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History from tha tiles of The
Mall Trlbuna 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO veer ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. II. 153 (Sunday)
Foresters battle blaze on
solpes of Mt. McLoughlin.
Local pear picking set to
start tomorrow.'
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. It. 1141 (Monday)
Medford connected directly
with Washington, D. C, by
United Air Lines.
From Arthur Perry's "Y
Smudge Pot" column: "Italy
is now willing to plead guilty
to stabbing France in the back
if she can keep all her Axis
pals and write her own peace
terms."
30 YEARS AGO
. sua. ll. ISM (Wedneeday)
William Grenbemer endors-1
ed by Democrat as Ashland I
postmaster. I
Lightning starts eight for
est fires in Dead Indian dis
trict. !
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. II. 1I2S (Thursday)
Rich territory to be opened
by proposed Natron cutoff.
Prospects bright for ending
coal strike following firm
stand by government.
SO YEARS AGO
Aug. 1IS (Saturday)
Sale of Jesse Richardson
stock ranch In Sams Valley
brings 122.000.
Recently ousted superin
tendent of Crater Lake Na
tional park continues fight for
reinstatement.
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1. Is the Alaskan Brown
bear or Griszly the larger?
2. According to astrologers,
' persons born between Oct. 23
and Nov. 21 are governed oy
what sign of the zodiac?
3. The New Testament tells
us that Jonah spent how many
day in the belly of a whaleT
4. Madagascar was former
ly a colony of which Euro
pean nation?
5. In reference to the quo
tation "Sugar and Space and
everything nice," what are lit
tle boys made 01?
S. How long Is a fortnight?
7. Are spiders insects?
8. Was the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation estab
lished under the admlntatra
tlon of Hoover, Roosevelt or
Truman?
9. Lightning never strikes
twice in the same place; true
or false?
10. Do the piston in an
automobile engine come to a
standstill before reversing
their thrust?
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Scorpio. S. Three days. 4.
France. Si Nails and snails
nd puppy deg tails, li 14
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that hit shop at S10 East Pine
ft. had been entered and
small tools were taken some
time recently according to
Centra Point police.
FRIDAY. AUGUST It. IMS
The Letter-Writers
We have long suspected, without any proof
but with considerable evidence, that the John
Birchers and others of the ultra right have a
pretty well-organized letter-writing system.
Several who espouse this radical point of
view write to the Mail Tribune's Communications
column on a regular basis, so that the voice of the
far right appears there quite consistently. Wheth
er there are writing "assignments" or not we do
not know, but the results are the same.
There is an amazing consistency of point of
view, too. But that is to be expected in the tightly
knit ranks. Robert Welch issues his dictum as to
what line to take, and almost immediately it is
parroted the length and breadth of the land.
THE current "word from on high" is opposition
to the treaty banning nuclear tests in the at
mosphere or water. Samples can be seen on this
page today. It seems unlikely that such letters
are spontaneous. They are too similar in outlook
and phraseology.
Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Re
view, recently wrote an editorial in which he
recounted an experience which tends to substan
tiate the suspicion that the letter-writers of the
far right are, indeed, well organized.
After a talk in Portland, in which he support
ed the United Nations, he was approached by a
woman who said she opposed his views, and
scoffed at his appeal for letters to U.S. officials
supporting the U.N.
gHE said:
"Last week alone, Just by myself, I wrote 500
letters against the United Nations. I wrote them to
the President, Senators, Congressmen, businessmen
who advertised in newspapers or magazines that sup
ported the U.N., to letters-to-the-editor departments.
And more than 30 people in my group have been
doing the same thing."
Cousins added this comment: '
"There is good reason to believe the lady was not
exaggerating. For many months, the mails of public
officials and periodicals have been flooded with angry
letters on a wide variety of subjects, of which peace
in general and the United Nations in particular seem
to be prime targets. . . . Whether the Portland lady
and her group are part of a nation-wide systematic
effort I have no way of knowing. But there can be no
doubt that the malls have become a battering ram
for extremist views."
COUSINS' theme was less to disparage the let-ter.wr-irmor
nr-tivitirxi nf (ho rio-rit.wino- py.
tremists (it is, he carefully points out, their right)
than to deplore the lack of such activity on the
part of the educated,
members of the community.
His title, indeed, was "The Default of the
Educated Man," and he says, "By and large, edu
cated people can be counted upon not to write
on important public questions."
He confesses bafflement :
"One of the attributes of a truly educated man in
a free society is his awareness of the way that society
functions. Yet an astonishing illiteracy exists among
otherwise intelligent, educated people about the work
ings of public opinion. Letter-writing to officials Is
part of the phenomenon of public opinion not the
only part and perhaps not even the most effective part
but it Is a part nonetheless. Yet this fact doesn't
seem to make a dent in the thinking of many well
educated persons. And so they become part of a mas
sive default a default gleefully exploited by those
who are using every trick In the democratic book,
as is their right, to create the impression that their
view is the dominant one."
IN SIMILAR vein, the editorial page of the
Eugene Register-Guard not long ago had cause
to complain that many of the community's best
informed citizens, and notably faculty members
at the University, often
default in failing to communicate their views
either by not writing to
or by being stuffy, pedantic and long-winded
when they did.
The situation has improved in recent months,
the K-U commented with
bull, Uousins thesis
that many literate people, schooled in history,
political science, philosophy, literature, the sci
ences people who are acutely aware of the dan
gers of the time do not bother to lend then
voices to the cause of political and social sanitv.
The "great debate" is not served when the best
minds fail to communicate, and leave the field
to the extremists. E.A.
New Fire
There have been great strides in fighting
nres in tne lorests and on the ranges in recent
years. Better access, better and more specialized
vehicles, tighter systems of detection, and more
widespread use of aircraft, all have contributed
One of the more notable of the improvements
has been the development of "bombing" fires
from the air. Borate has
in recent years.
Borate's big drawback has been that it stcri
lizes the land, killing
for that reason, new experiments with other
materials are of interest.
THE state department of forestry has started
to experiment with two other materials, both
of them fire-retardant in nature, but which do
not sterilize what they
hit.
Rather, they have some of the effects of ferti
lizer, and actually encourage regenerative growth
on burned-over areas.
One hopes the experiments will be successful.
that new techniques can
fires will not only be contained and extinguished,
but where the land will be prepared for new
growth, rather tharf sterilized. E.A. I
intelligent and informed
were guilty of a similar
the "Letters " column.
approval.
is valid, and it is true
Retardants
been used successfully
vegetation where it hits.
be worked out whereby
MEDFORD
"At I Was Saying, A Test-Ban Agreement
Might Have Resulted In A Fatal Gap"
Communications
Letters to tha Editor must bear tha name and address of tha writer,
although under certain circumstances tha use of a pen name or initial
for publication Is permissible. Tha Mail Tribune reserves tha right to
adit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Tha letters
printed In this column do not necessarily represent tha views of I."
paper. In fact tha contrary la often tha case.
Signing tha Treaty
To the Editor: The follow.
ing letter has been sent to
both our senators:
Dear Senator: I am writing
this in regard to signing the
test ban treaty. I am very
much concerned because I
feel the moral aspects in
volved are being completely
ignored. Should we ever sign
any agreement with our mor
tal enemy? For the present
Russian government is our
mortal enemy. Furthermore
is it becoming on the part of
Mr. Rusk and our other rep
resentatives to carry on as
though they were attending a
convivial party among
friends? Should not such an
occasion be a time of gravity
and responsibility, and not
one of hilarity?
There is also another aspect
that should be considered,
namely: What advantage do
the Russians expect to gain
because of this treaty? For if
they do not expect to gain
from it they never would have
signed it. After having signed
It how long will they Keep u.'
For the record shows they
will keep it only as long as it
is advantageous for them to
do so. The last time they kept
It only long enough for them
to evaluate data from previ
ous tests. Then they broke
their agreement in order to
obtain new data. We kept our
agreement and so lost valu
able research time. How many
times are we going to be
suckers?
Anna M. Streed
36 North Peach st.
Medford.
P.S. When are we going to
cease being suckers?
Birch View
To the Editor: What of the
'Treatv Ban'? Many thanks to
those who have requested this
letter. Yes! I will answer as
a member of the John Birch
Society. The self proclaimed
organ of the Communist Party
U.S.A., the "Political Affairs",
the "Worker" and the "Na
tional Guardian," all Com
munist newspapers, are step
ping up activities for passing
of the (a) Nuclear Test-Ban
Treaty, (b) The planned Aug.
28 'March on Washington'
and (c) the President's "Civil
Rights" legislation. They are
all related.
What is really being de
manded, is that all progres
sive and 'left' forces and es
pecially all Communists,
throw themselves fully into
these battles which lie ahead,
and mobolize all possible sup
port for Kennedy's Civil
Rights bill, which is part and
parcel of the Communist drive
to destroy the sovereignty of
the U.S.A.
It Is pure folly to enter into
any treaty with barbarians
who boast that they make
treaties with no slightest In
tention of keeping them, but
only as a means of gaining
strength for themselves.
The preamble of this treaty
commits the U.S. as proclaim
ing as their principle aim, the
speediest possible achieve
ment of an agreement on gen
eral and complete disarma
ment under strict Internation
al control In accordance with
the objectives of the United
Nations.
The Reds and their allies
throughout the world are a!
ready shouting that the U.S.
will sign and MUST sign this
treaty, because of our fear
of Soviet might.
Walter Rcuthcr has joined
Hobson Reynolds, head of the
400,000 Ncern Elks organiza
tlon, calling for massive par.
ticipation in the Aug. 28
march on Washington.
Behind all of these plans
are the socialists and liberals
such as Sens. Paul Douglas
and Jamb Javits and Reps.
James Roosevelt and John
Lindsay, who have invited 38
MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
senators and 80 representa
tives to meet with A. Phillip
Randolf, who is president of
the Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters, who Is to explain
to these senators and repre
sentatives the March on Wash
ington and its aims . . , for
tbe rights nf the whites ... if
you please?
These are facts, which the
readers will have to decide,
whether they are for or
against, such traitorous trea
ties and decisions coming out
of Washington. Write your
representative and senator.
Edith Phetteplace
3939 Hilyard st.
Eugene, Ore.
Test Ban
To the Editor: This is an
open letter to President Ken
nedy. Dear President Kennedy:
If the American people knew
the truth about the test ban
treaty, there would be an
angry outcry across our land
that would frighten our Sen
ators into throwing this mon
strous treaty right back in
your teeth. But our "managed
news" has very cleverly and
very carefully kept from the
people the frightful danger In
this "slick deal" with Moscow.
And that is the fact that it
takes many, many months of
preparation for a series of
atomic tests, and that Russia
is- again being given an op
portunity to do this work in
secret and betray us for the
second time, as she did before.
with massive tests in the at
mosphere. That this Is the fatal danger
is proven by the first test ban
which Khrushchev brazenly
broke, making massive gains
in nuclear technology while
we lagged dangerously be
hind. In 1961 you soundly de
nounced the Soviets' prolong
ed preparations to betray the
test ban while going through
the motions of negotiations
with us. Where is the common
sense you displayed then?
Why are you now leading
America back into the very
same trap again which, ac
cording to Admiral Chester
Ward, former judge advocate
in the U.S. Navy, could be-a
fatal national disaster?
He declared on the Manion
Forum, Broadcast 462, that
ratification of the test ban
treaty "will freeze the U.S.
into second place to Russia
in the technology of strategic
was heads. U.S. nuclear strike
capability will be reduced so
fast, relative to the Soviets'
super weapon strength, that
within 18 months we will
have lost our power to deter
a Soviet surprise attack, or
to retaliate effectively against
the overwhelming military
power of their super weapons
of annihilation. If this is al
lowed to come true, it will
be the end of our country."
President Kennedy, I
thoroughly believe Admiral
Ward. Therefore I'm wiring
the "gist" of this letter to my
Senators, and praying to Al
mighty God In the name of
His precious Son that they and
their colleagues will recognize
this treaty as a trap set to
weaken us for the final kill.
I'm sorry for you. It is pos
sible that you may go down
in history as the U.S. Presl
den whose stupid test ban
treaty betrayed the American
people into the hands of one
of the most cruel, most cold-
blooded men ever known.
Nikila Khrushchev, "the Mass
Murderer of the Ukraine" and
"the Bloody Butcher of Buda
pest." You may go down in
history as the man who stupid
ly put the brutal yoke of
Communist tyranny on the
necks of your own children.
There is only one word for
your test ban treaty, and that
word is "surrender."
L. C. Powell.
318 SE Eighth si..
Gran Li Pass, Ore. N
Perez Jimenez Leaves Mark on
Despite Swindles and Later Overthrow
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Whatever the rascalities of
one-time Venezuelan dictator
Marcos Per-
It z Jiminez,
the d 1 u m d
Sv I and pompous
f I frmer army
I co'one' left
I his mark up-
I I and upon its
m im J people. It has
n.w.. een near'y
five years
since he gathered his family
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
(ci Field Enterprises. Inc.
THE USES OF HUMOR
The most devastating crit
ique that can be made against
extremist movements is a
very simple
and yet dead
ly one: with
out exception,
they lack a
sense of hu
mor. What
ever the polit
ical, econom
ic, or intellec
tual flaws in
Harria such doctrines
as communism and fascism,
the really telling charge
against them is a kind of fer
ocious solemnity that is at
bottom alien to the human
spirit. No humor, no satire,
no nonsense, can flourish in a
country, or in a movement,
that views life in black-and-white
only.
A few weeks ago, for in
stance, the official Commu
nist Parly newspaper in Italy
attacked the American comic
strip, "Peanuts," for its de
piction of characters ranging
from the "suicidal" to the
"stupid." One of the cartoon
characters was even stigma
tized as a "fascist."
And, of course. In Nasi
Germany and Fascist Italy,
no real humor was ever
permitted. For genuina
humor is tha eternal enemy
of all pomposity, all offic
ialdom, all fanaticism, all
tha political creeds and doc
trines and dogmas that
strive to become, in on
way or another, stai re
ligions. We all know that artistic
expression dries up in a
totalitarian country; writ
ers and painters and music
ians, who are by nature
rebels, cannot produce in
response to official decrees.
What is even more signifi
cant, however, is that the
sense of humor atrophies in
such an environment: peo
ple are afraid to be funny.
This is a worse enslave
ment than the economic in
justices that Marx in
veighed against. The slav
ery of the intellect, of the
spontaneous emotions, is
more killing than any of
the capitalistic excesses of
the 191h century. It is one
of the wry paradoxes of
Marxism that it made men
"free" for more dullness
and drabness and conform-
Linda Thanked
To The Editor: I am un
accustomed to writing letters
to the editor of a newspaper,
but I thought this would be
the best way to thank a mem
ber of your Medford Swim
Team.
On Aug. 9, 10 and 11. we
held our Fourth Annual Invi
tational Swim Meet here in
Grants Pass. We had over 550
entries from teams throughout
California, Oregon, Washing
ton and Canada. As usual in
most large meets, finding
qualified officials is a big
problem.
Linda Hess, a long-time
member of the Medford swim
team, not only helped us
throughout our meet, but has
consistently helped whenever
needed in all the meets we
have ever attended. For those
of you not familiar with swim
meets, this in most cases,
means sitting in the hot sun
near the edge of a pool for
many hours.
The members of Grants
Pass Aquatic club have fol
lowed Linda's career in swim
ming for many years and im
pressive as it may be, we are
sure with Ihe keen sense of
competition and good sports
manship, she is slated for
even a better record at the
University of Oregon.
Lome Swcaringcn. Frcs.,
Grants Pass Aquatic Club
311 N. W. Laughridge
Grants Pass, Ore.
P.S. - G P. for sure in foot
ball this year.
In a Hurry
To the Editor: It used to
take me 5 hours to drive the
old Brush car from Ashland
to Medford. If 1 wuz in a
hurry. I could push it to Med
ford in 4 hours.
Everett Arkhn
Ashland, Ore. 1
about him and fled to the
Dominican Republic in the
face of the same sort of vio
lent revolution by which he
himself had risen to power.
But in Caracas the people
still refer to him familiarly as
"P.J."
"'P.J.' built It," one may
remark.
And the reference might be
to the broad highway which
sweeps up to Caracas from
Maiquetia Airport, or j.0 the
magnificent modernistic
buildings of the University of
Caracas.
I. Ka.ris
iiy than they had ever
known before.
The most effective way to
combat the extremists is with
humor and satire and parody;
and a democratic nation that
begins to limit and censor its
satirists has already fallen
under the corrupting blight of
totalitarian attitudes. Mock
ing selfcriticism in a nation is
a sign of health, not of sick
ness; the hand that salutes
the flag must also he free to
thumb its nose at those who
wave the flag for venal or
hypocritical reasons.
Freedom of speech must In
clude the freedom to speak
impertinently, or it means
nothing; it must include the
freedom to laugh at, the free
dom to deflate the important,
deride the orthodox, and dis
sect the "received wisdom" of
the people. Otherwise, we
lose Ihe capacity, and the
will, to correct our national
stance when it slumps or
sways.
The best method of testing
the strength of a doctrine is
by subjecting it to humor and
irony and burlesque. The ex
tremist movements invariably
fail this test, for they are
based on a grimly unyielding
view of man's nature. Ex
posed to shafts nf comedy,
these doctrines turn nasty,
brutish and violent. Which, of
course, they always were in
the beginning.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In New York the other day,
a Spanish - speaking woman
who holds U.S. citizenship
through birth in Puerto Rico
began a court suit against the
New York state law requiring
an ENGLISH literacy as a re
quirement to vote.
She is a citizen of the Unit
ed States by birth. She has
lived in New York since 1948.
She says in her suit that as a
reader of Spanish language
newspapers and periodicals
her understanding of govern
ment and. politics is at least
equal to that of the average
New York adult.
But because she can't pass
an ENGLISH literacy test she
can't vote. She asks the New
York supreme court to direct
the New York board of elec
tions either to register her as
a qualified voter or to provide
a literacy test in SPANISH.
T ET'S no some supposing.
Mrs. Cardona alleges in
her suit that as a reader of
New York Spanish language
newspapers and periodicals
her understanding of govern
ment and politics is at least
equal to that of the average
New York adult.
Let's suppose she has read
in Spanish-in which, of course
it is available the great lit
erature of the world.
SO LET'S compare her with
a New Yorker who READS
ENGLISH and so is able to
keep up with all the dirt
and the scandal and the fluff
that make up so much of our
modern day-to-day reading
especially in our modern meg
alopolises, such as New York.
Question:
Which is best equipped to
vote?
One fears that a hrutally
candid answer wouldn't be
very flattering to us as a na
tion. IN PORTLAND the other
day, rules for the use of
the Rogue River trail between
Almcda Bridge and Marial, a
distance of 26 miles, were an
nounced. The decision was
made by Bureau of Land Man
agement Director Russell E.
Getty after a hearing and a
conference of interested fed
eral and state agency people.
It restricts use of the trail
for these 2fi miles to hikers.
Proofreader
To the Editor: Docs the
Mail Tribune have a proof
reader? Mrs. E. J. Collins
. 2224 East Main st.
Medford
Editor's note: Yes. a couple.
Between them they read up
to 85.000 words a day. Like
to try it? V.
Or it might be to the gaudy,
skyscraper apartment build
ings which P.J." built as a
slum - clearance project but
which quickly became merely
vertical slums under condi
tions of anarchy worse than
that from which its inhabi
tants came.
Ironically, that district
meant to be a monument to
Perez Jiminez today is called
"January 23rd," commemor
ating the date of his fall.
"P.J." left Venezuela $400
million in debt despite its
oil riches which pour $3 mil
lion a day into a country
whose population is only
about six million.
And beyond the monuments
of stone and steel which Perez
Jiminez left behind, few of
these six million had bene
fited. But besides the hatred
which he also left behind, one
may also detect a note of
grudging admiration in those
references to "P.J."
The Girl Who
Saved the World
By Arthur Hopp
Let us pause today In our
busy rounds to salute the
most diligent peace worker
of our time.
As a hundred nations rush
to sign the nuclear test ban
treaty, as mankind basks in a
new era of good feeling be
tween East and West, as we
rejoice in renewed hope for
peace in our time, let us not
fail to pay tribute to the un
sung toiler - behind - the
scenes primarly responsible
for this breakthrough at last
in the long, grim Cold War.
I am speaking, of course, of
Miss Christine Keeler. May
she win the Nobel Prize.
I know that others would
see the prize go elsewhere.
The Americans would give
credit for the test ban treaty
to Ma. Kennedy; the British
Horses, other trail stock
and MOTORIZED WHEELED
EQUIPMENT, including mo
torcycles of all types, will be
barred. One reason for bar
ring horses is that forage is
rather scare in that area, thus
necessitating the carrying of
grain for the saddle and pack
animals.
r"FHE reason, presumably, for
the barring of "motorized
wheeled equipment" is that
the region will be set apart
as a wilderness area, for the
use of those who like to get
as far from civilization as pos
sible. It must certainly be conced
ed that these snorting, smelly
"motorized wheeled" mon
sters destroy any illusion that
one is far from the madding
crowd and back to the forest
primeval.
A LL of this, of course, brings
" sad memories to those who
can remember the dear de
parted days when a wilder
ness was a wilderness and a
trail was a trail, to be nego
tiated solely by back-packers
and saddle and pack outfits.
In those great days the
wilderness trails were busy
places. But no more. One can
go for days on the mountain
trails, including the magnifi
cent Skyline Trail, and never
meet a back packer or a pack
train.
The modern generation
hasn't much use for the
WILDERNESS.
It wants PAVEMENT.
C?.SJ'''iv,Aus -arts '
"The lyndieate takei in billions every year, and the
cheapskates offer a mere $100,000 to 'rub out' lhat
squealer now, if wj had union ... I" t
Country,
For in many a Latin Amer
ican nation the successful
swindler is regarded as no
great criminal.
Former Argentine dictator
Juan D. Peron retained mil
lions of followers despite loot
ing his country of amounts
whose estimates run as high
as $600 million.
A one-time Cuban minister
of education made off with
$172 million and aroused no
great indignation.
In Rio de Janeiro, U. S. cit
izens urgently wanted b y
Uncle Sam to answer for a
fast shuffle with the dollars
of American investors travel
freely in the best cafe society.
Perez Jiminez himself was
the first such former high
ranking figure permitted to
be extradited from the United
States. Other guests have in
cluded Fulgencio Batista of
Cuba and various members of
the Trujillo family of the Do
minican Republic.
.
would hail Mr. Macmillanl
the Russians, Mr. Khrushchev.
But this is no time for crass
nationalism.
- Oh, I confess that at first
I felt the same way. When
the treaty was signed I was
filled with gratitude toward
Our Leaders. It made you
realize, I said, how ordinary
human beings like Mr. Ken
nedy, Mr. Macmillan and Mr.
Khrushchev could set asida
domestic political squabbles)
and rise above petty person
al ambitions in order to
achieve universal good for all
mankind.
And personally, my hearl
overflowed most in Mr. Mac
millan's direction. For of all
three Leaders, it was he who
pressed hardest for the treaty.
It was he, obviously, who
selflessly thought most of hu
manity, who stood ready tn
give his all for the happiness
of men everywhere, And it
was he, I said, who should be
awarded the Nobel Prize.
At least that's what I said
before I read what experts a e
saying. But do you know whu ;
the experts say? They say the
reason Mr. Macmillan pushed
so hard and successfully for
the treaty was to lake ths
British voter's mind off the
Profumo scandals. So thai ha
could get re-elected. Which
makes sense.
And thus, if there be any
justice, the prize should go
not to Mr. Macmillan, but to
the little lady responsible for
his dedication to peace: Miss
Keeler.
Who can deny that night
and day she, too, devoted her
self to the happiness of men
everywhere? Who can deny
that she, too, gave her all?
And who can view newsreels
of her striding into Old Bail
ey without paying silent tri
bute to her Movement? It may
save the human race yet.
So it is due to her dedica
tion and devotion to her work
that all of us are a little safer
from war today. If it wern
not for Miss Keeler, the Brit
ish Empire might not havo
thrown its prestige behind:
the cause of peace, So I say
that when it comes to peace
work among Our Leaders she
takes the prize.
Oh, I know some cynirs
will argue that while Miss
Keeler may indeed have saved
the world, it wasn't precisely
the first thing on her mind
at the time. And they're go
ing to contend that it was
all personal vanity and status
building.
But I say if we're going to
start getting into the motive
of the candidates, we're never
going to pick a winner.