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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
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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.