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Newspaper Page Textr 4 A UESFORDviWrKIBUNI "Eve'rvnneliTSouthern Oregon Read TheMall Tribune" fcublnherf bally exrept Saturday by mkdkoud printing co 33 North Fir St.. Ph.J772-814l ROHKRT W BUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertiaina Maner GERALD 1 LATHAM. Bus Mr. ERIC W ALLEN JR . Mnj Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY C1I1PMAN. Teles Editor RICHARD JEWE1T. Sports Editor OLIVE S FARTHER, Women'a Edilor DALE EIUCKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newapaper Entered as second claai matter at Medtord. Orelon. under Act 01 March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance, Copy inr Dally and Sunday! year SIVOO Daily and Sunday moa. Bnn Dailv and Sunday 3 moa 4 2S Sunday Only One year 4 20 By Carrier In Advance Medford, AstiUnd. Central Point f-'f'f Point Jarksonvllle. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rnajue Riv er Talent and on motor rotilea Dally and Sunday I year IIP, on Daily and Sunday 1 mo I SO Carrie' and Dealers Copy 10c All Terma Cash In Advance "olflrlarpaper of Clty"nf Medforrl Olflclal Paper of Jackson County United Press International full Leased Wire II P 1 Telephoto Newspiotures "member oe' audit bureau OFClRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS A ASSOCI ATES, Offices In New York. Chi cago Detroit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. Denver L, . vVlrff5V PUBLISHERS 'ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL vV C6TI N HQ Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Vail Tribun. 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yeart go. 10 YEARS AGO July 20, 1952 (Sunday) Two motor firm executives, missing in Crater Lake Na tional park since Saturday, were found murdered; FBI called in. Ernie Lefflcr, 4, of Med ford, found in good condition after spending 29'2 hours In wilderness area near Four Mile lake. 20 YEARS AGO July 20. 1942 (Monday) Rogue river farms near Fy hee bridge are damaged by grasshoppers that eat every thing from pump handles to the tops of oak trees. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "It's getting along towards the time of year when a proud farm er shows up with a corn stalk longer than he is, and gives only himself, instead of Na ture, or Sol and the Mis., the credit for its altitude." 30 YEARS AGO July 20. 1932 (Wednesday) Medford woman fined $10 for "hitting on the nose three or four times" a rival for the affections of her husband. .1. O. Shlvely, the first mo torist to drive to the rim of Crater lake, revisits the lake and reminisces that his 190R trip required several days and a team of horses for steep grades. 40 YEARS AGO July 20, 1922 (Thursday) Medford and Grants Pass community clubs travel to Rogue River to help in the formation of a similar club there. W. J. Virgin. Central Point. Installs a radio transmitting set and plans to broadcast concerts and Mail Tribune news and market reports. 50 YEARS AGO July 20, 1912 (Saturday) Local mills, closed for Iwo years because of skimpy grain crops, reopen because of the expected heavy crop this year. First peaches of the season ate shipped front Medford. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten conlcl is suptrier; seven or tight It icelltnl; five oi tit It flood. 1. Frame obtained Algeria In the lRHO's from Great Bri tain, Italy, Turkey or Kgypt? 2. Piirs a Itemipli'gie pa tient have one-half, one-quarter, or one-third of his burly paralyzed. .1. On what continent rc pigmies found 4 For what do the im;ri s - A S C. .I.ind. fullmvini; ih"5 i iwiir of person in a mo tion picture en dil hnr 3 Is Warsaw the c.ipii il nf Czechoslovakia, Poland, o: Yugoslavia'' fi. Who was as.sainled March IS. 44 B C 7. In American History. who was Grronimo1 1 8 What is the name for the flesh of ralves" j 9 What government asc.i- : ey has jurisdiction over issu- nir nf all t-aHin licenses'1 1(1 Is Manila, In the Philip- pine north or south of ine equalnr Answers: 1. Turkey. 2. Half. A. Amatrtrxn Snn. 3. Africa. ty of ClnmIoqrnhrt. S. PAlmd. n. Jul nit Caimr. 7, Apurhn Indian ChUf. (t. Vtnl, 9. rdTal Communication! Commits. on. 10. North. FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1963 Without Election Returns Though the United States Supreme Court end ed its recent session as a seven-man court, for major cases, it still managed to write a productive record. In mid-term Justice Whittaker's retirement made way for the appointment of Justice White, but he could not help to decide cases where he had not heard arguments. Justice Frankfurter was ill during much of the session. Me is 79 years old, and within three vears three more Justices will reach permissible retirement. President Kennedy may face further responsibilities for remaking the court. A SHORT-handed court is naturally reluctant to establish many new precedents. On some matters this court clung positions. In the civil rights field, it rejected a Louisiana nubhc school parent artifice" against integration, and it stood firm against bus segregation in a Mississippi 1' rcedom Ride case. Without the presence of Justice Frankfurter, the court did reconsider the basic issue of First Amendment cases involving congressional wit nesses. But the Justices over-turned contempt ci tations of six men on the procedural ground that the committees which questioned them did not properly identify the subject under investigation "VET the court did t lnrral lanrlmarto The decision which tical effect came in March just before the White appointment, but with Justice Frankfurter par ticipating. There the court ordered a rehearing for Tennessee urban voters who protested that their legislature had not redistricted the state for fiO years despite a constitutional requirement for apportionment every 10 years. This was the first time that the Supreme Court had entered what it once called a "political thick et.'' And though it did not even consider the merits of the case, its expression of interest was enough to make redisricting issues erupt in 30 stales. THE court also met other new issues forth- rightly. It decided that a man forced to move from his home near an airport because of low-flying planes was entitled to damages. It held that the federal anti-injunction law had left courts with out power to halt strikes that violate no-strike agreements, leaving this problem to Congress. In ruling against Brown Shoe Company's acquisi tion of a retail chain, the court opened the way under a Clayton Act revision for new action against mergers that threaten to reduce competi tion. No doubt the most controversial decision oc curred on the last day of the session, when the court ruled 6 to 1 against the New York Regent's prayer for public schools. This was a vote to protect religion, not to oppose it. IN ANY event, the prayer case and the Tennessee case illustrate two constant factors in the court's attitude toward the nation, and the na tion's attitude toward the court. First, this court is willing to break precedent when there, is no other way to uphold the Consti tution, and when no other avenue of relief from illegal coercion is open citizens. In the Tennessee case the protesting voters had to go to court ; they could expect no help from the legislature. In the New York case, the court found its responsibility was to confirm separation of church and state whether or not objectors to official prayer could establish a deprivation of liberty by the state. This alone was a precedent in pro cedure. CECOND, whenever the Justices establish pre- cedent, they are bound to upset routine think ing and to affront somebody, inside government or out of it. In the prayer case, the court aroused sincere opposition from those who mistakenly believed religion w as the target, and vociferous opposition from a few who oppose the court for other reasons. It is not the court's business, however, to "heed the election returns." Its primary duly is to defend the Constitution, and the court some times provokes the greatest outcry when it is do ing that duty. History provides a better com mentary on the court than on its relentless critics. St. Louis Post-Dispatch An Endless Pursuit It is to lie hoped that the great thermonuclear devices being exploded high above the Pacific w ill yield to this country's scientists and defense experts the valuable information which they hoped to acquire. The possibility of achieving through these tests a discov ery on the same order of magnitude as the initial atomic explosions is not great; but the possibilities of discoveries that could confer decisive military advantage do indeed exist. IF THE atmospheric testing of thermonuclear ,,-,, . : , i.. i i.- . in n c.s i mih to ti mi itiiti on, inr it'itt powers must return to the conference table and woik out a new test ban agreement. i Without some such agreement the ma jor pow-' ers serm condemned to continue alternate rounds' of atmospheric testing in a futile, endless and hazardous pursuit. Washington, D.C., Post. to previously prepared option law as a trans establish some imposing has had the widest prac "Throw Him Some More Floweri, Honey Let'i See How Long He'll Keep Playing" Communications Lattara to tha Editor must heai 'h name and addreat of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of pen name 01 Initial for publlca Uon la oermisstble The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all tetters with an eye to clarification and condensation Letters suhmitten for publica tion mutt not exceed 400 words Not of Patting To the Editor: I see that the buildings on South Front at. are being torn down to make parking lot. We are all In favor of progress, but some times the price comes high. Since time out of mind, Front st. has been more than a geo graphical location; it was a way of life, an institution, ranking with the Barbary Coast and the Long Branch Saloon. Some note should be taken of its passing: Aye, tear their lattered beer- signs down. Long have they cheered the sky, And many a "hlc" has echoed from A throat no longer dry. The bars ran red with Sneaky Pete, The solace of the low; The oaken tap with amber ale Alas, has ceased to flow. For halls that rang with fel lowship Who will not shed a tear? For Fourth Wheel, Otto's, Casino Club, And the Club of Bob's Frontier? And when the asphalt desert looms Beneath the cars that pass. In memory of the old Front Street Turn down an empty glass. Sclah! George W. Rode, Fluhrer Building, Medford. Why Wattt Wordt? To the Editor: President Kennedy's suggestion that Russia and the U.S.A. pool their space efforts and knowl edge is like Big Boy Ker and Little Boy Ken arguing which know the most. So Big Boy Ker said to Little Boy Ken, tell me all you know then I'll tell you what 1 know, to see which knows the most. So Little Boy Ken spills all the beans, and Big Boy Ker an swers now I know all you know, and all 1 know too. The Kremlin has proved re peatedly that they don't in tend to keep any promises they make unless il is to their advantage to do so. So why waste words. Why don't we sever diplomatic relations and ignore old "Krtish' ? F.llet tlitt. .1458 Bursell rd , Medford. Expresiet Appreciation To the Editor: We wish to express our appreciation to the Medford Mail Tribune (or your efforts in the "June is Jacksonville Museum Month'' advertisements. Our attendance figures have so far this spring and summer far exceeded those of 1961. and we (eel sure that the fine publicity put out in our be half by our good friends in the valley has helped to bring this about. Jackson county s riticns share both pride and responsi bility for this "show-case of the past." which attracts so many visitors from every state in the Union, as well as many foreign countries. A solid reputation for authentic ity and excellence among our own people is always our first concern Your action in pro moting this advertising rain- n ,n nnr hhalf It a lAOC- ible expression of your inter ct and friendly cooperation, and we are very Rrateful. Mary I.. Hanley, Curator Jacksonville Museum. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c Field Enterprises Inc. EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Following a recent article of mine on the need for basic educational research in the United Stites, KrfW&Tfffi'X I received an tj inter e s 1 1 n g 1 4j manus c r l p t i' from Paul H. hi uavis, a col lege consult tant in Cali fornia Pauit rffr J points out that while Harla we spend a half-billion dollars a year In industrial research one com pany, Union Carbide, has more than 1,000 men in chemical research the Rus sians spend very little. As a result, our industrial prog ress is enormous, compared with theirs. But jn educational research, the opposite is true. "We In America," says Davis, "have but little educational research where teams with men of many different disciplines work together . . . exploring the nature of learning and teaching." Ruttia, h falls us, hat an normout educational re search system, centralized in the Academy of Peda gogical Sciences, with ilt eight inttilulei in Moscow and many branches throughout the Soviet Union. These inttitutet pick the bait men in the country, and have no budget problems. "Clearly Ih Soviets are focuting thousands of qual ity men and unlimited funds on educational re search," Davis observes. "They have over 20 experi mental schools for letting and perfecting innovations and inventions." He then quotes a Kent Slat university professor at capsuliiing our educa tional needti "We need more mal teaching at lh lementary and secondary level, higher standard! for both teachers and ttudentt. many more school build ingt, batter talariet for our teachers but far more important than any such needt, we need educational research." By educational research is meant "research of depth, both empirical and rational, conducted at many institu tions, staffed with competent men of diverse disciplines--psychologists, physiologists, sociologists, mathematicians, physicists, chemists, biolo gists, neurologists, and edu cators." The method of nrgani.a-1 lion, he continues, "could j draw heavily on the methods used by our land-grant col- j leges, where a trilogy of re- j searchers, students and coun ty agents have combined to 1 make our agricultural indus try at the front of the w orld." We still know so little ; about the learning process that many of our billions spent for schools are v irtually w asted The Russions recog- nir.e thai the investment in : brains and learning is the surest and most permanent way to achieve national pro gress. We spend extraordin ary sums on classrooms, lab oratories, libraries and gym nasiums - but the processes and goals of education are not clearly defined or well tin- , drrstood We should run our schools at least as sensibly as Union Carhirie runs us business. CATS' EQUAL RIGHTS Water-town. Wis rpn The cltv council hat voted equal rights fnrra's It amended the stray animal ordinance to al low rats as well as dogs to he ' held at the city pound. Communist Countries Maintain Attack Against Common Market Nations BY PHIL NEWSON UPI Foreign Newt Analyst Since Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev started the ball rolling last May, the Com munist countries have main tained a steady attack against the European Common Market. Khrushchev ' has applied various epithets to the six nations-France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Neth erlands and Luxembourg - Theme Song of 1960 Of Kennedy Is Echoing Again By LYLE C. WILSON United Pratt International Washington - (UPI) - A theme song promise from the 1960 oratory with which candidate John F. Ken- nedy charmed voters is echo ing again over the land, slightly off key. it is candi date K e n- nedy's prom - se to get. Ullan. merica mov- in asain. There were other campaign themes that might have returned to haunt the President. There was his con stant chiding of President Ei senhower for withholding a mere stroke of the pen by which racial segregation could have been barred forever from federally-aided housing. There was the commitment to other bold and far-reaching civil rights action by Con gressional legislation. Repub lican campaigners were out classed by Kennedy's gleam ing phrases and socko punch lines. That could have been the margin of his slim vic tory. It is Kennedy's promise to get the country moving, how ever, that has Been translated by circumstances Into a pas sionate 1962 campaign issue. Even the Republicans were impressed by candidate Ken nedy's campaign performance and his early montns in of fice. The opposition was al most of a mind to give up. Hop Reborn Forest Service io Spend $1.1 Million For improvements Portland - Expenditure of $1,141,200 for campground and picnic area improvement and construction is scheduled on the national forests of the Pacific Northwest Region of the forest service this sum mer, according to J. Herbert Stone, regional forester. The improvement and con struction work continues the work started under the "Op eration Outdoors" program in 1958 and ended this year. The work is designed to provide more and better recreation fa cilities in the national forests to meet the growing demand for outdoor recreation, Stone said. The SI. 141.200 in construc tion and improvement funds projected for use this year is about $100,000 more than the amount spent in 1961. and is more than three times the amount available five years ago. Three-Fold Increase Recreation visits to the na tional forests of the region last year totalled 11.3 million. This represents a three-fold increase in 10 years. Stone said. An intensive, region-wide survey and study has hern completed to provide Infor mation lUUUI lll.tHlU.ll lll-5 riliu ofifiiu iiuiun- tin miiuniM recreation developments on the national forests. From this information, the forest service is developing long-range re creation management plans, which Include anticipation nf future needs for developing facilities to meet the needs of the greatest number of per sons. The Pacific Northwest re gion comprises all the nation al forest lands in Orrson, most of those in Washington, and a small portion of those in northern California. Grounds Maintained Last summer 8R6 ramp and picnic grounds, with a total of 10.412 family units, were maintained in the 20 national forests of the region. By states the figures were Oregon 5.M , areas with 6.314 units: Wash-j ington ,132 areas with 4.090 j units; California 6 arras with : 18 units. ! The $1,141,200 for improve ments and construction this vcar docs not represent the total recreation pro cram huiillrt for the recion Ahout $4iin,000 will be required to keep campsrounds clean, .ind another $260.(Hl(t will be used to maintain the sites and fa cilities in a safe and usa!e condition. Stone s.tid. j kWfl al which have bound themselves together economically and which in four years have be come an economic force rival ling either the United States or Russia. Among these epithets have been "unnatural marriage," "collective colonialism" and "state monopoly." Khrushchev's anger possibly springs from three sources: -The success of the Com mon Market was not antici- But there has developed in the past few months a ripple of Republican confidence that Kennedy and the Democrats are not unbeatable. During Kennedy's first year of office there was no evidence of Re publican confidence that their party could get up off the floor. They had no hope. They now have much hope and some confidence. The foundation for this Re publican hope and confidence 1 began in a small way with the disastrous attempt to in vade Cuba. It gained when Kennedy smote U.S. Steel. The multi-billion dollar stock market plunge brought a bloom to Republican pros pects like a transfusion of blood. Republican hope and confi dence, obviously, depend on talk and fear of a recession, on the continued high rate of unemployment and on the re jection by a Democratic Con gress of much of Kennedy's domestic program. Chance for House? The squabble between Ihe 83-year-old chairman of the House Appropriations Com mittee and his 84-year-old op posite number in the Senate was a sad, sour and ridiculous Washington Report By William (cl United Feature Syndicate POLITICAL LEADER BACK Washington-The blunt hand of the authentic, do-it-yourself political leader John F. Ken- : nedy -that Kennedv who is trusts his own il instincts and recoils slight ly from the earnest do go o d i sm of some of his more academic-minded sup porters - is back in view. There is earthy rejoicing, therefore, among the old regu lar Democratic pros along the Potomac, not to mention in various other parts of the country. They had feared that lately the President had been too much in the com pany of - if not under the influence of the party's wing of egghead reformers. They are now happy to see that this conclusion was whol ly premature. These circumstances arise from Kennedy's selection of former Mayor Anthony Cele brezze of Cleveland to be his new Secretary of Health, Edu cation and Welfare. fPHE Celebrezze nomination - is nne of those very rare instances where practical par ty politics and the public in terest can both be reasonably served at a single stroke. It thus has had the extraordinary effect of pleasing practically everybody except the social worker type of Democrat. Not even the Republicans are displeased. Though it is true that they have no inter est in seeing the Democrats help themselves politically, as r-l-u,,,,.-, ,i,n.Am.,in background and connections will do, thev are immensely relieved all the same. Another kind of appointment to H.E.W. would have struck real terror to their fiscally prudent hearts. For H E W. is in a sense the most sensitive department in this government. Because it is the central welfare agency for countless millions from just beyond the cradle to just short of the grave, il positive ly invites the nomination as , secretary of some fellow i whose compassion for man- kind is as inch as his respect for budgets is low. And this great danger is notably pres ent in Democratic administra tions. T'HUS, when Abraham Ribl-1 A coff announced his inten- tion In rfim In run tYir the' to resign to run lor the , Senate from Connecticut, rca- sonably conservative men felt entitled to forebodines. Ribi coff himself had been a per fectly sound type of secre tary. Rut in all common sense Ihe odd seemed to run ag.unst the probability thai twice in a row the nod wouH fall to a reasonable, as dis tinguished from a far-out, lib eral to run H K W. It had appeared mote than jpated in the Communist time- table of conquest predicated on a divided Europe. -A real fear that tariff walls erected by the six with in the Common Market may choke off the sale of Com munist goods to Western Europe. -A fear of the effect on underdeveloped countries of the increasing flow of foreign aid from Western Europe. This latter point would ac- Campaign contest of wills. This dispute about which should first tip his hat to the other cost the Democrats voles and they know it. President Kennedy is un able even to get the Demo cratic Congress moving. Re publicans have begun to cam paign on the theme that he can't get the country moving, either. So the campaign is on to turn against the Democrats in 1962 candidate Kennedy's best-advertised 1960 campaign promise. For these reasons, Republi cans are beginning to con vince themselves that they have a chance this year to win the House. If they do that, the Republicans reasonably might hope to lick Kennedy in 1954. it won't be easy. He may be the smari.-.-at poliiician of the lot. AH of this recalls President Eisenhower's comment after President-elect Kennedy's first White House visit. Ike was impressed by the scope and flair of his successor. But over a scotch and soda, he remarked to a few friends: "I don't believe that young man knows what he's up against." To that Kennedy now might say "amen." S. White likely, instead, that the Presi dent would be pressed into entering the wild blue yonder in his search for Ribicoff's successor. That this has not happened is a source of great satisfac tion to all who accept the necessity for public welfare but do not wish to see it turn ed Into some vast house of experimentation at heavy cost in money - and, ultimately, at heavy cost to sensible wel fare programs themselves. The Celcbrezze appointment, that is to say, is quite simply in the public interest. a TT IS also in the political in- lerest of the Democrats -and this, too, was most dis tinctly in the President's mind. For former Mayor Cele brezze not only conies well recommended as a practical administrator; he is also the first American of Italian de scent to serve in a presiden tial cabinet. Americans of Italian stock for years have been moving into powerful, and often locally dominant, positions in Democratic poli tics. For years, too, however, they have felt that they have not had adequate national representation, a complaint Kennedy has now moved to ease. The effects arc likely to be felt as early as this fall's congressional elections and as distantly as the presidential election in 1964. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF rpHE LATE Albert Einstein was not the one to bother hi I- head with the mazes of modern finance. No sooner did he arrive in America than he was persuaded by an unscrup ulous broker to put alt his savings some $22, 001 into a list of verit able "cats and dogs." An indignant friend made him sell them at once, and undertook to reinvest the funds in gilt-edged securities. For twenty years Dr. Einstein never questioned him once about his hold ings. Then the friend in formed him that the se curities had vaulted to a market value of over j.iiu.uuu: -Listen. Dr. 7 - Einstein interrupted him crossly. "I don't bother you about relativity. Don t you bother me about stocks and bonds:" a a a Tetr-r Lird Hayei spotted the most poignant claatified ad of " . . reicr mub E,.tMA.-MiC.: UM four, m,,,. .,. .,--.a,,a o, .. . j m lh, waiI.. ' j Samuel Pfpvs. whose riiariee faJthfuPv rerorted Lrmdrm ins-s-on tn the late seventeenth century, and nave been required reading for rois. sv.i-ienta ever tince, reflect a dim view of the plava ef William Shskoretr". Of "X M:.i.immr N.ght t nremn." pePv wrote, This is the most lrmpi.t. rid-.i-tiinua play I ever saw in mv hf e He rl!M "K,,mw anf J 'i"t." 'The verv wm plav that ever I heart. and dismissed: "Twelfth X-.shf as -sillv In faint to Mr. irpj. points out flrama. mt admit he miavm! - C U6i tj bawl Cart Dutnbuted br kia( T-Otn SndleiM Steady count for Khrushchev's attempt to frighten the new and underdeveloped nations by describing the Common Market as a form of "collec tive colonialism" designed to keep them in bondage. On their tide, the Commu nists are in great need of Western Industrial equipment which they can purchase only with hard Western currencies. Only in this way can they ful fill their ambitious plans for industrial expansion. It is also true that the Com munist - bloc nations depend more upon the West than the West upon them. Poland, for example, counts on Western Europe for nearly a quarter of its foreign trade. West Ger many on the other hand sends only one-twentieth of its for eign trade product to the Com munist nations. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has announced a long range plan to cut al most in half the drain on U.S. dollars caused by servicemen and their dependents over seas. He tells a news confer ence that a $900 million cut will be achieved by trimming; military purchases abroad, largely In Europe, and by stimulating foreign purchase here. He adds: "Study projects have been launched aimed at reducing U.S. support troops in Eu rope, eliminating some mili t a r y headquarters overseas . . . and cutting the U.S. share of payments for NATO joint facilities." COMMENT? Well, it does look as if it's getting about time for Western Europe to shoulder a bigger share of the burden of its own protection. After World War II. we helped our friends and allies in Western Europe to get back on their feet by means of the Marshall plan. For that, we have no re grets. It was what we should have done, and we did it. Un der similar circumstances, we would do it again. But Western Europe is now highly prosperous, and is far less debt-ridden than we are. It's hard to escape the con clusion that it has reached the point where it could af ford to carry a much larger share of the cost of its own defense. tfROM Chicago: - Mrs. Gladys Burton was standing at a counter in her office the other day counting money when a man walked in with a brown bag under his arm and handed her a note saying the bag contained explosives which would be detonated if she failed to hand over the cash. Mrs. Burton looked up and said to him: "YOU'RE NUTS:" The man fled. ABOUT 200 years ago, Aar on Hill wrote thii little jingle: "Tender-handed stroke nettle. "And it stings you for youf pains: Grasp it like a man nf mettle "And it soft as silk re mains." 1WRS. BURTON tried his ad- 1UV ice. It worked. If more people followed the same advice, there would be less trouble in the world. ie ""..." "'" L"rr.'paper' " ""u ,ui ,or ao" e e George, Orpenheur.ej-. be did ill