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Comment On This and That
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
Unittd Prut FtJlur Writtr
Washington (U.R) The of
ficial congressional physician
Dr. George W. Calver, is pretty
well pleased with his charges so
far this year
lv For nearly
L w o aecaaes.
Dr. Calver has
been feeling
the pulses of
law makers
wrapping up
sore thumbs
and putting
salve to in
O Hirmu Nlclv u grown toe
nails. He operates out of a small
office in the Capitol behind
sign that sayS "Quiet, medical
center."
"Right now," he said during
an interview, "you can hoot
and holler all you want. Every,
body seerrg to be in fine fettle."
Everybody, meaning mem
bers of the House and Senate
who have come around for a
check up. The legislators are not
compelled to come in for a chest
thump, but when the word gets
arouni that Dr. Calver is ready
with his stethoscope most of
O them drop in.
qTwo Sick Senators
There are, of course, some ill
nesses. Two senators are in the
Bethesda, Md., Naval Medical
Center. Sen. William Langer
(R.-N.D.) aged 70, is seriously
ill with pneumonia. Eighty-two-year-old
Sen. Matthew M. Neely
(D.-W.Va.) has been in the hos
pital for weeks recovering from
a hip injury but is gradually
mending and goes to the Capitol
occasionally.
Also, aging Rep. James B.
Bowman (D.-Ill.) has been pre
vented by illness from returning
to Washington since the current
congressional session began
Bowler was sworn in at Chicago
in an unusual precedent for the
House.
Trouble with most congress
men, Dr. Calver said, is that
they are overfed.
"They run around- stuffing
themselves with lace panty
chicken every night," he said
"then they tumble and roll all
night and next thing you know
they come running to me with a
belly ache or something.
Still in Navy
Dr. Calver who is still an ac
tive rear admiral in the Navy,
realizes that the lawgivers have
to make a lot of speeches and
before speaking have to do a
lot of eating.
When diet is indicated for fat
men, the good doctor has one
ready, although he wouldn't say
what it was.
He did not, however, make a
secret of the fact that he is a
great one to prescribe exercise.
Work in the gymnasium for the
younger such as Sen. Frank
Church of Idaho, who is hurry
ing on to 33.
For elder statesmen the doc
tor prescribes what he preaches.
Walking. He walks at a fairly
good pace for at least an hour
every morning.
"Until a person gets used to
using shank's ponies instead of
exercising only one foot on the
foot pedal of a high powered
car," he said, "I recommend 15
Touring Editor in
Seoul; Guest of Envoy
Seoul !U.R) Walker Stone,
editor-in-chief of the Scripps-
Howard newspapers, arrived
here today on the first leg of an
Asian tour which will take him
to more than a dozen nations.
Stone was to be a guest of
U. S. Ambassador Walter C.
Dowling during his two-day stay
in the Republic of Korea.
The newspaperman planned to
call on President Syngman Rhee
and tour the Korean truce line
before leaving for Tokyo
Wednesday.
John Wayne Feared
To Have Broken Leg
Rome U.R
Actor John
Wayne is feared to have broken
his leg while making a picture
in Tripoli, Libya, film officials
said today. "
Production headquarters said
they received a cable from Trip
oli reporting that Wayne fell
from the top of some ruins of
an ancient Roman forum at
Leptis Magna Sunday morning.
Wayne is fuming the picture
"The Legend of The Lost" with
Italy's Sophia Loren.
Doctors from the U. S. Air
Base near Tripoli were reported
treating Wayne.
minutes a day at first. He'll get
used to it.
Calver pointed out that Sen.
Theodore Francis Green (D.
R.I.) often walks to the Capitol
from his quarters at the Univer
sity club, more than two miles.
Green is 89.
Pendleton Member
Of Oregon House Dies
Pendleton. Ore. U.f? Ir
vin Mann, 58-year-old Republi
can member of the Oregon House
of Representatives, died here
Saturday.
Mann was hospitalized in De
cember with an old back injury.
He spent five weeks in St. Vin
cent hospital in Portland before
being returned to St. Anthony
hospital here last December.
A prominent cattle rancher at
Adams, Mann represented the
23rd District of Oregon in the
Legislature. In December he ex
pressed the hope that he would
be well enough to be present at
this session.
Gov. Robert D. Holmes said
"The death of Mann means a
great loss to Umatilla county
where he resided and to the en
tire state to which he had de
voted his interest.
Monday, February 25. 1937
MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIFUNE THREE
Derbyshire, England U.R
Police and doctors have over 15
clues to the identity of an am
nesia victim here but they still
can not find out who he is. The
clues are tattooes and include:
Two daggers, two birds, two ris
ing suns, palm trees, the skull
and crossbones, the words Malta,
Colombo Aden, Singapore and
Malaya and the date 1953.
Man's Search for 'Meaningf ulness'
Provides Chance for Sincere Converts
By LOUIS CASSELS
United Press Correspondent
Washington (U.R) A noted
theologian said today modern
man's "desperate search for
meariingfulness" has given the
churches the greatest opportun
ity in three centuries to win sin
cere converts to Christianity.
But Dr. Albert T. Mollegen
said the opportunity will be
lost, and the present religious
revival will degenerate, into
"dangerous idolatry" if church
es try to satisfy deep spiritual
hunger with "peace of mind"
preaching or other "pagan" sub
stitutes for classic Christian gos
pel. Dr. Mollegen is professor of
New Testament literature at
the Protestant Episcopal Theolo
gical Seminary at Alexandria,
Va. His books on Christian apol
ogetics and his popular evening
lecture courses for laymen a'.
Washington cathedral have won
him a national reputation as an
"apostle to intellectuals."
End of an Era
The United Press asked Dr.
Mollegen. in an interview to ap-
Is That So?
So when you start talking
about whales you naturally be
gin stretching your arms out
good and wide and using words
like immense, enormous, titanic,
stupendous, monstrous, gigantic,
elephantine, mammoth, colos
sal and Gargantuan every
adjective Hollywood has already
burned the meaning out of.
So you add hyper-super to
colossal and what do you have?
You're still far from adequate
ly describing the bulk of the
largest of all mammals, the blue
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whale, also known as the sulphur-bottom
whale, found in all
waters. That is because this
greatest of all mammals has the
bulk and weight of more than
battalion of 800 infantrymen
in full battle equipment that
average 300 pounds per man.
The largest recorded blue
whale ever taken, a female, was
113 feet long. Weights were not
recorded.
But we do have the precise
figures for an 89-foot blue
some 24 feet shorter. (At this
size, those extra 24 feet count
for dozens of tons, too!)
This 89-footer, a fairly large
one as they come, was weigh
ed and measured piece by piece
at Stomness Whaling station
South Georgia in the south po
lar region, Nov. 8, 1926, the day
after it was killed, reports R
B. Robertson in Of Whales and
Men (Knopf, N.Y.).
Perhaps this is the only oc
casion in whaling history that
such an operation has ever been
performed and recorded, asserts
Dr. Robertson.
The overall measurements of
this whale are: Length, 89 feet;
height, lying on side, 10 feet;
circumference, 46 feet; jawbone
length, 23 feet; flukes 18 feet;
fins 8V4 feet.
The weights of this whale
broken . down are: blubber, 54,
000 pounds; meat, 112,000
pounds; bone 44,000 pounds;
tongue, 6,000 pounds; lungs, 2,
000 pounds; heart, 1,000 pounds;
kidneys, 1,000 pounds; stomach,
1,000 pounds, intestines 3,000
pounds; liver, 2,000 pounds;
blood, 16,000 pounds.
Not Extraordinarly Large
Jawbone, 4,000 pounds, skull
9,000 pounds; backbone 20,000
pounds; ribs, 8,000 pounds;
flukes, 2,000 pounds; fins, 2,000
pounds.
This gives this 89-footer
and remember this was not an
extraordinarily large blue whale
approximately 240,000 pounds
or 120 tons. '
Reduced to blubber, meat and
bone oil this female was convert
ed into 54,000 pounds.
Translating these figures: this
whale's weight is that of ap
proximately 50 elephants. Its
length, height and girth that of
a railway passenger car. An
elephant could walk under its
up-ended jawbone without
touching. Its fins are the size
and weight of a pretty large
dining table, and its flukes
would make an excellent pair
of wings for a fighter aircraft,
naturally streamlined, too. j
Its blubber would keep all i
the votary candles burning in
St. Peter's of Rome for a cen
tury or more; and its meat
would supply a hamburger to
San Francisco U.R) An , in-1
dustrious burglar Sunday ' sur- j
mounted such obstacles as a:
wall, a toilet bowl and the door;
of a four-foot safe to success-!
fully rob a supermarket of,
52,400. .
He laboriously cut a three-foot
square hole in the rear wall of
the market only to find his path
blocked by a toilet bowl. He re
moved the plumbing then ripped
the door off the .ae and escaped
with this loot.
Br EUGENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
every person in Boston. (And a
good one, too, because I've eat
en and liked whale meat).
Its tongue would overload a
fair-sized truck and it would
take six very s'trong men to lift
its heart. Its skull is the size
and weight of a motor car and
its blood would fill seven thous
and quart milk bottles.'
All this is run by a brain the
size of a carburetor.
(Copyright, 1957, by
Eugene Burns)
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praise the cause and the possible
future course of -the great up
surge of religious interest that
has carried U. S. church mem
bership 'to an all-time high.
He said western culture has
reached "the end of the ration
alist era," which began in the
17th century, in which man
sought to rule God out of the
universe. The implication, borne
home by two world wars and
the shadow of the H-bomb, he
said, is that human life is essen
tially meaningless, and that man
is an infinitely unimportant
speck of matter "stuck on a cool
ing star with a queer type of ce
ment called gravity."
Dr. Mollegen said men have
found intolerable the "radical
sense of rationalist philosophy"
and are seeking to build de
fenses against it in two ways:
"Edge of the Abyss"
By filling their lives with
"sensation." TClvis Presley, tele
vision addiction, the tremendous
popularity of specator sports, all
are symptoms of this .unconsci
ous desire to cram existence
with so much "feeling" that no
one has time to think about "sit
ting on the edge of the abyss. '
By re-examining "a 1 m o s t
every religious alternative
known to the western tradi
tion." Some, like philosopher
Bertrand Russell, have embrac
ed Greek stoicism. Others have
taken up eastern mysticism. For
most, however, this quest for
"meaningfulness" has found its
national expression in a return
to Christianity.
Because so many people are
genuinely searching for an in
tellectually - honest religious
faith that can give - purpose,'
meaning and hope to human ex
istence, Dr. Mollegen said, the
churches have "their greatest
opportunity" in modern times to
expound the full gospel of class
ic Christianity to a receptive au
dience. Religious Froth
Are they doing it?
Some are and some aren't, Dr.
Mollegen said.
"You can't escape the fact that
there is a lot of froth to our pre
sent, 'religious revival." There is
a tendency to treat religion as
a formula for getting what we
want.
"Some almost without quali
fication, promise people that
God will give them what they
want. Now I don't deny that this
'peace in mind' religion, which
treats God as a means to our
ends, may have some social
value. It may help to cure alco
holics or overcome inferiority
complexes. But you still have to
say that this is paganism, not
Christianity."
Another symptom of incipient
"idolatry," he said, is "the dis
position to confuse religion with
patriotism, and to worship 'God
and free enterprise' in the same
breath."
A Re-Examination
"Mere religiosity," he said,
"which is not rooted in Chris
tian humility and a profound
sense of living under God's
judgment, can turn into a dang
erous, even a demoniacal thing.
It leads to witch hunts, to per
sonal pride and national self
righteousness."
When all is said, however.
Dr. Mollegen still sees "much
that is sound, true and hopeful"
in American religious life to
day. .
"Beneath the froth, there is
encouraging evidence of a real,
substantial return to classic
Christianity on the part of many
people. 'All over the country,
I find university teachers and
students, writers, business and
professional men, scientists,
housewives, teachers and doc
tors who have re-examined the
Christian faith, and have found
they can accept it without any
sacrifice of intellectual honesty
or personal integrity.
"These are tough minded,
sincere people. They are mov
ing toward Christianity, not in
panic, but steadily and honestly."
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