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History trom the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
0 yean ago
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 14. 1946
(It was Wednesday)
Construction of a warehouse
at 120-124 South Fir it. for the
American Fruit Growers started
by John and Henry Nieder
meyer. From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Threshing
Is progressing in the' rural re
gions. Styles in threshing have
changed. The crews no longer
go to work with a lantern and
quit by moonlight.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 14. 193S
(It was Friday)
Strange-looking craft seen cir
cling over city yesterday and
today is the Lockheed Electra
cabin ship owned by Maj. Max
Fleischmann, chairman of the
finance committee of Standard
Brands.
Attorney Porter J. Neff to
preside at Democratic rally
Monday, J. R. Marshall, chair
man of the Jackson county cen
tral committee, announces.
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 14. 1926
(It was Saturday)
The Copco forum, the em
ployes' club of the California
Oregon Power company, stages
summer party at Rogue Elk re
sort. F. M. Wilson sells confection
ery and cigar store on North
Central ave. to Mr. and Mrs.
J. E. Payette.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 14. 1916
(It was Monday)
Iowa people of .southern Ore
gon hold second annual picnic
at Lithia park, Ashland.
From Local and Personal col
umn: Harry L. Young returns
from a fortnight's vacation on
his Brownsboro ranch.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr 15S Editorial Research
Report
1 . The Democratic platform of
1948 or 1952 was stronger on
civil rights: or were they about
equally strong?
2. .The Andrea Doria was re
cently sunk by collision with the
lie de France, an iceberg, the
Cape Ann. the Stockholm or the
Nantucket lightship?
3. The Suez Canal connects
the Mediterranean with the
Black Sea. Red Sea. Gulf of
Aden. Indian Ocean or Persian
Gulf?
4. Pres. Eisenhower has or
hasn't said he prefers Nixon to
any one else as G.O.P. vice
presidential nominee?
5. The new Labor contract in
the steel industry covers (a) 1,
(b) 2. (c) 3. (d) 4 or (e) 5 years?
6. President Nasser of Egypt
is over 60. around 50, or under
40 years of age?
7. The 10 states of the "Solid
South" have more or less than
one-fourth of the votes at the
Democratic national convention?
The Answers: 1. 1943 platform
was stronger. 2. The Stockholm.
3. Red Sea. 4. Hasn't 5. 3 years.
6. Several years under 40. 7.
Slightly less than one-iouith.
MAIL TRIBUNE
"Having a Wonderful
One thing for sure, the Democrats in convention
assembled are having a wonderful time.
They are, we feel sure, having more real fun than
the Republicans can possibly have in San Francisco,
although as most experts predict, the venerable old
pachyderm, may make hamburger of the Democratic
donkey in November.
PRESIDENT Truman can be thanked or cursed
for this entertainment content, depending on one's
presidential preferences.
This department has believed Stevenson the
Democrat best qualified for the presidency. We stick
to that conviction. We hope he gets the nomination
and believe he will.
TN FACT most of the arguments thus far advanced
against him, in fact are, as we see it, points in his
favor.
TOR example, they call him an intellectual, as if
somehow a person with brains is an "egg head"
and therefore should be barred from the White House.
Thev also obiect to what
pancy his wise cracking which is only a sense of
proportion otherwise known as a sense of humor and
a refusal to take himself or
We would like to see such
House for a change.
DUT when it comes to
- manship there is nothing purely cerebral or flip
pant about Adlai, and as he
against the Tidelands oil
the issue is between the
eral Motors" or petroleum, there is nothing soft or
indecisive about him. He
I former, even though it meant political defeat in a piv
otal state as it did.
THEN they say Stevenson should not be selected
1 because he is a a one-time loser, and thus against
Eisenhower would have two strikes against him be
fore the Hot politicking penod could even get started
We admit there is something to this argument,
particularly in the field of sports of the fistic variety,
but the idea that one-time losers in politics can't
win is refuted by the record the Democratic record
For example:
The Democrats nominated former President Gro-
ver Cleveland in 1892 after his defeat by Benjamin
Harrison in 1888 and Cleveland went on to beat
his former conqueror. The
Jennings Bryan the nomination in 1908 after he had
been twice beaten, in 1896 and 1900. And the Repub
licans came back with Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York in 1948 after Dewey
Nor is it too unusual for a man who has been four
years out of public office as Stevenson has to get
the nomination. Take Bryan again. When he was first
nominated in 1896, he had been two years out of
office, editing a newspaper he had been defeated
for the Senate in 1894. And thereafter, as Irving
Stone comments:
Bryan's mind ran in four-year cycles. Filling in the dull
and unimportant years between conventions he published
a weekly magazine called the Commoner, lectured on the
Chautauqua circuit, kept up his vast political acquaintanceship.
Or take John W. Davis.
in Congress, had been solicitor general, also Ambas
sador to Great Britain, he
his nomination in 1924
J. r. Morgan and other prominent interests. Take,
too, that other "honest Wall Street lawyer," Wendell
L. Willkie. Before his "pell-mell campaign for the
Republican nomination in 1940 he had never held
public office at all.
CTEVENSON has been out of public office, but he
fcJ has by no means been
one thing, alter his defeat m 1952 he began to win
the solid esteem of his party professionals by helping
to liquidate the $800,000
to reelect him.
"Month after month," Theodore H. White has re
counted, "(Stevenson) barnstormed the country,
rousing the party faithful at $100-a-plate dinners,
backing the local candidates. . . He spoke not only in
the great centers . . . but wherever the party craved
help."
Also, Stevenson has been a world traveler. After
a tour of almost six months' duration, he appeared
on television on Sept. 15, 1953 to urge that the U.S.
take the initiative in opening new peace and disarma
ment negotiations with the Soviet Union.
Two weeks later he reported on his trip to Presi
dent Eisenhower. The President said that Stevenson's
proposal of mutual non-aggression pacts between
Russia and the West had "merit" and was getting
"serious study" by the State Department. Last year
Stevenson made a four-week business-pleasure tour
of Africa.
TJOWEVER, we fear the circulation of the Mail
Tribune in Chicago stockyards district is hardly
sufficient to turn the tide in Adlai's favor if the mem
bers of the convention or a majority of them de
cide otherwise, and follow the leadership of "fighting
Harry" Truman.
We are willing, nevertheless, to crawl out on a
limb sufficiently to say this: we predict that if Gov
ernor Stevenson is not the nominee, Averell Harriman
will not be either.
It will then be, in our judgment, as stated in this
department a few months ago a dark horse so
dark that at the present time, it would take more
than a super-telescope and a Hollywood search light
to find him.
FINALLY, whatever the
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they scornfully call his flip
anyone else 1 UU seriously.
rare qualities in the White
basic principles of states-
demonstrated in his fight
give away in when
General Welfare and Gen
fought valiantly for the
Democrats gave William
s defeat in 1944
Although he had served
spent the three years cef ore
as a lawyer, retained by
out of the public eye. For
debt incurred in the effort
outcome at Chicago the
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without an appreciable increase in its blood pressure, j
More than that it expects to enjoy the performance
thanks to TV as much on the final days as the first.
And the chief reason will be because of the presence
of the twin items of doubt and suspense.
We don't expect to enjoy the performance at San
Francisco in anything approaching the same way, for
while the change from the Chicago stockyards to the
San Francisco Cow Palace the bovine similarity is
entirely coincidental may mark a superiority in lav
ishness and high-priced vaudeville, we fail to see how
there can be any doubt or suspense as to the final re
sult, and as indicated without these twin qualities
there can be no real drama. R.W.R.
MCltta" Of FaCt By Joe and Stewart Alsop
WHY HE DID IT
Chicago These reporters are
not among those who count
themselves smarter about poli
tics than Harry
S. Truman.
This modest
d i s claimer is
now in order
because Tru
man's briskly
firm endorse
ments of Av
erell Harriman
.uAeiib .vifcup seems to have
persuaded half the participants
in the Democratic Convention
that they have a lot more poli-
tical savvy
than the great
est old pro of
them all. "Why
did Truman do
it?" they keep
asking in a
tone of superi
or wonder,
sounding not
angry but only
a little Sick at Stewart Alsop
heart. Well, surely the answer
is that Truman did it because
he wants to see Harriman nom
inated and thinks that, with his
help, Harriman has a chance
maybe a narrow chance but still
a cnance of getting the nom
ination. It will be a tough, rough
fight, but no one revels in car
nage more, than Harry S. Tru
man. It is a very long shot bet,
but Harry Truman has won long
shot bets before this. So he
yielded to the temptation to do
what he wanted to do all along.
Rather early on, the former
President decided he wanted the
New York governor in the Dem
ocratic race this year. He helped
to persuade Harriman to declare
himself in which was perhaps
not dreadfully difficult to do.
Many weeks ago, he told Harri
man in plain terms that he was
for him, in the sense that Har
riman was his preferred candi
date, better in his opinion even
that Adlai Stevenson, whom
Truman had also encouraged to
make the contest.
THEREAFTER, the question
between Harriman and Tru
man did not concern Truman's
preference. The question was
whether Truman would make
public fight for Harriman, or
would stop at telling those who
asked him that he liked Harri
man better than any of the oth
ers. In a phrase of Harriman's
already quoted in this space, the
question was "whether Truman
would take his coat aU the way
off or only half off.1'
The Harriman camp were well
aware that they needed all the
help Truman could possibly give
them. They worked over him at
every opportunity, hardly leav
ing him time to drink a toast
in peace when he went to New
York for his daughter's wed
ding, for example. But even on
the eve of the convention, neith
er Averell Harriman himself
nor any of those around him
actually expected Truman's ac
tive, open indorsement, with all
its far-reaching, dissension-making
consequences.
In the week before coming
to Chicago, Truman told the
Missouri national committee
man, lyiark Holloran, and other
Missouri delegates that he was
indeed for Harriman. He said
he would be pleased if the Mis-
sourians stuck to favorite-son
Stuart Symington for at least
two ballots, to give the Steven
son bandwagon a chance to be
stopped. But even on the train
to Chicago, Truman told his per
sonal entourage that he intended
to maintain a public neutrality.
THAT was his apparent inten
- tion, in fact, almost until the
opening of his famous press con
ference, at which he first prom
ised to reveal his choice. It is a
fair bet that the last straw of
persuasion was laid on the some
times yielding camel's back of
Truman's prudence by Judge
Samuel Rosenman, an ardent
Harrimanite, with whom Tru
man conferred just before the
press conference began.
After that, the problem was
not what Truman would do, but
how he would do it. Streams of
Harriman supporters urged a
powerful statement. Streams of
Stevenson admirers sought to
avoid the worst, which would
have been a statement hinting
that Stevenson was not a "fight
ing candidate."
In his own suite. Just half an
hour before giving it to the
public, Truman gave his state
ment for Harriman a trial run
among his special intimates such
as Leslie Biffle, Charles Murphy
and Donald Dawson. He was
f.f'.y ?xuff ver
toe 'thing he was about to do.
At least naif the members of
'the Truman circle were not de-
lighted. They feared the trouble
ahead. They thought Stevenson
would get the nomination any
way or at any rate believed that
Harriman could not be nominat
ed. This conviction is increas
ingly widespread in Chicago.
But when Harry Truman makes
a gamble, it is always wiser to
defer judgment until you find
out how the bets are paid off in
the end.
Copyright 1956,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.
tn The Day's
Time out this morning con
ventions or no conventions for
a bit of world affairs.
After all, you know, the big
gest issue in the world is keeping
out of war without leaning to
ward a policy of peace at any
price.
That takes skill, fortitude and
integrity.
".VER the week end Nasser
" turned down indefinitely the
bid to attend the Western-spon
sored London conference on the
Suez.
Instead
He proposed "a broader con
ference" on insuring use of the
Suez waterway by ALL na
tions. That sounds like a stall
for more time.
WHY is that important?
It could be a sign that Rus
sia isn't ready for the shooting
to start.
That could be VERY im
portant.
ALSO-
Nassef
appears
to have
been caught in a lie.
"4VER the week end, he told
v his people the World Bank
had offered him a billion dollar
loan to build up the Suez canal
(broaden and deepen it, so that
it could handle more traffic and
so bring in more tolls money.)
In Washington this morning, a
World Bank official says: "WE
HAVE NEVER OFFERED HIM
ANY SUCH LOAN AND THERE
HAS BEEN NO DISCUSSION
OF THE SUEZ CANAL."
IT IS improbable that an offi
cial of the World Bank would
lie in a matter of such grave
portent.
Why would Nasser lie?
When a blusterer gets caught
in a tight spot, he is apt to trifle
with the truth. When he does so,
it is nearly always a sign of
weakness.
AT THE White House Sunday
President Eisenhower held a
meeting with congressional lead
ers to discuss the Suez situation.
Democratic leaders flew back to
Washington from Chicago to at
tend the session.
Opinion afterward indicated
that he had won substantial
backing for his policy of settling
the Suez crisis by peaceful com
promise. That is highly import
ant, if true, because it offers the
hope that in matters of grave im
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Labor Confident and Quiet as
Democrats Choose Candidates
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Chicago U.R The voice of
labor is strangely quiet in this
Democratic National Convention,
although
of varied
tongues. That
must be be
cause the union
leaders know
they cannot
lose.
Not so four
years ago.
Then the lead-
Lyi t nuson ers 01 organ
ized labor broke fast with the
late Alben W. Barleky and broke
his heart, to boot. They ate his
ham and scrambled eggs at a
breakfast and told the Veep to
his face that he must not aspire
to the presidential nomination.
Labor's leaders would not
have him and the veto stuck.
They slipped the thumb screws
onto Georgia s pride. Sen. Rich
ard B. Russell. With a genUe
twist they won from Russell a
switcheroo labor policy state-
News
Frank Jenkins
portance affecting our security
as a nation we can stand
shoulder-to-shoulder, one for all
and all for one.
WITH that out of the way, let's
' dive back into the fascinat
ing pool of national convention
politics.
As expected, Harry came out
for Able Ave which isn't sur
prising in view of the fact that
he has been known as a backer
of, Harriman for months. Harri
man says he is glad to get Tru
man's support. The Sevenson
camp is disappointed over fail
ure to get the nod, but says
Adlai will win anyway.
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt says
Truman is really working for a
Stevenson - Harriman deadlock
with the idea of throwing his
support in such an event to a
dark horse, probably Senator
Stuart Symington of Missouri.
WHAT'S HST up to. Only he
' ' himself knows.
But
There is general concensus
that the civil rights plank in the
Democratic platform is the hot
test issue in Chicago. If it is too
tough, the South may secede
from the Democratic party. The
hope is for a compromise that
will avoid an open break.
Let's give the little man the
benefit of the doubt. Maybe he
thinks Symington, a Missourian
(Missouri was a border state in
the Civil War) is the man who
can do the trick.
As a dark horse (willing but
not active, Symington hasn't had
much to say on the explosive
civil rights issue.
Editorial Comment
THERE'S ROOM FOR BOTH
It wasn't so long ago that air
lines were desperately trying to
get their costs down to compete
with railroad fares, albeit hardly
hoping to reach parity and rely
ing on the "luxury" angle to at
tract traffic.
Now look what happens! With
the New York-Chicago rail fare
already 10 per cent more than
via plane, six major eastern
railroads want a 45 per cent in
crease which will bring the total
rail ticket to more than half
again as much.
The reversal of the previous
disparity not only is proof of
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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
ment which astonished Russell's
conservative supporters in the
South. Russell was the conserva
tive candidate in 1952 for the
Democratic presidential nomina
tion. His switch helped Russell
not at all but it "was a bold proof
of labor's power.
No Conservative Candidate
There is no conservative can
didate in this convention. No
one even remotely suspected of
being unfriendly to organized
labor is being mentioned or
whispered here as a likely 1956
Democratic presidential nomi
nee. No need for labor in 1956 to
seek the position which led in
the 1944 Democratic National
Convention to the dispute about
"clear it vith Sidney." Sidney
was the 1. Sidney Hillman, a
genius of 1- .or organization and
politics. He was the brainiest of
labor's men and women who
headed-up the left wing alliance
with Franklin D. Roosevelt's
New Deal.
There was a war on then and
FDR was not available for hour
ly counsel in the party ruckus
about whether Henry A. Wal
lace was to be ditched as the
party vice presidential candi
date. It was substantially re
ported that state and other local
leaders seeking the New Deal
party line were told to "clear it
with Sidney" in labor's control
tower atop the Morrison hotel.
Lewis Gave Aid
Before that John L. Lewis had
advanced hundreds of thousands
of United Mine Workers dollars
to FDR's 1936 campaign. Labor
for years has been both loud and
powerful in Democratic coun
sels. The power remains undi
minished but labor no longer
need raise its voice.
Labor leaders now may even
indulge in friendly contests for
their special favorites among
men aspiring to the party's presi
dential nomination. Thus, the
support of labor is divided in
this convention among the presi
dential contenders or, sometimes,
not expressed at all.
Walter P. Reuther, vice presi
dent of AFL-CIO, is out for Ad
lai E. Stevenson, which suggests
a reexamination of the charge
against Stevenson that he is
moderate who would go back on
the principles of the New and
Fair deals.
McDonald Likes Harriman
The Steelworkers' David J.
McDonald wants to nominate
Gov. Averell Harriman, of New
York. These two, Reuther and
McDonald, are the rising men in
the big labor combine and one
McCANN ON VACATION
Charlei M. McCann ii on
vacation. His weekly newt out
look and daily foreign newi
commentary columns will be
resumed upon his return.
aviation s progress. ,It is sym
bolic of a generally-changing at
titude. Where once . it was re
garded as a luxury and a sign of
wealth to fly, a railroad trip with
its private compartments, view
cars, nicely appointed diners and
more breathing-space between
either business or social engage
ments is looked on by many as a
real treat.
Planes fill a real need when
speed is of the essence, and the
airlines have shown the way in
many respects regarding conven
ience and service. But a rail trip
for those not under the compul
sion of a time clock is nice, too.
Oregon Statesmen, Salem.
j day there is likely to be battle
between them for the berth of
AFL-CIO President George
Meany. It just could be, and
probably is, that their differ
ences in the matter of a Demo
cratic presidential nominee are
foreflashes of the mighty contest
between them which is likely to
come.
The hard, sharp point of it all
probably is that labor can af
ford to scatter its support among
the presidential contestants now,
or to sit silent and take what the
leaders know they will get.
What they know they will get
from this convention is a presi
dential ticket satisfactory to la
bor and a labor -plank which is
quite suitable, too. The long bat
tle of labor for its place in the
political sun ended some time
ago and a confident, contented
calm enfolds the union camp.
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Like Letter From Home
To the Editor: It is a pleasure
for me to once more read the
Mail Tribune. Many years ago
when George Putnam was editor
I was a reporter for the Mail
Tribune. The paper is like a let
ter from home.
I am a pensioner. That is the
reason I am for Wayne Morse.
We spent billions for foreign aid,
why should be not support our
our own citizens?
Charles W. Sherman
Montgomery Ranch
Kerby, Ore.
Congressional
Quiz
(Copyright, 195
ConereiiionaJ Quarterly)
Q What city has been the
site of more national nominating
conventions than any other? (a)
Philadelphia; (b) Baltimore; (c)
Chicago.
A (c). The 1956 Democrat
ic convention will be the 22nd
national nominating conven
tion to be held in Chicago.
Baltimore holds second place
with 10 conventions to its
credit; Philadelphia is third
with seven.
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