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THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkim SHOP MONDAY NIGHTS 'TIL 9 "CHARGE IT AT MANN'S' I 7 MtfWSAEr And L Go On According to Plan Years ago the mighty tree had fallen; now the prostrate trunk was being reduced to dust by the complex synchron ization of various natural agencies, all working silently together. What had been the heavy tree trunk was now the home for a varied assortment of creatures and a host of as tociated plants. On the old trunk the rains of summer patted delicately: the mois ture, penetrating the now spongy wood, benefited each i and every one, each in its own way. . , The steady beat of the rain- ' drops does not lull the In mates to slumber; most of ' them work around the clock; for them there is so little time. First Workers Shortly after the tree fell th first of the workers be gan; up from the forest floor came the termites, mis army , unrkrrx tunneled through the tissues of the dead tree trunk, Bit by tiny bit tney wallowed the wood, allowing and depending on tiny or ganisms inside their elongated bodies to reduce the woody material to digestible food. In the mouldy bark, wood boring insects burrowed, throwing out tiny streams of wood-dust. Fungi, mildew and mould began the slow, steady process of disintegration. Beetles pu3hed and shoved their hard bodies under the loosening bark, excavating tunnels and cavities for the disposition of their eggs. Vines clambered over the old trunk, sending their roots down into the softening wood, gathering strength and mois ture from the porous bark -pulling, pushing and silently tearing at the spongy tissues of the dead wood. Even the hitherto hard heart-wood was no longer Im pervious to the tearing-down process that was at work. A cavity developed, running al most the entire length of the old trunk. Once this tunnel appeared, the attack on the wood occurred from the in Ids as well as from the out lide. Animals Movad In On. end of the tunnel be cams a den. Small animals moved in, digging with sharp claws at the softening wooa, making for themselves living compartments. Ants scurried inside, some carrying bits of fungus that would grow In (he warm, dark interior and would hasten the decomposition. In the length and thickness of the old trunk, a galaxy of living creatures, great and mall, had found a home. And each was contributing its Individual bit to the futhcr ance of Nature's plan. A tree that once grew and lived and plunged Its roots deep Into the forest floor, raising Its mighty crown above the forest, was now prostrate and undergoing de composition, as iar as use fulness was concerned It had .completed its purpose. Now, Nature with all the forces at her command was reducing It back to dust, turning It back to mould and humus so that a u c ceedlng generations of trees could feed upon its tissues. Old Plan Nature employs the sun and the rain, the gnawing of ani mals, the tunneling of Insects, and the chemistry of disinte gration. It Is a plan worked out eons ago; a combination of many agencies working to ward a definite end. And all the hosts of living things that make their homes In the old trunk; what of them, when the Job Is done'' Feverishly they work, by their labors they destroy the sanctuary they discovered. In the complex plan this, too, is foreseen. Provisions have al ready been made; by the time the trunk Is reduced to dust other trees will have fallen. Other hordes of animals, insects and plants will be there, ready to carry on the work of creation. He who gives so lavishly, and He who takes away, oversees the plan and con trols the outcome - the great, pulsing heart of Life bcais rhythmically - all according to plan. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1960) Mark Twain Was Hated in U.S., Red China Says Tokyo-IM - Mark Twain was hated by U.S. ruling rcac- tinnnriPR hprausp nf was "progressive" author who ex posed America s "imperial ism" nnri "nii,rnKsivi nut rages," according to the Chi nese Communists. The allocutions were mad at a gathering of literary workers In Peiping to com memorate the 50th nnnlverarv nf Ihf fnmprl nnvnliKl nnH ps. sayist. The Communist New China News Agency broadcast the report of the meeting. Twain was described as a world cultural eiant and pro gressive" of the 10th century who "exposed the 'Dollar Em pire'." Unceasingly Exposed Thp RnH Affennv nunlpH Lao Shch, vice chairman of the Communist Chinese Writ ers' Union, as saying: "From the day the U.S. became an imperallst power in the 1800's, Mark Twain unccas- tflnlv pxnnsprf lis nifixrpssivo outrages against the underde veloped countries of Asia and Africa and also the false civil ization of U.S. capitalism. "The so-called democracy, freedom and equality of whlnh ITS. rnnitnlists wnrp wont to boast provided ma terial lor nis nigniy satirical short stores, prose and essays . .-. merciore mam i wains works were scorned and hated by the U.S. reactionary ruling class, he said. Patients Can't Be Forced Under Kni Salem - (CPU - A tuberculosis patient confined to a state in stitution by an order of the State Health Board cannot be compelled to submit to sur- : gery, according to Attorney General Robert Y. 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