EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
Friday, June 3D. 1944
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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.
"It Is a strong, vigorous tick
et," Governor Snell said, "and
the people of the country will
learn the real abilities of these
two men as have the people of
thir own states."
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