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MEDFOHD MAIi, TRIBOHE, HEDFORD, OREGON MONDA", JUXZ i, IMS ' TUSf ;j"iraia- .1 f lilt ICUDt mm f22EE3Wl VI It Mil tICdo r.oif mi urn m B .hi . t : ' i H flies' ? ' .a ."3! INVASION DOOMED - The second in vasion o the North by the Confederates began on June 3, 1863. It was an invasion Which would fall in a blaze of glory at an obscure crossroad in Pennsylvania a month later. Gen. Robert E. Lee probably believed that the war was lost, but there was no hint ol despair as he recommended that the in vasion take place. He felt that the invasion could add zest to any anti-war feeling that existed in the North. He also felt his ill fed, ill-clad troops could live better off the land to the north. Militarily he be lieved he could menace Baltimore and Washington. Here in a sketch from the Library of Congress collection, the reac tion of some of the people who did not sympathize with Lee is shown. The drawing shows a mass meeting in the north to rally the home front against the invaders. (UPI) Anderson Promoted To Assistant Post ' Arleigh A. Anderson, tran litman at Medford, was pro moted Saturday to assistant resident engineer in Eugene, Forrest Cooper, state highway engineer, announced. The position will involve responsibility in assisting in the supervision of construc tion projects on the Interstate highway system and other highways in the Eugene area. Anderson started with the department nine years ago as a chainman and has received twO' previous promotions. it Small Worlds Around Us By LYNN M. WATKiNS Register stid Tfibun Syndicate; ',963) :: : M this quiet place... Doubtful Thai Test Tubes Will Replace Good Earth A few years ago it began to look like the dirt gardener was on his way out. The man with the hoe and shovel seemed to be ready to be dis placed by the man with the test tube. Those folks that de lighted in digging in the good earth in order to plant seeds appeared to be playing sec ond fiddle; they seemed to be coming as obsolete as the horse c.i buggy. Science, especially chemistry, was about to reduce truck garden ing to a chemical formula. There were many optimis tic people that sincerely be lieved that all garden vege tables were going to be grown chemically. After all, they argued, all the ground does is hold the plant in an upright position, and furnish a vehicle for plant food. Hydroponics, or solution culture, promised great things. AH that was necessary. they thought, were long shal low troughs with wire screen over the top. On the screen, moss or wood chips or some material of like nature was to be placed. This was to hold the solution -in contact with the roots of the plants. The troughs were filled with water to wiiich had been a book may be read that can lead . pou back to health You may have passed by this quiet place many times but nave never entered it. Yet here in this peaceful room, ready for you to read, is a book that has restored health to many that has renewed and strengthened them as they have learned to understand God as the source of their well-being. It can do this for you. The place is the Christ ia n Science Reading Room; the book. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Stop at a Christian Science Reading Room soon; read the Bible and Science and Health in lie quiet, undisturbed at mosphere provided for you. Borrow this book, free of charge. Or buv it for yourself. Library Edition $i. Paper back Edition tt.Ua. Second Invasion of the North Christian Science Rutting Room lit w Siirti St., Hettr tiWi. Mutterd t t.m. t $ Dil tticaet U4m Molidarti Wno doesn't thrill to the per formance of well-trained ath letes and who doesn't admire their physical condition? But there's serious concern today about the vast majority of our young people who atf notatb!t:ea!iygiftedandwhos8 physical capabilities are stead ily declining. There's only one solution to this problem. We must provide cur children witn Balanced educational programs to foster full development intellectual and physi'-at. All it takes are parents and teachers who care. Find out about the physical education program in your child's school. Don t judge it by varsity activities alone. Rather, find out what it offers average youngsters. For informstion about an activity program that could benefit your child, write to The President's Council on Physical Fitness. Washington 25, D.C. F added the necessary chemi cals to feed the plants. Under the warmth of the sun, or arti ficial heat, the plants thrived and fruited. The roots, feed ing on this concentrated food, sent life-giving nourishment to every stem and leaf. The boys were right, the plants did grow, and did produce fruit. An experienced grower eoufd determine to a certainty just what chemical to add from time to time to correct any condition or ailment he plants developed. Growth in most instances was really phenomenal. Results, under proper supervision, were bet ter than could be expected in ground culture. It looked as if "they had it made.' The planter knew thai plants need carbon, oxygen, calcium, magnesium, sulphur, phosphorus and iron. Lesser amounts of zinc, copper and a few other elements were also necessary. Ail those must be soluble, otherwise the plant cannot use them. But the for mula was worked out. Kits containing the necessary chemicals were packaged and placed on the market. Bonanza Anticipated The prospective growpr visualized himself raising ait the tomatoes, cucumbers jnd other vegetables he could carry away. He planned on doing his farming in his ga rage, or in a corner of the back-yard. It looked like a big deal. Besides, chemical farming had no geographical limits. It would also conserve space: the directions on the package said truckloads of produce could be raised easily and quickly, and all in just a few tanks. But there were flies in the solution. Plants use different nuinmems at oujerent sea sons, or periods of growth, de- pending on temperature. Another problem was oxygen aeration of the solution is ne cessary or the roots wilt rot. The problem of labor reared as neaa. using trie proper chemicals at the right time calls for an expert and some scientific training. With out knowledge of plant's needs, just anyone can't cook up or mix up a balanced meal. It sort of looks like we will have to get along with the ilood earth for some time; it still promises to furnish food for mans existence. If the dirt gardener ever had a fear that he would be outdated by a test tube, he can rest easy -his fears were groundless 11 GRADUATION CARDS Ifche yott can enoufli 217 1. Mm it. M4i,4 By MEBTOM T. AKERS UPI Correspondent The second invasion of the North, which would fail in blaze of glory in month at an obscure crossroads vil lage in Pennsylvania, started June S, 18S3. The day before. Gen. Rob ert E. Lee hnd decided to start his Army of Northern Virginia marching along tlw classic invasion route in the Shenandoah Valley corridor which runs into Maryland and Pennsylvania. This sec ond invasion was bora of nec essity and carried an overtone of desperation. It earlier counterpart of 1862 had splintered on the hills of Shsrpsburg, Md., along the banks of Antietam Creek. On this June day, Lee never I had lost a battle to the Union Army of the Potomac as com mander of the Army of Northern Virginia. He never had beaten it decisively, eith- er. Always after every defeat it had come back bigger and better equipped. Lee s perfect battle of , Chancellorsville was a month ' old almost to the day when he started his hungry army j on the march. No one knew better than Lee that Chancel lorsville had been a Pryhhic victory. And no one knew i better than he that the limit of indecisive victories was near io hand. Having Reservations 1 His faith in hts army was firm but he was beginning to j have reservations. In a letter! to Maj. Gen. John B. Hood on ; May 21 he said "I agree with ' you m believing that our: army would be invincible if; it could be properly organi-1 zed and officered. There never were such men in an S army before. They will go anywhere and do anything if j properly led. But there is the 1 difficulty - proper command-; j ers. Where can they be ob tained?" M Likely as not when Lee ; wrote to Hood he had ia mind ; the loss of Stonewall Jack- j son, who had died a couple ; of weeks before from wounds received at Chancellorsville. i The death , of Jackson j caused a reorganization of the Army of Northern Virginia.) Lee broke up the two-corps1 army into three, Lt, Gen. 1 James Longstreet continued in command of the first Corps. Richard S. Ewell was promoted to lieutenant gen eral and given Jackson's old second Corps. Ambrose Pow ell Hill, who had command ed the famous Light Division, was promoted to head the new third Corps. Compared to the Lee-Jack- j son - Longstreet combination this was a second team but it was the best the commander could field. I to have glimpsed the darken ing future of the Confederacy He even ventured some poli tical advice to President Jef ferson Davis, something out of character for Lee who was always the soldier, never the politician. Deep Layer of Words Lee wrapped his political thoughts in a deep layer of words. He wrote of peace movements in the North and conceded Federal superiority numbers, resources and all the means and appliances for carrying on war, (but) we have no right to look for ex emption from the military consequences of a vigorous use of these advantages . . , We should not therefore conceal from ourselves that our resources in men are con stantly diminishing, and the disproportion In this respect; , if they continue united m their efforts to subjugate; us, is steadily augmenting. . . : . . We should neglect no honorable means of dividing and weakening our enemies It seems to me that the most effectual mode of ac complishing this object, now within our reach, is to give all the encouragement we can, consistently with truth, to the rising peace party in the North. Nor do I think we should . make nice distinctions between those who declare for peace unconditionally, and those who advocate it was a means of restoring the Union however much we may pre fer the former." Lee closed the letter with "I leave to your better judg ment the proper course to be pursued. He was convinced that the war probably was lost, bar ring a complete collapse of the North war effort but there was no hint of despair in the suggestion. He would keep fighting, come what might. Another glimpse of Lee's restless mood came from a distant cousin, Randolph Mc Kim, an army chaplain. Mc Kim wrote: "As I talked with him after dinner, he cast his eyes unscathed. There lay hordes across the Rappahannock to' f. herds of horses, the camps of General aoseph!'0 Jm f1 lthaf- hst Hooker's army and said to me, l wish I could get at those people over there.' " To "get at those Deonle"- was exactly what Lee now ) Worked Before and shoes for the taking if his men moved fast and the Federals slowly, as he anticipated. proposed to da but not in the much fought-over wastes of Northern Virginia. He would lure them north across the Potomac and fight them when and where he chose. Mean- Furthermore he threaten Washington. Balti more and even Philadelphia. That plan had worked well before. 'I think I can throw Cen time his half starved, half-1 eral Hooker's army across the clothed, half-shod army would live off the fat of the land is Maryland and Pennsylva nia, the former touched only lightly by the war, the latter Potomac ... if I can do noth ing more and have to re turn,' he wrote to Davis. The new second Corps com mander, Ewell, led off the fateful expedition early to the morning of Jans S. He had learned to ase his new wooden leg and could even mount a horse unassisted. He had lost the leg at the battle of Grovetoa in the Second Manassas campaign nearly year earlier. Jast before re porting for hit new job he had been married to widow ed cousin, Liztekg Camsbelt c e u I d J Brown. She was about 44. he was 58. Historian Douglas Freeman described Ewell as "bald, popeyesi and long - becked, with a piping voice that seems ta fit hss appearance as strange unlovely bird; he probably hss stomach ul cere and chronically com plains of headaches, sleepless nights and indigestion; bat he quickly shows that he has chivalreti, fighting spirit along with sharp tongue and as edif sesse tsf humor, Frspesed Plea Longstreet had reservations about the invasion. He pro posed to Secretary of War James A. SeeMos, that hts corps be seat west ta rein force the Confederate army around Vrekssurg, Miss. He visualized defeating the army of Mij. Gen. U, S. Grsat waf then sweeping north to the Ohio River. He tried sat toe seherae on Lee, too, but neith er Lee cor Seddan fell ia with the plan. Longstreet m sat happy about E well's pro- motion, feelisg that 0. H, Hitt was the better maa tor corps leader. At a meeting of Lee's lead- A 3 ers sa Jas LcngjUfct re newed hit ebJeeUssc Us t " ... if we were ever gaing to make so offensive bsstte, he wrote later, it shsald h done south of il FsSojess Even Presidest Divii woaM develop some reaervatie&s and fessid back traeia tbst Les seeded 1st the taiea. Ami Lengstreet would car ry his convictions cf a de tease campaign almost to Sfe4 disaster pomt at the Peas sylvasia crossroads is art ot scare town called Gettysburg, Bat the army and other officers liked the prospects sf aetios ia new territory. "Have so tear we shall sot beat their. Mi. Gen, Dorsey Pender wrote to hss wife. IiihUHy tfetifefott Slim-Mint CMicr, m' tjv - m bi. At drajfui. ft RE 9 SHOPPING CENTER STO OPEN TONIGHT TIL JUNE GIFT SALE STORE HOURS: SUNDAYS 10:00 TO $.30 - MONDAY AND HlZAii MS A.M. is 9:00 f.M, TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, THUiSeAVS AHS SATittSAYS, 9 30 TO MS SMART 3-PC. 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