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4 TuexJiy. April 29, 1958
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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
April 29. 1948 (Thursday)
Don Way, 35, brakeman for
the Southern Pacific, credit
ed with saving the life of an
elderly unidentified Medfo'rd
man by pulling him from the
tracks in front of an engine.
Republican President
ial Candidate Thomas Dewey
will be in Medford when he
makes his, Oregon campaign
jaunt. Jackson County Young
Republican club announces.
20 YEARS AGO
April 29. 1938 (Friday)
Jackson county registration
for the May primary totals
17 361 voters; 8,991 Republi
cans, 8,051 Democrats, and
319 miscellaneous registrants.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Hay
Fever cures are showing up
in drugstore windows. It is
also time for voters to come
down with sbaw ballots."
30 YEARS AGO
April 29, 1928 (Sunday)
From local and personal
column: "While no rush has
begun at the tax department
of the sheriffs office, taxpay
ers have been streaming into
the office steadily."
Lt. O. O. Nichols of the
state traffics department
catches a 28-pound salmon.
40 YEARS AGO
April 29. 1918 (Monday)
Shortage of farm labor and
the unusual demand for
, horses and mules for other
purposes are responsible for
the increased purchase of
of trucks in agricultural com
munities, according ' to J. C
Power of the Power Auto
company.
From local and personal
column: "The Greater Med
ford club will hold an im
portant meeting in the public
library Tuesday afternoon
Officers will be elected."
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina er fen correct is superior;
even or eight is excellent; five oi
is is good.
1. A man who has two or
more wives at the same time
is a bigamist; what is a wom
an who has two or more hus
bands at the same time?
2. Bible: What was Moses
occupation?
3. With what industry was
Joseph Pulitzer connected?
4. The head of which Euro
pean government bears the
title ox Caudillo?
5. Is pure air visible to the
naked eye?
6. Are the young of beav
ers known as pups, calves, or
kits?
7. For what food product is
the village of Cheddar in Eng
land famous?
8. What is the M.M.U.?
9. Next to Nevada, which
state of the Union has the
smallest population?
10. The Transvaal is a prov
ince of which country?
Answers: 1. A bigamist. 2.
Sheep-tender. 3. Newspaper.
4. Francisco Franco of Spain.
5! No. S. Kits. 7. Cheese. 8.
National Maritime Union. 9.
Wyoming. 10. Union of South
Africa
There are about 25,000
fleets of eight or more trucks
in the U.S., but they total
less than 15 per cent the total
number. 1
When Will It End?
Very much flattered to find in today's mail
the following brief and modest request quote :
"Please tell us how long will this recession last?"
With great pleasure and alacrity we answer:
"The present recession will last as long as the
people of the USA fail to follow President Eisenhow
er's recent command and instead follow his com
mand of 1957."
-Yes, it is just as simple as that.
IT WILL be recalled that a few weeks ago the
President urged the American people to spend
and spend and spend.
This was in complete contrast to what the
President had urged them to do a year ago, name
ly: to stop spending, to only buy what they had
to have and thus ward off the threat of destruc
tive inflation.
"THERE is considerable evidence that the Amer
ican people followed Mr. Eisenhower's first
command, though just when is not so clear.
There is even more evidence they are follow
ing it at the present time,
it since the first of the
determine just when they will stop.
XTE DON'T know. And we don't know anyone
who does. Although many members of the
present administration including President Eisen
hower, claim the worst is over and from now on
the prosperity spiral will rise.
We hope they are right.
But how do they KNOW?
The answer is they
are merely expressing a
a .
taking an optimistic view, public commence will
be restored sumciently
buyers strike.
WILL it? .
" Ae-ain we don't know and no one else does
o
Any more than any one
er will be next Easter.
All anvone can do is
that is what they are
so-called economic experts.
One expert says one
pnuallv exnert. savs the
X A v
is the poor man up-a-tree to conclude? Well, if
he is smart, he will conclude to stop thinking
about the depression, stop worrying about it,
stick to his job if he is lucky enough to have one
and let Nature take its course.
For Nature and only Nature is going to
settle this business anyway HUMAN nature.
For it isn't an economic problem, it isn't a busi
ness problem, it isn't a banking problem; it is
essentially a human psychological problem.
It is not how much money the people have in
their pockets savings accounts are at an all
time high it is what they have in their heads,
not what they are doing but what they are think
ing, and what they are planning to do.
In other words, the recession will end when
public confidence is restored and it won't end
until then.
And so ANYTHING that will tend to restore
public confidence will tend to shorten the reces
sion and anything that will tend to impair it,
will tend to lengthen it.
CO WE come back to where we started from
the recession will end when the American
people reject President Eisenhower's first direc
tive, and accept and follow out his second
when they stop buying only what they absolutely
NEED, and start buying what they WANT. .
Those who KNOW just when that change in
the status of the public mind will occur know
when the recession will end, and no one else,
however pontifical and pompous, does know.
There are too many imponderables in the pic
ture for anything else.
0
FINALLY there is the question of reducing the
Federal income tax and thus putting $4 or $5
billions into the pockets of the income tax suf
ferersat a time, incidentally, when that suf
fering is extremely wide-spread, painful and
acute.
OK no doubt millions of high minded and
deservinp- citizens would ereatlv appreciate it
particularly those in the
many of them would proceed to spend it ana
how much?
For as indicated above, prosperity does not
depend upon how much money there is in the
cmmtrv but how active it is. how great is the mon
etary turnover, the velocity. Money in the bank
doesn't help unless it is
SO AGAIN we return to
Totyip1v! this recession
state of the people's pocketbooks but their state
of mind.
Tf tVinsp $4 nr $5 billions scheduled to con
tribute to Uncle Sam's debt reduction are to be
withheld and put into the pockets of the income
tax payers, that action would only benefit the
TLS; economv.if nut or a large part of it in
circulation. However, if
store public confidence of the country as a
WHOLE, how much WOULD be put in circula
tion? Ah, there's the rub.
"So round and round the little ball eoes
where and when it will
and have been following
year. So the problem is to
don't. No one does. They
hope a hope that by
1 I 1 11
to end the nation-wiae
KNOWS what the weath
to hone -and otipss. and
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all doing, including the
thing, another'.prophet,
exact reverse. So what
higher brackets. But how
USED.
another starting point,
is not based upon the
this refund failed to re
drop nobody knows."
K.VY.K.:
Dennis the Menace
DON'T GET SORB AlM f I DIDN'T SAY IT WAS
A WIS J MOM SAID IT WAS A WIG ( .,..
Matter of Fact
THE VOTE
Washington On Wednes
day afternoon, in a somnolent
Senate, William S. Knowl
and of California rose to his
feet with the
d e termined
air of a bull
about to
charge.
Jack Ken
nedy of Mas-
sachu setts
was speaking
on the im
portant, m-
josph Alsop saneiy com
plex bill regulating industrial
pension and welfare funds.
Kennedy amiably yielded the
floor to the Republican lead
er, and Knowland charged in
deadly earnest. Or rather
Knowland announced that
he would offer as amend
ments to the pending bill all
the labor reforms proposed
by John McClellan of Arkan
sas, plus a couple more of his
own.
The resulting crisis left au
diences as far away as Min
nesota with no senators to
orate to them. It caused night
sessions, with resulting sena
atorial gaps at many a Wash
ington dinner table. ' It sub
jected several senators up for
election this year to the spe
cially exquisite agony that
senators feel when they have
to ask themselvfs the ques
tion: '.'Just whose vote do I
want,, because I can't have
them all?"
The crisis is all over now,
with no very lasting effects.
But it is worth seeing what
really happened, simply be
cause it tells a lot about our
peculiar legislative process.
npO begin at the beginning
then, the crisis seems to
have started when President
Eisenhower vetoed the Riv
ers and Harbors Bill a fort
night ago. Knowland's pros
pective opponent, for the Cal
ifornia governorship, Attor
ney General Pat Brown, at
once sent Knowland a ver
bose but stinging telegram.
Please vote to override the
President, wired Brown, in
summary, in order to save
the enlightened ' California
citizenry , from death by
thirst, or flood, or both. This
telegram seems to have been
the red cape that set the bull
in motion.
The labor reforms on which
Knowland chose to charge
are just about as far-reaching
and controversial as the Taft
Hartley Act. If and when
they are seriously debated,
they can be counted . on to
produce a comparable storm
in the senate. Knowland is
modeling "his electoral strat
egy on the late Bob Taft's.
He counted on producing just
such a storm, and he expect
ed to ride the storm in the
manner of a very large, very
solid, very masculine version
of the Valkyries.-
But Knowland had forgot
ten the foresight of his oppo
site number, Senate Demo
cratic leader Lyndon Baynes
Johnson of Texas. He should
have guessed Lyndon was up
to something, because all
through Tuesday the Senate
had been a virtual desert,
populated only by quorum
calls and the pale, attenuated
but obstinate figure of the
Democratic whip, Mike Mans
field of Montana.
JOHNSON had in fact guess-
ed that sonfeohe would of
fer controversial labor re
forms as amendments to the
industrial pension and 1 wel
fare bill. While Mansfield
kept the Senate in meaning
less session, Johnson had
therefore spent most of Tues
day with John McClellan,
Jack Kennedy and Lister Hill
of Alabama. Between them,
they had made a plan to take
care of any amendments. So
an invisible but sturdy fence
had already been erected in
By Joseph Alsop
his path, even before the bull
charged.
All the same Knowland's
amendments started a violent
flurry. Johnson's leg-man,
Robert Baker, rushed off to
sound every Senator's senti
ments in record time. Wed
nesday evening, Johnson,
Kennedy, Hill and McClellan
started a huddle that extend
ed through most of Thurs
day. The huddle ended with a
solemn reaffirmation of the
deal they had already made.
As chairmen of the Senate
Labor Committee and the rel
evant sub-cimmittee, Hill and
Kennedy swore to report . a
Labor Reform Bill at this ses
sion. McClellan in iurn swore
to report a Labor Reform Bill
at this session. McClellan in
turn swore to vote against
his own proposals that
Knowland offered, until these
proposals could receive com
mittee consideration. McClel
lan's stand was vital, for he
was the bell-wether of the
conservative D e m b c r a t s.
"Time for committee consid
eration!" instantly became
the watchword of Isyndon
Johnson.
ON the Republican side,
meanwhile, senators like
Potter of Michigan and Thye
of Minnesota, who have big
labor groups and powerful
manufacturing interests in
their states, were all but roll
ing on the floor in the sheer
pain of the choice Knowland
had presented to them. The
Republican Policy Committee
had not been warned by
Knowland and was outraged.
But the committee nontheless
followed the advice of shrewd
Styles Bridges of New Hamp
shire. "We can't give Bill less
than one roll call," said
Bridges. On the other hand,
Irving Ives of New York, who
had spent three years of hard
work on the Pension and
Welfare Fund Bill, was in a
Barbara Fritchie mood:
" 'Who touches a hair on
yon grey head
Dies like a dog! March
on,' he said."
Only, "I'll introduce the Fair
Emplyoment Practices Act as
another amendment if any of
Knowland's amendments car
ry" was what Ives really said.
That horrible threat settled
the matter. By Thursday eve
ning, ten Republicans led by
Ives and John '"Sherman
Cooper of Kentucky were
committed to vote against
Knowland, and all the Dem
ocrats except the eccentric
Lausche of Ohio were follow
ing Johnson and McClellan.
There was a lot of oratory on
Friday, but the final and de
cisive vote of 53-to-37 was a
foregone conclusion a day be
fore it was taken.
: Thus Knowland's charge
was brought to a stumbling
halt.
(c) 1058 New York Her
ald Tribune Inc.)
12 Slot Machines
Seized at G. Pass
Grants Pass (IP) Twelve
slot machines were seized in
a simultaneous raid shortly
after noon Monday by city
police and Josephine county
sheriff's deputies at two
Grants Pass clubs.
Eight of the machines were
taken from the American Le
gion club and four from the
Veterans of Foreign Wars
club.
Harold Moon, manager of
the American Legion club,
was charged with illegal pos
session of slot machines. EU
mer Riblett, steward at the
VFW club, was charged with
illegally possessing gambling
devices. . .
Police said they were tipped
off Monday morning when a
man booked on a bad check
charge told officers he needed
the money because of losses
on the machines.
Communications
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the writer although under cer
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edit all letters with an eye to
clarification and condensation.
Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
The letters printed in this
:olumn do not necessarily repre
sent the views of the paper, in
fact the contrary .is often the
case.
Team Lauded
To the Editor: Medford Ki
wanis club, on instruction of
its board of directors, - has
sent the following letter to
Coach Dean Benson ' and
members of the Medford High
school track team to express
its support and to .stress its
disagreement with a letter ap
pearing in the Communica
tions column of the Mail Trib
une on April 18.
Dean Benson and Medford
High Track and Field Team
Medford Senior High school
Medford.
Dear Dean and Fellows:
As secretary of the Medford
Kiwanis club, I have been in
structed by the board of di
rectors to write to you ex
pressing our complete back
ingand our congratulations
for the fine work you have
done so far this season. After
watching you men perform
and compete under all sorts
of conditions we in the Ki
wanis know that certain state
ments which have been made
of a derogatory nature are
without foundation and sim
ply not true. You have shown
fine spirit and well coached
performance.
May we just express this
one short statement to you,
Coach, and through you to the
track team, that win, lose or
draw you and the team are
still champions in our eyes.
i The Kiwanis Club of
t Medford
By: E. Ronald Rice
Secretary
"EA" Editorials Appreciated
To the Editor: Congratula
tions for your series of edito
rials dealing with information
relative to the primary elec
tions. The series, now appear
ing in the editorial columns,
are a very much needed pub
lic service and long past due.
I hope your lead is quickly
followed by the other valley
papers, radio stations, and the
TV station. If not you may
be the one to pick the win
ners. Wouldn't that be some
thing? No matter what
thanks for the information
you are presenting. , ,.'
By the way I wonder
what you and the public
think about this idea to get
people registered and in a
voting booth: $1 deduction
from city taxes for voting in
the city elections, SI deduc
tion from county taxes for
voting in the county elec
tions, $1 deduction from
school taxes for voting in the
school elections. $2 state tax
deduction for voting in the
state elections, and a So fed
eral tax deduction for voting
in the national election. In
- .1 1 : 1 V,
case anyone uisiuves mc iuca
got a better one?
William Doernbach
143 Mace rd.
Medford.
Claims Record Falsified
To the Editor: Walter Nun
ley is at it again. In a recent
radio broadcast he said:
"Now illegal possession
of narcotics carries a sen
tence under Oregon law of
10 years in the Oregon
State Penitentiary and a
$5,000 fine for the first of
fense, and twice that sen
tence for a second offense.
The court, however, has no
statutory authority for giv
ing county jail time. How
ever, my opponent gave
Foster a six month sus
pended county jail sentence
and a SI 00 fine and turned
him loose."
Since I know Judge Kelly
(and also know Walter Nun
ley) this sounded 100 per cent
false to me. I decided to do
some checking in the official
county records, which are
open to anyone who wants to
see them. I found this amaz
ing thing:
Henry A. Foster, concern
ing whom Nunley said the
foregoing did not come be
fore Judge Kelly in fact,
Foster did not come before
either the Circuit Judges.
Foster was charged in the
District Court with a mis
demeanor, and it was in the
District Court that he was
sentenced.
Wouldn't you think that a
man who claims to be fit to
hold the high and impartial
office of Circuit Judge would
takel0 or 15 minutes to check
the facts before going on the
air with such wild accusations
against a good judge with a
fine reputation held by Judge
Kelly?
James A. Redden, Jr.
107 East Main st.
Medford.
Gill Is Endorsed
To the Editor: Thank you
for your enjoyable and worth
while editorial "The Kicka
poo Technique" in Sunday's
paper, wherein you call at
tention to the glittering emp
Russia Hardening Its Terms
For Conference at 'Summit'
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
Soviet Russia appears to be
progressively hardening its
terms for a "summit"" cohfer-
ence on world
soviet oreign
Minister A n-
dref A. Gromy-
V iil ko has refused
firmly to hold
with the
American,
British and
French ambas
Charles M.
McCann
sadors in Moscow on prelimi
nary arrangements for the
conference unless Poland and
Czechoslovakia also are repre
sented. Soviet Vice Premier Anas
tas I. Mikoyan has announced
flatly that the agreement
reached at . the 1955 summit
meeting in Geneva, Switzer
land, on the reunification of
Germany is no longer valid.
There is good reason to be
lieve, on the basis of such de
velopments as these, that the
Soviet government is com
pletely confident that it can
compel the United States to
Murder Indictment
Returned in Portland
Portland (IP) A first de
gree murder indictment was
returned Monday by the Mult
nomah county grand jury
against Ernest G. Taylor, 33,
who confessed to " strangling
Mrs. Bessie Vivian Hammonds
last January in her apart
ment.
Mrs. Hammonds, 36-year-old
apartment house manager,
was choked to death with the
cloth belt of her bathrobe.
Taylor was apprehended in
Boise, Idaho, earlier this
month.
tiness of most political candi
dates' campaign statement.
Many of us are supporting the
candidacy of State Sen. War
ren Gill of Lebanon for the
Republican nomination for
the governorship precisely
because he offers a specific
platform and his sincere be
lief in that platform. is attest
ed to by his voting record in
the State Legislature over
the past ten years. Here is
what Warren Gill has to say,
for example, about the tax
situation in Oregon:
1. "I will propose a law to
reduce local property taxes
by means of a 3 per cent sales
tax. Food, medicine, seed
and fertilizer to be free of
tax. -2. I will veto any state
property tax. 3. I will veto
any increase in income tax.
4. . I will propose a home
stead exemption for persons
over 65 whose income is less
than $150 per month."
Should you or any of your
readers wish more informa
tion regarding Senator War
ren Gill you have only to
drop me a note at P.O. Box
692, Medford, and I shall be
glad to send it to you.
i ; - Dick House,
' ' " 15 Corning court,
Medford.
Charges Lobby Bribery
To the Editor: "Remove the
cause and the disease, cannot
exist." The above is an old
truism and in burcase the
cause is the lobbyists at
Washington, D.C. (a Lobby
ist may be a lawyer, hired
and paid by Big Business in-J
X A A 1 I"l T " 1 H
leresis io iniiuence . .Legisla
tion, who wiU pay officials
to vote as instructed). This
is Big Business at its worst.
Proof as per $2,500 in cash,
left on the desk of Senator
Case recently, in a brazen at
tempt to bribe him to vote
"Yes" on the natural gas bill.
(Senator Case was honest and
exposed this attempted bribe;
this made news -for all pa
pers.) The important Bill up for
vote now is the compulsory
humane slaughter bill. A pow
erful ten billion dollar yearly
intake meat packers' lobby
are at work now in Washing
ton. This Bill passed the
House and is now being held
up too long in the Senate.
(The lobby is at work; this
should be a criminal offense.)
If a Senator is not sure of be
ing elected again, of course
he is susceptible to being
bribed. Ninety-nine out of
every 100 voters want this
Humane Law passed; the ter
rible cruelty involved is al
most beyond belief, seven
million meat Animals slaugh
tered each work day, the
worst mass cruelty the world
has ever known.
Merciful God would surely
want this cruel suffering
stopped. Every Humane
Christian should cooperate.
Our best move is, to turn the
"spotlight of enlightened pub
licity" on this terrible situa
tion of vote buying by this
lobby situation. I will mail
this letter to the over 8,000
newspapers in the U.S.A. to
enlighten nearly 100 million
people. Write to me I have
good news for you, for your
approval and suggestions.
John Jackson Taylor.
1477 Fifth ave.
Troy, N.Y.
I 1
agree to a summit meeting
whether it wants to or not be
cause of world pressure for
any action that" can" relieve
tensions.
Reds Probably Right
It appears to be increasingly
probable, also, that the Soviet
government will' prove to be
right.
It will be recalled that the
United States, Great Britain
and France took it for grant
ed, when they agreed to start
preliminary summit meeting
talks in Moscow, that Gromy
ko receive their ambassadors
together.
Instead he called in the
American ambassador first,
then summoned the British
and French ambassadors next
day.
This has been taken in
Washington as designed, in
part, to split the three West
ern allies.
There is no reason to
doubt that Russia would like
to do. that. It is highly un
likely that any such attempt
will be successful. But at lest
the Soviet tactics are causing
some disagreement on allied
policy.
Tough Election Law
In Great Britain
Eliminates Problems
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IP) "Just
about now in an election year
session of Congress some leg
islator may be
e x p e cted to
i n t r oduce a
bill to defeat
fraud and to
impose hon
esty in U.S.
elections.
The corrupt
practices act
is on the books
Lyie c. Wilson but does not
work very well. It is conceded
that there is too much spend
ing in- U.S. elections, and it
is widely believed that some
of it is illegal.
There have been in recent
years charges of ballot box
stuffing and at least one nota
ble theft and disposal of sus
pected ballots. Before any leg
islator moves to correct these
evils, he should examine the
"representation of the peo
ple" acts of 1948 and 1949
which comprise the present
election laws of Great Brit
ain. These laws would bewilder
Convention Report
Slated by Eagles
A report on the recent dis
trict convention at Lakeview
will be given at a meeting of
the Fraternal Order of Eagles
at 8 o'clock Thursday night
in the Eagle hall, 219 West
Main st.
A large delegation from
Medford attended the conven
tion, at which the Medford
men's drill team placed sec
ond. Bend was first and Klam
ath Falls third.
Everett Sybrant and Chris
Hutton were judged the best
junior past president and con
ductor, respectively.
JUST THE FACTS
Bay City, Mich. (IP)
City Mananger Casimir Ja-
blonski and City Attorney
Jobf Thiler are mulling over
a request from the Bay Coun
ty Association on Decent Lit
erature. The group wants an
appropriatiton of $25 a month
to buy books to see if theyi
really are obscene. I
Counsel With ...
Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan
Lr-ftrt-al ML J
Fred Brennan
Or Call
Mr. Friendly
Bill Fish
Phone SP-2-4940
MEDFORD
INSURANCE
AGENCY
27 NORTH HOLLY ST.
In Washington, the tend
ency seems to be to continue
the preliminary summit nego
tiations by means of individ
ual talks between Gromyko
and the allied ambassadors, if
necessary, rather than consent:
to the inclusion of Poland and
Czechoslovakia in the picture.
Britain Urges Inclusion
But London dispatches said :
Monday that the British gov
ernment is urging the United
States to agree to the inclu
sion of Poland and Czechoslo
vakia simply as the easiest
way to get the talks really
going. ; -
Russia has made its position,
plain. It wants to include Po
land and Czechoslovakia
ostensibly because r.s things'
are now it is out-numbered,
three to one by the United
States, Britain and France in
top-level negotiations on the
summit meeting.
The real reason, of course,
is to get the Western allies to
accept Russia's east-European
satellites on an equal footing
with the Western powers. Ac- ,
tually they are puppets, and
would be puppets in any con
ference. any honest American politi
cian and almost surely entrap
a crook. Their purpose pri
marily was to limit or to abol
ish any campaign advantage
a rich man might have over
a poor man. The laws limit
spending, and they are en
forced. No Campaign Cigars
Treating or entertainment
by a candidate is forbidden.
No campaign cigars, don't
lend a voter money if you
plan to run for British office.
Even a small loan made in
good faith would disqualify
a candidate if the election
took place within six months
thereafter.
A British voter may take
household members to the
polls in the family car but
may not offer his neighbor a
lift, nor any other person not
of the household. A British
candidate's campaign mana
ger may register before poll
ing day a limited number of
automobiles to transport vot
ers; one car for every 2,500
registered voters in a city
constituency, one for every
1,500 in country districts.
If a car breaks down on
polling day, it may not be re
placed. One of the penalties
for ignoring some of these
campaign and election day
rules is disqualification of
the candidate if he is, elected
and punishment of his cam
paign manager or agent.
Low Campaign Expenses
A candidate for the British
House of Commons may
spend $280 of his personal
funds on personal campaign
expenses. His agent or cam
paign manager is limited to
spending between $1,600 and
$1,800, depending on the' con
stituency and that is all.
The candidate is disqualified
if he or his agent overspends.
The agent is responsible
for his candidate's observance
of the law. ( :
Sturdy protection of the
voter and assurance that his
vote will be counted remain
entrenched in British law and
tradition. The British tolerate
neither goons nor nonsense
around their polling places. It
has been a longj long time
since any British ballot box
has been tampered with or
stolen, especially in or from
official premises, all of which
has happened in the U.S.
more recently.
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