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CONVENTION VALUES
; By Charles V. Stanton
No one can question the entertainment value of a presi
dential nominating- convention, particularly such a free-for-all
as the Republicans are staginsr in Chicairo.
But what about the educational values to be found In
these conventions?
Each four years we receive a "refresher course" in dem
ocratic government. We are given a review of the state of
the Union, for in campaign debates our policies and prac
tices are subjected to intense scrutiny.
We were called recently by a woman who had a question
pertaining to certain governmental procedure.
"I think it would be a fine idea if every adult was requir
ed to take a review course in civil government. I know 1
certainly need it," she said.
Actually, the presidential campaigns each four years par
tially serve that purpose. They, at least, stimulate our in
terest in government.
Perhaps we find our minds have grown a little hazy con
cerning procedures and methods of nomination and election.
We find our questions answered in the press and on the
radio, or, if they remain unanswered, we make inquiry.
Government Of The People
Government is brought directly into our homes. We lis
ten by radio to the voices of men and women we fre
quently hear mentioned in the news men and women we
have no opportunity to know personally. Yet, by means of
radio, we discover their personalities. Persons living in
areas served by television will benefit even more from this
educational factor as they will both hear and see the princi
pal figures of the political scene.
Ours is a government of the people. It can be such
form of government, however, only if the people participate.
When we have such stirring conventions as are scheduled
for this month, people are stimulated into better understand
ing of governmental affairs. Thus, while we may decry bit
ter fights within the parties, the very fact that we have such
heated battles only serves to whet the public interest and
stir participation on a larger scale. Few people can re
main aloof and uninterested as the Republican show pro
gresses toward its climax. Because convention news is so
intimately and avidly followed, we can anticipate a large
and better informed vote when we go to the polls in Novem
ber for the final decision.
Delegare! Spread Information
' Consider, too, the educational effect of our delegate sys
tem. Men and women from every congressional district with
in the nation attend the conventions as delegates and alter
nates. Many of these delegates will be attending their first
conventions. Others will be veterans. From the veterans
the newcomers will "learn the ropes." They will return
home filled with interesting "inside" information to tell their
friends. The friends to whom they relate these interesting
experiences will, in turn, feel closer to their government.
For instance, Roseburg's mayor, Al Flegel, will attend
the Democratic convention as an alternate. All of us who
know Al will ply him with questions when he returns. From
his tales of experiences we will obtain a more intimate pic
ture of the internal workings of the convention. We will
gain knowledge from his impressions and observations of
candidates, political leaders, policies and issues. We can
use the information he transmits in making our own de
cisions. '
While it is true that most of us do need a refresher
course in civil government, as our caller suggested, we ab
aorb a great deal of knowledge, perhaps without conscious
effort, each time presidential election year rolls around.
Furthermore, we obtain, in the bitter campaign fights follow,
ing conventions, with their debates, criticism, and analysis,
a better insight into the broad operation of government.
So we receive education while being simultaneously entertained.
Well, a stay-at-home can always
enjoy thrilling trips by hearing re
turned travelers' enthusiastic slor
lesl So, when Ye Hostess of the
Jioaring Camp (highway 38) had
i little time on her hands, and we
had finished our fried prawns and
10 on, with really good french
frles, we asked a few questions
about Mexico.
Mrs. Telkamp and her daugh
ter, Donna, enjoyed an 8500-mile
awing down through Mexico City
and Acupulro, and back through
Monterey. Maybe they went furth
er south: I lost track of place
names alter a bit. 1 gathered that
the two thoroughly liked Mexico
and the people who dwell there.
"I'd like to LIVK there," declared
Donna, with enthusiasm, and her
mother nodded vigorous agree
ment. "We didn't want to just see tour
ist attractions," declared M r s.
Telkamp, "so we tried some of the
aide-roads to see real villages and
how the people in them lived."
(1 at once suggested a book
"Quest for a Lost City" and
both Mrs. Telkamp and her daugh
ter said they would get the book
at once.) "We liked the people,"
they said, "and ol,. It a such a
change from northern hustle and
busUe. Everywhere we wont Eng
lish was spoken, and often we
heard, 'Take it easy! There's al
ways tomorrowl' and do you know,
after a while we did just that!
We were gonefrom December 18
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until February 1, and believe me,
we saw a lot of Mexico."
"People here told us not to eat
the meat," said Donna, "because
they have no sanitary laws or re
frigeration. But we had good
steaks all the way, and good food.
Only thing, sometimes we'd eat
too much of the real Mexican food
that's so awfully hot, and we
weren't used to it. But that was
Incidental."
"They were so kind to us," said
Mrs, Telkamp with genuine appre
ciation, "and that meant so much
to us when we were so far away
from home, and in really a foreign
country. One time a major and
his family) they were Castillians
took two whole days to help us
see things we might have missed
otherwise. Such nice people!"
"We never had a bit of tire
trouble," Donna added, "nor any
bother about getting gas. Of course
they do think, down there, that all
the tourists are rich. That's be
cause one American dollar brings
better than eight pesos in ex
change. So when we pay what
seems to them fabulous prices, we
really are not paying so much as
we see It."
Said Mrs. Telkamp. summing It
up, "the thing that helped us most
was the way the girl in Kl Paso
planned our Itinerary for us. She
knew exactly where to go and
what to do and what to expect.
We found courtesy everywhere,
and we can hardly wait to go back
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CHICAGO General Douglas MacArthur will accept a
vice presidential nomination in order to help put Senator
Robert A. Taft, leading contender for the GOP nomination,
in the White House. ,
This was the standout fact em
erging on the last day before the
Republican National Convention
opened here. Delegates, visitors
and practical politicans are weigh
ing the general's political assets
and talking shop about his chances.
The consensus Is that he has con
siderable of both,
The first week of preliminary
skirmishing in Chicago left both
Senator Taft and General Dwight
D, Eisenhower in about the same
place they were when their cam
paign managers arrived in town
neck and neck in the nomination
race. And most of the contested
delegate fights await the payoff
rounds on the convention floor, de
spite a week of committee wrang
ling. After a week of it the poli
ticians are happy to be able to
have something else to speculate
about, and thai is vice presidents.
Taft's forces are convinced that
General MacArthur's great per
sonal magnetism can be turned in
to Republican votes. And they ex
pect the general to pyramid that
appeal in his keynote address here
on Monday, ln fact, the copy of
the General's speech is probably
the most sought after document
in Chicago but it remains in his
possession until delivery date. If
they had it, large numbers of dele
gates would quit wondering which
way they are going to vote when
the roll calls start later in the
week.
Nobody expects the General to
be dull in his keynote address. And
the anxiety over what he will say
lies largely in the Eisenhower
camp. From the standpoint of ora
tory and personal appeal not even
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge will
dispute the fact that General Mac
Arthur will outdraw General Eis
enhower three to one. And General
MacArthur's impact on the dele
gates does not need to be Inflated
with phony grass root demands,
such as those being brought into
Chicago for General Eisenhower
from California and other states.
Among the worst blunders prac
tical politicians even those fav
orable to General Elsenhower
lay on the doorstep of his nun
ager, Senator Lodge, is the cur
rent litter of pressure letters and
telegrams urging Elsenhower's
nomination. The tactic is an old
left-wing trick and includes, as it
did in California, the passing out
of sample telegrams and letters
lo be sent to convention delegates
as honest expressions of the will
of the voters. For this, and other
reasons, I.odge is rapidly being
recognised here as the man most
likely to obtain the nomination for
Senator Taft.
General MacArthur, on the oth
er hand, has had no one meddling
In his political beliefs, which he
has expressed with certainty on
numerous occasions since Presi
dent Truman decided that his own
background as a World War One
artillery captain outranked Mac
Arthur's experience as military
strategist. The general is coming
to Chicago convinced that there is
a lingering chance to make the
nation secure so long as Repub
licans name a candidate for the
presidency who can display irtel
ligence and Integrity without suc
cumbing to praise and promotions
again and do it all over."
May tourists, of whatever na
tionality, visiting us be equally en
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from political misfits.
Wise delegates, who find It a re
lief to discuss something else be
sides the inflated roll call totals
of Taft or Eisenhower, or the out
come of delegate contests, are not
overlooking vice presidential pos
sibilities in the event Eisenhower
is nominated. The talk here is that
Senator William Knowland, of
California, can have the job as
Eisenhower's running mate by
simply nodding his head.
This fact was the first one Gov
ernor Earl Warren of California
bumped into on his arrival in
Chicago. Besides bringing with
him Ihe 70-vote delegation from
his home state, Warren also ar
rived with the conviction that he
has a chance for the presidential
nomination in the event of a Taft
Eisenhower deadlock. Next to Har
old Stassen, Warren is riding the
most distant political caboose in
recent Republican convention pol
itics. He has overlooked, along
with Stassen, and Governor Thom
as E. Dewey of New York, a ma
jor difference between this con
vention and the 1948 fiasco. Now
there is a new challenge to the
Fair Deal expressed by both Mac
Arthur and Knowland that ap
peals to the American people.
And it has nothing at all to do
with anyone connected with pre
viously disastrous "me too," cam
paigns. Hear Fulton Lewis Daily
On KRNR, 9:15 P.M.
Inland Empire
Sees 'Fire Ball'
Streak Over Sky
BOISE, Idaho Wl A "ball of
fire" was sighted streaking across
the sky in Eastern Oregon, South
western Idaho and Eastern Wash
ington Monday.
There was no Immediate expla
nation, but aviation officials said
the sighting of It over such a wide
area indicated it was not an air
plane crash.
An Empire Airlines pilot report
ed seeing the "ball" over Pendle
ton, Ore. Other unconfirmed re
ports had it sighted at Baker, Ore.
Several Boiscans called police with
reports of it, and State Policeman
Dean Bennett sighted it as he
drove between Boise and Moun
tain Home.
The CAA control tower at Gowen
Field said most reports had the
"ball" going across the sky north
of Boise between 10:30 and 10:35
a. m. Estimates of its height var
ied from 1.500 to 20,000 feet. There
was no agreement on which di
rection it was traveling.
Bennett said the "ball" appeared
to smash in the mountains north
of Mountain Home. The Elmore
County sheriff's office at Moun
tain Home, east of Boise, said it
had received no reports on it.
PENDLETON L A meteor
exploded in the air southeast of
here Monday morning, tourists and
pilots reported.
H. B. Davidson of I.os Angeles,
who saw it from Emigrant Hill,
said he first thought it was a plane.
The pilot of an Empire Airlines
plane reported to the CAA here
that it exploded 5,000 to 7,000 feet
in he air, at 1 a m.
Pilots landing at Boise made
similar reports, the CAA here said.
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to give their electoral votes to any
Republican candidate.
That situation Is an old scandal
in the Republican party.
Leaving out the four contested
Deep South states that, have al
ready been mentioned, there are
17 states that either have never
gone Republican or have not gone
Republican in the last four Presi
dential elections.
In these IT states, Taft has ITS
delegates and Eisenhower has
only 62. If the Republican national
committee gives all the contests to
Taft, it will make his total in
the highly uncertain (if not cer
tainly Democratic) states even
more top-heavy.
These figures are Interesting
to the extent that they show
where the Taft strength comes
from. A whale of a lot of it, as
you can see, comes from states
that are practically certain to go
Democratic at the general elec
tion in November.
It seems probable, from what
has already transpired, that wher
ever there (re contests the Taft
dominated Republican national
committee will favor the Taft dele
gates. But it appears likely that
the decisions of the committee will
be appealed to the floor of the
convention. At least, a determined
effort will be made by the Eisen
hower Deoole to bring that about.
If so, how can it change the j
situation?
Let's put It this way: The Taft-!
dominated GOP organization ap-1
pears at the moment to be more
concerned with GETTING ITS j
MAN NOMINATED than with
anything else. But if and when
the decision as to contests goes
to the floor of the convention there
will be a LOT of delegates who
will be more interested in electing
a Republican President than in
anvthing else. 1
That will represent quite a
change of atmosphere. :
Let's take a chance and quote
here the latest figures of the Gal
lop poll. I know that all polls
are under acute suspicion. A lot
of us believed them four years
ago and got badly let down. But
after all, the national polls four
years ago (including the Gallup
poll) were off only a few percent
age points. All in all, they were
surprisingly close.
In his latest poll, Gallup match
ed Taft and Eisenhower, each
separately, against Kefauver and
Stevenson, who at the moment
are regarded as the strongest of
the Democratic probabilities. Here
are the results:
If Stevenson runs against Taft,
Stevenson will win by the nar
row margin of one percentage
point. If Kefauver runs against
Taft, Kefauver will win by the
fairly comfortable margin of nine
percentage points.
But if Eisenhower runs against
Stevenson, Ike will win by the
decisive margin of 28 percentage
points and if U is Eisenhower
against Kefauver, Eisenhower will
win by 20 percentage points.
That's the Gallup poll story. Ad
mittedly, after 1948. the pollsters
are deep in the doghouse. But
the bulk of the 1206 delegates at
the Republican convention this
week are going to want to NAME
A WINNER. No politician likes to
back a loser. And. after all. Poll
ster Gallup MIGHT be right. At
least he has never been VERY
far off.
In that situation lies Ike's
chance of winning the nomina
tion. . A MANAGING INFIELD .
CENTRAILIA. III. I The Dan
ville Dans have the talent for
brainy plays In the Mississippi Ohio
Valley Class D baseball league.
They have three MOV managers
in their infield. Beside their cur
rent manager, Vurl Minnis, there
are Johnnv Morris, who managed
Paris, 111., In 19.V), and Bob Schlem
mer, who piloted Mt. Vernon, 111.,
in 19S0. ,
In the Day's News
Front Page Display
Of Story Disapproved
ROSEBUKG (To The Edi
tor) My disgust for your front
page item in last night's paper
(July 1) has to be expressed.
To make a front page story of
someone's misfortune to get a ci
tation on parking! This man hap
pens to be 1 tourist. Because he
let off steam through a letter to
state his side of the story, you
take it for a big news story.
Why pick on a tourist?
You should hear my steam
when I get a citation for over
parking, or when I try to drive
through some of your streets with
their double parking. Parking on
either side of the road, or in the
middle, is popular. Take your car
any time of the day and trv
driving that block by Denn-Ger-retsen's.
Then try getting back on
the highway without waiting until
you lose your temper.
I'm not saving CaDtain Finlev
did not deserve this citation. But
why make a front page story of
u: yvoy noi aiiacK some ot our
faults that are of regular dally
occurrence? For your front page
stories, why not write up some
of our local stories? I'm sure in
a community our size you could
find better material. Please give
us a paper of interest instead of
picking on someone who drives
through our city. Maybe there
will be a time, as in the Dast.
when we encourage tourists to
visit our fair city.
MRS. BESSIE SMITH
Roseburg, Oregon
MATCHBOOK VALUABLE
NEW YORK Wl One of the
most valued matchbooks among
collectors is the one issued 25
years ago this month when Charles
Lindbergh was honored at a lunch
eon in the Hotel Astor following
his epic non-stop flight from New
York to Paris.
Tom Torrent, who runs 1 Brook
lyn hobby shop, says his faded
copy is vauled at $100 but he won't
sell.
IVAN EDWARDS
1st Cloti Construction
Contracting or
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Directors
M. E. Ritter, Pres.
G. V. Wimberly, V-Pres.
H. O. Porgeter, See.-Mgr.
A. N. Orcutt, Attorney
V. J. Micelli, Treos.
Edvth Gilmour, Asst.
Secretary
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M. E. RITTER
President
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2nd day of July, A.
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Notary Public for
My Commission Expires: November 17, 195Z
Unemployment
In Oregon Upped
During June
Thousands of students and
housewives who applied for jobs
during June increased unemploy
ment during the past month even
with greater seasonal activities on
farms and in food processing, ac
cording to reports from 28 local
offices of the State Unemploy
ment Compensation Commission.
Portland reported 1,700 more job
seekers July 1, accounting for
more than half of the 17,100 Idle
Oregonlans as compared with
17,078 a month before. Unemploy
ment was estimated at 8,900 in the
metropolitan district, although
both Hillsboro and Oregon City
reported declines from June 1.
Eugene, Klamath Falls, , Al
bany, Lakeview, Grants Pass and
The Dalles also had more work
ers actively seeking jobs than a
month ago. Wet weather account
ed for some timber area layoffs
but entrance of students and wom
en into the labor market was re
sponsible for most of the trend.
Unfilled job openings listed by
local offices were on the decline.
Only 1,729 were reported, compar
ing with 2,330 the month before
and 2,370 on July 1, 1951.
Demand for harvest workers
slackened in most sections of the
ypNaws-ltavtew
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NOTICE
A SPECIAL MEETING OF ALL RESTAURANT
OPERATORS WILL BE HELD WEDNESDAY,
JULY 9, 1952, AT 2 P.M. IN THE
CIVIC ROOM OF THE HOTEL UMPQUA.
Douglas Co. Restaurant Ass'n.
TJlie Gtapel
L L POWERS MARIETTA POWERS
Roseburg Funeral Horn
Oak and Kant Sts. Telephone 3 4455 Rotaburg, Oregon
CONDITION OF
SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION
ROSEBURG, OREGON
Close of Business June 30, 1952
RESOURCES
-$2,313,546.99
1,618.11
226.13
36,600.00
- 150,000.00
. 24,000.00
475.03
-624.64
77,555.38
From Banks-
LIABILI
TIES
$2,449,950.97
14,600.00
92,205.02
12,524.35
1,928.79
29,925.38
2,262.49
-
of the above A ssociation, do hereby solemnly swear that the
the best of m knowledge and belief.
H.O. PARGETER
Secretary
BIANS ON TRACK
MIAMI 1 Horses couldn't
recognize Hialeah race track now
from a vegetable field. The famed
racing strip is knee-deep this sum
mer in a crop of velvet beana and
cow-peas. This off-season treat
ment is strictly for soil conservi.
tion to keep the turf in top condition.
state. Hillsboro, Gresham, Hood
Rfver and McMinnville were the
only offices noting even a alight
increase. Continued warm weath
er may advance ripening of cane
berries in western Oregon but the
damage to the cherry crop creat
ed temporary surpluses of pickers
in some areas usually rushed in
early July.
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your doctor about these marvelous
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D., 1952.
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