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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORL 4 Thursday, May 15, 1958 MEDFORDttrTRIBUNE "Everyone in Southern vregos Reads The Mail Tribune,r Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 38 North Fir St. Ph. SP.3-141 ROBERT W RUHL, -Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr ERIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter art Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1891 SraSCRIPTION RATES P7 Mail In Advance: Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year 913.00 Daily and Sunday mot. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle roim. Jacksonville, uoia run Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er Talert. and on motor routes Daily and Sunday I year 918.00 Daily and Sunday I mo. lid Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of CKy of Medford mnciai i-aper or Jacmon county United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC, Of fices m New York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B C NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL "T" Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 15, 1948 (Sunday) Petitions naming Frank C. Bash a candidate for a five year term as director of the Medford school board are filed. The new total of the Med ford band festival fund Satur day was 81,809.78. 20 YEARS AGO May IS, 1938 (Sunday) ' The water commission is asking cooperation of water users in observing rules vital to the water system. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "Haying has started. Showers, and ' a shortage of hay-hands are pre dicted." 30 YEARS AGO Mar 15, 1928 (Tuesday) , Mayor O. O. Alenderfer re ceives word that the final al lotment of a 77 millimeter gun and carriage captured during the World War has been made by the government for Medford. For 50 years, Mrs. S. J. Hessler, 327 North Grape st., pioneer of Jackson county, has carried the same purse. 40 YEARS AGO Mar 15, 1918 (Wednesday) , Medford's home guard com pany, comprising 100 citizens, will be mustered into the state militia tonight. From . local and personal column: "The ist of delin quents in the Red Cross cam paign drive of a year ago was given by Mayor C. E. Gates this afternoon and will .be published later." What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; rive Of six is good. 1. In tennis, what is the term for no score? 2. Bible: Name the parents of John the Baptist. 3. A pintail is a deer, wild duck, or western saddle horse? , ' , 4. About whose life did Plato write in "Apology" on the future life? 5. Upon what two articles of food and drink were the Greek gods supposed to live? 6. What is the customary fuel of rural Ireland? 7. What type of naval vessel is an E-Boat? 8. Is an armadillo a biped or a quadruped? 9. What river flows for 1,765 miles through Alaska? 10. Name the Secretary of Commerce. Answers: 1. Love; 2. Eliza beth and Zachary; 3. Wild duck; 4. The death of Socra tes; 5. Nectar and ambrosia; 6. Peat; 7. Motor torpedo boat; 8. Quadruped; 9. Yukon; 10. Sinclair Weeks. Concrete Anchorage - Erected at Brownlee ' Brownlee, Ore. flP) A mas sive concrete anchorage for Brownlee dam's permanent fish - handling facilities has been completed, Idaho Power Company announced today. '.. ; The company said 'the an chorages, first portion built on the multi-million dollar migrant fish facilities, also are . tnfi first of their kind ever built. M. T. JUDICIAL SELECTIONS JUDGES, SUPREME COURT GORDON SLOAN, No. 37 GEORGE R0SSMAN, No. 39 CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES JAMES M. MAIN, No. 42 EDWARD C. KELLY, No. 43 m DISTRICT JUDGE E. ROY TTie Tumult Dies The 1958 primary ends today and this is for sure, the "letter-hox editor" will be glad of it. Never before have there been so many com munications of a political nature received at this office, and never before so. many lengthy ones which had to be cut down; or so many heated ones which had to be cooled off a bit to come within police regulations. It meant a lot of extra work. We are not complaining. The soundness of this paper's policy regarding FREE expression of opinions in its columns during a political cam paign, regardless of party, we believe, was never more clearly demonstrated than during the clos ing weeks of the present free-for-all. Practically every one had a chance to be heard, and no favors were granted or special restrictions im posed on either side. ' ' DUT it will be a relief tomorrow to return to normalcy. And we believe few in the com munity will not feel similarly, including most of the candidates. But all this is what is commonly termed "democracy in action." And in this direction we would like to pin an orchid on radio -station "KYJC" for supplementing the Mail Tribune free service to the voters by giving many hours of time to the candidates over the air, without charge. We can extend this tribute with proper mod esty, for while KYJC is owned by the Mail Trib une, we had nothing to do with, this excellent extension of its activities in the important realm of the air and public service. (Manager MacLeod take a baw!)- A ND now with all this information and some misinformation of course the electorate in the county should be better posted than usual, on what various Candidates have to offer ; also some thing about their records, their respective dispo sitions, and how well they are fitted or unfitted for the jobs to which " "As usual, except in the no specific recommendations as to the various and sundry candidates. Such selections will be reserved for the election in the Fall. WE HAVE only one to the polls tomorrow they will "stop, look and listen" sufficiently long to disregard any vague rumors or insinuating whispers they may have heard in the final moments, make up their own minds on what they KNOW rather than what someone else has said, and vote for the man or woman they. consider regardless of all other considerations. In that way, and only there is a representative assurance the candidates next November will represent the considered the members of the two .- K.W.K. "What Have I Done?" "One stands in awe" before the unfolding scroll of human destiny' . v , . The above was uttered by Sir Winston Churchill at the "zero hour" in British history when a channel invasion by Hitler's hordes" was threatened. We believe many people reading the head lines from Venezuela, Lebanon, Algeria and Paris, yesterday and the day before, experienced a similar emotional reaction. riNE does stand in awe, as mobs over a large section of the world attack not only official representatives of the United States on a peaceful tour of good will ; but burn US libraries and con sulates in many parts of the Near East, while other street moos curse the U.S.A., desecrate its flag, accuse it of being pro-Israel oh one hand, and pro-Arab on the other! It is an extraordinary and awesome spectacle. And in all this vicious violence and confusion, not an official word, as far as noted, of condem nation, or more than perfunctory and half-hearted efforts to prevent what comes close to being an outrage on; an international scale against de cency and a proper regard for civilized behaviour. WHAT IS the answer? . Why should the United States be so unpop ular, so despised and hated, not only by the gov ernments, as in the case of Soviet Russia and Red China, which is understandable, but by the mass es of the people, apparently throughout South and Central America, the Near East, and parts of North Africa and Southern Asia? In fact, we might as well face it, pretty much all over the world. . . . ..: .. .. , -- . ... .... JVe don't know. In fact, we feel a? certain BASHAW. they aspire. judiciary race we make - final suggestion and best fitted for the job, m that way assuming vote can there be any and best judgment of major parties concerned. Dennis the Menace 'Her me is Gma. Sues seen Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann Pressure vs. Relaxation Washington The latest So viet note, which arrived on Sunday, seems to show that Mr. , Khrushchev has not missed the point of the NATO communique, which was pub lished on Wed nesday. It is that for the time being at least there is no compelling demand on either, side for a meeting at the summit, both sides waiter Lippmann there is a com pelling interest not to let ne gotiations be broken off. In order that negotiations may continue, Mr. Khrushchev has agreed to the original Eisen hower proposal, which . was adopted at the NATO meeting in Copenhagen, calling for ex pert studies of the means to "detect nuclear explosions." If past experience is a guide to the future, this concession by. the Soviet .Union will once again pose the question which haunts our Western diplo macy., This is whether to raise the ante, and to press for more concessions, or to play for a little and limited agree ment. There are powerful ar guments both for and against such little and limited agree ments, and in the discussion which the Soviet note will now open up these arguments will call for a number of very important decisions. THE biggest of the argu ments will turn on the issue of a policy of pressure versus a policy of relaxation. There are those who believe that the Communist order in Rus sia and in China will change its fundamental international character only if it is encir cled and subjected to a mount ing pressure of military pow er and economic non-intercourse. There are, on the other hand, those who believe that the policy of encircle ment and near-boycott, while impotent against the authori ty of the central governments, is a great support to them in regimenting their peoples .and compelling them to accept the sacrifices of the totalitarian system. When these two points of view are argued, the believ ers in the policy of pressure are likely to say that the other school is gullible and pacifist. Those who believe in a Dolicv of relaxation are likely to say, or at least to sus pect, that the others regard war as inevitable, and pre ventive war as conceivable. Both are extremist views, and the real question is, it seems to me, whether . on the as sumption that a -"balance of power is maintained, which is the wiser political policy? Is it to exert the maximum pres sure, maintaining high ten sion in the world? Or is it to moderate the pressure in or der to encourage the peoples on both sides to believe that there will be no war? THESE questions, which are xrucial, are extremely dif ficult on both sides of the iron curtain. Thus it is careless and untrue to suppose that the policy of relaxation is a Soviet device, calculated to divide and disarm the West while Moscow and Peiping ad vance to the domination of the world. The truth is that the policy of relaxation is feared by many leaders on both sides f ll kinship for Mr. Alec Guiness in the "Bridge oh the River Kwai," when he discovered those hid den wires on the river bank, leading to the bridge and in despair and anguish, sensing the complete defeat of all his efforts and hopes raised his hands in desperation to inquire as. Uncle Sam might do today . . . . "WHAT did I do SO wrong ? " R. W.R, i&wuR'ne d mt mo tsm of the iron curtain. It is feared on our side on the ground that it will diminish the support of NATO and encourage the de mocracies to follow their nat ural bent toward isolation. It is feared on the other side of the iron curtain for what at bottom is the same reason that with peace rather than war on the horizon, it will be necessary to relax the intern al pressure of the Communist system which compels the Russian and Chinese people, and the satellite nations, to work, to save, and to obey. The temporary relaxation of the tension after the sum mit meeting in Geneva had its unfortunate and inconvenient consequences in the West, but we must not forget that the Geneva meeting was followed by what happened a year later both in Hungary and in Poland. a A S between the two lines of policy, it seems to me that our true interest is in a policy of relaxation, given an effective and astute manage ment of our foreign affairs. I realize that there is a strong tendency in Congress "and the other NATO legislatures to retrench in military and for eign affairs, once the fear of more or less imminent war is removed. But this is a risk that good leaders and a' vigil ant press could mitigate and overcome. On the other hand, I do not believe that the Western democracies can be frightened enough to cause them to support an indefin ite and cumulative race of armaments. The policy of pressure is, as regards the NATO democ racies, subject to the law of diminishing returns. The rea son why the military object ives of NATO are not being met is that the European de mocracies are not really very much afraid that war is im minent. Frighten them enough to make them want to arm more heavily, and the chances are very great indeed that neutralism will be the result. On the other hand, it seems to me likely that the Commu nist orbit would be profound ly affected if the world's main tensions, were reduced. It is, no doubt, a gamble to say so. But on the assumption al ways that the West remained armed and that its diplomacy is alert and realistic we have more to gain than we have to lose by going forward, as and when we can, towards little and limited agreements. The most likely agreement would be an agreement to suspend nuclear' tests once the present series of tests are concluded. (Copyright 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Budget For Fair Being Considered Salem IF. The Oregon State Fair Commission is con sidering a $82,567 budget for the 1958 fair. - Fair Manager Howard Maple said the figure was an increase of $13,629 over the 1957 budget. Part of the increase' is for addition of two extra days to the 1958 fair and additions to various departments. Maple announced that the Oak Ridge Atomic Energy dis play had been secured for the fair this year. . Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop HOW MUCH BOOD? 1 Washington. - The strange, grim churning in the Kremlin is beginning to show a clearer m pattern. On the one hand, Nikita Khrushchev is still strug gling to con solidate his. enormous power. The sign of the struggle is the . Joseph aisop cuiiunuing, in creasingly venomous public denunciation of the. so-called anti-party group. Apparently Khrushchev is preparing, to take stricter disciplinary meas ures against Malenkov, Molo tov and- the other men whom he defeated and drove into ex ile a yar ago. On the other hand, the whole Communist bloc is also passing through an acute cri sis. With the enthusiastic sup port of the Chinese Commu nists, the Kremlin has again excommunicated Yugoslavia. Moscow, and Belgrade are close to open rupture; and this development in turn threatens the limited independence the Poles have ,won for them selves. THE pattern of the Kremlin struggle has not been clear, precisely because .these two sets of indicators seem to point in opposite directions. Khrush chev was the great renewer of Soviet ' friendship with Marshal Tito. The excommun ication of the Yugoslavs .has therefore seemed to suggest a setback for Khrushchev, which is indeed being reported in Warsaw. But if Khrushchev has sufered a severe setback, why are his fallen enemies apparently : about to suffer even more than they have suffered already? Look to the other end of the Soviet empire, ( and you find a possible answer. In the first place, any Soviet ruler in Khrushchev's shoes must always think first about the Chinese Communists when he adjusts his imperial policies. In the second place, he owes the Chinese a lot. After he vis ited Piking with Bulganin and MiKpyan, the Chinese sup ported Khruschev in the 1955 convulsion in the Kremlin that inaugurated the Khrush-and-Bulge phase of Soviet pol itics. ' - The situation bf the Chinese Communists can in turn be rather simply summed up, in a single terrible sentence They are in fact trying to do what Josef Stalin did, with many fewer assets to facili tate their task. CJTALIN'S achievement was J the rapid, massive indus trialization of his country, fi nanced by a ruthless cut in the Russian standard of liv ing, and enforced by bloody massacres. Yet in Stalin's Rus sia, the standard of life was far higher than the Chinese standard today. Russia had a wealth of untapped natural resources, both in land and minerals, that China cannot boast. And Russia's popula tion was not growing at the fearful rate of 15,000,000 souls per annum. Like Stalin himself in the first five-year-plan period, the Chinese have done their best to do without massacres. They have raised their agricultural output and improved their in dustry in a dramatic manner. Yet the increase of China's national product has not even kept pace with the increase of China's population. The Chi nese people are still growing poorer, not richer. This fac. has been gloomily admitted by Chinese leaders themselves, to the Yugoslavs among others before Chinese - Yugoslav friendship began to cool. In this painful situation, the Chinese leaders can modify their ambitious plan so dras tically that it will amount to a modification of the system itself. Or they can do what Stalin did in 1932. ' IN OTHER words, they can get a standard of life with complete ruthlessness, in or der to gain more investment funds. And they can make a starving nation both work and obey by . strewing the land with corpses. But the 20,000,000 corpses that, were enough in Russia will prob ably not be half enough, or a quarter enough, in China. The trend in Peking is clearly indicated by the pow erful Stalinist revival that has been going on, by fits and starts, ever since Mao Tse Tung's "hundred flowers' had their heads cut off. Nikita Khrushchev cannot ignore the trend in Peking, which means that he cannot any longer tol erate the degree of freedom enjoyed by the Yugoslavs and Poles. And if Khrushchev ad justs . his imperial policy to suit the Chinese, why should not the Chinese help Khrush chev in the unending struggle in the .Kremlin? - v - This is one reading of the France Weathers Parliamentary Crisis; Instability Continues By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent ; France weathered another parliamentary crisis Wednes day when the National Assem bly confirmed. Pierre Pf limlin as Premier by a vote of 273 to 124. While such crises in Parlia ment have become the rule rather than the exception, this last one. raised the dis tinct question whether the days of the Fourth Republic were numbered. The calls for a regime headed by Gen. Charles de Gaulle became louder than ever. It has been said that France is administered, not ruled. Even, at times when there is only a caretaker government in Paris, the routine adminis trative processes of republi can government throughout Washington Report By William S. White ", ' Washington The "mili-, tary mind" is at its lowest point of public influence in the West since I the 1930s the years that brought wish ful pacifism, a refusal to be come strong, and then Hit ler and all the rest. Military wiiiam s. White men do have minds, some of them very good ones. But to some self elected intellectuals, and cur rently to many others, the "military mind" means closed, sterile thinking. It is this mind that is suposed to be foolishly standing in the way of happy accomodation with the Russians. The military mind does in-; deed reject any such arange- ment or would if it could For the idea of nuclear dis armament, without any other kind of disarmament, terrifies many military men. They have, however, been firmly put in their places - by the political leaders here, in Britain, and in the North At lantic Treaty Organization. What the military mind thinks is getting little public atten tion. The emphasis is all on the burden and danger of con tinuing nuclear tests and arm aments. PROFFESSIONAL o f f i cers as a class are never asser tive in political matters. Now they are drawing into an anxious and wistful shell more remote than any they have known in two decades. Their self-expression, never strong, is made apologetic by awareness that in objecting to nuclear disarmament they seem to deny what millions see as man's last hope against holocaust. The only alternative the military men can offer and this they have talked about in private is anything but nice or pleasant. It is toil, sweat and tears, without the blood. This is what some profes sional ' officers with high Allied responsibilities con sider to be the best the West could rationally hope for: . 1. At least 20 years , more of cruel but unavoidable cold war stalemate. In this pe riod our side would be for tunate to keep atomic equality with, the Russians. It would be mortallv endangered by stop ping the so-called "atomic armaments race. 2. A real possibility if mystery, at any rate, which both. 1 covers all the known points and makes a kind of grisly sense. -(c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Try and By BENNETT CERF- TF7ITH ALL THIS bestowing of TV, movie and theatrical' " awards that's going on, Hal Kanter feels the following picneers no longer can be neglected decently: "1. Pliny the Younger, pro prietor of a mammoth drive in on Long Island. He in creased his attendance 360 per cent in one . week by simply not showing any movies. 2. An usher at a new smash Broadway musical. She seated . 250 patrons in 136 seats with the aid only of one burned-out flashlight and a few crude remarks. 3. A special award for the outstanding technologi-' cal advance of the year to Miss B. Overpass, candy counter salesgirl at the Acropolis theater. She now can make 230 gallons of orange juice from a single orange. . Sign posted in the office of Bill Cole, public relations expert for a book publisher: "Anyone who can remain calm in the midst of all this confusion simply doesn't understand the situation. - C 1958 by Beanett Cert Distributed by Kiss restores flradkste. the country are not affected Civil servants carry on their jobs, and the political crisis does not make itself felt in the prefectures which govern each of France's 90 Depart ments. Instability Inherent Lack of stability in the Na tional Assembly is due to the lack of a majority. Every pre mier must depend on a shaky coalition formed from several different parties. In the confirmation vpte for Pflimlin, 135 members ab stained. Sixty-four others did not vote. Thus Pflimlin fell far short of getting an abso lute majority," and could be thrown out at any time' if one or more groups in his coali tion government failed to sup port him on a vote of confi dence. our policy follows this harsh ly Spartan line that time will produce changes in the Rusisan people restraining the Kremlin from setting off the ultimate war. ' ' J : rpHIS reckoning does not ac- -- cept the decent, but pos sibly not sound, notion that our spiritual superiority is it self a measurable military asset. Many men will remem ber the Nazis as brutally pagan but brutally effective in battle. But the military mind or this sampe of it does give something to the pro-negotiation people. Its watchword would be: "To be tough always; to talk tough never." Far from dis couraging West-East relations, this approach, would foster personal exchanges. It would be friendly to all peaceful efforts to break the Iron Cur tain. . What has been reported here represents probably the bulk of Western professional military thinking. Statesmen argue as though the only ques tion were whether a "depend able" atom-hydrogen weapons lay-down could be arranged But a respectable military view refuses the idea that any such ararngement, no matter how dependable within it self, could be made without terrible risk to the West. i ?"CVDR, according to the au thnrities anonvmouslv quoted here, this is the real power situation up to date: ATOMIC The Russians are fast approaching "parity' or equivalent killing ability. CONVENTIONAL (armies, navies, air) The Russians are "staggeringly" ahead and will remain so. They have enough divisions to press down any satellite outbreaks at their rear while sending their attack forces across Western Europe. These forces, against all conventional resistance we have mounted or could mount, would stand at the French shores of the English Chan nel within six days,- some say, or 15 as others estimate, from the hour of their jumpoff. "NEW" WEAPONS The submarine-launching missile may be decisive. The Rusisans have a vast preponderance in U-boats and are -approaching the West in the "technical im provements" for missile op erations. If this be the chill and only balance sheet, asks the mili tary mind, is it really wise to consider. lowering now the one shield in which the West is not clearly inferior the nu clear shield? Is it wise, even granting the pain and peril of holding the shield aloft? (Copyright. 1958. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) Stop Me OBANGE-I JUICE I Qrro After a ministerial crisis, the new premier forms a shaky coalition cabinet which has been reshuffled largely from the outgoing one. Pflim lin, for instance has been in 16 different cabinets. France's entire position at a world power has been weak, ened by its political insta bility. The only solution seems to be between the firm support of a constitutional premier by a majority of the Assembly or the emergence of a dic tator who will rule as a strong man. , Demonstrations Cause Alarm . The- riots in Paris are one sign that the situation cannot continue. The politicians were horrified when on March IS thousands "of off-duty Parii policemen, supposed to be the guardians , of law and order, demonstrated in the center of the city and caused a paralyz ing traffic jam. Thousands of right -wine demonstrators, demanding a firm.poiicy in Algeria, tried to storm the National Assem bly Tuesday while it was de bating Pflimlin's confirma tion. , There have been plain signs for several months that the army was getting tired of the situation. The profes s i o n a 1 army men, the career offi cers, want to crush the Al gerian revolt by force instead of seeking a compromise that would give Algeria home rule. In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS This piece is written about mid-morning of the 13th day of May of the year 1948. At the moment of writing, there seems to be nothing particu larly unusual about the day. The communists appear to be as ornery as ever. The chief of the U.S. secret service has just received indirect re ports that they will try to shoot Vice-President Nixon when he reaches Caracas, in Venezuela - . . Nixon 'takes the report in stride and says he's going there, anyway. THE politicians are carrying on about as usual. Demo cratic National Chairman Paul Butler, speaking in Seattle, says President Eisenhower's antirecession plans are "not only impractical,' but CRUEL." He adds that the re cession trouble is due to "lack of cash, rather than lack of desire to spend money." That's good, standard POLITICIAN doctrine. Start the printing presses and give everybody gobs of money and everything will be hunkydory. Oh, yes. Portland has just reported something unusual this morning was the coldest May 13 morning in 82 years which doesn't mean that tomorrow might not be the hottest May 13 in Portland in 100 years. Nobody knows what the wewer finks. COME to think of it, May 13 is quite a day in history. It was on May 13, 1607, that three little ships hove to off the site-of Jamestown in Virginia and prepared -to found the first permanent English -'-settlement in the world. The colony was sent out by the London Company, and it was composed largely of adventurers who were greedy for gold and hoped to make their fortunes in Amer ica by the. always popular process . of turning a quick buck. They didn't find any gold. They had a terrible time. But they stuck it out. Among oth. er things, they discovered that socialism won't work in Amer ica. They tried it out and nearly starved to death be fore changing over to the free enterprise system of every body for himself, with his own little patch of ground. ' FT WAS on May 13, 1940, that another free enterprise Englishman Winston Chur chill made his forever-to-be-remembered "Blood, Sweat anrf Tears"-soeech that will go thundering down through ihe aees as lone as there are English-speaking people on this terrestrial ball. Sometimes we are inclined to think things are tough now. They were tougher - MUCH tougher when Sir Winnie made that inspired speecn. .' We came out of it then. We'll come out of it now. . rr WAS on May . 13, 1848, that the U.S. Congress de clared war on Mexico-an act that alienateo; ail oi xaun America from us but won for us the Great American South west, including California. In the clear light oi nina ffht. we know it would have been-better to go slower and get the Southwest by the proc ess of peaceful annexation. Isn't hindsight wonaeriui: . ONE more: On May 13, 1888,-Actor Dewolf Hopper first recited Casey at the Bat" in a new- musical comedy in New York."