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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of Th
Mall Tribune- 10. 20, 3040
and 50 veart ago. .
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 4, 1951 (Thursday)
City councilmen at a noon
meeting today . rejected all
three bids for purchase of
$118,000 worth ot bonds for
storm sewer construction and
voted to readvcrtlse the
bonds.
A total of 550 students,
one more than last year, reg
istered for classes at South
ern Oregon college Tuesday.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 4, 1941 (Saturday)
A final second "lay-in" shot
by Bill Thorndike, tall for
ward, gave Medford high
school a 39 to 38 victory over
a strong North Bend basket
ball squad last night.
From Arthur Perry'i "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Hog
killing is the order of the
day in the rural areas, and
the dying squeal of the doom
ed swine echoes sharp and
clear through th foothills."
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 4, 1931 (Friday)
The contract will be let
soon for construction of a new
high school building on Oak
dale ave.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 4, 1921 (Sunday)
Medford Irrigation district
bonds have been approved.
The first public dance in
several years was held in
Jacksonville Saturday night.
50 YEARS AGO
Jan. 4. 1911 (Wednesday)
Construction Is expected to
tart soon on the four-story
J100.000 Page hotel which
will encompass a full one-half
city block in downtown Mea
ford.
More than $500,000 was
taken in and expended by
the city last year and an un
spent balance of $50,000 was
left over for mi.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina oi fen cornel ii superior;
liven 01 eight Is excellent; five w
lis ii good
1. What is the chief Indus
try in Glasgow, Scotland?
2. What Is the third period
of Bible history called?
3. What la a mnemonlst?
'' 4. Complete the proverb:
"Beauty is but ."
5. The famous Anzlo bench
head,, taken by American
forces in World War II, is
loented on the cast or west
const of Italy?
6. Brazil has ten, twenty,
thirty or forty states?
7. The character "Sherlock
Holmes" was the creation of
what writer?
8. Correct the following
sentence: "Where shall we go
to?"
9. What are fire dogs?
10. Under which depart
ment of the U.S. Government
does the Secret Service oper
ate? Amwerii 1, Shipbuilding.
2. Period of Israelite People.
3. A memory expert. 4. "skin
deep." 5. Weal coast. 6. Twen
ty, 7. A. Conan Doyle. 8.
"Where shall w go?" 9.
Andiron. 10. Treasury,
PRINTS GREETINGS
Moscow -flJPIi- The exchange
of New Yenr s greetings be
tween Soviet Premier Nlkltn
Khrushrhev and U.S. President-elect
John F. Kennedy
was printed Tuesday In the
government news paper Iz-
vcstla. The messages were
sandwiched between those to
and from Yugoslav President
Marshall Tito and British
Prime Minister Harold Mac-
millan,
4 A
JANUARY 4. 1961
A Few Little Tasks
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supposed to look on things with an optimistic,
',fhP.hpst-is-vpt..tn.f'.nrnp." attitude, the news, for
eign and domestic, has been pretty bleak.
A morning news broadcast, which coincides
untli nni- crmvinrr time tho nthpr mnmino- was
ItlUI VM. U.IU T .1' ""'VJ V..V wv-.w.
loaded with disaster and threat from Laos, the
tjUngO, Algeria, Deigiuin, vuua, riaiitc auu uci-
many, to say nothing of overtones from West
Berlin, Israel, South Africa, South America, For
mosa and schools in the American south.
All in all, it was gloomy listening.
N A somewhat similar mood, James (Scotty)
Reston. the New York Times' chief Washing
ton man, the other day wrote of some of his
doubts and worries, alone: with a few wry com
ments on Americans' reactions to world problems,
in the form of an open
John F. Kennedy.
He admonished the
We don't want anv
sians. We don't want to fight them of course but
we don't want to talk to them either.
We want stronger armed forces, as well as
disarmament. 0
We must, of course get rid of Fidel Castro "in
Cuba. But we must do it without interfering with
Cuba's internal affairs. .
And obviously we cannot tolerate a Soviet
military base on Cuba. But objections cannot be
tolerated to U.S. military bases in Turkey, Pak
istan, Spain, Morocco, Britain, Germany, France,
Formosa, Japan and Korea.
. . e
MEANWHILE, we must back our western
allies France in Algeria, the Dutch in the
East Indies, Belgium in the Congo, Portugal in
Anerolia and Goa. At
Y a j? li
maintain our iirm anu
earn the trust and friendship of the rising new
states of Asia and Africa.
The watchword should be, "Back 'the allies,,
stamp out colonialism."
Economic strength in the tree world is im
portant, too. Therefore, we must encourage the
strengthening of the "inner six" and "outer
seven," but let's have no nonsense about our
selves getting involved in such dreamy experiments.
In the United Nations, let's get unity: let's
make it truly United. All we have to do is get
Khrushchev. Hammarskjold, Lumumba, Mobutu,
Castro, Batista, Stevenson, Acheson, the Dutch,
the Indonesians, the Jews, the Arabs, the French,
the Algerians, the East and the West to agree
Simple.
AND Reston might well have added that we
mnat atvonn-fVian l-Vm TTnilorl Nntinns artrl trip
world rule of law "without giving up one iota of
our own sovereignty. 0
We have to lower interest rates, while at the
same time stopping t.e dollar out-flow.
We have to protect states' rights arid individ
ual rights at the same time; seeing thatNegroes
get adequate schooling without the need for
forced integration; we must improve education
without raising taxes ; raise the standard of living
without increasing prices ; protect the lives of air
passengers without sacnticing last schedules.
And Reston reminded
patient people.
You will be inaugurated on Jan. 20, Mr. Ken
nedy. How about getting
care of by, say, Feb. 17
Everyone's Named "George
Like it or not, we are
ly looks at problems,
equivalent of Let George Do It."
The only trouble with
enough Georges to go around, and even then, the
Georges who are available don't always agree
about what should be done, or how to do it.
And "George," whoever he may be, cannot do
anything unless he has a reasonably purposeful
and moderately united
For this reason, a part of the job of national
problem-solving must be done by everyone, as
an individual. It is, essentially, a political prob
lem, and one of attitude.
IN a thoughtful vein, Editor Charles A. Spraglie
of the Oregon Statesman in Salem muses on
New Years day:
"Man must solve his own problem of living with
himself and with his neighbor, lie must get a clearer
and firmer sense of his own destiny, of his own capa
cities, of his own responsibilities. The guilt complex
of our Into extravagances in not sufficient for our
salvation. We should set higher values and generate
more energy for reaching them.
"This is not Just a matter of competing with the
Communists. It is part of the business of man's grow
ing up - developing himself and his society to levels
which the discoveries of science help to make pos
sible. "This may savor of New Year's Resolutions, which
long since became a stale joke. But on this New Year's
Duy of iniil. as we face the complexities of the era
and feel the high winds of change, it would be well
if we, as Americans, did resolve to set ourselves to the
task of striving toward higher personal and national
goals."
DREACH1NG?
Yes, sort of.
But some "preaching" is needed these days;
perhaps more than we've had stomach for in the
recent past.
During the brief period of recorded history,
men have shown that, under certain circum
stances, they are capable of order and decency
aim responsibility on a social scale.
It has now reached a point where order and
decency and responsibility, if not extended,
could well vanish forever. E.A.
letter to President-elect
.
incoming msment:
nonsense with the Rus
the same time we must
i : .. i t .lit: .1
- coiumai uaiuwun, aim
Kennedy that we're a
these problems taken
E.A.
a nation which frequent
shrugs, and voices the
this is that there aren't
country behind him.
Dennis the
mm
'In come Tex'ooN'T sound right to m.
SHOULDN'T VA AV 'IBX" CAME IN'?'
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Come Out and Play
To the Editor: It can be said
that all good writing1 is done
under stress of emotion, so
we opine that E.A. had a com
plex in his gizzard that de
manded attention when he
wrote his editorial on Non
conformity. But why should it
bob to the surface at'thls time?
Is this not the season of Con
formity? Is it because there is
such a dearth of originality
in the Editor's mail at this
time? Does he want to encour
age some of the dissidents
that have been relegated to
the doghouse to come out and
play?
We are reminded of a dog
that we know, that when
scolded goes off in a corner
and pouts until placated with
a peace offering, such as a
pat on the head and a few
kind words. Then the past is
entirely forgotten and a new
day dawns. People are much
like that when coaxed, except
the extremely sensitive ones
who often become anti-social,
such as many great men and
women of history. Some non
conformists have been 'burned
at the stake or crucified. That
is one way to gain immortal
ity. We wish to take issue with
E.A. on his loose association
of nqn-conformists with crim
inals." As a rule we will find
upon Investigation that there
is honor among thieves and
gangsters and they are con
formists. At the same time a
man can subscribe lo con
formity and be an enemy to
society. So there is no hard
and fast rule to judge con
formity and non - conformity
except by experience, educa
tion and conscience. In a so
ciety where one man's meat
Is another man's poison, con
formity plows a very ragged
row. Most people are neither
conformists nor non-conform-ists-thev
are just stupid and
ignorant. They conform be
cause they know nothing bet
ter. They become non-conformists
because they have
broken with the past for the
sake of progress, meal ticket,
fame, fortune or just self ex
pression. Communists are classed as
non-conformists in Capitalist
countries, and yet they are
conformists In Russia because
non - conformity to capitalist
idoals Is conformity in Com
munist countries. It is con
forming to non -conformity
that enables (he Russians to
set the pace, from sports to
Sputniks, while we In Amer
ica arc shackled to the past,
Mnrk Twain, the most cele
brated American writer in
Russia, wrote: "The altar
jfloth of one generation Is the
door mat of the next."
Walter Recce
Galice rd.
Merlin, Ore.
Senst of Values
To the Editor: In the Jan. 1,
196, issue of the Medford
Mall Tribune I read both of
me ioiiowmg iicnis:
A man was imoci .tuo lorn
illegal possession of venison -Another
man was fined $5 and
given a two year suspended
sentence after he pleaded
guilty to committing an in
decent, obscene and immoral
act Involving a 5-ycar-old girl.
What is wrong with us?
Since when is a deer of more
value than a little child
If these sex crimes werwas fined five whole dollars.
punished by a sentence ai
hard labor, or confinement in
a state hospital, we probably
would have some of these
cases attended lo by doctors
before they bring harm to In
nocent little children. It has
to be a mental Illness, but are
we expected to excuse that?
About half of the Illegal doer
hunters got door because they
are hungry or have families
that are hungry, and wc don't
seem to excuse that but give
Menace
them the limit. What is wrong
in a county when a man is
fined $305 for illegal posses
sion of deer, and another man
can commit such a sin against
man and God as molesting a
tiny child and get off with a
$5 fine?
God forgive. our way of
thinking and doing, and set us
straight.
Mrs. Portia Struck
Box 32
Prospect, Ore.
Resolutin'
To the Editor: Here we are
again, saying 'Same to you
all," and I've been thinking
on all those resolutions that
this ol' gal had such merry
times breaking during the
past 70-odd winters.
What's the use of trying to
balance these big feet on a
straight and narrow path
when they're up an' construc
ts a great wide speedway
right thro' town? (No, as I
mean, not as I say!)
I might resolve never to
drink or smoke, but I would-
n't gain any credit, for I've
never had a desire to do eith
er. I like people int! general, so
1 would never nun anyone
I've fiddled around with the
idea 'HI I don't know just
what to ' resolute." Guess I'll
say to myself "I'm going to
economize all through 1961.
I'll squeeze every folding bill
that has a head pictured on it
til his whiskers acquire
permanent wave, and I'll
jump over the gate to save the
wear and tear on the hinges."
Oh no, that is no resolution
for me; I can't jump any
more
I just read an ai'iicle on
"forgetting." That's where I
shine; I've the best forgettery
this side of Podunk, but some
times it works in cthe wrong
places. Jhe marj,! read about
had lost his crops to hail,
floods and grasshoppers, but
he just forgot about it and
bravely started over again.
(That s what the man said.)
The thing I can't forget fs
the red face I get when I in
troduce Mrs. Jones to Mrs
Smith and can't remember
which one is which.
Now, getting back to "econ
omy." One of those women
drank several bottles of pop
daily. At the end of that
month it had cost her twelve
dollars and ten cents. Candy
and other unnecessary indul
genecs also count up. Now is a
good time to resolve to be sav
ing all the years ahead scJthat
when you get to be n hundred
you still can be happy. Yep,
that's a good resolution. I'll
dig it.
Pearl Spackman
0 Jacksonville, Ore.
He's Please?
To the Editor: I am mightily
pleased with and proud of
your appointment to the Pulit
zer Prize board of judges.
If tlie others were chosen
as cannily, the work is in
exceptionally good hands this
year
Charles T. Duncan
Dean
School of Journalism
University of Oregon
Eugene, Orogon o
Justice Cruel
To the Editor: Just how
cruel justice can be. I am re-
foring to the male perjpn who
was arrested, confessed, and
for court costs, after commit
ting an indecent, obscene and
Immoral act on a five year
old little girl.
Mothers are told that rape
anj indecent acts could be
controlled if the parents
would report them. Some par
ents will refuse because of the
bad publicity. But now I am
wondering what good it would
do to report any act that Is
committed? Why go to the
bother? I feel that Mothers
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD,
Diplomatic Break May Bring Stepped-Up
Guantanamo Agitation; Latin Lands Edgy
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
A stepped -up propaganda
campaign by Fidel Castro and
his Communist allies against
the United
States naval
base at Guan
tanamo may
be one imme
diate result of
the U.S. break
in diplomatic
relations with
Cuba.
The stage
for such a
Newsom
campaign
already has been
set.
It dovetails neatly with Cu
ban charges of aggression
against the United States and
with similar charges brought
by the Soviet Union and Red
China against the United
States in Laos.
In global strategy, the Cu
ban blow which" finally ex
hausted U.S. patience may
serve a dual role in Commu
nist attempts to kee"p the
United States off balance in
the period of changing admin
istrations and to force an early
summit meeting with President-elect
John F. Kennedy.
However, if Castro also
hopes to exploit the break to
gain further sympathy among
Latin American nations, his
chances 'for success appear
limited.
The United States long ago
made it clear it would fight
any attempt to seize the 40-
square-mile Guantanamo base
on Cuba's eastern tip, t)ut
events as early as last July
10 foretold moves in that di
rection. On July 10, Cuban Presi
dent Osvaldo Dorticos de
clared the big base belonged
to the Cuban people.
The United States rejoined
promptly on July 11 that it
had complied strictly with the
Treaty of 1903 and that it
could not be changed unilater
ally either by the United
States or Cuba.
But on July 12, SovietoPr
mier Nikita S. Khrushchev
got into the act with the state
ment that the U.S.S.R. would
support Cuba in any attempt
to oust the U.S. from the base
. . . "We consider the Monroe
Doctrine has outlived its time
. . . has died." a
On Nov. 1, President Eisen
hower reiterated the U.S. po
sition and said:
"Because of its importance
to the defense of the entire
hemisphere, particularly in
would get more rosults by
going after a male with her
finger-nails and any thing else
that she could lay her hands
on. At least it would give her
a little satisfaction that surely
this Mother doesn t have.
In the same issue of the
Mail Tribune I noticed a man
had paid over a $300 fine for
illegal venison. Pray tell me,
what act was the filthest?
Which act will intice a per
son to break the law? It's
pretty bad when the price of
food is higher than the life
and future of our little girls.
I think it is time for the
Mothers to demand better pro
tection for their children.
How about it?
Please omit my name and
address. I don't want the tele
phone calls that some people
insist on ringing.
(Name on file)
Medford.
A Suggestion,
To the Editor: Scientists are
figuring on digging a 15.000
foot deep hole in the bottom
of the ocean.
I suggest they put a plug
in the bottom of the hole.
Then, if we have war with
Red China, just pull the plug
and drown them.
Leo J. Townsend
Route 1, Box 620
Eagle Point, Ore.
Sinistor Forces Indeed!
To the Editor: Mr. Henry
Johnson Jr. has certainly
written a wonderful mess of
tripe! (Communication, Dec.
27.) According to Mr. John
son we can rest ail the troub
les of the world fin those
"sinsler forces" that are lead
ing us to destruction.
The crime rate in our coun
try started going up long be
fore jazz was played, and to
bacco and liquor have been
used almost from the begin
ning of time.
Sinister forces indeed!The
only sinister forces Americans
need worry about are the ig
norant and foolish people.
Tom Bortis
621 South Holly st.
Mcdord.
Newhouse Probe
Shifts to Bay Area
Portland-tWD - The Investi
gation into the Oct. 16 shoot
ing of newspaper executive
Donald Newhouse has shifted
to San Francisco.
Detective Floyd Smith said
attempts are being made to
locate for questioning several
men believed to be in the
San Francisco area.
Newhouse, Oregonian pro
duction manager, was wound
ed when a shotgun blast was
fired through his basement
wind
OREGON
the light of the intimate re
lations which now exist be
tween the present government
of Cuba and the Sino-Soviet
block, it is essential that our
position in Guantanamo Bay
be clearly understood."
But despite the bellicose na
ture of Communist propagan
da, there seems little likeli
hood tht Khrushchev wants
cold-war issues pushed to the
explosion point now, or that
he would allow Cuba to do so.
,More likely, it would serve
his purpose to stir up world
tensions as a better excuse for
an early spring meeting of
heads of state in the United
Nations General Assembly,
and a springboard for a meet
ing with Kennedy.
Overplaying Hand
As for reaction among Latin
American nations, there has
GOP Needs Talents
Michelson,
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington - IUPI) - What
the Republican party seems
to need right now is a national
c o m m i t tee
chairman like
the late John
J. Raskob and
a political gun
slinger in the
image of old
Charley Mich
elson. That would
be a rare com
bination. Ras
Horatio Alger
Wilson
kob was an
Matter of Fact v Joseph aisOP
THE QUESTION FOR 1961
WaShingto n An awe
inspiring question will almost
certainly be answered, for
good or ill, in
1961. It is the
questione
i wnemer me
r evolutionary
, and potential-
destructive
historic forces
of the postwar
ere have al
ready got
c o m p 1 e tely
out of hand.
Despite the moderate econo
mic rocession, the surface of
American life is still so se
curely comfortable that this
will seem a lunatic's question
to a great many people. Be
sides being a comfortable na
tion, moreover, we have been
elaborately conditioned for
eight years to pay a minimum
of attention to such grim
warning signals as tlie head
lines from Laos.
The blunt truth is that the
single White House power
that Dwight D. Eisenhower
has always used to the very
utmost is the great presiden
tial power to form and mold
national opinion. The Presi
dent no doubt sincerely be
lieves that air problems grow
less grave if you just ignore
them. Hence he has always
used this power to portray a
constantly improving world
situation, in a period when
the world situation has con
stantly deteriorated.
rpHE very fact that the de
tcrioration has been so
largely concealed from the
eyes of the nation will make
President -elect Kennedy's
task immeasurably harder.
Yet the situation has now
reached the crucial stage
where the trend must be
abruptly halted and reversed,
or the whole process will got
completely out of hand. The
hard facts speak for them
selves. The American economy is
stagnant. The once almighty
dollar is dangerously weak on
the world markets. The wea
pons balance is in worse shape
than the' dollar balance.
The arrogant Communist
pressure on disordered little
Laos threatens to send the
whole of Southeast Asia down
the drain. Similar pressure in
the Congo also threatens new
ly liberated Africa. In Latin
America, according to the ex
perts, at least five more na
tions are teetering on the
brink of Cuban-style revolu
tions.
The Western Alliance itself
is in grave disarray, as the
breakdown of Western unity
in Laos has rather glaringly
proven. Berlin is threatened,
but NATO is unready. And if
you take the long view, the
ugliest item in the whole ugly
list is probably the expected
generalization of nuclear
striking power. This frightens
even Nikita S. Khrushchev.
THE great majority of Amer
icans who are not unem
ployed, may still be comfort
able and unconcerned for a
little while longer. Laos is far
away. The weapons balance is
Infinitely complex. The higher
calculus is needed to prove
the high likelihood of a purely
accidental nuclear, holocaust,
if the generalization of nu
clear striking power is ever
permitted. But although hard
ly noticed, the gigantic forces
of our time will soon enough
destroy our comfort and show
the folly of our unconcern.
i - V ,o- iy
Alsop
been mounting evidence that
Castro has overplayed his
hand.
Last week end, Peru sever
ed relations with Cuba on
charges of interference in
Peru's internal affairs.
In Montevideo, Uruguay,
rumors have been circulating
of a hemisphere-wide plan to
break relations with Castro.
There has been no official
comment.
Uruguay, Argentina, Vene
zuela and Panama are among
Latin American nations
known to be displeased with
the Castro regime. However,
Argentina is expected to fol
low a go-slow policy on any
break because of the haven
foreign embassies might af
ford Cuban refugees.
Others Sever Relations
In addition to the United
In Wilson's View
figure of great wealth, a close
friend of the Democrat's great
Alfred E. Smith. As a friend
of Smith, Raskob accepted
the Democratic national chair
manship to'3 run and help pay
for Al Smith's 1928 presi
dential campaign.
Herbert Hoove overwhelm
ed Smith for president. The
Republicans all but eliminated
the Democratic party in Con
gress. Raskob had the money
and the courage to attempt to
rebuild the party. His first
move was to offer Charley
Unless thy are controlled.
The two dominating forces,
furthermore, are very far
from easy to control. Some
would say they are Impos
sible to control.
The first force is the rapid
advance and progressive dis
semination of weapons tech
nology. This has produced the
problem of the weapons bal
ance - which could have been
prevented by sound and ade
quate American defense poli
cies. This has also produced
the far more complex prob
lem of the spread of nuclear
weapons which could, not
have been' prevented but
might perhaps have been fore
stalled.
'
rpHE second force is the
surge of Nationalism among
the less developed nations,
which especially affects the
Western position because the
leading Western powers no
longer have the will or appe
tite to do what Khrushchev
did in Budapest. Because of
the deterioration of the weap
ons balance, the Kremlin has
been more and more daring,
in recent years, in its exploita
tion of this second force. More
and more boldly, the Soviets
are training to take over the
weaker nations newly liberat
ed by the new Nationalism.
That is the drama in Laos, in
Cuba, in the Congo.
At the end of the compla
cent Eisenhower years, where
have these two forces brought
us? They have brought us to
the brink ot a new kind of
world.
If this new kind of world
becomes a reality, the voices
of the West will go largely
unheard, and the Kremlin's
influence will generally pre
dominate, in Southeast Asia,
in the new Africa, in much of
Latin America, and in the
Middle East. But in this new
kind of world, it is by no
means certain that the Krem
lin's influence will generally
predominate in China, when
the Communist masters of Pe
king can also brandish nu
clear weapons.
The task of John F. Ken
nedy is to avert this falil
transformation of the world
we live In.
(Copyright 1961, New York
, Hirald Tribune, Inc.)
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
OTHER TIMES had other ways, as this striking excerpt
from the Diary of Samuel Pepys (date: October 13,
1659) would indicate: "I went out to Charing Cross to see
General Harrison hanged,
which was done there, he
looking- as cheerful as
L any man could in that
condition. He was pres
ently cut down, and his
head and heart shown to
the people, at which there
were great shouts of joy."
A new student at Cam
bridge University In Eng
land was showing his fa-
cammis. In the course of
their stroll, they passed a
formidable female. "That,"
whispered the student, "Is the legendary Miss Ekhart. She's tid
mistress of Ririsley Hall."
"Ah," nodded the father, "and precisely who Is Rldsley Hall?"
In the swing on the back porch, a dapper young man mused
aloud, "If I had a million dollars In the bank, I wonder where I'd
be tonight." A female voice replied decisively, "I'll tell you wher
you'd be. You'd be on our honeymoon "
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States and Peru, other nations
in the Western Hemisphere
which have severed diplo
matic relations with Havana
are Nicaragua, Haiti, Guata
mala, Paraguay and the Do
minican Republic.
In this respect, tlgjre has
been a swift change in Latin
American sentiment since the
meeting of American foreign
ministers in Costa Rica last
August. At that time, the min
isters approved only a watered-down
resolution condemn
ing Communist penetration of
the Western Hemisphere.
They did not mention CCtba by
name for fear of popular re
action at home.
The belief that Castro is at
tempting to export his revolu
tion has offended many. Oth
ers believe Castro's expert-
ment is doomed to fail.
of Raskob,
Michaelson $25,000 a year to
become publicity director of
the Democratic National Com
mittee. Michelson had been Wash
ington political correspondent
for the New York Morning
World. His idea, and Ras
kob's, was that the way to
make the Democratic party
look good was to make the
Republican party look bad.
When Charley took over, the
Democrats had not elected a
president since 1916. With
his help, the Democrats began
to do better.
One Aim in Life
Charley didn't give a hoot
about platforms, cam paign
promises or the gre-e-e-e-a-t
principles of his gre-e-e-e-a-t
party. But Charley waj a par
ty man. He was for the Demo
cratic party and against all
other parties. His aim in life
was to win elections.
He often said he was short
on ethics, himself, as for in
stance in this paragraph from
his memoirs published in
1944:
"Nobody has ever been able
to formulate a political code
of ethics. Despite .'.he fine
altruistic language of party
platforms, the habit always
has been to smite the opposi
tion regardless of Marquis of
Queensberry rules, whenever
and however the opportunity
offers."
That is the way old Charley
socked 'em. He was an ugly,
little, humped-over man with
the cold eye of an executioner.
Michelson and a research staff
were a deadly combination. It
was his job to inform the pub
lic of the distempers afflicting
the nation and to prove their
Republican origin.
GOP Got the Blame
Over the years, Michelson
accused and mighty near con
victed the Republican party of
everything, including drought,
floods and the common cold.
He ghosted speeches whichj
statesmen were happy to de
liver, unchanged, and he made
for these clients reputations
for wit, ridicule and political
mayhem which they did pot
deserve.
His blasts of criticism did
not merely singe. They burn
ed. Charley stayed on with
the Democrats through the
Roosevelt administrations and
with Harry S. Truman until
he died full of years in 1948.
But Charley was not a New
Dealer. For do-gooders, social
workers and political ama
teurs in general he had a
genial contempt. Of his Roose
velt years, old Charley wrote:
"I never had a part in
formulating Roosevelt p o 1 i
cies. I was merely a propa
gandist and therefore cam
paigned to the best of my
ability for anything the presi
dent proposed."
Charley's best was very
good indeed.
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