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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.