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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 27. 1948 (Friday)
The Beagle area of Camp
fhite is offered for sale as
government surplus property,
1 William McAllister, Med
ford attorney, speaks at
Young Republican club.
lo YEARS AGO
Feb. 27, 1938
.' CCC camp near Rogue
River, Camp Wimer, has new
Ijy installed nine-hole golf
; From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "The
Older Girls have started talk
ing about housecleaning, and
k few have the little men
jnauling rugs with a broom
handle." iO YEARS AGO
f"eb. 27, 1928 (Monday)
KMED, Mail Tribune ra
flio station, granted increase
pf 20 meters operating on
1100 kilocycles.
I Medford to be division point
for West Coast Air Transport
petween Portland and Cali
fornia points.
40 YEARS AGO
Fire Chief Lawton starts
Jiouse to house inspection of
fireplaces, stoves and flues.
: From Local and Personal
fcolumn: "W. A. Folger, the
bounty food administrator,
spent Wednesday at Gold Hill
pn food conservation busi
pess." I What's Your I.Q.?
Vline or ten correct is superior;
even or eight is excellent; five or
is is good.
1. The minimum age to
iualify for U. S. President
21, 35, or 40 years?
! 2. Bible: Does the O. T.
mention a daughter of Jacob?
; 3. Capons are castrated
boosters, drakes, or peacocks?
4. By the old-style calender,
what was the date of George
Washington's birthday?
5. The
begin Jan.
2001?
21st century will
1, 2000, or Jan. 1,
; 6. House centipedes have
10, 15, or 20 pairs of legs?
, 7. Yosemite Falls are locat
ed in Colorado, California, or
Wyoming?
8. Prior to World War I,
to which empire did Hungary
belong?
: 9. Will an object weighing
20 pounds fall at a rate 20
times as great as an object
weighing one pound?
: 10. Two countries in South
America have no seacoast;
name them.
Answers: 1. Thirty - five
years; 2. Yes (Dinah); 3. Roost
ers; 4. Feb. 11; 5. Jan. 1. 2001;
6. 15 pairs; 7. California; 8.
Austro-Hungarian empire: 9.
No.; 10. Paraguay and Bolivia.
PIL FOUND NEAR PARIS
: Paris (IP) French oil
fever, which has sent oil stock
soaring since "black gold"
was discovered in the Sahara
got another boost today with
feports that oil has been
found less than 25 miles east
Of Paris. At the Pethorep Co.
Which has been drilling for
the last 15 months near Ccecy
en Brie, made a strike Sat
urday. Laboratory reports on
samples showed today a light
Oil with high percentage of
gasoline. - -y
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Editorial Correspondence . . .
Tucson, Arizona, Feb. 24
West begins and ENDS. This
rodeo, but it isn't a blue one.
sky not even a puff of a cloud and the mercury must be
about 65. But the banks haven't opened yet, the "Sunset
Limited" arrived believe it or not ten minutes ahead of
time. And to enliven the atmosphere after' the three-ring
circus has gone, a new bank
ers from all over the state are
hotel, with the usual identifications in their lapels and gin
and-tonic, if they wish, for breakfast.
The bank being opened is
On our last visit here a Mr. DeAutremont was President and
was good enough to have the
tive home, just outside of the city. He died comparatively a
young man, several years ago, but Mrs. DeAutremont and
children also grandchildren live1 here winters. No one
lives here summers if they
tioning has not made the seashore or the High Sierra so
demanding during the hot "dog days."
The Tucson DeAutremonts
mont brothers who held up the
kiyous many years ago and
train crew. Efforts have been made to get Hugh DeAutre
mont the only one now worth saving paroled. In view of
what .Leopold the "thrill-killer" has been granted on the
basis of rehabilitation there would seem to be some argu
ment at least in favor of showing similar "mercy" to Hugh
But thus far there has apparently been no progress in this
direction. It was Clarence Darrow who saved Leopold from
the electric chair, largely on the plea that juveniles are not
morally responsible as adults, and should not be treated as
adults by the courts. We have an idea this truth will be more
generally recognized as time goes on.
'
Before we forget it, we must give the Devil his' due. We
have now completed a trip on the S.P. of approximately
1,300 miles. The final lap of over 500 miles on the "Sunset
Limited" was the best. Nearly 550 miles in less than 12
hours is not as fast as a jet-liner but it is fast enough for the
undersigned, particularly when the journey is made in bed
at night. One has to sleep somewhere, why not on a train?
the air lines have given up "sleepers" it seems. All in all
A-l service.
We missed Ike and Mamie by 24 hours. Naturally Phoe
nix, northwest of here, played up their selection as a winter
and beauty resort for Mr. and Mrs. "President" in grand
rhetorical style. Listen to this banner on the Phoenix morn
ing paper for example, quote:
"SKIES SMILE ON IKE AND MAMIE
FIRST LADY'S BEAUTY GRACES SUNNY SjCENE"
And there was a five column picture of the "Beauty and
the President" with a three-star general in a stiff salute, and
25,000 cheering Phoenicians in the airport background.
Judging by the front page play, Los Angeles and Tucson
were not similarly enthusiastic as far as the selection was
concerned. At least neither the Times nor the Tucson Citizen
waxed lyrical the Los Angeles paper was content with
"25,000 greet President and wife" and the Citizen put in its
banner chiefly a plug for the bright and balmy Arizona
weather! Our taxi driver from the station a swarthy Mex
ican with a Chaplin mustache and eyes bluer than Jack
Benny's said the selection by Mamie will mean a million
dollars to Phoenix. He didn't say so but we suppose he meant
Mexican pesos!
Tucson is only a couple of hours motor trip from the
Mexican border so, like Montreal, is bilingual Spanish and
English instead of English and French. It is hard to get a
job here in a retail store at least unless you can talk
Spanish. The signs at the S.P. depot are in the two languages,
and there are more .Mexicans seen on the street here than
American tourists in Mexico
When in LA we taxied out
ment center close to Beverly
tractive development, where
Newhall, who for a great many
Old Stage road, but is now living in Los Angeles. The drive
out Wilshire was an eye-opener, about the only familiar sight
was the Ambassador hotel with
green lawn in front we should guess that is one of the
highest priced front lawns in existence. New apartments and
office buildings completed and in state of construction all
over the place: But tne taxi ariver, a young coiurea ooy uus
time with a bright yellow visored cap and an ox blood slip
over, said "They is lots of boys out of work in this town
lots of 'em." Learning his passengers were from Oregon, he
confided he had left his home in Portland only a few weeks
ago.
Well, LA as usual is a sort
Hyde." If there is anything more shoddy, soiled and nutty
than the people one sees in Pershing Square and environs
(excepting the Biltmore of course) we have never run across
it! And yet the drive from Pershing Square to the ocean at
Santa Monica is a delight if one chooses the residential dis
tricts. We can't imagine anyone wishing to live in Los
Angeles, with only the Pershing Square section as a guide
to what this overgrown cosmopolis really is, yet, as noted
the residence sections in the outer areas, particularly to the
west, are extremely attractive. Also, there was no smog
Sunday, the skies were overcast but no rain and the air. was
cool and bracing.
Before leaving LA we went to a Thrift Drug store at the
corner of Fifth and Hill to make a purchase. When we got
out of the place, couldn't get into a shower quick enough.
What a shoddy mess! The all-day lunch counter was going
full blast as usual, and as we passed we noted a sad-looking
young couple he looked sick and she didn't look well
they had large bowls of soup and cups of coffee before them
but their main meal was in a soiled paper bag held between
them from which they were extracting various and sundry
viands. It was a really pathetic sight, and it did represent
"THRIFT" but somehow in that depressing atmosphere
more the Los Angeles than the Scotch variety. R.W.R. ,
Quotes From the News
By UNITED PRESS
Washington President Eisenhower, on Republican con
gressional demands for the firing of Agriculture Secretary
Ezra Taft Benson:
'Tor any group of congressmen either formally or in
formally to raise a question concerning my appointments
to the cabinet would not seem to be in order."
Havana, Cuba Juan Manuel Fangio, champion racing
driver, on his abduction by Cuban rebels the night before
he was scheduled to compete in Cuba's Grand Prix:
"All the lime I enjoyed the same comfort I could have
found in a hotel."
Washington Rep. John J. Rooney (D-N.Y.) on the prob
lems of U.S. participation in the Brussels World's Fair:
"This is one of the greatest snow jobs ever perpetrated on
the House of Representatives by Madison Avenue and the
hucksters." ' '
San Jose, Calif. Mrs. Helen Cordry, suggesting that her
son, Thomas W. Cordry HI, may have been impelled to the
"urge"' murder of a neighbor girl because his parents gave
him inadequate instruction about sex:
"It was probably much too rigid. We told him you have
to take very good care of girls. I think maybe my thinking
was too old-fashioned. If we had it io do all over again,
I'm afraid we'd do it the same way." -
Thursday, February 27. 1958
Well, here we. are where the
is the Monday after the annual
The sun is shining in a clear
building is being opened. Bank
making their quarters at our
the Bank of Southern Arizona.
family for dinner, at his attrac
can help it, although air-condi
were related to the DeAutre
"Shasta Limited" in the Sis-
crazy kids killed four of the
City, which is something.
to the Metropolitan apart
Hills, a most gigantic and at
we called on Mrs. Charles
years made her home on the
that wonderfully expansive
of civic "Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
SSr-
Today 6" Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
Mr. Eisenhower himself
has, as we know, asked Con
gress to clear up the un
certainties of
I h e Constitu
tion on the
question of a
disabled Pres
ident. There
is, moreover,
an Adm i n i s
t r a t i o n bill
i tt. 3 : n
Walter Lippmann JJepai uikui ui
Justice which
was introduced in the House
of representatives last spring.
There is, therefore, nothing
indelicate about discussing
the problem, which should be
done with the kind of matter-of-factness
that a sensible
man adopts when he makes
his will.
Yet, while some progress
m . 1
seems to nave Deen maae,
Congress continues to be
hesitant to act, rather like a
A t 1 i
man wno, Knowing xnai ne
ought to make a will, puts off
going to see nis lawyer.
There are several reasons
why Congress puts off action.
They are all, so it seems to
me, aspects ot one general
reason. This is a search for a
"solution" of the problem
which will suit everybody
now and in all conceivable
contingencies in the future.
No such solution will ever
be found, and it is useless to
look for the kind of solution
which will cover everything
that a writer of mystery stor
ies might imagine, as, for
example, a secret criminal
conspiracy to oust a President
and to usurp the office. In
dealing with this problem, as
with any other of the struc
tural questions of. the Consti
tution, we must assume that
the great officers of the state
are - honorable and honest
men, most particularly in the
highest matters. If we do not
make this assumption, we find
ourselves in a hopeless com
plication of suspicions, trying
to find some way where
everybody concerned in the
decision is able to check and
balance everyone else.
AT the level of common
sense in practical affairs,
the problem falls into two
parts which can .be and, I
think, should be dealt with
separately.
The first part has to do
with a case where, in the
words of Representative
Keating who is a leader in the
field, there is "a temporary
disability declared . by the
President himself."
The second part, which Mr.
Keating calls the "real prob
lem," arises "when a disabled
President either refuses to ad
mit his disability or is physi
cally unable to dp so." . -
Taking the two cases sepa
rately, we find that the first
case is easy to deal with and
the second is rather puzzling.
When the President himself
declares that he is for the
time being disabled, which is
the first case, there is gen
eral, though not unanimous,
agreement that it is the in
tent of the Constitution that
the Vice-President should act
as President t until the Presi
dent himself declares that his
disability has ended. There
are some lawyers who think
that to clarify this proposition
a Constitutional amendment
is necessary, or at least desir
able. But there is high legal
authority for thinking that in
this case Congress itself has
the power to declare what
the Constitution means.
NOW it would be prudent
and sensible, in my view,
for Congress to act promptly
on the first part of the prob
lem. It is not entirely incon
ceivable that if Congress had
clarified this point, the Presi
dent, when he was stricken
last autumn, might have de
volved his powers temporar
ily to the Vice-President. This
might well have been . the
wisest thing to do both as to
the effectiveness of his office
and in the interests of his
own health. t
Be that as it may, since
agreement is possible on this
part of the problem, Congress
should act even though there
is not as yet agreement on
the second and much more
puzzling part of the problem.
It is something of a puzzle
to decide what shall be done
in case a disabled President
is enfeebled, is unconscious,
or worse still is irrational.
The problem is who in the
government is to raise the
question of the President's
disability, and who is to de
cide finally whether he is dis
abled. My own view is that the
initiative in raising the ques
tion should be in the execu
tive branch, in the Cabinet
and in the White House itself.
On the other hand, the final
power to decide the question
should be in the Congress.
In other wordsr if the
President is disabled and un
able to make his own deci
sion, the fact of his disability
will have to be made known
by the members of his own
official family, presumably, I
should say, by the Secretary
of State. Under modern con
ditions of publicity, it would
be quite impossible to con
ceal the President's disability
as was done in the cases of
Garfield and Wilson.
WHEN the question of the
President's disability has
been raised, the Vice-President
should go to Congress, or
if necessary, call it into spe
cial session. He should com
municate the facts of the
President's condition and
should ask Congress to vote
on his assumption of the pow
ers of the Acting President.
The legality of the proceed
ings could be tested promptly
in the courts, say on the ques
tion of the Acting President's
appointment of a postmaster.
Neither this, nor any other
solution, is foolproof. But for
this one it can be said, I be
lieve, that if Congress does
nothing at all, leaving things
as they now are, something
very like this solution prob
ably would have to be impro
vised if an emergency arose.
(Copyright 1958. New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Douglas Fir Plywood
Prices Decline Again
Portland (IP) Prices on
Douglas fir plywood Wednes
day suffered" their fourth $2
drop in less than .two months.
. Some mills quoted sanded
plywood at $64 a thousand
square feet -inch .index AD
grade. ' -;
Industry spokesman blamed
overproduction for the sag
ging market. Output was run
ning about 10 per cent in
excess of demand.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
A MOVIE PRODUCER not unknown for battles to the death
with the English languages was trying to interest a big
box-office star in a new property he had acquired. "It's a
tremendous story!" he en-
thused. "All about four
wonderful people: a woman,
a man, and a dog!"
The star still was trying
to puzzle that one out when
the producer delivered an
other haymaker. "You real
ly should sign again with
me," he urged. "Nobody out
here knows you half so well
as I do. I'm familiar with
all your shortcomings and
your longcomings, too!"
A young Lothario drove the .
pretty debutante from the big city out to a lonely spot along '
lake and suddenly stopped the car. "We must be out of gas," he
said not too sadly. Without a, word, the city gal pulled a flak
out of her reticule.
"Hot diggety!" enthused the Lothario. "Scotch or rye?"
"Gas," answer the deb.
- O 1358, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
No Easy Solution in Sight for
French North African Troubles
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
France is facing a critical
situation in North Africa.
It is qmbroiled in a serious
dispute with
Tunisia,
its former pro
tectorate, over
the bombing
of a Tunisian
village near
the Algerian
frontier.
;jLJ under 'severe
S?c" criticism by
the United States because
some of the planes used in
the bombing were American.
The State Department says
the planes were supplied sole
ly for use in the North Atlan
tic Treaty defense area in
Europe.
To make things worse, the
rebels in Algeria have opened
a new offensive and have en
gaged French forces in four
sectors.
The Algerian revolt, of
course, lies benina tne entire
situation and behind most of
France's present grave
troubles.
France and Tunisia accept
ed the diplomatic "good of
fices" of the United States
and Britain in the Tunisian
dispute.
Murphy Negotiates
Robert Murphy, deputy
under-seccetary of state, is
now in Tunisia negotiating
with President Habib Bour
guiba. x
Murphy is a diplomatic
"trouble-shooter" of note.
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Adult Classes
To the Editor: On behalf of
the adult education program,
I wish to thank you for your
splendid assistance in present
ing the winter-term classes to
your readers. The response
was very favorable and I hope
that it is a step further in
meeting the needs of the com
munity. Thanks again for your par
ticipation. '
Lindsay M. Vinsel,
Director, Adult and
Vocational Education,
Medford Public Schools. -
Sloan Campaign
Committee Set
Portland (UV-Formation of
a committee to support Gor
don Sloan of Astoria in his
candidacy for the Oregon Su
preme Court was announced
today.
Sloan was appointed last
week by Gov. Robert D.
Holmes to fill a vacancy on
the Supreme Court. He will
be required to run for elec
tion to succeed himself in that
position.
Announcement of the com
mittee was made by its chair
man, Judge J. O. Bailey, re
tired justice of the Oregon
Supreme Court. Others on the
committee include:
Harvey DeArmond, Bend;
Orval Thompson, Albany; Al
Flegel, Roseburg; Wendall
Wyatt, former state Republi
can chairman, Astoria; Edgar
Smith, Ben Anderson, Moe
Tonkon, Robert Leedy, R. W.
Nahstoll, the Rev. Roy Fedje,
and Mrs. Clyde Gideon, all
of Portland; Prof. Kenneth J.
O'Connell, Eugene; Anthony
Yturri, Ontario; William
Walsh, Coos Bay; Mrs. War
ren McMinimee, Tillamook;
and Dr. Joseph P. Brennan,
M.D. and John Kilkenny, both
of Pendleton.
YOO 5HO0L0
SIGN WITH
But he seems to be faced
with an almost imrossible
task in attempting to bring
France and Tunisia together.
The bombing of the Tuni
sian village of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef
was an offshoot of
the Algerian rebellion.
President Bourguiba now
insists that Murphy must go
into the entire Algerian issue
in his attempt to mediate.
Premier Felix Gaillard of
France, trying desperately to
keep Algeria out of inter
national politics, rejects that
Is Different
Algeria is not, as were Tu
nisia and Morocco, a French
protectorate. It is politically
apart of France itself, with
representation in the French
Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop
STORMY WEATHER?
London For some years
now, the British Treasury has
had the habit of sending an
expert mission
of inquiry to
the United
States every
six months,
just to sniff
the American
economic air
and to see
which way
the American
Joseph Alsop e C OTIOmiC
winds are blowing.
The Treasury's habit is a
practical acknowledgement of
the American economy's abso
lutely decisive influence on
the welfare of the Western
nations. The usual British
Treasury mission left for
Washington just the other day
nearly three months ahead
of the . usual schedule. And
this premature return for an
other sniff and another look
is a mark of the intense con
cern that the American recession-depression
symptoms are
beginning to cause here in
London.
From this distance, it is not
very clear whether the leaders
of the Eisenhower administra
tion are aware of the fact. But
in London you do not have to
be a trained weatherman to
forecast a politician and eco
nomic typhoon over here, if
the economic climate in the
United States continues to
worsen.
rpHERE will be no storm of
course, in fact the sailing
should be good for the British
economy, if President Eisen-
sures are successful. Further
more, the British Treasury ex
perts still have a marked and
heartening confidence in the
American officials who prac
tice the strange arts of eco
nomic management.
In truth, the British Treas
ury is about the only place
in London, these days, where
you are still likely to hear a
good word for any part of the
U. S. government.
All the same, the big "if
remains. If the trend in the
United States is not corrected,
what will ,be painful for us
will also be downright" catas
trophic for Britain. This is
inherent in the unhappy situ
ation inherited by Britain's
quiet, coolly able and most
impressive new Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Derick Heath
coat Amory.
The best way to describe
this situation is to say that
Britain is like a bank with
sadly, inadequate reserves. The
effect of a continued Ameri
can recession will be to drive
the bank's customers to draw
heavily on their bank bal
ances. If this goes on too'long,
it can become a run on the
bank. In basic terms, it really
is almost as simple as that.
1I10RE specifically, the
money now on deposit in
London, mostly from coun
tries of the sterling area, cur
"CORONER CASES"
In those cases requiring the services of the county coroner, most peo
ple seemingly do not understand that they still have a free choice of th
funeral director they want to handle the funeral arrangements.
If you should be unfortunate enough to have to call the coroner
regarding the loss of a loved one, remember to call the funeral director
of your choice AT THE SAME TIME!
He can be of immeasurable help in relieving you of many of tht
troublesome difficulties involved in "coroner cases."
DAY OR NIGHT -PHONE SP 2-8030
Chapel Mortuary
Across from the Courthouse
Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass
FUNERAL. DIRECTORS
Parliament. Hence Gaillard
holds that Algeria is( purely
of internal French concern.
But every attempt to end
the revolt since it broke out
on Nov. 1, 1954, has failed.
Upwards of 500,000 French
troops have failed to crush
the rebels. Legislation pro
viding for a large measure of
home rule for Algeria has
failed to provide a way out.
Finally, there is serious di
version among French leaders
in Paris over the extent of
home rule to be granted.
Trouble-shooter Murphy is
quoted as expressing opti
mism over his chance .of ar
ranging ah agreement be
tween Tunisia and France. If
he does success, he will be a
diplomatic miracle man.
rently amounts to consider
ably more than 3,500,000,000
pounds. Britain's present hard
money currency reserves are
only about 900,000,000 pounds
or approximately a quarter of
the amount on deposit.
Many of the most important
depositors are raw material
producers, like Malaya with
its rubber, Rhodesia with its
copper and Kuweit with its
oil. Most of them " are ac
customed to making much of
their incomes by sales to the
United States. So they are
automatically hard hit when
raw material prices drop .and
there is less American, de
mand for their raw materials.
The most extreme case, at
present, is Rhodesia, whose
whole development program
is based on a world copper
price more than 2V2 times
higher than the current world
price. As yet the phenomenon
is spotty. For example, Aus
tralia's wool is still doing
pretty well, which is lucky
because hard times, for the
Australian depositor would be
a bleakly inconvenient devel
opment for the British bank
er.
At present, too, Britain is
selling her manufactured
goods high and buying her
raw material! cheap, which
is profitable while it lasts.
But if the raw material pro
ducers continue to be pinched,
they will begin to' ask bank
er Britain for long-term cred
its. Next they ' will present
heavy drafts on their balances
in London. Then they may
ask for parts of their balances
in hard currency. They will
end, if the process reaches its
worst conclusion, by breaking
the British bank altogether,
THUS the long, courageous,
uphill fight to defend the
stability of Britain's money
and to hold Britain's highly
nrofitable position as the
bank of the sterling area can
end in final defeat.
All this, mind you, will only
occur if the American reces
sion continues and deepens.
But if all this does occur, the
political consequences hard
ly bear thinking about. One
cannot really calculate the re
actions of a Britain .finally
defeated in the economic
struggle by bad times in
America. But one can be sure
these reactions will strain the
Western Alliance to the break
ing Doint and beyond. And
one can be sure this will offer
the Kremlin just the oppor
tunities that the Kremlin has
been waiting for very long
and very hungrily.
In truth, the eminent Brit
ish Treasury economists and
experts who are now making
their quiet, anxions inquiries
in Washington are human
symbols of the staggering and
total responsibility for the
Western future born by Presi
dent Eisenhower and his Ad
ministration. (Copyright 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Tragedy in the news:
Five members of a Win
chester, Kentucky family a
young couple and their three
small children, ranging in age
from two years to six perish
in a fire that swept their six
room frame house..
rpHE cause?
A member of the family
got up early .to start a fire in
the stove. KEROSENE
was
used to hasten the job.
The kerosene EXPLODED.
scattering flames in every di
rection. The home was a fiery
furnace in a matter of min
utes. THE lesson?
A
Tt. i cimnla on4 rrrim
The builder of the fir
broke the NATURAL LAW
that decrees that kerosene
and other; petroleum deriva
tives will explode when im
properly handled.
Punishment was swift and
merciless as is the case when
natural laws are flouted. If
you break the natural law of
gravity and leap off a high
cliff you must die or be
mangled on the rocks at the
bottom.
THAT brings to mind rath
er disturbingly, one must
admit the aftermaths of
three celebrated cases of law
breaking that are presently in
the news.
There is Leopold, who with
a companion now dead killed
a little boy in Chicago in the
long ago. It was a thrill kill
ing. They wanted to know
what it would feel like to take
a human life.
After serving long years in
the penitentiary, Leopold has
been paroled.
THERE is Roger Touhy, a
gunman and a hired killer
in the old days of gangland
wars. In gangland slang, he
was known as a "torpedo." He
mowed 'em down at so much
per head.
He may soon be paroled. -
THEN there is Hugh D'Au
tremont, who with his
twin brothers Roy and Ray
held up a train at the summit
of the Siskiyou with intent to
rob and in the course of the
holdup shot down the de
fenders of the mail.
He hopes that a parole for
him may be considered.
WHAT shall we say of these
. evidences of mercy rone
pf them an accomplished fact
and the others under study
for breakers of the law that
says THOU SHALT NOT
KILL?
THAT question isn't easily
answered.
We must remember that
vengeance isn't the sole pur
pose of punishment.- We hope
and we must CONTINUE
to hope that rehabilitation
of wrongdoers is possible. If
our civilization is to be true
CIVILIZATION and not mere
ly the agent of savage venge
ance, we must seek in every
way possible to rehabilitate
those who have departed from
the straight and narrow road
of rectitude.
But we must be sure, I
think, that it is hope of reha
bilitation and not mere maud
lin sentiment that animates
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