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o o 0 FOUH MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, June 2, 1957 ""Everyone In Southern Oregon Reags The Wall Tribune" i Fubllanea Dally Excect Saturday by MEDFORD PKlNTTNa CO ri-3S Norm Fir St Phone 2-gHl ROBERT W RL'HL. Editor HERB GREY Alvertiaui Mr.af?er GERALD LATHAM Busmeu Manager ERIC ALLKN JR Managing Editor tARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPVLAN TeXrraph Editor RICHARD JEWErt Sooru Editor OIJVE ET ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSQ.N Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aj wcond etas matter at Medford Oregon uner Act of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Per Copy 10c Daiiy and Sunday One year SIS 00 D4ll and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4.25 Sundav Only On year H2Q By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shadi- Cove Roirue River Talent ond on motor routes Daily and Sjnday One year 118 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1 JO Carrier and Dealer ioc Der carry Ail Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford gff'5jjJ'a?gr f Jackson County U nltgd Preaa Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising R-oreentative WEST-HOLIDAY COMPA.VY INC Offices in New York Chicago de troit San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louia Atlanta Vanrv)iiVr B C NATION A I. (OITOIIt, assocFa'iSn Flight o' Time Medford andJackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jun 1. 1947 (Monday) County court recommends to Public Utilities commissioner there be no hauling or piling of logs on county roads Saturdays or holidays. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: British men are now wearing pink hats. Herr A. Hitler in his heyday, always claimed the British were "decadent." 20 YEARS AGO Jun 1, 1937 (Wedneday) Largest flying craft ever to set down on the Medford airport rolled over the mile-long runway a 14-passenger TWA Skyliner yesterday. The 20-30 club schedules "la dies night" at the Town club. 30 YEARS AGO Jun 1, 1927 (Thursday) Miss Esther Pilker. daughter of Christain Pilker of the Med ford Sheet Metal Works, is awar ded prize for winning radio con test. From Local and Personal col umn: Chester Wendt of Jackson ville Is In Medford today to pur chase supplies. 40 YEARS AGO Jun 1. 1917 (Saturday) Southern Oregon Dental so ciety is holding convention on third floor of M. F. and H. bun ding. Medford. John Donegan, formerly of Jacksonville, leaves with Eighth engineers' reserve corps for duty in France. Whal's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct ts superior: seven or eUnt Is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Was the first Episcopal church erected in New Jersey built at Burlington, Trenton, or Hoboken? 2. A closely trimmed, pointed beard is called a V s? 3. Bible: What language was spoken by Jesus? 4. Service in the Merchant Marine entitles one to member ship in the American Legion; true or false? 5. Batik is a rare mineral, wood, or a method of executing colored designs on fabrics? 6. Impulses of uranium may be heard over the radio; true or false? 7. Does fungus need water to grow? 8. "Queen of the tides" is the Sun, Moon, or Plato? 9. Contemplate" means to "to look forward to." Would it be correct to say "I contemplate going to the circus?" 10. "There lived a jolly mil ler once.Lived on the river" which river? Answers: 1. Burlington. 2. Vandyke. 3. Aramaic. 4. False. The Merchant Marine is not a component of the Armed Forc es. 5. Method of executing color ed designs on fabrics. 6. True. 7. Yes. 8. Moon. 9. No. "Contem plate" is used in a serious sense. 10. "Dee." Wesfern Greyhound Units Consolidated Saturday San Francisco IP Three western divisions of the Grey hound Corporation were placed under a single operation Satur day, consolidating all of the bus company's services west of the Rocky Mountains. The new division. largest in the company's nationwide net work, will be known as West ern Greyhound Lines, merging Pacific. Northwest and a portion of Northland Greyhound Lines. "iX Vt5 BUSH 11$ T-association i Editorial Correspondence Paul Smiths, N.Y. May 28th: This was once a very famous and fashionable summer resort. It is now a small and not fashionable college, which is to hold its commencement this coming Sunday. As far as we know it is the only college in the country which not only gives a degree in hotel management but owns and con ducts a hotel. Students get credits for working in the hotel and it runs throughout the year, but its real season with a dining foom. room service, etc. runs only from the Fourth of July to Labor Day. (The latter apparently is the REAL Adirondack sum mer season.) Paul Smith Is a legendary character in this part of New York state, something like a cross between Paul Bunyan and Will Rogers. He started out as a guide and trapper, after working as a boss of a canal boat from the Hudson river to Lake Champlain, and soon become noted as a skillful woodsman, as well as a young man of unusual physical strength, force of character, and a lively sense of Sumor. In those days before the Civil War wealthy New York sportsmen had already been lured to the Adirondack wilderness for fishing and hunting, and Paul Smith was usually the guide who served them. One of them, a Dr. H. H. Loomis, a man of con siderable wealth, took a strong liking to Smith and in 1858 set him up in business as a professional guide and proprietor of what he called "Hunters Home" on the shores of Loon Lake not far from here. From the start the venture grew and prospered, and by 1875 had accommodations for 150 guests and hunting dogs, guides, ooats, guns and fish poles thrown in. e It was about this time that the Vanderbilts, Harrimans, White law Reids. Rockefellers, Pratts, Stokes, and such fabulous char acters as P. T. Barnum and young Teddy Roosevelt became inter ested, most of them buying huge tracts of wooded land which they called and are still called "camps". Some of the land had been owned by Paul Smith, and as a result of this, stock tips given b. these pioneers of America's great industrial era, the humble and penniless guide and trapper soon became a multi-millionaire in his own right. o Smith had married meanwhile, his wife being an extremely able woman and proved to be a great helpmate, taking charge of the cooking and housekeeping in the enlarged hotel, which came to include cottages, a casino, billard rooms, barber shop and believe it or not heat and hot and cold running water. There were two sons. Paul Jr. and Phelps, who at Paul senior's death in 1912 inherited this vast empire which then included electric light companies which still serve this region and electric trolley lines which don't. Paul Jr. died at a comparatively young age, without heirs, and Phelps died in 1937, also childless. He left all his properties and his millions in a trust for the establish ment and operation of Paul Srn'ths college, which hasn't as many students as the Medford High school, but promises never to lack for funds, or ask for same from its alumni or taxpayers. Had a frost this morning but not a freeze as was feared. The MacArthur garden was nipped but not destroyed. However the danger is not over for such things as corn and tomatoes should not be planted around here until the 15th of June. Incidentally the Weather man must have heard our prayers for an end to heat and humidity, for yesterday it rained in the foothills and snowed in the mountains. While it is clear and sunny today there is a tang in the air reminiscent of early November. We have TV and radio here but seldom get baseball clearly or any programs except those from Montreal and Toronto. The former however is good of its kind, and skips American soap opera fool ishness entirely. For which let us all be thankful! This Adirondack country is about the size of Connecticut. But it has a permanent population of approximately 100,000 while its summer population ranges from 500,000 to 600,000. That gives some indication of what a resort area it is. R.W.R. I Editorial Comment AMERICA'S WARS IN SONG "Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys, are marching.' ' Out of the mists of history they come, the steady beat of marching feet, men in blue and men in khaki, out of national memories into the forelight of this Memorial Day. They come to the strains of martial music, for wars are remembered by the leg acy of their songs. See the bugle corps step out of the painting "The Spirit of '76." What are they playing? Perhaps "Yankee doodle, keep It up. Yankee doodle, dandy Mind the music and the step And with the girls be handy." The War of 1812 is rather an unpleasant memory, but its battle of Fort McHenry inspired our recognized national anthem: "O say can you see by the down's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming "And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave." Came the Civil War whose is sues reached deep into the hearts of men and women. They re sponded with songs to fire the nation. "Yes. we'll rally around the flag, boys. We'll rally once again. Shouting the battle cry of freedom" And the "Glory, glory Halle lujah" of Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" released the suasion of moral forces on the side of the North: "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vin tage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: Kis truth is marching on." Fanatic John Brown found re surrection in a marching song for the men in blue: "John Brown's body lies a- mould'ring in the grave, John Brown's body lies a- mould'ring in the grave, John Brown's body lies a- mould'ring in the grave. His soul is marching onl" Those who marched to "John Brown's body" met and fought the men in grey who marched under another banner singing "Den I wish I was in Dixie, hooray, hooray! In Dixie land I'll lake my stand to lib and dye in Dixie" Thousands of them did die, but a whole country now sings "Look away, look away, look away, Dixie land." The "feds sang. "We'll hane Jeff Davis to a sour apple tree," and the swing tune and stirring words of "Marching through Georgia" rallied the North in the latter days of the war: "Bring the good old bugle. boys, o Wa'H ting another song: Sing it with the spirit That will start the world along; Sing it as we used to sing it. Fifty thousand strong. While w were marching through Georgia." The Spanish - American war hardly lasted long enough to produce war songs. But Sousa's great march, "Stars and Stripes Forever" brought out some words: "Let despots remember the day When our fathers with migh ty endeavor. Proved by their might and by their right It waves forever." The first world war brought a harvest of new songs, or gave wider popularity to some already written, like Stoddard Kins's song written at Yale: "There's a long, long trail a winding Into the land of my dreams." The A.E.F. sang: "It's a long way to Tipperary, It's a long way Jo go." Some of them never reached there; some never returned. In the second world war the services had their own songs: "Anchors Aweigh" for the navy, the artillery "Caissons Go Roll ing Along," with the marines "From the Halls of Montezuma to The Shores of Tripoli." The songs of World War I were revived for use as the GI's followed the doughboys to par lez vous with the lady from Ar- mentieres. Out of the mists of the past they come, marching, marching, singing, across the stage of his tory; and most of them are rest ting in the final bivouac: "Tenting tonight, tenting to night Tenting on the old camp ground," waiting for Gabriel's trumpet for the last reveille. The present rich, refulgent is ours; but it is ours only because it was once theirs, and saved for us by them, at great sacrifice.0! 'YOU MEAN THEy-MAKe TrliS SOUP OUT QJgp S'g$? Matter of Fact By Stewart IF STASSEN SUCCEEDS ashington If, by a miracle, rold Stassen negotiates a meaningful agreement with the Soviets on mu tual aerial and ground inspec tion, President E i s e n h ower will have the fight of his life on his hands. The fight he will face was f o reshadowed by the bitter Stewait Alsop inner struggle in the Adminis tration which took place before Stassen's return to London. Everybody knows that Ad miral Arthur Radford, Chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, led the opposition to Stassen's plan. But it is not fcenerally known just how fierce and un compromising Radford's opposi tion was, nor how powerfully he was supported. Radford used every conceivable argument against agreeing to mutual in spection in any form. He even advanced the fan tastic view that adequate inspec tion of any considerable part of Soviet territory would cost as much as the whole current de fense budget. Deputy Secretary of Defense Donald Quarles, who sat in for Secretary Wilson in the bitter debate, took exception to this strange notion. But in general he supported Radford's position. SO did Atomic Energy Chair man Lewis Strauss. Strauss' support for Radford was pre dictable, since Strauss has a fet ish about "security" he loves secrets or supposed secrets, and treasures them like a magic with bits of colored string. The thought of Russians over-flying American territory or inspecting American defense installations was thus as automatically repug nant to him as to Radford. Strauss also has a fetish about superior American "know-how," and he was particularly incensed by Stassen's argument that sev eral other countries, besides the Soviet Union and Britain, had the industrial and technical ca pacity to make aQimic bombs. Radford thus had extremely powerful support the Defense Department and the Atomic Energy Commission constitute an alliance not to be sneezed at. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles adopted a position of cautiously benevolent neu trality towards Stassen's pro posals. In the State Department, only Robert Bowie, chief of the policy planning staff, who is soon to depart for private life, strongly advocated a serious at tempt to negotiate limited arms control with the Soviets. Thus the President was Stas sen's only really powerful ally in the dispute. Even the Presi dent was fai more cautious on the issue than he has been gen erally pictured, and Stassen's au thority to negotiate is carefully limited and circumscribed. SUPPOSE, however, that Stas sen actually negotiates an agreement for mutual inspection along the lines laid down by the President. The fierce opposition to any such agreement inside the Administration is then dead sure to spread to Capitol Hill. Al ready, Senate Republican leader William Knowland (who is close to Radford) and Sen. Bourke Hickenlooper senior Republican Senator on the joint Atomic Energy committee, (who is even closer to Strauss) have expressed strong doubts about the Presi dent's own brainchild, the Inter national Atomic Energy Agency. If Knowland and Hickenloop "O beautiful for spacious skies . . . O beautiful for pilgrim feet . . . O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife Who more than self their country loved. And mercy more than life . . . "America, America God shed His grace on thee. And crowned thy good, with brotherhood. From sea to shining sea." Charles A. Sprague in the Oregon Statesman, Salem Alsop er decided to oppose American memberships in the agency (which is now thought on bal ance unlikely), there would be grave doubt that the Senate would ratify the necessary treaty. But in comparison with the sort of plan Stassen is try ing to negotiate, the agency is absolutely innocuous. American membership in the agency would simply oblige the United States to pledge a tiny proportion of its stock of fission able material to an international pool. A mutual agreement on in spection with the Soviets would oblige the Urited States to agree to Soviet planes over-flying American territory and Soviet agents inspecting American air bases and defense installations. TT is easy to .imagine how such a proposal would stimulate the lingering isolation sentiment in the breasts of conservative Republicans. In fact, if Stassen negotiates an agreement which the President accepts, the Presi dent will almost certainly face a showdown battle with the right-wing of his own party. And the outcome could be a defoat for Eisenhower as crushing as the defeat suffered by Woodrow Wilson in the battle over the League of Nations, and even more historically significant. But that need not necessarily be the outcome. For the advant ages of mutual inspection to an open society, which cannot at tack by surprise, are demon strably greater than to a closed society, which can. Moreover, as the President has said, the only way the heavy defense load can really be re duced is by mutual agreement with the Soviets. Finally, of course, some sort of mutual agreement may be in the end the only alternative to mutual sui cide. If Stassen pulls off his miracle in London, these will be three rather powerful talking points for the President. (Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Marshall Plan Ten Years Old; Storm Now Hits Aid Idea By WILLIAM GALBRAITH United Press Correspondent Washington OPt The multi-million dollar Marshall Plan, which spawned the present for eign aid programs, was born 10 years ago Wednesday. As its anniversary approach ed a storm raged around its off spring the Mutual Security Program. Cuts Sought An economy-minded Congress is set on chopping foreign aid to the bone. President Eisenhower already has trimmed his request from S4,400,000,000 to S3, 865, 000, but some legislators want much deeper cuts. The Marshall Plan itself, how ever, is regarded as a success by both friend and foe of for eign aid. Supporters say it achieved "a near miracle" during the three and half years of its active life. Even the bitterest opponents of continued foreign aid concede that the Marshall Plan was nec essary. The program cost American taxpayers about 12 billion dol lars. But it saved Europe from economic collapse and put the 17 participating nations back on their feet. Otherwise, they might have fallen easy prey to Commu nism. Started in Speech The historic plans was put be fore the world in general terms on June 5. 1947, by then Secre tary of Stale George C. Marshall I in a speech at Harvard Univer sity. The soldier-statesman pledg ed that any European goverment willing to assist in the job of re covery would find "full coopera tion ... on the part o' the Unit ed States." The European response was swift. Western European leaders accepted and the idea was off and running. But the Soviets balked and refused to let their satellites join. Today and By Walter POLICY WITH A BROKEN BACK There can be few left among us who do not have serious doubts about our China l""W-J"l policy. For it is not possible to shrug off the anti-American riots in For mosa as if they were an unfor tunate accident which has nothing to do waiter Lippmann witn anytning 0 s i g n i f i cant. Whether or not there was official ccSnplicity, the indubitable fact is that whoever incited, (.organ ized, equipped and directed the rioters knew he could count upon a deep and widespread pop ular resentment against Ameri cans. This resentmerjt shows that our China policy is not working well even among the Chinese whom we are protecting and sub sidizing. It is often supposed that the President is by no means an un qualified Reliever in our China policy but that for the sake of peace with Congres and inside the Administration he. has put the issues on ice. Thus in public at least, he has avoided a reap praisal which might be very agonizing to many of his friends. There is, however, no way of postponing the reappraisal much longer. For it is becoming very evident indeed that our China policy has no" future, that time is running out and that the real question is whether there is still time and opportunity to save the things that matter the most. WHAT is our Chiha cpolicy? A good way to get at the inner principle of it is to ask and to answer the question, why are we uncompromising in our boycott of Red China and so much less uncompromising in our relations with Red Russia? The key to our policy is the fact that besides the Chinese in Formosa, there are some ten million Chinese in Snutheast Asia. In Singapore, they are three-quarters of the population, in lviaiaya, iney aie twn.fifthi: nf the nooulation. In those countries which have riinlomatic relations with Red rhina iRnrma. Indonesia and Cambodia) the Chinese tend to look to.Red China for guidance, in tho countries recognizing the Nationalists, such as South Viet Nam, Thailand and the Philip pines, the Chinese tend to too for guidance to Formosa. The object of our China policy is to keep the overseas Chinese ,on,r9w from the Red Chinese acii"v.. government, and thus to prevent it from ruling ana irom eti- .,11 tho r"hinpsp Some years back when the Na tionalist Chinese had been driven off the mainland, and were first installed in Formosa, the over seas Chinese were entitled to be that eventually, with American help, the Chinese gov ernment in Formosa wouia iigiii its way back to the mainland and become again the government of all of China. Thus there was hope for the anti-Communists v,,t w would eo home trium phantly. For the neutrals there was some good reason to remain sitting on the fence. As long as the Red Chinese were weak an distracted by the problems oi the revolution, while the United States, which then had a mo nopoly of nuclear weapons, was so strong, the cmna puncy a credible foundation. IT no longer has a credible ioun ,ir. When in 1955 Presi dent Eisenhower asked Congress for a guarantee of Formosa ana the nearby islands, he also took nracurv measures to pre vent Chiang from making war i.i - onmct the mainland. use muvco . Indeed, the President put an end to the idea that the unuea bww v,oir an invasion of the mainland. He went even further and made it clear that tne unneu States would not permit Chiang to attempt an invasion. All this was, no doubt, a souna dim p. in dent diplomatic action to prevent dangerous and looiisn a"'' tures. ... But it broke the DacK ui , ru: r,r,ii-v It deprived u Chinese in Formosa of any hope that they could return to ;.i,ni ovepnt bv coming to terms with Red China. Ever since then our China policy nas ..." f.'.f.ire and has been no more than a holding operation, design ed to put off as long as possible a deal among the L-hinese mem- selves. , x . Our attitude toward iraue with China and our attitude to ward letting American newspa permen go to China, are pan m this holding operation. They are . -other rfpcnerate and forlorn attempt to keep the Chinese in Formosa from coming to xerms with the Chinese on the main land. Thus we are trying to in duce Britain, Germany, ana Ja pan, as well as Western Europe, to restrict trade with Red China more severely than they restrict trade with Red Russia. As this means merely that Russia be comes the broker through which China trades with the rest of the world, the restrictions are not substantial. They are psycho logical. The purpose of the re strictions is to make the over seas Chinese feel that all the Fife"! Tomorrow Lippmann world, outside of Russia. Is the enemy of Red China. For the samfe kind of psychological reas on. Mr. Dulles and Mr. Robert son, do not want to let Ameri can newspapermen go to Red China. They are afraid it would discourage the over-seas Chinese and reduce their determination to oppose Red China. 'THE rational solution would A have been what is called the Two China Policy to establish Formosa as an independent and neutralized state under the pro tection of the United Nations as part of the bargain which admit ted Red China to the United Na tions. Both Chinese governments are on record against such a sol ution. But it is still the best and indeed the only solution which corresponds to the whole reality of the Chinese situation to the fact that there is a Chinese com munity which is opposed to plac ing itself under Communist rule, and that there is on the mainland of China a powerful government which cannot be ignored. The question is whether it is too late to deal with the situa tion by a negotiated compromise, like the Two China Policy. If it is too late, then, unless the im probable "happens and there is a counter-revolution on the Chi nese mainland, we must look forward f- with the Formosa roits as a gaming sign to the disintegration of our China pol icy, u (c) 1957JNew York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Let's pause for a moment at this season and think of Memo rial Day as something mere sig nificant than the beginning of what for a lot of people will be the start of a four-day holiday during which the roads to the lakes and the streams and the beaches and the big woods and the great outdoors generally will be more crowded than usual and therefore somewhat danger ous. Tl f EMORIAL Day is a patriotic holiday to honor those mem bers of America's armed forces who have given their lives for their country. Originally, it was set aside to honor men who died in the War between the States Its formal observance now in cludes those who died in the Spanish-American war, in World Wars I and II and the Korean war. It is a legal holiday in most states of the Union. The North- em states celebrate May 30 as Memorial Day. The Southern states have their own days for honoring the Confederate dead. Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi set aside May 26 as Memorial Day. North and South Carolina observe this holidajy on May 10, Louisiana and Tennes see on June 3 and Virginia on May 30. HOW did it get started? That is an interesting story, Memorial Day originated when Southern women scattered spring flowers on the graves of soldiers during the War between the States. In this simple testi monial of sorrow unheralded by any official proclamation, car ried out without any formal cere mony they honored the North ern dead as well as their own Southern dead. After the war, in 1868, Gen eral John A. Logan, then commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, named May 30 as a special day for hon oring the graves of Union sol diers. A SOLEMN thought for today: Tn the War hptween trip States or the Civil War, if you prefer that name HALF A MILLION men died in battle or of wounds and disease and our nation was rent asunder in spirit although it has been preserved as an actual physical entity by hatreds and prejudices that persist to this day. If there had been more toler ance and less prejudice, more patience and less hot-headed haste, more willingness to con cede that those who hold opin ions and beliefs contrary to ours are not necessarily scoun drels, all this might have been avoided. IN THE America cf today there is too little tolerance and too much prejudice, too little pa tience and too much impatience, too much politician-inspired con flict and suspicion between the alleged haves and the alleged have-nots. Memorial Day is a good time to pause and reflect upon the evils these things can bring upon a nation. A century ago, they brought upon us a bloody and awful civil war that never should have been fought. In their present form, they can hamper or EVEN PREVENT the full and wonderful flower ing of the American way of life. ADLAI TO PORTUGAL London (IP American Dem ocratic Party leader Adlai Ste venson left Saturday for Lisbon, Portugal. During his visit in Britain, the twice-defeated pres idential candidate received an honorary degree at Oxford Uni versity. POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) A prominent firm of Medford attorneys, now firmly ensconced in new quarters behind a bril liant blue door, had a new tele phone number assigned to them when they moved in. It didn't take long for them to discover that the number previously had been assigned to a local medical clinic. The nice lady who answers the telephone soon had the NEW number of the clinic memorized, and when ever someone calls for a doctor (and she says there have been thousands") she blithely and quickly informs them of the change, and the new number. This has gotten so automatic with her that we sort of wonder what she'd say if someone were to call and ask for Dr. Van Dyke. A member of the staff at tended the dedication cere monies at the new Medford armory a week ago Saturday. His 1 1-year-old daughter knew vaguely about the event, and knew that Daddy was going ut that night, so put two and two together, and inquired: "Daddy, are you going out ts watch them christen the Ar mory?" A couple visited the home of one of Medford's better-known citizens the other evening, dur ing which they were provided with their choice of after-dinner beverage. The small daughter of the household observed this, and, as youngsters frequently do, re quested a glass of her own. She was provided with lemonade, and given permission to help herself to more as she desired it. Carrying it a step further, she decided the family dog should not go refreshment-less, so fixed him up with a "martini," con sisting of water and a dog-biscuit, the latter on a toothpick. We are informed tnat the sight of a small dog drinking biscuit flavored water from a martini glass is one not soon to be for gotten. A Medford couple proudly possesses a phonograph on of the plain, garden -variety which plays good music but doesn't make the pretense of being Hi-FL Anyway they frequently play portions of iheir collection of records in the evening. It is reported on good authority that the other evening they were sitting read ing when the husband asked if the wife would like to hear some music She rsplied, "No, I don't want to gi in a mood. I'm loo comfortable." E. K. Ricker, the manager ol the Veterans Administration domiciliary at Camp White, is, we have no reason to doubt, 6n excellent manager and a fine public servant, but our sports editor tells us there's little chance he'll be snapped by the major leagues as a pitcher. At the opening ballgame at the new Ricker stadium at Camp White Memorial day, he was to throw the first pitch. It bounced once somewnere between the mound land home plate, and As sistant Manager Jaffery, the catcher,, couldn t get his mitt on it even with a wild dash off to one side. We're not quit sure what to tbink about that radio com mercial for an American car in the middle price bracket which makes the claim of be ing as roomv comfortable and luxurious as foreign sports cars. e Speaking of means of trans portation, one of our community correspondents (bless 'em all) tells of a new one. She wrote about three women going to another town to sing at services there, and the fact that they were accompanied by a fourth woman on the piano. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the rieht to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub licaUon must not exceed 400 words From New Citiien To the Editor: As a newly- naturalized citizen of the United States, I should like to express my appreciation for the generous help of a number of Medford residents. I was among the new citizens who were recently helped through citizenship classes of Mrs. G. Q. D'Albini and Mrs. Ada East to pass the tests re quired to become naturalized Americans. Others helped us by serving as witnesses at the hear ings. I am sure all are equally grateful for their kindness. Frank Netik, Talent, Ore. Death To Climbing From Philippines Flu Manila W The death toll in the influenza epidemic sweep ing the Philippines edged toward the 500 mark Saturday. Sixty-two more deaths were registered in Manila and the provinces Friday. It brought to 464 the known victims.
