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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 19fi3 MEDFOKD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDKORD, OREGON mm CIVIL WAR Your Money's AT Your Friendly WAS THE Worth MARK'S By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc. A m ay? E3 mm mm i --f .-V j ivod1 p3 (p-m: SCAPEGOATS SOUGHT Gen. Braxlon Bragg won a handsome victory for the South and him self at Chickamauga, but failed to press his advantage, despite the advice and even the in sistance of his generals. After the battle, the Federal Army fell back into Chattanooga. In stead of hitting them while they were in con fusion, Bragg did nothing except to lay siege to the city. He made no military moves, but tried to make scapegoats out of several of his subordinates. Two of the generals he attacked were Lt. Gen. Leonidas Polk and Let. Gen. D. H. Hill. He brought charges against Polk but they were dropped and Polk was reinstated. Hill fared less well. He demanded a court of inquiry, which never convened, and Hill sat out the rest of the war. Above, from the Library of Congress collection, are Bragg, left; Polk, cen ter, and Hill. (UPI) Bragg's Generals Protest Stand By MEIITON T. AKERS Ul'l uorreopondent Shooting at the battle of Chickamauga ended the night of Sept. 20, 1863 but the fight ing lingered on for weeks be hind the lines. Heads rolled in this "second battle of Chickamauga." Gen. Braxton Bragg, having won a handsome victory on Chickamauga creek on Sept. 19-20 by routing part of the Federal Army of the Cumber land under Maj. Gen. Wiliam S. Rosecrans and by driving the rest back into Chattanooga, Tenn., failed to press his ad vantage despite the advice, even insistence of his generals. After the battle the Federal armv fell back into the city, disorganized but still a fighting force, and began to strengthen the defense which Bragg and his army had built before aban doning the city. Instead of pursuing the Fed erals and striking them while they were in confusion, Bragg merely began to lay seige to Chattanooga. His generals pro tested. One of them, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, who had brought his corps from the Army of North ern Virginia, advocated crossing the Tennessee river above the city, forcing Rosecrans oift and' into battle while his army still, was tending its wounds. Long-1 street spoke glowingly ot driv ing on to Nashville and' even' to the Ohio river. No Military Moves Lt. Gen. Leonidas Polk, an Episcopal bishop as well ' as 'a soldier, also favored exploiting the victory and doing so rapidly. But Bragg made no military moves other than to establish seige lines and send his cavalry on a long raid against Rose crans' supply lines. He did make, however, some moves against several of his subordinates. He picked three for scapegoats. The first victum was Polk. Bragg demanded an explana tion of Polk's tardy attacks on the morning of Sept. 20. Polk did not reply promptly and Bragg prodded him. Polk re plied eight days later that he had ordered Lt. Gen. D. H. Hill to attack that morning but that the courier carrying the orders could not find Hill. Bragg said the answer was unsatisfactory and promptly re lieved Polk from command. lie sent the bishop to Atlanta, along with Maj. Gen. Thomas C. Hindman. Bragg accused Hindman of failing to attack the Federals in MeLcmorc's Cove on Sept. 10 during pre liminary maneuvering before the battle. Polk fought back. He wrote a personal letter to President Jef ferson Davis protesting his dis missal. To his wife. Polk wrote "the truth is, General Bragg has made a failure, notwith standing the success of the bat tle, and he wants a scapegoat. Despite Davis' effort to smooth out the quarrel, Bragg brough charges against Polk which the war department dis missed. Polk was reinstated la ter but refused to serve under Bragg and was given another command. Court of Inquiry Refused Hill fared less well. Bragg said Hill "greatly demoralized the troops lie commanded, and sacrificed thousands at Chicka mauga." Hill demanded a court of inquiry but it was refused. He sat out the rest of the war until nearly the end. Part of Bragg's resentment stemmed from a meeting on .Sept. 26 of Longstreet, Hill and Polk when they discussed Brace's "palable weakness and mismanagement" of the army. Longstreet wrote to Secretary ol War James A. heddon and lJolK to Davis in that vein. Then on Oct. 4 another in dignation meeting was held, at tended by most of the superior officers of Bragg's army. This meeting drew up and sent to Richmond a round robin letter, an astonishing document in many wavs "Two weeks ago this army, elated by a great victory which promised to be the most fruit ful of the war. was in readiness to pursue a defeated enemy the round robin read. "Today, after having been 12 days in line of battle in the enemy's front . . . the Army of Tennessee has seen n new Sebnstopol rise steadily before its view it is certain the fruits of the victory of the Chickamauga have not escaped our grasp . . . The army . . . will in a few days time be thrown strictly on tile defensive, and may deem itsrlt fortunate if it escapes from its THIS tVEER The Flag Flies ...in Honor of... nfe luatNi BRAZIEl p 'Just off Jtckionvill Highway" MEMORIAL PARK WEDDING CHAPEL COLUMBARIUM 1395 Arnold lino FUNERAL HOME MAUSOLEUM , CREMATIONS : Phono 7737338 present position without dis aster. The round robin probably was written by Maj. Gen. Simon Buckner. Hill was among the signers, presumably Polk and Buckner, too. Receipt of all the letters in P.ichmond sent Davis to Bragg's headquarters. He "d Hill, Longstreet, Maj. Gen. B. F. Cheatham, now commanding Polk's corps, and Buckner to a meeting. With Bragg present Davis asked each officer to give his views on Bragg's fitness as army comma 'er. Kept on Subject They tried to turn the con vernation into other channels hut Davis kept them on the sub' ject All agreed Bragg should be removed while the general sat there and listened. Ab-mt the ame time Bragg look a tongue lashing from Nathan Bedford Forrest, ag gressive Confederate cavalry leader, then a brigadier general. Bragg had taken Forrest's troops for a raid without saying why. Forrest lost his temper, wrote a blistering letter to uragg and follow-d it up on norseuack. Forrest entered Bragg's head q irtcrs tent, refused to shake hands and rted a tirade against his supcrie- officer. "You commenced a cowardly and contemptible persecution of . soon after the battle of Shi loh," Forrest said. He went on to accuse Bragg ot robbing him ot his command because "1 would not fawn upon you." There was much more: "I have stood vour meaness as long as I intend to. You have played the put of a damned scoundrel, and are a coward, and if you were any part of a man I would slap -our jaws and force you to resent it." Those were fighting words but Bragg rc ..aired silent on his camp stool. "... I say n you that if vou ever again try to interfere with me or cross my - h, it will be at the peril of your life," For rest concluded. Neither Bragg nor Davis took any notice of the incident. When Davis arrived at Bragg's headquarters he had Lt. Gen. John C. I'emberton with him. He proposed to give Pemberlon command of Polk's corps. Pemberton had surrend ered Vicksburg about t w o months before and the outcries still had not died down. I'emhrrton Unwanted 1 he Army of Ten ;ee let It b SAVE MONEY ON READY-TO-SERVE Contrary to what I suspect 99 out of 100 of you thing, it costs you markedly less in terms of dollars as well as time to serve convenience foods today than to home-prepare meals from scratch in your kitchen. This defies all previous evidence. In 1957, when I last reported on the cost of built-in kitchen service, the story was precisely the opposite, indicated that a typical U.S. family was hiking its food bills hundreds of dollars a year by buying ready-to-serve foods. At the time my defense was that increasing millions of us were willing to pay the extra price because of the great time I savings convenience foods permitted and because their develop-1 1 ment was substantially improving our tooa sianaaras. Now the Department of Agriculture has updated its 1937 pilot study, has issued a comprehensive report making available for the first time accurate cost, quality and time-preparation com parisons on a large number of foods in various forms. The find ings are an unanticipated comfort to every housewife in the land Of 158 convenience foods price, the government found 116 were more expensive than their home-prepared counterparts sug gesting to a hit-and-run reader that the housewife is still boosting her food budget substantially by buying foods in processed rather than unprocessed forms. But the key point is that the more expensive ready-to-serve foods account for only a tiny volume of our purchase. Our buying of convenience foods costing less than their fresh counterparts is so much heavier that we more than offset the ' effect on our food budgets of the more expensive items we purchase. Of every $100 we spend for food in grocery stores, $14.03 goes for convenience foods. The cost of an equivalent quantity ot me fresh counterparts is $15.10 a difference of $1.07 in favor of readv-to-serve. Among the big money-savers is frozen orange juice concen-1 uaie, lor wmcii we speiiu oo ivma pci mc equivalent m fresh oranges comes to $1.39. Other major cost-decreasing con venience foods are frozen lima beans, canned and frozen peas, canned spaghetti, devil's food cake mix. Of all the convenience foods studied, instant coffee ranks first in sales, accounts for $1 Der $100 sncnt for food. Substitution of regular roasted ground rnftn umnlH atmnc rinuhlp rnnstimpr snpnriinff for coffee to SI. 96. I Of course, there are cost-increasing convenience foods. Per $100 spent, reaay-io-serve Danea proaucis, aesseris ana canay j take $1.70 against $1.16 for the home-prepared counterparts a difference of 46 per cent. Convenience beef, pork, poultry pack ages take $4.21 against $3.63 for the home-prepared equivalents. To achieve lower tood costs by use ot convenience tooas, tnere- fore, you must be selective and here the significant disclosure by the Agriculture Department is that the individual consumer "usually is. The startling news is the saving In money. That ready-to-serve foods permit major saving in worktime is indisputable. You can save five minutes per serving of French fries against the home-prepared potatoes, seven minutes per serving of frozen apple or cherry pie against the home-made product, etc. On 42 of the 138 convenience foods, the time saved costs no additional cash because the foods are cheaper. On half of the more expensive convenience foods, the time saved costs less than 60 cents per hour a much more modest price than I believed probable. On the quality front too, convenience foods are recording im-1 porlant progress. In most instances, the fresh food is still rated ', "slightly superior" in appearance, taste and desired texture, but j the word now is "slightly" and the variations in quality are tre mendous. ! From zero, the list of partially or entirely prepared foods has swelled to many hundreds in a few decades. Just the 158 con venience items covered in this study account for 14 per cent of the tens of billions of dollars we spend annually on food in grocery stores. As the news hits home that selective buying of ready-to-serve can save money in addition to time, every percentage will sky rocket. Children Holding Skill in Reading Being Restricted Ry DAVID NYOICK 1'IM Kilucatinn Specialist Increasing numbers of chil dren who are starting school know how to read to some ex tent. What do the schools do with these children? Many systems throughout the nation do not begin a formal reading program in the kinder garten. The teaching of reading in kindergarten has been dis couraged by some educators. The children arc given a readi ness program. This consists of experiences designed to prepare known pmtvi! '''u in nn.-i.. and Bragg that it did not want tlu'm ""' 1C1"''"S now 10 rca1 Pemberton. He and his staff ! Children arriving at school went on their wav. There was trouble in the Fed eral command after the battle, loo. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, with President Lin coln's approval, suspended and filed charges against three ma jor generals Tn ... Critten den and Alexander McCook. c rps commanders, and James S. Necley, division commander j The charges were that they had I left the battlefHd and in one case cowardice was charged. All appeared before courts of ; inquiry later ' Nashville al j which Rosecrans testified. All radio, and movies were cleared. 4-H NEWS MILK PAIL WRANGLERS The Milk Pail Wranglers 4-11 grade, second grade, third, etc.. The manual specifically tells the teacher each step to he taken. This organized approach is sim ple and inviting. The children are placed in groups with each group moving slowly or rapidly as they learn the skills. Why don't they all learn to read? All of these children are ex pected to read in the same books and learn by the same methods. If they don't under stand at the first attempt the lessons are repeated. The re sults are that some fourth graders are reading in a second grade book. How can they find interest and enthusiasm in im mature stories? It is just as unrealistic for a third grader to read the stories written for a fifth or sixth grader. Teacher Exercises Skills Perhaps the answer lies with the teacher. A teacher should be well trained in the teaching of reading skills. This is not always the case. She then re lies on the manual instead of feeling secure and using her own creative approach. The good teacher who has learned to recognize problems and who is free to use various methods can often, through her own creative efforts, reach the child who is having difficulty. Obviously, the typical read ing procram lacks the flexi- sohools, etc. This is not com-i bility to meet the needs of all expect to learn more about reading. They are excited about this prospect. But some schools place them back in a prepara tory phase. Needed Experiences This thinking was realistic 30 years ago. Children needed ex periences to help them with learning to read. Today, they probably have been exposed to mure varied experiences than even the schools previously provided. Rooks, newspapers, television. are major factors. Parents also contribute with increased travel, nursery pletely true for all children, but surely there is a vast number who fit into this category. Rec ognizing thai individuals are different, there are certainly club of Wagner vallev held their ; those children who are not September meeting at the home ! ready even in lirst grade. ol Mr. and Mrs. Ray Turpin of Reading programs are usual-1 mir-m ana oincers were elect- ly based on a series of text "1 , I books. There are one or more They are Louise llrrzoi), presi- books and accompanying teach- dcnl; Eddie White, vice presi- era manuals for each grade feeling their dent; ithy Turpin, secrelarv-: level pre-nrimer. orimer. first ' achievement. treas! jr: Leslie Welburn, j 1 Since learning to read is fun historian, and Tony White, rc- i damental to all learning, these porter. j the Turpins at the close of the problems become the majr cm Two new memliers of the i meeting and a cake was pre- cern in education, club are Roger Welburn and i senteti bv the t'nhails. Aimrecia-1 Tony White. j tion of the work of the Herzogs, The group chose Mr. and Mrs. I retiring assistants, was also ex-1 Ray Turpin of Talent as their ' pressed at the special social ' new assistants to succeed Mr. i hour. and Mrs. Waller Hcrzog, who ' Refreshments were served bv children. There is a need for programs which recognize that different children should begin reading at different ages; learn at dilferent rates; have many different interests; need ma lerital suited to their level and interest; sometimes have phys ical or emotional problems which block learning; will have different abilities therefore af- total level of were unable to continue in the position, according lo announcc I ment by Mr. and Mrs. Walter j Cahail. I A surprise welcome was given Mrs. Turpin The next regular meeting will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Welburn at 8 p.m. Oct. 14. Heart Gas? Slop Chohmt Hurt Git In 5 Mint Tpwr JH tuck at druiinl. Chfw BtH-tns tMtt at h'jt tn of intfH). m bt 0t vocfctt fev rtarfy ttntf. so til md turt riHi f in t ffhfvt it No Mrmful drifts Clt JMI-IW IMJV. Jfd Mttll t t tii ans, 0ran(bg, H. ., e (j&fui f:et umot. 6th and Grape DEER HUNTING SEASON OPENS Saturday, Sept. 28 The wise hunter stocks 'up on plenty of GOOD FOOD at LOW Groceteria prices. 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