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History from the files of The
Mail Tribuns 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 14. 1948 (Wednesday)
Members of the Oregon Ty
pographical conference will
gather here this weekend for
their semi-annual state con
vention. A concert by the Medford
city band will be held tonight
In the city park on West Main
st. . . .
20 YEARS AGO
July 14, 1938 (Thursday)
The "hottest sun in the na
tion" sent the mercury up to
106 deges here yesterday.
From Aethur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pdt" column: "A val
ley cow has been reported
shot, while in a pasture. Auto
ists traveling the highways,
can't understand what the cow
was doing in a pasture."
30 YEARS AGO
July 14, 1928 (Saturday)
Costly trophies 'for the best
floats in next month's Amer
ican Legion convention par
ade are now on display in two
downtown stores.
From local and personal
column: "C. W. McFadden,
Talent, hes reported what is
believed to be a record cherry
crop, nearly four tons from
18 trees."
40 YEAR'S AGO
July 14, 1918 (Sunday)
Two Portland officials will
O visit here this week to recruit
police and firemen to fill the
ranks in Portland.
Donations from local citi
zens will provide the supper
for draftees of Jackson coun
ty next Friday. -
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. In Greek mythology,
who was the husband of Pen
elope? 2. What two gases combine
to form a very common li-
O guid?
3. The Star Spangled Ban
ner legally became our Na
tional Anthem under the act
by the Continental Congress;
true or false?
4. What country is the chief
source of jute imported into
the United States?
5. Would a solid bar, cr a
hollow tube, of the same di
ameter and material be the
stronger?
6. Hiro&ima was one of the
Japanese cities that was atom
bombed; name the other.
7. Name the three primary
pigment colors.
8. "Sam Weller" is a char
ed acter in one of Charles Dick-
Qens novels; what is the name
of the novel?
9. Are American Indians,
born in the U.S., citizens of
the U.S.?
10. What cabinet position
O did Jesse Jones once hold?
q Answers: 1. Ulysses. 2. Hy
drogen and oxygen form wa
fer. 3. Falfe. 4. India. 5. The
solid bar. E. Nagasaki. 7. Red,
blue and yellow. 8. Pickwick
Papers. 9. Yes. 10. 6ec'y of
ConfTnerce.
MONUMENT FOR FLIERS
Pan Sineive, Italy (UPI)
Italian Alpinists dedicated a
mountain monument Sunday
to two U. S. Navy planes
which crashed a year ago kill
ing 20 persons. The monument
is shaped like an airplane and
be&s the names of the dead
American fliers.
Bread and Other Tilings
A vacation is a good time to get things back
in perspective.
This is not always easy to do. After a period
of months with one's nose close to the grindstone,
it sometimes gets to the point where one cannot
see the importance of the forest because of the
trees of detail.
And, because today's world is so doggone
complicated, one never really succeeds in attain
ing a true perspective if, indeed, there is such
a thing.
But a couple of weeks of loafing, reading, re
laxing seeing other things and other places and
other people does at least provide an opportun
ity to mull over old thoughts, bring them up to
date, and to chew on new ones a bit.
ONE of the thoughts that struck us was this:
There has been a vast change in America in
the past five years a change which goes far
deeper than new model automobiles, or new con
sumer goods. It is a change in the way American
people think, a basic change in attitude.
And it may have been one of the causes of the
recession, which now, thank goodness, shows
signs of ending.
The change is a difficult one to describe, but
it is reflected in many things.
(DRE people are going to church. Some people
call this a religious revival, while others see
in it simply an intensification in the nation's
search for values. .
There has been a resurgence in art. More and
more, today, people are following the lead of
Winston Churchill and Dwight Eisenhower, and
putting paint on canvas. Whether they do it well
or ill makes little difference the important thing
is that they are doing it, and are finding gratifi
cation in so doing.
Others are fiddling with clay or metal or
wood, creating things, expressing themselves
with their hands, and making objects of beauty
or interest.
Music has had a new rebirth, as far as public
acceptance is concerned. The record companies'
business is going great guns, and not all of it is
of the rock V roll variety, either. Good music
either via a hi fi set or a plain old phonograph
is now respectable, and no longer "long hair."
,
THERE is a broadened interest in the outdoors.
This is evidenced, again, by many things by
skiing in the wintertime, and water-skiing in the
summen by the increased use of public camps
and picnic grounds, by the number of people now
going boating, or to summer cabins, or to the
beach, or to mountain resorts.
Once upon a time, as Potpourri remarked the
other day, the community event was the big
time of the year the Fourth of July picnic, the
Memorial Day parade,
the baseball game.
But today, families are much more apt to have
their fun as a unit or
friends. And they are using the freedom of mobil
ity provided by the great sine qua non, the automobile.
'EOPLE are' using "patios" in their back yards
more than thev ever did before en invin o
,
m privacy the pleasures
J 1 1 1 1 1
wiui me neignDornooa or tne community.
The circulation of good, thoughtful magazines
is at a new high, these days. Libraries are exper
iencing their greatest circulation boom in many
years perhaps ever. .
There is a great curiosity in America today
a curiosity about many things, but, as we see it,
chiefly about man's relationship with himself,
with his neighbor, and with his God.
OERBERT Lehman, the distinguished former
Senator and-Governor of New York, in a re
cent: article in "The Progressive" magazine, put
it this way: ...
"Gradually, as the complacency of the 1950s began
to permeate and thicken the national atmosphere, it
dawned on many libe.rals that raising the standard of
living and providing some measure of economic secur
ity did not automatically liberate the soul and spirit
of man.
"We perceived that consumer goods and the pur
suit of recreation could become ends instead of means.
We saw that paralysis by economic complacency could
have some of the same social effects as enslavement
by poverty. This has been the Great Revelation of the
. past decade, but is it not even yet clearly understood
" by many liberals.
'The liberal assumption was that if the economic
problems of mankind were solved, all social and spiri
tual ills would be healed, too. This was a false assump
tion because while man cannot live without bread,
man cannot live by bread alone."
DERHAPS this trend is simply a reflection of
Americans' subconscious realization that
bread (as reflected in the appurtenances of a high
standard of Jiving) is, indeed, NOT enough.
The United States has not always been the
materialistic nation that it is today.
And, if we read the signs rightly, there is to
day a tendency, not to reject materialism (for
the people's new freedom is based on a material
istic society), but to expand upon it, to add to it,
to give it a dimension of something more than
conspicuous consumption.
When the preconceptions and attentions of a
people shift toward a new direction, something
is always lost, but something more may be gained.
It is too soon to say if the change is a net good,
and if those things which may be lost (attention
to government, to the rights and duties of free
citizens, to the crying need for justice throughout
the world) can be balanced by a greater appreci
ation of man's role as an individual, rather than
as a social creature. E.A. '
the Labor Day speeches,
with a small group of
j J -
which used to be shared
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Dennis the Menace
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How WOULD YOU AND VOUR
DRIVE OOVJU TO THE BEACH
Matter of Fact
Bad News for Republicans
Washington Confidential
polls sponsored by California
Republicans produced an
even worse result than the
melancholy California pri-
mary. In . the
e a vernorshiD
J race, particu-
1 a r 1 y, the
oolls . showed
M Sen. William
J ing beaten by
State Attor
n e y General
Pat Brown by
At- j. :i i
Jos-ph Alsop ' " terriuie
margin of 61 to 39.
Knowland has yet to take
the stump in earnest, but even
the Apostle Paul and William
Jennings Bryan, working in
tandem, would be hard put
to overcome a hostile margin
of 21 percentage points. Ap
parently the Republican Sen
ate candidate, former Gov.
Goodwin Knight, is doing
somewhat better than Know
land. But even so, the Cali
fornia figures are a striking
addition to the other confi
dential poll results published
in this space in a report from
New York. . -
ONE of those figures erred
on the side of Republican
optimism. The poll taken in
Massachusetts actually showed
Sen. John Kennedy getting 80
per cent of the total vote. Be
sides making this correction,
it will also be helpful to put
the whole collection of fig
ures together in tabular form.
They make the following
rather lurid picture:
Contest Dem. Rep.
New York, Gov. 67 p.c. 40 p.c.
Connecticut, Gov. 67 p.c. 33 p.c.
California, Gov. 61 p.c. 39 p.c.
Mass. Sen. - 80 p.c. 20 p.c.
California, Sen. 53 p.c. 47 p.c.
1ITHETHER the polls were
sponsored by Republicans,
as in California and New
York, or by Democrats, as in
Massachusetts and Connecti
cut, the results are strikingly
consistent. It is hard to be
lieve that the election will
produce such really stagger
ing Democratic majorities.
But unless the pollsters have
gone unanimously mad, the
whole familiar political land
scape can be forever altered
this year.
In particular, the rock bot
tom Republican asset will be
endangered and perhaps de
stroyed by the kind of Dem
ocratic sweep the polls fore
tell. This asset is simply the
permanent Republican con
trol of at least one house of
almost every Northern state
legislature. This has been
immemorially insured by ger
rymandering, or. by a rotten
borough system, or by both,
depending on the states.
IN CALIFORNIA, for in
stance, the Republican par
ty has always held control of
at least one chamber in the
state legislature since the
Try and
urn
-By BENNETT CERF-
RETURNING from one of his European jaunts, Mark Twain
was detained by an over-diligent customs inspector. "No
use your rummaging through rny baggage that way," said
Twain testily. "I assure you
it contains nothing but my
clothing."
Just then the inspector
came up with two bottles of
very fine, - very expensive
brandy. "I suppose this is
'clothes' too," he sneered.
"It most certainly is,"
snapped Twain. "That is my
night cap."
Another Mark Twain story
concerns the. day a foppish
undergraduate assured him
that he had given up the study
of medicine to be an author.
"Tr mv w " in? added niouslv.
jiumamty tne Dexier.
"I do not feel that this additional sacrifice on your part is absolute
ly necessary," commented Twain, "for you already have served
humanity nobly by giving up the study of medicine." .
C 1358, by Bennett Cert Distributed by Sine Features Syndicate.
WIFE LIKE TO
WITH ME? k
By Joseph Alsop
year 1889. But the same of
ficial Republican soundings
above-quoted now show the
Democrats taking both the
Senate and the lower House
by substantial margins. In
the lower house, for instance,
the present Republican ma
jority of 43 to 37 is expected
to be transformed into an ex
actly similar Democratic ma
jority; and this is the mini
mum forecast.
In Connecticut, too, the an
cient system of representation
by towns has given the He
publicans unbroken contol of
the lower house since the
year 1865. It is a thing taken
for granted. There are ha'rdly
enough Democrats in the Con
necticut lower house today to
fill a good-sized telephone
booth. Even in 1954, when
Democratic Gov. Abraham
Ribicoff was elected by just a
hair more than half the total
vote, the Connecticut lower
house was still Republican by
184 to 92, or exactly 2 to 1.
JN RECENT years, however,
the rock-ribbed Republican
majorities in many small Re
publican towns have been in
creasingly diluted by the
spread of suburbia. A town-
by-town analysis of the 1954
election showed that an aver
age increase of 6 per cent in
the' Democratic vote would
have put no less than 47 ad
ditional towns into the Demo
cratic column. In theory, the
Democrats might have thus
taken the state legislature in
1954, if Ribicoff had got 57
per cent of the vote instead
just over 50 per cent. This
time, therefore, the Connecti
cut lower house will certain
ly be up for grabs if Ribicoff
gets anything like his predict
ed 67 per cent of the total
vote. '
Very few people under
stand the enormous advan
tage the Republicans have al
ways derived from these per
manent strongholds . in state
governments, like the Con
necticut and California lower
houses. With these strong
holds always Republican,
state constitutions favorable
to the conservative interests
have been untouchable. With
these strongholds always Re
publican, the party only had
to get the rest . of the state
government in a good year.
Then the state Congressional
districts could be delightfully
gerrymandered; and the Dem
ocrats could never counter
gerrymander because they
could never gain control of
the lower house.
"We did it last time," one
melancholy California Repub
lican told this reporter. "Jim
my Roosevelt's district would
embarrass Elbridge Gerry
himself. But now, by God,
the Democrats will show us
what gerrymandering really
is."
(c) 1958. New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
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Safety Effort Liked
To the Editor: Two years
ago, our Association was ap
palled to learn that 12 per
cent of the drivers in Oregon
who lost their drivers' licenses
through suspension or revoca
tion subsequently were ar
rested and convicted of driv
ing without a license. As a re
sult of this information, our
Association conducted a poll
among our members and
found an overwhelming per
centage favoring a stronger
effort to keep the proved un
safe driver off our streets and
highways.
This effort is now being
made through the cooperation
of the State Motor Vehicle De
partment and safety-minded
newspapers throughout the
state in publishing official
lists of drivers who have lost
their licenses through official
action. Your paper is one of
the many using these lists.
Because we believe you are
rendering an outstanding serv
ice to the accident prevention
program in your state in pub
lishing these lists, the Motor
Association wishes to take
this opportunity of expressing
our most sincere commenda
tion of this public spirited pro
gram and earnestly assure you
of our continuing support of
your policy in this important
safety activity.
Ray Conway, Manager
Oregon State Motor Ass'n.
600 S.W. Market St.,
Portland 1, Ore.
Editorial Comment
THE GOLDFINE FARCE
Once upon a time Ameri
can high school boys knew
that Major John Andre, H.M.
Forces, was riding quietly
down the Hudson in civilian
garb one fine fall day in 1780
when he was stopped by three
militiamen.
The major produced a pass
from General Benedict Ar
nold, but the militiamen
searched him and found in his
boot maps and papers dealing
with the surrender of the
fort at West Point. The major
was trie'd by court martial and
hanged. .
. This was an unfortunate
circumstance to befall so
charming a fellow as Major
Andre, but it at least had the
virtue of a stark sort of hu
man honesty. The militiamen
were honest in their suspicion,
and the major was an honest
spy who confessed.
There will always be con
flicts between men, between
their interests and their be
liefs. There will always be
those duty-bound to discover
what the antagonist is doing.
The Andre incident suggests
that even in such a profession
there may be a bleak integ
rity, that even spying and
countrspying need not always
be obscene.
What then, by contrast, are
we to think of what has been
happening in Washington in
recent days in the Goldfine
case?
We need not here rowel our
selves with detail; the news
carries that. A congressional
committee is investigating
Bernard Goldfine in the Sher
man Adams case. Goldfine
with entourage went to a
Washington hotel. Then fol
lowed microphones in his
room, missing and presumably
stolen documents, an outraged
committee, a committee inves
tigator fired, and a heU's-broth
of bewildering and twisted
conflicting stories loaded on
the newspapers.
This is neither good govern
ment nor good citizenship. It
is not good public morals. It
tends in almost every aspect
to public depravity. Millions
upon millions of good Ameri
can citizens who do not be
lieve in treachery and sandr
bagging as a way of public
life are, or should be, otu
raged. If one guesses right,
they are revolted by the
whole damn mess, including,
while we are on the subject,
tapped telephones and the
riffraff who tap them.
It is impossible, either at
this distance or up close, to
assess the blame. Everybody
connected with it is in some
degree to blame, or contrib
uted, if unwittingly, to the
obscene spectacle.
In the first place, the spies
hired by the congressional
committees are, in many in
stances, dubious fellows. Time
and again they are found to
have shady records and most
of them are by nature wire
tappers, and enemies of your
legitimate as well as illicit
private affairs.
Moreover, the "public rela
tions" men hired by those in
a Washington jackpot are fre
quently (not always) gimmick
men with gimmicks bearing
no relation to public morals ,
Reporters Try fro Nail
That Adams Offered
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press International
Washington (UPI) Re
porters on the Sherman Ad
ams story have been trying
to nail one way or the other
the grapevine
report that
the No. 1
White House
aide offered
his resignation
some time
ago and that
it was re
fused. Maybe yes;
Lyie c. Wilson maybe no! A
good bet would be, however,
that before the episode is end
ed, Adams will offer to re
sign. Just as good a bet is
that President Eisenhower
will refuse to accept the res
ignation. The President was not ex
aggerating when he told a
news conference shortly after
the Adams-Goldfine story
broke that he needed his as
sistant. He would not have
been exaggerating any, either,
if he had added that the need
arose from the indisputable
fact that there is no one avail
able who could take Adams'
place at the White House.
Close lo Boss
Adams' job requires a com
bination of physical and men
tal vigor,-a close and unusual
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
More Russian stuff:
Premier Khrushchev has
ended a visit to East Germany
(East Germany is the part of
Germany the communists
grabbed) with a BLISTERING
ATTACK on Yugoslavia.
He denounced Marshal Tito
and said Yugoslavia has "sold
its soul for American money."
He added: "The Americans
don't give out money for
nothing. You have to sell your
soul to get it.
He concluded:
"The Yugoslavs are even
worse now than they were
when Stalin attacked them in
1948."
H
MMMMM.
Khrushchev's MAD, isn't
he?
That's interesting. Consider
this line from Longfellow
"Whom the gods would DE
STROY, they first make
mad,
rpHIS idea that losing your
- temper is the first step to
ward destruction is an old one
a very, very old one.
Longfellow cribbed it from
Sophocles, who lived back in
the fifth century B. C. Soph
ocles probably cribbed it from
Euripides. At any rate, James
Boswell in his Life of Dr.
Johnson ascribes the line to
Euripides.
Anyway, the idea has been
around for a leng time that
when people get so mad they
can't see straight things aren't
going any too well with them.
SPEAKING of the money we
Americans have "given
out," here are some rather in
teresting statistics:
Since July 1. 1940. the
United States has given to
other nations a total of 135
BILLION DOLLARS. This, of
course, includes the casn we
shelled out as lend-lease,
which was help extended by
us to our comrades in arms
during World War II.
From July 1. 1945 (the
shooting in Europe had ended
by then) through June 30,
1958, the United States has
given or appropriated for ex
nenditure for foreign aid a
total of 82 BILLION DOL
LARS.
T ET'S put it this way:
JLi whatever else we Ameri
cans have been WE HAVEN'T
BEEN TIGHTWADS.
or equity. If you are wrong
you hire a PR to make your
self look rieht. or if you're
right, do you need one? Who
needs government by puoiic
relations, anyway?
And how about congress
men and public officers made
hysterical by the chase ana
the headlines?
Government by hysteria, by
double-dealins. by elaborate
ways of concealing reality and
promoting fiction, is defective
government, and a reasonably
honest, if preoccupied, society,
condones it at its peril.
Royce Brier, in San Francisco
Chronical.
COAL RATIONING ENDS
London (UPI) Coal ra
tioning, started in World War
II, ended officially in Britain
today.
Now Many Wear
FALSE TEETH
With More Comfort
jtao in, a pieasaub aiinutm.
(non-acid) powder, holds false teeth
more firmly. To eat and talk in more
comiort, just sprinicie a ume
TEETH on your plates. No gummy,
gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Checks
"plate odor' (denture Dream j. um
fASTEETH at any drug counter.
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relationship with the boss,
prestiee and ereat stature in
government and, above all,
tne knowledge, wisdom and
courage to make big decisions
and to make them fast.
"They don't." as Georee
Gobel almost said, "hardly
make 'em that way any
more."
A bis name Republican
pondered the situation the
other day and came up with
tne observation that of all the
top Republicans he knew he
knows them all only Thom
as E. Dewey of New York pos
sessed the qualifications to
take over from Adams. This
big name Republican hasten
ed to say tnat he was not sug
gesting that it was even re
motely likely that Eisenhow
er would ask Dewey to take
the job and he was positive
that Dewey would refuse, if
asked.
The reference to Dewev
does emphasize, however, the
interpretation which should
be placed on the President's
statement that he "needs Ad
ams. He does need him and
he is not about to let him get
away. It will be the problem
of White House strategists.
therefore, to plan the strategy
whereby Adams can be shield
ed somewhat from the fierce
Communist Victory
In Finnish Election
Hits Other Parties
By CHARLES M. McCANN
UPI Foreign News Analyst
The Communists have won
a big victory in Finland, Sov
iet Russia's little neighbor on
the Baltic Sea.
While Com
munist parties
in other free
European
countries are
losing
strength, the
Finnish Com
munists have
rk.Ti.rii """6VU -
Mccann the first time
as their country's largest po
litical party.
They won 50 of the 200
seats in an election for the
single - chamber Parliament,
while the Social Democrats
and Agrarians, the next-ranking
parties, won 48 each!
It was an upset which has
shocked leaders of the ortho
dox parties and which may
foreshadow a long period of
political instability.
These leaders are now try
ing to form a coalition which
will command a majority in
Parliament and the the Reds,
even though they have the
most members, out in the cold
The only hope of the Com
munists to share in the gov
ernment apparently lies in the
possibility that they , may in
duce the Agrarians to form
a coalition with them and gain
also the support of three dissi
dent Socialists. .
Led by Woman
In any event, the Red vic
tory means that a woman will
lead Finland's strongest party
in Parliament.
She is -Hertta Kuusinen,
daughter of one-time Com
munist leader Otto Kuusinen,
who fled to Russia in 4918 and
is now a member of die ruling
Soviet Russian Communist
Party Presidium. '
"Red Hertta," now in her
50's, is a pronounced "Stalin
ist" and a powerful orator
who ' at the same time is an
Reasonable Funerals
(Priced for Everyone)
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FRIENDLY,
Report
to Resign
political heat of a general
election campaign. - .
Public Show
It might be done by making
something of a public show
of an Adams resignation and
of the President's refusal to
accept it. An appropriate oc
casion would be after the
House investigating sub-committee
makes a report, assum
ing that the report is made
before the all-out political
campaign gets going.
Adams' resignation would
be in letter form addressed
to the President. Eisenhow
er's refusal would be a letter
in response. In such a let
ter, the President would have
the opportunity to state tho
administration's case against
the House investigators and
for Adams in detail, with leis
urely emphasis not possible
in the back and forth of news
conference discussion.
.Publication of the letters
would place the administra
tion's case before the voteri
in its most favorable form.
The President; in effect,
would be lending Adams
some of his own prestige and
solid reputation fo integrity.
There are, doubtless, other
ways to do it. Doubtless, too,
something has to be 'done if
Adams is to stay on.
accomplished ballroom dancer
and an enthusiastic cocktail
party goer.
She is the estranged wife of
Yroe Isino, one-time Commun
ist leader who was purged
from the party in 1951. ,
The Communist party vic
tory was due to a combination
of circumstances.
. It has only about 30,000
cardorrying members, But
in the election it won 439,
000 votes against 441,000 for
the Agrarians and about 440,
000 for the Socialists. The
Reds took their narrow edge
in parliamentary seats partly
by luck they won a number
of them by very close votes.
Vote Was Protest
Popular dissastisfaction
over Finland's economic situ
ation played a big part in the
Communist victory. As - in
France and Italy, a great num
ber of voters supported ' the
Communist ticket as a protest.
The Socialists and Agrar
ians, who had led a number of
coalition governments, lost
support because with eco
nomic conditions bad, they
had to cut down their gener
ous subsidy and welfare pro
grams. .
There was one unusual de
velopment. The Socialists held
their strength in the big cities
where, as in other countries.
Communism is traditionally
strong, but the Communists
gained in traditionally con
servative farming areas. ';
The Red victory naturally
was hailed in Soviet Russia.
Pravda, the Russian Commun
ist newspaper organ, said it
showed that "the working
class and the village toilers
are resisting with determina
tion the reactionary offensive
against the living standard
and the democratic rights of
the Finnish people."
If the "reactionaries" suc
ceed in forming a government
without Communist participa
tion, Moscow obviously will
not be pleased. '
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