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10 YEARS AGO TODAY
February 28, 1940
(It Was Wednesday)
Raging Bear creek causes dam
age near Ashland; valley down
pour brings worst flood condi
tion since 1827.
Elwood Hedberg, A i h 1 a n d,
elected president of Southern
Oregon Bankers' association.
Oscar Knox sells service sta
tion in Jacksonville to F. A.
Henspeter who will take charge
March 1.
"Skeet" O'Connell resigns as
Ashland high school coach.
Exalted Ruler Wilson Walt of
local Elks announces new candi
dates to be initiated at Thursday
meeting.
20 YEARS AGO TODAY
February 28. 1930
(It Was Friday)
Experts produce plans for pro
posed parkway along Bear creek.
Census shows 9,606 pupils in
county public schools.
Governor Norblad promises
outhern Oregon ill get repre
sentative on game commission.
Jack Sharkey defeat! Phil
Scott, British fighter, in bout
called "terrifically miserable."
34 YEARS AGO TODAY
February 28, 1916
(It Was Monday)
S. Viias Beckwith placed in
chnrge of sales campaign by
Rogue River Valley Fruit and
Produce company.
John Hammersley, Claude
Bnrden and John McTiinmlns
capture live female cougar.
The Rev. Robert McLean Jr.
unanimously called to local pas
torale by Presbyterian church.
Talent
Talent, Feb. 28 Mrs. Jack I
Sucksdorf and daughter Jnnn.j
left February 23 to spend a day
with her brother, Kenneth Win
ston of Myrtle Creek.
Boy Scouts troop 110 combin
ed with Uellvlew troop and Ash
land troop to hold a court of
honor at Talent city hall Feb
ruary 24.
Community club Indies spent
February 23 filling 3500 envel
opes with Easter seals In prepara
tion for the Crippled Children
campaign which will start near
Easter. Ladles helping to fill the
envelopes were Mrs. Chas. Hold
ridge, Mrs. Clarence Mathcs.
Mrs. Chas. W. Long, Mrs. Harold
Strauss, Mrs. Llovd Bunnell,
Mrs. l.loyd Wells. Mrs. Vic Ma
son, Mrs. J. C. Ottlnger, Mrs.
Ileryll Scttlemier and Mrs. Ray
Burnette.
Crater Lake Campfire Girls
took a short hike Saturday, Feb
ruary 25 following the road up
around Sunerest Orchard and
back to the Talent junction.
Talent Garden club will meet
March 1 at 2 p.m. at the home
of Mrs. Tom Bell. Mrs. Herman
Cannon will art as co-hostess
with Mrs. Bell. Mrs. J. C. Ottin
ger as program leader will talk
on "Camellias."
Mr, und Mrs. Chet Zediker
have returned from California,
where they had been called by
the Illness of Mrs. Zediker's
mother, Carol Zediker stayed
with Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Holdrldge during her parents
absence.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Lacv Sr.
have a granddaughter, twila
Laey, born February 17 In Med
lord, Crater Lake and Wa tlhlyl
Campfire Girls will hold a cere
monial at tht Talent city hall
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Editorial Correspondence
New York, N. Y., Feb. 25 As this is written It appears the
Socialist government in England has won a majority in the Friday
elections, but such a slim one that it is regarded as a moral
victory for Mr. Churchill and his Conservative party. This tre
mendous loss since Labor took over, taken with the radical defeats
in Australia and New Zealand, add up to fairly conclusive evidence
that the tide toward the left politically in the English speaking
world, has started to ebb.
We doubt, however, if this is any justification for the Repub
licans in this country staging a Roman holiday and picturing a
return to the "good old days" of Coolidge and McKinley. There
is an ebb and flow in all the affairs of men, and, particularly in
politics. If one cares to review the world's political history it
will be evident that in the march of human progress and social
betterment, the ebb has never quite returned to the status quo ante,
the net result in the forward and-backward swing always adding
up to an advance.
The most cheering feature of the English elections, as far as
this department is concerned, lies in the fact that it clearly dem
onstrated that not only a free democracy is still working smoothly
"over there," but that the people of that country have developed
a sense of discrimination, as to precisely what constitutes their
welfare. It is the familiar race between liberty and security as
to how far the latter can go without impairing, or destroying the
former. Interviews over the air election day, were particularly
significant, a number of manual workers voting "conservative"
because they had become convinced the "hand-out" policies had
gone far enough, and they believed it was time to call a halt and
take bearings.
Tlys has reinforced the essential verity and wisdom of Lin
coln's well known observation that "you can fool some of the
people all the time, and all the people some of the time but not
ALL the people ALL the time."
Speaking of "taking bearings," we think it about time to take
them in the matter of "mercy killings." That girl who shot her
father to end his sufferings in a Bridgeport hospital a few months
ago was acquitted on the ground she was temporarily insane.
That is, she was crazy before she pulled the trigger and sane
afterward, but not sane when the deed was done. This was ob
viously a cock-and-bull story perjury, in fact but the girl was
acquitted even though she declared after she killed her father,
she knew what she was doing, knew it was technically wrong
but she could not bear to sec him suffer further.
The same sort of hocus pocus is now being followed In the
Dr. Sander trial up in New Hampshire. After Dr. Sander had
Injected air Into the blood stream of his patient he dictated to his
nurse this Is a matter of record that he had injected "40 cubic
centimeters of air into the vein and Mrs. Borroto had died 10
minutes later." The nurse asked the doctor "How was it?" The
doctor answered: "It worked very well, she died easily."
But now the doctor claims his patient was dead before the
injection was ever made, ergo: "he is not guilty of taking a human
life, for there was no life to take."
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If this sort of thing is allowed to continue It will not be long
before someone guilty of premeditated and cold-blooded murder
will maintain the victim was suffering from an insurable and
painful malady at the time and all he or she did was to save
further suffering, pointing to the Bridgeport and Manchester
precedents, as justification.
This department believes the time will come when, under
proper supervision and restrictions, euthanasia will be legalized.
But until that time DOES come, the law declaring the taking of
human life a crime, should be enforced, taking the matter of
motive and premeditation into consideration, of course, but giving
them no more weight In so-called "mercy killings" than in any
other type.
Charging too much for theater tickets in New York via the
speculators Is not the only racket. In the local show business.
There is also the matter of quoting thentrical reviews in
newspaper advertising and posting same on billboards in front of
theater entrances.
To Illustrate:
Mr. Dramatic Critic may write that "Come Home Little
Sheba" Is a terrible bore, loosely constructed, unconvincing, and
amteurlsh, but that two of Ihe characterizations are excellent, in
fact represent some of the finest acting to be seen in New York.
Whereupon the press ngent proceeds to quote "some of the finest
acting to be seen In New York" and skips anything else. In fact,
in front of the Lyceum theater on West 45th, nearly every dra
matic critic of any note in New York is quoted praising the play
within called "The Enchanted." although onlv one of them wrote
a criticism Hint could, as a whole, be called favorable. None of
them on the other hand failed to write something of a praise
worthy nature and the press apent simply picked out the few
favorable items from their contexts just as easy as that! So. when
you come to New York don't believe what you see in the theater
advertising line as far as quotations are concerned. The press
agents don't misquote, hut they do consistently use stray sentences
taken from the reviews which entirely misrepresent the reviewer's
verdict and get away with It.
Melvin Douglas has just opened a new play called "The Bird
Cage," which was universally panned by the critics, Including
Barnes of the Herald-Tribune. But Barnes did praise portions of
Douglas' characterization with the inevitable result that in today's
H-T theatrical "ad" the critics' reaction is represented entirely and
exclusively by Barnes, as follows:
"A tough and strident melodrama a striking piece
of showmanship suspense and lurid theatrical excite
ment e e e Douglas is a tower of strength.'1
Such misrepresentations may do some good but not much.
As before slated in regard to "Stromboli" the theater-goers in
New York are hard to bamboozle. They won't pay out their hard
earned money for a slice of cold turkey for long, no matter what
the press agents or critics may say. And in some fashion, not en
tirely clear, they waste no time in determining the truth.
"The Enchanted" is closing tonight, and it is a fairly safe bet
"The Bird Cage" won't be open a week or two hence. As for Ingrid
Bergman in "Stromboli," in spite of all the fanfare and prelim
inary build-up of a somewhat lurid nature, the Broadway per
formance only lasted a week and played to poor houses then
cording to reports it was different in Los Angeles and Chicago.
But as far as that goes, most things are!
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A decade or two ago life may have begun at 40 but that is no
longer true. Look at Winston Churchill staging such a sensational
political comeback at the age of 75. and now George Bernard
Shaw, who Is somewhere in the middle 00's is the most popular
dramatist in New l ork, with three shows going great guns here. :
"Caesar and Cleopatra," the "Devil's Disciple," and "St. Joan." j
We wager GBS has a smile a mile wide behind those while lace-;
curtain whiskers. Shaw has been a devout Socialist all his life, :
with a genuine artist's scorn of the Almighty dollar, but no
famous man In medern history has more thoroughly enjoyed ;
r:iMng In the shekels, particularly from "vulgar and opulent"
I'.S.A. than he. Well, it must be nice to be able to do that when one
approaches the Century mark. , , t j
Across the river in Jersey it was "Happy Birthday" yester
day for papa Chariot Conqueror of Rutgers university. The facultv !
celebrated the occasion hv baking a huge birthday cake, presonl-i
ing it In him and ennifrnttilatlng him on being the fattier of 21100
descendants. Chariot Conqueror is only 1ft years old, but that is
around lift for a llnlstein Friesinn bull. According to report the old
hov sniffed at the rake but did nut partake, going back with relief
to his hay! R.W.R. I
JOB WAS STEADY
Framingham, Mass. (UP1
Harry A. Chandler has what
looks to be a steady job. Chand
ler, now 90, is still on the job at
the Dennison Manufacturing
company factory where he went
lo work In February, 1874.
Cleburne, Tex. (UP.' - Eliza
beth Jones, a 4 11 club k i it living
near here, gathered 42 pounds of
tomatoes off one vine she plant
ed in the spring The vine didn't
produce normally, but weath
ered the hot summer months to
bear In December.
Wednesday. March 1, at R pm
ODO club will meet Friday.
March 3.
Ladies of Ihe Methodist church
will hold an all-day meeting
Thursday. March 2. at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. John Mitchell
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CLUBS
Beef Club
Upper Rogue 4-H Beef club
met at the home of Bert Conner.
February 14, where they had
their regular 4-11 club meeting
Club pledge was led by Herby
Conner. They are going to start
making their haltrr to show for
4-H club week. Next meeting will
be at the George Millard home
March 14. Eddie Peile will make
a demonstration on "Grubs on
the 4-H Club Steers."
Pig Club
After a get-together the pig
club members elected Eddie
Peile president; Vernon Baldwin,
vice-president: secretary, Char
leen Peile Next meeting will be
at Ed Houston's home. February
joining the club should attend
the meeting.
Dr. L. I, Hill of Montgomery.
Alu.. performed the fn'-t success
ful Mii(joiy upon the human
heart.
Crossfown
.
"I can slip away from my kid brother easy enough In tha sum
mertime, but in the winter he's always right behind me I"
A Nichols' Worth of
Comment On
By HARMAN
United Press
Washington, Feb. 28 U.R)
Maggie O'Brien hasn't been
spanked for more than seven
years.
O u t s i d e of
that, she's a
normal little
girl, just bust
ing in as a teen
ager and trying
to act grown
up. Maggie, you
know, is Miss
M a r g aret O'
Brien, the 13-year-old
kid ac
tress. She was
m town to en
tertain 10 little
UarnuiD Nicfaob iriends. They
were finalists in a writing con
test for the'Hecht company on
the subject "Why I would like to
have lunch with Margaret
O'Brien."
One of the winners was a kid
who wrote a two-word letter
"I'm hungry."
Maggie, wearing pig-tails with
white ribbons attached an a pret
ty blue dress, admitted that she
had less trouble with big .shots
than she does with little shots.
Made Her Nervous
The little shots who got into
her pigtails Saturday were high
school journalism students who
were invited to put her on the
pan at a press conference at the
Carlton hotel.
Petitions Circulated
Asking Assistance For
Television Station
Portland, Ore., Feb. 28 (U.R)
Petitions to Oregon's congres
sional delegation were circulated
today in northern Willamette
valley and southwest Washing
ton cities asking help with the
federal communications commis
sion to permit at least one Port
land television station as soon as
possible.
A group composed of equip
ment dealers and, unofficially.
Portland radio stations said the
petitions would be circulated in
an effort to obtain 150,000 sig
natures. The group argued that permis
sion was being held up because
of a prolonged technical argu
ment about color television chan
nels which the Portlanders be
lieved was a problem at least five
years distant.
unutitwrnitna Mtti
The regular business meeting i
of the Rogue Valley Life Under-1
writers association was held at
the Medford hotel Monday noon
with President William Law
rence presiding. Plans were dis
cussed to send representatives to
the Oregon Sales congress in
Portland April 17. M. C. Wright
announced that March 1 is the
last day members may file for
the national quality award, pre
sented each year to life under
writers who have met required
standards of quality underwrit
ing service over atwo-year pe
riod. Last year four members of
the local association received the
award.
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"They made me a little nerv
ous," she said, "with questions
like 'How old are you? and
When did you get your last
spanking?" Older reporters don't
bother me. I can handle them."
Maggie, to be sure, has had
little trouble with big shots. She
claims to be the only actress to
be kissed by two presidents. One
was the late F.D.R., who gave
her a wet buss and then took her
onto his lap to help him with a
cross-word puzzle. The other was,
of course, H.S.T.
"Mr. Roosevelt," she said,
"was wonderful, but Mr. Tru
man was better. We both play
the piano, you know."
Met Duke .
Before she came to Washing
ton, the girl actress visited New
Orleans. There she met the duke
of Windsor. He gave her a kiss,
"natch," and they exchanged au
tographs. Maggie, as a matter of fact has
been kissed more than any young
lady in the world. There was Lio
nel Barrymore, the late Babe
Ruth, Eamon De Valera, and
even Sherman Billingslcy, who
runs a little supper club in New
York.
You meet an amazing child
like this and you wonder if she
is a spoiled one. Maggie isn't.
She has the poise of an adult.
1 asked her mommy about
her.
"It's hard to believe," said Mrs.
Gladys O'Brien, "but I have nev
er seen her in an angry mood.
Otherwise, she is like any other
child. She still plays with dolls
and has to be scolded about not
picking up her clothes. I haven't
had to spank her since she was
about five'and I gave her a dan
dy that time. Maybe she remem
bers it."
Goes To School
In Hollywood and when she's
on the road Maggie goes to
school three hours a day. She has
a tutor.
She works in the afternoons
when she is making a picture and
the directors are easy on her.
Never more than 20 minutes at
a time under the lights.
"We bring her home from the
studio," Mrs. O'Brien said, "and
she has a quick meal and gets
into bed. Generally around sev
en. Even though she is a work
ing girl, she probably gets more
sleep than most kids."
Maggie is the darling of the
lots around movieland, but her
mother says that everybody tries
hard not to spoil her. She is treat
ed like an adult and takes her
lumps along with the rest.
"Don't print this, though,"
mommy said. "She can read, you
know."
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Letter From
By HARRIS
Member of Ceng
There is a publication Issued
daily during each session of con
gress and sent to each house
member. It is known as the cal
endar of the house of represen
tatives. It lists the bills reported
by committees and tells the his
tory and status of each. The back
page of the calendar each day
reports the "Status of Major Bills
Second Session." Up to now it
is a blank page with one minor
exception. The house did on Feb
ruary B pass an urgent deficien
cy appropriation bill. Other
wise no major bills have been
reported and no major bills
have been acted upon by the
house with the session near
ly one-third gone. The other
evening 1 heard the president
refer to the 80th (republican
controlled) congress as a do
nothing congress. So long as his
own 81st congress has such an
amazingly poor record literal
ly no record at all as compared
with the constructive record of
the 80th I should think he
would talk about something else,
a a a
THANKS TO THE generos
ity of H. B. Murphy of the Pin
nacle Packing company of Med
ford, many members of the house
of representatives now know of
the surpassing excellence cf
Rogue River valley pears. Du
Cornice pears were distributed
to members attending a dinner
combining the 78, 79, 80 and 81
clubs and their guests recently.
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The explanation of the other
wise mysterious number designa
tion of the groups is that mem
bers elected to congress for the
first time generally band to
gether in an organization which
meets for dinner occasionally.
The groups take as their names,
the numbers of the congresses
in which they came in as new
members. These are essentially
social groups but serve a very
useful purpose in getting mem
bers better acquainted with one
another. It is customary to have
speakers of outstanding impor
tance at these dinner meetings,
with questions of an "off the
record" basis following the
speech. I have found attendance
at 78-club meetings to be very
beneficial to my work at a con
gressman. a a
APPARENTLY what big-government
addicts seem to con
sider a minor item of $90,000,
000 has been misplaced by the
commodity credit corporation. It
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ELLSWORTH
ran From Oregon
was publicly stated recently by
general accounting office offi
cials that the CCC is not actual
ly "short" some $366,000,000
(more than a third of a billion)
as intimated by Senator Williams
of Delaware last year. No, it
turns out that only $90,000,000
was written off by CCC as "in
terdepartmental bookkeeping!"
FOR THE BENEFIT of those
who worried because some of us
voted to do away with the phony
"21-day rule" a few weeks ago
and charged us with being "re
actionary," "anti-liberal," etc. I
take pleasure in pointing out
that the so-called 21-day rule
which so many people were de
ceived into believing was a
means of breaking a rules com
mittee bottleneck, was proven
on the record to be a meaning
less failure for that purpose. On
the other hand, the regular cal
endar Wednesday rule which
was adopted nearly 40 years ago
for the same purpose, and which
really works, was used to smash
the rules committee block
against FEPC legislation. The
bill came to the floor under cal
endar Wednesday proceedings
and was passed.
Safety Commission
Organized At Salem
Salem, Ore., Feb. 28 (U.R)
The city council Monday night
established a Salem traffic safe
ty council and a safety commis
sion. The safety council will be a
citizens' group appointed by the
mayor to lead a program of pub
lic education for safety. The safe
ty commission will be a city of
ficials' group to study traffic
legislation and otherwise advise
the city council.
Dead line Sunday Classified la al
Noon Saturdays.
VICTOR Says:'
"Not long ago a lady, who was in the shop for the first time,
came from under the dryer to be combed out and said. "O-o-o-oh,
am I glad I came here today.' I said, 'Now just a min
ute, what gives here; people coming from under n warm
dryer don't usually feel so hilarious; what's happened lo
you?' Her answer was. quote, -I have just finished getting'
the best manicure I have ever had. -You know most of the
operators I've been to don't like to give manicures and the
others don't know how. So ljust never ask for one but am
I glad I tried Virginia!' unquote."
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Corvallis Quartet
Champion Singers
Forest Grove, Ore., Feb. 28
!U.R) The Agony Four of Cor
vallis was the champion quartet
of the Pacific northwest today
after winning the northwest bar
bershop ballad contest here dur
ing the week-end.
The Agony Four last year
placed second and the previous
year third.
Second place this time was
awarded the House brothers of
Bonanza, Ore., and third to the
Korn-Aires of Seattle.
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