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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORDTRIBUirc Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor F3NEST R. GII-STRAP. Manager v i- rrnr.rsnN Manazine Editor I ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editoi RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation MgT An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION BATES By Mail In Advance: Daily and Sunday one year $12 Daily and Sunday six months 6 00 50 .50 1.25 n A A n n - a M.rffYirrf Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The homli est wrestler in the world will cavort at the Armory tomorrow night, and a great outpouring is expected to see this scenic eye sore. 20 YEARS AGO July 28. 1932 (It was Thursday) Local labor bureau requests permission to grant work slips only to persons who are local residents in effort to aid local unemployment first. Price for extra large eggs reaches 18 cents a dozen here; highest price since January 12. 30 YEARS AGO July 28, 1922 (It was Friday Large number of tourists from all sections of United States register with Medford tourist bureau. Bureau of labor statistics show cost of living down 23 per cent from 1920. 40 YEARS AGO July 28, 1912 (It was Sunday Baseball fans reserve 15 rail road coaches to travel to see game between northern Calif ornia and southern Oregon all stars. Vandals cause much damage at Crater Lake lodge; holes chopped in floor, dining room tables cut up and all food eaten. Editorial Comment We can sympathize with Lar ry Smyth, Merv Shumaker and Herb Lundy of the Portland pa pers who "have to" cover the national conventions. But we waste no sympathy on Bob Ruhl of the Medford Mail Tribune and Bud Forrester of the Pendleton East Oregonian who went on their own motion and notion and expense. Bob has been cov ering these conventions for years and like a firehorse could not resist the smell of the smoke filled rooms. Bud is taking the convention beat for the first time, and since he is taking in both is also taking quite a "beat ing." Oregon (Salem) States man. Bus Drivers Permitted To Wear Shorts on Job Plymouth, Ind. (U.R) In diana bus drivers had permis sion Monday to wear shorts and T-shirts, but some of them were too coy to show their knees. When he pulled his bus into the depot here, driver E. K. Lee said the line's summertime in novation was "going over big with passengers" but many driv ers continued to wear full length trousers. Passengers, he said, "razz us a lot and most of them ask: "Where's your shorts? Frankly I haven't enough nerve to come out with them." Editorial Correspondence Chicago, July 26 The similarity between the two conventions held to the very end. For president the Democrats selected the strongest man avail able, Adlai Stevenson; just as the Republicans two weeks ago in the same hall selected General Eisenhower. For Vice President the Democrats did exactly as the Repub- licans did: chose tne man Desi-caicuiaiea puimtdiiy io sucubuicu the ticket. But the similarity did not end there. As was true of the Taft forces so with the Kefauver forces, a large proportion of them nailed their flag to the mast, and preferred to go down with the ship, to going over to the enemy. This was especially true of Oregon. When it was clear to everyone last night that Kefauver had shot his bolt and was through, only one member of the Oregon delegation (Dave Epps) went over to Stevenson, the others not only stood pat, but in spite of the convention chairman's ruling, made speeches about it, and they were vehement ones. m m In fact Chairman Schrunk of Oregon, in cowboy hat and robust ringing voice stole the show as far as adding-nominating-speeches-to-the-vote call was concerned when on the first ballot he shouted before announcing Oregon's vote: "Oregon needs no machine, no Republican newspaper in Chicago, not even a great President of the United States lo tell US how to vote. We cast 12 votes for the man who beat Stevenson in our primary, ESTES KEFAUVER." Incidentally that might be added to the long and imposing list of 'famous last words." But it is also true it brought down the house. i But it wasn't the last protest. When the final show-down came, and the delegate from "Sweet Home, Oregon" declared he thought he had fulfilled his obliga tion to the Oregon primary and therefore would cast his vote for Governor Stevenson, another member of the delegation who looked (at a distance) MUCH like its chairman, somewhat ostentatiously held his nose! a So the Oregonians, faithful to the end, went down with the Kefauver ship, and are no more pleased with the result than the writer's "uncles and cousins and aunts'' in. Galena, Illinois, were pleased, when THEIR idol and hero, Robert Alphonso Taft was "spurlos versenkt" a fortnight ago. And we surmise for much the same reason. They honestly don scholarly Adlai Stevenson CAN beat "Ike" come November. i And they may be right. In fact at this writing, we should say the smart politicians here in Chicago would put the odds in to 10 in favor of the GOP. But as many a slip between the cup for the Illinois Governor he will in our judgment come nearer beating Eisenhower than any other candidate for the nomination in this convention. In fact he is in the HIGHEST TYPE OF AMERICAN STATESMAN to lead the Democratic party since Woodrow Wilson like the late President Wilson, however, he may prove to suffer from the POLITICAL shortcomings of his virtues. . The "die-hard" Kefauver element, dramatized so conspicuously by Oregon was not representative of the convention, however, in anything like the same way the "die-hard" Taft element represent ed the Republican convention of two weeks ago. There was far more unanimity of the delegates last night, when nomination unanimous was passed, than there was when Senator Taft's sportsmanlike gesture brought a similar 100 per cent vote for "Ike." If Senator Kefauver felt the mean every word he said, when nor Stevenson, then he is a greater actor than most observers be lieve him to be. Your correspondent has seen during this convention, both in press conferences and over TV, and vhile he may be superficial in much to learn as far as the game cerned, it is impossible to doubt plete devotion to fundamental liberal principles. He also has unquestioned, in fact rare, moral courage. The writer will never cease to for his refusal to sidestep the issue of Joe McCarthy and McCar- thyism. He even took up the cudgels for honesty, decency and fair play against "Dirty Joe" in the latter's own bailiwick in Wisconsin! To date no other prominent figure in EITHER party has shown equal courage or equal vision and your correspondent is going to be much surprised, if in the ensuing campaign, ANY of them do! Our hat goes off, even in defeat, to Senator Estes Kefauver. This convention, like the one its own destruction, and contributed generously, we believe, to pub lie approval of a national primary travagant and silly business of selecting presidential candidates by the street carnival, side-show BALLYHOO method. TV must get chief credit for this. Had it not been possible for the delegates to put on a show for their home-town, simply by calling for a recount the time con sumed by the balloting would have been reduced by at least 60 per cent perhaps much more. In 99 per cent of the cases, there was no excuse whatever for a recount except this childish passion to show-off let the boys and girls at the railroad station know how important they had become when they reach home. The proof of this was that in 99 per cent of the cases, there was no change in the vote, and those who demanded a poll knew there would be none, although to get it they had to perjure themselves by stating they believed the original report had been inaccurate. This demonstration of nit-witted EXHIBITIONISM on the part of the boys and girls who were sent to this convention will, we believe, contribute' materially to the eventual abandonment of the entire system. At least, here's hoping! R.W.R. "JOE BEAVER" "As well as protecting our liberties, f resources before we set to Monday. July 28, 1952 t believe the gentlemanly ana their "future book" at around 8 so often remarked there may be and the lip and we will say this the opinion of this department, and real enthusiasm on the part the usual motion to make the slightest bitterness, or did not he pledged full support to Gover a good deal of Senator Kefauver some directions, and certainly has of smart PARTY politics is con the man's sincerity and his com hold him in the highest regard preceeding, broadcast seeds of to replace the antiquated, ex By Ed Nofziger Forest Service. U. S. Department ot Agriculture we ought to protect our renewable the bottom of the barrel!" - Crosstown "This dame doesn't KNIT any too good, either I" Matter of Fact THE MINDLESS MILITANTS Chicago One thing at least has been proven with finality by this lunatic convention. The Northern Democratic liberals needs a few lessons in practical politics before they again pre sume to try to lead their party. A sillier and more illogical dis play than they have made since Thursday could hardly be im agined. It must be understood that Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illin ois was the first choice of al most all these high - minded, forward - looking thinkers. Im mediately after President Tru man's famous announcement that he would not run, W. Av erell Harriman himself spent three hours pleading with Stev enson to become a candidate. Virtually all the leaders of Am ericans for Democratic Action followed Harriman in making the same plea. Men like ADA leader Joseph Rauh, a Harriman delegate from Washington, D.C., made special trips to Spring field to try to persuade Steven son to declare himself. Stevenson remained the an swer to the liberal's prayer un til the actual opening of this convention. Indeed he was still the answer after the convention opened, during the early period when word was going around that the President had given the nod to Alben W. Barkley. Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee did not attract the liberals. Few of them were so detached from re ality as to imagine that Harri man could be nominated with out President Truman's back ing. The great hope of the lib erals was that there would be a deadlock, and that Gov. Adlai Stevenson would then be draft ed. BUT WHAT happened when the draft movement for Stevenson really got started? What happened was that this event, which one might have supposed would have been re ceived as manna from heaven, at once drove the liberals into paroxysms of rage and, one must add, folly. Harriman himself behaved like the sensible and honorable man that he is. Although natur ally piqued by Stevenson's re emergence, he did not forget his own high opinion of Stevenson. He did not lose sight of his pre ference for Stevenson over the other candidates. He kept his head. But the general' mass of liberals in the Harriman and Kefauver camps began playing amateur convention politics, or ganizing a stop - Stevenson movement. It was said that by failing to reject the draft movement, Stev en snn had been faithless, al though the very men accusing him of faithlessness naa always meant to head a draft-Stevenson movement in the event of the expected deadlock, it was aiso saiH. bv the very same men who had begged Stevenson to run, that he was "too far right; 10 head the Democratic ticket. It was loudly asserted that Stev enson was the creature ot tne "Northern bosses and the South ern feudalists," although any one could see that he had done his hest to discourage the draft, and owed nothing at all to the men who had launched the dratt against his will. The sequel of these mindless maneuvers was almost to make the nonsensical charges of the liberals against Stevenson come part-way true. I his great tri limnh for liberalism was scored during the wild evening session, in the vote on seating Virginia, fiov. John Battle of Virginia had already declared that Virginia law required compliance with , the convention's so - called loy- alty pledge, to put the Demo- i cratic candidates on the ticket. ; The golden opportunity was ob-; vious, to seat the Virginia dele- gates but exclude South caro- j Una thus isolating Gov. James I F. Byrnes, the man who came : here desiring to split the Dem- i 6 Roland Coe r " Ifaj 7-ZB-rz, g By Joseph and Stewart Alsop ocratic party. TiHE NORTHERN organization leaders for Stevenson, Col. Jacob Arvey of Illinois and May or David Lawrence of Pitts burgh, voted to seat Virginia for this reason, and to encourage party unity. But the liberals, led by Rep. Roosevelt, Sen. Her bert Lehman, Sen. Humphrey and others, went mad against the Virginia vote. In a series of subsequent ballots, this same voting pattern was repeated, with the draft-Stevenson lead ers and the South combining to drub the liberals again and again. The obvious effect was to make the unfortunate Stevenson seem, utterly falsely of course, to be the creature of the North ern bosses and the Southern feudalists, as alleged. After this glittering triumph the liberals held a wild 4 a.m. rally at the Congress hotel. The one word of sense at this gathering was spo ken by Sen. Humphrey, who re minded the assembled thinkers that there were, after all, three candidates acceptable to Ameri can liberals Harriman, Ke fauver and Stevenson. To this Rep. Roosevelt replied with ma jestic cocksuresness, "I put a question mark after the name of Stevenson." The objective situation at that 4 a.m. rally was all too plain. Stevenson was almost certainly the only liberal candidate who would be nominated. Any suc cessful attempt to stop him could only open the way for one of the more conservative candi dates. All the fleas on the Tru man dog the more incompe tent members of the Cabinet, the sleazier members of the White House staff and the rest had arranged to hop from Tru man to Barkley. The first plan to put over Barkley having mis carried, the fleas were also long ing to stop Stevenson, so they could find some other nourish ing place to light. The risk was serious. Yet the liberals ignored this risk. They ignored the objec tive situation. Above all, they ignored the golden opportunity to increase liberal influence in the Democratic party by taking the lead in the draft-Stevenson movement, which would then have assumed tidal proportions. Altogether, the need for a few hard lessons in practical poli tics would seem to be clear, in the face of this array of evi dence. (Copyright, 1952, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Strikers Force Way Back To Work Terre Haute, Ind. (U.R) Three men were injured Mon day when a fight broke out be tween CIO and AFL members as a small group of striking em ployees at the Allis - Chalmers pilot plant forced their way back to work. Company spokesmen said 34 of 340 men on strike more than 11 weeks re-entered the plant and were put back to work. Guarded by a force of 300 AFL union members brought from other plants in this area, the returning workers were put back on the payroll despite the fact the Air Force removed more than 40 pieces of machinery de- j signed to produce jet aircraft engines. i DR. J. R. CHRISTENSEN OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN and SURGEON ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF OFFICES For the Treatment of Diseases of the Skin Phone 3-3228 . 207 Fluhrer Building By Appointment Medford, Oregon In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS You're familiar, I'm sure, with the seven wonders of the ancient world. I shall not bore you today by listing and describing them. I should like to call your atten tion instead to a wonder of the modern 'world beside which these wonders of old are a mere tallow candle held up to the ef fulgence of the noonday sun. I refer to the DEMOCRATIC PARTY. LET'S go back to yesterday (This is written on Friday.) At 6 p.m. (PDT) the Demo cratic party was a flaming mass of elemental passion. At the drop of a hat, it had slipped back nine decades in history. There on the floor of the Inter national auditorium in the Chi cago stockyards, burning fierce ly, were all the sectional hatreds and sectional differences that brought on the tragedy of the Civil War. Again the word SECESSION was being bandied about. Men's voices, as they argued, were high and tense and hot. Rebellion, at whatever cost, was in the air. Then two hours later THE SCENE HAD CHANGED Men who 120 minutes before had been ready to fly at each other's throats were speaking mildly and conciliatingly. There was reconciliation in the air. The miracle had happened that (trag ically) DIDN'T happen in 1860. T ET'S put it another way. - At 6 p.m. (PDT) yesterday the joint snake that is the Demo cratic party had suddenly, dra matically, flown apart into its component pieces. By 8 p.m. (PDT) it had miracu lously come back together. IIHAT wrought the miracle? ' What cooled the flaming passions? What brought the an grily sundered joints of the snake back together again into a smoothly functioning entity? rriHIS is it: There came to the mass of fighting, clawing, biting Demo crats there on the floor of the In ternational auditorium the chill ing thought that if we go on with this we'll lose our power, our perquisites and our place in the sun. That thought was like a swift, beating rain dashing down on a roaring fire in the dry prairie grass. It quenched the flames. It brought this sobering thought: If we keep this up THE RE PUBLICANS WILL BEAT US. From there on, all was sweet ness and light. WHERE else, save in the Demo cratic party, could that hap pen? I ask you. But it DID hap pen. That is why the Democratic party, for more than a century, has rolled on and on and on. That is why the Democratic party is the top wonder of the world. TTOW do they do it? "If you listened through last night, you have the answer. It's SHOWMANSHIP. Democrats from Jefferson and Jackson on down, have been showmen of the first magnitude. They give the customers their money's worth in the way of a SPECTACLE. HARRY flew in from Washing ton. He has-settled the steel strike. He settled it without re course to the Taft-Hartley law. It was costly, of course. It idled hundreds of thousands of men. It stopped prices from going down. It started them BACK UP again. It slowed our economy from a gallop to a walk. It could have left us in a bad fix if the Rus sians had pounced suddenly. But it all came out right in the end and Harry arrived in Chicago with the scalps of the big interests hanging at his belt and victory in the bag for the little people. And he arrived in Chicago at the psychological moment. OH, SURE. It means more in flation. But what of that? In flation's bite won't come until later. This is NOW. And right now is what counts. TUST the same, we Republi " cans will do well to take a leaf from the century and a quarter old Democratic book. We'd better TALK more (as well as think more) about what's good for the people, and maybe we'd better talk a little less about what's good for business. After all, what's good for the people as a whole is good for business as a whole. And what's genuinely good for business is genuinely good for the people. We'd better find a way to DRAMATIZE that fact. Every body loves drama. REALISTIC drama is still drama, and in the s t m w r m.. .1 mm GIVING CROWD A LAUGH, Caddy Charles Brendlinger letters I like Ike" on Civil War hat before showing up to carry Gen. D.D.Eisenhower's clubs at Denver's Cherry Hills tlub.(Internationai) On The Side (Distributed by Kinf The "Society of American Mothers-in-Law" will campaign to decrease the number of un kind jests as to mothers-in-law and also try to generally improve relations with their married chil dren. Most of the trouble is be tween mothers-in-law and daugh ters-in-law. The great majority of mothers-in-law get along very well with their sons-in-law. That is except when the wife is an only daughter. That Club "Again you refer to one Hugh Blue as president of The My Name Is a Poem Club," writes a Bostonian. "My dear sir, the man's name does not even rhyme. Hugh is pronounced 'Hew' which does not rhyme with blue, pronounced 'bloo.' I believe if this blue attempts to run for his twenty-fourth term as he threatens to do, his nomi nation should be strongly op posed. I suggest Herman Sher man Berman of New York for M. N. I. A. P. C. president and Channing Manning of Fresno, Calif., for vice president." Please Note British schoolmasters are still caning badly behaved school children. An attempt to elimi nate the practice is opposed by an organization called "The Na tional Society for the Retention of Corporal Punishment" of which Eric A. Wildman, a recent visitor to the U. S. A., is presi dent. Mr. Wildman is a manu facturer of birch rods and canes. He believes in the caning of all badly behaved young people up to 18. However, he does not, as has been alleged, advocate the spanking of wives. That comes under the head of wife beating and is a crime in most sections of this country. Husband beating is also illegal. Not long ago a Chicago woman was arrested for beating her spouse. Reasons for this shocking act were not stated. Perhaps the victim was one of those wonderful Chicago husbands who suddenly sulked when asked to dry the dinner dishes. Asking Queries from clients. Q. What Lincoln United States one cent piece did you say was valuable? A. Don't recall discussing Lin coln cents. However, can tell you that the Lincoln cent of 1914, if it has a small "D" below the dateline, is a valuable coin. It's worth about $30. The most valuable United States coin is an 1822 five dollar gold piece. This past we Republicans have pro vided too little of it. The Democrats are masters of the art. A SERIOUS word in conclu sion. It is most significant that in this convention, with all their star-spangled oratory, the Dem ocrats have been LOOKING BACKWARD and talking and thinking about the past. About the full stomachs and the fat pocketbooks that have come out of a war econmy. Thse of us who believe in Ike are looking forward and are talk ing and thinking about ihe fu ture. If we're eoine to win. wp'rf better put FIRE and CONVIC- HUN into our talking and our thinking. Fire and conviction provide drama. Quality . Truly thoughtful service is a precious qual ity which money alone cannot buy. It is most often found among those expe rienced, trustworthy institutions which have achieved a name through many years of serving the public. We provide such service at alj times for those who need it. CONGER-MORRIS Funeral Directors Ambulance Service West Main at Sixth Medford Member National Selected Morticians by Invitation By E. V. Duriing Futures Syndicate, Inc.) is said to be worth around $12,000. Please Note How are you on major league baseball history? I'll give you an easy question for a starter. In the history of major league baseball, only seven men have made over 3,000 hits in their careers. Six of these players were: Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Hans Wagner, Eddie Collins, Na poleon Lajoie and "Cap" Anson. Who was the seventh? Borrowed Time Suggested for president of the "Borrowed Time Club" is George Bartlett of Azusa, Calif. Fifty one years ago George was de clared dead by two doctors. He escaped being caried off to the undertaker when a third phy sician disagreed. Mr. Bartlett is now 91, active in business, drives an automobile and flies a plane. Passing By Sam Stern, grand exalted rul er of the Benevolent and Protect ive Order of Elks, is from Fargo, N. D., and the first nationally celebrated man to come from that town since the days of that gallant ringman, Billy Petrolle, known as "The Fargo Express" . . . Elaine Barrie, once the wife of John Barymore. She is now a business woman. Works for a Wall St. firm. As a moving pic ture actress Elaine was featured in that quaint short subject film titled "How to Undress in Front of Your Husband." Briefly Hay fever sufferers are re ported to find relief from their highly unpleasant ailment in the lively cities of Miami, Fla., and Reno, Nev. . . . Observes a New Yorker: "A young old timer is a fellow who remembers when only Chinese laundrymen wore their shirts outside of their trousers." Asides The first and last child usually have a much higher I.Q. than their brothers and sisters. So says an expert. At last I get a break from an expert. I was the last child of my parents ... As for quaint names of daily news papers, there was one in Duran go, Calif., called The Solid Mul doon. Yes, sir, that's what I said, "The Daily Solid Muldoon." All right, if you don't believe me ask Gene Fowler. Bank Ousts Man! Geo. N. Taylor Pres. Edman, Wheaton College told the student body of the promising man in the bank, who was to be voted into a place of high trust. That noon in the cafeteria, one of the Direc tors saw the man take two pats of butter and hide one down under, not paying for it. Later, in the Directors' meeting, the man told it Geo. N.Taylor s0 we have a thief in the bank. I vote he be discharged." So he was and in stead of promotion, he was let out. Be it theft or what, sin marks us as set against God's law unless we turn to Christ and take Him as having died for us, we go on to the Lake prepared for the Devil and his angels Mt. 25:41. A dairyman sponsors this space. adv. . . SL
