Different times, different mores. Looking at things like this with today’s sensibilities does provide a sour chuckle over the attitudes displayed toward racial equality, but the times were what they were. Notice in the Re: above I simply won’t use the word myself….

Then again, this was the same general time when using cyanide solutions for plating in the home workshop was perfectly acceptable, and used motor oil was recommended as a weedkiller under fences and along property lines. And let’s not mention the opium-laced patent medicines available on the shelf at any drug store.

It was dumber then….

As far as rubber bands go, surgical tubing with the right holder is a MUCH better propulsive device for a spitball…or a water balloon!

Alan