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Flight o' Time
Medlord and Jackson County
History from tht files of Tha
Mall Trlbunt 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 8, 1952 (Tuesday)
More than 15,500 troops
have been flown to and from
Tokyo by United Air Line
since the start of Korean hos
tilities, according to local
UAL officials.
Tryouts for the Footlighl
er's melodrama, "Only an
Orphan Girl" continues; di
rector is Ruth Kilbourn.
20 YEARS AGO
July 8, 1942 (Wednesday)
Maj. Gen. Charles II. Ger
hard! arrives to assume com
mand of 91st Infantry divi
sion at Camp While; after in
spection of the Army camp,
he declares that the "site is
perfect."
A. Z. (Tubby) Dean has a
new answer for the old ques
tion upon being greeted,
"What cha know?" lie replys
"It's a government secret."
30 YEARS-AGO
July 8. 1932 (Friday)
Fifty members of the Chris
tian Endeavor slop In Med
ford en route lo Crater Lake
and Oregon Caves on a spe
cial Southern Pacific train
from California.
Approximately 150 dele
gales expected here this week
for the annual state conven
tion of rural mail carriers.
40 YEARS AGO
July 8, 1922 (Saturday)
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "In an
other five years there will
be nothing left on earth to
regulate and reform, and then
the solar system will get a
long-needed going over so it
will run as it should run."
Locnl merchants plan to
erect a S7.000 home for dis
play at Jackson county fair;
more carpenters needed al
fair grounds.
SO YEARS AGO
July 8, 1912 (Monday)
Distribution of patent medi-j
rine samples has resulted in
another narrow escape from
death in Medford; small girl
picked up some medicine
samples and, thinking them
candy because of their sugar
coating, ate most of them,
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or Ian correct Is auoarior;
coven or aight It otcellcnt; five ot
sis is good.
1. Is the diameter o( the
sun approximately RR.41, flfl.
410, or 864,000 miles?
2. The saying "Beware Ihe
Ides of March" is from which
of Shakespeare's plays?
3. What was tin name o(
the sword received by King
Arthur from Ihe Ladv of the
Lake?
4. Do ynti assnriate the
word "gerrymander" with
fishing, politics, hunting nr
astronomy?
5. With what person from
the Bible do you connect "a
coal of many colors?"
fi. Who were the two dsugh
Ins of King Henry VIII of
England?
7. From what country did
the United Stales acquire
Florida'
8. What President, In his
young manhood, followed the
profession of surveying?
fl. From what animal does
the fur called broadtail eome?
10. For what I a nepho-1
Scope used?
Answers: 1. 184,000 miles.
2, "The Tragedy ef Julius
Caesar." S. Excalibur. 4. Poli
tics, t Joseph. S. Oueen Mary,
nd Qa.en Elisabeth. 7.
Spain. I Ooorgo Washington.
. Babe 'mb. 10. To moaaura
vsloelly sf doud moTomonl.
V-ASSOCIATION
bunUAV, JULY 8, lHbJ
An Act
What should be a doctor's course of action after
he has determined, to the best of his ability, that
a patient of his is incurably ill and has only a
short time to live?
This is probably as serious a decision as any
that a physician is called upon to make in his
daily practice, and it is an unenviable position
to be in.
Traditionally, his duty has been thought to
be that he should expend every effort to keep
the patient alive as long as his skill and medical
science will permit.
A fractional segment
ever, nas argued wan growing insistence in re
cent years that euthanasia should be performed,
that the patient, upon his considered and rational
request, should be painlessly put to death, much
as any other organism is extended coup de grace
to end its suffering.
Now, a prominent doctor, with indisputable
credentials to make his statement, has told his
colleagues that consideration should be given to
an alternative between the two extremes.
Dr. Edward H. Rynearson, chairman of the
endocrinology and metabolic section of the Mayo
clinic (Rochester, Minn.), wrote in a recently
published article that in the event of a hopele
situation, "the kindest thing to do" is simply
let the patient die naturally.
This step should be allowed to happen, the
doctor stipulates, only when all curative treat
ment has been exhausted, when the patient is
suffering great pain, and when the patient and
his family know that no human remedy is avail
able. Dr. Rynearson hastened to explain that he
was not "trying to play God." Rather, he said,
"It's the others who would prolong the inevitable
who are playing God.
According to wire service accounts, Dr. Ry
nearson's rather bold pronouncement is gather
ing support from spokesmen from his profession.
Dr. George F. Lull, president of the Illinois
State Medical society, for one, said in response:
"Personally, I believe often we keep cases alive
too long when it doesn't do any good.
"I don't believe in hastening the end of ter
minal cancer patients, but if they were allowed
to die in peace everybody would be better off."
Another, Dr. John R. Hogle, president of the
Vermont Medical society, said, "I've always been
very frank with my patients. If you have a hope
lessly ill patient and everything has been done,
do you just let him coast?
"I, personally, am inclined to do just that
and 1 have to make the
Understandably, the
elicited comment from
A Protestant spokesman, Dr. Edgar S. Chand
ler, executive vice president of the Church Feder
ation of Greater Chicago, said:
"Allowing a terminal cancer patient to die
would be justified with the consent of the pa
tient or his family. The doctor is doing some
thing abnormal in trying to keep the patient
alive."
A Roman Catholic bishop from Boston also
supported the position, lie said:
"We must take the ordinary means to pre
serve mo, mil noi me extraordinary means, me
ordinary means of saving a patient's life should
be exhausted."
The only negative church response came from
a .lewish rabbi, who said,
says that we must attempt prolongation of life
it it is at all possible, even under the most diffi
cult circumstances."
One's nearly instinctive reaction to Dr. Rv-
nearson's proposal, particularly if some one near
and dear were involved, would be to shout, "No,
no, fight to keep him alive. Do everything you
can."
But that statement would come from a health
person to whom hie, for
fails, is still indescribably precious. It would
not truly reflect the point of view of someone
lying in pain in the shallow of death.
And in this instance, it is the latter point of
view that should have precedence.
Isn't it clear that the wishes of the afflicted
one should be respected? For to him life might
have become an intolerable burden that it would
be no kindness to keen him alive.
Hut if one grants that point, he is loincallv
bound, it would seem, to go one step further and
support the concept of euthanasia as well.
Dr. Rynearson has had courage to move in
that direction, but perhaps he has not gone far
enough. If he is now emotionally and intellectu
ally committed to letting terminal patients die
as soon as they can, the doctor is actually closer
to the concept of mercy-killing than he is to the
traditional position of keeping all patients alive
at all costs.
Does it not seem more humane, somehow, that i
rather than withholding his skill so that a pa-1
tient may die, a doctor should -at the request
Of the patient aild With the Consent of the faill-
ily summon all his knowledge and ability to 1
t c I ....... -r. i ., ;
perform one final, merciful act of compassion.'
G. 11. B, I
of Mercy
of the profession, how
ess
to
decision.
doctor's statement has
religious leaders.
Jewish tradition
V I
all its hazards and pit-1
"You're Getting Ts Be At Bad At
Those Democrats"
Today Cr Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
lei Ne York Herald Tribune Syndlrata
THE THREE NEW
AFRICAN STATES
Three more African slates
have just achieved independ
ence - Algeria from France,
Rwanda and
Burundi from
Belgium.
There are
great differ
ences among
them. Algeria
is in North
Africa and has
been part of
the Mediter
ranean civili
Lippmann
zation for centuries. Rwanda
and Burundi are primitive
central African territory
which, except as part of Ger
man East Africa before the
first World war and then as
a Belgian trust territory, has
had no important contact
with the advance of civiliza
tion. Yet the three states have
one critical thine in common.
Their future prospects of pro
gress and prosperity are inti
mately bound up with their
success in working out a new
relationship of cooperation
with their former overlords.
Algeria cannot hope to pros
per without France. Rwanda
and Burundi can hardly hope
to survive without Beligum.
If we pause lo think about
this, it is a remarkable thing
lo be saying. Only two
years ago almost' everyone
would have supposed that the
liberation of a colony meant
an irreparable ' reak between
the new slate and the old im
perial power. What is more,
it seemed probablj that the
new state would try to make
a decision between the Soviet
Union and the United States
and that this would rause a
world tension and disturb
ance. e e
VONE of this has happened.
1 Why? Because. I would
say, we have had the exper
ience of the Congo, and we
have seen it demonstrated by
Ihe UN Inlervet tion that, un
believable as II once seemed
to so many, a rich, disorder
ly, newly liberated territory
can be Insulntod from Ihe cold
wiir.
Two years after Dag Ham
marskjnlrt's daring interven
tion in the Congo, there are
no Russian forces and no
American forces there, and
the Belgians who fled from
Ihe disorders are reluming in
large numbers. They are re-
uiiiung nccause mere is no
other nation which is quali
fied as are the Belgians to
provide the know-how for
running the ("onco.
The troubles in the Congo
are not over and ther. are
tin),. tl,l .1.. ki
break down into cn-n and tri-
bal war. Yet two years of ex
perience w I t h independence
have been showing in prac
tice that a new relationship
between ihe Congolese and
the Belgians Is necessary, and
that it is possible. Ry losing
their privileges as Ihe ruling
the "Belgians has ' emerged
,r,,m ,h' "W resentments and
i""' hrrn 'vident.
IN T1IK liberation of Rwanda
and Burundi the lessons of
the Congo are being applied
The Belgian security ones
are not compelled to leave
immedialely. II is believed
that the kingdom of Burundi
may ak them lo leave rather
soon. The kin,j w ill do well to
go slowly lest he drive out i
with Ihe few hundred Belgian i
troops the Belgian specialists
and technicians who are India-1
pensable. Ihe republic of
Rwanda will, it is said, ask
Belgians to t- on.
in"
ritory from the start a rep-
resenlative of the Secretary
onrrai n ten expert ad-
visers are already there
Thr u not cojns , bf onf
iay hopa Hower acuum as
m.4
MLDtOhD
in the Congo. If so, the tech
nical assistance of the Bel
gians should avert an admin,
istrative collapse. F u r t h
ermore, the Belgian govern
ment has offered to continue
to support the two budgets
which have a combined deficit
of 50 per cent, and also to
continue to support (S9 mil
lion) the extraordinary bud
get for economic develop
ment.
No one can predict a bril
liant future for these very
poor and very backward
states. But it Is some comfort
to be able to feel that every
body concerned, the great
powers and the Belgians and
many of the other African
govermenls, have learned
from experience, and are not
making the same mistakes in
1P52 which were made in
1960.
e
TN ALGERIA after the vote
- for independence there is
the possibility of a conflict
between two factions of the
Moslems. This would not be
unusual at the end of a suc
cessful war cf independence.
But it would be an embarras
sing nuisance for everybody.
The Algerians have won the
respect of the whole world
by the discipline and fortitude
in face of hideous provocation
which they have displayed.
They sholud not allow them
selves to break down now no
matter how strained their
nerves. They should not let
themselves break down just
when they have reached their
goal.
The pressure of circumstan
ces will be against a break
down into an Algerian civil
war. The Algerians themselv
es are war-weary. An Alger
ian civil war is against the in
terests of Tunisia and Moroc
co, which must look forward
now to an alliance with an in
dependent Algeria of the Ma
greri, that is, of the western
Arabs. II Is also against the
interest of Egypt. For the dis
sident Algerians could get no
support anywhere, except
possibly though not certainly
from Russia and of course.
Just for the hell of it but not
much of it, from Red China.
It is hardly necessary to
say that France and the whole
Western alliance will support
and give a warm welcome lo
the 1 e g 1 1 i mate provisional
government of Algeria.
Medical Hypnosis
Seminar Planned
Seattle - il'PP - Doctors,
dentists and trial lawyers
will attend a five-day seminar
here Aug. 12 on hypnosis,
truth serum and lie detection.
Experts on the subjects
from California. Chicago and
Washington will teach the
visiting professional men and
women about the latest find
ings in medical hypnosis, un
der w hich 3.V000 opi raiiims
were pcrformc! lat year
without an anaesthetic fatal
ity This part of the seminar
will be conducled by Dr.
William J. Bryan Jr.. l.ns
Angeles, founder of the
American Institute of Hyp
nosis Medical hypnosis was ap
proved by the American Medi
cal Association in 1958.
Medford Youth Wins
College Scholarship
Robert
Mr and
G. Wright, son of
Mrs Robert C.
0 North Orange St.,
Wright.
Medford, has been awarded a
non competitive scholarship
to the University of San Fran
cisco for the coining year.
Wright is a graduate of St.
Mary's High school.
Only one other Oregon
youth received a scholarship.
James F. No. a gradual
of Sarred Heart Academy in
Klamath Falls.
MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD.
Washington Report
By William
(ci United fetur Syndicate
SEIZING FOR HIS OWN
Washington - In his search
for the 1964 Republican presi
dential nomination Gov. Nel
son HocKeiei
1 e r of New
York is n o w
openly seizing
for his own
what has been
the most basic
of all national
Demo cratic
campaign stra
e g y since
Franklin D.
Roosevelt. This is an insistent
appeal, overriding all other
c o n s i d erations, to minority
groups and to the big cities
which so strongly influence
both the nomination and elec
tion of any presidential con
tender. ROCKEFELLER'S whole ef
" fort at the 1962 Governors'
conference - a tradi t i o n a 1
place for high politicking -has
been In three related di
rections: 1. To become the special
champion of the urban centers
- and more as a bipartisan
friend of the city fellow than
as a partisan leader. This he
has done by charging the Ken
nedy administration with fed
eral aid policies which "short
change the heavily urbanized
regions."
2. To become an unrivalled
pleader for civil rights. Here
he has demanded programs so
extreme as almost automatic
ally to write off not only all
the south but also, in all prob
ability, most of the border
states as well. (The orthodox
R e p u b licans actually don't
like this program, either;
though ihey rarely say as
much in public.)
3. To go far beyond the
general Republican position
on medical care for the aged.
Here he has accepted the
Democralic principle, so long
resisted by the congressional
Republicans, of health insur
ance based on the compulsory
tax system.
llfHAT Rockefeller is doing,
" assuming he is able to win
the GOP nomination, is to
challenge President Kennedy
head-on to a 1964 presidential
campaign which would
amount to a contest as to who
could be more "liberal''
among Ihe urban voting blocs.
All political conservatism.
and indeed all moderation,
would be left on a pretty thin
diet unless - as odd as this
may now sound - Mr. Ken
nedy should run in fact if not
by admission as the relatively
conservative candidate. It is
not inconceivable that he
might, should the GOP nomi
nee turn out to be Rockefeller.
For a Democrat lakes a far
greater risk than a Republi
can in deliberately saying
goodbye to the south. Though
the old predictably Demo
cratic "Solid South" is only a
memory, Republican tactics
still by and large assume that
anything gained in the south
in a presidential year is only
windfall. Democratic tactics
by and large still must and
do assume that anything lost
in the south is something of a
disaster.
Moreover, a Democratic
president must deal with con
gressiona1 committees which,
when the Democrats control
Congress, are in Ihe hands of
powerful southern chairmen.
A Democrat, in short, usually
must have the consent of at
least part of the south to win.
STOlt-
Juggernaut 'Progress' Destroys
By ERIC SEVAREID
One way In go quietly in -
snne is to think hard about
the concept of eternity. An-
V1 other way, for
'JJ i ".
yone living
in
a megalop -
olis like New
j York, is lo
think hard
' about "prog-
' ??i gross." The
KT ' i eerie sensa
flT , 1 tion conies
Li--v,Jas m'er one that
srarriit true progress
reached the end of its cithle
some ye;irs aun and is now
recoiling upon us. an unstop
pable juggernaut smashing
masses o human hemes back
toward medieval conditions of
lite.
The streets are littered with
cigaret and cigar butts, pa-
I per w rappings, particles of
food and dog droppings How
j long before they become in
I distinguishable from Ihe gut
ters of medieval towns when
slop piiils were emptied from
1 second story w indows1
1 Thuosnnds of New York
women no longer attend eve
ning services in their church
es. They fear assault as thry
walk the few sters from bus
or subway station to th.ir
apai iment houses. Th era of
OREGON
S. White
And always he must have the
tacit consent of most of the
south really to be able to gov
ern. For a Republican neither
precondition necessarily pre
vails. QF THIS central fact Rocke
" feller is clearly aware.
But the more his hand has
been disclosed the more one
sees the orthodox Republicans
stirring in unhappiness and -already
- in anger. Far more
than they fear Kennedy they
fear what they call "me-too"
Republicanism - the adoption
of Republican candidates of
essentially Democratic atti
tudes, Mr. Rockefeller's prccon
vention campaign to date has
been professionally brilliant.
First he secured his right
flank as far as possible by
gestures to conservative Re
publicans. Now he reaches out
to the left for the city crowds
which, in both parties, form
the hard core of American
liberalism.
Brilliant as his maneuvers
may have been, however, one
thing is certain. If he con
tinues to identify himself pri
marily with urban liberalism,
the orthodox Republicans will
do their best to try to build an
unbrcachable wall of separ
ation between him and the
presidential nomination.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
At Independence Hall in
Philadelphia, where our Dec
laration of Independence was
adopted and signed 186 years
ago, President Kennedy made
a great speech last week in
which he called for an INTER
nalional Declaration of IN-TER-dependence
with a united
Europe.
HE TOLD his hearers:
"For 186 years this doc
trine of NATIONAL independ
ence has shaken the globe
and it remains the most
powerful force anywhere in
the world today ... If there
is a single issue that DI
VIDES the world today, it is
INDEPENDENCE inde
pendence of Berlin, of Laos,
of Vict Nam , . . the longing
for independence behind the
Iron Curtain . . . the peace
ful transition to independ
ence in those newly emerging
areas whose troubles some
people hope to exploit."
Africa, for example
where everybody wants to be
independent and able to
thumb his nose at everybody
else.
WHICH is to say:
' Independence is a great
thing.
But
In this modern world
If we're to have INDE
PENDENCE of thought and
aclion among individuals who
have a common concept of
liberty, we must first have IN
TERDEPENDENCE among
nations and peoples whose
ideals are similar.
IN UNION, President Kenne
dy was suggesting yester
day, there is STRENGTH
but in LACK of union there
is weakness. He was further
suggesting that unless nations
with like ideals can learn to
work togelher there can be
no such thing as individual
liberty.
TN HIS call for an interna
tional declaration of in
terdependence. JFK was
speaking directly to the na
tions included in Western
Europe's much - talked - of
Common Market. The Com
mon Market is an example
the medieval footpad has re-
1 turned, and, as in the dark
i ages, the cry for help brings
: no assistance, for even grown
men know they would be cut
down before the police could
; arrive.
A thousand years ago in
Europe acres of houses and 1
shops were demolished and
their Inhabitants forced else- j
where so that great cathedrals ;
could be built. For decades I
the building process soaked
up all available skilled la-1
bor: for decades the towns
people stepped around pits in j
j the streets, clambered over
ropes and piles of timber,
breathed mortar dust and
slept and woke to the crash-.
inq noise of construction. The I
cathedrals, when finished.
stood half
alf - empty six days! bumper with automobiles a i abandoned hope Their autor
but most of them at ; long as locomotives carrying j ities may listen, but thev
d beauty. Today, the an average of k.-,mi t- v,.,. i,... .u:
a week.
, ... ,
I ugly office skyscrapers go up.
- " ..... uir
' imi.tuii iii.iiii-. an-
obliterated, their inhabitants
forced away, and year af'er
year New Yorkers step
around the pits, slunible
through the wooden catwalks,
breathes the fine mist of dust,
absorb the hammering noise
nigni ann nay, ana leiepnone
in vain for carpenter or
plumber And the skyscrapers
Sand empty to dai andj
OTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Dear Potluck Editor:
You asked to be kept post
ed on the progress of my cam
paign to win the heart of Pop
py LaTour, so I thought I'd
drop you a few lines and
bring you up to date.
She's a wonderful girl and
if anything, I'm more smit
ten than ever, but I can't in
all honesty say tha we make
a perfectly matched pair. Our
interests, unhappily, seem to
diverge a bit.
I asked her at dinner one
night last week, for exam
ple, if she liked music.
She said, "Why sure, hon
ey, watcha think I am?"
So the next night I called
for her and took her lo a con
cert of the San Francisco
symphony orchestra. It was
really a splendid affsir and I
guess all the elite of the city
were there. Anyway, I've nev
er seen so many diamonds and
furs.
Well, when the music be
gan I noticed that Poppy was
sitting there with a frown on
her face as though she wasn't
really sure what was coming
off.
But after the orchestra was
about half way through the
program, they began to play a
Beethoven symphony, and
Poppy, to my acute embar
rassment, really came alive.
JENKINS
of independence. These na
tions want to stand on their
own feet. They want to be
able to resist aggression.
But the Common Market is
also an example of INTER
dependence. Belgium, for ex
ample, can't be independent
all by itself. It is INTER-de-pendent
with the other na
tions of the Common Mar
ket. President Kennedy was say
ing to the nations of Western
Europe that if THEY want lo
remain independent and if
WE want to remain independ
ent we must recognize that
our interests are INTER-de-pendent.
He hit upon a good idea.
Crater Inn Mofel
Sale Is Announced
Sale of the Crater Inn mo
lel, 841 South Riverside ave.,
Medford. was announced last
week by Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam Schei, owners.
The 45-unit motel has been
purchased by Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Schmall of Madera,
Calif. The sale was effective
July 3. The Schmalls will
move here this month. They
plan to operate t h e motel
themselves.
The new owners do not
plan any major changes in
the motel at this time, Schei
said. The personnel will re
main the same.
Mr. and Mrs. Shei, who
plan to continue living in the
valley, will remain at the mo
tel a few more weeks. Schei,
in announcing the sale, ex
pressed his appreciation and
gratitude for the support lo
cal residents have given him
and his wife since they built
the motel in 1948.
The Schmalls have been
fruit growers in the Madera
and Fresno areas in Califor
nia for many years. They
have two sons. Dennis, who
will enter Medford High
school this fall as a senior,
and Darryf, a senior in so
ciology and public adminis
tration at Peppcrdine college
In Los Angeles.
seven nights a week. This is
progress.
At the rush hour, men out
run old women for the avail
able cab; the strong bodily
crush hack the weak for a
place to sland in suffocating
bus or subway car. no less
destructive of human dignity
than a cattle wagon in the
time of Peter the Greal.
When the buses and subway
cars began, they represented
progress.
'
t.rcai parking garages are ,
built, immediately filled wilh
cars: the traffic remains as he
fore, and that is progress The
renowned New York construc
tionist, Robert Moses, builds
! nunnreds of miles of access
highways, and they are at
I once crammed
bumper to
-n uithsp ni ann I Tvi-n nil.
i -
man beings apiece. Parkin-
i Snn s general law applies here
too. tor vehicles will always ; The secret, terrible fact
increase in direct proportion, i? that progress, in all meas
to the increase in spaces to urablr terms of human effort,
hold them. So skyscrapers and grace, and self - respect end-o
hoxlike apartment houses will ed some years ato in the great
uiirese as me money 10 oui.n
then increases So fnolpads
win increase tne number
of possible victims increases
Put it s precress
1 am not surpi isr d that e
She began to pop her gum
and snap her fingers in timet
with the music. On top of
that, she began to wiggle in
her seat in an absolutely scan,
dalous manner.
Gosh, I didn't know what
to do. People were craning
their necks .to stare at her,
and even the conductor turn
ed around to look searchingly
in our direction a couple of
limes.
I just slunk down in my
scat, closed my eyes and held
on. It was the longe. . 20 min
utes of my life.
When the conductor finally
lowered his baton at the end
of the symphony, there was a
little space of silence befora
the audience began to ap
plaud. Right in the middle of it -you
could have heard a pin
drop - Poppy spun around to
me ecstatically and burst out,
"Man, wasn't that the craziest
thing you've ever heard?"
I could have died!
I had sufficier 'y recovered
a few nights later so that
when I discovered there was
a new art exhibit uptown in
one of the galleries I asked
her if she would like to go.
She got kind of a wary look
in her eye, but she finally
said she would.
It was an absolute catastro
phe. The exhibit was a collection
of abstract and expressionis
ts modern paintings done by
a group of artists in the bay
area.
There wasn't a represenla.
tional picture in the whole
bunch.
I could see that Poppy was
getting more and more con
fused as we wp'ked through
the gallery looking at tha
paintings.
She didn't say anything, but
she kept tilting her head from
side to side as though she
were sure there was some
thing there to see if she could
only get the right perspective
on it.
Once I thought thai she was
going to throw her neck out
of joint when she tried to look
at a particular painting upside
down.
There was a little crowd
gathered in front of Ihe last
painting in the show when we
walked up to it.
It was a big gaudy thing,
done in darn near every col
or in the rainbow.
People were all standing
there wilh various expres
sions of deep concentration on
their faces looki g at it.
Suddenly, alter she had
puzzled over it for a minute,
Poppy began to giggle.
I tried to shush her up, but
I couldn't. The giggle got loud
er and louder until finally she
couldn't control herself any
longer and she burst out
laughing as hard as she could.
Everyone was looking at
her with open r-ouths.
She clutched my arm for
support, she was laughing so
hard.
"You know what?" she said,
choking on every syllable.
"No, what Poppy?" I said
weakly.
"That thing looks just like
you did Ihe da, I spilled the
blue-plate special on you . . .
only . . . only . . . you looked
better!" she gasped out. Then
she just screa.ned with laugh
ter louder than before.
Somehow I managed In
get us out of the gallery be
fore the lynch mob formed.
One thing about it, Mr. Edi
tor, I certainly am exper
iencing more things since I
met Poppy. But at times I slill
think I should have gone to
sea.
Sincerely.
Earnest M. Canlwright
Cities
English writer. Mcrvyn Jones,
concludes after traveling
throughout Russia and the
United States that ordinary
Americans and ordinary Rus
sians are remarkably alike in
at least two respects in
! the sheer nhvsical misery
1 they are forced In endure in
! their cities and in the sheer
j ugliness of jumhled signs and
; billboards being spread across
their once fair countryside,
j
! They are alike in a third
respect. As Jones writes in
"Horizon" magazine, both
peoples complain remarkably
little. Russians don't complain
because they don't expect gov
ernment authorities to listen.
I American dwellers in our
megalopolises don't complain
i because they have long since
irnnt,. th.
....ut, iiitM aui nui lea Hiw
helpless. A citv like New York
; is ungovernable.
ant-hill cities The juggernaut
of time and effort has turned
around and is now destroying
the recent progressive past,
(Distributed 1962. by
' Tha Hall Syndicate. Ine.)