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Aug. 23. 1346
(It was Friday)
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return to Medford from Star
Gulch in the Applegate region
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diner looking like he had been
in a battle with an ink-squirting
octopus.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 23. 1938
(It was Sunday)
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seeds to insure a repetition next
year of this year's lovely garden,
according to Jane Snedicor, pres
ident of the Medford Garden
club.
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Medford Kiwanis club Monday.
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 23. 1926
(It was Monday)
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Jackson County Fair, Medford,
Sept. 15-18, is to be of real value
to every person interestd in live
stock, announcs Secretary
Brown.
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determined at the post office, Is
1.382.3 feet above sea level.
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Aug. 23. 1916
(It was Wednesday)
Top price of the season is re
alized today when a car of Blue
Triangle Bartletts sold at Boston
for an average of S3.33. per box.
There were 6,450 vistors at
Crater national park in 1916 as
compard to 7.660 in 1915. accord
ing to Will G. Steel, supervisor.
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I
VS ASSOCIATION
1. The Republican party has
always . renominated an incum
bent Vice President; right or
wrong?
2. After two years the value
of a new car is about 35, 50 or
65 per cent of its original price?
3. Permanent chairman of the
GOP convention is Rep. J. W.
Martin, Vice President Nixon,
national chairman L. W. Hall,
Sen. Knowland or Governor
Langlie?
4. Which of these states has
the largest proportion of Catho
lics: New York, Illinois, Massa
chuetts. Maryland, Wisconsin?
5. The Italian Line admits that
Its Andrea Doria was going at
full speed when hit by the Stock
holm or claims it. had reduced
speed?
6. The small state of Monaco
is surrounded by the Mediterran
ean Sea and Italy or France and
Spain or Switzerland?
7. A choreographer arranges
ft choral singing, the work of hired
men on the farm, dances, or a
certain yellow flower?
The answers: 1. Wrong. 2.
About 50 per cent 3. Rep. Mar
tin. 4. Massachusetts. S. Claims
It had reduced speed. 6. Franc.
T. Dances. .
MAIL TRIBUNE
TV And The Convention
If it were to be left to the television audience, the five- ,
day national political convention would be doomed.
Portland Oregonian.
This condemnation of the convention system, it is
hardly necessary to add, referred only to the Demo
cratic show at Chicago, not the GOP convention at
San Francisco, a very different form of entertain
ment to the Oregonian, of course.
Speaking as one member of the TV audience,
however, we not only disagree 100 per cent with that
statement but are convinced a vast majority of the
TV audience would, if permitted, do likewise.
We have never seen
arouse our interest and
an hour, and usually 30 minutes has been enough.
But in Chicago were five days and several nights,
that not only aroused our interest and held our at
tention but crave such a human and intimate view of
the American convention
tick, presented such a living breathing chunk of politi
cal "Americana" in such an exciting and dramatic
way, that instead of dooming such a performance to
extinction the TV audience would, we believe, almost
as a unit vote for its continuance.
XI7HAT need was there to call in Alfred Hitchcock
" to provide mvstery and suspens'e, as the Ore
gonian suggests, w:hen "the rise and fall" of Harry
S. Truman was depicted
screen. There was his first press conference for ex
ample and his startling announcement of his support
of Governor Harriman and his opposition to Adlai
Stevenson. Then his final retraction, head bloody but
unbowed, he turned his eruns away from Stevenson
and Kefauver, and turned them on the GOP in his
most approved "give 'em hell" fashion.
When and where did TV ever put on a more ex
citing "hoss-race" including Swaps and the Kentucky
Derby than that "photo finish" for the vice presi
dency between Senators Kennedy and Kefauver, neck
and neck to the finish line.
MOT only does the Oregonian suggest if the party
' convention is to be saved Alfred Hitchcock must
be called in to handle the suspense, but Phil Silvers
should handle the comedy, and the five-day show
then should be replaced by "a 90-minute spectacular."
The Oregonian is not serious, of course, this is only
its way of checking off the
lot of "noise and fury and
another partisan circus,
Carthy.
AS IN everything else the Oregonian is entitled to
" its opinion, of course, but in the judgment of this
department seldom before'
wrong.
We venture the judgment that of the millions
who viewed this convention
thrilled by it, held in their
fury" and at the end felt like extending a word of
thanks and an acre of orchids to the TV companies
for the superb service they rendered.
DERHAPS there wasn't, as the Oregonian notes,
much in the way of the "smoke-filled" rooms re
porting, but they did get
the private quarters of the leading candidates, and
the halls and corridors leading to them. They also
covered the caucus rooms of many states, and every
newspaper man who has ever covered a convention
knows how hard that is to accomplish. Moreover
there were not "smoke-filled rooms" -in the Black
stone this time, the Republicans originated them
and still have a monopoly.
In fact the members of the TV audience were not
only given drama, mystery, suspense and excitement,
but they were given "a magic carpet" that took them
all over the Chicago area six miles to the stockyards
and back to the city again, and all for free, with a
front row seat at every scene of important action,
only well out of the hub-bub, the dirt and the humid
ity, and safely and comfortably in one's living room.
Even the Weather Man cooperated (perhaps he
is a Democrat) at least not until the show was over
did the thunderstorms come on. And it was a superb
absorbing spectacle that TV put on from the opening
gavel to the final curtain.
We must grant there was not much comedy in
the stockyard performance, there was at least one
member of the TV audience,' in fact, who would have
preferred Phil Silvers to Governor Clement as far as
the keynote speech was concerned.
But that was, after all, a mere detail. All in all
it was a GREAT show, and TV is to be congratulated
on its vivid, thrilling and comprehensive coverage.
Instead of the five day convention being doomed
if left to the TV audience, we have no doubt that a
poll of the millions of viewers, including Republi
cans, would be practically unanimous for a "repeat"
if the high quality of the Chicago performance could
be maintained.
The only fly in the ointment is that judging by
the San Francisco "cocktail party" thus far (August
22) we fear it can't be. R.W.R.
GOP Praise for Morse
As a postscript to the above we would like to pin
a rose on the Oregonian for its fair and objective
covering of political news, and its generally restrained
and enlightened political attitude editorially.
The Oregonian naturally is for the Republican
party and all Republican candidates as it has been
approximately since the battle of Bull Run.
But it doesn t slant its news, it gives a fair break
to the opposition in publicity and communication col
umns, and edtorially it is always well written, well
Thundar August 23, 1958
a drama on TV, that could
hold our attention for over
system and what makes it
day to day there on tne
Chicago convention as a
signifying nothing" just
according to Senator Mc
has it been so completely
99 per cent of them were
seats by the "noise and
everywhere else including
Today and
By Walttr
THE REPUBLICAN HARMONY
The harmony which reigns at
San Francisco is not something
automatically given because the
Republi cans,
unlike the
Democrats and
for the first
time in their
own recent
history, all
think and feel
alike. The
harmony has
been arrived
Walter LrDBmann at by skilled
political maneuver and negotia
tion during the few months pre
ceding the convention since,
one might say, February when
the President announced that he
would run again.
Among the professional poli
ticians, who are hardboiled, tne
President's decision was, of
course, welcomed unanimously
even by the anti-E isenhower
wing of the party. But at the
same time it posed the problem
of the succession: Who was to
control and lead the party after
Eisenhower? This problem was
posed not only because of the
President's age and his illnesses
but also because, now that the
Constitution has been amended,
he will be the first President de
barred by the "Constitution from
running or threatening to run for
a third term.
The crucial question of who is
to control the Republican party
may therefore arise in the next
four years, and is bound to arise
at the end of the next four years.
If anybody thinks that Chairman
Hall, Mr. Nixon, Mr. Knowland,
or Mr. Dewey have not been
acutely aware of all that, he does
not know American Politics.
EARLY in the gme it was evi
dent that the old Taft wing of
the party, including the fringe
which was to the right of Taft,
had picked Nixon as their man.
They became hot for his renomi-
nation, being justifiably , con
vinced that they would be domi
nant in the party if he succeeded
Eisenhower during the second
term, or at the end of it in the
Convention of 1960. They are far
more ardent for Nixon than for
Eisenhower, and indeed have
often sounded as if they were
shouting for Eisenhower in order
to be sure that they might get
Nixon elected.'
The Eisenhower wing, in
which Dewey is the most power
ful figure, was faced with a
choice to displace Nixon or to
embrace him for the purpose of
hanging on to him. Among the
Eisenhower professionals and
their big supporters a lot more
went on behind the scenes last
Spring than could ever be veri
fied for publication in the news
papers. I believe from what I
have heard from men in a posi
tion to know that the movement
to displace Nixon gained consid
erable headway and then col
lapsed because the President re
fused to assist it.
Parenthetically, it seems reas
onably clear that Stassen played
no part in this episode, and that
it occurred while he was in Lon
don at the disarmament confer
ence. This may explain why
Stassen, though he has been say
ing what so many Republicans
think, has in the practical pol
itics of his effort been so wide of
the mark. He has tried to reopen
an issue which had already been
fought out and settled among the
Eisenhower leaders.
VTHEN the leading figures in
" the Eisenhower wing saw
that Nixon's renomination was
certain, they followed the old1
rule that if you can't fight them,.!
mannered and persuasive,
at least ALWAYS convincing.
! m m
flE WOULD like to pay
' its coverage of the conventions by its staff
writer, Herb Lundy.
Lundy's offerings have
perception and considering the necessary partisan
fixation a refreshing impartiality.
In his offering of Wednesday, for example, Lundy
aimosi paia a compliment, to senator w ayne Morse,
one of the paper's pet aversions ALMOST, but not
quite. Here it is, quote :
General Eisenhower and Mr. Dulles, Langlie recalled,
had been chosen by Presidents Roosevelt and Truman for
the highest military and diplomatic assignments, and Presi
dent Truman "offered (Eisenhower) his party's presidential
nomination in 1948."
"And the American people could see for themselves that
the only offense these two fine Americans have committed,
in Democratic eyes," said Governor Langlie, "is to be Re
publicans. This is a naked admission that-they are now ad
dicted to the principle that loyalty to a political party comes
ahead of devotion tf our beloved country. We reject that
false concept; and so, I believe, do the overwhelming ma
jority of American citizens."
But isn't this just what Senator Morse, who flipflopped
from Republican to independent to Democrat in two years,
has been saying all over the land? It is thus, on the
allegation of high principles outweighing loyalty to party,
that he explains his apostasy. It was no help to Doug Mc
Kay, the Republican nominee running against Morse, to . .
have the keynoter he introduced lay this out as the party
line. .
How true! .
But Governor Langley when he declared putting
principle above politics represents a moral position
an overwhelming majority of American citizens
WOULD sustain, was 100 per cent right.
All they need is an opportunity to vote on this
issue. R.W.R. - '
Tomorrow
LIppmann
J you must join them. That is what
Dewey and the others have done,
thus assuring themselves a coun
tervailing if not a controUing
voice in the Nixon Administra
tion which they regard as pre
destined. This is the structure of the
harmony which prevails in San
Francisco. What it amounts to is
a political truce between the two
wings of the party. The terms of
the truce, one might say, are Eis
enhower and Nixon to win the
election, for the succession equal
access to Nixon, and, no doubt,
assurances from Nixon that he
will stay in the middle of the
road. In Gov. Langley's keynote
speech there was, I thought, in
the overtones, an assurance to
the liberal Republicans that the
campaign would not be con
ducted in the old Nixon style.
As the campaign develops, the
terms of this truce are likely to
become a dominant considera
tion. For this is what the Repub
licans have done about the cru
cial question of the President's
health with Nixon as his suc
cessor. (c) 1956, New York Herald
Tribune, Inc.
Communications
Labor and The Farmer
To the Editor: Isn'tlhere some
way in the long reach of the
press whereby some sort of an
explanation can be had from
the union labor power combines
as to what their objectives might
be, what they are up to? They
just won a three year contract
from the steel companies that
guarantees them some 6 to 8
cents per hour increase each of
the three years, fringe benefits,
retirement pension and on top of
aU this according to news re
leases, 50 weeks of paid vaca
tion for those of proper senior
ity, over the three years.
Just how did the union chiefs
show their appreciation for aU
this? From Chicago, Aug. 15,
came a pictured news release
showing George Meany, of the
AFL-CIO, barking in to a bunch
of microphones that relayed his
orders to the builders of the
Democratic platform committee
that the unions would stand for
no "weasel words, glittering gen
eralities or the advertising man's
glib sincerity."
Would their answer for the
above be the same glib evasive
one they have for the reason
of the bankruptcy-faced farmers
who cannot pay the high cost
of today's farm machinery? They
don't like to talk about that or
the number of farm machinery
factories on part time output or
closed down.
What can the union brass be
up to? On one hand they make
demands on industry that, if com
plied with, threaten bankruptcy,
Yet, in the same breath, they de
mand retirement pay for life. In
the name of all that is fair to
live and let live, how can they
make such preposterous, unrea
sonable demands that if granted
by the bedeviled industry, wiU
pitch us into the dread economic
inflation spiral. And when the
cashier at the market and bank
takes that first hesitant, reluc
tant look (like they once did at
the sadly remembered school-
warrants) at our social security
and unemployment cheques, the
debacle will be on and we can
thank" the labor unions for it.
F. J. Clifford,
1211 West Main St.,
Medford, Ore.
if not to this department
a special compliment to
shown intelligence, keen
Tom Dewey Said Vastly Changed
And Matured in Political Ken
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
San Francisco (U.R) There's
a long, long trail a'winding be
tween Mechanics Hall, Boston,
Mass., back there in 1940 and
this Cow
Palace where
the Republi
cans and Pres
ident Eisen
hower have
just re-plighted
their troth.
Nobody
knows that
better than
Thomas . E
byte C WUsob
Dewey, of New York. It was in
Mechanics Hall some months
more than 16 years ago that a
brash young county attorney
made his first big speech as a
candidate for the Republican
presidential nomination.
Your correspondent was there.
It wasn't a very -good speech.
Moreover, it ran over the al
lotted 30 minutes of radio time
there wasn't any television
by a good 12 minutes. And
Dewey, in his freshman's uncer
tainty how to handle a crisis in
public, tried to cram all the
words into that fleet 30 min
utes. He had realized midway
thriugh his effort that the speech
was far too long.
That January, 1940, swing
from New York through Rhode
Island and Massachusetts to
Maine was Dewey's first clutch
toward high office. He missed
that year when Wendell L. Will
kie charged out of the Wall
Street boondocks to kidnap the
Republican nomination.
Won Two Nominations
Dewey's capacity to make
friends and enemies was hardly
strained in 1940. But in 1944
and 1948 he won the big nomin
ation prize and piled up a big
score of those who admired him.
More especially, those who did
not.
Next time there was a war on
and 1944 was not a fair test.
The Republican candidate was
hobbled, handcuffed, almost
haltered by the opposition of
FDR. Four years later after 1948
there was another story which
usually began like this:
"If that so-and-so Dewey had
got off his pants and made a real
campaign, he coulda licked that
Truman."
It is fair to say that Dewey,
after the 1948 election, was
bucking for top honors' as the
Republican Party's most severe
ly criticized public figure.
Times' have changed. Dewey,
more than any other, obtained
Dwight D. Eisenhower's nomina
tion foe- president in 1952 by
making his own 1950 guberna
torial campaign a stem-winder.
He was plugging Ike-for-presi-
dent then, and he continued to
Plug.
More than any other, Dewey
obtained the defeat in 1952 of
the late Sen. Robert A. Taft who
sought the Republican presi
dential nomination. Tie loose
and sweating, down there on
the 1952 convention floor and
in the hotel huddles, Dewey was
a skillful strategist, and success
ful. More than any other, Dewey
had to do with putting Richard
M. Nixon on the 1952 ticket with
Mr. Eisenhower.
There was that crackling night
in 1952 when Illinois' Sen. Ever
ett M. Dirksen fingered Dewey
from the convention platform.
Pointing to him out there with
the New York delegation, Dirk
sen indicated Dewey as the au
thor of Republican disaster and
defeat. There was a time when
such would have blistered Dewey
and he might have slid hunch
shouldered low in his seat to
escape the fire. But, times had
changed and Dewey was stand
ing on his chair seat the night
Dirksen went after him to get
the full flavor of 'the attack.
During recent months when
some men - around - Eisenhower
and elsewhere have been trying
to ditch Nixon, Dewey backed
his man. He said he had retired
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Chapel Mortuary
from politics, but it was known
among Dewey's friends that if
Nixon were knocked, out he
would take the vice presidential
nomination had Mr. Eisenhower
requested. From any angle, there
would not have been a better
qualified candidate.
Speech Struck Fire
Dewey made a speech Wednes
day during the nominating do
ings here. It was not a nominat
ing or seconding speech, but it
struck more fire from the dele
gates than anything which had
gone before. His listeners whoop
ed and cheered and a lot of them
told each other:
"There's a new Dewey about."
Mattel" Of FaCt By Jo. end Stewart Alsop
THE SEWED-UP
CONVENTION
San Francisco The endless
babble about an "open conven
tion" here in San Francisco
simply proves
that American
politicians are
just about the
most supersti
tious people on
earth. There is
a superstition
in favor of
open conven
tions, so they
uepa Aikop
go on talking
about an open convention. But
this is a sewed-up convention
just about as completely sewed
up as a convention can be.
Furthermore, this could never
have been an open convention,
because there were only two
ways to open
it up, and
neither was
feasible. The
President was
not wiUing to
open it up by
s p o n soring a
m o v ement to
get another
vice president.
' And no other
serious Republican contender
was willing to open it up by
coming forward as an active
candidate and seeking nation
wide support for his candidacy.
This leaves only one question
unanswered. Why has the Presi
dent himself, a deeply sincere
man, gone on talking about an
open convention and even max-
ing gestures to suggest that the
convention really is open?
rpHE answer, clearly, comes in
two paris. r-iseunuwci w
not at first fully aware how far
key people in his entourage were
taking advantage of his own pas
sivity, in order to sew up the
convention for Dick Nixon. And
when he was finally -confronted
by the accomplished fact of a
sewed-up convention, he was
just superstitious enough to go
on with the elaborate pretense
of encouraging a convention
open to all contenders.
The crucial stage of the sew-
ing-up process occurred in the
period between the President's
decision to run again despite
his heart attack and the Presi
dent's emergence from his ileitis
attack. The man who carried
the ball in public was Republi
can National Chairman Len
Hall, who kept saying that "it
was stiU going to be Dick
Nixon."
- The efforts of HaU, the atti
tudes of such leaders as Thomas
E. Dewey of New York, the ex
Taftites' liking for Nixon, all
combined to create what might
be called a Republican concen
sus. In this period, no pledges
were asked or given. But by the
time of the President's opera
tion for ileities,, when Hall de
clared that "it was still going
to be Dick Nixon," he was stat
ing a practical fact.
THIS stage was ended by the
sudden intervention of Har
old Stassen. Stassen. was sinking
Stewart Alsop
Across from the Courthouse
Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
There's been a new Dewey
about for some time now. He's
only 54 years old and stands a
reasonably good chance to ba
nominated for president again in
1960, or even in 1964. He's a
man to watch and a lot of people
have been watching him with
vastly changed opinions since
way back there in 1940 when
the 38-year-old district attorney
of New York county first as
pired to the White House. It was
then that the late Harold L.
Ickes convulsed a nation with
the crack: "Tommy Dewey has
thrown his diaper into the ring."
Thomas E. Dewey has come
of ripe political age.
into political oblivion. His ac
tion seems to have been as pure
ly instinctive and un-thought-out
as the last desperate wallowlnga
of a moose just before the quick
sand sucks it down. At any rate,
the principal effect of Stassen'
intervention was to produce a
blitz campaign to round up dele
gate pledges for Nixon. Stassen'i
call for support for Gov. Chris
tian Herter was taken as liberat
ing Nixon from the self-denying
ordinance, by which he had
previously refrained from seek
ing delegate pledges.
Former Governor Dewey, Sen.
Andrew Schoeppel of Kansas,
Rep. Richard Simpson, other
Nixon supporters, and Nixon
himself got on the telephone to
sew up the votes. Before very
many days had passed, they had
solid pledges from a very great
majority of the future Republi
can delegates. After that the
convention was sewed up in
form as weU as fact.
EVEN so, partly because of the
impression left by the excit
ing Democratic Vice Presiden
tial race. President Elsenhower
was stiU anxious to preserve the
open convention fiction. To this
end, he actually requested his
chief of staff, Sherman Adams,
his close friend, Gen. Lucius
Clay, and one or two others, to
do something about it here in
San Francisco. These men in
turn briefly tried to encourage
Governor Langlie of Washing
ton, Governor Thornton of Colo
rado and one or two 'more to
come forward as Vice Presiden
tial candidates.
But this was just for the look
of the thing. There was no in
tention of stopping Nixon, if
only because it was already weU
known that Nixon had a solid
majority in his pocket. But for
exacUy the same reason, the
curious attempt to maintain the
pretense of openness was doom
ed to early failure. No other
candidate could muster even the
minimum number of delegates
that would seem respectable. To
avoid ridicule, the invited con
tenders aU declined. -
IN THESE circumstances, tha
President's renewed invitation
to possible contenders to come
and have a jolly chat with him
at the St. Francis Hotel, is as.
near to being a phoney stunt as
anything Dwight D. Eisenhower
has ever staged. When he keeps
saying that the convention is
open because he is perfectly
willing to accept any suitable
substitute for Nixon, he is being
technically sincere of course.
But he knows -very well that
the convention has already made
up its mind in Nixon's favor.
and that he and his lieutenants
have helped it to do so. Why,
then, go on with these gestures?
. Copyright 1956,
New York Herald Tribune. Inc.
McCANN ON VACATION
' Charles M. McCann Is on
vacation. His weekly news out
look and dally foreign news
commentary columns will be
resumed upon his return.