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Medford and Jackson County
History from the file of The
Mali Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40
and SO vein ago.
Gage of Battle
Tom Wright, who covers statehouse news for
this paper, took note of what he described as a
"cold war" between executive and legislative
branches of state government. He cited various
instances of what are described as legislative en
croachments on the authority of the executive.
None of the latter branch has sounded off in
criticism, but that may come. Governor Hatfield
has the veto ax poised, and Secretary of State
Appling is not at all timid in speaking his mind
. Kecent instances of assumption of powers by
the Legislature were listed by Wright. One was
the creation of the Legislative Fiscal Officer, by
the 1959 Legislature. This, however, is within
the constitutional prerogative of the Legislature,
by virtue of an amendment adopted by the people
in 1952. This officer serves as a "watchdog" for
the Assembly. His only authority is to study and
report. He has no power with reference to the
spending of monejr by other departments. ..
THE same amendments to the constitution,
adopted in 1952, gave a constitutional basis
for the State Emergency Board. The board had
been operating for many years, doling out money
from funds put m its hand by the preceding Leg
islature to supplement appropriations in order
to meet emergencies in the interval between ses-
sions. The legality of this body came in question,
so the amendment was adopted to give it status
However, legislatures have assigned duties
to this board which are beyond the grant of
powers given in Sec. 3, Art. Ill of the state con
stitution. Thus the Legislature in making &xi-
propriations to the Board of Control or State
Board of Higher Education, has tied a string to
the same, requiring approval of the Emergency
Board.
This is an invasion of the' rights of the execu
tive. So far, this assumption has not been chal
lenged. I think it should be. But administrative
boards are reluctant to challenge the Legislature,
realizing they must come before that body for
future appropriations.
DOWER granted to the "Joint Committee,"
which is commonly called the Emergency
Board, cover authorizing expenditure from its
emergency appropriation under certain situations,
all with the condition "where-an emergency
exists." These situations include granting addi
tional funds to enable an agency to carry on an
activity required by law for which no appropria
tion was made; or supplemental funtjs when the
previous appropriation is inadequate ; or making
funds available to a new activity created by law ;
or to permit transfers between classifications
within the budget of an agency. x
Nothing in this gives the Joint Committee
power to exercise judgment over an appropriation
duly made to an executive office, which the latter
wishes to spend for the purpose for which it was
appropriated.
10 YEARS AGO
It will coat $1,006,209 to
operate Medford'i school sys
tem during the 1951-52 fiscal
' year, which is the highest
budget in the district's history
and the first time it has ever
exceeded $1 million.
The Southern Oregon
Northern California Anti
Weather Control association,
an organization aimed at put
ting a stop to all weather
control activities, will meet at
the Central Point Grange tonight.
90 YEARS AGO :
May 10. 1141 (Saturday)
:. ; Spokesmen for the city,
county and chamber of com
merce declare that plans are
made to take care ot any
social and economic changes
that might occur here if the
Army decides to locate a
training camp In the area.
From Arthur Perrv's "Ye I
Smudge Pot" column: "Tele- A NOTHER breach of executive power is seen
tat Juiy "wiVlu "in the attempt of the Legislature to give the
ing $190 up. Who will be Emergency Board the "last word on pay adjust
ments. If the money is appropriated, the authority
for spending it rests in the department to which
it was appropriated, subject to Civil Service conditions.
As Tom Wright wrote, this aggrandizement
of power by the legislative arm is not local to
Oregon. It shows up in other states. In Oregon it
has been growing like a weed in the post-war
period. Partly this may be done due to frequent
changes in the otf ice of chiei executives.
Also, since legislators are not subject to the
two-term limitation as are the three top execu
tives, the continuity in office, particularly of sen
ators, has led them to arrogate to themselves more
power than they are entitled to.
The Emergency Board has been a "third
house" itself, membership on it making a rise in
stature over other senators or representatives.
Dennis the Menace
U.S. Faces Two-Fold Task In Its NATO
Role; Advantages, Differences Listed
I'VE BEPN COttECTIrta SEWVS
FOR THIRTY YEAfiS
We Gar a
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
In Oslo this week, at the
NATO foreign ministers' con-
ference, the United States
JSWn undertook
twofold task:
First, it
sought to
erase doubts
about U.S.
1 e a de rship
a r o u -. e d by
serious s e t-
backs in Cuba
and Laos, and
Newiom doubts- about
its intentions in Europe,
Second, it sought to mend
cracks in NATO s own defen
sive armor.
On Secretary of State Dean
Rusk's side as he addressed
the ministers was the first
U.S. astronaut's flight into
space.
Also reassuring was his
promise that U. S. troops
would not be withdrawn
from Europe and that the
U.S. maintained its strong po
sition against any Commu-
Communications
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Irresponsibility
To the Editor: The irrespon
sible statements ascribed to
the Republican state chair
man in regard to "the Madi
son Avenue attempt to build
Kennedy image and the
prediction of a defeat for the
President in 1964, in my opin
ion represents partisan poli
tics at its very worst.
At a time when a fearful
free world is looking to the
United States for some sort
of positive leadership, it
would seem that personal at
tacks, designed to deprecate
the Influence of the man
elected to the highest office
in the world, should be laid
aside until at least election
year.
Harper F. Edwards
Chairman
Jackson County
Democratic Central
Committee
Medford
the first to buy one, and re
port seeing a battle in Europe
that was never fought." '
SO YEARS AGO , '
May 10. 1S31 (Sunday)
Hood River valley U re
portedly closing in on the
Rogue valley in total acreage
devoted tc, fruit orchards.
. Theater prices here have
lean reduced to 30 cents for
the summer.
40 YEARS AGO
May 10, 121 (Tuesday)
A grand ball will be held
at the Natatorium this week
nd.
Crater Lake park officials
estimate July 1 as the open'
Ing date for the road to the
rim of the lake.
SO YEARS AGO
May 10, Ull (Wednesday)
Medford residents yesterday
voted 61 to 1 for annexation
ot an area south of the city,
' The Improvements of homes
on Jackson blvd. is in evi
dence following paving of
that street. 5
Wfcst's Year I.Q.7
Max at tea earratt Is ausarlarf
seven ar alf ht It ncalUnri Mire ar
an a teed.
1. What kind ot fruit Is a
Rhode Island Greening?
3. Name the author of "A
Child's Garden of Verses."
3. Which of these are not
light wines: claret, chanv
pagne, port, sherry, sauterne,
burgandy, muscatel?
4. The morbid fear of pass
Ing near high buildings and
Structures is called b-phobl?
8. Is pol, a favorite Ha
waiian dish, made from pine
apple, taro, or coconuts?
0. Is the capital ot Belgium
Antwerp, Brussels, or Liege?
7. In a trial at law is the
Jury or the Judge the trier
of the facts of the case?
8. A contract In which
workers agree not to Join a
union is called what? ,
- 9. Do the rules of racing
require that names for race
bones be limited to 12, 14,
r 16, letters?
- 10. In which New England
State did Shays' Rebellion, an
Insurrection against the State
government occur In 1786-87?
. Antwerei 1. Apple. 2.
Robert Louis Stevenson. 3.
feet, muscatel, 4. Batapho.
kla. I. Taro. (. Brussels,
T. Jory. I, Yellow Dog eon-
tract, t. 14. 10, Massachus-
sis. , .
COME day there should be a showdown. Some
governor or board should initiate a suit to
test the powers of the EB.
These officials are fully as responsible as are
legislators They are accountable to the people,
not to a small group of legislators, able and hon
orable though the latter may be. '
The executive branch should choose its ground
well, and then lay down the gage of court battle
with the Legislature. Ex-Gov. Charles A.
Sprague in the Oregon Statesman, Salem.
Refreshing Commentary
When the Soviet Union's Mai. Yuri Gaearin
stepped from the flight capsule in which he en
circled the globe his mouth snouted involved
Communist progapanda slogans, so dramatic as
to be corny, the instant his feet touched the
ground. -
When the U.S. Navy's Cmdr. Alan Shepard
exited irom the capsule in which he took a much
shorter ride, but much better publicized, his com
ment was, "Man, what a ride !"
Somehow the American's comment was more
refreshing, and genuine-sounding to boot, than
was that of the Russian. Or maybe we're preju
diced. Coos Bay World
The Answer
To the Editor: What is hap
pening to the comfortable-
little city of Gold Hill? First
a street that begins nowhere
and ends nowhere, then a fil
tration plant that no one can
afford. What are they trying
to do? Run all the widows and
those on social security out of
their homes?
Are they trying to run the
working class of people out
of Gold Hill?
Who is back of such a fil
tration plant and who will
profit by It?
Who but millionaires could
afford a plant of such propor
tions in a town the size of
Gold Hill?
Surely not the working
class, but maybe that
what some .of the people
want.
I understand there are 200
homes in Gold Hill. How can
they pay for such a plant and
still be able to live unless
they have a lot of Income
other than wages?
Also there is the small de
tail of operating this plant 24
hours a day. What is that
going to cost the people?
flease somebody answer
me. I'm bewildered.
Mrs. V. C. Van Houten
1045 S.W. I st.
Grants Pass
O
Editor's note: The voters of
Gold Hill gave their answer
yesterday.
was touring this country?
Just whom do you mean by
' these lovers of justice"? Do
you mean the Jewish people?
You say, "They had no trouble
convicting Jesus Christ in the
same city," etc., so I presume
you mean the. Jews.
As for why "They" did not
convict "old K" when he was
touring this country, I would
say that "They" are not the
only ones running this coun
try. Why didn't Mr. Stille him
self bring the suit if he has
so much evidence against
"old K"?
Mildred B. Engman,
1847 Stewart ave.,
Medford.
Rosellini Not After Higher Post
Olympia-dlPD-'Tm not car.
tlcularly ambitious for a hlah-
er post," Gov, Albert D. Rosel
lini told newsmen Tuesdnv.
He declined, however, to
say whether that was an in
dication he plans to throw
his hat back Into the Domical
ring In 1864 for third fWm
as governor.
His remarks followed con
siderable speculation in the
Capitol over whether the
chief executive will again run
for office. A number of other
Democratic leaders have ex
pressed an Interest In the
state's top publia job.
Mors Questions
To the Editor: I would like
to ask Mr. Stille of "Explain
Why," to please explain Just
how and when "old K," killed
more gentiles than Elchmann
has Jews-several times over.
Eichmann was the instru
ment of having killed 6 mil'
lion Jews and several times
over" would be at least 3,
and 3 times 6 million would
be 18 million people that he
would have to prove "old K'
guilty of having killed.
why shouldn't Elchmann's
trial be held in Jerusalem?
His crimes were against the
Jewish people, so why
shouldn't he be brought to
trial in their court and before
their people? In this country
the people of the state of so-
and-so bring court action
against a person accused of
having killed ONE of our
number, so why shouldn't the
Jewish people bring court ac
tion against a man tor having
been the Instrument of the
death of 6 million of them?
As for why these lovers of
"Justice did not "convict old
K when he was touring this
country," etc., I would say
first that Mr. K was the hon
ored, recognized head of a
great country, and secondly
that ha was a guest of our
country, and I'm glad our
country doesn't insult its
guests, and thirdly what did
these lovers of "Justice" have
to convict "old K" of whel he
Leadership
To the Editor:
"How Do You Dare Send
A Child To the Market?"
If the world was only a
Safeway store
Where our "leaders" could
shop-safely-evermore,
And our baskets come home
all guaranteed
Though only a child we had
placed in the lead! ".
L beast must walk ever
ahead of it's spoor!
Does the sea drive the wind
at it's crests to shore?
Why pick all the order of
thing wide apart
To get every horse hitched
behind every cart?
Would you set an infant to
guard o'er grown folk?
(It's getting to be an
American joke!)
They say of lewd movies that
"parents should judge.
. That's Hollywood's "leaders'
excuse for their sludge.
Our "leaders" in Salem
admit all the time
The trading stamp issue
near-borders on crime.
They say the State's house
wives must shoulder all
blame,
But we susiect "kick back"
is Salem's real aim.
The Union "boss" blames all
the great "rank and file;"
Though it takes every order
-obeys with a smile.
The church-leader says, "Sure!
The church does grow
weak
Congregation and public
won't pay for it's keep
Our "leaders" aver, "A drunk
drivers a curse,"
While traffic in liquor grows
steadily worse
The well-loaded driver makes
well-loaded hearse
As license and fine swell
the great public purse.
"If the public would give me
enough of support!
Is one way of saying, "This
'leader' is short."
If the President don't get the
nation to move
Will It not be because he has
picked the wrong groove?
So easy for "leaders" to blame
rich or poor;
How little they've learned
of what "leaders" are for:
So easy to blame the lame,
halt and blind
While their own share of guilt
they would fain leave
behind.
Nevcr-oh, never-may we,
in reverse,
Say our "leaders" are led to
their ultimate curse
By their own straggling follow
ers, dumb like the kine;
Or that babies usurp your
positlon-or mine!
Those "leaders" who throw so
much blame on the weak
In all their man-saying we
hear a mouse-squeak;
They want all their public to
follow like sheep
Then yell to beat hell when
they're led in too dcepl
"Gold HIU Billy," ,
Gold Hill, Ore. i
It's the Teachers
To the Editor: I want to con
gratulate you 100 per cent on
your too true editorial: "The
Teacher's the Thing." Espe
cially where you say: "We be
lieve that there has, in the
past two decades, been far,
far too much emphasis on how
to teach and, far, far too little
on the subject matter to be
taught." j
Long ago, before John
Dewey came with his fantas
tic self-choosing plan, I put
in 15 or more years trying to
give the pupils what the par
ents paid for learning.
I considered I was legally
obligated and conscientiously
bound to teach all the sub
jects in the course of study in
cluding spelling and writing
and get results, and the min
imum of extra-curricular ac
tivities. .
I still think it's largely up
10 tne teacners.
J. W.' Shirley,
247 South Second st.
Central Point, Ore.
Hospital Equipment
To the Editor: This letter is
written to thank the people of
Jackson County for the re
sponse to the recent magazine
drive held by the Medford
Unit No. 15, American Lei ion
Auxiliary. This drive is held
every year and as a result hos
pital equipment is made avail
able to the public free of
charge.
The unit does not "make
money" through this effort,
but with the proceeds, buys
additional hospital equipment
to add to that which we al
ready have. This year a wheel
chair and a walker have been
added. The Unit now has
three hospital beds, two
wheel chairs, a walker, plus
crutches, bed rails, and other
smaller items which are loan
ed to the public free of
charge. .Our hospital equip
ment chairman is:
Mrs. Hazel Vaughn,
104 King st., ,
Medford,
Phone: SP 2-6877.
Thanks again to the people
of Jackson County for making
this a success.
Mrs. Herbert Gifford,
Secretary,
2336 Table Rock rd.,
Medford.
nist attempt to take over
West Berlin.
Not so easily glossed over
were the differences within
NATO itself.
They included:
The economic split between
the "Inner six" led by France
and West Germany on the
one hand and the "outer
seven" led by Britain on the
other. Between the two
groups there still exists the
possibility of a disastrous,
throat cutting economic war.
a President Charles de
Gaulle's demand that NATO
policy-making be left to a
triumvirate composed of
France, Britain and the Unit
ed States.
Resistance, especially
among the small NATO na
tions, not only to De Gaulle's
plan but to demands that
they further burden their
own economies with in
creased economic aid to
under-developed nations.
Portugal has made no at
tempt to conceal her. indigna
tion over United States' refu
sal to support her position in
Portuguese Africa.
Among all nations In
NATO are doubts about the
United States' atomic policy.
Last year, NATO Comman
der Lavris Norstad suggested
that NATO become a nuclear
power in its own right. Later,
then-Secretary of State Chris,
tian Herter repeated the pro
posal and seemingly made it
official U.S. policy.
The Kennedy administra.
tion has not repeated the of
fer, although taking the posl
tion that NATO should have
nuclear weapons.
NATO is Western Europe's
defensive arm. Yet, as repeat
ed by Dirk Stikker, NATO's
new secretary general this
week, it Is dependent on U.S.
leadership. There is no room
for vacillation.
J. Edgar Hoover Observes 37th
Anniversary of Appointment
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press International
Washington - (UPD - Now is
the time for all good men to
drink an anniversary toast in
wine or water
to J. Edgar
Hoover of the
FBI. -
Today is the
37th anni
versary of
Hoover's ap
pointment a s
FBI director.
That choice
was made by
the late Harlan Fiske Stone,
attorney general in the Cool
idge Cabinet before he was
boosted to the U.S. Supreme
Court.
The Justice Department arid
its investigative arm had been
in ill repute before Stone and
Hoover began in 1924 to
figure in thevheadlines,
' William J. Burns was head
G-man during the Harding ad'
ministration and Harry M.
Daueherty was Harding's at
torney general. Daugherty
was head of the so-called Ohio
gang, a principal figure in the
scandals which degraded the
Harding administration. Presi
dent Coolidge forced Daugher
ty out of the Cabinet in 1924,
named Stone to succeed him
Restored Confidence
One of Stone's first acts
was to name 29-year-old J,
Edgar Hoover director of the
newly created FBI. Stone and
Strictly Personal
By Sidney J. Harris -
(c) General Features Corp.
1
Harris
TRUTH ENTERS
THE OPEN MIND
In what way have you
most changed since your col
lege days?" was a provoca
tive question
aimed at me
irom the audi
ence recently,
after I had
f 1 n ished ad
dressing a uni
versity group
It took me a
few moments
to absorb the
question. Then
I said, and I believe quite ac
curately: "in those days,
believed tnat almost every
thing was false; now I be
lieve that almost everything
is true.
When we are young, if we
have inquiring, skeptical
minds (as we then should),
we are interested In punctur
ing the pretensions of most
organized groups. We look for
the foolishness, the inconsist
ency, the hypocrisy, the fraud
in official religions, political
parties, systems of philosophy
and moral codes.
As we grow older, however,
if we genuinely mature, we
begin to be dissatisfied with
this negative approach. What
seems important Is not the
falseness surrounding a doc
trine, but its residual truth.
What can we extract from any
body of thought that is usable
in building up our own struc
ture of reality; how can we
fit together all these diverse
blocks to make some sense
out of conflicting and contra
dictory views of life?
The end of skepticism must
be a kind of provisional cer
tainty; for the person who
goes through life a skeptic is
as sealed off from reality as
the person who goes through
life adhering to one closed
system of thought. After all,
the skeptic who refuses to see
anything as all black or all
white Is himself seeing things
as all gray, which they are
not.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
The education we receive
at school is only a preliminary
to real education - which con
sists of finding and combining
the various truths that sub
sist in different theories. This
is hard, patient, and never-
ending work. And it is why
most people prefer to slump
comfortably within a closed
system, or to profess an easy
skepticism about all beliefs,
There are truths in Marx,
if you know where to look
for them, and how to apply
them, just as there are truths
In Adam Smith. Catholicism
and Christian Science, diamet
rically opposed in so many
ways, both contain 'elements
of basic truth which we ignore
at our peril. There is scarcely
any view held by man that
does not in some way reflect
a facet of reality.
All this does not mean that
we should be lukewarmly
tolerant toward all views.
for we have an obligation to
root out error wherever we
find it. But it does mean that
we can find truth in the most
unexpected places, if our
minds remain open to it; and
tnat the man who concen
trates on the folly of his op
ponents' beliefs will never ac
quire the power to understand
them or to overcome them.
Hoover began accomplishing
the almost impossible. Their
task was to restore Dublin
confidence in the Department
of Justice. -
Hoover established high
standards for the FBI. Ho
compelled his men and his or
ganization to conform precise
ly to those standards. Soon,
Hoover became and has re
mained a legend in his own
time. It became standard op
erating procedure for the
Congress and presidents of
the United States to turn to
Hoover and his men when the
nation was troubled with a
law enforcement problem of
great magnitude and the citi
zens were uneasy in their
beds at night.
That is the way it was
when Charles A. Lindbergh
Jr. was kidnaped and murder
ed. Congress enacted the
Lindbergh kidnap law and
stipulated that Hoover and
the FBI should enforce it.
Not a moment too soon,
either.
Gangsters and Commies .
When prohibition finally
came to an end, the hoodlums
who had been enriched by
bootleg booze turned to kid
naping as a new bonanza.
Others began knocking over
national .banks. They, also,
were in FBI jurisdiction. One
by one, the Dillingers and the
Machine Gun Kellys were
disposed of.
Meantime, the Communists
were crawling out of the in
ternal woodwork in the Uni
ted States. Hoover and the
FBI drew the assignment to
ride herd on them. Then be
gan the ceaseless effort of the
American Commies, their
friends and their dupes to get
Hoover.
Hoover and the FBI com-
prise the most effective road
block in this country to the
objective of all Communists
here and abroad which is to
bury the American way of
life.
Harry S. Truman probably
was under the greatest pres
sure of any president to fira
Hoover and cripple the FBL
HST wouldn't have dared even
if he had wanted to do that
To Edgar Hoover: Skoal!
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written, news of
the postpone m e n t of the
launching of America's first
manned space rocket has just
been headlined by the London
afternoon papers. The top
screamer in the Evening News
read: "The Man in the CAP
SULE." The story related that
thunder and lightnine had
held up the countdown and
added that the missile carry
ing tne astronaut mieht hp
fired at 3:35 London time.
bhortly afterward, a later
edition of the Star carried the
news that the launching, be
cause of unfavorable wpsilur
would be delayed for 48 hours!
The Star's edition hit the
stands just as the tea hour
was beginning, and everybody
icictxea.
ONE HEARS a great deal of talk theSe days about so
called "pornographic" literature, but who is to h llm
judge of what books really deserve banning on that score?
lj, ri. Lawrence consid
ered Charlotte Bronte's tA
To u Im. '
wane jic t'UlUUKlupil'-
ic, though it is now rec
ommended to high school
students. On the other
hand, Lawrence cried
"Unfair" when his own
"Lady Chatterley's Lov
er" was banned. When
Thackeray edited the
Cornhill Magazine, ho re
jected a manuscript by
Elizabeth Barrett Brown
ing. Why? It contained
the word "harlot"! Por
nography's au-timc best
seller, "Fanny Hill," hasn't one word your maiden Aunt
Emma could blush at. On the other hand, Chaucer's "Canter
bury Talcs" has dozens of them.
In other words, as George S. Kaufman once remarked In
review of ancient Asiatic wars, "one man's Mode is an
other man's Persian."
Robin Goodfcllow defines a really big Industrialist as a man
who can delfgate all the authority, shift all tha blame, and ap
propriate an uia credit.
O 1K1. ar BenaMt Cert EULriiuUd by King Taatures Syadlcala
rVO an American, accustomed
to serious evening journal
ism, tne London afternoon
papers are pretty fluffy. Dub
bed about the time of their
first appearance the Penny
Dreadfuls, they haven't
changed much.
The News devoted about
half its front page to the
space rocket launching, in
cluding a picture of Com
mander Alan Shepard, who
was expected to be the astro
naut. The No. 2 story was the
engagement of King Hussein
of Jordan to an English girl
who, It said, "came of a small
ordinary family" and who had
formerly been a stenographer
for a British engineering
firm. It carried a four-column
picture of Hussein and his
bride.
A line or two less than an
inch of front page space was
used to tell that Fidel Castro
is likely to go to Moscow to
receive the Lenin Peace Prize
awarded him a day or so ago.
Q the Inside, in addition to
v serious and careful cover
age of sports, along with what
we call the stock report ami
the British call share prices,
there was a story about a red
headed secretary who got back
to her flat pretty late last
night and found she had for
gotten her key. So, the News
reported in considerable de
tail, she "shinnied up" the
drain pipe to her bathroom
window, only to find it closed
and locked.
So she climbed on up the
drain to the roof where there
was a skylight, only to find
it locked. She was sighted by
two police constables and a
plain clothes detective who
called the fire department and
the fire laddies got her down.
There were several juicy
murders and some satisfying
scandals, and that was about
the size of it. At the top of
its front page, the News car
ries this line: "The Worlds
Lii r; est Evening Sale."
I suppose that explains ths
choice of news.
TT should be added here that
-1 British journalism shouldn't
be judged by the "penny
dreadful" press - which goes
all out for circulation, and
knows how to get it.
The morning newspapers,
still led by. the London Times
and closely followed by the
Daily Telegraph, are among
the world's most admirable
newspapers. They tell the Im
portant news of the world and
they tell it exceedingly well.
Not only do they tell the
news interestingly and ac
curately, they INTERPRET it.
A large volume of their
news comes from their own
correspondents scattered over
the world. These men are able
Interpreters. They not only
tell the news. They fill In its
backgrounds. When you have
finished the morning news
papers In London, you not
merely know WHAT Is going
on In the world. i
You know the WH of it.