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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
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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.
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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.