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NATIONAL EDITORIAL
All, pity the poor reviewer for a small town
newspaper. i
Mothers, train up your sons to he bank rob-j
bers, encourage them to be wastrels and spend-1
thrifts, succor their most foolhardy ambitions, but
gaSSE8& never we say never permit them to write dra-i
An Independent Newspaper i ma - music IC'VICWS. j
For if a person were ever foredoomed to ab
ject and humiliating failure in a conscientious
enterprise, it is the wretch who finds himself cast
in the role of critic where no critjcisni is really
wanted.
And that, of course, is nearly always the case
in a Medford-sized community, where the pros
pect of attending a play or concert and experienc
ing really first-rate talent is about as likely as
having the girl next door turn out to be Hi igitte
Bardot.
It just isn't in the cards, friends.
w
E
HAT he will see or hear is a group of de
termined, well meaning .1 m a t 0 11 r s
1 bless 'cm I. who at considerable sacrifice to their
a sQ) c(ti 3n businesses and families, have been working and
' slaving for weeks on some project or other.
In tne agonizing process ot putting the tnmg
together, they will have all gotten very fond of
each other and of whatever it is they are attempt
ing to do. They will have convinced themselves
that they arc pioneers, if not, indeed, martyrs, in
struggling to bring Culture (capital "C," please,
typesetter) to the wilderness
Ik, 1 tiwte;Q
De Gaulle's Intransigence Predictable
If Signs Had Been Read Aright in Pas
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Mcdford and J-ickbon Counly
History from ihe ttlcb ot The
M.i.l Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
Letters to the Editor mus.t bear the name and address of the writer,
although under certain circumstances the ue 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
Hut the sad fact is that they will be of limited I p'w. lhe conl""v "en the case.
ability to start with (else they would be out raK-j Commiltce on
ing in the fantastic salaries that are paid to per-1 unamerikan (sic) Activiiics
formers these days), and to make matters worse ' To iiic Editor: This is in
llioir rehearsal time will iierforce olace further aitwcr to e a. in the m.t.
ins, blankets - just anything
you vvuuld donate to a family
near Jacksonville who lost
everything in a lire recently?
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 29. 1953 (Tuesday)
A new portable iron lung
has been presented to the
Mcdford lire department by
members of Local 71)1, Inter
national Union of Operating
Engineers, AFL.
-Blithe Spirit," a lly "V
Noel Coward, has been chosen
as the IflS:) senior class piny
at Mcdford High school.
20 YEAflS AGO
Jan. 29, 1943 (Sunday)
Stale engineers meet with
MecUord city council to dis
cuss flood conditions in Mcd
ford area.
From Artlnir Perry s c
Smudge rot" column: "Re
ports from the hills say snow
is four feet deep and whiskers
about that lone,."
barriers to the possibility of achieving quality, i Jan. 27. After reading his edi-j n so kjlldiy cal me morn.
The only way to inaKe tins situation 11101 e
difficult is to substitute students in place of
adults. At this point whatever is offered to the
public is absolutely sacrosanct.
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 29, 1933 (Tuesday)
Joseph G. Uolzgaug and
Margaret 13. Turner, both of
Morifnrrl. annum spring se
mester enriillees at University
nl Sniilhern California.
Mcdford school board seeks
method by which school war
rants may lie used in pay
ment of school taxes.
INVITED to play with this rigged deck is the
poor reviewer. Contemplate briefly the extent
of lu's dilemma.
Me may be totally unqualified by nature and
nurture to appraise anything more cultural than
a ladies tag team wrestling match.
But he will have been given the assignment at
the whim of a superior (sometimes, like an idiot,
he volunteers) and a story on the event wiil be
expected the following morning.
Assume, however, that his background is suf
ficient to enable him to distinguish between sour
notes and sweet notes, between someone who can
act and someone who merely has an ability to
memorize lines.
Is the reviewer than free to write the truth
about what he has seen and heard? Not by the
hair on your chiny chin ehin.
HEN writing of amateurs, the reviewer must
w
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 29. 1923 (Wednesday)
Alex Sparrow resigns as
superintendent of Crater Na
tional park alter 111 years in
park service.
Mcdford High school bas
ketball team, coached by lid
win Durno, leaves to play
series of seven games in Wil
lunette valley.
50 YEARS AGO
Jan. 29. 1913 (Friday)
W. II. Cere. W. II. Canon
and C.eorge Putnam return
from trip to Salem where they
discussed possibility of legis
lature passing road laws re
tpiested by Jackson county.
Steel beams and several
carloads of red and white
brick arrive in Mcdford to be
used in construction of new
onera house.
alwavs substitute the milk of 'uiman kind
ness for the natural venom that may have been
aroused by the production he saw.
Let him attempt a comment that is even slight
ly caustic about a local performer and the wrath
of husbands and wives, mothers and fathers,
aunts and uncles, neighbors and friends with
an intensity paling that of .ens will descend
on his poor' head like thunder from Alt. Olympus.
"Just who does he think he is," the outraged
chorus will scream. "Walter Kerr or Brooks
Atkinson or somebody';'
torial I wondered if he did
not write his diatribes for Ihe
fun of gelling a rise out of
some of us. If such was his
purpose he succeeded where
I am concerned.
Isn't it a rather childish
trick In deliberately call the
committee Ihe House Un
amerikan (sic) Activities Com
mittee? Its real designation is
House Committee on Un
amerikan (sic) Activities. In
K.A.'s case he admits it is not
ignorance. By doing so he in
no wise hurts the committee.
But what about the character
trait that permits him to so
misname the committee?
There is a considerable feel
ing of smugness in his edi
torial as though to be opposed
to the committee is a mark of
distinction. Does he not know
that when the 87th Congress
convened only six members
of the House were opposed to
continuing the c o m mitlee?
Are we to believe those con
gressmen favoring the com
miltcc are men lacking the
judgment necessary to be
good congressmen?
Whenever so violent an op
position arises towards an act
of Congress it is wise to learn
whence the imposition arises.
In this ease it is not hard to
learn. The Communist publi
cation World Marxist Review
for October. 1 (i. published
orders from Moscow to Amer
ican Communists to achieve
Ihe ii o s I rue I i n n ot the
I..C.U.A. Il follows therefore,
that the question arises, is
anyone not a Communist who
goes along with their aim. a
wigs, as soon as possible, at
399-1C37.
Pearl Spackman
Box 33
Jacksonville, Ore.
Kind Words, and Others
To the Editor: The letters
appearing in the Communica
tions column regarding Mr.
By PHIL NEWSOM I most impossible conditions on I Iv Therefore, even if it lakes
UPI Foreign News Analyst ! British entry into Europe and t'o years to build up an inde
VVhen President Charles dc j his open courtship of the West pendent French nuclear force,
Gaulle almost in a single sen- i German Republic have been ; there is no danger of a mill-
iciicc nunipcu otner signposts along me way. tary vacuum,
t h e Atlantic i They are not of recent origin. if there is a big loser, it
alliance and; In Dc Gaulle's concept of a will be Britain and if Britain
vetoed British ' French-led Western Europe, I finally docs enter the Com
m e m bership ; there was no place for Britain I nion Market, it will be on
the co n-1 or for the United Slates. anv terms she can get.
France is at its moment of
greatest economic strength. It
is growing faster than West
Germany and twice as fast as
either the United States or
Britain.
Time is important. Along
wilh Do Gaulle, the greatest
advocate of close Franco-German
ties has been West Ger
man Chancellor Konrad Ade
nauer who is scheduled to
leave office in less than a
year.
Dc Gaulle himself, with ap-
the signs been
read a little better.
In a state of what might be
called complacency, his West
ern associates simply went on
expecting him do things he
never intended to do.
As early as 1S38. De Gaulle
was showing disenchantment
with NATO. After that came
his determination that France
should have its own nuclear
force. His imposition of al-
in the con
mon market, The gods are never ques
t h e surprise j tioned and so it seems unlike
necd not have j ly that De Gaulle will bother
been nearly j to explain himself more than
so great had j he already has. But it seems
probable that these considera
tions lent weight to the final
decisions:
The European Common
Market already is an econom
ic success, and for selfish rea
sons alone its members arc
not likely to abandon il even
in the face of a major up
heaval. Whatever i 1 s irritations
may be. the United States can
not abandon Europe militari-
Washington Report
By William S. While
(c) United Feature Syndicate
BI-PARTISANSHIP
ENDANGERED
Washinglon-Both past and
present instances of small
bore Democratic partisanship
have already brought danger
to Ihe only proper conduct of
our foreign
j policy - which
I is to say ils
conduct. They
may bring yet
more. The Re
publican lead
crs of the
House of Rep
r e s c ntatives
have just rc-
oaiH President Kennedy's par
ticipation in the defeat last
fall of the veteran interna
tionalist, Rep. Walter Judd of
Minnesota. They have calmly
1 II, Dnni,Mif3l iHp
Darnel Fry have not passed !",?..' ,' eit-n affairs,
ivh
If tin Ihe otluT hand, the iv viewer leaws his' follow travi-ur w dupe
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is luporior;
tcven or eiqht ii excellent; livt or
fx is good.
1. What kind uf aiiinuil is
i piu liv ilrrm"'
2. Vti.u litlc hrfrll John the
It Would yun otiiuiilc that
.ilnmt lit. 2j. (m- 511 pi i" cent
il llir pi'i'Mn.s tn thr trUl
.uc lUiU-niti'?
4. Is the W of WiKliI oil
l!ic north of south eoat of
Km; I and'
5. Ui the I'nitrds Slates and
Siam exchange Minister; or
Ambassador.-''
inieu'ritv at home when he writes uj a local pro-
(luetion, he'll end up beine; abused jut as
thoroughly by quite another group. Kvery com
munity has its hard-core of sophisticates who re
gard themselves as the final arbiters of taste and
quality.
Let tlie reviewer charitably say something
was good, when indeed it was quue poor, aim tne
slings and arrows of scorn will start flying.
"Why doesn't the paper get someone to re
view these things who really knows what die is
talking about?" they will demand.
Would a Irue American want
to be on the side ot Ihnsr who
have promised to bury us'1
Another question that nat
urally arises is why Mich de
termined animosity-.' W.iuld
the Kremlin be interested in
an innocuous organization" Is
not this extreme opposition
the greatest compliment fur
the committee? Would the
Communists concern t h e 111
selvei wilh the committee if
it were not dangerous to tluir
plans?
To attempt to accomplish
., . i , i 'the orders from Moscow the
II II cannons to the right of him, and cannons communists in the u.s. have
to the left of him, primed to Volley aiUl ri;aiiized the National Comi-
thu.nl,.', the pnulfiit .vvi,vvcr may try to oorj-lti'S:
tllC cailtitHlS lllilUllc fours1 : ! mitlee. The executive director
llo'll soaivh ilt'spri att'ly fur somoUiini; to
praise (to keep the family happy) ami will erili
ei.e mily a few of the produetionV more obvious
faults in order to assert his credentials and keep
the sophisticates contented that the bastions of
quality are beinjr protected.
The result of such pussy-footine; is usually
unhappy too. The reviewer will keenly feel the
compromise of his integrity, and he'll be doubly
reluctant w hen it comes time to write another one.
The families won't be appeased because a mod
icum of praise is hardly enoimh. And the final
of the committee is Mr. Kniuk
Wilkin.son. a known Cononu
niM. 1 hiii sure most of thue
re;idiny this would not wish
to travct in les company If
my assumption is eorreet
tvon't e.ieh one of you write
lo e.ieh of our concrcssniou
telling llieni how you feci'1
'P'ry arc Kohert Duncan, Al
I'lhnan. Kdilh ("I recti and
Waller Norhlad. House Office
lildi; . Washington. D C.
Anna M. Streed
:;n North Teach st
Medtord
me by unnoticed. The large
percentage have been base
and degrading in quality, and
could only have been perpe
trated by those steeped ill
ignorance and blinded by
Ihcir own self-righteousness.
To the gentleman who was
sincere in his intimation that
Mr. fry is dealing with Sa
tanic forces, may I remind
him that there arc al?o forces
of light which arc much
stronger at work in the uni
verse. If that writer has not
as yet noticed these in opera
tion in his own life, it might
he wise for him to kindly re
Irain from judging others by
himself, lie might do well, in
fact, lo recall that Jesus ad
monished us not to judge at
all. lie would also do well lo
remember that Jesus said that
by ihcir works we would
know Ihcm. If that gentleman
knew Mr. Fry personally, he
would find many good works
lo his credit. He could be
sure, loo, thai these were not
achieved through Mr. Fry's
cavorting with any Satanic
forces, but through his aituuc
ment lo and cooperation wilh
the forces of light.
To those who so brazenly
made fun of him, I have noth
ing lo say. 1 do not condemn.
They have my pity, and if
Ihey can't acquire a greater
degree of intelligence in the
near future, 1 hope that at
leasl they may develop ronie
I belter manners. If these per
i sous, instead of wasting their
energies dreaming up such
horrid things lo write about
a leilow human being should
! lake the trouble to meet the
, object of their slanderous as
i sanity, Ihey would find :i
quiet, modest, unassuming
person of outstanding sineer
i it and integrity. Indeed,
s it o ii I d they open-mindedly
search a little further. Ihey
I would be impressed with the
(act that they were in the
presence of one of great depth
ot soul and superior intelligence.
II o w ever, on second
thought, no. At the present
stage of their spiritual unfold
ment they are not ready to
reeom.-e qualities of this sort
in anyone, so blinded arc they
by their inllaled little egos.
A t, w persons of higher
ethics and deeper insight
committee with five new anti-
foreign aid members.
This comes at a lime when
the continuation of the for
eign aid program, one of the
very keys to the administra
tion's whole world approach,
is admittedly in hard straits
in Congress.
NO ONE on the administra
tion's side can fairly cry
"foul" at this action o the
CO. P. For if ever there was
a case of built-in and inevit
able tit for tat, il was thi:
unhappy instance of presiden
tial intervention against a
first-rate member of congrcs:
simply because he happened
to be in the other party.
Judd in fact risked hi:
political life last fall by stay
ing in Washington lo assist
Kennedy's then current for
eign aid bill-while the presi
dent was out in Minnesota de
manding Judd's head in be
half of the Democratic party.
It was a singularly clear il
lustration of Ihe odd unwis
dom of President Kennedy's
uncharacteristic decision to go
all out in a domestic cam
paign to return a Democratic
congress which just might be
more amenable to him in such
relatively picayune issues as
medicare.
The President has always
regarded the cold war as
neither a Democratic nor a
Republican but simply an all
American undertaking. Ami
but for this momentary switch
from bis usual course, he has
tried to keep partisan home
politics out of his foreign
policy.
crime? Why, he docs not sup
port the President on every
little domestic issue that may
come up.
The ultra-liberals are high
ly unlikely to be able to bar
either Dirkscn or Smathers
from earned committee ad
vancement. The mere fact
that they have set off upon
these absurd and juvenile
vendettas, however, will sure
ly do nothing to promote bi
partisan foreign policy unity
in a world in upheaval every
where. The President himself could
do worse than to call off these
frantic advocates of a tolal
conformism at the cost of
what really mattcrs-the prop
er, or bipartisan, conduct of
foreign policy.
Strictly
By Sydney J. Harris
((.' Field Lntcrpriscs. inc.
proximately three years left
in office, also must firm up
his own concept of a ftituro
France before it can be un
done by his successor.
France's partners in lha
common market have said
plainly that Dc Gaulle's idea
of a Europe of the future is
not their idea.
But Dc Gaulle apparently
feels himself on firm ground.
The West German reaction,
may be his greatest weakness.
The German Bundestag must
ratify the accord recently no.
goliated by Adenauer and Do
Gaulle. The Germans want
Britain in the Common Mar
kel.
And they have indicated
strongly that if they must
choose between Paris and
Washington for national de
fense, it will be Washington.
Matter of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
(c) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
& .
lt:inl
fleets." he
AND NOW FORMOSA
Washington - Evidently,
this is the year of great de
cisions for President Kenne
dy. Gen. dc
Gaulle has put
a pistol to his
head in ' Eu
rope. The nu
clear lest ban
talks, having
been stalled
by the So
viets before
Ihey really
Alsop g o l sianea,
arc already calling for an
other grave choice. And in
Formosa, of all places. Gen
eralissimo Chaing Kai-shek is
beginning to finger a pistol
of another sort.
The potential Formosa de
cision, being over the hori
zon, is not as yet engaging
the attention of the somewhat
distracted Kennedy policy
makers. But the signs are
plain that a decision may too
easily be called for in the
months just ahead.
The first symptoms lo con
sider are the commando-type
lanriin which small groups
of Chiang's troops have been
making, at intervals, on the
Chinese Communist mainland
in recent months. There have
been ten of those landings all
told, according to report.
rpiIE commandos have gone
in across the beaches, in
groups of about ".0 men each.
No airlift has been used, and
the troops employed have not
been drawn from Chiang's
crack highly - equipped and
trained special forces outfits.
All those who have landed
have been rolled up by the
Chinese Communists.
Yet several of these rather
primitive commando groups
flocks and have made successful contact
ships come in I wjti the peasant population,
said, "but even anc ,ave maintained them-
THINK. THANK. THUNK
A foreigner who has been
in this country several years
approached me not long ago
and said he had been amused
and gratified to read a recent
column of
mine about
the "nouns of
multitude'1 in
the English
language.
"It's hard for
a foreigner to
learn I h a 1 1
sheep come in
harder lo master are the an-1 selves on the mainland for
fercnt tenses and moods of significant periods of time
English verbs.'
"11 doesn't seem so to us,"
I answered. "What seems to
perplex you about our verb
forms-.' They're much easier
to learn than the irregular
verbs in French."
"Perhaps so," he said, "but
I can find no rule or con
sistency about your verbs.
For instance, the past tense
of 'leach' is 'taushl', but the
past tense of 'preach'
'praucht.' and the past tense
of 'screech' isn't 'scraughl
Because all have been rolled
up in the end, the American
policy-makers are wholly un
impressed by the results of
these operations, but the Gen
eralissimo is known to re
gard them as not un-prom-ising
preliminary tests.
The fact that the General
issimo is far from discouraged
by the results of these first
I test gains much added sig-
VTEVER moved him, it i
sence from the House will
cause the president infinitely
more trouble on the things
that really matler than any
possible gain it can bring him
on the things that matter a
great deal less.
Nor is this the end. While
the House Republicans have
been moving to retaliate, the
ultra-liberal Senate Demo
crats have been marshaling
in a characteristically myopic
way to spread the damage, by
way (if both petty ideological
and purely partv partisanship.
1'hoy have been attempting
ti. winch language is spoken arbiters, who rigidly refuse truck w kh mediocrity, j
arc
be the most persons'1
7. Is it true that then
tv hile orchids''
B. How many of the eight
parts of speech in the Eng
llsh language call you name
II Which radio news com
mentator began his program
w itli t h e words. "Ah es. 1
tr.eiv's good news tonight"-'
10. ho was the "Sullait ot
Sttaf"
Answers: 1, An elephdnt.
J. Ho was beheaded by Herod.
3. Kilty per cent. 4. South. 5.
Ar.ibritfc.idors. 6, Chinese. 7.
Yes (Among Ihe most valu-
aele and rdrel. 8. Nouns, pro- ;
nouns, verbs, adjcdlvei. ad- i
veibs, piopoMlions, conjunc-;
bons, intcr)Ci.tionii, 9. Gabriel I
Trdllrr. 10. Geoigc Herman
(Babe) Ilulh. i
will set him down as a lily-livered equivocator.
T1IK ONLY loophole left, one may by now
ii,;,, i, L- .;,,,,,! t.. .i;....,,, i .,. ;., .'; ti,.
1 1 1 11 1 1 , is, 1 1 r i it. n hi wiiiiii.it It H 111 till
Lrttcrs and Gilts
To the rduor: This column
was of givai micros! t. tny
hush.unl and me. Now t h.it I
.. .i t , , t i am aione. eaili letter seems
'paper ol anything but in ulcssional productions , bl. PlM OM.,
thai vi.-it the community. Unit too is wishtal
think inc..
The (nly thine,- worse for the amateur per
former than having somethini;- unfavorable about
K In lint he ment inn, ! get lonely al time
no! to send, someone "Il
rodivtion is as uuthink-
wro'.c in defense of Mr. Fry. j lo bar the Senate Republican
While lie is too big a man to ; leader. Sen. Everett Dirksen
hat. hi ihe others-touch him, ot Illinois, from a seat on the
1 am com idem that these kind : tavwnling Senate finance
words meant a great deal to j eonmiiliee. They proceed here
hen To liieni. I add these of
"Docs a stranger lo our
tongue find many like
that?" I asked.
"Hundreds." he sighed.
"I learn thai the past of
'sink' is 's-jnlc', but 'wink'
isn't 'wunk', and 'Ihink'
isn't 'lhunk.' 'Speak' be
comes 'spoke.1 but 'seek1
doesn't become 'soke,' and
'leak' does n't become
Toke'."
"Odd how we take such
changes of lense for grant
ed," I said. "Nobody who
speaks English ever thinks
about il. Al least, I've never
lhunk about it before."
He smiled wanly. "The
past of 'steal' is 'stole'," he
continued, "but the past of
'kneel' isn't 'knolc.' and the
past of 'feel' isn't 'folo.1
Again, Ihe pas! of 'cling' is
'clung,' but the verb 'wing'
doesn'l become 'wung,' and
'bring' doesn't turn into
'brung.1 except lor small
children."
'sn H nificancc from another scl of
fads. To begin with, the
much more highly qualified
troops in Chiang Kai-shek's
special forces number per
haps as many as 10,000 men
in all.
r'0 GO on with. Chiang has
substantially more capa
bility to lift troops onto the
mainland than is generally
imagined. Counting all pos
sible sources, he has enough
airlift for a night drop of
over 4,000 troops - and the
men in his special forces are
intensively trained for air
drops. Most significant of all.
Chiang Kai-shek has also be
gun to build landing craft in
Formosa in the past 12
months, and for all anyone
really knows, he may also
have additional landing craft
on order in Japan or else
where. The Formosa govern
ment's defense budget wast
heavily increased last year, to
pay for the landing craft and
to permit stockpiling of cer
tain other calagories of sup
plies that would be needed in
the event of a successful
landing on the mainland.
In sum, the preparations
for an attempt to return to
the Communist mainland arti
well advanced. Chiang Kai
shek will have the means for
such an attempt, quite prob
ably in the favorable spring
season towards the end oC
May, and quite certainly in
the almost equally favorable
autumn season.
It must be understood, ot
course, that Ihe kind of at
tempt Chiang has in mind
will depend for its success on
the response of the mainland
population. Ferrying largo
armies across the Formosa
Strait is not contemplated.
The idea is simply to effect
a strong lodgement in a good
position.
TT IS hoped, perhaps not
foolishly, thai a solid lodge
ment of Nationalist troops
will rally local support, and
thus have the effect of a,
spark in the Communist hay
rick. All will turn upon tho
state of mind of the mainland
peasants, the militia, and tho
army. Hence the American
policy - makers say tho
scheme is hare-brained; but
in Peking there is more an
prehension, for Mao Tse-ttm--last
year reinforced the For
mosa Strait area with about
200,000 additional troops.
In addition, the internal
balance in Formosa has been
shifting, of late, in favor of
the activist group headed by
the Generalissimo's extreme
ly tough and able son. Gen.
Chiang Ching-kuo. The new
governor of Formosa. Gen.
Huang Chieh. Huang Chich's
successor in the key garrison
command. Gen. Chen Tu
ch'ing, and Ihe chief of staff,
Gen. Liu Han-chi, arc all
close lo Gen. Chiang Ching
kuo. Last year, there was at
least one ch.incc in three that
the Generalissimo would at
tempt a landing on the main
land, in defiance of U. S. ad
vice. The Peking leadership
was sufficiently impressed
by the possibility to order the
large reinforcement above
mentioned. This year, for all the rea
sons cited, the odds are at
least even on the Generalis
simo's going ahead at all
costs. The practical prepera
lions that have been mada
for a quite significant effort,
the preliminary tests now be
ing made, and the altered po
litical climate in Formosa, all
point the same way. The el
derly gentlemen the Presi
dent has to deal with are in
deed high-handed and difficult.
mine
lllnsl
I am s.. thankful for our
editor to- Irs kindness in al
lowini; i s litis space lo a'f
our view s m
1 mi.ti;ine that most of on
i hit late, perhaps, but j
sincere' ;
l etr-e Wopschall,
lloule 1. Box -1113,
Fade Point, Ore !
"1 vc got a couple," I said.
eUi'ig uilo the spirit of the
iuni;. "Vol example, 'catch'
on ihe curious theory that becomes 'cauchl.' but 'snatch'
Dirksen is likely lo be eriti-1 lfn't 'sunlight.' and scratch'
cal of the president's lax bill: jsn t 'seraiiuh: ' L i k e w i s e.
eruo. Duk.-en has no right lo n-e.-e- becomes tro.'e.' but
be on the committee. j -iease- ilnun'l turn into lose.'
I'm this touches foreign and sniiee.-e- doesn't become
mm appear in a rev lew
in the rev iew at all. Aiu
the ."-taff to cover a local
able as leaving out the daily horoscope.
I lis only net i for the rev iow er lo write w hat
he wants to ami then leave his phone off the
hook for a week, and wear a false no-e and
mustache vv henev it he v cntiires out in public.
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To tne r.hvr Seeing the
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tions tit. it f:ii i;!e Comnium-;
ea'.'O'is pact, 1 an reminded 1
of two line., by W Uham lllakc: i
1 e t ho t e. !vl do good to
anotl-cr must ri. it in minute
pallleulai's
tie. ti -rai is iho plea of
'he seoiuuil el. ll pi ecritO and
flatterer
Hill Pee-,-:''
Vii.;.:i Ujv,
Medtord
policy, too. because Dirksen
I until now had bce:l a letter
of he.MMis'an slreng'.li to the
President on all the lop for
nun i risis in which he lias
i thus far had to he engaged
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in Ihe Senate tor
ens cemillU'.cc ef
lew puMic men in
w lio hat e been
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slarl. Sen Georcc Sn aln
ef I'iond.i S in a 1 h c r
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Tod.-.' but the pasl of glide' '
l-u I cii'f'c. ar. t the past of
Tide l-:t I hneo.- Also, 'grow' :
becomes "uretv.' but "mow"
do.su l hi , e.ue 'n.ew,' and
flew- n est e. rlau'Iy doesn t
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ll,! e but a If! ri.'lc Mt -" j
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rote !' s 1. re I d;oe away,
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"Why get o excited about the Chinese developing
bomb? The radiation will probably only stay with you
tor a couple of hours!"
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