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Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 8, 1947 (Monday)
Descendants of pioneer mem
bers of the Jacksonville Pres
byterian church and other resi
dents celebrate the 90th anni
versary of the church.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Prospec
tor1 have started coming down
from the high hills, where they
pent all summer, and struck it
poor.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 8. 1937 (Wednesday)
Sale of five parcels of munici
pal real estate approved by the
city council.
Law enforcement officers par
ticipate in demonstration of the
new Graham automobile on the
North Pacific highway.
80 YEARS AGO
Sept. 8, 1927 (Thursday)
Good attendance expected for
dedication of new pipe organ at
Presbyterian church.
Box seats for the night show
of the Visions Realized celebra
tion here go on sale at the
chamber of commerce.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 8. 1917 (Saturday)
From local and personal col
umn: In the fire that destroyed
the Chadwick barn on the Sun
ny Cliff orchard farm three
horses, 30 tons of hay, three
wagons and five or six plows
and all machinery was burned.
Word has been received from
the boyi at Ft. Columbia of the
receipt of the organ sent recent
ly by the local Soldiers' auxil
iary. What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is snperlor;
even or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Can sea water be made
potable by distillation?
2. Are punchboards for gift
enterprises permitted to be sent
through the U. S. mails?
3. Bible: Was Jesus crucified
on the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th hour?
4. For what is
nickname?
'iron horse" a
5. For what was Diogenes
searching with a lantern?
6. The "saliva test" is fre
quently used in bowling, cro
quet, or horseracing?
7. In a matrilocal arrange
ment, a husband would live with
is own family or with is wife's
family?
8. Which country in the past
was often referred to as the "na
tion of shopkeepers"?
9. Harrison was nominated
for President in 1840. Was he
afterwards denominated by his
followers? If so, how?
10. "And be you blythe and
bonny . . . ' hey nonny, nonny."
Is this line from an Elizabethan,
ancient, or modern poem?
Answers: 1. Yes. 2. No. be
cause they are considered lo be
a form of lottery. 3. 3rd hour. 4.
Railroad locomotive. 5. An hon
est man. 6. Horseracing. 7. With
his wife's family. 8. England. 9.
Yes. "Tippicanoe." 10. Elizabeth
an. Shakespeare's "Merchant of
Venice".
MAIL TRIBUNE
"Leading From Weakness
We find our highly regarded contemporary, the
Grants Pass Courier, blaming President Eisenhower
or his advisers, which adds up to the same thing
for the fix the Republican party is in.
We quote:
"To our mind the big mistake and we blame Eisenhow
er's advisers for this has been an attempt to adopt salient
features of the New Deal and proceed on the assumption that
this "modern Republicanism" would win votes . . . Actually
this had the effect of alienating millions of conservative Re
publicans of the Taft and Knowland school. It has also been
a sore point with southern Democrats who always before
have teamed with conservative GOP solons to maintain a bal
ance of power in congress ... as a matter of fact there has
been very little basic difference of late on the national level
between the political philosophies of the two parties."
M
MH!
We remember onlv
"Courier" and other staunchly Republican papers,
saw a great DEAL of difference between the philoso
phies of the Republican and Democratic parties
many of them claimed they saw all the difference
between "Creeping Socialism" and the sacred and
insmnno- "American wav
As for President
"liked Ike." a few of
nronerlv anointed nolitical
save the ship-of-state from
internationalism, depression and anarcny.
B'
UT now, if we interpret
trouble with the Republican party is President
Eisenhower and his "modern Republicanism" AND
his attempt to adopt salient features of the "New
Deal , thus swinging away
G.O.P. standards set by the
Our Grants Pass contemporary even goes further
and in answering its own question, "where does this
leave Richard Nixon?" expresses the conviction that
as heir-apparent to President Eisenhower and his
Modern Republicanism,
carry on the same heretical principles and thus be
sacrificed to "political expediency" and leave the
ultra-conservative William Knowland as quote: the
"ONLY G.O.P. candidate in sight who would have a
chance to win the presidency."
TI'ELL,well!
Since the Republican defeat in Wisconsin, we
have received reports the Grand Old Party, like the
Old Grey Mare "ain't what SHE used to be" but we
had no idea the situation was as alarming as our con
servative contemporary declares it to be.
We don't know what the attitude of Southern
Democrats in the congress has to do with it; they may
vote with the Republicans in congress now and then,
but few of them go to the polls and vote that way,
but if as stated, Republican unity at the next election,
depends upon throwing President Eisenhower and his
"Modem Republicanism" to the wolves; dispatching
Richard Nixon, the smartest politician of them all, to
the salt-mines ; repudiating the New Deal, even though
the present administration has not only refused to re
peal its basic principles but adopted them; and last
but not least can find no one but Bill Knowland of
the Oakland Tribune dynasty "who has a chance to
win the presidency" well if that diagnosis is COR
RECT and the Courier calls in no less of a GOP
authority than David Lawrence editor of "US News
and World Report" to confirm it, then poor old
Jumbo really is in "extremis."
A FTER all these years we are inclined to shed a few
tears in his behalf. Not that we would advise the
Democrats to count any chickens before they are
hatched, but if the situation is as stated, and the pro
cedure advised is adopted then no crystal ball is need
ed to predict with accuracy the outcome to wit:
Instead of the GOP going to the polls strong and
united in 1960, it will not only be divided, but will suf
fer the worst massacre since the "Battle of the Little
Big Horn." R.W.R.
The TOO Early Bird
There is no doubt that Richard Nixon has been maturing.
He has been exceedingly circumspect in what he says' and
does. His conduct during the illness of President Eisenhower
was under close scutiny; but he made no bad moves, always
said the right things ...
But can Nixon erase the picture widely held that he is pri
marily a politician, without much principle beyond party loy
alty? Will the people forget his campaigning tactics, his
branding of Democrats as coddlers of Communists? Will they
accept his political maturing as proof of sincerity? Those are
hurdles he must overcome to win the highest office in the
land. "At the moment though he clearly is in the most favored
spot for the GOP presidential nomination. And that may be
another reason why the politicians beat a path to his door:
There is nothing like being early on the bandwagon. Salem
Statesman.
The above, from the pen of former Governor
Sprague, one of Oregon's most respected and intelli
gent Republican leaders, is a fitting post script to the
editorial above, for it shows :
The Grants Pass Courier's views regarding Presi
dent Eisenhower and his administration, as well as
Messrs. Nixon and Knowland, are not shared by all
Republican leaders in Oregon and our guess is by
not many.
Moreover we agree with the "Statesman" that as
of today Nixon is far out in front, as far as a successor
to President Eisenhower is concerned, but that he isn't
a "shoo-in" by any means.
And so we come to the item with which we do not
agree namely: that to gain the nomination "there is
nothing like being early on the band wagon."
"I17E DON'T deny that "jumping the gun" has cer-
" tain advantages, but with a man like Nixon, the
disadvantages we believe are far greater.
For as Editor Sprague points out Nixon is far from
invulnerable. There are thousands of voters who when
the spotlight on Nixon's record is turned on and their
memories are refreshed, will make up their minds that
Sunday. September . 8, 1957
99
a vear or so aero, both the
of life.
Eisenhower, they not only
them reerarded him as a
Moses who alone could
crashing on the rocks of
the Courier correctly, the
from the solid and sacred
late Senator Robert Taft.
Nixon would presumably
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TM TO AH rights mervtd nuS J "W
'YOU'PB ; 0AD
AT IT AN' (Tfe STILL
Today and
By Walter
PUBLIC NEED AND
PRIVATE PLEASURE
. The true measure of what was
and was not done in this session
of Congress cannot be found on
a score card of the President's
recommendations set against the
actions of Con
gress. We must
I think, look
for the true
measure, not
in the text of
laws enacted
and in money
authorized o r
appropriated,
but in terms of
the erpat anH
Walter Lippmann
continuing issues with which the
country must deal. Here one
bright and hopeful thing hap
pened in the most difficult and
politically the most dangerous of
our domestic problems that of
the rise of the Negro population
to civic equality.
The civil rights bill which ac
tually passed is most significant.
This is not 'because it will bring
about a sudden enfranchisement
of qualified Negroes. It is signif
icant because for the first time,
and at long last, we have tan
gible reason to believe that an
accommodation on civil rights
can be brought about with South
ern leaders participating in it.
Until now, all attempts to influ
ence race relations from Wash
ington have been in substance at
tempts to impose always in
vain Northern views on the
united resistance of the South.
The parts played by Sen. Lyn
don Johnson and Speaker Ray
burn in working out a compro
mise bill, the decision not to fil
ibuster taken by Sen. Russell
and all but one of his Southern
colleagues, mark a breakthrough
towards cooperation and con
sent, the first since the Civil
War.
Let us hope that the President
will take care that the Depart
ment of Justice does not, with
us eyes on the election of 1958,
bulldoze its way forward as" if
nothing new had happened. The
principle of proceeding with the
advice and consent of the liberal
South ought to govern the ad
ministration both of the voting
rights legislation and of the
school integration decision. The
administration of these laws is
not automatic and self-evident.
It demands what we do not yet
have a wise and considered pol
icy; that is to say a policy de
signed to accomplish the maxi
mum that is possible as rapidly
as possible, with the liheral
South consenting. It will not be
possible to secure and protect
voting rights, much less to in
tegrate the public schools,
against the determined resist
ance of whole Southern commun
ities. .
while the idol of "California Incorporated," may be
as smooth, smart and slick as they come, they don't
want him, or anyone of his type, to be President of
the United States.
When that record is brought out, including that
radio broadcast and faithful little "Checkers" there
will be more thousands in his own party and out of it
who will shake their heads and reach a conclusion
something like this:
"Oh, Nixon may be OK in the diplomatic and promotion
field but we don't trust him sufficiently to want him in the
White House."
THERE is another angle.
If as seems likely, Senator Knowland, a man of
strong will and unlimited financial resources, has his
heart set on the White House, much as Governor Low-
den of Illinois did over 3
no stone unturned, to do
weaken the chief obstacle
ambition.
And the stronger Nixon appears the harder will
Knowland work.
So we come to the weakness of the "early bird"
theory. The candidate who gets there first is the "man
to beat" and so he faces long before the convention
opens a united opposition.
The candidate who bides his time, stajs in the
background waits for the proper psychological mom
ent to strike, suffers no such handicap. R.W.Rt
SUB LOOKED RIGHT
RUNNlN'1'
Tomorrow
Lippmann
rpHE 1957 session of Congress
-- will long be remembered for
its having shown the way for
ward, how the Federal govern
ment can proceed with civil
rights. For the rest, both at
home and abroad, the country
has not only been badly led. It
has been misled. It has been mis
led by the weakness of the Presi
dent and the partisanship of
Congress.
The country has been left with
the impression, which will dom
inate almost every great prob
lem, that if we could cut expend
itures by a few more billion dol
lars, it would be possible to re
duce the income tax. This is a
dangerous untruth to propagate
at this time. Yet both parties are
propagating it. The Democrats
are said to be planning to pass a
tax cut in the next session. The
President, who knows that it is
wrong to cut taxes when there
is such a big inflation, has, never
theless, encouraged the notion
that with a littie more budgetary
economy, he too might favor tax
reductions.
YITHAT the country needs to
hear from the President is
not softness about private self
indulgence but a stern and aus
tere reminder that our public
responsibilities must come ahead
of our private pleasures.
There is no prospect now in
sight of an agreement to slow
down the race of armaments.
There is, on the contrary, much
evidence that the race is swifter.
It is no use, then, to tell our peo
ple that we can stabilize the mil
itary budget at $38,000,000,000.
It is impossible for the country
to taper off and to cry quits in
providing economic aid to the
under - developed countries. We
shall not in our time see the end
of the need for such aid, and it
cannot be the policy of the
United States to resign from
Asia and Africa. It is no use,
then, to go towards the elections
of 1958 with a spreading feeling
among politicians that if they
could abolish foreign aid, there
would be a big enough surplus
to justify a tax reduction.
VTOR CAN we escape the conse-
.quences of the fact that our
population is increasing at a pro
digious rate and that almost
every necessary public facility is
over-burdened. This is true of
the public schools, the colleges
and the universities, where as
the school population rises, the
quality of education is deterio
rating. The school problem is
all the more poignant because,
now that the law of the land calls
for integrated schools, money
will have to be found to replace
the generally inferior Negro
schools.
In the great urban conglomer-
.
decades ago, he will leave
what he can politically to
to the achievement of his
Editorial
Comment
THE MAN EATING SALMON!
On the back side of a clipping
in a tattered family album the
other day, a friend of the Round
towner found a strange fish
story. The name of the news
paper was not on the clipping,
but the date was March 16,
1885. We quote:
"The recent frightful accident
which happened in southern
)regon cannot fail, says the
lew York Times, to call the
ttention of the state authori
ies to the necessity of protect
.ng settlers against the attacks
oi salmon.
"The stage in question was
crossing Applegate creek when
it was suddenly attacked by a
drove of salmon. The stage was
instantly overturned and the
hungry fish swarmed over it
while the stage driver, with
great presence of mind, cut the
traces of his horses and, throw
ing himself across the off wheel-
horse a powerful animal for
merly the property of Dr. Good
rich of Olympia managed to
escape.
"The dispatch which conveys
this painful story says nothing
of the fate of the stage passen
gers, but unfortunately there is
every reason to believe that they
fell victims to the salmon.
"The Oregon salmon has long
been regarded by experienced
western hunters as the most
dangerous animal infesting this
continent. It is much larger than
the salmon of the Atlantic coast,
and unlike the latter, which is
a timid and unoffensive fish, it
is fearless, aggressive and . .
There the clipping ends, but
. . . Wow! Bremerton. Wash.,
Sun.
Matter of Fact
WITNESSING A MIRACLE
Czestochowa, Poland Prop
erly speaking, the miracle of
Jasna Gora, the great monastery
of "The Bright
Mountain,
took place 301
years ago.
On that occa
the monks and
a few score of
Polish men-at-arms"
held and
hurled back
10,000 Swed-
Joseph Aisop ish troops who
beseiged the monastery's bas
tioned walls through a long, bit
ter vinter month. The victory
was credited to Jasna Gora's
precious Virgin-image, long ago
chance-brought out of late By
zantium into these wild Polish
marches.
I do not think there was any
higher intervention; but I too
witnessed a miracle at Jasna
Gora just the other day. It was
not easy to define, being the pe
culiar combination of a theme.
a ceremony, a crowd and a man.
Yet it seemed to me decidedly
miraculous.
Imagine, then, a high hill
swelling upwards from the sub
urbs of a dreary little industrial
town. A broad way leads
through trees to the hill's sum
mit. And here there is the begin
ning of the miracle.
THE
to
iHE summith as been levelled,
make a gigantic plaza
three times larger than the
great plaza of St. Peter's. Only
a single column bearing Christ
with his thorny crown interrupts
this vast, flat expanse. And the
full expanse is filled, as though
by a fantastic human inundation,
by a single continuous sea of
people. There they stand in si
lent patience, men and women,
young people and children, liter
ally hundreds of thousands of
them. And all gaze toward the
towering church, rising in a
surge of baroque pinnacles from
the same tall bastions that the
monks held against the Swedes
Suddenly, along the battle
ments, the long procession of the
Eucharist winds its way, banner
after banner, choir after choir.
A monk stationed by the high
temporary altar, erected on the
church-front, gives a signal
through a loud-speaker. The
crowd burst, full-throated, into
the hymn recounting Jasna
Gora's miracle, "On the Heights
of Czestochowa."
TOR a long hour the people
stand, singing hymn after
hymn and watching the platform
round the altar gradually fill
with the churchmen of the pro
cession. Last come the Bishops
of Poland, splendid in their
vestments and rich mitres. Alas,
a clover view reveals chasubles
sadly confected of old lace cur-
ation much new public money,
not all of it of course Federal
money, will have to be spent on
parks and recreation facilities,
and on hospitals, highways,
housing, and communications.
We are running counter to the
facts of our military and diplo
matic position in the world, and
of the expansion of our people
at home, when we allow poli
ticians to beguile us with talk
about tax cuts. What we should
be hearing from Washington,
and talking about ourselves, is
not tax cuts, not how to be able
to buy on borrowed money more
and more longer and wider and
faster motor cars, but how to
meet our responsibilities and to
do our duty.
(c) 1957 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
POTIUCCC
(By M-T Staff and Contribution)
The above picture, snapped
outside the Pioneer room of the
Jackson hotel last Wednesday
when the Governor's party was
here, provides evidence that it
wasn't industrial development
they were talking about at all
it must have been a high-level
military conference.
One of tha easiest words
to misspell, appropriately
enough, is the word misspell,
which often comes out mispell.
One of the young men in our
office a relative newcomer
made a hurried trip to Port
land a few weeks ago, and over
the week end married the young
lady to whom he had been en
gaged. Jle showed up at work Mon
day morning on schedule, and
worked his regular shift until
the Labor Day week end, when
the Mail Tribune did not publish
on Monday, giving us all a two
day break.
It was welcome to him and
his bride, obviously. Gave them
a chance for a "second honey
moon," two days long.
Another young man who
works here, who tries to hide
a sentimental and idealistic
streak with a veneer of irony.
By Joseph Alsop
tains and capes made of the
shoddy silk of Communist Pe
king. The Church in Poland to
day is not rich in this world's
goods.
Suddenly there is a hush. Ste
fan, Cardinal Wyszynski quietly
takes his place under the scar
let canopy that stands by the al
tar's sides. The wise eyes in the
pale, ascetic face briefly survey
the scene. Music breaks the si
lence and Baranjak, Archbishop
of Poznan that place name
heavy with memories begins
the celebration of the mass. The
crowd joins the responses as
though this were a single Paris
church holding hundreds instead
of hundreds of thousands; and
after consecration of the host the
whole multitude sinks to its
knees.
When the mass is ended, the
Cardinal enters the pulpit and
again there is a moment of si
lence while he stands, vividly
outlined against' the white drap
eries, a commanding figure in
brilliant "scarlet. Then he speaks
telling the story of Poland's
dedication to the Virgin Mary
by King Jan Kazimierz, and say-
ing that this is a time to renew
the dedication with an oath.
And slowly, in a strong mascu
line voice, he repeats the oath,
IT IS a curious oath, resem
bling a set of New Year's reso
lutions on a national scale. One
catches echoes of certain exhor
tations to the people by Poland's
Communist government in War
saw exhortation against the
absenteeism that afflicts indus
try, the alcoholism that is a
curse in this country, the dis-
orderliness and lack of discipline
that has appeared here since
freedom returned. But whether
or no the crowd also catches
these echoes, all follow the Car
dinal when he,asks them to re
peat after him:
"We swear to thee, Mary,
Queen of Poland, we swear to
thee!"
Then the slender hand is
raised in blessing. At a signal,
with a passion that fills the hill
top air, the whole multitude
breaks into Poland's battle
hymn, "Great God Through
Ages Protector of This Polish
Land." And so the mornine
comes to an end; and the sea of
people flows away again, to pic
nic in the sunshine and queue
up by thousands to say their
prayers before Jasna Gora's Vir
gin image.
But in the dusk, when the
enormous bulk of the fortress
monastery shows black against
the evening sky, the sea of peo
ple flows back into the plaza,
more numerous than ever. Here
and there candles shielded by
workworn hands made points of
winking light. Once again the
old hymns sound out while the
procession winds along the bat
tlements. Once again, when the
service begins, all tnese hun
dreds of thousands join together
in chanting the litany to the Vir
gin. And this time, the Cardinal
himself preaches to his people.
The sermon is not unlike the
morning oath, pressing the gov
ernment a little on such conten
tious points as the difficult situa
tion of Poland's Catholic press,
but above all exhortinr the peo
ple to be good citizens, ever, ex
horting the miners to bring up
more coal.
VOU must understand," the
- Cardinal tells the listening
thousands, "that what could not
be destroyed by erroneous poli
tical doctrine can still be ruined
by national demoralization. You
are a generation of heroes, and
to you God has given a serious
duty not to lose what was
informs ui that the first signs
of fall, beside the people who
have been "feeling it in the
air" since the middle of July,
appeared the day after Labor
Day; namely, a shiny horse
chestnut out of its green horn- .
ed shell, a yellow school bus
around a downtown street
corner, and the smell of pop
corn from the matinee of "The
Ten Commandments."
This same young man marched
up to tne Fotiuck editor the
other day with a sort of half
sheepish grin on his face, and
left the following memorandum: -
"Feeling slightly exuberant
after a pleasant evening with
a feminine friend, we put the
car in the garage, walked out
into the yard, and nonchalantly
tossed our key ring into the air.
That's about all there is, ex
cept to say that we doubt the
keys to both cars, our apart-'
ment and the office will grow
half as well as the jungle of
tomatoes, carrots, , radishes,
strawberries, arbor vitae and as
sorted flowers among which they
now reside."
We have it on excellent au
thority (the horse's mouth, '
practically) that a certain
lawyer's office, which is en
sconced behind a bright blue
door, has on at least one- oc
casion been mistaken, by an
individual somewhat the worse
for wear, for the entrance to
a lounge.
This story deals with three
families, and to make it simpler,
we'll use the lawyer's device of
calling them A, B and C.
When A went on vacation last
month, they left their house key
with B, in case of emergency.
Later, B went on vacation, and
in turn left their key with A,
and in addition asked A to check
on their milk delivery Labor
Day morning if they weren't
back in time to put it in the
refrigerator.
But A later decided to leave
town over Labor Day. Not want
ing to leave B's key with a third
party, they: asked C to check
on. B's milk, and if necessary,
leave it in A's refrigerator. A
left THEIR key with C for this
purpose.
Before leaving A left B a
note telling them to get A's key
at C's so they could get B's milk
from A's refrigerator.
It worked out fine, too. Labor
Day evening A, B and C met
at A's house. C gave A their
keys, and A gave B their keys.
And B had obtained the milk
from A's refrigerator with the
key obtained from C.
Last . Tuesday, the day be
fore the first "official" show
ing of the new Edsel car. the
new building which houses the
dealership was aswarm with
activity. Carpenters were
putting in last-minute nails;
electricians were rigging up
last-minute wiring, and paint
ers were sloshing around last
minute paint. The brand new
cars were about to be shown
to a few "preview" guests,
and excitement mounted as .
the deadline neared. One of
the painters was busy letter
ing a new sign. It said, and "
Ve swear it, "USED Edsel
CARS." It still does.
The following day, one of our
sharp-eyed reporters noted some
thing which, he said, gratified
a little corner of his heart, "to
find that, even the Ford Motor
company has not conquered mat
ter entirely."
Bemused by the activity and
the bright new cars at the Edsel
building across the street, our
man was driving up East Main
st. about dinner time in his own
utilitarian vehicle, and spotted
at the side of the road the Edsel
dealer's son, in slacks, white
shirt and tie, leaning in under
the hood of a 1957 Ford, prim
ing the carberetor with gasoline
from a gallon can. Even 1957
Fords, driven by dealers' sons,
can run out of gas.
Philosophical observation of
the week: It doesn't pay to try
to raise a mustache. People
tease the victim unmercifully
while the scraggly darn thing
is growing in, but they don't
even notice after it's gone.
Oh, well ...
saved by
the blood of your
fathers."
So the sermon ends. Once
more, with the same strange re
sonant passion, the whole multi
tude sings Poland's battle hymn.
And then all is over and it is
time to journey homeward
through the night. Such was this
modern miracle of Jasna Gora.
If you think about it, it says a
good deal about this new Po
land whose two leaders, linked
in unlikely partnership, are the
brave veteran Communist.
Wladyslaw Gomulka and the-
brave Prince of the Church,
Stefan, Cardinal Wyszynski. -