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Is That So? Wood which accompanies man from red maple cradle to white pine coffin, and made even the page you are now reading is the very fiber of our land. From the moment the tree began to grow, it had form and plan. A3 it grew, it split rocks apart, its roots traveled far in search of water. Pliant, resil iant, it adjusted itself to its sur roundings: when winds blew, it leaned with them, when snows fell, it bent its boughs under their weight; when' droughts came, . its leaves curled and drooped. Within that tree was the power of reproduction; the ability to repair injuries . . . and go on. Living, it sweetened the air. In hot summers, it cooled the air. It laid dust and tempered the wind. Felled, sawn and seasoned, it laid bare the hidden beauty of its figures and grains no two pieces ever alike, and more love ly, surely, than the most pre meditated design. And color: douglas fir with its heavy growth layers of orange wood on a yellow background; red wood with its warm hue and glossy sheen; rosewood with sun set streaks of color; the chocolate brown of walnut; and driftwood gray of magnolia. Look about your home now and you will see some of the 1,000-odd native species of North American trees: the table top of walnut; the chopping bowl of birch (as well as thread spools); the paneled wall of elm; the basket of woven willow splits; the tobacco pipe of briar; the roof shingles of red cedai;; the hickory log upon the fire; the Christmas tree of spruce; the floor of oak; the fence of red vood; the ash rake-handle, strong, yet lean. Pilgrims Exported Pine How adaptable the uses of CHRISTIAN J l SCIENCE J jfEALSp Station Sundays KW1N 10:15 1400 K.C. I A.M. By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist wood. From earliest days 30 years after they landed, Pilgrims were exporting white pine even as far away as Madagascar. No where else in the world was there a wood so light that grew so tall. A single tree made a mast tall as a ship could carry, yet so light it was never top heavy. Tough live oaks made the sides of our frigate Constitution appropriately nicknamed Old Ironsides! Lincoln's cabin was made of white oak logs the rails he split were black walnut. On rims of hickory and spokes cf oak, pioneers rolled west to the Pacific. Wood fired the river steamers of the Mississippi and ties cut from eastern forests spanned the treeless plains with railroads. White pine built New Eng land's loveliest colonial mansions and churches. Because it works smoothly under a plane and shrinks or swells little when properly seasoned, it has always been a favorite of carpenters. Black walnut which does not splinter made rifle stocks for the woodsman, and still does. With handling it does not rough en, it becomes smoother. Short on good glues, our an cestors learned to fit seasoned hickory legs into chair seats of green sugar maple: when the maple shrunk, it clasped the hickory legs in a grip that scarcely nothing could loosen. Ash for Bats For toughness, not steel itself is so shock-resistant as hickory. That is why ski champions in sure their lives by insisting upon hickory. For his bat, the base ball player prefers ash to ab sorb the sudden crack of ball against bat. For golf club heads, persimmon is better. Many are fhe uses of spruce and quite astonishing. From the little boxes which hold berries for the market, to the Christmas tree, and the top of a violin to give a rich mellifluous tone. The wood that holds the graphite in your pencil is made of eastern red cedar no other wood can quite equal it for ease in sharpening in all directions. For the shingles on your roof which will not rot or split, re gardless of whether, it is usually western red cedar . . . the same wood the northwest Indians used for their giant 40-man canoes hollowed out by fire from one log. Or for their great totem poles to perpetuate and keep fresh their past. (Copyrighf, 1935, by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the readers who sends me the ,7 ' wn PEDDUNG PACHYDERM Trainer Floyd Smith of St Louis Zoo teaches Wendy, 20-month-old ele- Ehant to mount a specially uilt tricycle. Later comes task of teaching her to ped dle it It's all part of prepar ing for next seasons ele phant shows which start in May. Exams for Fireman Applicants Dec. 3 Applications for persons inter ested in taking civil service ex aminations for firemen must be filed with Fire Chief Gordon Barker by 5 p.m., Monday, Nov. Examinations will be held at the Central Fire station, Third and Front sts., at 8 a.m., Satur day, Dec. 3, Barker said. Men who successfully com plete the examination will be placed on the eligible list in the order of their standings and future appointments for firemen will be made from the list. Start ing salary for the probation pe riod is $300, with increases gov erned by ability of the individ ual. Requirements for applicants include at least a high school ed ucation, minimum height and weight and good physical condition. best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't "answer your many friendly letters. Please address vour letter to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box ' 575, Sausalito, Calif. In the Day's News Another Shipment Just Arrived! 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Main St., Medford, Orefon I I I BUl COr 4 ll mIW I1 Please send the binocuUrs at 17.77 (), 22.50 ( ), , Ills r3 ffS a n fl HI U I EKi ll 19-95 ( ) I am enclosing J and will send I V. JSL' -al Jm jkr per week or Per month until I "TmL mfi I Ui entire amount is paid. ! JtMMk NAME PHONE j !'j9SWJl ADDRESS . HOW LONG mTumtSnii nw im nwi iininiwrirjTgiJ CITY ZONE STATE I 122 EAST MAIN ST. - MEDFORD l! employed by how long J Store Hours 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. D CREDIT REFERENCE . J By FRANK JENKINS Let's talk today for a moment about the First Thanksgiving. The Pilgrims left England in search of more religious liberty. They started out in two ships, the Mayflower and Speedwell. The Speedwell proved to be un seaworthy, so they had to turn back. Arriving in port, they abandoned the Speedwell and all of them crowded into the Mayflower. Then they set out again. rjTHE Mayflower was 25 feet wide (at the widest place) and 85 feet long. That is to say, there was less than 2,000 square feet of space below her deck. There were 102 Pilgrims, plus the ship's crew. If you will do a little figuring, you will come to the conclusion that each oc cupant of the ship had less than 18 square feet of space at his disposal even assuming that all their gear (food, clothing, imple ments, etc.) could be stored on the deck and in the hold. Remember that 18 square feet of space is three feet wide and six feet long just about big enough for a grown man to lie down in. In these crowded quar ters they had to cross the stormy North Atlantic at the beginning of the stormy season. It must have been rugged. 4 HHIVLVG in Capo CoS bay they thought they were head ed for the Hudson river at the present site of New York, but the ship's captain landed them elsewhere they had to turn in and build rude houses for winter shelter. The houses were of logs, chinked with mud, with thatch ed roofs and dirt floors. The only heat was a fire on the floor, with the smoke finding its way out through holes in the roof. Many of them became ill. There was no medicine. So many of them died. There was little enough food, so all of them were hungry all the time. Under these conditions they passed the winter. HOME spring, they planted gar- dens of corn, barley and peas. They had a break. Instead of descending on them with knives and tomahawks, the Indians came in, led by one Squanto, with food and agricultural ad vice. The agricultural advice in cluded the trick of putting a dead fish in each hill of corn for fertilizer. Thus they got through the summer. TN THE fall, their crops turned out quite well. So To show their gratitude to God for their good fortune, they planned a big feast. From their gardens, they contributed grain and vegetables they had grown. The Indians came in with deer Suntfsy', fToTmi XI, 1155 MEDFORD (OREGOrT) MAIL TRIBUNE JTvTC and wild turkeys, providing the meat so essential for a REAL feast. It lasted three days. Everybody was happy. They were TRULY grateful. That was the First Thanksgiving. WHAT they had was little enough. But It was riotous plenty in com parison with what they had had when they landed on the bleak shore of Cape Cod bay a year earlier. A THOUGHT in closing. A What we have is FABU LOUS PLENTY in comparison with what our forefathers had. But there is discontent among us. We are discontented because we think we ought to have more. The politicians who are out and want back in are capitalizing our discontent by telling us how shamefully we have been mis used and misled.' T SOMETIMES wonder if we wouldn't be happier if we were more grateful for what we have and . less discontented be cause of what we HAVEN'T GOT. Norway Expresses Regret For Bombing Olso, Norway (U.R) A Foreign Office spokesman said Saturday Norway had expressed official regret to Russia for the fact a bomb was thrown through the window of the Soviet Em bassy Friday night. No casualties were reported and apparently there was little damage. The bomb was thrown through a window into an ante room which was not occupied by any of the 80 Russians who work in the grey stone building. Police stepped up the search for the culprits, believed to be teen-agers. Fish r the most numerous of the vertebrates with about 20,000 species. An ordinary sneeze trsvls two or three feet. There Is No Substitute for an Insured savings ac count. Start with any amount. You'll discover friendly, per sonal service. FIRST FEDERAL SAYINGS & LOAN ASS'N of Medford 17 North Holly An Institution Dedicated To Those Who Save New Orleans, situated on the Mississippi river, is actually 107 miles from the river's outlet into the Gulf. J & N CAFE 229 SOUTH FRONT ST. 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