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History from the (lies of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 13, 1952 (Friday)
Roy Wells of Glide was
killed when a tree fell across
a California Oregon Power
company "power wagon" op
erating near Toketee Falls.
Medford Junior Chamber of
Commerce has acquired five
acres of land in the Applegate
district near Squaw creek for
construction of a camp for un
derprivileged boys.
20 YEARS AGO
June 13, 1942 (Saturday)
Wire service reports Gold
Hill-Crater Lake road, run
ning through Camp While can
tonment area, will be closed
Aug. 15.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
Treasury department reports
that tor every man, woman
and child there is now in cir
culation $86.94, or a full
week's pay on a defense
project."
30 YEARS AGO
June 13, 1932 (Monday)
State police start crack
down on cars bearing out of
state license plates in the Med
ford district.
Report shows City of Med
ford funds used for relief dur
ing fiscal year 1931-32 to
taled $7,196.
40 YEARS AGO
June 13, 1922 (Tuesday)
Jackson County Game Pro
tective association secures
services of game warden to
protect fish congregating be
low Gold Roy dam.
AJex Sparrow, superintend
ent o( Crater Lake National
park, reports road from Med
ford to Klamath Falls by way
of the park "is open and in
good condition."
SO YEARS-AGO
June 13, 1912 (Wednesday)
From Classified Advertising:'
For Sale - 160 acres, eight
acres in corn, three-room
house and barn and outbuild
ings, good team, wagon and
harness, all farm machinery
and all household furniture,
price $900.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct it superior;
seven or eight it excellent; five oi
six is good.
1. When the Gregorian cal
endar was adopted, what cal
endar did it replace?
2. What river forms most
of the boundary between Ore
gon and Washington?
3. From what port in Eng
land did the Mayflowe rsaid
in 1620?
4. Which continent has been
called "The Dark Continent"?
5. In which state is Colum
bia University
6. Natural gas can be used
for domestic cooking; true or
false?
7. When President Truman
was a U.S. Senator, what
Slate did he represent?
8. Does the total land area
of continent:! United States
approximate one, two or three
million square miles?
9. Which Europeon explor
er discovered the Pacific
Ocean?
10. Whose likeness is rie-
fortes
picica on tne internal neve- . , i i .i i ,,,
nuc stamp on packages of ' 0' hardship on the general aviation industry. e
cigarettes? , do not see how it could be justified under any
darVnTrcoiumbiei"n3 "pi"- t''1't'll"lst;,,u'1's. certainly not unless cost sav
m'o'uih. 'England. 4 Africa, s."' ''igs would be substantial, which is difficult to
New York. 6. True. 7. Mis- j believe.
ouri. I. Three million. 9.
Balboa. 10. None. (Cigarette!
"o longer have revenue
stamps,
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13. 1962
A Matter of Viewpoint
A physician friend has sent us a clipping from
"The New England Journal of Medicine," with
the notation that "I think we need a health care
bill, but not the King-Anderson bill for reasons
well stated below."
The editorial clipping makes six points. They
are these :
1. Compulsory coverage for everyone on So
cial Security covers many persons who do not
and will not need it.
2. Only 90 days of hospitalization . . . are pro
vided, and this ... is subject to a $90 deduc
tion ... .
3. Fourteen million persons now on Social
Security will get this . . . care . . . without having
paid for it.
4. Four million persons in the specified age
group, not on Social Security, are left out and will
have to be otherwise eared for . . .
5. The rich receive the same benefits as the
poor, and the poor pay
the rich . . .
fi. The svstem leans
governmental paternalism, since its administra
tion . . . will almost meviutDiy uruig a mea&uie
of federal control.
TO these we would reply as follows:
1. Exactly. Many people who have fire in
surance do not and will not need it. But all policy
holders pay a small amount so that if and when
they need a big amount, it will be available. The
King-Anderson bill operates the way insurance
does.
2. Ninety days of hospitaliziation per year plus
twice as long in a nursing home will cover all but
a tiny fraction of the illnesses of the aged. The
$10 per day payment feature for the first nine
days will prevent people from hospitalizing them
selves without adequate reason.
3. If we're going to start providing hospital
care for the elderly, we have to start somewhere,
and those covered by Social Security are a good
place to start. After the present generation of
elderly is gone, all beneficiaries will have paid
their own share.
4. Those four million
time goes on, the number
Social Security will decrease from the present
tour minion until 95 per cent or more ot all are
covered. Also, there are for those not covered by
the Kerr-Mills act (which the A.M.A. supports)
for this very purpose, as well as welfare and priv
ate insurance (which the
5. Why should the
poor tor tne same services; inis is one ot tne
best features of the plan. Everyone is treated
alike, and all can receive
respect and dignity.
b. there would be a
trol under the program,
fairly and effectively. But there would be no in
surance policy cancellations, no paupers oath, no
catastrophic debts for hospitalization. Which is
preferable?
Isn't it a lot the way one looks at it? The doc
tors feel these noints are
advantages. E. A.
Don 't Move GSDO
A small story in this
ported that the general safety district office of
the Federal Aviation Agency would be moved
from Medford to Portland this month.
The announcement has drawn strong protests
from those associated with the general aviation
industry throughout southern Oregon and north
ern California. It appears to us the protests are
fully justified, and that the FA A should rescind
the order unless it can be shown to be in the pub
lic interest.
Such a change would impose real difficulties,
if not hardships, on a large number of individuals.
We doubt that it could be shown that moving the
office would result in any savings, either.
A letter written to Senator Maurine Neubcrger
explains why aviation in this area would suf
fer. In part, it said :
"The GSDO has both a pilot inspector and an aircraft
Inspector. Both are vilal to the safe growth and continued
operation of the general aviation fleet. The former con
duels flight tests for new pilot certificates, and for higher
ratings. The latter personally must examine the work of
mechanics making alterations to all aircraft. It the office
here were closed, southern Oregon pilots, aircraft owners
and mechanics would have a choice of conducting their
frequent business with the Sacramento GSDO (200 miles),
or the Portland office 1230 miles). The hardships ate ob
vious. So is the impossibility of flying a dismantled plane
to an inspection location. The alternative is to wait for the
Inspector to visit here, which could well be a period ot
months.
"As a matter of record, the Portland GSDO office is mi
swamped with work that one pilot has hern wailing more
than a year to take an advanrcd flight check the local office
cannot give.
"... Airplanes are vital lo the everyday existence of a
great many Orogonians. Mercy Flights is a good example,
but crop-dusting, borate bombing, and many other activi
ties could also be cited ..."
TTHE GSDO was once located in Eugene, but
1 was moved to Medford the better to serve the
larger area. This made sense, as Medford has the
second-busiest airport in the state, and is roughly
equidistant from the Portland and Sacramento
offices. It has been here for seven years, and its
services are in wide demand.
Its movement to Portland would work a cost-
We hope the FA reverses its decision, and
, . , . . , . rr i . , i i t ne rtoasons n nv rnvsicians
keeps this important service olfice close to thcSupporl sonai security
pcopje it serves. a.
virtually the same tax as
too far in the direction of
need care now, too. As
of those over-65 not on
doctors also advocate).
rich pay more than the
the benehts with sen
degree ot iederal con
to insure that it operated
drawbacks. To us they're
newspaper last week re
"It Look Like Murder, All Right!"
ii k.i' gx rri it .w.;-j i . ' i aW
... Communications ...
Letters to the Editor must beer the name and address oi the writer, although under
certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication it permissible.
The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and
condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the papen in fact the
contrary is often the case.
Quotation Corrected
to the tailor: In your
"Never Surrender!" editorial
comments of 6-7-62, you at
tribute the famous expression
of "Damn the torpedoes" to
Commodore Dewey.
I believe it is a historic
fact that it was Admiral Da
vid Glasgow Farragut who
made the classic remark in
contempt of torpedoes (as
mines were called in those
days) when, while heading the
Union ships into Mobile Bay
on Aug. 5, 1864, he saw one
of his lead ships blown up by
an exploding mine. He called
out, "Damned the torpedoes! -
full speed ahead. At that time
Dewey was a junior officer
serving under Farragut.
Michael Dale
759 South Mountain ave.
Ashland, Ore.
-O-
Editor's note: Our corre
spondent is correct as to the
quotation's origin. Bartlett's
Quotations renders it "Damn
the torpedoes! Go ahead!"
Pigeons and Skunks
To the Editor: After my last
letter to this column an an
onymous someone sent me a
copy of the Dan Smoot re
port. I watch his program oc
casionally so it came as no
surprise.
Sooner or later some one is
going to start a "Shoot
Smoot campaign simply be
cause of the terrific oppor
tunities for alliteration. I'm
all for it.
Monday's editorial was
most informative but putting
Smoot in the same category
as McCarthy is an unforgiv
able insult to the voters of
my home stale. Wisconsin
has never leaned toward
either extreme right or the
extreme left, although as a
native of the stoic north I
must admit some pretty queer
ducks fly up from the south at
times.
An old woodsman para
phrased McCarthy's situa
tion neatly-"It you shoot a
skunk," he said, "be prepared
for the stink."
Anyone with any sense
(smell included) knows that
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i.,.,n .... .... i i ......
arc and leave them alone. We
had them nesting under our
front and back porches for
years without getting a whiff
of their famous odor.
It would have been a good
idea to get rid of them but
the project would have been
more trouble than it was
worth. McCarthy was stub
born enough to give it a try
and he raised quite a slink.
He did accomplish one thing
-he put the word Communist
into tne vocabulary of everv
thinking voting adult in this101"' own clldre" and genera
country. A great many of j .K'ns o come with huge pub-
thorn still cant define the
word in its various uses but
that's beside the point. (There
arc several varieties of skunk
too. but they all smell the
same.)
During McCarthy's heyday
I spent a lot of time defend
ing his objectives although
even more of my lime was
spent criticizing his methods.
The evil men do lives after
them and a lot of innocent
people were hurt by his bull
dozing ladies, but please, let
him rest in peace. I'm tired
ol defending nun.
Smoot is poisoning pigeons
in Hie park in comparison
with McCarthy and if he
merits a mention in the his
tory hooks it will only be as
a T. V. comic.
Carol R. Wentcla
R16 Taylor si.
Medlord, Ore.
Unworthy Methods
To the Editor: About three
weeks ago I wrote a letlcr to
each one of our representa
tives in Washington stating
my objection to the King
Anderson hill. Saturday. June
9. I received a reply Irmn Mr
Al Ullman. With his reply he
;"l:los:, PnuMd entitled
I Health Insurance for the,
Aged." I was amazed at the
title for I know that physi
cians almost to a man are op
posed to the bill. So I looked
through the pamphlet trying
to discover who these physi
cians are but it does not give
the name of even one doctor
or medical society. After con
sidering the matter I have
sent the following letter to
Mr. Ullman:
"Dear Mr. Ullman: Your
letter with enclosure was re
ceived yesterday. I am amazed
at the enclosure. It claims to
be doctors' opinions favoring
the King-Anderson bill. Yet it
does not carry the signature
of even one physician or of
one medical society. In my
opinion to claim the views of
doctors without giving their
names is deceit. I would ap
preciate it if you would send
me their names.
"I also feel that the Presi
dent's New York City per
formance in behalf of the bill
was completely unworthy of
a measure so important lo
the American people. Do
Americans not have the intel
lectual ability to recognize
value if it exists? But when
dishonest and unworthy meth
ods must be used to promote
an issue is the issue worth
while?"
Anna M. Slrecd
38 North Peach st.
Medford
Do For Ourselves
To the Editor: I should like
to add my views to the many
who have expressed opinions
on the proposed Medicare pro
gram. One poinl I would like lo
consider is WHY we are being
told we need such a pro
gram. Not too many years ago
our grandparents and parents
preached and practiced the
virtue of thrift. A good many
people of this generation have
no idea of what that word
means. What Is wrong with
each of us providing for our
own old age and its necessi
ties? This idea of being told
what we each must have and
must do is contrary to the
American way.
Social Security has not
solved
the problem for (he
aged nor will it ever. The
mere pittance It provides has
only given people a false
sense of security whereby
they are spending every cent
they earn instead of looking
ahead and saving. Yes, I'll
grant you it's wonderful to
have all the new commodities
on the market in our homes
but we are having them and
enjoying them by not setting
aside that nest egg that would
have taken care of our future
and are thereby burdening
lie debts
Medicare costs added to So
cial Security costs would be
enormous. Our taxes now
are way out of hand. Where
do people think the money to
cover this type of program
i will come from if not from
r own pockets?
No, if we want any type of
Medicare program let's have
it on a personal voluntary ba j
sis, not one mat. is government
sponsored. Everyone knows
that any program government
fostered is half eaten up with
administrative costs by the
time it reaches us at a local
level.
Let's all stop kidding our
selves and each take care of
his own responsibilities in
stead of looking to Washing
ton for help.
Eileen B Olsen
Route 4, Box 32S
Medtord
End of Everything
To the Editor: Mr. Rov
Neal's tactual background''
on the Connally Amendment
in rirfen.-e of ihe World Court i it and his logic is sound be-I610-6J)
left out some very j cause society has evolved and
important facts as follows, j developed to that state where
1. All treaties made by Ihe
V S Government have high
er authority than our Con
stitution and become the law
of the land. 2.
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
Massive Task Faces
Viet Nam
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Saigon, South Viet Nam
Gen. Paul . Harkins is a
square-jawed, sand y-haired
four-star gen
eral who com
mandiU.S forces both in
Thailand and
South Viet
Nam. He
takes the firm
view that the
Com munists
are not going
Nswiom to be allowed
to take over either country.
In the last few months
there has been evidence to
support what otherwise might
be undue optimism in a coun
try 65 per cent controlled in
whole or in part by Com
munist Viet Cong guerrillas.
Court is part of Ihe UN Char
ier which was ratified with
"treaty" status in 1945 by the
U.S. Senate. 3. The only
thing that is now keeping
the World Court and its "De
cisions" from becoming the
law of our land is the Con
nally amendment. 4. Senator
Wayne Morse could specify in
his resolution, till he was
black in the face, that this
Court could not have juris
diction over our "domestic
affairs" and it would not pro
tect the United States one
iota, for the UN Charter spe
cifically grants the World
Court, itself, the power to de
cide just what comes under
its jurisdiction, with no ap
peal from its "decisions."
For example, with no Con
nally amendment in its way,
if it should so desire, nothing
under the sun could keep
this Court from declaring our
immigration laws an interna
tional problem and flooding
our country with Communist
Chinese Reds, who are now
bursting at the seams to do
just that (with President Ken
nedy's blessing, it seems).
And nothing could stop a "de
cision" that would declare
our tariff laws "internation
al" and drastically lower or
wipe out our tariffs (another
Kennedy desire). Our Guan
tanamo Navy base could be
laken away from us and given
to Castro. Our Panama Ca
nal could be put under inter
national control (a polite
name for Communist con
trol). Our foreign aid pro
gram, certainly an interna
tional affair to the rest of the
world, could be made obliga
tory and permanent.
Without the lcart sign of
the so called "emotionalism"
so erroneously attributed to
me by Mr. Neal, I would like
to calmly and matter of fact
ly offer this warning: If our
precious Connally is repeal
ed, or nullified, or bypassed
in any way, nothing in the
world could prevent the
World court from making a
decision that would trans
form the UN" inio a "One
World Government." with
more decisions following
which, in the name of peace,
would require the United
States to surrender our Army,
our Navy, our Air Force, and
all our nuclear weapons to
the UN, exactly as this treas
onous plan is outlined in our
State Department's Docu
ment No. 7277.
This would be the end of
our Bill of Rights and our
Constitution - Ihe end of all
freedom in America - the
end of everything our Fore
fathers fought and died for
after signing the Declaration
of Independence. Yet Sena
tor Wayne Morse and others
of the same "World Mindcd
ness" have fought for the re
peal of this amendment ever
since ii was added to his reso
lutinn against his will in
1946.
L. C Powell
316 S.E Eighth St.
Grants Pass. Ore.
Socialised Medicine
To the Editor: I have read
the article written by Charles
A. McAdams. M.D.. and he
puts forth some pretty sound
arguments along with his bias.
He asks, why confine Med
ical Care to the aged? Why
not everyone'1 There he docs
some sound reasoning. I ad
mire his logic and frank hon
esty. We have socialized roads,
we have socialized inland
waters, we have a nco-social-
Ml
ized army, partially socialized I they have at least asked for
schools and colleges Our post a legal opinion. Do you sup
offices and postal system is nose someone is finallv reariv
socialistic in nature. Why not
socialized medicine?
The doctor is honest about
there is a need bordering
on the imperative.
But it is not the doctors
that are the villians in this
social drama, but the insur-
Government Fighting
What gains there have been )
against the Vict Cong may
be attributed to two factors
-the helicopter which trans
ports government troops and
their American instructors
swiftly, and the strategic
hamlet, which it is hoped
ultimately will cut Viet Cong
lines of supply and communi
cation and at the same time
teach their inhabitants the
basic values of true democ
racy. Statistics may be mislead
ing but a glance at a few of
them illustrate the enormous
task facing the government of
President Ngo Dinh Diem and
General Harkins.
In the past year, Viet Cong
attacks, acts of sabotage or
kidnapings have been occur
ring at the rate of about 500
per month.
It is estimated that Viet
Cong kidnaps or kills at least
six local government repre
sentatives each day.
One thousand school class
rooms have been clcsed down.
Out of a total of 3,000 local
health centers, more than 600
have been forced to close.
The malaria eradication
program has been hampered
seriously by the kidnaping or
ance companies. The doctors
are crying before they are
hurt. The doctors would re
trieve their dignity and pres
tige under socialized medicine
along with the common man,
but commercialized medicine
and commercialized finance
well that is another story.
But the nice thing about
oirr political system is that
eventually the majority can
do things the way it chooses
if it has the gumption to
choose.
Doctors cannot be expected
lo know much about social
science and economics because
they have been petted and
pampered to believe that they
are on the same plane with
God. And there are some that
give the M.Ds. top billing. But
the latter is Communist ide
ology. No segment of world
society reveres doctors to the
extent that communists do.
They do have some good doc
tors and they do not look
upon themselves as "govern
ment flunkeys". They deem
themselves members of a so
cialist society, while doctors
in the land of the free and
the home of the brave like
to be looked upon as "rugged
individuals".
There is much food for
thought in Dr. McAdams ar
ticle because we are at the
crossroads. The King-Ander
son bill is not too "hot but
like prohibition it is better
than no liquor at all. But
Medicare from the cradle to
the grave would be better.
This Dr. McAdams implies,
but does not say so lest the
discussion become dull. So
cial medicine is the only salv
ation for the medical profes
sion. Change is going on all the
lime and we must adjust to
it. Others have done it, so
can we.
Walter Recce
77 Matuanita st.
Ashland
Sladium, Again
To the Editor: I was always
under the opinion that our
leaders were elected into of
fice to take care of the needs
of the public.
Much has been said about
looking to the future, as more
and more money is poured
into the recreation programs
for Howard Prairie and Emi
grant Lake trying to attract
our tourists. What about our
own community? As far as a
baseball stadium is concerned
the future has arrived and we
are without.
Due ot the lack of concern,
foresight, fear of making a de
cision or the inability by our
leaders, Medford Legion Club
will have to entertain Coos
Bay-North Bend Legion play
ers on the SOC field Sunday.
The construction of the
new football stadium at our
high school diamond has even
rendered this field useless.
The county court might do
well to study how much has
been done in the Klamath
Falls area to cut down their
delinquency rate. A well
rounded baseball program
taking care of the small fry
on up through the graduates
has been one of their leading
factors. This type of program,
however, can't be launched
until there is a baseball stadi
um to play in. It seems a small
price to pay if it would cut
our delinquency even 1 per
cent.
The many petitions and let
ters sent to our county court
seem to have been ignored,
but I see after two years or
more of asking for some type
of baseball stadium, where
to get off of the fence, or
could 1 his be just another
means of politically passing '
the buck'
To those of you who arc I
supporting your Legion!
teams, thanks a lot. The boys
do notice and care I
Mrs Bill Barnes
604 Whitman pi.
Medford.
U.S. General and
killing of anti-malaria teams.
Bridges and the coastal
railway have been special
Viet Cong targets. It is esti
mated that at least one bridge
a day Is damaged or destroy
ed. In recent weeks, Vict Cong
attacks forced the closing of
two rubber plantations, one
of them with a production of
1,000 tons annually.
Vietnamese generally lump
events of the last year into
one word. They call it the
"terror" and they place its
beginnings at the time of the
Communist conquest of neigh
boring southeast Laos. The
fall of southeast Laos opened
In the Day's News
By FKANK JENKINS
In a contest that lasted
into the wee small hours the
other night, Edward M. (Ted)
Kennedy won the endorse
ment of the Massachusetts
state Democratic convention
for nomination as the Demo
cratic candidate for U.S. Sen
ator from Massachusetts. His
opponent in the convention
was Edward J. McCormack,
age 38, nephew of John W.
McCormack, speaker of the
U.S. House of Representatives.
McCormack held on until
the balloting reached 691 to
360 against him. Then he
came to the mike, listened
gratefully to the cheers of
his supporters and said: "I
want to thank all those who
had the courage to stand up
and be counted in my behalf.
I will now take my case to
the people."
In Massachusetts, conven
tion endorsements are not
equivalent to nomination.
The actual nominating will
be done in the party primary
in September.
IT WAS quite a battle. Ar
thur Edson, one of the AP's
top political writers, put it
this way:
"Those ambitious, ncver-givc-up
Kennedys have done
it again. Edward M. (Ted) Ken
nedy, eager 30-year-old broth
er of the President of the
United States and of the Unit
ed States attorney general,
was endorsed by weary,
hoarse Massachusetts Demo
crats last Friday night as a
candidate for the U.S. senate.
"Even though Friday night's
victory didn't prove much-it
gives Teddy first place on the
primary ballot, plus a note
that the convention endorsed
him-the Kennedys go into
everythirig, from touch foot
ball to conventions, aiming
to win.
"And . young Teddy won
here (at the convention) with
a technique his brother de
veloped in Massachusetts and
perfected in New Hampshire,
Wisconsin and West Virginia
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
(c) Field Enterprises, Inc.
THE TRUE EAR
I was engrossed in an ex
cellent new mystery by a
skillful British writer the
other night,
when sudden
ly an Ameri
can character
was Intro
duced into the
story - and I
came up with
a jolt. The
spell had been
broken: I sinv
mrm ply could not
believe in the American. The
author's ear, which was so
true for English characters,
had betrayed her abysmally.
In trying to reproduce Ameri
can speech, she became ab
surd and fanciful-as well as
hopelessly out of date with
her slang terms.
Perhaps the hardest task in
literature is to give voice lo
a foreigner. Unless we grew
up in the country itself, we
do not have that absolute
pilch for dialog which is the
mark of the born story-writer
Is ewf ' "'?
. . ,, V difficult than novel writing
artist as Ernest Hemingway Hen j d, fnund
came a cropper when he tried !,,.; ,h3, in nlavo evrv.
to render Spanish as spoken
by the common people in
in
"For Whom the Bell Tolls.'
Experts in the Spanish lan
guage agreed unanimously
that his characters spoke a
ludicrous blend of styles nev
er heard in Spain.
If British writers can't
do American speech, Ameri
can writers are equally in
ept at Briticisms. We. too.
use slang that is outdated,
and think thai "ripping"
and "smashing" and
"bloody" make a character
Britiih.
Even in their own lan
guage, some writers have a
superb err lor one partic
ular metier, and not for
another. John O'Hara'i dia
log is excellent lor a cer
tain type ol raffish and low
class character, but his
people of substance sound
stilled and manufactured.
Commies
up the so-called Ho Cm
Minh" trail over which it is
estimated that at least four
divisions of well-trained guer
rillas have infiltrated South
Viet Nam in the last year.
When the Communists of.
Ho Chi Minh defeated the
French at Dien Bien Phu and
presumably withdrew after
the agreement at Geneva,
they deliberately left behind
strong Communist cells. The
men married and learned the
language and the customs, but
never forgot their mission.
Among many villagers they
are heroes of the resistance-
first against the French and
now against the Americans.
-bright young men in slick
automobiles, .pretty girls in
crisp dresses and unremitting
industry behind the scenes to
make sure each delegate is
reached again and again.
"It has worked wonders for
John F. Kennedy, and so far
it is working for Teddy."
INHERE was Massachusetts
drama at that convention
the other night in Springfield.
On the floor of the conven
tion hall, a Kennedy and a
McCormack were battling
each other for the prize of
the convention nomination as
the Democratic party nominee
for U.S. senator from the Bay
State.
But that wasn't all. Watch
ing from the sidelines was a
young representative of a
third famous Massachusetts
family-George Lodge, age 34,
son of Henry Cabot Lodge,
Jr., former U.S. ambassador
to United Nations, who re
signed his U.N. post to be
come the running mate o
Richard Nixon in the 1960
Presidential campaign, and
the grandson of another
Henry Cabot Lodge of World
War I senatorial fame.
This watcher from the
Democratic convention side
lines the other night hopes
to become the nominee of the
Massachusetts GOP conven
tion late this week and later
the Republican nominee for
U.S. senator from Massachu
setts at the primary election
in September.
WHAT a galaxy of Massa
chusetts aristocracy!
One is reminded inevitably
of the famous toast offered
by John Collins Bossidy back
in 1910 at the Midwinter Din
ner of the Holy Cross alumni:
"And this is good old
Boston,
"The home of the bean and
the cod,
"Where the Lowells talk
only lo Cabots
"And the Cabots talk only
to God."
J. Harris
Ring Lardner had a mar
velous ear for the speech
of small-town people and
baseball players and enter
tainment figures-wisely, he
did not try to capture oth
er, and larger, worlds in
his fiction. Likewise. Ray
mond Chandler possessed a
sure touch with unsavory
underworld characters; but
when he wrote a "serious"
story, his dialog was ama
teurish. Apart from ils psycholog
ical appeal, a great deal of
the popularity among young
people of Salinger's "Catcher
in the Rye" springs from his
ability to reproduce the lan
guage of the adolescent who
is "telling" the story. On the
other hand, a great drama
tist such as Eugene O'Neill
had a tin car; he simply could
not hear how his characters
sounded, and all his plays
suffer from this grievous de
fect. The reason, of course, that
nlavwril inn ir en mnpk mntro
thing mus, be done by ,peech.
tn-rt, arp n. -ciHrs hv thn
author, no explanations, no
descriptions, no philosophic
flights, no character analysis.
The playwright may have
mind and heart, but without
a true ear he can offer us
only stillborn creations.
! Sprinkler System
Damages Equipment
1 Portland - l'PI - Some wa
iter damage to equipment and
I rolls of paper occurred at The
iOregonian Tuesday night
I when flames in a press pit
touched off an automatic
sprinkler system.
Water was snowered over
block-long rotary press Fire
i men said the blaze apparently
.started in waste paper in a
loit over which a press unit is
i to be erected.
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