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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. .
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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