MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12. 1941.
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Society
by Betty Shoemaker
Local Resident
To Leave Soon
For Panama
Mrs. W. S. Phares and year
old daughter, Judith, are plan
ning to leave sometime next
week for Balboa, Panama, where
they will make their home for
the next few years. Mr. Phares.
employed in the department of
engineers in the war department
of the Panama Canal zone has
been in Balboa for the past four
months.
Mrs. Phares and small daugh
ter will fly by United Mainliner
to Los Angeles and will take a
steamer from San Pedro to their
new home. It is expected that
the trip will take about 14 days
from San Pedro. Mrs. Phares is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J. E. McAllister, 33 Tripp street.
Juit Friends Circle
To Meet for Luncheon
Just Friends circle will meet
with Grace Walker at Eagle
Point Thursday for covered dish
luncheon. Members are asked to
meet at the home of Helen Wet
terer, 621 South Holly street, to
arrange transportation.
Extension Unit
Meeting Announced
Roxy Ann extension unit will
meet with Mrs. C. E. Rose,
Spring street, Friday at 10:30
a. m., for covered dish lunch
eon. Topic for the meeting will
be "health emergencies in the
home, No. 2." Mrs. Kathleen
Yoakum and Mrs. Madge Nowlin
will be leaders.
In One
Regard We're
Still MOSS
COVERED SO often the old swimming
hole, she ain't what she
used to be. So often the old
oaken bucket has become a
streamlined faucet. Yet here's
the case of i man who has just
rev isited his youth to find the
essential satisfactorily the same.
This Standard Oiler started
on a tank-wagon and retired
as a district sales manager. Re
cently he found himself back
on a tank-truck. For he was
visiting a son who is now on
the very job at which his a
ther started years ago.
VCtU, sir, this father had to
visit San Francisco headquar
ters to tell associates how happy
this experience had made him.
Any right-thinking parent
would give his eye-teeth to see
his children get a proper start
in life. For him, that satisfac
tion was in the bag.
We take it as a testimonial of
character that a father who
knows by experienct approves
so deeply of his son's career
with Standard that he holds
fair treatment and opportunity
certain for his boy. If such
square-shooting toward our
people within and the public
without means being old-fashioned
then we propose to
remain as moss covered as the
old oaken bucket.
THURSDAY, 8-9 P.M.
733th WSEKIY STANDARD SYMPHONY
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Society Holds
Annual Homecoming
At Christian Church '
Adult Missionary society of
the First Christian church ob
served annual "homecoming"
with a 12:30 p. m. luncheon in
the recreational hall this week.
The tables and rooms were de
corated with fall flowers car
rying out the Thanksgiving mo
tif Mrs. Julia Gregory acted as
toastmistress introducing her of
ficers and group leaders who in
turn introduced their members
and guest;.
Mrs. Delia Childs led the wor
ship period which was closed
with a solo by Mrs. Archie
Pierce, "Prayer Perfect". Mrs.
Mabel Sims was program chair
man and presented a five point
discussion on "Democracy in the
Home" by Mrs. Eloise Winkle
bleck. "Democracy in Fellow
ship and Politics" was discussed
by Mrs. Sims; "Democracy in
Education by Rev. R. w. Cole
man and "Democracy in Reli
gion" by Mrs. E. Ireland.
The program carried out a
phase of the society's six
months' study of "Christianity
and Democracy in America"
Mrs. Edna Kindred and group
were hostesses for the
day. !
Ninety members and guests at
tended.
Nurses To Hear
Two Speakers
District No. 4, Oregon State
Nurses' association will hear two
speakers when they meet at the
Girls' Community clubhouse, 229
North Bartlett street Friday at
9 p. m following the first aid
class.
Miss Ellen Bill will talk on
"Rheumatic Fever" and a dis
cussion of "Nutrition" will be
given by a state nutritional ad
visor. Hostesses for the evening
are Miss Mary Blood, Mrs. Verna
Johnson and Mrs. Helen Starnes.
Daughters Of Job
To Meet Tonight
Daughters of Job will meet in
regular session tonight at 7:30
o'clock at Masonic temple. Hon
ored Queen Carol Tengwald
will preside.
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calendars FARMERS IN
Wednesday
7:30 p". m, Chrysanthemum
Circle. No. 84, N. O. W., K. of
P. hall.
7:30 p. m. St. Mark's public
card party, parish house. North
Oakdale avenue.
8:00 p. m. Adarel chapter No.
3, O.E.S., Red Cross unit, home
Mrs. Lela Shores.
8:00 p. m. American Legion
auxiliary, armory.
8:00 p. m. Junior Guild. St.
Mark's Episcopal church, home
Mrs. Peggy Baker, 618 South
Holly.
Thursday
9:30 a. m. Thursday Morn
ing Study club, Girls' Commu
nity clubhouse, 229 North Bart
lett street.
1:00 p. m. Medford Sojourn
ers, Hotel Medford.
1:15 p. m. Just Folks of the
First Methodist church, home
Mrs. H. F. Nordwick, 919 Reddy
avenue.
1:30 p. m. Chrysanthemum
thimble club, N. O. W., home
Mrs. Verna Goldfrap, Jackson
boulevard.
2:00 p. m. Alpha Delta Class.
First Christian church, church
parlor.
2:00 p. m. Ladies Bible class
of First Methodist church, home
Mrs. W. E. Nicholson, 1417 West
Main street.
2:00 p. m. Loyalty Circle.
First Methodist church,- home
Mrs. Lawrence Crocker, Jack
sonville highwav.
2:15 p. m W. C. T. U., Sal
vation Army chapel.
7:45 p. m. Mother's Study
club, home Mrs. Mary Albert.
423 Beatty street.
8:00 p. m. Past Noble Grand
club. Girls' Community club
house. 229 North Bartlett street.
8:00 p. m. Eagles Auxiliary,
Eagles lodge.
8:00 p. m. Degree of Honor
Protective Association, K. of P.
hall.
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The navy Instructed Rear Ad
miral C. A. Blakely (above) to
"take necessary steps" to carry
work forward at San Diego,
Calif., where Blakely, comman-
dant of the 11th Naval district
characterized an AFL strike on
the $35,000,000 naval construc
tion program In the area as
"Open Reo't."
Dinner Held
At Coffee Shop
Mark Ellsworth, Jack Jewitt
and Carl Holt entertained Mon
day evening with a dinner at the
Hotel Holland Coffee shop hon
oring Mr. and Mrs. Ben Berry
and Mr. and Mrs. Hartman de
Waard. The table was centered
with roses. An evening of visit
ing followed the dinner.
Visitor Here
From Montana
Among Medford visitors Is
Mrs. R. E. Wells of Helena.
Mont., who is a guest of her
daughter. Miss Mary Wells, 335
South Ivy street. Miss Wells met
her mother in Portland and both
returned south by train. She
plans to visit a month.
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So far, 1388 formers have
signed in the Department of
Agriculture drive to increase
production. It is planned to
have the farmers in this section
produce more vegetables, hogs,
hens, beef cattle, milk and cscs,
to meet defense needs, under
the slogan "Food will win the
war."
County Agent R. G. Fowler
estimates the final figures will
show around 2,200 farmers sign
ed up. The census is expected
to be completed by the end of
the month.
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Mrs. Hedrick's Book Rates
High With Noted Reviewer
"The Blood Remembers," first book written by Mrs. Helen
Hedrick of Medford, recently received the following flatter
ing review by Joseph Henry Jackson, the San Francisco
Chronicle's "Bookman":
"The wise people.
The In
dians call us that, laughing at
us, back of those faces. The
white man! The get-out-of-my-
! way-you-dirty -Indian white man!
I'm catching all the damn sal
mon in your river. I'm digging
up your river and blasting out
your graves, and I'm going to
get hog-rich. Why, you fool In
dian, you used to pack this gold
around and think it was noth
ing but pretty rocks, but I know
different, see? . . . You, Indian!
Get mad. But what can you do?
Get out of my way! I'm white.
. . . And then, when the salmon
arc all gone, when the gold has
run out, when the mountains
are snag-bare what then?"
So one of the characters in
Helen Hedrick's "The Blood Re
members," (Knopf; $2.50), ex
presses himself. That expression
romos as close as anything the
reader could select from the
novel to expressing what the
author herself wants to say
about the Indian, the white
man, the salmon, the fine trees,
the river. What then after the
exploiting is all done? What will
happen to the Indian? And
what, after all, will happen to
the white man who goes at his
exploitation so senselessly?
Miss Hedrick doesn't answer
the question she raises. But she
does write a poignant, often
strangely violent, always tense
story about a handful of peo
ple up on the Klamath river
on the border of Oregon and
California. It is a first novel,
but a surprisingly well-knit one.
You Must Choose Your World
Central character of the story
is Elden Braddock, a half-wild
girl of the half-savage Klamath
region, who falls instantly in
love with a fisherman, Richard
Burch, and goes with him to
share his life. They're married;
the girl's father sees to that.
for what it Is worth. But it is
not marriage that Elden and
her husband share, exactly. It':
more a matter of her barely con
trolled passion for him and
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everything he does or Is, and
his stubborn desire to go on
being what he is, in spite of her
This situation sets up Frus
tration Number One in Elden.
Little though she might have
thought it, once married and
with a child she wants Rich
ard to settle down, give up the
risky fisherman's life and have
a farm. Richard wants no sucn
thing, and makes it clear that
he doesn't.
Meantime, the girl Elden be
gins to absorb Indian lore, to
see more and more the Indian
point of view. She also encount
ers the half-breed. Jubal Math
ews, in whom the Indian blood
has the upper hand. Somehow
the same things she thought she
loved best in Richard are the
things she loves best about
Jubal, though she will not ad
mit it, even to herself. Jubal is
the Natural Man she thought at
first her Richard was. And as
time goes on she sees that her
desire to settle down with Rich
ard, if he would only give up
fishing, was no more than a
kind of escape from what her
spirit was really driving her
toward.
In the end, she finds that it
is Jubal and what he stands
for that has the only real mean
ing for her. Jubal, as symbol
of the force, whatever it was,
that give life meaning for her,
was what she needed and must
have. Perhaps it is a kind of
"memory," as the author sug
gests; perhaps, if that is so, it
is the Indian racial memory. I
don't think, however; that Miss
Hedrick limits it as closely as
that. What she's driving at, I
believe, Is something greater
than a persistence of specific
racial "memory;" it's a matter
of a human, natural Instinctive
pull toward whatever one
chooses to call the force that
rules nature and man the
choosing of a way which. In
Elden's case, exercises a deep,
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strong attraction too powerful
to be resisted.
All this, to be sure, has a
mystical sound when it is sum
marized in such fashion, and
for that matter there is more
than a little of the mystical In
Miss Hedrick's approach to her
theme.
As has been suggested. It Is
surprising to find so tight a
grasp of the novel in a first
book, but you'll find it here.
Miss Hedrick has a sense of plot,
of situation, of character. More
over, she knows what she wants
to say and how to say It with
out letting her idea run away
with the book. You can read
"The Blood Remembers," If you
like, without paying the slight
est attention to the author's in
ner meanings, and I mean this
in a complimentary sense. But
if you happen to be the kind
of reader who is sensitive to im
plications behind plot, then you
have Just that much more wait
ing for you in this novel.
ALL NEXT WEEK
All schools in Jackson county
will be closed next week for the
Thanksgiving Day vacation, the
county school superintendent's
office reported today, the annual
county teacher's Institute will be
held in Ashland, from Monday
to Wednesday noon.
The annual census of school
students in the county is pro
gressing favorably, though some
of the districts, as yet have not
comploted the count. The census
is taken by the clerks and other
officials of each district.
BIRTHDAYS
Roanoke, Va. (IP) Some of
Roanoke's school teachers seem
to have mathematical problems
outside the classroom. In filling
routine forms, one has given
five different birth dates and
has become two years younger
each time. Another filed her
birth date, later filed another
that made her a year younger,
then gave still a third date be
fore filing a "corrected" birth
date that made her younger than
any of the others.
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CALLED BY DEATH
Mrs. Martha Ross Flitcroft, a
resident of Medford for the past
20 years, passed away at her
home, 199 Mc Andrews road,
early this morning. She had
been in failing health for many
months.
She was born in Joplin, Mo.,
August 17, 1867. Beside her hus
band. Craig H. Flitcroft, she
leaves five children: Mrs. Z.
Wiseman, Klamath Falls; Mrs.
A. Cox, Welser, Idaho; Mrs. S.
O. Stearns, Medford; Mrs. E. F.
Higginson, Medford; E. H. Ross.
Applegate, Oregon. There are
also five brothers and five sis
ters surviving: Mrs. Nancy Han
non, Silverton, Oregon; Wnv
Babb, Nampa, Calif.; C. W.
Babb, Grants Pass; Mrs. Alice
Burrows, Pasadena, Calif.; J. M.
Babb, Talent; Mrs. W. A. Chil
ders, Jacksonville; Mrs. Alma
Garvin, Silverton; Mrs. Charles
Vogal, Medford; Mrs. S. L.
Babb, Jacksonville; D. T. Babb,
Weiser, Idaho. There are also
15 grandchildren and 12 great
grandchildren. Services will be in the Conger
Funeral Parlors Saturday morn
ing at 10 with Rev. Irvin Du
Pray officiating. Interment will
be in the family plot in Jackson
ville. Cm Mall Ttidudo want ads.
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crease to teachers to meet risinj
costs of living.
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Myrtle, Miss. (JPl A conservation-minded
cafe operator here)
has this sign on his wall: "If
you arc loafing, please let cus
tomer sit closest to fans."
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