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SSff5!M!StiFCD fCHEGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday. April 8, 1937 '0fi the Side VbT. UMJNG t8stneutet by King Feature Syndicate. Inc.) References are constantly Ifkme to the high, salaries cur Vbatly paid persons of unusual ility in business, entertain wnt and sports. That the pres et day stipends are high there id) 00 doubt. However, they can not compare in that respect to ht persons of similar ability wer paid in the same fields 40 or 50 years ago. At any rate, not insofar as net or so called "take home pay" is concerned. For example, over 50 years ago Charles M. Schwab, steel com pany executive, was paid $100, 000 a year, plus an annual bonus that amounted to as high as 52 million! And there was no in come tax to pay. In 1910, George M. Cohan was offered 510,000 a week by Marcus Loew for a vaudeville appearance. George turned the offer down. About the same time, Lina Calvaleri was paid 55,000 a week in vaude ville. Caruso was making con cert appearances for 58,000 a night. Eddie Arcaro, now Amer ica's top jockey, does all right financially but he doesn't take home nearly as much money as Winnie O'Connor did over 50 years ago. As for example. Win nie was paid a fee of S10.000 for one ride, win or" lose! Tnat was when he rode JohnE. Mad den s thoroughbred Yankee in the Sheepshead Bay Futurity. Also keep in mind that in addi tion to there being no income tax to pay, the dollar of 50 years ago had about four times the pur chasing power it has today! Menu Cards Where menu card items are concerned there is definitely something in a name. A cleverly worded menu can do much to increase a restaurant's business. As for example, a railroad din ing car menu listed "Pennsyl vania Dutch Fried Chicken." A very small number of orders were received. The description of the item was then changed to "Fried Chicken, Kentucky Style." It was a sellout! Alides Ever hear of a hotel in which the rooms were not numbered? Such was the situation at the Kirby House in Milwaukee. In stead of a number each room had a name. The bridal suite was named,; "Paradise" . . . Boston ian says , she aspires to write a novel but has no time as she has a house, a husband and two youngsters to take care of. When Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin," she had a house, a husband, six children and some boarders to care for. Drinking Habitual drinking of hard liquor in the morning indicates the drinker is on the way to a drunkard's grave. On this most medical men are agreed. There has also been written a poetic warning as to the habit. It is as follows: Drink in the morning Doctors say takt warning Claim your inevitable fat An incurable inebriate. Get It Right Females of all nations consid ed the Spanish girls have the most beautiful eyes. So I note it said. That's wrong. The Scotch girls have the most beautiful eyes. The Spanish girls have the most beautiful voices. Irish girls have the best complexions. Swedish girls have the most beautiful hair, and Americans, the most beautiful legs. That Beers What is the origin of the term "Drawing Room" as referring to a room in a house? That's what I am asked. It was origin ally0 called "The Withdrawing Room." It was the room to which the ladies withdrew after dinner when the men went to the "Smoking Room." When the men finished their cigars the host voiced that immortal query, "Shall we join the ladies?" In those days the ladies only smok ed in secret. That was when your great - great - great grand mother was a whistle girl. 1? "Hp" 1 ' t .at h 8- - .5 S .k. -f it vat; is,, Fv ri-i.i- 2 t3- 4 1 'fij-"1i' EMPTYING PAIL OF GASOLIXE in crowded cocktail bar, four men, angered because they were refused service, caused deaths of six, injuries to three persons in resulting explosion and fire. Body of one victim is coverwd with sheet In foreground. (International) ACCIDENT FATAL Port Orford, Ore. (U.R) Chester Tomski, about 35, fell into a millpond here while working Friday and was dead a few minutes later when taken out of the water. Cause of death was not determined immediately. Cancer will at some time strike one in every four Americans, ac cording to present estimates. Thus the fight of the American Cancer Society directly con cerns 40.000.000 Americans now living. Give to the 1957 Cancer Crusade. Salem (U.R) The House has defeated 43-15 House bill 641 that would have allowed taverns to sell wine by the glass. Foe of Hawaiian Statehood May Have Succeeded for Time Being By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington It is beginning to look like one of the strongest foes of statehood for Alaska and Hawaii has succeeded i n what many thought was his intent when he set sail for Hono lulu last fall. The man in question is Sen. James A. Robt. smim rasuana .u- Miss.), who went to Hawaii to conduct an investigation of al leged Communist activity in the islands. This is an old chestnut that has been roasted so long it is no longer swallowable, in the view of most observers as well as statehood supporters. But now, it appears, the Jus tice Department has swallowed it and much to the amazement of other leaders within the Ei senhower administration who understood nothing had changed the solid support the administra- tion had been giving Hawaiian House, two for Hawaii and one statehood the last four years. The White House recently was the scene of a meeting of various administration officials just be low the cabinet level on the statehood issue. Since President Eisenhower has endorsed state hood for both territories, thanks to the persuasive work of Secre tary of the Interior Fred A. Sea ton, ways and means of getting the bills through Congress were being discussed. Difficulty Seen in House It was the concensus that state hood has a good chance in the Senate but that it would have its worst difficulty in the House. One reason, among many minor handicaps, is that while state hood will increase the size of the Senate by four, it can not increase the size of the House, which must remain stable at 435 members unless Congress itself decides to lift this ceiling and let the House become more un wieldy. This means that when the ter ritories are admitted as states and given three seats in the Americans Said Acquiring Taste for Old-World Flavor In Consumption of Wine New York U.R) Americans who have traditionally liked their drinks short and to the point, whether it be bath-tub gin or a shot of Kentucky mash, are fast acquiring a taste for the more subtle, old-world flavor of wine. U. S. wine producers, who run a poor second to makers of more authoritative spirits, are savor ing this latest revolution in American taste with keen relish. Consumption Will Double E. Otto SicheL research' and promotion director of Fromm and Sichel Inc., distributors of Christian Brothers wines, told the United Press that if this taste trend continues wine con sumption in the U. S. will double in the next ten years. s' ijyf Ikf SUCCUMBING to heart ail ment, Herbert Fleishhacker, 84, banker-philanthr o p i s t, who founded San Francisco Zoo, is dead. (International) CONTRACT AWARDED Portland (U.R) The Corps of Engineers Saturday announc ed that Robert Mathews, Coos Bay, has been awarded a 51, 843 contract for removal and disposal of a sunken steel barge from the Yaquina river near Toledo. hbh - fee Slabs and Rough Blox Green Dandy to Burn with Dry Wood Big Double Load or Single Load MEDFORD FUEL CO. Telephone 2-2111 Court & McAndrews Sichel noted that last year the industry sold some 580 million bottles of wine and harvested a cool 600 million dollars. How ever on a per capita basis, Amer icans drank slightly less than four bottles, as compared with some 160 bottles polished off by the French. The 50-year-old wine mer chant who is descended from an old German house of vintners, said Americans now are drink ing about twice the amount of wine they did in 1939. Four Per Cent Imported He pointed out that most wine drinkers in this country prefer "grapier" and "fuller bodied" wines to the "subtle delicacy" of French vintages. Indicative of this he added, is the fact that only about four per cent of all the wines consumed in the U.S. are imported. "You also cannot impress Americans with vintages," he said. "Just as Americans want each pack of cigarettes to be the same," he added, . "they want each bottle of wine to taste the same no matter what the year." for Alaska, three congressional districts somewhere in the pres ent 48 states will have to be abolished and three present congressmen will be out of luck. No one knows who would be hit, but many members know they come from states that are vulnerable because their popu lation growth has been below many other states. No Problem in West This is no problem for west ern congressmen, many of whom come from states that will add an additional congressional dis trict. California will probably add a half dozen or more. All these seats will come from other states, in the east, south and midwest, after the 1960 census has been taken. No one in the White House dis cussion reportedly had heard about a letter being prepared by the Justice Department for sub mission to the Senate territories subcommittee headed by Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.). Deputy Attorney General Wil liam Rogers, who signed the let ter, referred to Eastland's hear ings and said "the serious threat of communism in Hawaii is in filtration" of the economy. La Applies This letter, it is feared, will give support to arguments of anti-statehood elements who have claimed that Hawaii could become dominated by Commu nists through control of its econ omy by the International Long shoremen's and Warehousemen's Union headed by Harry Bridges. The letter reversed the position of the Justice Department in 1955 when Attorney General Herbert Brownell said he didn't think statehood would make any difference because the laws gov erning subversion apply to Ha waii whether it is a territory or becomes a state. Brownell sup ported statehood. Some statehood supporters on Capitol Hill had hoped to get a stronger statement than ever this year, possibly from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, as an antidote to the finding of the Eastland committee. Eastland, like many southerners, opposes statehood because it would en danger the filibustering strength of the anti-civil rights bloc with the seating of four new senators, all presumably pro-civil rights. 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