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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.
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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
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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 ..."
Cobb Disillusioned
Young Cobb wrote home
about some of the "thorns:"
"I am sick at heart with the
daily manifestations of selfish
ness, intrigue, low cunning
and nieaness among those who
at this critical moment should
have im eye single to the pro
lection of the people ...
"It looks now as if there
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