4 Monday, October 20, 1938
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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. 20. 1958 (Wednesday)
A panel discussion of ballot
measures is being arranged
for the Jackson County
Young Republican club..
The Rogue Valley 70-voice
chorus plans variety for its
fall concert, with selections
ranging from a sacred chorale
to "Kentucky Babe."
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 20. 1938 (Thursday)
Resort owners of the Upper
Rogue have organized to pro
mote tourist trade.. "
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "War
now centers in the Far East,
and the Near East. The Near
East is not far enough, and
the Far East is too near."
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 20, 1928 (Saturday)
Nine members of one of
Jackson county's most noto
rious "rum rings" have been
arrested in Ashland.
: The Armory roller skating
rink reopens next week.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 20. 1918 (Sunday)
: Over a ton of fruit pits and
nut shells have been tossed
into boxes and barrels scat
tered throughout cities and
towns in the county.
' W. S. Barnum has gone to
court to foreclose a mortgage
on the Bullis family's South
ern Oregon Traction com
pany, better known as the
Rogue River Valley railroad.
What's Ycur I.Q.?
, Nine er ten correct is superior;
seven er eight is excellent; five oi
six is good.
1. The bulldog is symbolic
of Britain; what animal gen
erally denotes Soviet Russia?
2. Name the Biblical patri
arch who is reputed to have
lived 969 years.
. 3. In traveling east to west
around the world, would one
lose, or gain, a day?
4. What branch of the
Army is identified as QMC?
5. A digamist is a person
who has twice married legal
ly; true or false?
6. Would you most likely
find a pergola in the garden,
on a Venetian canal, or in an
ice skating rink?
7. Does the minute hand
on a watch move 3, 6, or 12
times faster than the hour?
8. Is a daiquiri an oriental
dagger, a cocktail, or an Afri
can native?
9. Name the French states
man who was nicknamed
"the Tiger of France."
10. Does "12 M" on a letter
signify that it was post
marked at noon, or at mid
night? Answers: The bear. 2.
Meihusaleh. 3.' Lose a day. 4.
Quartermaster Corps. 5.
True. 6. In the garden. 7.
12 times. 8. Cocktail. 9.
Georges Clemenceau. 10.
Noon.
NOVICE
Hollywood (UPD Jymme
Shore, 15, who last year
played left field on the girls
baseball team at school in San
Gabriel, Calif., recently went
, to work at the Disney Studios
; in "The Shaggy Dog." Jymme
received her first pair of high
heels for the part and prompt
ly broke an ankle trying to
'learn w walk on them.
T. R.'s Centennial
The nation observes, with many appropriate cele
brations, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Theodore
Roosevelt next week.
"I did not tisurp power, but I did greatly
broaden the use of the
Theodore Roosevelt of
This centenary year
affords a good vantage point for a look at the
changes in federal governmental, structure that
T.R. effected or foresaw. He had not exactly
sought the vice presidential nomination ; indeed,
on one occasion he declared that "under no cir
cumstances" would he or could he accept the
nomination. A biographer quotes him as saying,
"I would greatly rather be anything, say a profes
sor of history."
But after T.R.'s two
as Collier "Boss" Piatt, the New York GOP power,-
was ready, as another source puts it, for
"Roosevelt's promotion to any office outside the
state." As it turned out, he was nominated in
1900 with no negative voice but his own.
Viewing himself after election as shelved, po
Iitically, he planned to
far cry from the present, when perhaps the
strongest Vice President
viewed as the logical,
choice for top office in
DOOSEVELT'S first
was quick administration. He cut through red
tape and cleared his desk by delegating work
to trusted subordinates.
Few of the domestic "Roosevelt policies"
were translated into law during his terms of of
fice. Congress did give him a secretary of com
merce and labor, who was to oversee the trusts,
did . forbid the rebate of freight rates, did
strengthen the interstate commerce act and its
administration, did provide sweeping protection
for the consumer of food
control ot Lonarress was
ashamed "stand-patters," and by the end of the
Roosevelt presidency in 1909, Congress was in
open revolt.
It was as the Bull
that T.R. ran on d platform he called it "a con
tract with the people" that reads like a pro
phecy of the social legislation to come. The Pro
gressive Party promised woman sufferage, easier
amendment of the Constitution, social welfare
legislation for women and children, workmen's
compensation, limitation of injunctions in labor
disputes, farm relief, revision of the currency to
assure elasticity, health insurance in' industry, in
heritance and income taxes, improvement of in
land waterways.
THE platform said nothing about recall of
ed. ButJt did provide
cisions it was the left of center in those days
which wanted to curb the court.
T.R., with his "square deal," was described
as an enemv oi business
distant cousin with his
described a generation later. But "Teddy" Roose
velt a nickname he despised was scrupu
lously careful to point
a group, not a class. The "good" businessmen and
the "eood" combinations knew they weren't his
"malefactors of great wealth."
T.R., a man of many
himself the image of his society, which was speed
ing through the last stages of an industrial revo
lution. In the words of Frederick L. Paxson: "His
career had personalized the American recogni
tion of a changing world. His flaws were on the
surf ace and undisguised ; his human values were
timeless." E.R.R.
Long-Reigning Popes
Every new Pope in more than 400 years
since Hadrian VI from
1523 has been of Italian
this precedent the Church escapes any interna
tional political or nationalistic pressures in mak
ing its choice. . . ..
The late Pius XII,
over 19 years. His advanced age and the consid
erable length of his reign were by no means ex
ceptional among recent heads of the church. The
new most Holy Father will be only the 14th since
Siemens Alll became successor to . St. Peter m
1758.
The Dredecessor nf Pins XTT was Pins XT who
reigned for 17 years. Leo XIII reigned for 25
years; 1878-1903. Almost 68 when elected, he
lived to be 93.
PROBABLY the most
cutdiB, m xoi, was , iterum JMovarum.
Often termed the "social Magna Carta of Ca
tholicism," it earned for its author the name of the
"Workingman's Pope." It stressed the duties 'of
employer to employee as well as the workers'
rights, and helped to bring the Papacy to even
higher prestige in the non-Catholic world. .
His predecessor. Pius
lived to be over 85 after: a
years. It was by him that
macuiaie conception ot tne Virgin was officially
proclaimed in 1854 and. in 1870. t.hp rl noma nf
the infallibility of the Pope, but only when speak
ing ex cameara" in decisions on faith or mor
als. E.R.R. . ? -
executive power," wrote
his years as President.
of Theodore Roosevelt
years as governor, Thorn
study law or teach. A
in history is generally
perhaps inevitable GOP
1960.
contribution as President
" '
and drugs. But the GOP
m tne nands oi un
Moose candidate in 1912
.
for recall of judicial de
and his class, as his
New Deal was to be
out that he indicted only
facets, somehow made
The Netherlands died in
origin. By adhering to
dead at 82, reigned for
famous of Leo XIII's en-
IX. 54 when (rnwnpn.
reign of more than 31
the dogma of the Im-
Her NAWg k Gimv she tsam in
ITALY. BUT SHE GREW UP .
Washington Report
By William
THE POLICY SPLIT
Washington - A deep and
basic cleaveage between the
regular" and "modern" Re
publicans is clearly emerging
as the Congressional cam
paign nears its close. So, too,
is a divis
ion similar in
kind but not
nearly so big
in degree
among the
Democrats.
The separ
a t i n g factor
is the concept
of bipartisan
ship should in
fact be Drac-
William S. WbiU
ucea when people are run
ning for office? This is the
question that draws the
lines of division.
Vice-President Richard M.
Nixon, who is
becoming more identified
with the regular than with
the modern-Eisenhower wine.
has, in effect, abandoned bi
partisanship. Though he la
ter agreed with Mr. Nixon
that criticism needed at
least "to be answered," Presi
dent , Eisenhower has declar
ed that "foreign policy ought
to be kept out of partisan de
bate." Mr. Nixon has plain
ly said exactly the ODDosite.
And he is acting accordingly.
.
rpHE Vice-President is ex
plaining that the Presi
dent's responsibilities as a na
tional leader are one thing
and that Richard M. Nixon's
responsibilities as the leader
m a political camDaien." are
quite another thing. It is in
teresting. Darentheticallv. that
Mr. Nixon' has thus formally
laid claim to what he alreadv
held in fact-the directing
headship of the entire Remib-
lican campaign.
More interesting and more
to the present point, however,
is the light this sheds on what
are, for this purpose, two Re
publican parties. Mr. . Nixon
is speaking the language, al
most right down to the
ground, of the orthodox Re
publicans. Their late leader,
Senator Robert A. Taft of
Ohio, thought bipartisanship
was pretentious nonsense ,
and would say so when pro
voked.
"The business of the oppo
sition," he used to declaim in
his dry, nasal voice, "is to
oppose." And he no more
hesitated to attack a foreign
policy in charge of the oppo
site party than he did the
smallest domestic bill. Mr.
Nixon has not gone quite that
far on the other side -of the
coin, nor do the bulk of the
present regular Republicans.
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
REMEMBER QUEEN SALOTE of the distant land of Tonga
a majestic, 7-foot-tall Polynesian who all but stole the
show at Queen Elizabeth's coronation in 1953? Pouring rain
could not dim her expansive
smile or the finery she was
sporting. But said finery
didn't come from Tonga
not even from the South
Pacific area. It was sup
plied by New York's R. H.
Macy.
Another unusual sale by
Macy's (my informant is
Margaret Harriman) was
made to a Brizilian who
liked -the looks of a live
burro he spotted in a pro
motion stunt and insisted it
be sent to his plantation in
far-off Brazil. Some weeks later,
credit Wrote the burro-fancier: "When I saw it at my home,
alas, it did not have the same appealing expression around the
eyes."
'
In & Stamford. Conn., book shop a couple came upon 25 copies of
Homer's "Odyssey." "I wonder why they stock that book so heavi
ly?" observed the wife. The husband surmised, "Probably a local
author." I
C 133. by Bennett Cert Slstributed by Kiag Features Syndicate,
S. Whit.
TJE AND they,.however, are
imbued with a spirit that
could not be more different
from that of Mr. Eisenhower
and the rest of the . moderns,
The President and his people
are always uncomfortable at
the injection of foreign af
fairs into national party poli
tics. The Vice-President and
the "regulars" in general are
not in the least so troubled.
On the contrary. They led
a violently partisan attack
on the Truman Adminstration
in the same field. And beyond
doubt this was a critical
force in ending 20 years of
Democratic control of the
White House. Nobody knows
this better than they do. Ac
cordingly, they are profound
ly sensitive to Democratic at
tacks on them in the same
area now because they are so
completely aware that this
sort of thing, now or in 1960,
could lead to their own de
struction.
They hit back at what they
fear most and in practical
politics quite soundly fear. In
a word, they play the game
to win.
Thus, the distinction be
tween the regular and mod
ern Republicans is. if in a ra
ther vague way, the distinc
tion between a traditional
and a liberal view of Dolitics.
But the distinction between
the Democratic foreign nolicv
bipartisans and those who do
not really believe in it is
quite another matter. - - .
IN THAT party there is no
liberal versus conservative
division. Rather it is one pri
marily of age and back
ground. Most of the older
Democrats, whether liberal or
conservative, genuinely sup
port bipartisanship, because
they have a mellower view
of the world and a more ma
ture sense of proportion. It
is almost in every case the
young Democrat who breaks
bipartisanship-though, unlike
the Republican old guardist,
he tries to convince himself
that he isn't doing it.
To see how little Demo
cratic bipartisanship is relat
ed to what is liberal or what
is conservative look at the
case of Harry S. Truman. Mr.
Truman certainly was a "lib
eral" President. But Mr. Tru
man is still backing biparti
sanship, however much he dis
likes the Eisenhower Admin
istration. And what is being
said now about this erstwhile
liberal here by some younger
Democratic liberals in pri
vate is about as harsh as
anything the Republicans
used to say. Such language!
(Copyright, 1958, by United
Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
Stop Me
however, it was returned for
Matter of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
ONE CHEER FOR FOSTER
Washington-Sorfie time has
already passed since the Chi
nese Communists extended
"1 their cease
fire at Que
moy. In the
interval hard'
ly anyone,
even includ
ing the Secre
tary of State
himself, has
fort hrightly
applauded the
-Install Alsop success OI
American policy. So the time
has come to get at least one
cheer for John Foster Dulles.
The extension of the cease
fire strongly confirms the
forecast, first offered in this
space, that the Communists
had. already made up their
minds not to start shooting
again, before they broke off
military action for the orig
inal cease-fire period of one
week. One must still keep all
fingers crossed. But the evi
dence . is now really very
strong that the military hase
of the crisis in the Formosa
Strait is at an end.
The sole purpose of the
firm policy that Secretary
Dulles sponsored was to meet
the test of the 'Communists'
military action against the
offshore islands. The test has
been- met, . unless all the
known evidence is mislead
ing. Furthermore,' credit for
this success has not been
given where credit is due.
DESPITE the comparative
effectiveness of the Sino
American blockade running,
the Communists could easily
have continued and tightened
the Quemoy blockade. Des
pite the miserable showing of
their air , units in combat
with the Nationalists, the
Communists could have borne
down the National air power
by sheer weight of numbers.
But they could not do these
things without grave risk of
widening and intensifying
the fighting. And they did
not choose to run this risk,
because a wider war seemed
likely to involve the United
States. -
Beyond any doubt, this was
the real reason for the Com
munist decision, to stop shoot
ing. And this success must
therefore be credited almost
entirely to Secretary Dulles
policy,. which determined the
Communist calculation o.f
risk, plus the stoutness of the
men at the Quemoy garrison
It may therefore be asked
why it is time to give only
one cheer for John Foster
Dulles, instead of three ring
ins cheers and " a siss-boom
bah. . The answer lies in the
Secretary of State's responsi
hilitv for the cheaD fakery of
the past, which so infinitely
complicates the still-danger
ous present.
. ' -
FOUR great past fakes hag
ride the policy-makers
The first was the Dulles elec
tion vear fake about "liberal
ing" the nations under the
rnmmunist voke. The second
was th Dulles oost-election
fake, the "unleashing oi
Chiani? Kai-shek." The third
was Chiang Kai-shek's own
fake, his talk about reinvad
in the mainland and defeat
ing the Communists by force
of arms. And these tnree
fakes combine together to
nroduce fake number four,
and the heavy military com
mitment to.theof fshore
islands. '
Thie rnmmitment became a
fake as soon as the islands
ceased to be used as a basis
fir nneration against the
mainland. This began to hap
ten in 1955. after the Eisen
hower Administration's care
fully inconspicuous reversal
of the phony "unleashing oi
Chiang. Thereafter, the Chi
nese Nationalists successively
abandoned air attacks against
mainland. targets; interfer
ence with shipping entering
mainland harbors; and even
artillery fire by the guns on
the offshore islands except in
direct response from the
Communists' guns. AH these
steps were taken by Ameri
can request. Today, even air
reconnaissance flights over
the mainland have been given
up, which is a rather risky
final step.
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Approbation
To the Editor: The follow
ing letter . has been sent , to
Mrs Thomas Rutter, , voters
service chairman, League of
Women Voters, Medford: ;
Dear Mrs. Rutters: On be
half of all the Republican
candidates please express our
appreciation to the League of
Women Voters for the Candi
dates Fair and to .the Junior
Chamber of Commerce and
Jaycettes for the wonderful
refreshments.
Efforts o f organizations
like the League of Women
Voters, who work to bring
the voters and the candidates
face to face, will always help
bring about improved govern
ment. -
This opportunity of per
sonal contact and discussion
with the voting public is al
ways welcomed and appreciat
ed by all- the Republican
candidates.
Donald L. Stathos,
Chairman, Jackson ;,
County Republican
Central Committee
Sleepin' Sickness
To the Editor: Aye gollies
now,' that Make Medford
Beautiful program has possi
bilities. And Dick Humphrey
says Oregon has 'election
sleeping' sickness with fever',
and nobody knows what to
put in at the park; that is,
they didn't have an 'expert'
there to tell them what to do.
Well, now I reckon it this
way; Oregon has got sleeping
sickness an' it danged shore
ain't confined to elections;
the, whole goshdurn place is
sleepin', all t the time. Every
body just wants to set and
toast his toes, reckonin the
other guy is a aimin' to do it,
and sure nuff-t'other guy is
a-settin' just around t'other
side er the stove a-sleepin'
and a-toastin' his own toes."
And : all the while they's
both watchin' teevee program
about Virginia .. City which
ain't HALF the 'country it is
right here, nor as old and pre-
N EITHER the releashing of
Chiang nor.' its practical
consequences were publicly
announced. They are not
being publicly emphasized,
even today -- because this
would be an admission1 of
past fakery.; For . the same
reason, Secretary. Dulles ha?
not publicly swallowed ' his
words about "liberation,", and
Chiang Kai-shek has not pub
licly admitted that he has hot
the slightest intention of rem
vading the mainland. Conse
quently all our : allies and
many worthy persons in this
country go on worrying and
agitating about dangers that
are now - wholly- imaginary.
Speaking realistically, these
aspects of the problem can
simply be forgotten.
Yet one question then re
mains. How can the status of
the offshore islands be sensi
bly regulated? If the United
States had flaccidly allowed
Chiang to be thrown off the
islands by Communist brute
force, the most damaging con
clusions about America's
strength of arm and will
would have been drawn by
all Asians friendly to the
West and by the Communist
leaders. But against the back
ground of the frustrated Com
munist attack, is it now pos
sible to' give the offshore is
lands a more common sensible
status without seeming to
retreat under threat?
. If there is any safe answer
to this question, it will, prob
ably take the form of propos
als emanating from the West's
Asian friends, especially the
Japanese, the Filipinos, the
South Vietnamese and the
Thailanders. If these nations
begin to press Chiang Kai
shek to accept a new status
for offshore islands, the situa
tion will suddenly acquire a
wholly new look. The wiser
American policy-makers are
already hoping for this sort
of Asian initiative, after a lit
tle more , time has been al
lowed for relaxation of the
crisis atmosphere.
(1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
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served historically. Mean
while, . them critters in Vir
ginia. City is a-puttin' in sup
plies and money and a gettin
rich while pore ole Oregon
jest keeps sittin' and gettin'
the seat of his pants thinner
so's the 'cold gets in easier
thataway, and his supplies -
why he scratched the bottom
of the barrel long ago.
You all want to make Med
ford beautiful - well you just
start throwin' up some of
them ugly 12 by 20-foot bill
boards like those what sez,
?'Hurrahs Club" and "Bucket
of Blurp", like you see all up
and - down Californy and
plumb to Texas, and I can tell
you that the nice new greeu
and black paper money you
can corral: in come next year
will be about the purtiest
danged site you all ever, laid
eye on.
Jimmy Jones .
. 31 Lewis st.
Medford
How About Industry?
To the Editor: To hear Re
publicans now, you would
think they never had a chance
to help industry in this state.
But. after 20 years of Re
publican rule, it took a Demo
cratic governor to call the
special session to reduce
taxes on business and indus
try; it was a Democratic legis
lature that voted to take the
state out of the property tax
field; and it was a Democratic
governor- who asked and re
ceivedxmore money for a De
partment of Development to
help bring in industry.
Up until Candidate Hatfield
started up the old Republican
cry about Oregon discourag
ing industry, things were look
ing up in this state. What
could discourage business
more than gloomy talk and
the, "hard money" policy of
the Republican administra
tion? It certainly seems peculiar
to me that while Governor
Holmes is working hard to
bring in industry, his oppo
nent is telling the world how
awful Oregon is.
Dave Epps, Chairnian
Democratic Party
of Oregon
' Portland
Not ANY Issues?
To the Editor: This regards
Don Stathos' desperate pass
at a few votes in Oct. 15
"Communications."
-Stathos broadly hints that
there is something illegal
about . Congressman Charles
O. Porter having mailed his
year-end report on the 85th
Congress to his constituents
under his franking privilege.
If Stathos actually asks some
one for a .legal opinion as he
says he will, he will find that
this use of the frank is per
fectly legal, but he may scare
his lawyer to death regarding
libel laws.
As a matter of fact, Con
gressman Porter's Republican
predecessor in office, Harris
Ellsworth, consistently mail
ed his year-end report to his
constituents under the frank
for many years. So do all the
members of Congress who are
devoted eriough to issue reports.-
. ;
The reprinting of Mr. Por
ter's report from the Congres
sional Record was done by the
Government Printing Office,
but the office was reimbursed
by toe Congressman for the
full cost of the paper,' print
ing and envelopes. There' is
no fraud involved.
I think, Stathos would prob
ably vote Democratic if he
took the time to sit down for
a few minutes, with a copy of.
Congressman Porter's report.
He would find that it is not
a "piece of political prop
aganda" at all, but instead a
concise rundown on the work
of the 85th Congress and of
Reasonable Funercjs
(Priced for Everyone)
f A1 V
I K A
f 1 V I
Fperi " -teSlramS
FRIENDLY,
the work of our Representa
tive's office for the past two
years. t -
Incidentally, Congressman
Gwenn, a Republican of New
York, has gone to the extent
of sending his report out na
tionwide, and he uses the
frank to do it."
C'mon Don, can't you find
ANY issues?
Jim Redden
County Chairman J,
i Democratic Party
Is Life So Cheap?
To tlie Editor: Just how far
will a hunter go to "get his
kill"? .
Since pheasant season ' op
ened hunters have been ter
rorizing our neighborhood on
Thomas rd. and Sunset, only
half a mile from Medford city
limits.
A couple have been hunt
ing in a three acre field sur
rounded by homes with both
shotgun and .22 rifle. The sec
ond day one shot through the
walnut tree in a front yard
and the bullet struck the
house, just missing four chil
dren waiting for the school '
bus.
A recent article in this
newspaper reported a hunter
calmly strolling away after
sending two pre-school girls
screaming into their home
covered with the marks
made by the shot from his
gun.
Every year "trigger happy"
hunters are permitted to hunt
too close to homes, jeopard
izing life, livestock and prop
erty sometimes leaving be
reaved widows, or parents to
grieve over the loss of a child.
Are there no laws to pre
vent hunting in residential
areas? Does a hunting license
permit trespassing on private
property does it permit one
to shoot what and whom he
pleases? Do we wait until
someone is critically injured,
killed or until property is
damaged before a law is writ
ten to protect us?
We parents are literally
"scared to death" to allow
our children to play in their
own yards.
IS LIFE SO CHEAP?
Mrs. D. G. MacDougalL
1805" Thomas rd.,
Medford.
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Vote for Larry !
SHEEHAN;
Democratic Candidate for
sheriff!
Of Jackson County ;
who, if elected, will keep the
Sheriff's Office open 24 hours m
day for the service and protection
of the public
Fd. for by Sheehan for Sheriff
Comm. C. J. Babb, Chmn., Rogue
River, Ore. . ; ,
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