Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 11, 1952, Image 11

Historic Oregon Newspapers

Medford mail tribune., June 11, 1952, Image 11

Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR

About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1952)

Prev Page of 19 Next Prev Issue Next Text PDF JP2 (2.6 MB) Clip/Print Image

Return to Top

Prev Page of 19 Next Prev Issue Next

Newspaper Page TextTWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) Medford!I&Triboot Everyone In Southern Oregon Bead! Tne MaU Tribune Fubllahed Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27.29 North Fir St. Phone 2-S141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor ERNEST R. C1LSTRAP. Manastf HERB GREY, Advertliing Manager E C FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City .Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEVVETT'. Sporta tdltor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newapaper Entered aa aecond claaa matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: .,- Dally and Sunday on. year 113 00 Dally and Sunday aix montha 6.50 Daily and Sunday three moi. 3.50 Dally and Sunday one month 135 By Carrier In A d v a n c e Medford. Aihland. Central Point, Eagle Point. JackBonville, Gold HI 1. Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue River, Talenl and on motor routea: Dally and Sunday one year tlj po ' Dally and Sunday one month 135 AU Termi Caih In Advance , Official Paper of the City of Medford Official paper oi jichwh t.""'j United Preai Full Leaaed Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Aetata. Repre.ent.tlve; Officei in New York. Chicago. De. Seattle. Portland. St Louis, Atlanta Vanrouver, B.C. . NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASiKWTfCfN rj I NIWSPAPIk PUIIIIHIII ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medferd and Jackie -County Hit. Iwy frem the filet at the Mail TrlbvM 10, 20. 30 and 40 ream 10 YEARS AGO Jun 11. 1942 It uraa Thursday) Eighteen Jackson county -youths sworn Into navy here as "Avengers oi r-eari nwnut. v . A m Arthur Pprrv'a Ye Smudge Pot column: A returned correspondent from oermany re ports that, but lor the war, Herr Hitler would have been married. It would have seryed him right, but Is still no excuse for the war. 20 YEARS AGO . June 11. 1932 (It was Saturday) TLro.fruh fall Clf hail tlltS DOT tions- ot Rogue valley; 1,800 . to 2.000 acres of orchards believed badly damaged, Medford Police Chief Clatous McCredie points out advantages , of radio patrol cars, as used In larger cities such as' Portland and Cos Angeles. 30 YEARS AGO June 11. 1922 (It was Sunday) Medford man injured when hit by a car as he slcps off of the street car at Main and Fir streets. Circuit court orders payment of five per cent dividend on all claims of depositors against the defunct Bank on jacKsonviuc, 40 YEARS AGO''' June 11, 1912 -f" (It was Tuesday) Jackson county budget estl' mate for fiscal 1912-1913 shows total expenditures of $760,399.88. Medferd area farmers urged to attend irrigation meeting at local opera house; "meeting Rives promise of being largest ever held In Rogue valley. rfai3H MacArthur's Retirement Asked Before Delivering GOP Speech Washington (U.R) Rep. Mel vin Price, D-Ill., has demanded that Gen. Douglas MacArthur re tire from the Army before de livering the keynote speech al the Republican National conven tion. He told reporters that it was "a clear violation" of Army reg ulation 800-10 for MacArthur to accept the post of GOP keynoter while still technically on active military duty. "It is a very dangerous prece dent for a military man to be setting," said Price, a World War H veteran and member of the House Armed Services commit tee. Should Follow Example Price said MacArthur should follow the example set by his fel low five-star general. Dwight D. Elsenhower, who retired from active duty when he returned from Europe to begin campaign ing for the GOP presidential nomination. Army officials said MacArthur could retire and still keep his lifetime salary of $19,841 a year. Thev said that under the special act of Congress conferring life time rank on five-star generals MacArthur need only write a let ter to Defense Secretary Robert A. Lovctt requesting that he be placed officially on the retired list. But there was no indication MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence Washington, D.C., June 8 It United States can't park themselves In the congressional press rooms for a few hours and listen to the conversation. There can be found the answer to the question so often propounded to news paper men, to-wit: . "What is this man (public figure) really like, anyway?" We are not suggesting any infallibility among the Washing ton newspaper correspondents, but we do maintain that as far as a perfectly factual, impartial and objective valuation of a public figure CAN be attained, the congressional pressroom Is the one place above all others to attain it. For these boys and girls observe the great and near-great day after day as a matter of business; none of them has any axe to grind, and none of them or practically none can be fooled - by any hocus-pocus or flim-flam. We grant their judgments are not always in agree ment. But the' surprising thing is how little Disagreement there Is on a majority of the more prominent figures in the national political drama, . Take the verdict of the correspondents who are returning from the Eisenhower gathering in Kansas, for example. They are in complete agreement as to "Ike's" personal charm, the Infectious quality of his smile, his "It" and even his political KNOW-HOW. But they fear he Is too thin-skinned and "too damned honest" that's a quote to ever reach the heights T.R. or FDR reached. The ingenious General, for example, didn't refuse to answer any question put to him, never tried to sidestep or evade. When he didn't know the answer he frankly admitted the fact. The newspaper men found this tremendously REFRESHING, but they did not think it was politically SMART. (We are not so sure they were right but that appears to get it.) . Could a candidate for President be TOO honest? Difficult to believe, but these newspaper veterans know their onions when it comes to practical politics. And it is conceivable that a man without guile, without some capacity in the line of dissimulation, completely defenseless in the direction of deception, would be at a considerable disadvantage in getting far in the practical and sordid game of politics, as played today. We are quite sure at least there Is one House who would agree 100 per cent with this verdict his name is Joe McCarthy. , In view of this department's detestation of McCarthy and McCarthylsm which dates back over the years, probably anything we add to the indictment against him now, will be taken with a grain of salt. It is true, nevertheless, that we could find only one judgment of this Wisconsin bletherskate in the press gallery, and that is a term that used to be unprintable but is no longer, ie: S.O.B. as Mr. Truman once used It in referring to Drew Pearson. These men of the 4th Estate are no prudes, they are not only used to tough hombres but are fairly tough themselves but this slander-monger and smear-artist from the Badger State occupying a seat in the U.S. SENATE, does get them down and if they had the power to do so he would be kicked out without ceremony tomorrow. (Too bad they HAVEN'T!) e e e The view we got of Robert Alphonso Taft, on the' other hand, was more favorable than we expected. More favorable than our own view, also. We took no poll, of course, and can't claim our Impressions are 100 per cent correct, but we have talked with some of the oldest and most reliable correspondents in the business, and they still maintain Taft Is both capable and dependable. They explain his inconsistencies and his recent transparent demagoguery, as not his own idea, not in harmony with his 'essential character, but the work of his campaign manager and cousin, David Ingalls, a rich, shrewd and shifty manipulator. '' The "alibi" runs along like this: Taft realizes this is his last ambition the Presidency. If he will. He has complete confidence powers, but not in his political acumen and capacities his mastery of the suck game of practical politics. He defers therefore in this department almost entirely to Ingalls and what Ingalls claims will be smart politically he does and says. Also with Mrs. Taft 111 and unable to be at his.elbow all the past, Taft not only misses her balancing effect, but depends even more Hhan ever upon his cousin. Many things Ingalls has advised him to do he has hesitated to do he didn't like that convention deal in Texas, for example but he doesn't trust his own political judgment sufficiently to take a We give the above about as worth but frankly It is hard to the strange disillusioning course his pre-conventlpn campaign. Can it be, for example, that McCarthy in Wisconsin, and his this city, were courses of which only because Ingalls so advised? department to believe the Senator as THAT1! H6wever. we are merely giving what after a couple of visits, the press-gallery judgments, regarding certain notable public fig ures, APPEAR to be. The vagaries and inconsistencies of Taft since he succumbed to the bite of the pestiferous presidential bee ere not denied; but it IS denied that such a course necessarily dem onstrates the man has suffered a complete moral collapse, a change of life politically, or that If elected President he would NOT prove to be capable and essentially trustworthy. Wo can't see It. But there It is for what it may or may not be worth. R.W.R. that the Army would press Mac Arthur to request retirement. . A spokesman Issued a terse formal statement saying: . "The department of the Army Is not considering any action In connection with the designation of General' MacArthur as key note speaker for the Republican National convention." The GOP Arrangements com mittee, meeting at Chicago, nam ed MacArthur to the keynoter post Tuesday by voice vote. His name was the only one placed in Tidelands Oil Bill May Get New Support Washington (U.R) Support ers of the state-ownership tide lands oil bill said Wednesday the administration's "strong arm" tactics may win them new support. Sen. Russel B. Long, D-l.a said chances of overriding Pres ident Truman's veto of the meas ure may be Improved by dis closure that the government is quietly preparing to grant new leases on tidelands , along the Gulf of Mexico. Secretary of Interior Oscar Chapman said Tuesday that such a plan exists but that Mr. Tru man has not approved It. Wednesday. Jun 11, 181 is too bad more citizens of the be the press room verdict as we notorious member of tHe Upper chance to achieve his life-long doesn't win this time, he never In his own great intellectual time, as has been true in the chance and go his own way. it was given to us for what it's accept as the correct answer to pursued by Mr. Republican in his endorsement and approval of previous criticism of McCarthy in he did not approve but followed Mebbe so. But it is hard for this from Ohio Is as morally weak, nomination. MacArthur prompt ly accepted the "high honor." For the job of temporary con vention chairman often com bined with that of keynote speaker the committee chose veteran West Virginia GOP leader Waler S. Hallanan, Ik Backers Dismayed Elsenhower supporters were' openly dismayed by the dual se lection, since both MacArthur and Hallanan have been identi fied as strong backers of Sen. Robert A. Taft. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., R Mass., Eisenhower's campaign manager, said that "we would have' preferred to have a key noter who was impartial." Rep. Jacob K. Javlts. R-N. Y.. called the MacArthur choice "most unfortunate." But the Taft camp and many "neutral" Republicans agreed that MacArthur would make a powerful keynote speaker. . Taft himself told reporters: "I approve of the choice, It ought to be a strong keynote." Reporters found a number .of Democratic congressmen, and a few pro-Eisenhower Republi cans, who were privately criti cal of MacArthur for his action. But only Price and Sen. Robert S. Kerr, D-Okla., were willing to bt quoted by namt. Crosstown "It's not a comedy picture. If was a bay, there 4ras a sign in front of the theater saying, 'children under sixteen not admitted'!" On The Side (Diitrlbuitd by Klnf What city has the highest per-1 centage oi eirjeny automoDiie drivers? Not long ago I saw it reported that in Palm 'Beach, Fla., an 81-year-old man driving a 192S Ford collided 'head on with an 83 year old man driving a 1923 Ford. Sultry Voices Taurus (April 21-May 20) men fall heavily for females with 'sultry" voices. That's what I note as stated by a star-gazer. The fact is that practically all men fall for women with sultry voices. That Is, If I know what a sultry voice is. According to our Horses & Women experts, a sul try-voiced charmer Is one who speaks in low, husky tones. The majority of the great charmers of history, the women who drove men wild, had this type of voice. Asking Queries from clients?- Q. You challenged the clientele to cor rectly pronounce Cholmondeley. Answer Is "Chumley." Give us something difficult. A. All right, smart boy, pronounce Cal Van Vechten, St. John Ervlne and Vincent Van Gogh. Patting By Veronica Lake, comely Holly woodlan. Popularizer of that curious hair, style known as "the peek-a-boo bang." In the days be yond recall, feminine stars of stage and screen were quite ef fective as style dictators. As for example take Irene Castle. Billle Burke was also quite a style dic tator early in her career. Once what Joan Crawford preferred was copied by millions of fe males. Same was true of Garbo. If there is any current popular style that was originated by a stage, screen or television cele brity, I don't know what it is. However, it could be I don't pay enough attention to that angle. . . , Miltop Berle. Highly versa tile entertainer. Among his mul titude of talents is that ot song writing. Included in the songs Mr. Berle composed Is -that pa' thetlc ballad titled "Sam, Ypu Made the Pants Too Long." Also the classic Mother's Day ditty tl tied "Leave the Dishes in the Sink, Ma." And that romantic ballad titled "I Wuv a Wabbitt Milton, though still a compara tively young man, has had an extremely long career. In fact, he Is one of the three living ac tors who played with Pearl White In "The Perils of Paul ine." The other two are Crane Wilbur and Paul Panzer. Pleas Note The question has arisen as to how many pairs of nylons the average business woman, finds it necessary to purchase annually. This is inspired by a discussion as to whether the present day nylons wear as well as those of yesteryear. A Chicago business girl says that In 19S1 she pur chased thirty two pairs of nylons for a total cost of $36.84. Evl dently this young woman keeps a close record of her expendi' hires. She should make a nice matrimonial mate for one of those wonderful Chicago hus bands. Sidelights When Dempsey floored Tun ney for that "fourteen count" in their Chicago meeting. It was the first time Gene had ever been floored In his long ring ca reer . . . Now the Canadians are going in for horsemeat: Up to a short time ago there wasn't a shop in all Canada 'retailing horsemeat for human consump tion. Now there are fifty. Thous ands of prairie horses are report ed being slaughtered to meet the demand for horsemeat steaks. Over There The world's most reliable guide to restaurants Is probably "Le Guide Gastronomique of France." A top rating in this really means something. This rating is Indicated by four "white balls" beside the restaur ant's name. At present, only two restaurants In all Paris are so honored; Larue, 27 Rue Royale, By Roland Co I remember correctly, when I bye. v. DurUng Features Syndicate, lac.) opposite (he Madeleine, and the Restaurant de Coq en Pate on Rue Sainte-Appolline. The world famous La Tour D'Argent, oldest restaurant in Paris, rates only three white balls. That is also the rating of the celebrated L' Escargot and the Maison Prun ier. If the experts of Le Guide Gastronomique put the restaur ants of New York City , to the test, I wonder how many would get that four white ball rating? Gadgets Mrs. Lillian Guest of Surrey, England, won the equivalent of $210,000, tax free, in a football pool. What would your charming wife buy first if she won that amount? Mrs. Guest, a hard working home manager for twenty-five years, said: "I am going to buy a new house equip ped with every labor-saving gad get I can find." Wonder how many housekeeping labor-saving gadgets there are? Get It Right Note it stated the amazingly durable pitcher of the yester year, Joe McGinnity, was given the nickname the "Iron Man" when with the Giants. That's wrong. Before he was with the Giants Joe won five games in six days for the Brooklyn . team and was promptly nicknamed the "Iron Man" by a local sportscribe. Incidentally, Mc Ginnity was not a strike-out pitcher. He made the batters pop up and ground out weakly. He saved his arm. Joe was still pitching .professional baseball when 52 years old. When fifty- one he pitched and won both ends of a double-header. Light Snow Reported At Klamath Falls . By UNITED PRESS Light snow was reported at Klamath Falls Wednesday as cool, moisture-laden air ended Oregon's summer-like weather. The temperature at Klamath Falls dropped to 30 degrees dur ing the night and a trace ' of snow was reported. It melted shortly after dawn. Portland got Its heaviest rain in weeks, which threatened to dampen Wednesday night's Rose Festival coronation ceremonies. The weather man predicted occasional showers and below- normal temperatures through Friday. Ontario, which had a high of 92 degrees Monday, had only 72 Tuesday. .' T !& V..iV-i 1m j MEETS PRESS - Dwight D. Eisenhower clenches his fist as he makes a point during his press conference in Abilene, Ks. The. news conference, Ike's first since launching his cam paign tor the Republican presi dential nomination, appltuded him wildly when he told 'hem, "I have new voted any Ueme cratic ticket." In the Day's News Br FRANK JENKINS Modern progress is funny. Ev ery new step brings problems of its own. These new paper milk bottles, for example, that are sweeping the world. To dispose of them, you burn them in the fireplace or toss 'em into the garbage can. No more bottle washing. But how is the housewife go ing to leave a note to the milk man not to bring any milk next Tuesday, as she Is going to be away from home? She'll have to leave it in the place where th- paper bottles are usually de posited, weight it down with a r-ck and trust to luck tnat tne driver of the route will find it. I reckon. IT SEEMS TO ME I've seen more small boys (and some larger ones, for that matter) mowing lawns this spring than in many years past. I hope no small boys, or middle-sized boys read this column, for I'm going to offer an opinion to the ef fect that I think it's good for them. Whether It's good for their parents or not, I do not. know. If a small boy. or 'even a mid dle-sized boy, is to derive GOOD from the doing of tasks such as mowing lawns, he m u s t be taught to do them WELL. If you want the doing of useful work at regular intervals to help in moulding his character, you just can't tell hifn the mower is in the garage and go and get it and when I come home at lunch time I want the yard mowed and the edges clipped and that's that. It just doesn't work that way. If a boy's character is to benefit from useful work, he must be first taught how to do the job well, and after that he must be inspired with pride in a JOB WELL DONE. That will take work on YOUR part. If you try to shirk the task of teaching him to do his job well, .1 expect you'll find he'll shirk on the job. , . NYWY, if more boys are mowing lawns and doing other useful tasks around their homes this spring, I hope it is because more parents are realiz ing the SUPREME importance of finding useful and construc- tive'work for their children to do. ' , - I'm certain that more young people have been spoiled by not havine enoueh work to do than ever were spoiled by having TOO MUCH work to do. T HAPPENED to be in a gather 's- ine the other day where the subject of the RICH came up. I don t- mean just the ordinary well - to - do people of average not too - big communties. We were talking about the BIG rich. Millionaires. The kind that are supposed to make socialists by causing other people to envy them. We started out talking about the BIG RICH of other and earl. Ier times the Morgans, and th- Rockefellers and the Jim Hills and the Harrimans and the Henry Fords, and that sort. We finally agreed (as 1 recall it. there wasn't a dissenting voice) that even if able and dyn amic men of that age did make more money than was exactly good for their heirs they left a heritage of achievement that was good for the country as whole. The oil that was develop ed by Rockefeller and the rail roads that were built by the Har rimans and the Hills and the automobile empire that was created by Henry Ford have made this a better community for all of us to live in. HAVING SETTLED that, we moved on to the big rich of today. The NEW rich, I mean, The kind that keep the night spots and such going. The HAVES who make news for the HAVE-NOTS to read. Who are they? How do they make it? YOU KNOW, we came to the cynical conclusion that as much big money, QUICK money is being made today as ever was made in the fabled days of the past and a whale of a lot of it (especially the kind that makes news) Is being made by rack. ETEERS of one sort or another. Gamblers, black marketeers and such. The quick buck tribe. That is to say, there are filthy rl:h in these reformed and liber al days just as there were filthy rich In those bad old days of the past, regardless of what the dem agogues may tell us. Court Records poi.iric roi'HT Margaret O. PTialr, violation of baite rul. $10. Floyd C. Freeman, failure to atop at stop sign. o. DISTRICT rOl'RT John Euerne Mellor. overOnrth. $10. Glenn Dalits Clymer, failure, to atop at stop sun, tio. Lloyd Cheater Johnson, overwtdth, $10. Robert George Corbet! overwtdth. Jack O. Johnson, overload. $8. Jack 11. Johnson, overwtdth. ftft. Gerald Clarence Hill. Room S01 Allen hotel, drunk on public highway, $15 James Allen Hurt, failure to stop at stop stan. $10 Harry S. Note, failure to stop at stop sign. no. Robert Cox, violation of baste rule, $7 50. cinrrrr coirt Allc, Ftusl vs. Adolph Feual, dt vorc complaint. Rot McMiilln rt. Klla May. Mc Muttn. dtvorc dmw. Geort A. Llpxcomb vs. Eva X. Ltpa mmh divorc riwff, Darlfn Candar Fauvt v. Krfmin .Njrman fault, Jr., divorce decree. "JOE BEAVER" Forest "Man-caused fire arc more' numerous than lightning fires which generally mr in jwp r a Frail Iranian Head Pleads Nation's Case Before World Court By PHIL NEWSOM United Press Foreign Analyst I A frail little man with falter ing step and trembling voice is pleading .'his case this week before the In tcrn ational Court at The Hague. Iran's Premier Moh ammed Mossa degh is so frail he faints occa sionally in the midst of a speech, but un derneath it all he is a man of I'hil Newborn iron who has lived longer than many of Irans top ranking politicians. He is representing Iran be fore the Court in the dispute with Britain over the nation alization of Iranian oil.' At stake is the $560,000,000 Anglo-Iranian. Oil Co.,' and fi nally control of the world s richest single oil field. Cards Seen Stacked Britain had a contract with Iran giving it control of the field until 1993. but so far as the hearing before the Inter national Court is concerned, it would seem the cards are stack ed in advance. First, Mossadegh argues that no one can attack either Iran's legal or moral right to national ize the Iranian field. Second, he says that even should Iran lose its case. Iran will ignore the de cision. As a signatory to the World Court which was set. up after wona war 11, iran is. bound by the Court's decision. However. should she withdraw, then the Court's decision no longer ap plies. Mossadegh says that win, lose , J av f .WL..1UI Taft Supporters Gain Decided Advantage In Naming MacArthur -Washington (U.R) The. show of force with which Sen. Robert A. T a f t' s supporters crushed opposition to Gen. Douglas MacArthur to be Re publican National Convention keynoter achieved something else much more Important. That was the selection of West Virginia's Walter . S. Hallanan Vis temporary convention chair man. The keynote speaker makes the principal opening address and usually serves also as temp orary chairman. A temporary chairman's duties are difficult, requiring specfel skills. They will be especially difficult in the Republican National Conven tion because the bitter disputes over the seating of contested delegates-must be adjusted be fore the temporary chairman steps down. So the jobs were divided among two men both Ta.'t partisans. No Proposal Dared Taft so firmly controlled the Republican organization as rep resented by the convention Ar rangements committee that Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower's friends dared not even propose men to keynote or to preside temporar ily. Thus. Taft Is assured that the keynote speech will be friendly to him and cool if not hostile to Eisenhower, delivered by one of the master orators of our times. It is no small advantase. But Hallanan has the real kev position. His rulings as tempor ary cnairman win enormously affect the composition of the convention. From the temoor. ary chair he can and probably will give Taft forces the parlia mentary oreaks, By Ed Nofziger Service, U. 8. Department of Agriculture nug uwnug iwiiit or draw he is quitting as pre mier at the conclusion of the present hearings. He would, of course, like to quit with a victory under his belt, but under present circum stances that seem difficult. If the Court rules against him then the dispute would seem to return to stalemate. Mossadegh's hatred of t h e British is such that he even has refused to permit British tech nicians to operate the field un der Iranian control. U. S. Plan Unlikely Americans could do It for the Iranians but the U. S. govern ment is not likely to sponsor any such plan, at least until the British claims are settled. Russia would be delighted to take ov er operation of the field. But, where Mossadegh dislikes' the British, he has good reason to fear the Russians, particularly in any plan which would give them .virtual control of Iran's economy. " When Iranian oil is flowing, , It brings to Iran more than $1,- 000,000,000 annually In reven ues and wages. The money rep resented nearly 13 per cent of Iranian Income, and its loss was a staggering blow to the natlon'i economy. Miscaluculation Seen Both Britain and Iran seem to have miscalculated in the dispute. The British believed the loss of income would forca Iran into quick settlement. Iran believed the worjd need for oil would force an equally quick settlement in its favor. So far as Mossadegh is con cerned, thir now is a personal fight. - His departure may open tha way to new negotiations and ev entual settlement. Hallanan is a capable and sturdy member of the Old Guard a veteran of 40 years in Repub lican politics, most of it on the national level. His business in-" terests are oil, gas and pipe lines. He already is on record that delegate disputes, such as that now flaming in Texas, shall not be considered in Chicago at t all. Hallanan cites the rule - ad opted in 1948 that disputes over all hilt Hplf.DatAa.nt.l'K'tfa mitcf be settled by the states in which They originate and before the convention meets. That rule au tomaticlly would seat the bulk of the challenged Taft delega tions from Texas and other states without discussion in Chicago. As temporary chair man, Hallanan will be in a pos ition to help make that rule stick. Only a determined and skillful floor fight could upset him. Great Protest Seen There will be great protest against Taft's powerhouse play in Chicago Tuesday. But not much is new in politics. Some of those who would denounce the steamroller choice of Mac Arthur and Hallanan were par ties in 1940 to a similar deal. Harold E. Stassen was slip ped over on the 1940 Republi can National Convention as key noter and temporary chairman presumably as the friend of all candidates. He' stepped di rectly from the temporary chairmanship to be floor man ager of Wendell L. Willkies successful bid to kidnap the Re- publican presidential nomina tion. It was the Old Guard and others that time who shouted "foul."