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.
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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. The
colonists, freed slaves, were sent
under the auspices of the Am-
Coege Offers Students
Course On How To Study
Easton, Pa. (U.R) Lafay
ette college' has included in the
curriculum of this year's sum
mer session a course on "How to
Study." . ' '
The course, primarily for stu
dents accepted in the new fresh
man class that will enter the
college next fall, is designed to
teach them how to study prop
erly. Study helps and techniques
of study will be given. The
course also is open to other stu
dents.
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Morse Named Winner
Of Hillman Award
Washington '(U.R) Sen.
Wayne Morse (D.-Ore.) has been
named winner of the S1000 Sid
ney Hillman foundation award
for meritorious public service
and will ' be presented with it
at a dinner here Jan.. 26.
Others who have received the
award in recent years included
former President Harry S. 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.
He will be buried Thursday.
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Kefauver Believes
Truman More Friendly
Washington '(U.R) Demo
cratic presidential candidate
Estes Kefauver says he believes
he and former President Tru
man "are on , more friendly
terms now" than they were in
1952 when he first sought the
presidential nomination.
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.
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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. If one jumps
out they all follow. None are
left." Isaiah the prophet of old
said it first Isaiah 53:6 Bible
"All we like sheep have gone
astray." Adam sinned and we
all followed. But the Lord laid
on Christ the sins of us all. God
blots out your sins and gives
you eternal life when you lay
hold on Christ as dying for you.
Then to grow into the ways of
Christ and be Christ-hke live on
Bible food and pray. So your
faith mounts up and you earn
eternal reward.
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