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t FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "KveryDuoy in 5uuern Oregon Reads The Mali Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MXOrORO PRINTING CO 27-29 N'ortA Fir St. Phone 2-e:41 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertiainf Manager GEKALD LATHAM Eusiness Manager ERIC A I, I, F.N JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHiPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHZR Society Editor DALE ERICKSO.N Circiilauon Mgr. An lnrinndrnt NewsDaDcr Entered aa second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act at Aiarcn j. lotii SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ey Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Dally and Sunday One vear $12 00 Daily and Sunday Sll month 8.50 Daily and Sunday Three moe -50 Sunday Only One year S3.50. By Carrier In Advance Med ford. Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Enadv Cove Rocue River. Talent, an 1 on motor routes. Dally and Sunday One year tlsm Dallv and Sunday One month Carrier and Dealers 5e per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper ol Jackson County United JPrcaa Full Jaaed Wlr MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION AdvertTslng Representative WEST-HOIXIDAY COMPANY INC O'ticea In New York Chicago De troit San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION O" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Mcdford and Jackson County History from the files ot The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 26, 1946 . (It was Monday) An order limiting load over the Bear creek bridge near Cen tral Point to eight tons is signed by the county court today. From Arthur Perry'i Ye Smudge Pot column: "The tall brunette caught the bridal bou quet, and was a charming maid of horror. (Society page mis cue) Don't try to explain. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 26, 1936 (It was Wednesday) Don Newbury, president of the Medford.chapter of the Ore gon Republican club. Is named to lead a caravan of Jackson county Republicans to the Lan-don-Knox picnic in Portland. J. E. Murray, president of the Young Democratic club of Jack son county, is named detective lieutenant at the Democratic picnic to be held in Portland. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 2S. 1926 (It was Thursday) Oiling . of all macademized roads in the national park will be immediately begun at the end of the Crater Lake season Sept. 30. Work on the dynamiting of a fishway around Rainy Falls In the Rogue river is in progress, according to Walter Bowne. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 26. 1916 (It was Saturday) Sergeant E. L. French of the regular army is spending a cou ple of days in Medford on the lookout for recruits. Codlin moth eggs are being laid and a few worms are hatch ing, according to C. C. Cate, county pathologist. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. I93J Editorial Research Report 1. President Eisenhower has or hasnt (by Aug. 24) played as many as nine holes of golf since his ileitis operation? 2. Abraham Lincoln was the first, second, third, fourth or fifth Republican presidential nominee? 3. About (a) 5, (b) 10, (c) 25, or (d) 50 vessels pass through the Suez Canal on a normal day? 4. AFL-CIO president George Meany was a delegate at the 1956 Democratic national con vention: right or wrong? 5. Duncan Phyfe was a fa mous jurist, jockey, furniture maker, senator, doctor, or col lege football player? 6. Herbert Hoover has lived to a greater age than any other ex President since the Civil War; right or wrong? 7. "Mother Carey's Chickens" are found in farmyards, over the ocean, on mountain tops, in orphan asylums, or in food shops? The answers: I. Has. 2. Sec ond. 3. About 50. 4. Wrong. 5. Furniture maker. 6. Right 7 Ov er the ocean (a seabird). Ravenna, Neb. (U.PJ Week ly newspaper editors in the three adjoining county seat towns of Ravenna, Loup City, and Min den. Neb., are named Cass. Sass. and Bass, the Ravenna News re MAIL TRIBUNE All Over, Including the Shouting Well in spite of reports to the contrary, the two conventions ran strictly to form, only perhaps a trifle more so. The first convention the writer attended was the convention in Chicago that nominated Wm. Howard Taft for his first term and believe it or not with T.R.'s blessing. That was only 50 years ago ! . We have not attended all of them since but a majority of them. And without fail in each and every one the party out of office' "viewed with alarm" and the party in office, "pointed with pride." ,, 'THIS year was no exception only, as stated, a bit more so. The Democrats viewed with rather more alarm than seemed justified to this department and the Republicans from the President down, certainly pointed with a degree of pride that we believe" estab lished a new world record, for partisan altitude and exhilaration. Not only was it claimed lican rule have done more people thanv20 years of the opposition misrule, but if the GOP continues to follow the example of its hal lowed founder and first president, Abraham Lincoln, it should we were told 'remain in office for the next hundred years. THAT we submit is quite a spell and not very en couraging for the Democrats. But that is the traditional pattern for these party assemblages. The party in power always claims not only the earth with a fence solar system as well, while the party that is out but wants to get IN, claims nothing good has been ac complished by the opposition, and that another lour years of such confusion and mess, would spell spiritual mm olil 1 i? 1 and iinanciai oanicruptcy- extinction! THAT is the formula. It is all a part of the the surrender at Yorktown. no particular 'cause for resentment or alarm, such things should be taken in stride, and with the stock yards stadium cleaned up to De, we tne people regardless 01 pontics snouia be able to return to normalcy and go on with reason able equanimity from here. ' AS PREDICTED in this department the Democratic convention had it all over the San Francisco af fair, from the standpoint of suspense, drama and real, as contrasted with synthetic, excitement. The final result wasn't known at Chicago until the final bell, while the result at the Cow Palace was known before the doors opened. In fact there was all the difference between the two "shows" from the standpoint of the impartial TV spectator, that there would be between a box fight championship for the world title, and a rousing foot ball rally before the Big Game. THE Stevenson-Truman The Cow Palace affair in place of a contest, had a sort of varsity war-dance around the blaze in honor of the team and particularly its captain, with a long string of victories behind them and supreme confi dence that their opponents in the Big Game will be a "push over." There was the unexpected "Joe Smith" incident, artfd the expected but surprisingly craven and de pressing surrender of the once valiant Harold Stas sen, but these brief interludes had no more real importance, or more to do with the result than the inevitable rollicking hound dog on the football grid-iron. There was plenty of noise and school enthusiam excellent speeches too but there was no contest, for everyone belonged to, or was behind, the one and only team. The contest for the GOP won't come until November. R.W.R. ' "Strange Bed-Fellows " What Mr. Stevenson did was, therefore, not only popular and shrewd. We think it was sound. His reasons may not have been the best ones for making the choice exactly as the Democrats did. But they were good reasons for not mak ing the choice the way it was so often made In the past. Wall Street Journal. There is nothing much to add to the above except note the fact that it is the first time on record when the Wall Street Journal has agreed editorially with the Mail lnbune or, to Wilson, "vice-versa." To be agreed with is always pleasing, we are not sufficiently optimistic however to believe it will hap pen soon again. R.W.R. Let Oregon Decide According to the Oregonian there is a rift among the Young Republicans in the McKay camp and many have resigned. lhey don't like "McKay campaign against Wayne Morse is being conducted, according to the Oregonian news story. a e e TlfE SHOULDN'T think they would. To date it ljas been one of the weakest political efforts in the state's history, that we can recall. Take the chief count against Senator Morse to be presented by Ralph T. Moore in the "Oregon Voter" for example, usually an effective and discriminating political commentator, although always strongly pro Republican of course. He wants Morse defeated and Douglas McKay put in his place because of the 'embarrassment caused him (Moore), when he travels to the east and an- Sunday, August 28, 1958 the four years of Repub- to benefit the American around it, but the political ana very iiKeiy national eame, and has been so since So on either side there is and the Cow Palace about go was a fight to the finish quote Secretary of Defense s tactics" and the way the nouces himself as a resident of Oregon. When he does this the occupants of the club car presumably or the country club, or cocktail party as the case may be immediately prick up their ears and ask the "Voter's" political expert how come? How does he explain the people of Oregon choos ing a renegade like the senior senator to represent them in the Upper House not only for one term but fortwTo? "Moreover the inquiry is always followed says Mr. Moore by quote: "The eyebrow raising and the knowing smirk similar to that which attends a hush-hush discussion of soma naughty and notorious 'hot Mama'." a e OORRORS! Imagine subjecting the Voter's chief - hatchet man to such an indignity! For as he relates further he has to apologize, dis claim any responsibility for such a miscarriage of the partisan proprieties involved, and while he doesn't say so it can safely be assumed he is viewed with, a certain suspicion throughout the rest of the journey. All of which, to again quote, is so "stupidly futile and abjectly foolish" when all that has to be done to render Mr. Moore's travels "outside of the state" as pleasant, relaxing and as much a stimulus, rather than a depressant of the ego as they used to be, is to kick our senior Senator out of his seat and replace him with the somewhat complacent and negative, but al ways politically orthodox, Douglas McKay! Yes it's as simple as that. TF, THE Voter were alone in extending such an argument it would still be surprising, but many other pro-McKay papers have followed the same line or one very similar, and we maintain it is extraordi nary, the irrelevance and immaturity of such a stand being enough we should asm of ALL the Young Republicans. For after all, what do the air, on rail or by boat tion of whether the people of Oregon should keep Wayne Morse on the job, If the embarrassment of Republican editors "out side of the state" is their best weapon of attack then they must have a far weaker case than most Oregon ians have imagined. THE fact is Senator Morse has never been popular in country club circles and if he had had to depend on the "club car" vote he would have been retired to private life long ago. But he has been popular in Oregon, he has been elected for two six year terms in the Upper House, and all the polls thus far published indicate he will be elected Whether he is or isn't, how people out of the state feel about him or the Republican party leaders, Oregon the people IN the of him and his record. They are the ones to eye-brow raisers and the political writer of the Voter seems inclined to meet and fear so much on his "out-of-the-state" peregrina tions. R.W.R. , Today and By Walter The Armistice, which ended the fighting in Korea, has had a very high place, usually indeed first place, in the speeches at the San Francisco con vention. There is here a legiti mate and a powerful cam- pa ign argu ment. All the Walter Uppmioo speeches that I listened to, including the ablest such as Senator Knowland's and Governor Dewey's, reduced it to the simple point that the country was in a bloody war under Tru man and that it is no longer at war under Eisenhower. As far as it goes, this is true, and fan- enough. But it is not the whole truth, and it leaves up in the air the question of why Truman could not and did not, why Ei senhower could and did. arrive at an armistice. . a e THE answer to this question, while creditable to Eisenhow er, Is not something for the brass bands to make a noise about. It is that President Eisenhower signed an armistice which ac cepted the partition of Korea and a peace without victory be cause, being himself the victori ous commander in World War n and a Republican, he could not be attacked as an appeaser. President Truman and Secre tary Acheson, on the other hand, never seemed able to afford to make peace on the only terms the Chinese would agree to, on the terms, that Is to say, which President Eisenhower did agree to. The Democrats were too vul nerable to attack from the politi cal followers of General MacAr thur and of the then powerful Senator McCarthy, and indeed to attack from the whole right wing of the Republican party. , e e THE Korean war was a very unpopular war, and the rea son for that was that it was grossly mismanaged by Presi dent Truman. As we are going to hear so much about Korea during the campaign, it will be useful to remember the main facts. Korea was liberated from the Japanese Empire at the end of World War II, and by the Armis tice Agreement the northern j Of "'leL suppose to sour the enthusi the opinions of travellers in have to do with the ques or kick him out again. the important thing is not but how the people of state, feel, what they think make the decision not the knowing smirkers that the . Tomorrow Lippmann part of the country was occu pied by Soviet forces and the southern part by U. S. forces. The dividing line was the fa mous 38th parallel of latitude. The legitimate Korean govern ment was in the American zone, Dr. Syngman Rhee was the head of this government with its seat in the historic capital of Seoul. In the northern zone, the Soviets set up a Korean puppet govern ment which they supported and armed, as we armed the South Korean government. The Soviet Union then withdrew its forces from Korea and so did the Unit ed States. At the end of June, 1950, the North Korean Army invaded South Korea, and broke through the South Korean Army. The United States intervened at once, intending at first to use only sea and air power. But we were quickly drawn into a land war to repel the invasion. The American forces, which were small and poorly trained, were rapidly pushed back until by Au gust they held only a beach-head around the Port of Pusan in the extreme south. At this point General MacArthur was gather ing new forces for a counter- offensive, for a landing from the sea at the Port of Inchon behind the Communist line. He was brilliantly successful, and in a few weeks he had turned what looked like defeat into a victory. The North Koreans were thrown back to approximately the line from which they started, namely the 38th parallel, the aggression had been defeated, the United Nations mission had been accom plished, and the war was won. At this point the American cas ualties, though big enough, were about one-quarter of what they were to become later. PRESIDENT TRUMAN then made what has proved to be the most costly mistake since the end of the World War. He decided to push on, to conquer North Korea and to carry the American forces to the Chinese frontier at the Yalu river. He was warned against doing this by the Indian government which had authoritative word from Peiping that China would inter vene if the Americans came up to their frontier. President Tru man was warned against it also by his principal experts on Com munist affairs in the State De-I In The Day's Political conventions follow a pattern. The pattern they fol low is basically that of the Saw dust Trail, as the revival circuit used to be known. The pattern involves first the formulation of an objective and' second the or ganization of the processes by which the objective is to be reached. In achieving their objective, the organizers seek to bring their audience to a state of high emotion because when they are responding to the stimulus of strong emotion people can be depended upon to act as the leaders want them to act. Hence the oratorical harangue's, the bands, the "demonstrations," the parades in the aisles and so on. In the old days, these incan tations were directed at the au dience contained within the walls of the hall, the tent or the tabernacle. Now thanks to the modern miracles of radio and television they are directed at the PEOPLE AS A WHOLE. But the MACHINERY re mains the same from generation to generation. IIHTH that understood, let's " turn to the PERSONALI TIES in this Republican centen nial convention at San Fran cisco. President Eisenhower is THE personality and there can be no mistaking the deep affection in which he is held. The crowds at the Cow Palace applaud du tifully when the lesser person alities come and go and when they make telling points in their addresses. But when IKE is men tiond the stands go wild gen uinely, not synthetically. His arrival in the; city last night was an ovation. I mean a REAL ovation. His plane was ex pected about 6:30. By midafter noon the airport was as crowded as the authorities would permit. The entire 13 miles of the Bay shore freeway were jammed with people seeking a glimpse of the beloved chief. By the time of his arrival downtown. Union Square was packed like a sardine box. As his open car moved up Post and swung around the corner at Powell to the St. Francis hotel, he stood up and waved and the crowd simply exploded with happy applause. FROM the airport in, his car was paced by a truck loaded with cameras grinding away with the record of his progress. In front of the St. Francis was a mass of TV equipment de signed to catch every move. But it wasn't the synthetic record of his entry that people wanted. It was IKE HIMSELF, in the flesh, they wanted to see. Over and over people in the crowd were saying: "Heck! I could sit in a soft chair and see it ten tjmes better on TV, but I WANT TO SEE IKE." Some of them added: "I want to teU my grandchildren I saw him in per son." THERE'S another great per sonality here Herbert Hoov er. He too got an ovation when he addressed the convention at the Cow Palace. And his ova- partment. He was, on the other hand, urged to do it by General MacArthur, who told him the operation was not dangerous, and he was afraid, with the mid term elections approaching in November, of provoking his and Secretary Acheson's political en emies in the Republican right So General MacArtnur cross ed the 38th parallel and marched to the Yalu. The Chinese, as they had said they would, intervened in force. The American army suffered a bad blow, was forced to retreat, and had great diffi culty extricating Itself from a serious disaster. After that, though there was much bloody fighting, the war became stale mated approximately at the 38th parallel. e e FROM then on, there were two choices. We could make an armistice which recognized the military stalemate, leaving Ko rea divided and tne uninese proved successful in their inter vention to keep the United States power and influences from reaching the Chinese fron tier. The alternative was to fight for victory, which would have meant enormous casualties in a land offensive and probably the use of atomic weapons, with the risk of a general war in the Far East. President Truman was im paled on the horns of this dilem ma. He was not able to make peace, because politically he was too weak at home. He was not able to make war because the risks were too great. This dilem ma of Truman's was resolved by the election of Eisenhower. He certainly did not wish to wage more and bigger war and he was able to make peace, or at Jeast an armistice, on the terms which Truman did not dare to accept. That, I believe, is in broad outline the effective truth about how Eisenhower was able to end the war that was begun under Truman. It is an example , of what has been Eisenhowers greatest strength, when he has chosen to exert it in foreign af fairs, that he is able to reject the councils of war without being called an appeaser. (Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) News y Frank Jenkins tion, like Ike's, was genuine and heartfelt. It is doubtful if any great man in the history of our coun try was more cruelly dealt with than Herbert Hoover in the grim years of the early 30's. He was then Mr. Republican. And in he Great Depression the word Re publican was anathema. For the rising New Deal, he was a whip ping boy. Upon him was poured all the scorn of all the followers of this new cult in our changing political life. If the New Deal was to be built up, the Republican party must be destroyed and discred ited. And Mr. Hoover was then Mr. Republican. TUT he lived through this era - in which powerful influ ences sought to destroy him. He lived through not merely by the toughness of his hide. It was the purity of his motives and the soundness of his character that brought him through. It was wonderful to see him standing there on the rostrum at the Cow Palace while massed thousands yelled themselves hoarse for nearly ten minutes in expression of their deep admira tion for him and for all the things he has done for Amer ica and for the world. For him, here in San Francis co, the scales of justice finally came into balance. . Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stance the use ot a pen name or initial for pubUcatlon ia permis sible. The Mall Tribune resenrea the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. . Literary Display . To the Editor: These recent conventions were both partisan displays of a democracy in ac tion. Everyone should have ex pected this pride of party, for that is what makes an interest ing and often revealing cam paign to follow. At least, this should be the case. ine American people are noted for their competitive spirit, but they want to see a fair ball game. I believe this may apply also to national, state and local political campaigns, and is a determining factor as to the outcome. This year as in other years past, the GOP will have as their water boys a great majority of our national slick magazines and circulars. The tempo of Re publican propaganda has al ready increased. By mid-September our reading matter will consist primarily of biased opin ions and polls of the type we saw repudiated in the 1948 presiden tial election. This Republican backing will be so construed as to give the very false impres sion that an election would be a waste of time for the Democratic party. It will be both subtle and obvious in nature, but by no means will this break precedent or protocol with the past. Our press is free as it should be. We wouldn't have a dem ocracy otherwise. My concern is certainly not with this right of expression but the reason for this predominant FOP partisan ship, which to me is as obvious as why any team always has the loyal support of its home town. I think that a parallel can be further drawn with our compet itive sports from the tact that too many water boys can .water log the team. Most people, I be lieve are skeptical of the ob vious and repetitious and seek the real, basic truth' however difficult to find, as it surely is out of these emotional, biased and commercial appeals. Individuals' political beliefs vary, which is a sign of a healthy democracy. But to be continu ally confronted every four years by this gigantic literary display of support that is so predomi nantly Republican, causes one to wonder just what interests and concern the advertising dol lar has with that party: Ken Corliss 1564 Myers Lane Medford, Ore. Mining History To the Editor: Around the turn of the century up to 1906 there were ten or more active producing quartz gold mines around the environs of the Gold Hill mining country, besides several thrifty placer mines in operation. Among the most not able quartz mines were the Braden, Corporal "G," Lucky Bart, Millionaire, Lawrence, Nellie Wright, Tin Pan, Bill Nye, Sylvanite and old Gold Hill mine. Besides numerous smaUer mines were operated on a part- time basis. And about that time the two famous brothers, Enoch and Al Rhoten, made headlines in the Rogue valley newspapers for their many rich gold pocket discoveries centering around the Kanes creek mining district. Bert Kissinger 520 Boardman st., apt. 1 Medford, Ore. Farley's Eyesight Not To Be Impaired New York (U.R) Former Postmaster General James A. Farley's eyesight will not be im paired as the result of an acci dent at last week's Democratic Convention, his doctors indi cated today. POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Columnist E. V. Durling be gan a recent item by asking, "How eld was tout mother when she was born?" i Quite young. ' It was reported by a visitor In the county agent's office last week that one of the steers at the county fair was sired by a bull owned by Fluhrer's bakery and dammed by a cow owned by Copco. We can't understand it, as about the only thing those two companies have in comman ia dough and even that isn't the same kind. On of the pleasant sights at the 4-H and FFA fair at the fairgrounds last week was a very small Griffin Creek 4-H'er stretched out on the hay lean ing against a calf about three times as big as she was, calmly reading a comic book. - Two of the Junior members of the news staff (we wonder about them sometimes) live in small apartment . houses. A conversa tion between them last week went something like thls: Reporter A: Somehow, . my landlord finds out every time I plan to sleep until noon, and then he gets up at 6 a.m. and turns on -the radio full blast. Reporter B: My landlord fig ures out the exact 'route I will take from the car to my door, and sets the lawn sprinkler right in the middle, and turns it on 15 minutes before I'm due to get home. Reporter A: There oughta be a way to get even. Reporter B: There is. Take a good loud shower at least twice a week at 2 a.m. a Most mothers are proud and anxious to show off their bab ies. Not so with an Aberdeen Angus cow who became a mother during the county fair last week. She wouldn't let anyone come within three feet of the black and shiny baby. : a Bill Singler, Medford service station operator, had a bad time last week when he drove a truck out to the city dump. 1. He blew out a tire on ar rival and, despite his service station training, found he had ' no tire tools. He scrounged around in the junk , -found a broken wrench and and old jack, and went to work. 2. In the difficult process of getting the tire loose, he crawl ed under the truck, and got him self filthy dirty. 3. About, this time someone drove up with a load of refuse and asked Singler what he charged for dumping trash. 4. When he got home he had to explain to several parents why their youngsters (who with his year-old daughter he'd takes along for the ride) were late and so dirty. One sanguinary staff mem ber was disappointed in "Titus Andronicus" at the Shake spearean Festival Friday night. The play is reputed to be the most horrendous the Bard pen ned. The complaint, however, was; "Not enough blood." Editorial Comment EXCELLENT APPOINTMENT TO HIGH COURT The appointment of William McAllister of Medford to the state supreme court to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Earl C. Latourette is excellent. McAllister, who has practiced law in Medford since 1931, is spoken of in the highest terms by those who served with him in the legislature (he was speak er of the house in 1943) and by fellow lawyers In the Oregon ' State Bar association. The fact that he has served on the bar board of governors and the board of bar examiners is in part a measure of their estimate of the man. Two years ago he had the - indorsement of 50 members of the Jackson county section of the Southern Oregon Bar as sociation for appointment to the federal bench, a post which subsequenUy went to Judge Wil liam East. Fellow lawyers say he is a good lawyer, a good speaker and a man of judicial temper- ment and high principle. He is quiet and unassuming and delib erate in his opinions. He doesn't shoot from the hip. His vigor, industry and relative youth (he is 50) will be welcomed on the high court. He replaces a man who turned out a prodigious amount of work. McAllister will carry his share of the load. Since , Latourette's term ex pires January 1, McAllister is faced with the necessity of run ning immediately for election. The appointment was made with the understanding that he will be a candidate. The election will have to be on a write-in basis, which makes his task doubly difficult. We are sure there will be a strong effort in his behalf on the part of those who know him. Oregon Journal
