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Medford and Jackson County
History from the flits of Tht
Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
August 7, 1953 (Friday)
During a summer thunder
storm, cloud seeding pilots for
the Rogue River Valley Traf
fic association flew for four
and one-half hours and be
lieve they prevented damag
ing hail from falling gener
ally over the valley's peach
and pear orchards,
Fencing materials for the
city of Rogue River's reser
voir have arrived and installa
tion will begin sometime this
week.
20 YEARS AGO
Auauit 7. 1943 (Saturday)!
Kiwanis club collecting
funds to send cigarettes to
American servicemen over
teas. From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Your
corr. has received a box of
matches wrapped In a news
paper from H. Fluhrer, the
late demon baker. It Is from a
faraway and censored land.
We can't read the newspaper
and the matches won't light."
30 YEARS AGO
August 7, 1933 (Monday)
County judge found guilty
of ballot theft by Klamath
county jury given four years
In state prison.
Opp mine near Jacksonville
to re-open.
40 YEARS AGO
August 7, 1923 (Tuesday)
Many horses entered for
county fair races.
Memorial services for Pres
ident Harding to be held at
Page theater Friday.
SO YEARS AGO -August
7. 1913 (Thursday)
Central Point telephone
company and Sams Valley
telephone company pass test
of blue sky law and given per
mit to sell securities by cor
poration commissioner.
City council votes to Issue
$26,250 street and sewer im
provement bonds.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is excellent; five er
III is Ht,
1. The green coloring mat
ter in plant cells is known
as Ch-o-1?
2. If an actor's perform-
ance Is mephitic, would it
be outstanding, nauseous, or
mediocre?
3. In what popular card
game is there melding?
4. Name the merciless Jew-
Ish money lender in Shake
speare's "Merchant of Ven
ice" who attempts to exact
a pound of flesh.
5. Is Hansons disease an
other name for tuberculosis,
leprosy, or scurvy?
6. Hartford is capital of
which state?
7. Bogota Is the capital of
which South American coun
try?
8. Name the author of the
poem, "Hiawatha." ..
9. In bowling, how many
strikes are necessary to roll
a perfect score of 300?
10. Including four wisdom
teeth, how many teeth com
prise a full set in the adult?
Answersi 1. Chlorophyll. 2,
Nauseous. 3, Pinochle. 4.
Shylock. 8. Leprosy. I. Con
necticut. 7. Colombia. I.
Henry Wadsworth Longfel
low. A, 12 strikes. 10. 32.
A Year Later
Last summer about this time, one of the fa
vorite topics of conversation along Medford's
main street was the urgent necessity of doing
something soon to revitalize the core area.
Complaints were loud that the city adminis
tration wasn't fulfilling what some businessmen
felt was its obligation to start things moving.
There was ominous talk that blight was gradu
ally decaying the central business district and
that unless drastic action was taken pretty quick
ly, Medford might fall apart before our very eyes.
Accusations of inefficiency and lethargy fill
ed the air, and petty bickering was the order of
the day.
IN THE early fall, one of the first positive steps
in some time was taken when a delegation,
composed of downtown businessmen and city
officials, took a trip to Pomona, Calif., to attend
the U.S. Mayors' Workshop there and study that
city s recently completed
central business district.
Those who made the
ford full of enthusiasm
which even at that early
ing wonders, and for a while it seemed that a
mall might be installed in Medford next Monday
morning at 8 o clock.
On their return, members of the delegation
spoke before a number of service clubs and other
organizations to explain what the Pomona lead
ers, with a remarkable show of cooperation, had
accomplished.
Mayor James Dunlevy appointed a commit
tee, chairmaned by Bob
the Pomona delegation,
general improvement of
DUT then time passed as it has a way of doing
in such matters and for a while nothing
was heard about downtown Medford.
And, for that matter,
downtown Medford.
Despite the dire predictions, however, it
didn't disintegrate. The merchants didn't go out
of business or file bankruptcy. Medford did not
turn into a ghost town.
Then, bit by bit. things began to happen.
They went almost unnoticed at first because
what happened was the result of individual action
and not part of a concerted overall plan.
-THE old church at the
A Central ave. was torn
parking lot.
Mann's Department
for an extensive remodeling project which in
eluded an alley through
and expanding across it
now occupied by Western Thrift.
The architectural firm
remodeled a building at
attractive Arcade design, which features a walk
way running through to a Park and Shoo lot at
the rear, is now nearing
Plans were announced
the remodeling of the Snider's Dairy building,
28 North Bartlett st. Tentative designs call for
conversion of the structure into an office and
small shop building, perhaps built around a walk
way of some kind through the center of the
property.
DUT one of the brightest, most hopeful develop-
ments of all was the creation of a downtown
off-street parking assessment district to finance
construction of parking lots on the sites of the
old Federal building at Sixth st. and Central ave.,
and the Hanson and Field's buildings on North
Bartlett st.
Some of the most vocal critics of the down
town situation a year ago had argued that the
principal reason for the decline of activity in
the core area was the shortage of off-street
parking.
Those same spokesmen had also been sharply
critical on numerous occasions of the city admin
istration for its failure to alleviate the situation
Interestingly, however, it was the city admin
istration particularly City Manager Robert Duff
ana uty Attorney William Mansfield which
was the prime mover in formation of the off
street parking district and in negotiations which
led to acquisition of the new parking lot sites.
CNCOURAGING, too, is the optimistic discus-
" sion one hears these
a civic center, including
needed new city hall, in the area adjacent to
the Jackson county courthouse.
A group from' this area traveled to Eugene
about two weeks ago to tour the civic center there
and hold discussions with Eugene and Lane coun
ty officials on how the development was brought
about.
Any such grand scale project here would
depend in large measure on close cooperation be
tween citv and eountv officials, huh sn far mpm-
bers of the county court
off the record on whether
opment. We can't imagine that they Id be
snort-sighted enough to oppose it, how r.
fctill Jacking, and still
ter plan for a coordinated redevelopment of the
entire core area of the city. Pleased as we are
with all that has happened, we would urce that
steps be taken as soon as
a redesign scheme for the downtown area
shoppers mall in the
trip returned to Med
for the mall concept,
time seemed to be work
Taylor, a member of
to develop a plan for
the downtown area.
nothing was done about
corner of Fifth si. and
down and turned into a
Store announced plans
the middle of the block
to take over the space
of Edson and Pappas
128 East Main st. The
completion.
about a month ago f or
days about creation of
construction of a badly
have managed to stay
they favor such a devel
badly needed, is a mas
possible to commission
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paper. In fact the contrary la often
Smoking
To the Editor: A hospital is
a place where the sick are to
be treated and brought back
to health. It is surprising that
the ones in this valley not
only permit smoking in a sick
room, but have cigarette
vending machines in their
halls. It is not only against
the law for anyone under 18
years of age to buy or smoke,
but children have access to
these machines.
Now I hear some smokers
crying, "You want to take
away our rights." Not at all.
If the smokers insist on dam
aging their bodies, taking a
chance of ulcers, lung cancer
or emphysema (which is in
curable) they have that right,
if they smoke in their own
homes or a group of smokers
wish to gather and blow the
smoke into each other's eyes
and faces, that's their privi
lege. But they do not have
the right to infringe on the
rights of the non-smokers by
filling the buses and other
public places by robbing them
of the pure air.
Recently coming from Port
land on a Greyhound bus we
were pleased lo hear the
driver Inform the passengers
of (he Oregon law of no
smoking in the bus. Not only
was it the law but they were
making it unpleasant for the
non-smokers. The sad thing
was he had to remind them
frequently. Hats off to driver
E. A. Barnes.
"You smoke?"
O, yes, of course I do;
The man who doesn't, wom
en, too.
Can scarcely live where
smokers be,
And still not smoke to some
degree;
If not a willing smoker,
Still he smokes their smoke
Against his will.
Air he must breathe, and
she must too,
E'en though that air be
Thick and blue
The fumes may sicken
Him or her;
No hint they lake, no cause
infer:
But should he disapprove
the plan.
Would he then be a gentle
man? And so I smoke-you under-
stand
'Tis not from choice,
But second hand.
Mrs. Ernest Santo
204 Lozier lane
Medford.
General Welfare
To the Editor: Where oh
where is the general welfare?
Let us review the evidence lo
strive to determine the an
swer. Are votes and selfish in
terest the motivating incent
ive of politicians and con
gressmen? Does anyone think
that the general welfare was
considered when the Civil
Rights mess was caused by a
faulty decision of the Su
preme Court in 1954 and by
support oi several congress
men and Ihe President? That
unfavorable situation has f.ir
nishrd Ihe thousands of Com
munists in this country an op
portunily to apply their usual
tactics to stir up and further
the trouble to show the U.S.
up in a bad light to the rest
of the world. That is going on
while the politicians are play
ing for votes.
Washington one - worlders
arc having an international
Roman holiday with foreign
aid, United Nations, Alliance
For Progress, New Frontier.
Peace Corps and olhcrs. All
of those Congessional fantas
tic brain storms are not only
shrinking t h e purchasing
power of the dollar hut the
value of all other assets in
buying power.
The taxpayers' money in
stead of being wasted abroad
could well be applleij to rem-1
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
To My School, Kid?"
the caso.
cdy some of the afflictions
that exist here at home. Num
ber One, raise the national
average of 40 per cent recov
ery in mental hospitals to the
80 per cent record attained by
the Kansas State Hospital by
providing an adequate staff
to care for the patients.
Number Two, provide an
adequate staff to give treat
ment to emergency cases in
the emergency rooms of reg
ular hospitals where thou
sands die from lack of immed
iate treatment and proper
care.
Number Three, provide re
form schools or farms to re
habilitate juvenile law break
ers instead of remanding them
to delinquent parents, which
encourages criminal acts as
the culprit knows that he can
get away without punishment.
Under our present system ju
venile crime hag increased
more than 50 per cent in ten
years.
Suggested remedies: No
money shall be drawn from
me treasury nut in conse
quence of appropriations
made by law and a regular
statement and account of re
ceipts and expenditures shall
be published from time to
lime. Another remedy, give
the people more control of
the purse strings. Another,
more interest of the people
in the affairs of government
from top to bottom. Another,
more Americansm and less in
ternationalism. If Congress can reduce
taxes without reducing spend
ing, applying suggested rem
edies should be a simple mat
ter. Ed Black,
2573 Camp Joy rd.,
Grants Pass, Ore.
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
(ci Field Enterprises ln.
HAND TALKING
I remember a little street
cafe in the Piazza dclla Re
publica in Florence, where I
was sipping
a vermouth
lale one after
noon, and lis
tening to an
argument a t
the table next
to mine. A
small bird
like man with
an intense
i,,r,,. face was try
ing to convince his compan
ion that the coalition govern-
t meni in naiy was iuu un-viiip-
ctenl to last - diu wnai ias
cinated me was not so much
the logic of his argument
(which 1 could barely follow)
as the eloquence of his hands.
Never before or since have
I seen such artistry. His hands
were as magnificently attun
ed to his speech as a conduc
tor's to a symphony. He had
a vast repertoire of gestures,
an almost endless variation of
waves, points, tremors, laps
and clenches.
Many times since, I have
thought of this verbal vir
tuoso, and have contrasted
him with conversationalists
in the colder Anglo Saxon
countries. It seems to me
that we loose a lot. in
charm and gusto, by being
ashamed to use our hands
as an accompaniment to
speech.
The body, after all, is
a unit: the mind and tongue
cannot work independently
of the whole organism. In
tellectual passion increases
the heartbeat; arguments
raise the blood pressure:
deep convictions brighten
the eye and harden the jaw.
Our restraint is not na
tural to the human aaimali
23? J
Fear of 'Isolation7 Beginning To Mount
Among French; De Gaulle Remains Aloof
By JOSEPH W. GRIGG
United Press International
Paris-fUPD-The fear of "iso
lation" is beginning to haunt
many Frenchmen.
They are asking whether
President Charles de Gaulle s
go-it-alone policies are nut
leaving France far out on a
limb.
De Gaulle has turned down
the partial nuclear test ban
agreement which was signed
by the United States, Great
Britain and Russia in Moscow
on Monday.
He has rejected bluntly So
viet Premier Nikita Khrush
chev's proposal for an East
West non-aggression pact.
There will be an empty
chair again-France's chair-in
Moscow this week when U.S.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk,
British Foreign Secretary
Lord Home and Soviet For
eign Minister Andrei A.
Gromyko get together to dis
cuss a lot of cold war issues
some of them issues in
which France is vitally inter
ested. The word "isolation" for
De Gaulle's present "include-me-out"
foreign policies was
used by one of the Fourth
Republic's most respected
politicians last week former
Premier Rene Pleven.
Pleven did not take De
Gaulle too sharply to task for
it. In fact, he suggested that
"isolation" might be good tac
tics if you know just when
to come in off your limb. But
his use of the word betrayed
anxiety.
The right wing newspaper
L'Aurore voiced considerably
more concern. It pointed out
that, in addition to boycotting
To Be First Lady,
Get Forgotten
6 Arthur Heppe
By ARTHUR HOPPE
Good morning, friends in
lelevisionland. It's time once
again for another romantic
episode of "The Rocky Road
to Happiness," the heart-tugging
story of Rocky Nelson
and his search for the answer
to that burning question
which concdrns us all: Can a
young-man of 54 find, love?
And still be President?
As we join Rocky today he
is all alone in his romantic
New York penthouse with his
romantic new bride, Hysteri
cal O'Brien. Plus 17 rides,
assorted wall charts, a slide
projector, several IBM com
puters and the Nation's pre
cinct lists.
Aide: It's no good, chief.
It just isn't blowing over the
way we figured. We keep
feeding the data into kahal,
UNIVAC and Dr. Joyce Broth
ers, but it always comes out
the same: Every lady in the
land still wants you. Drawn
and quartered.
J. Harm
it is conventionally impos
ed. But beneath ihe soft
tone and the motionless
arms there often churn
much heat and scorn and
indignation, which smolder
sullenly until bursting into
hate. It it no accident that
the quiet and seemingly
controlled person is often,
ultimately, tha most vio
lent. It is common to see Italians,
or other Latins, argue so in
tensely that you are sure they
are going to exchange blows
in a minute. They rarely do:
the tension is broken by a
laugh, and they walk off arm
in arm. It is a kind of psycho
logical game, played within
strict rules, and the players
almost never violate the un
spoken code, which is: hit
with your words, not with
your fists.
Where this kind of conver
sational release is not ob
tained, and where the culture
frowns on great emotional ex
pressiveness, people are more
sensitive in argument. When
you attack an American's
ideas, he feels you are at
tacking him personally, and
is filled with resentment. He
cannot stand, or understand,
a heated controversy that
may be personal inexprcssion
but is quite abstract and ob
jective in nature.
This may explain why, un-
fortunately, so much of our
social conversation is polite
and vapid; we are afraid of
starting a verbal fight, for
we don t have the kind of !
formalized and built - in con
trols to prevent it from de
generating into a physical
fight. A man who is busy
talking with his hands has
neither the energy nor Ihe
incentive for hitting with
Ihem. d.
the Moscow nuclear pact and
the talks that follow it this
week, De Gaulle still is in
difficulties with his European
Common Market partners by
continuing to veto Britain's
admission.
Now Aurore said, De Gaulle
also faces the prospect that
his great and good friend
West German Chancellor Kon
rad Adenauer and, even more
likely, Adenauer's successor,
Ludwig Erhard, may side
with the United States and
Britain rather than with
France on such issues as nu
clear testing and integrated
defense forces in the North
Atlantic Alliance.
De Gaulle himself has held
his peace in the face of these
expressions of concern
He has withdrawn behind
the tall brick walls of his
country home at Colombey-
les-deux-Eglises for the month
of August, leaving the world
-and his fellow Frenchmen
to speculate where he i
headed.
One thing he did make
clear, however, in his news
conference last week that he
would not sit by and let the
United States and Britain
make a deal with the Soviets
involving the future of Eu
rope, and particularly of Ger
many, without his consent.
He did not specify what he
might do in the event they
attempted such a deal. He
merely warned bluntly that
he would not accept any
deals made over his head.
In fact, it might be just the
threat of such a deal without
him that would bring De
Gaulle out of his diplomatic
isolation.
Rocky (gloomily): Thanks a
thou, fella. If only we could
repeal Ihe 19th Amendment.
Hysterical (pirouetting
across the room and plopping
into Rocky's lap): Oh,, Darling,
tell me our undying love has
not ruined your career.
Rockyi Fella, you're unfor
gettable. Hysterical: Oh, what a beau
tiful .thing to say. '
Rocky: But we're working
on it.
Hysterical: Oh, what can I
do to help salvage your shat
tered life as your new soul
mate? Rocky: Well, first of all,
you could put on your shoes.
And roll down the cuffs of
your jeans. And . . .
Aide: The hairdresser's
here, Chief.
Hysterical: (excitedly): Oh,
a new coiffure! Shall I be an
exotic brunette? Or a sensual
platinum blonde? Or . . .
Rocky: No, actually we've
worked up a brand new shade
for you. It's called "Mousey".
Hysterical: Mousey?
Rocky: Don't worry, fella.
Only our hairdresser will
know. And here's the new
wardrobe we've designed for
you. How do you like this
stunning mouse-grey bomba
zine? Aide (critically): The neck
line's a bit low. Chief. I'm
afraid her Adam's apple may
show.
Rocky: We'll add a lace
ruffle. (To Hysterical) Now
run off, fella, and come back
a all-new woman. Oh, and
here's a keepsake we bought
you at Tjiffany's: gold-rimmed
spectacles.
Hysterical: Oh, Dearest, I
only hope the all-new me will
make you happy. For all I
wish to do in life is stand for
ever by your side.
Rocky: Thanks a thou, fel
la. And speaking of standing
by my side, hcnccfcr'.i, when
you see the photographers
coming, would you kind of
edge back in the crowd? And
maybe duck down as though
you'd dropped something?
(Hysterical vanishes with
the hairdresser and mo
diste while Rocky packs for
his 50-State non-p o I i t i c a 1
speaking and bumper strip
distribution tour. Al last
Hysterical returns, a drasti
cally changed woman )
Rock (absently): Can we
help you there, fella?
Hysterical: Rocky, il is I!
Hysterical.
Rocky: Hysterical w h o?
Now look, fella, let go of my
coattails and stop sobbing.
(To his aides) Toss her out
gently, fellas. She may be
somebody's grandmother.
Will the Public Forget
Rocky's New Bride in Time?
In Time for the New Hamp-
slure Primaries? Tune in to
or very next episode, folks.
Meantime, as you go down
the byways of life, friends,
remember. In back of every
great man in public life
stands a woman who lnvri
him. And usually the farther
backt'ghgg. Qjf
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
c 1963. The
A TROUBLED SENATOR
Between the first step, the
partial test ban, and any
significant second step, there
is a great dif
ference. The
nuclear agree
ment could be
made and in
deed had to
be m a d e be
tween Moscow
and Washing
ton, the only
two full
fledged nu
in the world.
LlppmanB
clear powers
But any significant second
step is bound to deal with
some concrete issues which
affect immediately and direct
ly other countries, none of
them as yet at least genuine
nuclear powers, but most of
them, particularly France and
West Germany, having great
political power.
Mr. Harriman and Mr.
Khrushchev could negotiate
a nuclear test ban, and neith
er China nor France could
interpose a veto. But when
Mr. Rusk and Lord Home deal
with second steps-be it a non
aggression pact, Berlin, se
curity arrangements in Cen
tral Europe-they can go no
further than the French and
West Germans will allow
them to go. By the same
token, Mr. Khrushchev can
do little about Laos, Viet
Nam, Korea or India, because
in Eastern Asia it is Red
China and not the Soviet
Union which is the dominant
power.
IT MAY BE, therefore, that
the most useful thing that
could be done in this Moscow
conference of foreign minis
ters would be to seek a
thorough mutual understand
ing of the problem of agree
ments which include the two
coalitions. The fact of the
matter is that the United
States and Great Britain -that
is to say "the Anglo-Saxons"-can
make no deci
sions for the European conti
nent and that the Soviet
Union can make none for
Eastern Asia.
In regard to the treaty
which was signed Monday,
there are clearly visible op
ponents, Ihi Red Chines e;
there are visible the abstain
ers, n o t a b ly General De
Gaulle; and there is an Amer
ican group, its size as yet un
defined, which hates to vote
for the treaty and would
much rather, if it could, vote
against it.
- The Chinese are fiercely op
posed to any Soviet agreement
with the United States. They
hate especially the test ban
which goes a long way toward
eliminating nuclear weapons
in the cold war.
The Gaullist line, on the
other hand, is very different
from that of the Chinese. The
general does not object to an
agreement with the Soviet
Union. On the contrary, he
looks forward to one. His
point is that the agreement
should not be negotiated by
the Anglo-Saxons with Mos
cow, but, when France is suf
ficiently armed, by France
plus West Germany.
rpHE FEELINGS of the
American dissenters are
more akin to Ihe Chinese op
position than lo the French
position.
At bottom, the American
dissenters do not like, they
instinctively distrust, they
very much fear anything that
can be agreed to between the
Communist empire and the
Western alliance. To ask them
to forget the atrocities and
the deceptions of the cold war
seems to them unrealistic, soft
and dangerous. For them,
even the faintest glimmer of
peace is to talk of peace much
too soon. It is like asking the
French in 1945 to embrace the
"Fallout from testing doesn't
against the test ban treaty,
year c$i!ll usl"
m fs lis
llppminn
Washington Post
Germans, or the German
refugees from East Prussia to
forgive the invading Russians,
or the Russians to trust Hit
ler's generals in the West
German army, or the Arabs
and the Israelis to sign a
peace treaty.
In this connection, there i
Sen. Henry M. Jackson's arti
cle in the New York Times
on Sunday. The senator :s
one who expects, so he seefns
to say, to vote for the treajy.
But he hates to do it and' is
waiting for something to turn
up in the hearings and tha
debate which will enattla
him to vote against the treaty.
In the meantime, he is trou
bled by "seven assumptions"
which he thinks are false and
may be misleading us.
.
AN IMPORTANT fact about
the seven misleading -as-sumptions
is that none -c!
them was made by the admin
istration in negotiating tha
test ban treaty on which tha
senator will now have to vota
for or against. The senator's
seven assumptions are drawn
not from the deliberations 'of
the administration, but aro
out of the more naive letters
which come to him in his mail
and by the popular talk which
he hears around him.
Thus, (1) the United Slafes
did not agree lo a partial test
ban because it is assuming;
"that the Chinese-Soviet quar
rel reduces the Communist
threat to the West." Although
it is quite true that the quarrel
does reduce the power of inter
national Communism, that is
not the reason we agreed t6 a
treaty which is based on So
viet acceptance of a proposal
first made by President Eisen
hower and then repeated by
President Kennedy.
It is not true that the Ken
nedy administration negotiat
ed the treaty because (2) it
assumed that "we can win
our way with Russians with
a policy of inoffensivencss."
While our policy should cer
tainly not be "offensive," tftat
has nothing lo do with the test
ban treaty. '
As for the third misleading"
assumption (3) "that the arfns
race is leading s I r a i g h 'lo
catastrophe," the test ben
treaty does not pretend to eiid
the arms race. r.
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rpHEN, (4), "a test ban will
halt the spread of nuclear
weapons." This is not an s-
sumption of the treaty. lr-is
a hope which it is perniis-
sible to have and lo work fpr.
next, to; "a test ban agree
ment will necessarily (empha
sis mine) lead to growing El
Wcst confidence and redurjbd
tensions." I have heard of no
body from the President down
who has used the word "necps-
saruy or wno dares to tnuiK
that anything good will hap
pen necessarily. j
The next one (6) has to io
with the use of conventional
weapons in the Cuban shojiv
down last year. II has nothftif;
whatever to do with the test
ban treaty. 'J
Finally, Senator JacksorF is
deeply troubled because 4ia
has heard people say (7) lljat
our national policies shouldjie
more "flexible." The senator
is, however, willing to be "5e
silienl." But he docs not y
whether in the test ban treaty
we have been flexible or Je
silicnt. I would have supposed
we had been resilient in that
we are not banning nuclelar
tests which cannot be af
fectively inspected. That is
what we have been talking
about from the beginning, i
OINCE ANYONE who knqy s
Senator Jackson w o uy d
like to respect him, he should
try again to make up his mind.
He now owes us another arti
cle addressed not to a colRc
lion of naive assumptions, out
to the particular treaty which
is now going to the' Uniffed
States Senate. v
bather me. but if via vote-'
the political fallout next
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