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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1950)
A Nichols' Worth of Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS Unir.d Prau Future Writ.. Washington, Feb. 22 (U.R) Fat men, skinny men. Men with gray hair and men with no hair at all. It seems that almost ev ery able-bod-i e d American male over 50 fancies himself a potential George Wash ington. We carried a little piece the other day say ing that the national capi tal sesquicen t e n n ial com- Uarnun Nichols mission was looking the land over for a man to play the part of the father of our country in a symphonic drama. Paul Green, the playwright, was hired to direct the thing with one hand and with the oth er to beat the backwoods for a if i J 'I character to play the part of Washington. The man must be rugged, heavy almost "crag gy." Jovial at times, deadly se rious at others. Slightly heavy lips. Must have the voice of au thority. Hair slightly grizzled. Alan past 50, slightly taller than the average man. Reading between the lines, candidates saw that the final se lection for the role would be fixed for life. Particularly if the character happens to be a com mon man. There would, of course, be the news reels, a nod from Hollywood, magazine ar ticles and the like. Read Between Lines The public read between the lines. The response has been ter rific. One woman wrote from the middle west and asked me to please ask Paul Green not to look any farther. Her husband, said she, was just the man for the job. "My man," the woman wrote, "can be jovial and has a mag nificent broad smile. He also can be very severe believe me!" A gentleman wrote from Ken tucky that he didn't see any sense in continuing the search. "It's me," he said. "I am a blacksmith, used to be a distil ler and understand Washington was one of the first. I even look like George." A housewife in California de clared that her gardener has the quiet manners and at the same time the "sharp tongue" our first president had. Reason Enough "I don't see how you could overlook him," she said. "And if you do not I would thank you. The man is getting in my hair." Green would like to make it clear that he is "calling on all of the resources of the modern theatre to make his play tell the story of George Washington through "pantomime. American and English folksong, dance, mental speech, dreams, story line, music and vivid choreog raphy." The play, said Green, will em phasize the latter part of the first president's life, dwelling at some length on the dark and ! bitter days of his second admin istration, when it seemed that ins wisdom ana courage wouici not be sufficient to save the young nation . . ." The "wisdom and courage" part caught the fancy of a lady in Seattle. She plugged her man by saying: Wisest In World "My husband is the wisest and most courageous man in the world. A lot of folks think he looks like George, too." On my own, in the first story. I mentioned tongue in cheek that it would not be too bad for the candidate to know how to belt a cherry tree with a hatchet and claim strict honesty. That brought a note from an 11-year-old boy in Minnesota who claim ed he already had wrecked a couple of cherry crops and re fused to tell any lies about it. ROMANCE COOLED Seattle. Feb. 22 (U.Ri Mi chael Evankovich was in Jail to day charged with stealing S550 and spending $220 for an engage ment ring, $23.50 for a guitar and $116 for a love seat. Dead llnr on CinsslflM Ads: 5:31 p.m (or following day; 10 B.m Morv day noon Saturday for Sunday m Reds Seen No Bar For Hawaii Statehood Washington, Feb. 22 (U.R) Rep. Richard Nixon (R., CaU, believes that alleged commun ism in Hawaii should not bar the island from statehood. "If this were a proper issue," he said, "we might well also con sider the advisability of separat ing New York City from the union." Nixon is a member of the house committee on un-American activities which will make an investigation of communist activities in Hawaii in April. Even if the committee finds that communism is rampant in Hawaii, he said, it can be han dled better by a state govern ment than by "a national admin istration which has on frequent occasions demonstrated its un willingness to recognize the threat of communism within the United States." ! Wednesday. February 22, t950 Salem. Ore.. Feb. 22 (U.RI The Oregon State Farmers' un ion opened its 40th annual con vention here today. MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE OCE Praised On Teacher Training Job Monmouth, Ore., Feb. 22 ;U.R John Eklund, national president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFL), yesterday com plimented the Oregon College of Education for its "basically in telligent and fine jobs of teacher training." Eklund told OCE students and faculty members that what he had intended as an attack on "remnants of a three-year certi fication program" in Oregon had been misinterpreted and mis quoted as an attack on "the dual system as it now exists in Ore gon." The Denver, Colo., speaker said he agreed "whole heartcdly with Dr. Louis Kaplan's view that the heart of the matter is flie certification and standards problem here and elsewhere in the nation. ' Dead line on Classified Ads: 5:3U p in for following day: 10 am Mon day, noon Saturday for Sunday a.m State Game Protector Puts Self In Arrest . Republic, Wash. (U.R) Law rence Sprengel, state game pro tector, did his duty by arresting himself after he had shut two grouse when he fired into a bush where he saw only one bind. He already had one and two was the limit. "If I had found another hunt er with three birds," he said, "I would have arrested him. There was only one thing to do and that was to arrest myself." 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