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10 YEARS AGO
May 18, 1942 '
(It was Monday)
Primary election returns show
Charles L. McNary leading Ar
thur M. Geary, 108,224 to 23,192
In Republican senatorial contest;
Edward C. Kelly, Medford Dem
ocrat, and Earl T. Newbry, Tal
ent Republican, ahead in state
senatorial contests.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Analysis of
the primary election vote by the
heavy thinkers Is now underway
Inexpert opinion holds that too
many voted for some candidates
and not enough for others.
20 YEARS AGO
May 18, 1932
(It was Wednesday)
David Lowry elected student
body president of Medford high
school; Russell Hogue named
treasurer.
Handbills containing s n s a
tlonal charges concerning pri
mary election candidates appear
in rural districts.
SO YEARS AGO
May 18. 1922
(It was Thursday)
Self Denial week at Jackson
school, during which pupils gave
up candy, ice cream, moving pic
tures and gum, nets $45 for re
lief of starving Armenians.
The Passing Show, stage pro
duction starring Willie and Eu
gene Howard, scheduled for per
formances in Medford.
40 YEARS AGO
May 18. 1912
(It was Saturday)
Detroit in uproar as American
league President Ban Johnson
suspends baseball star Tv Cobb
for assaulting spectator; Detroit
team goes out on strike and
break up of major leagues
threatened.
Shipment of Hupmoblle Full-
Stroke "32" automobiles arrive
here; feature oil pumped by fly
wheel, 40 horsepower size trans
mission and "full-floating" axle
Wall Street
New York (U.R) Prices
made another poor showing on
the fatock Exchange Saturday In
one of the dullest Saturday trad
ing sessions In more than two
years.
Changes throughout the main
list were very narrow with a
number of pivotals holding at
their previous close. A number
of stocks failed to trade in the
abbreviated trading session.
Dow-Jones closing stock av
erages; 30 Industrials 259.88 up
0.08; 20 railroads 93.59 up 0.03;
15 utilities 49.11 off 0.05; and
85 stocks 100.13 unchanged.
Sales Saturday approximated
270,000 shares the lowest since
230,000 shares changed hands
on May 21, 1949 compared
with 310,000 shares traded last
Saturday.
AIR FORcITpTaNE LOST
Reykjavik. Iceland (U.R)
Rescue squads searched the cen
tral and south coast of this is
land Saturday for an American
Army Air Force amphibian
plane lost Friday while on a
rescue mission.
Francisco de Hiiro was the
first alcade (mayor) of Verba
Buena (San Francisco). ,
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Congratulations to the GOP!
And MANY of them.
NOT to the "Big-Shots," NOT to the Upper-Braek-
eteers, not to the Board of Directors but to the small
very small stockholders, the plain, untailored
rank-and-file, in this community and surrounding
territory.
THE editorials below were written on Friday morn-i-nrt
aa ia mir wiclnm fnf Rlinrlatr cmrl whorl fha
writer was as sure Nunley
the sun would come up over Roxy Anne, and as he
was Truman would be beaten 4 years ago. (If anyone
wishes convincing evidence of both statements same
could be supplied).
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AND our belief was based, not only upon our strong
nnnrnVtinn that- arlvorKsi'nor nnvs F.KPF.P.T A T ,T ,Y
in THIS paper ! but our knowledge of how much the
upper echelon LEADERSHIP of the Republican party
determines its policies, and
is and always has been.
Without mentioning the
are quite sure the above will be greeted with raised
eyebrows and the scathing sneer of "WHAT demagoguery."
XIT'ELL, IF demagoguery is to praise and render
" thanks to those members of the Grand Old Party
who didn't fall for the propaganda who when they
saw the basic issue in this
not hesitate or indulge in
about the greater merits or demerits of one candidate
over the other professionally; but in an instinctive,
unquestioning sort of way, repeated the familiar say
ing "THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR INTEGRITY
1JN fUtSLilV Ur r ltJJCi, ana put ineir pany in uns com
munity on record to that effect.
If. CONGRATULATIONS to them. Congratula
tions to iust the plain, straight-shooting honest-to-God
guy and his wife and family who go to the polls
and vote for the right as they see the right, regardless
of what their neighbors, their papers, or their super
iors may say.
If to praise and support them is demagoguery,,
then we know a lot of demagogues in the country and
erladlv join them! In our
good name of the party in
devotion to principle may
K. w .K.
The "Frenzied Editor"
One of the most amusing charges made in the
recent primary was that
law-enforcement in the county, was reenacting tne
role of a "frenzied newspaper publisher" who shot
and killed the late and lamented Constable ueorge
Prescott.
It is only one of many
excitement and turmoil of a local political campaign,
otherwise sane and reasonably rational citizens can
emotionally, go completely berserk.
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NOT only was this charge untrue, but of course, the
exact reverse of the truth. And ANYONE with
the slightest knowledge of
the L. A. Banks uprising and today would coniirm
this.
Yet the principal purveyor of this 100 whang
doodle, apparently believed it, at the time and we
can testify that certain supporters of his cause, saw
nothing ridiculous in it. In fact, one of them, soberly
informed the writer, the speech in which the allega
tion was made, was to him, a very eloquent and con
vincing one!
"Angels and Ministers of Grace defend us" what
NEXT?
XlfE SELDOM refer to the past course of this news-
paper, to justify any present one, but under the
circumstances feel that a few facts concerning the
former should be resurrected.
For example :
Twenty years ago The Mail Tribune adopted the
same policy it adopted a few weeks ago. And that
was only a continuation of the policy it adopted and
carried out twenty years before that.
In all 3 cases the fundamental policy was simply
"law enforcement," and if any one including our elo
quent opponent doubts this, we have the files of this
publication to prove it.
17E OPPOSED the Ku
vocated lawlessness
this community being a government NOT of laws, but
of MLN to its logical conclusion mob-rule.
The "Good Government
essentially the same. Under
it advocated lawlessness,
which also was carried to
burning of ballot-boxes and murder.
TN ALL three cases The
opposed by thousands
paper came, as a result,
closer than anyone at the
ment) realized.
And also in all three, many good citizens some
of the most highly regarded, and most influential (we
could name some, but won't), fought the Tribune
tooth and nail, and, believe it or not, a few never over
came their secret and deep-seated hostility toward it
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BUT that's all in the day's
rlam
The only point we wish to make now is this:
The Mail Tribune's fundamental policy has un
Sunday. May II. 1952
would be beaten as he was
how great a power money
Wall Street menace we
D.A. contest clearly did
any rationalizing sophistry
judgment they saved the
this community and tnat
well save the country !
"Ye Editor" in advocating
illustrations of how, in the
the local situations during
KIux Klan because it ad-
it carried the theory of
Congress" program was
the guise of local reform,
violence and revolution
its logical conclusion the
Mail Tribune was bitterly
of its readers. In No. 1 the
close to bankruptcy far
time, (except the manage
work, and water over the
der the present management never changed and we
certainly hope it never does.
If the same issue comes
will of upholding the law
be just where we were in
in all former ones.
A ND that "Bretheren
n assume the role of a
elephant-gun across his knees, lying in wait for an in-
oitensive city-constable, guilty of no transgression
other than that of conscientiously performing his duty
as a LAW-ENFORCEMENT off icer ! R.W.R.
History Repeats Itself
While on this subject, there is another interesting
feature that might, with profit and to some, consola
tion be recalled.
That is this:
In every instance above noted, the campaigns
conducted by The Mail Tribune were not, at the out
set, popular. In fact, quite the reverse as an inspec
tion of the correspondence files, as well as the news
paper files, would demonstrate. Also the roll call of
the members in the two organizations.
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"IX7E DON'T mean The Mail Tribune was without
v any support. But, that support was far less ap
parent, and even FARTHER less vocal, than the op
position. And in between was a vast area of just plain
apathy, the great majority being bored by all the noise
and fury, and wishing both sides would shut their
big mouths.
TT TOOK a hanging in the Siskiyous to wake up the
people to the REAL dangers of the Ku Klux Klan.
The victim wasn't hung by the neck until-he was dead,
but he was so near dead with fright, that he died a
short time later.
Then there was a great hulabaloo and the KKK
dwindled fast and furiously with the "Great Ex
hausted Rooster" and the
their nightgowns and leading the retreat !
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A S INDICATED above, it took two major crimes-
" burning of ballots and
rank-and-file in the second
And again, there was
apathy. For example, quote :
"What's all the shooting about, can't you give your
subscribers a rest and quit advertising this peaceful and
law-abiding community js a sink hole of violence, iniquity
and vice?"
Yes history does at times repeat itself.
And then what had been feared, and The Mail
Tribune tried without success to prevent, happened
and
All was transformed
great crusade for the cause
eousness from the outset, but those shouting "Halle
lujah" loudest had, before the crime, kept their mouths
shut!
WE ARE not trying to maintain, or implying for a
moment, that the recent campaign could, in its
real dangers and threatening aspects, be placed in
the same category with the other two mentioned. By
comparison, tnis last was
tremor, not an earthquake.
But we are maintaining
be evident to any objective observer that JVsbJiN
TIALLY the same basic principle, WAS involved and
there is some reason to
will be the same result.
The "Yes,-Bttt" Campaign Type
As another post-operative campaign item, we be
lieve a new type of politician should be isolated and
clinically classified.
Off hand we would call
They are very plentiful,
all all over the country, and they will, no doubt, in
crease as the presidential
THE last 3 weeks in this
ourovminrr oil ewav f V. o
Were they for law-enforcement, or non law-en
forcement?
That was an easy one!
enforcement, BUT !
So our old friend Robert Alonzo Taft: is he for the
League of Nations or against it? He is for it, of course,
BUT
And the barefoot political illiterate from. the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania : is he "for" or "against" Sena
tor McCarthy and "McCarthyism?"
Another easy one (depending upon who is ask
ing him, of course) the
this
"Oh, I am AGAINST McCarthyism, BUT !"
Then there is Congressman Ellsworth ,
But what's the use, the "BUTS" have it for the
moment at least. R.W.R.
Editorial Comment
New Route to the Coast
The Medford Mail-Tribune
proposes a toll road to the sea. It
suggest as a route:
Such a road, taking off here,
or at Jacksonville which is al
most directly west of her,
could run west and south to
Williams, and via the Caves
road to Cave Junction, thence
on the present highway to
Crescent City, or striking more
directly west, it could hit the
coast near Brookings.
Such a highway would be
many miles shorter than the
present circuitous route via
Grants Pass which takes mo
torist far north before point
ing west and south.
up again as it probably
or breaking it, we will
the recent campaign and
and Sisteren" is NOT to
"frenzied editor" with an
Chief-of-Police shedding
murder, to wake up the
outburst of lawlessness.
that wide area of public
overnight! It had been
of law, order and right
just a iiasn-in-tne-pan a
what, we think, should
hope that eventually there
R.W.R.
it the "Yes - BUT type.
not only in Oregon, but
campaign warms up.
community they have been
fwr.c?fo
They were 100 for law-
answer is something like
Such a road would be of tre
mendous value for both ends of
the route and for the Intervening
country. It would give the inter
ior of Southern Oregon ready
access to ' the lovely Oregon
coast. Residents of Lakeview
and Klamath and the Rogue
River valley could have beach
cottages as do residents of the
Willamette Valley along the
north coast of the state. The in
flux would help Curry County.
The road would open up a wil
derness country offering better
transportation for its forest pro
ducts, minerals, etc. We doubt
however if it could pay as a
toll road. Ore son (Salem)
Statesman.
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The Kiss of Deathl"
To the Editor; Heartiest con
gratulations on your splendid
victory Friday.
Entirely aside from the per
sonalities in the case, I don't
even know Mr. Nunley when 1
see him, your victory has special
significance to me because it re
dedicates my belief that a news
paper editor can still be a power
ful and good influence in any
community if he deserves to be.
It is gratifying because there
were those who said, and you
know the element "oh, well, no
body pays any attention to Ruhl
any more. He's gone nuts. His
support is the kiss-of-death."
That was, of course, when you
were upholding statements and
actions of Senator Morse and Mr.
Acheson.
A newspaper justifies its ex
istence, and it will exert tremen
dous influence through its edi
torial page, when the editorial
page becomes aroused to cor
rect wrongs and to adjust re
dresses, as compared to an edi
torial page that stays aroused to
increase circulation, or takes dic
tation from the business office. -
This is strictly my personal
opinion, but I believe that if you
had started slugging 25 years
ago as you have been during
the past few years, that the name
Ruhl would be right there be
side that of William Allen
White.
Again, congratulations
Moore Hamilton,
Postmaster, Medford,
Warning To Builders
To the Editor: I don't want
the people of the Rogue River
valley to think that I am spon
soring any one concern or busi
ness house, but (pause for iden
tification) as I am on my 24th
year in business as a building
contractor here, and if I didn't
like the locality I would get out
I want to advise old timers as
well as new to "know your
dealers."
Deal with a competent busi
ness firm, with a reputable
recommendation from your
chamber of commerce.
The reason I make these state
ments is, there are a few con
cerns which put high-powered
sales talk up to you and promise
you such and such, and they do
not live up to their promises and
they are not to be depended
upon. Some of these concerns
are in the building material
business. So beware. Consult
your chamber of commerce.
Fred Powers,
1722 West 11th St.,
Medford, Ore.
Anil-Vivisection
To the Editor: Vivisetcion (the
use of living, and often con
scious, animals for medical and
surgical research and experi
mentation) represents needless
barbaric suffering and agony to
man s best friend, " his dog.
It is unnecessary to the physi
cal welfare of the human race
(according to certain eminent
medical authorities.) It has made
little or no contribution to medi
cal and surgical science . . .
that could not have been better
accomplished through other
means (as also attested by these
medical authorities).
The vivisectionists prefer not
to admit that they have been
wrong . . . persist in this abuse
of our pets.
The laws of some states and
cities force dog pounds to turn
over all dogs in their possession
(your pets) to medical research
labatories and medical schools
for vivisection. These laws were
passed under the pressure of
medical groups under the guise
of "essential to medical research
for human welfare" these laws
have since proven erroneous by
these very institutions them
selves, by way of failure to sub
stantiate their claims.
Furthermore, officials of these
institutions maintain that these
animals In most cases are given
the same pre and post operative
care in sanitation and pain pre
vention as is given humans.
However, when the "iron cur
tain" of secrecy in these labora
tories has been broken through
by those of us interested in this
work much evidence has been
revealed to prove the unsani
tary, sometimes filthy, condi
tions to which these unfortunate
animals are subjected before,
during and after operations and
experiments of the most heinous
nature.
Many of the tests and expert
ments, all needless and without
justifiable results, would make
the torture chambers of some of
the world's worst war lords look
mild indeed!
Few, if any, of these experi
ments have resulted in the ad
vancement of medical and surgi
cat science yet they are me
thodically repeated, over and
over again, on other helpless
animals.
The comparatively few discov
eries that may have proven of
value to man could have been
faster and better achieved
through other means and with
out resorting to such barbaric
torture (certain eminent medical
authorities themselves, have tes
tified to this, in fact are ashamed
of this blot on their profession)
Crosstown
St O.S..IM.1M H. FMUrM V 517- SCL W-s
"I wanted a motorcycle and the family wanted me to have my
bike fixed. So the skooter is a compromise."
Matter of Fact
TRUMAN OPENS
THEaWOUNDS
Washington The signs sud
denly suggest that the Democrats
are heading for an even bigger,
louder, angrier convention-time
row than the Republicans. The
reason is the President's abrupt
but clearly apparent decision to
fight it out on the Fair Deal line
if the proceedings in Chicago go
on all summer.
In the previous period, when
Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois
was being pressed to become the
Democratic nominee, binding up
the party's wounds was the
White House note. But now the
President is planning on inflam
ing the old wounds and opening
some new ones, as the following
facts plainly indicate.
Item: Americans for Demo
cratic Action are the bugbear of
all Southerners and other Con
servative Democrats. In the past,
not even Harry F. Byrd hated
the A.D.A. more than Harry S.
Truman, since the A.D.A. rather
tactlessly suggested that the
President had better not run
again in 1948. Yet Truman has
now consented to give the main
speech at the A.D.A. convention
in Washington this weekend.
Moreover, he is expected to de
liver what has been described
as "a real rip-snorter," stridently
denouncing any Democratic ten
dencies toward compromise or
conservatism.
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ITEM: The President's choice
for keynoter of the Democratic
National Convention is none
other than Sen. Hubert Humph
rey, of Minnesota, another ex-
pet hale of Mr. Truman's. The
reason that the President used
to detest Humphrey so heartily
was that Humphrey defeated
White House plans for a two
faced civil rights plank, per
suading the 1948 convention to
give all-out indorsement to the
F.E.P.C. Rather naturally, South
ern Democrats also waste no love
whatever on Sen. Humphrey.
For this reason, Chairman
Frank McKinney of the Demo
cratic National Committee des
perately tried to persuade Tru
man to forget about Humphrey
and to keynote the National Con
vention himself. McKinney. fail.
ed utterly, and as of today, the
Presidential choice stands.
Just to make this choice of
Humphrey even more significant
at trouble-inviting, Humphrey is
meanwhile organizing a pro
F.E.P.C. bloc of Northern states
The object is to have a ready-
made convention majority which
will automatically repeat the
yet vivisection, In all Its hei
nous barbarism goes on, and on
behind closed doors.
Marilyn Gast,
Upton road,
Central Point, Ore.
Mrs. Kefauver Restricted
Washington (U.R) Mrs.
Nancy Kefauver Isn't doing
much campaigning for her hus
band these days. Three of the
four Kefauver youngsters have
the mumps.
An Everlasting Tribute
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1948 decision against a civil
rights compromise. In addition,
Sen. Humphrey would not be
adverse to the Vice-Presidential
nomination,
Altogether, if the President in
sists on sending Humphrey to
the convention rostrum as party
keynoter, the riot squads are
likely- to be needed to keep the
Southern delegation from com
mitting mayhem.
Item: W. Averell Harriman,
who is the Presidential candidate
currently favored at the White
House, has been carrying on a
real Fair-Deal-all-the-way cam
paign. Harriman has made It
plain that he places his chief re
liance on the support of the la
bor groups. He has endorsed the
F.E.P.C. without serious quali
fications. He has strongly empha
sized the half-forgotten Truman
social program. And he has
claimed that he can defeat Gen
eral of the Army Dwight D.
Eisenhower for the specific rea
son that he will appeal to left
wing voting groups, while the
General is expected to take a
rather conservative line on do
mestic issues.
THERE is more here than meets
the eye. Harriman not only be
came an avowed candidate with
the President's blessing. He has
also consulted the President
with great regularity since the
announcement of his candidacy.
Thus it may be assumed that the
Harriman strategy has the Presi
dent's full approval.
Furthermore, Harriman is
plainly ceasing to be the negli
gible political factor that he wai
when he made his announce
ment. He has hardly become a
great orator, but he has shown
courage, energy and determina
tion. This showing has Impressed
a good many of the Northern
politicians, and what may be de
scribed as contingent pledge! to
Harriman are being made by
such leaders as Mayor David
Lawrence, of Pittsburgh. Gov.
Stevenson has also promised to
try to hold the Illinois delega
tion for Harriman, despite the
declaration for Sen. Estea Ke
fauver by Illinois Sen. Paul
Douglas.
In short, if no movement to
draft Gov. Stevenson material
izes in the interval, Harriman
may well come into the conven
tion with a more sizable bloc of
delegates than was first antici
pated. This bloc will be built up
around Harriman's basic 200
all of them red hot, pro-F.E.P.C.
Fair Dealers. Thus Harriman will
become a bright red rag to the
Chicago pastureful of Southern
bulls.
In short, nothing but a Repub
lican nomination of Sen. Robert
A. Taft, with a subsequent draft
Stevenson movement among the
Democrats, is now likely to re
unite the increasingly divided
Democratic Party. If the Repub
licans choose Eisenhower, the
show the Democrats put on at
their convention ought to make
the Kilkenny cats feel pretty
ashamed of themselves.
(Copyright, 1952,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)