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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 ...
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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
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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
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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
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