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-
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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.
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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
KEEPING UP WITH THINGS DwigLt D. 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."
"If I had the choice, I'd in
sist Cantor sing the songs. He's
sensational," said Brasselle.
"He's always been my idol. When
I was a kid my parents let me
stay up late to listen to him' on
the radio.
"But we're talking about Can
tor. Let's get back to Brasselle.
I have a theory that if you have
talent, somewhere along the line
the opportunity will present it
self. You have to keep plugging.
There is .no such thing as an
overnight success.
"I had a sign made for my
dressing room. It says, 'Anybody
I can see, I can sell.' "
BLINDNESS IN FIREWORKS
Columbus, O. (U.R) State
Fire Marshal Harry J. Callan
says that the careless use of fire
works is one of the major caus
es of blindness in Ohio. He said
25 per cent of all patients in
state-supported institutions for
the blind are there because of
injuries received from fire
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