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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
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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.
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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."
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