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Medford Woman; Visiting Europe, Writes of American Way of Life fEHitnr's note: The following article is one of several written by Mrs. I. E. Schuler, who left Medford in April to "spend sev eral months abroad. Mrs. Schul er, after traveling in Holland and the low countries spent some time in Germany with Maj. and airs. V. M. Lancaster, who at one time lived in Medford. Mrs. Schuler has now taken an apart ment in "Vienna where she ex pects to make an extended stay.) By MRS. I. E. SCHULER Vienna, Austria It is with , a certain trepidation that a take my typewriter in hand to start the correspondence I promised. I have always felt that Cedric Adams had a good idea in calling his Minneapolis Journal column "Thoughts While Shaving." It gives him such leeway he can be as irrelevant, as rhetorically abrupt, and as disconnected as he wishes. That I like, for it is the little things, having no relationship one with the other, but whicn are curious and interesting to me, of which I would like to write. For, from the method of sweeping their cobble-stone streets in this big city with little home-made faggot brooms, to the system of marketing, they are, indeed, different, and the longer I live among them the more I sense the difference. So with apologies to old I mean former pupils, like Helen Hedrick, Herb Grey and Marjory Hopkins, I will write, disregard ing composition an'! cent'!""-'-American V-- Dorothy Thompson's article on the American Way of Life in this month's Reader's Digest interest ed me because she says it was; during a visit of British relatives that she began to realize there was a distinctly American way of life, different from others. I have tried to put my finger on the difference,, which is certain ly more in Austria than equip ment and method of routine liv ing. The people are kind, friendly, and I think, would go out of their way to help you, but they reason differently somehow, and I wonder if it could be that they have had so much trouble that there is no spark left, no enthu siasm for living, no sense of se curity in fact, none of those grand sensations which we Am ericans take for granted. A letter from Harold Stieler (the German boy who was an ex change student at Ashland last year) in a way brings out the same thing. He is now teaching in an American school in Nurn berg. He writes, "I am now teaching English in an Ameri can house, and am having a great time doing it. It is not only the language which I enjoy teaching, but also the American way of life in short, everything that makes America what it is, and I plan to go back to the states. . '.'Europe is fine for mature people, people who have had their share of living in this world but, for young people it is a checkrein, a straight-jacket which hinders, if not prevents all development, personal and social, suffocating it in its quag- STONE lack AUTOMATIC WASHERS Now Available! ZACK'S APPLIANCE CO. 220 WEST MAIN ivina Violation f Dr mire of tradition. Those of us who knew Harold realized he was an exceptional remarkably brilliant young man, born and bred in the best Ger man manner. This conclusion of his, I think, but do not know.j came after he returned to Ger many, not while he-was in Am erica. , . For me, visiting here, it is good. I' love everything, and ev erybody. I like the grandeur of the architecture, the magnifi cence of the parks, the climate and the glamour that one in stinctively attaches to places where history has been made. However, being here, makes that intangible "American Way of Life" very precious. People Are Poor I have a great desire to give you the picture of Vienna today, as I, an ordinary person, see it. People are poor, and living costs is high. A fine young man' who has but one arm is the desk clerk at the Bristol Hotel. He earns a thousand schillings a month, from which 20 is taken for taxes. That leaves him in our money, less than $40 a month to support a wife and child. He told me that he had tried to get a de gree at the university, but had given it up, realizing that he could not earn a living as an edu cator. A friend of his had struggled through to earn his degree, and he met him the other day a street car conductor. That paid more money. It is all very baf fling. TRe young woman with whom I am studying German and French told me practically the same thing. Her father had been a well known surgeon in Vien na. They lived well, and she had been educated in Switzerland, England, and Italy and besides, she has a degree from the uni versity here. She speaks five languages fluently, and is a charming interesting woman. She earns 60 cents an hour teach ing, and she goes to the pupil. The same is true of my music teacher. It is the story of thousands of educators. Were it not for the Americans here, they would be much worse off than they are. The language teacher told me that she and her mother would Convictions Rise During Half-Year Salem (U.R) Oregon drivers were convicted of 23,517 moving traffic violations in the first half of this year, according lo the office of Secretary of State. Convictions increased by more than 2,000 over, the same period of 1951. . t Leading the list was driving wniie arunK, witn 1,367 convic tions , and subsequent suspen sions of driver licenses. Suspen sion of driver license on convic tion of drunk driving is manda tory under Oregon law. Other OffeniM Other major traffic offenses for which licenses were suspend ed after court convictions or on the basis of action in the secre tary of state's office included: Driving while licenses were sus pended or revoked, 406; reckless driving, 189; failure to report an accident, 110; violation of the basic rule, 80, and failure to ap pear for tests, 27. Thirty-nine licenses were lift ed from drivers who - had bad driving records. The office said these drivers had'too many traf fic violations and accidents to be considered safe risks behind the wheel. The office noted that drivers with unsafe records are given every chance to . redeem them selves, but failure to do so re sults in suspension. have starved literally starved had it not been for American CARE- packages. That is a story in itself; it goes back to a grand mother who had been kind to a poor child at one time. The poor child somehow reached America, and became rich, ec. The same people pay at least 30 cents a pound for cherries, and 90 cents for butter and ap proximately $1.20 for a pound of beef, and they do not have mar gerine to fall back on. There is plenty of food in the markets, but it is approximately on a par with ours as to price. How would we do it on $40 a month? The Seminole Indians were formed in the 18th century when the Creek tribe was split. Attention National Hospital Association Members in Southern Oregon MA1AI all members of your family can lull vv enjoy Medical and Hospital pro tection as provided you through the firm where you work. ( You may be a National Hospital Association member through the group -plan available at the plant where you work, and not realize this protection can easily be extended to include all members of your family. 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Eisenhower (left) and his brother, Milton, watch the credentials committee hearings on television in the general's hotel suite in Chicago. Around Hollywood Hollywood U.R) Keefe Bras selle takes the prize as the frank est star in Hollywood. He ad mitted he won the title role in "The Eddie Cantor Story" by promoting himself for it. "I sell my self. No one else does," ex plained the ac tor, an eager, bright -eyed guy. "The only way you can sell yourself is to build up a bank vault of friends. '"It's like the last part of my name, Brasselle rhymes with sell. Get it!" Keefe won the musical role Aline Mosby By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent of the year plum by the simple method of cornering the picture's producer, Sidney Skolsky, who revived Al Jolson's fame and made Larry Parks a star with "The Jolson Story." Skolsky also is a columnist and local bon vivant who head quarters at Schwab's and pitch ed him on the role," said Bras selle. Never Stops Selling "I used to sell shoes, and be fore that, trucks. Selling! I've never stopped selling. When I got excited and started pitching Sidney, my voice got real high, like Cantor's. It rang a bell in Sidney's head. "So we worked for two months in secret, rehearsing with some old Cantor records. Skolsky would routine me, and Cantor would polish me. Finally I -auditioned in Jack Warner's office for Skolsky, Cantor, Jack Warner and the- studio execu tives." Brasselle insisted he won't imitate Cantor on film, but will give "an impression" of the com edian. Keefe will comb his hair like Cantor's and he's been prac ticing the Cantor hand gestures I and hops and skips. Tries For 3 Years . Cantor's portrayer tried for! three years to get into musicals when he was under contract at MGM. Now he's a musical star at Warner's, but it'll be Cantor's voice, not his, .on the songs.J tie II mouth the words, the way Parks did while Jolson sang in "The Jolson Story." 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