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Mrs. C. K. - He's making
our son terrified to go swim'
mine.
Mr. C. K. - He caught his
fears from his mother.
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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.
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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.
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