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FOCH MEDFORD (OREGON) Medford. .Tribune "Everyone In Southern Oregon" Rudi Th Mall Tribune" Daily Except Saturday Published by uvnrnRn PRINTING CO. S7-39 North Fir St Phone 2-B14I ROBERT W RUHL, Bdltor ERNEST R GILSTHAP Manlier HERB GREY, Advartlelnf Mr c FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALUSN JR., City Bdltor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telearepn Editor HENRY L GREEN Sunday Edltoi OLIVE 6T ARCHER Society Editor GERALD LATHAM ClmulaUon MP An Independent Newipaper Entered ai aecond class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES etu Mail In AdvHnce: Dally and Sunday one year.. SB 00 nllv and Sundav elx monthl i.lb Daily and Sunday three moi SOU Daily ana ounaay one mimut . u By carrier in Aavance otouiuiu Ashland Central Point. Jackaonvlllc Gold Hill Phoenix Talent and on mntnt routea: Dally and Sunday one year 912 00 Dally and Sunday one month 100 All Terma Caah In Advance Oltlclal Paper of the City of Medford OfilciaJ rapar oi eaoasuo muntr United Praia Pull Leaaed Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago Da troit. Sap Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C V" NIWSPAPSH PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL tDKOkiAL lASSpCpATiOlN SHOD Flight or Time Medford and Jackson Count Hit rory from the files of lit Mail Tribune 10. 20 and 34 year sfo 10 YEARS AGO TODAY March 13. 1940 (It Was Wednesday) George C. Sabin, resort man ager at Oregon Caves, dies. Wallace Lowry receives schol arship at Rochester university to study for doctor of philosophy degree. Most local stores vole to con tinue closing Saturdays at ti p.m.. Chairman Charles S. Adair of retail merchants committee says, Mrs. Lois Frctwcll, Medford, teaching at Elk Creek school in absence of teacher who has been ill. Telephone company plans dem onstration of dial system being installed here. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY March 30, 1930 (It Was Thursday) Pageant of fashion presented by local merchants attracts large crowd. County court rules all dogs In county must have licenses. Fire sirens at Main and Fir and Sixth and Holly tested and work well. Frank Ovclman reports catch ing first bass of season. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY March 13, 1916 (It Was Monday) Todd Beaulieu, in charge of smudging at Conner orchards, to use wood instead of oil this sea son. Mrs. I. N. Stllle and Earl Math ews received prizes at Eagle Point for being best spellers. Ashland fire department names Glenn Guiley relief mnn. Airliner Crash , In England Worst In Flying History By Unitad Press The crash which killed 80 per sons aboard the giant Tudor II nii-liner In Wales was the worst in tiie history of aviation. The highest previous death (nil was 73 men who died when the U. S. navy dirigible Akron crashed into the sea during a storm off Bamegat Light, N. J., on April 4, 1933. 62 Dia In England The third most serious air dis aster also involved a lighter thun alr craft, the British dirig ible ZR-2 which split in two over Hull, England, on April 24, 1920, killing 62 persons. The worst airplane crash un' til yesterday occurred at Wash ington, DC1., on Nov. 1, HHU, when a P-38 fighter plane rammed an Eastern airlines JX-4, killing all S3 persons aboard the transport. Other crashes which have killed 50 or more persons In clude: Aug. 23, 1944 Non-scheduled C-4B plunged Into the sea near San Juan, Puerto Rico, killing S3 of Ul persons aboard. Airliner Crashes May 30, 1847 Eastern Air lines transport crashed near Port Deposit, Md., killing 53 passengers and crew. Feb. 15, 11147 Avlanca air lines DC-4 hit a mountainside In Colombia, killing 53. Oct. 24, 1947 United Air lines DC-6 crashed near Bryce canyon, Utah, killing 52. June 13, 1047 Pennsylvania Central airlines DC-4 hit a mountain near Lookout Rock, W- Va killing 50, ., Use Mall .Xrlbuue irant Adi . TO MAIL TRIBUNE What and How to Teach To politics and religion, the two main topics about which people have disagreed and argued since time immemorial, there has been added a third sub ject for public wrangling. This one concerns educa tional standards, methods and what should and what should not be included in the public school curricu lum. IN THE interminable debate concerning modern ed ucation trends most of the divergence of opinion centers on what should constitute proper emphasis on the fundamental three-R's and what part the newer studies, such as dotnestjc science, current events, art, music, machine shop, etc., should play. a IT IS HARD to evaluate as between different schools with differing methods, for, as Dean P. B. Jacob son of the School of Education of the University of Oregon, points out in a letter to the Mail Tribune, not all students from any community are equally capable. The clean states that the School of Education has no statistics to indicate comparative standing or rec ords of the various schools of Oregon. He adds that in making comparisons of the scholastic attainments of high school graduates it should be recognized that from every community there will be students who do very well and there will also be students who do very poorly. DEFERRING to the controversy now raging over the Eugene public schools, the Eugene Register- Guard recommends that in challenging teaching schools" read an article in the March issue of the At lantic, written by Albert Lynd. The same newspaper observes editorially that: "There is nothing really new in the questions which have been raised by a considerable number of Eugene parents. "Ever since 'progressive education' came into promi nence some 25 years ago there have been recurrent argu ments between the proponents of the old and the new in education. In our Eugene schools we have never really gone to one extreme or the other. In the last 20 years our administrators have sought to take what seems best out of both old and new methods and weave them into a pro gram suited to this community. ... In the background lie these questions: "Are the fundamentals the well known three R's receiving proper attention in the present curricula? "Arc basic disciplines being neglected in the effort to give the child a social adjustment for education? "Is this thing called Social Living an adequate substi tute for solid content subjects such as American history, English grammar and literature, geography, etc.? "Does the child come out of this system adjusted or confused? "Does the child who is being prepared for a college education get an adequate preparation in the high schools as compared with the child who was compelled to drag through the old classical requirements of mathematics, history, language, and so on? "Is the bright child sacrificed In the effort to provide a training for the merely average child? "There is no easy answer to any of these questions. It is possible to throw some light on WHY our schools, and schools all over the United States, have been experiment ing In methods. These figures arc approximate: "Since 1800 the enrollment in American high schools has multiplied 80 times where the population of the coun try has merely doubled. This is because education in most states is now compulsory through age 18. "In the good old days only 30 per cent of those who finished eighth grade ever went to high school and, of those, approximately 70 per cent were being prepared for college. The high schools were geared to college and to the well-to-do. "Today, approximately B0 per cent go to high school: of these only JO per cent are preparing for college. For the great mass, high school is 'terminal education.' Not everything that our educators have done to meet this problem is wise or good, but we want to point out that a tremendous burden has been placed upon the pub lic schools. They have had a frantic scramble to get enough competent teachers, enough school buildings, enough of anything to meet the new demands. Taxpayers, as a rule, have been very slow to understand or respond to the needs, although in Eugene and Lane county gener ally the response has been far above average." TN CALIFORNIA, a Stanford University English professor addressing an alumni meeting last week, took an academic whack at "modern education" with the assertion that a startling amount of relative illit eracy among high school seniors results from teach ing subjects like ceramics and basket weaving at the expense of the three-R's. After studying high school curricula in Califor nia for eleven years, the professor said he has found high schools won't be able to teach grammar syste matically again until the public backs the old-fash ioned ideas that clarity and 1JE SUMMED UP with the pertinent assertion that 1 "you can't teach a lot of new things and still do justice to the courses which used to receive primary emphasis." His analysis of the troubled present day educa tional situation is not only pat but explains why we have such diversity of opinion as to what, and how, to teach. E.C.F. Mailing of Easter Seals In Fund Drive Starting Here Mall bags containing Easter seals for Jackson county homes flooded the post office today on the opening of the annual East er Seal drive of the Oregon So ciety for Crippled Children and Adults. Most of the Easter son! letters will dc delivered this week, car rying tho mesnge of the society asking support of lt. services to our crippled children and adults. This yenr. the Oregon Fed crated Women's clubs volun teered to prepare the Enster seals for mailing. In Jackson county, four federated clubs have completed preparation ot 18,500 envelopes. Tiny are the Rogue River Women's club. Talent Community club, Ashland Wom en's Civic club, and the Ash land Junior Civic league. The Ashland clubs were assisted by the typing classes of Southern Oregon college, and the Ashland Camplire girls. Appeal Madt "Let s not deny a single crip pled child the full benefits of professional care so that he may have the happy life that Is the birthright of every child," was the appeal of Mrs. John Hill, lugs, Ashland, county coordin Monday, March 13, 1950 those who are now engaged methods in the (Eugene) logic are important. ator. "Let's give and give gen erously so that we may not only maintain our present services but expand them to care for all of the crippled who have need of them and add other services just as badly needed." She pointed out that there are many crippled in Jackson coun ty. "To serve so many crippled adequately is i very costly un dertaking, for only the most ex pert and carefully trained pro fessional personnel can attempt to do remedial or rehabilita tion work for the handicapped. We must see that we raise funds for that work during the Easter Seal drive." Dead line en Claimed Aoar 8 St p m lor followmt oay. loam Mon day. noon Saturday for Sunday a.m Subscribers To report Improper or non rirllvery of the Mall Tribune phone :-ltl belore I IJ p. m. dally and 10:10 a. m. Sunday. If regular deft Tor errlret shortly atlrr you rail, please notllj office, thus eliminating special menenier service. Crosstown "if you'ra thinking ot monkeying around with that what-ya-call-it in the basement, you'ra too lata. I fixed it yesterday with a bobby pin." On the Side"8 L v- Dur,in9 (Distributed by Kinf Features Syndicate. Inc.) Where we love Is home Home that our feet may leave But not our hearts. O. W. Holmes To what are you allergic? That is a question not every body can answer. You may be allergic to something and not know it. A New York wife claimed she was allergic to her husband. She said whenever he came near her he made her sick! The couple was about to get a divorce when a discerning doc tor proved the wife was not al lergic to her husband but to chicken feather. Seems the hus band was a chicken fancier and came home covered with chicken leather dust, which caused his wile to have asthma. Asides 'How to Live To Be One Hun dred Yeors Old," was the title of a book written by Louis Corn aro, a Venetian of the seven teenth century. Cornaro's theory was to eat less and less as one grows older. Ho lived to be one hundred and two years old . . . 1 said that in 1890 women of fashion wore twenty-five pounds of clothing. I don't know how much the clothing of the aver age woman of today weighs. That would be on interesting thing for that Milwaukee checker-upper to check, if his wife would let him. Chickens Now they are t rt 1 1 o o 1 n g chickens in Englr- . Idea is to make it harder to steal them from the farms. Each chicken is tattooed under its wings with a registered nuinbr;-. It is said this idea originated in the USA. Maybe it did, but I never heard of any farmer in this country with tattooed chickens. How about you? Other Matters Among the unusually success ful marriages in which the bride was older than the groom was that of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. When they were married Elizabeth was 41, Robert, 36 . . . Ex-Senator Happy Chandler, now top man of organ ized baseball, calls his wife "Sweetie Pie." According to a check on the matter, the most popular salutations of affection lor wives by American husbands are in the order named: Darling, Baby, Honey, Sweetheart, Pre cious and Dearest. Asking Queries from clients. Q. How Is that you above all people who claim to be an authority on Brooklyn history do not know it was not Brooklyn Poly Prep football team that was beaten one hundred and five to nothing by Chicago's Hyde Park high? It wos Brooklyn Boys high. A. Mister, you have lost a stogie. It was as I said, Hyde Park High beat Brooklyn Poly Prep in Chi cago by the score mentioned. However, Chicago's North Divi sion High school beat Brooklyn Boys High by seventy-five to nothing In Brooklyn. At old Washington Park. The star of the game was Walter Steffens of North Division. When you try to win stogies from me on questions about horses or Brooklyn, you're just flirting with dynamite. Disagreement One veterinarian told us It was bad for a dog to eat grass. Shortly after that I noted an eminent dog expert said: "Green grass has been called the dog's medicine chest and a dog should always have access to it." Quite a case of disagreement. What does your "vet" have to say about this? Briefly In Detroit there is a 52 yenr old parrot who has lived with the same family for fifty years. Is new owned by George Blair. Mr. Blair's father brought the parrot from South Africa to De YOU CAN HIGH SCHOOL Now - At Home Low Payments All Books Furnished No Classes DIPLOMA AWARDED If You Art 16 oi Ovat Wilts tor Free Booklet AMERICAN SCHOOL Dept. MIP.-MJ 1440 Broadway, Otklane 12, Calif. itreet Address - - ,t im im t Stats.. .. by Roland Co M,nn.l,HMI,t,Ml,.IMMM tlllllMllllllllimlMMIIIM" troit fifty years ago. How I wish dogs could live as long as par rots ... It is reported sales of men's pajamas are up 40 per cent from last year. I believe some new styles of pajamas are greatly responsible. The sleeper doesn't get so much tangled up in them as in the old style. Please Note A New Yorker says that his uncle Isidor Mehrbach was a very close friend of that colorful horse player George E. "Pitts burgh Phil" Smith. In fact, he says his uncle and "Pittsburgh Phil" took a trip to Europe to gether in 1889. He also states his uncle Isidor was connected with the "Horse Fair" conducted in Madison Square Garden in 1005. This was New York's first rodeo. It was also the occasion of the first New York appear ance of Will Rogers, one of the cowboys with the show. At one performance a steer got loose and ran among the spectators. Rogers saved many spectators from serious injury by skill fully roping this steer. Pacific Northwest Extending Hand Of Friends To East Seattle (U.R) The Pacific northwest has developed an idea to give the Murshall plan a much needed personal "good fellow ship touch to the people of for eign nations. Mayor William F. Devin of Seattle and 20 business, indus trial and civic leaders are cur rently on a 32-day tour exam ining cultural and social ideals with the people of the Far East, the Philippines and Hawaii. Theme of Tour "Cold dollars alone cannot make permanent friends," is the theme of the tour. "A more ade quate plan must follow the Mar shall aid program." The Idea of achieving closer understanding and good - will with foreign countries by visiting them personally as "world neighbors" was conceived by Sol G. Levy, a wholesale food and drug distributor in Seattle. Levy proposed that foreign tours be made annually with an objective of establishing friend ship and understanding rather than hustling selfish business in terests. No Order Blanks "We are not over there with order blanks in. our pockets," Levy explained. He added that valuable busi ness contacts will be made, of course, but that the tour's prin cipal purpose is to bring about "better understanding, confi dence and respect between us and our neighbors in the Far tast. The first overseas friendship tour is sponsored by the world trade division of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce in co-op-erntlon with the Pacific North west Trade association. FORT WORTH, Tex. (U.R) A suburban fireman was burned at his own fire station. Tommy I.ee was cooking a meal at the lotion when escaping gas In the stove oven ignited and blew off the door. face BrokenOutf Do as so many do for skin Improve mentuse Rfinol Soap for daily cleansing you'll enjoy medicated Resinol to soothe pimply irritation. RESINOLS COMPLETE In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Late tho other afternoon. Just as the press was about ready to roll, our teletype paused dra matically, stuttered, choked and then began to chatter excitedly. The gist of Its chattering wos the crashed flying saucer, with Its pint-sized, wicrd-hcoded, other world, dead pilot which a Los Angeles man nod allegedly seen near Mexico City. We all read the teletype's twit terings, swallowed a time or two 1 I ...... ,r.,,tl. D little lillU luunu win - dry. Then, Just as somebody was starting out to etup mc uhm, mw ever-cautious AP killed the sto rv, but later reinstated it and the radios went to town with it il. n.vi innrnii0't PnrtlnnH and San Francisco papers print- t i, Ul.Jln 1a.I1I. en 11 luuic-i nivmiua, ihuvhhi... with cute little sketches: by their comic artists. All In all. we afternoon paper people felt that we had been done m the eye again. IX THE office where I work, we have a probably reprehens ible habit of itiithei'ing around for a spot o( coffee at mid-morning and that day, as you can imagine, the latest flying-saucer yarn bulked large in the chit chat over the cups. All of a sudden, somebody re membered that at least three months ago. someone had told one of our number this same tale, man-from-Mors pilot and all, and it had been spoofingly discussed at a morning coffee session then. So we laughed cynically, looked at the clock, emptied our cups, stubbed out our cigarettes and went back to work. DID we dismiss the tale from out minds? No, we didn't. Nor, I think, did anyone else who heard it on the radio or read it in type. These are strange times. We can't believe anything we hear, nor can be REFUSE to believe anything we hear. Alter all. aren t our own sci entists telling us confidently that 20 years hence WE will have been to the moon and back? THERE is more strange news on the wires. This dispatch from Moscow, for example: ihree members of the Soviet Union's politburo have put PEACE AMONG THE GREAT POWERS as today's greatest in ternational objective . . . The three men are Deputy Premiers Malenkov, Beria and Andreyev." THE dispatch goes on: "Malenkov. soeakintr In Moscow's famous Hall of Col umns last night, drew STORMY APPLAUSE from his listeners when he declared that the Soviet Union is ready to participate in any sincere effort to prevent a new war. Andreyev said: "Russian foreien Dolicv is based on a consistent policy of peace . . . ine soviet union, in deed, has been striving for co operation with all peoples on the basis of mutual respect for their interests and sovereignty." INTO this "symposium Pravda, official newspaper of the Rus sian communist party, tosses this assertion in a front-page edito rial: "The Soviet Union stands for peace. It supports incessantly the cause of peace and demands an end of the armament race and the abolition of atomic weap ons." IF I WERE working on a deal with a man WHOM I TRUST ED and he used fair words such as these, I would feel that we were well along on the way to the making of a bargain that would be useful and profitable to both of us and to everybody else concerned in the bargain. But if I didn't trust him, HIS FAIR WORDS WOULD JUST MAKE ME MADDER AND GRIMMER AND MORE DETER MINED THAN EVER TO HAVE NOTHING WHATEVER TO DO WITH HIM IN THE WAY OF A DEAL. The trouble is that we don't trust Russia. IJERE is a disturbing thought: 1 1 Can it be possible that Rus sia distrusts us as utterly as we distrust her? WE ARE certain in our minds that her leaders are doublo crossers. We can quote the page and the paragraph where they have double-crossed us. But how about our leaders? We haven't ngrced-with everything they have none ana saia. uo you reckon the Russians could be as certain that OUR loaders have double crossed them as we are that their leaders have double-crossed us? WOULDN'T IT BE WONDER FUL IF ALL LEADERS WERE ALWAYS SINCERE AND HON EST AND DEPENDABLE? Dead line on Classined Ads- 8:3( om for following dav. 10 am Mon. day noon Saturday for Sunday a m MABEL CONGER-MORRIS FUNERAL DIRECTORS AMBULANCE SERVICE "preferred by so many" Office of the County Coroner West Main at 6th Phone 3-1051 Jackson County Farm Notes Compiled by County Office. O. S. C. Extension Service Standardisation Ot Crop Varieties Ara Advised Small seed production and standardization of crop varieties were advised by the Jackson County Farm Crops program planning committee recently while reviewing current pro grams. National stress is rjeing plac ed on forage crop production. Unniltom etntoe nro rnnvertlnC tobacco, cotton and rice acreage to grass and forage tor live stock. Seed supplies are made ,..... t all thpep demands. Jackson county farmers have demonstrated tneir aDiuiy i" produce the seed crops of several neenen varieties. Those contemplating seeding seed crops this spring may profit from the suggestions of the com mittee. Ladino clover should be seeded to land that has been de voted to grain or row crops for from four to five years. The field to be seeded should not be nrllni-ont in a nacturn or filled crop containing many of the common wnue or aisiKe ciuver. Prepare an adequately packed unnlu nhnsnhOrilS And nitrogen' fertilizers and seed early. Bladed grass seed crops re .luinH in tippri herl nrerjaration and fertilizer applications. Alia fescue, tuaiatin oai grass, wuuuui brome grass and Harding grass show larger seed yields when seeded or drilled in rows. Solid plantings may be made with red creeping and chewing fescue. w . a. xucKer County Extension Agent Early Garden Crops Should Be Planted Soon Early garden crops such as let tuce, spinach and onions should be planned as soon as the garden can be worked. Lettuce and spinach do best in cool weather and onions require a long grow ing season in order to attain their best size. A short row of spinach should be seeded now, and more rows may be set out at two-week in tervals. A zo-ioot row oi lettuce could be needed, and, in addi tion, a dozen plans could be set out which would give earlier lettuce than the seed. A short row of carrots could also be planted for early use. Carrots will continue to grow well all during the year, so the main planting could be delayed until a little later in the spring when the seed would come a little quicker. For commercial production it is important that onions be planted right away. For home gardens, while this is desirable, Chicago (U.R) An ink com pany has marketed a new prod uct which comes as a liquid in a tube but hardens Into material resembling ordinary rubber when exposed to air. The manu facturer claims that the mater ial can be used to repair rub ber goods, make water tight joints, and insulate wires and other electrical appliances. , CARLOS it Is not as important because a person's living is not dependent on a good yield. The Sweet Spanish is the most preferred variety locally. C. B. Cordy County Extension Agent Horticulture MEDFORD PHARMACY 127 E. 6th Just Off Central 9 A.M. 10 30 P M. 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