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10 YEARS AGO
April IS, 1952 (Tuesday)
' Three Medford building of
Ihe Pacific Telephone and
TelegraDh company w e r e
picketed as a labor dlipute
which involved two union!
oread to aouthern Oregon.
A surprising lait minute
"run" of blood donorl put the
blood collection prof ram
"over the top" yesterday.
10 YEAR! ABO
April IS. 1141 (Wednesday)
Grant Pas merchants pe
tition city council to grant
lironu tn rntin aeeklne bin
service between that city and
Camp White.
Tfmm Arthni Perrv'a "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
wind blew all the leading fii
rectlona including up during
the past ween.
10 YEARS AGO
April IS, 1932 (Friday)
' Jackson county officials
plan extensive hunt for bodies
of couple lost in Dead Indian
irea during severe January
blizzard.
Forty salmon taken by fish
ermen below Savage Rapids
dam in beat tingle day'i fish
ing in area in several years.
40 Years ago
April IS. 1922 (Saturday)
'Jackson county court an
nounces $30,000 of county
market road fund will be used
to improve highway to Butte
rails.
Medford motorist pays 12
to local Adventisl church
after his car rum wild and
knocks down tree In thurch
yard.
SO YEARS AGO
April IS, 1912 (Sunday)
Rogue Valley orchardlsts
expect high prices for fruit
after severe cold spell "wipes
out" crops on east coast.
Medford women plan elab
orate welcome for Mrs. Rob
ert M. LaFolletle during her
visit here while on a cam
paign tour of western states
wilh her hushand
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina ar ten eerrocr la auparler;
seven er eiahr la excellent; five or
ali ia oee
1. Who wrnle Ihe poem.
"Old Ironsides?"
2. Does a full grown lion
wrught about '. li, 1. or 2
tons?
3. What was brought In
Noah by a dove?
4. All decisions by the U.S.
Supreme Court musl be by
two-thirds majority; true or
false?
5. What ll the plural form
of the word vertebra?
6. Union pickets havt a
right to prevent other work
ers from entering a struck
plant; true or false?
7. Generally a policeman
may search a person walking
down the street; true or false?
8. Was airmail service In
the U.S. established In 1900,
1918, or 1f)28?
9. A Fifth" of beverage
Conrists of approximately
how many ounces?
JO. How much area Is cov
ered by the Great Pyramid
of Egypt; 8. 10, 13, or 20
acres'
1. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
1. One-fourth. 1, Olive branch.
4. False. S. Vertebrae. .
False. 7. raise. 9. 1911. 9.
Twenty-six. 10. Thirteen.
SUNDAY. APRIL IS. 1863
Cracks in the Monolith
Is there a real split between Russia and Red
China?
If so, how serious is it? And how can it best
be exploited to serve the ends of the Western
nations? What hazards are implicit in such a
division in what once was thought to be the
' monolith of international Communism?
These are questions which American policy
makers and students of international affairs are
asking these days. They are important and sig
nificant questions.
A RECENT article in
by Zbigniew Brzezinski, director of the Re
search Institute on Communist Affairs at Colum
bia university, explores some of the ways in
winch ne icels the west could peacefully pro
mote and exploit some of the major new trends
within the Communist
He calls it "peaceful engagement," and de
clares that it must avoid extremes, and con
cludes:
"The policy of peaceful engagement requires both
firmness, based on American power, and elasticity,
derived from an understanding of the changing situ
ation In the Communist world. Some left-wing crit
ics of American policy would abandon the element of
power. The right-wing abjures elasticity. An effec
tive policy requires both."
UOW would Mr. Brzezinski- go about this ex-
ploitation?
He lists eight elements for an effective pol
icy, and they contain much food for thought.
Before listing them, however, he points out
that an intensification
will hardly tend to relax
it ultimately may well accrue to the benefit of the
West.
And he also makes
portant for America to keep its military power
at a high point, to preserve the deterrence which
it creates.
UIS eight suggestions are these:
1. While maintaining firmness and yielding
nowhere to Soviet pressure, it is desirable at
E resent to adopt a policy of fraternization on the
Bsis of firmness with Soviet leaders. He believes
this would contribute to further differences in
the Communist world.
. 2. A policy of "differentiated amity and hos
tility" regarding China, involves, for the fore
seeable future, continued ostracism.
3. Recognition of Mongolia. He points out
the Soviets nave pledged to bring Mongolia into
the international community, while the Chinese
have resisted this. Mongolia, once Chinese, is now
a Russian satellite, and its recognition would
"inevitably aggravate the Sino-Sovict relationship."
4. Leave Albania alone, since there is a split
in the Red ranks there,
might drive Albania
should be avoided.
MUCLEAR weapons should not be given West
' Germany. Brzezinski says, in his fifth point.
If such weapons were
the Eastern European
for tightening links with
intensify their fears.
6. The Toles and Czechs should be reassured
about their frontiers, making their national se
curity less dependent on the Soviet army.
7. Aid to the Eastern buronean nations
should be increased, both to emphasise the "mag
netic attraction of the West," and also to stress
that the present division of Europe is unnecessary
and harmful to Eastern European interests. "An
Initiative of this sort would indicate directly the
West's peaceful intention in East Europe, an
area of great Communist vulnerability."
8. The West, particularly the United Mates,
should increasingly discuss aloud the problems
the Communist societies are facing, the Kcrts
have no compunctions about discussing our fail
ings; we should stimulate similar constructive
criticism of theirs.
IN expanding on this point, he says:
"The West has tended to abdirnte discussions of
Ihe future to the Communist.. . . Authoritative state
ments by western leaders, Including the President nf
the United Stales, on the future development of Com
munistic societies, would obviously be rejected . , .,
hut this rejection In itself would he a reflcclion of
their sense of Insecurity and of their fear of an open
dialogue wilh Ihe West. It would stimulate ureal In
terest among the youth, and might have Ihe effect
of destroying the greatest domestic asset which the
Communist leaders now enjoy namely, that since
they have a complete monopoly on policy making
an on all sources of policy Information, opposition
to them, in effect, means opposition In social develop
ment and economic growth ... To he acainst Com
munism is to he against everything and lo stand for
nothing By opening up such a dialogue, Ihe West
could change this."
All this, of course, is easier said than done.
But the suggestions arc provocative, and they do
have the virtue of looking at the world as it is,
not in the black-and-white of the simplicists.
a
IT would be foolhardy to ignore the fact that
Communism, as practiced by both Russians
and Chinese, is vastly dangerous to the West.
But it would bo equally foolhardy to ignore
the fact that the Russians and the Chinese have
their own problems, not easy of solution.
Red China has starvation, and the apparent
failure of its "great leap forward" into industrial
ization. Russia is in a state of flux, with now social
trends pulling it in many different directions.
There is both danger and opportunity in these
facts. How well we use thrm to our advantage
is the question. E. A.
"The New Republic,"
bloc.
of the Sino-Soviet split
world tensions, but that
the point that it is im
and any action which
back to the Soviet side
provided, it would give
Reds a useful argument
the Soviets, and it would
Dennis the
ap4a iiejiAs HIAillAl
Matter of Fact
(e) New York Herald
1300 to 1800
Hong Kong For over three
years, the simple, physical
level of life of the Chinese
peoplehas
the three or
four major po-
E4 'fS? IHical prob
P " ri lems in the
iiiucii nuve uie
patient, long-
i a suiiering urn
' I n e e e massea
AUnp sluing
to eat,? Is the standard of nour
ishment high enough to be en
dured indefinitely, or it is. so
low that the structure of the
state itself must eventually be
endangered? These have been
crucial qustions ever since
Mao Tse-tung's "great leap
foreward" plunged the Chi
nese masses into unprecedent
ed misery.
A dependable answer t a
these long-standing questions
is at last available. According
to labor category, the Chi-
u n A - .,,!
neses masses are now receiv
ing a nationwide average of
1300 lo 1600 calories per day.
rp HERE are considerable
variations from region to
region and even from com
mune to commune. A rich
farm commune wilh good land
may provide Its workers with
a ration of 30 catties (or near
ly 32 pounds) of rice per
month; whereas a poor com
mune in the next county may
provide as little as 14 catties.
Again, the situation is espe
cially terrible In the poorer
regions like northern Man
churia and Shantung prov
ince; whereas the lot of the
masses is considerably above
average in rich areas like the
great rice lands along the
lower Yangtse river. Nonethe
less, the 1300 to 1800 calorie
average can be regarded as
crudely representative for
China as a whole.
This is the level of nourish
ment, mind you, not of clerks
in offices, but of farmers who
have to till the fields nine or
ten hours a day, seven days
a week, and even to coal min
ers. The miners' response may
be Judged from the nation
wide coal-famine.
IN terms of calories alone,
It is therefore no exaggera
tion indeed it is an under
statement to say that the
Chinese Communists have re
duced the Chinese people to a
state of creeping starvation.
But the calorie intake is not
the end of the grisly story.
About 90 per cent of the ra
tion is pure starch, rice in
over half of China and grain
in the north, rolishod rice is
almost never issued, and the
main vitamin supply of the
people In the rice areas there
fore comes from rice cortices.
Resides their starch allow
ance, the people are now
getting only a few pounds of
vegetables, a coupe of ounces
of oil each month, and per
haps a few ounces of sugar.
Protein has all but vanished
from the diet of most of the
people of China.
Kinnlly. the standard oT
nourishment'' and the "stand
ard of life" are now almost
Interchangeable terms in the
people's paradise Besides
their rations, the Chinese
masses get almost no other re
wards lor their toil. Cloth, for
Instance. Is rationed at the
rate of three or four feet per
year!
'IM1E black or "free" market
now flourishes and is even
officially approved, except
that stringent measures are
'taken to prevent free market
transactions in staples like
rlre. But a single chicken coats
; about one-fifth of a heavy
urban workers monthly
wage, and one wadded envcr
: let costs a month snd a half J
i wages.
I It is not to believe that
otu.fe a situation, la.
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
Menace
"
By Joseph AUop
Trlbuna Syndicate
dured without open protest by
the Chinese masses. There la
a good deal of medical testi
mony that such a diet-level Is
not Indefinitely endurable.
But hard facts are hard facts,
and they have to be believed,
even if the powers of endur
ance of the Chinese people do
not conform to much Western
medical theory.
The above-given calorie
averages are as hard facts as
modern statistical analysis
can provide. They are square
ly based on methodical, scien
tific computation of the ration
figures reported by great
numbers of the refugees from
the mainland who continue to
pour into Hong Kong at the
rate of thousands a month.
As was unavoidable, more
than half of the persons In the
very large sample were refu
gees from neighboring Kwan
tung province. But the aver
ages were weighted to allow
for this fact. Correct weight
ing of the averages was in
turn assured by the more
than 40 per cent of persons in
the sample who came from
other provinces all over
China. . .
e
TN the years since "the great
leap forward," immense
progress has been made In sci
entific sifting of the first-hand
evidence brought from the
Chinese mainland by the refu
gees. If first-hand evidence
means anything at all and it
is the only evidence worth
having the grim figures
herein reported must be ac
cepted as reliable.
The worst of It is that these
hrlnk-nf.famlne figures on the
food intake of the Chinese
masses Include the supple
ments to the rural diet which
the generous Peking regime
now allows the peasants to
grow on tiny private plots.
This being the case, the fig
ures raise the question wheth
er Communist China is not
caught in a remorselessly de
scending spiral from which a
vast upheaval of some sort Is
the only likely means of
escape.
De Gaulle
By ERIC SEVARE1D
Most great political leaders
have only one great role, ac
complishing one great task.
Gandhi s task
was the free
ing of India.
Churc hill's
was the phys
ical preserva
tion of British
society. But in
our time his
tory moves in
geometric ra
tio. One man's
life, even one leader's incum
bency, if It Is unusually long,
may encompass more than one
epoch. So Franklin Roosevelt
performed two historic tasks
- - the renovation of American
economic society and the ad
ministering of coup He grace
to the world Fascist conspira
cy. a
For the same reason of pro
longed tenure. Charles de
Gaulle has already performed
two tasks fundamental tn his
country - preserving a place
for France at the council ta
ble of the victorious powers
after World War 11, and ba
sically altering the relation
ship of France to the countries
that composed its former em
pire. He la In his 70s now and
his plsre in the long his
cured But the atonishing
thing, the thing that most
casual observers hsve not un
derstood, is that Pe Gaulle,
with no pause whatsoever. Is
.saw anting out upon a third
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
(cl New York Herald Tribune lyndlrale
PEKING AND MOSCOW
Four years ago, when inter
viewing Mr. K. for the first
time, I tried at one point to
draw him out
about China.
It was already
evident that
and in conrer-
sations with
Soviet jour
n a 1 ists there
Lippmann
was much talk about the con
flict.
Talking to some students,
It was plain that as between
the Russians and the Chinese
in the university there was
a great deal of prejudice and
racial antagonism. Even then,
four years ago, it was plain
that there was deep ideolog
ical and emotional conflict be
tween the two big Communist
peoples.
But Mr. K., naturally
enough, was determined not
to tell me about it and in
stead, when I pressed him
with questions, he delivered
a lecture on the inability of
one who is not a Marxist to
understand the international
solidarity of the Soviet camp.
The cause of international
conflict, he asserted, is capi
talism, and when capitalism
hag been abolished there can
be no conflict.
OINCE then, this beautiful
theory has had a collision
with the ugly facts, and there
can no longer be any doubt
at all that a great conflict
of interests exists. What kind
of conflict is it?
It is at bottom, I am con
vinced, the same conflict
which existed when the Em
peror of All the Russias and
the Emperor of China were
still on their thrones. It is
a conflict of national Inter
ests between the Russians and
the Chinese which has gone
on for generations, and it is
due to a collision between the
Russians, expanding across
Siberia to the Pacific Ocean,
and the Chinese, expanding
northward into Manchuria
and Mongolia, across the path
of the Russians.
Though this conflict is now
carried on by two Communist
states, though it is encrusted
with Marxist and Leninist
slogans, it Is the same historic
conflict which has been going
on for generations between
the empires which are ruled
from Peiping and from Mos
cow. There is now a frontier
between these two empires
which runs some 4,000 miles
into the heart of Asia, and it
is a highly unstable and in
secure frontier. Along it the
vital interests of both coun
tries are engaged.
TpHE existence of this con-
- flict has begun to affect
importantly the whole inter
national situation. While we
cannot as yet see clearly all
the effects, it is already rea
sonably clear that Moscow is
reacting according to the clas
sic Russian formula, which is
never to hecome vitally en
gaged in a conflict on two
fronts.
This promises to lead to
accommodation over West
Berlin, on the one hand, and
also to some sort of dlsen
gagement from a conflict with
the United States in Southeast
Asia.
There are signs, so I ven
ture to believe, that the So
viet Union is helping Com
munist North Vietnam just
'' TiVl trouble be
A, I tween Peking
. I and Moscow,
Lhrd
Attempting Third Great Task
great task
Most Americans, and per
haps most Europeans, have
assumed that once the monu
mental mess of Algeria was
cleaned up, France would re
turn to "normalcy," its regime
would subside into domestic
concerns, very much like the
British governments following
VE Day and the liquidation of
the greater part of their em
pire. We have assumed that
France would be a "good
ally," release men and mate
rials for NATO's purposes,
play a more cooperative role
in the United Nations, feel
less uneasy about Britain en
tering the Common Market.
We have thought that
France, with the Algerian
bleeding cauterised, would
feel confident enough to wel
come, not block, moves toward
European political federation;
that, with the neuroses of her
officer corps healed, France
would be more inclined to
give up her independent nu
clear effort and welcome both
the general disarmament ef
fort and the pooling of nuclear
j and the pooling of nuclear
w arheads under NATO com
mand. There is a special
I strength In the weak, a well
as a special strensth in the
shameless (Khrushchev has re
peatedly demonstrated the
! latter), and in dealing with his
allies De Gaulle hat turned
the weakness of distracted
France to strong account to
oppose If not tn propose )ut
aa he did during Ihe war.
enough to keep It out of the
hands of the Chinese and not
so much as to precipitate a
conflict with the United States
in Laos and South Vietnam.
As this is an optimistic es
timate, it must, of course, be
treated with great skepticism
and reserve. But Just as we
must not Jet our wishes and
our hopes deceive us, so also
must we not let ourselves be
misled by a lack of self-confidence.
What is happening
between China and Russia is
not what Marxism predicts.
But it is what a student of
history would expect.
THE fact that the Russians
and Chinese both profess
the secular religion of Com
munism is no reason why
they should not fall into a
vital conflict. We should not
forget how ferocious have
been the wars of religion
within Christendom. We who
have, we hope, outlived those
wars, need not be surprised
to see them break out among
the Communists.
We are in the process of
readjusting our thinking and
our policy to another great
change In the outer world.
Since the middle 'fifties we
have been readjusting our
minds and our policy to the
fact that we no longer have a
nuclear monopoly, that we
have to live in a system of
nuclear parity. Now we are
adjusting ourselves to a new
and more agreeable develop
ment, which is that Commun
ism, which has spread so far
in Asia, is disunited, and that
it does not face us with a
solid front.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Far East sidelights:
Japan, consisting of four
main Islands and some 3,000
tiny islets, is roughly about
the sire of California slight
ly smaller in area, In fact.
Japan's population in 1960 at
the last census, was 93,410,
000. It is probably about 94.
000,000 now or roughly half
the population of the United
States.
Which is to say:
If California were as
densely populated as Japan,
the present population of Cali
fornia would be about 95 mil
lion! T ET'S put it another way:
J Japan's area is 147,690
square miles. There are 640
acres In a square mile, whicn
means that japan's land area
is about 94,600,000 acres.
In other words:
If Japan's total land area
were divided up equally
among her people there would
be about ONE ACRE for each
person.
THAT, however, doesn't tell
the whole story.
Only about 18 per cent of
Japan's total area is arable,
which means that she has only
about 14 million arces of agri
cultural land with which to
feed her present 94 million
people or a little better than
a sixth of an acre per person.
That helps to explain why
every acre of her agricultural
land is so Intensively culti
vated. Every possible foot of
land that will grow food has
to be put to use.
rpHE food problem In ALL
A OF ASIA is acute, t
Now It is becoming clear
even to the unsophisticated
that De Gaulle Intends to use
the renewed strength and self
confidence of France quite
ruthlessly, in his diplomacy,
as he used the weakness and
disunion of France in the past.
He Is setting out to accom
plish the third great task nf
his massive life. What is It?
It is surely to place France
at the undisputed head of a
new Europe not a feder
ated, but a CONfederated Eu
rope of independent "father
lands" which would be a
true third force in the world,
one that would remain im
placably anti-Communist, but
one that could do without
American strategic leadership
and the American military
presence, as well as being a
force that would be strong
enough to Immunize Soviet
pressures from the east.
a a
In view of some observers,
Including Peregrine Worsth
orne, who Is, in my book, the
most incisive thinker among
the new generation of English
political writers, De Gaulle
feels that Europe has always
had the physical capacities to
become a third world entity
of first rank power, and has
lacked but one thing thetlon of British policy. It also
WILL tn do it. This he him
self, he alone, intends to sup
1 ply In whatever remaining
I year the Lord has reserved
1 for his life. Of hi nersonal
wilt, hu "life force." there ran
be no doubt: with the possible
exception of Adenauers, It
IPTLUlX
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Who is Gene Rossman, the
man who has been persecut.
ing our Good Mayor?
Why is he persecuting him?
This is in the form of a
"now it can be told" story, at
some risk of violating confi
dences. But In all charity, it
must be done.
Gene Rossman is the head
of the Portland Housing Au
thority. He is (we understand)
a Good Democrat and a
strong Kenned) supporter.
He is a relatively young man,
with the normal quota of am
bition. So one dav not too long
ago, he received a telephone
call. The polite young iaoy in
oulred if this was Gene Ross
man, the administrator of the
Portland Housing Authority.
Yes, it was.
"One moment, please, the
White House is calling," she
said.
e
Although we didn't wit
ness the scene, we can see in
our mind's eya, Rossman
paling and quivering,
e , . i
After a short pause, a man
came on the line, a man who
spoke In the Boston-Harvard
twang now so well known to
us all. And, If our secret in
telligence is correct, spoken
somewhat as follows:
"Mr. Rossman, I have
heard good things about your
work. Congresswomen Edith
Green has spoken well of you.
JENKINS
There is the British crown
colony of Hong Kong. It has
only 400 square miles of total
area, of which even a smaller
proportion than Japan's is ag
ricultural. There are about four mil
lion people in Hong Kong
and more coming every day.
That means only 100 square
miles for each million people.
Oregon has more than 90,000
square miles for fewer than
two million people.
IN ASIA the problem Is to
get food enough to feed the
people. In the U.S.A., our
problem is to find markets
for our vast surpluses of food.
Common sense tells us it ought
to be possible to balance off
the immense food surpluses
that are breaking our backs
against the food shortages that
threaten starvation In Asia.
TT SOUNDS simple.
But it isn't as simple as
it sounds.
If we are to find a market
in nungry Asia ior our im
mense surpluses of food, we
must first find a way for the
hungry Asians to PAY us for
the food that we have in sucn
abundance.
Since most of Asia's sur
plus products are either man
ufactured articles or raw ma
terials that we already have
In abundance, their accept
ance In payment for our sur
plus food would bring mem
into competition with our
manufactured products and
the raw materials that we al
ready have In our own coun
try. That would raise a howl
in the U.S.A.
The world, you see, Is full
of problems.
has no equal In the western
political world.
In the De Gaulle vision, the
rise of this new, coordinated,
truly powerful Europe will,
sooner or later, convince the
Kremlin, not only that further
efforts to divide Europe are
useless, but that this new and
mighty aggregation of power
must not remain under the
domination of the Kremlin's
single-minded opponent, the
United States. At that point,
particularly if it coincides
with a crystallized fear nf
China, the Soviets (so De
Gaulle apparently believes)
will be prepared lo offer the
grand settlement wilh Europe
and will not consider the scut
tling of the East German caricature-state
too high a price
to pay for the security of Rus
sia's western flank and the
retreat of America from Eu
rope. Then would come "dis
engagement" and the balanc
ing power at a lower level of
armaments, if they are to come
at all.
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This seems a fair reading of
the dream of Charles de
Gaulle. His vision Is a long
vision, and Its fulfillment re
quires not only long years for
him, not only the reorienta.
requires that the mercurial
politicians nf France retain
De Gaulle In power, which Is
hy no meana the least of the
uncertainties now just ahead.
(Distributed 19S2. by The Hill
Syndicate. Inc.)
(All Rights Reserved)
wonder if vou wouM ha
interested in an appointment
as - -
'Caroline! 1 1 Caroline, atnnt
Sorry, Mr. Rossman, I'll have
to call back . . ."
And the telephone receiver
slammed down.
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Although we didn't wit
ness the scene, we can see.
In our mind's aye. Rossman
paling and quivering.
It may not have hnnnon.
just exactly this way, but '.hat
It happened, we have no
doubt.
And we also happen to
now that Mayor Snider has
friend who la a ri t
mimicking President Ken.
nedy, and . . .
So Rossman's feelinsa if
not fully justified, were un
derstandable. So he Invenlert
the key gag. And if anyone
aoesni Know what the key
gag Is bv now. thev if
haven't been reading the pap
ers, it is a minor work of
genius, in the practical joke
line.
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The P 0 1 1 u e k editor,
through fortultious circum
stances, has one sal of the
keys in question. What lo
de with iham Is the prob
lem. There was some talk
of lending them to the
White Houie and asking
that they be returned in the
appropriate stationary, but
other dreams are being
dreamed. Perhaps Earnast
M. Caniwright . . .
Speaking of Good Old
EMC, we were glad to wel
come him back to this column
last Sunday. He may be pois
on to some, but we also have
received considerable fan
mail on his behalf.
Perhaps he can write again
occasionally, as his Increas
ing experience, maturity and
opportunity allow.
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Some thoughtful soul sent
ui a picture clipped from
the Christian Science Manl
ier, which shewed how
Italians protect new blos
soms from irosls. They take
eld egg shells, hollow out -one
end, and' place them
carefully over the bloiaoms.
Our benefaeter has scrib
bled on the clipping, "A tip
for pear ercharda." Yes, we
can sea it now - no more
orchard healing, no more
smudge smoke, no more
expansive burning et ell
(or, In some Isolate cases,
old tires), Instead, a oorpi
of clean your- high ichool
boys ruahing through the
night gently placing empty
egg shells over lha tender
pear blossoms. It's an In
spiring thought.
Come this summer, as has
been recorded In the Mail
Tribune's usually reliable
pages, we will lose the SPrlng
prefix to our telephone num
bers. It is a sad thought
Wherever the change has been
made from names to numbers,
revolt has simmered.
We understand the plight
of the well-intentioned tele
phone company, so we can't
complain too bitterly, al
though we have become at
tached to Spring. It is much
prettier than plain 77, which
will succeed tt.
One man In San Francisco
has the answer, however.
When someone called him and
asked his telephone number
he answered (translated to a
local number for Illustration)
thus:
"This is telephone number
seven million, seven hundred
and twenty-six thousand, one
hundred and forty one."
Now that's a real telephone
number!
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We are Informed on re
liable authority thai some
school youngsters, instead
of being fol.owed te the
school bus by a faithful dog
(or even by e little lamb,
as Mary was reputed to
have been), are followed Is
the bus by a big, 18-pound
white rooster, who sees
them off, and then, in stale
ly grace, italks home agstru
The sight is visible, five
dayi a week, en Ihe Old
Staga Road. Or so we are
told.
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Hey! Today Is the last diy
of National Noise Abatement
Week. It certainly wasn't ob
served very religiously
around the M-T newsroom,
what with all the banging
and clanging of the carpenters
st work.
Well, the results are begin
ning to become evident. The
newsroom is bigger and soor.
will be more convenient and
(perhaps) even more efficient.
(Somehow, w doubt this.)
Coming up are Bike Safety
Week and Green Candle of
Hope Week.
And may you all have nlee
green randies, and ride your
bikes In safety.