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Newspaper Page Text4 A MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1981 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON RIBUNI "Everyune tn Suulhein oregoi published Dally except Saturday by S3 North Fir St. ill SP 34141 " ROBERT W RUHL. Editor ' HERB GREV Adveitislng Minagu GERAliD T LATHAM Bui Mgr ERIC W ALLEN IR Mnd Edltm EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPM AN Teleg Editor vnr'uADn tvinrTT Gnnl ll PMltn, OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE EmuftSunv-ircuwHuii ,,. An Independent Newspaper Sntered as iecond class matter at Medfot-d. Orejfon under Act of March 3. 1897 niinannnMilAll OATVtt By Mall In Advance Copy I0o Dally and Sunday 1 year 115 no nallv and Rundav 6 mot 8 On Dally and Sunday 3 mos 4 25 Sunday Only One year 4 20 J5y Larner jn fwj,''" ........... Aahland. Central Point Ealit Point. jacKionvine .,n.a Phoenix Shady Cove Ronue Rlv Dally and Sunday 1 vi 118 00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo 1.80 Carrier and Dealirt - copy I0D All terms iaan in uvu.i.. "o'HaT"PaVe of Cltv of Medfnrd Official Pap of Jackson County Onfted Press International Full Leased Wire TJ pjTelephooNewsplcuires "MEMBER 6?"AtJ6iT BintEAU Or CIRCULATIONS IdveHlalnit RPre,1'a'lve,' n. WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of. flees In New York Chicago De troit. San Francisco. Lo Angelej Seattle, Portland St Lo"l tnta Vancouver 81. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATION Al EDITORIAL ElA5?c8T'tN Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County History from the files ot Th Mall Trlbuna 10. 20, 30. 40 md 50 vears ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 23, 1941 (Tuesday) - Mayor Dorothy McCullough Lee took a deep breath and blew out 08 of the 100 candles on Portland's century anni versary birthday cake today. The $124 million fruit In dustry of Jackson county has gone on record opposing the reactivation of Camp White "except as a military neccs 6lty." 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 23, 1941 (Thursday) 1 Three youths, two of thctn from Ashland, were in cus tody at Ukiah, Calif., today following their admitted arm ed holdup of the Nugget Serv ice station near Gold Hill laic Inat. nlcfht. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Rniiirise Pot column: A Portland statcsmnn has Intro duced a bill In the legislature to prohibit gambling. The mo tive Is noble, but the results will be like trying to stop flirting." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 23, 1931 (Friday) Warm weather In the valley has caused pussywillows to bloom along Bear creek. County Grangers are back ing a decision by the Jackson ville city council to prohibit Saturday night dancing In that town as a means of ob taining law and order. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 23, 1921 (Sunday) Local citizens have contrib uted $1,100 to the child feed ing fund for valley unfortu nates. The Southern Pacific rail road has promised the city it will paint its crossing shack on Main St., and also land scape the area around It. SO YEARS AGO Jan. 23, 1911 (Monday) John Shatter, 85, a rancher near Thompson creek, sustain ed severe Injuries last Friday when a buggy In which he was riding was run down by a runaway team. P. J. O'Gara, local patholo gist, has predicted this year's harvest of apples and pears will be the greatest ever. V (hat's Your I.Q.? Hint or ten correct Is superior: van or eight Is excellent! flva at sis is good. 1. In what country do King Paul and Queen Frcdrika relun? 2. Who was chosen an Apos tle in place of Judas the trai tor:' 3. What are the young tigers Called'.' 4. Was Thomas Jefferson the second, third or fifth Pres ident of the United Stat .1. Name the composer of tho popular song, "Over 'liiere. (1 Is the female or male black widow spider poison ous? 7. Correct the following punctuation: Jane said: "John go Jump In the lake". 8. Who recently retired as state department chief of pro tocol? 9. How many Inches are there In one mile? 10. Of which state Is Salem the capital? Answers: 1. Greece. 2. St. Matthias. 3. Cubi. 4. Third. 5. George M. Cohan. 8. Ftmala. 7. Jan said, "John, go jump In the lake." 8. Wiley Buchan an. 8. 63,380. 10. Oregon, MEDFORDi And See Who Salutes For a moment we thought the millennium had almost arrived. Members fession at a rhiladelphia the New York Times, heard a magazine publisher call for the addition of a "staff philosopher" to advertising agencies. The publisher was worried that too many decisions were being based on statistics digested and analyzed by machines and that' advertising was shirking personal responsi- i mi. t-.-i i l t ? i i Diiiiy. ine pnuosopner was to marte meamngrui all the diverse influences on the consumers' de cisions. Then the publisher added that the whole marriage relationship, the matters of con science and integrity and morals ... the question of religion and education of children ... the ideological struggle with Russia these arc all decision-making phases of our lives that are at least as important as our purchase of food products or drugs or cosmetics, or even automobiles and liquor and cigarettes. And the millennium resumed its customary distance. Washington (D.C.) Post. Excellent Record Gov. Mark Hatfield's plan for reorganizing olnto onvnmmpnf wnnlrl take the state narks ni'O- gram from the state Highway Department and place it in a new Department of Natural Resources. TViq irnvni'nnv will ho good case for that change. He will because the record or tne state paries program is so outstand ing that it would be extremely difficult to im prove upon it. THIS is not to say that the governor will not have some support for moving the parks program. He will. For a long time there have been Oregonians who are convinced that the parks program could be improved if it were taken out of the highway department. They were on the warpath a few years ago, demanding that Gov. Paul Patterson create a parks department. Gov. Patterson appointed a committee to make a study of the Oregon, Wash ington and California park programs. It was determined by all doubt that Oregonians were getting more and better parks for less money than either Washing ton or fJalilornia. The fundamental reason was that the Oregon state Highway Department was able to very eiiiciently at favorable time to build parks and maintain parks. ' A RECENT report by the National Park Service "shows that Oregon's to rate among the best m the nation. According to this survey, made for the year 1958, this is how Oregon state parks ranked in that year with other park systems : They were first in ratio of attendance to 1950 population and sixth in total attendance. They stood tenth in total expenditures for state parks, seventh in capital expenditures for improvements and 16th in cost of operation and maintenance. In cost of maintenance and operation per visitor Oregon was third from the lowest. Each visitor cost the state of Oregon 7.8 cents, as against 10.5 cents in Washington and 30.1 cents in California, or less than a local telephone call. IN TOTAL overnight use, Oregon stale parks ranked eighth, in overnight use (tent and trail er) seventh and in use by organized groups 19th. Oregon s total acreage in 195) was 15tn among The parks program building. In the beginning state were reluctant to take money from highways to build parks. But the man who pioneered the state parks program, bam iioardman, gradually broke down that resistance. And his successor, Chester Armstrong, brought the program into full flower. IN THE ten years Mr. Armstrong served as state parks superintendent (he retired as of Dec. 31, 19G0) attendance at Oregon state parks .in creased from two million annually to more than 10 million in I960. Oregon's excellent parks have had much to do with building the tourist industry in this state, now the third ranked industry in contribution to the state's economy. We expect Gov. Hatfield will face stiff op position when he attempts to take the parks pro gram from the Highway Department. It will be hard to argue against this record. Fcndleton East Orcgonian. It is a source of never how the vast majority of native-born Americans take their cherished liberties for granted, as something they don't have to struggle for. And somehow, I am profoundly worried as to what has happened to the American frontier spirit . . . During my 15 years in the United States I have seen and learned to love so many endearing things about this country and its people that 1 have to almost force myself to a critical remark. America is not only the richest and technically the most advanced country in the world, but also the one where people laugh and enjoy God's work more than anywhere else. Hut in their con situtionally guaranteed pursuit of happiness many Americans seem to refuse to look at the dark clouds which are rapidly moving up. I fear it is later than we think, and our position in the world is gravely endangered. Dr. Wernher von Bra,un. of the advertising pro convention, according to hnrrl nresserl fn make a that committee beyond use men and equipment parks program continues state parks (59,4b7 in the 48 states. in Oregon has been slow Highway Commissions - ending surprise for me, Dennis the Menace U NOT R&Uiy SICK. IJUST HAVE A FEVER AN'A SOKE TrfflaAT. ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address oi the writer, although under certain circumiiances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper! in fact the contrary is often the case. Politics vs. Economics To the Editor: In M.T., Jan. 19, in Communications, A. E. Bliss blissfully showers shame on many patriotic American citizens by libeling E. A. be cause he saw fit to criticize the Un-American Activities Committee for engaging in un American activity. Mr. Bliss chooses to vilify E.A. with personal denunciation by spelling out that he is a traitor because he does not condone the un-American activity of the Un-American Activity Committee. Nor is Mr. Bliss the only one that uses name calling in lieu of argument. By argument we learn, but name calling is a waste of time and energy. E.A. was only exercising his constitutional right of Free Speech and Free Press. He was also doing his duty as a patriotic citizen and a guide to public morals. He was do ing his duty as he saw it, and history will vindicate him. Mr. Bliss tells us that there is a war on. He is right on that score. There has always been a war on since the nation was founded. This nation was born In blood, conflict and carnage It has never experienced a mo ment's peace since. If it has not been fighting abroad there was conflict at home. We have had religious conflict, race conflict, group conflict and class conflict. Those conflicts are but the labor pains ac companying the birth of a more perfect social order. We have had conflict in the past and we will continue to have greater conflict as our society develops. Let's fact it, the Un-American Activities Committee is not a solution to our ills. Ours is an economic problem and not a political problem. It is life that we crave more than liberty. Freedom is but a means to an end. Freedom should be the key to open the door to abundance and a full life. As long as that door is closed to a segment of society we inhabit a slave state. The master is burdened with the same chain that shackles the slave. He is no more free than the slave with whom he is hitched. His house of cards may tumble at any time with the winds of fate or the tur moil of social upheaval. Ours cause it rests on an unstable cause it rsels on an unstable economic system. Waller Recce Galtce Route Merlin, Ore. Mt. Ashland Ski Area To the Editor: We skied Mt. Ashland Saturday. We traveled to the top of the mountain on skis, by hold ing onto ropes behind a Tuck er SnoCat. This was a bright sunny day, with 40 degree temperature, no wind. The view of the surrounding mountains and valleys is tre mendous and the view of Mt. McLoughlin and Mt. Shasta in the distance is beautiful. About 40 skiers from the valley skied all day in what would be the lower section of the intermediate course and at tlie site of the lodge when Mt. Ashland Ski Area is develop ed. Elevation is 6.400 feet. The snow was excellent and would be considered about 2 Inches of powder over three feet of packed snow by any skier I have ever talked to. This is better snow than we have had at Mt. Shasta at any time this year. Then five of us skied one fourth mile around to the north slope of Mt. Ashland where the advanced skiing slopes will be. We were pleas antly amazed. There arc four inches of beautiful powder snow on top of four feet of packed snow. The slopes arc steep. This powder is as good for skiing as any 1 have seen at Sun Valley. This type of pow-- der is especially a m a zl n g when you consider there has been no new snow in the area for five weeks, and the warmth of recent weather. This will make a tremen dous ski area! Wally Iverson 1316 Queen Anne ave. Medford Gold Hill and People To the Editor: "What's Wrong With Gold Hill?" This has been a big question in my mind since we first moved here 5V4 years ago. Its taken this city a long time, but it has finally asked itself what the trouble is. Here is my opinion and I be lieve there are many more who feel the same but have hesitated to do anything or to venture a word. What is wrong with our city? What causes a city? Or why is it called a city? A city is composed of people. So the question now is: "What is wrong with the people?" This is a painful question, isn't it? It is not the location of the city that is to blame nor is it anything IN the loca tion that is at fault. It is THE PEOPLE! Who are the people? They are you and me and our neigh bors. It is we who are to blame! We've all settled back, not saying or doing anything in particular. Some of these people may have tried at one time or another to do some thing but gave up. We've, de cided the city Is on the down grade and there is nothing we can do about it. We've griped about this or that but that's all we've done. It has been said that the things we have now, be they good or bad, are the things we've wanted and asked for. This is the truth! Look at this city of ours-it has many pos sibilities but it has been at a standstill for years. A few things have changed but not many. We talk about people not fixing their property - giving Foreign News: Talks On Algeria; Red China Cargo Ships By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Newt Analyst From the foreign news ca bles: ALGERIAN TALKS Informed sources in Paris say that preliminary prepara tions will he made so thor oughly before hand that if and when peace talks be tween France and the Alge rian rebels are a n n o u n ccd oubliclv. a 1 1 a t h e essential points of nego- Nrm tuition win just about have been complet ed. But if the current popular hope in France for a meeting between President Charles dc Gaulle and Algerian rebel leader Ferhat Abbas comes to nothing. It probably will be because of their totally op posed attitudes as to the role of the French army in Alge ria. Abbas and his followers want the army out of Algeria so that millions of Arabs can feel free to vote as they really want In the promised self-de termination referendum. But De Gaulle wants the army to stay, If only to protect the French settlers and those Mos lems who have backed the French cause. RED CHINA SHIPPING Communist China is consid ering the possibility of char Wilson Draws Line And Founders' Representative By LYLE C. WILSON Washington - (UPD - Master of ceremonies at last week's inaugural was Sen. John J. Sparkman, a Democrat, of course, and from Ala bama. S e n a t o r Sparkman rates high marks for his precise choice of words. The Wilson moment came in Sparkman's brief introduc tory remarks to refer to the machinery or method of gov ernment of the United States. With discrimination unusual among politicians, Sparkman avoided the error of describ ing the United States as a democracy. Politicians commonly do re fer to the United States as a democracy, prefacing the word in most instances with the adjective, great. They pro- their home a paint job once in a whlle-but it takes money. I know a number of people who have tried to borrow money to improve the looks and the value of their proper ty but banks and loan com panies refuse them because they live in Gold Hill. So you see, it is up to us THE PEOPLE- to get on the ball. Let's get busy! Let's do something to bring some life back to our lovely city. It IS a lovely city. Let's all show more love of our neighbors, for that is the second most important of the command ments. Love all people and through love comes understanding through understanding comes more love. Mrs. R. P. Corona, 904 Fifth ave., (P. O. Box 19), Gold Hill, Ore. Punishment and Parole To the Editor: The average killer does not care if he lives or dies, therefore capital punishment does not deter crime. Death is too quick and easy. When our judges and juries fix the sentence as life im prisonment, it should, mean just that. As it now stands a criminal knows he will be paroled in 7V4 years. A neat little sum is laid away for him at the pen. So what docs he have to fear? First do away with out sal aried parole boards, and let our judges and juries set the penality with no chance of parole. Crime would drop. C. W. Corey Phoenix, Ore. Atomic Power and Fog To the Editor: On first thought the fog control pro posed by Mr. E. M. Tucker Sr. seems quite logical. On second thought the blowing of fog in any one of a number of canyons may cause a protest from some more or less isolat ed Highlanders. For instance there is a canny canyon, the Gold Hill narrow canyon, tering large Japanese freight ers for use in trade with Latin America, an area which Pei ping regards highly as a prize in the campaign to spread its influence abroad. Some of the Japanese owners are leery of the proposal. They are unhap py about getting mixed up in the Cuban mess and they real ize that any ships chartered to Red China now could not use U.S. ports for refuelling until six months after any charter ends. Yet some other Japanese circles feel that a charter deal would go a long way towards bringing Japan and Red China closer together for mutual gain. Expect the Soviet Union to mark time in Laos and delay any agreement with the West on a cease fire mediation agreement. Moscow apparent ly feels Communism's chances presently are good In Laos and therefore is in no hurry to end the troubles there. There are signs that Moscow really wants a major interna tional conference on Laos, at which it would have first con tacts with the new U.S. ad ministration of President John F. Kennedy. RETRIEVES GILT CROSS New York - HTH - Nikolas Vourkas dove among the ice i floes of New York Bay Sun-1 day to retrieve a gilt cross in traditional Greek Orthodox rites on the feast of tha Epiphany. nounced the word grrrrr-rate, rolling those Rs like a turn bleweed in a TV western. Thus they mislead the young fry and their elders who may be listening. Great it is, but the United States is no democracy. It is a rep resentative republic and was so set up by the gentlemen who drafted the U. S. Con stitution. Some truly great Democrats were among the authors of that document, but they avoided democracy in almost every phase of the con stitution where a choice had to be made. Little Faith There is, in fact, no men tion in the U. S. Constitution of the political system known as democracy. The authors knew the word and the sys tem but in their time it is plain enough that they had little faith in it. They held the people in considerable es teem and sought to make se cure for the people the liberty of free men. But the drafters of the U. S. Constitution had scant faith in the ability of the people to rule. The voice of the people was Washington Report By WILLIAM HOPEFUL OMEN Washington The young man who repeated the old, solemn oath as the 35th presi dent of the United States faithfully to execute that office and al ways to de fend the con stitution - en tered a unique era of trial. It is not White merely tne world around him Cuba, the Soviet Union, Southeast Asia which will weigh heavily up on him. He will have at home special and subtle problems of a kind never before in this century to hang over an oc cupant of that white colonial mansion which stands so gracefully here at 1600 Penn slyvania avenue. For John F, Kennedy has come to power from the most closely and most curiously Murphy gulch canyon not to mention a slew of others in southern Oregon. Frankly we do believe that Mr. Tucker is on the right channel for a unique fog dispenser. Our humble ver sion of such a device was similar except our theory was to convert such fog into mois ture and drain the water into reservoirs that are in need of more water. At any rate, our idea is that atomic power will be a source of more uses as a peace time solution to fu ture problpms right here in the Rogue river valley. It would be wonderful providing a method is demonstrated to whip this pesky fog. More power to the inventor and designer. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman si. Medford. Benefits of Service To the Editor: I ain writing you as an ex-serviceman with active service in the first world war. I have seen action on four major offensives and had six months in the Army of Occupation. Looking around at the way these teen-age kids act, mak ing fools of themselves and their parents, I feel sure that universal military training would do a devil of a lot of good provided Ihey were put under a strict training with sergeants who were not afraid to pull their stripes and clean the souls of these young bucks when they got out of line. That was the kind of outfit I was in, and no better soldier ever wore the uniform than the men of Battery C146, heavy motorized field artil lery, in the First World War And I mean strict military eight hours of drill, five days a week, with inspection Sat urdays at 10 a.m. with uni forms pressed, shoes shined. and shaved. They can also learn the Army trade they wish to en ter upon having a high school education. So therefore be do ing the country a favor by learning a trade to return to. I can name a Harry Hogon who went to G. I. engineer ing training upon return from the Second World War, and is now one of the head engin eers at Consolidated Airways at Santa Monica. He is mar ried to my nice daughter. John C. Ungor, Section 3 White City, Ore. Let 'Em Find Us To the Editor: Why all this talk of the possibility of find ing people of superior intelli gence on-another planet? If they are superior to us, why aon i inev tinn us? 0 David Frisch P. O. Box 292 White City, Ore Between Democracy centered by the founding fa thers in the U. S. House of Representatives. In the Senate were the spokesmen or rep resentatives of the federated states. The people elected their president and vice presi dent, but not directly but rather remotely. The presidential choice was by the electors who were rep resentatives of the people but better equipped with educa tion and judgment to choose the nation's chief. That, in any ease, was the way the con stitution's authors wanted it to be. Loophole Left They did not, however, fore close a democratic form of government in the United States if, in their wisdom, the representatives so desired. The courts have held that this choice, as between a repre sentative republic and a de mocracy, is one reserved for the legislative or political branch of the government. The choice is being made a little at a time. The Congress has made use of this green light by various ly extending and guaranteeing S. WHITE divided election in eight dec ades. True, the Congress is democratic. It will be on the whole pro-Kennedy or may be expected most of the time mostly to be. BUT Mr. Kennedy won his election not merely by a very thin numercial margin but also only through a sec tional coalition which really represented an effective pub lic majority only in the east and south. His mandate halted roughly at the northern border of Tex as, looking northward up through the middle basin of the country. And, looking from east to west, it halted at the line of the Ohio river. Geographically, he takes of. fices as a minority president, He was rejected nearly every where through all the vast stretches of the middle west and clear on to the Pacific coast. He has, therefore, at this moment of his elevation, two political talks of great urg ency. He must reclaim far the bigger part of the con tinental mass of the United States. And he must maintain the most sensitive balance be tween the profoundly differ ing interests of the strangely mixed Kennedy political heartland the conservative and traditional south and the liberal and anti-traditional east. He must, in a manner of speaking, somehow keep Charleston, S.C., and the teeming five boroughs of York from being too much at each other's throats. T71RANKLIN Roosevelt sometimes pictured as hav ing had to keep in mastery just such a coalition. There is, however, only the most superficial resemblance be tween then and now. For Roosevelt, while he did main tain such a coalition, always had immense power in the west and midwest as well. The new President himself is deeply aware of this basic factor confronting his admin istration none more so. It was why he took the power ful modern southerner, Vice- President Lyndon Johnson. of Texas, on his ticket. It is why the new President proceeds so cautiously to balance the de mandson civil rights, sav or the liberal east against the counter-wishes of the conserv ative south. He knows, too, that perhaps the point of greatest single danger lies in his partnership with Johnson. He knows that a "split" between them whether real or only widely assumed to be real would act as the thin ends of a wedge with which to cut his admin istration in two. MOW, all these problems, though very real, are by no means hopeless, or even necessarily desperate. Ken nedy has been historically aid ed in the national interest by the wise and generous post-election conduct of his Republican antagonist in the campaign. Richard M Nixon. Nixon, like most other adult politicians, knows that the election is now over and that "; r Hre trol,b'e ln thl ice cream. Up and coming would nrnfHnnn n"ne ! Dolly Marison was quick to would profi -and only the:latch nntn ,. ,nrJ ,h country would lose bv petty partisan attempts at this dan gerous juncture to weaken a new administration which now must speak for us all. And in this lies the most hopeful of all omens for the future: Never in this cor respondent's experience has a new president been inaugurate ed in a national atmopsherc li.tt- u:.. I r,r w- rlolmlc the air in the ballroom be rrespons.bllity on both sides, came unbelievably stuffy and (Ccoyright. 196 . By United they had to smash the wl F.alurt Syndicate. Inc.) oc-wj to provide ventilation. O 9 O Republic the franchise, to women, for example, in the 19th amend ment, to Negroes by amend ment and subsequently legis lative acts. The 14th Amend ment, for example, made the Negro a citizen of the state of his residence as well as a citizen of the United States. This was a major break through against the theory of state's rights, which held that a citizen was not in contact with the national government, except, of course, through his representatives. Another move toward de mocracy and away from the constitutional ideal of repre sentative government was the 17th Amendment for direct election of senators. There are persons who believe the rep resentative form is best. They define democracy as "a count ing of all the heads, empty or not." In Ihe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS John F. Kennedy, who as this is written has just taken the oath of office, is t h youngest man ever to be ELECTED President, but not the youngest man ever to SERVE in that high office. Kennedy was 43 years, sev en months and 22 days old on Inauguration day. Theorode Roosevelt lacked 43 days of reaching his 43rd birthday when he became President after McKinley was assassin ated. WHAT of Jacqueline Ken nedy? She is 31 and in her pic tures she looks even young er than that. But she isn't the youngest mistress of the White House. That distinction ap parently goes to Frances Fol som Cleveland, who was 22 when she was married to President Grover Cleveland. They had five children, the first of whom was born in the White House. Mrs. Cleveland was married the year after she graduated from Wells col lege. She had had relatively litttle social experience, but she was equal to the demands of her position. She soon be came widely known for her delightful ability as a hostess, and was of immense assist ance to her husband. The American public was deeply interested in her. She shunned publicity, in which she seems to have been sim ilar to Mrs. Kennedy. She had little luck, however, in keep ing out of the limelight, for the newspapers of the day followed her every word and action. It is highly probable that Mrs. Kennedy will have the same experience. QNE OF the most distin- guished hostesses of the White House was undoubted ly Dolly Madison. She was 22 when she married James Madison, then a wealthy and distinguished member of Con gress. She had already been married and widowed. When Madison became President Jefferson's secre tary of state, she went to Washington not only to pre side over her own home but to act as official hostess at the White House, as Jeffer son was a widower. It was a period of b" er political struggles, but is, Madison's charm and popular ity made her home a center of Washington society and a place of refuge from party quarrels. During the bitter years of her husband's Presi dency, Dolly Madison's popu larity made the social life of the administration gracious and brilliant. When British troops occu pied Washington in the sum mer of 1814, she fled, along with other citizens, carrying silver, historically priceless official papers and valuables with her. She returned to find only the blackened walls of the White House standing. INCIDENTALLY, Dolly Mad son was the first hostess to serve ice cream in the United States. She served the strange foreign dessert at a White House dinner in 1809. It was an immense sensation. The first ice cream is be lieved to have been made in Italy about 1550. The natives there had long used Ice from the mountains to cool their drinks. They discovered that Ice and salt made a freezing mixture. From there it was only a step to adding milk read about it. HOLLY Madison was the " belle of the first inaugur al ball. Then, as now, people poured into Washington for the inaugural ceremonies. This first inaugural ball, held in Long's Hotel on March 4, 1809, was a brilliant affair. So many people attended it that 4