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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 9. 1953 (Sunday)
Public Utilities Commis
loner Charles Heitzel said
Saturday he will open hear
ings on the California Ore
gon Power company'! appli
cation for a flat 20 per cent
rate increase in Medford Aug.
18.
The California Canning
Pear association with an ex
tra large ripening crop al
most at hand, has reset prices
for this year's canning crop
at $68 to $77.50 a ton.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 9, 1943 (Monday)
Dr. A. E. Merkel, county
health officer, advises against
swimming in local streams.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
hay crop is reported short.
The more pessimistic stock
men predict next winter it
will be harder to find a hay
atack than a needle in one."
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 9. 1933 (Wednesday)
Funds for construction of
Diamond lake highway voted
by commission.
Floyd Hart returns from
trip to east and reports "pros
perity is on its way back."
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 9, 1923 (Thursday)
Eastern railroad men shown
through local plants.
Medford stores set 6 o'clock
as closing time.
80 YEARS AGO
Aug. 9, 1913 (Saturday)
Pears selling for $1.90 a
box f.o.b. orchard.
University of Southern Ore
gon's college of liberal arts
offers course for $25 to early
registrants.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or fen correct hi tuperiar;
(even or eight ii eicellent; five ef
lia is good.
1. Was Elias Howe the in
ventor of the reaper, sewing
machine, or typewriter?
2. What does tht name
Pennslyvania mean?
3. Is the earth a perfect
sphere?
4. Is the distance between
the sun and the earth approx
imately 96,000, 980,000 or 96
million miles?
5. In what month in 1945
did President F. D. Roosevelt
die?
6. Name the heavyweight
boxing champion of the world.
7. The bodies of four Pres
idents of the U.S. are buried
on the shores of the Hudson
River; three are Van Buren,
Roosevelt and Grant; name
the fourth.
8. Are there more, fewer,
or the same number of days
in the first six months of
calendar year than in the sec
ond six months?
0. What is the name of the
Maryland town in which race
riots have recently occurred?
10. California's Senator, Re
publican Thomas Kuchel, is
strong supporter of Barry
Goldwater for President; true
or false?
Answers! 1. Sawing ma
chine. 2. Penn's Woods. 3. No-
eblaie sphere. 4. 99 million.
S. April. 6. Charles (Sonny)
Lision. 7. Chester A. Arthur.
I. Fewer. 9. Cambridge. 10.
filse.
FRIDAY. AUSUST 9. 1963
Political Postmasterships
We endorse, without much real hope for suc
cess, the proposal of Oregon's three Democratic
representatives in Congress that Postmaster ap
pointments be divorced from the spoils system
and put under the Civil Service merit system.
In a recent joint statement, the three Reps.
Bob Duncan, Edith Green and Al Ullman said
the present system calls for this procedure :
"... A patronage committee makes a recommenda
tion (for a specific person) to a central committee
which makes a recommendation to the congressman
who makes a recommendation to the postmaster gen
eral who makes a recommendation to the President
who makes an appointment to which, in most in
stances, the Senate must give its advice and consent."
They added that their bill would :
". . . properly place the appointment of postmas
ters in the Civil Service and away from the political
influences of the past, and in addition, would eliminate
a time-consuming job for members of Congress."
THE present system is, at best, cumbersome and
uncertain. At worst, it can cause unsavory po
litical influences to be exercised, intra-party
fights, or naming of an unqualified individual.
The long line of "recommendations" reach
ing up to the President is no guarantee of fitness
for office, but it is an almost certain guarantee
of pulling and hauling, influence seeking, and
time-consuming red tape and correspondence.
How much better would be the promotion of
career men, based on their competence.
Whether, however, Congress could be per
suaded to give up this last vestige of the political
spoils system, is debatable. E.A.
Forest Information
One of the state's editorial writers an out
door type has recently complained about the
lack of information available to travelers in the
area's national forests. Good maps are not readily
available, he exipes, and the lack of signs on
forest roads is confusing
be forest travelers and campers.
His complaints may be justified. But if so,
we invite him to travel around the Rogue River
National Forest.
Maps, of various sizes and descriptions, rang
ing from a large, moderately detailed map of
the entire forest to smaller and detailed maps
of the various districts, are available at forest
headquarters and at the
TOO, marked strides have been made in signing
the forest roads so that even those generally
unfamiliar with the terrain are not apt to find
much difficulty.
It is not vet a perf ect situation, by any means.
But it is a rare spot in the forest where even a
careless driver can get lost for very long.
We invite our colleague to visit the Rogue
River National Forest.
back north with him. h.A.
The Number of the Name
Memorandum to:
Pacific Northwest Bell (All Number Calling;
Direct Digit Dialing) ;
Social Security Administration (social be-
curity Numbers) ;
U.S. Armed Forces
occupational specialty numbers, and others with
out end) ;
U.S. Post Office (ZIP
Oil companies (credit
U.S. Internal Revenue
bers) ;
Oregon Motor Vehicle
bers) ;
Banks, insurance companies, savings and loan
associations, (and all others who have converted
individuals into a series
a
GENTLEMEN:
May we call your attention to the 13th
Chapter of Revalation, 16th, 17th and 18th verses,
which, in discussing the arrival of the be?ls,
says:
"Also it causes all, hnth small and great, both rich
and poor, both free and slave, tn be marked nn the
right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or
sell unless he has the mark, that is the name of the
beast or the number of the name. This calls for wis
dom: let him who has understanding reckon the num
ber of the beast, for It Is a human number, its number
is six hundred and sixty-six." (RSV)
We're not quite sure
put on this passage, but it sounds sinister and
ominous in connection with the operations of the
organizations addressed.
Good Sage,
In Tuesday's issue of
Jenkins column dealt with the fact that a partic
ular insect was killing off large areas of sage
brush in central and eastern Oregon.
This was hailed as an important discovery,
and of possible help in the war to eradicate this
pest-shrub which has taken up so much of the
rangeland essential to livestock raising.
It was, in short, a variety of good news.
In the same issue of the paper, on the snorts
Eage, was an article quoting game officials as
eing alarmed by the threat to the sagebrush,
which offers fodder to the deer and cover for
birds.
It was, in short, a varietv of bad news.
Well, Beaumont and i letcher said it in the
17th Century:
"What's one man's poison, signer,
is another's meat or drink "
E. A.
and frustrating to would-
five ranger stations.
He might carry the word
(serial numbers, military
code numbers);
card numbers) ;
Service (tax file num
Division (license num
of digits) :
what interpretation to
E.A.
Bad Sage
the Mail Tribune, Frank
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Unbelief . I only the Russian government
To the Editor: I have stud-J and people but all the world
ied Oscar Jacobson's article,
"What Happened to Sin?" in
the Tribune 7-26-63. Like Lyd
ia Burnham's article on cig
arettes of 5-7-63, they are both
masterpieces in their line.
Lydia sets forth the facts
about cigarettes and their de
structive effect on the human
body, yet millions, because of
unbelief in what Lydia says,
and the good doctors she
quotes - keep on smoking.
Their unbelief does not pre
vent the destruction of their
bodies, neither will rank save
them. From ditch digger to
king, tobacco and liquor will
destroy their bodies alike.
Oscar says: "Unbelief is the
worst sin today." Why? As
tobacco and liquor bring cer
tain destruction to the body,
unbelief brings certain de
struction to the soul. Salva
tion is not based upon good
ness, greatness or rank. "Sal
vation is the gift of God,
through Jesus Christ our
Lord." (Rom. 6:23.) Since sal
vation is a gift, to obtain it
we must believe in God the
giver, we must believe in the
gift and desire it enough to
accept it by faith or we just
don't have it. (Eph. 2:8.) Faith
is the condition upon which
God has seen fit to pardon
sinners, not that there is any
virtue in faith itself, whereby
salvation is merited. The vir
tue is all in Christ. He is the
remedy provided for sin.
Faith is the act by which the
helpless ruined sinner lays
hold of the remedy (Christ),
Unbelief is the worst sin be
cause it destroys every con
necting link between man and
his Saviour, it breaks and de
stroys not only the ten com
mandments, but the first and
great commandment on which
the rest hang. (Matt. 22:34-40.)
None can love God whom they
do not know or believe in.
Then too if there is no God,
there is no law of God, there
fore no sin or sinners, or so
I reasoned in many years of
unbelief. Sounds stupid now,
after knowing the Lord these
past 45 years.
No Lydia, just because a
man is great in the eyes of
the world or has a big job,
that will not prevent liquor
and tobacco from destroying
his body, neither will it pre
vent unbelief from destroy
ing his soul. Christ is our only
hope. He Is the resurrection
and the life.
F. E. Beverly
112 Geneva's).
Medford
Cause for Rejoicing
To Ihe Editor: The follow
ing letter may he of general
Inlerest In readers of your
Communications columns:
Dear Mr. .President: With
countless multitudes around
the world ns well as in our
own fair land, I rejoice and
Ihnnk God for the signing of
the treaty to end nuclear test
ing everywhere except under
ground. I also want to join
the many who must be writ
ing you to express deep ap
preciation and profound
thanks for the part which
you and so many others play
ed in bringing these negotia
tions to a successful conclu
sion. Although only a first
step toward easing world ten
sions and the danger of nu
clear war, as you, Ambassa
dor Harriman. Secretary Rusk
and other rightly pointed out
It is a very necessary and tru
ly historic step toward those
ends. i
Now let us all hope and I
pray that the members of the
Senate will be equally far
sighted, responsible and states
manlike to give the treaty
an overwhelming vote of ap
proval that will convince not
MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
of our sincerity and deter
mined resolve to do our full
part to achieve a just and last
ing peace.
It is good to know, too, that
you and your able associates
will continue to explore ful
ly other steps toward achiev
ing complete world disarma
ment, except for essential po
lice functions, and the settle
ment of other outstanding
problems between the free
world and the communist na
tions. I wish also to take this oc
casion to thank you for your
leadership and initiatives to
(1) assure our Negro and oth
er minority groups full jus
tice, freedom, and all other
rights of first class citizen
ship; (2) to give continuing
aid, especially economic, to
underdeveloped nations
with the kinds of control that
will assure the best condi
tions to effect not only ur
gently needed relief but per
manent Improvement of the
living conditions of their peo
ples; (3) to effect needed tax
reforms as well as reduction
of our onerous tax burden;
(4) and to up-date and liberal
ize our obsolete immigration
laws.
Arnold Eugene Jenny
Rogue Valley Manor
Medford.
Rebuttal
To the Editor: Rebuttal: To
G. L. Murray (Comm. 5 Aug.,
MT) and other non-thinkers;
' Letters like "Many Inci
dents" indicate the possession
of more "gall" than knowl
edge. Upon what basis do you
sit on your fat laurels and
charge our police with "in
competence"? Inadequacy
possibly, but when a total po
lice force of only 47 persons,
chief and office help included,
can do the job they DO ac
complish in a town the size of
Medford, nobody with the
brains to pound sand in a rat
hole can call them incompe
tent, not in my book. Do you
realize that on a shift basis
Medford has only one active
patroling officer at a time
for approximately 5.000 per
sons? That with only 4 cars, some
times S, they have to patrol
over 100 miles of city streets?
This allows one car about
every 20 miles. It is impossi
ble for the patrolmen to be
eye-witnesses to every inci
dent in town. That is where
the so-called common citizen
comes in.
Under Ihe law (devised by
the people, not the police) a
police officer is not allowed
to arrest on a misdemeanor
unless: 1. He is an actual wit
ness to Ihe act, 2. He is in pos
sesion of a duly sworn war
rant Issued by competent ju
dicial authority, or 3. He is a
part of a group of officers in
possession of such a warrant.
You claim to have wit
nessed many "kids, 16 and
under, out at 2 or 3 in the
morning, smoking, drinking
beer, and hot-rodding around
one of the local cafes"-etc.
Just what have you done
about It besides exercise your
bazoo screaming "incompe
tence"? Have you ascertained
the identity of any of these
violators, then sworn a war
rant n r complaint which
would enable a police officer
tn art? I'll bet not. That
would require you to get up
and take positive action. Much
easier to emit wails of "in
competence," farce (curfew)
etc. I'm sorry, 1 11 have to quit
now and lean over the lava-
lory
Glyndon O. Loomrr,
1057 Court st.,
Medford.
(Not a member of any
polire and name NOT
on file).
Macmillan, Like Arnold Palrrier, Has
Knack of
By GREGORY JENSEN
United Press International
London-fUPU-There is a golf
er named Arnold Palmer who
makes a career of trailing the
pack until all hope seems
gone, then staging an amaz
ing comeback to win. There
is part-time golfer here who
does the same thing.
He is the Rt. Hon. Harold
Maurice Macmillan, PC,
F.R.S., M.P., Sunday duffer,
leader of the Conservative
party, first lord of the treas
ury and prime minister of
Great Britain.
Less than two months ago,
Macmillan trailed back from
a holiday spent playing golf,
an apparently beaten man.
War Minister John Profu
mo, his personal friend and
close cabinet associate, had
admitted he lied to the sa
cred House of Commons
about his affair with a flashy
young trollop named Chris
tine Keeler. The sex-and-se-curity
scandal which follow
ed shook Britain like an
earthquake.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(e. field Enterprises, trie.
DOING GOOD NICELY
If you're going to do some
thing nice, be nice about it
or don't do it. This is a simple
and obvious
thought - but
it rarely seems
to occur to
certain types
of people. I
am referring
to those who
will go out of
their way to
do something
Ham. nice - a favor,
a chore, an extra kindness -and
then silently demand re
payment in terms of gratitude
or appreciation.
These are what Dr. Edmund
Bergler, the late psychiatrist,
called "the injustice collec
tors." They go around in life
collecting injustices. They do
nice things to prove to them
selves that other people do
not appreciate them as much
as they should.
Then they sulk, or adopt
a martyred pose, or
lake to their beds with
- some real or fancied ail
ment. And. In one way or
another, they exact a high
retribution for their "nice
ness." Finally, those around
them begin to realise thai
it's not worth the price.
Many acts of generosity
and self-sacrifice are not at
all what they seem to bo
on the surface. Rather, they
are techniques employed
for neurotic ends; these "ty
rants of goodness" would be
better off - and so would
their families - if they act
ed a little more selfishly
(that is, a little more nat
urally) much of the time.
Self-pity is the lieimoiif
in the lives of such person
alities. They enjoy demon
strating, over and over
again, that others do not
appreciate them, that they
are victims of the world's
injustice, that the bread
they cast on the waters is
never served up to them as
toast on a trap in bed on
Sunday mornings.
What they utterly fail to
understand is that nice
things are done for our own
sake, not for the sake of
others. The pleasure must
reside in the performance,
not in the applause. Good
deeds are. in a deeper psy
chological sense, a favor to
oneself. If this it not grasp
ed, then our whole sense of
personal relationships be
comes warped,
A kind act, a piece of gen
erosity or self-sacrifice, must
be its own reason for being,
an end in itself, not part of
a barter system. It must not
be used later to reprove some
one else with, or as a lever to
pry up ancient grievances un
der a rock. Yet this is what
the self-sacrificcrs tend to do.
They pile up their good
deeds like misers stuffing bills
in a mattress: hoard them,
count them over at night, and
recite their complaints. Even
tually, with this hoard they
try to purchase affection and
admiration and gratitude
but it does not work that way.
The injustice collectors only
collect more injustices.
There are many people who
should try to be a little bet
ter; but there ire almost as
many who should stop trying
to be better than they can be.
If their hidden feelings (hid
den to themselves, if not to
others) do not correspond to
their generous acts, there can
be nothing but bitter fruit in
the end, for themselves and
for those they are so "nice"
to.
Coming From Behind
Public and political opinion
was virtually unanimous that
Macmillan was finished. Few
thought he could stand while
the shock waves of scandal
upon scandal jolted his foun
dation of power.
Yet today, Macmillan is
talking and acting like a man
who intends to be prime min
ister forever. Much of the
press again depicts him as
a leader in confident com
mand. Talk of Conservative party
revolts has melted like the
leads of Palmer's opponents.
The outcry over security as
pects of the Profumo affair
has stilled, partly because
Lord Denning's judicial in
quiry into these aspects con
tinues, partly because of in
creased indication that any
security risks were potential
rather than real.
As July ended Macmillan
came into fresh trouble over
the defection to Russia of
former intelligence agent H.
A. R. (Kim) Philby. But his
opponents were concentrating
attack on his handling of this
one case. Six weeks ago the
attacks were on the whole
question of his capacity to
govern.
Probably never before has
"Unflappable Mac" showed
his unflappability more than
in this summer of 1963.
What happened? How did
Macmillan survive?
The answers seem to lie in
a series of threes.
Three men, political ob
servers are agreed, could
have toppled Macmillan in
the sordid wake of the Pro
fumo scandal - Vice Premier
R. A. Butler, Chancellor of the
Exchequer Reginald Maudling
and minister-of-all-work Vis
count Hailsham.
Had any of these three
mounted an open challenge
to Macmillan's leadership,
rallying the disaffected ele
ments in their own Conserva
tive party, few experts doubt
that Macmillan would have
fallen.
But there were three ac
cepted reasons why these
In the Day's News
y FRANK JENKINS
From Washinglon:
The United States took
steps yesterday to RETALI
ATE against the European
Common Market for its sharp
increase last year in tariffs
on U.S. poultry products. The
European Common Market,
composed of France, West
Germany, Italy, Belgium, The
Netherlands and Luxembourg,
raised its tariffs on our poul
try products from 4.9 cents
per pound to 13.43 cents.
That's quite a bounce. The
result of it, according to
Christian Herter, chief U. S.
trade negotiator, has been an
unreasonable- restriction o n
U.S. poultry. He estimates the
loss to our poultry producers
at $46 million a year.
CO-
J He Bays
Something will have to be
done about it.
WHAT to do?
Well,- Mr.
Herter says.
the U.S. has no choice hut to
retaliate. So he has picked
out a list of our imports from
the Common Market coun
tries, and on the items in the
list we will RAISE OUR TAR
IFFS on the principle of tit
for tat.
TiHE ilems?
One of them is wine
Last year. Mr. Herter says,
we imported from the Com
mon Market countries wine
worth $22.4 million, and
brandy worth $12.1 million.
Other imported items were
trucks and buses worth $14. B
million, film except motion
pictures worth $13.6 million,
and a wide range of miscel
laneous items such as gelatin,
theobromine, dextrine, potato
starch, cigarette papers, stain
less steel clolh scissors and
shoes, Roquefort cheese and
electric razors.
"UR Mr. Herter estimates
" the loss to American poul
trymen from the higher Com
mon Market tariffs at $46 mil
lion a year. He estimates that
the retaliation tariffs that he
proposes will cost Common
Market exporters to the
United Stales the tidy sum of
$111.5 million.
Hmmmmmmmmm.
It's at least interesting to
learn that there's ONE Amer
ican who believes that when
we do something we ought to
do it in a way to SHOW A
PROFIT.
In recent years, it has
seemed to a lot nf us. too
many Americans in high of
fice have tended to look upon
a profit as something SINFUL.
three men did not act - their
loyalty to Macmillan and
their party; the fact that an
election must be held within
15 months; and their uncer
tainty of success in uniting
the party and the nation be
hind any of them.
Macmillan himself held
three powerful weapons in
his come-from-behind strug
gle. According to all indica
tions, he used all three with
telling effect.
One was a threat to dis
solve parliament and call a
new election immediately. He
is legally empowered to give
the queen advice to this ef
fect, which she is nominally
bound to follow. And with
the Labor party leading in
every public opinion poll and
trouncing all comers in every
by-election, the thought of an
immediate general poll gave
Tories cold shudders.
The second was the circum
stances under which Macmil
lan, if he went, would have
been forced out. His argu
ment that no government
should be toppled by so un
savory a mess was a power
ful one.
The third was a Macmillan
weapon in the international
field - the prospect of a suc
cessful nuclear test ban
treaty. Macmillan already was
corresponding with Soviet
Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev
and President Kennedy about
the possibility of negotiations.
He argued that this was too
valuable an applecart to up
set. But these three tactical ad
vantages only satisfied one
of Macmillan's three needs.
Miss Amanda's iJj
Greatest Crusade fci
By Arthur Heppe ' Tr J
"Stamp out civil rights!";
It was my good friend, Miss
Amanda, national command
er of "!", the superpatriotic
stamping out socity. "Pre
serve our glorious American
heritage!"
I said Miss Amanda looked
particularly fetching today,
what with a feather boa to
match her tennis shoes. But
why did she wish to stamp
out civil rights?
"Civil rights," she announc
ed with an ominous glare
through her bifocals, "are a
Communist plot!"
No! "Yes!" she snapped,
clutching the cameo brooch
of Senator Goldwater over
her heart. "Our alert South
ern Governors and Congress
men have exposed the whole
nefarious Kremlin - directed
scheme of these civil rights
agitators! Puppets of Moscow,
that's what they are!"
They are? "They are! Wit
nesses at the Congressional
civil rights hearings have pre
sented incontrovertible evi
dence to prove it! From an
unimpeachable source!" Un
impeachable? "Right" cried
Miss Amanda triumphantly.
"The Communist Daily Work
er!" Very unimpeachable, I
agreed. "Absolutely!" she
said. "The evidence shows
The Daily Work is backing
this civil rights agitation to
the hilt! Therefore, anyone
who is for civil rights is swal
lowing the Commie party line!
Hook and sinker! Stamp out
civil rights! Keep America
free!"
A marvelous crusade, I
said, and one that opened all
sorts of new vistas. "It does?"
exclaimed Miss Amanda, high
ly pleased. Right, I said. For
example, here was a Daily
Worker editorial in favor of
more housing and schools.
Should we not alert American
lo . . .
"Stamp out housing!" cried
r?m Iff - W r-r"
"Is there no end lo the deviousness nf the Ve:-trn
mind? Now they're comparing Barry Goldet;,r e) usl"
O
To Win
They, and his three potential.
Tivals' failure to act, gave
him time.
Besides time, Macmillan'
needed a diversion and a tr i
umph. The diversion had to
take the heat off Macmillan
himself and his politically
shaky position long enough
for his defensive weapons to
be useful.
Ironically, the div srsion'
was provided by the very
thing which threatened him1
in the first place - the Pro
fumo scandal. The tremors
which spread from the first
shock to Dr. Stephen Ward
and his playmates were so
sensational Macmillan found'
himself virtually ignored.
The triumph came in Mos--cow,
with the initialing of
the test ban treaty. In a coun-.
try whore nuclear disarma-.
ment is so vocal and vital an
issue as here, the treaty was
a triumph indeed. Macmillan
exploited it as such.
Thus Macmillan, wilh
"Palmer rush," again leads
the field. Public opinion polls
show his own, and even his
party's, stock improving.
But the game is not over -yet.
A considerable body of.
opinion believes Macmillan is.
still on the way out. He him
self has indicated he wants to
lead his party through tho.
next election. But Macmillan
will be 70 in February, and
many observers are convinced.
Britain will have a new.
prime minister by then.
Macmillan, as of now, has
ended his political tourna
ment in a lie. And even At-,
nold Palmer has been known',
to lose a playoff.
Miss Amanda, her rheumy';
eyes a-sparkle. "Raze schools!""
Should we not alert .America
And here, 1 said was, a dia,"
tribe against despoliation of'
our natural resources. "Be pa-;'-triotic!"
she shoulted, gelling,
into the swing of things. "Kin-i
die forest fires!" -And
here, I said, lcafing
rapidly through my files, wcro.
a score supporting peace.'
"Crush peace!" And another'
on traffic safely. "Be a gond
American!" hollered Mirs
Amanda, waving her retinu'ry.
around her head. "Bash a'
pedestrian today!"
Wait a minute, I said, com-"
ing up wilh a yellowed clip.',
ping from The Workers
World. Here was one that";
would launch Miss Amanda',
on the most dramatic crusade .
of her career. The crusad
that would prove her super
patriotism beyond shred of
doubt, the crusade that . . .
"What's it say? What's it
say?" cried Miss Amanda,
clapping her fingerless lace;
gloves together excitedly. It
says, 1 said somberly, that i
plight of single, elderly fe-.
males in our society was aw-
ful and something must bo!
done for them.
"You mean . . . .?" she said
suspiciously. Yes, I said. It'
was now up to her alone to '
save America. But she could
count on my heartfelt sup
port in this, her greatest cm--sade.
Indeed, here was a pla-'
card for her to bear aloft in--to
battle, a placard with a .
touchiugly simple message; '
"STAMP OUT ME!"
It certainly touched Miss
Amanda. "What are you. some .
kind of nut?" she yelled. And;
after breaking up Ihe cru
sadeover my head she .
stomped militantly nut. :
Well. I guess I never will .
understand these superpatri-!
ots. Do they want lo help the'
country or don't they?
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