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4 Sunday, April 13, 1938 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MedfordSwtribune "Everyone ia Southern '-yregon Uaa. TV.m Mm'.i Trihun'" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St. Ph. SPJ-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent NewsDaDer Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1891 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy lOe Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 425 Sunday Only One year $450 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eael Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. 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A Miss Medford beauty con test will be sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce again this year, it was an nounced today. 20 YEARS AGO April 13, 1938 (Wednesday) "Keep the American mar ket for the American farm er," was the theme of the talk given in Townsend hall last night by a senatorial candi date. . From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Robins are busy on many lawns, eat ing fishworms, Instead of building nests." 30 YEARS AGO April 13, 1928 (Friday) The state beard of horticul ture early this week in Port land made no change in any pack and grade except pears. From local arid personal column: "Be kind for a year for a dollar. Send to Jackson County Humane Society, Med ford. 40 YEARS AGO April 13, 1918 (Saturday) A Medford leader of a re ligious cult was taken to Ash land ball tarred him with printers' ink and turned him loose with a warning to leave the county. From local and personal column: "County Food Ad ministrator Folger reports restaurant men are serving pancakes of bread crumbs and corn meal. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. In what year did Co lumbus discover the new world? 2. Bible: What did God create on the fourth day? 3. Only one U.S. President has received the entire elec toral vote; can you name him? 4. Mrs. Evelyn Walsh Mc Clean, Washington, D. C. soc ial leader, was the owner of which famous diamond? 5. Name the deceased magi cian who was noted as "The Handcuff King," 6. Soft-shell crabs are a separate species; true or false? 7. Male whales are called bucks, bulls, or rams? 8. Which U. S. Federal agency is charged with rail road rate regulation? 9. Who commanded Ameri can naval forces at the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898? 10. Did Joe Louis hold the World Heavyweight boxing championship for approxi mately 8, 12 or 14 years? Answers: 1. 1492. 2 Light. 3. George Washington (1789). 4. Hope Diamond (44!2car ats). 5. Houdini. 6. False. 7. Bulls. 8. Interstate Com merce Commission. 9. Com modore George Dewey. 10. 12 (11 years. 8 months, 7 days). NATIONAL Editorial Correspondence . . San Francisco, April 9th Some aspiring novelist should grab Lana Turner's brief remark for a best-selling title. Said Lana according to the local press "I like men and men always like me." She did not say she liked any particular man, but only the genus homo. And it worked the other way around, for the men she liked. Perhaps one should waste no sympathy on such a type they have plenty of company, and they have a gay time for a while. But they seldom end up nicely. They miss too much out of life to make a success of it. The end nearly always is bitter, not always tragic but always sad. The trouble is one has to play that sort of game to find it out. And when one does it is usually too little and too late. What a difference just a little sunshine makes. For three days now the sun has been shining in a clear sky and San Francisco is really a magic city again. So are its environs, particularly over in Marin where we were motored for luncheon in a nice little hote overlooking the bay. No wind over there, the sun was really warm not quite warm enough to call for unfurling the table umbrellas but around 70 in the shade. If we ever decided to settle near the Golden Gate we don't expect to we would choose Marin for a home. It misses most of the Golden Gate fog, is quiet, secluded, extremely home-like and attractive, yet not at all pretentious. And with the Golden Gate bridge, one can reach the shopping district in San Francisco in no time at all easily when the traffic is light, in half an hour. And after those 11 days of rain the grass, and trees and gardens are simply beautiful. Took our first trip to Belvedere really a wooded island fiiff in tho hav hut now connected hv a built-in causeway. The island is a favorite dwelling' spot for San Francisco business men. As indicated they are only about half-an-hour from their offices, but they might as well be a hundred miles away as far as the general setting and atmosphere are concerned. On those steep hills, heavily wooded, sur rounded by, yet high above, salt water, they might be on the Italian Riviera as far as any indication of big-city, or Big Business affairs are concerned. It is somewhat inaccessible, of course, but that is exactly what most Big Business men want. And there they have it! It was a great day, particularly for a couple of the "older boys and girls" depending upon busses and taxis. We would like to pin a few. roses on our joint hostesses, but if we mentioned their names they would never forgive us, and someday we would like a return engagement. However, here is a tip for their friends in the Valley once upon a time they were known as two of the four beautiful Farwell Sisters of Lake Forest, Illinois. And they still are! Well, we are really starting to pack. We expected td stay here a few days, and as we have had to pay hotel bills 3 times it must be nearer 3 weeks. For nearly two weeks the weather here was simply terrible, but as is usually true, the bad is soon forgotten and been wonderful. So our; net impression is that San Fran cisco is and always has been one of the most attractive, picturesque and charming cities in the United States. (We trust the SF Chamber of Commerce will see this and send us a life-membership in the And we don't intend to We spent a month there and there were only 3 days out of the 30,v we failed to see the sun. For Arizona, it was cool, and the rainfall which was above the average, but in perhaps there WAS one was failed to run on the week end, golf sticks (and COULD still been able to do so every day. place in the world that could California (t.v. paid.) This newspaper like many time been informed that the USA is going the way of Rome that it has become too fat, too rich, too self-in dulgent to survive, and Soviet the hills as Eric the Goth or his virile and uncultured hordes, and lay waste to our effete civilization. We have always ridiculed But after seeing Eugene O'Neil's "Long Day's Journey Into Night," as played-at the Geory Sam is a trifle shaken. Unless we are mistaken, this play won not only the Pulitzer Prize for 1957, but the Critics Award, and when a journey through a morgue, and a canal-boat saloon, can win highest dramatic honors in the U.S.A., we definitely . feel "SOMEthing is wrong." We attended the first matinee on Wednesday and the theatre was well filled mostly of the "older gal" persua sion as usual. And also as usual most of them were from out-of-town that is "suburbia". At least for the sake of the hard-working company led by the old movie star Fay Baint er, and the Irish "white hope" Anew McMaster, we hope so. For that would explain why so many in the last act walked out. It was we trust not the sordid quality of the drama which induced an exit, but the fact they had to get to Peta luma or San Jose before nightfall. As stated, we hope that was true, for the company seemed competent, conscientious and did the best they could with the material supplied. But in our judgment the material is terrible. We don't object to one "souse" or even two, but when papa, his sons Jimmy and Edmund are all drunks, and Mother Tyrone is a dope-fiend who goes "nuts" and does a Lady McBeth sleep walking scene, it is just a little too much. Frankly, we would have walked out after the first act if we had not had the ex-reporter's curiosity as to how the whole mess would come out. For the play is essentially a bore. There is no action, there is no "Chunk of life" at least as the average person experiences it there is no suspense, no plot it is about as exciting as an autopsy held in psychotic clinic depressing, hopeless, not an at tractive or wholesome character in the performance with the possible exception of the Irish' second-maid, and she gets drunk and blames her condition on her mistress. , Of course, written by O'Neil, there are beautiful lines in it, there are powerfully dramatic situations, and although this was not the New York company, except for what in golf is called "pressing" trying too hard the parts were well taken, we thought. But there is only one word that perfectly fits "Long Day's Journey Into Night" in our judg ment, and that is "decadent." And if the terms of the Pulitzer Dramatic Award were observed then in the opinion of that committee, this play is not only tops for the 1957 season, but best represents contemporary American life. Such a verdict from such a high source, is as far as this department is concerned, disturbing. R.W.R. Economy Run Off In Los Angeles (IP) The 1958 version of one of the world's biggest automotive competi tions, the Mobilgas Economy Run, starts early today when 29 new American stock cars leave for a five-day trip to Galveston, Tex. Starter J. C. Agaianian will drop the green flag at 1 a.m. to start tne fleet of new cars on their gruelling drive to compete for the nation's fuel economy championship. The cars will leave at short these last three days have Optimists club.) play down Tucson, Arizona. is practically negligible all that time not a ball game rained out, the hosses never and if we had brought our play golf!) we would have We can think of only one match it. That is Palm Springs, others has from time to Russia will come down from was he a Vandal? did with such an idea. And we Btill do. theatre, our faith in Uncle Los Angeles intervals from the general pe troleum garage m downtown Los Angeles for the longest route in the 22-year history of the run. Purpose of the test is to determine the efficiency of American stock cars under driving conditions encounter ed by the ordinary motorist. Potato wart, a potato dis ease, was brought into Penn sylvania by immigrant coal miners who sought to intro duce plant varieties from the 'old country to America. Dennis the Menace Keep anbvbonmy HORse. wa ya , power ? Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann TESTING PRO AND CON In the propaganda contest, of which we have just now had another round, our basic position is that we do not wish to sus pend the test ing of nuclear weapons and that we do not in the near future wish to have' a sum- waiter Lippmann mit meeting in. which Eisen hower confronts Khrushchev This is, of course, a difficult position to argue in a -world which is terrified by the, race in nuclear armaments and is hoping compulsively that in a meeting at the summit some kind of accommodation might be reached. Mr. Dulles, who has the hard task of arguing the official American case, is talking like - a man who knows that the best he can do is to fight a delaying ac tion to avoid a decisive com mitment on the tests and on the summit meeting. The crucial question at this point is what is the basic So viet position. Is it that, having just completed their own se ries, of tests, their objective is to prevent us from holding our forthcoming tests? It can not be that simple. For such a maneuver could easily be defeated by proposing to sus pend our tests after we, like they, have completed our tests. Or it is that the Soviets know that, what with Dr. Tel ler, Adm. Strauss, and most of the Pentagon, we intend to go on testing as indeed Mr, Dulles indicated at his press conference and that, there fore, the Soviets can propose to cease testing? For they will know that we will not cease and that they can then con tinue. Or is it .that the Soviets do not mean to cease but are relying on being able to cheat by holding undetected tests? TTY OWN view is that the -L" main Russian position is founded not upon gimmicks and propaganda tricks but upon their estimate of the over-all balance of power in the world as between their coalition and ours. To suspend nuclear testing is in fact to freeze the development of nuclear weapons, and if that were done now, the world balance of power would be favorable to them. They know they will not be attacked, and they have or are about to have ample weapons to neu tralize any military pressure on the Communist orbit. Along with this, they have su perior military power consist ing of conventional forces and existing nuclear weapons as against any of the countries on their periphery. In the West, on the other hand, there is no prospect that the democracies will sup port a combined military es tablishment comparable with that of the Soviet Union ex cept for one possibility. This is the development of cheap nuclear weapons to replace massive armies. For this reason, so I believe, there is determined resistance inside the Western govern ments to interference with the evolution of nuclear weapons. This resistance has its center among the soldiers and scien tists who, believing that war is not improbable, feel acute ly their own responsibility in case war breaks out. - - - TTNDENIa'bLY, there would be a risk in suspending the tests and freezing the de velopment of nuclear wea pons. But there is also a risk in continuing the tests. It is that the race of armaments will go on, will indeed be in tensified, with no certainty whatever -that the Soviet Union will not forge ahead of us in this field as it has forged ahead of us in the field of rockets. There Is no built- I Yi dm in guarantee that Dr. Teller and Adm. Strauss can create nuclear armaments which the Russians cannot beat or even match. For when the Russians concentrate their ef forts cn a particular military objective, they are a formi dable nation. We have to weigh in the balance the risk of freezing the development of nuclear weapons as against the risk of intensified competition in the development of the nuclear weapons. This is the funda mental issue, and this coun try is entitled to have it ex plained and debated. Even as propaganda, such a debate would do us good, much more good than the notes and press conferences with which we present our face to the world For it would show the serious people of the world that in these great affairs we know how to be candid and that we are indeed serious. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this :olumn do not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. Not Up to AEC To the Editor: I for one am wnoiiy iect up on govern ment of the Atomic Energy Commission, by the AEC and for the AEC," and I take this means of expressing my per sonal appreciation to you for the reprint of the Norman Cousins editorial in Thurs day's Mail Tribune. Like the creator of Frank enstein, the problem that con fronts each of us, is how to deal with the monster we have made before it destroys us and the whole human race along with us. ' We are assured on the one hand that our detection de vices have been perfected, and at -the same time are ad monished by the omnipotent AEC that we cannot agree to suspend tests without inspec tion lest Russia carry them on in secret. We are expected to lift our hands in pious horror because Russia has literally poisoned the atmos phere of the entire world" by her recently completed tests; and at the same time we are asked to calmly accept the fact that the AEC stands firm in its intention to carry on the poisoning process through out the sprmg arfd summer. President Eisenhower blandly assures us that "these experi ments are so conducted that they cannot appreciably af fect human health." TeU that to the families of the Japanese fishermen who sailed on "The Fortunate Dragon" or to the people of Japan and the hapless populations of South Pacific Islands who have pe titioned in vain for cessation of U.S. tests because of the hazards of radioactive fallout. No man now living can say with - certainty that raaio activity is or is not detrimen tal to human health and the future welfare of the race. We are dealing with forces too new and too potent for anyone to know how they will react over a period of years. What everyone does know beyond any shadow of doubt is that no arms race has ever produced anything but dis aster. If the present mad course is pursued, the disaster will be ultimate, total, and complete. Call it a gimmick, call it propaganda, call it anything you wish, but it in no wise alters the fact that what Russia has said Is what hu-, Matter of Fact bv IN THE TOWER ROOM Dearborn, Mich. In a patch of green countryside not yet engulfed by the industrial- suburban sprawl, the glass, marble and metal tower springs cleanly up wa r d s, e 1 e gantly func tional, asepti c a 1 1 y pure. And in the , Joseph Alsop tower s i o p most rooms, where the wide windows offer an enormous view, there are the adjoining offices of the two men who guide the destinies of the Ford Motor Co., Henry Ford II and Ernest Breech. You enter with a lively curiosity, for here, surely, is one of the control centers of the faltering American econ omy. The first thing that strikes you is the odd contrast between the two leaders of this giant industry. It is Fordr the inheritor of the empire, who has the look of shrewd v practicality that you expect in a self-made man.' Breech began life as a blacksmith's son and started his vertiginous upward climb as a cost accountant. Yet it is Breech who allows an oc casional visionary gleam to illuminate his conventional executive briskness. rpHE topic is the problems of the motor industry, the governor of the American economy, in a period of dis turbing economic pause. At Ford's request, Breech leads off with a short historical review, culminating at the moment when the post-war seller's market turned into a buyer's market. "When we sold eight mil lion cars in 1955," says Breech with decisive frank ness, "it made the whole in dustry think that maybe the ten-million-car-year was com ing before too long. So every one decided more new plants were needed than were really needed, and started out build ing all those plants." Over-expansion, then, was one factor in the problem But how about a change of public taste, away from the automobile used as a pres tige-symbol? Could not this also be a factor in the motor industry's difficulties? To this question, both Ford and Breech react sharply, but Ford again gestures to Breech to make the reply. "Maybe buying habits are changing," he says reflective ly, "in the sense that Ameri cans nowadays want a lot of other things besides good au tomobiles. But they still want to own better cars. Take that housing development over there-(he points into the enormous view, to the begin ning of the industrial-subur ban sprawl;, l can still re member the thrill of pride when I brought home my first medium-priced car. I don't think the young fellows just starting out, who live in most of those little houses over there, are very different from what I was." '. TS IT the rising cost of cars, then, that has caused the drop in sales? To this ques tion, once again, the reaction is vigorous, and now Ford and manity has yearned to hear, as shipwrecked seamen long for morning light. Our future position with regard to moral leadership in the world, it seems to me, rests on how we treat this proposal. Certainly it is not a decision to be left solely to the discretion of the Atomic Energy Commission. Grace N. Pearson, Rt. 2, Box 50, Jacksonville, Ore. On School Economies To the Editor: Reference to an experiment in tsisDee, Ariz., in 1919, operating schools on a full year-around basis brings up additional questions:. How was that sys tem set up to operate and what were the main causes of failure? Could it be that the experiment was premature? In 1919 the U.S. was not aware of any crisis in educa tion, there was no atomic age, no threat from Russia, nor was the population growing at present proportions nor was the cost of building so high. Anything, is doomed to failure if there is no particu lar need for such hence no cooperation. What would have happened to the cotton gin if Eli Whitney had attempted his gadget in Siberia in 1500 A.D.? Also wasn't this busi ness of letting out school in the summer originated so youngsters could help on the farm and help earn the family living? I doubt that Mr. Babson meant that the same teachers were to drag the same pupils through a year of classes, but rather to increase efficiency so that a greater number of students could be handled in the existing structures work ing in shifts or perhaps with one group attending an hour or so longer a day also Sat urday, and bringing in a sec ond group during the latter Joseph Alsop Breech reply antiphonally. They discuss the rise in the price of everything from credit to labor that goes into the price of a car. The price of labor seems to them by far the most significant. "There's a limit," says Ford, "after all, to the economies you can achieve by greater effici ency." "Yes," says Breech, "we can't continue to throw away complete factories in order to build better ones; and since 1955 we just haven't been able to absorb the wage in creases, so we've had to pass them on. The steel industry, and every other industry we buy from has passed on wage increases to us, too. And this year, there's no doubt, a lot of fellows decided to keep the car they had because they didn't feel like paying the price of a new one." Ford puts in that many people were even more In fluenced by simple loss of confidence in the business fu ture. Breech energetically agrees, reciting all the devel opments that have impaired confidence, from the contrac tion of industrial investment last spring, down through the President s stroke and even including the Sputnik. Both think ihe time has come for strong government action to restore confidence and a for ward economic movement. Both are convinced that the best thing will be a generous tax cut, which the Ford econo mist, Theodore Yntema, has said will make the depres sion vanish like mist under the sun." "All we can do," adds Breech, "is adjust our busi ness to the volume we've got, It's like taking a physic, and it's darned unpleasant. But you have to get on a sound basis or there 11 be trouble "What else can we do?" asks Ford. "As it is, there's no other industry in the country that takes the gamble we take, and I'd hate to tell you how much money we have to spend on taking it." FORD means, of course, the gigantic gamble of each year's new models which must be designed and finally ap proved a full 24 months be fore the cars go to the deal ers, so that the 1959 Ford, for instance, will reflect de cisions taken in 1957. A ma: jor change of model is re puted to cost $200,000,000. But here no figures are giv en. Breech contents himself with remarking that "just face-lift nowadays costs twice what the first post-war Ford model cost us." Yet it is not so much the money as the time lag between decision and sale that seems to trouble these two men when they con sider their gamble. For our new cars, says Breech, "the decision was made 18 months ago. And the only question left is how many of them we can sell beginning six months from now." "Yes, that's it," says Ford, and on this somewhat fatalis tic note the meeting ends; and you depart reflecting that in an economy as vast as ours, what seem to be control cen ters may not really control, yet they impose on those who occupy them a staggering bur den of responsibility that is pretty boldly borne. half of the year, etc. The money saved in build ings could then be used to in crease teachers' salaries and hire more teachers. Also, I imagine that much of the teachers' time, (and nerves) are wasted in endless trivia and interruptions, which is a waste of the teacher's spe cialized training. I have heard of experiments using assist ants to handle these menial tasks. As to Mr. Babson's sugges tion that, quote, "The govern ment take the lead in design ing prefab schools that could be mass produced and basic schoolhouses that rooms can be added to" is worth consid eration. Maybe they could come up with something "fu turamic," I believe the word is. Dorothy Wood, 848 West Second st., Medford. More On Taxes To the Editor: Why a per manent tax base for Jackson county with an increase of taxes? . Why an increase of taxes with over one million and a half in the county treasury? Why. was $1000 paid for legal advice when we have a D.A. to give legal advice to all county officials? For po litical reasons of course, it's $1000 of taxpayers' money down the drain. It's time the county judge and county clerk are voted out of office. They have had their hands in the taxpayers' pocket long enough. In my estimation the tax payers of Jackson county would do well to vote for the manager form of government, then there will be no more buck passing. R. W. Mundlin 836 Taylor st. Medford GWLUCCC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) We take our life in our hands as we report on the case of a man who works in a downtown office, and who, upon occasion, drives to work in the morning and on other occasions is driven by his wife so she can have the use of the car. On the morning in question, the latter was the case. Came noon, and the man waited for his wife to pick him up for lunch. Came 12:03; came 12:05; came 12:07. No wife, no car. bo he teiepnonea home and as soon as his wife answered, he knew what had happened. She had forgotten entirely that she had the car, she was chagrined, and she would be down immediately. That's all there is to the In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Dynastic note: Ex-Queen Soraya has for mally accepted a divorce edict from the Shah of Iran. The di vorce was brought about not by any lack of compatibility, because the Shah is reportedly devoted to her and is said to feel that his life has been ruined by the separation. The trouble is that the beautiful Soraya failed to bear him an heir to the throne. So she had to go for in dynasties heirs are tremen dously important. Without an heir, the dynasty falls. Web ster defines a dynasty as "a race or succession of kings, of the same line and family; the continued lordship of a race of rulers." Strangely enough, history tells us, the PEOPLE who are ruled are apt to be as eager for the continuation of a dy nasty as the ruler himself the reason being that when a dynasty falls there is likely to be confusion and anarchy, or even WAR among the as pirants to the throne. That is to say, people would rather be badly ruled than not ruled at all. A LL this brings up another famous dynastic divorce that of Napoleon from Jose-' phine. Theirs too is said to have been a love match. When they were married, Josephine was - a beautiful widow and Napoleon was a rising soldier of fortune. He eventually named himself Emperor. ' . When he was crowned, Josephine came daintily down from her throne to kneel at the feet of her husband. Na poleon took the little crown that made her an empress in his hands, placed it on his head and then on hers. He lifted it once or twice in a playful manner as if to tell her that she should wear it lightly. Always, the historians re late, their relations held this tone of affectionate intimacy. rjiHEY were married in 1796 -1- Although Josephine had had two children a son and a daughter by her form er marriage she and Napoleon had no children. By 1809, 13 years later, Napoleon began to fear that he might die without a son and so his em pire would crumble. He final ly decided he would have to divorce Josephine. One night after dinner he told her of his decision as gently as he could. They said their last goodbyes. The em press begged her husband not to forget her. She promised to care for her health, and never to doubt his love. She retired to Malmaison (mean ing, oddly enough, "evil house"), the small estate near Paris that Napoleon had bought for her. NAPOLEON immedi a t e 1 y married Marie Louise of Austria, and a year later a son was born to them. Jose phine heard the carfhon shots announcing the birth of an heir, and called her household together. She said: "We too must rejoice. I will give a ball and the whole city will be glad with us." Soon after, Napoleon brought his son to Malmaison rw i t h o u t Marie Louise's knowledge. Josephine had begged to see him. 1VHAT came of it all? " Well, Napoleon's luck deserted him. He lost his magic touch for winning bat tles. The French turned against him, and he abdicated. He was exiled to the island of Elba, off the coast of Italy. He escaped from Elba and came back to the fabulous Hundred Days. He lost again, at Waterloo, and this time it was for keeps. He was exiled to the bar ren island of Saint Helena, off the west coast of Africa, where he died a few years later of cancer. IITHAT of the son that was born to him and Marie Louise? He grew up as a frail and slender youth and died of tuberculosis at the age of 21. story, except to warn others who may find themselves in similar situations not to press their luck by TOO much teas ing. We are reminded of the man who had this happen once and who was careful not to be superior about it "Things were sure nice around the house for a couple of days," he said with a far- off look in his eyes. We have been informed of a motion picture double bill advertised by a drive in theater near Corvallist "Bambi" and "The Deer, slayer." Our young man who fre quently processes the 4-H club notices as they come to the office comments that the girls, ' particularly, seem highly con cerned with refreshments who served them, what they were, and whether they'll have them at the next meet ing. But, he said, it seems a little funny to have the girls so interested in food and sweets when in just a few years they will be dieting. A report smuggled Into our office tells of a group of the visiting Job's Daugh ters who were seen walking down Main st. Thursday . night at about 11 o'clock, dressed In formals, but in bare feet. Each girl wu carrying her shoes (most of them VERY high heeled) in one hand. Two men soliciting fundi for a church project called at the home of a Medford family, and during the con versation the man of the house suggested, "Why don't you call on my neighbor? I under stand he's a good church mem ber." "I AM your neighbor," re plied one of the solicitors, who had lived next door for about three months, but who had been delayed by winter weather from developing an "over - the fence" acquaint anceship. - ' A service station oper ator in a nearby small town complained because a large bi 11 board advertising a breakfast cereal partially eclipsed his gasoline sign The man who reported this to us doesn't see why, how ever. He maintains that "Zoom" could also be a good gasoline advertise ment. City Attorney E. R. Bashaw was seen poring over city records Wednesday. With a thoughtful look he finally announced that ap parently the city charter was not in existence after 1913. He didn't seem terribly con cerned about it, though. We had an item of cor respondence the other day about a troop of Girl Scouts going on an outing, and had their firewood furnished by the Medford Fuel company. 1 A candidate for public of fice was passing out election cards to some office workers the other day. As he arrived at the desk of his secretary, he cut a card into two pieces, and told her he couldn't afford an expen sive campaign, and for her to take half the card home to her hubsand and keep the other half to remind her to vote for him. We have received a pro nunciamento in the mail to the effect that April IS has been proclaimed "Coffee Day." We wonder if if is sheer happenstance that the same day is the deadline for filing income taxes. We're not exactly clear in our mind what ponies have to do with a certain new brand of automobile, but at the deal ership across the street there is a pony-sized corral. It s been there for a couple of weeks now, empty as can be. We asked the owner about it the other day, and he said the pony would be along any day now. As a matter of fact, he said, he'd received a letter of instructions about how to treat the pony, which went into such meticulous detail that he wondered if the pony people thought all Edsel deal ers were fools. , In conclusion, after telling how to put on a halter, and how to clip the lead rein to it, it instructed him to walk "three steps" in front of the pony, and "don't look back at him." We don't know whether this is for the protection of the pony, or the man leading him. How come, an Iconoclast inquires, that the president of the International Apple Association was Grand Marshal of the Pear Blos som Festival parade?
