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MAIL TftllUWl MWforf, Or. Sunday, May 22, I960 "Evervon tn Southern Orego Reads The Mall TriVine" Published Daily except Saturday Vj MED FORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St.. PhSP2-14l ' ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HKRB GHF.V AdveitisinR Manig t-T-T, . , t r attj AM Rita. Mar. tu'ir w ALliN JR. Mni. Editor KARL H ADAMS, City Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Kditor oLivfc siAw.ni.il, , PALE ERlCKSONOrculatlon Mgr An inaepenncni i"-i"r' Entered as second clns matter Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1807 By Mai! In Advance. Copv tflc Dally and wmaay i y' Daily and Sunday 6 mni. fl Daflv and Sundnv 3 nws 4 r. . j .. i fin vkaf S4 20 Rtr rnrriir In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point E a 1 Point, Jarksonville. Gold Hill -ni -. l" Dnffll HIV. r, Talent and on vnotnr rnute Dally Bnd stinnav i yur i no .60 rtaiiv nd sunnav 1 mo Carrier and Denlera copv 10c All Terms casfi inaovinct Offlrial Paper of'citv of MedfofT Offlrlal Papr of Jackson Coantr " United" Press International Full Lensed Wire V.P.I. Telephoto Newsploturei TSe"MBFR"OF AUDIT IMfKlfiAU"" OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of- Troll, na" r i niii invi. -'' Seattle. Portland, St. Louia, At lanta, Vancouver, NEWSPAPER BLISHERS SOCIATION NATIONAL E0ITORIAI ASMJCATrai -v miirAJwu.'.irrj Flight o' Time Medford and Jckon County History from the file of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean oo. 10 YEARS AGO May 22, 1950 (Monday) A $125,000 bnnd Issue and continuing 4-mill levy for the fire department were nassed by the voters of Med ford in the primary which will provide for new equip ment, sub-stations and an alarm system. State highway crews start plowing out the mountainous drifts of snow wmcn nave clogged the 27-mlle length of the Diamond lake cut-off road. 20 YEARS AGO May 22, 1940 (Wednesday) J. B. Coleman defeated Ralph Billings of Ashland by margin of 14 votes ror tne HeDublican nomination for county Judge. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Quite a few citizens have become so excited about the war in Europe, they read the front page before they do the fun nies." 30 YEARS AGO May 22, 1830 (Thursday) Shorter road to Pacific high way Is sought by district south of the golf course. Medford city council votes $1,000 to the humane society, and $250 for the Crescent City harbor project. 40 YEARS AGO May 22. 1920 (Saturday) General Wood carries Jack son courty as presidential choice, but Hiram Johnson carries most of rest of stale. 80 YEARS AGO May 22, 1910 (Sunday) The basement of the new three-story Rogue River Elec tric company building on West st. is being made Into one of the finest cafes on the west coast; to be called Rath skeller Cafe. What's Your I.Q.? Mine or ten correct it tuperlor; even or eight it etcctlcnr; five or lix ii good. 1. U.S. terms of years? Senators serve two, four, or 2. What unit of weight is used to weigh diamonds? 3. The $20 currency notes have a likeness of which of these U.S. Presidents: Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln? 4. Which State has a coast line longer than any other State? 5. Name the early American statesman who said, "We must all hang together, or assured ly we shall all hang separate ly." 6. Name Ihe boxer who held the world heavyweight championship longer than any other fighler. 7. Silkworms feed on the leaves of what tree? 8. Was it Noah Webster or Daniel Webster who compiled Webster's Dictionary? 9. "Old Dominion Slate" Is the nickname for which east ern State? 10. Senator Humphrey, Democrat, represents which Slate in the U. S. Senate? Answers: 1, Six years. 2. The carat. 3. Andrew Jack ton. 4. Florida. S. Benjamin Franklin. 6. Joe Louis (11 years, 8 months, 7 days). 1. Mulberry. 8. Noah. 9. Vit Sinla. 10 Minnesota. J 4A Mr. Chagla's Warning The so-called "birth control controversy" has simmered down a bit in recent months. But it remains an intensely alive issue. It will be recalled that the news not long ago was filled with the comments of religious and political leaders concerning the "rightness' of governments making birth control information available upon request. How about the views of the people making the request? Are we to ignore their pleas for help? TUf C. CHAGLA, India's ambassador to the United States, touched on this subject last week at a national conference on the world popu lation crisis, held in Dallas, Texas. The United States "cannot afford to be neu tral" on birth control and planning, he said. And he added: "I must frankly confess that I am very Impatient of the arguments which are advanced against birth control and family planning on the grounds of moral ity, and I hope you will forgive me if I speak frankly and bluntly. "What is the morality which condemns millions of children to poverty and destitution? Is it moral that children should be born Into this abject condition, or is it more moral that children should not be born at all?" INDIA, with a population of some 400 million, cannot now feed its people, and the govern ment is one of the few which has an official policy of cutting down the birthrate. (Pakistan and japan are others.) The world can accommodate a population much larger than the present billion people. There are areas which are still undeveloped which can house and feed many more people. But this is not expandable indefinitely, nor does this offer any relief to the overcrowded areas of the world. India wants to cut its birth rate in half. So does Pakistan. Japan, almost alone among the highly-populous nations, has had some success in lowering its birth rate, but only at the cost of legalizing abortions. TTHIS is the background to be considered in viewing the search for a new, effective birth control measure, preferably cheap, simple and foolproof. If it is not devised and effectively employed, we can foresee nothing but misery and strife. Ambassador Chagla, indeed, said that the danger of the "population explosion" in Asia is as great as that of nuclear weapons, which, if it is not controlled, "may destroy the whole of our civilization and reduce such human beings as might be left to the worst Mankind has the gift of intelligence. It is time he started using it tne Jiorrors ol a world Holocaust on one hand, and the horrors of famine and overcrowding on the other hand. E.A. Wilderness and Reforestation Throughout all the national forests in Oretron there is a total of about 487,000 acres which need reforestation the planting or seeding of trees so they can grow up into usable timber. Last year, only 1,252 At this rate, it would plete the reforestation program. And meanwhile, the lands are lying idle, unproductive, mostly unusable, ana in most cases, unsightly. ihis is the result ot foolish policy of forest posed on the forest service by a budget-minded administration, and by congress. JMONEY spent in reforestation is not recklessly smprtt.. npvpr tn lip cppn nrram Snort ovnDnrli. ture is an investment, with the ultimate return much greater about six times greater than the original investment. In Oregon, timber is a jobs, payrolls, business and economic activity. And it means lessening of local taxation, for Oregon's counties receive considerable revenue from forest service timber sales. Last year this amounted to about $ll,0uu,U()u out of the total forest revenues of more than $44,000,000. UE DO NOT have the figures for the O & C " lands in western Oregon, but the situation is comparable. And the importance of the O & C lands to the western Oregon counties is of even greater importance than that of the national forest lands. Those who object to "locking up" some of the forest resources in wilderness areas would, we believe, be better advised to press for better utilization, better management of proven com mercial lumber areas, now lying useless, than to press for the commercial use of areas which serve best as the last remaining samples of America's once-great wilderness. E.A. New Law Needed The state legislature should do something about the confusing wording of the old (about 1919) dog control law. There's no way of telling how many, but we'll wager a lot of people voted "yes" Friday who wanted dogs controlled, and others voted "no" who wanted them to run free. The control measures passed in both city and county, but no one will ever be sure whether it was the people's real intent until we get a meas ure where "yes" means yes, and "no" means no. E.A. horrors of a dark age." constructively, to avoid acres was reforested. 'take 388 years to com a penny-wise, pound- land management im basic resource. It means Dennis the 'I'll ADMIT HE WAS NICE TO MB Ht GAVt Me THc UlCBH IN 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 pub lication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necossarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Christians and Others To the Editor: A U.P.I, news dispatch last week told of a California pastor who plans a "20th Century experi ment in the worship of God.". On May 29 an Encino, Calif., congregation will listen to a hour-long sermon with jazz band accompaniment. This may startle some. However it is a known fact that the love-sick, sentimen tal, and jazz rhythms of our day have for some time been finding their way into relig ious worship. We are living in an age when the church and the world seem to be walking hand in hand. Professed re ligionists of our day do the same things, wear the same attire, drink the same, smoke the same things and view the same things that the average non Christian does. The sad part of it all is that so many look to these persons as Christian examples. Walk Into the average church mem bers home today and there is little to differentiate it from any other home. Time that was once given to con structive activities is now squandered. The T.V. and ra dio blares out their constant stream of rock and roll, and announcements urging indi viduals to smoke this brand and drink that brew. Human ity seems to be in a constant dither and rushing on pell mell toward some unknown. How sad that so many of us sit by and fail to discern what our existing state of affairs point lo. The news telling of Mr. K of Moscow to me is a direct fullfillment of predic tions uttered centuries ago. With an array of death-deal ing impliments of destruction at their disposal, we find that "nations are angry." Some, I realize, will class the writer as a calamity howl er. If you feel so inclined then please get out the old Book and read it for yourself. Don't take what I say. If its pages seem dull and dlsinter esting It la perhaps because you have failed to get acquain ted with Its Author. Yes my friend, when you fall in love with the Author of the Book of Books your life will take on a new meaning. All the threats of Mr. K will not frighten you. You won't find yourself bickering and find ing fault with others, and your present dim outlook will be changed to a hopeful up ward look. Henry Johnson Jr. 2400 Highway 68 Ashland, Ore. Acklin's Bad Day To the Editor: Aye sure got trouble. Aye ain't had so much trouble since Vo kicked der bucket uf buttermilk on ricr sod floor uf der kitchen in der sandhills uf Colorado. Dot vas der first lesson in building. Ve had to got der shovel und turn der floor up side down, and rake it, und der spring housecleaning vas finished. Some people learn from der ground floor up, but Aye learned from der sod floor. To-day, und every day, der telephone rings, people vant somcting done. "Vould you please come ofer to der house und fix der dining room ceiling, so dor plaster von't drop into der soup?" "Vould you pleacc come ofer und fix der roof, before It rains again?" (Did you efcr try to fix der roof between rains in Oregon?) "Der cat yust yuniped through der screen door und got der foot caucht in der mouse trap. Vould you com ofer und fit del screen, und Menace WHILE I WAS SICK. BUT THE flK$T PLACt ' take der cat from out uf der mouse trap?" "Der parakeet flew into der paint vot you put on der kit chen yesterday. Vould you come und take der paint off'n der parakeet, und put him back In der cage?" (Aye can take der paint off'n der para keet, but it kills der bird.) "Der hot vater tank yust busted. Vould you bring der plub, der mop und der buc ket?" "Vile you vas here, you might yust as veil paint der whole house." "Vy vasn't you here yester day? Did you vent fishing?" Dot vas yust some uf der tings vot happend yesterday. Vot do you tink happened to day? Aye von't write avout it. Everett Acklin. Ashland, Ore. Doesn't Mean a Thing To the Editor: I note letter "Strange Creatures" by (Name on File) in Thursdays Mall Tribune concerning horse and buggy days. I didn't know before the reason for a lap robe was to protect against "green pas ture" fertilizer. We had a light robe for summer as a dust protector, a heavy one against the winter cold. However it was our horse. We didn't carry protection against our neighbors' horse. The way this dog control measure is put on the ballot it doesn't mean a thing. Mary E. Atkins 1634 Orchard Home dr. Medford. Why The Blunders? To the Editor: It is a sad commentary on our modern school-learning that is being shown up in the U2 plane flight over Russia. It is hard to visualize an illiterate who could blunder us, as a nation, into a brinked-up dangerous situation as West Pointer Pres ident Eisenhower and his col lege trained advisers have done. And sadly, too, editors of the printed page have gone along In designating the in spection flight as a spy-flight, which of course it is not. The basic need of a spy or spying is secrecy, a hidden act as de fined by Webster's. The U2 inspection flights have been conducted in the open, their vapor trails ob servable from the earth below and observable on the radar screen as all flights are above tree-top flight level. We, the common people of America, appear to be the only ones ig norant of such flights that have been going on for at least the last four years when the Soviet refused to go along with any kind of dependable Inspections. Then why did the Soviet al low these inspection flights to continue? Joe Alsop in a re cent issue of the M-T was un sure but intimated that it was because the Russias could do nothing about it. This is hard to accept. For the Soviet with real and practical spying that gave them our cnginering data, could and did build planes equal to our own. My simple brand of logic tells me it is their everlasting schem ing, knowing that eventually one of the planes with me chanical trouble like jet-engine flame-out. would bring it down to conventional aircraft fire that would force it to land and they would then have an issue to rave and blus ter and threaten the free West Into more concessions that lead Inevtiably to commun istic slavery. Our mose irevlous blunder was failure to have territor ial air limits established w here international air flights would be legal, this before the inspection flights started. A In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS Speaking in Pelping. Red China's Premier Chou En-lai says "U.S. IMPERIALISM is the arch-enemy of world peace." Hmmmmmmmm. Does he mean the peace of the slave? If so, he's right. BACK in 1774, Patrick Henry put it this way: "Is life so dear or peace so swet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slav ery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" Our forefathers felt that way about it them, and I think we all feel that way about it now. DOWN In Long Beach, Mu nicipal Judge Charles T. Smith sentences a parent to five days in jail for slapping a teacher. (The parent ex plained in court that he slap ped the woman teacher be cause he had been told that she had slapped his ten-year-old son.) COMMENTING on the case Judge said: "Teachers should have a strap handy to keep discipline in public schools. Today a great many families are ignor ing discipline in the home on the theory that the schools are doing it. But teachers are not meting out punishment because boards of education frown on it. He added: "It's a vicious circle, and something ought to be done about it." THAT is to say: Spare the rod and spoil the child. npHE idea that sparing the A rod may spoil the child is ancient doctrine. So far as known it was uttered first about four centuries ago by John Skelton, an early Eng lish poet who wrote in his Magnyfycence: "There is nothynge that more dyspleaseth God "Than from theyr children to spare the rod." Earlier American genera tions tended to go along with Skelton, putting it to their offspring something like this: 'If you get it at school, you'll get it again when you get home." T ONG Beach's Judge Smith - evidently goes along with the old idea-but one fears it won't gain him many votes at the next election. long time ago when the then modern cast-iron cannon could hurl a black-powder powered solid shot three miles sea ward, our forefathers using wisdom instead of wishful thinking, declared territorial waters, a valuable guide-post we seem to have ignored. F. J. Clifford Route 2, Box 200F Central Point, Ore. Oregon is Blessed To the Editor: The people of the 4th District in particu lar and the people of all Ore gon in general are blessed by an outstanding representative In Washington In Charles O. Porter. Congressman Porter was the guest speaker at our an nual dinner meeting in Buck ingham, Pennsylvania, and in order to fulfil his engagement he drove 336 miles in one day. We later learned that he had been in Montgomery, Ala bama, the previous evening and the day following our meeting he had a television forum to do in Boston. How wonderful to have a representative who is devoted enough to the ideals of peace, brotherhood and democracy to give so generously of his time and energy. May he re main in Congress and go on to even greater postions of responsibility. Thomas E. Colgan Executive Director Friends Service Associ ation for the Delaware Valley, Inc. Fallsington, Pa. Program Needed To the Editor: I truly wish everyone in this valley had been up and were listening to radio K-DOV at 7:10-7:13 a.m. Thursday. The announcer gave a thought-provoking short talk about the difference between Democracy and Communism. I also wish that our govern ment would follow through on a plan that would help us not only now but a hundred years from now. We have a wonderful coun try, surely somewhere in these United States there are intelligent men and women who could figure out a pro gram that could carry out our principle of living without be ing changed every time there is a different party in office. Let's learn to be patient too, but first let's have t program that we feel sure will live on after we're fone and our chil dren too. Thank you Tex. Lauretta M. McPherson, ' Route 4. Box 410 F. Medford. Matter of Fact PACING SUETONIUS Paris - Maybe the follow ing story will make the as tonishing Paris performance of Nikita S. Khrushchev a little more understandable, or at any rate less astonish ing. It is the true story of the last scene of the life of Josef Stalin, as told by K h r ushchev himself. When the josEra alsop aging tyrant was finally stricken, all the members of the Soviet Presi duin were urgently summoned to the Kremlin. These men, whose victor and survivor Khrushchev was destined to be, gathered in Stalin's own bedchamber for their last scene with their maker and master. Lying on the bed, still fit fully breathing, but speech less, sightless, motionless, was the unconscious and moribund Stalin. The Kremlin doctors assured the assem bled members of the Presi dum that their patient could not recover and was, indeed, almost certain never to regain consciousness. AT THIS, all these men -Lavrenti Berla, Stalin's bloodstained private spy and executioner; Georgi Malen kov, who had seemed to be Stalin's favorite; the clown ish Khrushchev, who had danced the "Gopak" at Stal in's orders, and all the rest -burst into denunciations of the dying man. The burden of fear was lifted from their shoulders. The terror was at an end. Some perhaps foresaw that in their inevitable war to the knife with one another, anti Stalinism would not lack value as a weapon. So they all but competed in reviling the helpless and inanimate lump of flesh upon the bed. And among them all, Beria was loudest in his curses. Then, quite suddenly and unexpectedly, Stalin briefly regained consciousness after all. He even recognized two or three of the men in the room and weakly greeted them by name. COULD he have heard all that had just been said? The question filled the minds of all. For a moment, all ac tors in the drama were frozen in their places. And then Beria broke the spell by fling ing himself onto his knees, seizing Stalin's palsied hand, and covering it with slobber ing kisses. Such was the story, told by Khrushchev to prove what a wretched time-server Beria had been. A similar descrip tion of the last terrible scene of Stalin's terrible life was ob tained in Poland some time ago by the able Michel Gor dey. But it is something new to have it from Khrushchev's own lips, as he himself re counted it, during his previous visit to France, to a witness of the most undoubted accuracy. Or is it really new? one asks oneself. Gesture for gesture, the scene is reproduced in the grim "Lives of the Caesars" of the Roman historian Sueton ius. The aged tyrant Tiberius was also prematurely belived to be forever unconscious. The new tyrant, Caligula, tak ing the ring of power from his uncle's finger, went out into the halls of the villa to receive the slavish congratu lations of the courtiers. THEN came the fearful word. Tiberious had roused him self and called for refresh ment. As tl.ough by magic, the slavish crowd around Cali gula dissolved into a cold void. The scene ended, hower, when the guards commander con ferred belated truth on the premature report of Tiberius's death, by suffocating the old man in his bed pillows. One Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF YfTHEN DARRYL ZAnUCK: commuted between his film " studio and his Palm Springs retreat for weekends, he moved his entourage with him. Sara, the barber, who was else would have been there to shave the Zanuck whiskers?) usually drove down with Gus, the but ler, but one day he re belled. "That butler is the craziest driver In Cali fornia," he insisted. "I enjoy living too much to ride with him anymore." So Sam took a bus. He Was dozing peacefully halfway to his destina tion when there was a horrendous crash, and Sam was showered with shattered glass. "Some so-and-so has run into us," cried the bus driver. Be was right. And who had run into (he bus? You art right Gus the butler! "Love," a brand-new film star assured a newspaper tntervlewer, "means much more to me than money. I to tend to wait until the right millionaire conies along C Utt, fcj SumU CM SisvAute by Bag Tiatans) (s4kaa wonders whether the Judg ment of the Kremlin doctors was justified In the same man ner. A mostrous experience does not always transform men into monsters. All of history stands witness to the fantas tic leatherlness and resiliency of the human individual. But a man who has been mon strously formed may quite easily behave monstrously at intervals and under stress. This was the thought, at any rate, that crossed this report er's mind after Khrushche's macbre farewell to the sum mit. Editorial Comment NAGGING DISCOMFORT A nagging discomfort has been at the back of my mind for a couple of weeks, de manding expression. It flows from Vice Presi dent Nixon's remarks about "religion and politics" during a newspaper editor's conven tion. What he had to say about the matter was momen tarily jarring but it was smothered under a wave of unctlous velvet. But since, it has kept com ing back to mind - as if it were a ghost from the past, a glimpse of "old Nixon" be neath the smooth homogen ized lawer of "new" or "states man" Nixon. He said: "There is only one way that I can visulize religion being a legitimate issue in an Amer ican political campaign. That would be if one of the candi dates for the Presidency had no religious beliefs. While the candidates in this campaign have differences t.i issues, they are all men who recog nize and cherish, both in their personal and public lives, the religious and moral principles which are the very foundation of our American ideals . . , This fact removes any excuse for continued discussion of a so-called religious issue." This sounds as if an athiest, an agnostic, or perhaps even a non-professing and non-practicing Christian like Abraham Lincoln, would be barred from the Presidency and eli gible for attack because of, shall we say, a "non-religious" issue. As a matter of political practicality, there are not many Americans in this cate gory. Mr. Nixon's platitudes are not likely to offend many, if any, who are in his camp now. There seems to be just a trace of the harshness here which once characterized Nix on's attitude toward dissent in his statement at the edi tor's convention. This rejection of dissent has always seemed strange to us, coming from a man whose own professions of faith are to a religious group which is the epitomy of dissent, toler ance toward dissent, and non violence. The often quoted (of late) Article VI of the U. S. Con stitution says "... No reli gious test shall ever be re quired as a qualification to any office or public trust un der the United States." All deplorers of bigotry keep pointing out that this means it does not make any difference what a man's re ligion may be, he is qualified to serve and shall not be questioned about his beliefs. Nixon would add, "So long as he believes." But is that what the Consti tution means? It seems to us that it means a man can be any kind of a Christian," or Moslem, or Buddhist, or any sort of cult ist, but also that he can be none of these or nothing. Forest Amsden, writing from Washington, D. C, in Coos Bay World. Eavrryl Zautcb POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) FOR MEN ONLY: Does the Dicture below r. mind you of anyone? Hmm? 0. trrWr' " One of our reporters looked in on a couple of polling places during Fri day's election to see how heavily the voters were turning out. He returned to report that the members of the election and county boards probably were re cording pounds while they recorded votes. He noted many of them had handy, for "breaks," many boxes of candy, rich cakes, cook, les, and other calorie count ers. Saaaay, guess who was building without a city of Medford building permit? The city of Medford was, that's who. For almost two weeks. In the rush to get the ren ovation of the city jail com pleted, to provide three new police offices, no one remem bered to take out a building permit. It finally dawned on a sec retary in the building depart ment that the city had been in violation of its own ordi nances. A permit was hastily obtained last Wednesday. Any red faces? Or, more to the point, any penalties? Newspaper people, par ticularly reporters and edi tors, are often asked ques tions. So last week, when a telephone caller inquired the price of scrap Iron In Portland it didn't faie the newsroom staff - even though they didn't know the answer. The caller said she had about 100 tons of scrap for sale. Later the business manager learned of the conversation, and, with a stricken look said "I'd better check ihe new press. It weighs 108 tons." A marled man of our ac quaintance sidled up to our desk, blushed, and dropped the following note thereon: Shortly after World War II there used to be a song, some of which was "She wears silk underwear, I wear my GI pair; Hey boy, that's where my mofiey goes!" After a brief shopping trip with the wife, we agree, al though we've along since worn out our GI underwear. A handful of the silky stuff caused us to shell out $15. Pondering a pioneer cus tom, we wondered if panties by Pillsbury shouldn't be re vived as an economical part of the wearing apparel of the womenfolk. We wondered, too, if this early-day wearing apparel didn't literally cause many upright women citizens to be even more upright in their carriage. By bending over, they might provide more ad vertising for a flouring mill than Intended. e TODAY'S PHILOSOPHY Count chickens as you would your blessing; Be sure you have a lot of dressing. And as with chicken, feel quite free To share it when there's company. That Man From Phoenix Is running Into competition. Mrs. RLW of Medford mail ed us a clipping from our favorite newspaper which said "All mothers of service men and women are invited And she added the com ment, "... and all my life I'd thought mothers were women!" Now look, Mrs. W-what was meant was . . . We are informed on good authority that a local drug gist has offered, free, quan tities of black ink to any taxing unit needing same. One is tempted to classiiy him as either an optimist or a peisimist-an optimist because he thinks taxing units might all be in the black, or a pessimist be cause he feels safe in mak ing the offer. John Pruitt, vice president of Uie student body at Jack son school, has an interesting item explaining his duties in the most recent Issue of the Jackson Journal. (We're tempted, as a matter of fact, to send a copy to Mr. Nixon.) Ttiie is what John says: "I think the office of Vice Pruident Is an exciting of fice. You don't have much to do, but you have enough, such as taking over the Pres ident's office if he or she is sick, eating with the student body officers and Other such things." - : ...gj
