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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune- 10. 20. 30. 40
and SO vtart age.
10 YEARS AGO
July 29. 1950 (Saturday)
Almost without exception,
lumber mills in Medford, Ash
land and Grants Pass are re
porting abnormally swollen
inventories and curtailed op-era'ions-all
because there are
not enough boxcars available
to ship out normal daily pro
duction. Two of southern Oregon's
major summer attractions-the
Jacksonville Gold Rush ju
bilee and fiie Shakespearean
Festival-open next week.
20 YEARS AGO
July 29. 1940 (Monday)
The annual Medford district
CCC water safety and life
saving school came to an end
with a water pageant in Ash
land during the week end.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Edi-
: torial fear as to what the inde
pendent voter will do in the
forthcoming November man
date are showing up, and, as
usual a lot oi neavy imn&ing
will be unleashed on the sub
ject. The independent voter,
in many cases is so independ
ent,, he won't vote."
30 YEARS AGO
July 29. 1930 (Tuesday)
The county court is study
ing designs for the new court
house. Oregon Gov. Norblad will
assist in the dedication of
Medford's new airport Aug.
3 and 4.
40 YEARS AGO
July 29, 1920 (Thursday)
The long-needed repairing
of Main st, between Riverside
and Oakdale aves., has
started.
A large forest fire is burn
ing in California near Yreka.
SO YEARS AGO
July 29. 1910 (Friday)
A blacksmith shop, one of
the oldest buildings in Med
ford and a true landmark, at
Main st. and Riverside ave.
will be torn down this week
to maice way tor tne new
Masonic building.
Reginald H. Parsons, Med
ford, was elected president of
the recently organized North
western Fruit Exchange in
Seattle last week.
What's Yoor I.Q.?
Nina or tea correct it superior;
seven or eight b excellent; five at
li is goed.
1. Which bird was portray
ed on the ensign of Napoleon
Bonaparte's armies? ' .
2. The ray of which color
of the spectrum has the long
est wave length?
3. What is the name of the
Jewish book of laws?
4. The Odyssey is a narra
tive poem by ?
5. Which city in Soviet Rus
sia was formerly known as
St. Petersburg and Petrograd?
6. Male whales are called
bucks, bulls, or rams?
7. Name the author of "Oh,
East is East and West is West,
and never the twain shall
meet."
8. Which is hardest: anthra
cite, bituminous or lignite
coal?
9. Is Baltimore Md At
lanta, Ga or Washington,
D.C., the largest city south of
the Mason-Dixon line?
10. A mill is what part of
a cent?
Answam 1. Eagle, 2, Red.
8. Talmud. 4. Homar. 5. Len
ingrad. I.' Bulls. 7. Rudyard
Kipling. I. Anthracite. 9, Bal
timore. 10, One-tenth of a
cent, -
Challenge to Loyalty
Loyalty the quality of remaining faithful
and true to people or institutions to which one
owes fidelity is subject to widely different ap
plications. Some self-centered people are loyal only
to themselves and their own interests. Others are
loyal, in a true, basic sense, only to their family
or intimate associates.
Others are able to project their loyalty to in
situtions of government, and to much larger
groups of people. Still others extend it to tradi
tions and customs.
DECAUSE loyalty is a
is rather odd that deciding its extent should
be one of the crucial issues of our time. But it is.
Should a man's loyalty extend to all Amer
icans? Or only to white, Protestant, Anglo-Saxon
Americans? ;
Should a man's loyalty extend only to the
social and economic customs of an American
"apartheid"? Or should it also extend to the basic
charters of our free nation, which proclaim the
equality of all men, and set out to guarantee
equal protection of the laws?
FOR that matter, should
to America and Americans? Or should it ex
tend to free men elsewhere? Should it, in essence,
extend to the entire human race the irenus homo
sapiens who by accident
be the dominant form of
planet?
Ihese are questions which are in the process
of resolution, and seldom in human history have
people everywhere had such a grandstand seat
to such a tremendous,
change m the human condition.
This is a time and world-wide revolution. We
like to think that America had something to do
with getting it started by
work, a lorm or government which offered free
dom under law,
COME folk believe, honestly and sincerely, that
a limited loyalty is superior, in morality and
in practicality, to an unlimited human loyalty.
But, if we read the signs aright, this is a
philosophy which is bowing to the realities of
the world-wide revolution, the revolution which
had its seeds in the Declaration of Independence,
and was nurtured by the industrial and tech
nological advances which were so much the result
of an increased freedom.
The dynamic forces of history will not be
stopped, or altered, or much changed because
some men's limited loyalties do not extend to
peoples newly aspiring to freedom, and asking
help to find both that freedom and the responsi
ble channels in which to put it to use?
e . . e e e
"THE dynamic forces of history are influenced
by many things.
Religion has had its effect on them; so have
the eonnnrmV Mrlps nf rOinncrinor cnrnoMnc on houa
science and technology
trialism ; so nave advances in literacy and educa
tion: KO have iripas nnrl irlpnls rhnsn vital Hi-iw-
ing imponderables which
U1C wuuu.
. We cannot, of ourselves, remake the world.
But, at this unique, crucial time in history, we
can help to channel it and guide it and push and
pull and influence it into the courses which best
promise a bright future for the human race.
And it seems to us that this is a challenge to
our loyalty to a humankind which is, after all,
made in the same image. E.A.
About
Speaking of a "larger loyalty" to the human
race, what does the U.S. Constitution have to
say on the subject of equal rights?
There has been much talk of "civil rights"
in recent days, as the Democrats and Republicans
prepared their platf orms. Just what "civil rights"
are thev talking about.? And wh Pro flnoa fha
much-mentionecf but rarely-quoted Constitution
enter me picture I
Perhaps a few pertinent excerpts from our
basic charter of government will clear up these
questions. They bear inspection.
e e e
yHESE include:
"All persons born or naturalized in the United
States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are
citizens of the United States and of the state wherein
. they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law
which shall abridge the privileges or Immunity of
citizens of the United States; nor shall any state
deprive any person of life, liberty, or property,
without due process of law; nor deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the
laws . . ." Amendment XIV
"The right of citizens of the United States to vote
shall not be denied or abridged by the United States
or by any state, on account or race, color, or previous
condition of servitude. The Congress shall have
power to enforce this article by appropriate legisla
tion." Amendment XV
THE Fourteenth Amendment was proposed by
uuiiuj coo in j.uuvj, auu labiucu in xuuu, xiic
Fifteenth was proposed in 1869 and ratified in
1870.
' So it is 90 years or more since the right of all
people to equal protection of the laws, and to an
unabridged right to vote, were guaranteed by the
Constitution.
That is the reason whv there is continuincr
stir about civil ritrhts. Conerress has never fullv
lived up to the mandate of the Constitution", even
after 90 years, and implemented it by effective
legislation.
It's about time. E.A.
highly - regarded virtue, it
our loyalty extend only
or design have come to
life on this tiny, unstable
sweeping, revolutionary
proposing, then making
and a resulting indus
have so much changed
Time
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paper; In fact the contrary is often tha case.
Florida Downpour
To the Editor Here is some
more news from Florida and
especially the Orlando area
in case you care to use it.
, Orlando, Florida - (Flash)
And this time it was a real
honest to goodness FLASH
DOWNPOUR with an unusual
total of u.19 inches of constant
heavy rain within an approxi
mate two hour period which
was much too much to get rid
of quickly. However, we are
probably lucky in that we
have a total of 52 lakes in our
Orlando area which helped us
to take care of most of the
volume of water.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hawkins of
1883 Cunningham ave.. of
your fair city wUl remember
Lake Davis, where she used to
enjoy a good swim on a hot
day - well that lake, as of
today, is over its banks and
up in the front yards of the
homes surrounding this lake,
uie same as a number ot other
lakes in this central area of
the city.
The residents of Florida as
well as those in the Orlondo
area take this sort of freakish
weather the same as we do
any hurricane, when and if
we have them, which has not
been for a number of years.
However, believe it or not,
we prefer a hurricane to one
of those sudden cyclones or
tornadoes in view of the fact
that we do have advance
warning of a week or so on
any hurricane headed our
way - and thereby have am
ple time to batton down our
homes, stores, and manufac
turing plants, etc.
Mrs. Cora Doney, of the
same address and sister of
Mrs. Hawkins, will remember
the beautiful park in the rear
of our home - well that is, of
today, a shallow lake due to
its being in sort of a low spot.
After all, we take these things
In our stride with the feeling
that it could have been a lot
worse. Frankly and honestly
we still like Florida in spite
of these temporary incon
veniences. I think of your fir.e city
often and wonder as to
whether 1 would recognize it
now, as it was in 1952 that I
enjoyed a short visit there in
the Hawkins attractive home.
L. Dean Mather
1321 East Pine st.
Orlando, Fla.
Efficient Police
To the Editor: My daughter
and I are really amazed at the
efficient, businesslike manner
with which the Medford po
licemen conduct themselves
at accidents, fires, etc. They
give an exceedingly good im
pression to visitors, of a well
organized city.
In ever so many cities the
majority of the policemen
and ambulance drivers could
convince anyone that it was
their first day on the job after
herding goats in the wilder
ness for many years.
Rev. A. G. Gilman,
322 South Riverside ave.,
Medford.
Tha Rogue Mystery
To the Editor: A true mys
tery story of the early fifties
occurred just above the en
trance of the Rogue on the Pa
cific coast in the early days,
when a tramp-trading light
craft with several boxes of
native gold dust and nuggets
on board met real doom be
fore she put out to sea again
on her way, presumably, to
sell the precious metal at Port
land.
Seems the deckhands had
connived beforehand with
some friendly Indians to drop
the boxes of loot overboard
Into a shallow creek above
the mouth of the Rogue at
night, As the skipper of the
Menace
craft was given warning to
keep silent and to make haste
out of port as fast as possible,
there is no record of the boat
returning.
The mystery always has
been how long the Indians
guarded the secret and did the
boxes sink deeper into the
creek channel over the inter
vening years?
Anyhow, one white man
married to a descendant of the
lower Rogue river Indians had
always maintained that the
Indians who had taken part in
the riot were superstitious and
that perhaps there lies buried
the forgotten loot to this day
and may never be retrieved.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman st.,
Medford.
Logger's Vlaw
To the Editor I'm writing
in regard to your article,
" Day in the Woods," pub
lished July 24. I heartily
agree with you on the un
sightly logging operations car
ried on within view of our
roads and highways, and per
sonally wish that the beautiful
trees could be spared.
However, to be realistic, I
know this cannot be, due to
economic conditions and the
necessity of harvesting the
mature trees, especially for
private timber owners. I have
studied timber harvesting ex
tensively, (suggest you do this
before writing unseemly edi
torials,) and have had prac
tical experience of 15 years
working with private timber
owners, Forest Service, Bu
reau of Land Management,
and some of my own timber,
and am confident most pri
vate timber owners that aredi
rectly connected with the lum
ber and logging business han
dle their holding the best way
possible depending on the con
ditions. As for the Forest
Service, I think they as a
whole are doing a very re
markable and efficient job of
harvesting Federal timber.
Their reforestation program
is exceptionally fine.
As to your suggestion of the
use of signs explaining what
is being done, why, and how,
in areas of timber harvesting,
it is a very remarkable sug
gestion because the amount of
signs it would take to do this
would probably hide the area
logged and no one would no
tice the unsightly mess.
Incidentally, the "horrible
example" of the two logging
shows near the Jackson
Klamath county line happen
to be mine. If you would have
taken the trouble to get out
of your car and look around
the two areas, you probably
would have noticed that I had
gone to considerable expense
to pile slash along the road
preparatory to burning for
fire protection, reforestation,
and to reduce the unsightly
logging slash. We also had
taken extreme care In pro
tecting the young saplings
during the logging operation
for a future timber crop.
In conjunction with this, I
also planted 25,000 seedlings
this year on part of the area
mentioned which was burned
and prepared for planting the
previous year, that will event
ually help contribute to ap
proximately 60 per cent of
Oregon's economy, which Is
the timber industry, I hope to
continue this program until
the entire areas are replanted.
In the above operations I
had taken pride and fell quite
proud of the utilization of all
the merchantable timber, and
felt that I had a very sound
program worked out for the
reforestation for the future.
It Is my personal opinion
that your editorial showed
thoughtlessness, and It was
1960 Said
Youth takes Over Political Leadership
By LYLE C. WILSON
Chicago -UU'D- This is tho
your of the lust liurruh. It Is
the your in which the old
political plus
were nudged
gently toward
tho exits. Not
always gently,
cither. It is
tho year In
which tho Re
publicans and
the Democrats
said farewell
vrie c wu.iiD io me oia pi
lots and old captains who
used to man the bridge.
It is the year when the
tccnagers-so to spenk-took
over from the old folks with
new faces, new Ideas and mov
ed into a new political era.
Time has caught up with
the war and postwar political
lenders of the United States.
Not again will Hurry S. Tru-
Veteran Politico Resumes Top
Role in Italian Government
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
Tha Man-ot-th-Weeki Pre
mier Amlntore Fanfanl of
Italy.
Tha Place: Roma.
Tha Quota: "I communicat
ed to tha prasidant of tha
republic my decision io
form a new government to
guarantee the liberty and
tha security of lha Italian
people against every peril."
In the Italian game of po
litical musical chairs, Fan
fanl, 52-year-old left-of-center
va Christian
l Demo crat,
v ..... , . u i .
was 1 II II i a
third round as
premier of It
aly. Promising
a measure of
gov ernmcnt
stability after
months of cri
sis was the
fact that three middle-of-the-road
parties had promised
Washington Report
By WILUAM
' Chicago - They call him
many things, and most of
these
things are lar irom
r
com pllmen
&yr- tary. "The
ricn Kia wno
doesn't know
the score . . .
the fellow
who is stick
ing the knife
Into Nixon."
And so on.
The nndmlht-
Wllllaro 1. I -,,
whl ed m a J orlty
view here is that Gov. Nelson
Rockefeller's course so far
might well defeat the Repub
lican ticket to be headed by
Richard Nixon. If this is In
deed to be the result, there
can be no question that Rocke
feller will be put down In the
blackest of black books by all
faithful Republicans - even
those who share his own lib
eral Republican attitudes.
But the real question among
the Republican politicians
here - and probably among
the public, too - Is not what
Rockefeller is doing. It is
why, why, why Is he doing
It?
e e e
IN the rules of the game, it
is not possible to say
straight out where the follow
ing impressions havi come
from. One cannot say, under
the rules, that they came
from the man who most of all
ought to know why he is do
ing what he Is doing. So leave
it at this: what follows did
not come from Governor
Rockefeller's clerk or tele
phone operator.
Rockefeller sees himself as
the new conscience of the Re
publican party. He Is aware
that his conduct has been
without example In national
politics, that his ln-and-out
challenge to Nixon has been
both confusing and exasper
ating to the onlooker.
But his own thinking Is
wholly preoccupied with two
things: (1) a civil rights pro
gram which is regarded even
by many liberal people as ir
rationally extreme; (2) the
position of this nntlon in a
world which he points out Is
for more colored than white
and which he sees as at the
bursting point, against "colon
ialism," "discrimination," and
the like.
a e e
npiIU cliches of the profes---
sional liberal come read
ily to his tongue - and yet
there Is also an odd simplic
ity in him.
He Is not privately a pom
pous or self-righteous man-
very evident of your Inck of
knowledge of the logging in
dustry, Earl M. Manley,
A07 Catherine st,,
Medford.
m r-j - ,v . n i
111
'Year of the Last Hurrah as
mun have tho undivided at
tention of tho parly whluh he
once led. Mis. Eleanor Rouse
veil's vast army ot Idolaters
mid tuns will need now anoth
er heroine
Sam Riiyburn uf Texas shot
his bolt ut tho Dcmocriilir. Na
tional Convention mid missed.
Mr. Sum Is not likely ugaln
to be sparking a campaign
for a presidential nomination.
Ills Republican opposite num
ber, Massachusetts' Joo Mur
tln, walked tho political
plunk a year ugo mid, In the
Republlcun convention Just
adjourned here, Martin con
trolled no votes other than
his own.
Herbert Hoover, of thorn
all, saw It most clearly. Only
a mlraclo of tho good Lord
would permit him again to ad
dress such a Republican gath
ering, he told this conven
tion the other night, lie's the
him their support, In addition
to Uint of his own Chrlstnn
Democrats. The other parties
were the Social Democrats,
Republicans and Liberals.
It would be a strongly pro
Western government, pledged
to accept support neither from
the nco-Fascists or monar
chists on the tar right nor
the Communists on the far
left.
For Fanfanl it would be
another chance to practice
what he first called In 1053
"dynamic democracy."
He defined his theory this
way:
"It is simply the art of
doing something and doing
it quickly as opposed to tra
ditional democracy's cumber
some 'too little and too late'
method of opernton."
Applying It to the fight
against communism, he said:
"One way to tight commu
nism . . . perhaps the most
effective way In the lorg run
. . . is to match its props-
S. WHITI
though publicly he often
sounds It. And yet, again, the
sum total of his attitudes Is
rather like that of somo ear
nest, rather solemn secretary
of YMCA In a college town.
He is a political reformer
whose good will is beyond
question but whose wisdom is
surely In legitimate dispute.
He sees himself as a new
Theodore Roosevelt, scourg
ing the bad old right-wingers
In his .party. It Is as though
he felt that a Republican gov
ernor of New York simply
had to be a protesting, a re
forming Republican. His kind
liness, however, Is quite real;
he docs truly like people.
(My impression Is thnt this
is also true of Mrs. Rocke
feller. She has fought the
battle of Chicago - the heat,
the crowds, the nonsense -with
grace and humor.)
FINALLY, Rockefeller has a
wiser view of the wide
world than of this country it
self. No politician could be
less sensitive, for illustration,
to the facts of life In the south
and Middle West. But It Is
probable that few politicians
have a better grasp of the
ferment in India, In the Con
go, in Cuba and all around
the earth.
This is an odd man who
makes neither real war nor
real peace with the Republi
can party - a short, pale,
smiling man whose alms are
high but whose awareness of
what politics Is really like is
surely very slight.
(Copyright, I960, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Try and Stop Mo
By BENNETT CERF
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW ona day was describing h!
new play to a producer. "In act one," began Shaw, the
man says, 'Do you love me?' The girl says, 'I adore you.'
In act two the man says,
'Do you love -me?' The
girl says, 'I adore you.',
In act . three, the man
says, 'Do you love me?'
The girl says, 1 adore
you.'"
"But where- the glory
line In that?" asked the
baffled producer. "The
story line," explained
Shaw, "is that in each act
the man is tha same, but
the girl is different."
A college student, brows
ing among the volumes offered In a pre-lnvontory sate at the
campus bookshop, came upon one Item, marked down to 39 aents,
that he bought at once. It was called "How to Hug." When he
got back to Ills dormitory, he produced the book proudly and hit
two roommates gathered round to share In tha fun. That' whon
he made a disheartening discovery. He had purchased volume
four of an encyclopedia.
eldest of llio older statesmen,
Jim Farley benched himself
years ugo und alls contentedly
now in tho bleacher seuts of
politics,
Even President Elsenliuwor
has said gnodby. There Is half
u year remaining of his second
While House term, mid Ike
will bo heurd from as the euiii
puign progresses. But Elsen
hower now Is neiirly whnt he
nlwnys professed to be - tho
president of all of the people,
lie no longer Is lender. Nor
is ho liny longer the spokes
man and court of Inst retort
of the Republican Parly.
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon Is head mun now. At
thrco yonrs short ot 50, Nixon
personifies thu Republican
young Idcii. In tho opposite
comer Is Sen. John F. Ken
nedy, a youthful 43. The old
pros did not wuut young Jnck
Kennedy to run awuy with
gimda with better propiignn
da. "Non Communist government-
mid forces possess nil
the elements for counter-prop-ugnndn.
"But there has been, since
the ndvent of communism,
and there continues to be to
day, a sort of sleepy compla
cency and disinclination to
match each Red propagniuln
bnrrage with one. two or
three anil-Red barrages.
"Freedom loving leaders
know Uiat the Communists
spend all of their time, or a
lot ot it, planning how to win
friends and Influence people
for their cause.
"But these .sume freedom
loving lenders have not Indi
cated that they are ready to
spend the samo amount ot
time, and mure of it, to plan
ways of wennlng millions nf
misled and misdirected fel-low-trnvclers
and as many
small-fry Communists."
Kanfanl headed a short
lived government In January,
1054, and served as premier
again from May, 1057, to
July, 1058.
For years he hud been a
power In hi' parly but until
his second toivt as premier
few men In tho street knew
his short-trlmmed mustacho,
could rccognlio his voice or
had seen his choppy, profes-sor-llke
gestures.
Ho Is an organization man
with little color, but his Im
pressive list of accomplish
ments covers fclds ranging
from land reform to reorgan
ization of tho national police.
Bids Opened on
Highway Projects
Snlcm -OTPII-TIic Stale Hlgh
w a y commission Thursday
opened bids on more than $R
million In Oregon projects.
There were three projects
of more than $1 million each.
Rogers Construction, Port
land, bid $1,387,005 for 9.44
miles of paving and structures
on the Deadmans pass Men
cham section of the Old Ore
gon Trail hlghwny 18 miles
cast of Pendleton.
Roy L. Houck Sons of
Salem was the apparent low
bidder with $1,238,283 for
7.28 miles of paving and sign
ing on the southwest Lowell
st.-Southwest 11th ave. unit
of the Pacific 'highway's Hnr
bor Drlve-Wnshlngton county
line section,
Vernlo Jarl, Gresham, bid
$1,108,080 for The Dallcs-BIg
Eddy section project on the
Columbia river highway a
mile east ot The Dalles, Some
2.20 miles of grading, paving,
structure and signing are In
volved, MAN IS
TUB
SSMSf
1 1 he 111(10 Domncnitlc presiden
tial iiiinilniillnii.
Tnuniin ehnllenged him on
the grounds nf ago and fit
ness. Mrs. HoosovoU found
him sniuowliiil wauling unit
jolted her ful lowers by sug
gesting that Kennedy's Roman
Catholic fullli would mil do
him uny good In a proaldcn
tin I enmiiili!ii. nnyhiirn was
iiiinlliei' brigade coiiiimiiidcr
In tho stop-Kennedy urniy.
The young mini from Mns
suchtiselts took them on In
hourly fiishlon and licked
them all, Thrse old timers re
tained In good measure- tltolr
great popularity, Hut they
mistook popularity for power.
They hud not retained much
of that.
We'll not see their like
ngulii.
In the Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
Throughout tho Dumocrullo
convention, which now Is his
tory, mid so fur In the Repub
llcun convention, which nn this
is written Is In mld-pusmigc,
CIVIL RIGHTS hus been the
big plnlform uwue,
lll.itorlcnlly, thnt Is Interest
ing. It Is fnscinntlngly Interest
ing becimse throughout whnt
we call our Kngllsli tradition
CIVIL RIGHTS HAS BEEN
THE 11 UK! EST ISSUE IN
THE WORLD. In the past half
dozen centuries countless torei
of thousands ut men have)
fought mid died for civil
rights. It Is becaiue of what
they fought and died for thnt
wr have the precious thing wo
call democratic government.
Without this centuries-long
buttle, there could bo no Unit
ed Stutes of America of today.
AT ONE END of the human
scale, there Is Magna
Cluirtu, which was basically n
battle between the nobles anil
the king. In those days, the
common man didn't count, tin
was then only a serf. In Mag
na Clinrta, the nobles won
certain fundamental civil
rights from the king.
A century and a half nfler
Mngnn Chnrln the COMMOM
MAN came Into the picture.
Wat Tyler's rebellion was a
peasants' rebellion. Wat Tyler,
the pensnnts' lender, was as
sassinated by tho Lord Mayor
of London In tho presence ft
the king, who approved tha
deed. Tha peasants gained lit
tle nt tho time , . . but tha
SPIRIT of Wnl Tyler's rebel
linn lived on and inspired oth
er rebellions,
Eventually, In England, this
battle for civil rights resulted
In a PARLIAMENT, which
limited the power of the king
by gaining control of the purso
strings, thus achieving tho
power to LIMIT the excesses
of the king by denying him
the money with which to car
ry out his autocratic desires.
WE COULD go on and on.
We could mention tha
tragedy of Simon de Monttort,
who lost his battle and even
tually lost his life In his strug
gle for more civil rights to bo
Insured by Increasing the pow
cr of the people through their
parliament.
Wo could point out that tha
same struggle went on in
Franco - where, Carlyle tells
us, a king of France was onea
riding through a village at tho
head of a train of his courtiers.
They pnsscd a hovel where a
simple pennant was working
on the roof. To provide a
laugh, the king called one of
his crossbowmcn. "Shoot ma
Hint vurlet," he commanded.
The crossbowmun did so. Car
lyle relates that the king and
his courtiers, LAUGHING
MERRILY, rodo on,
IT WAS things such as that
which brought on the
French Revolution, during
which h c n d s rolled in tho
streets of Paris like balls on
a bowling green, and , blood
ran In rivers down the gutters.
SUCH hns been the battle for
civil rights. It has been
the most significant battle In
the history of tho world.
Bui -
Down through the centuries
the battlers for elvll rights
havo been UTTERLY SIN
CERE. It is beeniisc of tholr
utter sincerity thai the baltlo
for the common civil rights of
common ordinary men hns
been so nearly won In what
wo call the free world.
B
UT-
In both of these political
conventions - first tho Demo
cratic at Los Angnlos and now
the Republican at Chicago -one
could wish there wno
MORE SINCERITY ill bo I It
parties on this subject nf civil
rights, which hus dominated
the deliberation!! of bnlli.
. There hasn't been much sin
cerity In either plneo, On bntli
sides, the b a 1 1 1 o hns been
whnopod u p by pnlltlolnnii
who are gunning basically for
largo bodies nf votes based on
rnclnr prejudice.
The whole spectacle hns
been rather tragic,