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Medford snd Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Trlbun. 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 vr o.
10 YEARS AGO
Mar 7. 1 (Monday)
Congressman Harris Ells
worth said today that a fur
ther survey of tne site oi w
im Cnmo White by Army
r,inra is nlanned goon.
Robert Bee man, Union
district ringer, was
elected president of the Siski
you chapter, Society of Ameri
can Foresters. ('
20 YEARS AGO
Mar 7. 1941 (Wednesday)
CCC and NYA workers are
continuing 'improvements of
Bear Creek and Prescott
parks. ' ' i '
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
Lockheed P 38 Interceptor
ninne Is bo fast it appears and
is nut ni sioht before It can
v hsnril. mess dispatches
.) it u nn a oar with local
rumors heard In Ashland, be
fore mentioned here.
30 YEARS AGO
Mar 7. 1931 (Thursday)
The Medford Chamber of
ia nlanninff a re-
ntinn for Selel Yoshima,
Japanese good -will aviator
who will stop here later in
the month.
TinMhria toxin has been
' given this year to 828 grade
school pupil" in ineaiuiu. ,
40 YEARS AGO ,
Mar 7. 1921 (Saturdar)
A 'nroDOsal to limit down-
town parking to 20 minutes
was heard at yesterday s
Chamber of Commerce forum,
vatitlnni are being clrcu
luted seeking a county bond
issue for fairgrounds Improve
ments.
80 YEARS AGO
u. i tail mundavl
. Mayor W. H. Canon, back
from a trip through Cali
fornia, declares Medford ap
pears more proiperous than
any of the cities he visited
on the trip. , j
A sign recently seen posted
on a building in ruamawi
Falls reads: "This building is
for the post office. All others
reserved for real estate of
fices." Whsl't Ycsr I.Q.7
sji. mm la sustariarf
seven a eight t excellent) e
all h ta.
1. Have spiders four, six or
eight legs?
. 2. Name the west coast re-
- Lti- H GaiiK America
astride the equator and
bounded on the north, east,
south and west respectively
by Colombia, Peru and the
Pacific Ocean.
3, What Is the zodiacal sign
for persons born between
July 23 and August 23?
4. Which state la nick
named "Cornhusker State"?
8. Which Federal agency is
abbreviated I.C.C.?
6. Are bats blind?
7. Was the Lend Lease Act
enacted by Congress before or
after the Marshal Plan was
effected?
8. When Is Bastille day
celebrated In France?
8. Slitting a crow's tongue
Improves its ability to talk;
true or false?
10. A drowning person al
ways rises to the surface
three times before sinking:
true or false?
. 1. Eight Ufa, I. Eeuadot.
1. Leo the Lien. 4. Nebraska.
I. Interstate Centner Cosn
mltate. . No. 7. aVefee, 9.
'aly 14. 9, fatoaj. 19. false.
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SUNDAY. MAY 7. 1961
Space
By all odds, the best television program of
the week was Friday morning's early, early show,
broadcast live from Cape Canaveral.
It had everything
sex on TV anyway?
It had drama, suspense, excitement, stretches
of boredom which only heightened the thrill and
the pride when the big rocket blasted off success
fully, and when Navy (Jmdr. Alan Shepard Jr.
was fished from the Atlantic by a helicopter a
quarter-hour later. , .
Even the fact that one couldn't see the last
part, but could only hear the excited reports of
the reporter on board the aircraft carrier in the
target area, seemed to heighten the effect.
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CO WE did it.
America sighed a huge, collective sigh of
relief, and walked a little prouder and straighter
to know that American science, technology and
courage had licked the problems of spatial blast
off and re-entry.
, it was a time for pride and pleasure.
But it was also a time for some sober back
ground thoughts about
the race for space, not only about our positive
achievement.
NE of the reasons the suspense was so great
as we watched television the other morning
was the knowledge that many of our space shots
have gone awry; that Commander Shepard was,
indeed, taking a chance; and that the slightest
mis-cue could have killed this courageous man,
right in the view of millions.
Another was the knowledge that, great as
the feat was, this downrange flight of a few
hundred miles, at a speed of some 4,500 miles
per hour, isn't m the same
the Russian cosmonaut,
speeds of some 17,000
; And still another was that, "no matter how
much money, effort and sweat is put into Amer
ica's space program, the chances against our
"catching up" within the next several years are
pretty slim. - .
DUT let these sobering second-thoughts remain
" in the background, and let our pride of the
moment minele with a
shall not be the last of
ments in this vital field
While Russia, our competitor in this race, has
more brute power lor luting space cratt, and
thus a tremendous initial advantage, American
technology has created far more sophisticated
instrumentation, and the fact that Commander
Shepard had a small degree of control over his
vehicle is also of some significance.
Many things will be required of the Ameri
can people if this great achievement is not to go
down in history as an also-ran.
"
IT WILL require money vast sums of it.
It will require educational excellence, for
Commander Shepard's courage and training actu
ally were only one tiny fraction of the basic re
search, the practical application of scientific the
ory, the technical know-how to fit the million
different factors together, which made the flight
possible. -
It will require patriotic and dedicated work
hard work.
And most of all it will require the support
of the American people, determined that a nation
of free men shall not be outstripped in the race
to the new frontier of space by men whose life
is pledged to a philosophy of slavery, repression,
and the denial of the worth of the individual
human being. E.A.
Ecology
Our desk dictionary defines the word "ecol
ogy" thus:
"Biology dealing with the mutual relations between
organisms and their environment."
, The word is a relatively new one, and not
too widely known. But we're going to hear more
about it in the future, for mankind is an "organ
ism," and his relationship to his environment is
complex, deteriorating, and potentially appalling,
if not actually dangerous to the survival of the
race of man as we Know
LIERE are a few paragraphs by Robert C.
Cook, writing in the Population Bulletin, and
reprinted by the Washington (D.C.) Post:
Consider four baste factors In the ecological com
plex: space, air, water and people. Air and water
have always been considered "frer," and the great
open spaces Inviolable. The multiplication of people 's
already changing this, and for the worse. Space, air
and water will become priceless should the population
of this country double to 360 million, as expected, in
only 40 years.
The air is becoming Increasingly polluted with
waste which, In smog-Infested areas, eats holes in
nylon stockings, makes the eyes smart, increases res
piratory illnesses and may even cause cancer.
Man has shown the most reckless disregard for
ecology In his misuse of water resources.
When Lewis and Clark took off from St. Louis
to explore the Northwest territories, the water of the,
Missouri river could be drunk neat without fear of
infection. A recent public health report , . . implies
that to wash one's hands in the Missouri ts dangerous;
to be dunked In this devil's brew of topsll, sewage
and industrial wastes could be fatal.
Will mankind learn to treat his environment
as a vital, living and conservable and preservable
home? Or will he continue to treat it as an
expendable, unlimited resource, to be exploited
until it's all gone and eroded mankind withers
in a sea of asphalt, breathing dirt and drinking
sewage?
The choice Is ours. And it is now. E.A.
Shot
but sex, and who wants
our relative position in
class with the flight of
around the globe at
miles per hour.
determination that this
American accomplish
of the future.
it
Dennis the Menace
'WE BALLET DANCERS tIKE ID .
JOSE STANDING ON OIK TIPPy-TOES'
Matter of Fact b Joseph ai,op
(o) New York Herald
By STEWART ALSOP
Joseph Alsop is on a brief
vacation. During his ab
sence his brother Stewart
will write the Alsop col
umn. KHRUSHCHEV REALLY
MEANS IT
Washington The rather
special circumstance of a
brother's demanding a couple
of weeks of
column - writ
ing as a wed'
ding present
Is hardly like
ly to be re-
peated. So
this is doubt
less the last
column under
the above by-
Aiso line that will
ever appear In this space.
This reporter therefore feels
a bit like a dying man who
wants to be remembered for
his famous last words, but
can't think of any.
The best I can do is: KHRU
SHCHEV REALLY MEANS
WHAT HE SAYS.
The British could never
quite bring themselves to be
lieve that Hitler really meant
the crazy things he said in
"Me In Kampf." But Hitler
did mean them, because he
was crazy too.
Niklta Khrushchev is not
crazy. Unlike Hitler, he has
no irrational impulse to play
Samson in the temple. But it
Is important to realize that
Khrushchev and those around
him are rational within the
limits imposed by the essen
tially - irrational doctrine of
Marxism-Leninism. This doc
trine makes it possible for
Khrushchev, like the White
Queen, to "believe six impos
sible things before breakfast,"
as when he remarked, in Mr.
Walter Llppmann's fascinat
ing interview with him, that
he considered President Ken
nedy merely an agent of the
Rockefeller interests.
e .
NO DOUBT Khrushchev re
ally believes this. More
important, there is no doubt
at all that he really believes
that what his idol Lenin called
"the cause of creating a world
wide Soviet republic" is sure
to triumph, and rather soon
now. Indeedt in recent months
he has been predicting that
triumph more confidently
than ever before.
He has been quite explicit,
moreover, about how the tri
umph is to be achieved. He
announced gloatingly more
than a year ago that "the
world balance of power has
now turned sharply In favor
of the Socialist countries." In
his dispute with the Chinese
Communists, he has ruled out
the use of this power in a
global nuclear war in order
to Insure the triumph of the
"world-wide Soviet republic."
But, he says, "we shall make
the imperialists jump like
fishes in a saucepan, even
without war."
By "Imperialists" he means
us, and in Southeast Asia,
Cuba, and elsewhere, we have
Indeed been Jumping like
fishes In a saucepan. More
over, Khrushchev has also
been quite explicit about what
he means by "without war."
He means without the kind
of war which might destroy
the Soviet Union. Other wars
are dandy. "We support
wholeheartedly and without
reservation all national liber
ation wars," he said a few
weeks ago.
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THIS Is the kind of war
Khrushchev and the Chi
nese and Indo-Chinese Com
munists have been promoting
in Southeast Asia. It is wholly
predictable that there will be
more such wars, not only be
cause Khrushchev means what
he says, but because he must
prove to the Chinese that he
Is, as a Communist, more roy
alist than the king.
Once you assume tliat Khru
shchev means what he says, J
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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON
Tribune Syndicate
certain things become clear.
One is that the cold war will
go on, perhaps for generations.
When the Kennedy adminis
tration took office, there were
those in the Kennedy inner
circle who talked hopefully
of negotiating a "package
deal," which would Include
arms control and a mutual
agreement to,, "call off the
cold war." These hopes have
now, of course, turned to ash
es.
The reason they have turn
ed to ashes is simple. To ask
tne communist leaders to for
bear to thrust for Communist
power in any area they deem
vulnerable is to ask them to
cease to be Communists. This
is from their point of view
non - negotiable. The alterna
tive is an agreement by our
side not to respond to Com
munist thrusts, and to await
meekly the destruction of our
system. From our point of
view, this also is surely non
negotiable. AS IN the Korean truce or
the first Berlin hlnckarle.
it is possible to negotiate with
the Soviets temporary accom
modations which reflect the
current realities of power. Un
fortunately, the current reali
ties of power are suggested
by the fact that, if President
Kennedy had intervened in
either Cuba or Laos let
alone both he would have
had to commit just about the
entire pathetic corporal's
guard of conventional forces
at his disposal. It is not sur
prising that Khrushchev was
not much frightened by the
President's bold words about
Laos.
Kennedy's first job is thus
to right the real power bal
ance. If the job is done, there
Is no reason to- despair, de
spite the recent disasters. For
the other side has grave weak
nesses which are less visible
than 'ours, and the President.
although he has blundered
badly, is still capable of offer
ing the leadership the West
so desperately needs.
But the lob will be exDen.
slve and painful, and it will
not be done unless we recog
nize that when Khrushchev
predicts that our system will
be destroyed by his, he means
just that. If all this seems a
bit obvipus and unsubtle, so
are most last words.
In-Service Institute
Slated af University
Eugene-An In-service Insti
tute for high school mathe
matics teachers will be held
bv the University nf Oreo-nn's
mathematics denartment rinr.
Ing 1981-62. It will be financed
by a grant from the National
Science FoundaUon.
The Institute will be con
ducted through a series of eve
ning seminars with members
of the mathematics depart
ment lecturing. Those on the
staff will include Dr. A. F.
Moursund, head of the mathe
matics department; Dr. Ivan
M. Niven, professor; Dr. Ken
neth S. Ghent, associate pro
fessor: and Dr. Donalsl ft.
Truax, assistant professor.
This is the fourth such insti
tute conducted by the Oregon
mamemntlcs department. The
rant will Include fnnrla far
payment of fees and travel
for SO high school teachers
who live within a 12S mile
radius of Eugene. '
Free World Leads in
Production Capacity
New York -IOTI- As of 19S9,
the five leading steel-produc
ing nations In the free world
had a combined capacity to
produce 1,113 pounds of steel
per person.
Their counterparts In the
Communist bloc had a com
bined steclmaklng capacity to
produce only 180 pounds per
person, according to the
American Iron & Steel Institute.
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Uppmann
(c New York Herald Trlbun Syndicate
THE REAPPRAISAL
Even with a cease-fire in
Laos, our prospects in, Indo
china are bleak. The best we
can hope for
now is that
Prince S o u
vanna Phou
ma, whose
fall we engi
neered, will
return to pow
er, presiding
over a quasi
Jieutralist eov-
9i
f
LlDDmann smmpnl whim
government will k.
heavily mortgaged to the
Communists than was hi firct
government. In 1... ti
, JUj WC
State Department samhlprf
and lost on the policy that
a pro-American government
based on the American mili
tary presence could be pushed
right up against Communist
China and Communist viot-
mlnh.
In South Vietnam, which
adjoins Laos, the government
which we brought Into power
and which we support, Is in
great peril. It still holds the
cities but it has all but lost
control of the countryside to
the Communist guerrillas.
Why is our friend and client,
Ngo Dinh Diem, losing this
civil war? Mr. Stewart Al-
SOD. writintf nn W.Hn.0ni,
has supplied the answpr.
Citing Mao Tse-tung on guer
rilla warfare. Mr. ai
points out that guerrillas
must have support from with
out in this case from Com
munist Vietminh. Also tho
great majority must be con-
vincea mat tne guerrillas will
win. But first of all. the unci-.
rillas must have popular sup
port within the country.
Now the truth s no
many corresDondents have re
ported, that our man is ex
tremely unpopular, his gov
ernment beine both reaction
ary and corrupt. It follows
that If we are going to build
ud a resistance tn thA rvm.
munists. we cannot do It hv
dropping in our paratroopers
ana expecting mem to Win a
guerrilla war. We shall have
first . of all to reform dras
tically the Vietnamese gov
ernment which we support.
For unless we can suDDort a
popular government, we are
certain to lose in Vietnam.
WITH variations, conditions
in Laos and South Viet.
nam exist elsewhere, and un
less this situation can be ex
plained to our people, the
President faces a series of in
glorious and unpopular rear
guard actions. Here he can
find the first answer to the
famous question in his inaugu
ral address of what we can
do for our country. What we
can do for our country is
first of all to give up being
too proud to go through that
truly agonizing reappraisal
which is needed so that we
can see the realities.
This country has never vet
had a leader who has 'dared
to explain candidly the conse
quences of the change in the
world balance of power since
the Soviet Union broke the
American nuclear monopoly
in 1949.
Until about the middle
'fifties, until the Soviet Union
began to develop missiles to
carry .nuclear weapons, our
military pre-eminence was
still so great that we were
able with impunity to encir
cle the Soviet Union with
military bases extending from
Japan and South Korea
through Southeast and South
Cuba: Second Reaction Ripple
By ERIC SEVARIED
Recife, Brazil - In north
east Brazil, the hemisphere's
most conspicuous area and ex-
wi i 1 1 ii ma ample for the
revolution of
rising expec
tations, events
of the last few
days suggest
that Latin re
action to t h e
attempted in
vasion of Cu
ba is not a
complete and
Several
total loss to United States
prestige and policy.
Here, as everywnere eise
In Latin America, the first
wave sent out by the violent
splash of the Invasion was a
shock wave forcing every gov
ernment and virtually every
big newspaper below the bor
der to scramDie lor me tem
porary safety of an anti-Yankee
position, but then, at least
in this critical region, a second
ripple followed and is worthy
of attention.
see
In the town of Caruaru anti-
Castro students organized "to
break up a pro-Castro rally
staged by Francisco Jullao
and the Communist leaders of
his now famous Peasant
Leagues. The first speakers
were pelted down with eggs
and rotten fruit and Jullao
did not dare to appear himself.
At the Recife Airport Jullao
Asia to the Middle East. We
were strong enough to order
the Red Army out of north
ern Iran, which is on the
Soviet frontier. We were able
to thwart the blockade of
West Berlin by an airlift.
These things were possible
because we had military su
premacy. e
WHEN the Soviet Union be
" came a nuclear power,
when our supremacy was re
duced to parity, the wiser
men of the West, those with
lonff memories and Inne pv.
j perience and long heads, real-
ucu iiiai, niuiiary outposts
could not be maintained on
the, frontiert of the Commu
nist world. Just as Cuba is
not now, and will never be
allowed to become, a Soviet
military outpost, so in reverse
for peripheral positions like
Laos, South Vietnam, Quemoy
and Matsu, and some others.
The change in the world
balance of power demanded
a change in our policy. It de
manded that we scrap the
policy of American satellite
states and promote instead a
policy of neutralism for the
weak and vulnerable peri
pheral states. That is the best,
indeed that is the only, hope
of their not being engulfed
by Communism. In some
measure, the Kennedy admin
istration has recognized this
truth for example in accept
ing the idea of neutral Laos.
Bu the President has never
explained it to the country,
and therefore he has no re
liable public opinion on which
to lean. Furthermore, there
are strong bureaucratic inter
ests in, the State Department,
the C. I. A., and the Pentason
which are as opposed to a
cnange oi policy by President
Kennedy as were the French
generals in Aleeria to a
change by Gen. de Gaulle.
JTNTIL the country under
stands that the basic con
ception of our policy has to
be changed, Mr. Kennedy will
be a harried man. He will
have a series of crisis in
which he has to be on the de
fensive and always trying to
see how little he can lose.
Moreover, the energies of the
country and his energies will
be dispersed, and the atten
tion of the country and his
attention will be distracted
from the great tasks.
In Asia the great task is
to consolidate the key coun
tries which are India, Pakis
tan, and Japan.
In Latin America the fu
ture wiU be determined In
the key countries not in
Cuba but in Brazil, the Ar
gentine, Chile, Venezuela,
and Mexico.
In the Middle East the fu
ture depends not on the north
ern military alliance, which
is mere paper, but on the
capacity of the key countries;
Egypt, Iraq, Turkey, and
Iran, to adapt their policies
to the realities of the stra
tegic position.
The whole future, whether
it is to be war or peace, de
pends on the consolidation of
the AUantic AlUance, and
upon the rise within it of new,
fresh, military and political
leadership.
, ,
THERE Is a lot to be done
and the fate of mankind
does not depend upon .what
happened in the Bay of Pigs.
It would be a good thing
If this could be realized by
those whom H. G. Wells once
described as the "Gawdsak
ers," that is to say, those who
are running about and wring-
and his big Havana-bound del
egation were obliged to pick
up their bags and go home
when Castro's promised air
transport failed to arrive, and
the jeering was considerable.
As these words are written,
hundreds of Recife residents
are gathered in the Cathedral
of Sao Pedro at a memorial
Mass for the young Cubans
who died on the tragic beach
es, and rather suddenly Amer
icans here are being approach
ed by Brazilian friends, who
say for the first time that the
United States must eliminate
Castro one way or another,
whatever the diplomatic and
propaganda price. Better a
temporary explosion of feel
ing against you, one respected
Brazilian leader said to me,
than the appearance of inde
cision and weakness. The
United States above all else
must not appear to be a paper
dragon In this part of t h e
world.
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How wide this second rip
ple of reaction may have
spread in South America I
could not guess, but hete it
is unmistakable, and what it
means is that the Cuban af
fair is forcing Latin Ameri
cans at long last to take a
position on Castro. An open
natural alignment has been
delayed because the prevail
ing climate of anti-Yankeeism
has served th domestic pur-
(PTILUeiX
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
This, friends, is National
Frozen Food Week, National
Music Week and Goodwill
Week.
It is also Be Kind to Ani
mals Week, Nati-jnal Raisin
Week, National Hospital
Week, and Christian Family
Week.
All of these objectives are,
we suppose, admlraDle. But
we wonder, always, just what
good most of them do.
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All of which gives point
to a story (corrected before
it got into print) about the
Jackson county budget com
mittee hearing, in which
"Week control" was under
consideration. Typewriting
mistake or not, we're in
favor of it. As long as it
doesn't cost any taxpayer's
money, of course.
The Communications edi
tor, whose desk we sometimes
share, has a number of pet
peeves.
Among them are unsigned
letters, letters without return
addresses, letters too long to
fit the space limits, single
spaced letters, badly-written
letters, and various other less
er ones.
One of his pettest of pet
peeves, however, is the letter
which has a line down below
which says: '
"I hope you have the cour
age to print this. (If you do,
please don't use my name.)"
News item submitted by
the Ne-Wa-Kan-Tanda group
of Camp Ffre Girls: "We
went on a hike on a Satur
day. . . . We took along a
well-balanced sack lunch."
..
There was a fire downtown
the other day, and we had a
reporter and photographer in
attendance, who, as instructed,
conducted themselves in a
manner designed to be as
helpful as possible.
Others in attendance in
cluded a well-behaved crowd
of spectators, and a large
crew of radio and television
reporters, who were swarm
ing all over the place, lugging
equipment around, and gen
erally whooping things up. A
friend of ours watched the
scene, then went home to hear
an excited voice over the ra
dio report on how the fire
men were "hampered in their
v-ork by the crowds."
"Huh," our friend snorted
to us the next day. "The only
ones that were doing any
hampering were those radio
and TV guys."
Only one person, so far
as is known, reacted to an
editorial on this page the
other day entitled "Down
With Parking Mei.nl" He
xeaeted thusi
A parking meter is a Machia
vellian joke.
You put money in to save our
collective skin 1
ing their hands over the Cu
ban mess and crying, "For
Gawd s sake, let s do some
thing." They need to cool
off.
They .might ponder the
wisest remark which was ut
tered during the debates
about Cuba that Castro Is a
thorn in our flesh, but he is
not a dagger in our hearts.
Having gotten things in
perspective again, the country
could turn its attenUon to
those regions of the globe
where great and inspiring
things are waiting to be done.
poses of conservatives and na
tionallsts as well as of com
munists. This atmospheric con
dition is comparable - and not
so crudely at that - with the
atmosDhsre in Britain, where
neutralism has gone but poor
ly challenged because outright
support or praise of the Unit
ed States has been bad form
even in conservative circles
yearning for a more independ
ent British foreign policy,
e
Now Fidel Castro is no long
er just the ghost at the con
versational banquets of Latin
America. His Communist con
spiracy to undermine every
Latin regime within his reach
is now revealed to the most
rheumy official eyes as an
indigestible lump of hard fact
lying in the center of every
governmental plate. Private
persons, including the young,
are always freer to announce
In a loud voice that the Em
peror has no clothes. Around
here, young intellectuals have
begun to fight the Commu
nists who have infiltrated
press, radio and TV and as
teachers In the primary
schools. They know now that
Castro's regime is pure con
spiracy, Cuba nothing but an
expendable pawn in the Rus
sian world war of attrition.
They know that, whatever
the undisputed value of Ju
liao's Peasant Leagues in
drawing national and interna
tional attention to the fright
Apd keep the town from go
ing broke.
So let's lift the cup till we
taste the dregs
And cheer the days now so
long passed by.
Catch the fleet feet of mem
ory's boast,
When the price" of time cost
less than a dime
At our fair village's hitching;
post.
There Is a bare possibility
thai no reaction at all
would be better than that
one. Sooooo. . . . The rest
of the column will be by
courtesy of our contempor
aries, the Portland Report,
er, the Salem Capital Jour
nal, and the Klamath Falls
Herald and News, respec
tively. - e
There was a political phil
osopher, Uncle Zeke, who was
Interviewed by a newsman on
the occasion of his 100th
birthday.
"I suppose you've seen a lot
of changes in our town in
your time," the reporter said.
"Yep, I shore have," the
Impeccably Republican Uncle
Zeke replied. "And I've been
agin every damn one of 'em."
Our Horrible Pun for To
day is a fish story. Of sorts.
It seems that this fellow
was out fishing for carp
when his billfold fell out of
his pocket. As he leaned
over in an attempt to grab
it, he saw a fish rise up
under the billfold and flip
it with its nose to another
fish, which flipped it on to
another, etc., and so on. It
was the first recorded in
stance of carp-to-carp wal-leilng.
' Newsroom telephone con
versation: "Hello, is this the report
er?" "This is one of the report,
ers."
"Well, I want the reporter
who writes the articles for the -paper."
"This is the reporter who
writes news for the paper."
"Are you the reporter who
puts in all those articles?"
"I am one of them. What
can I do for you?"
"Well, I want to put an ar
ticle In the paper. Have you
got paper and pencil ready?"
"Yes. I'm all ready."
"Well, here it is. Take it
down just as I give it to you.
Mrs. J. H. Whuzziz and her
charming daughter Euphrasia
will leave their palatial home
today for a motor trip through
the East where they will vis
it their Aunt Lucy in the me
tropolis of New York. Sha
has a fine home there, and ia
very rich. These two promin
ent Wichita women will re
turn in three months to their
mansion. Now read it back
to me."
"I just took down notes. I
didn't take it down verbatim."
"I didn't want it verbatim.
I wanted you to take it the
way I said it. That's the way
I want it in the paper."
"I'll put it in with the facts
correct."
"That isn't the Idea. I want
It put in the way I gave it to
you, if I have to pay for it.
How much will I have to pay
to get it put in the way 1 want
it?"
"You'll have to talk to the
advertising department about
that."
"Well, I'll take It to th
other paper. I never was so
insulted in all my life."
.
Well, and then wa have
our good days, loo.
Happier
ful condition of the northeast
Brazilian peasant. The real
leader of the leagues is tha
Communist called Zeze, and
that Havana and Moscow see
the leagues and these tragia
dying peasants merely as tools
In a game that has little to do
with land reform as a goal
in itself. They have, In fact,
proof of this. One Brazilian
Communist mission to Mos
cow made the mistake of in
cluding a comrade with a re
spect for truth. This man,
Peralta by name, came bacle
and quit the Party and re
vealed in a book that the Mos
cow advice for the peasant
leaders was: Do not, above
all things, solve the land prob
lem. Moscow had not forgot
ten how land reform solutions
in Japan reduced the power
of the Japanese Communist
Party.
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In the plans of their hero
Fidel. and his colleagues, the
Brazilian peasants are merely
pawns, but they will become
much more than that - they
will become a frantic anarchic
army of violent rebellion un
less Janio Quadros' Federal
Government gets on much
faster than it is with the mam
moth task of land, industrial
and social reform in this in
creasingly desperate region.
(Distributed 1961 by The Hall
Syndicate, Inc.)
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