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I MAIL TRIBUNE, Madronf. Or. 'A Sunday, Feb. 28, 1960 "Everyone in Southern Oregon Keaas xne Man lTioune" Published Dally except Saturday by DIUKD FKUNT1NQ CO. 13 North Fir St, Ph SP2-141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bus. Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor EARL xi ADAMS, city Editor HARRY CHTPMAN. Teles. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women's Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Indeoendent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Meafora. ore nan, unaer Act ox March 3. 1S97 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday S mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $420 "By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Ear Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Kiv er. Talent and on motor routes, Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. ISO Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance ' Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire TJ JX Telephoto Newsplctirrea " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Adverrlsin Representative: ficei In New York, Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. b.i NEWSPAPER Biini icutac ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORtAI ASCrfATlToiN Righto' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Fab. 28. 1950 (Tuesday) , The city building depart ment receives application for a permit to erect six duplex apartments on J st., at a cost of $65,000. At tonight's city planning commission meeting there will be a hearing regarding set back lines on property at 10th at and Oakdale ave., where a seven-story apartment build ing is planned. 20 YEARS AGO Fab. 28. 1940 (Wednesday) Hie most . serious flood threat since 1927 endangers Rogue valley; Bear creek ris ing and threatens several city homes. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "There has been a slight decline in the Confucius Say business. One citizen reports yesterday, he only heard 100 of them -82 for the tenth time." SO YEARS AGO Fab. 28. 1930 (Friday) Park experts produce plans for parkways along Bear creek. Census shows there are 0,696 pupils in Jackson coun ty public schools. 40 YEARS AGO Fab. 28, 1920 (Sunday) The top of Roxy Ann has been staked out for oil claims. Hood River apple growers made average of $1.10 per box last year. 50 YEARS AGO Fab. 28, 1910 (Monday) Ladies of Greater Medford club hoping to do something about lack of decent hotel accommodations in Medford, Two Milwaukie, Wise, de tectives arrive in Medford to take prisoner home; man had lived here five years before being caught What's Your I.Q.? Nina ar ten correct is superior; van or eight is excellent; five or tlx is good. - 1. What Italian city has been called the Bride of the Adriatic? 2. Do stones grow? 3. What American writer and lecturer lost her sight, hearing and speech at the age of 19 months? 4. In what Virginia city is the College of William and Mary? 5. What was Patrick Hen ry'f profession? 6. What is a derringer? 7. Is Bismarck the capital or North Dakota, or of South Dakota? 8. Senator Wayne Morse represents which state in the U.S. Senate? 9. In what sport did Bobby Jones gain fame? 10. Which is the larger In area-Alaska or Texas? - Answers: 1. Venice. 2. No. 3. Helen Keller. 4. Williams burg. Va. 5. Lawyer. 6. Small pocket pistol. 7. North Dako ta. 8. Oregon. 9. Golf. 10. Alaska. t "...Do Our Duty... Lincoln's birthday, which is the usual time for articles about him to appear, was a couple of weeks ago. But yesterday was the 100th anniversary of an event in the life of Abraham Lincoln which changed his life, and as a result changed the course of history of the United States. The event was his Union in New York City on Feb. 27, 1860. It was a turning point in his career, for it gave him national prestige, and a snip of the younger elements of the new .Republi can party. IN HIS TALK he took 1 extension of slavery West, then in the process of settlement. At that time his thinking was that slavery, i. t T 1 J 1 t wnere it aireaay exisiea, wouia nave to De tol erated, but it could not be permitted to expand, as southern leaders wished. Only later did he become convinced that slav ery would have to be abolished everywhere. This, of course, was one of the great issues which led to the Civil War a few years later, and ultimately to the Emancipation proclamation. . THE ISSUE of the expansion of slavery was a crucial and divisive one 100 years ago, and even then Lincoln's massive courage and integrity were evident m ms cooper union speecn. i ! r Parts of that talk have become much auoted not, perhaps, as famous as the Gettysburg ad dress, but certainly among the best-known state ments of the 16th President For instance : "... Let us not be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government . . . Let us have faith that right makes right; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we under stand it." A lift.lp mnrp nf this would be welcome today at various levels of government. Hi.A. Civilized We heard a speaker, other day about "Rural Society." He didn't say much ested observers of society didn't know before, but he put a lot of facts about the changes in rural life into perspective in a ize just how big and widespread the change has been. - The distinctions which once made city and rural life almost completely different have almost vanished. Only a few differences, and these seem to be chiefly those of attitude, remain. COR ONE THING, the percentage of rural dwel- lers who make their living from the soil, farm ers, in other words, has sharply decreased, while the number of retired people and commuters who earn their livings in town try, has gone way up. Automobiles and good roads are, of course, the principal causes of this change. But good rural mail service, radio and tele vision, the ready availability of books, magazines and newspapers, have change. THE INCREASED ease that trip to town a casual affair, not a once-a-week or once-a-month event to be looked for ward to. Country people can, and do, participate in the cultural and recreational activities which once were enjoyed only by those in the town or city. The same mobility has decreased the country dwellers dependence on bors, and today he is just as apt to belong to a civic or fraternal organization as he is to the Grange, say. In short, the old jokes about the "country hick" and the "city slicker" have lost their point because they no longer We know some folks who live in the country who are a darn sight "slicker" than most city people. ju.a. Heart Sunday Today is Heart Sunday. During the day, some 400 people will be work ing in the county, soliciting contributions to the Heart Fund. Contribute if you can, and if you wish. But even if you can't, remember these are unpaid volunteers, doing a job for what they believe is an important cause. OEART DISEASE is the leading cause of 1 death in this nation, and will remain so until more research has been completed. Research takes money. And the money you give today will help pay for it. Progress has been made paid for with the some $40 million contributed to the Heart Fund during the past 12 years. But much more remains to be done until the ailments of the heart, which now take such a tremendous toll of life and well- being each year, can be conquered to a point where they no longer constitute the most signifi cant medical problem in the nation. E.A. 99 famous speech at CooDer firm grip on the leader a strong stand against the into the territories of the TT T miirnce anrl intoon'tv Boondocks a sociologist, talk the Life in a Changing of anything which inter way that made one real while living in the coun all contributed to the of mobility has made his immediate neigh apply. Dennis the THE? THINS I LIKE 8ESTA80uT FROSC IS THE KEEP 6IRLSWM'. Matter of Fact DIAGNOSING MR. K. Washington The best American analysts of Soviet behavior are now forecasting a rough, stormy, and dangerous meeting at the summit. This is be cause Nikita S. Khrushchev has lately been telling all and sun- joseph alsop dry that he is not going to be distracted from talking about Berlin by discussions of other topics, such as disarmament. He has also given numerous indica tions that he is unwilling to go on merely talking about Berlin for an indefinite pe riod, at a whole succession of meetings at the summit. Be fore long, he keeps hinting, he will have to act. Much more light will be shed on Khrushchev s real in tentions by his behavior in Paris, during his visit to Gen. de Gaulle next month. Per haps the present reading of the signs will then be re versed. One can only hope so, for there will be some breath lessly tense moments if Khru shchev really means to offer President Eisenhower and the other Western leaders the choice between giving him what he wants at Berlin dur ing the summit conference, or stopping him from taking what he wants after the con ference ends. . IT may be, of course, that Khrushchev only means to make the Western leaders think that this is the choice which confronts them. He is in an ideal situation, after all, to test the nerves of the West to the uttermost limit with out exposing or committing himself in the least. On the basis of all the evidence pro duced by the test of nerves, he can then decide whether or no to risk unilateral action at Berlin. . In any case, it now appears probable that Khrushchev will use the tactic of intimida tion instead of the tactic of sweet reasonableness in the crucial next round of the un ending Berlin crisis. This is not surprising, either, when you consider how much he has already gained, by using the tactic of intimidation in the eariler rounds. He precipitated the crisis in November, 1958, by sud denly roaring that the perfect ly tranquil, long unaltered situation in Berlin was "in tolerable," and threatening to use force to make his own im provements. By these roars, he soon obtained Western agreement to negotiate about Berlin, despite the fact that Today Cr Tomorrow By Walter THE TRAVEL HABIT Mr. Robert Lovett, who has been Secretary of Defense and Under Secretary of State, is one of the very ablest public offi cials of our times. It is a reflection on the way we run the gov ernment that he was allow- or) n oer-ana Walter 7 ttT V" Lippmann irom Wash ington and take refuge in a banking house in Wall Street. But on Tuesday he came back to testify before Sena tor Jackson's Sub-Committee on the policy-making machin ery of the government. It is plain even from the incom plete reports which are avail able that watching Washing ton from a distance, he has had a hard time holding on to himself. On Tuesday he let himself go. The result was an explo Menace By Joseph Alsop the allegedly "intolerable" Berlin situation was solemnly guaranteed by the Kremlin's own pledges and was perfect ly satisfactory to the West. THE ensuing, protracted Foreign Ministers' meeting at Geneva met and ran its whole course in the drumfire of Khrushchev menaces. For him, the conference served the useful purpose of disclos ing the Western allies' first "fallback" position. When he had gained this valuable in formation, Khrushchev called the Geneva rally to grind to a halt, still without with drawing his ministers. And by this simple device, he ob tained his invitation from President Eisenhower to visit the United States. In this country, for once In a day, he had to do something more than shout threats to get what he wanted next. He was forced to promise the Presi dent that there would be no time-deadline for action on the Berlin problem. In this very limited way, he had to say that his Berlin demands did not constitute an ultima tum to the West. But for this minor concession he obtained consent to the forthcoming summit meeting. And he also obtained a major dividend that he perhaps did not ex pect, in the form of an acute attack of euphoria infecting many of the highest American policy-makers. Unfortunately, a specified time-deadline is by no means a necessity for the more in genious users of ultimatums. If you can make your adver sary believe you are going to take the action he fears before very long, you do not have to be explicit about the date. The atmosphere of ultimatum is more important than the lan guage. Indeed, if the atmos phere exists, the document it self can be quite unnecessary. . IIHAT Khrushchev now " seems to be doing is cre ating the atmosphere of ulti matum, in preparation for the summit meeting in May. A? of today, moreover, this appears to be an exceedingly shrewd thing to do. The Western al lies, after 15 long months of looking at the ugly Berlin problem, have not yet agreed on what to do about the prob lem if worst comes to worst. The divergences are bound to deepen as Western apprehen sions mount. This can probably be pre vented, or even if not prevent ed it will matter decisively, if President Eisenhower quickly asserts his leadership with iron firmness. But as yet, no such Presidential self-asser tion seems to be in prospect, (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Lippmann sion of pungent criticism which had none of the tired monotony of a ghost-written statement. Mr. Lovett dealt with the general complacency, with the role of the Budget Bureau, with the making of political speeches by defense officials and with the travels of the Secretary of State. rpHE Secretary of State, said Mr. Lovett should stay at home and run his department To handle international ne gotiations and meetings there should be created, he sug gested, a new Cabinet officer to be called the Minister of Foreign Affairs. This new official would be, presumably, subject to the or ders of the Secretary of State or to orders of the President acting with the advice of the Secretary of State. If the Min ister of Foreign Affairs were not under orders, he and not the Secretary would be run ning the Department of State. But If the Minister of For 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 Who To Believe To the Editor: Your editor ial, "Who to Believe," in Wednesday! Mail Tribune, brings to mind some Bible texts bearing on this subject One, found In 1 Thess. 5:21, commands to "prove all things, hold fast that which is good." Another in Matt. 7:16-18-"Ye shall know them by their fruits." Surely not the least of the blessings of the Hereafter will be the univer sal existence of Truth, to the complete exclusion of our present accumulation of con fusing opinions and preju dices on every subject. Since each of us is to be judged by the Book, made available to all, should not each read it for himself, not depending wholly upon the ministry of others for its message to us? In the field of Nutrition, I have proved, and held fast to, some of the theories set forth which have been of benefit healthwise. Certainly in Politics a voter should, before voting, make every effort to intelligently inform himself as to capabil ities and objectives of .candi dates or tackle the alternative of being able to recognize the distinguishing characteristics of "reliable people to be lieve." My thanks for your thought provoking editorial. Dorothy Swan, L. B. Star Route, Box 55, Eagle Point, Ore. Lucky Svede To the Editor: I received an anonymous letter from some one in Prospect I like to re ceive letters from people in Prospect, Trail and Shady Cove, for in my story, three million miles in a taxi cab, there were many things hap pened in and around these towns. This letter says: "CAT! You had it made when you went to high school in the Brush automobile." "MAN! You was playin it reet, reet, reel." "LIKE MAN! You made it under the wire when you went to high school." "You vas vun uf der lucky Svedes." Ven Aye traded my 1910 streamlined veelbarrow for yust vun 1902 Brush automo bile, Aye vusn't so lucky. Ve didn't have no garage, und ve didn't have a top on the car. Ve had to keep the car in der barn. Did you ever try to park a vun cylinder car in a barn with vun cow, und vun horse, who yust never vunce seen yust vun automobile? Aye had to blindfold der cow and give der horse tranquilizer pills. Aye could valk to school in eign Affairs is No. 2 and the Secretary remains No. 1, then the Minister is in substance no more than a roving Am bassador. He will not in fact be the equal of the other For eign Ministers at internation al meetings, no matter what his title and where he sits at official dinners. Thus while I believe Mr Lovett's diagnosis is correct and long overdue, we shall have to look further for the remedy. THERE is a good deal to be said for having a roving Ambassador, perhaps several roving Ambassadors to deal with regional questions. But I do not believe we can expect a roving Ambassador, even if he is called Minister of For eign Affairs, to be a substi tute for the Secretary of State at international meetings. On serious questions foreign gov ernments will insist upon talking directly with the mak ers of policy. If the American makers of policy will not go abroad to see their peers, the Foreign Ministers will prob ably come to Washington to see them. Much of modern diplomacy is conducted at the summit by the heads of governments or near the summit by Ministers of Foreign Affairs, and the habit, once it is formed, is hard to break. If foreign gov ernments, or for that matter Congress, get used to talking to five-star generals, they will not want to talk to two-star generals. This habit of negotiating at the highest possible level was formed during the Second World War. Roosevelt and Churchill ran the Western al liance by direct contact and through special intermedi aries like Harry Hopkins. They dealt with the global war by direct contact with Stalin, who was the absolute master of the Soviet Union. This habit became an ad diction under John Foster Dulles, who was recognized in the world as being not merely the Secretary of State, but in fact the custodian of the 15 minutes, but vy should Aye valk ven Aye could get out of bed at 5 am., und crank my vey to high school in yust three hours? Ven Aye got der engine started at 8 a.m., der old cow vent out through der back uf der barn, der horse vent out der vindow, Aye never knew where der Brush vas going out, und Aye never knew vere Aye vas going out. Aye yust vent out und tvice Aye almost vent there. Everett Acklin, Ashland, Ore. Lincoln Oddessy To the Editor: "What hap pened?" has been asked of my Lincoln Day pilgrimage. So here tiz. Parking near the RJt. depot, now so lonely- looking but once the connect ing link of local and outside world folk and affairs, we checked in at the police sta tion, leaving with a friendly, "So glad you called Mr. Lin coln. Good luck." Stopping in at a drug store with a most friendly Mr. Lin coln greeting and asking for the apothecary, the young lady seemed a bit non-plussed, replying "The druggist is out, perhaps Mr. so-and-so can help you." But young Mr. So-and-so took a serious view of my request for a remedy for tiz-ik.' "Why-a," he think ingly answered. "The term now-a-days for that is laxa tive." Feminine giggles around the counter-corner, which we joined in, relieved the much-too-serious air. But the next human ' ailment dispensary was still more austere-like. The prescription-man seemed to want no truck with apothe cary, or tiz-ik' either, as he coldly advised to get a physi cian's prescription. To a hint what tiz-ik' was like, he re ferred me to a cough-medicine cabinet and to make my own selection and follow direc tions. And that was that. Dropping in at a book-store, we were greeted with hearty, "Why Mr. Lincoln, so glad you came, we were hop ing for something of this kind today." To inquiry as to the blind Milton's labor in getting his reluctant daughters to fin ish writing his famed Para dise Lost, so much used by Lincoln, the saleswoman hap pily reported it in stock. But the high light of all came when a small boy, sixth grade or so, stopped me with lifted arm to gravely shake hands, telling of their Lincoln day program. It was the one time we wished for a picture, as it was so typical of the humble Lincoln's way with small fry. At another drug-store, the, er, apothecary had no tum tum on my tiz-ik, but promis- the President's powers in for eign affairs. Ever since his time an international meeting is not an international meet ing unless it is attended by the President or the Secretary of State. TF there is a remedy for this inefficient system, it will have to come, I think, through a breaking of the habit and from a re-education in the way international af fairs are conducted. As we realize that the President can not go everywhere and still be in fact the Chief Executive, that the Secretary of State cannot go to every meeting and still run his department, we shall have to carry on much of our international business at lower levels. We are now suffeing from a con gestion at the top, accompa nied by the downgrading of the Ambassadors and a ne glect of the normal channels of diplomacy. My own view is that a Pres ident and a Secretary could break the habit if they were resolute about it. They should make attendance at interna tional meetings a rare, not a commonplace, occu r r e n c e. They should swear off on this continual round of travel. Even in the most difficult case, which is that of the So viet Union, it might not be im possible to open up better channels of communication than those which are now used. Did we make fuU use of the opportunity afforded by the visits to this country of Mikoyan and Kozlov, or for that matter of the visit of Nixon to Moscow? It may be that we have done as well as it is possible to do in dealing with the So viet Union. But surely we can help ourselves in dealing with our allies. Surely we can in duce them to believe that they must not measure our interest, our loyalty, our friendship, by the amount of traveling which our highest officials are able to do. (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. pTILUCEt (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Last week's Potluck col umn was written several days in advance, and had some faintly jocular things to say about staff members and small foreign cars. Well, as readers of various sections of the paper have learned, the staff has one fewer small foreign car-and darn near one fewer report er. And all this in the time between the time the column was written and the time when it was printed. But he survived, and is now considering buying an other small foreign car- smaller than the last one. even. A glutton for punish ment, if we ever saw one. If this process continues. you may see a reporter riding along on a motor scooter one of these days. The reporter has taken two sorts of beating as a result of his accident-the physical beating of the crash itself, and the verbal bearing from his fellow workers who can't resist kidding him about even so serious a matter as a near fatal automobile accident One good thing anyway, he claims, is the fact that his bandage comes off his face Monday, and his black eye is better, so maybe nice old ladies will stop looking sus piciously at him as he walks down the street Since he was on assign ment at the time of the acci dent, we can expect him to put in an expense account for his trip. But we sort of won der whether our sharp-eyed bookkeeper will approve the "preliminary estimate" he provided us for his month's expenses. This list includes such things as "wear and tear on head, $500," and "wear and tear on nerves, $10,000." The one which intrigued us most, however, was this one: "Cost of missing dates Sun day and Monday (with two different girls)-$500." We hope the young ladies, whoever they may be, are gratified to know their com pany is appraised at $250 each, per evening. One thoughful observer of the passing scene (a Re publican, incidentally) was reading about some of the ed to brief up on it. So we helped by mentioning the old spelling-bee catch-word was, phthisic. He followed us to the door, urging to be sure and stop at what appeared his boom competitor up the street and report what hap pened. F. J. Clifford Route 2, Box 200F Central Point. Ore. Approves Sterilization To the Editor: The sterili zation program proposed by Mr. Hatfield will probably be the cause of a whole flurry of opposition, but I believe it is the best plan so far suggested. I know of at least three families on one street in Med ford, all on welfare, all with six or seven children, some not with the same fathers, and still producing more. These women are more animal than human. Their offspring don't stand much chance in life, and the taxes it takes to keep these women on the produc tion line comes out of the pockets of hard working fa thers and mothers who are trying to make better things for their children and it cuts down on the future of chil dren who could be the leaders of tomorrow. At least two of these fa thers are or have been in jail, eating and lounging on tax money. The welfare has sug gested that these men be put to work and if they refuse, to cut off the funds given them. This is a very good idea. Welfare workers, churches and private citizens with big hearts have helped these fam ilies and later found that the clothing given for the small fry had been thrown on the floor, tramped in and just added to the already over powering mess. To top it off they complain about not get ting enough. How many more can be multiplied all over the state? Sterilization can't hurt these women, only stop the produc tion of underpriviledged, un happy and, for the most part, unwanted children who help to swell the long line of de linquents. I would go farther even, and add sterilization to the prison code to be applied to known sex offenders and ha bitual criminals and stop the down grading of America. I wonder how many chil dren Mr. Straub has that he thinks this is such an inhuman method? Today, there is no excuse for not planning your family to fit your earning ability. More power to Mr. Hatfield. Mrs. Ray Doran Route 2 Cenral Point, Ore. , current problems in Cali fornia, and came up with his own solution for one of them: Free Caryl Chessman, and execute Pat Brown. A woman we know, who lives in the Applegate val ley, has also been doing some thinking about current prob lems, and believes she has stumbled across a solution to the dogs-running-at-large problem. As a result of readina James Michener's novel, "Ha waii," in which it is record ed that a Polynesian delicacy is roast dog, she suggests that this county's perennial head ache over surplus does be solved by setting up a quick- freeze plant to process the extra dogs and ship 'em to the South Pacific. Might even be a small nrof- it in it, she thinks. There Is a new Joke (chuckle) going the rounds at Hedrick Junior High school (heh. heh) which goes (ha. ha) this way: First man-"I saw something last night I couldn't get over." Second man-"What?" First man-"The moon." (Haw. Haw. Haw! Ill) Donald Kjelmyr. who is in the first grade at Hoover school, wrote a short essay and drew a picture for the last issue of the Hoover Hi- Lite. Here they are: I like pointer dogs best I don't have one, but I wish I did, so I made one on paper. See how he points." r The best way to get Into debt, we read somewhere, is to try to keep up with those who already are. The chamber of commerce gets all sorts of odd requests. The other day someone in the Willamette valley wrote to inquire about "the bed size" at the local hospitals. Nothing daunted, the gals at the office called the Rogue Valley and Sacred Heart hos pitals to ask how long and how wide their beds were and, in the process, apparent ly created a lot of confusion and some exasperation as the hospital people, eager to please the chamber, got out tape measures and reported the beds were so many inches long and so many inches wide. The data were assembled, and the chamber people got ready to write their reply to the man. The more they pon dered, however, the more they wondered why anyone would want to know the size of the beds in the hospitals. They re-read his letter, and finally figured out that what he REALLY wanted to know was the size of the HOSPI TALS, which is usually meas ured by how many patients it can accommodate-as in "a 100-bed hospital." We hadn't heard from That Man In Phoenix for some time. We wondered why. Were there fewer mis takes in the paper? Was he not reading the paper any more? Didn't he care if we made mistakes? The wor ries were settled last week, when the familiar, neatly typed envelope arrived, and the familiar, neatly typed note inside bore a clipping pasted to the lop. The clip ping was a headline which said "Motion to Squash In dictment Entered." His note said: "Many of your readers doubtless are unaware that a motion to squash an indict ment involves some of the more complicated and cum bersome implements of the legal machinery in the mills of justice. "First the indictment is carefully placed, face up, on the exact middle of the sur face of a heavy, reinforced concrete slab 12 by 12 feet square above which is sus pended a five ton block of stainless steel. Then the of ficiating judge, in full court regalia, accompanied by a bailiff and witnesses, makes motion toward the con demned indictment and issues the order, 'Squash!' Where upon the suspended steel block is released, dropping from a Iethel height of not less than five feet. "The resulting impact cul minates the ponderous pro cedure, after which the in dictment is officially pro nounced null, void and ob literated. "Quashing an indictment is a much simpler process." 3 Thanks. Now we know. A . f
