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10 YEARS AGO
March 12. 1942
(It was Thursday)
Medford board of water com
missioners sets date lor hearing
on installation of water meters
within the city; meters said need
wi to aid in conservation o wa
ter for proposed army camp
here.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Reports
from upstate indicate a number
of fifth column dogs have start
ed sabotaging victory gardens.
20 YEARS AGO
March 12. 1932
(It was Saturday)
Medford basketball team and
fans prepare to leave for Salem
where team will take part m
state high school basketball tour
nament. Local politicians predict many
last minute filings as deadline
for primaries approaches; few
candidates have declared their
intention to run.
SO YEARS AGO
March 12. 1922
(It was Sunday)
"Bomb shell exploded in Elks
club minstrel show" as Jerry
Jerome, "star end man," Is re
ported ill with influenza day. be
fore show opens.
Medford Chamber of Com
merce forum meets to discuss
problem of maintaining purity
of city's water supply in Bear
creek.
40 YEARS AGO
March 12. 1912
(It was Tuesday
Medford city council passes
law requiring licenses for all
businesses; maximum fine for
violations set at $100.
Le Brun Grand Opera com
pany presents "Martha" and
three acts of "II Trovatore" in
Medford opera house.
Future Milk Supply
In Basin Area Slim
Pullman (U.FD A Bureau of
Reclamation official predicts
that the Columbia Basin will
have to look elsewhere for its
milk supplies after 10 to 15
years.
John Toevs, Ephrata, told the
21st annual dairying institute
here Tuesday that the basin will
not be able to produce enough
milk to supply its increased pop
ulation. He said 50 per cent of
the basin's irrigated land would
be devoted to hay and pasture.
About two-thirds of the farm
produce would go to dairy herds
and one-third to other livestock
enterprises.
NOTICE OF SALS
Notice U hereby given that on the
38th day of March. 1952. at 10:00
o'clock, A.M.. at the residence of E. H.
Wylie. approximately 23 miles east
of Ashland on U. S. 66. Box 47 Klam
ath Falls Star Route. Ashland. Jack
son County, Oregon. I will sell at pub
lic auction for cash to the highest
bidder, all the right, title and inter
est of the defendant. John Doe. in
and to the following described per
sonal property, situated in Jackson
County. Oregon, to-wit: -
175 building logs approximately
six inches by 5 feet.
' Said sale is. made pursuant to fore
closure of a possessory chattel lien
filed in the office of the County
Clerk of Jackson County. Oregon, on
the 6th day of February. 1952. in a
certain suit therein, wherein E. H.
Wylie and Thelma Wylie. husband
and wife, are claimants and John Doe
is defendant.
Dated this 11th day of March. 1952.
Howard Gault Sheriff
' Jackson County. Oregon
Marrclle Bryant, deputy
M ATI ON At IDITOIJAI
Editorial Correspondence
San Francisco, March 12 (Special by Wlra H Taft cannot
defeat Eisenhower la strong Republican state like Haw Hamp
shire after his all-out, capably organised personal campaign, while
General Eisenhower refused to raise a finger or say a word ia his
owa behalf, what would happen if Ike should really take his coat
off aad go to work?. I hate to think of it! Great aa admirer as I mm
of Bob Taft. I concede this settles
concerned.'"
The above is aa authorised
supporter we kaow ia San . Francisco. R.W.R.
San Francisco, March 10 By
New Hampshire primary will be
Taft forces will be celebrating.
But there has never been much
100 per cent Republicans and
dominate at party primaries are
they were 30 years age when the
ing its close.
They are not so much FOR
AGAINST the opposition. They deny the charge of isolationism be
cause they think it might hurt them politically, but they are not
only isolationist they are secretly
ed to it want to sponge the sale
east, west, south or north; and then
and prayed for all these yearsr-a
Will this mean the end of Eisenhower and the certain victory
of Taft in June? Not necessarily. It
by Taft and his leaders, but there are too many Republicans
and influential ones who will fight Taft to the lat ballot for this
to happen. And there are many
Taft and who, if he is nominated,
convinced that Taft CANT WIN.
And they have arithmetic behind them figures of party regis
trations which don't and can't lie. Just as there is no doubt how
strongly PRO-Taft the regular Republicans are; there is even less
doubt how strongly ANTI-Taft, the Democrats and the independ
ent voters of the country are.
So, while the New Hampshire
predicted above) will give the Taft forces a great boost, and the
Eisenhower forces a severe jolt, it neither assures the former's
victory nor the latter's defeat at the Chicago convention. Greater
than support for any candidate in the Republican party when the
convention comes to order in June, will be the desire to WIN
Governor Warren is campaigning in Wisconsin for the GOP
nomination. If he gets as many votes as he deserves he will make
a fine showing.
But that is not the way elections go UNFORTUNATELY. A
state that could send a man like
and keep him there, can t be either
In fact its moral boiling-point must be lower than the Salton Sea
while Warren's is high.
Judging by what your correspondent has heard, roaming around
the city parks and newspaper
spite of bitter opposition by the
dous and irreducible popular, following from the Siskiyous to the
Mexican line. The stand-pat opposition he now has, it seems, he
has always had. In fact, one of the main counts against him by the
Taftites, is his strength among the
of horrors! the DEMOCRATS! In
bi-partisan support A Republican
at the present time to be elected
chiefs can't see it If they do what
Taft-they WILL!
Characteristically Governor
tary Training in Wisconsin, in spite of the fact the proposal is not
popular m the country at large.
This is only added proof of
snip. tie nas detinue convictions. He believes what he says
and says what he believes. And
WOULD rather be right than be
We tried to get the roil call in
but surprisingly enough neither press associations here carried it
When we do get it we venture to say, our own Congressman's vote
will cause no surprise.
The American Legion, and
ported UMT strongly. Also NATURALLY. For the war veterans
fought for their country and KNOW what modern war means
They could hardly have acted otherwise. For they saw with their
own eyes what rushing raw boys WITHOUT PROPER TRAINING
into the front lines meant and means. It means NEEDLESS kill
ing. "War is murder" but it should not be NEEDLESS murder.
The absence of a properly trained reserve in case of war means
Just that.
This is a time when the country needs above EVERYTHING
else LEADERSHIP courageous, patriotic, fearless leadership. But
anyone who would have expected this from the present House of
Representatives, was either completely uninformed or blind.
We hope this country never goes the way of Greece or Rome
and see no good reason why it should but if it DOES, the rea
son fundamentally will be this same Achilles heel in our body
politic the failure of our representatives in public life, to place
the welfare of their country above their . own political SELF
INTEREST! The last time we saw an important billiard match, was in Chi
cago around half a century ago!
and a young man known as Jake
casion, with the contestants dolled
ditto, and a few well-upholstered
as if for the opera. The seats were comfortable, the air good, it
was a ritzy occassion and unless we are greatly mistaken the under
dog, Schaeffer, won.
Well, over on Market there is a "World Series" billiard tourna
ment now going on and the same Willie Hoppe, is the favorite to
win a title he has had off and on, for all these 50 years. That is
surely a record to be proud of,"
bility of the man who started to
had to stand on a stool to reach the rail.
But what a change in the atmosphere and surroundings! No
dinner-coats, no ladies in decollete, no fresh air and only hard
seats rushed over from the nearest mortuary parlor for 500 spec
tators packed into a strange, billowy-ceilinged sort of Bedouins
tent like sardines, and a Jap gal in gold satin with gold teeth to
match playing some young chap
who, we suspect, was once a pool-hall
wanna R.R. division-point.
It was a tough spot, however,
he defeated the young lady from
sex to play in an international
gain no applause and no glory. While if he were beaten by her,
then he would never be able to hold up his head or bis cue
again. He chose the lesser of the two evils and won, much to the
disappointment of the 496 men and 2 women present
Never again, however! at least not at night The temperature
in that strange billowy tent-affair
least 102 in the shade, and 3-cushion billiards (which lor some
strange reason is the popular game now instead of balk-line) is
too slow, to hold the interest of anyone except a confirmed bil
liard fiend, or one of the profession. We may drop around some
AFTERNOON, however, when Hoppe performs again and there
is no crowd.
The big sport attraction here at present is a box-fight between
the Middleweight Champion, "Sugar Ray" Robinson and "Bobo"
Olson of Honolulu, a few nights hence. The boys are working up
the bally hoo now, in an effort to get a crowd. But these "benefit"
affairs however worthy and this is extremely so fail to interest
the real, pigs-eye, box-fight fans. For it is no match really. "Sugar"
only gets a dollar giving the rest of his purse to the Runyon cancer
fund, while Bobo gets $7500 win, lose or draw. When all is said
and done, professional prize fighters are not out to take any chances
when there is no title and no money in it The wonder to this de
partment is how many fans there are in a smart sports-town like
San Francisco, to pungle up $15 for a -seat at such a cooked-up
affair as this. (Which recalls the time Joe Louis fought Max the
German Paratrooper in New York and the writer refused to go
because it too was to be no contest and only easy marks would
attend. Joe was knocked out by
Wednesday. Much 12, 1952
it as far as Taffs chances are
statement by the strongest Taft
the time this gets into print the
over, and our prediction is the
We may be wrong hope we are.
doubt in this department that the
these 100 per centers usually pre
in very much the same mood
Wilson administration was n ear
their own party, as they are
proud of it, passionately devot
clean of all foreign entanglements,
have what they have so longed
"NEW DEAL" OF THEIR OWN!
will be so interpreted, of course,
more who have nothing against
will support him; but still are
result (assuming it comes out as
Joe McCarthy to the U. S. Senate,
sound, smart or discriminating
offices here, Governor Warren, in
Taft reactionaries, has a tremen
independent voters and horror
other words the Governor has
must have that in this country
to ANYTHING. But the GOP
they want to do and nominate
Warren supported Universal Mili
the man's genuine STATESman-
unlike Robert Alonzo, he really
president
the House on the UMT measure
other veteran organizations, sup
between a certain Willie Hoppe
Schaeffer. It was quite an oc
up in dinner coats, the umpire
women scattered about dressed
and a tribute to the indestructi
play billiards when as a boy he
from Binghamton, New York,
racker in that famous "Lacka
for the non-ritzy young man. If
far-off Nippon (the first of her(
billiard tournament) he would
and the funeral chairs was at
Scbmeling in the 10th round!)
. . R.WJL
Crosstown
"Put the stuff back on the truck, Mike. She wants to
take another swing through the wallpaper books."
South Africa Social
Troubles Blamed on
Supremacy
By PHIL NEWSOM
U.P. Foreign News-Editor
The Union of South Africa
an area not quite three times the
size of Montana is the world's
richest gold
l n d diamond
ountry with
3 n e of the
world's worst
social prob
'ems. The difficulty
vas pointed up
igain this
jveek in the na
ive rioting at
tessSiikJ Via fnhannpshura
I'bil New-Bom Ramnae i h g
gangs of blanket-clad Basuto
tribesmen ranged through the
native township of Newclare, at
tacking with sticks, stones and
knives, killing and looting.
Thirty-seven persons were killed
and 600 injured in similar riots
which started last Christmas
Day. The Union of South Africa,
a country of two languages
among its white population and
of many dialects, traces its social
difficulties to the differences be
tween its three main population
'groups European white, native
African and Indian.
Europeans in Control
The 2,000,000 Europeans are
in control of some 9,000,000 Ne
groes and about 250,000 Indians,
and frankly intend to stay that
way.
Only whites of European des
cent may serve the country's
parliament, the others having
only strictly advisory represent
atives.
Strict segregation laws have
brought bitter protests from
both India and Pakistan which
have charged that Indians in the
South African union are subject
to the worst kind of "Jim Crow-
Medford Officer
Cited for Heroism
Maj. Weldon H. McBee, Med
ford, has been awarded the oak
leaf cluster- to the Bronze Star
medal, with "V" for heroic
achievement, it was learned here
today.
Major McBee was a lieuten
ant in Company A of the Nation
al Guard here for many years.
He servid in World War II in
the 41st division, and was sta
tioned in Korea for a time be
fore the present conflict broke
out there.
Mrs. McBee is now living in
Pacific Grove, Calif., but ex
pects to go to Korea in May to
be with her husband.
The citation which accom
panied the award to the officer,
who is serving with the 2nd
battalion, 5th regiment of the
1st cavalry division, said:
Citation Quoted
"The battalion was attacking
a determined and well-entrenched
enemy, armed with automatic
weapons, supported by mortar
artillery and tank fire. Suffer
ing heavy casualties, the bat
talion was confronted with dif
ficult supply problems because
the supply route was under ob
servation and mortar fire by the
enemy. Major McBee, battalion
executive officer, continually ex
posed himself to the hostile fire
to direct the evacuation of the
wounded and to supervise the
resupply and redistribution of
badly needed ammunition and
weapons. His fearless determina
tion was instrumental in suc
cessfully keeping the ridge se
cure. Major McBee's heroism
reflects credit on himself and
the military service."
NO CONSCIENCE
Burr Oak, Mich U.B City
police have another candidate
for the "meanest man in town
title. Officers reported S3 in
change was taken from . two
4March of Dimes canisters.
i
By Roland Cot
of Whites
ism. Riots have been frequent
White Supremacy Blamed
Indians and Zulus clashed in
Durban in January, 1949, and
more than 100 were killed and
nearly 1,200 injured.
The Capetown riot was a di
rect result of the white suprem
acy policy followed by the Na
tionalist government of Dr. Dan
iel Malan.
The Malan government policy
is both social and economic.
First, the government says it
will not allow development of a
mixed race. Second, particularly
in the case of the Indians, it is de
signed to prevent business inter
ests from falling into other than
European white hands.
Threatens To Bolt
Meanwhile, the Malan govern
ment has told its critics to mind
their own business,
When criticism of his policies
came up in the British Parlia
ment, Malan's reply was a threat
to pull out of the British com
monwealth of nations and go it
alone.
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Tax Use Questioned
To the Editor: An item in the
Medford Mail Tribune on April
19, 1950, in favor of the pro
posed bond issue and levy for
the Fire department said: "Coun
cil feels improvements cheaper
than insurance, when warned in
creased insurance, unless depart
ment expanded."
We voted a $125,000 bond is
sue, plus a 4-mill levy which
was to man and maintain the
two new stations. This 4-mill
levy is approximately $68,000
per year and will continue un
less we repeal the law.
We started this 4-mill levy
July, 1950, and after it went
into effect your ex-fire chief
asked for the men this money
was supposed to provide, so he
could be getting them trained
and they would be partly train
ed by the time the new stations
were completed, but he was told
there was no funds available for
them. At about the same time
one of the councilmen told me,
"the fire department fund sure
helped me out on the parks this
year."
One man suffered a nervous
breakdown in his efforts to work
for the taxpayers' interest so
was not allowed to work for the
city, and is to be deprived of
his retirement - after 22 years
service with the city.
Another man is to be sen
tenced over taking some nickels
and pennies. If the taxpayers are
not concerned how their dollars
are spent, why worry over the
nickels and pennies?
Let us at least be consistent
As long as I pay city taxes,
I will continue to study the
budget, and concern myself over
how my tax money is spent and
hope to be able to wok? up some
others.
Cleo Canose
55 Ross Court
Medford,. Oregon
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Eisenhower's Political Graotf
Self-Reliance Part of General's Character
By KEVIN McCANN
. President, Defiance College
(These articles are based oa
the book "The Man from Abi
lene. by Kevin McCana, to
be published by Doubleday ft
Company.)
To any McKinley conserva
tives surviving in the second
half of this century, General of
the Army Dwight D. Eisenhow
er must seem to Be an unrecon
structed Populist. Certainly, he
is not afraid of an idea merely
because it seems at odds with
convention so long as it does
not conflict irreconciliably with
a demonstrated truth or require
for its effective practical appli
cation the exercise of arbitrary
and unlimited power.
In the spring of 1950, when
he was an elector to the Hall of
Fame, he was confronted with
a choice of between Henry
Editorial Comment
RAIN FOR THE ROGUE
Dryland farmers of the south
ern Rogue valley feel aggrieved
at what they consider the too
great success of the hail preven
tion program the pear growers
and packers of the central valley
surrounding Medford have car
ried on for the past three years.
The artificial nucleation from
airplanes of thunderheads that
might bring hail to the valley
during fruit time, theoretically
so modifying the interior work
ings of the cloud that it pro
duces snow or rain instead of
hail, has been an apparent suc
cess. At least, there has been
no hail damage in the last three
seasons.
To the fruit men, who suf
fered a loss of $1,200,000 from
hail in 1948, the absence of hail
has been money in the bank,
whether or not the cloud seed
ing has had anything to do with
it The fruit men are not only
convinced that the cloud seed
ing has worked but are also con
vinced that its continuation is
vital to their $11,000,000 annual
industry. The hail prevention
program costs them an average
of one-half cent a box, while
sorting out hail damaged fruit
used to cost from 10 to 20 cents
a box.
Coincident with the success
of the anti-hail program, the dry
land farmers and cattle ranch
ers in the southern end of the
valley. have had what to them
appear unusually dry summers.
They blame the cloudseeders,
who, they maintain, now dis
perse the thunderheads that used
to bring spring and summer
showers.
Facts are hard to come by
and dif icult to apply in weather
controversies. The pear men and
their weather control operators
asserted at a hearing on the
Rogue controversy by a legisla
tive interim committee that re
cent summers have been no
more dry than many others of
the 50 years in which rainfall
records have been kept in the
valley. Last summer was par
ticularly dry everywhere and
the cloud seeders showed charts
which tended to demonstrate
there was no less rainfall meas
ured in the areas over which
they worked during particular
storms than in the areas over
which they did not fly their
planes.
The pearmen had statistics on
their side; the dryland farmers
who have banded themselves in
to a "Moisture Conservation
League" their memory of past
weather and the unarguable
point that their fields have dried
in the summer. Memory is not a
reliable guide to weather con
ditions, but neither, in a margin
al situation, are rainfall meas
urements the most reliable of
statistics. A heavy local shower
may not hit a measuring gauge
or one that hits a gauge may
not reach a farmer's parched
field five miles away. At any
rate, statistics or no, the farm
ers will believe what they be
lieve. A comparatively wet spring
and summer in the Rogue val
ley would ease the tensions that
now exist between the fruit
growers and the dry landers.
Lacking the good grey rain, the
solution will not be easy.
No easier is the question of
recommending general laws for-j
weather control operations
which faces the legislature s in
terim committee. It is to its cred
it that it is going about the
chore in a serious and careful
manner and with scientific coun
sel. It should recommend a law
that will adequately safeguard
the interests of all but which
will not inhabit scientific and
technological advances in the
developing field of weather con
trol. The Oregonian.
PHONE 2-2935
George and Stonewall Jackson.
tie chose the former.
Saturated in Faith
His earliest and most endur
ing influences stemmed from a
family environment that was sat
urated in faith faith in self, in
country in Divine Providence.
The dignity and value of work
was at its core. Work was every
one'e portion and without work
there was neither rest nor re
ward. A man of great energy, raised
in such an atmosphere, is likely
to avoid the habit of allegiance
to rigid conventions and accept
ed ways of doing things. Such
self-reliance is clearly a part of
Gen. Eisenhower's character.
In addition to the quotations
from Gen. Eisenhower in the
foregoing articles, there have
been incidents in his life and
anecdotes about him which also
help to show what kind of a
man he is and what he believes
in.
In Paris there turned up not
long ago a major general who
had been his contemporary at
West Point; on one evening in
the barracks the future major
general, horrified, watched Cadet
Eisenhower roll a cigarette and
smoke it.
"You know," Gen. Eisenhower
reminisced in Paris, "I still can't
understand how so-and-so got
those two stars. He's always
been afraid to break a regula
tion." Minds Get Inorown
He once reflected on club
men:
"Their clubs are no change
from their offices almost iden
tically the same mahogany fur
niture, well-fed gentlemen, com
plaints about the government.
Their minds get ingrown. Yet,
they're supposed to set the nat-
tern for the country that the rest
oi us live. Why don t they go
home where they can have all
sorts of people in and learn from
them? We'd all be better off!"
In 1942, at Gibraltar, he sat
at an oaken table and wrote on
a pad:
"Inconsequential thoughts of
a commander during one of the
interminable "waiting periods.'
"War brings about strange,
sometimes ridiculous situations.
In my service, I've often thought
or dreamed of commands, peace
commands, battle commands, ad
ministrative commands, etc. One
I now have could never, under
any conditions, have entered my
mind even fleetingly. I have op
erational command of Gibraltar!
The symbol of the solidity of the
uritisn empire the hallmark of
safety and security at home
the jealously euarded rock that
has played a tremendous part in
tne trade development of the
English race! An American is
in charge and I am he. Hun-
dreds of feet within the bowels
of the Rock itself I have my CP.
I simply MUST have a grand
child or I'll never have the fun
of telling this when I'm fishing,
grey-oearded, on the banks of a
quiet bayou in the deep south."
Back in Sentemher. 104a
when Gen. Eisenhower was sure
that Gen. Marshall would lead
the assault against the European
continent (nowhere in hundreds
of pages and thousands of words
of his correspendence is there
any hint that he ever suspected
that he himself might be chosen),
he wrote the Chief of Staff:
"I gather that you are to have
two Armies. I think you should
consider Patton for the command
of one of those armies. Manv
generals constantly think of bat
tle in terms of, first, concentra
tion, supply, maintenance, re
placement, and. second, after all
the above is arranged, a conser
vative advance. This tvne of
person is necessary because he
prevents one from courtine dis
aster. But occasions arise when
one has to remember that under
particular conditions, boldness is
ten times as important as num
bers. Patton's strength is that
ne thinks only m terms of at
tack as long as there is a single
battalion that can keen arivanr.
ing. Moreover, the man has a
shrewdness that operates in such
a way that his troops always
seem to have ammunition and
sufficient food no matter where
they are."
Chosen Top Commander
Patton did lead an armv. But
the top commander chosen by
WHO MADE THE
DEVIL?
Why Doesn't God
Destroy Him?
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5Sir Who Are
Marshall, himself was Eisenhow-
er.
In 1951, when Gen. Eisen
hower, home from the Philip
pines, was on maneuvers with
Gen. Kreuger's 3rd Army in the
south, he wrote to his old friend,
(then Brig. Gen.) L. T. Gerow:
"One of the things that is
causing the greatest trouble is
that of eliminating unfit officers,
of all grades and of all compon
ents. It is a hard thing to do,
and in many cases it is too hard
for some of the people in charge.
But it is a job that has got to
be done."
In January, 1942, when he was
working on war plans in Wash
ington and things were going
badly in the Pacific, be noted on
a desk pad:
"... what job to work with
Allies! There is a lot of big talk
and desk hammering around the
place but far few doers. They
announce results in advance in
a flashy way and make big im
pressions, but the results often
do not materialize and then the
workers get the grief."
Gen. Eisenhower also had writ
ten a memorandum to himself.
"The struggle to secure the
adoption by all concerned of a
common concept of strategical
objectives is wearing me down.
Everybody is too much engaged
with smail things of his own or
with some vague idea of large
political activity to realize what
we are doing rather, not do
ing. "We have got to go to Europe
and fight and we have got to
quit wasting resources all over
the world and still worse
wasting time. If we're to keep
Russia in, save the Middle East
India and Burma; we have got to
begin slugging with air at West
Europe; to be followed by land
attack as soon as possible.
In the spring of 1942 Gen.
Marshall had returned from Lon
don. Gen. Eisenhower hoped
that at long last and after
months of struggle by the War
Plans Division one concept for
fighting the war might now de
velop. "If we can only agree,"
he told a staff conference the day
after the Chief of Staff's return.
"On major purposes and objec
tives, our efforts will begin to
fall in line and we won't just
be thrashing around in the
dark." He feared, however, that
not one man in twenty in the
government including the War
and Navy Departments realized
what a grisly, dirty, tough busi
ness they were in. "They think
we can buy victory!" he added
scornfully, speaking of those
who nrooosed a host nf hinux
that did not involve bloodshed or
battle.
In earlv March. 1948.
automobile a suitable town car
as the dealer described it for the
president of the great Univer
sitv. was delivered tn fipn F.i.
enhower's quarters at Fort Myer,
va. ine entire household throng
ed out on the driveway and the
lawn to admire the car. . For
weeks, there had been stories.
emanating from the dealers
showrooms, that it would be the
last word in fittings and gadg
ets; hydraulic-lift windows, three
cigarette lighters, a reading
lamp, and odds and ends nwpr
seen on an ordinary vehicle.
t ound Cash in Stocks
Chief inspector and mistier of
buttons was the man who shortly
before had led to victory the
armies of the free world. Peer
ing under the hood as a mechan
ic described the engine, bounc
ing on the cushions of the rear
seat as the dealer expatiated oh
riding comfort, crouchine be
hind the wheel as an agency
partner explained the starter.
shift and switches on the dash.
The inspection and trial drive-
ended, he wrote a check in full
payment for the new automobile.
(He had turned in an old car and
found some other cash in long-
forgotten mining stocks.) The
balance left in his bank account,
when he finished his entries and
calculations on the check stub,
was minute. He got up from the
table, took Mrs. Eisenhower hv
the hand and walked her to the
door. . .
"Darline ." he said. Minting at
the car standing in the drive
way, "There's the entire result
of 37 vears of work since I
caught the train out of Abilene."
Copyright, '1952, New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.
HAROLD K. METCAlf
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