people to at tend. The argument was that the Friday night game would take people away from their work. Many church people would be affected by the change to Saturday night, to say noth ing of the clergy. After sev eral long distance telephone calls, and a telegram from members of the Medford Min isterial Association, the "pow ers that be" decided to keep the game on Friday night. The Church Triumphant, in cluding the clergy, enjoyed watching the Black Tornado beat Jefferson High school of Portland. We have a faint suspicion that there's more to the fol lowing verse than meets the eye. We think, but we're not sure, it was writ ten as a commentary on the actions of certain people now active in politics. Any way, here it is: "Women, Women; "What a blessing - "They show their sex "Without undressing!" And, finally, here is a com ment on New Years, presum ably written the morning af ter New Year's Eve: The Old is out, without a doubt. The New is here to stay, Until it too will rendezvouz With years now passed away. Ahead of us, 'midst joy and fuss We'll wait New Years to come Shrug old ones off, greet new ones in. ' Ho Hum! They're bother some. "