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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Fob. 24. 1953 (Sunday)
A post office department
official has said It probably
will be 30 days before the
successful bidder on construc
tion of a new post office
building or rental of new
quarters in Ashland can be
announced.
A. E. Brockway, Medford,
has been elected chairman of
the Jackson county agricul
tural council.
20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 24. 1943 (Friday)
Number of ration books Is
sued shows Medford popula
tion as 16,281.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Cmnaa Pnl' mllllTin! "The
law warned speed idiots last
week if and when cauRht,
they would be unhooked from
their A cards."
30 YEARS AGO
Fob. 24, 1933 (Sunday)
Warrants signed by city po
llrp officer Tom Robinson
dcr arrest of president of
"Good Government con
gress." Promoter Mack Llllard
schedules first wrestling
matches to be held- in Med
ford for several months.
40 YEARS AGO
Fob. 24, 1923 (Monday)
vuiinr from Portland rec
ommends construction of golf
course in Mediord; slates
"you could play golf 265 days
of the year."
Albert Allen, substitute
center, stars as Medford High
school basketball team de
feats Rogue River, 35 to 11.
50 YEARS AGO
Feb. 24, 1913 (Tuesday)
I. oral tranoers report un
usually good success because
of heavy snowlall in nigucr
elevations which has forced
animals down Into the valley.
Citizens of Medford clrcu
late Detitions asking Cover
nnr Oswald West to veto
Rogue river fish bill.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina tan correct Is superior
seven oi eioM Is eicellent: five or
sis is good.
1. In the Book of Daniel,
wliHt fate befell Shiirirach,
Meshach and Abeducgo?
2. Like magnetic poles
each other and unlike poles
each other.
3. Is the Yser river in
France, England or Italy?
4. Complete the following
with cede or cecd: pro ,
pre , re , sue.
5. Where did Whitakcr
Chambers hide his microfilm?
8. The science that treats
with population, studies,
birth, health and mortality is
called what?
7. Which is the harder sub
sance of these two pairs: cal
cite or gypsum, corundum or
orthoclase?
8. What two countries gov
ern the Islands of New
Guinea?
9. What showman Is gen
erally credited with glorify
ing the American girl?
10. Who sailed on the Argo
to find the Golden Fleece?
Answorsi 1. Cast Into fiery
furnace. 2. Repeli attract. 3.
Franc. 4. Coed, code, cede,
ceod. S. Pumpkin. 6. Demog
raphy. 7. Calelta, corundum.
8. Indonesia and Australia. 9.
Florens Zoigfield. 10. Jason.
March of the Billboards
May we hasten to commend the Medford city
council for its action in stopping belatedly the
march of the billboards down the freeway
viaduct I
We are not, critics
economic activity and business. Nor, God wot,
are we against advertising as such. But we ARE
against the kind of garish, tasteless, intrusive,
blatant and offensive type of advertising repre
sented by these multiple-story billboards.
The city council did
duty to uphold the rights
citizens of the city in calling a halt.
XE CAN understand though we disagree
" the council's reluctance to make the ordin
ance retroactive, even to
only received building
In our view, no billboards at all should be
allowed to poke their huge and demanding faces
into the sub-stratosphere
of passers by.
Their attention would
it is a large question
them to turn off the freeway and wend their way
back into town to deposit
dollar bills so devoutly wished.
A S FOR US and for
acquaintances a billboard repells; it does
not attract.
now mucn Deuer to concentrate on civic
beauty and tine attractiveness, rather than a
garish display of wares and services which are
available in virtually any town.
Billboards, indeed, have their place. But for
our money, that place is not in a long, cluttered
row, 50 feet in the air, right through the middle
of town.
Shall we become the town noted for its ele
vated billboard alley? Or shall we become the
town known for its inherent attractiveness and
tastefulness?
There hardly seems to be any choice at all.
PERHAPS this is a good time, once again, to
quote Ogden Nash :
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all.
E. A.
The Legs of America
Somewhere, from the vague recollections of
childhood, we dredge up
criticism or a child not using fork, knife and
spoon. It was, "Fingers were made before forks."
The reply never seemed to get anywhere. Nor,
we suppose, will the admonition that legs were
made before automobiles.
Nonetheless, the waking craze instituted by
the Kennedys may, if it doesn't die overnight (as
it well could), bring walking back to the re
spectable status it once held.
Perhaps, 50-mile-hikes aside, America might
once again discover that it has legs, and that legs,
properly employed, are a means of transportation,
either for utility or pleasure.
IF THIS HAPPENS, it will be a real reversal of
a trend now well established. Sidewalks are
disappearing, and new residential streets usually
don't have them at all any more. Freeways were
designed for motor vehicles alone, and a pedes
trian or cyclist who ventures on to one takes his
life into his hands to say nothing of a possible
policeman who, quite naturally, is suspect of any
one not comfortably scaled in a mechanical con
veyance. All this was forcibly rcimpresscd on us the
other day by a press release from the state depart
ment of motor vehicles, traffic safety division,
which warned hikers of the dangers of using
main traveled portions of highways and said, if
they must, walk facing oncoming traffic. One
hiker was killed last week end, it pointed out
ominously. And it added:
"Special danger for walkers exists along freeways,
such as interstate 5. Some states prohibit pedestrians and
slow-moving vehicles from freeway access."
IT WILL take something more than a fad to re
verse this discrimination.
Still, if hiking (or even cycling, so popular in
Europe) ever becomes truly popular, changes
could take place. We can even envision (in our
dreams, of course) pedestrian and bicycle paths
paralleling the highways, and put to good use
by a generation of sturdy, healthy youths.
This could, in turn, lead to a popularization of
the Youth Hostel movement, which has many
adherents in the eastern United States and in
Europe.
Maybe it's too late. Maybe American legs
eventually will simply atrophy away. But, may
be .. . ' E.A.
Obit
For more than decade, the upper right-hand
corner of the Sunday Mail Tribune editorial page,
with a few exceptions, contained a column en
titled Potluck. Some weeks ago we received a
note which said :
"Too bad about Potluck, which died during 1962
without even a death notice, let alone an obituary."
Well, it could be said:
"Potluck, a column, aged about 10. died a linger
ing death early in 1!)63. the victim of malnutrition;
fatigue and lack of inspiration "
As Potluck editor, resigned and emeritus, we
are delighted to introduce its successor, at right
above. E.A.
to the contrary, against
no more than its sworn
and interests of ALL the
those boards which have
permits.
to attract the attention
be diverted, surely. But
whether this would lead
the gentle fall of green
a lot of our friends and
the reply to an adult
"Oh,
Matter of Fact
(C) New York Herald
KHRUSHCHEV, CASTRO,
AND MAO
Washington -Besides Presi
dent Kennedy's pen-pal rela
tionship with Nikita S. Khru-
s h c h e v, the
Soviet de
cision t o re
duce the Rus
sian troop
s t r e ngth in
Cuba has
another kind
of political
b a ckground.
It is too early
to calcu late
AUnp
just how the Kremlin's Cuba
policy is being affected bv the
increasingly visible triangu
lar tensions between Khru
shchev, Fidel Castro, and Mao
Tse-tung. But it is time to
search for effects, since the
Khrushchev attitude to Castro
must certainly be influenced
rather sharply by Castro's at
titude to the Chinese.
The point Is that a struggle
is now in progress, between
the Chinese and the Soviets,
for control of the Communist
movement in Central and
South America. And in this
crucial struggle for a really
great prize, Castro is now aid
ing the Chinese rather than
the Soviets.
TOCUMENTS captured
'-'from the Communist guer
rillas now operating in north
cast Brazil place the pattern
of the struggle, as well as
Castro's role in it, beyond
much doubt. The rather inef
ficient Brazilian guerrillas
are, first of all, activists with
Chinese sympathies who have
split with the main Brazilian
Communist party, whose lead
ers are at least formally loyal
to Moscow.
Furthermore, these Chi
nese-sympathizing guerrillas
who are defying the Musco
vite-leaning Brazilian Dartv
leadership, also claim to be
following the brave example
of Cuba's maximal leader.
And they have received both
encouragement and covert aid
from the Castro government.
In Venezuela the pattern is
equally clear, but in the Vene
zuelan Communist party, the
pro-Chinese activists now ap
pear to enjoy a majority.
This majority faction, which
has launched the terrorist
campaign against President
Bctancourt's government, are
bitterly at odds with the pro
Moscow minority.
i S in Brazil, moreover, the
Chinese leaning Venezue
lan activists boast of Imitat
ing Castro, and thev arc re
ceiving money and other sup
port, by secret channels, from
the Castro government. Large
transfers of funds from Ha
vana to Ecuador have also
been made rather recently.
And this money, intended to
start another campaign of
Communist terrorism, is be
lieved to have been supplied
to Castro by his Chinese
friends.
If the Brazilian documents
were not quite enough to re
veal the peculiarity of the
Khrushchev -Castro-Mao tri
angle, it could well he de
duced by what happened at
the Afro-Asian Conference at
Moshi, in Tanganyika llrro
an ably-led Chinese Commu
nist delegation scored two
major successes.
The Chinese first of all
humiliated the Indians, caus
ing the Indian resolution cen
suring Chinese aggression 'o
be rejected out of -hand, in
such a manner that the Indian
delegation briefly left the con
ference. Most Important still,
the Chinese secured the ap
pointment of a planning com
mittee, to prepare an Asian-African-Latin
American con
ference, on the Bandung
model, to be held In Havana
at a rather early date.
SOMETHING of the danger
of such a conlerence to the
Soviets may be Judged from
Anti-Negro, Eh?"
By Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
the events at the Bast German
Communist party congress in
Berlin in December. Here the
Chilean and Cuban delegates
were the only Latin Ameri
cans permitted to take the
floor.
All the others were asked,
like the overtly pro-Chinese
delegates from Asian coun
tries, simply to hand in their
observations in writing. The
suggestion is clear that the
Latin American party leaders
are not trusted, even though
pro-Soviets are still thought
to command majorities in all
the Latin American parties
except in Venezuela. Mean
while the Cubans made the
only pro-Chinese address de
livered at Berlin without
storms of booing.
At the projected Asian-Af-rican-Lalin
American confer
ence in Havana, the Soviets,
as Russians, would be exclud
ed by the terms of the pro
gram. As at Moshi, Khru
shchev would have to get into
the act by the backdoor, by
sending one of the Soviet
Central Asian party function
aries. AS at Moshi, once again
"Khrushchev's pseudo
Asian would surely be run
rings around by the Chinese
delegation. At Havana, more
over, the Chinese delegation
would most probably be ex
tremely high-powered. To this
high-powered and persuasive
Chinese group, all representa
tives of the Latin American
Communist parties attending
the meeting would be in
sidiously and continuously ex
posed. In sum, if the Chinese suc
cess at Moshi really produces
the planned result at Havana,
this Asian African Latin
American rally could be a
major turning point, very
damaging for Moscow, in the
tense struggle for leadership
of the Latin American Com
munist movement. And once
again, Fidel Castro, as proud
host and partial inspirer of
the rally, would be playing
Peking's game.
Altogether, it can be seen
from these facts that the Cu
ban problem is a bit more
complicated than some of the
Cuba - obsessed members of
Congress seem to think.
Bobby, 50
By ERIC SEVAREID
The public has been, alas,
misled. All is not what it
seems, even on these clear
and frosty
days. But we
contemplative
observers of
the body poli
tic and the
body proto-
Via?"
j.i plasmic, we
soothsayers of
things seen
and things un-
srvarria seen, now per
ceive the truth nnd must say
our sooth:
The schism inside the pal
ace has occurred, although its
occupants do not even dimly
perceive it themselves, be
cause to date it is psychology
al in nature, not yet political.
But implicit and ordained are
two symbols, two images, two
ways of life for the American
people to follow, and the
choice cannot be long post
ponedcertainly not beyond
1968.
We are offered Bobby, the
track shoe and the uncle
coach figure of Theodore
Roosevelt with his "strenuous
life": or Jack, the rocking
chair and the father figure of
Winston Churchill with his
"tolerance, variety and calm."
The common source of this
dividing stream remains un
charted, but there is much
new scientific evidence as to
why, with the approach of the
vernal equinox, certain crea
tures experience spasm in the
muscles covering tibia and
I T fJB
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
(cl 1963. The
ON NOT FIDGETING
Washington, which is stun
ned and dazed by General de
Gaulle's actions, is still re
acting instinc
tively rather
than deliber
ately. In ex
cluding Brit
tain and in
CAolInd in ev.
TsJ p e 1 America
fS ' jl from Europe,
the general
has struck a
blow at the
Lippmann
foundations of American post
war policy.
The first reaction to this
radical strike against ideas
and policies which had come
to be regarded as part of the
nature of things was to deny
that General de Gaulle had
changed anything or to avow
that he could change any
thing because history and des
tiny were working for our
ideas and our policies - or to
try to improvise in a hurry
some project which would
tempt and seduce the way
ward general or, failing that,
would circumvent him.
Nothing much is likely, it
seems to be, to come of
these instinctive reactions.
There is to be sure some
truth in each of them. Thus
in the long run the Atlantic
Community, which has been
a -controlling fact for three
centuries, will reassert its in
fluence on national purposes
The geography and the his
tory which unites the peoples
on the two sides of the At
lantic will prevail over all
other considerations in the
long run. There is also truth
in the feeling that,-since Eur
ope and America cannot go
their separate ways, they will
eventually devise, because
they have to, some kind of
working partnership.
NONE of this should close
our eyes to the momentous
fact that the partnership
which we have assumed to be
existing has in fact been
struck a shattering blow.
For us in these historic cir
cumstances, the great rule of
conduct is Talleyrand's fam
ous injunction, "Not too much
zeal," or as H. G. Wells once
said, not to be "gawdsakers"
who beat their breasts and
cry, "For Rawdsake, let's do
something." There is no posi
tive action, I venture to think,
that our government can take
just now which goes any
where near the heart of the
situation.
The heart of the situation
is that Western Europe has
outgrown the dependence up
on America which began with
the first world war. Western
Europe will not, therefor, ac
cept any longer American
leadership and dominance in
European affairs. This is the
new reality upon which Gen
eral dc Gaulle is acting, and
it is to this new reality that
we must perforce adjust our
foreign policy.
THE new reality has been
in the making for about
10 years. Into it have gone
the great changes in the mili
tary balance of power be
tween the U.S.A. and the
U.S.S.R. . . . the brilliant re
covery of Western Europe . . .
the depletion of the United
States' gold reserves and the
decline of the United States
6 1
- Mile Hikes, and the
thibia while other creatures
of the identified mammalian
family instinctively treat the
brain as if it were a muscle
(unproved) requiring rhyth
mical repose.
The general theme was
admirably and delightfully
pulled together by Dr. Ed
ward S. Deevey in the "Yale
Review" of three years ago,
just before the Species Ken
nedy became commonly ac
cepted for laboratory exami
nation, and who therefore
concentrated on the evidence
obtained from the behavior
of Minnesota snowshoe hares,
Philadelphia house mice and
the lemmings of Scandinavia.
No one is surprised any more
at the consistency with which
modern science proves out
ancient folklore and sayings,
and there is no longer any
doubt that hares do go mad
in March or thereabouts
The seasonal phenomenon
of the Minnesota hare, as
observed in a 1939 study, was
described in part like this:
"convulsive seizures with sud
den onset, running move
ments, hind-leg extension, re
traction of the head and neck,
and sudden lraps with clonic
seizures upon alighting Oth
er animals were typically
lethargic or comatose." iN'ow
vulgarly known as the Salin
ger syndrome)
As the child is father of the
man in both the psychological
and philosophical sense, so is
the younger brother or the
elder, or, to familiarize the
lippmann
Wathinirton Post
from it financial pre-eminence
. . . the failure of the
United States under two Pres-
dents to cope successfuly
with a chronic sluggishness
which contrasts so vividly
with the exuberant expansion
of Western Europe . . . the
recognition in Moscow that
the balance of military power
is so favorable to the West
that th,e cold war cannot be
wager aggressively in Europe.
The net sum of these con
tributing factors is that in
relation not only to the pro
tecting power of the United
States, but also to the un
friendly power of the Soviet
Union, Western Europe is in
the ascendant.
Its economic and political
power is increasing; the mili
tary threat to its security is
declining. And so, except in
the event of an improbable
military explosion, Western
Europe is much less depend
ent on the United States than
it has been for nearly 50
years.
IF WHAT has changed is the
relation of the world pow
ers, then the question is how
to draw the right practical
conclusions from the changed
situation. Our discussions
with General de Gaulle will
have to turn upon whether
he or we can draw the right
conclusions from the new
reality.
The best way, indeed the
only way, for us to test the
question is to relax and to let
it become the problem of our
European friends to decide the
basic question.
The basic question is where,
in the descent from American
paramountcy into American
isolation from Europe, they
wish to stabilize our relations.
This is the question posed in
many forms and most spe
cifically by the French de
cision for an "independent"
nuclear force.
Our best line is to say that
if France means literally to
have an independent right to
start a nuclear war, she will
have to leave us with the
independent right not to par
ticipate in it. If, however,
France in fact does not want
that kind of independence.
then in fact she wants some
kind of partnership. If so,
we shall have to face the
issue of whose finger is to
be on the trigger of the nu
clear forces of the partner
ship. 1M1ESE are difficult ques
tions. It may be that they
are theoretically insoluble
questions. But there is no
pressing need to solve them,
because, for quite other rea
sons, there is for the time
being no serious danger of
thermonuclear war.
It is not tidy to do nothing
to settle the questions. But
it is, I think, wiser to do
nothing than to spend a lot
of energy on gimmicks such
as a NATO nuclear force
which seek to bypass and dis
guise the insoluble issue of
how to combine the exhilara
tion of national independence
with the security of a great
alliance.
This is, I realize, an un
congenial attitude for most
of our people. We believe that
for every problem there must
be a solution, and it irks us
badly when we find as all
powers in history have had at
one time another to find
that there are problems which
cannot be solved and have to
be lived with.
axiom, the Eagle Scout of the
Scoutmaster. Prologue be
comes Time-Present, the bi
zarre the conventional. And
it is this inexorable law in
the chemistry of history that
leads this soothsayer to say,
with all the gravity I can
communicate, that Bobby,
spasm, and mass, convulsive
momements afoot, up Poto
mac, down Housatonic and
across the wide Missouri, con
stitute the almost certain
fate of the American people.
There will be no reasoned
50-mile limitations, as there
are no limits to the mass mi
grations of the lemmings who
are not trying to get TO any
place, but merely to get
AWAY, chiefly from them
selves and one another.
The new theory of lem
ming behavior as expounded
by Dr. Deevey seems as irre
futable as it is pregnant with
potential application to the
human species inhabiting any
land where numbers grow at
an explosive rate and where
space per individual conse
quently diminishes. It is only
a quirk of the national pub
licity formula that has called
attention to Bobby as the
harbinger of the behavioristic
pattern to come and the quiet
reaches of the upper Potomac
as the locale of the phenome
non. Dwellers in Manhattan
who witness the spring rush
toward the bridges and tun
nels connecting with Long
Island and New Jersey will
have a sense of confirmatory
(
From a birthplace on the
present site of the Central
Point City Hall to a senior
vice-presidency of one of
the world's great airlines
. . . That's Seely Hall.
From a literary -struck
kid on Park street to the
very top of tha best-seller
list ... That's Edison Mar
shall. a
From tha Medford High
graduating class of 1931 to
the pages of Reader's Digest
and on to authoring Jack
Paar's two books. "I Kid
You Not." and "My Sabre
Is Bent." ... That's John
Reddy.
While driving early day
90 mile per hour plane flying
with envy for the occasional
stages to Crater Lake, Seely
above. A stint in the Signal
Hall used to look skyward
put him in the sky that was
Corps during World War I
to become his life.
Returning after the war,
Seely established the Medford
Aircraft Company. Flying a
"Jenny," he barn stormed
through Oregon and Eastern
Washington and had the dis
tinction of being the first non
military aviator to fly over
the Siskiyous.
Helping to organize the Pa
cific Coast Air Mail Line in
1925, Seely Hall was manager
of the Medford Station for
four years. He next became
a division superintendent for
Pacific Air Transport, which
was later to become United
Air Lines.
Elected to a vice-presidency
of United in 1940, he was to
become responsible for the
full management of United's
vast military operations for
the Air Transport Command
across the Pacific and to Alas
ka. During this assignment, he
touched down on practically
every island in the Pacific big
enough to support a landing
strip.
In 1947, Seely Hall was
named general manager of
all ground services for United
Air Lines. On retirement, he
and Mrs. Hall returned to
Medford to build a new home.
Where is Seely Hall right
this minute? He's far, far
away in the area of Tahiti and
it's our guess that he's looking
for an island that he possibly
overlooked during World War
II.
Edison Marshall came to
the Rogue Valley with his
parents when he was 13.
This was 1907 and it ap
peared as though just about
everybody in the world was
headed for Medford and the
growing pears.
Commenting on his fath
er's brief experience as a
fruit grower, Edison Mar
shall says,
"Frost, hail, wind, blight,
moth (all terms of horror
io me to this day) and the
tantrums of the market
brought the sheriff on to
our front porch. He did not
actually get inside, but tha
cold wind of poverty rat
tled the windows and gave
us the scare of our lives.
I resolved that whatever I
did in life, first and fore
most it must make us a
bountiful living."
At 17, he was convinced
that he could write and in
his first year at college sold
a story to "Argosy." With
only a slight delay for mili
tary service (serving as a
Lemmings
revelation if they will read
Dr. Deevey's explanation in
full.
The periodic population ex
plosion among the lemmings,
with the consequent crowd
ing, ever more frantic
scramble for comfort and
food, amounts to the "age of
anxiety," lemming . wise;
stress begins in their bodies
with all manner of abnormal
functionings of liver, adrenals
and nerve ends. The sugar
content of their blood alters,
brain cells are starved they
even break out with neuro
dermatitis. Since Scandina
vian biologists have not yet
devised a practical method of
spraying the tundra with
Miltown in powdered form,
hypertensions take full hold.
They are simply sick, sick,
sick. The younger ones begin
running Much the ame hap
pens with the Minnesota
hares, born as they are with
track shoes already on.
We are now in a position
to understand the true impli
cations of Bobby, and the 50
mile hike. It has nothing to
do with muscle building or
with building popular pres
sures on Congress in favor of
the Wilderness Bill. It is
simply that a Kennedy lem
ming is always a step ahead
of the ordinaiy or nonparti
san lemming, and Bobby is
marking out his own route
for the day when he all take
to the hills.
(Distributed 1963. by
The Hall Syndicate. Inc.)
(All Rights Reserved)
A
lieuiananl) Edison Marshall
continued to sell his stories
to the batter magasines.
In 1921, he won the O.
Henry Memorial Prise for a
lory call "The Heart of
Little Shikara." Ha became
obsessed by tha outdoors
and began to write short
stories, novelettes and nov
els with wilderness settings.
Big game hunting held a
great attraction for him and
he followed it to Africa.
French Indo-China, Alaska.
Burma and India. Augusta.
Georgia became his home to
return to from his quest
for excitement.
Hollywood discovered his
greatness in 1941 and his
novel "Benjamin Blake" be
came the dashing movie, '
"Son of Fury."
"Caravan to Xanadu," and
Tiger," "Yankee Pasha," '
many, many other books '
have given reading enjoy
ment io millions. You'll
find many Edison Marshall
books in the library and
you'll find them an excit
ing but safe way to have
endless adventures.
When John F. Reddy gradu
ated from Medford High in
1931, he stepped out into a de-pression-wideworld
just wait
ing to knock the friendly and
ever -ready grin from his
school boy face.
Son of a formed mayor,
brilliant high school journal
ist, better-than-average tennis
player, John Reddy swung
first and the world let hint
keep his grin and welcomed
him as one of the brighter of
the new crop of bright young
men.
John Reddy found success
in writing and producing ma
jor radio and TV shows and
has been a frequent contribu
tor to Esquire, Reader's Di
gest and other major publi
cations. A friendship with Jack
Paar grew from the fact that
the Paars lived next door to
John's mother in Southern
California. This relationship,
starting before either of them
had achieved very great suc
cess, has continued for many
years.
His books for Jack Paaf
are extremely well written,
reflecting the Reddy kid
whom anyone from the class
of '31 will remember well.
Your favorite TV show
lister here?
Rifleman, Stoney Burke,
Going My Way, Our Man
Higgins, Naked City, Ozzie
and Harriet, Leave It To
Beaver, My 3 Sons, Fred
Astaire Presents, Valiant
Years, Father Knows Best,
I'm Dickens-He's Fenster,
77 Sunset Strip, Gallant
Men, Jelsons, Lloyd Bridg
es, Have Gun-Will Travel,
Dennis The Menace, True,
Dick Powell Show, Wide
Country. Sam Benedict, An
dy Williams, Empire, Car
54.
According to "Variety,
you can forget them all be
cause their way out has
been greased with unsatis
factory Neilson ratings and
none of them will be back
next year.
Sorry.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
. In Washington, the super
intendent of schools has
asked the District of Colum
bia Board of Education for
permission to PADDLE young
trouble makers in the public
schools of the nation's capi
tal if they refuse to behave
themselves.
THIS paddling business?
x It's VERY old.
For example:
"He that spareth the rod
hatcth his child." That is
from Proverbs, XIII, 24.
And this one:
"They spare the rod and
spoil the child." That was
written back in the 1600 s by
Ralph Venning in his Mvstc
nes and Revelations. Along
about the same time. Samuel
Butler, early English poet,
put the same thought in the
same words, merely changing
them from indicative to the
imperative: "SPARE the rod
and SPOIL the child."
Ij.-UJULING is a very
an-
S. rinl in-, ;(..:
1,. man luuuii.
It has never, so far as one
can determine by reading and
by conversation, been very
popular among the PAD
DLEES especially al the
time when paddled. But some
mighty good men. who were
paddled at the right time and
in the proper spirit of "this
hurts me worse than it hurts
you." have emerged from the
panelling ordeal.
The verdict of history stems
to be that there is a time to
paddle and a time not to
P a d d I c and almost super
human wisdom is required to
make the right decisions as to
the timing of it.