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(Distributed by King Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
Women strike matches awav
from themselves, men the other
way. Women bite a piece of
chocolate candy in half to see
what is inside before eating it.
oien eat tne whole piece im
mediately. Women i a u r r i m
toothpaste tubes from the mid
dle. Men squeeze them from the
bottom. The women do not put
the cap of tube back on. Women
look at their fingernails by hold
ing the hand straight out. palm
down. In surveying his finger
nails a man bends his fingers
over toward him. So claims a
conscientious student of Horses
and Women who has been check
ing on the differences between
men and women. I have checked
hU findings. They are amazingly
accurate. I am getting in touch
with him immediately to find
out what he knows about 'horses.
Get It Right
What two New York churches
were involved in the incident
which led to one being ever
after referred to as "The Little
Church Around The Corner"?
So queries a .Bostonian. The
churches were the Church of
Atonement, at Madison ave. and
28th st. and the Church of the
Transfiguration, 1 East 29th st.
Rev. William T. Sabine was
rector of former. Dr. George
Hendric Houghton of the latter.
The Rev. Sabine, according to
Joseph Jefferson, declined to
hold a funeral service for
George Holland because he had
been an actor but suggested it
might be arranged at "a little
church around the corner." The
funeral service for George Hol
land was read by Rev. George
Houghton at t&s Church of the
Transfiguration on Dec. 22,
1870.
Asking
Queries from clients. Q. Is
Robert W. Service who wrote
"The Shooting of Dangerous
Dan McGrew" still living? A.
Yes, sir. Mr. Service, now 83
years old, lives in Monte Carlo.
Q. What is the height of Prin
cess Margaret of England? A.
Five feet, two inches. Q. Have
been asked to nam&a celebrated
character of literature who was
married five times. I am baffled.
Help, please. A. The Wife 'of
Bath, in Chaucer's "Canterbury
Tales" has been married five
times. To quote the poem:
"Housbondes at church-dore she
hadde five." Or in modem Eng
lish, "Husbands at the church
door she had five."
Slogans
In a list of slogans I recently
asked if subscribers recalled
was included "The Beer That
Made Milwaukee Famous." That
was erroneously included.
Everybody knows that slogan.
The slogan I had in mind was
"The Beer That Made Milwau
kee Jealous." I believe this was
used by a Michigan brewery.
Dangerous Sport
Fifty men have met death in
boxing rings since 1945. Many
others have ended up punch
drunk with an existence that is
a living death. A horrible situa
tion. The horror will increase
as time goes on. Television spon
sors want no short bouts. They
want lengthy and bloody battles
between "crowd pleasers." It is
the "crowd pleaser" type of
ringman who is most often kill
ed or ends up horribly punch
drunk.
Sidelights
The Roosevelt Raceway
(Dream Track) at Westbury, L.I.,
is named in honr of Quentin
Roosevelt. The Roosevelt Hotel,
Manhattan, is named in honor
of his father, Theodore Roosevelt
. . . The record for the most
fatalities in a collision between
two passenger automobiles
seems to be held by Maryland
where in 1854, ten people were
killed in a two car collision,
five in eachscar.
Briefly
"Parker House Rolls" are
named in honor of the Parker
House, Boston, Mass. So you
knew that. Did you know porter
house steak is naqped in honor
of the Porter House, Sandusky,
Ohio?. . . It is women who make
the most unkind remarks about
their sex. As for example, Han
nah Cowley who said, "What
is woman? Only one of Nature's
agreeable blunders."
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New Secretary of Treasury Using
'Cram Course1 to Learn About Job
By LOUIS" CASSELS . system;
United Press Correspondent printed
wasnington (if) When Rob
ert B. Anderson graduated from
the University of Texas at the
age of 19, he
applied for a
job as high
school math
teacher in Bur
leson, Tex. The
trustees hired
him on condi
tion that he
also coach the
football team.
Louis Cassels Anderson had
never played football and his
knowledge of the sport was mea
ger. But he bought a book of
football rules and spent the sum
mer studying it. That fall, his
team went through the season
undefeated.
Today, at 47, Anderson is
using the same "crajn course"
technique of easing himself into
a much bigger and tougher job
as secretary of the Treasury.
Knows Finance Well
Anderson is not a stranger to
high finance, as he was to foot
ball. He has had considerable ex
perience in handling large sums
of other people's money as
manager of the $300 million
Waggoner Estate in Texas, as
deputy chairman of the Dallas
Federal Reserve Bank, as sec
retary of the Navy and deputy
secretary of defense, and for the
past two years as president of
Ventures, Ltd., a big Canadian
mining and investment firm.
But Anderson, whose unaf
fected humility belies what they
say about Texans, does not con
sider this background sufficient
training for his new job. Ever
since he learned in April that
President Eisenhower wanted
him to succeed George M. Hum
phrey as. Treasury secretary, he
has been boning up on the in
tricate problems of federal fis
cal policy.
So far, he has worked his
way through (1) about five feet
of .books, including most of the
classic texts on such subjects
as debt management and the
operation of the federal reserve
(2) 'more
pages of
than 1,000
Senate and
House hearings; (3) scores of gov
ernment reports and Treasury
documents.
Still Doing Homework
Although he assumed active
command of the Treasury July
29, Anderson is still plugging
away at his self-assigned home
work. '
One of his first acts was to
call in the Treasury's 14 divi
sion heads, and ask for a de
tailed report from each of them
on the "issues and problems",
confronting his division. These
confidential reports were pre
pared, at his request, in the same
kind of looseleaf notebooks that
students use, and "are kept up
to date with frequent inserts
and substitutions.
Anderson keeps them in his
desk drawer for ready refer
ence, but he has already mem
orized most of their contents.
He has the kind of memory
that is sometimes called photo
graphic, and has trained him
self to be an extremely rapid
reader. One of his aides, who
saw him flipping through the
pages of a highly technical re
port, assumed that Anderson was
merely pretending to. read it.
The aide was startled some days
later to hear the secretary cite
specific dates and figures from
the report.
His Knowledge Incredible
Over the years, Anderson has
stocked his retentive mind with
an incredible variety of informa
tion. He learned one profession
law in the usual way at col
lege. Other subjects he has
picked up along the way, in pre
paring himself for various jobs
or just out of curiosity. He taught
himself petroleum geology be
cause the vast Waggoner ranch,
which he managed for 11 years,
had more than 2,000 oil wells.
He mastered the fine points of
submarine design, because he
felt that ' a Texas . landlubber
should be able to talk the ad
mirals' language when he be
came secretary of the Navy. He
can hold his own with experts
in conversations about English
poetry, cotton farming, Canadian
mining, Texas politics and trap
shooting. "If we could get this guy on
a television quiz program," one
awed Treasury official said re
cently, "we would have the an
swer to the federal debt." j
Short of Solution
Since no TV program has yet
come forward with a $270 bil
lion question, Anderson prob
ably will have to find some
other answer. His most urgent
problem right now is refinanc
ing the $72 billion worth of gov
ernment bonds due to mature
during the current fiscal year.
The Treasury had to offer 4 per
cent interest highest rate since
the 1930s to ease its last big
issue into the tight money mar
ket. Still feeling his way" into the
Thursday, August IS, 19S7
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
deep waters of federal finance,
Anderson isn't ready to say what
he plans to do about interest
rates in the future. But he is
turning into a demon bond
salesman. Two minutes after he
took his oath at the White
House, he sold a $100 savings
bond to Humphrey, who had
been ineligible to own govern
ment securities while he was
Secretary of the Treasury.
Reporter Also Buys,
He subsequently chalked up
sales to a reporter who came to
interview him, and the janitor
who cleans his office.
Anderson knows it will take
a lot of salesmanship to keep
the public buying "E" bonds,
with their 3V4 per cent interest
rate, in a period when more
attractive yields are readily
available on many other invest
ments, including some issues of
government securities.
But he is counting on old
fashioned patriotism to help him
sell bonds.
"You should see the mail I've
received since I took this job,"
he said, toward the close of a
long interview. "Old friends,
business acquaintances, even to
tal strangers write to say that
they are buying savings bonds
to help me out.
"Most of them are dead seri
ous about it. It has convinced
me there are millions of Ameri
cans who still consider it part of
their patriotic duty to help the
government move some of its
debt out of the banks, where it
contributes to inflationary pres
sures, and into longterm savings
held by individuals."
Virginia Paper Had 1776 Scoop
Williamsburg, Va. (IP) Al
exander Purdie scooped the
world with America's greatest
news story here 181 years ago..
Purdie, publisher of the Vir
ginia Gazette, printed the com
plete Declaration of Independ
ence on the front, page of his
July 26, 1776, edition, only three
weeks after it was signed in
Philadelphia fast work in co
lonial days.
Sidebar stories told of the re
action to the Declaration in oth
er colonies. In Trenton, N.J.,
the militia, the provincial con
gress and a "large concourse of
inhabitants" greeted the news
with 'loud acclamations."
New York City's celebrants re
acted with "loud huzzas and ut
most demonstrations of joy," ac
cording to the Gazette. And they
went in' for a bit of patriotic van
dalism, ripping down the eques
trian statue of King George III
and melting down the pieces for
bullets for the militia.
The Gazette, the colony's first
newspaper, was established here
Aug. 6, 1637, and has been pub
lished almost continuously ever
since as a family-owned-and-op-erated
weekly.
Purdie learned printing in his
native Scotland, worked for vari
ous publishers of the Gazette and
became publisher -himself in
1775.
He continued to run the paper
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through the hard-pressed dayi
of the revolution until his death
in 1779.
' Colonial Williamsburg, Inc., is
reconstructing the first Gazette
printing office as part of the
restoration of the 18th century
colonial capital.
The reconstructed printing of
fice will display colonial type
which may have been used by
the paper's first publisher and
was uncovered on the site of the
plant. . "
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