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Flight o' Time
Medlord and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 8, 1950 (Wednesday)
Mayor Phil Slansbury was
reelected by Ashland voters
yesterday over ex-Mayor Tom
Williams in a bitterly con
tested race. J
Jackson county, following
tlie nation-wide trend In the
general election, yesterday
gave a clean sweep to Repub
lican candidates.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 8, 1940 (Friday)
The citv of Medford will
celebrate Armistice Day Mon
day, with aerial bombs, a par
ade and a football clash be
twecn Ashland and Medford
high schools.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Word
comes from Texas that Vice
President Garner did not vote
last Tuesday, but took a walk
Instead. In the light of events,
it was a good idea, and there
should have been more doing
the same."
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 8, 1930 (Saturday)
Charles P. Talent has been
named state traffic officer
.for Jackson and Josephine
counties.
The Salvation Army is mak
ing plans to bring Christmas
cheer to Jackson county In
digents.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 8, 1920 (Monday)
Enrollment in Medford
schools this year is 1,405 and
many classrooms are crowded
The annual Jackson county
Red Cross drive will start
Nov. 11.
SO YEARS AGO
Nov. 8, 1910 (Tuesday)
From all indications Med
ford today will cast one of its
heaviest votes in history de
spite a heavy downpour of
rain that is soaking the city
Local betting odds favor
Republican Jay Bowcrman 10
to 7 to defeat Democrat Os
wald West in the race for gov
ernor of Oregon.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nina or fan cornel Is superior;
Sevan or tight Is eacellent; Hva
six Is good
1. Who won the world's
heavyweight boxing chain
pionship by beating Bob Fitz-
Simmons? -
2. What is the lowest rank
ing chessman?
3. In contract bridge, what
bid, successfully made, would
give the highest score?
4.- Is Hie Yukon territory
principally in Canada or Alas
ka? 5. What rank does a new
West Point graduate hold in
the U. S. Army?
6. What type of cloth and a
log road share the same
name?
7. In which religion Is Ra
madan a holy month?
8. What part did Teddy
Roosevelt's Rough Riders play
In World War I?
9. Give the next three num
bers in this logical numbers
series: 5 7 10 6 8 11 7 9 12
10. Correct the following
sentence: "He lay the book
on the table."
Answers: 1.' James J. Jf-
fries; 2, Pawni 3. Seven no
trump, vulnerable doubled
and redoubled: 4. Canada) 5,
Stcond lieutenant: t. Cordu
roy; 7. Islam; 8. Nona; Span-ish-AmerJean
War; 9. t 10 13;
10. "Hs Jald . . ."
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NATION A I E0ITORIAI
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Voting
The campaign is over
everyone.
And the decision is now up to the sovereign
voter. And, thank God, in America no one goes
into the voting booth with him to tell him now
to vote.
It is up to him. and
Within a few hours
collective decision has been, and all the noise and
confusion of the long, hard, sometimes bitter cam
paigns will, we honesoon be forgotten.
"THERE are some people who will not vote.
'Pl-iin ira Vinti noiron
i mo rvt nave iiiv-i
business of voting is the
a nation which has a government by the consent
of the governed. In too
this is not true.
And while, in actuality, the United States is a
representative republic,
years, a democracy, where every voter can cast
his ballot for President
IT IS a rather shocking
American Heritage Foundation, that an esti
mated 19 million Americans will not be able to
vote today, through no
And. as an article in
ily Weekly last Sunday
a whole is the loser.
Whatever the reasons
tion, outmoded residence
ever we nope to see tnem wnitxiea away, for
in America today, it is to the advantage of every
one if everyone is able to vote.
A ND we say this despite the fact that we believe
"that only those people who are adequately
informed on measures SHOULD exercise their
privilege of franchise.
America was founded on the proposition that
a well-educated well-informed electorate can be
trusted to make the right decisions.
Universal sufferage is an ideal to be achieved,
but so is its brother idea, that the nation should
be literate and informed.
We do not believe that either of these ideals
has as yet become outmoded. E.A.
The Decision Was Right
- It may be recalled that four or five years ago,
when the state highway
to a decision on the route
the Medford area, the Mail Tribune opposed the
Bear Creek route, which finally was selected.
We did so on the grounds that it would further
tend to bisect the city,
railroad and Bear Creek
dition, do irreparable damage to Hawthorne park.
We accepted the highway commision s deci
sion, however, with as good grace as possible, al
though we still believe
siderable.
IT DOES not follow, however, that we disagree
with the city council in its action of last week
in accepting a highway commission offer of some
$160,000 for the Hawthorne park and Girl Scout
day camp park areas, which the freeway will
occupy.
If the freeway HAS
(and it's too late to change that decision now),
let's get on with the job, and be fair to ourselves
and the highway commission.
All things considered,
for the property seems to
its desire to get the highway built is also com
mendable.
T'HE commission is, of
being subject to criticism no matter what ac
tion it takes.
It can be assailed for paying too much of the
taxpayer's money for rights-of-way ; it can also
be attacked for not paying enough. In most cases,
it is attacked both ways
is an indication that it is
to be fair.
In commenting along
gon Journal recently had
"All of this points up what Is often forgotten: High
way officials In negotiations with contractors and prop
erty owners are rct handling their own money, in
the case of the frreway system, It Is largely federal
money. In the end, this Is the people's money. They
are charged .with handling it prudently.
"They have ttj follow careful guidelines. This some
times make them appear to be 'tough.' But ... the line
between 'toughness' and 'looseness' Is apparently a
narrow one.
. "In a program as big as this, the highway depart
ment cannot escape criticism from one side or an
other. In this case, it is getting it from both sides."
DRINGING these generalities down to our own
situation, the commission's offer, while below
some estimates of the value of the park land, was
also considerably above
lhe city, if it is imaginative and forward
looking, will be able to
park properties, and develop them, at least m
part, for the eventual benefit of the entire area.
And while we hate
Hawthorne park, we do
the state's offer would
thing except, perhaps, to take the city into a
condemnation suit, where it might have lost more
than it could have gained.
in this instance.. we believe the counci decid
ed wisely. E.A.
Ideals
to the great relief of
his conscience.
we will know what his
nrl ni'af a-ia-rl frit f - no f Vi n
uiiuviouiU) iui w tio me
very essence of living in
many parts of the world,
it is also, once every lour
of the united btates,
fact, as reported by the
choice of their own.
the Mail Tribune's Fam
reported, the nation as
poll taxes, discrimina
requirements, or what
commission was coming
of the new freeway in
already divided by the
itself, and would, in ad
the damage will be con
)'
to go down Bear creek
the commission's offer
us to be a fair one. And
course, in a situation of
at the same time which
probably doing its best
similar lines, the Ore
this to say:
other estimates.
use the money to acquire
to lose the full value of
not see that balkintr at
have accomplished any
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE.
Dennis the Menace
TVEBEBN Wm LIVER TOUCUAGMQXW. HE
Communications
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to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for pub
lication must not exceed 400 words. Th letters printed in
this column do not necessarily represent th views ol th
paper; in fact th contrary is
Lavs and th City
To the Editor: I have won
dered for many years why
the people of Medford rake
all of their leaves and debris
from their yards into the gut
ters. I rake my leaves, and
carry them to my back yard,
where I dump them for mulch
for my flower beds. People
will spend much money for
sawdust and Multi-Bark, when
they have leaves which are
much better. If they don't go
into the gutters, they smudge
up so bad we can't breathe, by
burning.
Take a look at the Kla
math Falls streets, and then
look at ours. Are we proud
of this? We have a drainage
ditch in our front yard on the
street. For seven years we
have been after the city to dig
it out. Because of their ex
cessive street cleaning, they
have ignored us. We under
stand that our taxes pay for
this sort of thing. And we
feel we are entitled to it.
Shall we next get down
our hands and knees and beg
or shall we continue to pay
high taxes for something we
don't get? I hope someone
will take an interest in this
Thank you.
(Name on file)
Medford
Bang-Up Halloween
To the Editor: I would like
to thank all the Medford resi
dents who so thoughtfully
gave paper-wrapped treats to
the goblins knocking on their
doors on Halloween.
Some of you, I'm sure, had
to short your own grocery list
to include a large carton of
gum or candy bars. Those of
us. who have little ones appre
ciate the work that it took for
some of you to pop corn,
make candy or cookies, and
then wrap them individually
It you could see the beaming
faces over the tray full of
goodies, which will last for
weeks as after-dinner treats,
you would know that your
work was not in vain.
It is true that some goblins
and witches do not seem ap
preciative at the time. But
after scraping soap from our
windows and cleaning eggs
smashed candy, pieces of
pumpkin and paper wrappers
from our sidewalk, I still
want to thank all of you on
behalf of the little ones for
giving them a bank-up Hal
loween.
Sally S. Champlin,
621 J st.
Medford
Many Thanks
To the Editor: Wt wish to
lake this opportunity to thank
the Medford Mall Tribune for
the very nice Item on the front
page of Thursday's paper, con
cerning my return to the stand
In the courthouse. We are also
very grateful to the Crater
Lions club for getting us start
ed in this new venture, to
Dick Moody and station
KMED for their treatment of
this news, and to the many
old friends, especially Ben, as
well as the many new ones,
who have come by to wish us
well. To all a sincere thank
you.
John E. Ragsdale
125 South Holly St.
Medford
Why Laughf
To the Editor: My little girl
ii not quite 8 years old yet.
and her faith in people is still
(we hope) as pure as God can
make it. Recently. I sent her
down to a store. When she re
turned home, she was very ex
cited. They were having an
auction in town and had a pi
ano. She asked if she might
have it, because she loves mu
sic and seems to have a natu
ral talent for piano. I tried to
explain we couldn't bpy it
now, But sh said sht K.id $2
III I ffil s
often th case.
in the bank; she could use
that. I told her it wouldn't be
enough, but she said she
would like to try. So I gave in
and got her the $2.
Happily and " very bright
eyed she set off. In my heart,
I knew she would never suc
ceed in her mission. But when
she returned home, down cast
and dejected, tears framing
her eyes, my heart broke.
The disappointment of be
ing turned down was bad
enough. But did they have to
laugh at her?
How are we parents ever
going to help our children to
learn to respect others when
grown ups have no respect for
the child's feelings? She of
fered the man every penny
she had. She earned It all by
helping in the house. We can
only hope there are not too
many people in the world who
have so little regard for oth
ers, child or grownup.
Mrs. Ruth Luplnl
455 North Sixth st.
Central Point, Ore.
Washington Apple
Crop Boycotted
Yakima - (iiPD - The Team
sters Union Monday an
nounced it was starting a na
tionwide boycott of Washing
ton state's multi-million dol
lar apple crop in connection
with a strike thai began Aug.
27.
The boycott was announced
by James Farrington, secre
tary-treasurer of Fruit and
Vegetable Packers Local 760
of the Teamsters.
Farrington said the action
was ordered after negotiations
to settle the strike, which has
idled 1,300 workers, had fail
ed to bring a settlement.
He said the boycott would
begin in California, particu
larly in the Los Angeles area.
Farrington said pamphlets
bearing the message, "Don't
Buy Washington State Ap
ples." are being distributed
by Teamster Union members
in all parts of the country.
The local also began picket
ing the Ackley Fruit compa
ny plant near here Monday,
bringing the number of fruit
warehouses being picketed in
the Yakima valley to 33.
Blue Scout Jr.
Space Try Fails
Cape Canaveral, Fla, - IUPD
-A U. S. attempt to probe
24,500 miles into space failed
today when a "poor man's"
rocket malfunctioned and
dropped its small payload into
the Atlantic ocean minutes
after blast-off.
The Air Force fired the
slender, four-stage Blue Scout
Jr. on a trajectory that was
supposed to take 29.4 pounds
of radiation measurement de
vices on a 10-hour trip into
space.
The payload was designed
to conduct studies scientists
said could lead to a system
for detecting high-altitude nu
clear explosions triggered by
any nation on earth.
The Air Force announced
two hours after the launching
that "preliminary telemetry
reports indicate an early burn
out of the second stage mo
tor" In the solid-fueled ve
hicle.
This "reduced the over-all
performance of the Blue
Scout Jr." and sent it plung
ing into the Atlantic ocean
about 250 miles southeajf of
th cape, tht Air Fore id.
Awesome
President
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
American voters today place
upon the shoulders of one
man the most awesome bur
den ever to be borne by a
single individual.
A m i n ute
with pencil
and paper pro
duces a list of
more than a
dozen major
world prob
lems which
the new presi-
dent must
meet. Some
are so Dress
ing that he scarcely will have
a chance to take off his coat
and roll up his sleeves before
having to deal with them.
Some go back through both
Republican and Democratic
administrations but have be
come no less important with
time.
List of Problems
All are Hanpprnne anrl all
have in them, if tint the rtne.
sibilities M world war, at least
tne possibility of changing
world history.
Here is the list:
Dtsarmament.
Nuclear control.
The Algerian revolt.
Divided Korea.
Southeast Asia-Laos
and
Ger-
Viet Nam.
Berlin and divided
many.
Washington Report
By William S. Whit
UNITY IS THE NEED
Washington - As the long
struggle over the American
presidency end3 at last, the
affairs of the
world beyond
urgently de
mand an at
tention which
for weeks they
have not had
here.
We have all
been so intent
on how two
American par
ties were going in our East
that we have largely ignored
what has been going on in the
Far East. Communist China
has not been idle there while
we have had our political cam
paign here.
Indeed, this very November
will be a critical month, in
the view of American intelli
gence officials Involved in a
cold war and not in our war
of ballots. Next week's gath
ering tn Moscow of world
communism's leaders may
well determine the future
shape of Soviet relations with
the United States and the rest
of the West.
HOW far will the cold
ffln9tir-ixm nf tha nnumrf.il
Chinese Communists push Ni
kita Khrushchev of the Soviet
Union into a tougher line to
ward the West? Some experts
here believe that Khrushchev,
under Red China's snnr mav
open new pressures on the
western position in Berlin to
take advantage of the haitus
here resultine? from th mm.
ing change in administrations.
Again, wnile we here have
been watching with hot inter
est what has been hannpninff
between political parties in
our norm, France has been
Watchine with rnlrt hnnntoe.
ness what has been happening
in ner North Africa. The
bloody Moslem rebellion to
tear Algeria frnm Frnncj, nn.
tered its seventh year just
the other day-and with ever
growing Communist interfer
ence on the side of the rebels.
And even as our own peo
ple were preparing to go
quietly to the polls, here, a
left wing splinter movement
in Britain was raising in
creasingly shrill cries at a
conservative British r. nvnrn.
ment's decision to permit
American missile-firing sub
marines to be based in Scot
land. e
ALL around the world,
great potential perils have
been gathering: peril to the
West In general in the mass
ing of world Communism
planners in Moscow; peril to
the Western Alliance in
France's long agony in Al
geria; pern to the ancient
Anglo-American partnership
from the shrill hnatilr
sures of minority laborites in
London.
So the new Anierirnn Pri.
ident will come into power in
a world of helchtenine ten-
sions and dangers. He must
somehow find a way to
strengthen the alliance of (he
West. He must somehow as
sist France, our oldest allv.
even though he will certainly
not be able to support France
in Algeria. (Both our parties
have long since gone over to
nrartirnlK autnmatir aiinnrtrt
of all so-called "independ
ence" movements, good or
bad, and against all so-called
Colonialism, bad or good.)
HE MUST somehow work in
true tandem with a Bri
tish Prime Minister, Harold
Macmillan. whose greatest
iiuinv aueugiii lies oeen ..is-
'"St
William t.
White
List of Problems Facing New
in Foreign
The rise of neutralism.
The future U.S. attitude to
ward the United Nations.
Cuba.
Other Latin American rela
tion;. The Middle East-Palestine,
and relations with the United
'Arab Republic, Iraq and Jor
dan. The Congo and the contest
for influence among the new
African nations.
Trade and U.S. foreign aid.
Roots in Cold War
Most of these have their
roots in the cold war relation
ship between the United
States and its allies on the
one, hand, and Communist
Russia and its allies on the
Wilson Gives Tips for Vote
Watchers on Election Night
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington - IUPD - Best ad
vice for the political amateur
who will be hearing the re
turns tonight
on TV or ra
dio: Listen close
ly to the pop
ular returns.
Leave the
more complex
calculation of
the electoral
vote trend to
iie c. wiisoT the experts.
The comparative popular
vote usually indicates the
presidential election trend
many hours before there can
be any definite allocation of
electoral votes. This tends to
be true whether the election
is close of lop-sided.. A land
slide, of course, begins to
identify itself strongly in
early returns.
The 1948 Truman -Dewey
election was close, especially
so in several states such as
Illinois, which HST carried by
a hairline 'margin. Even so,
the hourly United Press com-
Anti-Sweetland
Pamphlets Result
In Filth Arrest
Hillsboi-o -IUPD- The arrest
of a fifth person in the anti
Monroe Sweetland pamphlet
distribution case was disclosed
Monday afternoon with (he
appearance of Mrs. udrey
Henry, Portland, before Wash
ington county distVict court.
She was charged in a pri
vate complaint by James E.
Wolford, a resident of the
county. She was specifically
charged with "assisting in dis
tributing a false political pub
lication attacking the charac
ter, morality and integrity of
a candidate."
She was released on her
own recognizance with no
date set for a preliminary
hearing.
Four other persons were ar
rested earlier in Multnomah
county in connection with the
pamphlets.
Meanwhile, in Portland,
Mrs. Louise Gronnert, one of
those indicted last Friday,
filed suit for $200,000 against
Sweetland and Dist. Atty.
Charles E. Raymond. She
seeks 550,000 from Sweet
land, alleging slander in state
ments she claimed he made
Oct. 25. She also seeks S150,
000 from Sweetland and Ray
mond, charging conspiracy to
have her indicted.
Sweetland is the Demo
cratic candidate for secretary
of state.
PLANE LANDS SAFELY
Jacksonville, Fla. (UPI) A
Navy transport plane carrying
Rear Adm. David L. McDon
ald and 53 other persons
turned back from 200 miles
at sea Monday and made an
emergency landing here after
one of its four engines failed.
The plane had taken off frov.t
the Mayport, Fla., naval air
station from a rendezvous
with the carrier U.S.S. Sara
toga on duty in the Mediter
ranean. friendship with a President
who is retiring, Dwight Ei
senhower.
Thus, the new American
President will require a rea
sonably united United States
of America-this above all. H
is, therefore, of immeasurable
value that our campaign at
home was, . on the whole.
fought with responsibility and
without creating wide, lasting
divisions among the people.
This, an unbroken nation,
is the best of all our weapons
fpr the new years now ahead.
We here at home are "glad
it is all over now," speaking
of the compaign. But the
diplomats here from friendly
countries are "unspeakably
glad that it is"-and that it
did not tear us apart-as one
of them just told this corre
spondent, mopping his face.
(Copyright. 1960, by Ujited
Feature Syndic!, Ink )
Relations
other, especially Red China
And this must remain the No.
1 problem.
Within each of the prob
lems listed above are numer
ous smaller ones.
For example, United States
foreign policy is keyed to the
United Nations. But what hap
pens if Red China should be
admitted to the UN over U.S.
opposition?
U.N. Secretary-General Dag
Hammarskjold Is trusted by
the United States as an ex
ponent of rue democracy. But
his term of office runs out in
1963 and Russia already has
pledged that neither he nor
his like will ever hold the of
fice again. What does the U.S.
do then?
pilation of popular votes in
1948 showed Truman leading
in the first few hundreds of
votes tabulated. He never
was headed.
Big Stales Important
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon's chance of being elect
ed President seems to depend
on his pulling power in seven
big states - California, Texas,
Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio,
New York ani in Michigan.
LAeonard W. Hall of New
York is N i x o n's campaign
manager. Hall bases his claim
that Nixon will win on be
lief that the Republicans will
carry five of those seven, los
ing only Michigan and New
York. If those, and two or
more of the other big ones, ap
Political Experts
Shaken by Gorilla
Election Candidate
By DICK WEST
Washington - (UPI) - Political
experts here were thrown into
a dither today by the last-
minute entry
of a gorilla as
a write-in can
didate in one
of the Georgia
c ongrcssional
races.
Most human
politicians de
rived little
comfort from
the fact that
the gorilla's candidacy was
regarded as a joke in his home
district.
Some of them recalled that
they themselves were regard
ed as jokes when they first
got into politics. To them,
therefore, the gorilla was no
laughing matter.
There was no doubt that
congressional candidates of
both parties the country over
would be keeping a close
watch on the election returns
tonight to see how the gorilla
fared.
If he receives any sizeable
support, outside of the zoo, it
will add a new dimension to
the election post - mortems
Wednesday. Some of the win
ners may have to reevaluate
their positions and undertake
agonizing reappraisals before
the next election.
Further Clouds Picture
The gorilla's hat, or pelt,
was thrown into the ring too
late to have any impact on
the pre-election polls. Conse
quently, it was viewed here
as another imponderable in
the already clouded election
picture.
Campaign strategists of
both parties were reluctant to
comment on the development
publicly for fear of further
Try and
tjysry
fir.
By BENNETT CERF-
HARRY OLIVER, self-proclaimed "desert rat," owns
wise old dog named Whiskers. Oliver noted tha9
Whiskers was growing just a wee bit deaf, so he bough.fr
him a hearing aid. Whis
kers mistook the aid for
a new kind of dog bis
cuit and swallowed it.
"Now," maintains Oliver
with a perfectly
straight face, "poor old
Whiskers keeps hearing
his stomach rumble and
thinks it's thunder. He
keeps scampering inside
the house to get out of
the rain."
Oliver is the Inventor
of the annual Palm
Snrintre law rlntf contest.
The laziest dog and its owner both get prizes. The contefft
was discontinued after a fiasco in 1957. Both the dog and)
its owner were too lazy to move ten feet and collect theUJ
prizes.
"Who says it never rains in our desert?" demands Oliver
"We had a 6-inch rain only last September. By that I meanj
that the drops were six inches apart."
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Harpo Marx, who talks plenty in private life, defines Caiifor
nia as a state washed on one ilda by the Pacific and cleaned or
th other by Lu Vagus, ,
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In Algeria, the United
States faces a real dilemma.
To support France mean.-; o
risk the friendship of Afri- m
nations supporting l:ei:in
rebel demands for indcoen
ence. To support the rebels
means risking the friendship
of France and possibly the
future of NATO.
And aside from all this is
the practical certainty that
one or more of the great
world leaders will pass from
the scene in the next four
years.
Chancellor Konrad Adenau
er of West Germany is 84.
President De Gaulle of France
is 70, Nehru of India, 70, and
Chiang Kai-Shek, 72. Nona
has a visible heir.
pear to be drifting away from
Nixon in late evening returns,
go to bed-the election probab
ly is over.
Early indication of Repub
lican weakness in Kansas, In
diana and Illinois would mean
that the GOP comeback in the
Midwest has been stopped
dead-und that Sen. John F.
Kennedy will be elected.
New York, Pennsylvania
and Ohio returns will indicate
the extent to which President
Eisenhower has been able to
help Nixon in the whirlwind
campaign' windup. A Nixon
victory in all three would
constitute a 64-gun salute to
Ike's political oomph - and it
would mean the White House
for his boy.
confusing the voters. Soma
said privately that it probably
was a local matter which
would be forgotten after tho
election.
"It's just another indica
tion of how badly the Demo
crats are split," a minor Re
publican functionary opined,
after being assured he would
not be quoted by name.
He admitted, however, that
he had no solid evidence that
the Georgia gorilla was a
Democrat or that there might
not be gorillas in other zoos
of the Republican persuasion.
Factions Search Zoos
In general, the reaction in
political circles here could be
described as "whistling in the
dark." There was an under
current of apprehension, based
partly on unconfirmed re
ports that certain splinter fac
tions already were visiting
zoos in search of future standard-bearers.
Nor could it be forgotten
that Pogo, a comic strip pos
sum, received considerable
backing in one of the previous
campaigns, particularly in ju
venile and "egg-head" groups.
In attempting to assess the
situation calmly, I would say
that we can look forward after
the election to a closing-of-the-ranks
among human politic
ians, regardless of their dif
ferences. No congressman is likely
to attack another congressman
too sharply if he has reason
to believe that both might be
replaced by gorillas.
There are some observers,
of course, who scoff at the
prospects of a gorilla ever
holding public office. But
there was a time, you know,
when they thought the same
thing about women.
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