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Medford and Jackson County
History from th files of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 25, 1853 (Saturday)
The Bartlett pear crop in
Oregon (mostly produced in
the Rogue and Hood River
valleys) should be consider
ably above last year, and well
above average, according to
the U.S. Department of Agri
culture. A petition asking the aid of
the county court and health
department in combat ting
"millions of mosqultos" in the
Rogue Valley Heights district
is now being circulated In
that area.
0 YEARS AGO
July 28- HO (Sunday)1
Pear packing acliool enrolls
HO,
OnRruiiisHins
VjJ-aIsociation
From Arthur Perry a "YeJor quality tn an nems ui
smudge Pot" column.- "At- ciude authors and artists,
wrney joe '"Mto mirror life in America,
covered from the last time, , . . '
wrestled with his boy Joe,
Wednesday, and nothing was
torn loose or broken."
30 YEARS AGO
July 25, 1933 (Tuesday)
State and federal aid civen
Medford sewage disposal
plant plan.
Fifty-one city water users
failed to turn off water when
fire ilren sounded.
40 YEARS AGO
July 25, 1823 (Wednesday.
Man. mistakenly shot for
coyote, resting at Sacred
Heart hospital.
East side residents complain
motorists using East Main st
for racetrack.
SO YEARS AGO
JuW 25. 1913 (Friday)
Wage of $9.25 per week for
women favored.
Sealulls appear In Bear
creek after record July rain
fall.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina ' tan correct Is superior;
mm ar ele.h Is escellenti tlva ar
sli Is taw.
1. How many Presidents of
the U. S. have been ot Dutch
ancestry?
2. Who composed "Melody
In F?"
3. Through what three
oceans does the International
Date Line run?
4. At what festival was the
"oift of tongues" given, ac
cording to the Biblical
count?
5. Correct the following;
"He don't remember where he
i was."
6. Should green vegetables
be placed In cold water, or in
boiling water to sun cook
. tng?
7. Which of the earth's con-
. tlnents Is largest in area?
8. What Is the meaning of
pro tempore?
8. When John Alden plead
ed with Priscilla, whose mar
riage proposal was he plead
lng?
10. Is a marmoset a bird
fish, monkey, or gem stone?
Answers! 1. Three (VanBu
en . and. two . Roostvelts). 2
Rubinstein, 3. Arctic, Pacific
Antarctic. 4. Pentecost. 5. "H
' doesn't . 6. Boiling. 7. Asi
- (. For the time being. 9. Miles
StandJJsh. 10. Monkey.
THURSDAY, JULY 2S. 1963
Medal
In September, 31 persons 29 Americans,
a Spaniard and a Frenchman will be invited
to the White House to receive the Presidential
Medal of Freedom.
The honors list, announced on July 4 by the
President, is designed to single out individuals
for recognition for their "public and private" en
deavors for peace and cultural advancement. The
President declared :
"In a period when the national government must call
upon an Increasing portion of the talents and energies of
Its citizens, it is clearly appropriate to provide ways to
recognize and reward the work of persons who contrib
ute significantly to the quality of American life."
The idea is excellent. The problems posed
by putting it into effect are something else again.
WHY 31 instead of ten or a dozen or 50?
And on what basis, using what criteria?
Fame? Fortune? A listing of achievements? By
measurable benefits to others and, if so, by
what standard of measurement?
Some of the medal winners are famous
names, such as Marian Anderson, Ralph Bunche,
Pablo Casals, James Conant, Felix Frankfurter,
George Meany and Jean Monnet. (Casals and
Monnet are the two non-Americans.)
But others are less noted. Annie D. Waun
eka is one of three women on the list. She is a
Navajo public health worker. The third is Gene
vieve Caulfield. She is a blind teacher of the
blind in Vietnam. Their achievements are un
doubtedly notable and worth while. But they
have not brought widespread public notice.
WE ARE not carping
are attempting to
of making such a selection. there seems to be no
real thread of logic connecting the choices. And
in truth, it seems to be a list which is purely sub
jective in character which is all right, since
the President is the one who makes the choices,
presumably with assistance and advice.
Thus it is permissable to speculate on one's
own list, also one a subjective basis. Lacking the
research facilities of the federal government, it
would almost necessarily be a list composed of
people who have been in the public eye.
Who would you nominate as the 31 living
personages most deserving of recognition "who
contribute significantly to the quality of Ameri
can life?"
AND how would you apply that rather nebulous
i-itortrYn in maVinrr trio splpftinn? "What
indeed, is the "quality of
how does one contribute to it;
It could include inspiring examples of cour
age in difficulty, such as Helen Keller or, in a dif
ferent context, the Rev.
couJd include the great
spired generations of American students to strive
uom a greater uegiee ui
greater determination to
still, with all these
hoose from, it seems to
31 individuals can be no more than an arbitrary
exercise withal exceedingly interesting in
subjective judgment. E.A.
Wi
nners
For the benefit of those who may be curious
about the full list of Medal winners, here it is:
Marian Anderson,
worth Bunker, industrialist and diplomat ; Pablo
Casals, benevieve (Jaulneld, James B. Conant,
John F. Enders, Nobel prize winner in medicine ;
reux i rankfurter, Karl
delinquency; Robert J.
letic education; Edwin
bert H. Lehman, Robert
adviser and former Defense Secretary; J. Cliff
ord MacDonald, pioneer
retarded; John J. McCloy, banker and diplomat;
George Meany, Alexander Meiklejohn, philos
opher and teacher; Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe,
architect; Jean Monnet, Luis Munoz-Mann, gov
ernor of Puerto Rico; Clarence B. Randall, in
dustrialist and government adviser; Rudolph
Serkin, pianist; Edward Steichen, photographer;
George w. Taylor, professor and labor relations
consultant; Alan T. Waterman, physicist; Mark
S. Watson, newspaperman and Pulitzer prize
winner; Annie D. Wauneka, E. B. White, writer;
Thornton Wilder, writer; Edmund Wilson, crit
ic and author, and Andrew N. Wyeth, painter.
E.A.
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piti ciuiy I'M-i'iu suiiif iium uuu-e cuipitiyi't.'s.
We are acquainted with the man who has
Medford Post Office Box No. 501. And he tells
us that he's been Retting a regular trickle of mail
dropped in his box, addressed to someone else'"1"9 indulge in -throwing i
but bearing the code number 97501. What more I '""ny-wrencho. " j
, , , " t -, ,, , . ,--,,, .. I The kaleidoscope of ar
logical place for mail addressed to 9ii)01 than lofien reveals strange patterns
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He was out of town
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When he Checked lllS box
a leuer atuiresseti to a
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apparently had been lying in the box for two or
three days. Presumably the architect will receive I
it some time. But the way
working (or vice versa)
Zip, shmip!-f-E.A.
Winners
at the list as much as we
point out the difficulty
American life?" And
Martin Luther King. It
teachers, who have in
entieavur. u cuuia in-
who have attempted
and thereby inculcate
, f. ,
iiiiiieisiaiiuiiig anu a
seek improvement.
fields, and others, to
us that the selection of
Listed
Ralph J. Bunche, Ells
Holton, consultant on
Kiphuth, leader m ath
H. Land, inventor; Her
A. Lovett, Presidential
in schools for mentally
tins nine w iiai me postpaid program, it seems that
over last week end, and ;
y i i . l. t i
Monday night, he found i
lueciiora arcnnect wnicn
the ZIP code has been
don't bet on it.
4
"I Wa Hoping They
Stop
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paper. In tact tha contrary is often
Madison Quoted
To the Editor: In reference
to your "editorial" of a week
or so ago I would like to pre
sent here, for the defense, the
following quotation from
"The Federalist, No. 41,"
written by James Madison,
often called the "Father of
the Constitution."
"Some, who have not de
nied the necessity of the pow
er of taxation, have ground
ed a very fierce attack against
the Constitution, on the lan
guage in which it is defined.
It has been urged and echoed,
that the power 'to lay and
collect taxes, duties, imposts,
and excises, to pay the debts,
and provide for the common
defence and general welfare
of the United States,' amounts
to an unlimited commission
to exercise every power
which may be alleged to be
necessary for the common de
fence or general welfare . . .
"Had no utner enumeration
or definition of the powers
of the Congress been found
in the Constitution, than the
general expressions just cit
ed, the authors of the object
ion might have had some col
or for it; though It would have
Dcen diiricult to Jincl a rea
son for so awkward a form of
describing an authority to leg
islate in all possible cases. A
power to destroy the free
dom of the press, the trial by
Jury, or even to regulate the
course of descents, or the
forms of conveyances, must
be very singularly expressed
by the terms 'to raise money
for the general welfare.'
"But what color can the ob
jection have, when a specifi
cation of the objects alluded
to by these general terms Im
mediately follows, and is not
even separated by a longer
pause than a semicolon? If
the different parts of the
same instrument ought to be
expounded, as to give
meaning to every part which
will bear it, shall one part of
Hie same sentence be exclud
ed altogether from a share In
the meaning; and shall the
more doubtful and indefinite
terms be retained in their full
extent, and the clear and pre
cise expressions be denied
any signification whatsoever?
For what purpose could the
enumeration o f particular
powers be inserted, if these
and all others wore meant to
be Included In the proceeding
general power? Nothing is
more natural nor common
than first to use a general
phrase, and then to explain
and qualify It by a recital of I
particulars. But the Idea of
an enumeration of particu
lars which neither explain
nor qualify the general mean
ing, and can have no other
effect than to confound and
mislead, Is an absurdity. . , "
J. R. Spocrl,
89 Janney Lane,
Medford.
Who IS tha Enemy?
To the Editor: Nations not
only used to conquer an en
emy, but demand tribute as
well. Today, with our foreicn
example in chanty and for
i giveness; but we- now realize
j that it won't buy as friends.
! Even our so-called allies, such
i.onerul do IiBuiic, sonie-
muhi i-nusr people 10 wonoerj
w T,u,a. !',e ,om 7 "a I
W'b I he friend of today i
too often becomes the "foe
;" tomorrow - ana vice versa.
mw - nu
b" ViV'iwo ai
is.er welcome tin-
mucin lite
s - only to
ill as allies.
then we experienced the
paradox of the Italians being
"angels" at first, but becom
ing "devils" at the ljl - de-
MEOFOHO MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
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Here"
the case.
tpite our common Christian!
ty.
And, speaking of religion
I recall a newspaper item that
I read shortly after World
War I. It told of the visit of
King George V to Canterbury
Cathedral "to offer up thanks
to Almighty God for the Al
lied victory." I couldn't help
thinking of how close the
Kaiser came to duplicating
that visit - in HIS cathedral!
We stripped Spain of her
last remnant of empire when
we helped Cuba to become
republic; nevertheless, in spite
of our heralded democratic
tradition, we went on to sup
port Spain's autocrat, Gen
eralissimo Franco. And we are
still handing out billions to
Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito
despite his penchant for shoot
ing down now and then one
of our lost planes!
Our hatred of the Japanese
was especially deep; but that
didn't stop us from bestowing
our nation's highest honor
upon one them - even though
he once tried to devastate our
Pacific Northwest!
As for the Germans: We
forgave them, too - at least
some of them - and our Presi
dent recently pledged that we
shall continue to defend West
Berlin, even at the risk of
destruction of our own cities!
We have played "off again,
on again with Russia, and
now face the possibility of
becoming her ally in an all
out war between the white
and yellow races. At least It
appears that Nikita Khrush
chev is getting tired of hear
ing Mao urge Let s you and
him fight!" and is leaning .o
ward the West . . .
POWER POLITICS! What
strange bedfellows are made
in thy name?
George M. Babcock
427 Hospital dr.
' Ashland, Ore.
Mountains and Liquor
To the Editor: We here in
the Rogue valley really are
creasingly evident that our
privileged. While it is in
creasingly evident that our
population is on the increase,
there is still room to live and
breathe.
Recently a friend returned
from vacationing in the south
ern part of a neighboring
state. After listening to his
vivid description of condi
tions here, I can truthfully say
we have much for which to
be thankful. Perhaps it docs
get a bit cooler here at times
and rain more, but even so,
it's much preferable to the
Sodom to the south.
Just yesterday the writer
took his boys on a promised
outing into the mountains. No,
we didn't have to buck free
way traffic for 50 miles to
get there either. Within min
utes we were up among the
sweet scented evergreens,
gurgling m o u n tain streams
and alpine meadows filled
with tiger lilies greeted our
eyes. Nature has a wonderful
way of even healing the scar
red logged-otf areas. From
rambling
coast type wild
blackberry, ferns and what
havc-you. the denuded spots
were even taking a new look
then higher up we even
chanced on a few remaining
snow banks. The high coun
try along the Siskiyous is
profuse with greenery and
colorful wiidfiowers. At 7000
feet one gets a bit shortwind-
cd if he tries to keep up w th
14 vearold bovs.
rt
uur snort atternoon trip
?a m,mp " ,'n, 0,,e 1,u-
Hon not so pleasant. As we
passed the new ski area being
built I stopped briefly apd
chatted with a group of work
ers. V'pon asking where the
lodge would be I was pointed
to the spot. At this point one
chap chirped up, "the bar
isn't open yet "
The statement wa said
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De Gaulle
His Views
By JOSEPH W. GRIGG
United Press International
Paris - HiPD - President
Charles de Gaulle risks find
ing himself left out in the cold
in the fast developing recon
ciliation between Moscow and
the West. There was no emp
ty chair waiting for France
in the current East-West nu
clear test ban talks in Mos
cow. There simply was no
chair at all.
There is a growing feeling
in Western capitals that a
summit meeting of President
Kennedy, British Prime Min
ister Harold Macmillan and
Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev might result next
winter if a test ban agree
ment, even a limited one, is
signed.
But, curiously, little or
nothing has been said about
the possibility of de Gaulle
taking part, too. It simply is
assumed he would not.
In fact, de Gaulle's whole
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J, Harris
fc- Field Enterprises, Inc.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
The ability to go fast cre
ates a kind of dishonesty, like
that of the normally law-abiding
motorist who, in speeding
along the highway, tries to
deceive and outwit the police;
it is perhaps no accident that
the classical god Mercury,
who flew with wings at his
heels, was at once the god of
speed and the god of thieves.
Those who praise "ac
tion" too often have a eon
tempt tor thought: this is
why the "man of action"
eventually runs the risk of
becoming the man of vio
lence, which is action for its
own sake, with no rational
end or purpose.
-
Most of the disappoint
ments of later life could be
lightened immeasurably if we
could learn (and truly be
lieve) early in life that what
we confusedly call "happi
ness is a direction and not
a place.
The one says, "You must
change man to change soci
ety"; the other says, "You
must change society in or
der to change man"; and
neither can see that each
has hold of only one-half of
the iruih, that the two seem
ing oppositions are recipro
cal, and we can never
achieve the one without
working on the other.
The most foolish philoso
phers are those who hold the
doctrine that most people are
fools; when people seem to
be stupid it is because they
are preoccupied, because their
minds are closed by fears or
anxieties; but it is a very
great mistake to think that a
closed mind is an empty one
consider, for instance, chil
dren who seem "stupid" in
school because their interest
hasn't been awakened, but
who are skillful and lively in
the games that do interest
them.
"Our souls are not much
hidden," wrote Charles H.
Cooloy, in a passage I often
return to. "Nothing is truer
to experience or more
wholesome to recognise
than that the impression we
make comas trom what we
are, in inmost desira and
habit, and not from what
we may try to seem to be."
We know that lovers come
to resemble each other; what
we fail to see is that enemies,
after a while, also come to
resemble each other, but on
the lowest plane, not on the
highest; read of the war be
tween Athens and Sparta and
it will be hard to tell the
"democracy" from the "dic
tatorship." Most of us would agree
that it it unnatural and un
wholesome to live in soli
tude; yet those who live in
tha present, who draw no
nourishment or ieeling of
continuity from history, are
alienattd Irom the past, and
live in a kind of temporal
solitude.
jokingly, of course, but yours
truly did some thinking." Part
of it was out loud expressing
my convictions. "Well, they
have to make money some
way," one fellow said.
Why is it that human be
ings made In God's own
image seem so intent on pro
moting drunkeness? Is money
more important than the souls
of men? Why in the name of
common sense and reasoning
is liquor needed up at a ski
lodge? Will the return trip to
the valley over icy roads be
made safer by drinking? Not
even the sickening liquor
drenched head on crashes
daily on our highways seem
to awaken us. We are our
brother's keeper. Let's think
Henry Johnson Jr.
231 5 Highway 66
Ashland, Oi.
"
Excluded
Awaited At July 29 Session
attitude toward the cold war
and reconciliation with Mos
cow has done little to encour
age his Allies to try to get
him in on the act.
He has refused consistently
to have any part in diplomatic
"probing" talks with the Rus
sians in the past Is months.
He boycotted the Geneva
disarmament conference on
the ground that it would
achieve nothing.
He has cold-shouldered the
talks on a nuclear test ban.
His argument was that any
test ban agreement would be
useless unless all existing nuc
lear stockpiles and the ve
hicles for launching nuclear
weapons are destroyed. In
fact, he obviously is determ
ined to stay out of any East
West nuclear agreement until
France has its own independ
ent nuclear striking force.
Recently, Khrushchev, in a
private message conveyed by
his Paris Ambassador, Sergei
Vinogradov, tried to get de
Matter of Fact y jePh auoP
(c New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
WHERE WE STAND
Washington - The most
obvious effect of the agree
ment on a nuclear test ban
is to freeze
the existing
A m e r i can
and Soviet nu
clear weapons
systems e x -cept
in the
limited areas
where prog
ress can be
made by
u n derground
lUtnp
testing. We are undoubtedly
due to hear much heated ar
gument about the advantages
and risks of this nuclear ver
sion of the old children's
game called "still pond, no
more moving." Hence it may
may be in order to offer a
cool assessment of the pres
ent stage of U.S. and Soviet
nuclear weapons develop
ment. In the current stage of the
grim nuclear art, it must be
noted, the test of success is
not mere destructiveness. The
main test is, rather, what some
of the scientists call the
weight-to-bang ratio.
IN OTHER words, if you can
pack more kilotonnage or
megatonnage of destructive
power into a given weight of
bomb than your rival has man
aged to do, you are in the
lead. The weight - to - bang
ratio is so important, in turn,
because light bomb - weights
make for simpler delivery
systems; and the delivery sys
tems nowadays count far
more than bomb stocks in all
calculations of the balance of
nuclear striking power.
When this test of the
weight - to - bang ratio is ap
plied to U.S. and Soviet nu
clear weapons development
what emerges is quite won
derfully banal. We are ahead
of the Soviets in the kind of
weapons we want, and have
therefore tried extra - hard
to develop. And the Soviets
are ahead of us in the kind of
weapons they want, and have
therefore emphasized in their
development program.
Nothing could be less un
expected. Yet the cry is al
ready being raised in some
quarters that the nuclear test
ban has been agreed to when
"the Soviets are ahead." In
hard - nosed Soviet circles,
meanwhile, one may be pret
ty sure that there is grum
bling about a test ban's be
ing agreed to when "the U.S.
is ahead." In both cases, the
question to ask is, "Ahead,
how and where?"
rro BE MORE specific, the
- Soviets are ahead, in terms
of the weight to - bang ratio,
in the development of weap
ons of very high megatonnage.
Railroads Asked To
Continue Nut Rates
Salem -lUTD- The Southern
Pacific and Spokane, Portland
and Seattle railroads have
been urged to continue car
load rates now in effect on
edible nuts shipped from Ore
gon and Washington to Cali
fornia. The request that the prcs-
; ent rate be retained was made
by the public utility commis
sioner and the state depart
ment of agriculture.
Southbound rates on the
carload nut shipments are set
for cancellation Aug. 1 when
reduced rates now in effect
j will apply only to nuts ship-
ped north out of California.
) The two agencies told the
I rail lines there is enough car
: load movements of filberts
and walnuts to California
packing plants to warrant
continued use of the rates and
that Oregon and California
shippers should be treated
equally. a
US
From Summit Talk;
Gaulle to abandon his own
nuclear testing if the United
States, Britain and riussia
reach an agreement to do so
too.
De Gaulle's reply was not
made public. But it apparent
ly showed no disposition to
unbend on his part . v
The French leader has made
his position clear on a pos
sible reconciliation between
Moscow and the West.
He will not negotiate until
Russia quits threatening the
West, particularly over Ber
lin. He believes a reconciliation
will come some day and that it
will be hastened by the Moscow-Peking
quarrel over
world Communist leadership.
But so far he has not indi
cated he sees any sign that
Russia is ready yet to talk
turkey without threats or
duress.
DeGaulle has kept silent on
these and other major foreign
policy issues since his Jan. 14
They have tested a 100-mega-ton
bomb; but its estimated
weight of hundreds of thou
sands of pounds, though fair
ly low for its destructive
power, still forbids the use
of this bomb in combination
with a rocket - delivery sys
tem. More important, the Sovi
ets have also tested a 30-meg-aton
bomb, whose weight is
thought to be low enough to
make it deliverable by their
very large, powerful but cum
bersome, intercontinental bal
listic missiles. Warheads of
this pattern may well be used
for some, at least, of the sec
ond generation Soviet ICBMs
comparable to our late model
Titans, which are now begin
ning to be deployed in Rus
sia.
The American military the
orists, in contrast, have con
sistently held that 10 mega
tons was about the limit of
the really useful explosive
power of a nuclear weapon.
Hence the U.S. nuclear weap
ons program has emphasized
warheads' and bombs of pow
ers up to 10 megatons, and in
this range, the U.S. has the
lead.
The weight-to-bang ratio of
the American weapons is par
ticularly good, as might be
expected, in the warheads de
signed for use with Polaris
and Minuteman missiles. The
numbers of Polaris and Min
uteman missiles in the Amer
ican program considerably ex
ceed the numbers of second
generation ICBMs being de
ployed by the Soviets.
THE U. S. missiles are small
er, more dependable, and
much more accurate - advant
ages considered greatly to out
weigh their smaller warheads.
And in this range of destruc
tive power, the Soviets have
not tested any warheads as
efficient as ours which
means that they will not find
it easy to go forward as we
have gone, from liquid-fuelled
to solid-fuelled rockets.
Such, then, are the main
features of the balance sheet.
Even if we were to test an
improved American warhead
comparable to the Soviet 30
megaton type, we would not
have any rockets capable of
delivering it, unless we made
the retrograde step of return
ing to a liquid-fuelled deliv
ery system.
Meanwhile, as noted, the So
viets have somewhat handi
capped themselves for the for
ward step to a solid-fuelled
rocket delivcrey system. In
practical terms, therefore, it
is hard to see why the U.S.
will lose by the ban.
And this is all the more true
since the omission of under
ground tests will keep the
Atomic Energy Commission's
weapons development labora
tories in being and at work.
A complete ban. which would
all but annihilate the labora
tories, would be a very dif
ferent proposition.
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&ra?4 l I T
"Gentlemen, with tensions increasing, it would be wisa le
have a procedure tor imposing martial law when
called upon. Now, after securing a city.
Ml ug an officer'i club. . . ."
a, sneaa
news conterence. He has
scheduled another one July
29.
French officials and foreign
diplomats are waiting with
interest to see whether the
tough uncompromising de
Gaulle of last winter may
have thawed out enough to
join in bringing East-West re
lations out of the deep freeze.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written, the bulk
of the big news is still up in
the air.
In Moscow, U.S., British and
Soviet negotiators are report
ed to be near agreement on
a limited nuclear test ban
treaty. Latest reports in the
Soviet capital are that initial
ing of the treaty might come
at any time. But it hasn't been
initialed yet.
N Washington, President
Kennedy has asked Con
gress for legislation to head
off the threatened railway
strike by putting the work
rules dispute before the In
terstate Commerce Commis
sion for settlement. But that
involves the ticklish question
of FORCED ARBITRATION.
There is a lot of opposition
to forced arbitration. So Con
gress is apt to take a lot of
time in deciding whether or
not to tackle such a drastic
solution.
And so on.
CO
O Let's
news.
turn to the little
DOWN in Mill Valley, Mrs.
Genevieve Earl was cut
ting greens in her garden
when she felt something jab
her ankle. She looked
down and saw that she was '
STANDING ON A TWO f
FOOT LONG RATTLE-j
SNAKE!
She screamed, and her hus
band came running from the
house.
FORTUNATELY, he knew
his snake bite techniques.
He applied a tourniquet -tieing
his handkerchief at the
corners, putting it around her
ankle above the bite and
twisting it tightly to prevent
the circulation of blood con
taining the snake venom.
He then dashed back into
the house for a razor blade,
with which he made a cut
where the snake's fangs had
pierced the skin, applied his
iips to the wound and sucked
out the venom - which, of
course, he spat out.
He then rushed his wife to
the hospital, where anti-venom
serum was administered
to her. She was doing all
right at last reports.
TT was a good example of
knowing what to do in an
emergency - and DOING IT
QUICKLY. The accepted pro
cedures in the case of snake
bite by a poisonous reptile
are to call a doctor - but, if
no doctor is near, apply a
tourniquet above the wound.
Then cut open the fang marks
with a sterilized knife or raz- t
or blade (a flame wil sterilize S
the knife if nothing better is t
at hand).
Apply suction to the cuts '
to remove the poison and spit
it out. The suction may be f
needed for about 15 minutes '
in each hour for several f
hours. Between these periods ;
cover the wound with hot Ep- v
som salt or table salt com
presses. If the poison spreads
before the doctor comes, the :
bandage should be moved
higher and other cuts made ;
where the swelling is bad.
Epsom salts and plenty of f
water may be taken by !
mouth. Whiskey should NOT .'
be given, but in case of col- !
lapse the patient may take ;
strong, hot coffee or aromatic ;
spirits of ammonia every half -hour.
CONGRATULATIONS
to
Mr. Earl.
He knew what to do and
how to do it.
So he saved a precious life.
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