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History from the files ot The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30. 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 31. 19S0 (Monday)
Police are investigating a
$1,500 burglary at the Rogue
Valley Country club last
night.
Operators of two Ashland
lumber mills have assured the
city council that they are tak
ing steps to control the fly
ing sawdust and cinders that
re alleged to be damaging
Ashland property and busi
nesses. 20 YEARS AGO
July 31. 1940 (Wednesday)
' Offers for cannery Bart
letts have ranged only as high
as $30 a ton, the same as last
year, but far below the $45
price anticipated by a grow
er's committee. '
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Roger
Babson, the statistician re
ports what America needs 'is
character and parking space.'
The character is needed to
get out of a parking space,
after one gets into one."
30 YEARS AGO
July 31, 1930 (Thursday)
A Medford boy has now
been sitting in the tree in
front of his home for 51
hours.
National guardsmen will
stand guard during the dedi
cation of Medford's new air
port Monday.
40 YEARS AGO
July 31, 1920 (Thursday)
The Trigonia oil well in
Fern valley is now down 631
feet and has encountered lime
shale, rock and water, in fact,
just about everything but oil.
50 YEARS AGO
July 31, 1910 (Sunday)
Condemnation proceedings
brought by Pacific and East
ern railroad against the
Phipps property west of Bear
creek ended yesterday with
1. J. Phipps being awarded
$1,500; he had asked for near
ly $40,000.
The Wells-Fargc Express
company has announced plans
to erect a new office here
Just north of the new South
ern Pacific depot on Front st
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine er ten correct is superior:
seven er eight is excellent; five er
six Is good.
1. Was the first cotton-sewing
thread in the U.S. manu
factured in Pawtucket, R. I.,
or Charlotte, N. C?
2. The capital city of which
state is named for the fourth
U. S. President.
3. The correct word for
' writing paper is stationery
or stationary?
4. By what treaty was the
: War of 1812 ended?
8. Did the U. S. govern
ment ever mint half - cent
pieces?
7. What is the name for
the sacred Scriptures of Mo
hammedanism? 8. Who wrote the words
and music of the comic opera,
"H.M.S. Pinafore?"
0. Hot many feet are in
two rods?
i 10. What constitutional
amendment abolished slav
ery? Answersi 1. Pawtuckei, R,
I.I 2. Madison, Wis.) 3. Sla-
aioneryi 4, Treaty of Ghent)
5. John Howard Paynei 8,
Yes (1793 to 1957)1 7. Koran!
I. Gilbert and Sullivani 9.
I3 10. Thirteenth.
I
High
The 1960 Republican National Convention
came to a close with no major surprises, not much
drama, and only a limited amount of excitement.
High point of the proceedings, as far as most
delegates and TV viewers were concerned, was
Richard M. Nixon's able acceptance speech.
Using every calculated histrionic trick in the
book, from the raised finger to the humble, down
cast eye, Mr. Nixon somenow managed to convey
both humility and confidence, aggressiveness and
moderation, sage wisdom and youthful vigor.
IT WAS skillful. It was convincing to many peo-
pie. It was acting of a high order.
Even to us, who have never been one of the
Vice President's admirers, it had moments of
considerable impact.
Not so to our companion in front of the TV
set, who said "I don't think it's a very good
soeech. He hasn t said anything new."
Well maybe he didn't say much that was
new. But he said a lot of
saying over again, and
DUT, while granting (a bit grudgingly, in view
of our bias against the man) that it was a
slick, expert Ob, we must also record our im
pression that it was almost too slick, too expert,
and too reminiscent of the Vice rresiaent s acu
ity proven convincingly in the way he sewed
up the convention to be all things to all men.
"Just how honest, how sincere, how con
vinced is he in what he is saying?" we ask'jd
ourself afterward.
It also was a question which came to us a
couple of weeks before, after hearing Senator
Kennedy's equally-skilled acceptance speech.
On the basis of their performances so far,
we must confess reservations about each, when
thinking of either as President of the United
States.
VET the choice must be made. It will be made
by the American voters, and it will be made
in the course of the next three months.
It will, as the TV
with a certain anticipatory relish, be a slam-bang
campaign, of great interest and excitement.
But deeper than that,
Sortant decision to make, for as both candidates
ave emphasized, the dangers facing the world
are great and many, and we will need the great
est possible skill and ability in our leadership.
Two tough, able, younjr men, battling for the
most potent office in the world: This will be
a race to remember, and the stakes are awe
somely high. E.A.
! Possible--and Desirable
Our protest in this space last Sunday, against
the unsightly destruction
well-traveled roads and highways, drew a moder
ate response, printed on this page Friday, from
one of the valley's better logging operators.
First, Mr. Manley agreed that unsightly log
ging along roads and highways is to be deplored.
He then said, "to be realistic, I know this (elim
inating such conditions) cannot be, due to eco
nomic conditions and the necessity of harvesting
the mature trees, especially for private timber
owners."
He is 100 per cent right about the problems
facing owners of private timber, for they must
use their resources to the maximum to stay in
business. (And not all of them are as careful op
erators as Mr. Manley.)
DUT we must point out again, as we did before,
that mature timber CAN be harvested with
out destruction of the forest corridors which add
so much to the attractiveness of our state.
It is, in fact, being done, as we pointed out,
under the auspices of the Forest Service. (The
Bureau of Land Management has not ye,t reached
this point in multiple-use of forest management.)
The private operator and forest owner, under
today's economic conditions, cannot afford to
protect these values, as can government.
But modifications of the tax structure could
make it feasible, even attractive, for him to.
MR. MANLEY points out, rightly, that more
i"1 than half of the state's economy is based on
lumber. We should like to add that a consider
able, and growing, portion of the economy is
based on the tourist industry.
Also, we see nothing "remarkable" about the
suggestion that informational signs in logging
areas would be helpful. The biggest timber own
ers are doing this very thing, and the Forest
Service also, to a much more limited extent.
We hardly think it need be so extensive as to
"hide the area logged," but brief explanatory
signs certainly would educate our visitors (and
ourselves, for that matter) as to the importance
of the forest industries to Oregon, and on the
fact that timber is a harvestable crop.
AXE'RE no logging expert.
TT But we do know that, for the industry's
own sake, ft is going to have to take the general
public's reaction into consideration, to an increas
ing extent, if it is to continue to flourish.
' Natural beauty, and particularly the beauty
of the forests, is one of thebiggest factors in
making Oregon "livable."
Protection of Oregon's natural beauty, to the
extent that it is feasible to do so. particularly in
areas of high public use.
possible if we work at it
Stakes
things that were worth
he said them wen.
commentators remarked,
it will be a vitally lm-
caused by logging along
is important. And it is
a bit. E.A.
Dennis the
'Just close our eyes an' go is sleep, ifisorV.
I'LL StVAT THE FUSS IrVHEN THEY LAND OHYAf
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
THE SEVEN GOOD YEARS
The most important ques
tion at Chicago is also a very
hard one to answer. It has
to do with
whether and
how and when
Nixon will
take over the
leadership of
the party. It
will not be
easy for him
to do this. But
the signs indi
cate that he
knows he must do it almost
certainly to have a chance to
win the election, very certain
ly to make any kind of suc
cess if he is elected.
For the general position
taken by the keynote speak
ers, Judd, Hallcck, U.rKscn.
and finally by the President
himself, rests or. a failure to
understand and a refusal to
look squarely at the chal
lenge of the Soviet Union
throughout the world and the
challenge of our own internal
development with its growing
population and the great
cities and the advancing tech
nology. The theme of the keynot
ers boils down to the asser
tion that all the mistakes were
made before 1953, that all has
been better and better ever
since 1953, and that all will
be well in the future if the
country takes as its model
and its ideal what has been
done since 1953. The key
noters including the President
claim that the challenges
abroad have been met and
that in its foreign and domes
tic actions the Elsenhower ad
ministration has been a tri
umphant success. It follows
that not only the Democrats
but Governor Rockefeller and
his many Republican follow
ers are selling America short,
they are belittling our un
matched power and greatness,
and thus they are giving aid
and comfort to Khrushchev.
The keynoters seem to
think that if only the Demo
crats and Rockefeller would
shut up, Khrushchev would
think we are all powerful.
A LL the keynoters were
angry at the American cri
tics who are saying that we
are not meeting the Soviet
challenge and that the balance
of power is turning against
this country.
Some of the keynoters
talked as if it were not the
hard facts, but what Kennedy
and Rockefeller say about
them, which explain our
trouble. All the keynoters,
and foremost among them the
President himself, talked as if
the whole criticism rested on
nothing more thn the mis
information of disaffected
military men who have been
overruled by the President.
The criticism rests on a lot
more besides that. It rests not
only on the evidence that
comes from inside the Penta
gon. It rests also on the mani
fest facts that in recent years
the power and influence of
the Soviet Union and of Red
China have expanded drama
tically. THE President assures us,
and wa mav Inkp his wnrH
for it, that our security sys
tem is second to none.. But
that is not the point. While
in a direct and isolated and
theoretical conflict with the
Soviet Union, we are now the
stronger, and may be able to
continue to be the stronger in
the missile age, our relative
power over all is declining.
How? Is there nny question,
considering what is happen
ing in Japan, in Korea, in
Okinawa, in Vietnam, that our
position in the Far East has
deteriorated? Is there any
doubt that our position is
weakened in Turkey, is fra
gile In Iran, Is ambiguous In
Pakistan? Is It not true that
Walter
UoDtnan
Menace
lippmann
during these 7 i marvelous
years the Soviet influence litis
penetrated deeply and widely
into Africa, or that It Is pene
trating Cuba and elsewhere
in this hemisphere?
That's what the critics mean
when they argue that the bal
ance of power is turning
against us. This is only a short
way of saying that the Soviet
and Chinese influence is ex
pandng in Asia, in Africa, and
in the Americas, and that our
influence is declining.
What the President docs
not like to see is that what
counts is total national power,
not only armaments, but also
economic power which may
be directed to national, not
merely to private and person
al, ends. In the confrontation
of natural power between the
Communist bloc and our
selves, we are moving back
ward. The proof of this is
visible from Japan to Cuba.
(c) 1960 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
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About Coins
To the Editor: Recently
you have published several
articles from UPI relative to
the 1960-D cents. I know It
is impossible to check your
news sources for accuracy in
all cases, but in the past few
years nearly all articles you
have published on coins have
contained many misleading
facts and some purely er
roneous. For the record, may I state
that the word "flaw" is not
used by numismatists in re
ferring to coins. A flaw may
occur in the die. but the re
sulting impression on the
coin does not produce a
"flaw." The results from the
flawed die are usually called
"mint errors."
The differences in the 1960
cents (not pennies) are due to
the use of several different
master dies on which the
dates were engraved In a
slightly different manner.
This also occurred on the 1060
Denver mint coins.
The average persons could
not tell the difference in the
two varieties without some
study. Furthermore, the price
referred to by Mr. Douglas Is
for uncirculated small date
variety, 1960 Philadelphia
coins.
Asking price on uncircu
lated rolls of 1960 cents as
of July 28 are: large variety,
1960-P, 80 cents to $1, 19B0-D,
75 cents; small variety, $125
and $5.50 to $7.50.
William F. Thompson,
204 N. Columbus,
Medford, Ore.
Member, American
Numismatic Association
Will Someone Let Him Know?
To the Editor: I'm sure ev
eryone must have enjoyed
Mr. Ragland's funny letter In
Wednesday's Mali Tribune as
much as I old. He and Everett
arc sure a pair!
The best part was about
Senator Scott coming all tho
way out here to Jackson coun
ty from back East to attend
the Republican luau (what
ever lha; is) and campaign
for Dr. Durno, He must think
Doc Durno needs help from
the city slickers In order to
bent Chnrllo Porter.
I'm glad tho Republicans
got some good out of his visit:
one thing is certain . . , tho
old people of the county were
n't helped in the slightest,
As everyone knows, Dr. Dur
no is the man who opposes
most anything which might
Matter of Fact y
THE ESCAPE OF
RICHARD NIXON
Chicago Tho grout event
of tho Republican convention
was not the nomination of
It 1 o h n r d
M. Nixon
w n 1 c li was
Inevitable, or
even Nixon's
surprise alll
unco with Nel
son A. Rocke
feller, which
was urgently
necessary. The
JOSK.I'll ALSO?
was the Vice I'resuient s
escape from the President.
The exuel character of Nlx
on's relationship with Dwlght
D. Elsenhower has always
been difficult to discern. But
two elements In Nixon's view
of Elsenhower have long been
auite easily discernible.
On the one hand, Nixon
has always chafed at Elsen
howcr's almost total neglect of
the basic but humdrum tusks
of political leadership. From
start to finish, Elsenhower
never made any attempt to re
build and modernize the di
lapidated Republican party
The result Is the party one
sees at this convention, which
grumbles at Nixon's "left
wing" tendencies, and stands
lower In the polls than the Re
publicans have ever stood
since the London debacle In
1036.
On the other hand. Nixon
has also chafed for years nt
the Elsenhower-Pangloss doe
trine that "all Is for tho best
in this best ot all possible
worlds" except, of course
that American defense costs
and taxes are much too high
If Nixon had ever been free
to speak out on defense and
foreign policy, he would now
be classed as one of the pessi
mists whom tho President so
angrily denounced as "Job's
boils."
XTIXON was not free to
-l' speak out, because of Im
portant constitutional chnnges
which have received too lit
tle attention. In the past
until the death of Franklin n.
Roosevelt, In fact our Vice
Presidents were always treat
ed as mere spare parts. The
main chongc In the Vice Presi
dent's position since then has
not consisted, cither, in the
new tendency to invent jobs
for him to do.
The real change has arisen
benefit the aged, especially
health Insurance.
I read some place where
the average annual income of
doctors is $18,000 and that
50 per cent of the people In
Oregon over 85 years of age
have an annual income of
$2,000 or less. I wonder how
a man who makes $18,000 a
year can feel himself qunli
fied to Judge the needs of
these older people who have
to try and make ends met
on $2,000 or less. I wonder
how he thinks they are going
to be able to pay for sickness,
opora.io.ts and medicine on
that kind of money.
Maybe Senator Scott ex
plained all this at the Repub
lican shindig: I wasn't there
so, if he did, I'd appreciate
it If someone would let mo
know.
M. E. Norton
P. O. Box 85
Phoenix, Ore.
TV Proves Worth
To the Editor: The much
maligned and misusel TV has
surely proved Its worth during
these presidential nominee
choosing conventions, not for
getting our good neighbor's
Invitation to view their set.
It is not the forest of ambu
latory word-bearing placards
extolling the worth and vir
tues of a favorite son that im
pressed us so much. Mainly, it
was the prized opportunity to
view our national leaders in
word and action.
The too much featured
smile replaced by the grim
faced President Eisenhower
as he mode nnswer to the crit
icisms of his own people and
those the world over was both
inspiring and reassuring. And
there was old war-horse,
Speaker of the House Sam
Rayburn with no resort at all
to handy puper words, who
spoke In behalf of veteran
Sen. Lyndon Johnson of the
lone star state.
And wc arc still puzzling
what pressures could havo
been put on him, Sen. John
son, to be coerced to Inking
second place with the so
youthful, inexperienced Sen.
John Kennedy whose only in
cursion into foreign affairs
wns to criticize our President
for not buckling down to apol
ogize to tho blustering Khru
shchev by our Inspection
plunc flight 10 miles high
over his country.
Also there was Sen. Ken
nedy'! Inept criticism of
Joseph Altop
from tho admission of tho
Vice President to the lunar
sanctum of policy-making. As
a regular attendant at the
National Security Council, tho
Vice President hems till the
most secret arguments about
the adequacy or Inadequacy of
the defense effort, for In
stance. Hence he Is a prisoner
He must etthur refuse to sit
on the Security Council, or ho
must suit his public position
to tlm position taken by the
President.
Nixon was quite' under
standably not ready to make
the kind of open break in
volved In leaving the Secur
ity Council at least until he
had the Presidential nomina
tion safely In hand. Ho would
havo preferred to plaster over
the differences between mm
and Elsenhower until the
empty convention rituals
were over. But Governor
Rockefeller forced his pace.
Nixon's real views were there
fore incorporated Into tho
platform. And Elsenhower Is
as cross as two sticks, above
all about the Nlxon-Rocko-feller
defense plunk,
AS the nominee, nonethe
less, Nixon hns escaped at
last from his Vice Presiden
tial Imprisonment. He ran
strike a new note. He cun suy
what he reully thinks. The de
gree In which he feels free
to do so cun be guuged by
compurlng the Elsenhower
farewell speech and the Nixon
acceptance speech. Elsen
hower sounded like exactly
like the Elsenhower of the
years of deceptive calm, bo
fore the luck began to turn.
Nixon sounded not very unlike
Sen. John F. Kennedy. In fact.
a member of the Nixon stuff
is authority for the report
that the Nixon acceptance
speech would hove been en
titled "New Frontiers" If Ken
nedy had not grabbed the
phrase first.
This does not mean, of
course, that Nixon will repu
diate the Elsenhower record.
On the contrary, ho will de
fend the record as best he can,
although with little relish In
certain policy areas such us
defense. Nixon knows that a
successor-candidate cannot
escape from running on the
record of tho predecessor-
administration. Adiai E. Ste
venson tried to do so In 1952.
and all Stevenson got for his
pains was a bad case of politi
cal hernia. -
But tho reully significant
nutlonal debute will not con
cern the past. It will concern
what must be done next, in
this respect, Nixon's freedom
Is now total.
It Is a fortunate thing for
tho country that this should
be so. It Is time to talk about
hard, even harsh,, truths with
the hard realism that both
Nixon and Kennedy possess.
There was a case, perhaps for
tranquillzing leadership In
1952. In the era of the Mc
Carthy nastlncss, a natlonul
Miltown was In order. But In
I960, the approach that Rich
ard Nixon promises Is tho ap
proach wc need,
(c) 1960 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Old Timers To Plan
Two Summer Events
A report of the Fleet day
celebration at Reedsport plus
plans for future activities will
be discussed at a meeting
Tuesday, Aug. 2, of the Old
Timers club at 8 p.m. ot the
Central Fire station, Third
and Front sts., Medford.
Also on the agenda Is a dis
cussion of the proposed trip to
the Cave Junction Jubilee and
the visit to the Kcrbyvlllo
ghost town on the Labor Day
week end. Bruce Bleu will
show movies taken at several
club outings and club plaques
will be distributed, according
to Earl Swift, secretary of the
club.
France for not granting Al
geria's demands for self de
termination. Thanks bo for
France buck-leaning to con
sider it unofficial, we were
not brought into a hasscl with
our good ally, France.
Senator Dirkson, also with
no reference to the printed
word, made a grand talk In
defense of the present admin
istration and In behalf of vice
president Nixon, whose mag
nificent help in foreign affairs
needs no defending.
The Negro assistant to the
President, his name slips my
aging memory, spoke well
and freely of his slavo grand
parents a hundred years ago.
But consistent with others nt
his race, he barely mentioned
the freeing of slaves by our
first Republican President
Abraham Lincoln, but made
no mention lit all of apprecia
tion for the man who gave his
life that all men shall be free,
But topping ull the speak
ers, In this writer's estimation,
was Tom Dewey, whose every
sentence or assembly there
of, pocked a bombshell that
rocked the audience with
laughter and applause as
when referring to Sen. Ken
nedy's Incursion to but In
foreign affairs, "no hits, no
runs, two errors."
F. J. Clifford,
Route 2, Box 200F,
Central Point, Ore,
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
Wish wo could recall the
various comments about both
the Democratic unci Hcpubll
can conventions wo'vu heard
In tho last few weeks,
The one we liked best, how
ever, cume from a teen-ager
of our acquaintance, during
Murk Hatfield s tulk nominat
ing Richard M. Nixon,
"The White House Is not
for sale!" the governor de
claimed, "Shucks," our teen ugur re
torted scornfully, "any real
ostnle man could have told
him lluitl"
In the Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
won . . .
It's over.
The leaders have beon
chosen. Tho platforms huve
been written. On both tides
tho campaign pluns ore pretty
well Jelled.
Now tho gume will Blurt.
VOSTALGIC thought:
' Can you remember the
old days of sundlot ball? The
kid football tennis? The duys
of AMATEUR college foot
bull?
Those days are fading Into
the mists. In these modern
duvs, the sports we follow are
pretty Inrgely PROFESSION
AL sport. Other thun tho
quadrennial Olympic (Sanies.
few amuteurt moke the head
lines any more.
PAN YOU remember the no-
lltlcnl campaigns of other
yeors? They, too, wore con
ducted by relative amateurs.
No more. In our politics, as
In our sports, wo'rc going pro
fessional. Dick Nixon und
Jack Kennedy are able young
men. But they are certainly
not amateurs, Both have been
in training for eight years.
Their organizations are pro
fessional organizations, using
all the modern professional
techniques of MASS selling.
Tho modern political cam
paign no mora resembles the
pnllllcul campulgns of a few
generations ago thun modern
professional baseball resem
bles the sundlot bnscball of
long ago.
Questions!
Shouldn't WE VOTERS
become professional also? Can
wc afford any longer to be
ruled by our omollons?
Shouldn't wc Improve our
methods of ANALYSIS (nn
alysls of what's good for US)
Just as tho politicians ora Im
proving their methods of AP
PEAL (appeal for our voles)?
POR EXAMPLE:
In Los Angeles and In
Chicago, thcro hns been s lot
of talk about what has been
accomplished In the way of
adding to our standards of
living. It's all true enough.
Nenrly everybody In these
dnyi has a car In the garage.
Nearly everybody has o house
that Is fulled of gadgets than
the houses of any other gen
eration of Americans. Wc
have more leisure time . . .
more time to have fun . . .
than any other generation
since the world begun.
But-
A whale of a lot of It has
GONE ON THE CUFF. Wit
ness our ,100 billion dollar na
tional debt. Witness our ul
rondy Immense and still grow
ing municipal and stnto debts.
Witness our consumer cred
it debt - which Is now ot on
all time peak.
CURE WE hove a lot of god
gels. Sure wo have better
housing thun wc ever hnd be
fore. Sure we hove modern
highways whereas only a few
decades ago wc had little
more than mere cow trails.
But-
WE HAVE MORE DEBT
THAN WE EVER HAD BE
FORE. IN GENERAL ... both nt
Los Angeles and at Chi
cago (although to a some
what lesser extent at Chlco
go) the politicians have been
talking to us In rosy terms
about making it possible for
us to go still deeper into debt
for allll MORE gadgets and
still more leisure,
This thought in conclusion:
Isn't It getting In be about
lime for the politicians to be
gin to talk to us iihnut HOW
WE CAN REDUCE OUR
DEBTS instead of dinning un
ceasingly Into our ears their
rosy promises to provide us
with ways to GET STILL
DEEPER INTO DEBT? ...
I think that's something we
voters should do somo care
ful thinking . . . some soundly
ANALYTICAL thinking . . ,
about,
LUSK ANNOUNCES BID
Washington -llll'll - General
Electric Co., Wasco, Wash,,
was apparent low bidder lit
$40,60(1 for fishwny automatic
control equipment for the
John Day lock and clam on
tho Columbia river, the office
of Sen. Hall S. Lusk (D-Oro.),
said Wcdnosday,
The major events of the,
week Included the GOP
convention, end the open
ing of the Shakespearean!
Festival, with the weather
In those ports running a
close third. If not better. If
we had a dime for every,
time we've been asked "Hot
enough for you?" we'd have
enough to take week's vi
cetlon, We're going to any.'
way, end whoever writes
next week's Potluck column
Is on his own, '
Tho weather cooperated
splendidly with the Shake
speare festival, Thoro was
Tempest the opening night of
"The Tempest," hut It calm
ed down enough by curtain
lime so that no one suffered
more than a small wet spot In
the area which comes Into
contact with the outdoor seat
ing. The Ashland fire deport
ment also got Into the coop
erative act, by hooting a si
ren, long and loud, at o point
In "The Taming of the Shrew"
where one of tho character
wus crying loudly for a fire.
And there was enough hot
air out of Chicago, piped In
vlu radio. TV, news wire, and
Telephoto, to make our hurt
dred-plus degree temperatures
(rem balmy by contrast.
One of the hotter bits of,,
hot air was the keynote
speech by Ihot spellbinder.
Welter Judd, Congressmen'
(rem Minnesota - a speech,
incidentally, which wee 1
praised as one of the "great
est keynote addresses of all
times," no! only by G.O.P.
partisans in Chicago, but
elso by our own Frank Jen
kins In his column in this '
paper.
A dissenting opinion Is In,
In the form of an editorial
from the Washington Post,
an independent dolly In the
capital which tends to Iron a
little bit to port of Mr. Jen
kins. After pointing out the glr
Ing errors of fact In Mr. Judd'f
oratory, It went on to say:
"Well, all of this grisly coin,
loguc has a pretty familiar If
somewhat stole aroma, and
few persons are likely to take
It any mora seriously than the
ritualistic Democratic exer
cises in hyperbole. Neverthe
less, so florid and tnflamma
lory a piece of exaggeration
set an unfortunate tone for
a party that supposedly has
met to consider soberly and
realistically the great prob
lems of the future that con
front the country. Mr. Judd's
stem-winder broke the main
spring." I
Smoke-filled rooms are all '
vacated.
Fumigated, renovated.
And the kids ore all elatedi
With convention on - TV
they're sated.
One of our young men who
has been observing lha hassle
over who's going to get the
assessed valuation of the
Roguo Volley Manor claims
that the dispute reminded him
of the story about the coroner
In a California city about the
turn of the century. He says
It goes this way: .
There was a fight In China
town, and the body of a Chi
nese was later found In a
buck alley. It was rushed to
tho coroner's offlco, a coro
ner's Jury was called, and by
the time he was through, the
coroner turned In a bill to the
county for $05. "
A few days later there was
a fight In a nearby Indian
settlement. A body, which
looked suspiciously Chinese,
but which hod feathers stuck
into the cropped pigtail, was
found ncorby. After process
ing this corpse, the coroner
turned In a bill for $250.
Two or three weeks later,
a rathor bcdrngglcd body was
found along the wharf, In an
Italian settlement, with a
knife wound In Its back. This
time II cost the county $300. '
For the next six months, the
same corpse turned up after
nil major brawls and acci
dents. Bui, the coroner told a
friend in confidence, "I'm not
through wllh those old bones
yet. Before I gel through,
they'll send me and my missus
to Europe."
He also confessed Hint the
Italian Incident wasn't pure
profit. He had In slain the
corpse's face, buy a floppy
brimmed hul, and a suck coat
with spngheltl In the pocket,
There Is a rumor going
lhe rounds that on a cer
lain unnamed day a group
of unnamed, but more
prominent, cltlsent of an'
unnamod town In this vol-"
ley are all going to walk
down the main street at
high noon - all armed with.'
By the lime tills appears in
print, tho Potluck editor will
bo heading for the desert.
11 couldn't bo much hotter
there than It has been her
the past week, Could 11?
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