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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1961 10 A tCIVlL WAR v ' ' h I " ; f i I . ' r - , - ft ! ' ffl)f? -fpV; p !fj ?J Ki r;J I I MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORB was nothing but office - seek ing ..." Of Davis he wrote: "President Davis sits at our table every day. He is chatty and tries to be agreeable. He is not great in any sense of the word ... ."He is obstinate as a mule ...... Many are regretting al ready his election ... "Mr. Davis . . . receives no advice except from those who press their advice unasked . . There were two inaugural balls in Montgomery that night. One at Es telle Hall and one at Concert Hall. Mrs. Noyes was there, wearing "my brown silk with blue brocaded flowers which had entirely been made over into a low necked dress with skirt in puffs and ruffles ... "Every home, big and little, was illuminated from the Cap itol to the Exchange (hotel) last night ... "In short, It was a great day for Montgomery ..." ' DAVIS TAKES OATH On Feb. 18, 18B1, voice, he exclaimed, "So help me God." He I the band played "Dixie" and, after a prayei, lowered his head in tears and hundreds wept . Jefferson Davis arose and rood his inaugural with him as h became President of the Con- l address. Then turning, ho placed one hand federate States of America. The scene above i on the bible, liftd Ih other, and listened to shows the crowd assembled at the Capitol at ; the oath. At the end of the oath, In a solemn Montgomery, Ala., as Davis took the oath. .; (UPI Telephoto) Davis Becomes CSA President Elmo Smith To Head Cancer Crusade Portland Former Gov. Elmo Smith will head the 1961 Cancer Crusade in the state of Oregon, William B. Feledenheimer, president of the American Cancer Society's Oregon division, has announced. The Cancer Crusade will be under way thrdughout April, the month formally designated by the national congress as Cancer Control Month. Funds raised during the Crusade will support Cancer Society pro grams of research, profession al and public education, and service. Smith, publisher of the Al bany Democrat-Herald, served as state senator and senate president prior to his election as governor. Working with him on the Crusade will be chairmen to be named in sev en, districts throughout the state as well as chairmen who will head the campagtn in each county in the state. Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins (Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1961) Ever Been Truffle Hunting? The game can't run, crawl fly or escape. They have no means of defense or offense, yet the favorite time to "hunt" them is at night, and by the use of a specially trained dog with a "nose for truffles." Inasmuch as the truffle grows entirely underground, a trained dog is a necessary part of a truffle - hunter s equip ment. Without the dog the hu man hunter of this member of the fungus family might bet ter stay home. And, because the best time to hunt truffles is at night, it is imperative that a white dog be used. Why. you may ask, is the night-hunting better? ' The truffle hunter can't answer directly, maybe all the seekers after this fungi just always did, so they always will - hunt 'em at night. Family of Fungi Botanically, a truffle is a member of the family of fun gi. There are about 50 varie ties, all of which hide under ground. Never does a true truffle raise Its head above the surface of the forest floor. All the truffles are deliciously edible, if your taste buds are educated to their rather pe culiar flavor. Truffles, like all growing things, vary in size from ones about the size of a brazil nut to a full grown adult which may be as large as a big pota to. The outside color is black or bluish-black, but the in terior is snowy-white. In ap pearance they look more like a potato than they do like truffles. . ' The experienced truffle hunter, being familiar with the habits of his quarry, se lects an oak or a birch forest, preferably one with a limy soil. The truffle, like the other members of the family of fungi, is ' terribly short of chlorophyll. It receives no sunlight, it cannot make its own food, so must feed upon vegetable matter which of course is abundant in the litter of a forest floor. Truffles have no imagination, no desire to be anything but a "stick in the mud." They don't have much fun, just hiding there all the time in the gritty dark ness. They should be glad to be dug up. The . truffle - hunter, too, must select a hunting ground where there are no hogs, for these animals are fond of the truffle and will dig them out and eat them. In some sections of France hogs have actually been trained to "hunt truf fles." In England,, the dogs called truffle-hounds are used. Armed with a shovel and a trained dog, the human hunter selects a suitable night and begins his strange hunt. If he is successful, and his dog is alert, he may gather a bushel of truffles, which he will consider a good night's work. And, too, he can hard ly wait to start eating what he has "bagged. Truffle hunting doesn't seem like a very exciting sport. By the wildest stretch of the imagination this sort of hunt lacks the thrill of the chase. The poor old truffle, being securely anchored underground, can't get away It is never flighty and cer tainly a quarry that is easily "outwitted. Mortgage LOANS for Looking for money to borrow? Commonwealth oilers mortgage loans on homes, commercial and industrial property, apartments and projects for senior citizens. We represent 17 life insurance companies, eastern sav- , ings banks and pension funds. We have the money, terms and rates to meet your requirements. Quick, efficient, courteous service. Contact our nearest office: Commonwealth, Inc. 200 Equitable Building, 421 S. W. 4th Ave., 19S liberty Street, S. E., Salem 1218 Viita Avenue, Boiie, Idaho Portland Communis! China -Staging Executions Hong Kong - IUPU - Students returning from Communist China have reported the Com munists are staging public tri als and executions of "bad elements" in a purge of minor party officials designed to ap pease the famine-stricken pub lic. . The Communist party cen tral committee itself admitted a purge was underway last month and the students said it appeared to be gaining ruth, lessness and momentum as the Red masters sought, to 1 a y blame for the famine. Eight students came from Red China on passes to cele brate the Chinese lunar new year. Only a few said they were going back. They said "all the blame for the acute food shortage" was falling on secretaries and chairmen of the communes of forced labor. 1 j in leaialiif uMiiffca -si up Save Taxes. Find out your deducts. All Returns prepared on comparative basis and filed in accordance with Internal Revenue Code. Fast Service. 1 OREGON BOOKKEEPING 217 Fluhrer Bldg. SP 3-6874 ' OPEN SATURDAY TILL 1 P.M. OREGON'S LARGEST TAX SERVICE i id - Winter S i : By MERTON T. AKERS 1 UPI Correspondent : Jefferson Davis' journey from his plantation rose gar den below Vicksburg, MisS., to Montgomery, Ala., to be come the first president of the Confederate Slates of America was, as a writer, of the time 'put it, "one continuous ova tion," with speeches; fireworks ",an cheering crowds.- , t After leaving Jackson, Miss., "the president - elect made 26 'speeches before he reached the '.temporary Confederate capi tal. i Eight miles outside Mont gomery a committee of the Provisional Congress plus dis tinguished citizens met Davis. He was escorted into the city by two companies of militia at 10 o'clock on Saturday night, Feb. 16, 1861, "amid the .hu.zas of thousands and the -boominK of cannon." .' "Our separation from the ;old Union is complete," he ;told the welcoming crowd at -the Exchange Hotel In' his 27th speech. ."No compromise; no reconstruction can now be entertained . . . Heaven will prosper the Southern Confed eracy , . . ' Visitors Crowd Montgomery V Over Sunday Davis put lo- Bether his inaugural address and conferred with political .-leaders. V Montgomery, bulging with (visitors, turned out bright and early Monday the 18th, for the ceremonies. ; Newspaper accounts of the period reported: ' Promptly at 10 a.m. Col. H P. Watson, the grand marshal and a Montgomery man, be gan lining up the order of the procession which, the official program said, would move in this order; , "Music. ' "Military escort of the Montgomery German Fusi leers, the Montgomery Rifles the Eufala (Ala.) Rifles nnc' the Columbus (Ga.) Guards (all under command of Capt ;Paul Jones Semmes of the Columbus Guards, who would tdie of wounds suffered at Gettysburg.) ! "The president-elect and the vice president (Alexander H. .Stephens) in a carriage drawn by six (white) horses. , "Various committees, all In -open carriages. "Ministers of the Gospel, in carriages. "Citizens generally, In car riages. v "Citizens generally on foot." 'Dixie' Becomes Symbol One of the bands played a two-year-ola tune written by Dan Emmett, a famous mln .strel, which was destined to live forever as a symbol of Ihe Confederacy - "Dixie." This was the tune's first identifica tion with the C.S.A.. It had been sung first in New York, After a prayer, "President Davis arose and read his In augural address; then turning, he placed one hand upon the Bible and with the olhcr up lifted, listened to the oath. His face was upturned and rever ential in expression. At the conclusion of the oath, in a solemn earnest voice, he exclaimed: " 'So help me God.' "He lowered his head In tears, and hundreds wept as they viewed the solemn scone. "Thus was officially launch ed on a tempestuous political sea the Confederate Ship of State.":- r-, - Howell Cobb of Georgia, president of the Provisional Congress, slipped a wreath of flowers over Davis' nrtii. It had been fashioned by Eleanor Jackson Noyes, a Boslonian turned southerner. To make certain It was fresh, she wrote the next day to a sister In Boston, "1 did not begin lo collect the flowers unlil !) o'clock in the morning . , ." Address Has Teeth Davis' inaiiuural address was hastily written and con sisted largely of a defense of secession and expressions of hope that any separation wmild be peaceable. But the address had some teeth. "If passion or lust of domi nation should cloud the judg ment or inflame the ambition of thnsn stains Mlin Nm-thl vun must prepare to meet the emergency, and maintain, by the final arbitration of the sword, the position we have assumed among the nations of the earth." Not many ' of Davis' col leagues believed - the North would go to war. T. R. R. Cobb, Howell's younger brother - who would die at Fredericksburg - wrote at the time: . "The almost universal be-1101,1161-6 is that we shall not have war . . . the firm convic tion here is that Great Britain, France and Russia will ac rknowledge us at once into the family of nations." ' Davis also was acutely aware of the northern .po tential. ' '"Only fools doubt the cour: age of the Yankees," he told the fire-eaters. Two days later something of his hidden thoughts came through In a letter to his wife, Varina Howell Davis. "The (inauguration) audi ence was large and brilliant. (The younger Cobb estimated Ihe crowd as between 3,000 and 10,000.) Upon my weary heart were showered smiles, plaudits and flowers; but be yond thorn I saw trouble and thorns innumerable. We arc without machinery; without means, and threatened by a powerful opposition; but I do not despair ..." 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