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Sunday, January 25, 19S9 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFOimTBIBUNB "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S3 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor LIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE ER1CKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai 1 In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail and Sunday 1 year $13 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year 14.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 , Daily and SunOcy 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper ofCity of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International - Full Leased Wire ' MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION .Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices In New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Hit AScfATHO Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 25, 1949 (Tuesday) Ralph Krows reports robins are "thick as hens ' in his yard., ' Circuit Judge Herbert K. Hanna disqualifies himself from hearing the case arising from the Ashland city coun cil's tiff with Mayor Thomas "Williams. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 25, 1939 (Wednesday) Tickets are selling fast for the annual President s ball Friday. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The annual trek of winter visitors to California away from there has been noted. Sad to tell the majority appear none too solvent." SO YEARS AGO Jan. 25, 1929 (Friday) A new gold strike is re ported in Josephine county. Eugen Orr is named sen ior captain of his class at Hill Military academy. 40 YEARS AGO. Jan. 25, 1919 (Saturday) The maple trees on South Central ave." are reported blooming already. Eggs are selling on the local market for 45 and 50 cents a dozen. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 25, 1909 (Monday) Mrs. O..W. Murphy wins a nail-driving contest conduct ed among lady members of the local carpenters union. Duck hunters, disgruntled over recent floods that have put a damper on hunting, pre pare to oil their weapons and put them away until next 3 cell . What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct it superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. , 1. The home of what fa mous French heroine was at Domremy? . 2. From what poem are these lines: "The clustered spires of Frederick stand, green-walled by the hills of Maryland"? 3. What causes the holes in Swiss cheese? 4. What is a prime number? - 5. Who said, "What a good boy am I"? 6. What State is the north ernmost point of the United States? 7. Is a bachelor, or a mar ried man, known as a bene dict? 8. What is a paleontologist? 9. What river, connecting Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, is less than 3o miles long? 10. As of the 1950 census were there 18, 24 or 31 U.S. cities having a population of more than 500,000? - Answers: 1. Joan of Arc 2. "Barbara Frietche." by Wbil rier. 3. Fermentation gases. 4. One that can, be evenly divid ed only by itself. 5. Little Jack Horner. 6. Alaska. 7. Married man. 8. Fossil au thority. 9. Niagara river. 10. 18. - ,,-.',. , Dogs and Humans Mrs. J. E. Huststarted something probably more than she realized when she wrote a letter to this newspaper recently deploring conditions at the county dog pound. Since then, members of the county court have visited the pound and confirmed that conditions are far from ideal and that something must be done to make them better; other residents have taken pens in hand to give their views of the dog situation, and a lively controversy has continued. IT HAS been proposed, for instance, that the dog license fee be increased to provide added funds for dog control and for improvements at the pound, including a move to a better location. Stricter dog control in the city has been pro posed, presumably through the hotly - debated "leash law" or confinement regulation, either year-around, or during gardening season. Pet-owners and dog lovers have rushed to the defense of their canine ing they should be permitted to roam as nature intended; others declaring that a well-trained, obedient and confined dog is happier and so are the neighbors. THIS controversy fluoridation is one not subject to easy com promise. Opinions are too diverse and too strongly-held to permit a solution which pleases all We do not propose ior an end to the controversy. They wouldn't do any good in the first place, and would only serve to- keep the muddy waters roiled up. But it does occur to us that all sides in the controversy have at least some basis for their opinions; that there is each ot the views. THE dog-lovers are. right in pointing out how rewarding a human be. The householders are should not be subjected dogs irom their own and nearby neighborhoods. Officialdom is right in pointing out that available funds at present are not sufficient to do a much better job than is being done. Those who dislike dogs, on one hand, and the Humane and Anti Cruelty societies, on the other, are both right in declaring that dog overpopulation is good for no one, and is caused by over-breeding. Perhaps the fact that everyone is "rierht" up to a point can be used out a compromise solution which will make no one very happy, but which will work toward the long-range betterment of conditions for dog and numan amce. ni.A. Protecting Consumers The government is taking stronger steps to protect consumers from the questionable prac tices of some retailers. Congress recently price tags to appear on discourage the use of "price packs." And now the Federal Trade Commission is using its rather considerable powers to crack down on other types of price piracy. IT IS in the midst of a campaign against phoney pricing, and, according to dispatches from Washington, is threatening to "nans' ur hides" to get the message across lhe jb'TC reports nesses many of them slapped by legal action illegally claimed to offer cnarging regular prices. The campaign appears to be effective, too. FTC Chairman John W. Wynne was quoted as saying he is gratified and "not a little surprised" at how effectively business has responded. 1X7ELL they might respond. ?T For the FTC rulin$rs. contain erl in guide published last October spelling out prac tices which it considered illegal, can be backed up by civil contempt charges, with maximum penalties ui po,uuu per aay per violation. Reputable businessmen generally support such action by the FTC. for it hits at. who give a "black eye" to an entire business com munity. And, they believe, there is no reason why those who follow legitimate pricing policies snuuia suiier irom the reputations of those who try to make a quick buck by hoodwinking the cuaiuniei. j.j. Who's Right About Cuba? What's going on in Cuba? Is Fidel Castro another riotential rlirb?t.nr? Are the executions which have taken place there a "bloodbath" reminiscent of the French revolu tion? Or are they the legitimate executions of mass murderers of the Batista regime? We don't know. We hope to. eventually, when more information is available; when the new regime can be assessed atmosphere. X7E THINK Wayne Morse was too hasty in TT refusing to. go and see for himself and in assailing the executions as illegal and outrageous. We think Charles Porter was too hasty in declar ing the executions to be legitimate. One or the other of them is right, but we believe it is too soon to tell. There's one thing in Castro's favor. He's been doing his killing openly, with the press invited. Batista did his killing quietly, secretly, and under the-no-trial-at-all dictatorial system. E.A. friends, some maintain like religious views and to make any suggestions some truth and justice in - canine relationship can right in declaring they to the depredations of as the basis for working passed a law recmirinp; automobiles, which will that it means business. that more than 60 busi selling furs have been on allegations that thev bargains while actually m a somewhat calmer Dennis the bu d&TBK PUT YOUR WHILE I'M GAYIN THIS Matter of Fact DISHING THE WHIGS Washington Long before the time when "every child that was born alive was either WW! a little Liber al, or else little Conserv ative," there J were Whigs and Tories. In that forgotten era, the great Tory chief tain, Lord Derby, bewil Joseph Alscip dered his own followers and enraged the op position by stealing the main item in the Whig program When a simple-minded Tory mumbled something about party principles, Lord Derby replied calmly: "But don't you see that we dished the Whigs?" The story is opposite, be cause Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's new civil rights move is such a beauti ful Whig-dishing operation The Whigs, in this case, are the political strategists of the Eisenhower administra t i o n, and Johnson has dished them very thoroughly indeed. WflTHIN the Administration, ' a hard fight has been going on for a great many weeks about the kind of civil rights legislation the Presi dent ought to send to Con gress. Secretary of . Labor James Mitchell, reportedly supported by Vice President Richard Nixon, has pleaded hard for a "strong" civil rights bill, meaning the kind of civil rights bill that will be enthusiastically welcomed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People but cannot pass the Congress. Mitchell argued that the Northern Negro vote could only be won for the Re publicans by an ultra-strong bill. The new White House Chief of Staff, Gen. Wilton B. Per sons, has actually opposed the inclusion of any sort of civil rights bill in the President's legislative program. Persons has also been supported by at least one influential Cabi net member, Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson. Persons and Anderson argued that the President could not affront the Southern conserv atives with any sort of civil rights bill, when he needed their help so badly to keep the budget balanced. TN THE middle of the debate, - with his eyes squarely on the. cruel problems for which he has to find practical solu tions, there was the able At torney General, William Rog ers. Rogers argued for a mo derate bill, solely aimed to help him solve his problems. Specifically, he wanted sub poena powers, to strengthen his hand in the effort to pro tect Negroes' voting rights in the South. He wanted broader powers to deal with law-obstructing mobs, including pow ers to take legal action against the organizers of such mobs. And he wanted to continue and to strengthen the Civil Rights Commission set up in 1957. The President, who has a horror of playing politics with civil rights, finally took the advice of his Attorney Gen eral. The President was there fore getting ready to send a Rogers-type bill to Capitol Hill when Majority Leader Johnson briskly rose in the Senate and offered a Rogers type bill of his own. There ara many differences of detail in this Johnson bill, including particularly a scheme for a conciliation com mission that was originally proposed by Benjamin V. Cohen. The Justice Depart ment says, somewhat huffily, that the Johnson bill is not nearly as good as the White House bill will be. But the bill Johnson has offered and the bill the President was getting ready to offer are broadly Menace FlHGERS M YOUR EARS NEXT PART. By Joseph AIsop identical in character; and the character of a bill is what de termines its political .impact. rpHERE IS something won derfully comic in this spec tacle of Sen. "Johnson, the grand panjandrum of. the Democrats, briskly, smoothly, confidently taking the words out of the President's mouth before he has spoken them. There is something dazzling, too, in this new move by John son, himself a Texan and the protege of the Senate's South ern oligarchs, who dares to offer a civil rights bill just about as strong as the bill the Republican administ ration planned to offer. If Johnson made the move, one can be virtually certain there will be no Southern filibuster; and that, in itself, is proof enough of Johnson's virtuosity. But it is easy to be too be dazzled by these features of the situation, and to forget the tremendously reassuring part of the matter. The Johnson-Eisenhower-Rogers approach to the civil rights problem is a practical approach, designed to serve a noble purpose and to gain a great end. Johnson could not have made his move if he had not been sure that President Eis enhower would refuse to play politics with civil rights. He would not have made his move, either, if he were not a big man, who thinks about bigger things than dishing the Whigs, rnuch as he enjoys dishing them when he can. One can enjoy the joke, in fact, but above all one must cheer the results. (Copyright, 1959. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Today & Tomorrow By Walter THE BEARS AND THE BULLS In the debate, which has now begun, on the President's budget the underlying issues turn on differ ent theo r i e s about the rate at which the productive ca pacity of our economy can and sJi o u 1 d grow. In order to fix in mind the dimensions of the issue, we may note that over the past 50 years the average an nual rate of growth has been per cent. During the post war period of 1947-1953 the rate was nearly 5 per cent, During the past six years it has been only, perhaps not quite, 2 per cent. It is fair to say, I think, that the difference between the Administration and its critics is this. The Adminis tration hopes to reach the 50 year average of about 3 per cent, and would not be happy if the average rate boomed up to 5 per cent. The critics of the Administration. who include most of the Dem ocrats as well as the liberal Republicans of the Nelson Rockefeller kind, believe that the economy can be induced to grow at an average rate of about 5 per cent, and that this rate is indispensable if we are to provide an adequate national defense and meet the needs of our growing and in creasingly urbanized popula tion. I T IS misleading, indeed it is demagogic, to pretend that the issue between these two schools of thought is one between "spenders" and "sav ers" or between "radicals" and "conservatives." The real question is how much the American economy may pro duce. If it can produce more, the country will be able to afford a better defense and a better provision for the needs jof its civilian popula Walter Lippmann Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Dog Story To the Editor: This is a true dog story and it happened at noon Friday. Maybe some people who call dogs man's best friend will sit up and think after reading this. At noon my husband drove in the alley with his station wagon with four or five boxes of beef, all frozen and wrap ped for our deep freezer. One of my girls was helping carry in the boxes. When they re turned to the car after a trip into the storage room who should be in the car but a big hound dog of some kind of breed, only he had long ears. Would the self-invited guest let my husband or my girl come near the car? Well, I tell you now. With a snarl and a howl that we heard all through the place he lunged toward the back of the car, snarling. What to do? Well, I called the police and the policeman was very kind After a time he finally got the dog out of our car into his by feeding him some of the fish sticks we had prepared for dinner. Whose dog? Don't know. What was wrong with the dog? Hungry. End of story, dog sitting in front seat of police car, friendly because he wasn't as hungry as he had been. We are happy, dog happy I guess. At least he got a nice ride in a police car. Where is dog? Don't know. Hope he finds someone who will be a best friend to him and feed him. Erma Milledge, 12 South Orange st., Medford. Lei Them Speak Up To the Editor: Your edito rial on the divorce rate is in teresting and you ask for sug gestions from others. First, why do the ministers of churches fail to teach the Bible answers to divorce? Christ gave many scriptures about this commandment. He said "If any man put away his Wife and marry another, he committeh adultery, and who soever marry one divorced, doth commit adultery." Yet the churches accept divorced and remarried as church members. They violate God's word, and thus do much to encourage divorce, . and the breaking up of homes. If religion is the backbone of our nation, let the minis ters speak up, and not back up this evil. Let them teach the Bible if they believe it. Let the churches set an ex ample. R. G. . -: (Name on file), Medford. Lippmann tion. If the economy can pro duce only at the current rate, the country cannot, within the existing tax structure, af ford more than the present Eisenhower budget calls for, The President's budget as sumes that there will be more recovery and that the amount of unemployment and the short use of plant capacity will dimmish. But it does not assume, if I read it correctly, that we can or that we should work our way to a much high er rate of economic expan sion. A T THE center of this de- bate between the two schools of thought lies the most difficult, and the most agonizing, question of a free and capitalistic economy. The President s economic advisors seem to be quite conscious of this question. It is whether it is possible to bring about a much higher rate of produc tivity -without creating a boom which inflates all prices, including wage costs, faster than productivity increases. The opposition economists be lieve that a boom without in flation is possible. They be lieve that if the economy is expanded, the inflation can be kept small, slow, salutary, and under control. The economists to whom the President has committed himself believe that an econo my which is expanding rap idly, which has full employ ment and has . full use of capacity, is bound to be infla tionary. They have come, moreover, to wonder whether the orthodox devices against inflation - the restriction of credit and a balanced budget -can in fact prevent inflation in a booming economy. There fore, they prefer a quieter tempo with a certain amount of unemployment to act as a brake on wages and a certain amount of excess plant ca pacity to act as a brake on prices. THERE is here, then, a de bate on the grand scale Old School Data To the Editor: Our room is working on a project which includes the drawing of mur als of early schools in Ore gon, particularly in Jackson county. We would appreciate it very much if you send us some information and pictures concerning these early day schools. Eighth Grade Class, Eagle Point School, Eagle Point, Ore. Editor's note: Can anyone help this class? The Mail Trib une's files have a few pic tures of Medford schools from the early days of this century, but none of old county schools or those of pioneer days. Training Dogs and People To the Editor: Since that unrecorded day when a dog nrst licked man s hand, in stead of biting it, the relation ship between the canine and his best friend has grown ever closer. How to train him? Like child they must be trained. The reason that some dogs do make a nuisance of them selves is the human, who once thought him such a cute pup py. But when he found a little care and training was neces sary (the pup now growing into a full size dog) the dog was put out to do for him self. Some people should nev er have a dog, in fact some people should never have chil dren. The results are the same. In the United States alone 14 million families welcome a dog into their home, some 19,000 veterinarians and 3,500 small hospitals stand by to keep the nation's dog popula tion in good health and spir its. Training classes will be starting January 29th in Phoe nix, Ore., obedience for dog and master. If interested you might call KEystone 5-2243 J.E.Taylor, 214 North Peach st., Medford. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS in a unanimous decision, the supreme court of Oregon rules that Mr. Hatfiled be came governor when he took the oath of office, that by the same action and at the same instant he ceased to be secre tary of state, and so he was empowered under the consti tution to fill the ensuing va cancy in the secretary of state's office. In effect (although, of course, not in such rugged and down-to-earth language) the supreme court says to the legislature, and over the legis lators' heads to the people of Oregon: "Let's have done with these monkeyshines and get down to the serious business of run ning our state in such manner as to command the admiration and the respect of people in other states instead of making a laughing-stock of our selves." pOMMENT? Well, again, as in the case of the secretary of the Navy, who recently knocked down the ears of the bureau crats who were seeking to discipline a government girl in Washington for answering the phone A WHOLE MIN UTE after the clock said her shift had ended Let's give thanks to the good Lord that somebody in authority had some plain, common horse sense. rpURNING from the home front to foreign affairs, what of Castro and his shoot ings in Cuba? He took a straw vote the other day. That is to say, he organized a "demonstration before the presidential palace The people gathered by the "hunderds of thousands," the news reports say. Castro ap peared a la Mussolini in the bad old days in Rome on the balcony. He asked the multi tude, in effect: "Shall we go on shooting the wicked Batistas, who have ground our faces into the dirt beneath their heels placed upon our necks? Or. shall we knuckle under to the Amer icanos who call upon us to QUIT shooting?" The correspondents report between the bulls and the bears. The bulls will accept certain amount of inflation because they regard deflation, which means unemployment and the restriction of public services, as the greater evil. The bears, on the contrary, think that inflation is the greatest .of the economic evils and, to avoid it, they are rec onciled to a certain amount of deflation. There is here, in the true sense of the words, a great debate. Let us rise to its im portance. Copyright 1959, New York Herald Tribune Inc. POTHUCCC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Our city editor, owner of one of the two beards in the Mail Tribune newsroom, started growing his facial adornment last Thanksgiving week end. He thus has a real, running head-start on most of the beard-growers in town -a lush, dark-brown - turning- red fringe of hair around his jowls which is now long enough to comb. Well, he went downtown the other afternoon on an er rand, and dropped m to a store where several young men were standing talking. Of these, a number had Cen tennial beards, some of which were all of one or two weeks old. One of the men took one look at our bushy CE, grim aced, and said to the others: "I might as well go home and shave mine off!" And one of our reporters, a young lady, was sitting next to a stubbly Centen nial beard the other day, and its polite owner turned to her and said, "I don't imagine you are used to sitting next 'to a man who hasn't shaved for two days." "No." she replied. "I'm used to sitting next to a man who hasn't shaved for two months." A few years ago, Mark Hat field (at that time either a state senator or secretary of state - our informant forgets which) spoke at a meeting in Medford. Two men in the audience were discussing him after wards. One of them remarked that he'd be willing to bet that Hatfield would be gov ernor within the next ten years. The other disagreed, and offered to back it up: "If he is, I'll kiss a pig in the middle of Main and Central at high noon," he declared. The other day the two chanced to meet again. When reminded of his offer, the second man gasped, slapped his. forehead, and said: "If I wrote to him now, do you suppose he'd extend execu tive clemency?" . At least one economy minded department in Med- ford's city hall is using the backs of sample ballots from last month's off-street parking election for scratch paper. This may be irony, but it would be poetic jus tice if lhe yellow ballots were folded and used as stock for printing parking tickets. Also down at city hall, the girls in the public works de partment are enjoying some free, if mystifying, music -among other things. For some reason, a local radio station's programs are emerging, uninvited, unex plained but more than wel come, from the speaker of an office intercommunications set. This speaker is hooked up only to two adjoining offices, and none of the young ladies are quite sure how the radio programs manage to sneak in. Another mystery is the fact that police calls also have a habit of coming over the speaker. Potluck editor: Now that your Phoenix friend has had his fun over what he regarded as a typographi cal error which seemed to him to imply that California-bred cattle were more tidy ins nature than those found in Oregon, the term as originally published, "neat cattle," is correct. If the gentleman in question doubts it, let him consult his dictionary where he will discover that "neat" is a good, old Anglo-Saxon word meaning "cattle of the ox kind." It is now con sidered archaic, but was still in common usage in that a forest of hands was thrust into the air. Each two hands represented a Cuban vote to go on shooting. So Castro, he says, will go on shooting. WHAT shall we do about it? Let's nut it this wav: Your neighbors frequently do things of which you disap prove. Every time you butt into their affairs, you come out of it all bruised up and highly unpopular. ONE MORE Cuban problem: Forpieners have manv investments there big manu- facturing plants, employing ; many Cubans, among nthpr things. AMERICAN invest ments of that sort are report ed to run upwards of a bil lion dollars. Castro intimates that he may "expropriate" these properties. If so, he will presumably recompense their owners to some extent. What to do then? Here's a suggestion: Come to the State of Jeffer son and set up in rjusiness here. We can use a lot of new industrial- development- pioneer times, and one en counters it even yet in the commercial term, "neats foot oil." We are humbly grateful for tne assistance provided by the correspondent who sent in the clarifying paragraph above. We may call for help again, for that Phoenix man is at it again. (We have a small suspicion that he de lights in finding the "boners" in the paper, and shooting the needle in our direction -which is ok: we're fair game.) Anyway, his latest commu nication enclosed a headline which told about a youngster who runs an "Art Galley." And he comments, "What's cooking in the kitchen of art? Scrambled eggs a la Picasso, braised boef a la Bonheur and spaghetti de Salvatore Dali?" . Does anyone have a dic tionary which defines "gal ley" as a place where works of art are customarily offered for sale? - Our Phoenix friend might even claim (with some jus- lice . take a look t lhe editorial and communica tions columns today) lhat the paper is going lo the dogs. All lhe canine furore reminded a staff member (the pholosophical one) aboul Abraham Lincoln's defense of a man who was being sued for killing a neighbor's dog with a pitch fork. Counsel for lhe plain tiff questioned why the man hadn't used the other end of the pitchfork to ward off the dog's attacks. Whereupon Lincoln asked why lhe dog hadn't come at the man with HIS . olher end. This same staff member has, in his time, covered quite a few court trials himself, and he recounts how various at torneys use different tactics to distract members of the jury when the opposing at torney is addressing them. One, he reports, has a habit of rolling a pencil along the top of the table, then catch ing it at the last moment iust before it rolls off. As th. tempo of his opponent's argu ment increases, so does the rolling of the penciL And. at particularly telling points in the argument, he misses the pencil altogether and it falls to the floor. Another will take off his horn-rimmed glasses, and, holding them by an earpiece, swing them around and around, the speed of the swinging corresponding pre cisely with the intensity of his opponents arguments. Still another has found a sure-fire way to distract the attention of women jurors. He casually saunters over to a wall of the courtroom, wipes his fingers along the top o the molding, and then stare disapprovingly at the tips of his fingers. Our favorite news story of lhe week was found in the 4-H Club Newt. One paragraph, reporting on the "Kitchen Pests" club of lhe Applegate, said: "The mat- . ter of fines was discussed and decided as followst talking without permission, 5 cents; for not acting in a normal human manner, 10 cents; and for destruction of olher people's property. 25 cenls." Members of the legislature please note. Attorney General Bob Thornton has been taking a beating recently. He's had several of his opinions re versed, has been criticized for the Portland vice investiga tion and so on, and just last week got clobbered by the supreme court for his ruling on the secretary of state hassle. Whereupon the Capital Journal in Salem, which has often been severely critical of him, published an editorial entitled "Still Batting 1000 Wrong." The full text of the editorial was "Robert I Y. Thornton." Down below in small type the paper added: "(The shortest editorial we have ever published; it uses all the space we feel is justi fied.)" But elsewhere in the same paper there was a column item which suggested Thorn ton is. rolling with the punches. One of his deputies pn in Sa,prrl ,oolr . Thornton was . " make a few remarks at th : . dinner after the award was made. Among other things, he said: "This award reflects great credit on you and upon our office . . . And who is to say it could not stand some credit reflected upon it these days'" Possible reason why we have free speech in this country: The supply great ly exceeds the demand.
