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History from the files of The
Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 90 years eg.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 16, 1950 (Monday)
Firemen today . reminded
Medford residents that it is
still necessary to telephone
the fire department for per
mission to hum leaves and
rubbish and also that no
burning is permitted after
dark. -
A Medford pilot and two
sportscasters for radio sta
tion KWIN, Ashland, had a
close call Saturday, when
their light airplane crash
landed on highway near
Eugene on a flight from Med
ford to Portland. ; ,
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 16, 1940 (Wednesday)
More than 800 men signed
' up for the Army at the local
draft office between the hours
' of 7 a.m, to noon today.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
: Smudge Pot" column: "With
a corn-husking machine in op
eration in the valley, cpmes
the news from upstate that
turkeys this year will be
picked by machinery, and
time may produce a lawn
that will rake itself."
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 16. 1630 (Thursday)
. Bill Bowerman, Medford; is
a member of the University
of Oregon's football team this
season and is "eyed as
comer." ;
A young married man here
has admitted he accidentally
set fire to the Presbyterian
church while burglarizing it
last week,
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 16, 1920 (Saturday)
Herbert Alford, leader
of
Medford's Imperial orchestra,
has left for San Francisco to
learn the latest dance music
Sun today followed a week
of mist-like weather.
SO YEARS AGO
; Oct. 16. 1910 (Sunday)
Supreme Court Justice Will
R. King, who endeared mm
self to southern Oregon real
dents by casting the dissent
ine opinion in the recent
ruling against a legislative ap
propriation for construction
' of the Crater Lake highway,
: Is visiting Medford this week
Tomorrow Is the last day
to register; there are now
- only 1,350 persons registered
. In the Medford precincts, far
less than the total of 1,600
, registered two years ago.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er leu correct Is superior;
even or eljht Is eacellenti Hve er
lii It oed.
1. In tennis, what ts a score
of zero called?
2. Where are Nobel prizes
awarded?
, 3. Who was the first Roman
to lead an expedition to Brit
ain?'
4. What Is the translation of
. habeas corpus"?
5, How many arms does an
octopus have?
6. What were the first two
major political parties in the
, U-S.7
7. How high is the Wash
ington monument?
8. Who was the Prophet of
the Mormons?
9. What is a Presidential
salute?
10. What did Little Jack
Horner eat?
Answersi 1, Lor. 2. Swt-
dtn. 3. Julius Caesar. 4. "Pro
duce the Body." S. Eight. 6.
The Federalists and and Re
' publicans. 7. 845 feet and '
inc. 6. Joseph Smith. 9. Twenty-en'
funs fired in succes
sion. 10. Christmas pie.
"National Significance
"Familiarity breeds contempt."
"A prophet is not without honor save in his
own country." ,
These old and wise sayings, each with a great
measure of truth, come to mind when we consider
the proposal for the creation of an Oregon Dunes
National Seashore.
Some people living in the immediate Seashore
area nersist in runniner down the ootential of a
national seashore there,
in e;ood shane the wav
nothing so terribly special about the dunes, any
way.
And those who support the uronosal are ridi
culed for wanting to create a great, new, federal-
ly-ownea recreation area.
"THE crux of the matter, we think, was stated in a
recent address by Elmer F. Bennett, under
secrectary of the interior. He said, in part:
xne department ot tne interior nas long supported
the policy that only park and recreation areas of na
tlonal significance should be acquired, conserved and
managed by, the federal government; that regional,
state and local agencies should help in sharing the
load ..."
With this we agree.
Cities, counties and the state must assume
(and, it should be added,
role in park and recreation planning 'and adminis
tration. This is proper
areas HjaUHiFT those ot
NOW, do the Oregon
The denartment of
President Eisenhower, thinks so.
A great many people
and compared them to other areas, think so too.
But some ot the people along the Oregon
coastline, and some other
their familiarity with the
nize this, and the fact that we have an unexam
pled opportunity to make the shoreline a mecca
for people from all over the world.
Not since UraterLake
tional Park (and not without considerable local
opposition, it should be noted) has Oregon had
such-a chance, i
a
IF IT were not for the unique quality of the Dunes
qiaq um T.rr.liT1 a man tViof -fhn TTt-ii'isef Camn'no
the state, the county, and private entrepreneurs
would be the logical developers' and exploiters
or tne area s potential.
But the Dunes AKE
, They have "national
cause of that, their preservation tor future gener
ations is not a foolish
money.
It is, rather, a once -
tor Uregonians.
Those who deride it
standing of its true importance and true worth.
E. A.
Constitutional Revision
The Constitution of the state of Oregon,
drawn up in 1857 and ratified in 1859, and since
amended and amended and amended, needs re
vision. Many of its provisions are the work of special
interests, which have proposed amendments by in
itiative, and talked a majority of the voters into
going along with the change.
Other articles are pretty well outmoded.
And, "while we see no need for any maior or
sweeping change in our state form of government,
our basic charter certainly would benefit by
i. i i j ? i i. i i , i ,
uenig uiiiuueu uuwii, revised, Di'ougnt up-io-ciate.
JTHERE are three ways this can now be done.
1. The legislature can propose single changes
to be voted on by the people.
2. An amendment can be proposed by initia
tive petition, then ratified by vote of the people.
3. A constitutional convention can be called,
which could propose changes or an entire new
document, which then would be subject to a vote
of the people.
Note that only one of the three permits anv
complete revision such as is needed. The other
two permit piecemeal amendment only.
MEASURE No. 5 on the November ballot would
f"A provide a fourth method of chantrinir the
constitution, one which could effect a major revision.
It nronoses to amend
the legislature to revise
thirds vote of both houses required to do so), and
then submit it to ratification by vote of the people.
There is no known opposition to the proposal.
which has practicality,
its side.
Even if it passes, however, it mav be an aca-
deiffic change. As it is now constituted, there is
some doubt that two-thirds of both houses of the
egislature could ever agree on a new Constitu
tion.
If they do, however,
pretty sound document to
for approval or disapproval.
We recommend a "yes
E. jL
declaring that things are
thev are. and that there's
are assuming) a greater
for all good recreation
national significance.
Dunes have "national sig-
the interior, hacked bv
who have studied them,
Oregonians, blinded by
Dunes, refuse to recog
was set aside as a Na
:
unique.
significance." And be
waste of taxpayers
in - a - lifetime opportunity
lack vision, and under
She constitution to nermit,
the constitution ( two-
economy, and need on
it would nrobablv be a
nresent to the voters
" vote on Measure No.
Dennis the Menace
. ,HfUO104.IN3! WHATfe KJP DINNER?
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
THE ISSUE OF PRESTIGE
It is unwise of Mr. Nixon
to pretend that there is no
problem of American pres
tige-no prob
lem, that is to
say, of our
power and in
fluence rela
tive to that of
the Soviet Un
ion. This is in
fact the su
preme Ameri
Walter
Mopmanji
this era.
ca n problem
For there is no
doubt at all that the position
of the Soviet Union in world
affairs has risen greatly in the
past ten years. This is one of
the facts of life. The Soviet
Union has risen from military
inferiority to military parity,
and from a close containment
its influence has expanded
into all the continents.
The problem or our rela
tive power and influence is
not an imaginary problem. It
was not dreamed up by the
Harvard professors or by the
Kennedy family. It is the par
amount problem which domi
nates all of our dealings with
the outer world .-
The President cannot be
taken seriously when he says,
as on Monday, that there is
no such problem because we
have not lost a vote in the
U. N. in 15 years, because a
hundred heads o state have
expressed a desire to visit the
United States, because Presi
dent Sukarno told him that
the neutral nations always
look to the United States to
maintain peace In an interna
tional crisis.
This is1 talking down to the
voters. It is treating them like
ignorant children. It is to as
sume not only that they do
not know the score, but are
incapable of finding out what
it is.
AN OBJECTIVE view of the
Drnhlpm nf rnvtllna moot
begin, it seems to me, wilh
the position of the United
States at the end of the sec
ond World War. With our
monopoly of the atomic bomb,
with our brilliant economy in
a world where victors and
vanquished alike were on the
edge of prostration, we were
invincible and invulnerable
in war and without an equal
in the councils of peace.
Is New Flowering of American Spirit Due?
By ERIC SEVAREID
London - As the British
Labor Party conference end
ed after voting for a neutral
ized Britain,
the London
column ist,
"C a s s a n
dra," wrote
that "One of
uglier by
products was
the continu
ous rumble of
anti - Ameri
canism. When
Sevareld
some speakers were short of
a jibe, they were fairly cer
tain of a growl or approval if
they sneered at the United
States as a grossly material
ist society with a taste for
total war."
One of the ablest British
correspondents in the United
States informs his readers
that "The United States is
just another country." An
English novelist, popular in
New York and Washington sa
lons, exclaims at London din
ner parties, "America is fin
ished." O
These are the straws In the
European winds that repeat
edly sting the checks of those
Americans abroad who dwell
deeply enough in European.)
thought and society to feel the
currents of change. Week aft
er week the attitudes reflect
ed by such remarks as these
are projected in the press and
broadcasViig of Britain and
111
Lippmann
We were the leading influ
ence in vast new areas of the
world which had never be
fore been within the Ameri
can sphere of influence, the
whole Pacific ocean to the
shores of Asia, Europe to the
frontiers of the occupation,
and all the lands behind the
theaters of war from which
Japan and Germany had been
expelled, into which the Rus
sians had not yet been able
to enter.
In the first few years after
the war American power and
influence had been extended
far beyond anything Ameri
cans had ever dreamed of or
that any sane American had
ever wanted. In many critical
ways, as in the Marshall Plan
and in our plans for the res
toration of the vanquished,
we used our power and influ
ence effectively and benefi
cently. But there was a grievous
fault in our policy. It was
the failure to realize that our
position was greater than it
could remain, that we were
over-extended and that we
must prepare to climb down
from the dazzling paramount-
cy of the first post-war year.
: ...
THE turning point at which
our riAsppnf haH -tn hnatn
was in 1949, when the Soviet
union not only oroke our
monopoly of nuclear weapons
but showed the world that out
of the devastation of the war
she had achieved an economy
capable of the highest feats
in technology and production.
The story of the '50s is the
story of our failure to rise
to this challenge, indeed to
realize it, and our failure to
achieve a foreign policy for
what was becoming a wholly
new balance of power in the
world and a wholly new sit
uation. This failure to realize what
had happened as a result of
the rise of the Soviet Union
has left us with an economy
which is sluggish as compared
with our vital needs. It has
left us with a defense estab
lishment which is not leading
but is working hard to catch
up in the race of armaments.
It has left us with a foreign
policy which is defensive and
which lacks initiative because
at so many critical points it
has been immobile - immo
bile because of our entangle-
France, from sociolosical
studies to the snide pinpricks
of the quick-trip writers who
incessantly portray America
in terms of New York's juve
nile thugs, Las Vegas strip
teascrs, race riots and Holly
wood scandal. i
There is nothing new in all
this. What is new is that this
saturation has finally produc
ed a sea change in the minds
of million of Europeans, who
no longer think of America
as one with them, as an in-'
tegral part of the Western
mosaic of life, the chief pro
tector of their liberty. They
now think of America as a
third party, almost as alien
in spirit as Russia, almost as
reckless a threat to their lives.
It is little wonder that
Prime Minister Macmillan
acts like an intermediary be
tween East and West as often
as he acts like ICA's partner
indeed he wins more home ap
plause in the former than in
the latter role. It is little won
der that Charles deGauIle can
drive American bombers off
French soil and threaten the
American-dominated NATO
command structure while ex
periencing only murmurs of
specialized criticism on his
home grounds.
And it is little wonder that
Khrushchev does all in his
power to make the world be
lieve that his quarrel is with
America, and America alone.
It is in this sense that his i
Matter of Fact bv Joseph auop
THE SOUTHERN : :
PROSPECTS
En Route with Lyndon
Johnson - On this Southern
safari with Sen. Lyndon B.
John son of
Texas, the
striking fea
ture is the de
meanor of the
local D e m o-
cratic leaders
who turn out
to greet their
vice presiden
tial candidate.
The confi
dence of these men is restor
ed, their party spirit is re
newed, i
Consider, for instance, the
immensely astute Sen. Her
man Talmadge of Georgia,
one of the few remaining
real state bosses in the U.S.
Initially, Talmadge was out
raged by his party platform
and extremely cool to his
party's nominees. Even today,
he continues to denounce the
platform. But he is now go
ing all out for Senators Ken
nedy and Johnson, and he
predicts that Kennedy and
Johnson will carry Georgia
by a generous 60-40 margin.
A similar case is the new
power In Florida Democratic
politics, Governor - designate
Farris Bryant. Bryant began
by threatening to enter un
pledged electors, in order to
spare Floridans the painful
choice between Senator Ken
nedy and Vice President
Nixon. But he too is all out
for the ticket today, in Just
the way that Talmadge is.
.
FURTHERMORE, Kennedy's
stock has risen visibly in
Florida. The Democrats are
making no claims as yet
about, this state which they
once considered hopeless.
But Republican National
Chairman Leonard Hall has
privately admitted that the
most recent Republican opin
ion tests show the Democrats
running ahead in Florida by
a narrow margin.
Altogether, the Democratic
prospects in the South have
immensely improved in , the
last month, at least in the
opinion of the men to whom
Senator Kennedy has deputed
control of his campaign in
this region.
Just about every member
of this Southern strategy
group is on the Johnson sa
fari. Thus it is possible to give
the Democratic high com
mand's current inside 'esti
mate of the way the Southern
states will vote this year.
T N brief, only two states are
still conceded to Nixon
These are Virginia and Okla
homa, with a total of 20 elec
toral votes. The Southern
states where Nixon is still
considered to have an even
chance are Florida, South
Carolina, Tennessee, and
Kentucky, with a total of 39
electoral votes. But the im
provement of the Democratic
outlook in Florida is less im
pressive than the recent im
provement in Tennessee. If
Kennedy wins these two states
in the end, he will gain 21
electoral votes from the bloc
of states where Nixon is
ments with Syngman Rhee
and with Chiang Kai-shek,
and on a different level with
Dr. Adenauer.
THE issue of our prestige
is surely the overriding is
sue in this election. But it is
a difficult one to explain, as
Mr. Kennedy is finding, and
it is an easy one to obfuscate,
as Mr. Nixon and Mr. Lodge
are demonstrating. But the
last word has not yet been
spoken.
d a r d a r l c propaganda on
slaughts are serving his pur
pose, far more than is under
stood by those now pleased by
his rebuffs at the United Na
tions. He is not concerned
with the waves, but with the
current. When , high-minded
Englishmen tell' their people
that "America is finished" or
that "America is just another
country," they mean that the
American dream has died,
that the vision and promise
of the new world have with
ered away, that America is no
longer the haven of the poor,
the strong and simple defend
er of the oppressed abroad or
even at home, that we have
run our course and are no
longer the last, best hope of
man.
e
This is what they truly be
lieve, and so one constantly
buffeted by this current is
astounded to hear Vice Presi
dent Nixon proclaim that
American -prestige in the
world "has never stood so
high." An affronted American
can tell himself that "gross
materilaism'Ohas taken 101
possession of nearly every
European society, that the be
ginning and the end of Brit
ish foreign and domestic pol
icy often seems to be the pres
ervation of Its present afflu
ence, that the French are pro
foundly materialistic in spirit,
that the Germans are in full
lust for the fleshpots of afflu
JOSPLO
thought to have a reasonable
chance.
In the soIid-for-Kennedy
category, are the main deep
Southern states, Alabama,
Arkansas, Georgia, and Louis
iana, with 41 electoral votes.
Kennedy can also count on
Mississippi's eight electors, if
their votes go to anyone but
Jefferson Davis.
Finally, the pretty-sure-for
Kennedy group of states com
prises North Carolina, Texas,
and Maryland, with 47 elec
toral votes.
From all this, the Kennedy
strategists for the South con
clude the Democrats can rea
sonably count on the 75
Southern electoral votes
which Kennedy told the
Southern Governors' confer
ence he "needed." And they
further believe they can rea
sonably hope for close to 90
Southern electoral votes, and
perhaps some more.
"
11HERE are three things to
- be said about these fore
casts. To begin with, the
Democratic strategists may of
course be wrong. Republican
Chairman Hall thinks they
are. He admits a Democratic
margin in Florida, which the
Democrats themselves do not
claim. But Hall has also
counter-claimed large Repub
lican margins in Texas and
North Carolina, for example,
where the Democrats think
they are ahead.
Second, however, if the
Democratic strategists - are
anywhere near the mark, the
predicted outcome in the
South is likely to be a real
body blow to Vice President
Nixon. Nixon is plainly hop
ing for, and even counting on
a great many more Southern
electoral votes than the Dem
ocratic leaders in the South
think he can possibly get.
Otherwise, Nixon would be
campaigning differently. He
would not be making so many
forays into the South, even
including the deep South. In
the second television debate,
he would not have risked
Negro votes in the North by
taking a substantially softer
stand on civil rights than
Senator Kennedy did.
rpHIRD, these same facts
- also answer the Northern
Democrats, who continue to
ask whether Lyndon John
son has "added anything to
the ticket." In order to see
what Johnson has added, it
is only necessary to think of
what would have happened
without Johnson.
If Johnson had been nom
inated at Los Angeles, the
combination of the D e m o-
cratic platform and Senator
Kennedy's Catholicism would
have caused an unparalleled
Southern . explosion. . Every
deep South state would have
entered unpledged electors
For the same reason, four but
of five of the border states
and Texas would almost cer
tainly be in the sure-for-Nixon
column. Johnson's nomination
averted the explosion.
The effect of Johnson's
nomination was to keep the
officers of the Democratic
army in the South loyal to
their party. All of them are
in line, except Sen. Harry F.
Byrd of Virginia. The officers
of the army, like Senator Tal
madge, are calling the troops
back to t h e ir old loyalty.
Meanwhile, the only import
ant inciters to mutiny, the
main Southern leaders for
Nixon, are the big business
men.
For these reasons, the John
son nomination may easily
swell the Democratic total by
something like the combined
electoral votes of New York
and Pennsylvania, which is
a lot to add.
ence, that every contempo
rary American curse from
juvenile thuggery to sex mag
azines afflict Europe, too,
from Athens to Oslo.
One can tell himself all
this, but it is not enough. An
American must believe that
new springs are coiling within
his country, that strong voices
are at hand to declare again
the eternal meaning of the
freest, best-hearted and most
exciting human experience on
this earth and to make the
message convince, those who
were once convinced. He must
believe with one rare and
lonely British writer, Pere
grine Wrosthorne, that an
American cycle, not of smug
complacency but of incuba
tion, is now ending and that
history will see President Ei
senhower "as the model
broody hen, sitting patiently,
vacantly, but nevertheless in
dispensably on the eggs which
are now about to be hatched."
'
An American wants to be
able to remind European crit
ics that at the time Walpole
said, "Europe is finished!
When Voltaire dies, we Gay
say goodnight" - that, at the
time he said that, Europe was
about to enter upon its great
est flowering in power, in the
arts, in the humanitarian con
cerns of man to man.
(Distributed i960 by The Hall
Syndicate, Inc.)
(All Rights Reserved)
PTIUCGC
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
That positively overwhelm
ing response in support of
Potluck, reported here last
week, grew tremendously dur
ing the week.
We got two more letters.
The "tremendous" of
course, is on a percentage ba
sis. Oh, yes That Man From
Phoenix checked in again, so
we presume we have his tacit,
if not specific, approval.
So thank you, friends, all
eight of you.
One of the nicest of our
letters of support branched
out to include editorial!,
too. Pardon us if we quote
it:
"Attention, Potluck angel:
"A loyal liberal writes. You
know, as well as general news
paperdom knows, that when
two letters to the editor are
received, 20 more had intend
ed to do just that, but, like
this writer, didn't get around
to it. Then why the humorized
pessimism?
"To buck you up a bit, the
editorial in Sunday's M-T,
"High Drama," fine. Editorial
No. 2, "Forestry Camps," dit
to. Editorial No. 3, "Deaf and
Blind," ditto with er some
reservations.
"But best of all a few issues
back was the near or actual
Ben Hur Lampman "petal per
fect" verse on the UFO. Good
meter is Heavenly manna to
the poetry addict. Sure wish
there could be more."
We said it once
And say again
The purest joy
To writing men
Is that infrequent
Word of praise.
It bucks us up
For days and days.
So many thanks.
Friend FJC.
You gave us back
Frivolity.
' That Man From Phoenix
neatly clipped and pasted his
usual sort of clipping, this one
about a burglar (or burglars)
who "turned and left on the
record player."
His comment: "This use of a
juke box as a getaway vehicle
undoubtedly broke all rec
ords." Well, it's a dizzy pace we
go at these days, Fletch.
Jlound and round. In the
groove. And all that jazz.
.
With the election fast ap
proaching it was probably
ineviiable thai politics
would sneak into this col
umn, sooner or later, and
In the Day's News
By FRANK
A day in the news:
Bentonville, Arkansas: A
boy who killed three members
of his own family, but never
went to prison, will have to
serve a 15-year penitentiary
term for a pipe-wrench attack
on his step-mother. The sen
tence was imposed by Judge
Maupin Cummings.
What shall we say?
How about "spare the rod
and spoil thS child?" That's
coming to be an out-moded
proverb, but it has its parts.
BACK in Michigan, the High
land Park city council
(Highland Park is a suburb of
Detroit) has voted-that no
home in the town may have
more than three cats. Violators
of the new ordinance will be
subject to a $50 fine andor
90 days in jail. -
The passage of the new mu
nicipal law came after Police
Chief Dewey T. Schultz told
the council of numerous com
plaints of cats causing dis
turbances. raUESTION: -
" Can the pet problem (in
cluding cats) be s o 1 v e d by
passing a law?
Somehow, one doubts it.
Human beings need' TOLER
ANCE for the handling of
such problems. We need to
remember that in a free so
ciety, such as ours, the rights
of EACH of us are limited by
me ngnts of the REST of us.
AT CAPE Canaveral, back in
Florida. Ihp first rnolrot in
a more powerful Atlas series
has failed, but the Air Force
savs it belipvns it has nin.
pointed the trouble.
Timely thought at this par
ticular season:
What do VOU dn whpn vnn
MISS A DUCK? .
Whv. vou correct vnnr Iparl
and TRY AGAIN. We learn
by trial and error.
AT DALLAS, Texas, where
the Pan - American Live
stock show is in session, Dr.
Nelson Cruz Arias, a dentist
from the Republic of Colom
bia, tells his fellow delegates
that by wearing false teeth
it might as well, b sooner..
To wit:
i .
The grapevine reports to
our attentive county court
house man that Jerry Scan
nell and Alan Holmes (the
Democratic and Republican,
respectively, candidates for
district attorney) will vie in
another field, namely, a foot
race at the Medford Lions
club pancake race Oct. 28.
Costume to be hobble skirts,
and high heeled shoes.
You know? That's what wa
like about this democracy of
ours so intent . . . .so
serious ... so solemn . ,
so, well, dedicated.
"We were in our room
one afternoon and some
men were working by our
room. They made so much
noise we could not work.
We decided that if we could
n't hear we would go out
and see what made all the
. noise and then we went on
a field trip. The man had a
jackhammer." (Sandra Bak
er in the Hoover Hi-Light.
a
The place names in Oregon
furnish great possibilities. .
For instance, in another
newspaper the other day wa
saw a headline which said:
"Bike Crash Badly Hurts
Wonder Girl."
(As far as we could tell
from the story, there wasn't
anything particularly special
about the girl. She just lived
in the community of Won
der.) Which reminds of a head
line we vaguely recall. It was
in the Ashland Tidings of
some years ago, and said
something like:
Crash Hurts One
In Dead Indian.
Sounds sort of as though a
couple of hookworms met
head-on, or something, but it
poses no problem to those who
know that "The Dead Indian"
is an area in Jackson county.
Another city in Oregon wa
like is lone. Think of the song
possibilities: "Alone With
lone," or, "lone, I Own Ya,"
or . . . never mind.
Probably our favorite Ore
gon town name, though, is Ir
rigon. By itself it isn't much,
but when one rolls "Irrigon,
Oregon" across the tongue, it
does something.
And, closer to home, tha
headline which says "Rain in
Prospect" has a double mean
ing either rain is in tha
offing, or else it's already
rained in that lovely little
burg this side of Union Creek.'
The Prospect pleases us,
either way.
JENKINS
an old cow can start gaining
weight again and can have
several years more of useful
life. He hopes to get a patent
in the United States for a de
vice that keeps a cow's mouth
open while she is being fitted
for a set of false teeth.
Hmmmmmm. We're living
in an increasingly complicat
ed age. What's next?
T SUPPOSE you've read of
A Kroosh's (let's not dignify
him by the respectful title of
Mr.) antics at United Nations.
Angered by a ruling of the
president of the UN General
Assembly (a dignified Irish
man named Boland) he shout
ed and pounded the table. The
veins stood out on his fore
head as he spilled out intem
perate, often vulgar, words.
Then he took off his shoe and
made as if to throw it at Bo
land - who then cut the switch
on the public address system
and brought the session to an
end.
VUHY these tantrums?
" Here's a guess:
If he can't RULE the UN,
he proposes to RUIN IT.
VVHAT of Kroosh?
" He is reminded of Attila,
who rampaged through Eu
rope back in the Fifth cen
tury. He was known as "the
Scourge of God" because of
his cruel treatment of the peo
ples he conquered. He over
ran all of Central Europe.
Then he led his Huns through
Germany into Gaul (now
France) where he was stopped
at the famous battle of Chal-ons-sur-Marne.
Licking his wounds, he re
tired into the steppes whence
he came, but the next vear ha
prepared to invade Italy
again. He dropped dead in a
wild rase nn th nichf Jta
marriage to a beautiful wo
man named Hilda.
LOOK OUT. Kroosh!
Reflect nn Ihia nrA
sor of yours and what happen
ed to mm. Remember he came
from the same part of tha
world vou enmp frnm K art.
ed amazingly like you a r a
acting.