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History from the files of The
Vail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 29. 1952 (Sunday)
Mayor Diamond L. Flynn
announces that he will not
be a candidate for reelection;
he la completing hi second
two-year term.
A grass fire, which spread
Into a shed containing a 500
gallon drum of oil, and the
resulting explosion, caused
damage estimated at several
thousand dollars.
20 YEARS AGO
June 29, 1942 (Monday)
Three persons hurt In eight
automobile accident.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Re
turning gadders from the Wil
lamette valley report the heat
.un. inrrifir In Salem, an at
tempt to fry an egg on the
sidewalk was foiled when It
fried before it hit the sine
walk."
30 YEARS AGO
June 29, 1932 (Wednesday)
W. M. Clcmcnson, manager
of Jackson hotel, named to
succeed W. W. Allen on Med
lord city council.
Two young Kansas men ar
rive here to earn a living by
collecting bounties on moun
tain lions and other animals
which they plan to kill.
40 YEARS AGO
June 29, 1922 (Thursday)
Slate Sen. Hugo G. A. von
dcr Hcllcn, Medford resident
and pioneer of southern Ore
gon, dies in Portland.
Medford city council clamps
down on violations of water
regulations; announces plans
to build new reservoir next
lull.
SO YEARS AGO
nA IQIO ICturrlavl
June 3, w " ,.
Members of Medford High
school class of 1911 hold firsl
I ninln HAD. OllO millC.
annum put,,. . rr
Eastern mill workers pub
lish pampniei accmuiiR
i.i.. ..i.rin. nf sb.78 "are
no longer adequate to support
a lanuiy.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nina or tan toiract la superior:
savan or eieht Is tMtllenti five
ii is good.
1. Which U. S. governmon
tal body authorlies Increases
in freight rates lor railroads:
2. Of which European
country are the Aioroa islands
a nnssession?
3. Which of these was the
earlier invention-the airplane
or the military tank?
4. The area over which a
masnet will exert a pull Is
called what?
5. Is Montevideo the cap!
lal of Chile, Peru, Paraguay
or Uruguay?
6. Complete the following
"Flftv-four forty or "
7 Was the Berlin airlift
operated In 1956, 19-s
1950?
8. From what iniiviBl tines
the so-called Hudsot) tR'ieJ '
come?
9. Moaair is ebIJ
veHl ;ee!57M?
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FRIDAY. JUNE 29. 1961
A Spiritual Void
DesDite a broiling sun. a staggering 116,000
persons jammed their way into Soldiers Field in
Chicago, (capacity 92,000) to hear Evangelist
Billy Graham deliver
' Chicago Crusade some days ago.
Judging from the wire service accounts, and
the impressive statistics that were released, the
whole affair constitutes a phenomenon.
A grand total of 703,000 Chicagoans turned
out during the 18-day Crusade to listen to oranam
flog them for moral and spiritual laxity, and warn
them that this country is undergoing a "Rome
like" decline.
IF ONE discounts the usual curiosity seekers, and
ignores what was probably a sizeable group
of zealots and idolators, how really, now, how
is that mass of humanity explained Why were
thev there? What drew them?
We suspect the obvious answer isn't the right
one. Graham's own statistics easily deny that they
were there in response to an upsurge of Christian-
?i -ii.. ai rt itA. . Ati t "no AAfi
liy wunin mem. jl uihi massive iuibi ui ivo.uuu,
only 17,130 left their seats after the sermon to go
forward and "make a decision for Christ."
Using the very roughest of arithmetic, this
breaks down to about 1 in 41 wno was movea
enough by what he heard to embrace the faith.
That, we submit, is not impressive.
IT IS arguable, we suppose, that the vast major
ity of those present were already practicing
Christians, secure in their faith, who attended
out of Christian duty, or to have their beliefs
reinforced.
But this really doesn't hold up either, if one
nlaces anv stock in the message that Graham him
self has been preaching
the land in recent months.
For it is the substance of the vital evangelist's
analysis of contemporary man that he is in seri
ous, perhaps fatal, trouble, and that this country
is rapidly progressing toward doom.
f IKE SOME all-seeing physician, Graham has
examined his patient, discovered the symp
toms of his illness, diagnosed the disease, and
issued a gloomy prognosis. Only the miracle cure
of a reawakened belief in the tenets and princi
ples of Christianity can save the patient, Graham
warns.
One gets the distinct
really expect the cure to take place.
In general, the evangelist sees a "decay at the
center of our society the home and admon
ishes that once the infection starts, as was the
case with Rome, decline and fall is all but in
evitable.
Graham is not the first to shout "Fire!" He
is simply the latest in a string of observers of
the American scene to express deep concern over
the state of modern man. Several of our poets,
for example, first triggered the alarm button
nearly a half century ago.
MO, WE would estimate
' tion, consistent with all the facts, which ex
plains the size of the crowds at Graham's rally
is this: The people were there in a desperate
search for some means of filling a spiritual void
they vaguely perceive within themselves.
That this spiritual void does in fact exist is,
we trust, clearly apparent to anyone who cares
to look beyond the length of his own nose.
By comparing contemporary mores and ac
tivities with those of Americans a half dozen
generations ago, does there not now seem to be:
An almost frantic, hedonistic search tor
pleasure, for titillation and gratification of the
senses?
A nearly insatiable appetite for material
possessions, ranging from time-saving gadgets to
expensive boats and automobiles? (The hope
lessness of this situation is contained in the
current sales pitch : "For the man who has every
thing').
A preoccupation
The creation of more and more splinter
churches in a desire to find a faith that fits,
rather than shaping oneself to fit a faith?
A steady decline in self-reliance and in
dependence, and a simultaneous increase in con
formity and individual inertia?
rYESPITE what he professes on Sunday morn
ing, it is apparent from these and the many
other examples that might be cited, that the
contemporary American is no longer satisfied
with actually no longer believes in the tradi
tional precepts of his church.
He may continue to pay them lip service, may
protest that they still govern his life. But his
actions belie his words.
This doesn't mean, of couie, that man no
longer wants to believe the traditional beliefs of
his fathers. Quite the contrary.
But it is the measure of his dilemma that the
old answers no longer satisfy, no longer compel
his mind as well as his heart, however he may
desire to cling to them.
JLND while the old has given way to change,
thei is a yet, we think, nothing new to take
its pleVe. ThloIltlianS have not kept pace with 1
,i . . . , .1 v rtvii- i i ;
th i M of !icity, though men like Tillich ami
Fuatfth hiv m itj.lt brave
And it it, we think, fhat when someone
YJU Bil tiTWoi corns along, people flock to
lutr Van iUV tm wistful hope that something
& 2 w M& mtoi them to the faith of
iiaax bntHZHen. cn fill the spiritual void thev
.01 vib'iift tfteir hearts.
II one judges only
Billy Graham apparently
with what they so urgently needed.j-u.H.H.
the unai sermon or nis
across the breadth of
impression he doesn t
that the only explana-
with creature comforts
attempts at adjustment.
from the empty statistics,
failed to supply them
"Nice Kitty Can't Come In?"
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contrary is often the case.
Not Blind Faith
To the Editor: John E.
Ring's letter lakes me back
50 years, when I too wonder
ed at the writing of world
famous men on astronomy and
anthropology. Man was so far
advanced, to accept Christ and
his way of life would be retro
gression. Man was now civi
lized and free from the great
wars of the old days. I be
lieved them until I was filled
with fear and doubt by World
War I. I continued to study,
adding history and Bible
prophecy. I learned that much
of our science was revealed
hundreds of years before in
the Bible.
"He hangelh the earth upon
nothing" (Job 26:7) - 3,000
years later Copernicus learn
ed this fact. "He makelh
weight for the winds" (Job
28:25) - 3,150 years later Gali
leo learned this fact. "The life
of all flesh is the blood" (Lev.
17:14) - 3,115 years later, Wil
liam Harvey learned this fact.
"The elements shall melt with
fervent heat" (2 Peter 3:10)
We know this can be a fact,
since our discovery ot nuclear
fission.
The Bible is filled with
hundreds of scientific facts
which man is soon to learn,
with many to their great sur
prise and sorrow, to others it
will be only Bible prophecy
fulfilled.
John, don't worry about
time it will tako to travel.
Enoch, Moses, Elias, Jesus
and many others have made
the trip, some of them many
times, with no record of
trouble. Of course they were
free from sin, so created, or
cleansed by the blood of
Christ. John, you say the
words of the scientist are
based on facts. The trouble is,
scientific facts today are out
moded and obsolete tomor
row. With God's Word this is
not so; 6,000 years ago God
gave commands, as recorded
in the first three chapters of
Genesis. Those commands are
in full force today, and are
being obeyed by the animal
kingdom, the vegetable king
dom, as well as Gad's king
dom. 'No John, religion is not a
blind faith, as I once believed.
If established upon the Word
of God, It will lead to eternal
life through Jesus Christ our
Lord.
F. E. Beverly
112 Geneva St.
Medford
"What Fools . . ."
To the Editor: Whatever
has gone wrong wilh the
thinking of men, the er
gentler sex included, here in
America?
It's but a short time since
our newly elected President,
John Kennedy, was besoughl.
challenged, demanded that he
slay solidly in his dedicated 1
stand on separation of church
and state. This wps highlight-1
ed by a very eminent Baptist J
minister who reportedly said:
"We warn him (President
Kennedy) that the very first
time he crooks one finger ,
against separation of church
and stale, he is done. All i
through." '
Now. we find these obvious
ly emotional thinkers, by and j
large, beseeching, challenging
and demanding that President
Kennedy use the power of his
high office In condemning our
supreme court ...r upholding
the eoiistilulional separation
of church and st.ile in Hie de
cision on New York stale
prayer, a prayer appealing, to
one Deity only, disregarding
completely those whose Diety
conception is althogether dif
ferent A state is supposed to rei
resent all its people, to pro
tect them in their relisiout
n?-i;ns, hiui in in, i iiii,h'?(.
selfish viewpoints on them
It was Shakespeare's Puck
who remarked: "What fools
these mortals be."
F. J. Clifford
Route 2, Box 200F
Central Point, Ore.
Count Our Blessings
To the Editor: As I read the
letters in the June 3 issue
I noticed one by Diane White,
1059 Morrow rd., answering
the complaints someone else
had evidently submitted re
garding shopping in a non-
metropolitan area such as
Medford vs. the large cities.
And as I read I thought, "How
very fortunate you both are!
How lightly most Americans
take the privileges of our free
dom, our enterprises and our
way of life!" No wonder un
derprivileged nations believe
all Americans are rich: ac
cording to their standards, we
are.
For nearly two years my
husband and I have been sta
tioned in the Philippines at
the largest Air Force Base in
the Far East. Five thousand
people shop at the one com
missary and one main base
exchange here, for goods that
have been shipped more than
8.000 miles in the holds of
ships. There are no Ameri
can clerks at the commissary
and very few at the BX. Al
though the Filipino clerks do
their best, their ways are not
our ways, their Ideas of good
food and sanitation fall a good
deal short of our standards
and they often do not under
stand our complaints or what
we mean.
What we wouldn't give for
a quart of FRESH milk! A
carton of FRESH cottage
cheese! A pound of FRESH
butter! Cuts of fresh, unfrozen
meat or meat that has been
newly frozen. For undented
cans of milk and vegetables
fruit that hasn't been shipped
nearly 10,000 miles in the re
frigeration department of a
ship's hold four to six weeks
before W'e receive it!
How we would love to shop
where there are American
clerks to serve us, from store
to store, town to town, on
sidewalks and six lane free
ways! What Joy to stop in at a
Dairy Queen or hamburger
stand, a large variety store
such as Woolworth's. a shop
ping center, corner drug store,
or "small town shop" of any
kind!
If all Americans were
forced to spend one year of
their lives in one of the under
priviliged nations of the Far
East, even on a U.S. base, they
would spend the rest of their
lives thanking God for the
privilege of living in a free
counlry with no restrictions
on where they can shop and
no limitations on what they
can buy.
We will have been here two
years when we return in Au
gust and our sincere desire is
to spend the rest of our lives
in the United Stales of Amer
ica, whether it be in a large
city with its modern shopping
center or in a small town with
ils neichhorhood shops.
Dell Laurie Koen,
USAF Hospital Clark.
Philippine Islands.
Jesus Christ Outlawed?
To the Editor: The issue is
tiie Lord Jesus Christ! Not the
"separation of Church and
State"-- not whether or not
"officially prescribed prayers"
in public schools are Conslitu-
tional. Rut whether or not
Christ. His life. His teachings,;
and the creat humane civiliza
Hon w Inch sprang from them j
shall blotted out jnd tit- j
terly destroyed from the
earth
Thnai who cannot see that
the works of Communist
stem from the same Satanic.
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
Venezuelan Trouble
Of Government to Ba
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
On his 1961 visit to Vene
zuela, President Kennedy said
of Venezuelan President fto
mulo Betancourt:
"He has reestablished dem
ocratic government after a
decade of dic
tatorship -and
he has carried
forward a
solid and re
sponsible, pro
gram of eco
nomlc pro
gress after a
decade of
r
Newaom fa'se show,
waste and indifference to the
needs of the people."
Earlier, this correspondent
sat in a classroom of skyscrap
er Caracas University and
listened as government offi
cials outlined a program of so
cial and economic reform
which was both idealistic and
ambitious.
In succeeding months sub
stantial progress has been
made, although some of the
anti-Christ force which cruci
fied our Lord nearly 2000
years ago and those who can
not believe that this force is
powerful enough to reach into
our Supreme Court and strike
a crippling blow at Christian
ity, are naively unaware of
what is going on in the world
today. To the immature and
unenlightened this is an over
statement. But let me point
out a hard, cold fact. The
name of Jesus Christ has al
ready been virtually outlawed
among one-half of the earth's
population.
Here in America, under
anti-Christ pressures, certain
states have outlawed the Na
tivity scene, glorifying the
birth of our Savior. And I
have been told that In some
states public officials are be
ing coerced, and school teach
ers intimidate, that the name
of Christ must not appear in
public prayers, and that
"Jingle Bells" is being substi
tuted for "Silent Night, Holy
Night" in our schools.
Now it Is official. By our
Supreme Court decision pray
er in our public schools is
outlawed entirely! The full
impact of this Decision can
not be realized until you
know the "Red" voting rec
ords of the Justices on the
bench of this Court. In cases
involving Communism, four
of our Justices voted from
90 to 100 per cent of the time
in favor of the Communists.
One voted 77 per cent of the
time, one 58 per cent, one 46
per cent, one 36 per cent, and
one 35 per cent in favor of
the Reds. Bear in mind that
each crippling blow struck by
the unconstitutional decisions
of these men against our
Christian based Constitution
is a blow against Christ.
And this is Just the begin
ning. This evil, Satanic power
called "Communism" will
never slop until all freedom
of worship, all Christian con
science, honor, and decency,
all Christian virtue, love,
friendship, and dignity of the
individual are destroyed. The
heartbreaking tradgey of it
is that Christians have been
made to believe that they
must not fight anti-Christ
Communism. This is like tell
ing man he must not fight
the fire that is burning his
house down.
If ever there was a time
for Christian Americans to
stand up for our Lord Jesus
Christ, it is now! For the fate
that has already fallen on
Poland. Hungary, China, Cu
ba, and 50 other countries
may soon fall on us. Then it
will be loo late.
L. C. Powell
316 S. F. Eighth St.,
Grants Pass, Ore.
Pensioners Aid Plan
To the Editor: There has
been so much talk about help
ing our Senior Citizens and
those drawing their Social
Security. What bcticr way of
helping to give them more
dollar power, than by estab
lishing surplus stores oper
ated by people on Social Se
curity? At the same time this would
help dispose of surpluses at
a minimum cost to thos folks
on small pensions, namely
S S. This would not take Jobs
from younger folks since it
would actually create more
employment.
It couldn't possibly hurt
our retail stores since these
people on S S. have such lim
ited buying power.
Also, the government would
realize some return on slock
pile' of surpluses lhat are Just
silting there.
Mrs. Owen L Hardejiy.
Route 1. Box 240.
Rogue River. Ore
earlier idealism has been
forced to give way to hard
reality.
Why, then. Is Betancourt
forced at all times, whether
in his office or dedicating a
new public works project, to
protect himself against as
sassination attempts?
Why the succession of at
tempted revolts?
Why the noisy street dem
onstrations by university stu
dents and others seeking his
overthrow?
They are apt illustration of
the problem facing a regime
attempting to maintain a dem
ocratic government while at
the same time battling to cor
rect a chronic Latin Ameri
can ailment-a lopsided econ
omy with entrenched privi
leges on the one hand and ig
norance and poverty on the
other, i
On the extreme right are
those who regard Betancourt
as a secret Communist and
who oppose his reforms.
On the extreme left are the
Communist and Castro sup
porters who oppose his policy
of peaceful evolution Just as
much as do the others, but
for different reasons.
The rlghtwing plotted to
blow him up with dynamite
in 1960 and has participated
in at least two other attempts
at his overthrow. Similar left
wing attempts have been nu
merous. Fortunately for Betancourt,
the bulk of the armed forces
have remained on his side.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
..c Field Enterprfnen Inc.
BEING CANDID
It is a deplorable and de-
piessing fact that, for most
people, the more they know,
the more they pretend to
know. Quite
n i ,
IDIIUIU uuuui
their ignor-
1 ance; it is the
semi-educated
who parade
their squalid
j little collec
.J tion of half.
know ledge
often with
mischievous or even disastrous
results.
Part of this, of course, re
sults from a fiercely compe
titive educational system-es-
pecially at the higher levels
in which any answer is con
sidered better than no answer.
For instance, when a professor
at the University of Pennsyl
vania some years ago asked a
class to define "psychoter
minality" two-thirds of the
sludents answered.
"Psychoterminality" hap
pens to be a made-up word,
which means exactly nothing.
But 21 out of his 29 students
"defined" it in an examina
tion paper. Only a handful
was willing to confess ignor
ance of the word.
About the same lime.
two teachers at the Univer
sity of Cincinnati tested 150
college and high school
students, along with anoth
er group whose members
had never gone beyond
grade school. The groups
were asked to name charac
ters using alleged quota
tions from Shakespeare, to
designate the authors of un
written books, and to define
words coined for the occa
sion. The amount of bluffing
done by the students
ranged up to 80 per cent.
Half the students bluffed
half the time. One-fourth
of them bluffed 60 per cent
or more. And only one
fourth of them bluffed less
than a third. The college
freshmen bluffed most, and
students who ranked high
est academically averaged
the lowest scores in bluff
ing. In contrast, the non
school group (consisting of
tool - makers. chauJlers,
salesmen, laundrymen and
such) bluffed far lest than
the college students. Their
average bluffing score was
only 25 per cent. In com
menting on this discrepan
cy, the examiners remark
ed pungently:
...
"It appears from tnis that
our educational system0trains
to dishonesty and pretentious
ness, to false assumption of
knowledge and concealment of
ignorance, which is the oppo
site of what it is intended
to do. For education has for
its aim quite as much the
i defining of one's area of ig
norance as the extending of
one's area of knowledge."
! All this took place nearly
a generation ago. I am sure,
however, that the situation
has not improved The in
creasing competitiveness for
college entrances, the added
I pressures of passing tests, the
'sheer extra volume of Infor-
awe
Illustrates Attempt
ttle Chronic Ills
So have the peasants who
have taken up machetes to
help the government put
down recent revolts. So is the
bulk of organized labor.
Despite all difficulties and
despite the continued activity
of rural Communist guerrilla
bands, progress continues to
be made.
Fifty thousand farm fami
lies have been settled on their
own land; some 25,000 new
housing units at least have
Washington Report
By William
!cl United feature Syndicate
NOT YET FORBIDDEN
Washington - Those intel
lectually and morally be
leaguered Americans who are
trying to give the supreme
court the veneration it used
, 1 to deserve can
I surely take no
I 1 haorl in iU
last session of
this summer.
As the court
adjourns until
fall, however,
they can find
one ray of ra
tional hope.
This ray arises
from the first clear indica
tion yet given of the general
attitude on great constitu
tional questions of the new
est man on the high bench,
Byron White.
Because he had not been on
the court when the argument
were heard, Mr. Justice White
did not participate in its 6-to-1
decision that even a totally
nondenominational and whol
ly voluntary public school
prayer daring to mention God
was unconstitutional, a viola
tion of the "separation of
church and state."
He was able, however, to
put in a vigorous "no" to an
other in the lengthening list
of unexampled interferences
by the court with what used
to be the rights of the states
and of people locally to con
duct some of their own affairs
in their own way.
WHEN the court ruled that
California had no right
to define narcotics addiction
as a punishable crime, Mr.
Justice White (no relation to
this columnist) refused to go
along. What he said here, in
his first dissenting opinion,
was far more important for
its future implications than
for the case immediately at
hand.
The court, he declared, had
"departed from its wise rule
of not deciding constitutional
questions except where neces
sary and from its equally
sound practice of construing
state statues, where possible,
in a manner saving their con
stitutionality." Mr. Justice White's whole
approach, in this one notable
opinion at any rate, seems to
put him in the small company
of "conservative" judges -conservative
in the sense that
they believe:
THE court's business Is to
interpret the constitution,
not to remake it to its own
personal wishes. To act as a
detached referee and not to
go down into the playing field
and make its own laws. To
decide what the law is, not
what it ought to be by forc
ing its own moral and social
and lately also political-views
upon the country, the con
gress and the president.
A minority of the court, led
by the ailing Mr. Justic Felix
Frankfurter, for years has
fought a lonely-and largely
losing-battle on precisely the
principles now newly pro
claimed by the new and
young Mr. Justice White.
This minority has argued
roughly as follows: Since its
whole influence-and its whole
integrity-must rest upon its
wisdom and restraint, the
court has no right lightly to
brandish its ultimate weapon,
that of destroying state laws
by calling them unconstitu
tional. Equally, it has no
right to set itself up as leg
islative as well as a judicial
body.
...
IIOW far Ihis sort of court
intrusion now goes was
never better illustrated than
in the New York case. Here
was the offending prayer:
"Almighty God. we acknowl
edge our dependence upon
thee, and we beg thy bles
sings upon us. our parents,
our teachers and our coun
try." The court's majority, led by
such figures as Chief Justice
Earl Warren .O.d Associate
Justice Hugo Black, was
somehow able to find thai
j this praycr-though no child
I had to say it and though no
teacher could comment when
'a child did not say it-amount-i
ed to establishing a religion.
,
(mation now required - all
these combine to promote de
ceit, glibness. and intellectu
al double-talk It is not the
.reality but the "image" thai
I counts - not tht knowing,
merely the seeming tr know.
it .
Trrlll
made a dent In an appalling
housing thortage; the number
of schools has been doubled.
Two years ago the govern
ment refused to believe that
Communist school teachers
presented a thrett. The ap.
pearance of young Commu
ni.ia mmlnff direct from
school rooms to riot in the
streets has changed the gov
ernment mind. Now Commu
nist teachers re being weed
ed out.
S. White
What the Constitution for
bade was not religion as such
but rather the establishment,
the selling up, of one religion
over another by state or fed
eral power. What the court
has not yet forbidden Is this
invocation, used in its own
sessions: "God save the Unit
ed States and this honorable
court." It has not yet said that
mention of God in the "Star
Spangled Banner," in every
presidential inauguration in
history, and in every invoca
tion in every session of con
gress, is unconstitutional.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Incidental information:
At its 88th Annual Gnnhr
Count, just completed, the
state of Minnesota Mcnmun
as the Gopher State) paid
out S7U5 in bounties to
trappers of the furrv littla
critters that are anathema
to Midwest farmers because
of their habit of burrowing
in the meadows and piling up
the dirt from their burrows
m mounds that Dlav hoh with
the cutting bars of mowing
machines.
The disDatch relale. that
one trapper (age not specified)
got $165 in bounties at the
rate of 25 cents for each
striped gopher and 10 cents
tor each pocket gopher.
THIS question arises:
Whv Hnoan't tha etal nt
Minnesota POISON its pesti
ferous gophers instead of
trapping them? Poison should
be more effective, as well as
much cheaper.
One doesn't know, and the
news story doesn't explain.
But one suspects that TRADI
TION has something to do
with it. There was a time
when trapping gophers was a
principal source of spending
money for small boys back
in the gopher-infested Miss
issippi Valley.
In those days, poisoning
would have been regarded
with deep suspicion and might
even have been denounced as
against sound public policy.
It would have killed off too
many gophers too quickly,
thus depriving too many boys
of their pocket cash. No poli
tician would have dared to
suggest such a thing.
A NOTHER question:
Why does the state of
Minnesota pay two bits for
striped gophers and only a
dime for pocket gophers? In
the olden days, at least, the
pocket gophers were a great
er nuisance because they
built higher mounds in the
hay meadows.
Docs anyone know the
answer to that one?
HiHE economists tell us that
- value is created by the
application of labor to na
tural resources. The accepted
theory is that the more labor
applied to the natural re
source the ereater the value
of the product.
Paying a bounty of two bits
for a striped gopher and only
a dime for a pocket gopher
is a flat violation of that
supposedly basic law. The
striped gopher . . . also known
as the prairie squirrel (not
prairie dog, he's a different
critter) . . . and likewise
known as the picket-pin
gopher ... is easily knocked
off with a .22 rifle. There is
no more attractive target
than a striped gopher stand
ing up like a picket pin.
The pocket gopher, on the
other hand, has to be TRAP
PED. Il stays in its burrow
in the daytime and comes oil
only at nighl. Trapping a
pocket gopher requires both
labor and ingenuity.
There's a screw loose some- 0
where in the Minnesota go
pher bounty system.
QNE more question:
Whence comes the word
"gopher?"
You'll be surprised.
f T COMES from the French
1 word GAUFRE - which is
pronounced fcjO-FER
It means HONEYCOMB.
What the connection? Tht
early French travelers (voo
ageui. coming down from
Canada noticed the preva
lence of these little burrowing
animals - which were in num
erous that their burrows
HONEYCOMBED lha car-.h
So they rTied t.iem Al
FRE?.
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