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8 A Family Council i Editor's Note: Tk nmllr Conn. HI consists of a judge, m piychla trlst, three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor, and two writers. Eacn article Is a summary of an actual case nlstory. The Council reports on problems that have been dealt with by respon- SJDie agencies and counselors, (Copyright 1H .. General Features Corp.) Mrs. C. K. - He's making our son terrified to go swim' mine. Mr. C. K. - He caught his fears from his mother. e Mrs. C. K. - I'm sure Billy will learn to swim event ually. He's only 6 and there'll be Boy Scouts and camps ahead. He'll join other kids and get right instruction. But right now he refuses to walk Into the ocean above his kneeS. So his father grabs him, drags him out above his head and plunges him into deep water. Now it's hard even to get Billy into his swimming trunks. Mr, C. K. - I must counter act the fears my wife im plants in the child. She's afraid of the water herself. ever since she witnessed a drowning on the beach a few years ago. Billy was enjoying the waves last week, but when one knocked him over his mother ran to help him get up. For his own protection he should know how to swim, and my direct method is best. I tried water wings and a tube, but he can't get the idea. Th Council! "Cease and desist" we call to these pa rents, In the words the Law uses against unfair competi tion. Think of what's hap pening to Billy as he hopes h 1 s mother's "gradualism" wins out over his father's "non nonsense'' extremism. Fear of his father and of all adults is being added to his fear of water. He may, in panic, learn willy-nilly to swim - but the carry-over scars and sock attitudes make Mr. K.'s "method" dangerous. Our advice: Do seek profes sional instruction for Billy. Many experts are "sold" on the survival swimming meth od devised by the famous coach of Georgia Tech, Fred Lanoue. He guarantees that anybody can be taught to be fearless in the water, that anybody can stay afloat an hour, swim a mile without tiring-once he stops fighting the water and cooperates with the laws of bouyancy. "Don't start considering sensitivities, allergies, Idiosyncrasies," he advises In his new book, "Drownprooflng," Take your child to a good teacher, then get out." Sounds tough, but drowning Is tougher. MONDAY. JULY IS. 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON Draft Riots in New York City CONSCRIPTION BRINGS RIOTS On July 11, 1863, conscription became a reality in the North. Two days later, on July 13, bloody riots broke out. The rioting started in the crowd watching the draft proceed ings at draft headquarters on Third ave. in New York. They were grumbling over draft ing of the men, forgetting that this same means of raising troops had been employed in the South for more than a year. Sudden ly the crowd erupted Into mob violence. They stormed the building and destroyed everything connected with the draft. Then they set fire to the structure. The draft riots lasted for four days and more than 1,000 persons died and property damage was in the millions. The rioting spread through the city as the mobs, armed first with crude weapons and later with guns, looted, plundered and murdered. Local law enforcement was swamped and regular troops were called In from Gettysburg to quell the rioters. On the fourth day there was only spasmodic violence to mark the time when anarchy ruled in New York. This drawing, from the Library of Congress col lection, depicts the rioting and burning of the draft headquarters. (UPI) BY MERTON T. AKERS UPI Corrtipondtni The crowd In front of the district draft headquarters at 677 Third ave. in New York City on the morning of Mon day, July 13, 1S63 seemed quiet enough. They were attracted By curiosity, it appeared, to watch draft numbers being drawn inside. Conscription was new in the north and these drawings going on all over the city, were the first solid evidence that men would be drafted in to the Union army whether they wanted to fight or not. The drawings had been started two days before, a Saturday, and the Sunday newspapers had printed 1,200 names which had been pulled from revolving drums by blindfolded clerks. Poor Man's Fight The Congress of the United States had passed the draft law in the spring when it faced up to the fact that vol unteering had fallen off to the critical point and that the only way the army could get men was to draft them. The law was full of loopholes. One of the most glaring provided that a drafted man could buy exemption for $300. Another section provided that he could hire a substitute to fight for him. Dennis the Menace Klamath Falls Man Struck By Auto Susanvllle, Calif. - (UPI) -Kenneth J, Wilson, 21, Klam ath Falls, Ore., was killed early Friday when he was struck by a car on U. S. 398 while attempting to flag down an auto. Wilson's auto, carrying a woman and five children, had broken down three miles south of Doyle, the California Highway Patrol said. He was struck by an auto driven by Jess Arelalo, IB, Reno, Nev. The CHP said Wilson had no Identification on his per son. Officers said he was Iden tified by the woman riding In his car. ' - Wi,Mqm! Any telephone calls Mas:m THIS WEEK The ...in FQ9 Honor Flies of... g Vittran s ROIIRT v I RAC I " zf Must off Jscksonvill Hlghwsy" MEMORIAL PARK FUNERAL HOME WEDDING CHAPEL MAUSOLEUM COLUMBARIUM CREMATIONS 1395 Arnold lin Phont 7737338 Interim Committee Elects Chairman Salem - mm - The nine member Legislative Highway Interim committee met here Saturday and elected Rep, William Holmstrom (D-Gcar-hart) as chairman. It was the second of the 1083 Interim committees to organize, and the second to name a representative as chairman. The wildlife Interim group organized here Friday, and named Rep. W. O. Kclsay (D-Roseburg) as chairman. New Manager of Port Of Portland Named Portland -IUPD- Robert Ncu- meislcr of Portland has been named assistant general man ager of the Port of Portland. He had been chief engineer lor the port fur three years. Neumelster, a 1049 graduate lot Oregon State University, will assume his new position Monday. He will also retain his old duties temporarily. Those two escape routes rankled with men who had neither $300 nor a substitute. It was a rich man's war and a poor man's fight, the think ing ran. Democratic politi cians and Democratic news papers fanned the smoldering resentment with. speeches and editorials. The draft was un constitutional, they argued, and was just another subter fuge of the Republican admin istration to prolong the war. Little mention, if any, was made of the fact that the Con federacy had adopted con scription a full year earlier. There had been the usual run of Fourth of July speech es in the best florid oratory of the times. As the Confederates were retreating from Gettysburg and Vicksbure had surren dered that day? former Presi dent Franklin Pierce spoke in Concord, N.H., to 25,000 per sons. Pierce had been a close friend of President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy. A Democrat and "dough face" a northern member of the party who sympathized with southern policies-Pierce denounced the war- as ''sec tional" and ."parricidal." On Vergo of Destruction "Here in these free states," Pierce said, "it is made crim inal for the noble martyr of free speech. Mr. (Clement L.) Vallandigham, to discuss pub lic affairs in Ohio ay, even here, in time of war the mere arbitrary will of the President takes the place of the Consti tution, and the President him self announces to us that it is treasonable to write or speak otherwise than as he may pre scribe; nay, that it is treason able even to be silent, though we may be struck dumb by the shock of the calamities with which evil counsels, in competency and corruption have overwhelmed our coun try." (Vallandigham, a Demo crat and an ex-congressman, had been convicted of dis loyalty by a military commis sion and banished to the South). Gov. Horatio Seymour of New York, also a Democrat, said that day at the Academy of Music that the country "was on the very verge of de- struction" because of the gov ernment. "Seizing our per sons, infringing upon our rights, insulting our homes, depriving us of those cher ished principles for which our fathers fought." ' "Remember," he added, "that the bloody, and treason able, and revolutionary doc trine of public necessity can be proclaimed by a mob as well as by a government." It seemed to many an invi tation to riot. Whether the crowd at the draft headquarters had read the speeches or not, it ex ploded about 11 a.m. as the name of bnay, 633 West 42nd St. was called a stone was thrown through the window," Les lie's Weekly reported, "and the crowd pouring in almost in a moment destroyed the wheel, the paper, books, everything connected with the draft, and everything in the rooms, the officers barely es caping with their lives . That was the way the New York draft riots started. They lasted four days. No accurate figure of deaths ever has been compiled. Estimates range as high as 1,000 killed Property damage was in the millions, perhaps as much as S5 million. The mob made short work of the draft building. Had it stopped here," Les lie's reporter went on, "the riot might have been regard ed as a kind of spontaneous ebullition of excited men; but they proceeded to fire the building, the upper stories of which were occupied by many families, thus periling hun dreds of lives. They then cut the telegraph wires, and when firemen arrived prevented them from extinguishing the fire. The house, with one of each side, was soon in ruins. The small force of police was powerless ..." The rioting spread fast. Us ing clubs, Iron bars, wagon spokes anything for a weapon the mobs began looting and killing. Negroes Prime Targets One of their prime targets was any Negro they came upon. Harper's Weekly described one such killing. "One of the first victims of the insane fury of the rioters was a Negro cartman," a Har per's reporter wrote. "A mob of men and boys seized this unfortunate man on Monday evening, and having beaten him until he was in a state of insensibility, dragged him to Clarkson St., and hung him from a branch of one of the trees that shade the sidewalk by St. John's cemetery. "The fiends did not stop here, however. Procuring long sticks, they tied rags and straw to the ends of them, and with these torches they danced round their victim, setting fire to his clothes . . ," Supt. of Police John Ken nedy was one of the early vic tims. Mobs inflicted 72 wounds on him but he sur vived. Col. H. T. O'Brien of the 11th New York Militia was stoned and kicked to death. A Harper's Weekly report er wrote: "As I arrived at the corner of 34th st. and Second ave., the rioters were dragging the body of a man along the side walk with a rope. It was dif ficult to obtain any informa tion from the bystanders, who were terror-struck by the sav age fury of the mob. I ascer tained, however, that the body was that of Colonel O'Brien WASTES NOTICE! Noble's Shoes WILL BE CLOSED All Day Tomorrow Preparing for the SHOE SALE of all SHOE SALES! Starting Wednesday, 9 a.m. WAR) . . . There was not a policeman or a soldier in view . . . The brutal roughs who surround ed the body fired pistols at it occasionally, and pelted it with brickbats and paving stones ..." Brooks Bros, clothing store at Catherine and Cherry sts. was looted. Newspaper offices were threatened. A Gatling gun, on ly recently invented, was set up in front of the New York Times for protection. Orphanage Burned The Colored Orphan Asy-4- Governor Seymour tried to lum at 43rd st. and Lexington ave. was sacked and burned. The rioters pulled a small Negro girl from under a bed and beat her to death. First and last about 30 Negroes were killed. ' The armory at 21st st. and Second ave. was looted of muskets and ammunition which the rioters turned on the soldiers and police. The homes of Mayor George Opdyke and Postmaster Ab ram Wakeman were burned. stop the rioting with a speech from City Hall steps on the second day but it was inef fective. After the first day crim inals took over from the orig inal draftees who had started the riots. Regular troops were called from Gettysburg. They shot to kill. By the fourth day there was only spasmodic vio lence to mark the time when anarchy ruled New . York City. At- Your Friendly MARK'S No Sale to s Dealers For Picnics, Lunches, Hot Dogs Morrell's Skinless Mb. Cello Pkg. 6th and Grape Thrifty, Green Stamps PLENTY FREE PARKING W0!ilrS mi CENTER CUT SLICED HAH 1 89 CENTER CUTS Pork Steaks 49 COOL AID ALL FLAVORS 3C PKG.LJ STOCK UP! KRAFT COTTAGE CHEESE 25 PINT DEL MONTE FRUIT COCKTAIL 303 Tin H00 CHEERIOS WHEATIES 10-oz. box 12-oz. Box F 0 R 2 Soft Weave Tissue 5 for $1 2 Roll Packs Curtiss Marshmallows Big lb. OK , I bag. ...ONLY 3 Golden Vigoro 35 Z s297 Peanuts Salted Spanish. 2 ,ins BRUCE'S Floor Wax Qt. 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