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Journal Editorial Cartoonist Resigns Portland (U.R) Howard Fisher's last editorial cartoon appeared in today's issue of the Oregon Journal. Fisher, who retired last Sat urday, started working for the Portland newspaper in 1919 and was appointed editorial cartoon ist in 1929. He published some 9300 edi torial cartoons, many of them featuring his trademark Little Beaver. The cartoonist's work was re produced in national magazine and papers all over the country. Originals hang in the offices of cabinet members, senators and other notables he has depicted. Replacing Fisher on the Jour nal's editorial page staff will be Carl Boneli, newsroom artist for the Journal since 1947. Dan Mindolovich, Roseburg News Review artist, will take Bonel li's place. VOTER EXCITED Morlaix, France (U.R) One French voter was so excited that he placed his son's birth certifi cate instead of a ballot in the voting urn Monday. Officials said they would give the new father's certificate back to him when the votes were counted. I : 1 I ANOTHER POST EXCIUSIVEI I J - J cmmi mssi Matter of Fact and Stewart AIsop hi " jfi Joseph Alsop For the first time, Hollywood's No. 1 "public enemy" tells about hisprivatelife in hisown word ! He reveals how his boyhood on New York's brawling East Side helped Tiim become a star " what his wife thought of him when they first met . . . and the real story behind his recent movie "comeback." And don't miss his off-the-record stories of his career from : his early flops in vaudeville to his latest success in "Love Me or Leave Me." Start reading James Cagney's HOW I GOT THIS WAY, today! Out today on all newsstands CURTIS MAGAZ1NI ANNIVERSARY REPORT Washington Ten years ago, the first column by these re porters appeared in a handful of American newspapers. It is an odd experi ence, enter tain ing in a way and sad in anoxner, xo iup ove the pages of that first year's scrap book of col u m n s and to note how times have changed and how they have not. There is a nostalgia, which the reporters may be pardoned for indulging at this season, in the yellowed clippings and the dated words. The first column begins with the remark that "The most conspicuous single fact in Wash ington today is Harry S. Tru man," and concludes that "It is still an open question whether Truman can master his job. The question is still open, and no doubt will re ni a i n so for many more decades. The columns that follow are filled with names which are already dim in the mem orv. and political rows Stewart Abop which it is an effort to recall at all.. There is much about "The President's cronies" Ed Pau ley, Vardaman, Vaughan, Steel man, Snyder, and the redoubt able George Allen, who has managed to retain his role as a Presidential crony until the present day. The rows about the President's appointment of Pau ley to be Under-Secretary of the Navy, and Allen to be head of Reconstruction Finance, are an alyzed in detail,- and one won ders a little why these dusty bottles seemed so important at the time. rpHEN there are the other en- - grossing struggles of the era. like Chester Bowles' fight with John Snyder over the OPA (re member OPA.?) Henry Wallace's break "with Truman', and John L. Lewis's Homeric battles with the administration. There is the contest between John Snyder and Lewis Schwellenbach (re member Schwellenbach?) for control of Labor Relations, and there is the great steel strike of that year, and the battle be tween the pro-Communists and anti-Communists for the soul, of the CIO and the Liberal "movement. . There is much, indeed, about the Communist threat (at a time when the internal Communist danger was hardly recognized by those who now proclaim themselves its first discoverers) "It is not easy to shake Commu nists loose,", one column re marks,, "but if this country is to have the independent and vigor ous liberal movement it so bad ly needs, it must be done." THERE , are surprising hints of things to . come and many echoes' of a forgotten past. But what standf out from the old clippings is not how much, but how little, the really important things have changed. The cold war started ten years "ago, al though, again, it was not at all fashionable to admit it at thel time. The third column these re porters wrote noted flatly that the nation was "without a basic policy for dealing with the ba sic problei of current interna tional relations the new Soviet imperialism." Omit the adjec tive "new" and the sentence will be almost as accurate today as it was ten years ago. A few weeks later another column remarks that the weak ness of American foreign policy arises from "the unwillingness to use our vast economic power to the full and with all energy, in order to cure the terrible ills which weaken all nations in Europe and Asia and thus en courage Soviet expansionism." Shades of the "Four H club." Toward the- end of that year, these reporters succumbed to a fit of over-optimism, which has, not frequently been repeated since. "The Soviet foreign pol icy which has plagued the, whole worlcl," a December column stated, "seems to be in process of basic revision. It is too early to cheer, but not too early to hope." Within a matter of weeks, it proved to be a great deal too early to hope. It still is. ' JJET there may be ground for hope ot a sort in sometning else that stands out from the yellow pages of the decade-old scrapbook. There was much, even then, about the new weap ons, vhich (as the six or seven persons who are believed to have read this column fairly regularly may hare noted) have been something of , an obsession with these reporters. "Even now," one of the first columns remarked, "no one has grasped the fullness of the change in world power relation ships wrought by the scientists of World War II." The end re sult of the new weapons, anoth er column reported, was to "make possible that war be tween the continents which must haunt the imagination of every informed and imaginative man." And yet, even now, ten years later, despite small wars and great crises, missiles and jets and hydrogen, bombs, the worst has not happened. Is it to suc cumb to another fit of over-opti mism to hope that, if only we keep our guard up, it never will? (Copyright, 1958, ' New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Tuesday, January 8, 1958 . MEDFORD fOREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE African Republic of Liberia- Inaugurates President Tubman By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent A unique republic, which the j United States Navy helped to es tablish, inaugurated its president for anew term yester day. It is the Re public of Li beria, founded by American Negroes who had been freed from slavery. Until the erthrew King Farouk, it was the only republic on the vast continent of Africa. The republics of North and South America were founded by colonizers who emigrated west ward across the Atlantic ocean. Liberia is unique in that its founders turned the course of emigration eastward from the new world to the old one. It lies on the West African coast just above the equator. Its area of 43,000 square miles is inhabited by about 2,300,000 people, including native tribes as well as descendants of Am erican Negro colonists. Only Negroes are eligible for citizenship. American Ancestors The president is William V. S. Tubman, 60. He is descended on his father's side from some of Liberia's earliest American set tlers they went there from Augusta,' Ga., in 1834. Tubman's mother emigrated from Atlanta, Ga., in 1872. Tubman's eldest son, William Jr., was graduated from" Gover nor Dummer Academy in Mas sachusetts and is now a student at Harvard. Tubman himself had been a schoel teacher, lawyer, senator and supreme court justice. He has served also in the Army, and rose from private to coloneL Tubman was elected Liberia's 18th president in 1943. He was reelected for four year terms in 1951 and 1955. A devout Methodist, he made his first , v4sit to the United States in 1928 as a delegate to a general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Kansas City, Mo. Tubman visited President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1943, just after his election for his first presidential term, and he visited President Eisenhower in 1954. Liberia was settled by its first American Negroes in 1822. 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Tru man, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas Bishop Ber nard J. Sheil, Sen. Herbert Leh man of New York, and Oscar H. Ewing, former federal security administrator. The award will be presented by Jacob S. Potofsky, the late Sidney Hillman's successor as president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. erican Colonization society. The United States government, under President James Monroe, pro vided money and a naval escort. Navy Negotiated The United States Navy 'negj tiated the acquisition of the ter ritory which is now Liberia from the native tribal chiefs along the coast, and thus played its part in the founding. Monrovia, the capital, is nam ed in honor of President Monroe. The several settlements which first made up Liberia united as a commonwealth in .1839. Then, in 1947, the Republic of Liberia was proclaimed. It was modelled closely after, the United States. It is this country's clos est ally in Africa. ' . Great Britain was first to rec ognize the new republic, in 1948. Strangely, because of the influence of slave-holding states the United States did not recog nize it until 1862, the year in which Abraham Lincoln framed his Emancipation Proclamation declaring the freedom of Ameri can slaves. Body of Frank Hague On Public View Jersey City, N. J. (U.R) The body of Frank Hague, the last of America's political bosses, lay in state today in the city where he once proclaimed, "I am the law." Hague, mayor of Jersey City for 30 years who used his post to build one of America's most powerful political machines, died Sunday of a "gradual fail ing.'". . Hague would have been 80 on Jan. 17, according to his official birthday in 1876. His son, Frank Jr., however, said he believed his father was born in 1874. 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Mr. Truman is' reported to have opposed Kefauver's bid for the top spot on the Democratic 1952 ticket. The then Democrat ic President threw his support to Adlai E.. Stevenson who beat Kefauver. The Tennessee senator said he thinks things are different this year and that Mr. Truman wants all Democrats to have a "fair chance" at the presidential nomination. JACK LYNCH WEDS Portland (U.R) Former Ore gon state senator Jack Lynch of Portland and Miss Margaret Ann Wagner of Salem were mar ried over the New Year's week end. The bride has been office manager of Salem General hos pital for 19 years. The couple will be at home in Portland. 0 Teacher Was Wrong GEO. N. TAYLOR "There were 20 sheep in the pasture and one jumped out. How many were left? Nineteen were left. So shouted all the class except Sammie. "T h i n k again, Sammie. 20 sheep and one jumped out. How many were left?" Then it was Sam- mie's turn "Say, Teacher, you may know numbers but you don't know sheep. 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