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I Matter of Fact r nd stewon mp EISENHOWER'S SECOND BOUND San Francisco The Presi dent'! acceptance speech had not been delivered before those around him began talking jubilantly a bout a very different sort of campaign from the one discussed thus far. White House staff men are riuMun imp iiapuuy mann ing the Democrats for the per sonal attacks on Eisenhower that were heard at Chicago, though the Wr- other party's spokesmen had done their staffwork than T Prpidpnf . who has been let fiillv oacilv in "L.. . i the last three ;i""2L, and three tmiit aisop Quarter years, has not developed a politician's normal insensitiv- ity to partisan criticism. It ap- rjears that the Democrats' de nunciations and especially their references to "a part-time President" angered him deeply and made him eager for the fray ahead. For this reason, those close to Eisenhower are now predicting that he will make at least eight and probably more television appearances, instead of the five or six originally projected. They are even predicting that he will take the stump, at least in a Jim ited and dignified way, in the states where it will do most good. And although the televi sion screen still emphasizes his enduring loss of weight, the President in the flesh seemed to glow with health and confidence in this high moment here in San Francisco. Looking at him re sponding to the fervent adula tion of the city and his party, one could well believe he might end by plunging into the thick of battle and staying in the front line until he was sure of victory. . - 11TATCHING him in action, one " could not help but think back to four years ago, when a not very enthusiastic and visibly untried Eisenhower came before the Republican Convention to make an obviously sincere but heavy and shambling acceptance spech. Then, you would have said he would never make a pol itician. ' But now he is a new master of the political art, who has stolen or quietly muffled just about every issue the Democrats could possibly use against him, except the single, unavoidable issue of his health (which is one more reason for suspecting that he will end by doing some cross country stumping, for there is no more effective way for him to muffle the health issue too). In pure political terms, in truth, the performance of the first Eisenhower years has been nothing less than brilliant. But it is not only the political agility and astuteness of this perform ance that commands admiration. By patience and wisdom, the President has not just united a party that was sadly divided, but he has given his political oppon ents a steeply uphill row to hoe. BY the same patience and wis dom, the President has also united a country that was sadly divided, and given an astonish ing new impetus to America's productive power. Of the pros perity which we now enjoy, it .is surely needless to speak at any length. Anyone can see it all around us, despite the uneveness of distribution that has angered the farmers. But of the unity of America that Eisenhower has achieved, it is not possible to speak too long or too enthusi astically. This has been his greatest gift to end the Civil War of the spirit that was tearing and rend ing and embittering this coun try, and to bring back a decent, seemly concord among Ameri cans. Four years ago, no man trusted his neighbor, and there were moments when it seemed as though every decent Amer ican tradition would finally be forgotten in the madness of mu tual suspicion. But now that is 3l v, o r ..ae I 1 J IT TAKES TALENT TO . FILL PRESCRIPTIONS The graduate prescription fiHer must get hit degree os a Registered Pharmacist. He has to spend years In training. He has to know os much about materia irtedica o any Doctor. Indeed he has often been called a "semi-doctor" and his contribution to tfie healing of human bodies connot be underestimated. Our Registered Pharmacists are among the finest and most conscientious in America. They are precision experts and will carry out your Doctor's orders with dispatch ond complete oeeuroeyi Medford Pharmacy, Inc. We Are Open Today 11:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. PHONE 2-6253 127 EAST SIXTH all over, like a bad dream, and the exploiters of suspicion are almost as completely forgotten as the creatures of last night's nightmare on a fine, bright morn ing. Yet it must be added that these great achievements have been bought at a price. At bot tom, the mutual suspicion that formerly hagrode us was the in stinctive, unreasoning response of the less hardy and tough minded Americans to the unac customed stimulus of danger from abroad. One of the ways that Dwight D. Eisenhower has restored con cord among us has been to con vince most Americans that the danger is not there any longer. Yet it is there, none the less, changed in form to be sure, with less external and outspoken menace than in the time of aging paranoiac Stalin, but still a very grave danger. IN ESSENCE, the danger lies in the rapid and progressive shift of the world balance of power against America and all the West. It is not the military balance only that is shifting. It is the political balance, as one can see in Suez and in Singapore and indeed in almost every vital region of Europe and Asia and Africa. It would have needed great and costly and very pain ful efforts to reverse this trend of the power balance. If those efforts had been demanded by the President, concord could never have been restored to us; but they were not demanded. There is the heart of Dwight D. Eisnhower's enormous gam ble. If it comes off, he will be remembered as one of our great est presidents. But if the gamble fails, the cheers in San Fran cisco will look decidedly pre mature in the harsh light of his tory. Perhaps it is just as well that besides being a singularly wise man 'and famously expert gambler, Dwight D. Eisenhower has a deserved reputation of be ing one of the luckiest leaders of his era. NO MARILYN MONROE " San Francisco One thing thA Rpmihliran Convention which has just ended here has proved beyond dispute. The best professional techniques of the admen and the electronics ex perts are no substitute for the unique, peculiar and traditional American political processes. FYi- wpic hpfnre the Conven tion opened, there was a great deal of talk about how the Re- TMiHliran nnvpntinn thlK vear was to be something entirely new, a clean break with tradi tion. This year, the convention was not to be the usual messy and unpredictable chaos. It was to be, instead, a produc tion, a show, professionally staged, and designed, like any mainr tplpvicinn ra-nrhiption. to beguile, and persuade the mil lions at their television sets. There was to be an absolute min imum of the traditional cliche ridden politician oratory. There was to be an absolute maximum of pretty girls, pageants, per formances, and general electron ic hoop-la. rpo HEAR the Republican im A presarios talk, you would have thought that the politicians were to be almost entirely shunt ed aside in favor of, say, Mrs. Marilyn Monroe Miller, or Miss Kim Novak, or other proven at tractions. In the event, instead of Marilyn Monroe, the televiewers got Mrs. Elphie Sjulin of Iowa, mother of nine and grandmother of 25. Mrs. Sjulin spoke, and very nicely too, for exactly 90 sec onds, on the subject of "Morali ty". She was one of 15 ladies who appeared on something called "The Women Speak," which was typical of the kind of "production" the Republican impresarios talked about so con fidently. Each of the 15 ladies (one for each letter of the words "Repub lican Party") was accompanied by a young girl bearing a pla card spelling out the chosen sub ject. The girls were pretty, but only fairly pretty, because they were volunteers, not profession als. Some of the ladies spoke their pieces very well. But they were, for the most part, exactly like lady orators at any conven tion, with their iron curls, their sometimes quavering fervor, their impressive corsages, and their habit of bobbing , their heads as If admonishing naughty children. THE harsh fact is that "The Women Speak" and the other productions dreamed up by the impresarios, were something less than electrifying, and a far cry from Marilyn Monroe. And the further harsh fact is that poli tics and the professional tech niques of the advertising, enter tainment, and television indus tries do not really mix very well. They do no mix well because the main participants at any po litical occasion are not entertain ers but politicians, which is a very different breed of cat. George Murphy, the Hollywood actor who rather frantically di rected the convention proceed ings, acknowledged as much in a chat with one of these report ers. Some day, he said, conventions would be run as they ought to be run, in a proper theater, with proper direction and control. Meanwhile, he said, he would be happy to settle for an automatic trap door to get rid of the poli ticians who insisted on speaking too long. EVEN without his trap door, Murphy and the other able professionals from the communi cations industry, did succeed in making the jconvention run more smoothly than "usual. But the fact remains that the convention was a tooth-aching bore, at least until the final climactic moment of the President's acceptance speech. It was a tooth-aching bore partly because the outcome was foreordained, and there' was none of the conflict and suspense which lends to the American po litical convention its peculiar fascination. But it was a bore also, in part, just because it was too smoothly run, and lacked the unpredictable messiness which also lends flavor to a convention. ALL this suggests a lesson which the Republican high command might well ponder. Even before the President' ill nesses, the word was passed at Republican headquarters that the campaign to follow tne new kind of convention would also be a new kind of campaign. In stead of the usual frantic beat ing of the bushes for voters, the strategy would center on the techniques of the communica tions industry five minute spots, saturation campaigns, carefully planned full - length shows, and so on, with the Presi dent's role limited to a half dozen or so television appearances. Obviously, television and the new communications techniques have introduced an important new element into American poli tics. But the experience of this convention clearly suggests that the new techniques are no ade quate substitute for the old. And this in turn suggests that before very long the pressure on the President to take the stump, in the old traditional way, will be very heavy indeed. (C) 1956, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. ' Meat Packing Unions Order Strike Vote Chicago U.R The nation's two biggest meat unions have ordered a strike vote among 85, 000 members employed by six major packing firms. The unions said they seek a "substantial wage increase and other contract improvements." Present contracts expire Serjt. 1. Employees of Swift and Com pany, John Morrell and Com pany and the Hygrade Food Products Corporation will bal lot on whether to authorize strike action. Marshalls Return Friday From Minnesota Visit Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Mar shall, 1299 Covina st., returned Friday from Sebeka, Minn., where they had been since Aug. 1. They were called there by the illness and death Aug. 6 of Marshall's father, Milo H. Mar shall, 88. Marshall is associated with Medford Realty company, and Mrs. Marshall (Jeanette Thatch er Marshall) practices law here. V x ASM" Entertainment Continuously Saturday Noon Through Monday Night HIGHLIGHTS Saturday QUEEN'S BALL Sunday FREE SQUARE DANCING GAMES OLD FASHIONED BARBECUE Monday PARADE BARBECUE LUMBERJACK CONTESTS DANCE .Write Box 234, Cave Junction for programs Is That So? Surely that bird which spends almost its entire life on the wing, gathers all its food and nesting material in flight, drinks by skimming over the surface of still water and mates in mid-air, must be pre-eminent of air-borne creatures and that it is, the swift. ' If not injured, the swift spends its entire lifetime without ever once setting foot on the ground. As its name implies, these torpedo-shaped swifts are swift swiftest of birds, really. They have been clocked at speeds ranging from J.71.4 to 21S miles per hour. Wonderful are the adaptations this bird has made. Because of its tremendous energy output, it runs a body temperature of 111 degrees F. as far as I know, the hottest of warm-blooded animals. Its digestion, of course, is rapid; its diet of oily insects highly nutritious. ' Because it feeds on insects taken on the wing, most swifts live where there are many in sects the year round, in the tro pics. Only a few, like the chim ney swift and European swift, hazard summers in temperate zones. But, as a result, when weather turns wet or windy, bugs fall off and these poor birds suf fer. Hastily, then they attempt to outfly the storms or hurry to open water to get what mayflies and other aquatic insects may emerge. It seldom suffices. In feeding their young, the parents collect one by one, a large ball of insects, and it re mains entangled in the sticky saliva in the back of the throat. These single balls will contain from 90 to 800 insects and weigh up to one-tenth of the weight of the feeding fledgling, but it downs the ball without batting an eye. Eggs May Grow Cold Because insects may be hard to come by in cold weather, the swift's egg has been so adapted that it may remain unattended and frow cold for five hours or more but yet maintain the spark of life. Under comparable con ditions, any other bird's eggs would not incubate. But even more remarkable, the little naked fledglings can remain cold and unattended for a day at a time. And not die. In fact, of all fledglings it is the only one known which can lose body temperature, reverting to a "cold-blooded" state. (Two others, the adult humming-birds can reduce their tempatures dur ing cool nights, and the Califor nia poorwill during hibernation but not their tiny fledglings.) With other kinds of birds, fledglings increase weight stead ily and if food runs short, the young die within a few hours: not so, the swift. Its young is adapted to lose a large propor tion of its body weight, absorb ing its own fat. And remain alive. Growth of feathers, too, keeps pace with food intake. Again, with other kinds of birds the growth is regular with the swifts, the 'young's feathers may be ready for flight within five to nine weeks, depending upon the food. Once feathers are grown, with out any prompting from the parents, the young one tips out of the nest-hole and flies away at once completely independent, never returning to the nest. And although its previous experiences were limited to the nest-hole, it now knows how to catch its food on the wing at 70 miles an hour; skim over a quiet pool for water; out-run storms; and soon make a 2,000-3,000-mile migration without parental guidance. Northern swifts usually lay two or three eggs. Why such a limited clutch? By the very na ture of their food-gathering lim itations, they cannot feed more mouths. When there are two eggs, about 16 per cent die; when there are three eggs, up to 4z per cent die so it all averages out; whether two eggs or three; just about the same number 1.7 to the nest remain auve. ' ILLINOIS VALLEY LABOR DAY JUBILEE CAVE JUNCTION, OREGON September 1, 2 & 3 By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist Adults, a we have pointed out, cannot reduce their body temperature like the naked fledglings but they have per fected an ingenious habit for staying warm on cold nights. When muffler weather arrives, they alight in large numbers on walls and cling together tightly, like swarms of bees. And in this "domitory" they keep warmnd cozy. But perhaps even more re markable is the European swift's habit of sleeping-on-the wing. Although the young pair up and build nests they do not mate the first year. But they do form colonies. And during clear even ings many of them collect in flocks and gradually ascend, higher and higher in running circles, screaming as they rise until they finally vanish from sight. During the night, their rest ing holes remain unoccupied. Then, with the break of day from great heights these aerial gymnasts come down a-spirall-ing. What happened during these night hours no one knew until World War I when French avia tor glided through a compara tively motionless swarm riding an updraft with wings outspread. Two were caught in the strut. Since then, this Frenchman, E. Weitnauer, has made many ob servations of their nightime sleeping-on-the-wing. (Copyright, 1956. By Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure News paper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife,- a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new submis sions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: Is That So: Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. last Supper' Window Arrives at Park Here A stained glass reproduction of Leonardo deVinci's painting "The Last Supper" has arrived at Memory Gardens Memorial j park, 1395 Arnold lane, accord-1 ing to W. S. Ferris, park mana- i ger. It will be on public display ! late in September. The work will be housed in a memorial building. Ferris said that other work on the memorial park, which was begun in July, 1954, is continu ing on schedule. A new portion, the Garden of the Apostles, will open Sept. 2. This part of the tract will feature 12 garden mausoleums. Georgia Man Jailed On Charge of Larceny Reese Lee, Dooley, 38, of Braseton, Ga is being held in the county jail on petty larceny charges after he was arrested by sheriff's deputies in Ashland on Wednesday. Dooley is suspected of steal ing clothing and bedding from Jack C. Harman at the SOS or chards Aug. 16. 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He men tioned that all information pre viously gathered and informa tion collected by other commit tees and groups will be coordi nated so that various agencies will not duplicate each other. The amount of damage done by the December 22 flood of the Rogue river and its tributaries has been set at $4,000,000. Army Engineers' information regards the Rogue river flood as a once-in-50-years proposition and this fact will have a great bearing on whether a flood control project will ever be recommended for this area. Col. Graham added that be fore a flood control project is recommended it must have a another first for Dumas Domestic Laundry & V We aim for perfection, so we package your freshly laun dered and ironed dress shirrs in plastic bags to keep them spotless and fresh, until you wear them. And we're care ful to starch exactly to your order. Just One More Reason Why When Better Shirts Are . Done ... We'll Do Them! A NOTE TO ALL WOMEN! You'll want to save these plastic bags. 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