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Newspaper Page TextK MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Sunday, Jan. 24, 1960 "Bveryone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 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 STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. ' "enlx. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv- .le.nt and on motor routes. Dai' - id Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily . 3. Sunday 1 mo.- 1.50 Carrier i-ad Dealers copy 10c All Tei Cash In Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jacfaon County United Press International Full Leased Wire UJ.I. Telephoto Newspictures '" MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. S?. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL lASfsbWATlolr. W W rTHfKMISimraj Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO . Jan. 24. 1950 (Tuesday) President Truman calls for Increase in tax levies on cor porations, gifts, and estates in budget message, which will - raise government revenue by . estimated $1 billion. Medford Center building officially changed its name to the Medical Center building; t structure is being remodeled. " 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 24. 1940 (Wednesday) . Good progress reported made on Rogue river diver- - sion dam near Gold Hill; after conmletion next month, a power plant will be built nearby for a cement com pany. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A . committee is now adding up figures to determine what the depression has cost the coun try. Whatever it is, it hasn't been worth it." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 24. 1930 (Friday) State Grange backs plans for a lieutenant-governor for Oregon. "Diamond swindle" opera tors have been visiting city, with poor results so far, ac cording to city police. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 24, 1920 (Sunday) Local barbers say they have no intentions of boosting price of shaves and haircuts to 35 cents and 75 cents re spectively. Mary Pickford stars in "The Hoodlum," now at the Page theater. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 24. 1910 (Monday) Petitions being distributed asking for the recall of Ash land's Mavor Snell and to have the city record inpected; scandal is brewing. The Medford Commercial club will entertain at annual "high jinks," Tuesday in the opera house. What's Your I.Q.? U:.. . correct tuDerior; seven or eight is excellent; five er tis is good. 1. What is the beam of a ship? 2. Can objects be seen clear ly through a translucent body? 3. Italy is a constitutional monarchy; true or false? 4. Are there any States of the United States in which snow has never fallen? 5. What product does the hevea tree yield? 6. Does the city of Chicago have a subway system? 7. Which of these is not a monetary unit: rupee, rouble, peso, rondo? 8. In what sport are clay pigeons usedr 9. "Hand" is a unit of meas urement of what animal? 10. Which colonial settle ment was earlier: that a Plymouth, Mass., or at James town, Va.? . Answers: 1. Width of vessel at widest point. 2. No. 3. False (republic). 4. No. 5. Rubber. 6. Yes. 7. Rondo. 8. Skeet and trapshooiing. 9. The horse. 10. Jamestown. - On National Values At the risk of becoming tiresomely repeti tious we would like, once again, to call attention to Walter Lippmann's column today. Mr. Lippmann is concerned, and we think rightfully so, about the self-satisfied, complacent, flabby, sanctimonious, conforming attitude so prevalent today. America today is becoming a rather terrify ing latter-day Rome eating, drinking, sleeping and playing while the Barbarians gather their forces and muster their strength. "117E DO NOT believe this nation is in imminent T danger of destruction from without al though with every day that passes that danger comes closer. But we are a bit fearful that too many people in this country simply don't care about pur na tional direction, our 'national purpose, our na tional morale. It is a matter of values. If we, as a nation, believe that right is right, and wrong is wrong, if we believe that we are, in truth, our brothers' keepers, and care enough to make our beliefs known through the political machineiy which is ours, we'll have little to fear. But if our beliefs and our convictions are not strong enough to worry us, then we're headed for trouble. E.A. Speed and First Aid There may be an attempt during next year's legislative session to repeal a 1959 law which requires ambulances to obey all traffic rules, and does not permit them to use siren and red light to shoo other traffic out of the way. If such an attempt is made, it most probably will be defeated. And if this happens, it probably will be because the medical profession approves the new law, and would oppose its repeal. Physicians, of course, are in a good position to know whether speed allowed ambulances as emergency vehicles is more important, in the long run, than the danger created by such speed. rR. LOUIS FEVES, president of the Oregon State Medical society, recently wrote a long letter to all newspaper editors in the state, in which he set forth the society's detailed reasons for liking the new regulation. The consensus of the there is more hazard from speeding ambulances than there is from any patients to hospitals. And Dr. Feves put his finger on the crux of the matter when he said that on-the-spot first aid-treatment is far more important in saving life than "speeding to the hospital, endangering the patient and others in the process." This, coupled with advance warning to hos pitals of emergency cases on route, and exchang able stretchers so patients won't have to be un necessarily jostied, constitutes the doctors' rec ommendations. E.A. Finish the Armory The man who brought the Harlem Globetrot ters to town last week told us (with anguish in his voice) that he had to turn some 2,000 people away because there wasn't room for them in the Hednck Junior High school gymnasium. He said the total paid attendance was 1827, and that every available seat was filled. And he added that this proves that Medford will turn out to see a top-flight attraction. TTHIS brings to mind a few questions: What about the Medford armory? Wasn't it design ed to be a multi-purpose building? Didn't both county and city pour tax funds totaling $100,000 into its construction with the definite understand ing that it would be available for such purposes? It appears that it COULD be so used except for the fact that it has only some 500 folding chairs available, far from enough for the kind of crowd which turned out to see the Globetrot ters, more than half of whom were disappointed. Putting that much tax money into an armory, and then not finishing it to a point where it can accommodate the people who paid for it, seems short sighted. FOLDING bleachers, of the type in use at Hed- rick, would make the armory usable for a variety of events. Improving the acoustics (long discussed, but not much done) would make it suitable to many kinds of events not only sports, but also those of a cultural nature, for which the public appetite is growing, and for large conventions. The latter purpose was one of those cited in "selling" con struction of the armory. ' . The armory is easily reached from any direc tion, and has large parking areas available more than any other facility which can seat large crowds. THE fact that the armory was designed for such events is shown in the fact that the floor is marked out in a basketball court. The fact that it hasn't been completed is shown by the fact that there are no backstops and baskets. Even the National Guard team has to play elsewhere. Medford is now a large enough town, and the center of a large enough population, to house attractions which have a large audience poten tial. (People drove from as far away as Yreka and Roseburg to see the Globetrotters.) We understand it is the state's responsibility to finish the job. It should be done and soon. E.A. state s physicians is that brief delay m getting Dennis the - 0.Tfe)WtL,Sffi'g.C.TAfg '-2-3 'WbvV-' it supe sWfsysm HER TO -VEIL AT MB WHEN SHE Matter of Fact KENNEDY'S BIG GAMBLE : Washington - Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts has now staked his Presidential candidacy on the chancy Wisconsin pri mary, where his chief op ponent will be Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota. This gamble of Kennedy's Joseph alsop is much more remarkable than most people suppose. Its background story casts much light on the char acter of the man who made it. The cold, even grim calcu lations that led to the gamble also explain the seemingly disproportionate importance of the oncoming struggle in Minnesota. For Senator Kennedy, in the first place, it must be un derstood that the Wisconsin primary involves very grave and painful risks. In order to judge the risks accurately, he has ordered repeated polls of the state by the well-known opinion tester, Louis Harris. The most recent Harris poll, completed about a fortnight ago, was taken "in depth" with an extra large sample. Its results show what the risks are. ; On the one hand, in a state wide test of the preferences of Wisconsin Democratic vot ers, Kennedy beat Humphrey by 53.5 per cent to 46.5 per cent.-Thus Kennedy apparent ly has a slight edge over Humphrey in the contest for Wisconsin's 10 delegates-at-large, who are chosen by a statewide popular majority. ON the other hand, Humph rey has a slight edge on Kennedy in the contest for Wisconsin's 20 remaining delegates, who are elected, two to a district, by the state's 10 Congressional districts. Kennedy has a commanding lead in only three districts. Humphrey also has a com manding lead in three dis tricts, plus a narrow lead in a fourth district. The remain ing three districts could swing either way. It can . be seen, then, why Kennedy himself has frankly described Wis consin as "no better than a 50-50 bet." Meanwhile, Kennedy has a good chance for the Demo cratic nomination in any case, while Humphrey has the slim mest imaginable chance. Sev eral of the men around Ken nedy therefore opposed a contest ; with . Humphrey, in a state with peculiarities that favor Humphrey, and at no better than even odds. One of these was the Sen ator's brother, Robert. An other was the head of his personal staff, Theodore Sor enson, who was only convert ed to the Wisconsin gamble last week end, after long and prayerful study of the polls and other evidence. - - TIE other evidence in ques tion chiefly concerned Ken nedy's prospects in such states as Illinois and New York. In Illinois, in brief, Kennedy has high hopes of support from Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, whose choice will guide three-quarters of the 81 Illinois delegates. But Daley is .still waiting for the results in Wisconsin and the final words from Adlai Stev enson, who is also, quite clearly, waiting for the re sults in. Wisconsin. In New York, foo, Kennedy already has the support of certain great local barons like the Buffalo leader, Peter Crotty, the Bronx chieftain, Charles Buckley, and the O'Connells in Albany. But victory in Wisconsin can be expected to give Kennedy something even better the lion's share of New York's 114 delegates. These facts were what chiefly impressed the two most active pro-Kennedy professional politicians, Connecticut's Gov. Abraham Menace ttes. Alusoh's voctoz TOLO FEELS LIKE IT By Joseph Alsop Ribicoff and State Chairman John Bailey. "It's your decision, Jack, and you've got to make it alone,"- Governor Ribicoff told Kennedy, . after giving the arguments for the Wiscon sin gamble. pHARAC TERISTICALLY, this is precisely what Ken nedy finally did, after the coolest assessment of the odds: On the one hand, he noted, a win in Wisconsin would virtually insure the break-throughs in Illinois, New York, and other states, which would in turn insure his nomination. On the other hand, he considered that he had decidedly less than an even chance to be nominated without a win in Wisconsin. With the odds in Wisconsin quoted at 50-50, that made the primary there the best gamble open to him. So he gave his decision last Monday: "I guess we'll give it a try, and it will be a damned hard try." It is not quite an all or nothing try that Kennedy is making. With a pointed re minder to Sen. Stuart Sy mington of Missouri that Ne braska is just across his bor der, Kennedy is also, enter ing the Nebraska primary. The filing date for the Cali fornia primary is on March 7; and by then the trend in Wis consin will show whether Kennedy ought to attempt another, last chance, double-or-quits gamble on the West Coast. But Kennedy can suf fer a sharp setback in Wis consin, all the same; and there is something rather formid able in the way he has decid ed to risk so much, in order to gain so much. . (Copyright 1960 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) In ihe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Today's headline news, at the hour when this is written: Another airliner crashes Russia fires a missile into the Pacific, which is probably de signed to say to us: "We could have fired it at YOU just as easily" . Senator Kennedy says he'll buck the Humphrey tiger in the Wisconsin pri mary election other assort ed politics the daily pepper and salt dash of scandal, from Las Vegas, Hollywood and way points. HMMMMMM. Let's fall back on the commonplace. And- What could be more com monplace than taxes? QUESTION: Where will Uncle Sam get the budeet dollar with which to pay the bills called for by the next budget? He has four sources to draw on. Individual income taxes will provide 52 cents of it. Corooration taxes will pro vide 28 cents. Excise taxes (an other name for sales tax) will produce 11 cents. Nine cents will come from "other reve nues." NOTE, please that 52 cents of every dollar the federal government spends will come out of your pocket and the pockets of 180 million otner individuals in this country. THE thought will occur to you, of course, that a LOT of it will come from the pock ets of the filthy rich - those whose incomes are so swollen that Uncle S takes 91 cents out of each net dollar they get., That's true enough, but there are comparatively FEW of these filthy rich. If our old uncle took EVERY DOLLAR these superlatively well heel ed ones get, it would amount to only a mere drop in the bucket. The bulk of the mon ey our admittedly extravagant federal government gets out of individual income taxes (which account for 52 per cent Today & Tomorrow By Walter A SATISFIED NATION With the Economic Report, which has just been trans mitted to Congress, the Presi dent has com pleted what was begun in the address on the State of the Union and the message accompanying the Budget. He has de scribed our situation as he sees it. He has outlined his program. And he has sketched in his general ideas. All js well in that the government will ask nothing more of the people, and there is a prospect that it will ask less. , -For it is -the. President's view that the country is se cure. It is prosperous. And in sofar as it is challenged by the rise of the Soviet Union, the country can rest assured and tranquil that because of our devotion to individual lib erty we are destined to win the competition. IS ALL this self-satisfaction justified? Are we entitled to do what these three mes sages unite in telling us to do? Are we entitled to concen trate our energies on our pri vate affairs, confident that our national interests are se cure and well taken care of? For myself I do not think so. I think the President's satisfaction with our situation is based on a short and a small view of the historic competition in which we are challenged. His view of the Soviet chal lenge is short and small be cause he does not distinguish between private prosperity, measured in the total produc tion of goods and services for private use, and national pow er, which is measured not on ly in terms of armaments but also in terms of wealth di rected to education, to public health,, to the conservation and development of the natu ral and the man-made resourc es of this country. What is happening is that under the leadership of the President we are promoting private prosperity at the ex pense of national power. As a result the influence of the United States as a world pow er is declining. That is why a growing number among us do not share the President s satis faction and" are worried about the future. GIVEN our situation in the world today, these three messages betray a dangerous complacency. "This complacency derives from the deep fallacy of be lieving that in an era of cold war it should be the policy of the national government "to reduce the share of the na tional income which is spent by the government." This fal lacy can best be understood in the light of some testimony given a year ago by the chair man of the President's Coun cil of Economic Advisors. "As I understand an economy," he said, "its ultimate purpose is to produce more consumer goods. This is the object of everything we are working at: to produce things for consum ers." Then the chairman went on to say that "if you take total gross national production, you find that growth in recent years has lagged. But if you look at consumption - the thing which, as I say, I re gard myself as being commis sioned to maximize you find that we are doing better." . THERE precisely is the root of our trouble. Our goal is to maximize consumption. That is a very low national goal, and altogether unworthy of a great nation which has a great part to play in human affairs. The object of our economy is not to become fat of the federal government's income) comes out of the pockets of what we commonly refer to as the COMMON peo ple. PRESIDENT Lincoln, who was one of our great phrase-makers, is alleged to have dreamed one night that he was in a crowd when some one recognized him as the President and exclaimed in surprise: "Why, he looks like a very common man!" Whereupon, according to the dream, Mr. Lincoln an swered: "Friend, the Lord loves common people. That is the reason he makes so many of them." OUR OLD Uncle loves com mon people, too. He loves them because there are so MANY OF THEM TO TAX. IN CONCLUSION, one more question: Why are taxes so high? The answer is simple: BE CAUSE GOVERNMENT SPENDS SO MUCH. As long as government spends too much, taxes will be too high. Walter LlDDmann Lippmann with consumer goods. It is to use the wealth and the power which the economy can pro duce to support the national purposes which we so fre quently proclaim. There is nothing very con vincing or inspiring in loving our "liberty" to enjoy con sumer goods so much that we cannot afford to educate our children. If we really believe in the ideals and the spiritual aims about which so much is. said, we have something else to do besides maximizing the enjoyment of consumer goods. r E MOST vocal criticism of the current official satis faction has come from those who believe that we are fall ing behind in the race of arma ments. To this criticism the new Secretary of Defense, Mr. Gates, and the Chiefs of Staff are now replying. They are replying to the critics who have over-simplified and over dramatized the situation and are arguing that within a few years the Soviet Union will be able to devastate and knock out this country. There is no reason to doubt that the Administration is right when it replies that the Soviet Union does not have and is not likely to achieve such military supremacy over us that an all-out attack would be undertaken. But Mr. Gates is dealing with a straw man. The soberer criticism is much more formidable. It prophe sies no catastrophe. But it says that the rate of the rise of Soviet military capacity in conventional as well as nu clear capability appears to be greater than our own, and that the Soviet Union appears to be administering more ef ficiently than we do the re sources of the new and revo lutionary military technology That does not portend doomsday in 1963. But it does portend a rise in the world power of the Soviet Union and a corresponding decline of our own. No doubt that will not wor ry us too much if we can keep our mmas nxea on consumer goods. (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear althouah under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initia for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for Dublication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the In Other's Shoes To the Editor: That loco motive doesn't bother me a bit. Why should it? I don' happen to live on McAndrews rd. It affects me only in this resDect. that I disagree en tirely with any action taken by city representatives that completely disregards the rights of others. In my opin ion, this is what happened when they placed it in its present location without first asking the affected property owners how they felt about it. Mrs. Pidcock put it in nutshell when she said, if it were in front of any one of the commission members homes it would be a different story. But, of course, we all know this wouldn't happen in the first place. I only hope I don't live m a city where men have for gotten how to put themselves in the other person s shoes. Mrs. Leonard Matheus. 1124 West 10th st. Medford. Mist the Issue To the Editor: The letters concerning the proposed 23rd Amendment, both pro and con, ignore tne main oasis for the argument. The writers fail to note the issue - one world in peace under one leader, vs. individual freedom and unconcern for the State. In 1797 George Washing ton advised America to let Europe have its fights and stay out of them. This advice was followed until 1917. It was good advice. When Amer ica ignored it, the Old Order went by the boards. The groundwork for this was laid in Paris in 1889 when the Second International started what is wurld Socialism to day. This is not Communism, but the aims are the same heaven on earth through State Planning. The 16th Amendment has financed this in America. It was really the end of Ameri ca as it was conceived. The men who argue for One World today call this evolu tion. They claim society has changed, and with it went the old ideals and codes. Now we must plan a new perfect social order and control our evolution to create a super breed of man to build the new society which will end war and usher in the millenium. You can read it in reports of so-called scientific meetings in the paper almost daily. I am not for the 23rd GOTLUCCC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) This page has received (be lieve it or not) a request that nicture of the guy who wrues editorials be printed. We can't comply at the moment, but we CAN print picture which he swears isn't a good likeness, either as to appearance or as to sentiment. Here it is: A cast of "gross discrim ination" (and segregation, too, for that matter) was reported indignantly to the newsroom last week. The informant told us that at a Southern Oregon college building there are two rooms, one labled "Gentle men," the other labled "Wo men." The r p o r t was made (of course) by a-er-lady. One of our reporters was a dinner guest at the home of a Drominent Medford tarn- ilv the other evening when politics, as it has a way oi doing, crept into the conver sation. "We're very democratic, said the couple's daughter Droudlv. "Father. Mother, my brother, and I are ;ul tor dU- ferent candidates." "Fine!" said your man en thusiastically. "Which one's for Nixon?" There was a dead silence for a few moments. Then the host replied, "You have the floor, young man.' Our reDorter. thinking rap idly, declined and turned his attention furiously to a plate full of fried chicken. Which goes Ip show, we suppose, that it's too bad the name and address of the writer, Amendment. It is too late for that. This country needs revolution. I expect to see it come from God Himself. He will throw the whole lot out on their ears, and run it His way, if the Bible is true. This is my only hope. Parker Bailey 542' A st. Ashland, Ore. Air Wells To the Editor: As reports of a coming water shortage are heard quite frequently f rom various sections locally. maybe a serious answer to the problem would be the installation of "air wells,! Dunt nice tne "dome" ones are in the great Sahara des ert of Egypt. A series of open end build ings containing air pipes could be installed on the upper end of Bear creek east of Ash land to the city limits of Medford. That would be tak ing the water right out the thin air, would it not, pro viding air wells really work in foreign lands, as we are led to believe. Bert Kissinger, : 520 Boardman st. Medford On Pension Threat To the editor: Why is it when Congress wants to econ omize, it is at tno expense of the old veterans? Congress never mentions the billions of dollars they throw away on foreign aid, to build dams in dry rivers, to build saw mills in coun tries without timber or pay Chinese soldiers a pension. They buy farmers' wheat, corn and butter, then let it spoil. They pay them to let their farms grow up to weeds. Congress gives ex-congressmen and ex-judges big pen sions, not to mention the $25, 000 pensions to ex-presidents, also $50,000 to hire their friends and relatives. But they cut the pension of the old war veteran that saved this country from the ravages of the enemy. : Veterans, look out for a bill that will cut your present pension next year. Don't wait and cry in your whiskers-do something now. If you don't know what to do, find out. ' Charles A. Kretschmer, 734 S.W. Burgess st, Grants Pass, Ore. Rynning's Ability To the Editor: I noted in the Mail Tribune that Mr. that the distinction between a capital "D" and a small "d" can't be discerned when people are speaking. Our favorite school publi cation (and one of our favor ites of ANY sort) is the Hoo ver HiLite. A copy arrived on the desk the other day, and we im mediately shoved aside a mess of work to peruse its sprightly columns. Our reading was rewarded, as always, with a number of choice items, two of which we shall pass along. One of them was written by Mark Teeters and Martin Brown, both of them mem bers of 4M, and both of them now studying science. It follows: "A hundred years, from now, man may find about ten new nlanett and mavbe fly to Pluto and far beyond the Solar System. Maybe all the stars have planets. At least it will be fun finding out." The other item we present is one of a number of "Win tertime health hints," all written by students in the third grade (3B to be pre cise). After a number of . items telling about dressing proper ly, going to bed if you have a cold, washing hands before eating, eating properly, get ting enough rest, and so on, we came across the advice offered by Alan Collins. He said: - "I will blow my nose gently so no germs can get in my ears." . As pointed out In this col umn last week, 1960 is a po litical year, and all sorts of sijly things are apt to hap pen. Now it so happens that our farm editor covered a Repub lican get-together the other night (and never you mind what HIS politics are). After doing this, he wrote us a note, which said: "I don't know if there's much the Democrats could teach the" Republicans. - But SOUTHERN Democrats could teach Jackson county Repub licans a thing or two about how to eat fried chicken. "At the country club the other night, everybody was picking away at their chick en with knife and fork, until one brave party member picked up a piece with his fingers. - "However, the elite of the party continued to show dig nity and decorum in pursu ing the friend viand around their plates. . "Eating fried chicken with knife and fork is like eating watermelon with chopsticks.,: We've never run for pub lic office, and don't plan to. But we. wonder what goes through the minds of o f f i e e-ieekers sometimes. Like when Paul Running walked up to Ralph James the other day, and said "Ralph, I've filed on the Republican ticket for your job." Speaking of politics, they sometimes get sort of rough at the county courthouse level. Which, one of our men ob serves, may account for the fact that the county court offices have been rearranged, with a large window looking out on the courthouse steps. 'An escape hatch?" he won dered. Paul Rynning, our ex-county engineer, has filed as candi date for county commissioner on the Republican ticket. Now, I have nothing against Mr. Rynning personally, but, hasn't he held public office long enough? Besides, I think we should have a younger man in office. In fact I favor legislation which would pro hibit any person holding pub lic office after their 65th birthday. As far as the qualifications of Mr. Rynning are concern ed, my opinion is: He is a little bit old-fashioned in regard to what constitutes a suitable road. If I thought for a minute I had the chance of a ,snow baU in the red hot stove (I had another expression in mind but figured the editor wouldn't print it) I'd run against him. At least, I couldn't do any worse than some former members of the county court, 'tis certain. Floyd R. McCabe, Mt. Pitt Star rt, Butte Falls, Ore.