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lt) YEARS AGO
July 6. 1942
(It was Monday)
Three persons hurt in eight
automobile accidents here over
Fourth of July holiday.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Returning
gadders from the Willamette val
l ley report the heat was terrific.
In Salem, an attempt to fry an
egg on the sidewalk was foiled
when it fried before it hit the
sidewalk.
20 YEARS AGO
July 6. 1932
(It was Wednesday)
W. M. Clemenson, manager of
Jackson hotel, named to succeed
W. W. Allen on Medford city
council.
Two young Kansas men arrive
here to earn a living by collect
ing bounties on mountain lions
and other animals which they
plan to kill.
30 YEARS AGO
July 6, 1922
(It was Thursday)
State Sen. Hugo G. A. von der
Hellen, Medford resident and
pioneer of southern Oregon, dies
in Portland.
Medford city council clamps
down on violations of water reg
ulations; announces plans to
build new reservoir next fall.
40 YEARS AGO
July 6. 1912
Members of Medford high
school class of 1911 hold first
annual picnic near Opp mine. -
Eastern mill workers publish
pamphlet declaring their weekly
salaries of $8.76 "are no longer
adequate to support a family."
Morse Catalogue
Bill Becomes Law,
Senator Reports
Washington The Morse-Anderson
"single catalogue" bill,
which provides for more effi
cient supply management and
catalogue organization procure
ment policies in the department
of defense, iias been signed into
law by President Truman, Sen.
Wayne Morse (R.-Ore.), reported
Saturday.
Morse, co-sponsor of the meas
ure, gave much credit to the
American Legion, and in particu
lar to the Grants Pass post and
its members Niel Allen and
Lloyd Haynes, for the success
of the bill, which will, he said,
result in the saving of a mini
mum of $214 billion dollars year
ly. It embodies one of the major
recommendations of the Hoover
commission report.
"In addition to the economy
which will result in savings per
haps as high as $4,000,000,000,
- I am convinced that it will also
result in many much needed
changes in procurement policies
with resulting improvement in
the efficiency of the military es
tablishment," Senator Morse
said. .
BRAVE CHIPMUNK
. London (U.R) A chipmunk
which escaped his cage in the
London zoo was found in a lion's
cage contentedly gnawing a bone
from bis companion's dinner.
Will the GO P. ,
Commit Suicide at Chicago?
There are times when the Republican Party seems
beset with a curious suicidal tendency. In 1946, the
Republicans assumed incorrectly that the election was
"in the bag." Candidate Dewey failed to put on the
kind of fighting campaign that was needed, and when
the big day came in November a great many local
G.O.P. workers sat on their hands, and several million
Republican voters didn't bother to go to the polls.
.
"THIS year the party has been split wide open by its
bitterest pre-convention fight since 1912. An in
famous smear campaign has been conducted against
one of the two leading candidates, the technique of
the "big lie" has been employed, and power politics
and trickery have been used to sew up state delega
tions. Whether the breach that has been created by
these stupidities can be healed depends to a large
extent on what happens at the Chicago convention,
which begins next Monday. If the convention is fairly
and honestly run, giving both Taft and Eisenhower
the equal chance to which they are entitled, the party
may be able to mend its torn fences and go on to vic
tory in November. On the other hand, if steam-roller
tactics are used to crush the chances of the ex-soldier
who is vastly admired by a great many millions of
Americans, the G.O.P. probably will have to content
itself with the minority role in national politics for
many years to come.
Shortly after the New Hampshire primary last
March, when it became evident that Eisenhower was
a serious contender for the nomination, an unbeliev
able campaign of vilification and vituperation was
started against the general. We have in our offices a
file of the vicious, petty stuff that was circulated in
an attempt to stop him cold. He was called a sick man
despite the fact that his health is superb ; he was call
ed a communist despite the fact that the leading com
munist publication in America was lambasting him
regularly; his patriotism was denied; even the re
ligious beliefs of his devout parents were questioned.
These and dozens of other equally ridiculous charges
were sown broadcast against a man who will go down
in histoiy as one of the really great American heroes
and patriots. Believing that Senator Taft is an honor
able man, we feel sure he had nothing to do with this
smear campaign. But the damage to the party was
done. The breach was opened and grew with each
passing day.
TPHE smear campaign probably wras conducted large-
ly by the fringe lunatics, but there was another
phase of the campaign the campaign of distortion
which was conducted by more adroit men and was
more effective because these men knew how to clothe
their calumnies with plausibility. Spearheaded by a
number of isolationist newspapers, these people pic
tured General Eisenhower as a man of socialistic ten
dencies, a New Dealer or Fair Dealer, a national was
trel and the architect of much that has gone wrong
in the world since the end of World War II. Yet ev
eryone who has taken the trouble to study Eisen
hower's speeches and papers knows that his beliefs
are the beliefs of a sound Kansas Republican. He does
believe, again soundly, that we must guard our fron
tiers abroad, as well as at home ; it was this conviction,
which he has voiced courageously, that brought about
the campaign of distortion.
Unfortunately, however, too many Taft adherents
obviously read only what they want to believe about
the general as has been demonstrated by . the mail
that has come into our offices. The daily stream of
abuse by such organs as the Chicago Tribune and the
mouthings of such pygmy politicians as the ineffable
B. Carroll Reece have had their effect. And the breach
in the party lines has been still further widened. If
there has been any similar campaign of misrepresenta
tion about Senator Taft from the Eisenhower camp,
we have not seen it. .
TPHEN came the final pre-convention move to take
the nomination by force. This move was made
through the ragtag Republican organizations which
still control party affairs in some of the Southern
states. In Texas, for example, which is so strongly
Eisenhower country that many political observers
believe the general could actually carry the state into
the Republican column in November, the fraudulent
strategy of the state organization, which controlled
the state-convention machinery, was so brazen that
the Dallas Morning News called upon Senator Taft
to repudiate the action of the Texas convention. Eisen
hower delegates to the state convention, legally elect
ed in the precinct and county meetings, were in an
overwhelming majority, but the machine simply de
nied them seats and elected a slate of Taft delegates
to the national convention.
The rank and file of Republican voters in Texas
and there is a surprisingly large and growing' number
of them in that Southern state are up in arms oyer
this miscarriage of our democratic system. In Louisi
ana, somewhat similar methods were used with similar
results. And in view of the
from these two states, if seated, might well cast the
deciding votes at Chicago, the chicanery of the Re
publican machines in Texas and Louisiana assumes
enormous importance. .
Senator Taf t's forces will largely control the con
vention machinery at Chicago. If they choose to use
their power unfairly, seating illegal delegations by the
steam-roller method and otherwise misusing this im
mense advantage to destroy, a highly popular candi
date, the breach in the party will not be healed this
year, and perhaps not for many years. We repeat:
We think Senator Taft is an honorable man, and, for
the good of his party and the good of the. country, :
Bandar July 8. 1952
fact that the delegations
Crosstown
"You can opan your eyas
we earnestly hope he will
wants the nomination only
1WIOREOVER, we hope that the Eisenhower forces
will restrain their unbounded enthusiasm and
not atterrmt anv blitz tactics such as were emnloved
at the Willkie convention.
times this country has ever faced, and the decision on
the presidency must be made not only honestly but
without hvsteria.
' We believe, as we said
Eisenhower is the American best titted tor tne presi
dency, that he has the qualities of leadership this
country so urgently needs. We also believe that if
the nomination could be made by a complete and
fair referendum of Republican voters throughout the
country, he would win hands-down. We think he
should be nominated.
WTE RECOGNIZE that
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above paragraph. But we
whn Tins the welfare of his
on the critical necessity for
vention at Chicago.
Evening Post for July 5,
In the Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
Significant news from Chi
raffo:
The forces of Senator Robert
A. Taft of Ohio took control
of the pre-convention maneuvers
at the end of last week, and the
Republican national committtee
seated the contested Taft slate
of delegates from ueorgia.
GEORGIA is a DEEP. SOUTH
state. Under no circum
stances can it be expected to
vote for ANY Republican.'
! In three othe." Deep . South
states Louisiana, Mississippi
and Texas there are contests
between Taft and Eisenhower
delegations. There is no possi
bility that any of them will vote
Republican this fall.
F' ALABAMA, Arkansas, Flor
ida, Kentuclky, Oklahoma.
South Carolina, Tennessee and
Virginia, Taft has either all or
a heavy majority of all the dele
gates. None of these states can
be expected to give its electoral
vote to a Republican candidate
for President.
It is the old story of GOP
organization-owned delegates in
the South. These delegates have
no responsibilities, because their
home states can not be expected
to give their electoral votes to
any Republican candidate.
That situation is an old scan
dal in the Republican party.
LEAVING out the four contest
ed Deep South states that
have already been mentioned,
there are 17 states that either
have never gone Republican or
have not gone Republican in the
last four Presidential elections.
In these 17 states, Taft has
176 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 certainly 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
election in November.
r' SEEMS probable, from what
has already transpired, that
wherever there are contests the
Taft - dominated Republican na
tional committee will favor the
Taft delegates. 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 Eisenhower peo
ple to bring that- about.
If so, how can it change the
situation?-' .
Let's put it this way: The Taft
dominated GOP organization ap
pears at the moment to be more
concerned with GETTING ITS
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
By Roland Co
now. Bertha Wa'ra past it."
take the position that he
if lairly gained.
We live in the most critical
in our May 3 issue, that
millions of fair-minded peo
fhp hplipfs stflt.pH in the
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don't tmnk any Kepubiican
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(Editorial in ine oaiuraay
1952.)
News
electing a Republican President
than in anything else.
That will represent quite a
change of atmosphere.
T ET'S take a chance and quote
here the latest figures of the
Gallup 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 per
centage points. AU in all, they
were surprisingly close.
In his latest poll, Gallup
matched Taft and Eisenhower,
each separately, against Kefau
ver and Stevenson, who at the
moment are regarded as the
strongest of the Democratic prob
abilities. 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 wiU 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 it is Eisenhower
against Kefauver, Eisenhower
will win by 20 percentage points.
THAT'S the Gallup poll story.
Admittedly, after 1948, the
pollsters are deep in the dog
house. But the bulk of the 1206
delegates at the Republican con
vention next week are going to
want to NAME A WINNER. No
politician likes to back a loser.
And, after all, Pollster 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. .
Boy Blames Crimes
On Lengthy Haircut
Portland" (U.R)- Juvenile
authorities were holding a 14-year-old
San ' Jose, Calif., boy
Saturday after he allegedly stole
his stepfather's car and cashed
bad checks along ' his route
through California and Oregon.
The youngster told detectives
that he left home because "Mom
wouldn't let me cut my hair.
She wanted it straight and long
but all the other kids have flat
tops." ,
In Penny Arcada
A policewoman picked upithe
youth loitering in , a downtown
penny arcade. He admitted he
had run away from his San Jose
home a week ago. A hitchhiker
he picked up en route disappear
ed with his step-father's car at
The Dalles, Ore.
He had eight checks, made out
and ready to cash, along with
$34 on his person. The youth
said he passed fraudulent "checks
in Quincy, Calif., Redmond,.The
Dalles, and Portland. :' -:
His destination was Canada
where he said he -had -friends.
Matter of Fact
TAFT AND STEVENSON
Washington If Sen. Robert
A. Taft is nominated at the Re
publican convention next week,
Gov. Adlai Stevenson wiU un
questionably make it clear that
he will accept the Democratic
nomination if it is offered him.
Close friends of the Illinois Gov
ernor have no doubts at aU on
this score.
Stevenson's, friends heaved a
great sigh of relief a few days
ago, when he issued a statement
saying that he would "decide
what to do at that time in the
light of conditions then exist
ing," in case a draft-Stevenson
movement got under way. The
background of this statement is
interesting.
AT LEAST three times in re
cent weeks, Stevenson has
been on the verge of issuing a
very different statement, which
he had actually written out in
longhand. Stevenson's reluc
tance to run, which has sprung
largely from his divorced wife's
now public opposition to his
candidacy, has been absolutely
genuine. The statement he wrote
out in longhand was modeled on
the traditional Sherman prece
dent, and it would have removed
his name from consideration
once and for all.
His friends have found that
only one argument sufficed to
persuade Stevenson to keep this
statement locked in his desk.
They have argued that the elec
tion of Sen. Taft to the Presi
dency would be a national dis
aster which Stevenson most
fervently believes. And they
have further argued that Steven
son simply cannot turn down the
nomination, if his party decides
that he is the strongest man to
beat Taft; and that therefore
Stevenson must remain avail
able, if only on simple patri
otic grounds.
OTEVENSON'S statement that
he would accept the nomina
tion "in the light of conditions
then existing" thus takes on a
very obvious meaning. The most
important of the "conditions
then existing" which would per
suade him to accept is, of course,
the Republican nomination of
Taft.
As for his chances of being
chosen Democratic standard
bearer under these, conditions,
Illinois Democratic leader Jacob
Arvey is convinced that he
would be nominated on a very
early baUot. Other Democratic
professionals, even some of those
identified with other candidates,
agree with Arvey.
For while his rivals have been
toiling and sweating for the
nomination, Stevenson has ef
fortlessly and somewhat miracu
lously made himself acceptable
to all major factions of his party.
He is acceptable to the con
servatives and the Southerners,
especially since he is now on
record against a considerable
portion of the Truman program,
including- compulsory Federal
fair employment legislation.
T the same time, he is also
acceptable to the liberal-la
bor groups, which plumped hard
for him at the time of Presi
dent Truman's withdrawal, as
indeed did President Truman
himself. Yet Stevenson cannot
now possibly be labelled a "Tru
man stooge,"- as he was well
aware he would have been, if
he had agreed immediately when
Truman first urged him to run.
Stevenson has, of course, paid
some price for his long hesita
tion. A few important leaders,
like Paul Fitzpatrick of New
York, have become committed
to other candidates. Above all,
President Truman himself is
now given to talking rather acid
ly about his former first choice
as successor. Truman particu
larly resented Stevenson's recent
strictures against "socialized
medicine," which seemed to Tru
man like taking a leaf out of the
Republican's propaganda book.
As one White House intimate re
marked, "Do you expect the
President to conduct a summer
campaign against his own pro
gram?" This Presidential resentment
might hurt Stevenson, if he de
cided he wanted to run against
Dwight D. Eisenhower. Although
Stevenson thinks he could beat
Eisenhower, he is not eager to
take him on, partly because he
genuinely admires him. More
over, a good many Democrats
share President Truman's con
viction that the way to deal with
Eisenhower is to go all out on
Fair Deal issues. Stevenson, who
is by conviction several degrees
to the right of Truman, simply
is not the man to do this.
IjVDR these reasons, it is far
from certain that Stevenson
would consent to run, or that he
would be nominated, if Eisen
hower were chosen by the Re
publicans. But if Taft is the Re
publican nominee, Stevenson
will certainly be willing to run,
and Truman's resentment will
wither away. For it will then be
the universal impulse of the
Democratic leaders, including
Truman, to close ranks against
the violent Taft assault. Steven
son is about the only man around
whom Democratic ranks can
now-be closed, and if the judg
ment of the professional means j
r Jaijali ami
Stewart A liea
anything, he is the Democrats'
strongest candidate.
Thus one price the Republi
cans are exceedingly likely to
pay for the nomination of Sen.
Taft; is the nomination by the
Democrats of their strongest
candidate. This is a noint whir-h
the embattled Republicans, now
gathering m Chicago, might do
weU to bear in mind.
(Copyright, 1952
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
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Agraas About Glass
To the Editor: I read Kenneth
G. Denman's article in your
Communications column.
I for one would hate to see
the Hoover lakes' gates locked
as we are not rich folks. But we
do enjoy so very much going
out there and picking up pretty
rocks as -our recreation, as we
can't go far. I, too, notice all the
glass and such being thrown
around in the Hoover lakes area.
I notice that since so many tour
ists have been coming in to Ore
gon our highways and recrea
tion places are looking much
worse.
We used to live in California,
and all of their recreation places
and highways are something ter
rible with glass and such, even
glass is strewed across high
ways down that way.
I think southern tourists are
the ones to blame more than
local folks.
I don't know what can be done
to help, as folks don't seem to
believe in signs. At least no one
reads such signs down south. I
wish folks would help keep our
highways and recreation places
clean and beautiful.
Mrs. F. L. Christensen
Talent, Oregon
178 Traffic Deaths
In Oregon During
First Six Months
Salem 4J.R) Forty traffic
deaths m June brought Oregon's
highway toll for the first six
months of this year to 178 and
the State Traffic Division ex
pects more to be reported.
The division said this was an
indication of two things:
1. Although more accidents
involving property damage and
injuries are occurring, deaths so
far this year are slightly lower
than last year when 189 were
killed in the first six months.
... 2. The 40 June deaths, high
est monthly count for the year,
heralded arrival of the year's
worst trafic-killing months the
summer vacation season.
. Projecting the June figures,
and considering the death counts
for previous vacation months,
state officials said they expect
"more than 130" traffic deaths
during July, August and Septem
ber. Safety officials - reason and
gasoline sales back them up
that Oregon highways will carry
the heaviest traffic in the state's
history this summer, which in
turn means more accidents, in
juries and deaths.
May - gasoline gallonage- fig
ures this year topped every pre
vious May when 44,337,560 gal
lons of gas were burned and mo
torists rolled up an impressive
584,812,416 miles, of . travel. For
each 100 million miles traveled,
five persons lost their lives in
traffic smash-ups.
UO Journalism Prof
New Alumni Editor
Eugene (U.R) Paul J.
Deutschmann, assistant profes
sor of journalism at the Uni
versity of Oregon, Saturday was
appointed editor of Old Ore
gon, alumni magazine.
Deutschmann will edit . the
alumni publication on a perma
nent basis, instead of the yearly
basis on which student editors
were appointed. His newspaper
work includes experience on the
Eugene Register-Guard, the La
Grande Evening Obsever andj
the Denver Post. I
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Editorial Comment
FLUORIDATION PREVENTS
TOOTH DECAY
Dr. - Thomaa P. Monahan,
Grants Pass dentist and city
council member, an enthusiastic
supporter of fluoridation of city
water as a means of retarding
tooth decay, especially among
the young, is attempting to
arouse local public interest in
the subject.
The dentist is making appear
ances before local civic groups,
lecturing and showing a film on
the subject put out by the State
Board of Health.
Fluoridation is spreading rap
idly throughout the country and
is being adopted in some Oregon
cities.
Usually, the subject develops
an argument. One church group
is particularly opposed because
it conflicts with their stand
against the uses of medicinal
concoctions.
Most folks know little about
the matter. Locally, the discus
sion of the subject is just begin
ning. Some opponents charge fluor
idation may be injurious to
health. On that subject, the Al
bany Democrt-Herald recently
carried an editorial quoting Dr.
Harold M. Erickson, Oregon
state health officer, as denying
such claims.
The editorial is as follows:
A correspondent discussing
fluoridation of water refers
to fluoride as "rat poison."
So is strychnine rat poison,
but many a person is alive to
day because he has taken
strychnine. All depends on
how much one takes at a
time.
' Dr. Harold M. Erickson,
Oregon state health officer,
discussing in the state health
bulletin the subject of fluor
idation last March branded
the charge that fluorides are
poisonous as a misconception
disseminated by opponents of
fluoridation in "an obvious at
tempt to frighten people."
"Fluorides are poisonous or
potentially dangerous in ex
cessive dosage or uncontrolled
use," Dr. Erickson said, "but
so are many other materials
commonly taken into our sys
tems, such as chlorine." Equip
ment used to inject fluorides
into municipal water supplies
is so constructed that the intro
duction of harmful amounts
would be impossible, Dr.
Erickson adds.
The charge that fluorida
tion is only experimental ig
nores that fact that fluoride
exists in varying amounts up
to 4 parts per million in all
fish, particularly mackerel; in
many vegetables and in some
municipal water supplies, no
tably Colorado Springs, Colo.;
Naples, Italy; Bauxite, Ark.;
Oakley, Idaho and many towns
in northern Texas, South Da
kota, California, Kansas, Illi
nois and Virginia. All resi
dents of those towns have for
generations been consuming
water containing far higher
concentrations of fluorides
than are proposed locally. Usu
ally only from one to 1.5 parts
per million is the ration em
ployed. Ordinary dry tea leaves con
tain from 75 to 100 parts by
volume of fluorides.
Yet there is no evidence that
kidney ailments, bone frac
tures or other disabilities are
more prevalent among tea
drinkers or in the fluoride
consuming areas than else
where, according to both the
American Medical association,
American Dental association
and U.S. Public Health serv
ice, all of which have investi
gated thoroughly. Only notice
able difference found was
greater resistance to tooth decay-in
the fluoridated towns.
If fluorides in the compara
tively mild concentrations em
ployed in artificial ingestion
are po.'sonous then those above
named towns would have been
depopulated years ago and
residents of San Francisco,
Philadelphia, Grand Rapids,
Mich.; Newburgh and Kings
ton, N.Y.; 72 cities in Wiscon
sin and many more here and
there are doomed.
To quote Dr. Erickson again:
"The present facts show only
that proper fluoridation can
decrease dental decay. No
present facts in any way tend
to support any claim that it is
harmful."-Grants Pass Courier .