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j i t i . TWO -MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE As We Live Charge Account Helps If Used Wiih Caution Being able to buy things when they strike one's fancy, without having to pay for them out of one's pockets, unquestionably does encourage some people to be extravagant. One man writes: , (Q) "I was very much inter ested in your comment about charge accounts in a recent column, in which you advised young man to close his moth er's accounts because she was on a spending spree since her husband's death. My wife is always after me to open charge accounts for her, but I have refused. She is an ex travagant person to begin with, and I am afraid she will develop into a spendthrift if she knows she can charge things. I would like to get your opinion on this matter." (A) I think you have reason to be cautious about opening charge account for your wife if -r&sL - . her behavior in the past has led you to be lieve that she 'will bankrupt you if you al low h e r to V M charge her i i purcnases x I This is more UKeiy not xo happen. Dr. Hurlock For a rea sonably careful, frugal person, charge accounts are very val uable for two reasons. In the first place, one often needs things at one season of the year, such as a new winter coat, and does not have enough money on hand to pay the entire cost at once. A careful spender will not buy other things until the bill for the coat has been paid. The second value of "charge accounts is that they make it easier to return articles if they are not right. For a person with children, for example, it is much easier to send clothes home on approval and return them if they do not fit or are unbecoming than to take the children shop ping. However, far too many people who have charge accounts do not use them with caution. They Here's T . 4- ::W W Wuicy as oranges can be these golden-ripe beauties love to come to breakfast by the pitcherfuL Keep plenty on hand, too, for slicing in salads and all kinds of fresh eating. Our own orange experts select them. And refrigerated, fan-circulated air keeps Safeway Valencias almost ojchard-fresh during shipment. Come get a bagful to know: Saeicay's the best place in town to buy oranges! By ELIZABETH HURLOCK. PH.D. feel that they will pay their bills some day and then forget how much they have allowed to add up on their bills when they are tempted to buy something more. Like your wife, they go from being extravagant to being spendthrifts when things are made too easy for them as charge acounts do. (COPYRIGHT 1954, GENERAL FEATURES CORP.) Drive Urged To Get Stevenson To Stay New York (U.R) The Stevenson - must - stay drive asked individuals across the country today to join a postcard parade urging the forfher Demo cratic candidate for President i not to retire from public life. Leland Merrick, coordinating secretary of the drive, said the campaign resulted from reports that Adlai Stevenson was con sidering retiring from politics and the fact that he had resumed his private law practice. Merrick said all post cards should be sent to Box 56, Jerome Station, New York 68, N.Y. He said they would be pasted in a giant album and presented to Stevenson so he will know "the people whose hopes and welfare he champions so well will not let him go." Actress Ordered To Pay Ex-Mate's Lawyer Hollywood U.R) Film star Susan Hayward was under court order today to pay 510,000 in attorney fees and costs, so her ex-husband, Jess Barker, can ap peal the divorce she won. Superior Judge Herbert Walk er yesterday ordered the red haired actress to pay Barker's attorney, S. S. Hahn, $7500 fees and $2500 costs in order that Barker might appeal. ; : Barker, though contending there was more than $200,000 in community property, was grant ed only an old station wagon in the divorce decree Oct. 17. He has appealed the divorce on grounds she failed to prove he was cruel to her. something to look into ! Out on Tuesday, Detmbr 14, 1934 mmmi nTirf'"- ' ' -JEW-. i rm.W TOGETHER AGAIN Squadron Leader Andrew Mac- Kenzie looks fondly at his wife, Joyce, at Vancouver, B. C. Mrs. MacKenzie had just shed a few tears of happiness over their reunion at Vancouver International Airport. MacKenzie, just returned home after being held two years by Chinese Reds as a POW, was shot down while flying as an exchange pilot with the U. S. Air Force in Korean wr. On The Side (Distributed by King Our English maids are lone to .woo, And frigid even in possession, And if their charms be lair to view. Their Hps are slow at loves confession. , . BYRON. (It was also Byron who. when discussing his native land, Eng land, referred io "our cloudy cli mate and chilly women.") The United States one cent post card, originated in 1873, was the world's greatest postal bargain. Even at its present price of two cents, it is a terrific bar gain. It is remarkable how many words some people can get on a postal card. Many overcome the lack of privacy angle by using a code. In European countries mail via post card is charged by the word. The system is similar to that used for telegrams. So much for the first ten words. If you use more words you have to pay more postage. 'a. Horses and Women Portrait painters, can usually offer a woman some good advice on how to make herself more beautiful. Tallulah Bankhead had her nose lengthened at the v -1 --T-- your By B.v.Du,nn3 Features Syndicate, Inc.) suggestion of Augustus John, British portrait painter, who said that toy so doing her face would have more symmetry. The hose of course, is an extremely im portant factor in the matter of feminine facial beauty. Miss Bankhead is only one of the many women who have been made much better looking by naving their noses slightly al tered. Among The Married To check on his wife's conver sation while he was away from nome, one husband had a con cealed recording device in nearly every room in the house. What he heard when he ran the record ing later inspired him to seek divorce. How about it, ' lady? TITl 1 T , . wnen your loving nusDana is away from home do you say things you wouldn't want him to hear? Have you checked the house for hidden recording de vices? Anyway, better be careful what you say. To be on the safe side, perhaps you . had better learn the sign language. Sighilighls Women talk 25 per cent faster than men and say about 40 per cent less. The ladies give voice to too many unnecessary words . . . The reason San Franciscans resent their city being referred to as "Frisco'! is because it is named after a saint and they con : j x, , , ... smer me aDDreviation m poor taste ana somewhat sacrilegious .'.' Get It Right Shortest boxing bout- on the record was between. Jack Demp- sey ana rea ji uiton at Harrison, in. j. ijastea eighteen seconds &o says a sportscribe. That's wrong. Shortest fieht on th books was that between Battling iNeison ana Willie Rossler.. It lastea twelve seconds, including uie count, unat is, the actual fighting lasted only two seconds! Asides uood manners," observed Jonathan Swift, "is the art' of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons un easy is the best bred in the company." . . . When you kissed your bride after the wedding ceremony Jiow long did the oscu lation last? After his wedding, Harry James took his bride, Betty Grable in his arms and gave her a kiss that lasted ninety six seconds! , WEATHER By United Press Northern, California: Gener ally fair but local fog this morning and tonight. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday: 10 ajn." Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day. THRU-EXPRESS SERVICE to ".:'v;."" :vi' This is what you pay $, PLUS FEDERAL TAX from Medford x RitvrnTrip 20 LESS... on Round-Trip Tickets! J. A. Tomjack, Agent 212 Calligraphy Art Necessary To Be Gentleman in China Hong Kong (U.R) To be a scholar as well as a gentleman in China one needs to learn and master the, art of calligraphy. And this art of calligraphy is not an easy subject. It often takes one's entire life to acquire the proper technique. Chinese calligraphy is done with a brush instead of pen, thus a master-calligrapher is often a good painter. Recently, however, in this tal ent-filled British Crown Colony, an expert Chinese calligraphist invented a new system of cur sive writing that may use either pen or the brush. The invention, it is believed, has brought about a revolution in the centuries-old art of Chinese calligraphy. She Hiseh-wen, an authority on Chinese calligraphy, said the new system is part of a first comparative treatment of Chi nese calligraphy ever published. The refugee inventor said he intends to publish the system in a new form of "Tsu T'ieh" roughly meaning a student's pen manship copy book intended primarily for students of Chi nese in foreign lands. He recent ly conducted a public exhibi tion at the art gallery of a prom inent Hong Kong hotel showing off his new system of th art of Chinese calligraphy. Was a Teacher ' As Chinese are accepting the pen along with the brush as their instrument of writing, She feels that his invention will enhance writing as an art that keeps pace with time. He also feels that his new system will gradually be come more popular especially among the scientific-minded modern Chinese. She's new system has a, set of "alphabets" that has 84 com ponents, 42 basic strokes and as many radicals. They are familiar to .shorthand students and may roughly be equated to basic Eng Although a teacher of litera ture by profession,' She became a master calligraphist with some 40 years of experience begin ning from the days when he iooKea upon caiiigrapny as a hobby. He has taught in many well-known schools and univer sities in mainiana China prior to Communist occupation of that country. He earned for himself a distinction of ministerial pro fessor , after he had published a treatise on Li Sao, a well- known ancient Chinese poet. &ne, at present, operates a academy of calligraphy in Hong Kong. He has to his credit some 28 publications of varying kinds, including those on poetry as well as -calligraphy. 4-H Club News Roxy Ann Club Roxy Ann 4-H club met De cember 10 at Roxy Ann Grange hall. Initiation of new and first year members was held. Newly elected officers are; President, Coralee Dalton; vice president, Jan Niehaus: secre tary, Monica Auel; treasurer, Calvin Dalton; reporter, Kath erine Gott. ' - It was decided to present the Roxy Ann Grange, the . club's sponsor, with a charter. Mrs. Dalton is in charge of the char ter. The meeting was also a Christmas, party and the mem bers brought old toys to give to the firemen to repair. Games were played and re freshments served after the meeting by the cooking club. The dairy club will be in charge of refreshments for the next general meeting on Jan uary 28. ' ' ' Katherine Gott, Reporter. This is what 2 . t you get, 4z Choice off 2 Doily Thru-Express Schedules to Son Francisco ' . . ' ' :'- " Straight 'Through travel . . No change oi' bus or baggage ffAir Suspension Ride . -fc Scenery at its best N. Bartlett Phone 2-2202 ST Rainfall Sweet Ears of Bermuda Residents Hamilton, Bermuda (U.R) Rain on the roof is music to the ears of Bermuda's 40,000 resi dents. They never are happier than when their basements are full of rainwater. ' Each drop of rain means more drinking water for the inhabit ants of this Atlantic island cluster, where nature requires that every home be a miniature waterworks and storm clouds bring cheer. There is hardly a building here of any kind, in fact; that isn't . equipped with, a white ribbed roof, especially designed for catching rain, and a reservoir in the cellar. Such construction is required by law and has pro duced a style of architecture Bermudians believe to be unique. Bermuda, the oldest self-gov erning Britisn colony, consists of 150 coral islands nearly 600 miles east of North Carolina. It has almost ho underground fresh water. The drilling of wells has brought up large quantities of slightly salty water, used by many for laundering and bath ing, but water for cooking and drinking comes from the sky. Some persons run out of water after three dry months and have to pay dearly for water brought in by ship. The U. S Air Force base here converts ocean water to drinking water, but just about everyone else depends on tne rain. . . One resident with a 32,000- gallon tank undej his three-bed room home said he could go for a year without rain. But the average home tank holds only 11,000 gallons, so Bermudians hope for a continuation of the 58-inch annual average rainfall teuuiucu uuiuig icau oujionday; other days 5:30 previous day t 3 j - . i i en ; : ' -" j l . teg Here is a pleasant reward for the helpmate who likes to be refreshed. . . and the cool, clean-tasting beer that is gaining ever wider acceptance for its consistent quality.1 Rare artesian water gives Olympia . Beer its distinctive difference in flavor. Each day, it seems, more and more shoppers "take along Olympia." Won't you join them? . Visitors welcome to "One of America's Exceptional Breweries," Olympia Brewing Company, Olympia, Wash.,' U. S. A. ' , 9:30 to 4:30 every day Music To years. . When it rains in Bermuda, it usually rains hard, but, the storms last only a few minutes, so both the inhabitants, who need the water, and the tourists, who want sunshine, are kept happy. Under rigid regulations de veloped over the past 300 years, every building in Bermuda has an almost identical roof, con structed of limestone or coral slates coated with plaster and then covered with purifying white limewash. Four-fifths of every roof must be designed to catch rain. The roofs slope gently above pastel f tinted coral - brick and" plaster walls and have a cor rugated appearance. Water tric kles down the white limestone terraced roofs into gutters and then through pipes to the base ment tanks, ranging from 5,000 gallons for small cottages to 100, 000 for mansions. Catchments on Hillsides Hotels catering 'to nearly 100, 000 tourists a year have catch ments on hillsides as well as on roofs. Huge white patches of lime-washed rock or cement that look like snowf ields catch rain fall and drain it into pipes to underground reservoirs. Water is considered to be pure after it has run over the lime coating, but if stagnation is dis covered, the water is freshened with chlorinated lime. Mosquitoes are not much of a problem in Bermuda, but the health department requires that all the conservationists keep their tanks from becommg po tential insect breeding grounds. Dead line Sunday Classified is at Injun oaiuraay , xu a.m. munaay lur ...now lor stay refreshed. .: j ttEEBt i !isaijg Reuiher, Mexico President Meet . - Mexico City (U.R), CIO" President Walter Reuther and a delegation of 17 union leaders -met President Adolf o Ruiz Cor tines yesterday. Reuther, who came to Mexico City from Los Angeles where the CIO wound up ' its annual convention last week end, said he promised Ruiz Cortines that the CIO "will keep working ceaselessly to secure decent treatment for Mexican migrant workers" in the United States. U. S. Ambassador Francis White held a reception for the Reuther delegation last night. newly-styled rooms; new extra-long beds; new and modern baths; new com fort and convenience in over-bed reading lights, easy, chairs, free radio. And. rates? The best value in town! Fine food in Cof-; fee Shop, famous Cocktail Lounge. Right on Union. Square. ' REAL VALVE RATES -SINGLE: $5-$6-$ 7 DOUBLE: $8S9$10 mm 4 1 V r 0 li ft :i A X: 9 m .0 Marks Reg. 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