4 Sunday, April 13, 1938
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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago. -
10 YEARS AGO
April 13, 1948 (Wednesday)
Rogue Valley irrigation as
sociation, yesterday passed a
resolution to present argu
ments advocating acceptance
of Plan A on development of
the Rogue river basin.
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.
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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?