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Newspaper Page Text4 A KEDFOWViWrRIBUNI "Everyone In Southern oraaon Read la The Mall Trlbune" SSBTTsVed Dally '"apt Saturday by Wished Dally except saturda MKnironD PRINTING CO J3 North rirSt. Ph. SPJMl ROBERT W BUHL. Editor HERB GREV Adveltlilnn Manaiar SeRALDT LATHAM Bui Mm ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mnu Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teles Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Ed tor OLIVE STARCHER. Women Editor DALE ERlCKSONCIrculatlon Mgr An Independent Newspaper I'ntored as cond class matter at Medlora. ureaon. unuw v ... March 3. 1897 cimcrnTPTinN RATES By MaU - In Advance. Copy 10c Dally -nd Sunday 1 year '"'"; Daily and Sunday mot ra . riatlv and Sunday S mos 4.2a c- i . rtnlv nn vear S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medlord Ashland. Central Point t a l a Point. Jacksonville nold mil Phoenix. Shady Cova. 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B.C NATIONAL EDITORIAL asQjcmtkJin ImHiHUMi'jimi Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from th files of Th Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 5, 1951 (Monday) A drop from the Friday total in number of absences from city schools was report ed today; 584 absences were listed today, compared to 665 Friday, an indication that the flu epidemic has leveled off. 20 YEARS AGO March S, 1941 (Wednesday) Available Medford factory sites were shown yesterday to a Portland representative of a furniture manufacturing company, who said his firm was interested In building a branch plant here. From Arthur Perry's "Y Smudge Pot" column: "The rural pastures are reported prolific with mushrooms, none of which, as yet, have turned out to be toadstools in i fry ing pan." 30 YEARS AGO March 5, 1931 (Thursday) The city council has ap proved vacation of several streets in the areas of the new Medford High scrfool and Washington grade school. The city budget committee gave its approval to a unified street lighting system for Main st. 40 YEARS AGO March 5, 1921 (Saturday) Edson C. (Jerry) Jerome has been elected exalted ruler of the local Elks lodge. Work has been resumed on the improvement of the Pa cific highway near River Rogue River near Prospect 50 YEARS AGO March 5, 1911 (Sunday) ' Col. Frank Ray, Medford, of the Rogue River Valley Electric company, has an nounced plans to erect a $1 million power plant on the Rogue River near Prosspecl which will generate 24,uuu horsepower. A government engineer has returned from a trip to Crater Lake and predicted (hat me road will eventually be kept open year-round, What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten cotract la tuaailan liven oi eight is actllanti Hva ai e-ir It good. 1, Perpetual motion is me chanically Impossible', true or false? 2. Which former heavy weight boxing champ was nicknamed "Madcap Maxle," because of his frequent clown ish tactics? 3. Helena ii the capital of which stale? 4. Mala Hari was I noted spy who ferreted out mililary secrets for the Allies, or Ger many during World War 1? 9. Ben Davis, Mcintosh, Rome Beauty and Delicious are names of varieties of which fruit? 6. In which city, and on What dale, is the Rose Bowl football game played? 7. Name the chief river of Ireland. 8. Where did the Civil War between the Monitor and Mer rimac occur? H. The tongue of a wood pecker is longer than the bird's head; true or false? 10. In early colonial days, Massachusetts drove Quakers out of the community; what was the penalty imposed If they returned? Answers! 1, True. 2. Max Adalbert Baer. 3. Montana. 4. Germany. 5. Apples. 6. New Year's Day, in Pasadena, Calif, 7. Shannon River. I. Hampton Roads, Va. (, True. 10. Hangfpg. PnSPUEUSHIKJ J-ASSOCIATION SUNDAY, MARCH S. 1961 Wheel-Spinning in Salem Watching the news out of Salem these days, one is tempted to believe that there is far more partisan (and non-partisan, for that matter) bick ering this legislative session than in some past ones. , This probably is just an impression, for a session of the state legislature is always an occa sion for bickering, sniping and political maneu vering. That's one of the penalties we pay for having a free, open and uninhibited form of gov ernment and it s a But it does become when so much of the quentials, and done for tage solely. WE HAVE even been lomslnfnrp "Pass the billboard control bills, the anti pollution bills, the necessary appropriation meas tures, and then adjourn and come on home." This, of course, is both- unrealistic and a bit silly. But it is a temptation. Actually, there are many sound and needed measures before the legislators for their consid eration bills which should be passed along with all the frills, froth and stupidities, )NE OF the marked characteristics of the cur- rent legislature is the resurgence of the con niving conservative wing the group led by benators Walter rearson, Harrv Boivin and Tom Mahoney. Because of a variety of circumstances, which includes the cooperation of a majority of the Republicans, they are, in effect, in charge of the state senate this year. Boivin (from Klamath Falls) with much influence and power as presi dent of the senate, Pearson (Portland), as for mer president and now chairman of the state and federal affairs committee, and Mahoney (Portland), with his razor can, between them, pretty nearly decide the out come of much legislation. Pearson's committee Boivin to send bills which he does, or does not, want passed. They can either be bottled up, or favorably reported, at the whim of this group and their supporters, and the rest of the senate is virtually powerless to do anything about it. THOUGH all are Democrats, they wear the rQilir lal-ial nnhr fm f,nnvonionrp,(i aulro CVUa Coos Bay World calls them Republicrats.) And through their actions they are seriously damaging the prospects of the Democratic party in elections to come. They seem intent on making a political game out of what should be serious state business. Largely as a result of this (although there are other factors, too), the legislature has clone little of any real note so far, and the prospects, as they begin their eighth week tomorrow, in for a continued spinning of wheels, and sound and fury signifying nothing. The state deserves than this. E.A. Quote . . . Unquote "I do not think that it (the Oregon Dunes area) possesses the scientific or historical or scenic grandeur that we should have in our na tional park system." Congressman Edwin R, Durno. "The area (the Oregon Dunes) is adjudged to be of national importance, not only for the manifold opportunities for seashore recreation but also for the inspirational worth of the re sources to the American citizen. The many su perlative values found here are of such high im portance as to warrant permanent preservation for the nation as a whole." . From Recreation Survey of the Pacific Coast, prepared under the auspices of the National Park Service. Well which one Must Be Contagious Watching with increasing wonder, Op'ning letters by the score, We find verses by the dozen Hardly any one a bore. Can it be the Gold Hill ozone That promotes this busy muse? Or does Arnold Eugene Jenny Stimulate these rhyming view's? Can the chlorine in the water, Or the drifting cement dust, Have an influence on writers Who must versify or bust? "Communications," "Poets' Corner," These are forcing us to rhyme. But we promise that the habit Will not multiply with time. Anyway, we heed the challenge, Pluck the gauntlet from the floor, Offer verse just plain defensive At the risk of getting more. This our first, is what we offer For the year of 'til. Saying which we now retire. Having proved it could be done. 4 E.A. minor penalty, really. wearisome, particularly hassling' is over inconse personal or party advan tempted to advise the of the Democratic party mind and razor tongue, is a handy place for better of its legislature is right? E.A. Dennis the 'DlDYA HAVE TO CALL fticNOWl I'M EATW' DINNER! OOM'T YA HAVE MMANMRS ?' Matter of Fact ON GOVERNMENT, ACTIVE AND PASSIVE Washington - The public Information policy of the Ken nedy administration is so curi ous, and may prove so im portant, that it cries out for analysis. It is curious because of the b e w 1 ldcring con trast be tween the ex treme open ness of the Alsop White House Itself, and the cloistered, almost harem-like withdrawal of most of the other government depart ments. Nothing quite like this contrast has been seen before in political Washington. The openness of the White House is a calculated policy. Shorlly after President Ken nedy took office, he and his press secretary, Pierre Sal inger, and other leading mem bers of his staff discussed the pros and cons of the kind of rule that would have closed the place up for good. Under the proposed rule, all White House staff members would have had to ask for special permission, as in the Eisen hower era, before talking to any reporter. rl H E President recognized that such a rule would close the White House. He de cided that this was undesir able. As a result, reporters now swarm through the While House staff - offices, briskly asking questions and even quite frequently getting an swers about every imaginable subject of public interest. By the same token, the President himself, instead of playing the role of a remote, hleralically Immobile Byzan tine ruler, has been constant ly on view, both formally and informally. He has appeared at his televised press con ferences, In special television shows of the most un-Byzan-t i tie character, and in all sorts of other ways. The effects of this While House openness and Presidential accessibility can be seen in the most recent Gallup poll. Kennedy-the-Presidenlial-personality has had an immense impact. Yet the Democratic Con gressional leadership and the White House Congressional liaison bolh rather glumly ad mit that this personal impact of President Kennedy has hardly produced an added vote for his program In the H o u s e of Representatives. Somewhere there is a break In the traditional chain of communications, from Presi dent, to voters, to the Capitol. ONE place to look for the break in the chain is in (he government departments, Defense, Slate, and the rest, whose continued cloistered reticence contrasts so sharply with the new openness of the While House. Nothing could be less like the Eisenhower White House than the Ken nedy White House. But (the Defense Department under Kennedy, for instance, is ex actly like the Defense Depart ment under Eisenhower, only perhaps rather more so. This departmental reticence, il must be added, is not a cal culated policy. It is a natural consequence of the face that nothing has been done about the innumerable established customs, rules, and prohibi tions all Intended to prevent tree communication of facts to the public. They are all being observed as usual. They are all being taken for grunted, as q.iite proper customs, rules, and prohibitions, which are Indeed badly needed to safeguard the delicate electorate from an un settling How of public Infor mation. IN REALITY, of course, this cloistered character of the government, thii government (Ml Menace By Joseph Alsop al sheltering behind a barri cade of classification stamps, is an enormous, recent innova tion in the American political system. Until the second World War, the whole Amer ican government was com pletely open. In 1939-'41, a 'lime of dan ger, President Roosevelt ac tually stimulated a double flow of public information, in order to secure support for his great pre-war measures. Even in the first Truman adminis tration, the American govern ment was still largely open. And the resulting massive flow of public information was what secured support for the Marshall Plan and the other great Innovating meas ures of that remarkable era. In these past periods of ac tive government, in other words, there was no attempt to prevent the nation from learning about the problems confronting It. There was even an active effort to ac quaint the nation with all the details of those problems. Therefore, when the govern ment was ready to act, the nation was also ready. But in the more recent years of pas sive government, there was an opposite effect - an effort to conceal the mere existence of national problems. MOT wishing to take action, ' any passive government naturally wishes the elector ate to feel no need for aclion. Concealment,' in these circum stances, is quite logical. But' the habits formed in the years of passivity, though now deep-rooted in our offi cialdom, are not logical any longer, when the President so clearly wants the govern ment to be active again. What was sauce for the goose, in this case, is plain poison for the gander. This is one of Kennedy's basic dilemmas. If he resolves the dilemma by restoring the old, traditional government openness, he must pay the price of the numerous em barassmenls that always af flict open government. Yet some of those around him are urging payment of this considerable price, because they see that no American government can be success fully active without being open. (c) 1!)61 New York HeraM Tribune Inc. Sevareid: By ERIC SEVAREID When the appointment of G. Mennen Williams was first announced, weeks ago, I said, Jmi -v1 somewhat flip- fii .' Z3 'tl uanllv. In this space that ,sjs 1 incw ueaier: Ko out In the VSV-I" African sun i New Dealers VN.vvVy but I did not w Tkfw Mcct polili g$K 9 (9 cal sunstroke mSA m m l0 ,it Mr. Wil aiTartia ,iilms BJ soon as it did, with his somewhat obscure "Africa for Africans" statement that produced an angry answer in the British House of Commons from Anthony Fell, a conservative whose ebullience equals that of Mr. Williams. Mr. Williams' misadventure serves a purpose; it reminds us all how extremely delicate is the President's task in at tempting to direct a fresh and Idontifiably American ap proach to the miseries and the dangers of the black and white continent. Mr. Kennedy learned this himself several years ago when, with the con siderably less official respon sibility of a Senator, he spoke out for Algerian independence and evoked a fury in tht MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. Today & Tomorrow By Walter THE SICK ECONOMY There is as yet no evi dence, unless it be In the behavior of the stock market, mmm that recovery from the re .vtI cession is un i m ,., . i Wm lht. Unem- gm y i u jriuejlL is continuing to increase, steel llAl 1 is operating at TVJ nalr capacity, fcfc&a l-M the automo Llppmana bile business is very poor. All in all there Is a grow ing disposition to ask whether the extremely moderate mea sures proposed by the Presi dent will be sufficient to turn the tide. The President's task force, which was headed by Profes sor Paul Samuelson, the Presi dent of the American Eco nomic Association, advised Mr. Kennedy in January that the first measures might not be adequate, and that if the upturn did not come by April, stronger measures would be needed. pROFESSOR SAMUELSON does not hold any public office. But in many ways he is the economist to whom the Administration economists listen most closely. He has just written an article for a Japanese newspaper the "Ni non Keizai Shimbun." The ar ticle discusses the Kennedy program as it has been formu lated to dale. Professor Sam uelson thinks that "when you come to add up in quantita tive terms what the whole package of programs can be expected to accomplish, you realize how limited the total package really is." Professor Samuelson does not say this in criticism of the Administration program. As a matter of fact the cur rent Administration program is about what his task force recommended last January before the President was in augurated. But the advice at that lime was accompanied by the warning, which President Kennedy himself passed on to the country, that the first measures might have to be re inforced by a second set. It is a fair inference from Professor Samuelson's article in the Japanese newspaper that he is now rather expect ing . that a supplementary package will be needed. THESE ideas stem from the belief that the present re cession, following upon a poor recovery from the recession of 1958, and coming at the end of several years of slug gish economic activity, is much more serious than Con gress or the mass of the peo ple who are not unemployed have yet realized. "It is well," says Professor Samuelson, "to have no illu sions about the magnitudes of the proposed (Kennedy) mea sures." Even, he says, if the econ omy begins to turn up the middle of the year, "there is little reason to think that the end of the year will find us with unemployment much bel ter than at the present time." What Is more, a quickening of economic growth to the American average rate of 3V4 to 4 per cent, "will have to wait until the sccfri and third years of President Ken nedy's term of office." rpilESE are hard judgments -- oj a cool and expert mind. They will be unwelcome to many. They will be unwel come to those who take the view that with words of con fidence and optimism a reces sion like this one can be talk ed away, and that the somber No Time for Indiscretions French Assembly and the Quai d'Orsay. His vision was right, as intervening events have shown, but he never publicly returned to the theme. For many years the Ameri can political writ in Africa must still run through Lon don and Paris, and not since the war has this been so sov erignly true as it is right now. The principle reason is the present critical condition of the Atlantic alliance. There is a direct connection - in the current embarrassing inci dent, a direct disconnection, alas - between the explora tory tour of Averell Harrinian to European capitals and Mr. Williams' exploratory tour of Africa. The last thing this alliance needs right now is an extra strain in the form of offend ing the conservative wing in European governments. Most particularly in Great Britain. (With the Belgians our diplo macy is covered by the UN cloak of many colors and na tions.) The truth, so little realized by most Americans. Is that the alliance lias drifted into a whole series of baffling blind alleys. A its military itrue- tura and at-ategy hav moft Lippmann truths should be glossed over and suppressed. The more Innocent among them go so far as to say that this recession and this slow down are being prolonged, in deed made worse, because the Kennedy administration is telling the country that the economy is very sick. There is everything to be said for keeping up the con fidence of a sick patient. But an essential ingredient of that confidence is that the patient be convinced that the doctor is not deceiving himself. If, as seems so probable, we face a long hard effort to revive the American economy, the con fidence of the people will best be sustained by convincing them that the economic doc tors are not treating nice words as a substitute for real actions. (Copyright 1961 New York Herald Tribune. Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Havana: ' A diplom-.tic source here reports thai the Castro re gime has guaranteed other Latin American governments that it will not "export" the Cuban revolution throughout the Western Hemisphere. The source, a Latin Ameri can ambassador who asked to remain unidentified, said the pledge was contained in a memorandum from Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa to Western Hemisphere for eign ministers. It was delivered, he said, to Latin American ambassa dors in Havana. HMMMMMMMM. How much, do you rec kon, is a communist'a word worth? This is the answer: NOT MUCH. THIS one's from Moscow: "Jazz has always been considered here to be a sign of capitalistic decadence, an evil import from across the Atlantic. Today that has all been changed. Leonid Osipo vilch Utyosov, writing in the magazine Soviet Culture, says jazz is good, honest music -that probably the Russians IN VENTED it and that maybe Dixieland existed in Odessa before it did in New Oreleans. Jazz isn't a synonym of im perialism, and the saxophone wasn't born of colonialism." The distpalch goes on: "There was a day when that would have been heresy. But anyone who dines in ma jor restaurants here knows that jazz has taken Moscow by storm." f ? ? ? ? Could It be that the com munists have come to the con clusion that "if we can't lick 'em we'd better JOIN 'em?" If so, it would be interest ing. 1M-IIS one comes from Glas- gow: "S c o 11 a n d is producing Scotch whisky at the rate of 70 million gallons a year which is more than DOUBLE present yearly sales all over the world." How come? It just MIGHT be that if Scotch were CHEAPER peo ple over the world would consume more of it and thus lake the distillers off their present hot spot. WHAT suggests a question: 1 Why do we have a reces sion every two or three years? nPHlS may be the answer: We may have developed the capacity to produce MORE THAN WE CAN CONSUME and more been cast in the nu clear weapons mold, both in terms of hypothetical deter rence and of actually waging war if one came, the domes" political pressures in small, crowded countries within easy Russian range have become in tense, especially those from the neutralist-at-heart left wings. Can atomic arms be given to Germany? Can De Gaulle insist on American-British-French direction of NATO as the Germany mili tary contribution, even with out atomic arms, becomes more important than the French? Docs NATO itself be come a "fourth nuclear pow er" under the Norstad-Herter plan for turning over Polaris missiles? If we are to look forward to a "downbuild" of nuclear weapons in Europe, will the European allies face the cost in terms of conventional weap ons and uniformed manpower -pledges that most of them have failed to honor In the past, one reason for the grad ual swing to a nuclear system. Neither Americans general ly nor Europeans generally realize that the time has come when Washington, if it ii to exercise the "stronger Isfcd" POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Amazing, isn't it, how one thing often leads lo another? Last week in this space we ran the anony mous confession of a Med ford housewife concerning her secret habit of watch ing an afternoon TV soap opera. This week, by jingo, we got a note from-guess who?-her husband. Hera it is: "Potluck, you have unex pectedly yet one more read er. "Yes, yes, she just couldn't keep it to herself. Her ego was so elevated at having her communication printed in your most worthy column that she just HAD to show it to her husba.id! "I've always wondered why the Sunday edition is crum pled open somewhere besides the front page or the sport section, and now I know the cause. "Of course, I knew anyway that she spent many after npons in front of the TV, but I was never able to get her to admit it. Now, I realize that at the moment this may give me the upper hand, but I am only a man, so, of course, this will NOT be the last word. "Signed, "P.S. I doubt she would appreciate you using MY name, either." It would be sort of inter esting, we think, to be a lit tle mouse in the corner, watching what goes on In that household this peace- Communications Chuckholes and Siberia To the Editor: Little holes cause big chuckholes, In roads made from petroleum; And big chuckholes get vaster holes, And so ad infinitum. Tn these times of high taxes and higher expenditures, we realize mat me county oiucei;, do not always have the funds or available equipment to patch chuckholes as quickly as they might wish. However, this does not excuse an obli gation for protecting the au loist from unnecessary, tire replacement. When one sud den ly and unsuspectingly drops into a hog wallow, such as the one that has recently developed in the middle of Lozicr lane, it isn't hard to understand the desire to ar range a quick trip to Upper Siberia for tne responsmie persons. Granted, the road people cannot always stand by with rake and tar pot; but, warn ina ciffna and lanterns are not difficult for an alert coun ty administration to come by. Surelv. a temDorarv warning sign, here and there where needed, would go a long way to mollify the well-taxed mo torist. H. W. Robertson 103 North Central ave. Medford. AT EXISTING PRICES. So . . we have to slow down in our buying every second or third year until we can save up enough to buy the things we Want. Which is to say, if we could find a way to REDUCE COSTS, so that prices could be reduced, it would help in staving off these recurring depressions. ATHOUGMT: If we could reduce the cost of GOVERNMENT, it would help us to reduce the cost of everything else. many Europeans themselves cry for. ! obliged to adopt a much .inner line with the A" : themselves. Not only on ixATO military obligations and co-operation, but the need less but rapidly widening trade split in Europe between the common market six and the "outer seven" which car ries in it the seeds of an out right - and disastrous - trade war, The President's assignment is distasteful and difficult, but it is also, unfortunately, the first order of American busi ness in holding the Western peoples together in the face of spreading Communist influ ence. There is much that America can do on its own in Africa on the educational and technical lew.. But in the present order of political pri orities the historic move to ward European unification comes first. The forces now threatening to reverse these 15 years of forward motion in Europe are strong. This is the poorest time possible tor the United Slates to add to their strength, even by indiscre tions. (Distributed 1961 by The Hall Syndicate. Inc.) (All Right Rnterved) 4 ful Sunday morning. Wouldn'l it? Here's another: "Hornbrook What March, came in like in Hornbrook was neither i lion nor a lamb unless it was a small lion with a very small growl. "The soft, warm rain that fell most of the day and into the night was the kind Shake speare must have had in mind when he wrote about the "quality of mercy" that "drop, peth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place be neath." "Briefly, early in the after noon, the very small growl of the lion turned into a mighty howl, when a stiff wind sprang up and belted its way through the valley. "But, all in all, March made an entrance more lamb like than leonine. And if the old saying is true, "In like a lion, out like a lamb," then look out! -The opposite may be true, and the end of March will go roaring out like the lion it didn't come in like. "From your OTHER Pot luck fan." In a little note accompa nying this, Mrs. Hornbrook said, "I love letting my hair down and doing things liko this to the English language once in a whilel It makes me feel to nice and orderly and in the groove when I get back to straight copy again." Shucks, that looked pretty orderly to US, Mrs. H. Speaking of the English language, one of our young men was ruminating on what can happen when there's just one little, bitty slip of the finger when typewriting a story. Sometimes, he says, the error may be more the truth than the "correct" story. Like these titles: Soil Conversation districts. Southern Oregon Conversa tion and Tree Farm Assn. Eagle Point Irritation dis trict. U.S. Bureau of Recreation, And, of course, the old one that always gave us trouble until the United Medford Cru sade came along-the Commu nist Chest. One of our favorite radio announcements is the one in the morning, when the an nouncer says the "unoffi cial rainfall prediction is for a 3 per cent chance of rain today" when, of course, it is pouring cats and dogs outside. We learned rather mors about guppies than we ever knew before when we read the most recent issue of that excellent paper, the Hoover Hi-Light. The article was writ ten by Robert McCamant of the sixth grade. Here is what Robert has to say about gup pies: "Guppies you may not con sider to be very amazing, but they really are. When you consider their ability to re produce their kind they are fabulous.. As you know, put two guppies in a jar, and be for you turn about you have hundreds. This is due to sev eral reasons-a female can pro duce 1500 babies in a year (125 a month). This seldom happens because the female must be full grown, and sel dom do they reach maturity. "Guppies are very hardy, and can stand conditions oth ers cannot, The male is very vivacious and spends most o( its time courting. He must do this because he is very scarce in nature, and because his bright colors make him easily seen and caught. "They are very Interesting to watch, and because of their great mating characteristics you won't very often end up with les than you started with." Ned Sickels in the third grade at Hoover is a young man with an eye on the fu ture. He writes: "If I am busy il will mean for me a good education and a good job. We have to be ready for almost anything that comes up." Right you are, Ned, right you are. For the next two Sundays, Potluck will be done by oth ers than the usual Politick editor; that is, if it gets done at all. The Potluck editor is taking a trip. His wife is going too. They are going by jet. His wife is nervous. And excited. So, if the truth were known, ij the Potluck editor. But, as Ned says, we have to be ready for almost any thing that comes up. Finally, ai a farewell ges ture, the Potluck editor de cided that if that E.A. fel low across the page can do it, 10 can he: A couple that started a trip. Began with a wonderful lip. They flew through the sky Without once asking why. But returned at a tub tonis clip. t.