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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.
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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.
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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."
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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
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