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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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. The stolen arti
cles are at the sheriffs office.
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Control association Wednesday
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courthouse, Col. Jackson Graham
of the Army Corps of Engineers
was the visiting speaker. V"
proximately 75 persons attended.
Col. Graham pointed out that
his department now has suffi
cient funds for the completion of
the flood control survey of the
Rogue basin. Exactly how long
this survey will take is not
known but work is progressing
as rapidly as possbile. 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
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