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History from the files of The
Mall Trlbun 10. 20, 30, 40
and SO yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 20, 1953 (Wednesday)
Approval of a $1,065,871.44
budget for Jackson county
rural schools was assured to
day with an unofficial vote of
252 yes to 68 no in 21 of 23
second and third class dis
tricts. A change qf air mass
brougnt gusty wmuo uiu
area last night, and Medford
residents awoke to see snow
on hills west and south of
town.
20 YEARS AGO
May 20, 1943 (Thursday)
Grand Jury finds friction
' between county and city of
Mnrifnrr! In handling- Juvenile
rlnllnnimnnv nrnhlpma.
From Arthur Perry'l "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Epl
curians of the valley are now
eating turnip top greens, and
bragging about it.
30 YEARS AGO
May 20. 1933 (Saturday)
Local men given first
chance for Jobs in Crater
Lake National park.
Jacksonville names com
mittee and makes plans for
Gold Rush Days celebration.
40 YEARS AGO
May 20. 1923 (Sunday)
Medford gasoline prices go
up one cent a gallon in ac
cordance with law passed by
late legislature.
Water turned Into new
2,000-gallon Medford city res
ervoir; to be used only in case
of fire.
BO YEARS AGO
May 20. 1913 (Tuesday)
Bud Anderson, fistic pride
or Medium, defeats Joe Mall'
dot. New Orleans, on TKO in
12th round at Vernon, Calif.
Medford delegation, !nclud
Ing Dr. and Mrs. George
Rebec, Mrs. Edna Davidson,
Mrs. E. E. Gore and Mr. and
Mrs. Porter Neff, returns
from fifth annual Common
wealth conference at Unl
versily of Oregon.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina an .-. ! ,.u.,.,
seven or eight Is eictlknti live et
sta is gooa.
1. In Greek mythology
who was the husband of Pc
nelope?
2. What two gases combine
to form a very common
liquid?
3. The Star Spangled Ban
ner legally became our Na
tional Anthem under an act
by the Continental Congress;
true or false?
4. Which boxer held the
first heavyweight champion
ship under the Marquis of
Queensberry rules?
8. In what U.S. war did the
Battle of Lundy's Lane occur?
6. Hiroshima was one of the
Japanese cities that was atom
bombed; name the other.
7. Name the three primary
pigment colors.
8. "Sam Weller" is a char
acter In one of Charles Dick
ens' novels: what is the name
ol the novel?
9. - Are American Indians,
born In the U.S., citizens of
the United Slates?
10. What cabinet position
dari JVsso Jones once hold?
Antwnrst 1. Ulysses. 2, Hy
drogen and oxygen form wa
ter. 3. Falsa. 4. James J. Cor.
belt. J. Warol 1812. (.Naga
saki. 7. Red. blue and yellow.
I. Pickwick Papers. (. Yes.
10. Secretary el Commerce.
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
4
MONDAY. MAY 20. 1963
Five Years of De Gaulle
Five vears aero on
Charles de Gaulle, a
news in his austere way, held a press conierence.
He repeated a willingness to help France toward
"the beginning of a sort of resurrection."
De Gaulle's offer was
rightists and French military leaders In Algeria,
May 13, which threatened civil war. There were
some 400,000 French Army troops in Algeria
plus Air Force, Navy, police, and security forces.
Of 950,000 men in France's armed services, only
about 250,000 were in metropolitan France. The
Algerian rightist rebels were committed to in
suring the "everlastingness" of French Algeria,
traditional home of the French Army.
De Gaulle said he understood "very well the
attitude and action of the military command in
Algeria." One of the rebel leaders, Lt. Gen.
Raoul Salan, on the following day responded with
the declaration that the Army's role in Algeria
and De Gaulle's comments on it gave rise to "an
immense hope of greatness and national unity."
TODAY, five years later, De Gaulle is President
of France, the nation has had a very real "resur
rection, Algeria is an
Salan languishes in prison, saved from a firing
squad only by the mercy of a special tribunal.
De Gaulle today must be considered the
strongest man in Western Europe. After the spec
tacular victory in last November s elections, when
Gaullist candidates won
itv of 299 seats in the 636-member National As
sembly, The Christian Science Monitor observed
that De Gaulle was now "at an absolute pinnacle
of power and influence in France and in the
world, cut De Uaulle s
has not been easy.
On May 27, 1958, eight days after the historic
ress conference, De Gaulle announced that he
ad "started yesterday
essary for the establishment of a republican gov
ernment capable of assuring the unity of the inde-
pendence of the country.
invested him as premier on June 1 and two days
later gave him full powers of decree for six
months.
The draft constitution
was made public July
overwhelming approval 86 per cent of ballots
cast in the September 1958 referendum. Elec
tion of De Gaulle as President on Dec. 21 for
a seven-year term consolidated his control over
the Fifth Republic, which he had brought into
being virtually unaided.
THE army leaders in
iin-lrti'cf an. if haf Ta
began treating with the
before the year was out. Referenda m ranee and
Algeria in January 1961 backed self-determination
for Algeria.
Then came the abortive four-day generals'
putsch in April, with Salan as one of the leaders.
The regular Army and the Air Force refused to
go along with the parachutists and Foreign Le
gion, and the threat to invade mainland France
was lifted.
The revolt was crushed, but the rightist net
work was not. Today France is prosperous and
stands tall as De Gaulle in the power politics of
Europe. But Secret Army Organization fanatics
still threaten the life of the man and thus possibly
the life of the Fifth Republic E.R.R.
The SS
' How to overcome the impersonality and low
visibility of many U.S. foreign aid projects has
been demonstrated most dramactially by a privately-financed
medical mission known as Project
HOPE.
The hospital ship SS Hope has been sent on
year-long missions to Southeast Asia and, more
recently, Peru. This autumn a third voyage, pos
sibly to Ecuador, is planned provided i?5 mil
lion can be raised. A fund-raising HOPE Ball is
scheduled in Washington next Monday, and other
events will be coming up throughout the nation.
When the reconverted Navy hospital ship
clocked off Trujillo, Peru, in May 19G2, Commu
nists had plastered the city with "Cuba Si!
Yankee No!" signs.
THE signs came down in the next 10 months
as the ship's medical staff performed 2,000
major operations, treated 4t,000 disease suffer
ers, inoculated 80,000 persons against polio, 5(,
000 against other infectious diseases, and distrib
uted milk, medicine, and supplies reaching 500,
000 Peruvians in 10 cities and towns. Some 20,000
grateful Peruvians crowded into a stadium in
Trujillo for farewell ceremonies last March, and
about the same number threw flowers from shore
when the SS Hope lifted anchor.
I he permanent medical staff of the SS Hone
includes five physicians, 3li nurses, and 2(5 aux
iliary personnel. Volunteer teams of physicians
working without pay are flown to the shin on a
rotating basis for tours of from two to four
months. With the completion of her latest voyage,
more than 300 American medical experts had
served aboard the ship. Applications for the Teru
tour came from 3,000 doctors. So the only ob
stacle to expansion of the HOPE project is lack
of funds to outfit and maintain more ships.
E.R.R. -
May 19, 1958 Gen.
statesman who manages
a response to a coup of
independent state, and
a clear working major
passage to the pinnacle
the regular process nec
The National Assembly
of the Fifth Republic
29. 'As expected, it won
Algeria did not really
fig. ilia ura a a Km if Wo
National Liberation Front
Hope
"Ask The Un-American
Investigate What This Strange Flag
It Doing Down Here"
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Communications
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paper, in fact the contrary is often the case.
Riddle Answered
To the Editor: This is to
answer the riddle published
,by V. Card under "Communi
cations" in the May 16 Trib
une, The very interesting descrip
tion of an unknown cone is
that of the flower stalk of
a plant known as the ground
cone. This plant has no green
leaves in which it can manu
facture its own food but it
lives as a parasite on the roots
of manzanita and madronc. If
one were to follow the stem
down into the ground one
would come to a large swell
ing around the root of the
host plant from which the
ground-cone plant obtains its
nourishment.
It is indeed an interesting
sight to come upon a group
of these impressive cone-like
flowering stalks. The botani
cal name of this plant is
Boschniakia strobilacea Gray.
Dr. Louis G. Centner,
22 South Grovcland
ave.,
Medford
Slogans
To the Editor: Occasionally
the Womans Christian Tem
perance Union (WCTU) holds
contests for he Sunday School
Students of the different
churches, such as speech con
tests, posters or slogans.
In looking through some of
the old records recently I
found some very good slo
gans that had been copied
from one of the contests, but
they don't give the date (no
doubt several years ago). 1
thought it would be interest
ing to quote a few of the slo
gans, and see if some of the
valley residents might recog
nize one as their own contri
bution.
'Too much drink," the doc
tor said, "he tried to drive
but now he's dead."
It's a short road to the hos
pital by way of liquor, but
a long way back by way of
recovery.
If you drink and get in a
wreck, Alka-Seltzcr won't
help you a speck.
Alcohol is a drink of fate.
you better stop now before
it s too late.
If you have been drinking
at the bar, it's safer to walk,
don't drive a car.
The breath of drivers who
drive like the wind usually
smells of liquor and gin.
Here's to the loony who
drinks to excess, we fellows
all know him as the roadhog
pest.
A drinking driver can t
keep his head, that's why a
lot of people are dead.
When driving drunkcnly
over the hill, if the cops don't
get you the morticians will.
Just because you like the
bar, it's no reason to drive a
car.
Stay at home and have your
fun. don't keep the innocent
on the run.
If anyone does find one of
these slogans to be yours, we
would appreciate your letting
yourself be known and what
year it was written.
Mrs. Ernest Santo
204 Lozicr lane,
Medford
A Worthy Cause
To the Editor: Enclosed is
a letter from one of our tour
members which I hope you
will see fit to publish in the
"Letters to the Editor" col
umn. Thank you for your interest
and support.
Lawtrnce S. Horton,
President,
The United Crusade
Medford
Dear Mr. Horton: I was
pleased that I had the privi
lege of going on the tour of
the different agencies that
Jackson county have been
helping to support through
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
Activities Committee To
At. AM
UBEH.
AUtS
the United Crusade. I think
they are doing an excellent
job.
I was especially impressed
with the work that is being
done at the Providence Nur
sery and the Oregon Medical
School. The children at the
Providence Nursery were so
well fed and clean.
Two young men took us
through the Oregon Medical
School and we saw the new
heart machine, also how they
are going to plant eyes and
kidneys. It was fascinating.
I hope the people of Jack
son give generously to the
United Crusade as it Is sure
ly a worthy cause.
Cordially Yours,
Bill Pestka
Eagle Point, Ore.
Economic Royalists
To the Editor: Mr. John
D. Lee of 1929 Locust ave.,
Long Beach, Calif., is a man
with a cause. Although the
cause will be as popular in
some circles as the Russian
revolution, Mr. Lee is fully
determined to fight it out to
the bitter end.
His cause is to end forever
economic royalism in Amer
ica. In essence, Mr. Lee pro
poses that the wealthiest 1
per cent of the nation be strip
ped of that wealth and be left
with a measly $1,000,000
apiece. Then he wants a law
that limits personal income to
$100,000 a year after taxes.
Silly? Absurd? Well, con
trary to what many people
think, the rich are getting
richer and the poor, poorer in
this country. Despite the sur
face glitter and the sophistry
passed off in the classrooms
in this fair land, the facts
point out that the distribution
of wealth is essentially the
same now as it was in 1910!
Few people realize it but the
richest 1 per cent hods 76
per cent of the total corpora
tion stock. Two books pub
lished last year tell a barrage
of facts about our socio-economic
oligarchy. Koto's
"Wealth and Power in Amer
ica," and Lampman's "T h e
Share of Top-Wealth Holders
in National Wealth" push
away the myth that has been
confusing the economic pic
ture in the U.S.A.
The secret of the economic
royalists' success is their
adroit maneuvering of the
income tax. Those who are
supposed to pay 91 per cent
In reality pay only about 10
per cent, some even not a
penny if Uiey hold tax-exempt
securities and bonds. They eat
their cake and have It too.
But some sweet day an
awakened and angry Ameri
can people will ask for justice
from their tax legislators.
They will demand laws that
will put a ceiling on personal
income and a limitation on in
dividual wealth-holding. The
Lee plan for progress through
tax reform will then be en
acted, and the economic roy
alists of 1963 will follow the
political royalists of 1776 into
oblivion.
John D. Cupping
S02 Orange ave.
Apt. 19
Long Beach 12, Calif.
Contrast
To the Editor: I spent a
lifetime driving 3 million
miles in a taxicab and along
comes a riahned Astronaut
and makes foah million miles
befoh breakfast.
Everett Acklin
Ashland, Ore.
Why Do It?
To the Editor: Why ob
literate the century old
scenery of the quaint and pic
turesque setting of Jackson
ville, the earliest mining
town in southern Oregon,
with i highway proposcdthat
Foreign News: Castro-Khrushchev Talks-
Waiting Time in Italy; Macapagal Image
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foregin News Analyst
Notes from the foreign
news cables:
Window Dressing
When Fidel Castro winds
ups his month-lung visit to
the Soviet Union, the final
com munique
may be ex
pected to con
tain the usual
outpouring of
mutual friend
ship and
praise. But
behind the fa
cade of rous
ing receptions,
serious talks
are believed to have taken
place, with Castro demanding
increased economic and mili
tary aid as his price for sup
port in Khrushchev's quarrel
Matter of Fact
(c) New York Herald
Heavy, Heavy
Washington - There Is an
old children's game called
Heavy, Heavy, What Hangs
O v e r?" i b
which the
winner must
guess what
does hang
over. Guess
ing the cause
of the fer
ment in the
Kremlin is
con siderably
Aimp harder, but it
seems a good bet that the
heavy cost of modern defense
is what hangs over in this in
stance. In 1961-62, the Soviet mar
shals and their sympathizers
on the Presidium not only re
versed the shrink-the-army
policy which Nikiia S. Khru
shchev had attempted to car
ry out. They also secured an
increase in the Soviet de
fense budget in the stagger
ing amount of 40 per cent, ac
cording to the Kremlin's own
announcement.
It is not easy in truth, it is
close to impossible - to be
lieve this Kremlin claim. For
a very long time, open and
hidden outlays on national de
fense have absorbed around
a quarter, of Soviet national
income. This huge annual in
vestment can hardly have
been increased bv close to
half without producing the
kind of economic disruption
tnat would have been im
possible to hide.
ON THE other band, there
v is no doubt at all that the
ooviei oeiense oudget was
steeply increased in 1961-62
Even a rise of 10 or 15 or 20
per cent would have been
burdensome enough, in all
conscience, especially when
one considers that the Soviet
economic growth-rate has
dropped rather sharply.
The biggest factor in the
1961-62 defense increase,
quite clearly, was the curious
ly belated Soviet decision to
deploy their second gener
ation ICBMs in larae num
bers. When this decision about
the big rockets began to be
implemented, it must be re
membered, the Soviets were
already deploying quite lit
erally thousands of their high
altitude, anti-aircraft SAM-2
rockets.
Hence their rocket program
was already massive - and
proportionately costly - when
they also began to deploy the
newer AA rocket, the SAM-3
This rocket is designed to fill
the low altitude gap in the
Soviet air defense system.
some hundreds of SA.M-3s are
in place by now.
VET another considerable in
A crease In the defense budg
et will almost certainly be
needed, to finance a really lav
ish SAM-13 deployment on the
SAM-2 pattern. The onlv al
ternative to spending more,
overall, is to spend less on
some other branch of the So
viet armed services; and
Khrushchevs attempt to do
preciscsly that, by reducing
the swollen Soviet ground
forces, met defeat by the De
fense Ministry's massed pha-
would diagonally cross-section
the residental area.
When one stops to visualize
the once lively gold rush pan
orama, just to think the en
vironment of over a hundred
years still persists instead of a
fabled "ghost-town" that only
memory or legend recall.
Already, plans of rehabili
tation and repair have been
made on old land mark build
ings that are planned to last
another 100 years. Jackson
ville is not only the oldest
town, but the first county
seat town of Jackson county.
One of the many historical
attractions of present day in
terest Is the Jacksonville Mu
seum located in the old court
house, one of the outstanding
of the west.
Bert Kissinger
322 South Riverside
ave.
Medford f
with the Red Chinese. In an
interview before leaving Cu
ba, Castro sounded very neu
tral. For the moment, Khru
shchev is expected to mark
time on such cold war issues
as disarmament, Berlin and
Laos although perhaps keep
ing the pipelines open with
new exchanges.
Waiting Tim
For five months Italy had a
government which was wait
ing for the outcome of gen
eral elections. Now a new pe
riod of waiting is setting in.
The Socialist Party Congress
opening on July 18 will de
termine whether the Social
ists are ready to break their
municipal and labor links
with the Communists. If they
are, they then will qualify for
a full share in another Ital
ian Center-left government.
By Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
lanx of marshals and colonel
generals In 1961.
The SAM-3s are by no
means the end of the story,
however. Just as the U. S.
Army is pushing for immedi
ate deployment of its primi
tive but workable anti-missile-
missle, the Nike-Zeus, so the
Soviet Defense Ministry
quite certainly also pushing
for immediate deployment of
the reportedly comparable So
viet anti-misslie-missile.
Even scaled down to compromise-size,
the American
Nike-Zeus program was esti
mated to cost around $10 bil
lion In a few short years.
Rather than go ahead with
Nike-Zeus output in quantity,
Secretary McNamara has tak
en the calculated risk of try
ing for a quantum jump, by
going all out to develop the
far better next-generation
anti-missile-missile which is
now within reach.
IN THE Soviet Defense Min-
istry, force-in-being has
always been preferred to
quantum jumps. Hence it is
entirely possible that large
scale deployment of the So
viet version of the Nike-Zeus
is now envisioned. The cost
will be close to astronomical
if the Soviets are in truth
planning to decorate the Rus
sian landscape with thousands
of SAM-3S, which seems all
but certain, plus thousands
of anti-missile missiles, which
seems likely.
Meanwhile, Soviet agricul
ture, the Soviet industries
producing consumer goods,
and even certain Soviet heavy
industries like chemicals and
plastics, are all calling out in
sistently for massive in
creases of Investment.
With these other calls so
insistent, with the growth rate
declining towards 4 per cent
per annum, with military
spending up by 15 per cent or
more since the begnining of
1961. and with further calls
for large current increases in
military spending, it can be
seen that the Kremlin has
been wrestling with a night
marish problem of investment
priorities.
ALMOST every really ma
jor Soviet inner-political
crisis since the revolution has
been linked, in one way or
another, to an argument about
investment priorities. In the
present instance, one must
add to the investment prob
lem the equally nightmarish
problem of Sino-Soviet rela
tions. It can be seen, then, why
symptoms of a sharp debate
in progress have been noted in
Moscow. The causes are clear.
It only remains to discover
the names and numbers of the
debaters: but this will come
with time.
Hath
W M Mriaets
Wk
If not, the Christian Demo
crats may try for a moderate
rightwing government in coal
ition with the liberals. A like
ly candidate to succeed re
signed Premier Amlnvore
Fanfanl now seems to be the
Christian Democrats' soft
spoken party secretary Aldo
Moro.
Losing th Image
Philippines President Dios
dado Macapagal's image as
the common man's president
has been blurred a bit by the
White Moderates
Are a Bit Limited
By Arthur Hoppe
Down in Alabama the Ku
Klux Klan, which is fighting
for all-out racial segregation,
says "the most deadly and
dangerous organization in the
country today" is the Black
Muslim Society. Which is
fighting for all-out racial seg
regation.
In hopes of clarifying the
split between these extrem
ists, here is an exclusive in
terview with a middle-of-the-roader.
Colonel Jefferson Da
vis Stonewall, president of
The Southern Forces of Mod
eration. A group often quoted
in the press these days.
Q - Colonel, what exactly
is the stand of the Southern
Moderate on the question of
integration?
A - Well, son, we're for it
and always have been. Within
limits.
Q-Within limits?
A - That's right, boy. We
favor taking colored folks into
our homes, our theaters, our
buses and our hearts. Within
limits.
Q - Like?
A - Like the kitchens of
our homes, the balconies of
our theaters and the last three
rows of our buses. But In our
hearts, son, we go all the way,
Q - But the fight today,
Colonel, seems more over in
tegrating schools and lunch
counters.
A - A lot of poppycock
We always allowed our dark
ies in our schools. Why, some
of my fondest memories are
of the colored folk. I met in
my schooling days at Ole Miss.
There was Sam, who used to
shine our shoes. And Old Ho
mer, a-scrubbing the halls and
. . . I don't know what we
all would've done without
them.
I
Q - I assume the same ap
plies to luncn counters?
A - They been integrated
down here for years. I ask
you, a man's sitting on a stool
on one side and a man's
a-stacking dirty dishes on the
other - they're both at the
same lunch counter, aren't
they?
Q - I think I see, Colonel.
You're for integration within
limits. But you're also for seg
regation. A - That's why they call
us Moderates, boy. You might
say we stand for segregated
integration. And gradualism.
Q - Gradualism?
A - Yep. We see things has
got to change. But with effort
and sacrifice on both sides it s
our real hope that over the
years things will gradually
stay the way they are.
Q - Now about the Klan,
Colonel . . .
A - Well, don't quote me,
but we don't allow none of
them in our Southern Forces
Hath not a Negro eyes?
not a Negro hands, organs,
senses, dimensions, affections,
passions? Fed with
the same food, hurt
with the same weapons,
subject to the same disease,
heal'd by the same means,
warm'd and cool'd by
the same winter and
summer as a white
man is?
If you cut us,
do we nor. bleed?
If you tickle us,
do we not laugh?
If you poison us
do we not die?
And if you deny us
our rights, shall
we not protest?
three-month, first-class tour
his three children are taking
around the world. The opposi
tion says this does not jiba
with the ideal of "simple liv
ing" that Macapagal has
preached. Macapagal usually
has no trouble shedding oppo
sition charges but this one
may stick because it comes at
a time when the average cit
izen's cost of living is go
ing up faster than income and
the nation is facing a threat
of inflation.
of Moderation. Some of my
Black Muslims? They're . , ,
A - Radical, Red, rabble
rousing, racial agitatorsl
Horsewhipping's too good for
the likes of them! ,
Q - But, Colonel, they're
for segregation, too. I mean
they want all Negroes every
where to pack up and mova
out to an all-Negro State.
A - That's going too far!'
Q - But that would be real
segregation, Colonel.
A-Son, when I look around
at all our happy colored folk
a-shining our shoes and a-mop-ping
our floors and a-cleaning
our lunch counters. I tell you
from the bottom of my heart
that us Southern Moderates
are for segregation just like
we're for integration.
Q - You mean? ,
A - Within limits. . ' "
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
tc- Field Enterprises. Ine.
best friends are Klansmen,
mind you. But I say you let
'em in and they're going to
give the place a bad name.
Q - But what about t h 9
ANTICS WITH SEMANTICS
I believe in maintaining my
dignity; you are a trifle pom
pous; he is a stuffed shjrt.
My vice is a "human
weakness," but yours it
"bestial habit."
The extroverted man I hap
pen to like is "jolly and open;"
the extroverted man I hap
pen to dislike is "loud and
pushy."
My witticism was "a well
turned phrase;" his was "a
smart-aleck remark." .
I was promoted to an "ad
visory capacity;" you wer
"kicked upstairs."
.
When my opinion coin
cides with the many, I
speak of the "inherent com
mon wisdom of lha people"!
when it disagrees with lha
many, I refer io the histori
cal fact that "lha majority
is always wrong."
You don't appreciate my
irreverent jest because you
are "super-sensitive;" but I
don't appreciate yours be
cause "the -subject isn't a
proper one for joking about."
When you propose an al
ternative policy, I call it
an "untried innovation;"
when I propose an alterna
tive policy. I call it "soma
fresh thinking on the sub
ject." When a woman calls a man
she has just met "awful," she
is beginning to be interested
in him; when a woman calls
a man she has known for
some time "sweet," she is no
longer interested in him.
The academic paper that
meets with rr.y assent it
"scholarly;" th one that
affronts my convictions ii
"pedantic."
a
Readers complain about
"sensationalism" in the press,
but if an edition comes out
without some disaster, they
say, "Nothing in the paper
today."
"Th trouble with this
country is too many laws,"
said th mant than he was
fleeced in an unsavory busi
ness deal, and wrote bitter
letters to all officialdom -asking
that a newer, tough
er law be enacted to pre
vent a repetition of such
catastrophes.
My boy flunked out of col
lege because he has "poof
working habits" and "doesn't
live up to his potential;" your
boy flunked out of collcgs
because he "didn't belonif
there in the first place."
wnen a public figure I
disapprove of refuses to
take a lie-detector teal, I
assurr that "he must hava
something to hid:" when
on I approv ol rfuss to
do th same. I point out that
"h has a right not lo tak
a chance en a machine that
Isn't perfect and can mak
mistakes."