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Thp Family Council Edit'f Bute: The Tamil? Council conilitl at judge, s pychltrtit, rhree clergymen, newpaper editor, a women's editor and two wrlleri Each article, ft; a tumraary ol an actual report. The rami)? Council does not Rive advice, n jTelv reports on problems that have been dealt witb by responsible acenrl id coiftiselnrs. Bill IR I don't want Jane'f ex-husfcnd coming around. Jit . I've sved him from Bill B- My wife and I have been married two years and could be quite happy if it were not for her ex-husband. Jane's ex-husband was an al coholic and he is on the skids in every way. She was married to him for five years and knew him for a couple of years before that. She says he is a wonderful per son except for this terrible habit. Every now and then he comes around looking for a handout or a little sympathy and Jane gives him both. Then she is depressed for days afterward. I feel sorry for the guy, but I don't want him coming around, making my wife feel sick. If she loved me she wouldn't have any thing, to do with him. o Jane B. I do love Bill, but I'll never be able to forget Ted. Ted stands hand and shoulders over any other man, but life with hirn was impossible. I told Bill when I married him I could not kreak off all feeling for Ted lust like that. I would have stuck to Ted if only he had been willing to help himself by join ing AA or getting medical help. Ted has nobody but me to turn to when he gets into real trouble. Can I turn him away when he needs a little human sympathy and maybe a couple of dollars? t believe I've saved him from suicide several times. Sometimes I feel I should nev er have left Ted. It was the worst blow of his life. It was selfish of me to do it. The Council: Jane has a heart breaking problem. She may nev er be able to find complete peace with her conscience, but she should know, at least, where her real responsibility rests in this ituation. Her duty is to give her full de votion to her present husband. She cannot do this while she places Ted "head and shoulders over any other man." It is not only the handouts and sympathy she gives Ted that bothers Bill, but her deeper divided loyalty. Jane must find the courage to go through with her decision td divorce Ted and marry Bill. She hasn't done that yet in more than the formalities. She must remember that she couldn't find within herself the strength and love to go on with her marriage to Ted. She must accept this fact and must also accept the guilt. pain and anxiety that result from turning her back on a hu man being who meant so much to her. She cannot expect to have both an easier life and an easier conscience. Possibly Feels Guilty It is possible that Jane feels not only guilty of dealing Ted "the worst blow of his life," but also in some measure guilty for his alcoholism. Alcoholics often try to hold others responsible for their condition in their des perate bids for sympathy. If this is the case, Jane should try to rid herself of this unnec essary burden of guilt. Ted's problems rest within his own character and are rooted back beyond his marriage. It is possi ble that marriage to the sympa thetic, adoring Jane did not help him, but made his problem worse. If this is the case, Jane is now making matters still worse by offering shreds of sym pathy. It is doubtful that Jane has actually saved Ted from suicide. It is possible that he can still pull himself up by his own boot straps if he is forced to give up his dependence on Jane. She should again urge him with all her strength to turn to AA or a doctor for better help than she can give. (Copyright 1957, Ganeral Features Corp.) Is That So? The human's consuming hun-j ger to have children, when na tural methods are unavailing is oftentimes satisfied by adopting a less fortunate mother's baby. Is adoption foster motherhood common among higher ani mals, too? Among mammals, when the mother is with milk, such adop tions are possible in fact, some times even sought by domestic animals. Without enough pup pies to relieve her full breasts, a bitch will take on an assort ment of young. (Because of strange odors, it may be well to rub the infant with a doggy smelling blanket, preferably one on which she herself has slept.) Thus, among the many animals which have been reared by fe male dogs are the young of coyote, wolf, cats and skunks. In the San Francisco zoo a collie bitch reared two baby leopards; Real Estate Confab Scheduled This Week Leevern Johnson, real estate instructor at the University of Oregon, and Ed Lucke, sales manager for John Clarke, real tor, Portland, will be principal speakers March 27 and 28 at a real estate educational confer ence from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Medford YMCA building. Subjects to be covered in the conference include con tracts, descriptions, encum brances, finding buyers, selling amenities, determining listing price, earnest money contracts, basic office records, real estate law, ethics and broker salesman relations. Discussions, questions and an swers will be part of the pro gram, according to Clarence F. Hyde, state real estate depart ment commissioner, and Burton W. Dunn, education supervisor. Trie first telephone was estab lished in Arkansas in 1879. Dragging Operations Start for Car, Driver Eugene (U.R) Dragging operations were started Satur day in a swift section of the McKenzie river northeast of here for a car and driver believ ed to have plunged into the stream. A passerby reported seeing car tracks leading over the bank off the highway near Hayden bridge and police later found in dications that a car had bounced off the rocks along the bank and into 50 to 60 feet of water. Officers were looking for a 1953 cream or ivory Chevrolet on the basis of paint chips, front suspension and bits of chrome found along the bank. Committees Named in Improvement Course Committees made up of stu dents of the recently started Dale Carnegie adult improve ment course were named at a class meeting last week. About 40 persons are enrolled in the class, which meets in the Jackson hotel. Instructors come from various Oregon cities, and weekly achievement awards are presented to class members. The course lasts 14 weeks. By EUGENE BURNS Ringr-Narun!W at another time, a young lion. Polar bear cubs, too, have been reared by canine foster mothers. A domestic cat has given her milk to young squirrels; a ewe to two baby lions . . . after which the grown lions would lie down with the sheep in one con tented family. In the deer family, an elk raised a baby axis deer a pretty little spotted deer from India; and a calf of a gnu, a species of antelope, was adapted by a cow. As is commonly known, a broody chioken will sit on al most anything which even re motely resembles a smooth egg. As a result, it is easily possible to have broody hens hatch a clutch of almost any kind of eggs. But the best foster mother among birds is the tiny bantam hen. They have a quiet, confid ing disposition and make devot ed mothers whether to pheas ants, quail, ducks, geese or pea hens. But for the bigger eggs, which are too heavy to be turn ed . by the banty, she needs a human assist each day. Young Scatter Too Quickly With all these foster young, the banty will be quite success ful except the quail. And why not the q nail, t he smallest? When hatched, the young scatter through the low-growing brush too quickly and the little mothei however solicitous simply can not keep up with them and they are usually soon lost. In the wili three birds are no torious in that some of their kind never raise their own young; they simply lay their eggs in other bid's rests These are the bronzed cuckoo of the southwest Pacific; the hone guide of Afri ca; and in America, the cow bird. As for wild mammals adapt ing young, t has been reported that orphaned bear cubs have been adopter' by bears; orphaned wolf cubs by wolf bitches; buf falo, raccoon, deer, by their own find respectively. Perhaps. If so, the chances were the adopting mothers had lost their own and may have been seeking relief Sunday. March 24, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVZlf from swollen udders. Surely not for any sentimental attachment. (Released by McCIure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement vith the edi-ors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this vorld famous refer ence work n a handsome Seal- '.-rarr Dinaing. Each week new rubmissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, alif. MILL BOUGHT Milton-Freewater (U.R) Purchase of the Preston-Shaffer flour mill here was announced Friday by Moriz Milburn, pres ident of Centennial Mills, Inc. Indian rhinoceros horn, re duced to powder, brings as much as SI 50 a pound. Many Asiatics believe the horn has wondrous powers for solving almost any problem, mental or physical. Schmidt Is Named Extension Engineer Andrew H. Schmidt, agricul ture engineer formerly with the Soil Conservation service, has been named rural extension en gineer for the California Oregon Power company, Frank A. Ben esh, Medford district manager, has announced. Schmidt, an Oregon State col lege graduate and practicing ag riculture engineer for 15 years, will be available to aid farmers in the Copco service area with problems relating to irrigation pumping and other uses of elec tricity on the farm, Benesh said. The extension engineer may be reached through local Copco offices or through the sales de partment in the head offices in Medford. It WILL Pay You To Check OUR Regular Everyday Over 30 Years Selling Fine Home Furnishings In Medford and Vicinity! Free Parking Free Delivery Convenient- Terms on approved credit We Are NEVER Undersold! (EVEN ON SALE PRICES) HONESTY In Pricing Is Our Motto NO TRICK DEALS TO CONFUSE YOU! o See (John) or (Bill) ---Let Them Figure Your Deal! 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Isn't it for the same reason that you buy 70 of your family's food without actually seeing it? You know that A good brand is your best guarantee . ; . and that the name on the label is your best buying guide. You have learned to count on good brand names. You know the company stands back of them. You know they protect you. The more good brands you get to know, the fewer buying mistakes you'll make. Get ac quainted with those brands in this newspaper. You'll get more value for your shopping money if you do. BRAND NAMES FOUNDATION Incorporated A Non-Profit Educational Foundation 87 Wet 67th St, New York 19, N. Y. & sxsE32J2E Maara msixm MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
