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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 11. 194S (Friday)
In observance of Columbus
day, a legal holiday, some busi
nesses in Medford will be closed
all day Saturday.
For Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge
Pot column: Republicans are re
ported enthused by their new
slogan: "HAD ENOUGH?
VOTE REPUBLICAN!" It's no
Pulitzer prize winner, but excels
the 1944 Tostocsin call, "GOP
laces!"
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 11, 193S (Sunday)
New CCC company arrives
here from Texas to occupy Camp
Prescott and work projects in
Prescott Memorial park. -
AH Royal Arch Masons in
southern Oregon will attend a
joint meeting in the Masonic
temple in Ashland Tuesday.
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 11 1926 (Monday)
This will be one of the greatest
moisture years in southern Ore
gon for years if rain continues to
fall as it has since September.
Membership of the Roosevelt
Parent Teacher association reach
es 125.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 11. 1916 (Wednesday)
The Morgan-Guggenheim-Van-derbill-Belmont
"golden special"
train is campaigning to tell wom
en of the country to vote for
Hughes.
Rogue River Valley Canning
company promises to become a
great asset to Medford and area.
50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 11. 1906 (Thursday)
The Snowy Butte Orchard,
near Central Point, is an indus
try of which every resident of
the valley should be proud.
Members of the 500 club were
entertained Tuesday afternoon
by Mrs. William Hyde Stalker.
What's the Answer?
Can Yon Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955 Editorial Research
Report
1. Count Pulaski of Poland
fought for the U.S. in the French
and Indian Wars. Revolutionary
War, War of 1812, or Mexican
War?
2. Of all GIs in Europe more
than half are draftees, or more
than half are Regular Army, or
is about 50-50?
3. What make of car has a
series called the Montclair?
4. A tendency toward migraine
headaches often, is inherited;
right or wrong?
5. About one-third, one-half
or two-thirds of all U.S. families
owe no debt of any kind?
6. Hawaii is or isn't the largest
of the Hawaiian Islands?
7. Alger Hiss was brought to
trial for perjury under President
Roosevelt, Truman or Eisen
hower? The answers: 1. ReTolutionary
War. 2. More than half are
draftees. 3. Mercury. 4. Right
5. About one-third. 6. Is 7. Under
Truman.
WRONG OFFICE?
Washington U.R) Demo
cratic National Chairman Paul
M. Butler was out of campaign
headquarters when a group of
Arlington. Va.. Young Republi
cans brought him a present. They
left a "Happy Birthday Ike"
cake with a receptionist.
MAIL TRIBUNE
"The Voter" and McKay
The "Oregon Voter" should either change that
quotation from George Washington at the mast-head
which has been carried ever since its founding in 1915
or change its tactics as far as its all-out support of Mr.
Douglas McKay for the U. S. Senate is concerned.
That mast-head reads as follows, quote :
"If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves dis
approve, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us
raise a standard to which the wise and the just can repair.
The event is in the hand of God."
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Very good.
DUT the current issue of this political and financial
weekly prints with its apparent approval the find
ings of Tom Purcell, Editor and Publisher of the
Gresham Outlook, the punch-line and conclusion of
which is as follows, quote :
"The people (of Oregon) believe that McKay will repre
sent them and not his own convictions."
Could anyone conceive of a more complete refuta
tion of a periodical's long standing declaration of
faith than that?
Imagine the situation if the former Secretary of the
Interior should be chosen to represent this state in the
senate under any such pledge.
Let it be assumed he had certain convictions about
what the government should or should not do.
Unless he knew and how could he KNOW? that
what he believed was popular back home he would
not stick to his beliefs, but would discard everything
in his overriding determination NOT to displease the
people.
What a farce that would make of representative
government. And what a frustrating and really futile
experience it would be for the incumbent !
Certainly the people of Oregon or any other
state would not deliberately choose any candidate
to represent them, who had no convictions or having
them would refuse to stand up for them for fear they
might be unpopular?
"THE people of course, haven't the time to analyze
every bill that comes up in the congress, and if
they did they would not have the inclination.
That is why we have representative government.
That is why instead of going to Washington them
selves, the people select the best qualified men they
can find to represent them. Not only honest men,
but with the courage to 'stand up for what they be
lieve to be right to be best for their state and nation.
And we refuse to believe that the people of Ore
gon, a majority of them at least, want to send mere
ly a rubber stamp to Washington without any convic
tions or if he has them, lacking the courage to stand
up and fight for them.
That wouldn't be representative government, it
would be representative bankruptcy.
FOR the sake of argument, and mortification of the
spirit let it be assumed that the former Interior
Secretary wins a seat in the Upper House. And let it
be further assumed that while there a measure were
introduced which, unlike
the Forest Service m control of the sale of its timber,
including the determination
were or were not justified
That would be in accord with tradition and prac
tice for over a quarter of a century.
And as frequently mentioned it has not been but
should be the law.
A ND let it be assumed also that the incumbent were
flooded by wires, letters and phone calls from
large lumber and timber interests in the state, who
have to buy their timber via competitive bidding in
the open market, to speak for and vote for the bill.
Would former Secretary McKay do it? If he means
what he now says, he would, for no referendum could
be held and he would have to take this response from
home as a valid indication of how his constituents
felt.
In other words he would to please the people do
what he himself has disapproved, and what would
in substance completely discredit the record of his
administration as Secretary of the Interior.
Afterwards at a caucus of his own party, how
could he "defend his work" to his associates or for
that matter to himself?
His only recourse would undoubtedly be to admit
that what he recently said in an introductory speech
at Eugene he meant eveiy word to wit:
"The issues don't amount to anything, it is only the votei
that count."
R.W.R.
In The Day's?
Secretary of State Dulles
makes a new move on the Suez
checkerboard. He calls for an
agreement by ALL PARTIES
that this vitally important water
way must not be used by ANY
COUNTRY as an instrument of
its national policy.
He told the United Nations
security council this morning
that without this assurance there
is little chance of settling the
Suez problem and suggested that
a system be set up to insure'
against any such national action.
FIRST let's untangle the big
wnrHc thaf all slinlrtmatc tico
What Dulles is proposing is
that all nations shall get together
and agree sensibly that NOBODY
will throw up a roadblock along
an international highway and
hold up all passers at the point
of a gun until they agree to
submit to any and all terms pro
posed by the highwayman.
mat is an ancient dodge. The
Thursday. October II, 1936
the Ellsworth bill would put
of whether timber rights
by mineral values found,
News
By Frank Jenkins
robber barons along the Rhine
waxed fat on it for generations.
They built their castles at
strategic spots along the great
river that was the highway of
Western Europe in, the Middle
Ages. Every time a boat came
along they would sally forth and
collar it by military force and
compel the merchant who owned
it to PAY TRIBUTE TO THEM.
It was a wonderful racket and
while it lasted the robber barons
lived high up on the hog.
T ETS now take a sharp look
" at Nasser.
What's he up to?
CONSIDER this situation:
Western Europe must have
oil if it is to live and prosper in
the modern worjd. It has no oil
of its own. Its natural source of
supply is the oil of the Middle
East which reaches Western
Europe most economically
THE ELECTION
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REPUBLICAN STATEMENT
Edward L. McCarthy, a fur
nace control man at the Dart
Union company plant, Provi
dence, R.I., and a rank-and-file
member of Local 4418,' United
Steelworkers of America, Provi
dence, was an alternate delegate
to the 1956 Republican National
Convention at San Francisco. He
seconded President Eisenhower's
nomination for a second term.
This is what Ed McCarthy, rank-and-file
union member said:
"This is my union card. I be
long to the United Steelworkers
of America, Local 4418. I'm here
because millions of us union
members voted for Ike in 1952.
I'm here for another reason, too.
I'm here to tell you that we're
going to vote for Ike again in
1956.
"I agree with what the presi
dent of the AFL-CIO said about
a year ago. He said: 'Right now,
we never had it so good.' And
I know why he said it. We have
over 17 million in the unions
now more than ever before. We
have over 66 million jobs more
than ever before.
"We don't have as many strikes
as we used to. And with the gov
ernment keeping its nose out
of them, they don't last as long.
We had only half the strikes
last year as we had in 1952.
"We get more pay than we
ever had before when a war
wasn't going on. Our fringe bene
fits are bigger, too. And as my
pay goes up, every dollar of it
still buys as much as it did be
fore. "And I'll tell you this, too.
Being in a union doesn't make
you any different from anyone
else. Just because you join a
union or a club or a church
doesn't mean you lost your citi
zenship not in this country. So
I figure that what's good for
America is good for me and the
unions and everybody.
"Peace is just as good for my
family as for anyone's. So is a
strong national defense. So is the
kind of government that keeps
taxes down.
"And so is having the kind of
President who makes you proud
just to look at him. I say Ike
Eisenhower is good for America.
And like I say, what's good for
America is good enough for me.
So I'm glad to second his nomina
tion, and I'm going to do every
thing I can to get him re-elected."
The process of free collective
Matter of Fact Jo.
The One-Edged Sword
Louisville, Ky. There is one
issue here, and one only, which
really makes the pulses of the
n mi urn Hill voters beat
faster. It is the
one issue
which is never
mentioned at
all by any of
K e n t u c ky's
four Senator
ial candidates.
The issue is, of
course, the ra-
josepn Aisop cial i n t e gra
tion of the schools.
This reporter spent many hours
interviewing voters in four dis
tricts of this city, carefully chos
en by a professional public opin
ion expert to represent an econ
omic and political cross-section.
The purpose was to test, not only
voting intentions, but the voters'
reactions to three subjects the
Presidents' health, Adlai Steven
son's divorce, and school integra
tion. The reactions to questions
about the President's health and
Stevenson's divorce were cur
iously similar. "Why, that never
through the Suez canal.
The Suez RUNS THROUGH
EGYPT.
NASSER figures that if he can
stop Middle East oil from
getting to Western Europe he
will have the West by the tail
with a down hill pull and can
blackmail it for just about any
thing he wants including a billion-dollar
dam to change Egypt
from a barren desert to an ir
rigated region where prosperity
can replace semi-starvation. That
and anything else he may happen
to want from the West.
Just like the robber barons.
The scheme must look good to
him.
N'
OW-
What's Dulles up to?
Does he think he can talk
Nasser into giving up his promising-looking
hole card?
OF COURSE not.
What he is aiming at is
putting Russia on the spot when
his proposal comes before the
security council of United Na
tions. When that happens, Russia
will VETO it.
Dulles figures that a Russian
veto of his statesmanlike pro
posal will show Russia up m
the eyes of the world for the
dog in the manger that she is.
That, I d guess, is about the
size of it.
bargaining has been strengthen
ed the insistence of the Eisen
hower administration that labor
and management settle their
differences at the bargaining
table without the intervention
of the government.
DEMOCRATIC STATEMENT
Everyone who goes to the polls
on Nov. 6 must candidly face
the fact that either of the presi
dential candidates may not live
out his term, if elected. The peo
ple will vote for a vice-president
with the consciousness that he
may some day be president.
Therefore it is important to scru
tinize the principles and voting
records of both candidates
Kefauver and Nixon.
In almost every respect Kefau
ver and Nixon, sitting in the
United States Senate, were on
the opposite side of the fence.
KefauvSr invariably voted in
the interests of the many, Nixon
favored the few.
Let us take some of the crucial
roll calls. Nixon showed himself
no friend of the farmer. He
voted to cut soil conservation
funds, kill 90 per cent for wheat,
against continuation of the farm
tenant loan program. On every
one of these issues Kefauver was
on the side of the farmer.
Nixon voted to exempt the
natural gas monopoly from fed
eral price regulation: exempt
railroads from anti-trust laws and
kill attempts to curb freight
rate discrimination against the
South and West.
Nixon also approved of the
motion to kill the "oil for educa
tion" amendment which would
provide that revenue from fed
eral operation of submerged oil
lands be used, for the schools.
In contrast, Kefauver was on the
people's side on each issue.
Nixon is known as a foe of
public power and river improve
ments. He voted to cripple TVA
and BPA by denying them ade
quate funds, to cut funds for
rivers, harbors and flood control,
and curb the activities of the
Rural Electrification Adminis
tration. Kefauver, as is well
known, is one of the most elo
quent friends of public power
in the Senate.
To majority of voters, we
think, the facts speak for them
selves. Nixon is the candidate
of the special interests, Kefauver
of the common people.
and Stewart Alsop
entered my head," people would
say, often in a tone of protest
tinged with indignation, or:
"Why, I don't think that has any
bearing at all."
"NCE in a while perhaps
" once in 15 interviews some
one would say that the Presi
dent's health was "something you
had to think about." But in ev
ery case the voter who express
ed such doubts had already made
up his mind to vote Democratic
on other grounds. In short, Dem
ocratic strategists who are count
ing on "the health issue" as a
central Stevenson asset would
appear to be fooling themselves
an observation born out of
other pulse-feeling expeditions
in other parts of the country.
By the same token, we found
not a single voter no one
who admitted that he was influ
enced in any way by Stevenson's
divorce. This was as true of Cath
olic voters as of others. One man
said "I'm a Catholic and I sup
pose I ought to think about it,
but I' don't."
f
Some people, no doubt, are not
wholly can'did when they talk
about such subjects with a stran
ger. But again and again, one
sensed a feeling of indignation
that such personal matters
should be discussed at all. Both
the President's health and Stev
enson's divorce are clearly politi
cal two-edged swords.
e
THE integration issue is, on the
other hand, a one-edged
sword, in the sense that it cuts in
only one direction among the
whites in this border state city.
For, especially in the poorer
white sections of this city, the
resistance to integration is abso
lutely monolithic.
Occasionally it is blind and bit
ter and filled with unreasoning
hate. More often it takes the
form expressed by an elderly
one-legged man in 'a low income
housing project in the Shelby
area: "I don't think the Negroes
should be tromped on.' I think
they should have as good a
chance as anyone else. But I sure
don't see why we should be all
mixed up together."
The resistance is especially
strong in the heavily unionized
I Mother-Give Your Child Aspirin
r Just As The Doctor Orders'
Each tablet
SIJOSEPH
ASPIRIN
FOR CHILDREN
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'How Silly' Is Right!
To the Editor: Some there are
who would vote for Douglas Mc
Kay if he had horns and a tail
and some there are who would
vote for Wayne Morse if it had
been proven that he stole the
Washington Monument. Thisjet
ter is not addressed to those
whose heads are already made
up, but rather to those who sin
cerely wish to make a valid
choice between the two.
Morse has accused McKay of a
"giveaway" at Al Sarena. If the
charge is true McKay has done
something at least improper if
not definitely dishonest. If the
charge is false the accuser knows
that it is false and solicits your
vote on the basis of false charg
es. What are the facts about Al Sa
rena? I don't know and I doubt if
you do. In the storm of conflict
ing testimony the facts are ob
'scured. One central fact does
stand out however. McKay could
have had no conceivable motive
for doing anything in any way
improper in this case. It is abso
lutely unbelievable that a Repub
lican cabinet officer would im
peril his reputation and the for
tunes of the Eisenhower admin
istration to do anything for a
family of Alabama Democrats.
An improper action to favor a
wealthy Oregon Republican?
Maybe. Something off color for
an Alabama Democrat? How sil
ly can you get?
Dick House
The House of Insurance
Fluhrer Building
Medford, Ore.
"Here We Go!"
To the Editor: Since sodium
Floride is a by product of the
Aluminum Corporation, and
since the public must decide
workers' districts the idea that
racial liberalism goes hand in
hand with unionization is simply
not true, at least in these parts.
In this respect, in fact, the Cath
olic church has done a far more
effective job of persuasion than
the unions "We've had colored
children in the parochial schools
for some time now," one Catholic
worker said, "and it's worked out
all right." He was typical of oth
ers. As one moves away from the
crowded low income areas into
the middle class districts like
Highlands or Crescent Hills, one
finds a milder reaction. Once in
a while, a person will even ex
press approval of the integration
program "Color's, only skin
deep," one man said, and a wom
an remarkd that "it's all accord
ing to the good book."
TJUT even in such areas, the
" white people oppose integra
tion by an overwhelming major
ity. The political implications of
this almost universal feeling are
suggested by the hostility to
Kentucky's Gov. "Happy"
Chandler which is found every
where in Louisville. Chandler
is heartily disliked for many ex
cellent reasons. But the unpalat
able truth is that he is disliked
most for one of the few really re
sponsible acts of his career
calling out the National Guard to
prevent rioting over integration
in Sturgis, Kentucky.
Disregarding the issues which
really hit home to the voters is
not usually a laudable practice in
a democracy. But in these special
circumstances, it is to the credit
of all four major candidates in
Kentucky that not one of them
has seized the one-edged sword
of integration, to slash his oppon
ent's jugular with it. For the Ne
gro vote is a surprisingly small
minority of the total in this bor
der state. And there is much po
litical hay to be made from the
integration issue, by any politi
cian who wished to do so at the
risk of sparking a general racial
conflagration.
Copyright 1956 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Church Services
For those who are actively engaged in the work of their respective
churches, we believe that baptisms, weddings, and funerals should
rightfully be conducted in the church.
These are, and should be, events of religious background and sig
nificance and their ceremonies belong in the church.
For that reason it is our policy to make no extra charge for funeral
services conducted in the church.
Chapel Mortuary
Today and
By Walter
THE MAIN QUESTION
It is rather generally agreed
among experienced newspaper
correspondents that the cam
paign is a con
t e s t between
a resu r g e n t
Democ r a tic
Party and Ei
senhower per
sonally, who
is so much
stronger than
his party. The
observers are
also agreed
that they are not finding the con
test interesting.
I wonder whether the main
reason for that does not lie in
the fact that while the real
issue turns on Eisenhower per
sonally, it is almost impossible
to debate that issue. This would
account in a large part for the
widespread feeling in both par
ties that the issues which are
being discussed do not come to
grips with the realities of the
election.
A T HIS press conference on
Friday the President was
asked two questions by Mr. E.
P. Morgan of the American
Broadcasting Company. They
skirted the central issue of the
campaign. Mr. Morgan remind
ed the President that "one of the
reasons impelling you to run
for re-election was your desire
to strengthen and re-vitalize the
Republican Party."
He then asked the President
whether the new constitutional
amendment, which prohibits a
third term, would not "blunt"
his leadership in a second term
and cause it to pass to Mr. Nix
on. He followed this up with a
second question, whether the
President considered Sen. Dirk
son and Sen. Bender, whom he
has endorsed, "completely re
vitalized as Eisenhower Repub
licans." THE point of these two ques
tions was to raise, though in
directly, the problem t of the re
lation between Eisenhower per
sonally and the Republican
Party. Mr. Morgan's first ques
tion, about the third term
amendment, points to the proba
bility, which is almost a cer
tainty, that the President's con-
whether it is to be put in their
water supply or not I wish to
tell the public my experience
with Aluminum.
I have practiced in Medford
for 44 years. During that time
I have had a good many patients
complain of a chronic condition
of boils. I had them dispose of
their aluminum cooking ware
and put in Stainless Steel copper
bottoms and they had no more
trouble. i
I have had cases of' stomach
trouble that cleared up after
changing to stainless steel.
I have also had cases of pto
main poisoning due to food
cooked in Aluminum vessels,
and allowed to remain in them.
A vessel that is not safe to let
food stand in is not as safe to
cook in as it should be.
From my own experience I
disposed of all Aluminum cook
ing ware long time ago. I do not
want any more of it. Neither
would I want to have to swig
water the rest of my days that
contains Florides.
If Sodium Floride will help to
keep down dental decay in
children they should have the
benefit. However they should
have it in accurate dosage
amounts and only as long as it
is necessary. Parents can,
through their physician and
druggist, get a good grade of
Floride and give controlled dos
age to their children.
Wallace & Tiernaney Co. of
New Jersey sell the machines
that puts the florides in the
water.
Dr. W. W. Howard, D O.
201 Medical Center Bldg.
Medford, Ore.
Non-famers now compromise
87 per cent of the nation's popu
lation. The figure is expected
to reach 80 per cent.
H alter LiDDmajm
Across from the Courthouse
Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
Tomorrow
Lippmann
trol of his party will decline dur
ing a second term. For during
his second term the question of
who is to succeed him will play
a deciding part in the calcula
tions of candidates, of the party
leaders in Congress, and of the
managers of the party organiza
tion. There is every probability that
Mr. Nixon's power and influence
will.be enormously greater in a
second term than they have
been in the first. For in the first
term all political interests and
hopes have depended on what
Eisenhower would do in 1956
In a second term, they will de
pend on what Nixon wants, or
in the last analysis, on what men
like Mr. Len Hall and the party
managers want.
SPEAKING literally, the third
term amendment is, in re
gard to Eisenhower, of no prac
tical consequence. This is be
cause it is so utterly improbable
that four years hence Mr. Eisen
hower would even consider
running for a third term. The
President had no personal axe
to grind when he called the
amendment unwise. For in his
case it is irrelevant. Whereas
Roosevelt was 58 when he fin
ished his second term and ran
for a third, Eisenhower would
be 70. For that reason alone, he
himself, the country, and above
all the professional politicians,
will, if he is re-elected, treat him
as a President who will retire
at the end of his term.
There can be little doubt,
therefore, that his' influence will
be diminished and that he will
as time goes on become increas
ingly a political lame dufk.
rpHE basic problem, which it is
A so hard to discuss in the cam
paign, is that of the succession:
How is the power of the Presi
dent's office to be exercised in
the next four years? This prob
lem has many facets since no
one can predict what will actu
ally happen. Mr. Morgan's first
question raises the problem of
Eisenhower's declining i n f 1 u
ence in a second term, even as
suming that his health and vigor
are wholly adequate.
Mr. Morgan's second question,
whether 'to consider Dirkson
and Bender as Eisenhower Re
publicans, also points to the
problem of the succession, from
1956 to 1960 if the President is
incapacitated, after 1960 in any
event. Dirkson and Bender are
of no great consequence in them
selves. They merely illustrate
the question whether Eisen
hower has in fact done anything
serious and substantial about
what he dreams of doing, to
make a revitalized and mod
ernized Republican party. For
Dirkson was a virulent opponent
of Eisenhower's first nomination
and Bender is an undistinguish
ed old-fashioned Republican.
THE President's answer to Mr.
Morgan's question was that
Sen. Bender has supported his
legislative program and that
Sen. Dirkson, at his request, led
the fight for the foreign aid
appropriations. That was hardly
an answer to the real meaning
of the question. For this is an
election year. Both Dirkson and
Bender are up for re-election.
Self preservation has demanded
that they -cling to Eisenhower's
coat tails. The question is wheth
er they are really Eisenhower
Republicans who can be counted
upon to carry on when Eisen
hower is in retirement or is no
longer in the White House. Or
wilj they not look for a leader
who represents what they really
believe?
It is hard, I repeat, to spell
out the basic problem of Eisen
hower's re-election. But the
crux of it is whether Eisenhow
er's popularity is evanescent,
something peculiar to him per
sonally, or whether it is sub
stantial and enduring in the
sense that he has provided for
the future, and has rallied the
men who will carry on, if neces
sary without him.
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