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History from the files of The
Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30. 40
and 50 veara ago. ' ::' '
10 YEARS AGO !
Fob. 12, 19S1 (Monday)
: Harry Watson, manager of
the Mcdford hotel, today de
nied a story printed in a Port
land newspaper that the hotel
has been sold to eastern lnter-
:. Mark O. Hatfield, member
of the Oregon house of repre
sentatives and professor of
political science at Willamette
university, will be the speaker
at the annual Lincoln day ban
quet tomorrow. :
20 YEARS AGO r , ,j; : .
Fob. 12, 1941 (Wednesday) '.-'.
-: Three white female rabbits,
innoculatcd -with hormones tor
vnertmental nuTDOsea,' were
stolen from their individual
pens at the Community hospi
tal last night.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudire Pot" column; VThe
earthouake felt over a wide
area of the county Sunday
morn, was genuine. Local sci
entists report the .Jar was loo
light to have been caused by
an: overloaded southbound fish
truck, with trailer, hitting a
bump In the Pacific highway."
30 YEARS AGO !
Fob'. 12, 1931 (Thursday)
r : The lower house of the state
legislature has passed "a free
school books bill.
." A convicted slayer of an
Ashland city policeman was
placed in a death cell at the
state prison today; he will
hang April 3.
40 YEARS AGO
Fob.- 12, 1921 (Saturday) '
' Fire destroyed the former
West Side Stables building on
South Grape at., last night,
and also destroyed 32 autos
narked inside.
Mcdford and Roseburg High
schools battled to a 21 to 21
tie in a basketball g tme at the
Natatorium last'night.
SO YEARS AGO . , .
Fb. 12, 1911 (Sunday) '
An Interstate Commerce
commission hearing here on a
netitlon by the city of Med-
ford for lower rail freight
rates to California points was
concluded yesterday.
: The Southern Oregon Auto
Dealers association held
meeting here yesterday to
complete organization.
V-i's Your I Q.7
Nina si tan correct it superior:
stvan or eight Is excellent; five 01
tlx is good.
1. Complete the quotation,
"Millions for defense, but not
a cent for .
2. Did St. Paul ever go to
Rome?
- 3. Is Copenhagen the capita)
of Norway, Denmark, or Swe
den?
! 4. Harry S. Truman was the
first U. S. President to veto a
tax-reduction bill; true or
false?
5. Graphology is the study
of what?
6. Is coral a plant or animal,
or stone?
7. Can salt water be made
fresh?
, 8. What does "Pan" stand
for in Pan-American?
9. In baseball, which base
is called the keystone sack? -
10. In what year did the late
President Roosevelt declare
the bank holiday?
Answers: 1. ". . . tribute."
2. Yes. 3. Denmark. 4. True.
S. Handwriting. 8. Animal. 7.
Yes. 9. All. 9. Second. 10.
1933.- - '
4. A -
FEBRUARY 12. 1961
The Medical Care Plan
President John Kennedy's proposal for medi
cal care for the aged, tied in with the Social
Security system, is being billed as a major
advance in the nation's welfare services.
; If viewed in one light, however, it is a very
small step indeed. If enacted (and it will face
some rough going from the lobbies of American
Medical Association, the U.S. Chamber of Com
merce, the National Association of Manufactur
ers, and others), it will still leave the United
States far behind most other western nations in
the provision of health services for their people.
Canada, Great' Britain, West Germany, the
Scandinavian countries all of them have far
broader medical services than the U.S. proposal.
PRESIDENT KENNEDY says the proposal is
not "socialized medicine."
This, of course, will be disputed. But he's
right. What it is is a government-operated medi
cal care insurance program for older folk."
It fits in nicely with' Abraham Lincoln's defi
nition of the role of government, which, he said,
should do for the people what they cannot do, or
do as well, for themselves.
Only the facilities of the federal government,
operating nationwide and equally everywhere,
are adequate to support an equitable program.
ONE of the objections
that those now 65 and
the backs of the other taxpayers. -
In a sense this is true. The . program would
be financed bv a modest increase in the amount
of the Social Security payroll deduction.
But it has to start somewhere. And the 14 plus
million neonle who would be covered immedi
ately are, by and large,
for their own health care protection now.
And. looked at another way, the increase in
Social Security taxes is
for coverage under the plan lor tnose wno win
be covered in later years.
MOBODY is saying so out loud right now, but
' it must be obvious that, if and when the medi
cal care insurance program is enacted, it will
be subject to later, broadening and improvement.
This, actually, is one of the things the AM A
fears and objects, to,, believing that it ultimately
will trrow into something resembling . the British
National Health Service,
horror as "socialized medicine.
Well, we too foresee
grow and broaden. But
ti. Jnnrt wnl- .1
example in Britain or anywhere else. It can De
on an entirely auierepMaaia, uspigneu yuiciy w
meet American needs and
tlE'tL never convince
" we think that thev
handwriting on the 'wall,' and then adopt the
,1 nIna ttlf irnn rton'f
If the medical profession, in a spirit of prog
ressservice and cooperation, would work with
the government in makine federal health services
fit the best possible pattern; both for doctors and
patients, they, would be doing the nation, and
themselves, a big favor. ...
But the present violent, blind, foot-dragging
opposition and obstructionism will work to their
own detriment in the long run. E.A.
Whither Duncan?
There could be a variety of reasons for it,
but it seems to us that
into the news a lot more during this session of
the legislature than during the last one.
As speaker of the house of representatives,
and particularly as one
by being elected for a second consecutive term,
he is naturally a good source of news." ' ' " r
But, .in addition' to the routine kind of news,
he's also doing quite a
throughout the state, and in entering the dispute
between the Governor and Welfare Commission
in the role of compromiser, mediator, and hear
ing chairman, he took a
he is successful, push his
rUNCAN,has stated, categorically, that he is
not planning to run for governor, or for
congress.
In this, he undoubtedly is telling the truth
at the moment. He's busy trying to do a job
in the house, to keep expenses down, and to
get necessary legislation through the legislature
speedily and in good shape.
But the fact that he is "not a candidate" at
the moment certainly doesn't bar him from be
coming one later on, when he sees which way the
wind is blowing. And being much in the news
will not hinder the "name familiarity" so import
ant to office seekers.
SUCCESSFUL politicians (and we use the
phrase in its true meaning, not in a derogatory
sense) are, by the nature of things, opportunists.
Duncan has been badly bitten by the political
bug the desire to serve nis state and nation in
public office and makes no bones about it.
But for him to commit himself, now, to run
for anything two years from now would be both
silly and useless.
Whatever his decision may be, he will be a
formidable candidate. He has a rocklike integ
rity, a canny Scots attitude of thriftiness in public
expenditures, a gift of gab (which he sometimes
finds difficult to turn off), keen intelligence, and
absolute, tough-minded indepedence.
His career will be watched with great inter
est by partisans on joth sides of the fence. W A.
which will be heard is
over will be "riding on
unable to afford to pay
merely advance payment
which they castigate in
that the program will
how it grows, and how
w. Vwl rtrt QTli,' QvK'lf VQII?
desires. ;
our doctor friends, but
ouem to recoe-nize the
1Y1 initl 'niYI
Bob Duncan is getting
who shattered precedent
bit of public speaking
bold step which could, if
reputation even higher.
.
Dennis the
1 COULDN'T Si-EEf? SO I
Matter of Fact
TIDDLY WINKS WITH
THE ESTIMATES
Washington - The first bad
bobble of the Kennedy admin
istration has now occurred. In
g talK, secretary
of Defense
Robert McNa
mara gave a
group of re
porters -the
Impres sion
that the fa
mous missile
gap was
Aliop mere myth.
Stories to this effect were pub
lished. Whereat the White
House condemned the stories
as "absolutely wrong."
Behind this mystifying epi
sode, there are two simple
sets of facts. First, the Army
and Navy have been pressing
on Secretary McNamara all
their customary arguments
that a second-rate nuclear de
terrent will be quite good
enough - especially if the
money saved on the deterrent
is then invested in. the Army
and Navy. And the new De
fense Secretary has not yet
quite decided that the Army
Navy arguments are incorrect.
Second and far more im
portant, one of the last efforts
of the outgoing Eisennower
administration was yet anoth
er game of tiddlywinks with
the National Intelligence Esti
mate. This favorite pastime
produced the usual results.
The United States was made
to look stronger in compari
son with the Soviet Union, by
the easy and wonderfully in
expensive expedient of down
grading the national estimates
of Soviet strength.
N PARTICULAR, the esti
mates of Soviet long range
missile output, which former
ly showed a 3-to-l Soviet lead
in 1961, were fairly sharply
downgraded. This was done
on the ground that there was
no evidence of "a crash pro
gram." Ever since President Eisen
hower suspended the U-2 over
flights, the entire evidence
available to the estimators has
been what is public knowl
edge; plus what can easily be
faked to deceive expected lis
teners, like Interceptible com
municatlons; plus such data
as agents and Intelligence of
ficers may run across while
ranging through the vast and
secret spaces of the Soviet
Union. ,
. Among th'e evidence pro
cured by these means, the es
timators found nothing to sug
gest Intensified Soviet missile
output. Furthermore, there
was no available proof of ac
tive construction of more than
two Soviet missile-based com
plexes, in Eastern Siberia
Hence the forecasts of Soviet
missile output were reduced
for the second year in succes
sion, on the same argument-
trom-lnck-of-data that was
used Inst time.
.
17VEN SO, the revised esti-
mates are not overly com-
forting. As usual, they offer
the defense planners a choice
between minimum, medium
and maximum figures. If the
maximum figure happens to
be right, the Soviets will have
600 long range ballistic mis
siles with thermo-nuclear war
heads In operational readi
ness In 19G3.
Unless existing programs
are incrensed, the V. S. will
have about 200 ICBMs in fir
ing positions by the end of
1963. Hence the maximum fig
ure in the revised estimate
still gives the same Soviet 3
to-l lend tn missile power
which was so cheerfully pre
dicted by former Secretary of
Defense Neil McElroy. in his
testimony admitting the exist
ence of a missile gap. Evident
ly Secretary McNamara, in his
talk with the reporters, had
in mind the more cheering
minimum or medium figures.
All this needs to be under
stood, It must be added, for
the bleak reason that the
whole system of preparing
and using the estimates is close
to insane. It is this system
which has mouse-trapped Sec
retary McNamara.
Menace
THOUGHT iO P&CTICB
By Joseph Alsop
The fault does not lie with
the estimators, who are head
ed by the able C. I. A. Direc
tor Allen W. Dulles. They do
their best with the data they
have in hand. But they too are
trapped in the system.
Under the existing system,
the persons who join in mak
ing the estimates are wrong.
For viciously partisan repre
sentatives of the three armed
services, each with their own
special interest in each esti
mate, are active participants
in the process.
rpHE character of the esti-
mate is also wrong, at
least when weapons of total
destruction are in question.
For in such cases, the pol
icy-makers should request es
timates of the most that it
seems practicable for the So
viets to do, rather than asking
for guesses, however expert,
as to what the Soviets are ac
tually doing. And this is doub
ly true when these guesses
quite heavily depend on the
argument - from - lack-of-data;
and the place where data has
not been obtained is the grim
ly secretive Soviet Union.
Finally, the use made of the
estimate is the wrongest thing
of all. For the degree of
strength this country , needs
should not be wholly deter
mined by guesses of the ene
my's strength. It should be
determined by this country's
ability to strengthen itself. An
unbearable burden will al
ways be placed on the estima
tors, as long as guesses about
the Soviet defense effort are
used as the Eisenhower ad
ministration used them, as rig
id and absolute yardsticks for
the American defense effort.
Fortunately, there is signifi
cant evidence that President
Kennedy and his staff have
been aroused to these danger
ous defects in the system that
mouse-trapped Secretary Mc
Namara. The resulting bobble
nas in tact produced the first
order to study this system
with a view to improvement.
(c) 1961 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
!n the 'Jay's News
' By FRANK JENKINS
Newspaper people are a
curious lot. They like to know
what Is going on. They NEED
to know what is going on,
for their job is to tell their
readers what is happening in
the world-and WHY. So thev
tend to bring to their conven
tions people who can tell them
what they need to know.
Among these interesting
people is Jorge Zayas, whose
Havana newspaper was taken
away from him by Castro's
henchmen because he refused
to print ONLY what he was
told to print, and NOTHING
more.
He told us about it.
QUESTION:
Will Castro's presently
complete physical conquest of
Cuba be PERMANENT?
Not, Editor Zayns believes,
if we make it flat and plain
that the Monroe Doctrine
means exactly what it says.
He thinks that If actual, physi
cal occupation of Cuba by
communist military forces is
prevented the Cuban people
will take the situation into
their own hands and throw
Castro out. Military interven
tion on our part, he thinks,
would be a mistake. Instead,
we should give Castro rope
enough to hang himself. He
told his hearers:
"Every chance should be
given Castro to try to prove
his claims that he will turn
Cuba into a communist para
dise. This will give all Cubans
and all the peoples of Latin
America an opportunity to see
for themselves the falsity of
his promises."
lDITOR Zayas hazarded an
Interesting prediction -that
when Castro finds he Is no
longer able to control the
growing resistance to him in
Cuba he may attempt to seize
the U.S. naval base at Ouan-
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE.
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
SOME DIPLOMATIC
APPOINTMENTS
With notable exceptions the
Kennedy diplomatic appoint
ments have seemed to experi
enced observ
ers more con
ventional and
less ' distin
guished than
the domestic
a p pointments
There must be
a number of
i n t e r e sting
reasons for
this, not least
among them that the field of
choice has been much narrow
er. Our foreign service has
not yet recovered fully from
the devastation of the McCar
thy era and from the sacrific
es imposed upon it and the
fears engendered among it by
the appeasement In the Dulles
period of the radical extrem
ists of the right.
Furthermore, it has been
quite normal and possible for
the leading domestic appoint
ees to have fruitful public
careers outside the govern
ment service. But there is not
much, except to do some
teaching and writing and to
work for a foundation, which
a man interested in foreign
affairs can do when his party
Is out of power. The President
has been able to go into the
law schools and the depart
ments of government and eco
nomics to find men with ex
perience in public affairs who
have enriched their . knowl
edge while being out of office.
Nevertheless, it must be
said, that there are no fat cats
selected for the big posts.
mere are, nowever, one or
more cases of personal favor
itism, there are several cases
of men chosen for one job to
get them out of a more critical
job.. But we do not yet know
the full story of the Kennedy
diplomatic appointments. For
what is going to be done to
staff the embassies at the sec
ond and third levels will make
very big difference in the
end.
fTHIS IS especially important
in France. There is no dis
guising the fact that in view
of General de Gaulle's known
distaste for the company of
Generals, the choice of Gen
eral Gavin is a strange one.
But having just read the rele
vant portions of General Ga
vin's book, I can see why this
appointment, unpromising at
first glance, could possibly
turn out to have been a good
one. This is because the most
critical issue in Franco-American
affairs is to reach an un
derstanding about how to
modernize and reform the
largely obsolescent strategical
doctrine of NATO.
General Gavin does not, I
am told, speak much French,
certainly not the kind of
French which would enable
him to negotiate in French
with General de Gaulle. What
is more, General de Gaulle,
who can be amiable in Eng
lish, is the kind of French
tanamo as a last desperate ef
fort to create an international
incident that might enable
him to blame Yankee "im
perialism" for his failure to
bring to the Cuban people the
communist heaven on earth
he had promised them.
But Zayas thinks by that
timeCuban disillusion withhis
promises will have proceeded
too far and U.S. defense of
Guantanamo will not be mis
understood. WHAT do we need most to
do?
Well, he thinks we need to
REGAIN the confidence of
Latin America. We once had
it, he says. But it has been
Suffering
By ERIC SEVAREID
An American felled in New
York by Uie Asian flu brought
from England, and obliged to
afesstss-sssiiB write on a
new and sul
len typewrit
er of Teutonic
origin while
semi - recum
b e n t on a
strange bed. is
not possessed
of the Power
of P o s 1 tive
Thinking. He
nerareid
is alien lo the new spirit in
Washington, too weak to re
treat across an Old Frontier,
and ought to be made to post
bond for ever paragraph as he
goes along.
This puts me. as accessory
before the fact in this brash
demonstration of "caveat emp
tor," in a worse position than
my broadcast colleague Win
ston Burdett, who frowned
deeply over his script just be
fore he began an electronic
emission. Asked the trouble,
he replied, "It's just that I
don't think I agree with any
thing I've written." My trou
ble is that I'm not sure I agree
with anything I haven't even
written yet.
So consider yourself fro to
switch your attention to$Mr.
Lippmann
lippmann
man, the kind of literary
Frenchman, who feels that the
truth is best stated, perhaps
can be stated only, with the
precision and the elegance of
the French language.
Nevertheless, these two
Generals have a common lan
guage in that both possess
what is so rare In the armed
services, truly inquiring and
original minds. Both are in
siders in the military profes
sion with brilliant military ex
perience. But they are not
conventional and conformists,
and they are not over impress
ed by the big brass. It is not
impossible that between them
they may work out for NATO
that new military doctrine
which it so sorely needs.
But if General Gavin is to
do what he is especially quali
fied to do in Paris, the Em
bassy will have to be greatly
strengthened to handle other
business.
.
PRE-EMINENT among the
notably good appointments
are those of Mr. David Bruce
to London and Mr. George
K e n n o n .to Belgrade. Mr.
Bruce has been Ambassador to
France, to Germany, and to
the Coal and Steel Commu
nity, and there is no other
American with a comparable
knowledge of the crucial prob
lem of Europe. That problem
is the schism of Western Eu
rope between the Inner Six
and the Outer Seven. The
closing of that schism is a
primary American interest in
Europe, fully as important as,
perhaps even more important
than, the rejuvenation of
NATO.
The return of George Ken
non brings back into govern
ment service a most percep
tive, learned, and distinguish
ed mind.. It was a brilliant
idea in the State Department
to send Mr. Kennon to Yugo
slavia. For there is no better
place, not even in Moscow it
self, to ' observe what is so
very important and so little
known - the foreign policy of
the Soviet Union within the
Communist orbit, with China
of course, but also with the
smaller Communist states.
The choice of Kenneth Gal
braith for India is excellent,
provided he can be spared in
Washington. And so too, it
seems to me, is the choice of
Ellsworth Bunker for Brazil.
In Italy and in India, where
he has served, he has been ex
tremely sucessful in his quiet,
old-fashioned, American way.
Then, very high marks are
deserved for the choice of
Prof. Reischauer for Japan.
For with his knowledge not
only of the Japanese language
but of Japanese history and
culture, he should be able to
make a kind of contact with
the Japanese which has not
been achieved by any of his
predecessors.
TVHE decision to keep Llewel
lyn Thompson in Moscow
and Walter Dowling in Bonn
is, in view of all that is pend
ing, a wise one. We have no
more competent diplomat than
shaken. It has been shaken,
he thinks, by our preoccupa
tion during the past several
decades with the REST of the
world and our relative neglect
of our neighbors in the West
ern Hemisphere. It is as if, he
says, you suddenly lost inter
est in your neighbors in your
own biock, or your own town,
and began to devote all your
interest to PEOPLE ELSE
WHERE. TT IS an interesting thought.
In recent decades, we
HAVE been paying a lot of
attention to the rest of the
world and comparatively lit
tle attention to our close
neighbors.
Sevareid Warns About N.Y.C.
Roscoe Drummond, whose single-minded
conviction it is
that there are two sides to
every proposition except that
one; or to Mr. Joseph Alsop,
who now has precisely !' r
kind of President, personnel
and policies he has clamored
for, but who will react soon
er or later, I suspect, like the
celebrated searcher for a
shaggy dog. ("Not so DAMN
shaggy.")
Another First: I have just
taken longer to say that I
really don't have much to say
than any man in recent news
paper history, so 1 may as
well say it, whatever it is.
One thing is that the new
effort to encourage foreign
tourists to visit America
should be geared up at once,
and not only to help redress
the dollar imbalance. The
more I have investigated anti
Americanism In Europe the
clearer it has become that
those who are most virulently
anti-American are nearly al
ways people who have never
seen America, and 'that the
most pro-American Europeans
arc those who have visited or
lived in America.
By all means let us drop the
visa requirements for nation
als of those countries that do
not require visas of us; let us
drop the insulting qiiestion-
IPOTLUClX
" (By M-T Staff and Contributors)
The other day there was
an editorial on this page
entitled "Who Represents
Who?" This construction,
frowned on by grammatical
purists, drew a reproof from
an old friend, L.G.W., as
follows:
Who Represents Who?
I would not know. Would
you? "To-whit, to-whit, to
whoo," calls the owl from
the old oak tree. Though he
looks so wise, he knows no
better; He speaks the lan
guage of an owl. Who rep
resents who? Maybe him
represents he. When the
editor drops that letter "m,"
Is he playing like an owl?
O, tut, tut, why make a
fuss?
We ought to be ashamed
of us.
The chiding verse (?) was
addressed lo the Potluck
editor, who turned it over
to the fellow that put the .
headline on that editorial. .
He looked at it for awhile,
drew out an old-fashioned
fountain pen, and scribbled
furiously for a few mo
ments. This is what he
wrote:
Who? Or Whom? The ques
tions rise
Like pall of doom before
my eyes.
, Whom or Who? The welkin
rings
With cries from outraged
grammar-ings. .
We search the rule books,
high and low,
Consult with references,
also.
We meet confusion twice
compounded.
Who or whom? is thrice
dumbfounded.
Some will give an iron rule,
And he who misses is a
fool. 1
Others say with expert
grace,
It doesn't matter, not a
trace. ;
The one I like above the
rest -
Gives each a choice; its one
behest
Is, "Follow usage," and be
sure
The one you use will never
blur.
Thompson, none more expert
in the art of quiet diplomacy
which the President and Sec
retary Rusk believe in. The
time will come, of course.
when Thompson will be en
titled to a change. Moscow is
a hard post for an American,
as Washington, no doubt, is a
hard post for a Russian.
The trouble with such an
inventory as this one is that,
in limiting it to the critical
posts, it seems to cast a shad
ow on all the others. That is
not my intention. Moreover,
there are a lot of appoint
ments still to be made, and
many of them will prove to be
very Important. One of these,
for example, could be that of
William Attwood to Guinea.
In making this choice the De
partment of State acted with
the kind of freshness of mind
that is expected of the Ken
nedy administration.
For Mr. Attwood and his
wife, who are entirely fluent
in French, are young enough,
adventurous enough, and yet
from his wide journalistic ex
perience is quite seasoned
enough, to take a very inter
esting gamble. The gamble is
to see whether Sekou Toure,
who is much involved with the
Communists, is not at heart,
if he is befriended and under
stood, in the end and after all,
an African nationalist,
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Tribune Inc.
naire provisions of the Mc
Carren Act about the visitor's
person-1! V'e.
But lo avoid spoiling a good
t ' ' -. g, the Sevareid Plan
would go much further. It
would use al Hhe new psycho
logical arts, including sublim
al motivation, to persuade
foreign tourists that they don't
really want to visit New York
City. The hard core that re
sist would then have to pass
a means test proving that they
possess oh, say, a hundred
dollars a day in pocket money,
and a psychiatric test to es
tablish their level of resistance
to noise, crowding, filth, in
efficiency and insults.
As these hardy Pilgrims em
bark on plane or ship, charm
ing stewardesses flashing Pep
sodent smiles will hand each
voyager an illustrated para
phrase of Kipling. The Seva
reid Plan hasn't perfected it
yet, let alone submitted it to
Harvard for official editing,
but it will go something like
this:
-
If you can stand, twenty
pounds of traveler's clutter in
your arms
For forty-five overheated
minutes in a line for passport
check.
Enjoy another hour in fruit
less wait for the bag that nev
er left London through htenan
And so, friend L.G.W.,
You candid critic, tried and
true,
Be satisfied with Whom OR
' Who -And
PLEASE don't lei it
bother you.
Modernistic, abstract art
has baffled many people,
who find they cannot see
anything recognizable in
such paintings. But not one
young man we heard about
recently. When confronted
with an abstract painting,
he looks at it searchingly,
carefully turns it on its
side, and declares, "It's
God."
There are hazards in all oc
cupations, and even avoca
tions. One of our news sources
sent in a story about an or
ganizational election the other
day, and- told about the indi
vidual who was elected direc
tor for "the two year germ on
the divisional board."
And one of those bright
young men who read the news
on television reported the
other day about a man who
was "charged with illegal
fishing in district court."
Judge Sawyer should taka
a dim view of this in light of
the fact that he tries to run
his court without getting
things all slopped up.
One would think that
working in a library would
be one of the least hazard
ous of occupations. But
there's a certain menial and
emotional wear and tear
there, too. Like the true
story which came out of the
Spokane library the other
day.
A call cams to the refer
ence librarian. "W h e n is
Roosevelt's birthday?" was
the question.
"Which Roosevelt?" ask
ed the helpful librarian,
"Franklin or Teddy?"
"Yes," came the reply.
"They are two different
people." the librarian ex
plained patiently. "Which
one do you mean?"
Came the answer: "The
one that was President."
Oh, well.
Speaking of hazards inher
ent in occupations, one of our
young men declares that the
squeek in the city editor's
chair is driving him to dis
traction. - .
"It makes your cotton-pick-in'
teeth feel as if they're
pickin' cotton," he mopes.
.
Today is Abraham Lin-.
coin's birthday, and we pay
tribute to that great man.
Today is also Race Rela
tions Sunday, St. Valen
tine's day is Tuesday, and
Wednesday is Ash Wednes
day. Friday is World Day
of Prayer. We approve all
of these.
But it is also our duty to
report that today is the open
ing of National Beauty Salon
Week, National Crime Preven
tion Week, Negro History
Week, National Defense Week
and National Pimiento Week.
(The latter two, incidental
ly, run from Feb. 12 to 22
which is cheating. That's a
week-and-a-half.)
Nationally Advertised
Brands Week starts the 15th
(and runs until the 28th -What's
the matter with those
people - can't they count?),
and Pickle Ways for Meatless
Days runs from the 15th to
April 2. So does It's Fish'n
Seafood Time.
Somehow, we find it a
bit difficult to get terribly
worked up about any of
them.
error.
Relish zero weather while
the swearing cop at the curb
Lets empty cabs go and
waits for new ones to form in
line,
If you can stumble into
the butt-littered taxi that wel
comes your frozen bones and
laugh as the leering driver
says, 'Gonna make it worth
my while, Mac?'
Pay a Manhattan messenger
four dollars to go four blocks.
A barber two dollars with
tip for a ten minute, ragged
trim,
If you can slip into the first
sweet sleep of night unmind
ful of the siren's screech,
Rise joyful to the pleasant
sounds of trip hammer and
hydraulic drill
Having paid Western Union
a dollar and some to wake
you on the phone;
If you can do and pay all
this and not go screaming
home,
Why, welcome stranger,
join our huddled masses
yearning to be sane and sol
vent; Little ol' New York is all
for you - you've got what it
takes,
And New York will take it,
never fear.
(Distributed 1961 by The Hall
Syndicate. Inc.)
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