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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TBIBo. Sunday. June 15, 1932 Small Island in Baltic Visited By Carpenters; Life Described (Editor'l note: Ths following it another article written by Leonard Carpenter. Veritas orchardi, Medford, who with Mn. Carpanttr Is now in Europe ). By LEONARD CARPENTER Oslo, Norway While it is true that Sweden maintained her neu trality in the last war and so saved destruction of people and property, it is also a fact to be remembered that many, refugees were welcomed by her citizens. But now there is no real thought that any part of the world will be allowed to have neutrality should a third World War come. One does not know what any of the Scandinavian DOCTORS DENTISTS LAWYERS Follow the trend out of congestion to Ample Free Parking Investigate 804 E. Main Cornir of Cottage Now available for all professional and Vocational use. Has larga dry basement. Will ramodal to suit. Call E. P. Garth, Hotel Medford or 2-6291 USED DESKS CHAIRS TABLES Some Real Buys on SUNDSTRAND ADDING MACHINES Electric or Manuel MEDFORD OFFICE EQUIPMENT COMPANY 41 S. Grape St. Phone 2-4100 ST1.25 JLL Plus Weights WHEEL BALANCING The FIRST shop in Med ford to do wheel aligning and balancing. Depend able service since 1915. YOUNG'S Service Shop 116 North Front Phone 2-4756 ' PABCO CI ff-DEff ALL-PURPOSE ENAMIL 943 Uf ItmImmI f (fa OaUerriaa rnaJm W kj m m m n n iHiitt Mtrrtiii, At, IrMXMt MINT...aMUINt IUUII oniv oni rwo.outr unit ria cunoraie I of? ? i r ti i i 3 Is 3 S " 5 ! - I o 0 it S 8 n o SI a 5 3. I Z n I 01 I ?oJ S ?5 eVSS countries and Finland could do serious of these is the unmar- but fight against a foregone de feat. There is here a well-drilled army with some good equipment, but Sweden, unlike Denmark and Norway, is not part of the Atlantic union and so has not been supplied directly with the US armament. However, they are skilled workers and inspired engineers. To Cross Baltic As our small ship pulled away from the dock as Visby (on the island of Gotland) for the over night trip across the Baltic to Stockholm, the crowd of perhaps 500 children and their parents began to shout goodbyes and wave to the 300 or 400 school children, eighth to tenth graders, who had Just spent a couple of days visiting their old, old city, It was a stirring few minutes made the more so by the singing of the departing children, the new moon, the red sunset, the blue water of the Baltic, whose waters wash the shores of Russia as well as those of Sweden and Denmark. Visby was once one of the rich est cities in the world with an almost impregnable wall, much of which is still standing, and rich churches and much fine and valuable art. But some 800 years or so ago envy and greed brought a Danish king to the island with his troops, and when he had conquered, destroyed and gone, all the wealth and glory departed with him. The great surrounding walls and the tall skeleton walls of several cathedrals are the color of a bone left out in the sun of a desert. There they have stood occasionally robbed of building blocks to build laborer's houses all of these centuries until our times when people have discovered their beauty and and conie to gaze and marvel. Flowers. Clean Streets Visby's streets are narrow and winding and clean as everything in this country is clean. Flowers are used to brighten any small patch of ground, fountains and botanical parks are used also to very great advantage. It is now become , a prosperous town due to the rich agricultural island upon which it Is the only big place, and the tourist business. Although usually there are three round trips made by plane each day in an hour's long Jump across the Baltic, now due to the oil strike In America, there is only one round trip per day. We leaned against the rail of our vessel and next to me leaned a general of the Swedish army Soon we were in conversation and we learned that he had come over th previous day to lecture to the post at Visby on the "American GI." We found that he is the greatest authority in Sweden on the US Army and is constantly lecturing on the sub ject. He wavery complimentary concerning morale of t h GIs; their courage, resourcefulness and he said, "No other soldier would fight so hard for 'a cause' as the Americans We should have enjoyed talk ing to him further but his next remark prevented. "The ship will dock at 3 a.m. and I must be off Immediately. I must go to my home which Is outside Stock holm and be In my office in Stockholm at nine o'clock. So goodnight and I enjoyed talking to you. Although I read two or three hundred pages of English each day at the American li brary, I cannot talk very well." Housing Is Problem One of the great problems in every part of the world Is hous ing. Here for instance In spite of hundreds and hundreds of co op apartment buildings as well as privately financed and factory-owned houses and apart ments, it Is impossible for a young married couple to get a place to call their own in less than four years. That makes couples postpone marriage until they are in their late twenties and that brings many problems. One of the most ried mother and her child. Flan ncd parenthood clinics with me dical supervision, nurse aid and education are doing a very fine Job in helping ameliorate this and similar problems. The gov ernment helps in all possible ways but the Planned Parent hood clinics are self-supporting and do not accept state money. Debate About Seals The first intimation we had that anything was wrong was when we heard an American voice say, "I have seat Number 12. Please get out of it." "You must be wrong see my ticket is for seat Number 12," said the nice American whom we had been talking to on the platform and who comes from MinneapO' lis and whose wife had given us an exciting detective story she had Just finished. "We shall see about that," and there an angry man in a blue tweed suit with an extra pair of trousers in his bag, came and sat on an unoccu pied but reserved seat, next to us. "We shall see, the United Na tions engaged that seat for me long ago." Well, well, we thought, "What is the United Nations up to now?" "We are getting"" off in six hours and then you can have this seat. In the meantime per haps the passenger who reserved the seat you are in missed the train or decided not to come. We talked, or rather once started, our "squatter" talked most interestingly for the next six hours. He is the head of the UNESCO Paris office and was going from a heavy conference at Stockholm to another one in Oslo. "I suppose you got into your present Job by being a col lege professor or even a college president?" "Why yes, I did. How do you know?" "Oh, I read detective books. You can't real ly fool me." Gives Facts, Opinions Here are some of his Interest ing items. Russia cannot figure out how to win with the number of A-bombs she has now compar ed to what the U. S. has. If no war is started in (not by) March, 1953, there probably won't be a war. At least In the foreseeable future. "Why March?" "That Is the earliest the army of Russia could move on account of win ter, mud, etc., and it is the begin ning of new planting and it gives the most number of days until the rains and mud of the au tumn. "Only recently, and not whol ly even now, does the immense difference between . American production in everything and the very meagre per man produc tion of Russia; very recently, I say, has this been brought home to the Kremlin and the begin ning of an understanding of what this means in the Dossibil- lty of a victory.-Hundreds of re fugees pass the iron curtain ev ery week and many of them bring vital, secret and up-to-the-minute information with them. The veil of secrecy on all sides is a very flimsy veil which prob ably hides nothing of value. Travels Light "I have been in every part of the world. Now I travel light. All nylon, two shirts, this suit with extra pants, four sox, two underclothes, this pair of shoes, toilet articles. I can handle that myself and it is difficult now to find porters. Oh but when my wife or my young daughter trav el with me then I must take much more. This trip my wife thought I was foolish not to bring an overcoat or a raincoat." I wonder what would have hap pened to his blue tweed suit if he had been caught in the rain as we were! Swedes are not as hard work ing as I had supposed. In fact it was noticeable that in gangs they were very wasteful of their employer's time. Perhaps they are too well secured by their so cial legislation to make effort a necessity. Farmers on their own Spaur Slates Return As State Forester Salem (U.PJ Col. George Spaur, who has been on military leave since October, 1950, is ex pected back at his desk as Ore gon state forester next week, the forestry department satd Sat urday. Col. Spaur now is at Desert Rock Springs, Nev., as chief of staff of an engineer regiment on duty at atomic bomb tests. Dur ing the absence of Spaur his as sistant, Dwight Phipps, has been acting state forester. acres, clerks and hotel employ ees all seem to work long hours. Here is the schedule of a restaur ant: breakfast from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m.; lunch from 11 to 3; dinner, 3 to 8:30; supper, 8:30 to after midnight. One head waiter who was in his tails and white shirt at 9 a.m. breakfast had gone to bed at 4 a.m. Hard to Understand But labor is another hard-to-understand problem. One boss who hires much skilled and un skilled labor was very discour aged about the outlook. Costs are rising, labor demands are constant, labor efficiency is fall ing all the time but there are plenty of Jobs upon which to bid. BUT a big but those who have the big jobs to give are all trying to get more and more for less and less. When we arrived at Visby we were given rooms in the annex where there was no heat and it was necessary to go out of doors in order to reach the dining room. So in the morning we in terviewed the hotel porter. "No," he said, "I can do nothing for you." Pause. We continued to gaze at him. "Well, perhaps!" Pause. We do not blink an eye lid. "Let us see if this would suit you better." We went up to the second floor down a long corridor and into a beautiful room with windows overlooking the interesting square with its 12th century houses. We gasped and then looked around and saw a boot tree and other evidences of occupancy. "But its occu pied," we said in consternation. "Ah, yes," said the hall porter than whom no one is more Ol ympian, "But by a very good-natured general who will not mind a bit if'he is moved to another room!" We wonder if we met that good-natured general the following evening on our ship. Feel Ike Important Everyone with whom I have talked feels that it is of Euro pean and even world importance that Eisenhower be our next president. I do not see how they think otherwise since they all know Ike, they all admire him and they all know that the whole safety of their and our world depends upon the United States. - One cannot decide an Ameri can election upon the basis of European wishes but these peo ple are in the front line trench es and bomb-proof shelters, and they know far more about con ditions and what is needed than do we. For what it is worth, all of the people of the world are more conscious than we are of the tre mendous implications of the coming election. Parity Price Plan Given Approval of Republicans Des Moines (U.PJ Repub lican farm leaden of 10 states adopted a farm program calling for "actual parity prices" Sat urday which they hope will be written into the party'i 1952 platform. The farm program, adopted after lively debate, will be pre sented at the Republican nation al convention in Chicago. It was signed by representatives of North and South Dakota, Miss ouri, Iowa, Ohio, Oklahoma, Wis consin, Minnesota, Michigan and Nebraska Parity prices had been the Fast-Rising Hospital Costs Noted in Story Patients' costs per day in hos pitals of some of the nation's largest, cities have increased from more than 13 to almost 28 per cent in recent years, accord ing to a release from the Reserve Life Insurance company. The figures were revealed here by W. L. Green, local manager of the company. The figures indicate that hos pitalization costs have Increased at a rate of almost three times that of the cost of living. The rapidly increasing cost of oper ating hospitals is the largest contributing fact, the release states. It estimates that 19,000,000 persons, including 190,168 in Oregon, became hospital pa tients in 1951, setting a new rec ord. In addition, 67,000,000 per sons were enrolled in various health insurance plans of all kinds, also a new high. The' figures are taken from the current issue of Accident and Health Review, national in surance trade publication. Two Sergeants Arrive At Air Force Office Two additional non-commissioned officers have been as signed to the U.S. Air Force liai son office in the Federal build ing, it was reported Saturday. They are under the command of Capt. Robert Roman, liaison of ficer with Air Force reservists here. They are M. Sgt. Lawrence Moulton, recalled to service from the reserves recently, who reported here from Hamilton Air Force base, California, and T. Sgt. Lawrence R. Patterson, who arrived recently from Camp Stoneman, California. Dead line Sunday Classifieds Is at 5:30 pjn. for following day; 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; noon Saturday for Sunday a.m. RENT A CAR DAILY'S U-DRIVE and BODY and PAINT SHOP Southern Oregon's Oldest and Finest 29 S. Barrier! Medford : i i Taylor Lbr. Co. 101 4th Street JACKSONVILLE Cash In a Hurry for Seasonal Needs. Clothing, Car Repairs, Medical and Den tal Expenses and other good purposes. See Stan Stark, YES MANager Oregon Finance Co. Cnferlin Bldg. 45 South Central Phone 2-4433 Lie. S-211 M-217 Soap Box Derby ENTRANTS Special Meeting for all Medford boys building racers, and their sponsors Tuesday, June 1 7 2 p.m. Hawthorne Park LOOK FOR THE OFFICIAL CAR NORTH OF THE PARK SWIMMING POOL! subject of hottest debate in the two-day meeting. Urge 90 Per Cent of Parity The South Dakota delegation urged a floor of 90 per cent of parity. But the program sub committee favored a "Nebraska plan" calling for support prices aa near parity as possible but never below 75 per cent. The full group of more than 60 farm leaders adopted a clause which said simply: Statement Given "We favor a farm program aimed at actual parity prices for all farm products in the market place so as to provide for such production aa is needed. Such a program should specifically include commodity loans on non-perishable products, favor ing more storage on farms rath er than central storage facilit ies." Rep. Clifford Hope (Kans.) told the farm leaders Republi can farm councils will be needed not only to draw the farm plank but to work against "govern ment bureau propaganda" in the presidential campaign. Air Force Reservist 'Inventor Slated Hamilton, Calif. Headquar ters of the 4th Air Force here has announced that it will take an inventory of the 48,087 Air Force reservists now in civilian life on the west coast within the next 12 months. The work will be done through personal interviews with reserv ists living in California. Oregon, Washington, Utah, Idaho, Mon tana, Arizona and Nevada. Pur pose of the work is to bring Indi vidual records up to date, and to establish the military potential of reservists. 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