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MONDAY. JUNE IS. 186
West Finds Political Tricks
Largely Unchanged Since 1840
By DICK WEST
Washington -IUPD- "One of
the most remarkable peculiari
ties of the present time Is that
the principal
leaders of the
political par
ties are travel
ing about the
country from
state to state,
and holding
forth, like
Method! st
p r e a c h e rs,
Dick wit nour alter
hour to the assembled multi
tudes." So wrote John Qulncy Ad
ams in his diary on Oct. 1,
1840. The Van Buren-Harrison
campaign was then in full
swing and old J. Q. viewed
the proceedings with asperity.
I can't say that I blame him.
It was from this campaign
that much of our present day
political foolishness evolved.
Adams had due cause for
alarm.
I have been steeping myself
in American presidential cam
paign lore at an exhibit of
old-time political parapherna
lia prepared by the Smithson
ian Institution.
Techniques Similar
Times may have changed
since then but campaign tech
niques, except for the develop
ment of the tele-prompter,
have remained fairly constant.
- William Henry Harrison,
who won the election, came
from the Virginia aristocracy,
was the richest man in Ohio
and owned a fine house. It
was only natural that his cam
paign symbol was a log cabin.
One of the charges made
against Van Buren was that
he had spent $9,000 of the
"people's money" on an im
ported Brussels carpet for the
White House. If that has a
contemporary ring to it, let
Nixon, Kennedy, Rockefeller,
Johnson and Symington make
the most of it.
One thing the old campaign
ers didn't do, however, was
be.coy with each other. I wish
I could say the same for the
current crop of politicos.
Circulate Memorandum
A couple of months ago, a
Democratic group here circu
lated a memorandum under
the heading "Republican 'Pay
ola' records." It attempted to
josh about alleged conflict of
interest cases in the GOP by
tying them in with House disc
Jockey investigation.
I can give you some idea of
Its contents by reporting that
the song listed after Sherman
Adams' name was "Button Up
Your Overcoat."
I had no sooner recovered
from this when a Republican
group put out a "political
birdwatcher's guide." It was
replete with descriptions of
the "big - billed jackanapes
(Kennedesis silver spoon),"
the "high flying gap jumper
(symingtonia missileaneous),"
and the "major leader bird
(lyndonicus johnsonium)."
Employment Topic
For TV Program
David H. Cameron, commis
sioner for Oregon'! depart
ment of employment, will ap
pear on "Dateline Statehouse"
at 10:45 o'clock tonight over
KBES-TV, Medford.
He will discuss the various
operations and services of the
agency, formerly known as
the unemployment compensa
tion commission-. The name
was changed at the last ses
sion of the Oregon Legisla
ture to reflect a positive em
phasis of job placement in the
department's activities.
The program is part of a
weekly television series fea
turing different agencies of
Oregon's state government
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Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
CORNELIA OTIS SrwINNER has a well-nursed grievance
against "those wretched unknowns who are responsible
for American packaging."
She calls them "those
wizards of cardboard,
waxed paper, cellophane,
tape with red tabs saying
'Pull,' red dots saying
'Push,' semi-perforated
hyphen lines saying 'Open
here,' who are responsible
for causing our consumer
goods to reach us in box
es, containers, wrappers,
and cartons that are not
only increasingly hideous,
but increasingly unopen-
able."
Wow! Any member of
the packaging fraternity care to rebut the angry Miss
Skinner?
Sign outside the clubhouse at a new metropolitan race track:
"Don't atep on the grass. It may have to be your supper."
A stenog In a Gotham law office says her boss is such a wolf
he reminds her of a dry cleaner: he works fast and leaves no ring,
O i960, by Bennett Cert. Distributed bjr Kins Features Syndlcata
What Is The Law?
This column is prepared as a public service by the
Colleqe of Law, Willamette University, Salem, to
xplain basic legal principles, not to provide legal
advice. The reader is cautioned not to apply these cases
to his own problems without an attorney's advice, for
differing facts may change the outcome.
A tenant cannot change the
condition of 1 the landlord's
property.
Ted leased a farm from
Lyle for five years. The first
year he was on the farm Ted
did' the following: (1) cut
down and sold 25 fir trees
standing on the farm; (2) razed
an old building which had
been serving as a chicken
house for many years and re
placed it with a granary
worth three times as much as
the old chicken house; (3)
failed to repair a leak in the
roof of the dwelling on the
farm and plaster and wall
paper was severely damaged.
The lease is silent regarding
the rights of the tenant in
these matters. Is Ted liable to
Lyle as a result of these acts?
Law of 'Waste'
The answers to the above
questions involve the law of
"waste." Generally speaking,
a tenant must return the
premises to the landlord at
the end of the lease in sub
stantially the same condition
that they were in when the
lease commenced "fair" wear
and tear excepted." If he
failed to live up to this re
quirement he has committed
waste.
Ted obviously was out of
line when he cut down the
trees. A tenant can cut down
trees for fire and generally
repair and improve the
premises, but he cannot other
wise reduce the value of the
land by taking from it val
uable natural resources. In
rare cases, where there has
been logging operations in the
past and the land is only good
for logging, the tenant might
be able to sell timber from the
land. Of course, if the lease
authorizes logging the terms
of the lease control.
Difficult Problem
The razing of the chicken
house and construction of the
granary creates a more dif
ficult problem. It is hard to
accept the fact that Ted might
be guilty of committing waste
when he has increased the
value of the premises. How
ever, Lyle is entitled to have
the land returned to him in
substantially the same con
dition that It was In when he
turned It over to Ted, and un
less Ted can show that his ac
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tions were justified he may
have to replace the chicken
house. Unless there are un
foreseen circumstances a ten
ant is not permitted to make
structual changes in buildings
or any substantial change in
the physical character of the
land even though his activity
increases its net worth.
When Ted failed to repair
the leaky roof he committed
what is called "permissive
waste." The "fair wear and
tear" allowance does not mean
that the tenant can permit the
premises to deteriorate faster
than is normal and reasonable
upkeep is required. If the
lease provided that Lyle
would keep the premises in
good repair Ted would be re
lieved of all resDonsibilitv
for the leaky roof when he
notified Lyle of the condition
Girls Arrested on
Murder Suspicion
Pomona, Calif. -(UPD- Two
girls aged 16 and 18, were ar
rested on suspicion of murder
and car theft Sunday when a
motorist either was pushed or
fell from his car as the girls
drove it away.
Detective Lt. Don K. Moon
ey said Mrs. Elaine Stander
fer, 18, and Elsie Diaz, 16,
started to drive Donald R.
Hailey's auto from a service
station and he jumped on the
front.
Hailey, 21, was found dead
a short way down the street.
The girls said they had been
riding with Hailey and decid
ed to take his car when he
stopped in a service station,
Mooney reported. They claim
ed they thought Hailey jump
ed from the car when they
began gathering speed.
London-IUPD-The following
ad appeared today in the
Times of London:
"House-hunting American
executive, wearying of look
in gat shabby places in Ed
wardian decor, seeks well
furnished, well-decorated
house or flat with modern fa
cilities, central heating . .
send full details: Too footsore
to follow up on monstrosities
done by inferior desecralors.'
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RADIOLOGIST Dr. Clyde
A. Stevenson, Spokane, Wash.,
will speak at the medical lec
tures on cancer at the Rogue
Valley Country club. Now
chief radiologist, Sacred Heart
hospital, Spokane, he was a
former professor of radiology
at the University of Texas
post-graduate medical school.
Physicians and surgeons in
southern Oregon and north
ern California have been in
vited to attend the two-day
program in cancer education
June 24 and 25. Other speak
ers include Dr. Frederic H.
Bentley, Portland; Dr. Stuart
H. Q. Quan, New York; and
Dr. John S. Spratt, St. Louis,
Mo.
In the Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
Foreign aid note:
A House of Representatives
subcommittee votes to slice
about . 800 million dollars
from President Eisenhower's
original request for $4,175,
000,000 (four billion, 175 mil
lion) in foreign aid runds.
WOULD that be good?
Or wntllH it hp harf?
I wouldn't know. But . . .
so far . . . we haven't had
much luck BUYING
FRIENDS.
WHAT of the Marshall Plan?
The Marshall Plan nrscn't
designed to buy friends. Its
purpose was to help bind up
trie wounds of our allies in
World War II who had suf
fered more grievously than
we.
That's a different story.
WHAT of this Jap business
' ' In Tokyo - in which thou
sands of screaming, fanatical
LEFTISTS mobbed President
ial Secretary James Hagerty
in a violent protest against
President Eisenhower's forth
coming visit to Japan?
rpHAT, too, is another story.
Charles Smith, UPI's cor
respondent on the spot, tells
it thus:
"The frenzied mob of at
least 5,000 shouted 'G- d- Ei
senhower" and "Yankee go
home" as it overwhelmed the
2,000 police who rushed to the
scene. An additional 15,000
demonstrators milled outside
the airport trying to get to
Hagerty, and additional thou
sands besieged the heavily
guarded U.S. embassy.
"Fighting broke out be
tween police and the mob and
between black-shirted right
ists and the extreme left wing
students who led the demon
strations. The leftists SANG
THE COMMUNIST 'INTER
NATIONALE' as they bat
tered Hagerty's car and tried
to turn it over."
WHAT'S the Communist
"Internationale?"
It is the official song of
the Communist party. It is a
hate filled, bone - chilling
chant that resembles nothing
so much as a savage scalp
dance. Even when listened to
on a record, it stands one's
hair on end.
WHAT was the purpose of
of the demonstration?
Its purpose was to BLUFF
IKE OUT OF GOING TO JA
PAN. Will it work?
I doubt it.
Ike doesn't bluff easily.
Plane With 43
Forced to Land
Chattanooga, Tenn. TUPIt A
two -engine Eastern Airlines
plane with 43 persons aboard
made an emergency landing
here Sunday night on one en
gine after a cracked exhaust
caused a fire warning.
The plane was landed safe
ly by the pilot, Capt. E. W.
Connell of Atlanta, and the
40 passengers and three crew
members aboard continued
their flight to St. Louis In an
other craft.
The warning light flashed
minutes after the plane took
off. Connell cut the question
able engine, put the plane Into
a steep bank and returned to
the airport.
Salcm-flJPIi-Mrs. Mark Hat
field, wife of the Oregon gov
ernor, said Saturday she has
been told to expect her second
child about next Tuesday.
Mrs. Hatfield did not accom
pany the governor Saturday
as he rode In the Portland
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