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. o o o o o o o tc ft' .iiy '','$1 and Members of the Women's Auxiliary 9A ".-ut WELCOME " Legionnaires If J, V3 J csS Medord "The Pear City" Is Qlad to Have You As Her Guests L.egion s Welcoming Edition MEDFO MAIL TRIB UNE Legion's Welcoming Edition Daily Twenty-third Yoar Wt-fklv Ktttv-hcvt'itth Year MED FORD, OKKtiON. THURSDAY, AlWKT Xo. 132. JUVENILE DRUM CORPS FEATURE f CONVENTION Forty Med ford Boys in Corps Clayton Isaacs and Ralph Botts Are In structors Uniforms Are Clever Boy Members Are Listed. ilium, poul MacCarvey; bugle sec tion, Vaughn Stone. Wendell Tolle.. Unions Dodgers, Albert (i. ut-lis, Devon Dunford, Hoger Heudlee. Dill.e Howard, Kldori York. I.lyoe Dvnn.i, Kohort Sher wood, Pol n i l ('.reaves. Hobert ; Vroiuaii. 1 loin i t purucker, Donald Niil-'"ii. .lames Horner. Kugene .Moffat. Jerome Trill, .lack Vnx ton. Herbert Harper. Palph Den loan, and Avery Hinnchi. Drum section: Theodore Sehatz. Wiliurd Croft. Dean Piapper. Koh i i t !.yd, I lerbert Neilson, Uobei't Fowler, Louis Nutter. Morris Sample, .lack Parrot, Sain Van Dyke. Chester Webb. Arnold Avi'iy, ( j p raid llo troughs. Hymn 'I'll 1 1 1 Mi rn, Donald (ii'iiy, a ml Jack ilani'U. Prominent Legionnaire Gets 'Writ-up' The following sketch lells about a prominent member of the Med ford l.egion post, who was art i ve in putting over tin suite conven tion. ('"1. C. G. Thomson. M r. Look ley only matin one mistake, he put a 'p" in the colonel's name when none should he there: ill!M IEI i:HS KV.AT Ixl (Ml MKTKIt MARK With the announcement last spring that Medford would be host to the American Degion Con vention, an idea was born that n Junior Drum Corp.s composed , .1' n, vitmii (1f Mittlfitrd and vicinity emulating their older pothers of the Deglun would be' It welcome adjunct to the. enter lalnment of the visitors. Doubt was expressed by many that a corps of youngsters could le whipped into shape in the nhort space of a few weeks, but! the Palmer Music House assumed) the responsibility, sponsored the corps, ami set to work. Calls for aspiring drummers and buglerj through the meitiuni of radio and newspapers met with instantane ous response, and in less than a week 4(t youngsters bubbling over with enthusiasm wrf'fe ruportlim regularly for rehearsals on dummy drums and bugles. Meanwliile, a liuri'y-up call had been sent l the l.udwi factories for genuine American Legion drums and bu gles in standard size and a few days later the equipment arrived. This was an event In the lives of all the youngsters as with sparklim; eyes they viewed the bright shiny instruments. They plunged into the work of mastering the. in struments with a viBor that put to shame the thought of any lazi ness in the American youth. Ue Mtlls came rapidly, and with b'ss 4 nan a month of actual practice. I he corps is touted as a wonde" CMtfanlzation. liulph Dolts, local musical in structor, was first secured to con duct the rehearsals, bid in a -short time he found he had more than his hands full, and Clayton Isaacs, manager of the l'almer Music louse, was called in to take enre of the youthful drum mers, while Holts devoted his .time to the buglers. The problem of uniforms next arose, and another rush call vwis fciven to Mann's Department store, and nifty sea-Koiny uniforms of red and white wJM delight fond parents and friends of the am bitious musicians. Original practices were held in the city playgrounds but in re cent days the streets of the east side of town have been u.-ed for drill formations patterned after the army marching- formations, as both iMiars and Dotts are vet erans of the World war. So rent an Interest has been mvn the corps that n waiting list of fifteen younii.-ters is al ready on file and the Music Ilote expects to turn over one section of the corps to some civic organi zation, to sponsor another unit to be in snaps f.r the Armistice day celebration. While the general opinion is that it lakes months of hnr:' work and practice to master the Intricacies of drum and buple, th first public appearance of he corps Thursday, will dispel t)P idea, as those who ave watched the rehearsals of this organization predict that n surprise i In store for the (public. The corps has been built around two high school and two Hoy Scout buglers and with .Jut k Hoyle as drum major and Paul Macflarvey ns Scotch bass drum mer these b"s deserve a great deal of credit for the showing alVady made. The prsonn I of t!.f' corps im-hides the f-dl-'Wir wMI'Unown ouths; Urum nuijor, jack JJulye; basu I ' 1 1 A N K ' t H T. f ! e i-m it n y (TI'i Ceriiiuny expects great things from her una: let f spl inters training for the 4x1 n' meter relay race. This quartet lias on a number of occasions shown that it can do bet in- t ban the hitherto existing w.o 'd record of 40. S seconds. The iiuartet is made up of the followirg: Helmut Koernig of P.er iin, Hubert Doijbcn of Hochuni, In . Ki iedrich ilhelm Wiehmunn of l'riinl;roi i-t)n-Muln, and Uichard ICorts of lierlin. All four do the I no meters In less than II seconds. Hogiio Iliver Valley The scenic ,Ho of flip W-nrM t'ohmel C. (i. Thomson Is super intendent of the Crater I.al:e na tional park. We sat together on a bench overlooking the lake recent ly ami -he told me of his work. I have been hearing about Colonel Thomson for years, so 1 was glad to have an opportunity of inter viewing him. Albert Kebel, pub lisher of the Pacific Northwest. In Portland, had ttdd me of Colonel Thomson's unusual work as super intendent of Htlibid prison, at Ma nila. Another friend of Colonel Thomson's told me of his being cited for his work in the Philip pines, and also of having received a citation for his work in the World war. When I asked Colonel Thomson to tell me more about these citations he said: "Let's put the soTt pedal on thai kind of stuff, and talk aboui Cra ter Lake park. I resigned from the army in May, Iflll). My wife was tired of having- no home Hie. I i)ii t in my application for ap pointment in national park service, but I had to wait three years be fore being appointed. During this . three-year interval I tic voted mv time to writing. I w rote short stories, which 1 sold to Munseys. I he Pieti rial Review, the Country Cent leman. the Chicago Tribune -syndicate and "various other maga zines. I also wrote a book entitled Terry.' and followed this up with another called Tale of the Hill Country.' I have another bonk, t entitled 'Time Is a Hcntloman. 1 which will be published by the MacMMlan company shortly. "Yes, 1 suppose il was quite na tural that 1 went in the army. Mv .mother hail four brothers in the Civil war, and my wife wore five stars during- the W'oVld war. Her husband and four of her brothers were in the service. I was born, at Little Palls. X. Y.. on Pebruarv i !, iss:i. My father's name was William P. Thomson. If you will trace my father's descent back for u generation or so you will lino that one of his forbears, 'harles Thomson, was clerk to Thomas .Jefferson. (Joing back on iny mother's side, you will find t hat one of her forbears was. a major iwnd was killed during the Dur- , goyne Invasion. My mot h c r's ( uncle, William doff, enlisted as a private In the Civil war and came out with a commission uh colonel. "Things were fairly easy for me imtil I was 17 years old. a( which time nty fniher failed In business f ( iilimi-l ( . (. 1 IIIMOSOII and 1 b id to stop sehoid and go to work. 1 clerked in a store, but this do I not satisfy me. I wanted to devote my life n public seiice. We live only once, arid if we put In all our time merely in accumulating- money we ha ve w a sled uur ; lit'-- When I was ;.M years old I I went -to Cornell. I walled on the (able, sold tickets, did Janitor Work and worked at a nyt blng eUe t lint turned up. (. f,-n n uiy wnv tbroogb ctdlcge. I bad no time or money for social life while al college. I was inn' of the organizers and served as secretary and treasurer of the Intercollegiate Athletic as sociation. I specialized on pathol ogy, particularly on the infections diseases thai arc intercom muni cat ei I bet ween animals and men. I gradual ed in 1 lt7. J list- about then there was an examination foe two vacancies in tin sanitary ser vice hi (he Philippines. 1 ranked second in the civil service exami nation and was sent to .Manila and during the next seven years I trav eled all over the Islands studying ami trying to stamp out the foot ami mouth ! disease, rinderpest, anthrax, surra, Asiatic cholera and other such diseases. We used the constabulary In our quarantine work. In lltnx I was sent by the secretary of war to Indo-China on a special mission to investigate and report on that country as a source of meat supply in case of war. l;pon my reliiru to the Philippine Islands I helped organize a veteri nary college, the first veterinary college ever organized for the .lal.is. In 1 1 1 n I was assigned to M ilia iiiln province, of which Ceu er;il Pershing was governor. I was alio we'd to use troops hi the work of quarantine and eventually we extended this work all over the inlands. 1 bad vnn soldiers serv ing under me In this work. I served under (b'tieral- Pershing1, tleneml i Dell and Oeneral Punstnn. i "In PH I. when I was HI years ltd-!. I became a member of the staff of the governor ami was ap pointed assistant director of pris ons and was put in charge of the w ork of Hllibid pi ;.a.n at Manila, which had at that time :iUtin pris oners. We had 4ti penal Institu tions in the Islands, with a total of SStMl prisoners. This prison was administered without politics and it gave me a wonderful opportunity to give the men hi prison a normal outlook toward life. We Introduced a large number of trades, so tltat the men, instead of becoming rest- ( less through being idle, learned trades so that they could become, stdf -supporting w hen I hey came out of the prison. A man who is self-sustaining is self-respecting , and Is not apt to get Into trouble, i "Our first work was to rebuild ; the men physically. After this, we 1 tried to inspire them with pride In the quality of their work. In place of having constant punishments : and restrict Itms, we lust It uted a prisoners court. The prisoners, in all petty cases, conduct the court, select a jury ami decide on the punishment. In other words, we tried to built) up a sense of re sponsibility in the prisoners and to ' have them become members of a ; society there, so they would not feel lost when they became mem bers of society outside the prison walls. We paid them for all work, 'and the man who was a good Janl- tor got paid just as much as the (man who was an expert silversmith or cabinet maker. It was the qual ;lly of work tha counted, 1 'Vnniinissfons came from many other countries to examine and re port on the work of the prison at Manila. My work there resulted in the republic of Panama asking me to organize their penal system and establish an agricultural colony on the Isle of Coiba. However, just about then we got into the war. and 10 days after the declaration of war I sailed from the islands to get into the service. I was detailed as captain in the remount service a ml served a t Ca mp 1 )i x, I 'a nip Cordon ami Camp Johnson. 1 went overseas In the early spring of 1 it 1 K. I was put in command of the troops handling cavalry and artillery horses. 1 was stationed I at Dux, behind the First army. Kef ore long 1 was promoted to major and then to lieutenant colonel, in place of being able to come home, like the rest of the troops, had to slay in France until every horse and mule had been sold. 1 sold one span of heavy Percherons for which the govern ment had paid $37t. for 3:!. ami francs, which means about $"nnu. "My wife's maiden name, was Hazel (ithhs. She and I played to gether' as children. We were mar ried April 30. 11)14, We have two sons .left", whose real name is Itohert I hide, ami Peter, whose ; nn in e Is William (!t'irge. Appre clat lug their qualities as 1 do. 1 am rather worried because the su ! preme' cmtrt-iumU -yet decided 'whether n child horn of American , parents In ti colony Is eligible for t lie presidency." THE MERCHANTS OF MEDFORD Extend a Cordial Welcome To Visiting LEGIONNAIRES and Auxiliary Members J ACKSON COUNTY RETAIL MRCH ANTS' ASSOCIATION t in WELCOME LEGIONNAIRES AND Auxiliary Members To help make your stay in Medford as pleasant as pos sible we offer you the conveniences of the store. Balcony Rest Room And Writing Room Branch Post Office -F ree Telephones RUSSELL'S "Medford'g Popular Department Store" 3E 3E A
