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A,, SMttlr Pot-'apl St Louia At.at.ta V,T"fttj vr R C NAIIONAl EDITORIAL U O gf PUBLISHERS Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson Countv Hitorv from the files ot The Mail rnbune 10. 20. 30 and 40 vcars ago 10 YEARS AGO July 29, 1946 (It was Monday) Two Medford firms, the Amer ican Fruit Growers and the Mon arch Feed and Seed company, making plans for re-building structures destroyed in fire June 25. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Bear stories have started appearing in the news. They are told by national park visitors, and football coachrs. 20 YEARS AGO July 29, 1936 (It was Wednesday) Picking of the 1936 Rogue River valley crop of Bartlett pears is scheduled to start in some orchards next Monday and Tuesday. Tourist travel in southern Ore gon so far this season shows a 33 per cent increase over that of last year, according to T. L. Stanley, manager of the Shasta Cascad" wonderland association. 80 YEARS AGO July 29, 1926 (It was Thursday) tl n Vrnh-trh nresiirient of the Frobach Oil company, returned from Portland Wednesday where he attended a meeting of Gen eral Oil distributors of Oregon. Medford has one of the most modern high school buildings in the state, showed on inspection of the building nearing comple tion. 9 YEARS AGO July 29, 1916 (It was Saturday) The Knight Packing company spends over ST. 000 in Medford erecting and equipping a ketch up and apple butter factory. The auction prices on Bartlett pears have been beer, steadily rising for the past few days. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? t'npr 1155 Fdttonal Research Report 1. "Life, liberty and the pur suit of happiness'' is a phrase from the Dible, Magna Carta, Shakespeare. Declaration of In dependence. Constitution or Getty i'nurg Address" 2. Most infants adopted from the ' black market for babies" are legitimate or illegitimate, or it is about 50-50. 3. The Huguenot settlers in colonial North America were Irish Protestants. French Pro testants, Catholics. Quakers, Jews or Swiss pacifists? 4. The Dewey decimal system is ucd especially for stock prices, insurance tables, logarith mic tabic-, book cataloging or shoe Mze'.' 5. In the Bible it was Abra ham. Moses. Joshua. Kin: Solo mon. John the Baptist or Paul of Tarsus who ordered the sun to stand st:ir 6. Which one of these is not a well-kt.own boys Drep school Andover. Dannemora. Exeter, Groton. Hill. Hotchkiss, Hun? 7. Spaso House is the resid cense of the U.S. ambassador in Rome. Moscow. Mexico City. Paris. Buenos Aires or Canada? The answers: 1. Declaration of Independence. 2. Most are illegi timate. 3. French Protestants. 4. Book cataloging. 5. Joshua. 6. Dannemora (it's a prison). 7. Moscow. MAIL TRIBUNE The Morse It is probably foolish to take "The Documented Kecord of Wayne Morse" too seriously. It is an imposing onus, no doubt, attractively bound and embossed, and should we presume be ac cepted, along with the campaign buttons, slogans and bombastic broadcasts, as an inescapable part of the quadrennial :-ring circus and added sideshow put on bv both major parties in an effort if they are in to s-tay there : and if they are out, to get in ! .So as far as this paper is concerned, we have no particular complaint to make concerning this highly publicized anti-Morse volume, our only complaint is the concerted effort to make it appear "what it AIN'T." IX ANOTHER column of today's paper, for example, is a communication from a certain Henry Kane, who is not one of candidate McKay's publicity experts nor even one of his press-agents, but bears the impos ing and scholarly titleof "research director" for the equally imposing Oregon Republican Central Commit tee. The letter is a reply to a communication in the M-T by Mr. Ken Corliss for what is termed his "unwarrant ed attack"' on this non-partisan and purely objective effort to give the people of Oregon the facts of Sen ator Morse's two-term senate record. TTHE COMMUNICATION devotes very little space to answering the criticism of the anti-Morse "fact book" made by Mr. Corliss and a great deal to a sales talk for this Republican party pamphlet. Direc tor Kane indeed makes the extraordinary claim that after examination by top newspapermen in Oregon, California, other states and hold everything "the Washington, D.C., press corps" no criticisms such as McCorliss advanced have been received. 17E KNOW a few of the Washington "press corps" and wonder if they are aware of this blanket endorsement for that is what it amounts to if it amounts to anything on the basis of the accuracy and impartiality of the document? We wonder, also, how many of the "top newspapermen" in this array of states, and how many members of the Washington press corps would find no attempt to deceive the reader as far as the two-term record of Wayne Morse is concerned? Our strong belief is not MANY ! To give what he terms a good example of the book's accuracy," Director Kane cites Senator Neu berger's silence regarding his quoted criticism of Sen ator Morse several years ago. If Senator Neuberger s remarks were out of con text or were quoted incorrectly," concludes this foe of political deception, "I feel certain that Senator Neuberger would have made public the error!" No doubt of it as to accuracy! But great doubt as to "quoting out of context." For "quoting out of context" has nothing to do with accurary or inaccuracy. In fact, the first re quirement is to get the quotation 100 correct, but by failing to give the complete picture the correc back ground creating a wrong and politically-damaging impression. The Republican State Central committee has not honored this paper with a copy of this gem of non political documentation, and we get the same report from other members of the Oregon press. Why we could not guess! But we do know enough from the official publi city concerning it to venture the opinion that not only is this Neuberger item a perfect example of "quoting out of context," but the volume is strewn with them. How could it be otherwise? These party "researchers" who furnished the ma terial for the GOP ghost-writers were not paid to col lect items that reflected any credit upon Oregon's sen ior senator. If they failed to scour the available rec ords for the items that would put Wayne Morse in the worst possible light, and his opponent, Douglas Mc Kay, in the best they were not doing what they were paid to do. But they undoubtedly did their job as they were expected and had to do it, and as indicated above, the Mail Tribune has no criticism to make on that score. In a national campaign, political propaganda, double talk and all-around unadulterated "whang-doodle" is to be expected on one side of the aisle as well as the other. But what gives this paper a severe pain in the edi torial neck is this sanctimonious effort to make this alleged "book of facts" concerning the record of Wayne Morse apepar to be what it isn't that is, so objective, so impartial, so free from political or per 1 sonal bias, that it should be considered quite proper to send to 35 public libraries of Oregon for their refer- ence shelves. Why? Not to make votes for ex-Secretary of the ; Interior McKay and take them from Wayne Morse j no. what a revolting suggestion ! But as Director Kane ; solemnly and piouslv proclaims, to permit the people to, quote: "LOOK' AT THE DOCUMENTATION AND FORM THEIR OWN OPINIONS." What sort of opinions? The answer to this 74 cent ! question is NOT hard to guess. One is that even Senator Neuberger doesn't think ; much of Senator Morse. For. observe what he said and ; doesn't deny when he didn't know the man. and was not writing a serious political estimate anyway ! What, ' after several years association with our senior senator j is Neuberger's present estimate of his colleague's in- tellectual attainments and courageous and enlight i ened statesmanship are of no importance to these un ; biased historians, a stray and forgotten item in a for 1 gotten "mss." which might lose Wayne Morse some votes IS. How silly can we get? i Another opinion which, according to the Repub 1 lican press is expected to be formed from the non- Sunday, July 29, 1956 Record Today and By Walter STASSEN AND NIXON Mr. Stassen, being a practical politician of long experience, it is strange that he waited until tms late date to c h a 1 lenge Mr. Xixon end that before he . acted, he did not consult; Gov. H e r t er. j He seems to j have actedj suddenly,; without prep aration, with Waiter Lippmann out lining up support, and at the eleventh hour when the Pros- i ident. the Administration, and the party machine were publicly and irrevocably committed to ' the renomination of Mr. Nixon, j The nearest he has come to j an explanation is that he and some others have recently had a private poll taken, which was a cross check on the Gallup Poll, and that the result shows an Eisenhower-Nixon ticket running 6 per cent behind an Eisenhower Herter ticket. There is, however, nothing new about that, and he does not explain his acting only a month before the Republican convention. For a long time, if I remember correctly since be fore the President's illnesses, the polls have been showing Nixon as not only much weaker than Eisenhower but as weaker also than Stevenson. What, one must wonder, has happened very re cently, apparently in the past few weeks, to arouse Mr. Stassen to so desperate an attempt to stop Nixon? Something has moved him, a practical and high ly ambitious politician, to take a very long shot, staking his own political future on it. The only new and recent develop ment has been the President's second illness. The republican Party has had the Nixon problem since before the President's hart attack. The problem is in two parts which are, however, related. Mr Stassen talked about the first part of the problem which is that Nixon is a political liability among the Eisenhower Republicans and among the Independents who hold the balance of power. If he were running for President, he would be beaten by Stevenson political effort is short and to the point, to-wit: "Senator Morse is a liar." How come? Very simple. In 1954 Oregon's senior senator de nied that he intended to run for re-election as a Demo crat in 1956, but he did so! That makes a liar out of him according to the docu mented evidence. Well, if the senators in that august bodv who have changed their minds and their plans within the space of two years are "liars" then by all means let the fam ous Ananaias club formed by another GOP "rene gade" Theodore Roosevelt 'be revived. Scarcely a member of the congress we believe who couldn't on such terms qualify for it. The present writer happens to know that for a long period while Senator Morse had, like General Eisenhower, lost faith in GOP leadership and its ab ility to successfully handle pressing domestic and for eign problems he brushed off all suggestions that he leave the party and change his registration. He just didn't WANT to. But as conditions changed he chang ed. Well a senator who refuses to admit having made a mistake, and refuses to change his course to correct it or conform with changed conditions, would not in our judgment be of much value in the Senate or any where else for that matter. The readers of this highly objective opus are ex pected to conclude, however, Wayne Morse is not a man to be trusted. That just isn't true and there is no evidence to prove otherwise in this alleged "book of facts" or anywhere else, and all fair-minded ob servers of the political scene KNOW it. CO ONE might go on and on. But this is too long winded already. We wish to make it clear how ever this is not to be taken as any defense of Mr. Cor liss or his communication, he is quite capable of hand ling that for himself and if he wishes space in the MT to do so, space will, of course, be available. Nor is it to be interpreted as an "attack" on the factual accuracy of this partisan document. There may not be a misstatement of fact in the entire works on the other hand there may be. Not having read it, and not having a staff of expensive "researchers" to do it for us, we don't know. But we DO know that it is not what the Director of Research claims it to be. Assuming it is a compila tion of substantiated facts in the Morse record, they have been so selected and so arranged and are so in terpreted by the GOP press that if used as a reference in our public libraries by the people who go there for unbiased non partisan political information they would no more get a true or correct picture of what sort of person Wayne Morse is or the significance of his 12-year record, than they would find a fair and un biased appraisal of Grand Duke Alexis in the archives of the Kremlin ! It just COULDN'T BE DONE. And by the same token, we doubt very much that if a "docu mented record of former Secretary McKay" were compiled by his political enemies and these same public libraries should place copies of THIS opus on their reference shelves, any fair and just picture of the man or his record, could be obtained. No one with the slightest knowledge of practical politics or campaign tactics would go to such a source to get it. R.W.R. Tomorrow Lippmann and possibly also by Harriman. The latest poll shows, for exam ple, that among Independents Stassen himself is decisively stronger than Nixon. THE second part of the problem ! -- is that by his general political formation, his convictions and his political impulses. Mr. Nixon is not an Eisenhower Republican. This does not mean that he does not serve President Eisenhower loyally. It does mean that when he is on his own. he moves to wards the Republican right wing which, though it clamors for Eisenhower as a candidate for i President, opposes and obstructs 1 his policies. Nixon's weakness ! among the Eisenhower enthu-: siasts in both parties comes from ! the belief that he is not a true j and reliable successor to Eisen-! hower, that he cannot be counted : on to carry on in the Eisenhower line. i The Nixon problem has ex-! isted since before the President's illnesses. It was earnestly dis-1 cussed, to be sure more in private tnan publicly, during the Spring and Summer of 1955, when the President seemed so reluctant, chiefly because of his age, to commit himself to run again. Though the President's health was at that time unimpaired, he himself raised serious doubts at to whether it was wise for him to run again, and these doubts focussed considerable at tention on the Vice Presidency. During that discussion, there was talk about Stassen, about Henry Cabot Lodge, and also about Dewey because of his sup erior competence. But there was a wide consensus that on the grounds of political availability, his attractive personality, his fine record as Governor, and his liberal Republicanism, Gov. Herter would be the best solu tion. After the President was strick en last September, the country became overwhelmingly preoc cupied with the question of whether he would run again. Un til this question was decided, it was impossible to take much in terest in the Vice Presidency. Moreover there was a strong feeling among Eisenhower's per sonal followers that if only he POTlUCfC ( (By M-T Staff and Contributors) 1 1 Warm summer months mean vacation time for almost ev eryone. And our regular Potluck editor is no exception. So, while he is. perhaps, finding relief from recent and present summer temperatures in Rogue valley, a substitute is "sweat ing" it out. Staff member No. 1, the other day, offered No. 2 a ride home from one of Medford's athletic fields, but found the car had a flat tire. No. 2 pitched in and helped change the tire. Once changed, members of the, party couldn't find the car keys. Th-y decided the keys were locked in the trunk, where they had fallen when the spare tire was re moved. No. 2 bummed a ride to his home, got his car, went to the home of No. 1 on the other side of town, and returned with an other set of keys. When they opened the trunk of the car, they didn't find the keys after all. No. 2 staff mem ber found them in his pocket. Talking about car keys . . . The same staff member who found the keys in his pocket worked extra late one evening, and called his wife to have her come after him with the car. He walked home after he found he had both sets of car keys with him at the office. Crater lake has, at times in the past, been geographically relo 'cated in a neighboring state, but it alwavs has been returned One of our readers called our attention to a metropolitan daily in tne soutnern part of our neigh boring state in which there was a letter to the editor written bv a Medford resident. Crater lake was mentioned in its right location. But somehow in naming Diamond lake, it slip ped across the state line. The contributor told this department it was originally referred to as "our'' Diamond lake. The "our'' in the original letter came out "your" in the publication. Reports from this area lead would consent to run again, he must be allowed to choose his running mate. T AST February, however, when Li Gen. Eisenhower made up his mind to run again, it was obvious that the Nixon problem was a very serious one. In the 1944 campaign the country had not been told about the condition of Roosevelt's health. This time it had been told about Eisenhower's health. Never before had a man of Eisenhower's age and with a known medical history like his, been a candidate for re election. It was certain that the Dem ocrats would make a powerful play for the return to their party of those Democrats who had been for Eisenhower in 1952 they would talk about Nixon's chances of finishing Eisen hower's second term. For a few weeks after the President's a n n o u ncement in February that he would run again, there were signs of a struggle within the Administra tion and in high Republican quarters over the Nixon prob lem. That would seem to have been the moment, when the situation was fluid, for Mr. Stassen to have made his chal lenge and to have rallied the Republicans who like Ike but do not like Nixon. The moment passed, and Mr. Nixon got the enthusiastic en dorsement of Chairman Leonard Hall and of the President him self. The anti-Nixon faction, be ing in no mood to cross the Pres ident, subsided. The party or ganization closed its ranks be hind Eisenhower and Nixon. The situation which had been fluid in the winter has jelled in July, and what would have been a painful but a possible political change-over would now be in the order of a party convulsion. Although Nixon is weak among the Independents for Eisenhower he is very strong in the Republican organization and among the Republican stalwarts. He is their man and, as we have seen during this Stassen affair, they resent with a special bitter ness any attempts by Repub licans to displace him. Why is this? It is because Nixon guar antees their control of the party, should anything happen to Eisen hower in the next four years. 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Congressional Quiz fCopvrlcht. 95 Conjresslonal Quarterly) Q The 84th Congress is expected to adjourn SINE DIE, that is. without setting a definite date for reassembling. When Con gress adjourns sine die: (a) only the President may call it back into session: (b) the party leaders may call it back; (c) no one may call it back. A Only the President may call Congress back. Congress may empower its leaders to call it back into session if it adjourns to a definite date, but not when it adjourns sine die. lake is One of the county's ilaunch- est Democrats we know turned the sir purple not long ago when he discovered some "friends" had put a "McKay for Senator" sticker on the bumper of his car. When the air cleared and cooled, he wailed: "And to think I drove clear through town with that sticker on my car." The wife of one of the staff members believes summer is a good time to diet. So dieting she has been, and effectively, too. Lately, though, she has had a craving for "eatin' meat." He, who is skeptical of diets without "food," decided she needed something a little more solid, so Friday, we understand, he treated her to a T-bone in one of the local supper clubs. One of the staff members has been watching her weight recently. But the other after noon we noticed she was among several in the depart ment apparently enjoying a "Viennese Velvet." (For those who do not know what a "Viennese Velvet" is, it is hot coffee poured over va nilla ice cream, with another scoop of ice cream added after the coffee is poured.) It's like she says: "It's so re freshing on a hot day. And good, too." One of the county commission ers, who also operates a farm near Medford, can't figure out whether his head swelled or his hat shrank. The commissioner recently bought a new cloth hat to wear while working in the fields dur ing hot weather. He wore it one day, then hung it on the hat rack for the night. The next morning, after it had dried from the perspiration, he reached for it and started to put it on, only to discover it was about 3V2 sizes smaller (or his head an equal amount larger) than the night before. Vernon Thorpe, Medford public works director, had this to say in a talk to fellow Ki wanis club members at their Wednesday luncheon: "I'll give you the scoop on the freeway. Watch your fav orite newspaper and the TV and radio station. They get it before we do." In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In pea-soup fog, some 50 miles out in the Atlantic, two great passenger liners collide and one of them sinks a few hours later. The amazing part of it is that of the more than 2,000 persons aboard the two ships only four are known, as this is written about mid-morning, to have lost their lives. The mystery of it is how they came to collide, as both were fully equipped with radar that sees through darkness and the fog and warns of the presence of nearby objects. THE minds of older pecple go back at once to the Titanic disaster in 1912. The Titanic was the last word in luxury passen ger ships in her day. She was supposed to be unsinkable but she hit an iceberg and went down just like ships had been doing for centuries. A total of 1,517 persons lost their lives in the Titanic sinking, which rates as the worst peace time ocean-going ship disaster in history. The worst marine disas ter of all time took place during World War II when Russian tor pedoes sank the Nazi troopship Wilhelm Gustloff in the icy waters of the Baltic sea. Some 6,000 Germans died then. But that was in WAR TIME. THE Titanic went down nearly half a century ago. Its passen ger list included many of the world's most prominent people. That brings to mind a tremen dous change that has taken place in these nearly 50 years. Back in 1912, only very prominent and very wealthy people could af ford world travel. The Italian Doria and the Swedish Stockholm the "lux ury" liners involved in the last collision carried a vast majority of common everyday people out to see the world. Times have changed. There can be little doubt that the change is for the better. Junction City Firm Bids Low for Dorm Project Portland VP., Wall, Bart ram & Standford, a Junction City construction firm, Friday submitted apparent low bid of S824.900 for building a new men's dormitory at the Univer sity of Oregon in Eugene. The structure, housing 329 students, will be built where campus tennis courts are now lo cated. Total bids for the project totaled SI, 099. 056, considerably lower than the Board of Higher Education had expected. us to believe Diamond still in the Cascades. Communications Letten to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication ia permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserve the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. A Reply to Mr. Corliss To the Editor: This letter Is in reply to the unwarranted attack of Mr. Ken Corliss on the ac curacy of "The Documented Rec ord of Senator Wayne Morse." The book has been in circu lation now since July 9 and has been examined by top newspap ermen in Oregon, California, other states and the Washington, D.C. press corps. To my know ledge, no person has cited any instance where we took remarks out of context or in any other way attempted to deceive the reader. Senator Neuberger's silence on the part dealing with his op inion of Senator Morse is a good example of th book's accuracy. If Senator Neuberger's remarks were out of context or were quot ed incorrectly, I feel certain that Senator Neuberger would have made public the error. Substantial parts of the book is devoted to photostat-type re production of the original docu mentation, including pages from the Congressional Record. All the documentation is identified in order that the reader may check the accuracy of the mater ial by going to the original source. Before the first run of the Morse fact book was distributed, we distributed copies to some 35 libraries around the State of Oregon. It was done to permit the people to look at the doc umentation and form their own conclusions. Senator Morse is quoted in the book as declaring he will run "on the record" he has made. It seems strange that Senator Morse's friends denounce the compilation of that record. The) record speaks for itself Includ ing the over 100 important roll call votes Senator Morse missed, although he claims that he rare ly misses major roll call votes. Henry Kane, Research director, Information Requested To the Editor: Please tell us Who and What is the AMERI CAN PATRIOTS ASSOCIA TION, 15 William St., New York City 5? The Democrat in our family has just received a card from this organization which reads as follows: YOUR COUNTRY, YOUR FAMILY AND YOU ARE THREATENED By the proposed appointment of Paul G. Hoffman as U.S. Delegate to the United Nations. THIS APPOINTMENT MUST BE DEFEATED Hoffman idol of the A.D.A. Hoffman front man for the Fund for the Republic Hoffman p lays into the hands of the Communists PROTEST immediately to your Republican or Demo cratic leaders. Your Senators will vote on this appointment shortly. You can protect your country and your family if you act quickly. WRITE OR WIRE YOUR SENATORS KEEP RED CHINA OUT OF U.N. is' American Patriots Association 15 Williams St., New York City 5. Read Page 113 of the House Report No. 2681 (83rd Con gress. My memory fails me on Paul G. Hoffman (sic transit gloria?) but as I recall he gave up a lucra tive job with Studebaker to ad minkipr the Marshall Plan ! under President Truman and I ' am under the impression that j he did a fine job. Later he was with the Ford Foundation which has been somewhat under fire lately. We have never heard of tne American Patriots Association and we would like to know if it is a legitimate organization. Any information you print will be appreciated. Several of us are interested. Isobel Stuart 521 Penn Ave. Medford, Oregon Ed Note: All we know about this organization is it has a very impressive title and often sends to this paper and apparently certain individuals propaganda sheets, the main purpose of which seems to be to discredit the United Nations and the pro gressive wing of the Republican Party. I'M LOOKING OVER . . . Seranton, Pa. UP. The aver age person considers himself lucky if he finds one or two fourleaf clovers in a lifetime. But Castor Franklin, of Scran ton, has found about 3,000 of them. He has been collecting the good-luck charms for 15 years and finds an average of 200 a year. He keeps them all pressed between the pages of his Bible and his dictionary. He also has found a number of five-leal clovers.
