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10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 22. 1950 (Friday)
Daylight savings time w
end Sunday and Mcdford will
join the rest ot the nation In
turning back the clock.
Morrlson-Knudsen company
today was awarded the con
tract to construct the second
Medford-Big Butte springs
city water pipeline at a cost
ot $422,669.,
20 YEARS" AGO
Sept. 22, 1940 (Sunday)
A market steer project has
been added this year as a new
feature of the 4-H Livestock
Show, according to L. E.
Francis, county club agent.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
m I... TJrti nnliimn: "Au-
tumn has come again to these
parts, as usual, In between
the hot summer and the hard
winter.
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 22, 1930 (Monday)
Southern Oregon Normal
school opened in Ashland to
day with an . initial enroll
ment of 300.
Citv Attorney Frank P.
Farrell will present a pro-
vifieAA nnti.nnUf ordinance to
the Medtord city council
when they meet tms wee.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 22, 1920 (Wednesday)
Depositors of tho now de
,,r,M inolrsnnvllle bank will
receive 25 per cent of their
deposits, It has Been an
nounced, i
t nnai frnltinpn fnvor a new
blight law that would have
stricter provisions.
SO YEARS AGO
oun 99 lain IThuradawl
. State Railroad Commis
sioner Oswald West today
nrrismH Rnnthnrn Pacific rail
road to reduce freight rates
in southern Oregon from id
to 22 per cent, depending on
ih frnioht plAflslflcntlon.
Total voter registration In
Oregon is 107,729; Including
74,037 Republicans, 23,148
Democrats and 10,544 split
among the oilier parties.
What's Your I.Q.7.
Nina er ten correct ll tuperleri
even el eight ll excellent: five ei
III li aeea.
. 1. The Island of Sicily be
longs to which country
2. Name the British Prime
Minister who succeeded Win
ston Churchill.
3. The comic opera "The
Mikado" deals with lit in
what country?
4. During which war were
Thrift Stamps sold?
8, Who composed the music
for the song, "Ah! Sweet Mys
tery of Llfo"?
6. Smoking is, or Is not,
permitted by members of Con
gress while on the floors of
the Congress?
7. Did Henry Wallace, Hen
ry Clay, or John Adams say,
"1 would rather be right than
President"?
8. In mythology, who is rep-
ai.innin1 Bat kin rlnM Ola An T I fa
' on his shoulders?
, atatcsman of Spain, Eire, Por
tugal, or Argentina?
- ; 10. It the bugle call reveille
founded to arouse soldiers in
the morning, or to signal
, "lights out" In the evening?
Answers) 1. Italy- 2. Clem
ant Altlee. 3. Japan. 4. World
War I. I. Victor Herbert. I.
Is not permitted. 7. Henry
Clay. Atlas. I. Eire. 10. To
ioimV
Fine Plan,
Project Twenty-Twelve, a loner rancre nrocxam
for development of public lands and facilities
under control of the Interior Department, was
sent Congress recently by Interior Secretary Sea
ton, The Cabinet member glowingly described it
as a program aimed at the ultimate national good
through full development of public lands and
their crops, whether timber,-grass, recreation, or
anything else.
Although copies of Project Twenty-Twelve
have not reached these provinces, it seems likely
Seaton is correct.
IF SO, the staff people in Interior who prepared
the plan are to be complimented, especially so
if Project Twenty-Twelve comes up to the stand
ard set a little more than a year ago by the De
partment of Agriculture's Program For the Na
tional Forests. The latter was sent to Congress
by Agriculture as a 20-year, step-by-step program
for development of the National Forest lands,
aiming at sustained yield and full utilization, as
well as multiple use. It laid down how much would
be spent each year to accomplish the goal.
Atrnculture developed
National Forests alter requests ior a long-term
program were repeatedly made by Congressional
appropriations committees. It seemed to some
members of these powerful groups that fund re
quests for public land uses from the Executi 2
Department were not planned over a long enough
term to make good use of the money. They want
ed to know where the public lands were "head
ing."
iROJECT Twenty - Twelve, which is even a
lontrer term nlan. seems to be the Interior
Department's answer to
same sources which prompted the Program For
the National Forests.
But all is not quite right with the idea of plan
ning forest and public
the long haul.
The Program For the National Forests which
met so much approval in Congress and elsewhere
last year apparently did not sink through to the
Administration ' which proposed it. When the
1960-61 fiscal year budget came up from the
White House last spring there was no mention
of the Forest Service's program, and more im
portant, no request for money to implement the
first year of it. Congressmen, especially those
from timber-producing states, as well as conser
vationists in general, were
S.THIS the fate we can expect for the Interior
Department's Project Twenty-Twelve?
These plans make excellent propaganda, sent
to Congress and released
ing-statements extolling merits 01 the plan and
of the Administration which had the foresight to
Drenare it. At last, it would seem, a comprehen
sive conservation program
But announcing a plan
two different things; The
gram For the National Forests which has been
stalled, but happily not stopped, at least yet
does not oooe wen, ior
Coos Bay World.
' (A slory concerning Project Twenty-Twelve ap
pears on Page 2B of today's Mail Tribune.)
Isolated From What?
One silly turn, it seems, deserves another.
Havine determined to restrict Messrs. Khru
shchev, Kadar and Shehu to Manhattan Island
during their visit to the United Nations treneral
Assembly, the Administration was bound to fol
low with Dr. Castro. If now Mao Tse-tung or
Patrice Lumumba should decide to attend, pre
sumably the Administration would seek to con
fine them to a telephone
the East River.
What otherwise would be a praiseworthy de
cision by President Eisenhower himself to speak
to the General Assemblv and nresent snecific
United States proposals
inevitably will be overshadowed by this cloud
oi negativism.
DESTRICTIONS on travel are repugnant to
American tradition and belief. There will
seem to be no reason for them except pique and
petulance. Security is undoubtedly a genuine con
sideration; but the Administration could have
warned clearly of the dangers without itself im
posing a ban. It could have said to the uninvited
visitors that they were
liked but that personal protection could be guar
anteed only in New York.
Well, we are very sorry, for we think that all
of this shows the worst face of the United States
and the most myopic side of American policy to
the world. It presents a free propaganda issue to
this country's detractors. And it also casts a pall
over any travel plans of
dent Nasser, for both of whom a tour of the unit
ed States would be useful.
TPHE purpose of the
been explained, is to "isolate Mr. Khru
shchev. Far from isolating either Mr. Khrushchev or
Dr. Castro, it isolates the United States from
world support and automatically creates sympa
thy for the victims of what will seem to be sheer
harassment.
Are Mr. Eisenhower and Mr. Herter trying to
justify the headline attributed to the British news
paper of some years ago: "Fog Blankets Chan
nel i Continent Isolated"? Washington (D.C.)
Post,
But It Costs
tne rrogram ror me
similar requests from the
lands development over
dumbtounded.
to the press with glow
is at hand.
and carrying it out are
experience of the Pro
rroject twenty-iweive.
booth on the shore of
next Thursday almost
free to go where they
President Tito and Presi
whole maneuver, it has
Dennis the Menace
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... Communications ...
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contrary is often tne case'. '
He's a Good Guy ,
To the Editor: "Name on
File (M-T, Sunday, Sept. 18)
should get a driver's training
manual which would tell him
or her that the basic rule is
"having your vehicle under
control at all limes."
Now, to the gripe about the
log trucks, I wonder how
many times they have pulled
out into the lane of traffic
in front of a log truck, saying
to themselves, "Oh, well, I
don't want to follow that slow
truck, so I'll just pull out and
if he hits me that is his fault
for following too closely."
I can't count the number
of times this very situation
has happened to my husband,
and only by very good driving
he was able to avoid an acci
dent. Another thing, I wonder if
"Name on File" realizes that
the logger, whether he is a
driver or in the woods, in
reality, is the support of this
valley.
It is my understanding that
the PUC taxes are used to
build new roads and to main
tain the old ones. My husband
pays a tax of $15 for a 192
mile trip. Then he has the
rough roads tearing up his
tires. On top of that there is
insurance, fuel and general
upkeep. He works on the av
erage of 18 hours a dy. He
is earning several times over
the little he gets.
The truckers know that if
they maintain the right speed,
they can go all the way down
Riverside without having to
stop. But they can't do that if
they are speeding.
Show a little kindness to
the poor log truck driver. He
really is a good guy, just try
ing to earn an honest living.
Ella L. Fltzsimmons
Route 4, Box 400
Mcdford
Meteor
To the Editor: Tuesday eve
ning around 8 p.m. I sighted
a huge fireball the size of a
volley vail traveling miles per
second towards the earth in
a northly-east direction from
Mcdford.
I just entered the front
yard from posting a letter,
and did not have time to run
to end ot the house to get a
longer view of the fiery ob
ject. Bert Kissinger
520 Boardman st.
Medtord
Socialised Medicine
To the Editor: Tuesday's ed
itorial on socialized medicine
has much truth in it, but I
Try and Stop Mo
By BENNETT CERF
"T0 YOU KNOW why the number thirteen is unlucky?"
- asks one of the characters in John Kersey's compelling
new book, The Child Buyer. "Probably because primitive
man learned to count by
using his 10 fingers and
2 feet Anything beyond
12 was mysterious and
unlucky.
"Turning to money,
many people abhor $3
bills because they are
supposedly unlucky, yet
it's the $1 bill that has
13 letters on it in 'H
Pluribus Unum, 13 let
ters in 'Annult Coeptis,'
13 stripes in the shield,
13 leaves, 13 berries, 13
stars, and 13 arrows!"
Spotted this ad in a London newspaper: "Wanted: young man
to learn the advertising; buslnesa in an old established agency.
Good opportunity for son of a, large national advertiser."
Joe Hi Lewis confides that he's gone on ft balanced diet: Two
Wghballi In each hand. ...
MP I
UB ISNT" STICKING HIS TONGUE OUT
QlTKo FAR IN THIS ONE .... V
feel, not that, It misses the
point, but rather, it does not
fire at it.
Most thinking doctors re
alize that it would be possible
to make more money and en
joy shorter hours under a so
cialized plan. Socialism would
probably also include paid va
cations and other fringe bene
fits. However, the possibility
of reducing paperwork is ludi
crous - if anything, it would
increase in triplicate.
Many doctors, like myself,
have served their term of so
cialized medicine in the mili
tary. I had more spending
money, free time and benefits
than I have now; however, the
practice of my art suffered as
did that of my fellows. It is
this reason that I argue
against socialism in medicine.
I have never met a person
who thought that military
medicine was comparable to
civilian medicine. I am cer
tain that they are right and
it is not. The professional man
in the fact that he has
chosen a profession over busi
ness, of an independent na
ture. When he is legislated to
the status of a civil employee,
as in the military, he tends
to treat his patients as cus
tomers and quantity replaces
quality. When an exciting pro
fession is reduced to monot
ony, as it was in service, its
practitioners are sorely press
ed to refrain from mediocrity.
You continually throw so
cialized medicine in England
up to your readers as a work
able and enjoyable solution
but you forget (or do not
know) that socialism and pri
vate practice both exist there.
If you were a cancer sufferer
in London would you consult
a socialized clinic or a Harley
Street specialist for relief?
Please withhold my name
If you choose to print this.
(Name on File - D.D.S.)
Medtord
Hot Potato
To the Editor: I may have
missed it, but having followed
every session of the last Dem
ocratic convention in Los An
geles I failed to note one word
spoken on the subject of big
otry until Mrs. Eleanor Roose
velt was allowed the stand.
Being there along with
wisccrackcr Stevenson for the
avowed purpose of stopping
Kennedy, she took advantage
of the occasion to remark
that she was happy to note
that the subject of bigotry
had not been brought Into the
convention.
Notice the sneak punch?
She brought it in through the
Russian Nerves Frayed by Hostility,
Setbacks in United Nations Actions
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
The something-less-than a
hero's welcome Niklta Khru
shchev received in New York,
JBJPjn plus Soviet
'mM setb a c k s In
Jrm the United Na-
tlnna' .ie be-
1 ginning to
how in fray-
ed Russian
nerves.
Khrushchev
i.-v. .i nunseii man
ivHfJ ageda smiling
i'ilil. n r. II au.11 ui.niivc
spite hostile demonstrations
which greeted him in New
York harbor. He also main
tained his calm as he watch
ed booing, jeering college stu
dents outside the converted
Park Avenue mansion which
is the Soviet Union's U.N.
headquarters.
But if Khrushchev has been
able thus far to hide his irri
tation, some of those about
him have not. '.,
Even Communist correspon-
back door but didn't enlarge
on it - it was not a welcome
subject so she just let the
egg hatch - and hatch it sure
ly did.
Having a pretty good idea
of how many thoughtless big
ots there are1 who dote on
her words she couldn't resist
this great chance to put one
below the belt, again at very
small cost to the bigot brigade,
by reaching about all of us
over television on such a mo
mentous occasion.'
She had to taint the air and
it is still "smelly" the country
over.
And now? Well, she won
ders why Khrushchev and his
gang of cut-throats are being
restricted.
Should we listen to her,
nd to you Mr. Editor, and
allow them another chance to
peddle insult and propaganda
throughout our land and show
to our allies, friends and the
world in general, what suck
ers we are?
That last remark by Mrs. E.
R. apropos the handling of
the Russian delegation to the
U. N. was just another sneak
punch. But now that she is,
perforce, in the Kennedy'
camp it is aimed at the pres
ent' Republican administra
tion.
It is not pleasant to con
template the sleazy slickness
of the outside and the slimy
putridity of the inside of our
national political platter as
held up to our view by some
of our pseudo leaders.
Isn t it enough that we are
divided racially, but that we
should be. cast, pell mell, into
the hatreds and visciousness
of a religious division?
There are too many of our
citizens who would gladly see
this country go to pieces rath
er than restrain their bitter
ness toward their fellowmen.
We are handing the Com
mies a potato that is too hot
for us to handle but cooked
to order for their menu.
They will know what to
do with iHo our loss.
- W. A. McKcttrick
336 Crater Lake ave.
Medtord.
Help at Sad Time
To the Ed tor: I would like
to thank the American Cancer
Society of Mcdford for their
help during the recent illness
of my father, Frank Jay Cook.
I am very thankful for the
supplies and assistance which
they contributed during his
illness. Also, I would like. to
thank the many friends in
Shady Cove, Medtord and
other places for their many
kindnesses during this sad
time.
Louise Berg,
133 Willamette ave., ..
Medtord.
Albacore Tuna
Said Not Biting 1
Seattle - (UPI) - The Fisher
men's Co-Operative Associa
tion Wednesday reported that
Albacore tuna were sighted
off the Washington coast, but
that the fish weren't biting.
"The fish are southwest of
Grays Harbor, but there's no
action in them," Bert John
son, manager ot the associa
tion, said.
Meanwhile, the few fisher
men who have been catching
Albacore are faced with the
lowest price in IS years.
Johnson said prices have
been dropped to $273 a ton in
Southern California canneries.
The price is the same at Coos
Bay, Ore., and Westport,
Wash., but fish taken to those
two spots have to be trucked
to a cannery.
The Aator.lt, Ore., cannery
lias been paying $300 a ton
dents used to writing home ot
an unending series of person
al triumphs for their leader,
have been unable to disguise
the fact that the circumstanc
es of his arrival have been
less than successful.
Move Suggested
It drew from Pravda, the
Communist newspaper in Mos
cow, the bitter suggestion that
"the United Nations cannot
work calmly in America" and
that the time, had come to
shift the U.N. headquarters to
another city. .
"American authorities," it
said, "intentionally create, a
hindrance jn the activities of
the United Nations.? . .
Pravda added that United
States security regulations
limiting Khrushchev to Man
hattan Island proved that the
Transistorized Cogitation'
Upstaging Human Cerebration
By DICK WEST
Washington-OIPIt-The day Is
coming, I do believe, when
a thinking man won't even
be trusted to
choose his
own cigarette
filter. ; .
- 'This will be
done for him
by one of
those eiectron
ic brains,
which will
know better
than the smok
er himself just what his tastes
are and what brand suits him.
Some indication of the in
roads that transistorized cogi
tation already has made into
human cerebration can be
seen in a ' report published
by a House subcommittee on
the use of electronic com
puters by the federal gov
ernment. "Electronic data processing
generaUy should be restricted
to operations which are im
portant in the making of deci
sions , . . the ability of elec
tronic data-processing equip
ment to make simple, prepro
gramed decisions should be
fully exploited," the report
says.
If I interpret these lines
correctly, and I am sure that
the government and I don't
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
THE RELIGIOUS ISSUE
. The exchanges between the
Protestant ministers and Sen.
Kennedy have jiot settled the
"religious is
sue." But they
have clarified
It. There
could have
been no such
thing as ignor
lng or sup
pressing the
issue. The
only effect of
not discussing
it openly would have been
to leave the whole discussion
to fester in the dark, anony
mously and maliciously.1 No
doubt the black propaganda
will continue. . But at least
there now exists a respectable
and responsible discussion of
the issue.
'Thanks to the initiative of
the Protestant minister a 1 1
the honest and decent fears
and doubts about a Catholic
for president have been stated
and placed before Sen. Ken
nedy. He in turn has reacted,
not with resentment but, by
recognizing that the question
is "very important," that ' a
discussion of it is legitimate,
that the Protestant ministers
had the right to interrogate
him, and that he does not
regard their doing this -as
"prejudiced or bigoted."
Sen. Kennedy's reaction to
the ministers' questions,
which were sharp and search
ing, was extremely interesting
and important. He might have
explained that to raise ques
tions about his religion was
a violation of the spirit of
the Constitution, that the min
isters were setting up a re
ligious test for public office.
But he did not . do that. On
the contrary, he chose to rec
ognize that the questions rais
ed by the ministers were real
questions, not slanderous fab
rications, and that an Amer
ican Catholic running for pres
ident must answer them.
THE . questions ' put to Sen.
Kennedy arise, according
to the ministers, from the at
tempts of the Catholic church
"to exercise control over its
members in political and civic
affairs." The crucial point is
whether the authority of the
Catholic hierarchy or the con
science of the office holder is
to determine what is and what
is not a political and civic
affair. The case of tho Protes
tant ministers against Sen.
Kennedy is that "while the
current Roman Catholic con
tender for the presidency
s t a t s specifically that he
3
mat
Walter
Uonmanll
selection of New York as a
headquarters had been "un
wise." There is no doubt that the
U. S. action placing shackles
on the head of a great nation
is for Khrushchev a humiliat
ing experience.
It was one of two blows that
befell him after the Baitika
which carried him to New
York, already had put out to
sea. ...
When he left Moscow, his
friend Patrice Lumumba was
riding high as the Russian
approved premier of the Con
go. ...
There was reason to believe
that Khrushchev could face
the 'United Nations General
Assembly with the. Congo
safely in his pocket.
always speak the same langiv
age, they mean that tne com
puters already have passed
the mere bookkeeping stage
and are now being used in
an executive capacity.
At last count, the govern
ment had on hand 523 elec
tronic computers, plus an un
disclosed number used for se
cret work in the Defense De
partment. All but 17 built
especially for the government
were rented from commercial
firms.
One agency is paying $3,
103,250 a year for the use of
a single computer. Fancy that!
I doubt that Albert Einstein,
who was about the best we
had in the way of human
brains, made that much in his
entire lifetime.
Nowhere in the report could
I find any figures on the total
annual cost of electronic brain
work, but a telephone call to
the subcommittee produced
$150 million as an approxi
mate figure.
Under the Civil Service
scale, a top-rated human
thinker receives about $19,
000 a year. Thus, moneterily,
the 506 rented machines rep
resent about 150,000 homo
sapiens.
Assuming that the govern
ment gets its money's worth
out of the equipment, it fol-
lippmann
would not be so influenced
(by the Catholic hierarchy in
political and civic affairs), his
church insists that he is duty
bound to admit to its direc
tion. This unresolved conflict
leaves doubt in the minds of
millions of our citizens."
This leads to the precise
question which Sen. Kennedy
had to deal with. I think it
can be stated this way. Where
will be his paramount duty
and loyalty on questions
where, as for example birth
control, the influence of the
Catholic hierarchy has been
used to impose by law on
non - Catholics the Catholic
doctrine?
SEN. Kennedy's answer is
that "I do not accept the
right of . . . any ecclesiasti
cal official, to tell me what I
shall do in the sphere of my
public responsibility as an
elected official." This is a
declaration that as an elected
official he, and not the Cath
olic hierarchy, will determine
what lies within the sphere
of his public responsibility.
In this, the separation between
church and state is as com
plete as it can be made. But
that is not the end of this
story. The Protestant minis
ters have probed still more
deeply. They have raised the
question whether a good Cath
olic can be as independent
and as secular as Sen. Ken
nedy declares himself to be.
The way the senator dealt
with this loaded question is
to my mind the most interest
ing, the most significant, and
the most creditable and con
vincing thing, in the whole
affair.
.
HIS answer was in effect
that on the crucial ques
tions of church and state not
all Catholics think alike. His
declaration' of freedom from
ecclesiastical control in politi
cal and civic affairs is "the
opinion of the overwhelming
majority of American Cath
olics, and I have no doubt that
my view is known to Cath
olics around the world." His
position, he asserted, is "a
position of the American Cath
olic church in the United
States with which I am asso
ciated." It is not the position
of the Spanish Catholic church
in Spain, or qf the Colombian
Catholic church in Colombia.
It is the position not ot all
American Catholics but of
"the overwhelming majority"
of them.
These are the answers of a
yprave and truthful man.
tc) 1960 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
He arrived in New York un
der far less favorable circum
stances. Lumumba was out
and so was Khrushchev's own
diplomatic corps in the Congo.
From the latter chain of
events came the Russian at
tack on U.N. Secretary-General
Dag Hammarskjold and
speculation that the Russians
may now seek Hammar-
skjold's ouster.
However, -neither this nor
a serious Russian move to
change the U.N. headquarters
seems likely now. Hammar
skjold is firmly supported by
the Afro-Asian nations whom
Khrushchev now would not
like to irritate. Further, New
York provides the Russians
with a listening Kost they
would not like to lose.
lows that electronic .brains
can out-think the mortal va
riety by a ratio of about 300
to 1.
I don't know how you feel
about this, but I'm discour
aged. How, .for instance, are
we going to convince our chil
dren that education is im
portant if they find out that
299 out of every 300 of them
can be supplanted mentally
by a few strands of wire and
a couple of transistors?
Some of them, of course,
will be needed to operate the
equipment. It is estimated
that the number of federal
computer personnel will jump
from 4,000 in 1958 to 170,000
by 1966.
But, by and large, it looks
like brains will eventually be
come obsolete, like rumble
seats and rinnhio . k.ot.j
- wttnoici,
suits. I know of several gov
ernment officials who already
have stopped using theirs,.
in the Days News
By FRANK JENKINS ,,
From East Lansing, Mich,:
An ordinance setting a quo
ta on the number of dogs and
cats allowed local household
ers has been adopted by the
East Lansing city council.
It limits pet-lovers to four
cats or dogs or four of any
combination of each as three
cats and one dog, or one dog
and three cats or two cats and
two dogs.
As long as the total number
of cats and dogs doesn't add
up to more than four, the
householder will be left in
peace by the city authori
ties, that is. Irate neighbors
will have no standing in court
so long as the combined num
ber of cats and dogs remains
within the legal limit.
TTMMMMMMMM!
I'm afraid the city of
East Lansing is leaning in the
direction of GOVERNMENT
RUN EVERYTHING.
That's bad business. .
OUT- ; .
in this still free coun
try, we must remember that
the rights of each individual
are limited by the rights of
OTHER INDIVIDUALS.
For example:
You have a right to own
a dog. But you have no right
to let your dog annoy your
neighbor ... by digging up
his flower beds, if he hap
pens to be a flower lover. You
have a right to own a cat. But
you have no right to let your
cat catch and eat your neigh
bor's birds, if he happens to
be a bird lover.
So, maybe the city of East
Lansing isn't so far off base,
at that.
pETTING on with our slory
" Raymond B. Campbell,
city attorney , admits that
some complex legal and hu
mane problems are involved.
For instance:
If an. East Lansing cat has
kittens or an East Lansing dog
has pups, he says, the owner
will be given a reasonable
time to give them away, sell
them, or otherwise dispose of
them. '
"rVTHERWISE
V them."
dispose ' ot
Those are weasel words.
They could mean almost any
thing. They could mean taking
them out on a road, miles
from anywhere, and dumping
them. Or it could mean just
deliberately moving away and
DESERTING THEM.
Imagine yourself as a cat
. . .or, more particularly, a
kitten . . . that has been a
happy member of a household,
cherished by its members,
made to feel that it Is one of
the family, that its future is'
secure and there is nothing to
worry about. Or a dog ... es
pecially a dog that since pup
pyhood has been a pet.
T DON'T like that East Lan
sing ordinance. It goes too
far in one direction and not
far enough In the other. It
ought to provide that anybody
who goes off and abandons
pets shall be hung up by the
toes, . .