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o o o TWO MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, Augui! 14,1937 iO? I iZk' 3Wt "V - ffM 1 T " HKRAI.niVfl PACCIRf C CUrtririur . . u .t . . - r i " - "-jiuuu kjvfviiiiu icbuiiiuiiv uie udiiidgc iriai against vumiaenuai Magazine begins with some top Hollywood and show business figures gathered to give testimony. Above Heft) is defense attorney Arthur Crowley, seated, with defendants Fred and Marjorie Meade. Singer Tab Hunter (right) is possible witness. (International; Your Parakeet Doesn't Know What He's Talking About, Bird Expert Declares White's Dissertation On Fiat Money Gets Wall Street Workout Chicago (TP) Your parakeet doesn't know what he's talking about. At the risk of disillusioning lome bird lovers, Austin L. Rand, chief curator of zoology at the Chicago National History Museum, has conducted some re search into talkative birds. His conclusion: "Birds don't know what they're saying." Most people realize this, but they like to persuade themselves that sometimes their feathered friends understand a smattering of their own conversation. Most people don't realize it, he said, but there are lots of talking birds beside parrots and parakeets. The starling, a fav orite cage-bird of the Chinese, is as good as any parakeet, he aia, And the Mynah, a jay-sized black starling with vivid yellow beak and head wattles, is famed for its eloquence. But the most talented mimic of all is the mockingbird. Rand cited the case of a wild mocking bird who introduced 58 imita- Local Insurance Agency Presented Plaque The Medford Insurance Agen cy has been presented a plaque by the Northwestern Mutual In surance company in recognition of 20 years service to residents of Medford, Fred R. Brennan vice president and manager of the agency, has announced. The 20-year service includes the -representation of the late Max Peirce for the company. Joel F. Royal, company repre sentative in this area, made the presentation. VIOLENT Photographer Stanley Tretick snapped this picture of hoodlum Johnny Dio moments before Dio clipped him on the ear and called him an "S.-0-B" as Tretick sought to photo graph him in the Senate Office Building in Washington, tions in seven minutes of sing ing. Yet mockingbirds don't talk perhaps because they haven't been trained, Rand said. Aside from the better known talkers, ravens, crows and jays sometimes learn to say a few words. But there's nothing to the old story that you can make a crow talk by splitting its tongue, Rand said. Fit the Occasion Sometimes, he conceded, a bird's conversation will seem to fit the occasion. "There are some stories about birds I simply don't believe," he said. For example, the yarn about a sparrow owned by a French clergyman. The . bird supposedly could recite the Lord's Prayer and the Ten Commandments. When wild sparrows stole its food, the trained sparrow 'sup posedly cried out in righteous indignation: "Thou shalt not steal." FORMER SOLON DIES Hartford, Conn. HP) Former U.S. Rep. Herman P. Kopplemann, 77, who served five terms, died late Sunday. Paris (IP) War veterans who fought at Verdun 40 years ago have- given up their veterans pensions to help France fight a new battle on the economic front. By ELMER C. WALZER United Press Financial Editor ' New York (IP) Back in 1896 about the time William Jennings Bryan's dissertations on silver 1 were getting into swing, Dr. Dr. Andrew Dickson White wrote a learn ed thesis on fiat money in flation in France. On Nov. 18, 1933, Bank of Elmer Waizer New Y o r k & Trust Co. had- that pamphlet re printed and distributed around the financial district. That period, some 24 years ago, was one when world currencies were anything but stable and there were reports of all sorts of dis aster approaching. There probably isn't a broker age house in town which hasn't a copy of White's famous disser tation on the assignats of tne French Revolution, how the printing presses turned out money and how French currency fell apart. Every so often this booklet is quoted in the market letters. The street has come to regard that small book as a work of art, a gem on its subject. Many a market man wishes there were similar little texts on the other intricacies of finance. . White was president and pro fessor of history at Cornell Uni versity. He had been ambassa dor to Russia. He knew how to write dramatically. In view of the recent French currency difficulties, it isn't sur prising that the white book again is mentioned in the market let ters. France has been a source of study for those who probe the wiles of fiat money and the eventual downfall of a currency when the printing press is turned on. John Law, a Scottish financial expert, was put to work by the French government after the reign of Louis XIV. He built up the Banque General in 1716 and put the printing press to work with a vengeance. The end re sult was repudiation of the French currency. Less than 100 years later, dur ing the French Revolution, the Court Records Just arrived for BACK-TO-SCHOOL! Wf. J-T,- , S Pf v h- New lEVI'S Jeans with 63 MORE WEAR ! Toughest Denim Yet! Proved 63 longer-wearing than ordinary denim in independent laboratory tests! Won't Fade! Won't Shrink! Vat dyed for fast color-and Sanfoiized for m;n;Tniim shrinkage! Double-Knees Guaranteed! Fused on for life of the garment wont wa&h off or rub off! Complete Boys' Size Range! Regular and Slim sizes 4 to 12, U and 16 Huskies 25 to 36 waist! THEY'RE SANFORIZED gtf 4t ItVI'S M4"TW t IBItll t&IMfVM Mill lir ST LCV1 STIlUlt Ct., lATTftT ST., IU fUattSO MUNICIPAL COURT David Anderson Jr., violation oi basic rule. $10. Jav Lesley Goodman, operating on wronif side of street, 3. Rodney Spencer Biddle, no driver's lipns. $10. Irene Kathryn Banker, disobeyed stnrt siffn. S3. ' Laura Joan McCready, disobeyed storj siem. So. Dorothy Jean Meadows, disobeyed siod sum. 53. George Haynes, disobeyed stop sien. $5. Lloyd David Grassman, excessive noise ftires), S10. Lawrence Arthur Brown, excessive noise frjinesl .S10. Shirley Lee Swanner, " failure to obtain Oreeon ooerators license. $15. Edwin S. Cripe, violation of basic rule. S10. Jimmy Charles Miller, failure to obtain Oregon driver's license. S5. Arthur M. Curtis Jr., disobeyed traffic signal. S5. Irwin P. Ditch, violation of basic rule, S10. D. L. Luper, excessive noise (tires) sin. Walter S. Baker, disobeyed left left turn signal, $5. Glen William Hunsaker, disobeyed traffic signal. S5- James Claud McDowell, disobeyed stop sign. S5. Samuel Jacob Bedding Jr., dis obeyed stoo sign. S5. Delbert Johnson, imprope? ' lane usage. S5. David Leon Snook, violation of basic rule, $10. Jack J. Ansures, excessive notae (pines). SIS . Harvey Leland Haight. violation of basic rule. S10. Arthur George LaCourse, violation of basic rule. S10. Redford Earl Magruder, violation of basic rule, $10. DISTRICT COURT Rollyn Glassferd, failure to stop at stop sign. S10. Elmer Richey, operating motor ve hicle while driver's permit is suspend de. S10S. Wilma Evelyn Brophy, violation of basic rule, $15, bail. Tillman Carroll Sinyard. defective brakes, $6. Charles Stanley Bump, operating motor vehicle while driver's per mit is suspended. $50 ibail. Clay Hurd. taking and holding captive young game birds and ani mals. ' 30. Shirley Eleen Gamer, no driver's license, $10. James Arnold O'Neal, angling with out license. $30. Warren Chris Johnson, overwidth, $25. Raymond Earl Rapp. failure to stop at stop Sim, $15 bail. Paul Willis Dole, truck speeding. $20 bail. William David Coffelt. operating motor vehicle while driver's . permit suspended, $100 bail. William M. ' McKenzie. failure to stop before entering through high way. $10. William Albert Gossman, over width. S15. Billy Melvm Morras, overload. $141. Alvin Jon Paudois, overload. $265.. William Andrews Jnoes, violation of basic rule. $10. bail Joseph- Oliver Frances Jr., over with. SIS. Joe Walsh, violation of basic rule. $15. bail. Sadie Christina Shepherd, permit ting unlicensed person to operate a motor vehicle. S15. Brunhilda Swarty, angling without license, $30. Allan John McBelh. failure to stop at stoo sign, $10. Edwin Emanuel Tfesberg, failure to stop at . traffic sign. $5. bail. Earl Chris Laursen, overwidth, $10. Earl Alvin Bliss, overwidth. $ls. Carl James MacConnel. passing on crest of a hill. S15. bail. Dale Crawford Matthews, switched license plantes. S20. Virgil A. Miller, no operator's lie ense. S10. bail. Robert Otis Greb. no operator's license. S10. y Warren Hamilton Hays, failure to stoo at traffic sign, $10. bail. Betty Lou Cook, failure to stop at traffic sien. $10. Theodore Hi Hard Brown Jr., failure to stop at traffic sign. 10. Clifton Valentine Conover. failure to stoo at traffic sign, $10. cenjamin tarn est rtewman, zauure to stop at traffic sign, $10. Dave Wayne Hunter, failure . to stop at traffic sign. 10. .orman Leroy iiooper. oeiecuve French again got the idea of printing currency. This time they planned to do it $cientifical ly. They could control it. The wise heads tried to bring reason but couldn't. The majori ty said the repudiation of John Law's money would never hap pen again. Things would be dif ferent now. The professor wrote the story of this situation in 67 pages and Wall Street has never let it get cold on its bookshelves. In 1790, when the printing presses in France began turning out currency, one could buy a bushel of oats for 18 cents. By 1796 the same amount of oats cost $10. A $4 cart load of wood of 1790 became a $500 load in 1796. A pound of soap went from 18 cents to $8; a cabbage from eight cents to ?5.25; a pair of shoes from $1 to $40; 25 eggs from 25 cents to $4; and a pound of sugar from 18 cents to $12.25. Wall Street isn't saying France will do it again, but it is bring ing up the French situation as one of the difficulties in today's stock market. France's troubles, of course, go back to World War It days, lately they have been aggravated by the Suez Canal crisis when the French joined the British and Israeli forces in attacking Egypt, by the Algerian situation, and by foreign trade losses. Southern Oregon Business Topic of C. of C. Roundtable Southern Oregon has a "silver lining," Don McNeil, Jackson County Chamber of Commerce manager, told the chamber roundtable luncheon meeting Monday. Stressing the wholesale trade carried on from Medford,. he said 43 per cent of Medford wholesalers cover a 10-county area and 60 per cent serve a six-county area. This, he said, makes Medford the third largest wholesale center in Oregon doing an annual business of $82 million a year. Effective buying income in those counties amounts to a half billion, according to figures from the 1957 survey of buying power by Sales Management, a publica tion dealing with wholesale and retail trade. The counties in clude Cops, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath and Lake counties in Oregon and Del Norte, Modoc, and Sis kiyou in California. Freeway Development Development of the Highway 99 freeway is the most important single development in this area, McNeil emphasized. The freeway should help boost wholesale trade further since Medford is placed in the enviable center of traffic, half-way between San Francisco and Portland or Los Angeles and Seattle. The rapid growth of the Med ford area is due to a relocation trend, McNeil added. People are The average London commut er travels 1,945 miles a year, according to British Railways, patronizing 578 trains and 480 local stations in the greater city. moving or planning to move in from other areas as far away as Texas. Some are locating indus tries here which market their products "clear out of the area," he said. To draw visitors in who might relocate here, the chamber is planning to advertise in trade magazines, McNeil said. Such travel ads would be run in elec tronics magazines and plastics publications which would cover California, Arizona and Texas. Such publications are unclut tered with vacation ads, he aid. The VODKA of VODKAS There's a difference in vodkas and it's a difference worth knowing. Driest of the dry I 0mirnoff THE GREATEST NAME IN VODKA SO PROOF. DISTILLED FROM GRAIN STE. PIERRE SMIRNOFF FIS. UIVISiON OF NEUBLEIN). HARTFORD. C0NN U.S.A. FRANCE. ENGLAND. 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