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BILLBOARD
By BILL JENKINS
Tom Sanders, the big wheel up
at the Agency, was passing on
coupie to us the otner day re-
giutiinsr the newly passed laws
okaying tne sale of lire water 10
Indians. A move, inciaeniaiiy,
which we, believe should have been
made many, many years ago. Or
not Imposed at all. But, anyway,
Tom says the current gossip has
it that every time some newly freed
American walks into the Jug store
and comes out with a demijohn ne
cuts into an alley, out of habit, to
have a quick snort.
Due. who was standing in a local
tavern Uie other day was tol'd by
a passing cop that it was pertccliy
legal for him to belly up to the
bar and drink his brew. Asked
how he felt about the situation he
replied: "Sure does feel funny to
stand here and drink my beer with
a cop staring down my neck.
We mentioned briefly here the
otner day the fact that Guy Mer
rill was telling us about the earls
days and mentioned the Incident
of the horse thief who breathed
his last out at Squaw Flat, Since
men we have run Into "Mac"
McKlmens who knows the whole
story by heart. He gave us a brief
synopsis of the plot and pledged
the lull story later on; He knows
the names of a good many of the
possemen, the details of the Inci
dent and the fact that the stolen
horse was a grey mare that was lat
er returned to Lakev.sw and broken
to drive.
To the huge dlsgus. oi the serious
historians we find ourselves more
fascinated by tales of this sort
WASHINGTON tfl T Coleman
Andrews, boss of the Income tax
collectors, is running into criticism
as he tries to practice two of Pres
ident Elsenhower's precepts:
more economy and less govern
ment centered in Washington.
Andrews, picked by Eisenhower
as commissioner of Internal reven
ue, has been cutting o; jobs by
the hundreds, pulling loose ends
of the revenue service together and
letting field offices make decisions
previously made here.
About 56.000 people work for the
revenue service around Uie coun
try, 6.000 of them In the main
Washington office, which has been
hardest hit by layoffs: 500 Jobs
abolished so far here, anoiher 600
to be abolished, more to go else
where.
Some members of Conitress com.
plain Andrews Is not keeping them
sufficiently Informed on what he
is doing and that in his zeal for
economy and decentralization he
may be overdoing it.
One member of the House, De
will S. Hyde, Maryland Republican
raised the question of uniformity
in tax decisions by saying the fed
eral tax system could be wrecked
If there is not sufficient coordina
tion between the field offices and a
central point like the main office
here. As an example of what was
meant:
Suppose a New Yorker and a
Calllornliin had Identical tax dis
putes with the government and
each went to his local ofllce for a
final ruling. If there was a differ
ence Uiat is. unless the main of
fice here could make sure the rul
ings wero the same one of the
two men would lose or gain more
than the other.
Arguments on Andrews' side go
like this: People outside Washing
ton ought to be able to net nn.
swers close to home without the
aeiay ana the expense, n thev hnri
to hire WashliiRton tax payers in
volved in coming here for a final
decision which might take as long
a two jtriiin.
In his decentralization nrournm
Andrews is letting loca offices
make decisions which used to come
here for final review and approval.
In some cases the main Waahinir.
ion oiuco win still give the final
miwi-i.
JAMES MARLOW
Northwest History Highlight!
By DAN E. CLARK
Trofcssor Kmcritus of History
t nlvcrslty 0f orcgun
No. 50
Today's Question: What hap
pened at the meeting of the Pro.
visional Government on July 5,
1843? .
The first reai step In the organ
lzatlon of the Provisional Govern
ment for the Oregon country was
taken at a meeting held on July
ft. 1943. nt Champoeg. The commit
tee which had been appointed at
the meeting of May 3 made a
report. It happened that one mem
ber of the committee had a copy
of the laws adopted by the legis
lature of Uie Territory of Iowa at
Its first session in 1838-39. With
these laws were bound several oth
cr documents, Including Uie Ordi
nance of 1787 and the act of Con
gress establishing the Territory of
Iowa. Selected provisions from all
of these documents were woven
together Into the "organic laws"
recommended by the committee
and adopted nt the meeting.
What amounted to a bill ol rights
consisted of excerpts from the Or
dinance of 1787. including tho fam
ous clause concerning the eneour.
Bgemsnt of "schools and the means
of education," and the prohibition
of slavery. . The executive power
was vested In an executive com
mittee of three, although tne cnair.
man of the meeting, the Rev. Ous.
tavus Hlnes. niBde a vigorous but
Ineffective attack on what he called
"a hydra-headed monster" and
"Roman Triumvirate, iik icbw
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1 montn - -
6 months
1 year
than we do by the cold, hard facts
Of recorded niswry. oiiu.o u
be a shame to let this country
start taking Itself too seriously.
There's little enough fun In the
world as it is. And it seems Im
portant to us to get down In print
the tales of earlier jdays regarding
the local men as well as Fremont
and Kit Carson and Oillespie.
That horse, by the way, was tol
en in Silver Lake, not Lakevlew, as
i salfi Guy Merrill told it to me
straight but I couldn't read my
own notes.
congratulations to Wiilard Ward
(the mortician chappie here who
says of nlmself that he's the last
man who'll ever let you down)
on ms election as lieutenant gover
nor of this district for Kiwanls.
Suite a Job. Wiilard was telling me
of the trip up to tne convention, at
Yakima, I believe he said. Seems
iat he and his wife and John Van
Doren 'and his wife, Lacl, cruised
up in the Ward family car. Got
into town on Sunday night, which
In Washington is dryer uian Death
Valley, and hauled Into the hotel
only to tind that the lock on the
trunk was Jammed. Hall a dozen
garages tried with no luck. Final'
ly they located a small outfit on
uie outskirts of town where the
mechanic allowed as how he could
open it, if tney didn't care what
Happened to the lock. All okay.
So he took Into It with an electric
drill. He got the lock open okay.
but also left John with a souvenir
of tne trip. Drilled a neat hole in
his Val-Pak for mm. They had a
good time, however, said It was
quite a convention and a pleasant
trip.
. O. Gordon Delk, Andrews' chief
deputy, declined any explanation
of what Is being done. He said
the top revenue people wanted to
say nothing publicly until they
could sit down, perhaps in mid
September, with their congression
al critics and give them an ex
planation. Actually, Andrews Is Intensifying
and broadening a decentralization
begun In the last days of the Tru
man administration after tax bu
reau Investigations showed a need
for some kind of revenuo service
reorganization,
Before that almost all of the
service's six main divisions had
separate field offices and operated
pretty much Independently of one
another, thus making a lot of dupli
cation. For example:
The Collections Division (which
audited returns on income under
$8,500) 64 district collectors' of
fices, plus 900 subofflce?: the In
come Tax Dvlsion (whose revenue
agents audited returns on income
over S8.500I 39 district offices,
with suboffices: Alcohol Tax Di
vision 15 district offices, plus sub
offices. Each division was under a dep
uty commissioner In Washington,
and the heads of the various dis
trict offices, operating independ
ently, reported to the commission
er in charge of their respective
division.
Under the Truman reorganiza
tion, the country was divided Into
17 districts, each under a district
commissioner. Each was in charge
oi all revenue activities in his dis
trict, Including those handled by
the 64 collectors whose title was
changed to directors. Tills helped
coordinate and decentralize (from
Washington) the work o: the rev
enue service.
Andrews has reduced the 17 dis
tricts to 9. They are called regions j
now, noi districts, eacn under a
regional commissioner who Is boss
of the Internal Revenue Service
work in his region.
As a further attempt at elimina
ting duplication, each of the 64 dis
trict collection directors has taken
over the work formerly done by
district heads ot other divisions.
such as the revenue agents and
special agents
who worked on
fl.,,ua caacs
lative branch was a committee of
nine; and the Judiciary consisted
of a supreme Judge and two Jus
tices, a proDate court, and Justices
oi me peace, a considerable num
ber of the laws of the Territory of
Iowa were adopted verbatim. The
expenses of the government were
to be defrayed by mans of volun
tary subscriptions by the settlers.
Four huge legislative districts.
named Twality. Yamhill. Cham
poeg and Clackamas, were estab
lished. Two other Important laws
were adopted at this meeting on
July 5, 1843. One was a militia
law providing for a battalion of
three companies mounted riflemen
commanded by a major. All male
inhabitants between the ages ot
seventeen and fifty-nine were re
quired to enroll in the mlllta if they
wished to be considered citizens.
The other aw was one relating to
iano cmims, a suojeet ot vital Im
portance to the settlers. The law
specified the methods of making
and marking land claims, and stip
ulated that no individual could hold
a claim of more than 640 acres,
thus anticipating the later action
In Congress In enacting the Dona
tion Land Law of 1850.
Next Question: What changes
were made in the provisional gov
ernment after 1843?
Clip and paste In your history
scrapbook. (If you have a question
you would like answered on Ore
gon or Northwest history, mail It
to Dan E, Clark, care of this newspaper.)
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ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL
By KEN McLEOD
Those researchers who adopted
Lelbig's theory that the soli was
like a bank and what you took out
of the soil you had to replace
really adopted a theory that the
soil was Just a. static storage bin
for chemicals utilized by plants.
They were, followed by geologists
who likewise accepted this . idea
and it :d the storage bin with
ground - rock sandstone, granite,
glacial drifts and so on that In
turn produced granite soils, glacial
soils and other types based upon
the parent, rock. ,
A few other factors were recog
nized. Borne ' soils were rich in
clay and thus became "heavy"
soils to the plow; other soils were
rich In sand and these ' became
"light" soils to' the plow. With the
rise of knowledge of biology, or
ganic matter and micro-organisms,
these were also added to the mix
ture but without altering the funda
mental concept.
It vas Inevitable, of course, that
It should occur to someone to look
at the soil, dig into it, and see
whether It was like it was assumed
to be In this theory that the sou
was like a bank, or, the balance
sheet theory. Credit for much of
the work on the soil Itself belongs
to the Russians, those earnest
workers who came before the
present day political turbulence in
that country, ,
The early soil scientists found
that the soils in nature were made
up of a series of layers, or "soil
horizons" as they are now called.
These "horizons" reached from the
surface to a depth of a foot or
many feet. Collectively these "hor
izons" or soil layers are caUed
the "profile" of the soil.
In Europe and In the United
States, soil profiles are usually
two to five feet deep. They are
shallower toward the Arctic and
deeper toward the Equator. Not
only that, from Just one kind of
rock all sorts of soils varying
widely in color, chemical compo
sition, productivity and so on were
tound. In fact, kinds of soil were
found to be more closely related
to climate and vegetation rather
than to the kind of rock beneath
them.
While rocks are distributed
promiscuously over the face of the
earth, soils In direct contrast, as
tar as our present environment
is concerned. The areas of Indivi
dual kinds of soil are to be found
in an orderly discoverable geo
graphic pattern. Each distinct
com oina lion of climate, vegetation,
parent rock, relief and time fac
TELLING THE EDITOR
KLAMATH FALLS I am writing
this letter In support of the plea
made by a young woman living
In the housing project who is taced
with the problem of finding a place
lo live once the housing is torn
down.
We came here m mnnths mm
having employment and confront
ed with finding a place to live.
we iouna a numuer of places con
sisting of two or three rooms which
we could afford, since there are
only two in our family, we man
ge to get along, with storing a
lot of our things and bv living in
a home so small that we" line things
up against the wall to get them
out of the way and by moving
gingerly to keep from stumbling
over them.
But suppose we had children
There would be no place for a crib,
nor one Inch of space for any ot
baby's belongings. And to think of
having several children in such
small quarters makes me shudder.
People younger than we, are rais
ing lamanes, i wonder how.
There Is one alternative. Once
in a while a house is advertised
ior rem i j65 lo $85. One might i
meet the reoutrement i
of those, but what couple toeing
vuofc v, uik wnere tood,
etc., are concerned can negotiate
such a rental charge?
Nor am I blaming the people
who charge such prices for a good
house On today's market, that is
probably fair.
What I want to know Is: Why
can't these units, not the worst or
the best, be allowed to stand to
lighten a little the lack of housing
already existing?
The city fathers probably can
present good reasons lor not tak
ing it over. But the city of Klam
am Falls Is cutting olf Its nose
to spite Its face.
You want our town to grow Or.
t"'"1. y0" ' business to boom.
Well. I dont need to say what
makes a town grow and business
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH
Time
.
TrlEN EXPECT THE HACKlE TO
DRIVE LIKE MAp to MAKE UP
FOR LOST TIME- .
'
tors are called by the soil tech
nician the "five genetic factors" of
the soil. These factors give the
sou its unique set of character
istics which In turn Is caUed the
soU "type."
This present day point of view
of the soil is a far-cry from the
theory - that the soil is a simple
storage bin of chemicals.
As tile surface of a sloping soU
Is gradually eroded away, the up
per part of the second "horizon"
or the next layer of soil beneath
the eroded surface is gradually
changed and Incorporated into the
lower part of the eroding surface.
In turn the third "horizon" ' is
changed and becomes the lower
part of the second and so on until
finally new fresh minerals from the
rocks beneath are Incorporated
into the tower part of the lowest
"horizon."' '
Some soils, however, instead of
having fresh minerals added from
the bottom have them added from
the top. Silty coverings are left by
the overflow of rivers on the sur
face of young alluvial soils like
those o( the river Nile. Probably
a third of all the people of the
world now get their food supply
from this type of alluvial soil.
On many soils, dust and volcan
ic ejects fall thus creating a dif
ferent type of soil from that ob
tained from the overflow of rivers.
As air enters and leaves the
soil with wetting and drying, some
gasses are expelled and others ab
sorbed. Rain brings soluble mater
ials from the air and percolating
waters leach out materials. These
actions change the soil mater
ials because various minerals and
other compounds vary in their de
gree of solubility and in their rate
decomposition. And so it goes. The
soil Is a dynamic living., ever
changing mass of material not
Just the static storage bin of ele
ments, as conceived by Leiblg.
These physical and chemical pro
cesses and others are modified
profoundly by plant, animals and
microorganisms.
'Nutrients are collected by the
living matter, held against the
forpe of leaching and returned
gradually to the soil, thus the soil
becomes a solid, changing piece
of landscape, its upper surface Is
the surface of the land, its lower
surface is defined by the lower
limits of biological forces and its
sides are boundaries with other
kinds of soil where changes are
going on in one or more of the
five so-called "genetic" factors
climate, vegetation, parent rock,
relief and time.
boom. It's people. People who buy
food, clothing, furniture, cars and
gasoline, and maybe a little saving
left over that would eventually be
come the down payment on a per
manent home, thus making more
people potential help to the city for
years to come.
But suppose they have to choose
between Klamath Falls and some
place where housing is available?
Enough of this and you business
men just don't expand and you
know it.
A son-in-law of ours was given
a Job here several months ago.
He has a wife and three children.
He boarded here while he and we
house hunted so that the family
could move over here.
We followed all the leads. Most
of the houses available, large
enough for a family of five were
scarcely above pig sties ond a few
that asked rent which they couldn't
pay. The head of this family com
muted back and forth for a little
while, then took another Job.
This family is large enough to
consume a lot of oroducts vnnr sev.
ernl merchants arc wantuig to sell
but another town is getting Just
a little mat gravy. Not to men
tion that this familv might con
tribute something to the town out
side of material help.
We often say that never have we
lived where business people were
so nice to deal with, where people
are such good neighbors just love
ly people in general.
Doesn't the city want more peo
ple? Or does It want those already
here to move away? l m Just a
housewife, not knowing the whole
story, I'm sure, but like the wom
an from the housing project, do
ing without a swimming pool would
be more sensible than families llv
tag In squalor or havmg no place
to live at all. .
Hopefully yours,
Mri. Earl L. Blake.
3li( Boardman
FALLS, OREGON
By Jimmy Hatlo
Hal Boyle;
NEW YORK Ifl When you try
to educate a child It is hard to say
who learns mostr you or the child.
"Little Jughead," a tiny miss
who came to our house recently
for what we hope is a permanent
visit, is right at the formative
stage too old to.be kept in ignor
ance, but too young for college.
As a matter of fact she is only
two months old. But, operating on
the theory that a girl can't start
learning too soon, I have begun her
formal education already.
The first tMngs I am teaching
her are music- and International
affairs. I do this by playing the
phonograph for her and reading
her the newspaper.
"You are ' positively crazy,
Rover," said my wUe, Frances.
She has the feminine idea that Just
because a baby can't walk or talk
it can't appreciate the finer things
of life like culture, and all that
stuff. .
But I know better. Take music
for example. Little Jughead and I
are having a' wonderful time ex
ploring the world of music. She
likes Beethoven, but he puts me to
sleep. When I play a record by
Hayden, we both fall asleep. But
Mozart we both love. The other
day Jughead started a strange
crooning, ana I yelled for my wife.
"Now what's wrong," she said.
"Cant you hear what- the baby
Is doing?" I asked excitedly.
"Certainly," said Frances. "She
is making happy noises."
"Happy noises nothing. Listen
again. She is humming Mozart."
"You are positively nuts," said
Frances, going back to the kitchen.
Well that lust goes to show you
how much more fathers appreciate
daughters than mothers do. A mu
sical genius in the family and her
own mother won't even admit it.
Reading the newspaper to Little
Jughead 'is something of a prob
lem "
We both like the sports page, but
she gets restless when I try to
read the comics. I like them, but
they bore her to angry squalls so
I read them real fast.
On the other hand nothing con
tents her more than the editorial
page, which I sometimes find
heavy going. The longer and duller
the editorial the better she likes it.
She lies there smiling, gnawing her
hand with her gums, and nodding
thoughtfully.
She is also keenly Interested in
foreign affairs, and really knows
more about them than I do. For
example, some time ago I read her
a piece about the Shah of Iran fly
incr to Rome.
"How do vou like that, kid?" I
said. "I guess the shah's had It.
Old Mossadegh kicked him out to
stay, eh?'
I looked over at Little Jughead.
and she shook her head violently
in the negative. She didn't agree.
Sure enough, a few days later old
Mossadegh got bounced and the
Shah started back home. When I
read that to Little Jughead, she
leered up triumphantly, smug as
any woman whom time nas proved
right.
One thing worries me about our
mutual cultural and enlightenment
program. The last couple of days
she hasn't been listening to the
phonograph or mv newspaper
reading. Just lies there on the floor
flexing her leg muscles and doing
pushups.
Oh well, mavbc It's time for me
to buy her a glove and a bat. What
If Little Jughead doesn't want to
become an intellectual. We could
use a good lady softball pitcher in
the family.
Knife Bandits Launch
Careers at 9 and 10
DENVER Wi A nine-year old
bov complained to police Thurs
day that two boys, one nine and
the other 10. held him up with a
broken paring knife and took 62
cents from him. He said they gave
him back 50 cents of the money.
Police picked up the two boys
who admitted the robbery. They
told Juvenile authorities they
bought sunflower seeds to eat with
their 12-cent loot. They were taken
to juvenile hall.
Summer Estate Owner
Builds Own Dunes
HYANNIS. Mass. If! There were
no sand dunes on Paul Mellon's
summer estate an unthinkable sit
uation on sandy Cape Cod so the
nephew of former Secret:. ly of the
Treasury Andrew Mellon built his
own.
Mellon trucked more than 2.000
tons of soft w hite sand ten miles
from Sandy Neck in Barnstable
and constructed a 20-foot high dune
between the house and Nantucket
Sound. j
Dr. R. T. Lindley
OPTOMETRIST
510 Med.-Denr. Bldg. Ph. 4215
Eye Examination
Visuol Training
BRUCE
The ruling Republicans don t
need to be told that they have a
heavy legislative assignment ahead
U they are o build record to
approximate their campaign prom
ises. But they're pursuing a natural po
litical bent in trying to make the
most of the events that have tran
spired since they came to power
In January. '
By any realistic measure, the
Korean truce Is the most signifi
cant of these. That the truce was
made possible largely through a
change in Communist attitude does
not matteri President Eisenhower
promised to try to end the Korean
fighting. It has been ended
in his administration. Politically,
be seems to get full credit.
The Democrats may seek to sug
gest that the armistice spells sur
render, and many Americans may
feel unhappy over an agreement
that settles so little: yet it would
be hard to find anyone who is not
glad the dying Is over.
Rarelv does any factor have the
political weight of a war. It stirs
violent emotions which Inevitably
reflect themselves at the polls. All
experts agreed the Indecisive Ko
rean conflict hurt the Democrats
badly in 1952. That the shooting
stopped under the Republicans is
the prime political fact since the
last election.
Privately, many seasoned Dem
ocrats admit it. Thev know it
overshadows anything they can say
publicly in support of their por
trait of the Elsenhower administra
tion as a "give-away" government,
determined to aid "special In
terests" at the expense of the
ordinary man's welfare.
The Republicans, of course, are
not content to . rest on the truce.
They argue they have made a
healthy start toward balancing the
budget and thus making -possible
tax savings; that they have rein
HUGH
In the deepening twilight six years
ago while attempting partially to
forget the sadness occasioned by
the Illness of one very dear to me,
I was testing a 3-inch telescope
on the tiny telescopic star, which
nestles almost in the rays of the
North Star.
After I had successfully glimpsed
this little companion of Polaris sev
eral times in a sky still far from
dark, an airplane passed overhead,
blinking Its vari-colored lights in
measured rhythm. Hurriedly the
telescope was swung on its mount
ing and aimed directly at the plane.
Slowly the aviator and I glided
Third of Polled
Frenchmen Don't
Like Us Much
PARIS Wl Maybe 5,000 French
men don't speak for 50 million
Frenchmen, but two-thirds of
5,000 asked In a recent poll said
they like Americans. The othei
third wished the Yanks would
stay home.-
The poll was published in a
monthly magazine devoted, to the
subject of "America Seen by
Frenchmen." It concluded that
only 32 per cent of those asked
feic any gratitude toward the
United States, a source of both
war and postwar aid.
Here are some other conclu
sions: Switzerland Is the Frenchmen's
favorite country, with the United
Slates running second. Russia is
the least favored, with Britain
only siightly more popular.
Americans are only interested
In money, according to 32 per
cent of those polled. Americans
are rolling In money 34 per
cent. Americans have an irritat
ing way of treating Frenchmen
aspoor relations 39 per cent.
Yiniie professing to like Ameri
cans, 54 per cent didn't like
American jazz, 43 per cent didn't
like U.S. movies, 70 per cent
didn't like chewing gum and 36
per cent didn't like American cig
arettes. According to 32 per cent, the
United States should pull her
trnops out of France and all the
rest of Western Europe,
"MY HUSBAND WONT LET ME
DO HIS SHIRTS AT HOME!"
That's where he, .mart, lady, and how well you know it!
First of all, he figures he married a wife and not a loun
dre . . . which is mighty complimentary to you. Second,
he knows that we'll deliver his shirts, crisp and sparkl
ing clean, laundered exactly to his likinq . . . which is
'nTuIrCaMSin U'" S eVervbo,ly' ha in''"-
CASCADE LAUNDRY
and DRY
Klamath's Finest
BIOSSAT
troduced good management to gov
ernment; tnai uiey mc ccf"'b ,
country prosperous; ano vnav wcj
have raised a new standard of
honesty. , '
On most ox uiese niitca,
probably would be the first to
...Ln..,iiffa nr Km tpl u that the
evidence Is stUl insufficient. They
give the excuse mat tney - in
herited a "mess" in wasningwu,
and can't move too rapidly to
clean It up.
Most Impartial ooservers
concede that at the very least they
Inherited the most complex
government on earth, and mastery
of it In a short time cannot fairly
be expected.
The Democrats, while properly
contending their aid In Congress
was vital to the passage of many
administration measures, espe
cially in foreign affairs, appear
somewhat fanciful in attacking
some administration efforts.
For Instance, the Republicans
have espoused higher Interest rates
on government bonds, with the ob
ject of curbing inflationary ten
dencies and making federal debt
management sounder. Many pro
fessional economists endorse the
move. But because . this "hard
money" policy has had some
tightening effect on the general
money market, the Democrats por
tray it as a device for squeezing
widows and orphans.
In the long run this policy may
not prove out, but it has hardly
had a fair test. There is about
this sort of opposition criticism a
bland assumption that the only
right lies In the already estab
lished policy, that any change is
for the worse.
Fifteen months before the next
election, it ought still to be pos
sible to keep the arguments on
the national side. It's too eaVly
yet for the Republicans to claim
the moon, or for the Democrats
to cry black doom.
PRUETT
down the north together, passing
en route across numerous single
little stars and interesting open
groups. Suddenly we dashed Into
a veritable confusion of tiny pin
points of light, dozens of them in
two clusters. So striking was the
sight that the swinging telescope
was instantly stopped ami the plane
allowed to proceed alone.
Unknowingly the flyer had guid
ed the telescope Into the beautiful
double cluster of Perseus. To the
naked eye that part of tho sky was
then only bright, starless twilight,
but the power of the glass bad
reached out into the Infinitudes of
space and brought the starry tan
gle into human vision.
On a clear, moonless night this
double cluster is dimly visible
without optical aid, not as stars
but as a small cloudy patch. At
9 p.m. in late August it appears
about haU way up in the north
eastern sky and directly below the
W-shaped configuration ot Cassio
peia. Below it are the principal
stars of Perseus, arranged some
thing like a bent bow.
Through instruments of greater
aperture than a 3-lnch and In a
dark sky, the telescoDic picture is
exquisite. The field is uiive with
glittering little lights, literally
scores of them.
Some appear fairly blight; oth
ers, dim: still others, mere points
on the background of dark blue
night. On good twinkling nights,
their rapid scintillations remind
one of a swarm of exceedingly
busy bees, every one working hard,
energetically trying to oo its bit
in the vast program of the mighty
universe.
, The beauty of the picture is en
hanced by the "tiniest of tile tiny"
which are visible only at the mo
ments of best seeing. These appear
as though sharp needles were at
intervals pricking the daik curtain
of night and letting through tije
merest Intimations of the "infinite
light beyond the stars."
These celestial Jewels are actual
ly huge suns so far away that their
light requires around 5000 years to
reach us. Many are 100 times
brighter than our sun but are trans
formed by great distances into
small stars.
Across the inconceivable
stretches of space, 'the combined
light of these mighty suns gives
to the unaided eye only the deli
cate nebulous spot, the mythical
sword hand of Perseus.
CLEANERS '
Opp. Pest Office
SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1953
The Doctor Says
By EDWIN P. JORDAN, M. D.
' Numberless people aro troubled
from time to time with hives, or
urticaria, a condition, commonly
classified . with the allergies. J.H.,
for example, writes: "I have been
troubled with hives lately and won.
der If there is a cause (or them. I
also want to know If there Is any
Immediate cure lor the terrible
things." ''
The characteristic ' appearance
of hives consists of reddish, swol
len spots on the skin accompanied
by Intense Itching. These - spots
may last for only a few hours and
then disappear without apparent
reason, or may go on for days or
even weeks. .
There is no one "cause! since
urticaria can develop from a
great many different things, and
therefore, in a way, it is not proper
to call It a single disease.
There appears to- be something
special about the person who has
urticaria which makes it possible. .
For example, most people can eat
strawberries without developing
hives, but a few break out with
urticaria If they eat even a single
berry.
Urticaria can follow from almost
any food or drug, almost any in
fection, heat, furs, insect bites or
innumerable other causes. Cur
iously enough, most patients with
urticaria do not show a skin re
action when given the skin tests
with the offending agent. This is
difficult to explain, but, ot course,
has greatly complicated (he Identi
fication of the cause in many cases
of obscure origin. ,
When possible the cause of hives
should be discovered. If the cause,
whether food or something else,
can be pinpointed, avoidance of
that substance will usually cause
the urticaria to disappear, and
shunning the offending substance
usually prevents its reappearance.
Other than finding the cause,
medical treatment Is often disap
pointing. There Is nothing which
can be put on the surface of the
skin to make the hives disappear,
although the itching often can be
partly relieved. Epinephrine or
adrenalin, which Is useful in many
allergies, has proved disappoint
ing. The drugs known as antihista
mines, of which there are several
kinds on the market, often prove
helpful. When properly used they
may relieve the symptoms -for
hours though they do not cure the
underlying cause. Chrcnic, long
lasting urticaria, constitutes an ex
ceedingly difficult problem.
Disgraced Mother
Tries to Gas Brood .
LOS ANGELES Ut-A 28-year-
old mother, distraught over the ar
rest of her husband of a kidnaping
charge, stands accused of trying
to kill their six children by turning
on the gas In their home.
Mrs. Voncllle Baggett was
charged with attempted murder of
the children, aged 1 to 9. Police '
found them unharmed Thursday.
Her husband. William E. Baggett,
30, a carpenter is in ja'l accused
of trying to abduct a woman on
the street. '
Mrs. Baggett said she couldn't
stand the neighbors' talk after her
her husband's arrest weeping: "I
didu't raise my children to live
down this scandal."
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