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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
May 19. 1948 (Wednesday)
An amendment to the city
fire and buildling ordinance
setting up new zones passes
first reading by city council.
Service permits will be re
quired for all persons selling
alcoholic beverages on li
censed premises, according to
the Oregon Liquor commis
sion. 20 YEARS AGO
May 19, 1938 (Thursday)
The calmest Jackson county
primary campaign closes to
day with the chief interest in
the Democratic contest for
governor.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Candi
dates did nothing much but
shake hands and gnaw the
meat off chicken legs at coun
try dinners."
30 YEARS AGO
May 19. 1928 (Saturday)
Six million rainbow trout
eggs have been taken at
Diamond lake during the last
two weeks.
From local and personal
column: "For the woman of
larger proportions, these
frocks give lines of slender
ness and youth Steward's
$10 to $15 store."
40 YEARS AGO
May 19. 1918 (Saturday)
The first car load of ore
from the Blue Ledge mine ar
rives in Medford from Jack
sonville. From local and personal
column: "All daughters of the
American Revolution of Med
ford interested in the Red
Cross parade Monday should
contact Miss Van Meter Sat
urday." What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. What was the name of
Robert's Fulton's first practi
cal steamship which made its
first voyage on the Hudson
River? -
2. Was NeW Hampshire one
of the original thirteen states?
3. What is the motto of the
Marine Corps?
4. At the Panama Canal,
the sun rises over the Pacific
end and sets over the At
lantic end; true or false?
5. Which War Agency was
known as the ODT?
6. Name the smallest breed
of dog.
7. Name the male lead in
the motion picture, ,The
Hucksters."
8. In what game must you
peg 61 holes to win?
9. What is meant by "dy
ing intestate"?
10. Was George Washington
one of the signers of the Dec
laration of Independence?
Answers: 1. Clermont; 2.
Yes. 3. Semper Fidelis; 4.
True. (The Atlantic end of the
canal is 27 miles west of the
Pacific end); 5. Office of De
fense Transportation; 6. Chi
huahua; 7. Clark Gable; 8.
Cribbage; 9. Without a Will;
10. No.
Oporto, Portugal (W A
bus carrying 40 persons went
out of control at nearby Ar
cos de Valdevez Sunday and
hurtled into a ravine. Seven
teen persons were killed. The
23 other persons aboard the
bus were injured, several seriously-
A.CL.U.
Uhe American Civil
organization which is
county.
Many people seem to have a vague idea that
it is some sort of communist-front outfit, although
if one asks them why, or how, they are at a Toss.
Nothing could be further from the truth. In
fact, one of the prerequisites for membership is a
statement that one is not an adherent to commun
ist, fascist, Ku Klux Klan or other totalitarian
doctrines. '
HTHE ACLU's main interest is a defense 'of m-
dividuals whose rights under the constitution
have been violated.
It has defended communists and fascists,
Jews, Catholics, Protestants and Atheists, black
and white anyone, in fact, who is threatened
with action which deprives him of the dignities
and freedoms spelled out nearly 200 years ago
by the authors of the Bill of Rights of the U. S.
Constitution.
It has defended people who, as individuals,
it abhors. It has done so on the theory that rights
denied to one are rights potentially denied to
others. If the constitutional guarantees are not
to be applied with equality they no longer serve
their purpose.
VITE BELIEVE that there is little too little
concern with civil rights in southwestern
Oregon. Perhaps this is because there are few of
the groups which are most frequently deprived
ot their rights as Americans. Ana yet mere, nave
been instances where people have been' abused
or made to suffer without the sanction of the
supreme law of the land. ..
This type of thing is the prime concern of
the ACLU. , '
But also it has, for 38 years, been fighting
various forms of censorship segregation and dis
crimination, for civil rights legislation, for asylum
for refugees from tyranny, and in other causes
where civil rights freedom, if you will is
threatened.
pHE ACLU has been berated for defending
what are often unpopular causes. It takes
courage to stand up and be counted for what one
thinks is right, and individual members' of the
ACLU have, as a result, been subjected to abuse
as "pinks" or "commies" when, actually, they
are fighting to retain and expand the very things
that are most "American" in the best sense.
But, in addition to the abuse, tlje ACLU has
drawn the praise of many thinking people, con
servatives and liberals alike, who recognize that
the rather tough row it is attempting to hoe is an
important one in today's society.
The New York Times, for instance, has said:
"The ACLU (is a) useful and thoroughly patriotic
organization ... To equate patriotism with conformity,
orthodoxy, and name-calling is dangerous nonsense;
and this cannot be pointed out too often."
.
THE Christian Science
v yj ilia xl Kdii ocjr uiJ-ctu a ka.j hu agic vviwii
a word you say, but will defend to the death your
right to say it," and adds :
"It would be hard to find a more searching test of
the genuineness of democratic sentiments than is im
plicit in this famous dictum. And it would be equally
hard to find an organization that subjects itself to
this test more often than does the ACLU."
The Washington (D.C.) Post concurs :
"The ACLU ... has proven, over the years, that
it knows and understands what true Americanism
means."
And, closer to home, the Eugene Register
Guard declares:
"Far from being 'un-American,' the ACLU and its
courageous, tough-minded members are examples of
the highest form of Americanism, the form that
Americanism, like charity, begins at home, and that
the denial of rights to one person injures all of us. It
does not believe that the American system is so weak
that undesirables must be rooted out at all costs. When
they are rooted out, the ACLU believes that they
should be rooted out for. the right reasons and with
due consideration for individual rights and established
processes."
MEMBERS of the ACLU come from every ma
jor religious group, from both major parties,
and from all parts of the country. They frequent
ly disagree on many things religion, politics,
economics and the rest.
This is as it should be. . ,
For in diversity lies America's strength, and
one of the things which has always been good
in America is the right to dissent, and to be pro
tected in one's constitutional guarantees while
doing so.
This is the one thing on which members of
the ACLU can, and do, agree. E.A.
Everybody's a Layman
A layman, it has been said, is anyone who
knows less' than you do about the work you do.
To a physician, a layman is anyone without
an M.D. degree. To an attorney, any non-lawyer
is a layman.
When the phrase is used, there usually is an
implied sneer in the meaning of the speaker,
which is too bad, for he, too, is a "layman" to
someone else.
It's summed up in another phrase "every
one is ignorant, only on different subjects."
E.A.
Liberties Union is an
little - known in Jackson
Monitor quoted the old
th
Dennis the Menace
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Matter of Fact
EISENHOWER'S
FADING IMAGE
Chicago, 111. Dwight D. Ei
senhower seems to be losing
his greatest asset. The famous
"father image" of the Presi
dent whom all
must like,
whom all can
trust, is at
last beginning
to fade pretty
badly.
This is the
1 conclusion
that has to be
drawn, at any
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Joseph AJsop 1 " c "um
two days of intensive doorbell-ringing
that this reporter
recently completed in this
city's industrial neighbor
hood. There was a curious same
ness in the places polled.
Green and Ashland and Cen
ter Streets and Calumet Ave
nue in Harvey, 111., and East
36th Avenue in Gary, Ind.,
only differ from each other
in the dates when develop
ment began. But even in th,e
older streets, there are some
new houses. And all are in
habited by the same sort of
people industrial- workers in
the more skilled and highly
paid .groups and prosperous
mechanics and construction
workers, with a sprinkling of
railroaders, small business
men and retired people.
-
HPHESE places were chosen
by Lou Harris, the profes
sional poller who joined in
the doorbell-ringing, because
they were the sort of places
where the President made
very heavy inroads among the
normally Democratic voters
in 1952 and 1956. And in
deed, of the 65 persons who
were polled, no less than 38
voted for Eisenhower in 1956,
while only 21 cast their bal
lots for Adlai Stevenson.
Among those who had voted
therefore, the preponderance
of Eisenhower ballots had
been really heavy. The con
trast was sharp with the way
the same people were now in
clined to vote in the oncom
ing Congressional election.
About one in five really did
not have the vaguest idea, but
among the rest some 28 were
at least leaning rather heavily
in the Democratic direction,
while only 20 were leaning
Republican or positively plan
ning a Republican vote.
This is a switch vastly ex
ceeding the expected drop in
the party in power's vote in
an off-year election. But this
apparent . voting switch did
not seem so deeply significant
to this reporter, especially be
cause so few people had real
ly begun to think hard about
their next votes.
117HAT was so significant,
rather, was ' the drastic
change in the tone and char
acter of the response to the
formerly magical Eisenhower
name. Before, if you went
doorbell-ringing among the
American voters, you found
literally no exception to at
least one rule, anywhere in
the country. The name of Ei
senhower always evoked spon
taneous expressions of affec
tion and admiration from the
vast majority of those ques
tioned, including a substan
tial majority of intending
Democratic voters.
The latter group were a
bit ashamed. They would say,
"Ike's a good man, but" the
Democrats were the poor
people's party, or they had
always been Democrats, or
something else of that sort.
The people who had made up
their minds to vote for Eisen
hower, on the other hand,
were generally proud of their
decision. They almost always
went on to boast of the Presi
dent's admirable qualities.
One of our standard ques
tions, this time, asked for a
rating of the "job Ike has
done." Those who gave him
the "excellent" and the "poor"
ratings were both tiny groups.
The "pretty goods" slightly
out-numbered the "only fairs"
which would explain the
I XV I
MAKE GOOD AUJD PIB5 ?
fWtVd MKITi
By Joseph Alsep
other polls alleging continu
ing national satisfaction with
Eisenhower's performance in
office. But once again, these
job ratings seemed to this re
porter much less significant
than the way they were given.
Those who gave a rating of
"pretty good" or above were
almost invariably defensive.
The old "Ike's a good man"
routine was hardly ever
heard. Instead, you were told
that "he's doing the best he
can, I guess," or, if a partisan
Republican was answering,
you might be .. told that any
shortcomings were really the
fault of the Democrats. A good
many of the "pretty goods"
had also returned to the
Democratic fold.
.
A MONG the' approximately
45 per cent who would
not even give a "pretty good"
rating,' moreover, there was
an altogether novel note of
criticism and contempt. One
railroad worker snorted,
"Why, it's not like having a
President at all." Several
others made cynical mention
of the enormous powers of
Sherman Adams, who was de
scribed by half a dozen as "the
real President" or as "the man
who does the real work."
There were some other, ex
ceedingly interesting politi
cal phenomena that appeared
in these pleasant streets of
little houses in neat patches
of lawn. Among those who
had begun to think about the
next President, for . instance,
an actual majority were think
ing favorably of Jack Ken
nedy of Massachusetts. But
the fading of the Eisenhower
image, which was once so
glowing, so re-assuring, so
warming to so many millions
of American hearts, was still
the phenomenon that really
startled and impressed the
doorbell-ringers.
(Copright 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written, the eyes
of the world are on France.
What will France do?
The answer, I think, is that
nobody knows including
the French. ,
JET'S recite some history.
After a century of oppres
sion and extravagance and
grinding taxation, the French
rose in revolution. They cut
off heads including the
heads of a king and his queen.
Blood flowed in the streets of
Paris like water from a broken
main.
The French wanted demo
cratic government, but they
didn't know how to get it.
They started with a Commit
tee of Public - Safety. They
went on by slow stages to
what was known as the Con
vention. The Convention
framed a constitution. The
constitution provided for a
national legislature.
But
The people rebelled against
the Convention's - provision
that two-thirds of the new rep
resentatives were to be chosen
from among the members of
the Convention.
THERE were mobs in the
streets.
The leader of the Conven
tion, Vicomte Barras, called in
a young army officer for a
conference on what to do. The
name of the young officer (he
was then 26) was Napoleon
Bonaparte.
Barras said to Napoleon:
"What shall we do?','
Napoleon said to Barras:
"I'd give the canaille a whiff
of grapeshot."
Which he did.
Mangled, . writhing bodies
filled the street down. which
the cannon fired.
TT WAS thus that Napoleon
came to power.
He bled France white with
wars, and soaked the soil of
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A Question of Law
To the Editor: Since the
"Little Rock' affray, I have
been waiting and watching
for some lawyer somewhere
in this nation to correct a
statement supposedly made
by the President.
The statement was: "A de
cision of the Supreme Court
is the Supreme law of the
land."
No more diametrically
wrong statement could be
made.
I am not a lawyer, but I
did study three years looking
to a bar examination, and the
practice of law; and which I
never took.
I did practise law in the
justice courts of Idaho and
fought 20 cases, 18 of which
I won, even though opposed
by practising attorneys.
Of course, in my study, I
found that statutory law and
treaties with foreign countries
were the supreme laws of the
Land. Nothing was said in my
books about Supreme Court
decisions being 'Laws.'
Certain duties were laid
upon the President, others on
the Congress, still others upon
the Supreme Court.
None of them were in con
flict with any of the others.
All three are equal and none
superior to another.
The President was to be
the Commander in Chief of all
the armed forces, the Con
gress was to enact such laws
as were necessary, and the
Supreme Court to make de
cisions in line with those laws
when signed by the President.
But neither could, under
the 'Constitution,' issue an
'order' to any one of the others
to do, or not to do, any spe
cial thing, except by Con
gressional enactment.
Knowing these things, I
hereby challenge any lawyer
in the United States to get up
on his hind legs and sjate,
categorically, that the state
ment attributed to the Presi
dent was correct.
If he. studied the Constitu
tion of the United States when
he was a cadet at 'The Point,'
and I am quite sure he did,
then he must have known
that, if he made that state
ment, he was wilfully wrong.
How about it, Gentlemen at
the Bar, what have you to
say? Come out in the open,
one way or the other. But
make sure you are right, or
keep still.
If you can find it in that
great Paper, which is our very
lives, then quote it to me,
section, article, sentence,
clause, or phrase. And I shall
thankyou for your courtesy
and your legal erudition.
Andy L. Unger,
634 Pennsylvania ave.,
Medford. .
Porter Called a Pro-Red
To the Editor: A week or so
ago, Congressman Charles O.
Porter referred to our atomic
defense tests as "playing
American roulette with the
composure of the world." Now
he finds the outrages against
Vice President Nixon in South
America to be protests of
"democratic" people against
American foreign policy.
In both these instances the
Congressman, : who most . cer
tainly has a right to his own
opinions, sounds more like a
Kremlin propagandist than a
responsible American official.
It should give every citizen
of the fourth district of Ore
gon pause. The rest of the
country must think, we grow
half of Europe with the blood
of France's sons. As long as
he WON, the French adored
him. But when he lost . his
magic touch for winning
battles the people turned
against him.
In the end, he wound up in
exile, and the French could
think of nothing better to do
in that emergency than to call
back into power the line of
Bourbon kings who had
brought on all the bloody
trouble with their excesses of
power and extravagances.
That's France for you.
AT THE root of the present
trouble lies Algeria.
France wants to KEEP Al
geria for it is very rich, in
cluding oil. The Algerians
want to be FREE and run
their own shebang.
That is the stage as it is
now set.
In the wings, keeping out
of sight, is another strange
character General Charles
De Gaulle. What is he? What
will he do? Is he another
Napoleon?
I THINK that- can't be
answered.
Nobody knows what De
Gaulle will do.
Nobody knows what the
FRENCH PEOPLE will do.
Nobody has ever known what
the French people would do.
We'll have to wait and see.
French Politicians May Have
Been Shocked Into New Unity
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The army rebels and Gen.
Charles de Gaulle may have
given French
politicians the
shock they
needed to
unite them be
hind a strong
government.
.What ever
may happen in
the next few
days, it is at
least certain-
Charles M.
McCann
Washington Report
By William
THE SOFT PURSUIT
Washington In, the house
of the Democratic liberals are
many mansions of issues. And
several of
mese are oc
cupied,-all at
once, by .Sen.
Hubert H.
Humphrey of
Minnesota.
Humphrey
is one of the
r e s t r a ining
P r e s idential
Willam S. White aspirants
restrained in that he is not
openly seeking the honor.
Nothing else about his public
carreer, however, is the least
bit quiet.
In this uncharacteristic
tactic of the soft Presidential
pursuit, he is simply follow?
ing the traditional line of the
professional politicians. The
pros have always believed
usually soundly ' that it is
unwise to be out for the job
"early and often."
And Humphrey an ex-
political science teacher and
the hero of great numbers of
eggheads is also very much
a pro. His home base is what
the textbooks would call one
of an agrarian liberalism to
radicalism. Putting it another
way, his state in the past has
been dominated by farmers
likely to get unusually angry
in hard or unsettled times
and to express this anger with
odd political demands.
rpHIS situation now, how-
J- ever, probably is more a
memory than, a fact. Minne
apolis and St. Paul are hardly
pastoral, And much of Hum
phrey's support has come from
organized labor as well as or
ganized farmers.
In . Minnesota, the party is
called Democrat ic-Farmer
Labor. But an outsider would
eet the possibly wrong im
pression that the "FL" in the
"D-FL" is now not much more
than an sentimental ac
knowledgement of the state's
political past.
At any rate, given his back
ground and circumstances,
Humphrey ordinarily would
be famous in -Congress, if at
all, as a Democratic counter
part to what old Senator
Moses, an acid Yankee, used
to call the Republican Sons of
the Wild Jackass.
That is, Humphrey would
normally have been a per
petually howling farm-reliefer,
or nothing much at all.
With him it has not. worked
out that way. He is essentially
a city politician. This corres
pondent's guess is that his
heart is far more in foreign
policy than in farm policy.
And he probably has as much
emotional support throughout
the East from various sorts of
causists and world-savers as
he has in his native region.
a strange breed of cats here
indeed! What most of us know
to be the irresponsible sound-ing-off
of a dedicated publicity-hound
must have sinister
overtones to those who don't
know that Porter's major pur
pose in life is to perpetuate
himself in office, and to heck
with the consequences to the
nation.
As for the South American
outrages against our Vice
President, Porter must assume
a certain amount of responsi
bility for them. In his self
appointed' role as "the Con
gressman from South Ameri
ca," he himself made reckless
charges in South America not
many months ago charges
against the foreign policy of
his own country, which no
doubt the communists are us
ing right now to stir up more
hatred against us.
It is evident the Kremlin
hasn't had a greater ally in
the propaganda field in Amer
ica since Paul Robeson was
telling the world what a ter
rible thing it was to be a
Negro American. The differ
ence is that Robeson was de
liberately aiding the commu
nist cause. I only hope that
Porter is motivated, as I think
he is, by ignorance. Perhaps
some responsible member of
his party, who realizes that
national defense and outrages
against America in foreign
lands are not partisan issues,
can educate him.
Donald L. Stathos,
220 South Central ave.,
Medford.
that the political crisis which
had long been predicted
and for which the politicians
had seemed to be asking has
come about.
Three possibilities seem to
lie ahead for the immediate
future.
First is loyal support of
Premier Pierre Pflimlin by
the major middle-of-the-road
political groups the So
cialists and Popular Republi
cans. Second is a dictatorship
under De Gaulle.
S. White
AND though he certainly
ing for higher farm subsidies,
he has not made this a career.
Rather, he has sought to make
a career out of a wide front
of issues foreign affairs,
civil rights, disarmament, and
so on.
Such a personal procedure
inescapably implies that a
man has an adequate regard
for himself over a pretty
broad area of national and
world problems.
Humphrey has not escaped
these implications in the
minds of many of. his col
leagues. Some look upon him
as an energetically noisy one
man band. This attitude exists
even though he understands,
as many advanced liberals do
not, that the American politi
cal process at bottom is, and
must be, one of compromise.
Though classrooms are in
his personal history, he is not
a mere classroom politician
shrilly intent upon having the
last syllable of his way on
every occasion. He is a
thoroughly practical man. He
needs no diagram to be con
vinced that half a loaf as
in the civil rights bill passed
last year is far better than
no bread at all.
. .
ALL the same, a faint aca
demic touch does occasion
ally cling to him, and un
doubtedly this is one of his
handicaps. And so, perhaps
most of all, is a Humphrey
weakness for talking at length
upon most any question at
nearly xe v e ry opportunity,
Even in so wordy a body as
the Senate, he is outstanding
in this regard.
. A probable political draw
back, too, is his position as a
vice-chairman of Americans
for Democratic Acron. This
organization wholly lacks the
sinister power so melodra
matically attributed to it by
ultra-conservative politicians.
Still it is about as popular
with the regular Democratic
party as the CIO used to be
with the AFL. "
The harm in this association
likely is somewhat offset by
the . fact that he has stayed
with the ADA in its bad hours
as well as in its good ones
He has not run away.
His pluses, moreover, are
not inconsiderable. He is ex
ceptionally '", able probably
as able an all-around man as
there is in the Senate, though
unwisely, scattered in his
many exertions and a bit too
facile. And on world affairs
he is highly responsible, never
meanly partisan. He is,
finally, the Democratic leader
in the field of disarmament
as the unshakable Harold Stas
sen, an ex-Minnesotan, is at
tempting to be for the Repub
licans. (Copyright. 1358. by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.) -
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Third is a revival of the pre-
World War II "Popular Front"
coalition of Socialists, Commu
nists and minor left-wing
groups.
General Provides Key
De Gaulle is the key man.
The possibly decisive ques
tion is whether he wants
power badly enough to risk
wrecking the Fourth Repub
lic and creating a dangerous
division in which extreme
right would be pitted against
extreme left.
There seems to be no doubt
that the emergence of De
Gaulle as the French "strong
man" would precipitate a na
tional general strike by mil
lions of labor union members,
a strike which probably would
be accompanied by ugly riots.
In confirming Pflimlin as
France's 27th premier since
the country's liberation in
1944, the Assembly gave him
a vote of 274 to 129, nowhere
near an absolute majority.
But after the army in Al
geria had rebelled against
parliamentary rule and de
manded that de Gaulle be put
into leadership, and de Gaulle
said himself he -was ready,
the Assembly voted 461 to
114 to give Pflimlin emer
gency powers.
' That seemed to indicate that
the politicians had received a
fright.
An "authoritarian" govern
ment under de Gaulle would
not be the worst thing that
could happen to France. As
has been increasingly
emphasized, a lot of French
people seem to believe it
would be the best thing.
The trouble is that nobody, -including
his own supporters,
knows just what de Gaulle
stands for except that he
wants to restore France to its
rightful position as a world
power.
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