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Republicans Could
Help To Improve
Public Shocker
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Prest Correspondent
"Washington (U.R) If Re
publican party bosses have the
wit to follow and improve on
D e m o c r a
tic lead, it may
not be neces
sary after all
to refer to next
year's nation
al conventions
as "The Vul
garities of '56
The sample
of convention
processes serv
ed up to the
Lyle C. Wilson TV public in
1952 was a shocker and eye-
opener. The viewing public did
not like a lot of the awful go
ings on by which political par
ties select their presidential
tickets.
Convention processes had
been bad. TV made them wors,e
by inviting political nobodies to
various strategies to get their
faces and names on the air. Now,
Democrats have made a tiny
start toward reform, knowing
that insulting adult intelligence
is no way to make votes for a
party candidate.
Democratic party Chairman
Paul M. Butler has approved a
suggested regulation of the pro
cess of polling state delegations.
Hereafter the poll will be taken
privately by a representative of
the convention chairman who
would appear among the polled
delegation and take down the
names.
Tiresome Polls
Meanwhile, convention busin
ess would proceed. The old sys
tem which so offended those
present and the television view
ers in 1952 was to conduct the
poll from the rostrum in full
view and hearing of all. Show
offs often forced polls merely to
get fleeting peek at the TV
camera lens and to hear their
names over national hookups.
Even the legitimate . polls were
tiresome.
But, for resolute vulgarity,
there is no match for the so
called demonstration in behalf
ef an individual just proposed
for nomination as president or
Vice-president.
These sweaty parades usually
re phoney. So are the aspira
tions of most of the political
'scene stealers who permit some
payroller from back home to
rise before the convention and
propose them for nomination.
The convention should demand a
money forfeit if such a time
waster failed on the first ballot
to poll a fixed percentage of the
total vote.
There have been demonstra
tions of real political impact,
uch as the bedlam which help
ed stampede the 1940 Republi
can convention to nominate Wen
dell L. Willkie, a recent Demo
crat, who went down for the
Free Anti-Polio Vaccine Program for All Children
Unnecessary, American Medical Association Declares
Washington (U.R) The
American Medical Association
charged today that a Democratic
plan to provide free polio vac
cine to all children is "complete
ly unnecessary" and would in
voive an Tinreasonable ex
pense for American taxpayers,
"In accordance with the great
traditions of medicine," it as
serted, "no child will be denied
a vaccination because of in
ability to pay a physician's fee '
AMA spokesmen told the Sen
ate Labor Committee the physi
cians organization would re
luctantly accept the President's
more modest $28,000,000 pro
posal to furnish free vaccine
only to youngsters, whose par
ents cannot pay.
Local Problem Solution
But they said that no new
legislation or federal program
really is needed. Physicians and
local health authorities, they
said, can solve the vaccine prob-
count in the ensuing campaign
when Harold L. Ickes tagged
him as "a barefoot Wall Street
lawyer."
Smith Vs. McAdoo
There was nothing phoney
about the rival demdnstrations
in 1924 when Alfred E. Smith
and William G. McAdoo knock
ed each other out after 103 bal
lots and left the worthless Dem
ocratic presidential nomination
to John W. Davis. That was a
blood fued.
But most of them are fakes
and a nosy voter could look into
the wings or back alley during
any of the more recent political
clambakes and see the stooges
lining up with their banners for
the next parade. The stooges
usually number 200 or so and
they are non-partisan, appear
ing in all demonstrations just
for the hell of It or, maybe, for
five bucks.
There was grumbling among
the TV millions during and after
the vulgarities of 1952 and there
will be more in 1956 unless
some sense of the dignity of the
occasion wins over the indecent
trumperies which have over
grown the convention machin
ery like rank and poisonous
weeds. If reform is accomplish
ed, TV can take the bow. Not
until 1952 did some millions of
citizens get a peek at the tawdry
processes they expected to un
derwrite with their votes on
election day.
Not First Triumph
It would not be the first such
triumph for the science of elec
tronics. Back there in 1932 the
national conventions got their
first real radio hookup. Sen. Les
ter J. Dickinson was Republican
keynote speaker. He droned on
for two hours and fifteen min
utes, boring and disappointing
millions of listeners.
The radio public screamed in
protest. You will note, now, that
political speeches in and out of
conventions usually run about
30 minutes. Radio takes the bow
for that.
lem under the government's
voluntary distribution plan.
The AMA's position was out
lined by AMA Trustee Julian
P. Price and past President Wal
ter B. Martin in prepared testi
mony before the Committee.
Basil O'Connor, president of
the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis, also was called
as a witness as the vaccine hear
ings entered their second and
final day.
Foundation sources said
O'Connor would not take a pub
lic stand on the rival free vac-
30-Day Registration
Provision Applies
To City Elections
Because of the 30-day pro
vision on registration of voters
in Oregon laws, only those res
idents already registered to vote
will be eligible to cast ballots in
the annexation and budget elec
tions July 5, it was pointed out
today.
Oregon law requires that the
poll books be closed for 30 days
prior to an election.
Names of residents who did
not vote in either of the two pre
vious elections, the primary or
general elections of 1954, were
deleted from the registration
books recently, and the voters
involved were notified. If they
did not. reinstate themselves as
registered voters, they will not
be qualified to vote in the spe
cial elections July 5.
The questions to be voted on
at the two elections that day are
1. Annexation of two areas,
totalling more than 3,000 acres,
in the city of Medford. Residents
of these two areas will cast "bal
lots on the proposal.
2. Approval of the city's bud
get which this year for the first
time in many years exceeds the
per cent limitation on in
creases; and approval of a city
charter change to increase the
limitation of general fund levies
from 12 to 15 mills. Residents of
the city may cast ballots.
cine plans of the Democrats and
the administration. But they
said he was readly to discuss
the whole vaccine controversy
in which the organization has
been deeply involved.
'Socialized Medicine'
In testimony Tuesday, Health
Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby
bluntly branded the Democratic
proposal as a "back door" route vaccine to 22 per cent of the na-
to "socialized medicine" and
said it would cost $130,000,000.
Sen. Paul R. Douglas (D-IU.)
retorted ; today that the Demo
cratic plan has "nothing to do
with socialized medicine." "It's
a question, he said, whether the
government will supply free
Morse Introduces Bill .
To Start Juniper Project
Washington (U.R) Sen
Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) said today
he had introduced a bill calling
for the construction of the Juni
per diversion of the Wapinitia
irrigation project in his home
state.
The Wasco county project
would include a dam at the head
of Clear creek and would cost
a total of, $500,000. It would pro
vide irrigation water for 2100
acres.
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the early 1930's, glass fiber is
now one of the most versatile
manufacturing materials.
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Flying Tiger Line Mechanics on Strike
Burbank, Calif. (U.R) Air
craft mechanics, members of the
AFL machinists union, were on
strike today against Flying Tig
er Airlines terminals in the Un
ited States and Canada.
Machinists set up picket lines
here last night on orders by
John Sweeney, grand lodge rep
resentative of the International
Association of Machinists. Mach
inists walked out at the comp
any's Newark, N.J., terminal
three hours earlier.
In addition to Burbank and
Newark, Flying Tiger Line, Inc.,
operates terminals in San Fran
cisco, Chicago, Detroit, and Can
ada. Company officials said planes
were operating as scheduled de
spite the mechanics' walkout.
"We expect no interruption of
service," the officials said.
The union and company broke
off negotiations here last Thurs
day. The union, which represents
about 300 Flying Tiger em
ployees is seeking journeyman
pay scales comparable to those
of larger passenger airlines, a
general increase of 4Vfc cents
hourly and vacation improve
ments. '
tion's children under the admini
stration proposal or to all of
them under the Democratic plan.
But Republican Sen. Barry
Goldwater (Ariz.) said "I don't
see how Southern senators can
vote for a bill with all the dan
gers of federal control this one
has." He predicted approval of
the administration measure.
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