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In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Bill Tugman, editor of the Eugene Register-Guard, discus sing the subject of political mor ality, tells in his column about i Lane Aunty Democrat, who just ahead of the election was ? seriously considering changing his registration. 3 He was unhappy, he said, with the Democratic leadership, and veaw little hope for a change at ?any time in the immediate fil ature. He was looking for advice r-as to what to do, and Bill gave sit to him in these words: "Do you believe and feel as a Republican? If you do, then you 5 should certainly change. Of course, if you do change, you "jwill have to accept a delay of lquite a few years in your politi- cal aspirations because - people swho change parties are not im mediately taken to the old boo--Tam. If you really believe as a Democrat, then your job is to j'ptick with the Democratic party until victory comes." rjruGMAN goes on: -"Anyway, the lad stuck, and -we respect him for sticking far tmore than we respect Wayne "Morse, who told the Democrats in 1944 that although he was a ,-.New Dealer at heart he'd have :to run as a Republican because campaigning was simply a mat ter of cold csh." He adds: Z1 "If at any time we had had i'any . inkle of such conduct, we would have considered Morse unfit for any office." .THE Register-Guard editor con tinues: . "Nevertheless, we get another 'aspect of this political morals '"problem from an ardent Morse ""supporter who tells us: ' . " 'Why ' shouldn't Morse turn ..Republican under conditions as they were in 1944? He HAD TO GET HIMSELF ELECTED, didn't he? He had to GET ELECTED FIRST!" THAT brings up another inter esting character Willis Ma : honey, who flashed across the Oregon political skies back in the 1930s like a meteor. He got "his start in Klamath Falls, where he was elected mayor in as weird a campaign as has been ""seen in many a long year, and went on to run for U. S. senator ''against Charles L.McNary in - 1936. He came within "less han 1 6000 votes of defeating McNary. HE too held this theory that YOU HAVE TO GET ELECT ED FIRST. He said to me on 9 'several occasions: "You think I'm a wild-eyed radical. I'm NOT. I'm basically 5 Just as conservative as you are. 2 But if you're going to do any good for your country as an of- f ice-holder, YOU HAVE TO GET I ELECTED. i ' - I "If you're to be elected, you've got to tell the people what they j want to hear. That's what I'm -$ doing. AFTER I'M ELECTED, I can do what I think is best un 2der the circumstances. 2 But I've got to get elected first. If I don't get elected, I j can't do anything." - ? 1- ' t kllTHEN Mahoney ran for may s' or, his name was ruled off tthe ballot on the grounds tuat j he had not resided long enough in Klamath Falls to gain a legal j residence. 1 So he put on a write-in cam- paign. It was a stem-winder. Re- turning from out of town one evening, he was met at the rail ; road station by a huge crowd of $ his admirers who were as Ssembled to welcome him home. iThey put on -a parade down ! Main street. ' Mahoney was mounted on top of a truck. He stood on the truck's roof wrap- ped in an American flag, with 2 spotlights playing on him while 5 he struck a Napoleonic pose. It 2 was something to remember. t He won handily on write-ins ; which is quite an achievement in any campaign. .. t JJE made an excellent mayor. 5 The city of Klamath Falls is Snow, for all practical purposes, J completely out of debt. It owes Jrnuch of its "present favorable 2 financial condition to Mahoney. I When he was elected, the city was heavily burdened with Ban j croft bond debt as were most other rapidly growing cities at Jthat time. Drastic measures were J necessary to meet the situation 1 and keep the city solvent. Z As mayor, Mahoney cooperat ed completely and courageously in a financial reorganization ; program that was laid out by ;some of the city's ablest and ;most conservative people. With ; out his help, the program could tnot have been carried through. T SOUND like I was defending the cynical theory that ANY I THING anybody ; does to get Z elected to office' is - all right. - I'm not. I have no use for that ? theory. I think our greatest need " is SINCERITY. I want no truck tec la with political opportunists. They're dangerous. Mahoney was just a curious exception to the generally sound rule that political opportunists are dangerous and unreliable. Apparently he came to the con clusion himself that 'political opportunism is an unsound philosophy. At any rate, after his brief but spectacular venture into Oregon politics, he settled down and became a solid and useful citizen, serving his coun try capably and well under Gen eral MacArthur in Japan. MORSE is different. Tugman, who knows him well, says that in 1944 he was a New Deal er at heart but ran as a Repub lican because he thought that to WIN in Oregon he HAD to run as a Republican. Early in 1952, He was a big Eisenhower man. Later in 1952, he turned vio lently and bitterly against Ike. For a while, he dramatized him self as the Great Independent. Now, in order to get back his senate committee appointments, he is being a helpful Democrat. Political opportunism again. WHERE he will be in 1956, no one knows. He has changed his colors so often that he has become a political chameleon. My guess is that in 1956 Morse will be campaigning under whatever banners seems to pro mise at the moment the most votes. . . Felony Registration Used for Bad Checks Los Angeles (U.R) The police bulletin printed a picture of a woman known as Grace who is wanted for forgery and issuing bad checks. The bulletin said she had been passing worthless ; checks by using her Los Angeles Police Department felony conviction registration for identification. Cryolite has been used in the manufacture of glass, enamel ware and also some of the in secticide products. Yoshida Faces Fight To Retain Position Of Power in Japan I Tuesday, Worambar IB, 1954 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUHZ FXVS By CHARLES. MCCANN United Press Foreign Analyst Premier Shigeru Yoshida, Ja pan s Mr. One Man, " is due home Wednesday to face the big gest figt of his political ca reer. 1 Leaders of three political parties, includ ing some of his own Liber als, have gang ed up in an at tempt to over throw him. H he suc- Charles Itciann ceeus m out smarting them, he will have good reason to congratulate him self. It is typical of Yoshida that he has no doubt of his ability to do it. "I have survived many such experiences in the past," he said before he left the United States for the flight across the Pacific to Tokyo. "I am confident that I will continue to survive. My opponents have no policies. Be ing anti-Yoshlda isn't a policy." Yoshida is ending a seven- weeks tour of the Unted States., Canada and Western Europe m search of trade and aid. The re port he makes to the Japanese people on his mission may help him. - , . Crisis for Months . Japan has been in a continu ous political crisis for .months. Its economy is weak and getting weaker The Liberal party has been involved in a big political scandal over accusations that some of its leaders accepted mon ey from government-subsidized shipping companies. Two hundred members of the Progressive, Liberal and dissi dent Japan Liberal parties, with the addition of some independ ents, decided Monday to form a new party which would combine all conservative elements. The party is to 4 be launched Nov. 24, in preparation for a special session of ' Parliament tentatively set for Nov. 30. Yoshida has "kept in power by getting the support ofcsome Pro gressives to give him a mapority m the House. His hope now is that he can rally most of the Liberals to his support and keep some of the Progresives from joining the coalition against him. Big Test for Him ' '" It will be a biff test for1 the diminutive, usually smiling man, now 76 years old, who entered politics only after World War H. Yoshida was a clever diplomat, one of Japan's most ' distin guished, for 32 years. He went into retirement in 1938, an ene my of thet war lords. He was thrown in jail for a time during the war for urging peace. He was called to the foreign ministry after the war, and has served as prime minister nearly all the time since 1946.- - Yoshida's . nickname of - "Mr. One Man" was given to him be cause he likes to run a show all by himself.: That trait has won mm many enemies, some of them in his own party, and helps ex plain his Bresent situation Ha lr a formidable ; opponent, and his tongue is sharp in debate. He neither looks nor acta his age. Asked recently whether he ever thought of retiring, he said: "No, on the contrary, I'm look ing for a fountain of youth to keep me young and alive." : WILL IN COFFEE POT ' Superior, Wis. (U.R) Mrs. Pauline Walberg, 68, left $10,000 stuffed in a cookie jar and her will in a coffee pot before she died, authorities said. : Contents of the will were not revealed. . ranker Says Almost Never Fills Gllamour NewYork (U.R) A famous photographer gave a. thoughtful aetmition of glamour today and then warned that the average woman almost never achieves it. "Beauty is one thing, and glamour is something quite dif ferent,"- said? Baron, a London photographer who had just re turned here from two weeks in Hollywood where he photo graphed the 15 women he con- St. Mary's School Honored Second prize in the "B" divi sion has been awarded to "The Lance," 1954 yearbook of St. Mary's schdol, ' Medford, by judges for the seventh annual Northwest High School Press conference held at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., recently. Nancy Conroy, daughter of Mrs. C. H. McKinley, 1102 West Ninth st. served as editor. Janet Dempster, assistant editor, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Dempster, 1025 South Holly st. Other members of the staff were Mary Ellen, Ruby Hayes, Lynn - Mernin, Tony " Miksche, Laval Meunier -and Dolores Zeleznik. The hard-bound ; 5-page vol ume contains a photographically illustrated account of school ac tivities for the year 1953-1954. Each high school class is pic tured and the seniors have brief individual accounts of scholastc and activity honors. As end papers, sepia photo graphs of - Sacred Heart church and St. Mary's school are used. The introduction to each section has a full page posed portrait symbolic of the subject matter. This is the fourth year that "The Lance" has been issued. 1 siders most glamorous in the movie colony. A' "Glamour is a collection . of intelligence, poise, sex. appeal and above all, mystery well packaged,! the photographer said. "And then there is an added quality of showing off. This makes glamour strictly a meairicai auriDute. it is ex tremely rare to find it in a woman who is not a theatrical performer." Baron, whose full name is Baron Stirling Henry Di Victor Nahum, was interviewed just" before he packed his suitcase full of glamour poses and head ed back for England. American or Italian How does he feel about Holly wood glamour girls? , v "There are a lot of glamor ous women in the world today, but most of them are American or Italian," Baron said. "If they are English, they are in Holly wood. "The two most exciting cam era subjects I ever had photo graphed in -my entire career I found in Hollywood Marilyn Monroe and Pier Angeli. "Monroe has a brassy smile she turns on for cameras. But if you tell her to stop that, you find a truly amazing girl with gret expression, great warmth." The other women picked by Baron besides Miss Angeli, whom he considers a real cam era beauty, were: Jean Sim mons, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Lauren Bacall, Leslie Caron, Elizabeth Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Barbara Darrow, Kim Novak, Taina Els, Lliane Montevecchi, Walda Win- chell, Jean Maire, and Mrs. Da vid Niven. Mrs. Niven,. a for mer Swedish model, was the only one of! the, 15 to win Bar on's glamour poll who is not an actress., . , Put on Actresses Faces "One of the worst things about actresses is that they put rage Woman Definition on' actresses faces," : the " pho tographer, said. "As a photogra pher, you have to be in charge." For average women who don't rank as - glamour girls,' Baron had several comforting com ments. ' ' There are other things more important like : inner beauty and even outer beauty that doesn't da said. "Anyway, the camera lies. xou can mase a wonderful per son look awful and a plain per son look beautiful. 3 MAKES HOLIDAY LINERS 254 HOLIDAY UfUITt Tow rr I It ' " K You ; can see all in the now enmeo vu-all A handtem billfold with a new kind of pan cue. Holes 16 cards and' photos. Open case and instantly all 16 are spread out in plain view. Vinyl windows won't crack or cloud ap In addition the Vu-All has all other features .of a fine billfold. 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