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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 4, 1953 (Friday)
Ashland prepares for ad
vent of television.
Southern Pacific railroad
fined for dispatching Insuffi
ciently loaded freight cars to
out-of-state points.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 4. 1943 (Thursday)
Medford Mayor C. A. Meek
er leaves for Seattle to attend
regional meeting of federal
housing authorities.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "In
California, the people have
started to sing 'Yes, We Have
No Bananas, Beefsteak or
Butter Today'."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 4, 1933 (Saturday)
Snow reported to be eight
or nine feet deep at govern
ment camp In Crater Lake
National park.
New 1033 cars on display In
Medford at prices from $130
to $145 below prices of 1032.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 4, 1923 (Sunday)
Stale Sen. George Dunn of
Jackson county named chair
man of legislature committee
on elections and privileges.
Medford High school bas
ketball team to play opening
game against alumni; high
school team Includes Bceney,
Dick and Rudy Slngler, J. V.
Watson, Jim Allen and Ray
mond Knips.
SO YEARS AGO
Jan. 4, 1913
Page from a fashion maga
zine dated 18(13 found imbed
ded in center of oak tree cut
down by Harold Corliss near
Phoenix; page said In good
condition.
Medford Mayor W. II. Can
non and Clarence L. Rcamcs
leave for Portland to attend
annual Jackson day banquet
at which Rcamcs will speak.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or tan correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent; rive or
sit It good.
1. What Is the United States
highest military award?
2. Who baptized Saul?
3. Most roses now have
grafted roots; true or false?
4. In the snle of timber,
which of the following com
mands the highest price: Pon
dcrosa Pine, Douglas Fir,
Larch, White Fir or Englcmnn
Spruce?
5. On how many islands Is
New York principally built ?
8. Which of the following
is most closely connected with
control of electrical volume:
Thermostat, rcostat, photostat,
rcconostal?
7. Has (he noun burglar an
accepted verb form?
B. Frankfort is the capital
of which stale?
9. There are no fish in the
Dead Sea; true or false?
10. Name the world's larg
est active volcano.
Answers: 1. Congressional
Medal of Honor. 2. Ananias. 3.
True. 4. Ponderosa pine. 5.
Three. 6. Reoilat. 7. No. 8.
Kentucky. 9. True. 10. Mauni
Lui en Hawaii,
CALLS FOR TAX CUT
Washington - Wli - Ameri
cans for Democratic Action
(ADA) Thursday called for a
$10 billion-plus federal tnx
cut and Increased spending
for education and urban problems.
Recently, in commenting about the complex
ity of state government as revealed in the Gov
ernor's proposed budget for the coming bien
nium, we mentioned, in passing, that the secre
tary of state had received an appropriation of
$12,500 for the current biennium for research
on vote counting procedures, and that he had
spent $800 of that amount.
Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr. hap
pened to see the editorial, and wrote to give more
details about the item.
LIIS letter is so interesting that we print most
of it below:
"Since a research project is, in a very real sense,
the search for an unknown, it was impossible when we
embarked on this program to predict exactly where
it might lead. One of our fields of investigation was
that of the design of some sort of a device for use .
at the polling place to enable the voter to register his
voting choice mechanically. After study we concluded
that a better solution was to be found along the lines
of electronic detection and tabulating of a mark made
manually by the voter, Just as he now does, with
either and indelible pen or a special marking device.
. . . We also found that a great deal of research
was being done in the general area of electronic
sensing and tabulating of marks by the established
electronic equipment manufacturers, such as IBM,
Remington Rand, National Cash Register, and others.
"Therefore, since the time our research reached
that stage, we have devoted our efforts to working
' in cooperation with such firms mentioned in the fore
going in an effort to persuade them to adapt their own
research developments to the task to vote tabulation,
rather than attempting to do original research and de
velopment ourselves.
"I am' sure you will recognize that any research
and development we might do within the limits of
$12,900 would be but a drop in the bucket compared
to that which can be accomplished by such interna
tionally recognized firms as IBM and National Cash
Register with their tremendous research and develop
ment staffs and facilities.
"Therefore, It is for that reason that we have
neither expended the $12,300 appropriated to us nor
intend requesting additional funds. Such funds as will
be expended will be in the nature of travel to confer
with the research directors and staffs of these firms,
as I did some three weeks ago on trips to Dayton,
Ohio, and Yorktown,, N.Y.
"We are quite encouraged that in time a modern
ized system will be developed through this effort , . ."
WE SINCERELY appreciate Mr. Applings's
infpvpsf in rrivino- this additional informa
tion and clarification.
Moreover, we wish him every success in his
quest for speedier vote counting equipment. It
is an anachronism that, in a day when automation
and computers are more and more taken for
granted, we still vote in the same horse and bug
gy fashion that our grandfathers did, and that
it is long hours, and in some cases days and
weeks, before the outcome of an election is
known. ',
The approach being used is logical and eco
nomical, too. E.A.
Radio Logs Popular
The other clay we inquired editorially wheth
er the radio logs printed in the Mail Tribune
serve 'a useful function. We asked readers to
drop a note or a card to let us know how they
feel.
The result was truly heart-wanning. ,
Letters and cards started pouring in, and
they're still coming. They are running more than
10 to 1 in favor of keeping the radio logs.
Here are a few random quotations:
"When the Tribune arrives I look first at the
headlines, then for the scissors to cut out the pro
grams for TV and radio, which I keep on the table
beside me."
"Thank you for the radio log. I use It every day
and would be lost without it."
"My wife, a nurse, lells me that many patients in
the hospital clip (the logs) out and keep them on
their bedside tables."
"When we had a (Mail Tribune) motor route, we
had customers stop the paper, then after a short time
would start it again, saying they missed the radio and
TV logs."
"If 1 had to make a choice of cither one or the
other, I would pick my radio rather titan my TV."
"Consider the many people who are your sub
scribers too far away to receive the TV programs, and
the many who prefer radio to TV."
"We do not listen to the radio continuously as
some do, and depend on the radio log for special news,
etc. We do not have a TV, so our radio is our main
source of latest news."
"1, for one, am getting to the age where I have a
better forgettery than memory. I simply wouldn't
know which, why, when or where without your radio
log. It's a must (or us oldsters."
"If the radio sections isn't always quile the way
it should be, I know It isn't your fault. So we hope
you'll continue to print it."
"Possibly the broadcasting stations .should be re
quired to pay for this service."
"What'. It To U What They Do Down There?"
HTHE few dissenting cards and letters either in-
dicated that radio logs serve no useful func
tion, or that it is a matter of indifference.
One of the more interesting of the dissents
said :
"We appreciate your position regarding unpaid
space for radio and TV logs.
"Due to adverse Influences upon both children
and adults, we have laid away our sets until such a
time when the broadcasters may decide to jwtticn our
atmosphere with worth-while, educational seeing and
hearing. We love good music, too."
Hut sue!) views constituted a small minority
of the returns.
Thus, at least for the time being, we shall
continue to publish the radio logs. It should be
noted that the Mail Tribune cannot accept re
snonsibility for their accuracy, only making those
changes supplied by the radio stations.
We wish to thank the many readers who took
the time and trouble to respond to our request
and who, in many instances, also were good
enough to express their thanks and good wish
es. E.A.
Columbo Plan's Success Only 'Moderate'
In Increasing Asian Economic Activity
Strictly Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c) Field Enterprises, Inc.
4pfj1
SOMEBODY ELSE
The proper way to compli
ment a woman Is not on what
she has or is, but on what
she has not or
wants to be.
The beautiful
woman wants
to be assured
that she is
bright, and
the bright wo
man that she
is a 1 1 ractive.
For everyone
Harris has a desire to
be, in a certain way, some
body else.
This, of course, is as true
of men as of women-although
men pretend not to be so
susceptible to flattery. There
is no point In telling a man
that he is good in something
about which he knows he is
good; he will simply regard
you as a fool.
But tell the minister that
his sermon was logical and
well-reasoned as a legal brief,
and he will puff up and res
pond, "You know, I did think
of taking up the law once."
When General Wolfe con
quered Quebec, he sighed
that the would gladly have
given up all his military
victories If only he could
have written Gray's "Ele
gy." Likewise, Frederick
the Great scorned those who
praised his martial feais;
he wanted to be a French
literary man rather than a
Prussian general - or, at
any rate, a pari of him
wanted to be, and deeply
desired assurance that he
could have been.
Goethe took his literary
genius for granted, on the
other hand, and yearned
for immortality as a scien
tific innovator - ho foolish,
ly thought that his "theory
of light and colors" would
outlast hit poetry, and
watted a great deal of time
in defending his trivial dis
coveries. Itaac Newton, on the
other hand, thought that
hit profound tcientific work
wat less important than hit
research into Biblical hit
tory, which any schoolboy
could have emulated. The
latter hat been totally for
gotten by now, while
Newton's tcientific explora
tions remain a landmark of
Wettern civilisation.
Sir Arthur Sullivan dis
missed his music for the Sa
voy operettas as airy nothings,
and hoped that his fame
would rest un his more am
bitious works; but he has
reached immortality only as
the latter half of Gilbert Sc.
In our time, Artur Schna
bel, the eminent pianist, de
sired praise not for his in
comparable renditions of Mo
zart and Beethoven, but for
the atonal modern music he
composed, which is not worth
one cadenza of a Mozart con
certo. The man who makes vast
sums of money wants to be
regarded as a discriminating
art collector; the Shakespeare
an actor wanls to be thought
of as an astute financial
manipulator. And who knows
what dreams Einstein had
when he picked up his fiddle
and scratched out a tune?
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Newt Analytt
Back in 19S0, Britain and
members of the common
wealth set up a program
known as the
Colombo plan.
Its aim was
to aid the eco
nomic devel
opment of the
c o u ntries of
C n ii I k a n ,4
I S o u I h e a st
4QI I Asia, most of
eseaeam..,aB akaaeBJ ,,f . m Co nn nil.
. J " - - - .
Kawiom lations were
desperately poor but which
embraced a total of rrore than
be close to a billion.
The United States joined
the plan in 1051, and with
the addition of others, the
total finally stood at 21 na
tions. It did not Include Na
tionalist China in Formosa or
South Korea, which were
geographically outside the
area and already were receiv
ing substantial help from the
United States.
Recently, a Japanese ipokes
Recently, a Japanese spokes
man took a look at the area
to see how it was doing.
He found the results only
"moderately encouraging."
The spokesman was Ambas-
600 million people, toon to I sador Katsuo Okazaki, Ja-
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer,
although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial
for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
paper, in fact the contrary Is often the case.
Trees
To the Editor: Re Communi
cations, Mr. Clifford's "To
Kusty -
When the forest's last monarch
has fallen
When the last log is hauled
to the mill
When the last board is drawn
at the dry kiln
When the rip-saws all stand
mute and still
When the last board is cut
into boxes
When the last labeled box
end is made
When the last whistle blows
at the factory
When your debt to the
juggernaut's paid
What then? '
Are you making provision for
rest
You will need when the
day is o'er?
Have you thought of the cost
if you fail
To find the right way and
the door? , 1
A tree bore the burden for
man-kind
A tree in the shape of a
cross
Thus provision was made for
you, son '
Take heed! and you'll suffer
no loss.
James Williams
P.O. Box 441
Jacksonville, Ore.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
San Francisco nursed a mu
nicipal hangover Tuesday fol
lowing one of ihe rowdiest
New Year's Eve celebrations
in years. "The trend of the
limes is outright defiance
of authority," said Police
Chief Thomas Cahill, "and
that's what we ha Monday
night."
Is a symbolic way of throw
ing out the old year. The
crockery shower is against the
law, but that didn't stop the
celebrating. By two minutes
after midnight, nearly every
street in Rome was a sham
bles.
CHIEF CAHILL said it was
the roughest New Year's
Eve in five years, and offered
this as a sample of what went
on;
Police Officer frank Wil
son came across a bunch of
young thugs beii'.lng an elder
ly man In front of the Em
bassy theatre. When he went
to the aid of the victim, the
gang scattered but he man
aged to catch one of the young
toughs in a nearby alley.
Suddenly, Officer Wilson
was surrounded by a mob of
defiant youths and young
men shouting "Let's get the
cop." It was estimated that
there were about 250 people
in the mob when five ot fl
eers with police dogs moved
Into the fray, split the mob
Into two groups and rescued
Officer Wilson.
IjiROM Reno:
Revelers in a downtown
casino area welcomed the
New Year with a s1 wcr of
beer bottles and cocktail
glasses here early Tuesday,
doing about $10,000 damage
to huge neon signs.
Police moved into the mob
of some 3,000 persons and
scattered it. When the crowd
was subdued. Assistant Police
Chief Hill Hroadhrad com
mented angrily: "The disturb
ing thing was that men and
women on the sidewalk were
APPLAUDING THE MESS."
AND so on - from all over
A the nation. And, likewise,
from all over the world. This,
for example, from Rome:
Exactly at midnight, people
began hurling old pots, pans,
dishes and oilier rubbish from
their windows, which in Italy
QUITE a mess?
Well, lest totally wrong
impressions of this modern
world be gained, let's end
this symposium of sin and
silliness on a more hopeful
note.
At Stratford, Conn., Tues
day Dr. Burton H. Fern died
at the age of 37. He served
in the Air Force medical
corps in Korea from 1951 to
1053. Returning home after
his Air Force duty, he open
ed a pediatric practice at
Missed Contest
To the Editor: We are
family who was missed dur
ing the lighting contest in
Medford. If we were missed
in the Judging, there must
have been others who. were
also. I wouldn't feel badly
about it except for the fact
that I phoned the Robert Bur
ton home as the paper said
to do. Even though I did so,
the judges did not judge our
home, and we are inside the
city of Medford.
If anyone came down Table
Rock rd., our home couldn't
be missed. It was the one with
the illuminated Santa on top
of the chimney, and was visi
ble for almost two miles away.
Next year I hope that regis-
Stratford. Two years later,
spinal polio left him para
lyzed from the neck down.
His body and chest muscles
were rendered useler. by the
disease, but he retained his
hearing, speech, vision and a
SPIRIT THAT ONLY DEATH
COULD CONQUER.
ITSING a wheel chair, he
went back Into practice.
He traveled to give lectures
He served as a consultant on
pediatrics. He engaged ,in re
search projects.
And -
He began lo wrile a health
column, which was widely
syndicated.
He produced it by pecking
it out on an electric type
writer WITH A STICK HELD
IN HIS TEETH.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF-
C HERMAN DUFFY, recalls John McPhoul in his book,
J "Deadlines and Monkeyshines," was a Greek and Latin
scholar with a Phi Beta Kappa key who turned sportswriter
because he believed it
ft" ,
was the easiest way in
the world to make a liv
ing without working.
Duffy once lambasted
the owners of the De
troit Baseball Club so
hard that they sued him
for libel. Duffy promptly
received this wire from
Hugh Fullcrton, dean of
all sportswriters: "Con
gratulations! I've been
trying for a decade to li
bel a baseball magnate,"
Leopold Godoxvskt. the famous composer and pianist, was sub.
Jecl to insomnia. His eon, living with him at the time, was, on
the contrary, a sound alecper. It w as Godowskl's amiable habit,
when he waa having a particularly bad night, to stamp into his
son a room, shake him vigorously until he opened his eves and
Uitn demand, "What's Uie matter, eon? Can't you tlcep either?"
"My sponsor tnrew me a big dinner on the fifth anniversary of
my television debut," reminlaces Milton Btrle, "but it didn't hit
-no."
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trations will be required as
they have been in past years.
Then perhaps, homes will not
be missed.
This was our first effort to
enter the home lighting con
test, and was a great disap
pointment to all of us. Next
year I shall call more than
just the chairman of the event
to get results.
Mrs. Herb Gifford
2336 Table Rock rd.
Medford.
pans permanent representa
tive to the United Nations.
His own country had shown
the most spectacular growth
In national output - a whop
ping 9 per cent.
Formosa came next with 8
per cent, and other good ones
with growth rates a 5 to 6
per cent were the Philippines,
Thailand and South Korea.
Unfortunately, the lowest
growth rates were recorded
by nations with populations
exploding at a rate nearly nul
lifying the gains they made.
This Is an area of glamor
ous names - Nepal, Ceylon,
Malaya - but known to the
great majority of Westerners
only from the geography
books.
Okazaki was saying that
the anti - Communist world
must indeed be one -world.
If Asia is not included ha
saw this grim alternative:
"A stagnant Asia is already
a dangerous breeding ground
for chaos and Communist im
perialism, which will cost us
far more in blood and treas
ure than economic development."
Washington Report
By William S. White
(c) United Feature Syndicate
Possum. Pie
To the Editor, and Mr. Snl
den I do so appreciate the
ex-mayor's proclamation.
have always felt it was wrong
to tax the Poles and let the
Russians go free. And I es
pecially appreciate the open
season on possums. It has
been a long time since I en
joyed a possum pie. I recall
the little stuttering Negro who
used to sing Possum Pie:
Pee-ppppo, deedddd double-
s, U-uuuum, Of all de eatin
dat am de bes; Um pppossum
pie, I could eat yu tttill I die,
Podouble s-um spells possum
ana pie spells pie.
Now, thanks to the procla
mation, I can, as we say, kill
two birds with one stone
can have my possum pie and
stop their scampering around
on my roof at night and also
their meow meow-meowing
under the floor.
. L. G. Weaver,
301 Have,n st.,
Medford.
Invisible Government
To the Editor: The Congo
battle is again at white heat.
And the UN policy is to
force Katanga back into the
Communist controlled Congo
Republic, no matter what the
cost. To break down Katan
ga's resistance hospitals,
homes, schools and industrial
plants have been bombed.
And UN troops, including un
civilized India Ghurkas and
Ethiopian tribesmen, have
committed unbelievably hor
rible atrocities against doc
tors, missionares, women, and
children. While lawless,
drunken bands of Congolese
troops; paid in American tax
dollars nearly three times as
much as American soldiers
get, are still terrorizing the
country pillaging, raping, and
killing.
Why is the United States
financing and supporting this
incredible policy in the Con
go, so wrong, so shameful,
and so helpful to Commu
nism? The 9-24-61 Star Ledger
of Newark, N.J., gives it to
us straight: "Last June,
group of private Swedish and
American financiers deposit
ed about 100 million dollars
in Swiss banks in preparation
for a Katangan take-over. As
the combine was formed three
months ago, it seems likely
that the UN war was being
planned in secret at that time.
or even earlier. If the Tshom-
be government falls, the new
(Swedish-American) combine
plans to move in" to take over
the fabulously rich Katanga
mines.
After much thorough In
vestigation Congressman Don
ald Bruce of Indiana came
up with the fact that two
Americans of the American
Swedish corporation are very
highly placed In the foreign
policy making agency of our
Government, Fowler Hamil
ton, Director of Foreign Aid.
and George Ball, Under-Secretary
of State, who directly
helped establish our policy
toward Katanga. Now the
U S. sponsored UN in Ka
tanga begins to make sense.
Both of these men, Smoot Re
port 380 states, "are members
of the Council On Foreign Re
lations whose key members
have become the INVISIBLE
GOVERNMENT of the United
States. Their purpose, which
can be proven by their own
words and deeds, as shown in
my iSmooft) book. The In
visible Government, is to
make America a Socialist unit
in a one world Socialist sys
tem. Why should they want
o do this?" They "are build
ing wealth and power for
themselves."
Arc these international fi
nanciers tthe CFR) using
American tax dollars the UN
army, and Communism to
IRRESPONSIBLE LABOR
Washington - However un
pleasant the subject may be
in uus gray
morning of the
new year, the
harsh and un
deniable fact
is that this
g o v e rnment
must face up
now to the ne
c e s s i t y of
curbing the
white power of irre
sponsible labor.
Few politicians, even among
the conservatives, really rel
ish the notion of reopening
the sweaty, immensely diffi
cult and ill-rewarding field of
labor legislation. There are
many reasons not to do so -the
main one perhaps being
the violent and unreasoning
response which will inevita
bly come from the great vot
ing blocs within organized
labor.
But there is a single, com
pelling reason to do so. This
is, simply, nothing less than
the preservation of basic na
tional interest. It is the great
est domestic issue before this
country.
THOUGH it made some im
provements in 1960, Con
gress has not enacted any gen
eral labor legislation since the
Taft-Hartley act of 1948. This
act went far toward restoring
a fair balance between man
agement and labor. Labor for
a decade under the Wagner
act has passed from its old
position of undue lack of pow
er relative to management to
a position of undue power not
only over management but
crush the anti-Communist Ka
tanga people and take their
wealth anct property away
from them? Is rapacious greed
and avarice behind our sub
human hrnlnl treatment of
Katanga? Every red blooded
American who thinks so
should protest in no uncertain
terms to his Congressman.
Frank Koch,
412 South First st.,
Central Point, Ore.
Fire Thankt
To the Editor: Because of
the recent fire in the Big Y
Shopping Center, and particu
larly because my beauty shop
was involved, may I extend
my heartfelt thanks and ap
preciation to the following:
My first thanks must go to
Gordon Barker, and the win
derful men of the Medford
fire department, who helped
long and hard to salvage the
contents of my shop.
The operators whom I em
ploy, and I want to further
thank all the people at City
Hall, my banker, the State
Board of Cosmetology, the
owners of other beauty shops
who offered their services,
and the host of friends who
are making it possible for me
to open temporary quarters at
my home on 2049 Gary st.,
until my shop Is rebuilt in the
Big Y Shopping Center. Their
cooperation and help will be
forever appreciated.
Elva Penwell, Owner
Big Y Beauty Salon
Operators:
Aletha Hall
L' nda Sechler
Bonnie McKecn
also over the interests of the
general public.
Taft-Hartley was a reason
able response to years of la
bor union excesses, as the)
Wagner act earlier had be
come an extreme response to
generations of management
excesses. But Taft-Hartley is,
demonstrably, no longer ade
quate. There must be a new
and fully effective weapon
against which might be called
the intolerable, the public-be-damned,
strike.
The intolerable strike is de
fined here as one in which
the fundamental rights and
necessities of the people them
selves are denied by labor
stoppages which menace not
merely some corporation or
other but the general welfare)
itself.
i..
SUCH an intolerable strike
by the longshoremen -is
now going to paralyze, first,
the east and gulf coasts, and,
second, the whole national
economic interest. Such -a
strike is now going on in New
York City. It has closed nine
newspapers covering a metro
politan area where 13,000,000
Americans are being shut off
from the world by a printers'
union whose demands upon
the publishers are demonstra
bly unreasonable by any
standard acceptable to reason
able men.
And such a strike for weeks
has also closed the only two
newspapers in Cleveland. This
one involves the odorous team
sters union and the American
Newspaper guild which
surely can hardly take prido
in the nature of its ally in
this enterprise.
This columnist all his adult
life has been a member of
what is called "the working
press," meaning the non-owning,
non-management part of
the press. He owns no news
paper stock. He claims no de
tailed knowledge of the issues
in Cleveland, as distinguished
from those in New York.
TIE KNOWS for a fact, as
a working newspaperman,
however, that to black oufa
whole vast community is to
go far beyond a legitimate
economic struggle into somE
thing which Is destructive of
more than the press itself. It
is to hit also at the very life
spirit of the people. There js
a darkness here -that is mora
than economic; there is a pa
ralysis here that is more than
a paralysis of t h e market
place; a paralysis of the mind,
of the common culture. i
As to the dock strike, the
d e e p est economic interests
and the highest foreign policy
designs of a whole nation are
put to peril After months ot
anxious debate this country
has at last been prepared leg
islatively to enter upon the
brave new world of expanded
trade which is being opened
by the European Common
Market. Unless the maritime
unions are brought under
some rational form of check,
they can smash this brava
new world so far as we are
concerned.
And with this they can all
but destroy the very under
pinnings of the foreign policy
of the United States of Amer
ica. ,
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"You're right the eonlinenltl eul It
not for youl"