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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
Oct. 9, 1948 (Saturday)
California Gov. Earl War
ren, GOP vice president can
didate will pass through here
by rail Oct. 16 and make a
platform appearance.
KYJC plans a special pro
gram today marking its first
anniversary of operation here.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 9. 1938 (Sunday)
Street sweepers are out in
force to gather up autumn
leaves, and motorists are
jvarned not to park their cars
on paved streets between 1
and 5 a.m., as cars so parked
interfere with the sweepers'
work.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "It's
only a month till election. The
minority will note, and the
majority go duck hunting, in
dications indicate."
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 9, 1928 (Tuesday)
The Foots creek PTA plans
a stunt night this month.
A "puncture plant," capable
of puncturing . automobile
tires and cows,' stomachs, has
been found near Ashland and
is on exhibit here.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 9. 1918 (Wednesday)
A Chinese pheasant eager
to read the Mail Tribune over
Edwin G. Trowbridge's shoul
der banked into the window
of Trowbridge's house, was
stunned, and has since pro
vided the Trowbridge family
with a fine feast. "
The local liberty loan bond
campaign is now $68,000
short of its quota.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. The King of the Hellenes
is the King of which country?
2. Who was the author of
the "Fourteen Points."
3. Do vertebrates, or inver
tebrates, have backbones?
4. The Babcock test is used
to test what?
5. Complete the title of the
John Fox novel, "The Little
Shepherd of "
6. Which is the lighter gas,
hydrogen or helium?
7. A sampan is a cooking
utensil; true or false?
8. What famous surrender
occurred at Appomatox, Va.?
9. A cubic foot office is
heavier, lighter than, or
weighs the same as, a cubic
foot of water?
10 Is a cassowary a cook
ing utensil, a bird, a priest's
robe, or a propneiess:
Answers: 1. Greece. 2. Pres
ident Woodrow Wilson. 3. Ver
tebrates. 4. Butteriai in num.
. nr:..ilnin Come." 6. Hv
drogen. 7. False (Oriental
boat). 8. General Lee s sur
render to General Grant. 9
Lighter. 10. A bud.
Screw-Balls and Freedom
Insanity, or as it is more frequently called
these days mental illness, is a tragic, heart
wrenching thing.
it is onen the case that the sick person is un
aware of his or her sickness, and believed that the
efforts of relatives and friends to see that he or
she obtains effective treatment is a form of per
secution. Violent resentments can braid up in
the sick mind resentments which make the
journey back to health and sanity a more diffi
cult one.
Sometimes, and fortunately not frequently,
a sane person who may be "odd" or "unusual,"
is suspected of being mentally ill, and efforts are
made for a commitment -
MOW there are safeguards against such a thing
happening. But on occasion, despite the safe
guards, it happens. When
session of all his faculties is locked up as men
tally ill." It is difficult
ling situation. ' .
That this happens
any less appalling when
These thoughts were motivated "by recent
news from the state of Washington that a man
named John Patnc has
state mental hospital at Sedro Woolley after a
period of confinement for observation, but only
after he had demanded and obtained a jury trial
to establish his sanity.
According to the one
(the wire services outside
ignored the decision despite Patric s notoriety)
it took the jury just 10
a foreman, and vote Patnc free.
DATRIC is an eccentric. He wears a beard. He
cares little for money, as such, as long as he
has the basic necessities of life. He doesn't give
a tinker's dam for the conventionalities of life. If
he thinks you're a stinker, he'd just as soon tell
you so to your face as behind your back.
He becomes irritated at some of civilzatiori's
minor stupidities, like the rest of us do. But unlike
the rest of us, he does something about it. Irri
tated by the volume of unwanted mail from cer
tain members of Congress, sent out free under the
"franking" privilege, Patric started "franking"
his own mail sending it only with his own sig
nature in place of a stamp. He added insult to
injury by mailing such things as dead birds and
f ishheads to the objects
Haled into court, he
fense, and the judge dismissed the charge.
PARLY this year he spent an hour or so in this
" office, discussing with us his recent activities,
and those he planned. His current objectives are
to make life miserable for officialdom in his home
town of Snohomish, where he declares the forces
of corruption and evil are in charge.
When Patric sets out
for someone, he does an
other things he printed a little newspaper, in
which he flayed the police chief, the mayor and
sundry other officials.
It was out of these activities that the insanity
charges stemmed. He was jailed, later sent to the
hospital, and only recently obtained his release
when the jury termed him sane.
JOHN Patric is an exceptional man. He has
friends throughout the United States. He is an
author ("Yankee Hobo in the Orient," "Repair
men May Gyp You," and other books, and articles
m the Readers Digest and
he has worked as a reporter and photographer,
he has traveled widely, and wears no man's collar.
He is a thom m the side of stupid officialdom ;
he is the enemy of hypocrisy; he is an. upholder
of virtue as he sees it.
But he sees these things differently than other
men. He is a free man, and pities those of us who
are slaves to conformity, to a job, to many of civil
ization's mores which he regards as asinine.
-
DUT it is not yet a Crime to think freely, and do
as one wishes so long as another is not un
justly injured thereby.
For this reason we were delighted to see the
jury act so quickly in setting free this free spirit
once again to poke around the odd comers of the
world, again to wage his campaigns for what he
believes is right.
Crazy? Sure, John Patric a self -termed
"screw-ball" may be crazy in the addled think
ing of those who believe that sanity equates only
with doing as one's neighbors do.
OUT he's a. mighty sane man all the same, for he
has the balance, the courage and the moral
fortitude to set up his own goals in his own way,
and then to seek them, regardless of what the
world thinks, and regardless of the enemies
and even of the friends he makes in the process.
If there were many more John Patrics, society
probably -would tremble from the shock. But if
there were any fewer if Patric were still in the
"hell-hole" of ward 4 the world would be the
poorer. E. A.
Who To Believe?
Joe Alsop (this page, today) ;" . . ..the
strictly military factors m u s t . certainly have
weighed most heavily in Peiping's decision to
make this . . . cease-fire announcement . . ."
Walter Lippmann (this page, today) "The
move by the Chinese Communists ... is a spec
tacular reminder that the game at Quemoy is pri
marily political ..."
When two well-infonn'ed, literate columnists
disagree diametrically, is it any wonder the rest
of us are confused? E. A.
to an institution.
it does, a person in pos
to imagine a moi'r appal
rarely does not make it
it does happen.
been released from the
account we have read
Washington apparently
minutes to file out, elect
of his irritation.
conducted his own de
to make life miserable
effective job. Among
National Geographic),
; Windows are mw th ings
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
THE LATEST GAMBIT
The move made bv the Chi
nese Communists, which is to
order a cease-fire at Quemoy
for seven
days, is a spec
t a c u 1 a r re
minder that
the game at
Quemoy is
primarily po
1 i t i c a 1, and
that the Pei
p i n g govern-
Walter . m e n x, wnicn
LiDomann holds the hi ah
cards in the offshore islands,
Knows how-to Dlav them skill
fully.
Since thev hold the military
initiative at Quemoy, they can
xurn on tne bombardment or
turn it off, as if it were a
water tap. By turning off the
bombardment without wait
ing to negotiate a cease-fire,
they have nut Chians? in thp
position where he can hardlv
refuse to supply the garrison
and civilians on Quemoy, yet
must ao tnat only as a favor
granted to him by Peininf?
This is, and no doubt this is
intended to be, a very drama
tic way ofl demonstrating to
the Chinese on Formosa that
Red China is militarily pre-
aominanx in xiie area of the
offshore islands. "
THE Communist gambit be-
Dulles acknowledged publicly
that the United States would
not carry the war to the main-.
land , in order to raise the ar
tillery - blockade' of Quemoy.
The real issue here is not al
ways well understood in this
country. All the talk about
"defending"- Quemoy and
about not "retreating" has
contained a large dose of
naivete in view of the real
attitude taken by the Admin
istration. What we have been erittine
our teeth and clenchine our
fists about was the decision to
defend the island against an
invasion. There are no indi
cations that the Red Chinese
have intended to invade the
island. Our declarations and
defiance have never meant,
however, that' we would de
fend Quemoy against the bom
bardment itself - that we
would authorize Chiang to
lead us into an aerial strike
against the artillery positions
in Fukien Province.
The- fact of the matter is
that the President and Mr.
Dulles have been willing to
accept the bombardment of
Quemoy and to answer it only
by measures to run the block
ade. Their decision not to make
war against the mainland gave
the Red Chinese the initiative
at Quemoy. It is this initiative
which Peiping is now exploit
ing politically.
HTHE political objective of
- the Communists is to con
vince the Chinese in Formosa
that their future lies with the
mainland and not in continu
ing to be a client of the United
States. The cease-fire, which
they have just instituted, is
accompanied by an offer to
negotiate with Chiang about
a settlement of the offshore
islands. It is probably implied
in the staiement that Peiping
wishes to negotiate with the
United States at Warsaw
about the specifically Chinese
American issues.
The offer to Chiang follows
closely upon, and is no doubt
related to, what was said by
President Eisenhower and
Mr. Dulles at, their press con
ferences last week. They said
a lot. They knocked out the
idea that Chiang will return
to the mainland, and in doing
this they destroyed the fiction
that he is in truth the legiti
mate government of China.
For sovereign who has no
hope of governing is like a
king who has lost his throne.
Peiping has been quick to
point out to Chiang and to the
Chinese on Formosa that their
choice is between exile in For
for cieanim' up a room j
mosa and a deal with the
mainland.
rpHIS does not mean that
there will soon be a deal
between the two Chinese fac
tions. There will be much
maneuvering, no doubt, both
publicly and privately. But it
does mean that the ground
has been prepared and the
seeds have been planted for a
Chinese deal. This should sur
prise no one. It has long been
most probable that as we were
playing the game with
Chiang, the end would be a
deal' in which we would be
left on the outside.
The fatal error of our poli
cy has been refusal to see that
the military threat to Formosa
was negligible, given our in
disputable command of the
sea but that Formosa could
not be saved from absorption
by the mainland if we staked
everything 'on Chiang. With
out a policy disengaged from
Chiang and designed to main
tain some kind of autonomy
in Formosa after he departs,
we have no tenable policy of
our own. We are tied to
Chiang and what happens to
our interests will, be deter
mined by Chiang or his suc
cessors. .
OUR misleading preoccupa
tion with th military de
fense of Formosa has been and
is a grave handicap to lucid
thinking in this field. The
President, for example, has
no legal authority to use
American power in Quemoy
except as he can say with a
good conscience that what
happens at Quemoy is related
to the military defense of For
mosa. Mr. Dulles tried for a
while to construct a legal po
sition for him. The President
was to say that although
Chiang had "foolishly" locked
up so many troops in Que
moy, "Chiang would be lost if
the troops surrendered. There
fore the United States must
prove its courage and its reso
lution, no matter how negli
gible and foolish the reason
which occasioned it.
; As for the United States
having to prove its courage, or
to lose all its friends, I would
say that what we do about
Quemoy is a test of the cour
age of the United States only
if we announce to the world
that we reeard it as a test of
our courage. The world knows
that we have fought three Dig
wars in the past 50 years and
the world, friendly, hostile
and neutral, will have no
doubt about the courage of
this country.
OTHERWISE, the problem
of Quemoy is a practical
problem which could and
should be treated not as if we
stood at Armageddon but
coolly, calmly, and with com
mon sense. Quemoy is not like
Berlin any more than it is like
London, Paris, or Washington.
Evacuating Quemoy is not
like the appeasement at Mu
nich. For Czechoslovakia was
an independent nation which
was set up by a treaty and
guaranteed by the Allies. Que
moy is an island of no politi
cal significance 'within a har
bor on the Chinese mainland.
Czechoslovakia was a country
which contained the strategic
bastion of Central and East
ern Europe. Strategically,
Quemoy is negligible. It is
negligible for the defense of
Formosa. It is negligible for
the defense of the mainland.
It is merely a minor nuisance,
(c) 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Assistant Manager of
Roseburg Bank Dies
Roseburg - (UPD - Andrew
Broddus, 58, assistant man
ager of the Roseburg branch
of the U. S. National bank,
died Wednesday in a hospital
here from complications fol
lowing major surgery.
Communications
"People'! Choice"
To the Editor: In a recent
Communications column, an
objection was voiced to the
selection by the Democratic
Central committee of defeated
candidate Sheehan to replace
Earle Fichtner, the successful
candidate in the primary elec
tion for the office of sheriff.
It so happens that Sheehan is
a former central committee
chairman and was touted by
that same inner circle to car
ry the party banner in the
general election. Surprisingly,
however, the Democratic vot
ers nominated Fichtner, so the
party brass poured on the
pressure, Fichtner convenient
ly withdrew and at their di
rection chSnged his registra
tion to Independent, thus
opening the door to the cen
tral committee for the ap
pointment of loser Sheehan.
To quote a phrase, the
author of which escapes me,
"They (The Democratic Cen
tral Committee) naturally be
lieve in their own ability to
select the most suitable can
didate for public office, and
they take a dim view of the
preferences of uninformed
outsiders" (The Democratic
Voters).
By such action the primary
election procedure, the basis
of Democratic selection, as
we know it in Oregon, is rele
gated to a farce - a meaning
less gesture to be set aside at
the whim of the party slate
makers. It seems to me the electors
in November have a choice
the people's choice or the
party's choice. I, for one, in
tend to vote for the candidate
who is not only eminently
more qualified, but who is
representative of the will of
the majority of the "people"
rather than the minority of
the "party". My vote goes for
Joe Walsh-not Larry Shee
han. Bill Schulz
Eagle Point, Ore.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Wars and rumors of wars
. . . International ruckuses
that can so easily lead to war
unless statesmanship of the
highest order miraculously in
tervenes to keep the peace . . .
Politics and the canards
and the roorbacks and the
stratagems and the ' schemes
and the hoopla that accom
pany politics.
Let's forget 'em all and turn
for a moment to an Interesting
little tale that has clicked
off the wires.
It goes like this:
WORLD War I has finally
ended in the tiny moun
tain republic of Andorra
which lies high up in the
Pyrenees mountains between
Spain and France.
By a slip of somebody's
foot, Andorra got into World
War I. Its participation in that
bloody struggle didn't amount
to much. Its army numbered
only seven men, and an army
of that sizs is no great shakes
in a big war. So Andorra was
forgotten, and throughout the
war to make the world safe
for democracy, no shot was
fired in anger within its bor
ders. Nor has any shot been
fired in anger since.
When Kaiser Wilhelm was
finally licked, the nations of
the world eot 'together at
Versailles to put together a
peace. Somehow Andorra was
OVERLOOKED. It signed no
treatv of Deace. and so it re
mained technically at war.
THE little republic remained
at war for 44 YEARS be
fore anybody noticed it. When
the fact was discovered a
little while back, the presi
dent of the 24-man council
that governs Andorra called
the council toeether and they
CALLED OFF THE WAR.
Now for the first time
in 44 years Andorra is of
ficially at peace.
gUMMING up:
Andorra went ( to war 44
years ago and then forgot
about it.
Since then, the great na
tions of the world that signed
a solemn and formal treaty
of peace at ' Versailles have
been into war and out of war
goodness only knows how
many times. But Andorra, of
ficially' at .war all this time,
has fired no shot in hatred
at an enemy. It has -had no
diplomatic crises. It has just
gone ahead and sawed wood
and said nothing. It hasn't
even demanded foreign aid.
A thought:
Maybe we'd better . DE
CLARE WAR ON EVERY
BODY -and then forget all
about it and go ahead piously
and peacefully with the busi
ness of enjoying life.
H, me.
We can't do it.
WE'RE TOO BIG.
I sometimes wonder if big
ness and all that goes with
it isn't the CURSE of the
modern world.
Overconfidence by Democrats
Seen One Favorable GOP Omen
By RAYMOND LAHR
UPI Correspondent
Washington (UPD M a j o r
spokesmen for the rival poli
tical parties' appeared in
agreement today that over
confidence on the part of
Democrats provides the GOP
with at least one favorable
omen for the 1958 election
campaign.
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon is seeking to buoy Re
publican spirits by attribut
ing overconfidence to the
Democrats ' in the congres
sional campaign. Former Pres
ident Truman is warning his
fellow Democrats to be on
guard against it.
Starting his second cam
Matter of Fact
VICTORY? v
San Francisco For any
one who has seen Quemoy at
first hand, the sudden Chi
nese Commu
nist announce
m e n t of a
week's cease
fire in the
fight for the
off - shore is
land has an
exciting smell
of approach
ing victory.
Ti
joi.pb aisop A- cer
tainly premature to start the
celebrations. It may be that
this Communist maneuver is
designed to conceal some dark
new military design or com
plex new political scheme.
Yet the strictly military
factors must certainly have
weighed most heavily in Pei
ping's decision to make this
altogether unexpected cease
fire announcement, which
was not even hinted at in the
most recent Warsaw talks.
And if you study the military
factors, there really is no way
to explain the cease-fire ex
cept as a portent of victory.
The central fact in the pic
ture is the immense value of
the cease-fire to the National
ist garrisons defending the
little islands. After six weeks
of shelling and five weeks of
fairly effective artillery bloc
kade, the garrisons are grant
ed a week's respite, not. just
to lick their wounds, but to
repair damage, receive sup
plies and - reinforcements
without hindrance, and re
store and improve their .situ
ation in every possible-way.
-
NOTHING could be more
important than this sud
denly granted opportunity. As
this reporter indicated, the
strange inefficiency of the
Communist military effort has
left Big Quemoy with no more
than superficial damage. But
nearly half the entire Commu
nist effort has been directed
against the other, smaller is
lands in the Quemoy group,
Little Quemoy, Erh Tan and
Ta Tan. And here the damage
has been by no means super
ficial. While the artillery block
ade continued, there was no
means of re-supplying the
smaller islands except by air
drop. Troops could only be
sent in, and wounded could
only be taken off in small
boats crossing from Big Que
moy by night.
Little Quemoy has a sub
stantial civilian population,
and Little Quemoy's people
were dangerously short o f
food when the cease-fire was
granted. On all three smaller
islands, the basic ammunition
reserves needed to repel a
landing had begun to be dip
ped into. On one of the two
Tan islands, only a single
well was still usable. In a
week, if the Communist cease
fire promise is not broken, all
these deficiencies can be rem
edied on Little Quemoy and
the Tans. Sufficient stocks of
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paign swing, Nixon told a
GOP dinner at Philadelphia
Wednesday night he had
found encouraging factors for
his party during his stops last
week in Indiana, Illinois,
California and Oregon.
He said these included the
fact that "Democrats are over
confident" in each of the
states and Republicans know
"they are underdogs and are
waging an all-out flight for
votes."
Warns Against "Deweyitis"
Nixon said the Republicans,
fighting to regain control of
Congress, have the ingre
dients to reverse the 1948 sit
uation in which Truman
scored an upset victory over
By Joseph Alsop
ammunition can also be rush
ed into Big Quemoy to sus
tain a serious counter battery
fire which has been impos
sible hitherto.
In short, just about every
thing the Communists have
achieved with not much less
than half a million rounds of
shelling will be sacrificed by
this cease-fire. Unless the
Communists' long range mili
tary planning has been really
fantastacally bad, moreover,
it is not possible to attribute
the cease-fire to supply diffi
culties. TO be sure, the much earlier
two-day cease-fire obsten
sibly granted by the Commu
nists "to give the Quemoy
garrison time to reflect," was
almost certainly attributable
to a supply problem. All the
evidence suggeststhat Peiping
began, the assault on the is
lands expecting them to fall
like the walls of Jericho, at
a blast of the trumpets. The
first week of intensive artil
lery fire appears to have ex
hausted the stock of shells on
hand, at the end of this first
week, the rate of shelling de
clined very sharply. Then
came the two-day cease-fire,
which was immediately fol
lowed by more days of very
intense firing.
But all this happened five
weeks ago. The communist
positions in the Quemoy area
are served by a road and a
railroad, which cost the Com
munists something like 300,-
000 human lives to build. The
road and railroad together
have a daily capacity of at
least 4,000 tons. The rate of
supply expenditure, by shel
ling and in other ways, has
been well below 4,000 ton a
day. One cannot imagine that
the Chinese Communist ar
mies are short of artillery am
munition in the rear areas,
Hence it is really impossible
to believe that they have stop,
ped the shelling because they
are short of shells at the front.
Rule out the supply explan
ation. Consider the great ad
vantage to the Nationalists of
a week's cease-fire. Logically,
you are then forced to , con
clude that Peiping is think
ing about abandoning the at
tack on the off-shore islands.
And if this is indeed the case,
it wiir be time to cheer the
success won by the stoutness
of the islands' garrisons and
the firm- policy of Secretary
of State Dulles.
(c) 1958 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Just 60 Seconds
is all we have tonight at 7:30 on
Television to make a startling
announcement.
BARKER'S
Thomas E. Dewey.
Truman, who begins his
third 1958 campaign swing
today with a speech at Chero
kee, Iowa, as part of a mid
western tour, repeatedly has
warned his party to guard
against "deweyitis" meaning
the overconfidence shown by
the GOP in 1948. ,
Nixon said another simila
rity, between 1948 and 1938
was an economic upturn
which he said had contributed
to Truman's victory. The eco
nomy is moving up now, he
said, and "the people do not
vote against the national ad
ministration in good times."
Sen. Alan Bible, who heads
the Democratic Campaign
Speakers' Bureau, denied
overconfidence could hamper
the Democrats at least in the
Far West where he has bedri
since Congress adjourned.
Bible told a reporter the
Democrats were "running
scared" in his state of Nevada.
He said the same was true of
senatorial nominees in Cali
fornia, Arizona and Utah and
even in Washington and Mon
tana where Democratic in
cumbents are heavily favored
to win reelection.
Attacks GOP Record
There were these other
political developments:
At Hays, Kan., Demo
cratic National Chairman
Paul M. Butler attacked the
Republican record on helping
elderly Americans as "noth
ing short of a national scan-
dal." He told a Democratic
Party rally the GOP has con
sistently come out either in
flat opposition to programs to
help the aged or in favor of
cutting back Democratic pro
posals. At Baton Rouge, La., Ca
mille E. Gravel was ousted as
Louisiana Democratic nation
al committeeman at a stormy
session of the state party's
governing body on the ground
that he was "out of step" with
the state party on segrega
tion. Gravel calls himself a
"moderate" on the racial is
sue. A- Democratic National
Committee spokesman in
Washington said the Louisi
a n a Democratic committee
had no power to oust Gravel.
He said party rules clearly
state that only the National
Committee can expel one of
its own members.
Nixon moves on' today to
Columbus, Ohio, where he
will deliver the keynote ad
dress tonight to the GOP
state convention.
CORN BREAD WEEK
Atlanta -(UPD- Gov. Marvin
Griffin has signed a procla
mation making this official
corn bread week in Georgia,
to commemorate "the ancient
and honorable industry of
corn milling and the making
of corn bread."
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