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FOUR MEDFORD (OHEGOH) "Iveryone In Southern Oregon Read The MaU Tribune' published Daily KPt Sturajr by . MEDFORD PRINTING CO 17-29 North Fit St ROBERV W. RUHL. Bailor ERNEST B. GILSTRAP. MmW fiERB GREY. Advertising Manager K C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC Ai-IJN JR City HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Edltot RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper ' Entered aa second class maner at Medford. Oregon, under Act Marcn a. iwi " SUBSCRIPTION BAT By Mil In Advance: Dally and Sunday one year 13 .00 DaUy and Sunday rix month 630 Drily and Sunday three mos. 830 Daily and Sunday one month 1J1 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point pgtoPoint. Jacksonville. Gold HUl. Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one w lM Daily and Sunday One month 1-23 All Terms Cas'i In Advance Official Paper of Uie ity of MedlorS) Official Paper ef Jackson Ceenty United Press Full Leased Wire . "'mMRBR CtT AUDIT BUREAU OF CIKCULAllW Advertising Kepreientatiye: WEST-HOLUDAY COMPANY. INC Offices In New York. Chicago. De troit San Fra vl aeo. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. Si. Louis. AtlaaU. Vanrotrver, B. C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCH-ATldN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ."SSOCIATIOM Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson tounty History from the files of The Mail Triruno 10. 20, 30 and 40 year:, ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 31. 1943 (It was Tuesday) Rainfall totaling .28 inch falls on valley, first since June. . From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Miss Jacques' Colton announces she will be four years old on Sep tember 18. It will be 15 years before the young lady quits freely confessing her age. After that it will be nobody's business. 20 YEAR SAGO Aug. 31. 1933 (It was Thursday) Epidemic of tire and gas thefts break out in county. Four-H clubs of county hold achievement day at courthouse. SO YEARS AGO Aug. 31. 1923 (It was Friday) City files brief in application for Sixth st. crossing. Pear shipments to date total 853 cars. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 31. 1913 (It'was Sunday) Frank C. Riggs, driving a Packard, leaves Portland Friday and reaches Medford Saturday morning. Expects to be in San Francisco Sunday, averaging 250 miles daily. Talent Commercial club calls meeting in effort to form coop erative creamery. Potluck By M-T Staff and Contributors Mail Tribune, Medrord. Ore. Drar Sir: Recently I wrote you asking help from your readers in determining how long crows live. I must say that I have been as founded by the results. Three per sons have sent me live crows . . Naturally I am very grateful for these gifts but I wish you would please ask your readers not to send me any more live crows ... Stnart Little. New York, N.Y. Mr. Little says he is astounded. We are flabbergasted! We de cided his first letter was a pub licity stunt and didn t publish it. Later developments confirmed our suspicions and some of the newspapers to which Little's ad vertising agency sent the same letter are now eating crow. Funny how fouled up some of these publicity handout writers get. A letter in the same mail as the "crow" thing starts out: "More than 9,200,000 quarts of motor oil produced in Oregon last year are reaching consum ers in metal containers . . . " etc., and etc. Did J. Verne's oil well finally come in? There's a story, making the rounds about a Medford woman who took some flowers to dec orate the chapel at Camp White. She got there shortly before a wedding was to begin so hurried through and started to leave. As she was walking out she met a man she knew she should recognize, although she couldn't remember his name, so she greeted him and stopped and talked for a few minutes. She was a trifle embarrassed over not being able to remember his name so she only talked a minute or so. Climbing into her car to drive away she suddenly realized who the man with the familiar face was. He was Jimmy Durante who was at Camp White to attend the wedding of a friend, MAIL TMBUMg German Newsmen To Visit U.S. Largely overlooked in the debate over the Voice of America, and other methods of American propa ganda abroad, one small program has quietly devel- . 1 1. 1 ll ! 'I, opea wmcn, u 11 Dears me iruii n promises, win bring, to Europe an understanding of the United States out of all proportion to its relatively modest cost. THIS IS a State Department project which is bring inir a fow colopf or! vmmor flarmnri neurenanaman to this country for a portion of an academic year to study journalism and American newspaper methods and, perhaps even more important, to learn what America "really is like." The Germans are selected for their intelligence, their positions of potential future leadership, and for other qualities which make them outstanding young individuals in their own country and own profession. e e TWO YEARS ago such a program was conducted at the school of journalism of the University of Oregon, and during that year one of the young Ger mans, Gunther Barth, visited in Medford for two weeks as a "guest staff member" of the Mail Tribune. His writing, his public appearances and his ability to assimilate what he saw and learned, made him an ex cellent candidate to understand America the true America and to tell about it upon his return to Germany. Because of its excellent success in the program, the University of Oregon has again been selected for the same job this year the only college or university so picked. Five German newsman will arrive in Eu gene Sept. 17 to begin their studies. They are Hans A. H. Biesenberger, 30, son of the publisher of the Schwarzwaelder Bote, Munich; Jurgen Dobberke, 28, reporter and editor of Der Tag, Berlin: Herbert John, 23, political editor of Und Nachnchten, Hamburg: Lothar Ernst Loewe, 24, reporter on Der Abend, Berlin, and Franz Oexle, 31, staff member of the Sudkurier, Konstanz. LIOW BETTER could this nation make itself and its ideals and methods understood than to give these young, intelligent men a real look at our nation? Dur ing the seven months they will spend in America, they will have crossed the continent twice, have seen some of the giant reclamation projects of the west, the lum ber industry, the nation's largest cities and smallest hamlets, will have worked on small-town newspapers which measure, very largely, the pulse-beats of their own communities. They will get to know America as few Europeans ever could hope to do. They will live with American room-mates, study under American professors, work for American editors, eat American food, discuss Am erican ideals This writer, per.iaps, is not unbiased about the program for he has been honored by being selected as faculty coordinator of the program at the univer sity, and as such will be responsible for much of what the Germans do and see and learn while here. It will be a real challenge. , 1I7E IN America, proud as we are of our "way of life" and all that it means, can talk about it un til we're blue in the face, and still won't do much to convince the rest of the world. What we must do is to show the world what we are, and why show it by our everyday actions and decisions. This program offers one way in which we can show five young German newspapermen and through their eyes and their publications, others in Germany, why we feel that America is a real and precious ideal as well as a great nation. E.A. Siskiyou Will Save The board of supervisors of Siskiyou county, iust over the line in California, are economy minded. And, believing that economy, like chanty, should begin at home, the board members have voted four to one to consolidate some of the county offices. e , IF and when finally placed in effect, the public ad 1 ministrator's office and the district attorney's of fice will be merged, likewise the coroner's office and the sheriff's office, the auditor's office and the re corder's office, and the tax collector's office and the treasurer's office. Although county government set-up in California differs somewhat from that prevailing in Oregon, the former having more officials, it is probable that con solidations could be made here also which would permit impressive' saving of taxpayers' money and work no hardship on anyone with the possible excep tion of the office holder rendered superfluous by the change. E.C.F. Back Stairs: Ike's Camp Cold Br MERRIMAN SMITH United Press Correspondent Fraser, Colo. (U.R) Back stairs at the mountain White House: It is bitter cold in the woods at night around the Aksel Niel sen ranch where the President is staying. Consequently, Secret Service agents on duty through the night wear the same kind of heavy parkas used by Ameri can troops in Korea last winter. Local residents all anxious to get a chance at St. Louis creek when the President returns to Denver. This is the stream that goes through the Nielsen prop erty. It was heavily stocked with rainbow trout, some re portedly weighing close to four pounds shortly before the Pres ident's arrival here last Thurs day. Monday August 31. IMS the Harburger Anzeigen The country around Fraser of fers some of the most eye-appealing scenery in the west. The towering mountains back of the Nielsen ranch are flecked with snow patches and the President is trying to capture the high alt itude vista on canvas. White House reporters travel ing with ,the President were warned in Denver to brace themselves for rugged country and cold weather at Fraser. Con sequently, they outfitted them selves in what they took to be true western style. When they assembled in Fra ser for their first news confer ence with Press Secretary James C. Hagerty, the reporters and camermen resembled the cast of a grade D "shoot-'em up" movie. "Oh, no, no," screamed Hag erty, when he got his first look wlat tbt denim pants and shirts Crosstovn "Good goshl You mean to tall planning to exhibit Matter of Fact Summing Up: II Washington The real mean ing of what has happened this summer within the Soviet sat ellites may be defined about as follows: One: No sat ellite can pos sibly liberate itself as long as the Red Army is actu ually or poten tially present. Two: There Stewart Alsop is n0 effective resistance movements within the satellites short of repeated and continuous acts of war. This is because constant overflying of satellite areas is the only practi cal means of supplying such re sistance movements. Three: In case of war, how ever, satellite resistance move ments might add very appre ciably to the defense capabilit ies of the west, given a large scale, weU organized operation for supplying and directing the resistance. This is a point of which the western commanders in SHAPE are very well aware. Four: If at any time in the foreseeable future, the Red army is withdrawn from East em Germany and the sattel lites, the whole Soviet satellite empire will very soon begin to crumble inward. If these conclusions are cor rect and they are now shared by virtually aU those in the best position to judge they relate very direcUy to the conduct of American foreign policy. In this regard, the case of Germany Is the most significant. For the ex traordinary uprising in Ger many in June knocked the props out from under all sorts of tim orous assumptions which Am erican policymakers have been accustomed to make. e e ONE assumption, for example, is that the Russians will fake any supposedly free election which might precede a German peace treaty and German unifi cation. The answer is "let them" Navy Plane Probes Turbulent Area Miami (U.R) A Navy plane took off today to inspect a tur bulent area 300 miles east of Daytona Beach, the spot where a recent hurricane unleashed damaging winds on the East coast. The Miami Weather Bureau said ship reports from the area, charted at longitude 29.5 north, latitude 76.5 west, indicate winds have intensified to 40 miles an hour. JUNK PILE Middletown, Conn. (U.R) A state motor vehicle inspector who stopped a woman's car for routine inspection found it had no brakes, lights, horn or wind shield wiper and only one work able window. She was ordered to have it towed away, which was done by a junk dealer who paid her $10 for the remains. and broadbrimmed western hats. "These, Mr. Secretary," said Frank H. Oleman of the New York Daily News, "are the writ ers of the Purple Page." Helpful kitchen hints accord ing to the President: His version of vegetable soup looks more like beef stew. He uses huge chunks of top-grade beef. He is more fastidious about fixing his soup than he is about frying rainbow trout. Takes hours to cook. He marianates his potatoes in vinegar before putting them in to his potato salad. He always serves bacon with fried trout. The bacon is sort of a by-product because he cooks it before the trout to get fresh bacon drippings which he mix es with melted butter for the ac tual fish frying. Restaurants sel dom serve bacon with fish, but Dy Roland Cot mo that big tomato boon Is in this JAR? Stewart Abe -as long as the Red army Is withdrawn. The experience of this summer proves without question that Ulbricht, prote wohl, and the lesser Soviet pup pets in Germany could then save their lives in only one way by scuttling out in the van of the Red army. Another assumption has been that, given the withdrawal of the Red army, the Soviets would leave behind a Commun ist "apparatus" which would take over all Germany. This is nonesense. The long established Communist apparatus in East ern Germany collapsed instantly and totally in June, and was re established thanks only to the Red army. A third fear has been that a united and sovereign Germany would soon form a German-Soviet alliance on the Rapallo pate tern. For the immediately fore seeable future, at least, this too is nonsense. Given only the with drawal of the Red army, under whatever conditions, and a vio lently anti-Communist strongly anti-Soviet, all-German govern ment wiU very quickly be form ed. The real danger, in fact, is all the other way that a un ited sovereign Germany might eventually drag the West behind it into a war with the hated Rus sians. About Germany it is possible since June 17 to be rather dog matic. A little more caution is necessary about the other satel lites. But here again, the key is certainly the Red army. The best guess is that first Poland, then Hungary and Czechoslovakia" then the rest, would shake off their destested puppet regimes, once the Red army were no longer at hand to prop up these regimes. i see THIS is of course precisely the reason why the men in the Kremlin are unlikely to with draw their troops from Ger many, let alone the setellites. But for this simple reason, we have immense room for maneu ver. We should be in a position to demand a European settle ment long, loud, and' constantly, on one major condition .the permanent withdrawal of Red troops to Russia, something all Europeans long for. Instead, American policy-makers turn publicly pale when even someone (like Sir Winston Churchill) proposes direct nego tiations with the Russians. The reason is simple. Ever since 1950, American policy in Eur ope has been squarely based on the maintenance of American forces in Germany, and West German "integration" into the European defense community. Obviously any conceivably ne gotiated settlement would rule out these conditions. Thus, instead of having room for maneuver, American policy in Europe is frozen into a rigid and frighteningly vulnerable po sition. The result is that we, ra. ther than the Russians, look td many Europeans like the apostles of a divided Europe and a continued cold war. No man in his senses will claim that there is a neat "sol ution" to the problem of a Ger man peace treaty and a Euro pean settlement. Indeed, the events of this summer clearly suggest that the Soviets cannot possibly risk any real settle ment.. But if only because this is so, we can afford to take big apparent risks, given the with drawal of the Red army to Rus sia as a condition of setUement. We should at least be able to show who is really responsible for the division of Europe. Un til we do, the paralysis which grips our European policy is likely to continue. (Copyright, 1953, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) it is a very tasty combination. The President uses a self-rising pancake flour made in Den ver for his flapjacks. At least, Nielsen went into the General store here the other day, bought a good supply cf the pancake flour and said it was for the Chief Executive. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Peace conference notes: The political committee of United Nations turns down the Russian proposal that the con ference to set up peace terms in Korea be composed of six Ko rean belligerents (nations actual ly making war in Korea) and nine miscellaneous nations, in cluding India. It then adopts the American proposal to recommend that aU 16 nations that fought (to some extent) in the Korean war take part in the peace conferences, if they want to. 1 suppose I'm an old fuddy duddy, but I'm suspicious of political peace conferences called to settle .wars. Over the long centuries of history, I think better results have been ob tained when the generals in the field, who did the fighting, got together and made the peace. rPHERE was Appamatox, for V example. Grant and Lee sat down at a board table in a tent. Lee, the loser, said (among other things) to Grant, the whiner: "What are my men to do with their horses?" Grant replied: "Tell 'em to take their horses HOME to plow corn and cotton with." rP the peace between the North and the South had ended on that note, it would have been WONDERFUL. It didn't end on that note. The politicians got into it They yowled and they orated. They waved the bloody shirt The upshot of it was three quarters of a century of DIVI SION between Yanks and Rebs, with the normal development of all that part of our country lying below the Mason and Dixon line held back and stunted. It took World War I to unite our country again. AS to World War I, I think this is the cynical verdict of his tory: Our fighting men won it Then the politicians LOST it I'm pretty sure that wiU be the verdict as to World War II. TAKE the Congress of Vienna. It followed the Napoleonic wars, which soaked the soil of Europe with, the blood of Eu rope's sons and whitened the fields from the Baltic to the Mediterranean with their bones aU because of the ambitions of a strutting little fighting cock who happened to be a military genius. With Napoleon WHIPPED, the politicians got together at Vienna to make a peace. They -HASHED it. If the men in the field who fought and died and the men and women who wept and sor sowed at home during the years when Napoleon Bonaparte was scourging Europe held any hope that ultimate good might come out of all the blood-letting, the politicians at Vienna wrecked it As to France, where it all started, about all they could think of was to put a weak, dis solute Bourbon king back on the throne. ' THE Korean war was a terrible and a beautiful thing- It was a terrible thing because of the Americans who died and were maimed and marred there in a war we couldn't afford to lose and couldn't afford to win. It was beautiful because of the feet that Americans were WILL ING to die and be maimed in an effort to stop so foul a thing as communism. But as the politicians gather to make the peace to follow the war in Korea, I'm SCARED. The verdict of history on peace settle ments made by politicians is a cynical one. Wafer Sports Dispel Unhealthy Prudery Chicago (U.R) A doctor says that "water sports have done much in the last generation to dispel unhealthful prudery." Dr. H. E. Kleinschmidt, Man hasset, N. Y., praised the value of swimming in an American Medical Association magazine, "Today's Health." "At the water front," the doc tor says, "the human body in all its grace is beautifully revealed in a natural, wholesome manner and the false shame of the Vic torian period has all but van ished." Kleinschmidt said a few gen erations ago people believed that swimming was dangerous to health. However, he said it is an ex cellent form . of exercise, diver sion, relaxation and recreation. Among the hazards of swim ming the doctor listed sunburn and over-exertion. Over-exposure to the sun, he said, is often "too cavalierly brushed aside by many water enthusiasts." . "Over-exertion is a health haz ard frequently ignored," he warned. "A cramp should be heeded as a warning to leave the water promptly." :" '''' n MkvV FLYING OVER PEAK of Mt Rainier, two Boeing B-52 Strato fortresses, largest jet bombers in world, make test flight out of Seattle factory. They weigh more than 300,000 lbs. (International) On The Side . (Distributed by King Tour weddint rlns wears thin. my dear. Ah, Summer's now a few Since I put it en your finger first, Have passed o'er me and yen. Oh, blessings on that happy day. The happiest of my life. When first your low, sweet loving "Yes" Made you my own dear wife. Brooks. Famous for good food and comfort since 1824" That's the slogan of the American Hotel and Restaurant in Freehold, N. J. Nearby is the Freehold Race way, where an annual harness horse race meeting has been held for 101 years. These are two of the most picturesque rural places in this country. Both are only forty-five minutes from Broad way. Incidentally, the American Hotel is, as far as I know, the only hotel and restaurant in this country with a grill room fea turing a collection of Currier and Ives prints and a wide variety of articles associated with horse breeding and racing since Colonial days. Not even Kentucky can boast of such a place. Please Note Women continue to complain that, while a married woman can be distinguished from a single woman by the use of "Mrs." or "Miss." there is no similar . method of distinction for the male sex. I have no solu tion for the problem. Perhaps a man should be called "Master" until he is married and "Mr " after he has become somebody's husband. However, how about these married career women who continue to use the "Miss"? Just what is the idea of that? Then, take the females who do use the "Mrs." How can you know whether a "Mrs." is mar ried, is a widow or a divorcee? Over There At many bathing beaches in Norway and Denmark the girls do not , wear Bikini suits. They wear no suits at all. In those countries, nude bathing is not illegal and is accepted as being a normal manner in which to real ly enjoy a swim. Asking Queries from clients. Q. So first class waiters and waitresses in New York City make $150 a week and up, mostly from tips How are their income tax re turns checked? A. My under standing is that the amount re ported by a waiter on his income tax return as "tips" should be a sum equal to 10 per cent of the checks of the people he has served- If it is below that amount, the tax return is viewed with suspicion. Get It Right The most frequently en countered misquotation of all is. "Money is the root of all evil." Get it right! The quota tion is, "The love of money is the root of all evil." That, of course, has an entirely different meaning. The second most used misquotation is, "gilding the lily." The Shakesperean quota tion referred to "gilding refined gold" and "painting the lily." Asides A Libra born feminine sub scriber of San Francisco ob serves, "so it is said Scorpio women are temperamental. How tvue! They are half temper and half mental" . . . Have you ever A Conger-Morris Memorial It has been our creed that a beautiful, rever ent memorial tribute should be the right of every family, regardless of means. Mabel CONGER-MORRIS Funeral Directors Ambulance Service West Main at Sixth Phone Medford 2-7111 "Hymns of the World" KMED, Saturday, 9:45 a.m. Member National Selected Merticianf by invitation y v. Durung Future Syndicate, Inc.) piloted an automobile with a right hand drive? Manufacture of this type car for domestic use ceased over thirty years ago However, one has been recently made for the special use of a pestman. So he can drop letters in mailboxes without getting out cf the car. Horses & Women Chicago and Milwaukee have a higher percentage of girdle and corset customers than any two other cities in the country. In Chicago, the bus and street car seats are reported to have been made wider so as to accom modate the many hippy feminine customers in more contort. I can understand why the Milwaukee women are a little on the plump side. It is their love for that bev erage that made Milwaukee famous. Why the Chicago women are so generously proportioned, I cannot say. Perhaps the Chi cago men like them that way. Pasting By Brandon Tynan veteran thes pian. Played Little Billee in tha original production of "Trilby. That was the one in which Wilton Lackaye played SvengalL Brandon also played Joseph in the original production of "Joseph and His Brethren." In that memorable production, Paul ine Frederick played Potiphar's wife. Briefly The nickname, "The Fighting Irish," now appropriated by Notra Dame University s foot ball team, was originally applied to the Sixty-ninth Regiment National Guard of New York City. Most of the members of this outfit were of Irish birth or descent . . . Tempus fugit note: Jackie Coogan, who, as a child endeared himself to theater, goers playing the title role in "The Kid," is now 38, and a char acter actor. . Went Naked . Geo. N. Taylor Yes, the man went naked, with shrieks and yells, in and out of the tombs in the rocky heights above Lake Gadar. When bound with chains, he snapped them off. Down o n the beach where Christ met him, the man gave his name as Legion, for many de nt o n s indwelt him. With a word, Christ cast them all out and the Dis c i p 1 e s found the man , sitting at Jesus' Geo. N. Taylor feet, clothed and- in his right mind. With a word, Jesus sent the man back to his home town with "Tell them what mighty works God has done for you." Luke 8:39. And for us today, Christ also has good things. ONE Eternal life. This He gives when you re ceive Him into your heart as having died for your sins. TWO And Christ bids the saved "Casting all your care upon Him for he careth for you." Peter 5:7. For Reason and Cost of Gospel by Newspaper, address G-N-T, 3101 S-W McChesney Rd., Port land, Ore. adv. Carlos JL
