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MONDAY. FEBRUABY It. 1113 16 A - The Family Council J Editor! note: The Family Council comlitl of ludic a nychutrtit, three cl.rfyaien. three editor, and a womtn'i editor. ch article It a .iimmary of a lamlly dliifreemenl preterite to tht Council. The Council deali with problcmi, major and minor, iii ai y uiaBnre counieiori ana itoclal worker.. Edited ay ... nun. wviiiijr. iLvifjiiini ay (aenaiai re.mr.f ;orp.) MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON Mri. E.V.-Shc'd be married by now If she knew when to shut up. Rita N. - It happens that I m well-informed. '.Vhy hide it? Mri. E.V. - I'm sick of ar ranging dates for Rita. She's my best friend and I'd love to see her married and settled down like the rest of us. But she has one fault that seems to queer her with the boys who take her out. She talks too much. That would be all right if it was clever talk, like asking the right questions and mak ing the fellow feel ten feet tall. But it's show-off talk, to prove how well-educated and well-read she is. I've tried to explain to her that no fellow takes a girl out to get his mind improved. He wants to relax and have a good time. Nevertheless, she acts like a female Billy Graham trying to stuff a man full of words Can the Council show her the folly of this? Rita N. - If a man can't enjoy talking to a woman. then he must regard all women as being alike and serving just one purpose. When I'm out with someone I like to show him that I'm dif ferent, I'm me, I'm someone interesting. I can't believe what my friend Ella keeps telling me, that men like dopey girls because then they feel brilliant by comparison. Nobody, male or female, likes . to be in the company of a blockhead. , I'm passionately interested in Broadway and off-Broad- way shows, and in oil paint ings, and in the best - seller books people talk about. I also keep up with the head lines in politics and business. What's wrong with opening my mouth and having my say? If a man can't stand an alert girl, let him date a store-dummy. is a sultan with a harem, he seeks a girl, who, as a wife can be several women rolled into one. When - he strays then, it simply means that wonder Woman has fallen down in one or more depart ments, even though she's OK in some. But the last to stray is probably the husband whose wife is "passionately interested in him-never mind Broadway, oil paintings, etc. Clever girls sense this and when vis-a-vis a fellow they line, pusn all those bright re marks into a mental cubby- nole labeled Use Sparingly!" That's all Mrs. V. is trying to get across to Rita. She's warn ing her not to let herself get carried away with her own brilliance (real or imagined) lest it keep her from ever get ting carried across a bridal threshold. Of course Rita may realize this. Perhaps she hasn't yet met the guy who leaves her breathless and speechless. The ones who date her, on orders from Mrs. V., may be such bores that she decides if she can't love 'cm she can "learn", em. So she goes into her spiels on the European Com mon Market and Virginia Woolf to keep from yawning. But just to make sure that Rita gets the message of how important It Is to romance for a girl to know when to open her mouth and when to close it, we cite the great allure of the enigmatic Mona Lisa. And think of the Sphinx, a female who has lasted for centuries' by letting everyone else have the last word. Once safely married to the bright man she will surely snag, (by giving him the spot light,) Rita can regale him with scintillating conversa tion and be the shining star at dinner parties they attend to gether. Always, howeycr, she continues to cultivate (1) the art of listening, (2) a sense of timing, and (3) his ego. 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Coupon in Spring Pattern Catalog for one pattern free-anyone you choose from 300 design ideas. Send 50c now for Catalog. PROFESSOR ELECTED Corvallis, Ore. - (UPD - Dr. W. W. Dolan of Linfield col lege was elected president of the Oregon Academy of Science at the group's 21st an nual meeting Saturday. ,rTj?N - 'THIS CiFIIrWAR WASTES Nashville's Saga Comes To End By MERTON T. AKERS UPI Correspondent The saga of the CSS Nash ville came to a violent end Feb. 28, 1863 on a shoal in the Ogeechce river south of Sa vannah, Ga. The Nashville's career was a checkered one. She was part commerce destroyer, part blockade runner. Little of the romance and dcrring - do of the Confed erate war cruisers which sail ed the seas and burned un armed Union merchantmen fell to the lot of the Nash ville. Nor did she achieve much of the tremendous prof its and adventure of the jaun ty blockade runners which pitted their speed and daring against the Union patrol ships guarding southern ports. Her destruction was a neg ative sort of victory for Adm. Comedian Arrested On Drugs Charge Hollywood, Calif. (UPli Co median Lenny Bruce's entan glements with the police mul tiplied Saturday when he was arrested on suspicion of pos session of narcotics. The noted "sick" comic, who also has charges of using obscnitics in his night club act and battery against a tele vision cameraman pending against him in Beverly Hills, was released on $2,600 bail shortly after his arrest. Bruce, 37, also has a simi lar narcotics charge pending against him from an arrest in North Hollywood. $35 in Coins Taken From Gas Station Charles Frank Risse. 820 West Fourth St., Mcdford, re ported $35 in coins were taken early Saturday morn ing from the Chuck Risse Richfield station at 204 South Central ave., according to Mcdford police. Missing are a roll of 50 cent pieces valued at $20, a roll of quarters at $10 and a roll of dimes valued at $5. Samuel F. DuPont's Union blockaders but it removed her as a potential menace to northern shipping and gave the admiral a chance to try out his new ironclad moni tors. The Nashville was a fast and powerful merchant steam er which the Confederates seized in Charleston, S. C, at the start of the war. Two Brats Cannons Her commander, Robert B. Pcgram, armed her with two small brass cannons her decks were too light for heav ier guns. He was suposed to carry James M. Mason and John Slidell, Confederate commissioners, to Europe but they took a smaller steamer instead. If Mason and Slidell had sailed on the Nashville the famous Trent case, which so nearly brought on war be tween the United States and Britain, never would have oc curred. For the Nashville sail ed through the Federal block ade on Oct. 26, 1861 and reached England without in terference from the U. S. Navy. On the way she overhauled a Federal clipper ship, the Harvey Birch, captured and set her afire after removing the crew. Two days later, Nov. 21, the Nashville arriv ed in Southampton, England, the first time the British had seen the Confederate flag in one of their ports. The Nashville had been damaged in a storm at sea and she was allowed by the Admiralty to undergo repairs for that damage but not to take on arms or ammunition. But about that time news of the Trent case arrived in Britain. That gave the Nash ville more time for repair be cause sympathy for the south ern cause skyrocketed. But before the Nashville was ready to sail a brand new Federal warship, the Tuscarora, appeared in t h c harbor. The British prompt ly notified her captain, T. A. Craven, that under interna tional law 24 hours must elapse before departure of one belligerent ship in pursuit of another. For a month the Tuscarora lay in wait, trying to cover both axits from the harbor. On Feb. 3, 1862 the Nash ville evaded Craven and sailed safely to Bermuda. Then she ran the blockade into Beaufort, N.C., taking one prize on the way. Blockade Runner From then until July the Nashville turned blockade runner under private owner ship instead of remaining a Confederate warship. She made several successful voy ages. But on her last one she escaped only by throwing ov erboard her cargo and quick ly changing course in a rain squall, thereby evading a Federal warship which was closing in. 1 Now late In February 1803 the Nashville lay up the Ogee chee river, loaded to the brim with cotton and await ing a chance to dash out to sea. All that kept the Union blockaders from going up the Ogeechee and blasting the Nashville with their superior armament was Fort McAllis ter on Genesis Point just above where the river runs into the Atlantic. For eight months the fort had guarded the Nashville. But early in 1863 the north ern shipyards were turning out monitors, improved ver sions of the original Moni tor which had fought the Mer rimack to a standstill in Hampton Roads nearly a year before. Admiral DuPont had sev en of these new but untested ships. He wanted to try them out. On Jan. 27, 1863 he sent GIVE the Gift you would like to ft. from AVAN'S in tht Mcdford Shopping Center one of them, the Montauk, into the Ogeechee against Fort McAllister. The Montauk ran up to within 1,500 yards of the fort to a point where the masts of the Nashville could be sight ed above the trees on a bend in the river. For four hours the Mon tauk and the fort bombard ed each other. The Monitor was hit repeatedly but was undamaged. So also was the fort. Again on Feb. 1 the Mon tauk moved in and engaged the fort, meantime keeping tabs on the Nashville. This time the Montauk was struck 46 times by Confederate shells but again, was only dented. Remained Untouched DuPont was finding out that the monitors could take punishment but the Nashville remained untouched. While the Montauk's crew was eating dinner late in the afternoon of Feb. 27, the Nashville was reported in sight. The USS Seneca investigat ed and reported the Nashville was hard aground just above the fort. Capt. John L. Worden, com manding the Montauk, (he also commanded the Monitor in its fight against the Mer rimack) decided to wait un til morning to finish off the Nashville. He moved in for the kill at the first signs of light. An officer of the Montauk described the Nashville's last hours. "It was a mild, pleasant morning," he wrote, "and the surface of the river was scarcely broken by a ripple. At five o'clock and ten min utes we weighed anchor, and in ten minutes more we were steaming at the rate of six knots up the river . . . 'There she is, swing by the tide, and now pointing down stream, yet still there hard and fast. We see many on her forecastle and considerable bustle and confusion . . " The Montauk anchored 000 yards from the fort. The officer continued: "Fort McAllister is on our left, in the angle of the bend of the river . . . the Nashville is a mile and a half above the fort, but only 1,100 yards from us across the marshy peninsula, and lying with full, fair broadside toward us . . . "At seven minutes past sev en we fire our first gun (the 11-inch) at the Nashville, and immediately they let fly at us from the fort three guns, but their shots all go by us . . .' Column of Smoke The Montauk continued to fire its 11 - inchcr and its 15 incher, ignoring fire from the fort. "At fifty seven minutes past seven we discovered a small column of whitish gray smoke coming out of her forehatch, and in ten min- 17 SHOES REBUILT Announcing a complete SHOE SERVICE SHOP Anything to do with shoes or boots, we do. Shoes soled and heeled, rofinishing, dying or shined while you wait. A-l SHOE SERVICE 40 North Front Adjoining U.S. National Banks Parking lot. utes more the flame acconipj. nies the smoke from the same place ... "We fire our last shot at three minutes after eight; having fired 14 times; and as soon as the smoke has clear ed away, we see the flames bursting out around her pad die-boxes . . . The fog, whim has been slowly gathering around us, now entirely shuts us in . . . "In a few minutes the fog and smoke had risen, reveal ing the Nashville enveloped in flames. The fire came out her sides, from around her smokestack base and masts, from between the ribs and braces of her iron wheels, and indeed she is shrouded in fire. "At thirty-five minutes past nine she blew up with a smothered rumbling report like distant thunder. The ex plosion was amidships . . . carrying with it the charred and broken timers, and tho burning bales of cotton . . ." HOW COME Fluhrer's Holsum BREAD NOW TASTES BETTER THAN EVER? BECAUSE PREMIUM QUALITY HOLSUM Is 4 Hours Fresher! BIG JS MEATS 5 All Flavors ROYAL Big Y Brand Crenmary Mte.' tl H t.,ii Mb. Pkg. 59 Ping Stokelyi Pincapplc-Gsvr-jcfruit Drink' Market Tomatoes . 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