Friday, Deeftmber 10, 1934
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE
alesmeDn OEreatisig
ProtBlemim Bedford
Itinerant magazine subscrip-. with few if any exceptions, his
tion sales crews have become a
real problem and headache in
Medford, according to Don Mc
Neil, manager of the Jackson
County Chamber of Commerce.
During the past 11 months,
McNeil said, he has compiled a
file of information and com
plaints about subscription solici
tors which measures two inches
thick. He is now preparing a de
tailed report based on this infor
mation for use of the chamber,
and will make it available to the
city council.
Police Helpless
The police here are helpless to
protect citizens from those mag
azine solicitors who are unscru
pulous or dishonest, or who con
stitute nuisances, McNeil added,
unless some overt and illegal
action provides the basis for a
citizens criminal complaint.
Medford has no ordinance which
bans or controls the activities of
transient door-to-door salesmen.
A few years ago, an organiza
tion called the Central Registry,
to which most magazine sub
scription firms belonged, was
organized as an industry self-
policing agency, McNeil report
ed, but has apparently failed to
some extent in its regulatory at
tempts. $100 Per Day
Crews passing through Med
ford usually consist of five peo
ple, McNeil said, and stay from
four to six days or longer, and
on an average receive some $100
per day per crew, as a mini
mum. McNeil pointed out that
magazine subscriptions can be
obtained for the same prices di
rectly from the magazine them
selves, or from resident dealers.
McNeil pointed out that every
time a magazine crew is in town,
National Office
For Mrs. Carpenter
Sought by Board
Mrs. Alfred S. V. Carpenter
was nominated for membership
on the national board of direc
tors of the American Red Cross
by the Jackson jcounty chapter's
board at a meeting here Thurs
day noon.
Mrs. Carpenter, long active in
Red Cross affairs, has been a
member of national Red Cross
committees, and frequently has
attended national Red Cross an
nual meetings.
Mrs. Frank Fairweather, who
presided in the absence of chair
man Eugene Thorndike, report
ed on a recent meeting of Red
Cross workers in Roseburg. Most
of the meeting, she said, was
devoted to a discussion of volun
teer workers how to recruit,
train and retain them.
Caliber High
She stated the caliber of
workers and their training and
general qualifications in the
Jackson county chapter are far
above' the average in other
areas.
Seth Bullis reported that in a
recent discussion with supervi
sory personnel at Camp White,
he was informed that the Red
Cross workers from the local
chapter were the most efficient
ones, and that their services and
aid to disabled veterans there
has been far above average.
The action of a committee
headed by Jack Crawford, in
purchasing a 1955 Ford station
wagon for use by the chapter
was approved. The vehicle has
been in service about two
weeks.
office and that of the police
have had calls complaining of
rudeness, or of "fishy" stories
told by the solicitors.
Cites Instance
A recent instance recounted
by McNeil involved a 76-year
old woman who had just receiv
ed a small social security check.
When visited by a solicitor, she
was persuaded to sign it over to
him for some $39 worth of sub
scriptions. The amount of change
she received was in question,
and she also was left with the
understanding that she was pur
chasing some cosmetics which
she could use for Christmas
presents, she said. No receipt
was given her, she claimed. She
apparently had been "high-pressured"
into the transaction.
The police picked up the lead
er of the crew, but he refused to
return her check, and officers
said there was nothing illegal
with which they could charge
him. He was released. The Cen
tral Registry and the chamber
are making attempts to clear up
the matter and have the money
returned.
In another instance, a young
ster was persuaded to forge a
rjame to a check for a solicitor,
but here again there was no ba
sis for a charge against the so
licitor. In other instances there
have been reports of petty thiev
ery by solicitors, as well as gen
eral unpleasantness.
What is Solution?
What the solution to the prob
lem may be, McNeil was not
prepared to say. But he did
point out that cities which have
a type of ordinance which origi
nated in Green River, Wyo., and
is known as the "Green River
Ordinance," have had consider
able success in controlling the
activities of itinerant salesmen.
He said what is needed is not
action after complaints are
made, but something to prevent
the kind of activity which brings
the complaints.
Meanwhile, McNeil urged ev
eryone who is approached by a
magazine salesman to check
with the chamber office to see
if the crew is registered there,
as is provided in the Central
Registry agreement.
REFUSING TO GIVE UP DOLL, Felicia Delgado Gomez, 10, holds
it and her baby, which weighed 5 pounds 12 ounces at birth in
Puerto Limon, Costa Rica. Tot was born by Caesarian section,
Is thriving.' With Felicia is her mother. (International)
As We Live
Angry Words Should
Not Be Put on Paper
It is never safe to put angry
thoughts on paper. That is
what the young woman who
wrote the following letter is
finding. She says:
(Q) "I have been going
steady with a young man for a
year and I love him very
much. However, he makes me
so angry at times that I can
hardly control my temper. He
thinks he is a lady-killer and
likes to flirt with the girls.
Well, the other night was the
last straw. , He took me io a
dance and found a pretty lit
tle thing he had never seen
before. So, he spent all eve
ning with her, leaving me high
an dry. I was so angry that
I hardly spoke to him on the
way home. Then I sat down
and let him have it in a letter.
I am sure I hurt his pride, as
I haven't heard a word from
him since and he usually calls
me several limes a day.
Should I write and apologize,
or just wait and let him get
over it?"
(A) What makes you so sure
Dr.
Hurlock
New York U.R) Announce
ment was made today of the
election of Frank H. Bartholo
mew as president and general
manager of the United Press suc
ceeding Hugh Baillie who be;
comes chairman of the board.
By ELIZABETH HURLOCK, PH.D.
that your friend will "get over"
what you said to him in your
letter or that
all you have
to do is say
"I'm sorry"
and he will
gladly come
back to you?
Have you ever
thought that
that your let
ter may have
been the final
straw for him
too?
- No one man, woman, or
child likes to read unpleasant
things about himself or herself.
They always see so much worse
on paper than they do when
spoken. And the reader has no
come-back, as the listener has.
Because you are seething with
pent-up rage when you wrote
that letter, the chances are that
you said even more than you
would have said face-to-face.
But the damage is done. The
chances are that you and he will
never be on the same footing as
you were before, even though
you may resume your friendship.
He has probably pigeon-holed
you in his mind as a "shrew"
and has no further thoughts of
marrying you,, even if he had
such thoughts before.
While this may be a bitter pill
for you to swallow now, you
should be glad that it happened.
Hem i ng way, Others
Officially Awarded
1954 Nobel Prizes
Stockholm (U.R) The Swed
ish Academy formally awarded
the 1954 Nobel prize for litera
ture to Ernest Hemingway today
as "one of the great authors of
our time."
Four other Americans and two
Germans collected the three
other Nobel prizes awarded this
year.
Dr. Linus Paulings, Pasadena,
Calif., received the chemistry
prize. The medical award went
jointly to a three-man American
polio research team, Drs. John
F. Enders and Thomas H. Weller
of Boston, and Frederick C. Rob
bins of Cleveland.
' German professors Max Born
and Walter Bothe shared the
physics prize. v
All the winners except Hem
ingway and Bothe attended in
person the colorful presentation
ceremony at Stockholm's Con
cert Hall.
King Gustaf Adolf presented
the awards.
.Hemingway is one of "the
swiftly rising new authors from
the United States whose names
we now recognize as stimulating
signals" on the literary horizon,
Dr. Anders Oesterling, perma
nent secretary of the Swedish
Academy said.
John Moors Cabot, U. S. am
bassador to Sweden, accepted
the gold medal, leather-bound
diploma and $35,066 tax-free
award on behalf of Hemingway,
who is recuperating in Cuba
from injuries suffered in two
plane crashes in Africa.
Prof. S. Gard hailed the re
search started in 1949 by Enders,
Weller and Robbins to cultivate
polio virus in test tube culture
of human tissue.
Frontiers of Science
Prof. Gunnar Haegg praised
Pauling for workng on the
"frontiers of science" in his re
search into the nature of chemi
cal bond and its application to
A man who likes to think of
himself as a "lady-killer" is cer
tainly not promising husband
material. And, from this experi
ence, you should have learned a
lesson about writing letters that
wjll help you in your future
romances.
. (Copyright 1954,
General Features Corp.)
the study of ,the structure of
complex substances. - -
"We chemists are keenly
aware of the influence and stim
ulation of your pioneer work,"
Haegg. said : to the lanky Cal
if ornian who was present with
his , wife, Ava, their four chil
dren and his daughter-in-law.
Although the prize for litera
ture is given for a writer's total
work, Oesterling made it clear
Hemingway's short novel "The
Old Man and the Sea" carried
the main weight.
Timberline Lodge
Bookkeeper Killed
Rhododendron -1XU.R) Wil
liam Cade, 38-year-old book
keeper at Timberline Lodge at
Mt. Hood, was burned to death
here early 'yesterday when
five-room summer home was de
stroyed by fire caused by an oil
heater explosion.
- Volunteer firemen and forest
service crews managed to pre
vent the flames from spreading
to three , other buildings nearby
but were unable to save the
building's lone occupant, i
Cade, a former employe of
overseas construction firms, had
a wife and two children in Paris.
Individual prospectors have
made nearly all the important
new uranium discoveries in the
United States, says the National
Geographic Society. Early in
1949 at Marysvale, Utah, about
160 miles south of Salt Lake
City, a prospector discovered
radioactive minerals while ex
amining some old mines and
gave the United States its first
important source of primary
uranium.
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