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EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, June 3D. 1944 MEDFORDvTRIBUNE "Evtvyoa ni BotitborB Oructm Bdda Ui Mall TfibDD" Dally Kxmpt Saturday Published br MCUrORD PRINTIMO CO. IT-tl North Fir 6L Pboo 1141 RUnEHT W RUHU Editor. RNEST a QILSTRAP. Un.fc. Am IadpndBt Nowcpopofw Bnttrod u oooond alaaa mattor at Med ford, Orteon, under Act of March I 1171, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Hall In Advaneot Dally and Sunday ona jar....,T.It Dally and Sunday all month.,, 4.00 Dally and Sunday thraa tnonthf. t.lt Dally and Sunday ona month. .74 By CarrUr la Adranea Mod ford Ash iand, Central Point, Jacksonville, Gold IIIII, Pboeals. Talent, and m motor routeat Dally and Sunder ana yaar $. Dally and Sunday .one month.. ,71 AH Urmi oaab la ad vane. Official Pa par mt the City a Medford- Oinelal fapar mi Jncttsoa tJounty UBUUBR OP AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS Advartlalng Representative WKST-HObl.lDAT COMPANY, INC. Orrioea In New York. Chleavo, Detroit San Pranelaeo, Loo A nee lea, Seattle, Portland, St. XODla, Atlanta, Vancouver, H. C Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce by her GOP convention ' speech drew the small-bore cal ibre fire of the idolatrous sec tion of the New Deal press. One claimed she was "more cute than conscientious." The con gresswoman was a glamorous eye-full, and spoke many a po tent mouth-full, in the course of her remarks. The republican press, if it cared to, could men-1 lion a iaay leieciea xo noimngi, whose elephantine attempts over nearly 12 years to appear "cute and conscientious" hivt left the deep impression she was neither. More warships of the Nip ponese at the bottom of the sea, in the locker of the Hon. Davy Jones, the well-known under water junkdealer. . Sign in a State Street drug store window: "Try Our Cough Medicine. You Will Never Get Any Better." Arch Ward, Chi cago Tribune. Frank and candid. Editorial Correspondence Chicago, June 27. The weather man here must be a New Dealer. This Is our 4th day and there hasn't been a cool breeze yet, nor any breeze for that matter except the hot-air breeze out at the convention hall. The hsat record for June was broken yester day in fact (around 9fl in the shade), and even the long-suffering Republicans accustomed as they are to adversity, can't bear up under it without weakening a bit. Had it not been for the atmo sphere In the stadium last night we have an idea there would have been one of those banner-hoisting demonstrations in favor of the keynoter "Governor Warren" of California. But while the spirit was willing the flesh was weak. The effort died a-borning, as practically everything else did in that suffocating and depressing liot-house. Wheeeew oh for one sweet, cool breath from the Rogue River valley who knows? Such a thing might have made history last night and also made Earl Warren. w w w w But as It is, the poor old elephant certainly has to swim against the tide in its 23rd convention. (There comes that 23-skldoo again.) It IS the GOP's 23rd and for some unexplained reason nearly all of them have been held right here in Chicago, which has next to the worst climate on the north American continent. Perhaps after the war both major parties will have enough sense to hold their conventions out on the coast, where men are men and can take a deep breath without the aid of an oxygen tank. The Democrats did that once, and "we were there , so was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But Democrats are very superstitious their nominee was snowed under the following November, so no one has been able to get them west of the Mississippi since. Yes. the boys and girls at the convention liked Governor War ren's speech. We should say off hand, that is about all they have liked to date. And they made quite a noise about it. buch phrases as they (the New ueaij maice tne rarmers worn an aay ana Keep books all night." And: "In Washington whore the bureaucrats live there is still a Democrat in the White House, but out where the people live, the country is predominantly Republican." (Governor Warren referred to the large number of Republican Governors). Also: "For 11 long years we have been in the middle of the stream. We are not amphibious. We want to get across. We want lo feel dry and solid ground under our feet again!" (That was designed to kill the don't-change-horses slogan. tias never had. And then P. 3. KM will also be here, which will surely be a great help. And now we must leave to hear former President Herbert Hoover and Congressman "Claire de Lune" Luce, there is a pair for you Hoover and Lucel The most colorless, inarticulate and worthy soul, paired up with the most colorful, articulate, glamor ous and well why go Into that! They are both good Republicans and we have great hopes of keeping awake without benefit of any flash bulbs this time. By the way we think we know the answer to why that little Times girl shot us under the impression your correspondent was some celebrity of note. Sho suspected the "editorial we" was Ticless Tanner", the GOP pioneer who has attended every Re publican convention since 1884, when Benjamin Harrison was nominated, and is proud of It. Well we date from William Howard Taft in 1908. which isn' so bad! And a war is on! one finds it difficult to realize this in this loop-the-loop Babylon of iniquity where all have all they want to eat and drink and not within 5000 miles of a battlefront. What a Paradise on Earth really! .... And yet there is tragedy here as there is tragedy after tragedy everywnere. Another old friend Just dropped in for example he has a son missing in France, missing for three months. He hopes he is in the French Underground, for he says often one doesn't know for six or eight months they are safe when they reach that place of refuge. lie says he keeps as busy as possible so he won t brood over it. out wim Mrs. B. well it's different! R.W.R. More local interest Is being displayed In the height the mer cury will soar, than the demo cratic nominee for president. . The sanctum of this col. has been repainted, refurbished and rcrugged by the management. It Is such a scrumtlous-hole-ln-the-wall, it will be ten days he- fore Its regular occupant has the nerve to go in without tak ing off his hat. "SURVEY ON WOMEN IN INDUSTRY SHOWS SOME AMAZING FIGURES." (Hd llne K. C. Star). You're not telling anybody anything. Ernie Pyle, the ace war corre spondent of the home-hoiks, tells of any army officer yel ling orders on the battlefield, when a bullet came along, in the midst of a shout, and passed through both cheeks, touching neither tongue nor teeth. It was a lucky shot for the offi cer. He is convalescing speed ily, and Is able to close his mouth if he wants to. The next republican event will be the official notification of Gov. Dewey of his nomina tion for the presidency. This is Just a precaution, in case he hasn't heard of it by the first week In Augulst. FOR SALE I have to offer three milking shorthorn bulls of good blood lines and milk record. Will improve most any one's herd. Grayson. V. Hunter. Madison Heights. (Lynchburg News). Cause for wonder item. Considerable argument has arisen over the loyalty of the German people to Herr Hitler. They were also loyal to the Kaiser. It may be loyalty, and it may be they are Just in a rut about going to war. A Bclolt, Wisconsin, dele gate to Chicago while in a de fiant mood, cast the only vote In the convention against Gov. Dewey. He would rather be mad than postmaster of Bcloit. ESSAY ON SHEEP (The Dalles Chronicle) "For hours today a small crowd of men have been stand ing at the corner of First and Washington streets watching the circus attending the loading of a flock of sheep on the ferry boat. The only sounds that can be heard are Shoo-o from the men and baa from the sheep, for the profanity their actions must cause is not loud, but deep and heartfelt. The measly animals circle round and round like a democratic platform, and are intense in their desire to go anywhere and everywhere but on the boat. By the exercise of a great deal of patience a batch of them is put on board, but every boat load causes a repe tition of the game." (SO yrs. ago column.) Yes as key-note speeches go it was a very good speech. Too long and too declamatory and too partisan perhaps, but keynote speeches have to be. And It wasn't as partisan as expected. In fact now and then the speaker intimated. If he did not definitely admit, that some of the accomplishments of the Roosevelt adminis tration had been beneficial and certain principles of the New Ueal wold be retained when the Republicans take over this next January, as of course they will! (SIC.) . . . Governor Warren Is a large, rather fine-looking, honest-looking man, with considerable poise and apparently even more good humor. He couldn't resist smiling now and then at some of his own digs at the present administration and we should say he enjoyed himself. We got it straight from one of the California newspaper men that Governor Warren is perfectly sincere In his desire not to run on the national hook-up this year, wants to finish his job as Governor of the state of California. If this is true and we believe it Is, It does credit to the Governor's good sense. News Behind The News By Paul MaJIon Chicago, June 30 Can Roose velt be beaten? Has Dewey a chance? Stories have been creeping into Paul Mallon As far as that goes an old friend on the New York Herald Tribune who knows Governor Dewey Intimately, calls him Tommy D. maintains with a straight face that the New York Governor really doesn t want to be a nominee either. That's hard to believe foi we have always felt DEWEY WAS and is a very ambitious man. On the other hand, THAT might explain it! Speaking of key-noters, the real, keynote of this Republican convention, we would say Is the desire at all costs to get together, to somehow, Bomeway iron out party differences and present a united front to the opposition in the coming campaign. That is why Mr. Wendell Winkle s criticism of the platform, as outlined to him over the phone came as such a bomb-shell, Wlllkie is not popular In this convention (as we predicted would be the case before he retired from the contest), but now we should say If a popularity poll were taken of this perspiring and perplexed multitude, Mr. Wendell Willkle would take second place to even that "Ol' Man Debbil" Roosevelt. They, a majority of these delegates, hate Wendell's INSIDES, and If he should appear nt the convention we honestly believe the Chicago police might have as serious a problem on their hands, as they had when the stadium was last used for a major party gathering, that is when certain anti-Fourth Term Democrats tried to speak from this platform against the renomination of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. That fact, the fact that our last appearance In this particular convention hall was to look in on the 4th term nomination of FDR the news pa pers that this convent ion had a defeat ist spirit. The administration partisan writ ers chose that not u n u s u al political line. The London Times, which always as sumes itself to be the British empire, has edi torially derided the republican chances; "but this also may re flect a personal Interest. The Times may wish to continue the Churchill-Roosevelt dealings into postwar. Yet, aside from these Inter est-inspired stories, there is a rather wide prevailing awe of the Roosevelt tendency to con trol everything, and a respect for his great powers. Naturally, he is doing nothing to discour age that interpretation. But this is a usual technique in his cam paigning, the imposition of an atmosphere of discouragement upon his opposition. A factual reporting Job on " this convention will give you a different picture. If you will probe the state . and sec tional leaders for their honest opinions, you will find the sit uation somewhat like this: The Pacific coast regions are doubt ful or pro-Roosevelt as a whole today. Oregon gives Dewey his best coast chance. Important California will be especially dif ficult without Warren on the ticket. I would count it demo cratic. In the Rocky mountain regions the republicans think they can carry Wyoming and Idaho surely; probably also Arizona and New Mexico, but will be. Whoever carries them will win this election. IT Is all up to Dewey. He is tftntprlntf ih ramnalirn tirith the edge against him psycho logically. To many he Is David out after Goliath, but with the same ending not guaranteed. Yet the ground is well pre pared for him. Republican or ganizations are functioning in 26 states, the populous, heavy- voting ones, for the first time in all the Roosevelt election years. If he conducts an unenlight- ening, unintelligent campaign he can lose by a landslide. If he can keep all the republican voters together and the anti- Roosevelt forces solidified, he can win. My first state canvass shows Roosevelt 184, Dewey 239, doubtful 109; points needed to win 266. Flight o Time Medford and Jackson Co His tory from the files of the Mail Tribune 10 and 20 rears ago . 1 1 ft. . Itl-L perhaps accounts for the boredom this convention has caused to possibIy Ncvada. Livestock trouble is a main factor in the Closing time for Sunday Too tta to Claaairy 6 30 Saturday aluruoou Pitta remember. date, why the complete absence of suspense and excitement and drama has made It such a complete washout. One reason very likely Is that subconsciously we keep comparing this show with the show in the same hall four years ago, when flying whiskey bottles were crashing In the press box and that bull voice of the second assistant superintendent ol Chicago sewers was coming up from the basement We want Roosevelt! We Want Roosevelt! There WAS a show, mates, as was a show, and one that inci dentally forced the undersigned back Into the party of his ancestors! Yes it's the same hall, the same bunting, the same bands, and apparently the same "peppy" cheer leader, the same "hot dogs, cold drinks and cold beer!" but oh my, oh my, Hamlet Is left out! And It Is even a more striking contrast to that convention the same year in Philadelphia when our favorite, a 100-to-l shot, W.W., came from nowhere and won out in a photo finish, the "Gentle man from Indiana, the Wonder Boy from the corner of wall Street and Broadway. Nothing like that ever happened before and we doubt if any thing like it ever happens in a Republican convention again. An ex-Democrat and a Wall Street utility magnate grabbing the party nomination, out of the very hands of the organization, as the galleries stamped und yelled "We want Wlllkie!" Yes indeedy Daddy, there was a show too, Great Pete! to date the gallery in this convention hasn t let out even one little peep, there is some noise and Interest from the delegates from time to time, but from the press boxes one would not ki.ow there was even a gallery there. So when one really stops to consider what the two party con ventions were like four years ago, small wonder It Is not an easy l.ib to keep awake at THIS one! Ran Into our old friend Snm Greeley, senior member of the firm of Greeley and Hansen sanitary engineers, who put in the Medford sewage Disposal plant! Sam has just conic up from Miami, Florida, where he has a big Job under construction, as he also has in New York city and Washington D C, in fact he has never been quite so busy before as he is now. Sam is a native Chlcngon but lives up the shore at Winnctka where a few breaths of fesh air may bo obtained at times. He admits the weather is wore hero now than in Miami. There Isn't much difference In the humidity and temperature, but the nights down there are much cooler. a breeze comes up from the ocean nd a night's sleep Is possible. Here it is hotter in the loop at midnight than at noon! Well we can say this for the Texas delegation, they are having a good time, which is more thna we can say for most of the other delegates at this hotel. We ran Into Mayor Kelly at the convention hall this evening, not literally, we avoided mm by some quick side-stepping in our best R.H.S. '98 style, but close enough to get some of the heat that exuded from his massive frame. Mix Honor was engaged In .arncst conversation with a muscular looking woman in pearls and feather duster hat. The Mayoi of Chicago gnes EVERYWHERE, doesn't he? Wonder If he is going to have his Supt of Sewer functioning In the hall this year as he did four yars apo? Perhaps the Democratic show three weeks hence will be even worse than this one, but we doubt it The Democrats have a flair for Uie theatrical which the GOP mountain states, influx of a million war workers in Califor nia.) But the farm states all of them are considered the best republican ground in the coun try. The C. I. O. has been too much out here, and the con duct of the war, economically, has been unpopular. Kansas is in better republican shape to day than ever in Its history. Iowa is considered almost cer tain. The Illinois republican or ganization definitely promises this state. Indiana is more doubtful due to a factional re publican split, but few count it Roosevelt. Brlcker has a good chance to carry Ohio. HTHE republicans think Dewey can beat Roosevelt In New York. Pennsylvania is truly doubtful, as is Massachusetts. But the republicans have the edge elsewhere in the east out side of Rhode Island. New Jer sey Is debatable but on the anti-Roosevelt side. No on? ex pects anything republican from the south in the end. Where, then, do these people derive their conclusion Roose velt is a cinch, the republicans are defeated? Obviously only out of their heads. 1 Give Dewey and Roosevelt an even break west of the wheat corn belts, count the farm states republican, the south democrat ic, and you must reach the con clusion that the election will turn on the big Industrial com munities in central and eastern states. That Is where the light TEN YEARS AGO TODAY June 30. 1934 (It was Saturday) Skilled labor shortage hits valley. Scorching heat takes high toll In Middle West. Road and trail fund for forest use increased. Tenderloin steaks sell for 25 cents per pound on local mar kets. . First watermelons appear at local markets. Local drives on earwigs Is urged before pests take the town. Landscaping of Crater Lake park underway. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY June 30, 1924 (It was Monday) Al Smith and William G. Adoo lead In balloting for president at democratic convention. No choice In sight. Good crowd attends church at Ruch Sunday. All but $20 000 collected for new hotel at Ashland. Spark from thresher destroys 300 bushels of wheat near Jack sonville. Llthians to have charge of Fourth of July celebration at Ashland. Parade In morning to be feature. Air mall service from city to start tomorrow. Gov. Snell Hails GOP Combination Salem, Ore., June 30 (U.P.) Gov. Earl Snell today hailed the nomination of Thomas E. Dewey and John Bricker as combining "youth with experience" in the top political ranks of the coun try. 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