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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 12. 1946
(It was Tuesday)
A total of 130,116,000 board
feet of timber cut from Rogue
River National forest during
1954, largest from any national
forest in Oregon and Wash
ington. From .Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: All over
the state, candidates have started
"beating the bush," for the May
primary election. In many cases,
the bush is the only thing, they
can beat.
20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 12. 1936
(It was Wednesday)
Fruit shipments from Rogue
valley total 2,337 cars, accord
ing to Southern Pacific freight
officials. -
County Agent R. G. Fowler
announces agricultural confer
ence here to discuss farm pro
gram for Jackson county.
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 12. 1926
(It was Friday)
Central Point school district
residents approve 114 to 38 to
issue $40,000 in bonds to finance
construction of new high school.
From Local and Personal col
umn: The Oregon Agricultural
college short course in canning
now in progress, has registra
tion between 65 and 70, repre
senting five states and two Ca
nadian provinces.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 12. 1916
(It was Saturday)
Governor Withycombe and
state treasurer Tom Kay assure
Medford and valley residents
that state aid is available for
Crater Lake highway construc
tion.
From Table Rock Tablets: The
Table Rock Ditch company is
making preparations to do some
extensive work on its ditch. It
intends to enlarge the canal to
more than double its present
capacity. ,
What's the Answer?
Can You Gel 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report
1. Treasury Secretary. Humph
rey does or doesn't want to give
the Federal Reserve Board con
trol again over retail credit
terms?
2. Feb. 14 is the day in 270
A.D. when St. Valentine was re
portedly born, or died, or was
martyred, or wrote an ode to
Love, or became a Christian?
3. It is or isn't illegal, to send
liquor advertising through the
mail? , : ,
4. More water is consumed
every day in the U.S. inside or
outside of homes, or is it about
50-50? :
5. Mardi Gras always comes
before, after or on Shrove Tus-
day? ; .
6.A member of the household
can or can't be claimed as de
duction for federal income tax
if not related to taxpayer?
7. The new British Labor
Party leader is Hugh Gaitskall,
GaitskelL Gaitskill, Gaitskoll or
Gaitskull?
The Answers: 1. Does. 2. Was
martyred for his faith. 3. Isn't
illegal. 4. Much more outside of
homes. 5 On Shrove Tuesday.
6.Can. 7. GaitskelL
MAIL TRIBUNE
The Ellsworth Law &Al Sarena
Our attention has been called to the fact that the
Ellsworth law, which many assumed would do away
with the mining-timber-claim racket in Oregon, does
nothing-of the sort.
It will still be possible under this new federal regu
lation for a smart' operator to secure, say $100,000
worth of government timber practically for free by
proving up on a mineral claim that might not be
worth over a thousand dollars. .
The Ellsworth bill makes a few changes in the
antiquated mining regulations and they are all minor
ones. ,
TOR EXAMPLE: until the -patents to the' mineral
properties have been granted, which might be for
as long as five years, control of the timber on the land
will be in the hands of the US Forest Service instead
of the mining claimant. The claimant under the old
law took over the timber immediately.
- But if the claimant has the inclination and re
sources to comply with the financial requirements for
development of the mineral property in one year, in
stead of five, he can do so.
Then with the patent granted he owns the land
including everything of value, not only beneath the
surface but above it.
Not bad for anyone who has taken the trouble to
have the timber cruised beforehand and knows its
market value.
The Interior Department, of course, must be sat
isfied the mining claim is a legitimate one. But judg
ing by the El Sarena case this would not be hard to
do.
If the mineral examiners of the Forest Service
should refuse to give their, ok, the Bureau of Land
Management, also ; mining engineers elsewhere, any
where from New York to Mobile, Alabama could un
doubtedly be 'found to endorse the project, and cer
tify it as proper for mineral development by any citi
zen of capacity and "prudence."
THE MALL TRIBUNE has always favored both min-
eral development in this section of Oregon and
timber operation and development also. But we can
see no justification for the US government to throw
in its timber as a bonus to
should tnrow in its mines
ber operators.
"If mineral deposits m
serve 'justify private development ok, let the own
ers develop them, just as long and profitably as they
can. If there are timber lands which justify private
development and of course-there are ok again :
sell them at a fair price and let private enterprise go
to it.
, . . .
DUT WHY in the name of common sense and equity,
mix them up either making timber a "free offer
ing" for miners or making mines a free offering for
the timber men.
Neither holdings are private property but govern
ment property belonging to all the people.
. The law should, we believe, keep them separate,
and treat applicants in both areas alike, with fairness
to them, to the government and everyone concerned.
No "give away" to either ! R.W.R.
Adlai and the Negro
There are many things we like about Adlai Stev
enson, two particularly: "
(1) Sense of humor.
(2) Moral courage. '
These two qualities in a man seeking high office
in this country are rare.
The sense of humor denotes a well-balanced mind.
Moral courage denotes strength of character. . . .
These qualities would be valuable in a President
but it is doubtful if either will aid the ex-Governor to
win the Democratic nomination.
TAKE STEVENSON'S stand, on the negro and
school segregation problems in the South and par
ticularly Alabama for example.
The "well balanced" mind follows the reasoning
of the Supreme Court decision namely : that while
segregation is unconstitutional, there should be no
haste in forcing school and college integration in the
South because of the deep-seated prejudice in that
part of the country against it. s
The use of .force as Stevenson points out, instead
of solving the problem' would merely aggravate it,
and needlessly delay, solution. He therefore suggest
ed the dale for a complete change-over of long estab
lished Southern habits and traditions be set ahead
as far as 1963 instead of trying to start to enforce
the letter of the law by police force today or tomorrow.
In other words the former. governor of Illinois
advises patience and restraint, evolution rather than
revolution in solving this problem, not because he ap
proves of racial segregation 'but because he believes
this the best method of getting rid of it, in the short
est time, at the least sacrifice. : .
A S STATED ABOVE; such a procedure follows the
advice of the US Supreme Court. But it doesn't
satisfy the demand of the radical negro group formed
for the advancement of their race, and this group
pretty much controls and directs the colored vote.
For Mr. Stevenson to take such a stand took cour
age, and undoubtedly was the result of careful study
and thought; but if, "as seems likely, it means opposi
tion of the negro vote to Mr. Stevenson's nomination,
this might well prove his undoing.
If it does it won't be a new experience to the 1952
leader of the Democratic jparty the only difference
being he took the fatal stand then after he was nominated-instead
"of before.
That concerned the Tideland Oil issue, Candi
date Stevenson was told if he opposed , this -"give
away" he would lose the states of Texas; Calif ornia
Sunday, February 12, 195S
miners any more than it
if any as a bonus -to tim
the government timber re
MCSftQt Of FdCt By Joe and Stewart AJsop
THE GARDNER STORY
Washington The reasons for
the resignation of Assistant Sec
retary of the Air Force Trevor
rrE'l Gardner are
like the
layers of an
onion. The out
outside layers
involve mat
ters of person
ality and orr
ganization, as
well as dusty
old Pentagon
Stewart Alsop rivalries. &UI
when you peel down to the heart
of the onion, you find a nugget
of fact which involves the very
survival of the United States.
The real turning point in the
Gardner story came several
months ago. when almost certain
knowledge be
came avail
able to the
American gov
ernment that
1ne Soviets had
produced mis
siles with
ranges up to
1,500 miles.
Gardner was
Joseph Aisop mmseii re
sponsible for the successful
American effort to find out
where the Soviets really stand in
the missile race and this grim
knowledge, in turn, led rather
directly to his resignation.
Before the Soviet success was
known, the American long
range missile program had been
very much a one-man show.
When Gardner come on the
scene in the spring of 1953, as
Air Force Research and Develop
ment chief, the intercontinental
missile, or ICBM, program had
been a limping, low-priority
affair.
.,
IT WAS wholly in the research
stage, and Secretary of De
fense Charles Wilson, who then
tended to regard all research as
wasteful nonsense, was getting
ready to cut it out entirely. But
Gardner, a man of strong views,
protested loudly. Wilson at
length agreed to submit the
whole matter to a high-level
committee of scientists, headed
by Dr. John von Neumann. The
von Neumann committee in turn
recommended not only against
cancellation of the project, but
in favor of giving it the highest
priority.
Wilson thereupon put Gardner
in charge of the program. In this
capacity the strong-willed Gard
ner made numerous enemies in
the Pentagon and the aircraft
industry. He also alienated the
implacable Lewis Strauss, chair
man of The Atomic Energy Com
mission, when he publicly sup
ported Dr. Robert Oppenheimer
for his contributions to national
security. Gardner's large array
of enemies undoubtedly explains
in part the charge of "conflict of
interest" . which . has . been
brought against him.
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WTHILE making his collection
' ' of enemies Gardner spurred
important-break-throughs in the
long-range missile field. Then
came the knowledge of the So
viet success in producing the in
termediate " 1,500-mile missile,
known as the IRBM. This grim
evidence that the Soviets were
far ahead of this country in the
missile field simply could not be
disregarded.
The Pentagon reaction took
two forms. First a whole cat's
cradle of missile committees
was formed. There is a "top
level coordinating- committee"
headed by Undersecretary of De
fense Reuben Robertson, another
committee .under Secretary of
the Air Force Donald Quarles,
an Arm y-Navy . coordinating
committee, and so on.
Having run his own show,
Gardner now had to report to
this array of committees, as did
others working in the long
range missile field.
The result was the maximum
of organizational confusion.
At the same time, Wilson ap
proved a decision to undertake a
"crash program" to produce an
IRBM, and thus match the So
viet success.
"DECAUSE the Army had pro
duced the much publicized
"Redstone' missile actually
little more than an improved
version of the German V2 the
Army was assigned the IRBM
project. The Air Force auto
matically resisted the Army's
claim. So did Gardner, but not
on the usual strictly bureau
cratic grounds.
Gardner argued that the
IRBM, while strategicaUy of
enormous value to the , Soviet
Union, would have far less value
to the United States. He con
ceded that it was probably a mis
take not to have tried for the in-
fcMfFl II iJ
and Florida at the outset and might lose more even
tually. '
OOWEVER, he believed the "give away" wrong, so
lj.e abandoned political expediency for what he
believed-was right and he did lose those states and
the election.
But Adlai had the moral satisfaction of being true
to himself and his convictions, and turning a deaf ear
to the demands of Jiis less courageous political ad
visers.' . " ' '" ' : : '
This is the one quality greatly needed in public of
fice in this country high or low, and in these parlous
times, seldom found.
Win, lose or draw, Adlai Stevenson has it.
. R.W.R.
termediate missile in the first
place. But now, he argued,. the
only way to trump the Kremlin's
ace was to be first in the' field
with the true ultimate weapon,
the 5,000-mile intercontinental
missile. A crash program for the
IRBM would, only cut into the
limited technical manpower and
resources available - for the
ICBM, to which every available
man and doUar ought now to- be
devoted.
- f -. "
TUT Gardner lost this "'fight,
" and partly as a result, 'his
recommended budget for long
range missile and other Air
Force research and development
work was cut on the orders of
$200,000,000. At the same time,
when Wilson at length decided to
appoint a "Czar" to make some
sense out of the organizational
cat's cradle, Gardner was passed
over as "too controversial." ,
Altogether, the man who al
most single-handed saved the
American long-range missile pro
gram from total extinction . may
be said to have been poorly re
warded. But such personal con
siderations aside, it is worth
pondering the somber nugget of
fact which is found at the heart
of the. Gardner story the fact
that the Soviet Union is unques
tionably ahead of the United
States in the life-and-death mis
sile race, in the area where it
really matters. ;
Copyright 1956,"
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
Today and
By Walter
THE MISS LUCY CASE
As of now at the. University
of Alabama the situation appears
to be this: -
Because the
state govern
ment of Ala
bama has fail
ed ,to main
tain law and
order on the
campus of the
state universi
ty, the author
ities of the un
iversity have
felt compeUed
Walter Lippmann
to yield to the violance of a
mob.
This has raised an issue with
in the state of Alabama, as to
whether a great question of pub
lic policy is to be decided be
cause a governor, instead of com
ing to the support of the local
police, has stood aside and let
a mob have its way.
Dr. Carmichael, the president
of the university, was in the
act of complying faithfully with
the order of the court that Miss
Lucy be allowed to attend class
es. There is no evidence that
the university authorities and
the faculty were not prepared
to comply with the law. There
is no evidence that the students
who attended the same classes
with her were aroused to re
bellion. The mob, consisting of
some students and it appears a
hard core of outsiders,, defied
the local peace officers left un
aided by the governor, and suc
ceeded in terrorizing the univers
ity authorities into denying Miss
Lucy her undoubted Constitu
tional rights. - -' x
ITHAT is at stake in this sur-
" render to a mob is whether
Alabama is in fact, hot merely
in name, a sovereign state. For
what has happende in Tuscal
loosa is a quite different kind
of thing from what has happen
ed in any of the other Southern
state which are opposing inte
gration in the schools. Nowhere
else has resistance to the de
cision of the Supreme Court
been left to a mob. Nowhere
else has the state government
connived at mob rule, which is
what Governor Folsom did.
Whatever one may think of the
legal reasoning in Virginia, for
example, there and elsewhere
the resistance is being carried
out under the forms of law. '
That makes a difference as
between night and day. For it
keeps the issue on a level where,
though it cannot be settled
quickly, it can be treated by the
civilized process of accommoda
tion and persuasion. This will not
no be possible where the state
governments abandon their
authority to mobs, and'the ques
tion is raised of how far the
authority and dignity of the
United States are to be flouted.
ON TUESDAY in Los Angeles
at a meeting of Negro-voters,
Governor Stevenson was asked
whether as President he would,
(By M-T Staff
One Republican io another
at last week's Lincoln day
dinner: "They must have de
cided io serve baked ham in
order to help the hog market."
The quirks and foibles of the
United States Post Office de
partment are sometimes difficult
to understand. ,
For instance, we wonder why
so frequently we get letters
from New York, Washington or
Hawaii either the day after or
two days after they have been
mailed, and yet we hear of a
case where a man mistakenly
addressed a letter to himself and
mailed it, and had to wait five
days to have it delivered back
to him. -
The manager of an establish
ment in Jackson county which
sometimes serves meals to lo
cal clubs was taken to task for
charging the regular price for
a service club meal recently.
The reason was thai one of
the club's members provided
a large share of - the m a i n
course. Well, restaurants have
to get along somehow.
' ''" ' '"'
Remember that television set
that was presented to the city
council a while ago so members
could watch Sgt. Bilko perform
Tomorrow
Lippmann
if necessary, use the Army to
enforce integration in the
schools. His answer was the only
conceivable answer that any re
sponsible public man could
make. He would not use the
Army.
It is ominous, however, that
the question should have been
put to him at all, that such a
question should be asked of a
man who may well be the Presi
dent of the United States. It
shows how very dangerous, how
near to violence, is the situa
tion. For we cannot afford to
doubt that what Governor Fol
som has just let happen in Ala
bama a surrender to lawless
force is precisely the kind of
thing which will incite and pro
voke a mounting demand for
the use of lawful force.
A number of politicians have
been amusing themselves late
ly with deriding the notion that
moderation could be, especially
among Democrats, the sound
and true approach to - serious
conflicts. Well, here in the wake
of the Supreme Court decision,
they can see in the . concrete
how there is no decent prospect
unless we can. preserve the
spirit of moderation. They have
here what is almost certainly the
hardest and most dangerous in
ternal American issue. They can
see here how there is no way
of dealing with it unless moder
ate men backed by the great
moderate majority of our people
are able to take the lead.
For the decision of the Su:
preme Court must be carried
out. But it can be carried . Out
only by winning the consent
of the people who must-live
with it. The essential principle
of . the Court's order is that a
way must be found between
that mob in 'Alabama which
insists,, on absolute segregation,
and those Northern ' politicians
who ask -for Tederal coercion
to bring about the immediate
ending of all segregation.
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IN THE moderate course, which
is the one that the Court calls
for, desegregation is not one
action, to be taken simultan
eously everywhere. It is a com
plex process which must vary
with conditions in the different
localities. The same kind and
the same rate of integration
cannot be applied 'everywhere
at once, in the Deep Southland
in the border states.
Broadly speaking, it can be
said, I suppose,' that , at the high
er levels of education, the pro
fessional and graduate schools,
integration is most easily put
into effect. Integration is most
difficult, on the other hand, in
the schools for teen-agers, among
high school students and under
classmen, in co-educational in
stitutions for adolescents. There
may well be parts of the South
where ' integration at the . teen
age level cannot "wisely be put
into effect for .a long time to
come. The country will under
stand the difficulty, and it wiU
be disposed, I believe, to feel
that the Southern states are
within the spirit of the Consti
tution if, as many of them are
already doing, they try to make
integration work -at the higher
education levels.
That is another reason why
the case of Miss Lucy, who wants
to go to ' coUege to ' become a
librarian, is such a setback to
lawand to good sense.
1956, New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
DOUBLE BONUS : f
Adel, Iowa (U.R) The Adel
Chamber of Commerce has of
fered to double the bonus of
spinsters who snare a husband
during leap -year. The chamber
offers a prize of $425 for the
best letter telling "How I Got
My Man."
TLUCEC
and Contributors)
between ordinances?
Well, the incident has gotten
around. In a column in The Pan
ama American, published in the
Canal Zone, the incident is de
scribed, and the writer specu
lates on what might happen if
the sponsors of the program had
gone along with the council's
original request and switched
nights.
"Just suppose," he says, "the
sponsors switch the program to,
say, Friday night. And suppose
the common council of Podunk,
which meets Fridays, protests.
And they switch the program
again and some other council
protests. And then the same busi
ness starts with other shows.
Why, before we know it, we're
liable to have no TV and a mess
of unhappy common council
men." Come to think of it, it's prob
ably a good thing the council
gave that TV set back again.
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What, we wonder, is the per
son who swiped the top part
of an antique lamp from a .
local eating establishment go
ing to do with it? By itself it's
useless, we are told, except as
brass junk. Missing, it renders
the rest of the lamp useless.
And the whole lamp is about
200 years old a n d a family
heirloom.
. .
This story is about a year old,
but we just heard it, and it's
true, so here it is:
Two women were talking. No.
1 operates a business here in
town and No. 2 is associated
with her husband in the manage
ment of another business. So,
No. 1 approaches No. 2 and asked
her , if it is possible to obtain
reservations on short notice, as
she frequently has friends from
out of town who can't find a
place to stay.
No. 2 inquired if she was sure
No.-1 knew to whom she was
speaking.
No. 1 said yes, she was sure
she knew, and repeated her in
quiry about space for friends on
short notice.
No. 2 then had to inform No,
1 that she and her husband were
NOT in the motel business. They
operate a cemetery.
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We ran across an item we
rather liked in a 1916 copy of
the Mail Tribune today, . and
republish it exactly as it ap
peared. Only the names hatfe
been changed.
"John Doe of Eagle Point
was a Medford visitor Monday.
His brother, Robert Doe, has'
gone insane and will be sent
lo Salem." ' - .:.
!n the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
As previously related in these
chronicles, the Spreckels broth
ers took over the Coronado proj
ect, from an Eastern railroad
magnate (name of Mackey, as I
recall the story) and carried the
hotel through .to completion
They pinched no pennies in its
construction. v- '
They built it around an inter
ior court that is a fair-sized city
park in itself. They faced the
rooms on the court on one side
and outward on the other side,
with, the most favored rooms
overlooking the ocean. From the
lowest level it is five stories in
height.; I wouldn't - know hpw
many rooms it contains. I doubt
if anyone has ever counted them,
. As of now, it is a weird look
ing affair, with cupolas here and
towers there and plenty of gin
gerbread everywhere. But it
must- be remembered tha the
period of the 1880s was a period
of strange architectural ideas.
The simplicity and impeccable
good taste of early New England
and the Old South were giving
way to doodads and thimgum-
bcbs. ......... .
But, in spite of the the tastes
of the period, in which it was
built, the old hotel has an im
pressive dignity of its own.
TTS MOST fabulous single asset
A is its vast main dining room
It must be a block long, with im
mense windows opening on the
ocean at one end and on the inner
court at the other. It has a
vaulted roof, supported by wood
en arches. 1 '
I'm no good at figures and if
I ever heard I can't remember
how many it seats, but I'm rea
sonably certain that an infantry
battalion could be fed in it with
plenty of room to spare.
TT WAS built for the elite of an
ostentatious period and con
tained all the facilities necessary
for the upper echelons of the so
ciety of that time. There were
extensive quarters for' the serv
ants of the nabobs of the Gay
Nineties and the registration
books contained ample space for
the listing of the domestic re
tainers of the guests who were
brought along when the . well en
dowed families of the Eastern
upper crust came to California to
spend the winter. t
The old Hotel del Coronado"
had plenty of glitter in those
glittering days that now are past.
ALL OF which leads me up to
what -nsalltr lmnrpcoe: mo
about the old place now. Europe
has plenty of these ancient .and
time - honored hostelries that
Editorial Comment
GAS LOBBY WINS
We wish President Eisenhower
would surprise folks and veto
the bill to free independent pro
ducers of natural gas from fed- ,
eral regulation. We do not ex
pect him to, nor do the Wash
ington reporters. The Federal
Power Commission doesn't want
the job, and some administration
committees favored dropping it.
On matters like this the Presi
dent seems disposed to go along
with his advisors, so he prob
ably wUl sign the bill as he also
did the bill giving to states con
trol of resources in offshore
lands to tradional- limits.
The vote in the Senate was:
for the bill 31 Republicans, 22
Democrats; against, 14 Repub
licans, 24 Democrats.
The bill is a big boon to the
oil and gas companies who furn
ish natural gas to the pipelines
that thread, the country. True
gas has to compete with fuel
oil, but the big concerns can
match the price increase for one
with an increase for the other
and win two ways- Regulation
now can be only partially effec
tive. Ex-Gov. Charles Sprague
in Oregon Statesman, Salem.
THE S.P. HEARING
It is something over six
months ago since the Southern
Pacific arbitrarily discontinued
the last passenger service on
its Siskiyou line between Ash
land and Portland, now comes
Public Utilities Commissioner
Charles Heltzel with an order
for a public hearing on the situ
ation. Hearings win be held both
in Roseburg and Medford with
the Medford session scheduled
to start the morning of March 15.
Individuals and representatives
of organizations in Jackson coun
ty will have an opportunity at
this public hearing to present
their opinions and cases on the
need for passenger train service
between Southern Oregon and
Portland.
If the purpose of the hearing
is only to determine whether
the railroad is providing reason
ably adequate service for the
XT . a
area, me answer is odvious, lor
there is no railroad service now.
If the purpose is to determine
how much usage there might
be of passenger service and its
general need, then it is wholly
incumbent upon interested indi
viduals and ' organizations to
make a strong showing. This
means that individuals who
would use railroad passenger
service and organizations who
believe it would benefit the
area must appear at the hearing
either in person or through the
presentation or written material
acceptable to the examiner in
charge. ' - -'
: . Currently . the only public
transportation available in all of ;
Southern Oreeon is bus or
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possible to travel by plane and
others dislike bus transportation.
With the extremely lucrative
freight revenues which the SP
derives from this expanding
area, it is almost inconceivable
that the railroad is unwilling
to provide one passenger sched
ule over the Siskiyou line.
The SP contended that it was
losing hundreds of thousands of:
doUars a year on the old service,
which it ; summarily . discon
tinued. Yet we can not recall
that when it discontinued these
two trains and saved this money,
that it made any gesture toward
passing this 'saving on to the
freight shippers through lower
rates. Just the contrary. The SP
is now busily engaged in seeking,
with other railroads, a general
seven per cent increase in its.
freight charges. Ashland Daily
Tidings, i.
were built for the rich and the
great. Since they were built of
stone, they never burned.
And
They NEVER CHANGED.
They were built for the rich
and the great, and they have re
mained the. habitat of the rich
and the great. At least they did
until a few years ago when
Europe began to be swamped by
the tide of American tourists.
No European commoner has
eve:: islt at home in them for
in them he has always been OUT
OF HIS CASTE.
TT IS TRUE that the old Coro-
naao was duiii ior trie rich
and the great. And it is strangely
true that despite the fact that it
was built of wood it has never
burned. That is doubtless due
to the fact that it was earlv
equipped with automatic sprink
lers that go on when a fire starts
anywhere and promptly douse
the flames. So it has remained
as a monument of the past.
But, 'inlike its counteroarts in
Europe, it has changed with the
times. No longer is it the exclu
sive bailiwick of those who have
it in wads most of it inherited.
Its stately halls are now trod bv s.
the feet of Americans of aU kinds
and its spacious grounds now
nn with the laughter of the
children of the AMERICAN PEO
PLE. Its swimming pools and its
tennis courts are used by the
teen-agers of parents who never
heard of the Social Register.
Only in America could that
happen. So, when you visit the
old Coronado, you get a tinele
of pride in your country, and :
What it is and how it works and
that it makes possible for
EVERYBODY, that is well worth '
while.-.