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10 YEARS AGO
July 25. 1942
(It was Saturday)
Lodge at Crater Lake to close
for balance of 1942 season be
cause of lack of business caused
by gasoline rationing.
From Arthur Perry's .Ye
Ye Smudge Pot column; The deer
season opens in the sister state
to the south Saturday and sev
eral local nimrods plan to relax
from the war effort and take a
chance on being shot for one.
20 YEARS AGO
July 25, 1932
fit. was Mondav)
Local civic organizations back
efforts to obtain funds appropri
ated in Federal Reconstruction
Finance bill for improvement of
Siskiyou section of Pacific high
way. Man arrested here and charged
with forgery after giving $890
check for full payment on new
automobile.
30 YEARS AGO
July 25. 1922
(It was Tuesday)
Medford Mayor C. E. Gates
announces "nothing could in
duce" him to run for governor
of Oregon on an independent
ticket.
Medford and Ashland Cham
bers of Commerce schedule joint
forum in Lithia park; persons in
terested in attending advised to
"go to Ashland bathing estab
lishment" in effort to escape the
heat before going to the forum.
40 YEARS AGO
July 25, 1912
(It was Thursday)
More than 100 automobiles ex
pected to pass through Medford
during next week while en route
to Pacific Highway convention in
Los Angeles.
Medford delegates A. C.
Abrams, H. D. Irwin and George
L. Davis leave for state "Bull
Moose" convention in Portland.
Two Men Detained in
Portland Jewel Theft
Portland U.R) Two men
were held in a Portland jail Fri
day in connection with the $20,
000 burglary of Bernard's Jewel
ry store here two weeks ago.
Ray Klinger, 44-year-old ex
convict, was charged with bur
glary and jailed under $10,000
bail and Samuel A. Crist, 24,
a bartender, was booked on sus
picion of possessing stolen prop
erty. The two arrests came Thurs
day when Detectives Bill Brian
and Michael O'Leary became sus
picious of Klinger when they saw
slip into a driverless taxi with
a suitcase. The five-time loser
became "panicky" under their
gaze and was stopped for ques
tioning. His bag contained some
400 stolen rings and more than
60 watches taken from the store.
Klinger later implicated Crist
who Was found in a hotel room
wearing one of the stolen
watches.
RADIO'S BRENDA DIES
Los Angeles (U.R) Funeral
arrangements were being com
pleted Friday for Mrs. Blanche
Stewart, 49, Brenda of the radio
comedy team, of Brenda and
Cobina.
Editorial Correspondence
Chicago, July 23 (By Airmail) Mrs. India Edwards, vice
chairman of the Democratic national committee, who visited Med
ford a few months ago, is a very forceful, forthright woman, and
would like to be vice president.
She probably won't be. But she can have the satisfaction of
(having delivered one cf the most
thus far delivered at this convention.
Because it was announced as an introduction to the eagerly
awaited speech by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, it did not receive the
attention it deserved, and because it didn't the energetic, dynamic
and outspoken Mrs. Edwards became very much irked.
She told the delegates assembled they had been incredibly rude
that afternoon to three of the finest women speakers in the party;
that she did not intend to be treated similarly, and unless order
was restored she would sit down and say nothing. That produced
a slight pause in the general and highly audible noise and conver
sation from the floor but not for long, whereupon Mrs. Edwards,
disregarding Chairman Dever, seized his gavel and savagely banged
the table again for order, asking if the delegates really WANTED
this disorder to mean she SHOULD sit down.
There was no audible answer, but after surveying the inat
tentive and noisy assemblage coldly, she presumably concluded
the demand for her to retire was not overwhelming, and continued
her very moving appeal to the women of the country to wake up,
support the Democratic party and thereby further the welfare of
their country.
Mrs. Edwards, we believe, should not have been so disturbed
For while the eight or ten thousand people then in the convention
hall paid little attention to what
some 30 OR 40 MILLION WOMEN
And that is the important thing at this convention as it was
at the Republican namely, TELEVISION.
In fact, if things go on as at present, TV may do more to elimi
nate the antiquated and extravagant party conventions and bring
in a national primary than any other factor including the efforts
of Senator Douglas and Mrs. Edith Braley.
For why spend all these millions and all this energy on such
silly hocus pocus when a battery of TV machines and a small group
of party notables in a broadcasting booth could accomplish just as
much, and leave a far better impression with the American peo
ple which, after all, is the chief purpose of the convention and
its ballyhoo, anyway.
If noise and fury is going to determine the winner at the con
vention then Senator Estes Kefauver is in and nothing can get
him out.
He is so far ahead of all the other candidates in advertising
r.ll forms of it from his circus calliope to his aluminum-tinted
dirigible that none of his competitors is in sight.
The climax was reached this afternoon when the gentleman
himself appeared in the gallery accompanied by his octogenarian
father and his winning smile, to receive the most vociferous and
long-winded ovation of the week.
If it was not prearranged then the Senator's sense of timing
approaches genius. For it came
just when everyone was bored and seriously considering calling it
a day including many of the delegates.
Then there was a sort of a stir in the gallery as there might have
I been if a dropped cigaret had suddenly burst into flame, eyes all
jover the floor turned upward, there was scattered applause then
a sudden murmur from, one end
burst into a deafening roar, the
by California the band struck up
hero of the crime investigation,
broad, relaxing smile a VERY
eery combination of Alice's Cheshire cat, the Mona Lisa and a
freckle-faced kid's jack-o-lantern. .
Will this demonstration affect
inmates were asking the same question."
The consensus appeared to be
the one preceding doesn't appear
stsmpede to ANYONE. The Democrats are usually more susceptible
than the Republicans in this direction, but unless all signs fail, a
vast majority of those assembled want to secure the strongest can
didate they can get and then go home.
The undersigned, like Alexander the Great, has decided there
are no more worlds to conquer. Coming out of the convention hall
this afternoon, a sawed-off lad with a notebook and a pencil,
rushed up and breathlessly requested Ye Editor's autograph!
To render the resulting tableaux perfect Elmer Davis hurried
by at that precise moment, and no one but the undersigned ap
peared to recognize him.
How's that for a fleeting moment of fame!
These two conventions are like twins born 10 days apart. They
are not identical twins, but they are so similar, they not only look
alike but their behaviour especially their cute little mannerisms
is so much the same that twin No. 2 gets all the worst of it.
Why can't No.2 do and say something original something
different? Well to date that seems to be utterly impossible No. 2
just follows the same old family line right down to the fights be
fore the credentials committee and believe it or not in the same
state that great and independent country known as Texas.
'
But as stated the twins aren't identical. And as often happens,
the first-born is a bit more robust than the one arriving consider
ably later.
And that explains, with some clarity, we hope, why the Demo
cratic convention is not as exciting as the Republican. This is
especially true for those who were in on the accouchment of both.
Twin No. 2, in short, is an old story. The same old thing.
It is a reel that one suddenly discovers he has seen before.
That is why so many of the audience become bored and
walk out.
They expected something new.
When they get the same old "song and dance," and put on with
rather less punch and gusto meanwhile the Turkish bath atmos
phere is worse rather than better the performance can't be
called a flop exactly, but is, for most of those present, rather
a tasteless plate of soup, and a definite disappointment.
9 9
As this is written there seems no doubt of the result that is
another cause for the lack of drama, and zip. At the G.O.P. circus
no one knew until the last day how it was coming out.
It is hard to become excited about any scenario when one knows
how it ends. And practically everyone, in the press-section at
least, now KNOWS the result of this performance or thinks so. It is
Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, the only man in the writer's
recollection who could have a nomination for the presidency of
the United States and actually" didn't want it.' Not only that but
time after time refused it when he could, just by the nod of the
head, or wink of the eye, have had it.
What does that mean, REALLY? '
It means, as your correspondent sees it, that Adlai E. Stevenson
is a VERY smart man. And a shrewd politician. .
For he sees as so few of his contemporaries seem to that:
No. 1: The chances of the Democratic party winning in Novem
ber are slight.' ' v '
No. 2: Whoever occupies the White House for the next four
years, is hi for one of the toughest assignments a President of the
United States has ever had. . .
Realizing this, we believe he has been absolutely honest in
stating, time after time, that he does not WANT to be the presi
dential nominee of the Democratic party or of ANY party.
He wants to stay on the job he has, he wants to. have a second
term as Governor of Illinois, and perhaps just perhaps when
another four years have come and gone he might definitely wish
to take a try at the White House. But not pray God not NOW!
....... . . . -
But as the situation now stands it 'might, of course, change at
any time the delegates of this convention are going to MAKE
him run. "
Not because they are so strong for HIM that welcoming
speech he gave was too intelligent to satisfy their strongly partisan
demands but because they have become convinced he is the only
candidate with a CHANCE to win. .
And that is what they want above everything else, OF COURSE,
to continue the national, control by their party, which means so
much, in a very practical and profitable sense, to most all of them.
There may be a slip between the cup and the lip. So one nat-
Friday, July 23. 1S52
effective CAMPAIGN speeches
she said, it is a fairly safe bet
listeners m the country, DID.
midway in the afternoon session
of the hall to the other which soon
state banners started bobbing led
a lively tune and there was the
bowing and waving with that
unusual smile by the way, an
the result? All the press gallery
it won't. This convention like
to have the ingredients for a
Crosstown
J
'Oh, I can mind him all
will HE
urally hesitates to call it a day, pack up one's bag and take the
next train for a cooler spot if any. As has been frequently noted,
the Democrats can always be depended upon to put on a good
show and there is plenty of time left to do so. There is considerable
material for one also. In fact the material is increasing by bounds
and leaps at the moment.
But to return to the twin simile. The break witbi-i the Demo
cratic party comes from the same fundamental cause as the break
in the GOP the natural conflict in principle betwe .toe liberal
and conservative wings. It is somewhat more intense irt the Demo
cratic party because the conservatives have roots for VSelr convic
tions those roots go far back to the Civil War and before namely
states rights. And collaterally, slavery that has become the civil
rights issue, although few Southerners, if any, would admit it.
That is the truth nevertheless the insistence upon white suprem
acy and the refusal to treat a man whose skin is black the same as
a man whose skin is white.
This is no temporary political ideology, it is bred and imbedded
in the average Southerner's bones, he is impregnated with th&t
idea with his mother's or mammy's milk he nourishes and
cherishes it as he grows older with every shot of Bourbon.
In other wocds there is that irrepressible conflict within the
Democratic party, similar to the irrepressible conflict nearly a
century ago between the slave-holding South and the abolitionist
North. There is one important difference, however, the Southern
Democrats here in Chicago unlike their ancestors don't WANT to
secede don't WANT a civil war.
and fight the common enemy
northern Democrats likewise are
which will prevent a walk-out a
able outcome is some sort of COMPROMISE which will not heal
the wounds or clean up the infection, but will provide a sort of
armed truce during which a political house divided against itself
can not only stand but can fight shoulder to shoulder against the
common foe, at least until the votes have been counted and the
result known.
! .
Just as the important business in Washington is not done on
the floor of the two houses but in committee, so in these conven
tions, the place to be is not in the press-section at the pavilion, but
at the Conrad Hilton hotel.
For some time this has been known to the newspaper lads, and
now the outsiders the people are getting wise to it. As a result
people without the alleged unprocurable tickets, are to be ad
mitted for free today until some of the thousands of empty seats
are occupied. This is the front page notice in the morning papers
at least.
"If this does not add to the confusion it will greatly surprise
your correspondent. Some idea of the hectic situation may be
gleaned from the fact Monroe Sweetland, Oregon member of the
Democratic national committee has not been able to get more than
three hours sleep per night for a week, and your correspondent
has been unable to contact him, after innumerable attempts by
phone, visit and special messenger, during that time!
Unless all signs fail the Democratic gathering will reach the
inevitable stage of COMPLETE confusion either late tonight
(Wednesday) or tomorrow morning. R.W.R.
In the Day's
By FRANK JENKINS
Bulletin from Chicago:
"President Truman has prom
ised an early decision on his
choice for a candidate."
WHEN his decision is made
known, I hope the conven
tion replies somewhat in this
vein:
"Sir, with all deference to the
high office you hold, we would
like to remind you that it is
OUR job to choose the candi
date. Our Founding Fathers
feared perpetuation of power in
too few hands. We share their
fears, and will therefore do
what we can in this convention
to prevent the holding of too
much power in too few hands
too long." . .
AS I SAY, I would like to see
that happen, and I think it
would ; be a- good thing for our
country., if .it.. did- .But perhaps
I'd better make it plain that I
don't EXPECT'itf "
i-r-
ORE (a few minutes later)
from Chicago:
The conclusion is growing
that the Democratic national
convention will name .Illinois
Governor Adlai Stevenson as its
presidential nominee. " Strongly
supporting thisbelief is a two
hour conference this morning
between Stevenson and a Tru
man emissary Interior Secre
tary Oscar Chapman.
"Chapman proposed-the meet
ing as ..it became CRYSTAL
CLEAR that the Democratic
party wheelhorses were in the
convention driver's . : seat and
were out to name the ticket."
THE IDEA, of " course. " is to
wind the convention up in a
love feast, with everybody slap
ping everybody else on the hack
and saying: "It was wonderful,
wasn't it? We forgot our differ
ences, we all get together on a
GRAND candidate and now
we're going home just one big
happy family." - " .
I. wonder.
6 Roland Coe
right, lady. The question is.
mind ME?"
They WANT to stay in the party
under General Eisenhower. The
looking for SOME WAY out
civil war. As a result the prob
News
Senator Kefauver doesn't
seem too happy about the im
pending "draft" of Governor
Stevenson. He tells a meeting of
his supporters that it is a
SYNTHETIC draft. He added:
"The people are entitled to
know how the candidates stand
on such questions as the Taft
Hartley law, farm legislation
and civil rights. The convention
delegates don't know how Stev
enson stands on any of these
major issues."
I
. SUSPECT, Senator, that's
WHY Governor Stevenson is
being drafted. He has kept mum
on all these hot issues. When
anybody has asked how he
feels about this, that or the oth
er prickly problem, he has
shrugged his shoulders and re
plied: "Oh, I'm not a candidate,
so it doesn't matter what I
think."
PROM all I can hear, Gover
nor Stevenson is a pretty
good man, but I think Senator
Kefauver has chosen the right
word in describing his impend
ing draft as "synthetic."
It all depends, of course, on
who is doing the drafting. If it
is agreed and understood that
the drafting is being done by the
"wheelhorses" ' of the Demo
cratic party, there isn't much
room- for argument. But if it is
intended to imply that the
"draff of .Governor Stevenson
comes clear up from the grass-
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Matter of Fact
HOW STEVENSON
RESPONDED
Chicago There is true long
range significance in the man
ner of. Gov. Adlai Stevenson's
first response to the news that
the draft - Stevenson movement
was sweeping the Democratic
convention. First, as to the re
sponse itself, the following phe
nomena may be reported.
Item: When theh Illinois dele
gation defied Stevenson's request
not to vote for him on the early
ballots, the Governor was genu
inely infuriated. His anger was
such that members of his close
staff and family actually feared
he would bite off his nose to
spite his face or in other words,
stultify himself by issuing a Sher
man pattern statement.
Item: During the whole of the
next day, he continued to dis
cuss the advisability of issuing
such a statement, declaring he
would not run if nominated. He
even raised the subject in a tele
phone conversation with W. Av
erell Harriman's manager Frank
lin Delano Roosevelt Jr., who
unsurprisingly replied that Ste
venson certainly ought to make
the statement right away.
Item: Meanwhile, however,
with Stevenson's full knowledge,
Wilson Wyatt of Kentucky, who
may well be chairman of the
Stevenson campaign, was putting
out feelers to discover whether
Averell Harriman and Vice
President Alben Barkley would
join in nominating the Illinois
governor. At the same time, Ste
venson was complaining that the
movement to draft him had been
premature, that there had been
no waiting for a deadlock to de
velop, and that , the nomination
would now procure him the en
mity of the other men who had
worked so hard to get it.
ON THE surface these facts at
best seem to be puzzling, and
at worst appear to impeach Ste
venson of insincerity in his many
statements that he did not want
the nomination. If closely
studied, however, they instead
reveal the curious double vision
with which Stevenson has look
ed forward, for many weeks, to
the present events here in Chi
cago. On the one hand, Stevenson's
statements that he did not want
the Democratic nomination were
perfectly sincere and honest. The
motives for his reluctance were
mixed. A dark estimate of the
probable pattern of the next four
years a difficult personal situa
tion a strong-rooted loyalty to
his own state an intellectual's
inevitable hesitation in the face
of too-final commitments all
these influences played upon his
mind with varying power at
various times. The only signifi
cant point, which need not be
labored, is that Stevenson was
wholly honorable and consistent
in saying he did not want the
great assignment.
On the other hand, Stevenson
possesses a very high order of
political astuteness, and because
he was astute, he clearly fore
saw that the nomination might
be thrust upon him, willy-nilly.
Hence, while seeking anxiously
to escape the splendid predica
ment, he also planned his course
so that the predicament would
be as comfortable as possible if
it were forced upon him.
The reasons why Stevenson
feared he might get the nomina
tion, whether he liked it or not,
are plain to be seen on the face
of the Democratic party. In brief,
he was the only candidate who
looked like a winner, because
he alone combined all the dif
ferent requirements of record,
of character, of acceptability to
the conflicting party factions, and
so on.
TJE WOULD have been very
foolish, dangerously impru
dent, not to face the implications
of the above facts. He did face
roots, that it is being done, per
haps reluctantly, in response to
a clear and unmistakeable call
from the rank and file of the
people all over and in all walks
of life, Id say the word syn
thetic" is accurately applied to
it.
Personally. I never heard of
Governor Stevenson until a few
weeks ago when it began to be
apparent that Ike was pretty
likely to be the Republican
nominee and if so . some tall
scratching would ' have to be
done to dig up some Democrat
who could be made to appear as
the spontaneous choice of the
people.
IT WAS then, as I recall it,
that the build-up for him as
the draftee began. At any rate,
the dictionary defines "syn
thetic" as "artificial; NOT genu
ine." I'd say Mr. Kefauver has
defined the . Stevenson draft
quite accurately.
By Joseph end
Stewart Also
them. Since he truly did not de
sire the nomination, he could
not possibly get it except by a
genuine draft. That meant that
if nominated, he would receive
the nomination without any ob
ligations to any one. He would
not be the President's candidate,
or the left's candidate, or the
right's candidate, or the North's;
or the South's. This first desi
deratum he has certainly
achieved.
Where Stevenson went wrong,
was in supposing that no genuine
draft movement could develop
without a prioij convention dead
lock. Plainly, as proof of his own
sincerity, and in order to avoid
all appearance of connivance, he
had to use all his influence to
prevent the Illinois Democrats
from participating in a draft
Stevenson movement. This he
also achieved, to the extent that
Col. Jacob Arvey was ready to
join the camp of Vice President
On The Side
(Distributed by King
A boat at midnight sent alone
To drift upon the moonless sea,
A lute, whose leading chord Is
gone,
A wounded bird that hath but
one
Imperfect wing to soar upon.
Are like what I am without: thee.
Thomas Moore.
Note it said Bernard Baruch
is a graduate of Public School
No. 69, New York City. That
numbering system for schools
should be abandoned. Every
school should have a name.
Speaking of Bernard Baruch,
who by brilliant speculation ac
quired $15 million before he
was 40, he once said: "The time
to buy is when the market is
low, everyone is talking pessi
mistically, and no hope is in
sight. Sell when the market has
had a long rise and is hesitating
with everybody in a frenzy of
optimism."
Those Twins
The stargazers maintain that
to be certain of an accurate
horoscope the exact time of
birth must be known. Therefore
I offer for the files of any astrol
oger who may not have the in
formation that the first of Ingrid
Bergman's twins was born June
19, 1952, at 6:30 a.m. The second
was born at 7 p.m. the same day.
I add "the same day" because
twins are frequently born sever
al days apart. The first twin
born weighed 6 pounds 15
ounces, the second 8 pounds 3
ounces. The birth was a difficult
one. Ingrid was in the delivery
room 2V6 hours.
Asides
It was Billy Sunday who said?
"Try praising your wife even if
it does frighten her at first." . . .
Kathleen Winsor's traveling
bags and trunks are all of a
bright scarlet color. She says
this makes them easier to find
in a pile of baggage. ... A book
young married couples might
find extremely helpful is that by
D. R. Patterson, titled "A Thou
sand Ways to Name a Baby."
Asking
Queries from clients. Q. Jack
Benny always says he is 39. A
friend of mine says he went to
high school with Jack in Wauke
gan, m., over 40 years ago. Is
that possible? A. Mr. Benny is
58. Q. As an airline hostess I
have my choice as a base of Los
Angeles, San Francisco, Kansas
City, Mo., Boston, Newark, New
York, Detroit or Chicago. In
which of these cities would I be
likely to meet the most eligible
bachelors of Irish birth or de
scent? A. Take New York City
as your base. Try to get on the
New York to Boston flight.
There are more Irish bachelors
in New York and Boston than in
any other two cities in the Unit
ed States. Irishmen are a little
difficult to break into matri
monial harness but can be hand
led by a clever woman of strong
character. Also the girl who
marries an Irishman must ex
pect to have a family of at least
four children. If the bachelor's
name is Sweeney she will pro
bably have at least six. The
Sweeney's are the world's most
prolific papas.
Briefly
One of the most celebrated
of modern astrologers stated
that sex has a very great influ
ence on the lives of women born
in the period of Sept. 24 to Oct.
26 inclusive. . . In the Shaw play
"The Millionairess," in which
Katharine Hepburn is starring,
the alleged superiority of the fe
male sex is greatly emphasized.
The heroine of this play com
pletely dominates her husband
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Alben W. Barkley until he taw
the draft-Stevenson parade form
ing up without Illinois represen
tation. But the draft movement,
by boiling up long prior to the
nominating speeches, has almost
certainly now prevented the oth
er candidates from having their
run and' getting their chance,
prior to the turn to Stevenson.
This is what has troubled Ste
venson, caused the talk of a
Sherman-pattern statement, led
to the Wyatt mission and pro
duced the Stevensonian com
plaints above noted.
One may say that Stevenson
is a bit perfectionist, to be thus
displeased by what seems rela
tively trivial. But if you take a
good hard look at all these facts,
you must also see that behind
Stevenson's sometimes disturb
ing mask of the tortured intellec
tual, there is the face of a bold
and intelligent political leader,
very clear in his own mind about
the terms and limits of his nomi
nation. (Copyright, 1952,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
By E. V. Durling
Features Syndicate, Inc.)
and when her lover talks out ot
turn she throws hira downstairs.
Editorial Comment
Former Governor Passes
While Ben W. Olcott resided
in Portland most of the time fol
lowing his term of Governor
(1919-1923) his previous long
residence in Salem served to
identify him with this commu
nity. Living to the age of 79 as
he did most of his contemporar
ies here had preceded him in
death. There still are manr here
however who remember him as
a friendly personality and an
honorable public official. Those
acquainted with state politics
will remember, too, the bitter
fight in 1922 when Olcott won
the Republican nomination for
Governor by a very narrow mar
gin over Charles W. Hall of Coos
County. The sharp division en
gendered in the primary cam
paign carried over to the fall
election and ' Walter M. Pierce
was elected Governor on the
Democratic ticket. Olcott attrib
uted his defeat to opposition of
the Ku Klux Klan which under
Fred Gifford as Cyclops was at
the peak of its influence In the
state.
Olcott's career was varied,
ranging from common labor to
banking and holding public of
fice Secretary of State and
Governor. He joined in the Alas
ka gold rush of the late 90s, then
returned to Illinois to engage in
banking. Oregon, however, drew
him back and most of his adult
years were spent in this state.
Olcott was not a strong parti
san but he was positive in his
own political convictions. His
manner was modest and he drew
many warm friendships in his
journey through life. And he
lived to see the Klan, which had
fought him, thoroughly dis
credited in Oregon. Oregon
(Salem) Statesman.
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