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I MAIL TRIBUNE, Medfenf, Or. 'A Sunday. April 3, 1 90 TEveryona in Southern Oregon Rradt The MiU Tribune," PuWUhedTiaiiy except Saturday by MEDrORD PRINTING CO SJ North Fir J5t.,Ph SP2-ei4J "1lOBEHTW. RUHCTrMUor RKRB GREY Ailvertijlm Manatfar GERALD T LATHAM, Bui. Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Mn Editor IARL H ADAMS, City auditor PARRY CHIPMAN, TeleK Editor RICHARD JEWKTT. BporU Editor OLIVE STARCHkR. Women'! Editor PALE ERICKSON, arculatlon Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second clana mHtter at Medford. OreRon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES w., T A.I. .... Cnn 1fl( flV Oiail III nlBli. Dally and Sunday 1 year MJ-JJO Uauy ana sunany a ni" Pally and Sunday 3 moa. 4.25 By Carrier In Advance Medford . . . , . P.. . Point. Jaekaonvllla. Gold fl II. Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rofue Slv- ar, laieni aim on iiivh.i Dally and Sunday I year $18 10 JJaiiy ana ounnny , him. i"n Carrier and Dealera copy 10c All Terms Cash lnAdvance "5tflclirppro?"ciry ef MedtorT OMIclal Paper of Jackon County " United Praia InternaUonaJ Full Leaied Wire "TJP.l. Telephoto Newjplcturea "TtfEMBER OF-AIIDlf BUREAU OF CIRCIILATIONS Adverililna rianreaentauva: WEST HOLIDAY CO. INC. Of fice! In New York. Chicago. De. trolt, San Francisco Loa Anireles, Seattle, Portland St. Loull, At lanta. Vancouver, B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATION A I EDITORIAI osso i w w Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tho filet of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 3. 1950 (Sunday) . Football championi of the Pacific Northwest Intercolle giate Athletic conference and the Far Western conference will contend in the Shrine Pear Bowl game each Thanks giving here for five years, it was agreed yesterday. Mayor Diamond Flynn kicks off drive to raise funds to combat cancer. SO YEARS AGO April 3. 1940 (Tuesday! A Jackson county unit ot the Oregon Taxpayers Federa tion is being planned. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A slot- machine, has been invented that 'screams' when cheated by a player. It Is claimed It never fails to beat tho pro prietor to this Job." 80 YEARS AGO April 3, 1930 (Wednesday) i County court decides to leave location of proposed new court house up to the voters in the May primary. First county forest fire of the year was reported yester day burning near Gold Hill. 40 YEARS AGO April 3, 1920 (Friday) Controversy: over whether high school principal should be retained or not still rages and mass meeting is sched uled for Page theater next week. Over seven feet or snow has fallen at Crater Lake In past two weeks, and still com ing down. SO YEARS AGO April 3. 1910 (Sunday) Medford bank deposits pass well over $2 million mark re flecting a 76 per cent Increase in the Inst 14 months. The "Bulck ranch, re nowned as the home of the "alfaberry" is sold to New Mexico Interests by Col. F. L. TouVelle. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or tan cornet Is lu parlor; savan oi eight is eacalltnti five ar la. Is good. 1. Tha Inhabitants of which State are called "Jayhawk- ers ? 2. What well-known com' edlenne created the character "Baby Snooks"T 3. Who composed the music for the song, "Ah, Sweet Mys tery of Life 7 4. What caused the death of Mohandas K. Ghnndl? B. Weight constitutes a measure of force of what? 6. -What body Is charged by law with regulating banking practices In the U.S. and con trolling the general credit sit uation? 7. In freezing, does water expand about one-fifth, one- ninth, or one-eleventh in vol ume? 8. Under what President did William H. Woodin servo aa Secretary of Treasury? 9. Are there any tin mines iri the U.S.? 10. Corret the following "He graduated from High School." 1. Kansas. 2. Fannr Brlce. 3. Victor Herbert. 4. Bullets fired by an assassin. S. Grav ity. 6. Federal Reserve Sys tem. 7. One-eleventh. I. Franklin D. Roosevelf. 9. Yesi ia Alaska. 10. "He was gradu ated. , . Backward, Turn Backward... We have a chance to Century. What we do to accomplish this is to vote for R. F. Cook of Silverton for United States Senator, and Leslie P. Fleming, Eugene, for Congressman. It is only fair to add (that's a handy phrase one who reads a newspaper) do not concede either Mr. Cook or Mr. Fleming much of a chance for election. (The odds-on favorites for the Republican nomination to these offices are Elmo Smith of Albany and Edwin Durno of Medford. Leading Democratic candidates are Mrs. Maurine Neu berger of Portland and Charles 0. Porter of Eu gene, respectively.) RUT Mr. Cook and Mr. Fleming do afford a " chance to cast a sentimental vote for the "good old days," when America had no "farm prob lem," no foreign "entanglements," no income tax, no federal responsibility for a dozen different kinds of public service programs, and when the "robber barons" ran amuck through the economy unchecked and ruthless. Each of these gentlemen have offered their "platforms" Mr. Cook's in eight points, Mr. Fleming's in ten. The platforms are remarkably similar to each other, and will have some appeal to those who believe the federal government's role in world leadership, welfare programs, conservation, and regulation of business is too great. a a MR. COOK'S program is short, neat and to the point. It says: 1. Bolster private enterprise against government In business. 2. Battle to relieve the blighting effects of infla tion. 3. Man the dykes against the trend of paternalism. 4. Demand action toward reducing the national budget and debt. 5. Scrap the farm program In an orderly and rapid manner. 6. Expose and oppose foreign aid In an orderly and rapid manner. 7. Encourage and stimulate business by lowering taxes. 8. Shout down a Sand Dunes National Park as un necessary, wasteful and trampling on private rights. If one is inclined to wonder if Mr. Cook is "for" anything, or bases being "against certain wonders concerning Mr. of his ten points calls for thing ot which he disapproves. IS "elimination" program is as follows: 1. Elimination of the ftderal Income tax. 2. Elimination ot all foreign aid. 3. Elimination of farm price support program, and a prompt return to the law of supply and demand. 4. Elimination ot federal aid to education. 5. Elimination of any thought of recognizing Red China. 6. Elimination of any proposed bills to socialize medicine. 7. Elimination of proposed Oregon Dunes Nation al Seashore Park bill. 8. Elimination of urban renewal programs. S. Elimination of present sugar program with Cas tro's Cuba. 10. Elimination of all federal participation in any program not specified in the Constitution. One suspects he'd rather like the idea of elim inating the federal government all together, and perhaps return to the Articles of Confederation as our basic charter. E.A. Kennedy's Meanwhile, on the national scene, the Presi dential race is wanning Wisconsin due to choose Hubert H. Humphrey and as its Uemocratic candidate. (Incidentally, not one major presidential hopeful, Republican or anything set forth by Messrs Cook and Fleming. But that is another story.) As the Wisconsin campaign nears its conclu sion, the almost-inevitable religion as an issue debate has broken out, which is too bad. TMORE important, in AT1 religion, is the way getting wnai ne warns. In the case of Senator Kennedy, who wants the Presidency very badly indeed, his methods are of particular interest. They were analyzed in considerable detail by Theodore White in last week's Saturday Review. Kennedy, White reports, has a campaign or ganization which is tight, slick, smart, well- financed, and pretty cold-blooded in making political assessments and then acting on them. White draws a picture of the boyish-looking senator wmcn is much at odds with his public "image." "THE reaction of differing people to this same 1 article have been interesting. One friend was aghast, and declared that this type of cold, bold, machine-like campaigning re volted her. Another said, thoughtfully, "Maybe that's what we need, a man who has a plan, and who goes out to put it into effect with forethought and intelligence and aggressiveness." lioth reactions are understandable. So is the reaction of the very knowledireable businessman who believes that none of the active candidates, of either party, has the stature to take on the world's toughest job. He thinks there is onlv one man in the country today who lias, and that is a man who is. at Adlai Stevenson. E.A. move back into the 19th that "political observers" covering just about any his program wholly on things, one has no such Fleming's program. Each the elimination of some Campaign up considerably, with Tuesday between Sen. Sen. John F. Kennedy Democrat, agrees with our mind, than a man's in which he goes about best, a "dark horse." Dennis the Hill I i a u m rrn n v v svnA i ff 1 1 it fin " fyk J SrSsgaEr Na- 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 Iribune 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. Tha Registration Debate To the Editor:' In answer to Mrs. Kyle's recent letter, I not only charged, but I repeat the charge, that the Republi cans are not interested in do ing the public a service by volunteer registering. Until two weeks ago you (the Republican party), did not have very many volunteer registrars, now, I think, you have five, while the Demo crats have over 40, many that I personally helped to get started, and Joe assured every one that the Republicans had a more lofty course than reg istering. Joe may eat crow yet. As to the 100 registration cards your group processed at the "Sports Fair," you got a lot more Republicans than Democrats re-registered, at a cost to you of $75 for the rent, $25 to build the booth and some dollars for the big Republican sign on it. So each registration cost the Repub licans $1 or more apiece, over the 10 cents you all received We, as Democrats, don't know high finance, but we get our registrations for nothing, no rent, no booth, no signs, which I think you will find, if you read Appling's instruc tions, are illegal. So I would holler that you were doing illegal registra tion, but I am not a party of ficial, so I won't, not like Appling hollered just to get a headline. To close, may I say, aince March 10 I have worked as a volunteer registrar a total of 250 hours, processed 633 reg istration cards, and will don ate the full $63.30-plus that that l earn from now on in the registration period to the Democratic party, for their campaign fund. If I kept the money, I would have earned about 24 cents per hour. Sort of big pay, don t you tlilnkT I can also say that I have registered some 250 or so Re publicans, who not only were happy to find a place to regis ter, handily, but asked me why the Republicans weren't out. Of course I could have said, "They were lazy," but 1 didn't. I Just told them, "Oh they are not organized yet." Some of the other Demo cratic registrars who are vol unteering their time, could tell you similar stories, about Republicans being thankful for Democratic registrars. I truthfully yours, Box 1442 Medford Righteous Indignation To the Editor: 1, too, wish to commend Mr. J. D. Selleck for his timely letter pleading for tolerance. However, after reading of some recent hor rible hnppenlngs, depicting the bestiality of some white men, I'd like to suggest that more people stop shrugging their shoulders and engage in some constructive action to do their bit In protesting things that seem Inhuman. In Portland. Ore., recently, a man and wife, whose Income is in excess of $500 monthly, were discovered treating their own children worse than most farmers treat their livestock! It is apparent to the reader that their grief, after the court took their seven chil dren (two had died previously) away from the parents - their remorse might have been due to loss of income tax exemp tions allowed for each child. How can civilized people be so cruel? If these people's skin had been colored, you can be sure we'd never hear the Inst of the story! Then wa have the recent slaughter of black people in South Africa. It li claar that Menace these colored people were un armed, and had gathered to protest inhuman treatment of their kind. They were shot down by men with armored cars! If it is a crime in South Africa for people to protest against such serfdom as they have been subjected to by their white superiors, then it seems a good time to test the effectiveness of the United Nations or use some method of economic embargo that would force the rulers to mod ify their laws of governing the blacks. If enough people would shake off the usual indiffer ence and unconcern, and write our own government leaders, perhaps something would be done before the colored race is stirred up to armed revolution. We heed more people who will rise up inv "righteous indignation," and do something positive toward eliminating some of the "rot" that goes unnoticed here in our own country. It hasn't been very long since we read of a mob in Missis. sippi that Ignored all the laws of their state to forcibly re move a colored boy from jail satisfied their lusts for tor ture, and tossed the body in the river. The outlaws are free now to repeat thii ghastly crime should some colored boy get "out of line" in their estimation. The white race is only building up trouble for it selves by allowing such condi tions to exist. Philip L. Burns 121 Bush st. Ashland Dog Training ( To the Editor: The dog, like the horse, is to serve man. That was what he was created for. The horse is not permit ted to run loose. Therefore the same pertains to the dog who weighs over 25 pounds. He can and should be under con trol at all times. I have seen very few dogs that run the streets and alleys and soil and dig in other peo ple's property that are hardly worth shooting. A good dog can be taught and trained to be chained, tied, fenced, or In fact anything the master de mands. If the master cannot. or will not, control his invest ment, then he should have an l.Q. test as to animal husban dry. The dog, horse and hu- mana must obey society's laws. There is such a thing as trespassing. The lap dog which takes the place of a child is absolutely a house pet, but these half grown horses are just too big to be at large and should be chained, kenneled and not run at large, unless under an adult in charge on a leash. I have no green thumb, but I respect my fellow man and his rights, es pecially nn his own property, I contend if you can't keep care of anything you have, then you have no right to have it. The old idea that the animal suffers when he is not able to destroy or make a menace of himself Is a bunch of pure hogwash. A dog which is worth having loves to be at home where his peo ple are. He has to have re sponsibilities, just as a human does. If you treat him brain less, he will surely be Just that, and everybody will hate him, and also you. One can not be too careful not to start your training before the pup is over most of his playing. Any time after seven months, for most breeds, you can be strict to the point of almost perfection. It takes from 1 year to 15 months to have a dog which will obey by role Today & Tomorrow By Walter Llppmann PRELUDE TO THE DEBATE There is a saying that to govern is to choose, and when we discuss the President's de cision on nu clear testing, we must be sure not to lose sight of of tha fact that he is confront ed with a cri sis. If he does not offer the Russians a moratorium which they will accept, there will be no treaty. If there is no treaty, the race in nuclear armaments will be wide open, not only as be tween the Russians, the Bri tish and ourselves, but also for China and the East Euro pean satellites. Much of the opposition, as it issues from Uie Atomic En ergy Commission and the Pen tagon, Is based on the assump tion that if we resume the race in the development of nu clear weapons, the United States will surely be the win ner of the race. But have we the right to make this opti mistic assumption? There was no suspension of testing until 17 months ago. From the first test ex plosion in 1945 until the sum. mer of 1958 we were quite free to do all the testing we wanted to do. But so, too were the Russians to do their testing. In the course of those 13 years of an open race, the So viet Union caught up with us and became a first class nu clear power. Why, then, should we take it for granted that another ten years of an open race will see us the win ners, way out in front? THE real question is whether the Russians, testing in se cret, may continue the race while we- have stopped. This is i theoretical possibility. But how much of a probability is It? Not very much, It seems to me, because the rewards of secret testing are not very great while the penalties of being caught are very great indeed. The Soviet dictator who ordered secret testing in violation of the moratorium would be making a gamble at very bad odds. For while there is no cer tainty that cheating will be command or by hand com mand. The reason why we have dogs is to satisfy our needs or hobbies or sport. We must try not to spoil anyone else's chances of enjoying what they love to do or have. Leo A. Rifenbark 1131 Pinecroft ave. Medford. P.S. I have two dogs of my own. Dogs and Kids To the Editor: Re the com munication in the Mail Trib une March 14, Mr. Howell's letter on our dog situation, terrible, I calls it. Let's see that these delinquent dogs be declared out of order, and their owners prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law - if any. After spending 2V4 hours of hard labor removing pop bot tles, empty candy wrappers, and repairing the vandalized mail box, etc., on my prop erty, imagine what It was like to find that some ill-mannered animal had actually messed on my premises. I don't remember anything so disgusting since I last vis ited Diamond lake, and had to use force to get in the privy after the younger set. I got back to my boat just in time to save it from a barrage of boulders accurately hurled by some of the members in ath letics of one of our million dollar schools. A wonderful day? I am not easily upset, however I do tell Mr. Howell that if he de mands an election on the dog question as being a nuisance, I and many thousands of peo ple want to know why we must put up with the things kids do without hollering our heads off. I like dogs and kids. Peo ple should not allow their dogs to annoy other people. Dogs don't know any better. People do. I would ask Mr. Howell to pet his dog, if he owns one. I am sure he will find him or her very easy to train and make behave with a minimum of trouble. But let him think hard and ponder on the boy 17 years old who murdered five or six people in cold blood, a pro duct, I suppose, of our billion dollar educational system. It might be wiser to call an elec tion about that. T. T Goldfrap 775 Posse Lane Medford. Food for Thought To the Editor: Here la food for thought. This item appear ed in Townscnd Courier: 'How old is the world? No one knows for certain. But recently geologists digging In detected, there is no certainty that it can be concealed. There are a good many holes in the iron curtain, in a mat ter of this sort not only the intelligence organizations of the United States and Great Britain and of all the Western alliance, but also organiza tions of the neutrals and in deed of the satellites would be sensitive and alert. A aneak test might be car ried out. But what a mess if the cheater were caught. It would not take more than one defector to give him away and, once caught, the damage to the cheater's influence would be tremendous. Theo retically, It is no doubt pos sible to cheat successfully. There are no doubt instances where men have committed the perfect crime. But every thing has to go right and noth ing must go wrong if the per fect crime is to be committed. a THERE is a risk that there might be a perfect crime, that a sneak test could be Dulled off. But as compared with the other risks we have to live with, this is not a big risk. As I see the problem. the greatest risk is that if we resume the race and step it up, the Soviet Union will, dispite the risks to itself, make China a nuclear power. Almost in evitably we, in our turn, will feel compelled to make Ger many a nuclear power. After that, anything can happen be cause neither the Russians nor we will have control over the issues of war and peace. For this reason the propos ed treaty and agreement mark a critical point in the history of our times. If they can be put into effect, the U.S.S.R and the U.S.A. will have es tablished a very powerful common interest-which is to arrest the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries and to keep control of the ca pacity to wage nuclear war. The alternative to the treaty and agreement which the President favors is to break up the stalemate upon which our precarious peace now rests, and to carry the nu clear competition forward -not only In a few caverns In Nevaua but over the whole field of rivalry between the two great world coalitions. (Copyright I960 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) remote regions ot South Afri ca unearthed four chunks of rock at least 4,400,000,000 years old. The specimens were gray - white granite. Their age was determined by radioactive computation Some scientists say these rocks-give or take 200,000,000 years or so-are just about as old or close to it, as the earth itself." Another important discov ery made by the late Edward W. Payne in his collection "The Imortal , Stone Age," was gained in collecting eight boxcar loads of rocks around the world, in tracing the early North American race that came from the south, moved in a northwesterly direction and Into Asia, then across the northern part of Europe to the British Isles, Iceland Greenland, Labrador down our east coast and back to the southern shores of Lake Michigan; that the Manchus north of China were the abso lute counterparts of the mod ern American Indian; that the great earthwork fortifications at Newark. Ohio, protected the great flint ridge which was the source of supply for flint to make tools, weapons and Implements, that copper implements found in Europe are undoubtedly made from copper taken from the Heda mines, 99 and 100 per cent pure copper in northern Wis consin, as no pure copper found in Europe: that Eeyrj. tian scarabs are found in Mexico, and stone llamas are found in Ohio. All this is sub stantiated by the rocks and relics and the places they were found, taken for granted. Bert Kissinger 520 Boardman st. Medford It's Simple To the Editor: Come to think of it "I wonder why" the people are getting all ex cited about what is happen ing in Africa. All we have to do Is tell "Jungle Jim" and he will straighten things out. Tarzan will even be there to help him. Leo J. Townsond P.O. Box 620. Rt. 1 Eagle Point, Ore. Where Are We? To the Editor: Above Is the heading of an item in the Jan. uary - February, 1952, "Out door America." official pub lication of The Izaak Walton League of America, Inc. It also said: "The development and prog ress of any civilization is un doubtedly hinged directly on the way it uses Its natural re sources. This development in all the great civilizations of the world has followed a defi nite cycle - from bondage right back to bondage. The' P0TIUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributor!) all kinds of people to make the world, the old saying goes. It sure does. Ana mo mm of people we like are those who have a sense of dignity, responsibility and self-respect. Like the elderly man who came into the Jackson county public welfare office a snort time ago. Was he looking for help? No, sir, not this time. He had been neipea, once before, when he had to have an operation and couian t pay for it. So this time, he brought in an envelope full of currency, and insisted on Daying the welfare depart ment back for the cost of the operatlon-with interest, too. With the primary election only seven weeks away, the political silly season Is well advanced. One of our young men was talking with a po litical office-seeker tha oth er day, who has been cast ing about for ideas as to how to keep his name be fore the public. Our man suggested that he sponsor a dog-control ordinance a suggesting which was po litely, but quickly and firm ly, rejected. Our man also reports that there is a hotel In town which has two signs in the window. One says "Morse for Presi dent." The other says "Office for Rent." Our man comments that either the Morse-for-President Democrats aren't very opti mistic, or that the Intel man agement is pessimistic. On the other aide of the political fence, our man (the same one-he's sort oi a political connoisseur) re ports that, since the Re publicans have moved their headquarters into the for mer location of the Med ford Health Club, they can now offer health, as well as wealth and prosperity. This, of course, would be in re buttal to the Democrat who, hearing of the new GOP location, said it confirmed hit long-held suspicion that the Republicans were "sick, sick, sick." We are now In a position to report on the Sevenmile situation. In case you didn't know concern of our people about our natural resources follows a parallel cycle. Here are the steps in a cycle in numerical order: 1. From bondage to spiritu al faith. 2. From spiritual faith to great courage. 3. From courage to liberty. 4. From liverty to abun dance. 5. From abundance to sel fishness. 6. From selfishness to com placency. 7. From complacency to apathy. 8. From apathy to depen dency. 9. From dependency to bondage. "In a little more than three generations we have already traveled more than half way through the list." Selfish minorities' insatia ble greed for wealth and power; desire, aye, demand, for amusement, pleasure, en tertainment; wanton destruc tion of God-given abundances, with which a people may pros per; destroyed, civilization de cays, never was processed so fast or so visibly plain to be seen as in America the past few decades. John E. Gribble 139 Kenwood Medford Try and -By BENNETT CERF- A NEW YORK PUBLISHER was entertaining for luncheon a very snobbish Boston dowager who had gone to college years earlier with his wife. "You New York peo ple," she complained, "make friends of the weirdest people. The old standards seem to mean nothing to you any long er." Just then a man came shambling down Madison Avenue, with his white hair waving in the wind, banjo tucked under his arm, and a sheaf of paper bulging from his pocket "Look at that fellow, for example," miffed the Bostonian. "I'll bet you know him, too." "Indeed I do," said the publisher heartily. 'Td like to In troduce you to Mr. Carl Sundburg.' Bob Campbell defines a disk Jockey as a radio blgshot who If paid a princely wage to sit before a microphone, separate good records from bad ones and then play the bad ones. C U bj Bauttt Cart SUtrfautci by Slag restart Saoicaia there was a Sevenmile situa tion, Its all been straightened out by the U.S. Board ol Geographic Names. In Klamath county there li Sevenmile creek, which rises in the Rogue River Na tional lor eat, then flows northeast, then south, to a point where it' is diverted into Sevenmile canal. Sevenmile canal, In turn. flows southwest into Agency lake. The names have been for mally adopted by tha Board. Perhaps it should be added that Sevenmile creek Is la miles long, and Sevenmile canal is six miles long. If you ever had any doubts that the ultimate in mechanized civilisation has been achieved, wa can now set your doubts at rest. Not only has a portable beverage bar been invented, which can be attached to the handle of a golf cart, but an even more impor tant Invention has been cre ated - a gas-powered pogo stick which, after the first few jumps, hops along with no expenditure of effort on the part of the operator. Honest. It Is patent No. 2,929,459. a After last Sunday's column appeared, we rather thought we had the quail and pheas ant problem pretty well in hand, with the use of "bevy" and "covey" to Indicate a group of them. Not so. however. A woman called on Monday to report that a "nide" of pheasants is a nest or brood of the birds. And our dictionary says she's rignt, too. Gosh, this is an Interesting business, Learn new thingi every day. a a The very minute we saw It, we knew we'd hear from That Man In Phoenix. And we did, too. "It" was a typographical error, where the word "yarns" came out yawns." Well, you can guess what TMIP did with it. "Yawns," he said, "are al ways associated with nappy materials, except in the deep south, where knitting machines transform them into sleeping garments." Sure, sure, sure. a There are a couple of peo ple in the office who get fired a couple of times a week, but it never seems to take, some how. One of them, who was "fired" for talking back to the managing editor, and for not knowing how to spell "carburetor," wrote a letter which went sort of like this: "To the Editor: As a former employee of your paper, I would like to express a few previously suppressed opin ions. "1. 1 like billboards. In fact, I'm nutty about billboards. "2. Polluted air is wonder ful. Who needs breathing? "3. The National Guard armory snouia be closed to the public. "4. , You should move to Little Rock. "5. You wrote one good editorial recently, but I can't remember what it was, and if I do, I'll keep reading it until I find something wrong with it. "6. I'll fight to the death for the 23rd amendment. "Name bitterly on file." a Since he showed up for work the next day, we have a hunch he had his tongue stuck a little way into his cheek. But we wonder if ha knows just how many people agree with him? Stop Me CARL Mf
