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
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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.
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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. Many of the cur.
rent records are outdated, and
sometimes "leads to injustice,
both to the individual and to the
government," the announcement
said.
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noon Saturdays.
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