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tory from the files of the Mail
Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years
ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 7. 1942
(It was Wednesday)
Maj. Gen. Charles H. Ger
hardt arrives here to take charge
of the 91st infantry division at
Camp White.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: It looks
like the heat wave has subsid
ed, at least until the stores start
advertising the annual August
blanket sales.
20 YEARS AGO
July 7. 1932
(It was Thursday)
Jackson county circuit court
announces September 1 has been
set for the dedication of the
new county courthouse at Main
and Oakdale avenue.
State tax board appraisal of
Medford business buildings gives
their total replacement value as
$2,733,220.
30 YEARS AGO
July 7. 1922
(It was Friday)
Medford Citizens committee
organized to fight recall election
for Jackson county sheriff after
Gov. Ben Olcott instructs at
torney general to proceed with
prosecution of "outrages com
mitted in Jackson county" dur
ing the past four months.
Chief of Medford fire depart
ment requests authority to com
bat any large fire which might
occur in the city with dynamite.
40 YEARS AGO
July 7. 1912
(It was Sunday)
Circuit Judge Frank M. Cal
kins upholds injunction sought
by Ashland men against con
struction of new Main street
bridge across Bear creek in Med
ford. Passengers and crew escape
injury as Southern Pacific rail
road's Shasta limited train is
wrecked near Rogue River;
clearing of track expected to
take 12 hours.
3-Wheel Motorcycle
Unveiled by Makers
Springfield, Mass. (U.R)
A new, three-wheel motorcycle
that features a self-starter, a re1
verse gear and hydraulic brakes
has been unveiled by the Indian
Motorcycle Co.
The Indian "Patrol," designed
to operate easily in congested
traffic areas, can carry two
passengers in addition to the
driver.
The "push-button" starter
first self-starter in any motor
cycle will eliminate the need
for -the driver to "kick over"
the motor with his right foot
to get it running.
With the reverse gear, cyclists
no longer will be forced to lift
and twist from their vehicles to
extricate them from tight spots.
Shaft drive has replaced the
old chain drive. It permits the
use of the standard shift.
Hydraulic brakes, to' insure
the operator's safety and pro
vide for smooth, quick stops, are
standard equipment on the "Pa
trol." A large back seat is set be
tween the rear wheels behind
the driver. It can accommodate
two persons comfortably or can
be used as a storage or luggage
compartment. ;
MAIL TRIBUNE
itorial Correspondence
Worcester, Mass., July 4 (En route to Chicago via the Boston
and Albany) This old New England town on the edge of the
Berkshires has a beautiful natural setting. It is about four times as
large as it was on our last visit. Not that it has grown so sensation
ally but our former visit was in January 1902!
We visited at that time a young man by the name of Hutchins
whose father was with the Knowles Loom Works. We have been
busy with the -phone book ever since our arrival but have yet
to find a Knowles or a Hutchins who ever heard of our former
friends. Coming . in on the New Haven train via Springfield,
however, we passed the Knowles Loom Works just as we passed
it coming in from Boston so many years ago but there was no
sign of life within.
"O tempora O mores!" Also "Sic transit gloria " SW ANSON!
The law of compensation always works when one gets out of
New York and into the "provinces." In the U.S.A. and the world
for that matter there is only ONE New York, it is undoubtedly
the Cosmopolis Supreme in the western hemisphere. BUT when
you get out of it's clutches you find, with a certain surprise and
a sense of satisfaction that you are no longer treated as merely a
stray human nonentity, an odd molecule in a billion other mole
cules, but as an individual with as many rights and privileges as
any other member of the genus homo enjoys on this harassed ball-of-dirt
alias one of the minor planets. That's a grand and
glorious feeling. '
The courteous, considerate treatment we have, received since
our arrival here is almost unbelieveable. The taxi-man at the
station, for example, actually apologized for the delay in getting
a suitcase that had been checked, and he did a red-cap's job and
never put out his hand for a tip or apparently expected one.
Imagine anything like that happening in New York. Any taxi
man with that consideration for his "fare" would have been
kicked out of the union and into the Harlem river before he got
up to 69th street!
It is equally surprising and pleasing at this hotel, and on the
local busses to . and from the Olympic rowing trials on Lake
.Quinsigamond. These trials are something like the famous Henley
regatta in England with all sorts of races between all sorts of
boats singles, duos, quartets with coxswains and 8-oared shells,
ditto. The aquatic field-day yesterday had more photo-finishes
than could be seen at Santa Anita in a year. The most exciting
one was between the Washington Huskies and Wisconsin. The
Huskies led all the way until the last 100 yards, when Wisconsin
by Herculean effort nosed them out by inches, which seemed
to please the crowd, but not your correspondent, who naturally
was rooting for the Pacific Coast.
In fact this has been a terrible year for the MT Sportswriter
Emeritus only one bright spot and that the Dodgers our favorite
ball club we have actually seen them win SIX TIMES. Left New
York yesterday so missed seeing them get a beating as usual
from the N.Y. Giants. That's an odd thing about baseball teams
have definite allergies apparently. The Dodgers just CAN'T beat
the Giants and the Cardinals just CAN'T beat the Dodgers. At
this stage it would be a fairly safe gamble, however, to wa.ger on
the Yankees and Giants meeting in the World Series. (How
about it Mr. Morgan?)
Ac ? -..ryiton it heet. timp hv Ihp college 8's has been
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made by Cornell in nosing out
made by Wisconsin as noted above, in tact doui Harvard ana iaie
who came in close thirds were timed faster than the Badgers,
which some might figure would make them favorites if they had
to race the Wisconsin crew.
But they would be wrong. For there is nothing less accurate
as a guide than time in crew racing. The reason? Time is so vitally
affected by conditions conditions of tide if any and more im
portant, wind and waves. The lake was choppy when Wisconsin
won, and smooth as glass when
difference of 15 or 20 seconds
The most surprising thing about the trials are the babies who
are participating. One of the prep school crews has a coxswain only
11 years old and weighing less than 100 lbs. he had to put on a
pair of iron pants to qualify.
Another one, with more of an
erly adjusted a hot-water bag with sand and ate half a dozen
bananas just before weighing in.
At this hotel these midgets make a great hit, eating together
and HOW they eat! but with their adoring parents not far away
to see they don't break training.
apparently these moppets were reared on oars instead of teething
rings.
Rowing, even more than golf, depends upon rhythm perfect
timing and therefore success depends more upon the coaching
than is true with other sports.
Take the Exeter Academy "four" for example that defeated
Harvard and California yesterday in the "four"-with-coxswain
struggle. In a tug-of-war these boys would have been pulled all
over the lot by their older and more muscular opponents. But on
the water their perfect timing, the result of expert coaching, put
them easily out ahead. A couple of teen-age Detroit lads did the
same thing in the double-sculls and for the same reason one of
them Walter Hoover Jr., the son of a famous champion sculler of
long ago but NOT-related to Herbert.
In the attractive wooded "common" in front of the hotel is a
monument to the "Minute. Men of 1776" who formed there before
they marched to Lexington and Concord some 45 miles away.
And from the bridge near the finish line at Lake Quinsigamond,
one can see thickly-wooded Wigwam Hill where the true "100
Americans", sold their fertile acres to the then 100 Britishers
for a mess of pottage - and a few pre-Revolution Woolworth
trinkets. Those Britishers' descendants are now Sons and Daugh
ters of the 'American Revolution, priding themselves on their
purity, rectitude and super patriotism while the descendants of
the ORIGINAL "100 Americans" have completely disappeared
victims of one of the "gypiest" business deals in all human
history! '
Of course there were extenuating circumstances.
The Indians got what they WANTED at the time and so did
the early settlers. The former, who practiced communism hun
dreds of years before Karl Marx wrote about it, simply did not
realize that holding-land-in-common would disappear and private
property and the capitalistic system would take its place. The
supply of land THEN so exceeded the demand; and the demand
for pretty highly-colored glass beads so exceeded the prevailing
supply, that the poor deluded redskins, also devoted to the sacred
primeval law of "Supply and Demand," may have thought they
were getting much the best of it! (We would like to get Pravda's
views on this.) R.W.R.
Editorial Comment
ANOTHER OFFICER SLAIN
We sometimes wonder if the
people of Oregon sufficiently ap
preciate the fine, devoted type
of service they are receiving day
in and day out, from our Ore
gon state police. Attention is
directed to the subject again,
most regrettably, by the mur
der of another officer in line of
duty.
This makes a total of nine
state police officers killed ' on
the job in the 21 years since
Governor Julius Meier started
the organization, under Super
intendent Charles P. Pray, in
1931. That is a high percentage
which one considers that aside
from clerical employees the de
partment includes only 325 of
ficers and has averaged much
smaller through the years.
Answering our own implied
question, we believe the. people
are proud of the organization
Monday, July 7, 19S2
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California. The slowest time was
cornea conquered, migni iud.c a
perhaps more.
eye for comfor'., filled and prop
The talk is entirely aquatic
headed by Superintendent H.
G. Maison. Courage is taken for
granted in these men who pro
tect society from dangerous,
lawless characters. Philip B.
Lowd gave his life for the peo
ple of Oregon. That supreme
sacrifice is a possibility every
time an officer takes an assign
ment. As a matter of fact, the
killer who took his life is still
at large as a very real threat to
brother officers who are still
seeking to capture him. Officer
Lowd's associates in the service
recognized him as a brave man,
who put the safety of the people
far ahead of his own. We pay
tribute to the memory of such
a man, whose service can not
actually be compensated in mon
ey. And we hope the people of
Oregon will never be niggard
ly with this grand organiza
tion. Albany Democrat-Herald.
Crosstown
! 1
"If I'd had the money I
have bought
Matter of Fact
STOP-AT-NOTHINGISM
Chicago The first hot blast
of this embittered Republican
convention leaves you both
startled and puzzled. The venom
engendered between the Taft
and Eisenhower forces has to be
seen to be believed. And you
find yourself wondering how on
earth the wounds are ever to be
bound up, and how the party is
ever to carry the November
election, if the candidate who
wins here has got to march to
victory through rivers of fra
ternal blood.
The basic trouble, of course, is
the split which has plagued the
Republican party in all its ef
forts to Tegain its former great
ness. In certain states, notably in
the Midwest, the Party's Old
Guard survived the 1932 deba
cle and still controls the local
party organizations. In other
states, notably on the East and
West coasts, the Old Guard went
down forever with Herbert
Hoover, and new style Republi
cans have cropped up, as a sort
of second growth.
AS IN 1940, 1944 and 1948,
"the present struggle is be
tween Old Guardsmen and the
new style Republicans. The Old
Guard backs Taft'. Eisenhower
is the choice of the moderns, the
compromisers" and the anti
isolationists. But this convention differs in
one vital particular from the
conventions which nominated
Wendell Willkie and Thomas E.
Dewey. There is a stop-at-noth-
ing spirit, a willingness to go to
any lengths to put Sen. Taft
over, which was lacking in the
Old Guards' rather feeble come
back bid in other years.
So far as one can judge, this
spirit has several sources. Gov.
Dewey's surprise "defeat in 1948,
and Sen. Taft's 1950 victory in
Ohio, have inspired the Old
Guard with a new self-confidence,
for one thing.
"jnOR another, there is the per
" sonality of Sen. Taft himself.
Never forgiving, always ambi
tious, never inclined to write
down his own chances, Taft has
now come close to tasting vic
tory in his many months of hard
campaigning. And this foretaste
of triumph has filled him with
a grim determination to get his
own way, a scorn and suspicion
of his opponent, which he does
not trouble to conceal.
Then too, there is the peculiar
and unpleasant development
symbolized by the Taft-control-led
National Committee's choice
of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy as
one of the convention speakers.
Every Republican moderate has
been excluded from the plat
form, but McCarthy has been in
vited to orate.
The meaning is only too plain.
Even the Old Guardsmen do not
argue that their basic political
program has widespread popu
lar appeal. But a majority of
them believe there is a lot of
vote-getting power in the pecu
liar brand of right wing dema
goguery which was first perfect
ed by Sen. ' McCarthy. "Mc
Carthyism," which most moder
ate Republicans abhor, is
thought of as a great source of
strength by many leaders of the
Taft forces. And the feeling that
they have of this new way of j
getting through to the elector-i
ate, is an important factor in
the psychology of the Taft camp
FINALLY, there is the simple;
fact that this convention is!
the Republican Old Guards' last!
chance. The great majority of I
the key figures, both organiza-j
tion chieftains and financial
backers, are actually unlikely to
be able to fight again in 1956. In
years, as in other ways, these
are the older Republicans. And
they are all the more furius
ly set on getting their party
back on what they think is the
right track, while there is still
time.
The Taft steam-roller tactics.
the bold adoption of the strategy
that won a worthless nomina
By Roland Coe
saved on these bargains, I'd
something else."
By Jossph and
Stewart Alsop
tion for William Howard Taft
in 1912, are immediate conse
quences of the stop-at-nothing
spirit that animates the Taft
camp. The consequences, if Sen.
Taft wins the nomination, are
easy to foresee.
Again, the best clue is the se
lection of Sen. McCarthy as a
convention speaker. A stop-at-nothing
campaign will follow
the stop-at-nothing convention.
The experiment, although pain
ful, will be vividly interesting.
There will be no fuzzy attempt
to conciliate moderates, inde
pendents, straying Democrats
and other such weak spirits. It
will be a final test of the num
ber of Americans who really re
spond to the brand of politics
offered by Sen. Taft and the
kind of emotional appeal pre
sented by Sen. McCarthy.
AS SEN. TAFT himself has
"said, the Republicans will
then hope to find their majority
among the millions of .Ameri
cans who do not ordinarily
vote. But what if stop-at-nothing
tactics do not work, and Gen.
Eisenhower is nominated, which
is equally likely? The question
then will be whether this bitter
battle here in Chicago has crip
pled Gen. Eisenhower in ad
vance, foreclosing him from
making a broad, national-minded
campaign. As of today, this
also seems to be a genuine dan
ger, which the General and his
managers need to guard against
very carefully.
(Copyright, 1952,
New York Hehald Tribune Inc.)
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Seeds Of Destruction
To The Editor: R. W. R. writes
from Washington: "Stalin and
his colleagues in the Kremlin
are sure capitalistic democracy
has within itself the seeds of its
own destruction."
Well, they are on solid ground.
All organisms have them. They
are called forces of negation.
Capitalism is lousy with them.
Like the parasitic cells of can
cerous biological organisms, the
parasitic cells of the social or
ganism act counter to the sec
ond law of thermodynamics,
i. e. energy always flows from
a high to a low level the weak
take from the strong.
In capitalist society, the strong
take from the weak.
Parasites kill their host. , In
our society, the laws of accu
mulation, it they should hold to
the end, one family will own
everything. We all shall then
be its slaves. Should not all this
be reversed for social contin
uity? R. E. Hegner,
Gold Hill, Ore.
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In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
A suggestion (this is written
on Fourth of July): If you can
find a quiet 15 minutes, sit down
and read the Declaration of In
dependence. When you've ifn
ished, you'll be a better Ameri
can. You'll have a better un
derstanding of your country.
You will realize more deeply
why it is worth fighting for if
we have to fight again for its
preservation.
TAWELL particularly on this
'-'paragraph of its preamble:
"We hold these truths to be
self-evident: That all men are
created equal; that they are en
dowed by their Creator with cer
tain inalienable rints; that
among these are life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. That,
to secure these rights, govern
ments are instituted among men,
deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed."
Up to then, almost without
exception, government had been
looked upon as a privilege to be
enjoyed by the favored few who
were strong enough or shrewd
enough to seize and hold the
reins of power.
It was our forefathers who laid
down in simple, beautiful, ap
pealing, direct language this
fundamental principle that indi
vidual man and women, created
equal, possess inalienable rights
and that it is the business of
governments to secure these
rights for ALL the people.
TT IS upon this foundation that
America was built. It is be
cause of this foundation that
America has become the great
est nation on earth. That is a
good thing to remember in these
days when over more than half
the area of the earth poisoned,
lying propaganda is being di
rected at us in an effort to des
troy us so that the old, cynical
doctrine that power belongs to
the FEW who are strong enough
and smart enough to seize and
hold it may be restored.
TF YOU read the Declaration of
Independence, don't skip this
final sentence:
"And for the support of this
declaration, with a firm reliance
on the protection of Divine
Providence, we mutually pledge
to each other our lives, our for
tunes and our sacred honor."
fTHEY meant business, these
Founding Fathers of ours
When Jefferson wrote those
deathless words, it must be re
membered, the shooting had al
ready begun. Men had already
died at Lexington, at Concord
and at Breed's (Bunker) Hill.
The chips were down.
In his ringing, final sentence,
Jefferson told the world that
EVERYTHING WE HAD, our
lives, our fortunes and our sac
cred honor, were in this fight
for human liberty.
They were, too. When we laid
the chips on the table back there
in 1776, we PUT THEM ALL
DOWN. It was all or nothing.
When we came out, we had little
left but our liberty and our sac
red honor.
But that was enough to build
America on.
GAIN we face grim days.
Again we face a powerful foe.
Again the principle of individ
ual human liberty is at stake. If
communism wins in the world
struggle that is shaping up and
sharpening up there will be no
more individual human liberty
on this earth.
But if we approach it in the
spirit in which our forefathers
approached the writing and the
signing and the BACKING UP
with blood and treasure of the
Declaration of Independence,
which was the statement of our
reasons for entering upon the
War of the Revolution, we will
WIN and human liberty will be
saved again.
JET'S not forget this:
If we're to win again, we've
got to put all the chips down,
as we did in 1776.
So far, we're not doing it.
Lyon, France (U.R) Maryse
Bastie, famous French aviatrix,
was killed Sunday night along
with six or. seven other persons
when a secret French military
plane crashed during a demon
stration at an air show.
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READY FOR FRAY With both arms thrust in the air, Gen..
Dwight Eisenhower grins at the crowd that welcomes to Chicago. :
Mrs. Eisenhower is at left
Voters Don't- Elect
President; Electoral
College Members Do
(Edilor'i note: Following ii
the fourth in a series of arti
cles prepared by Congression
al Quarterly regarding the way
in which the American peo
ple choose a president every
four years.).
Washington (CQ You
may cast a ballot for president
November 4, but you won't be
electing a president. A group of
citizens called Electors will do
the official job December 15.
The framers of the constitu
tion decided that presidents
should be chosen by the most
distinguished men in each state.
These men were to be picked "in
such manner as the legislature
may direct." Each state was per
mitted one elector for each sen
ator and one for each .representa
tive. The constitution permitted
the electors to vote for any pres
idential candidate they liked.
The electors still are the only
persons to vote officially for a
president. But national elections
have been added so the people
can tell the electors who to vote
for. The advice from the people
is binding in only Californai,
Massachusetts and Oregon, but
seldom have any state's electors
failed to name the man who won
in their state.
Only once in recent years has
an elector failed to follow the
choice of his state. One Tenne
see elector voted for Dixiecrat
Candidate J. Strom Thurmond
instead of the Tennesee winner,
Harry S. Truman, in 1943.
When the electors get togeth-
'Glass on Brain' May
Bring Man $1,000,000
Boston (U.R) Francis X. Wein
man guesses he was "born with
glass on my brain" and he be
lieves it's going to bring him
$1,000,000.
The 88-year-old master of the
disappearing art of hand glass
blowing has made it his work
for 24 years and his hobby for
35. He's an exponent of the ad
age that a mans' work should
also be his hobby.
Weinman, who estimates he
has fashioned 5,000,000 glass ob
jects in some 50 different de
signs, said:
"One of these days, that glass
on my brain is going to pay me
off with a million dollars. I'm
just going to keep inventing
novelty things in glass until I
hit the jackpot."
Weinman claims that when
"some gal Irene Castle, I think
it was bobbed her hair'' his ex
pected road to $1,000,000 was
frustrated. He explained:
"Then all the women in Amer
ica cut theirs, too, and cut out
my glass hatpin business, which
was the product that helped me
make my best week's salary
ever. It was a long . time ago
in Buffalo and I made $2,500
that week."
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ed, trustworthy institutions which have
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serving the public.
We provide such service at all times for
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Member National Selected Morticians by Invitation
er to cast their ballots, they
are called the electoral college,
a name reported to be copied
from the Roman Catholic college
of Cardinals which elects the
pope.
The electoral college votes are
opened and counted at a joint
session of Congress January 6.
The winnerN known to all the
voters back in November, is sol
emnely announced.
There have been many sug
gestions for direct popular elec
tion of presidents, but no plan
has won approval. Several di
rect election bills are now pend
ing in the present Congress. One
was passed by the senate in 1950,
but was pigeon-holed in the
house and died at the close of
the 81st Congress.
(Copyright 1952, Congression
al Quarterly.)
Professor Believes
in Seeing Justice
Champaign, 111. U.R) Presi
dent George Stoddard of the
University of Illinois is a man
who believes in seeing justice
done.
Stoddard received a ticket for
a campus parking violation. He
sent his secretary to Champaign
police court to plead guilty for
him.
The magistrate said he thought
the president could park any
where on the campus.
The secretary said that Presi
dent Stoddard had violated a
regulation and felt he should
pay the penalty. The fine was
$3.
Jailer Trembled
Geo. N. Taylor
Hard-boiled was the jailer at
Philippi, a Roman city of the
olden days. Only God could ever
shake its heavy-walled jail, but
at m i d n i g ht
and with a
great earth
quake, God did
it. At last the
jailer knew
there was the
one and true
God and Judg
ment Day also.
So it was the
jailer threw
himself at the
feet of the
Apostle Paul
Geo. N. Taylor
with "What must I do to be
saved?" The Apostle told him
"Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and you shall be saved."
Acts 16:31.
Only when we know we are
hell-bound sinners and lost, do
we answer to God's love. Then
we are ready to believe on the
Lord. Jesus Christ and be saved.
May you also know the peace
that God alone can give, so says
family that sponsors this space.
Adv.
m
JL