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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1952)
rOTTK MTDFOHO (OMCOK) MAIL TRIBUHE Tuesday. Mcrch tl, IUJ Cooperation and Mutual Aid Seen As Reasons for American Success By Visiting Germ an N (Editor's note: The follow tag article was written by a German newspaperman who is now risiting iho United States for a year's advanced study at the school of Journal ism at the University of Ore gon. He is spending the week as a staff member of The Mail Tribune. Other articles by him. on various aspects of America and his impressions of the country, will be pub lished this week.) By GUNTHER BARTH Sub-Editor, Rheinishe Post Can I help you? You can hear the sentence at every moment in every part of the United States. This simple question has impressed me most. I needed to stay in the United States less than five months to recognize that it is more than a polite phrase dictated by a kind of business psychology. The ori gin of the question is the wish to assist neighbors under any cir cumstances. My experiences as a journal ist in Europe have shown me that the Americans as a nation and as individuals are very helpful. Their aid has saved from permanent starvation even that country which fought against them during two world wars. It is fascinating for me to see the result of this spirit in the daily life of the United States. Continent Transformed I discovered that within the last hundred years the idea of voluntary cooperation between each individual has transferred a vast and unexplored conti nent into a center of a specific kind of western civilization. The spirit of the pioneers en abled the whole nation to estab lish public institutions which are today models of democratic life for the free world. At the same time mechanical inventions have developed a highly mechanised world liber ating the individual from the daily drudgery. One of our main problems is the reconciliation of I the human being with the ma chine. I believe that the idea of voluntary cooperation will be the force which will enable the Americans to be the first nation to solve this problem. Inspires Fairness The impressions which I col lected as member of the State Department Exchange Program on many trips through the north west of the United States and during the fall and winter term on the University of Oregon in Eugene show me that common aid regulates every part of the daily life. It inspires the feeling of fairness in the relation be tween professor and student as between employer and em ployee. The living standard of the average people is improved by this feeling to an extent which is not only the result of a well established economy. The voluntary cooperation in spires the daily life of the popu lation with a wave of optimism. I observed that in the United States nobody hesitates to solve every problem. Many questions arising in modern society are abolished in the United States only by the function of this op- Italian Students Clash With Police Rome U.R) Thousands of teen-age Italian students clashed with police in Rome and Naples Tuesday in the second straight day of demonstrations calling for the return of Trieste to Italy. Police here used tear gas to break up the howling, stone throwing demonstrators. Police detained 70 demonstra tors in Naples and 30 in Rome after frequent outbreaks of vio lence. In Naples, a crowd of 10,000 students broke through a police barricade blocking the way to the U. S. consulate. Police charged the crowd, wielding batons, and students hurled stones at the police and automo biles in the area. tlmism. The population shows an unlimited confidence in the dem ocratic institutions, even if the man is wrong who is in charge of an office. The people have the ability to differentiate between men and institutions and they are willing to do so. Collecting all these details. I would like to say that I admire most a very general phenome non which has touched me strongly: how the Americans manage their successful life. Everybody feels and acts vol untarily as a part of the whole society, but in the same moment the society grants him all his personal rights and freedoms so that he may act and feel as an individual. Lewis, Sandy Rivers Eyed for Smelt Run Kelso (U.R) Fishermen said Tuesday the biggest run of smelt since 1948 was now dwin dling in the Cowlitz river and commercial interests were be ginning to watch for the ap pearance of the fish in the Lewis and Sandy rivers. Commercial fishermen ended a 24 - hour strike earlier by mov ing prices up from $3.50 to $4 a box. They said that the bulk of the present run apparently "got through" to spawning grounds during the 60-hour weekend closed period in southwestern Washington streams and that only minor catches could be ex pected until the fish enter other tributaries of the Columbia. Observers said the runs could be expected to enter the Lewis and Sandy "anytime within the next two weeks." ' PET IS 115 YEARS OLD Providence, R. I. (U.PJ Two local residents have made a pet out of a 115-year old turtle they found in the woods. On the tur tle's underside was carved the date "1836" and the initials "A-M.," "W.R.," and "A.A.A." A NicholS Worth of CANCELED Sonja Hcnie packs skates at New York after gliding into snag when she was forced to cancel a two-week engagement of her ice show because Kicgs bridgc Armory demanded million-dollar safety bond. Terrorists Ambush Malayan Policemen Singapore U.R) Communist terrorists ambushed and killed 12 Malayan policemen and of ficials and wounded eight others Tuesday near Tanjong Malim on the west coast of Malaya. Two Communists were killed in the battle on the Perak-Se-langor province border north of the capital of Kuala Lumpur which is approximately 200 miles north of Singapore. All the armed men in the government party were killed or wounded. The Communists escaped with 13 police guns. WEATHER By United Press North California: Generally fair Tuesday and Wednesday ex cept local fog Cape Mendocino north; little change in temperature. Comment On This anil Ttiat IT NAtMAN W. NKHOU Wrfter Washington tU-B It was a stuffy September afternoon la 1942. Gretar Oddsoo and three other young sters were toe sing a ball on the beach at S e ydisfjordur. on the east coast of Ice land. Gretar was seven. Without warning, bell came out of the sky in the form of a Nazi bomb. The other three kids skittered much faster than Gretar. He caught it in the leg. The other boys got only a few scratches. Gretar lost his right leg, and turned out to be Iceland's only land casualty of World War IL Nine years later, Gretar began to suffer great pain and found himself having trouble getting around aboard the leather leg which was made for him. Last spring, when the military re opened an air transport base in Iceland, the boy's plight came to the attention of the Air Force. There was a meeting of minds and it was decided to help him. He Was Scored After liaison with the boy's parents, the government of Ice land, and our State Department, the Air Force took off with the boy for Boiling Field. For sur gery and a new leg. "It was the second time I ever had been in a plane," Gretar said. "I was a little scared. But I was willing to take any chance to get rid of that pain." Cpt Agnes M. Palmer, Brook lyn, his nurse, says the boy, now 17. has been a wonderful patient Gretar, I found, is a shy, re tiring sort of boy. He doesn't talk very much, although his English, with a slight accent. Is almost perfect I got more from Capt Palmer than I did from the patient Everybody at the Boiling hos pital has been very nice to the kid, and so have the folks at the Iceland embassy. He has made many friends in the Wash ington area and the embassy supplies him with a car three Now... PACKARD GwesYoe Big-Car Comfort At Medium-Car Cost! 1952 PACKARD "200" 4-DOOR SEDAN delivered in MEDFORD mm Optional equipment, white side wall tires (if available), and state and local taxes (if any), extra. Prices may vary slightly in nearby communities due to shipping charges. Engineered to outperform all others and now better in 70 ways the magnificent Packard for "52 brings you fine-car power, comfort and handling ease at medium-car cost! 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Seats are as wide as the car is high! ww Packard's tefoty-alata area of 3.046 square inches gives you com plete, all-around visibility. Haadtoaa aow Interiors and fresh exterior color combinations accent Packard's smart, low lines and youthful beauty. Ivory Packard car undergoes 4,287 separate inspections before ' it leaves the factory. "Built like a Packard'' means built to Ustl ASK THE MAN WHO OWNS ONE -n-4 ILeewir Mnilirs, Dm. . 317 East Fifth' Street Phone 2-6719 times a week to run around and see the sijhta of the city and to visit friends. Learns About City The kid doesn't miss a lick and probably knows more about the city of Washington than most of the natives," the nurse said. The best part of the story, though is this: Shortly after the boy was hurt 10 years ago, John Milton Potter,- who was president of Ho bart College in New York state, was attracted by the stories about the lad. He sat down and wrote Gretar a letter. He offered Gretar a scholarship at the school after he had finished high school. The Icelander hasn't done that, but very shortly the Air Force will fly him back home where he will receive his diploma. He has been studying on his cot at the hospital and, after what he has been through, fears nothing even final examinations. Before he leaves, though, he will be walking on two legs again. He already has been fit ted for the new type of suction artificial limb and it will be ready for him before take-off time. Presideniial Aspirant Favors More Babies New York U.R) Henry (I'm for pigs) Krajewski opened his "Poor Man's Party" presidential campaign here Monday night and unvelied his "fair squeal" plat form which calls for more babies and less taxes. "If they make me President," he said, "social security will in clude all maternity benefits for mothers and no taxes for those with incomes under $6,000 per year." Krajewski will be a bona fide candidate on the New Jersey pri mary ballot April 15. Easier Auto Credit Requested for West Washington (U.R) Rep. Rus sell V. Mack, R-Wash., Monday asked the federal reserve board to ease credit restrictions to make it easier for Oregon, Wash ington and California automobile buyers. Rep. Mack asked that Pacific Coast purchasers be permitted 21 instead of 18 months in which to pay for their cars. He based the request on the fact that new car prices are $250 to $350 higher in the western states than in east ern and midwestern points be cause of freight rates. Murals Would Shock Loyal West Virginians Charleston. W. Va. (U.R) West Virginia's loyal founding fathers, who divorced their state from rebel Virginia in 1863, would turn over in their graves if they knew. The guidebook of the Kana wha county airport here de scribes the wall-sized tinted murals in the waiting room as "typical West Virginia scenes." 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