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History from he files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Ftb. 21, 1950 (Tuesday)
The state department an
nounced today that U.S.-Bul-
earian diplomatic relations
have been broken because of
latter's charges that U.S. en
voy is conspiring against gov
ernment. Phoenix residents plan to
assist volunteer fire depart
ment in order to lower fire
Insurance rates in community
20 YEARS AGO
Fab. 21, 1940 (Wednesday)
Nineteen citizens bearing
petitions signed by 50 others
protest site of new garbage
dump approved by city only
two weeks ago. v
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Up
state reports say the visit of
Gov. Olson of California last
Saturday split the Democratic
party of Oregon into more
pieces than a cross-word puz
zle." 30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 21. 1930 (Friday)
New city booklet will give
data on water purity and
taste.
Chicago jobless riot and
battle with" police; many in
jured. 40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 21. 1920 (Sunday)
Local Methodists plan $150,
000 church at Main st. and
Oakdale ave., reputed to be
the finest between San Fran
cisco and Portland.
Birds in Hill orchards south
of town reportedly became
intoxicated from eating froz
en apples.
SO YEARS AGO
Feb. 21. 1910 (Monday)
Ashland in "throes" of first
recaU election; indications
are incumbent mayor will sur
vive by large majority.
Proposed $50,000 Southern
Pacific passenger depot will
be located at Fifth and Front
sts.; construction- to start
soon.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct it superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
lis is seed.
1. Who was thp nrinoinal
author of the Declaration of
Independence?
2. Was Mata Hari a noted
ballet dancer, an international
spy, or a Turkish politician?
3. In what city is the Rose
bowl football game played
each year?
4. What are the names of
the two houses of the British
Parliament.
5. In the poem, who was
Evangeline's fiance?
8. What city was the first
capital of the Confederate
States of America?
7. Are reptiles cold-blooded,
or warm-blooded?
8. Charles DeGaulle is
what in what country?
9. To what country does
Algeria belong?
10. Correct the following:
"The chief issued passes for
ne and I. .
Answers: 1. Thomas Jeffer
son. 2. International spy. 3.
Pasadena. Calif. 4. Houses of
Lords and Commons. 5. Ga
briel. 6. Montgomery, Ala. 7.
Cold-blooded. 8. President of
France. 9. France. 10. ". . . for
him and ma" ; j
Durno
It appears that Congressman Charles 0. Por
ter's rival will be State Sen. Ed Durno of Med
ford. He's a good man. But Mt. Porter's previous
opponent, Paul Geddes of Roseburg, was a good
man, too.
Yet many persons who were disturbed about
Mr. Porter's activities voted for him a second
time. And he won, somewhat because voters ap
proved of him, but also because they were of
fended by the character of the Geddes campaign.
Dr. Durno would be well advised to study the
Geddes campaign and learn from it.
B
Y THE TIME election day arrived in 1958,
Mr. Geddes was sounding like a cross be
tween Joe McCarthy and Everett Dirksen. He was
really neither. It did him no credit that he per
mitted his managers to make him sound like
a reactionary and a McCarthyite.
Dr. Durno, we hope, will wage a positive cam
paign. His record in the Legislature last session
was good. The man showed real ability.
Therefore he ought to have positive ideas of
his own. Let's hear them.
AS the incumbent, Mr. Porter is open to attack.
But that attack should be on issues, not on
the personal level that the Geddes campaign
often descended to. We hope there will be no
repeating of ridiculous assertions that Mr. Porter
is lazy, which he certainly isn't. Nor are voters
likely to take kindly to new criticism of Mr. Por
ter for the wide-ranging field of his interests.
A congressman should be interested in more
than just pork for the home district. The attack
should be on the position Mr. Porter has taken in
these excursions into international affairs, not
just on the fact that he has taken them.
Eugene Register-Guard.
Invitation For A Law
A federal grand jury
now has found no cause for prosecution in the
case of Mack Charles Parker, Negro lynch victim.
But two things are beyond dispute in the
Parker case:
1 He was lynched.
2. No one has been apprehended or convicted
for that barbarous crime.
PREVIOUSLY, lynching had been dying out in
the South. But because the Parker case is so
blatently being left unsolved, it may have an ef
fect on public opinion
kidnap case, which forced
a field previously preserved to the states.
If so, a local description of the federal grand
jury action as a, "triumph for Mississippi jus
tice may turn ironic should the triumph help
push civil rights legislation or an anti-lynch law
through Congress.
DEYOND the two unavoidable facts stated
above, the public record in the case is blur
red. At the core of the mysteiy lies a complete
FBI report on the case a report spurned by a
county judge and grand jury and left effectively
suppressed by the refusal of a second grand jury
o take action.
This very lack of action makes the FBI docu
ment a likely (and legitimate) source of infor
mation for any congressional committee study
ing ways of constructing a loophole-free anti
lynch law.
llE BELIEVE it is preferable for communi
" ties North or South to govern them
selves. But we also believe that responsible citi
zens in those communities do not wish to stand
before the world as supporters of lynch law.
When a town such as Poplarville, Mississippi,
proves itself unwilling or unable to prevent or
punish lynching, some new legal power at a
higher level of government is needed.
The grand jury action in Biloxi is a clear
invitation for Congress to devise a federal anti
lynching law. Christian-Science Monitor.
Round Three on Drug Prices
A popular tranquilizing ding of American
manufacture costs as little as 85 cents for 50
tablets in Argentina. Here 50 tablets of the same
brand cost $5.52.
The figures come from recent hearings of the
Senate Antitrust and Monopoly subcommittee
headed by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.). These
and other like disclosures on -pricing of anti
biotics as well as the happy pills assure an alert
audience for the third round of hearings begin
ning Tuesday, Feb. 23.
HTHIS time the Senate group is going to put con
A sumers on the stand. Judging from the volume
of mail the subcommittee has received from all
over the country, many letters coming from old
folks on pensions, the consumer witnesses will be
forceful and articulate.
For his part, Kefauver in winding up the
hearings on tranauilizers. Jan. 30. had consider
able praise for small marmfarhivprs wVm pnTnhiTie
low prices with high standards and controls. But
tne aenator tooK a notably dim view of larger
outfits which, he said, have "olentv of room" to
cut prices "substantially."
V. Porter
of Mississippi citizens
like that of the Lindberg
federal intervention in
E.RJL . i
Dennis the
WHNNA HEAR Mg SIN6 tVBI 1H
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
THE PRIVILEGED NATION
The 4.1 billion dollars
which the President is asking
Congress to appropriate for
mutual security, or in plainer
English for foreign aid, will
help to pay for a variety of
programs in many countries.
These programs have a com
mon purpose. It is to prevent
the expansion of Communism
beyond the frontiers which it
reached before 1945 and 1954.
In Europe this frontier is
the line of the armistice of
World War II, including the
special case of West Berlin.
In the Far East the line is that
reached by the Chinese Com
munist revolution when it
conquered mainland China. It
is also the line of the armis
tice in the Korean War and
the line of the armistice in
the Indo-Chinese war.
The object of American
policy, which was first formu
lated by President Truman, is
to contain the Russians, the
Chinese, the North Koreans,
and the Vietminese at this
frontier between the two great
coalitions. The main military
instrument of this policy is
the over-all military power of
the United States. But in or
der to exert this power effi
ciently, we require the sup
port of allies like Britain and
France and the use of bases in
many other countries on the
periphery of the Communist
coalition. The foreign aid pro
gram is made up in order to
finance those allies and other
countries who will not or can
not wholly finance them
selves.
ALTHOUGH these programs
are all designed for the
same purpose -to contain the
spread of Communism they
have become much more so
phisticated and complicated
than they were originally. At
the time of the seizure of
Czechoslovakia in 1943, the
blockade of West Berlin in
1948, and the attack on South
Korea in 1950, our policy of
mutual aid for collective de
fense was directed against
overt military aggression. In
the last years of Truman and
the first years of Eisenhower
our military ' planning was
based on the idea that what
had happened when the North
Koreans invaded South Ko
rea was likely to happen in
Europe and in the Middle
JEast.
This was the period when
Gen. Eisenhower was the Su
preme Commander in West
ern Europe. It was then that
he approved plans for a West
European army which would
have been more than twice as
big as the best that NATO has
ever been able to achieve.
Since those days, since the
early fifties, the basic mili
tary situation in the world
has changed greatly. The So
viet Union has achieved pari
ty in nuclear weapons. This
has reduced our nuclear pow
er from that of an instrument
of world diplomacy to a na
tional deterrent against at
tack on the United States. At
the same time the Soviet Un
ion has developed a high rate
of economic growth which
acts as a very powerful ex
ample and magnet in the un
derprivileged countries. This
economic achievement and
this concentration upon econ
omic progress in the Soviet
Union is the basis of the So
viet campaign for a military
truce in the cold war and for
disarmament.
"
THESE historic changes in
the world balance of power
have affected deeply our task
of holding together the coali
tion to contain the spread of
Communism. For one thing,
the threat and possibility of
overt military aggression by
the Soviet Union has declined
almost to the vanishing point.
Menace
SAINTS Q)M MmilA' HOWE'?
Lippmann
There is, as a result, some
thing unreal about building
up armies on the Soviet fron
tier to fight the Red Army.
It is unreal because there is
no likely threat from the Red
Army and it is doubly unreal
because these armies would
be impotent if there were.
Yet, and this is a crucial al
though sophisticated point, in
the underdeveloped countries
it is the armies that make and
unmake the governments. We
have learned that lesson in
Iraq and elsewhere. What is
described as military aid and
defense support in our ap
propriations is in a very con
siderable degree a subsidy to
keep the army on the side Of
the government.
SINCE the purpose of these
subsidies is not whoUy or
essentially military, adminis
tration is ' often extravagant
and wasteful. Worse still, be
cause of the conspicuously
high standard of life which
prevails in the American arm
ed forces abroad, our mili
tary aid is an almost certain
recipe for getting the United
States disliked. Nevertheless,
these subsidies are a political
necessity, and they cannot be
discontinued until there has
been organized a substitute in
place of them as the source of
stability.
We shall have to go on with
the subsidies for the present.
But we should do this with a
clear understanding that they
cannot go on very much long
er, that the United States can
not expect for the whole fu
ture to pay for a coalition of
small client states in Asia.
THE faint beginnings of a
new and better system to
replace the existing one are
indicated in the President's
message. One of the indica
tions is the emphasis he gives
to a greater use of the World
Bank and other international
agencies to which the richer
nations can contribute. An
other indication, and a most
encouraging one, is that econ
omic aid is not to be scattered
about but is to be focussed
and directed upon key coun
tries, particularly upon India,
Pakistan, and Taiwan, where
there is a good prospect of
proving that poverty can be
conquered without totalitar
ianism. -
Still another indication is
to be found in the last two
paragraphs of the President's
message. They strike a new
note in the whole discussion.
Here the President states the
truth which will outlast all
the changes of our policy. It
is that we are "a privileged
nation" and because of that
we have a duty to the less
privileged nations.
This is, it seems to me, the
right ground on which to
stand. It is better than to try
at every point in the argument
to find some shred of selfish
self-interest to mask our im
pulses of generosity. And I
have a strong conviction that
if we founded our policy ff
aid on the ground of duty,
our people would respond to
it gladly.
For in trying to prove that
when we are generous we are
really selfish, we find our
selves pretending, rather fee
bly and ineffectively, that a
whole row of little countries
with no military capacity
whatsoever are indispensable
military allies of the United
States. Our people have prov
ed that they are generous.
They hate to look foolish. It
would be better to say that
these small countries are poor
and that they are hungry and
that they are sick, and that we
mean , to help them.
(Copyright 1960 New York
Herald Tribune. Inc.) . ,
Matter of Fact
THE DISARMAMENT MESS
Washington - During the
past fortnight, this city has
offered a spectacle that has
been richly comic, not a little
humiliating, and almost in
credible, all at once.
Ministerial representatives
of Britain, France, Italy, and
Canada came here close to
two weeks ago, in order to
discuss with the American
government the Western po
sition On disarmament. East
West disarmament talks are
due to be reopened on March
15. After that date looms the
summit meeting, in May, with
top level disarmament talks
conspicuous on the agenda.
The need for an agreed West
ern position is therefore ur
gent, to put it mildly.
Yet for 10 days, the Ameri
can policy-makers had to
avoid substantive discussions
with their British, French,
Italian, and Canadian guests,
for the beautifully simple,
frankly confessed reason that
the American government
had not yet decided what its
own position on disarmament
ought to be.
Last Tuesday, a lame, empty
American "position" paper
was offered to the allied con
ferees. But this not only fail
ed to satisfy the British,
French, and other allied rep
resentatives. It also by no
means represented the views
of the State Department. And
as these words are written,
the final, intra - Administra
tion debate about the Ameri
can disarmament position is
at last under way.
THESE extraordinary facts
are far from exhausting
this episode's sheer fantasy.
American and Soviet negotia
tors had been talking about
disarmament, almost non-stop
from 1955 onwards until a
year or so ago. But last sum
mer, a new committee headed
by the Boston lawyer, Charles
Coolidge, was suddenly named
for the avowed purpose of
making up the American gov
ernment's mind about disarm
ament. While the Coolidge commit
tee labored, Our diplomats
freely, told our allies that they
could not tackle the disarma
ment problem until the Cool
idge committee had made up
the Administration's mind
about it. At length, a report
emerged from the commit
tee's labors. It was promptly
christened the "mouse" in the
inner circle, since it included
virtually no disarmament
proposals at all. And for this
reason, the report was prompt
ly interred as altogether too
fruitless.
By this time, another law
yer, the able New Yorker,
Frederick Eaton, had been
named to present the U.S.
brief on disarmament. But
Eaton had no brief to present
after the interment of the
Coolidge report. So the strug
gle began all Over again. And
it went on long enough to
leave this country's represen
tatives at first irresolutely
mute and then dimly mum
bling, at a conference with
In the Day's News
By FRANK
From Washington:
The agriculture depart
ment's livestock inventory,
just completed, shows that
the nation s horse and mule
population totaled 3,089,000
Jan. 1. It was down only 2
per cent from a year ago,
which represents a consider
able slowdown in the rate of
disappearance of horses and
mules-which, over the last
decade, has ranged from 6 to
13 per cent.
The department's livestock
experts report, however, that
there isn't much likelihood
that the downward trend in
horse and mule numbers will
stop, as on Jan. 1 the count of
horse and mule noses indicat
ed that of the 3 million only
196,000 head were colts under
two years. Department offi
cials said this is not a suffi
cient number 'to provide re
placements for older work
stock.
THAT brings up some inter
esting agricultural history.
The horse and mule popula
tion reached its high point in
1918, at which time there
were 26,723,000 horses and
mules on American farms.
That was about the time the
tractor was beginning to come
into use in a fairly big way
The coming of the tractor
posed a problem for Ameri
can agriculture. These 26-odd
million horses and mules were
corn, oat and hay burners.
The corn, hay and oats they
consumed required, some 90
MILLION acres of' land for
their production.
On the other hand, the trac
tors consumed GASOLINE,
and gasoline isn't a crop. It
comes out from UNDER the
land. When the wells are
drilled, the land is still there.
The problem was' what to do
with the corn, oats and hay
that had been grown on these
90 million acres.
T was argued, quite heated
- ly, that these gasoline-burn
By Joseph Alsop
Western allied representatives
planned many weeks earlier. I
THE reason for aU this is a
deep division in the gov
ernment. The State Depart
ment, and especially Secre
tary of. State Christian A.
Herter, thinks that we must
certainly talk about nuclear
disarmament, if we talk about
disarmament at all. The
Atomic Energy Commission
and particularly the commis
sion chairman, John R. Mc
Cone, favors discussion of nu
clear disarmament with extra
emphasis on the need for a
broad framework of general
disarmament. But the De
fense Department policy
makers, and above all the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, have
taken the position that any
discussion of nuclear disarm
ament is Unthinkable.
On the one hand, the Old
psychology of nuclear monop
oly obstinately survives in the
Pentagon, in flat defiance of
the grim facts of recent his
tory. On the other hand, it is
thought to be too expensive
and too painful, nowadays,
for Western nations to put
ground armies, in the field,
as they once used to do.
Hence the Pentagon argues
that the West dare not lay
down its nuclear weapons
while confronted with the
populous "hordes" of Rus
sians and Chinese.
TT WAS this psychology that
-made the Coolidge report
so mouselike. It was this psy
chology that caused the Amer
ican position paper of last
Tuesday to be such an im
poverished thing, including
no really major proposals,
and with no commitment in
all its six pages to discuss nu
clear disarmament at any
time, even in the distant fu
ture after proved success in
the so-called first stages.
After the British, French,
and the rest protested this po
sition paper's emptiness, Sec
retary Herter was at length
enabled to appeal the great is
sue to President Eisenhower.
Essentially, the question Her
ter has had to ask the Presi
dent is whether or not we real
ly want disarmament, after
having given vent to so much
moral blather on the subject.
All the trouble arose, of
course, from the President's
failure to decide this absolute
ly basic question at the very
outset.
This is dangerous trouble,
too. There are clear signs of
the same kind of split in the
Soviet government that exists
in the American government,
with the majority, headed by
Nikita S. Khrushchev, really
wanting to see whether ser
ious disarmament is not pos
sible. There is one chance in
three, or four, or five, of
really accomplishing some
thing. But the chance will
surely pass if the American
government merely continues
to flounder in its self-made
bog of inter - departmental
committees.
(Copyright 1960 New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
JENKINS
ing monsters would WRECK
THE MARKET for corn, oats
and hay. Besides, it was con
tended, the farmer who tilled
his acres with horses and
mules PRODUCED HIS OWN
FUEL. Thus he got his fuel
cheap.
SO
What would happen to him
if, in addition to having to
buy his fuel from the gasoline
merchants, instead of pro
ducing it himself, he had to
find markets somewhere else
for all he corn, oats and hay
that from time immemorial
had. been consumed by the
horses and mules?
W
ELL
As everybody knows
The tractor won out.
Here's one reason:
Horses had to be fed. That
look labor. They had to be
curried. They had to be har
nessed. They had to be taken
out and hitched to the plow or
other machinery. Come noon,
they had to be unhitched, tak
en in to the barn and fed.
Then, come 1 o'clock, they
had to be taken back to the
field, hitched up again and
come evening it all had to be
done over again. Including
beddmg down the work
horses and the work mules.
The upshot of it was that if
the farmer was to be in the
field at the crack of dawn ho
had to be up far ahead of the
crack of dawn to get his
horses and mules ready to go
to work. With the tractor, all
he had to do- was eat his
breakfast, stroll out to the
tractor, crank it up, climb on
the seat and he had it made.
IS IT any wonder the tractor
won?
The wonder is that there
are still some three million
horses and mules left in the
United States of America.
P0TB-UOC
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Some might find this diffi
cult to' believe, but the Mail
Tribune newsroom has gone
on a sports-car kick.
Our women's editor, who is
a youthful-looking well, she
has one or two gray hairs
succumbed the other day, and
recorded her own version of
what happened in her Pot
pourri column.
And do you know she had
the gall to keep it a secret
from her colleagues for FOUR
days?
Anyway, one of our young
men, who has been driving a
sedate and practical little
Volkswagen, suddenly decid
ed that that is the life for him,
and careened off to a place
where they deal in little
sports cars.
He came back with a look
in his eye which indicated
he'd never be the same again.
Anyway, the rest of us, who
drive eminenUy respectable
vehicles, ranging from "econ
omy" foreign cars through the
ranks of Chevy, Ford and
Plymouth, have had our ear
drums assaulted with verbal
impressions of how the en
gines (or is it motors?) sound;
gas economy; the difficulties
of ingress and egress, and
such-like esoterica.
The "quote of the week,"
however, from our slightly
bewitched society writer,
was this: "I wish I could
figure out some way of
keeping my shoes on while
driving that car!"
This one has been kicking
around our file lor some
weeks now, and perhaps this
is lust as eood a time to spring
it on you as any. Read the
following sentence, first:
"Finished files are the re
sult of years of scientific
study combined with the ex
perience of years." '
Now. eo back and count tne
number of times the letter
'f" aDDears. How many did
you get? For the correct an
swer, read on.
A couple we know have
birthdays on the same day.
They exchanged gifts last
week, and he reported that
it came out about right
he got a billfold and the got
a dishwasher.
9 9 9
One of our reporters won a
prize not long ago for a story
he wrote, and drove down to
the Sierra - Cascade Logging
Conference In Redding to pick
it up.
Reporting back, he said, a
man dressed as an old-time
logger, complete with hooked
peavey, patrolled the speak
ers' stand, and when speakers
went over-time, used the pea
vey hook to yank them off,
"We should have such a man
at every meeting we attend,'
he commented.
This same reporter cov
ered Congressman Judd's
speech here recently, and
among the gathering of Re
publicans, he spotted a
woman tiptoeing out in her
stocking feet, holding her
shoes. Hm. Wonder if SHE
drives a sports car. TOO.
Back at the logging confer
ence for a moment, our man
said there was a series of car
toons depicting the "progress"
of the lumber industry.
The first showed a giant
tree-trunk being dragged out
of the woods by one ox driven
by one man. The next, two
oxen and two men dragging a
smaller log. The third - three
oxen, three men; and so on
to the last - a few tiny logs
being manhandled by giant
machinery operated by two
men, with another directing
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF-
TtvyKKN" AND IF you encounter a ghost, the only thing to
VY fear, it seems, is fear itself. A traveler returned from
England solemnly reports that he was spending a night in a
dank, enormous old castle
when he suddenly felt a
clammy hand on his
shoulder. It was a ghost,
all right "I have been
pacing these corridors,"
the ghost announced,
"every night for seven
long centuries."
'Wonderful," said the
traveler. ."You're just the
ghost I want Which way
is the bathroom?"
LOVE BY 'NUMBERS"
(from an old almanac):
t lovers sat beneath the shade,
And 1 un 2 the other said,
"How 14 8 that you be 9
Have smiled upon this suit of mine..
If 3 a heart it palps for you.
Thy Voice is mu 6 melody.
Tis 7 to be thy loved X, 2;
Bay, oh nymph, wilt marry ma?"
Then lisped the maid, "Why, 13 ly!"
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them, and three standing by,
with still another just watch
ing. We have tome fine publi
cations on hand at the me
ment, and would like to
bring you a few selected
quotations. They are the
Lincoln Legend, paper of
Lincoln Elementary school;
the Jackson Journal, of
Jackson school, and the
Hoover HiLlte. of Hoover
school. Here we go:
Book review from the Jack
son Journal, written by Greg
ory Meadors of the fourth
grade, on the book "Ben
Franklin":
"When Ben was little he
wanted to be an inventor.
One day when he was older
he took a kite and put on his
swimming suit." He took his
kite to the river and floated
on his back with his kite. He
moved, and he invented something."
Here's part of James Ben
net's report on Mr. Shurt
left's fifth grade room: "Mr.
Shurtleff's class is prepar
ing for an Assembly in
March. Some of the stu
dents want a St. Patrick's
Day theme, some want a
musical program, and some
want a pet show. If we have
all three it will be quite
interesting."
In the Hoover HiLite, Scott
Struble, of the third grade,
reports on "communication,"
after studying the subject:
We studied about commu
nication. There are lots of
ways to communicate. Here
are some of them. You can
communicate by telephone,
train, mail, boat, smoke sig
nals, telegraph, and many
more ways. Two of them are
pony express and talking."
From the same publica
tion, a lesson in science by
Richard Schuli of the fifth
gTade: "Put salt in a kettle.
Then put water in. Turn
on the burner. The mole
cules will spread apart.
Then, turn the burner off.
After the water has evapo
rated the salt will still bo
there."
In the Lincoln Legend, ' 8-year-old
Eugen Canpion, of
the third grade, wrote a poem
entitled "The Quiet Winter
Night."
Here it is:
"Twas quiet all around,
' 'Twas quiet on the hill
"And quiet on the ground.
" 'Twas quiet up above
"And quiet down below.
"And the quiet was the
quietness
"Of softly falling mow."
Mark Miner, of the fourth
grade, was inspired to write
a Valentine's Day poem, as
follows:
"Valentine's Day makes us
think of love,
"When Cupid flies above.
"When Cupid shoots us with
his arrows,
"We fall in love like a cou
ple of sparrows.
"As we play out in the sua
"We have a lot of fun.
"Down by the sea shore by
the Atlantic
"Both of us are very roman
tic
"After we had looked at
the roses,
"We rub our cute little
notes."
Now, before we forget all
together, there are six "f's in
that paragraph up above. If
you found four you're aver
age; five, you're sharp, and
six-you genius, you.