Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 31, 1959, Image 4

Historic Oregon Newspapers

Medford mail tribune., May 31, 1959, Image 4

Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR

About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1959)

Prev Page of 49 Next Prev Issue Next Text PDF JP2 (5.0 MB) Clip/Print Image

Return to Top

Prev Page of 49 Next Prev Issue Next

Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, Medford'. Or. Sunday, May 31, 1959 MEDF0BSt4TBIBUfS "Everyone Is Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune Published Dnily except Saturday by MJJJFOrtD PRINTING CO. 33 North fir St. Ph SP 2-S141 ROBiP.T W RTJHL. Editor HERB GHV Advertising Manager GKPALD LATHAM. Business MgT ERIC W ALLEN 3B Managing F.ditor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor nmAn JEWETT SDorta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women-! Editor DALE ER1CKSON Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as semrad class matter at Medfor Oregon under Act of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By M a t '. In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 8 ma. 8.0G Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Med ford, Ashland, Central Point, Eagle ' Point, Jacksonville, Gold Hill, Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1-50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST -HOLIDAY CO., INC Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle Portland. St. Louis. At lanta Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 31. 1949 (Tuesday) Southern Oregon college's mixed chorus and soloists plan a program of musical comedy excerpts. Ashland school district pa trons vote on the annual school budget, which exceeds the 6 per cent limit by $136, 649.64. 20 YEARS AGO May 31. 1939 (Wednesday) Roy Rogers, federal fruit frost watcher, packs his bags for departure, signifying the end of the danger season for orchardists. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Rain bows that compare favorably with those painted by oratori cal treasurers of old age pen sion plans, have adorned the southeastern heavens of late." 30 YEARS AGO May 31. 1929 (Friday) A total of 57 local residents are listed in the latest edition of "Who's Who." A big snow at Crater Lake halts opening of the road as water pipes freeze. t 40 YEARS AGO May 31. 1919 (Saturday) Frost visits the valley, the the latest date on record, and damages truck gardens. Ten local citizens donate funds for purchase an x-ray machine for Sacred Heart hos pital. 50 YEARS AGO May 31.. 1909 (Monday) - Bert Anderson and Wes Green secure an' option on Nob bill, just east of the city limits, as the site for a sub stantial mansion. An enormous fruit crop is predicted in the valley this year. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct i superior; seven or eiijht is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Complete the expression, "grinning like a cat. 2. In which ocean is the island of Madagascar? 3. A native of Kansas is called a Kansan; what is native of Michigan called? 4. What was the official re ligion of imperial Japan? 5. V ho engraved the plates from which the paper money issued by the Continental Con gress was prmted? 6. The walls of what city collapsed at a trumpet blast? 7. Correct the following: "He is shorter than me." 8. Senator Kef auver, Demo crat, represents which State in the U. S. Senate? 9. What is a dermatologist? 10. Where is the Wailing Wall? Answers: 1. Cheshire. 2, Indian Ocean. 3. Michiganiie. 4.Shinlo. 5. Paul Revere. 6. Jerico. 7. "He is shorter than I." 8. Tennessee. 9. One who treats skin diseases. 10. Jeru salem. NO MONKEY PARADE New York-flJPD-Mayor Rob ert F. Wagner was asked if the city plans to stage a tick ertape welcome parade for the monkeys recovered from a missile nose cone Thursday, Waener solemnly told the inquirer: "I have had ro re quests from the State Depart ment tip to now." " Jackson County's 'Climate9 A lot has been said in Oregon during the past few years afrout a "good business climate." Few have attempted to define what it is, however, leaving ?acn person to apply to the phrase his own attitudes and convictions. With tome people it means a tax structure favorable to business. To others it means a mini mum of givemmental regulation. To still others it means an active, clean and hustling community, where business purrs along and the dollars turn over frequently. f)NE OF the few Teal attempts to define a "bet- ter business climate" was made recently by the Harvey Aluminum company. It did so in a . -i , . , i i ii. . -it mil-page advertisement ic at ine Danes, ure., wnere it nas a major piant. At one point, the ad said: "The kind of climate that companies look for, when they are trying to determine a new plant loca tion, is one that contains those very elements that most thoughtful people in our community want for them selves and their families." And it went on to spell out eight factors which it believes contribute to this atmosphre. UERE ARE the eight: 1. Honest and efficient government, ported bv alert and well-informed voters who have the balanced best interest of all elements of the community at heart. , 2. Fair taxes for both business and individuals, without restrictive regulations or discriminatory financial burdens. 3. Conscientious law enforcement, which re jects double standards and protects the rights of all citizens, corporate or private. 4. Equitable pay and benefits which reward employees for applying their full inner resources of energy and skill to the job. 5. Qualified and responsive people to fill em ployment needs, with educational facilities to pre pare people for a wide range of job opportunities. 6. High-quality community facilities such as stores, banks, utilities, transportation, hospitals, health facilities, and commercial services. 7. A social and cultural atmosphere m which people enioy living and schools, churches, libraries, theaters, a respon sible working press, and healthful recreational facilities. 8. A friendlv. open business on the part of the local people and their elected representative. THAT'S a pretty good list. Some people would place more import ance on some of these than others, but few indeed would say that any one of them is unimportant. But the Harvey message went on to something else that is also important. It said: "Remember, good business climate cannot be brought here by boat or shipped in by truck or air. It . must be created here, and sustained by the effort and understanding and conviction of those who live here and will come here in the future." It also pointed out that only community effort meaning attention and work by every resident can create and that every individual has LIOW DOES Jackson of interest, measure criteria? Bv and large, pretty We have good government in both the county it. i? n.. ana m ine ciues wiin a iew relatively ununpur tant exceptions). And we do have interested citizens although, in common with every com munity, we could use more of them. We have taxes which are fairly high, and headed higher, but which are eminently fair, particularly when compared with those levied m some other jurisdictions. We have conscientious law enforcement with relatively few of the bobbles and f avoritisms which mar law enforcement in some places. Pay scales are varied, but on the average are on a par with, or better than, many other places. We have a fine labor force, with training available. rjUR COMMUNITY facilities, with one or two exceptions, are vastly superior to many other areas of our size. The social and cultural atmosphere here, in eluding schools, churches, and so on, is well ahead of many other areas, even those of greater size and population. Whether we have "a attitude toward business men themselves can best few signs of discrimination against them And, most important, of public-spirited people their time and effort to and to work toward improvement. IT WILL BE obvious that we are prejudiced in favor of Jackson county something which we freely admit. But we are firmly convinced that it is, in fact, a favored spot, and, in commor with many others, we hope not only that it improvements (and there made. The encouraging thing to note is that a lot of people are working on those very improve ments on air pollution, on water pollution, on beautification, on parks and recreation matters, on school development and upgrading, on park ing facilities, on streets and roads, and a long list of other matters. As long as this is the case, there should be few worries about the future -of Jackson county 1 i ii! TV A - - ana iw communities. jd.a. - piacea in me vnrumcte sup- working, including fine - minded attitude toward sustain such a climate, a responsility. county, as a community up when judged by these well, we'd say. t : friendly, open-minded is something business answer, but there are we have a large number who are willing to give maintain this climate, stays that way but that is room for some) are Hennis the el 1(1 UJhm, V3 'iPOK.PAiyOU SOT MB WROHG! fM HOT IHTE&'STBD IH HOBSSS. J'M INTERESTED N MQYr Matter of Fact THE WAITING GAME Geneva - Back in Budapest, the isolated little diplomatic colony was buzzing last week because the masseuse of one of the dip lomatic ladies had complain ed rather bit terly about the boredom and waste of time of "these end- 4ostpb Alsoo icss icum about atom bombs." This clew led to the discov ery that an intensive though somewhat academic course in atomic air raid precautions was being given to the whole city, block by block. In this way at least, the Soviets' pup pet government in Hungary, though not directly involved, is taking the Berlin crisis far more seriously than the West ern governments that are most directly involved. In Budapest, again, there was far too much evidence of total disbelief in the West's protestations of "firmness" on the Berlin issue. Having just come from Geneva, this- reporter was asked by high and low how he thought the conference would turn out. The stock reply was that Mr. Khrushchev did not seem likely to fight a war for Ber lin; that. President Eisen- Lhqwer was certainly ready to fight rather than abandon Berlin; and that a moderate accomodation therefore seemed likely. This simple statement was usually greeted with total incredulity. THE weakened old Hungar ian Foreign Minister, Cik, aU but burst into open laugh ter at the suggestion that the President was deadly sincere about "not giving an inch." The giant, just retiring Soviet Ambassador, Gromov (whose street name in Budapest is "pogromov"), was grinningly superior. And another Soviet bloc diplomat, who was alarmed rather than incredu lous, burst out with the al most angry question: "If your President means what he has said, why does he not behave as though he meant it?" Maybe the - same doubts about President Eisenhower's purposes do not exist at high er levels, in the minds of Andrei Gromyko and Nikita Khrushchev. The chance con tacts of a wandering corres pondent, even if they are con tacts with puppet Foreign Ministers and Soviet Ambas sadors, are not decisive evi dence that the President is regarded as a faker in the grim recesses of the Kremlin. But what this reporter saw and heard in Budapest was at least enough to prove that the Kremlin MAY think the President is faking. And even if there is only one chance in five or one chance in ten that the Kremlin is making this mis judgment, it is a very grave matter indeed. Back home, people are re ported to be bored by the Berlin crisis and the Geneva conference. Khrushchev bran dishes his H-bombs and threat ens to take independent action at Berlin on an average of about once a week. But the President does not seem to take Khrushchev seriously; so nobody else takes him ser iously either. And unfortun ately, it is just this way of not seeming to ' take the Berlin crisis seriously that may be causing or can in the future cause a desperately grave error of judgment in the Kremlin. BY THE same token, here at Geneva, the cosy 1 i t tl e colony of Western diplomats and newspapermen assembled for the conference has set tled down comfortably for what is called the "waiting game." The idea is to" wait calmly until the moment when 2Il Menace By Joseph AIsop Andrei Gromyko will open a new and more fruitful phase of this meeting, by revealing the basis on which the Soviets really hope to do business witn tne west. But once again, one won ders whether all this pleasant waiting in delightful sur roundings, only marred by the need to make speeches which are never listened to, may not give the Soviets an impres sion of Western complacency or even of Western softness. Nothing is more dangerous negotiations with the Soviets. But being interminably ami able about an interminable waste of time can also be a mistake. In this easy but uncertain interval, the foregoing thoughts are like crumbs in the bed of the mind. Gro- myko's demeanor to date has pretty well convinced the wisest Western analysts that Khrushchev does not intend to push the Berlin crisis to extremes. For what little that is worth, this reporter is also convinced that Khrushchev does not mean to risk a war for Berlin. The Budapest evi dence on Khrushchev's inten tions was as encouraging as the Budapest opinion of the President's intentions was dis couraging. But what if the appearance of Western complacency, the absence of all Western mili tary preparations, the failure even to disturb the Western dependents in Berlin, all com bine to persuade Khrushchev that he can go pretty far with out any real risk of war over Berlin? It is an anxious ques tion, and it will remain an anxious question, at least un til Andrei Kromyko, in his own good time, decides to end the waiting game. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Big news: Two little monkeys flew 300 miles into SPACE in the nose cone of a Jupiter missile and were recovered alive. The point: If a monkey can do it, MAN can do it. 1ITHAT DOES it all mean? Maybe new worlds to con quer? It's beginning to look like it. If so, it might prove to be a wonderful thing. The world of the 15th century-in the closing years of which COLUMBUS DISCOVERED AMERICA - was quite a mess. The discovery of the NEW WORLD wrought a tremen- d o u s change. It stimulated men's minds. It broke the old stalemates. It gave mankind SOMETHING NEW TO THINK ABOUT. As a result of it, the world took a change for the better, Maybe the new worlds in out er space that men are begin ning to think about will do the same thing. At least, let's hope so. i rpHERE ARE terrors in outer 1 space. But, in Columbus' day, there were terrors in the Western seas. All but a few bright minds believed the world was flat and that at some point far out to the west the waters of the sea boiled over the edge into a steaming bottomless pit. Columbus had the courage to test it out and he proved it to be untrue. Who knows what is in outer space? No body knows. But, in Colum bus' day, who knew what lay beyond the Western sea? Then, as now, the answer was NOBODY. Columbus found out. And great good followed. SO LET'S not be cynical about outer space. Let's not class as CRAZY those who are preparing to explore it. They may change the world of today as Columbus changed the world of the 15th century. Washington Report By WILLIAM JOHNSON AND KENTUCKY Washington - The campaign of the backers of Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas to obtain the 1960 Dem ocratic Presi dential nomi nation for him has moved sig nificantly for ward because of the outcome of Kentucky's D e m o c ratic William S. V-uuaiy. ine White c o m n licated reasons why this is so are al most as interesting as the cen tral fact that it is so. For rarely have the substleties of pre-convenuon politicking, es pecially as thev involve an avowedly unwilling "possibil ity" such as Johnson, been more keenly illustrated. Briefly, the heaw defeat in Kentucky of Gov. A. B. (Happy) Chandler's hand-picked choice as his successor, Harry Lee Waterf ield, has had these effects: 1. To provide, for the first time, a non-Southern launch ing pad which the Johnson people will now use to nut him into orbit for the Presi dential nomination, whether he publicly goes along or not 2. To return to top nower m Kentucky Johnson's old right-hand man in the Senate. and in Democratic politics generally, former Sen. Earle Elements, elements, until his defeat for reelection v in the 1956 Eisenhower landslide, was the principal assistant to Johnson as the Senate Demo cratic leader. 3. To suggest to the North ern Democratic bosses-some of whom would actually pre fer Johnsoi. but are afraid that by geography he is "too Southern"-that their fears on this pomt are exaggerated. 9 9 17'ENTUCKY is a liberal bor- der state, never politicaUy "Southern" notwithstand i n g "My Old Kentucky Home" and all that sort of thing. It has, for example, state civil rights policies entirely accept- Today & Tomorrow By Walter When the Foreign Ministers return to Geneva, they will begin what are supposed to be secret negoti ations. They will be very difficult nego tiations not only because it is always difficult to negotiate with the Soviet Union, but, Walter Lippmann also, b e cause the Western allies have not yet come to a sufficient agree ment among themselves as to what they are all willing to accept. Secretary Herter will not confront Mr. Gromyko as the fully accredited spokesman of the Western allies. In fact, there will be three confer ences going on at the same time. The one, which deals with Germany, is between the Westerners and Mr. Gromyko. In this conference Dr. Ade nauer, though not present, is a most important participant. The second conference, which deals with the ban on nuclear testing, does not include France or Germany, and is limited to the three nuclear powers, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the United States. The third conference is within the Western alliance. It deals with the most diffi cult of all the questions, which is whether the Allies as a whole will accept the agree ments that may be possible on Berlin, on Germany, and on nuclear weapons. THUS, the diplomatic situa tion in Geneva is a very intricate one. As these nego tiations must be carried on privately, we shall find the lack of news trying even though we do realize the need for it. What is more, we must be very vigilant and skeptical about planted news, deliber ate leaks, and fabrications. Al ready there has been too much of that in Geneva. In order to realize the in tricacy of the situation we must remember that the Allies have come unprepared to Ge neva. It is true that there has been a fair amount of work done by the experts. But what was required before the For eign Ministers went to Geneva was a thorough negotiation among the allied chieftains. This is what John Foster Dulles began during his last tragic and heroic trip to Europe. What he started was not followed up during the time when he was incapaci tated but stril Secretary of State. As a result the best that could be done as the date for the Geneva conference ap proached was to slap together a package on which all the S. WHITE able to Northern liberals gen erally. Chandler's rout in Kentucky was most of all a victory for Clements-but, by extension, a victory for Johnson, too. The actual official winner of the Democratic nomination for governor was Bert T. Combs. But the fact that Combs is now likely to be Kentucky's Governor after November is regarded by the national fel lows here as an amiable side issue. The anti-Chandler slate that won in Kentucky was put to gether and guided all the way by Clements, the old pro. Cle ments himself, incidentally, is now seen here, in both par ties, as favored to return to the Senate in 1960 by ousting the GOP incumbent, Sen. John Sherman Cooper. But the big point, nation ally, is not this. It is that Cle ments has regained control of the Democratic organiza tion in Kentucky and, most particularly, has seized com mand of Kentucky's delega tion to the 1960 Democratic National Convention. Chan dler, who is anti-Johnson as well as anti-Clements, has lost control of both. THE Johnson operatives have been moving slowly and carefully. They will now move a bit more rapidly,- a bit more nearly openly. They have been aware that they could never afford to try push ing him into an early and pub lic rivalry with such other Presidential hopefuls as Sena tors John F. Kennedy of Mas sachusetts, Stuart Symington of Missouri and Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota. This would quickly destroy his present strength, his abil ity to keep all Democratic Senate factions pulling in the same harness most of the time. This handicap has not been altogether overcome by the Kentucky results. But it has been softened by giving John son men a new field of ma neuver without committing Johnson himself. Lippmann Allies could agree because they knew it was totally un negotiable. THERE IS in sight the basis of a negotiation with the Russians which could lead to an agreement on Berlin and on nuclear testing. The agree ment on Berlin would pre serve in substance the status quo. The agreement on test ing would be an attempt to limit production of nuclear weapons to the three powers which already have them. The difficult question for this country is whether Gen. de Gaulle and Dr. Adenauer can be reconciled to such agreements. For Dr. Adenauer any of the possible agreements about Berlin implies at the least a kind of de facto recog nition of the East German state. For him this. is a very difficult thing to' swallow, particularly at this time when the German voters are being prepared for the fateful elec tion of 1961. Moreover, Dr. Adenauer knows that if there is an agreement- about Berlin, the tension will be lowered and something may come of all the talk about limiting arma ments in the center of Europe. This might very' well mean an agreement to stop the nu clear armament , of the West German forces. piOR Gen. de Gaulle an agreement among the three nuclear powers would be a blow to the prestige of France. Of all the powers engaged at Geneva, of all the powers which will be at the summit meeting later on, only France does not have nuclear weap ons. The British have produc ed nuclear weapons for the avowed reason that they are the hallmark of a first class power. We can understand Gen. de Gaulle's distaste for Geneva and for the summit and for anything else that might put the nuclear powers in one class and France in another. I am aware of the argu ments against including France among the nuclear powers. One of them is that if we include France, which does not yet have a nuclear weapon of its own, how can the Soviet Union fail to in clude China? And if France and China are included, where, if anywhere, is the line to be drawn and the spread of nuclear armaments stopped? Nevertheless, Gen. de Gaulle has a case which deserves to b e studied sympathetically. For the whole European situ ation would become easier if Gen. de Gaulle felt that he is an insider, not the outsider looking in. (By M-T Staff and Contributors) The picture contained in this column todav was sent tn us by a California reader last ,week, under i the cap t i o n f " Wanted ! This Desprit . Varmint!!" A s anyone can p 1 a i n ly 1 see from the k shapshot, it IS ' a deadly-look-i n g varmint I indeed. And our reader added this warnine: "Approach with caution as he is armed with a deadly Speed Graphic, and wUl not hesitate to shoot on sight. When last seen, he was roam ing at large in the Siskiyou Mountains, shooting it out with the Pony Express riders, and looking for a 12-foot lad der from which he was aimin to shoot more Vf his 'helpless victims. If encountered, bring him back - alive, preferably - to the Medford Mail Trib une." We hate to disillusion any one, but the varmint is really Bob Vroman, our photograph er, squinting into the sun. And that mean look isn't really mean at all.. It's just a combination of his Centennial beard, and the fact that he hadn't had a - cup of coffee for the past 15 minutes. . We've heard of Beatniks. Sputniks, and various other sorts of niks, but last week we read, for the first time, about a MT. SHASTANiclc It was there, plain as any thing, in the Yreka paper, in a story which started thus: "MT. SHASTANiek Floratos, recently resigned Sisson elementary school principal, hat accepted a position . ., ." . We welcome back, after an unexplained absence, our friend from Phoenix, who, as readers of this column know, makes a hobby of watching for typographical errors in the M-T, clipping the item, and mailing it in to the red-faced staff with his own comments. We have discovered, how ever, that he is choosy and eclectic in what he picks to send. Something TOO obvious doesn't challenge him suffici ently. He rather liked one last week, though, which was in a city budget story, and said something about the "city's property tar levy." "Hats off to Medford," he added, "the first city to devise a levy that will keep their finances in the black!" Not all of our boo-boos get into type, however. For example, one of our writers last week was working ser iously on a paragraph about women who work, and came up with the phrase, "More part-time women are working than ever before ; . ." Whereupon one of the gals in the office, who works regularly two days a week, decided she'd best rush home to husband and children and become a full time woman again. ' It is sometimes a relief to note that not all newspaper errors occur in the M-T. It even happens to the august Oregonian on occasion. Last week they ran two en tirely different stories, both under the same headline and with no visible separation between them. The result was rather weird, as follows: "... Crocker was present in court, along with William Schumacher, Denver, another vice president in the indepen dent international. "It's that time of year again when you must not eat what the clams have eaten. The Oregon state board of health With the increased inter est in boating, on can expect a like increase in the num ber of organizations devoted to this pastime. We've heard of one that sounds sort of dangerous. It's name is "The Cruising, Boozing and Snoozing Club ofc Long Is land Sound." Honest. Let's wind up with a couple of Centennial-type stories. The first is about the wom en who are dressing in 100-year-ago costumes. A daugh ter of pioneers declares that they have forgotten one item - a small sack, about the size of a Bull Durham bag, in which to carry tobacco and a corncob or clay pipe, which were affected by a number of our distaff forebears. The second is about the current search, through at tims, barns, and so on, for pioneer relics to place in Centennial 'displays. Fire departments, our informant declares, are even shining up old pumpers and the hand-drawn "fire wagons" i of the day. This activity motivated one old-timer to recall the story of the smart, fast-stepping fira company, whose members scurried to the station one day In re sponse to an alarm. They donped jackets, hats and boots, grabbed axes and buckets, and rushed off to the fire. Upon arrival at the flame - engulfed building they aU remembered at once they had forgotten something - the fire engine. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the nam and address of the writer although ".rider cer tain circumstances tne use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an lye to clarification and condensation Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words Cruelty in the Laboratory To the Editor: Your thr.noV.f- f u 1 and sensitive tviHnri comment on efforts to prevent cruelty to animals is always deeply appreciated and ad mired by humane - minded people. Your editorial support of the Federal humane slaughter law which was en acted last year is in 'particu lar gratefully remembered. Your May 3 editorial on conservation and be-kind-to-animals weeks will have serv ed, I am sure, to remind your readers of the dependence of the animal world on mankind for just and kindly treatment. It was a splendid piece of writing. But your parenthe tical comment on animal ex perimentation indicates you are under the impression, shared by many people, that strict rules govern the use of animals for experimental pur poses. I believe that you would wish me to tell you that not only are there "no strict rules," but that no rules what soever are in effect. In many states, the medical profession has eVen succeeded in amending the anti-cruelty laws to exempt the experi mental use of animals. In other words, although a pri vate citizen may be arrested for an act of commission or omission that constitutes cruelty, the same act may be carried out with immunity in a meaicai iaooratory. Animals are suffering very greatly in laboratories throughout our country. The public is quite unaware of the conditions under which they are used and housed. I hope you will find time to read the report on experimental ani mals in the enclosed bulletin. Helen E. Jones, Director of Educational Activities The Humane Society of the United States, Washington 4, D. C. Pioneer's Song To the Editor: Ais Is a poem written by a girl after she arrived in Oregon by wagon train, to some friends back home. A song was made from this poem. I do not have the music to it, but can sing it. Thought you might like it for your paper, it being Cen tennial year. This is the song: When we last parted' with you, Filled with grief and sorrow too, You gavj to me a parting hand. And wished us safe into Oregon. Then on our journey we did steer, O'er hills and valleys, and rivers clear, O'er sandy plains and bar ren land, We made our way into Oregon. When we got here' there was ice and snow. It rained and it hailed and the wind did blow, Some of us did weep and cry, Saying here with cold, we all shall die. But thank the Lord, good health was found, We landed here all safe and sound. To a healthy place and fer tile soil, Here's wheat and grain, here's corn and oil. I've nothing strange to write to you, Preaching there's none; but religion is law, But air are at peace, and all as one, With Indian tribes of Ore gon. My love for you I can't unfold, My love is lake a ring of gold. It's round and it's pure, and it has no end, So is my love for you, my friend, And happy are we in .Ore gon. Lafe M. Chitwood, 35 North Ross la., Medford.