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ELECTION POST-MORTEM
By Charles
It is very interesting and mdst confusing to read
the post-mortem of the Republican presidential nominating
convention as conducted by various newspaper columnists.
No two commentators agree. Each appears to have a
different interpretation. Opinions are widely divergent.
Rionknwpr. neeni-dinir to one commentator, is as near
the ideal candidate as it would
another holds that he is totally incompetent ana ine wcbk
est candidate the Republicans could offer.
Convention strategy comes in for much comment. On
one fact the commentators seem to be in agreement the
Taft forces made many blunders. Of course, commentators
who favored Taft say the Senator's advisors fell into trans
laid for them by the Eisenhower crowd. It is generally
agreed, however, among the many commentators, that the
Taft steamroller was steered wide of the mark ; that its mis
direction was extremely damaging to Taft's campaign.
This is an odd situation, inasmuch as Taft's advisors and
supporters included the Veteran Old Guard, supposedly the
most highly qualified and experienced leadership in political
strategy. Eisenhower's campaign, presumably, was directed
by political amateurs. Another oddity is the fact that there
apparently was considerable dissension, jealousy and fric
tion within the Eisenhower camp, with each of the principal
advisors trying to be the head man. Yet this strife-ridden
camp came up with a stunning upset.
Vice-Presidency Questioned
Even more controversial among the issues discussed by
the commentators is the nomination for vice-president.
Some say the choice of Senator Nixon was most unfortunate
and that he will be a millstone around Ike's neck. Others
hold that the brilliant young politician from California, with
his demonstrated campaigning ability, will be a great help
to the general, who is totally inexperienced as a campaigner.
One element we have not seen mentioned by the com
mentators in connection with this matter is the effect upon
the issue of Communism. i
Communists are afraid of Ike". The torrent of abusive
propaganda poured against him by Communist-front organ
izations before and during the Republican convention fur
nished proof that the Reds want anyone but Ike. Nomina
tion of Senator Nixon, who drew nationwide attention by
ferreting out Communist infiltratin into high government
places, is doubly frustrating to the Reds.
Because General Eisenhower has been dealing with the
Communist threat in Europe and has built the defensive wall
against infiltration in that part of the world, the Reds know
that he will be a stern enemy if elected. They will not be
able to push him around readily. He plainly is not a be
liever in appeasement.
Where Eisenhower knows how to deal with Communism
on the international level, Nixon has exhibited ability to
clean the subversive elements out of the domestic govern
ment.. The two men form a strong anti-Communist team.
We can be very certain that they will be targets of most
vicious Red-sponsored propaganda from now until election
time.
Party Status Reviewed
Another subject commentators are batting around with
. thousands of words is the status of the Republican party.
Has the party developed a permanent rift? Will the group
winning the nomination be able to rotain permanent control?
Will the standpat faction sit on its hands during the coming
campaign? Will a totally new party develop from existing
confusion? Will this new party, if it should materialize, pro
vide a home for many of the nation's millions of independent
voters? These are some of the questions commentators are
asking and attempting to answer. There are as many an
swers as there are writers.
One interesting observation, which appears to us to con
tain much food for thought,
victory in the convention is
Roosevelt's Bull Moose party of 1912; that the same pro
, gressive element has been steadily growing, despite resist
ance from the Old Guard, It has won each nomination since
1940 but has failed in each election. '
This year it apparently has its best chance for victory
If it achieves that victory with Eisenhower and Nixon, it
should be able to take over
machinery. On the other hand, another defeat might result
in the Old Guard tightening its hold. For that reason, there
remains a question as to how much assistance the standpat
faction will give the G.O.P. candidates.
When you are doing the dishes,
the family mending, or driving
from here to (here, do you like
to follow a train of thought sug
gested by some book that has
opened mental doors to yuu that
can never be closed again, and
maybe correlate things lying tuck
ed away in one's mental piece
bag, as the qullt pieeer selects
and fits together scraps 'til sli"
has a pattern? A pattern satis
factory to her at any rate.
Well, 1 was profoundly stirred
by K0N-T1KI and '.lien, so soon
after, by the "Sea Around I s,"
and I fumbled around in my tucked
away thoughts about the sea. . .It
occurred to me to trace the two
books through the "Readers'
Choice of Best Books" (which pro
bably you sec each month .it the
library) for the past yar and
note how the two books held their
place in the lists compiled
monthly by reports from twenty
four libraries: 23 American, in
cluding Portland, Oregon, and one
Canadian Toronto. And I wonder-
Ore Wed,, July 16, 1952 j
V. Stanton
be possible to obtain. But
is that the faction which won
the lineal descendant of Teddy
control of the party s central
fvUNDIHG
BASKET
i ed why. Then I remembered
a passage in The Sea Around Us,
which I'll quote in a minute.
In the September, 1;IM issue
there is a modest little paragraph
I about a book by Itaehel Carson
(Oxford, 1051) with a six line sum-
mary of "The Sea Around Cs."
, Hut in October, what do we .see?
The new book is in a place be
low "KON TIKI'' which had held
first place for five months and
now had dropped down to thud.
The following month word must
have got around! we find "The
Sea Around Us" in first place.
And there it has stayed ever since,
including the current issue. K.ight
months. Why do you suppose a
book about the sea, written by a
scientist, a biologist who never
had an idea in the world of writ
ing a best seller, should have
such a phenomenal oVmand? And
why did "Kon Tiki" get such a grip
on all who rp.net it1 i lu, th ,v.,,-
my neighbor, Donna Kydell, when
she was in Oslo, saw that raft,
and was as thrilled by it as any-
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Fulton Lewis Jr.
. CHICAGO President Truman's declaration that the
Democratic convention here next week will be "open" is prob
ably the saddest news Senator
since he started his uphill fight
So - called "open Democratic
conventions have never been open
to anything but wide-scale polit
ical Dargaming Between political
bosses, with little or no regard
for the wishes of party voters.
Kefauver, during his midsum
mer night's dreaming about a
four-year stay in the While House,
has constantly deplored the bitter
preconvention wrangling of Re
publican contenders while trying
to stir up a light of his own with
Democratic parly bosses. The
bosses have largely ignored him,
and that is what hurts.
The Tennessee senator can't be
a knight in shining armor when
there is nobody to joust with. He
has ridden public revulsion to or
ganized crime for all it is worth.
Now he needs a new political drag
on. His hopes were high that the
political bosses would provide it.
He expected his candidacy to
frighten them into sordid political
retaliation. But the bosses have
declared it "no contest."
Kefauver has learned exactly
what Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
had to learn when the General
got back from Paris. That is. that
it's convention delegates, not the
voters, who count in pre conven
tion battling. The senator was a
road show star on television and
in his whistle stop campaigns for
public attention and delegates. In
Chicago he will be fucky to obtain
billing alongside the jugglers.
, Democratic political bosses pur
sued the only course open to them
insofar as Kefauver is concerned.
To have attacked his candidacy
publicly would have been political
recignition I hat they feel the sen
ator has not earned. In disrepute
themselves, the bosses wisely de
cided that a blast at Kefauver
would also be tantamount to advo
cating crime since the senator has
a reputation of distaste fur it. By
the same token, an indorsement
of Kefauver would scare away a
lot of fat political contributions
from dubious sources that have,
down through the New and Fair
Deal years, been placed tinder the
right table at the right time.
There has been some mild
sniping at the Tennessee senator,
but the heal was never reallv turn
ed on. In California, a wandering I OLYMPIA W The Stale Sit
band of bureaucrats. ' dispatched 'lreme Court Monday u iheld lhe
by President Truman. pA.-i.ed a new anti-subversn e oath required
few unkind remarks about Kc- of all candidates for public office,
fauver, but nobody really got : In an unanimous decision, the
warmed up lo his work. Mr. Tin-; high court said "such a remiire
man himself has been gun-shy i ment. . .imposes no additional
ever since the Tennessee senator nualitication tinon the olaintiffs as
snen.icKea mm in tne New Hamp
shire primary. The political bosses
informed the President that Ke
fauver could lako him hands down
in a popularity contest in all 48
states. In addition, White House
thing she saw in her European
trip!)
Now I'll quote a few words from
Rachel Carson's pen in which she
soeuks of the individual (material)
life "beginning in a miniature
I ocean." and on page 15 ot the
"Sea Around Us:" (Do read that
page, and then see if you can
lay the book down')
"Man. . .could not physically
reenler the ocean as the seals
and the whales have done. But
over the centuries, with all the
skill and ingenuity and reasoning
power of his mind, he has sought
to explore and investigate even its
remote parts, so that he might
reenter it mentally and Imaginatively."
Many a Slip
Estes Kefauver has heard
for the nomination.
and big machine politicians
knew too that Kefauver was
only popular in places where he
isn't well known. His homeland,
the South, wouldn't have him on
a gold platter?
Democratic basses, controlling
most of the big delegate state;;,
have turned convention switches
for the presidential nomination on
and off with huge success for the
past half dozen democratic con
ventions. The boys in the oack
room applied the same artistry
to selecting a vice president. It
was Henry Wallace for vice presi
dent in 1940 by acclamation on the
first ballot; Harry Truman in 1944
by 1031 votes on the second roll
call: Alben W. Barkley by accla
mation on the first roll call in
1948.
With the same bosses running
the show this time, it is doubtful
that Kefauver is even being con
sidered for second place, let alone
first. The senator, of course, has
denied second place ambitions,
but so do almost all other conven
tion hopefuls until the gate is
slammed shut on first place.
Barring the nomination of Gov.
Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, the
Democratic bosses will be looking
for a candidate who will function
as a front man for the party for
the next four years, assuming
they anticipate defeat in Novem
ber. Naturally, they want a lead
er with class and political acu
mentheir own brand. Any way
you look at it, Kefauver doesn't
fit the bin. The boys in the back
room decided this long before the
Senator from Tennessee got his
road show rolling toward the White
House.
Hear Fultoti Lewis Daily
On KRNR, 9:15 PJIL
Anti-Subversive
Candidate's Oath
Law Sustained
candidates for office in this state."
The oath, provided for in a law
passed by the IWl legislature, was
challenged by Thomas C. Rabbit
and five other members of the
Progressive parly.
They sajd the- intended to be
candidates for o." 'e in the Novem
ber general election.
The portion of the law culling
for the anti-subversive oaths was
declared unconstitutional last
month by Thurston County Super
ior Judge Charles T. Wright.
His decision was reversed Mon
day by the nine supreme court
jurists.
The opinion, wri.len by Judge
Robert C. Finlev said:
"Such an oath in connection witlr
the proposed declarations of candi
dacy of plaintiffs would not in
fringe upon any of their stoutly
claimed constitutional rights which
meticulously observed, guarded,
in any event, we believe have been
and protected by our decision in
this case."
In the Day's News
(Continued from Page One)
SENCE of what wise and tolerant
and enlightened people term
LIBERALISM a word that has
been badly misused by politicians
in recent decades.
I was reading Churchill's state
ment to the commons on the tele
type this morning and one of the
boys in our radio room was looking
over my shoulder.
"What Churchill means," he re
marked, "is that if you let the
cranks talk enought they'll defeat
themselves."
I thought he put it pretty well.
I'd like to add that in our pol
itics today we have too much of
the spirit of YOU'RE A LIAR and
too little of the tolerant spirit ot
Winston Churchill and 'Voltaire
(whose real name, by the way,
was Francios Marie Arouet: Vol
taire was merely his pen name.)
That brings us back lo politics
which, with the two big party
conventions held in this month, is,
I suppose, inevitable.
We've been hearins and reading
a lot in the past few days about
the slick 'strategy' that won for
Ike at Chicago. It leaves me cold.
Here's what won for Ike:
Millions of people have FAITH
in him as the kind of man they
want for their leader. The Republi
can delegates at Chicago were in
the main JUST PEOPLE. A rte
cisive majority of them shared this
FAITH in Ike.
So, when the time came, they
voted their convictions and their
faith and Ike won the nomination.
That's the long and the short
of it.
The professional politicians like
to make us think politics is a com
plicated, intricate, highly skilled
trade that only they understand. If
they ever let us get the idea that
politics, in its truest sense, is sim
ply the INSTINCT of the people
for better leadership and sounder
government, they'll be sunk.
They know it, ani so they give
us all this double talk about the
"strategy" they provide for us.
I'd like to make a radical state
ment here:
In these days of radio, television,
ably edited and well-written maga
lines and increasing numbers
of OBJECTIVE, UNPREJUDICED
newspapers that are more intent
on bringing their readers an ac
curate picture ot what is going on
and why than in winning elections,
the professional politician who
makes a living by "handling" the
people is becoming about as out
of date as a dinosaur.
I hope Ike doesn't get impressed
by all this professional patter about
political "strategy." I hope he par
ries the loaded trick questions that
will be addressed to him as skil
fully as he parried enemy offens
ives in the ETO and gives simple,
honest answers to all the simple,
honest questions put to him by
simple, honest people w ho want to
know.
If he'll just BE HIMSELF from
here on out, he'll find on the fourth
day of next November that he has
done pretty well.
If you want an example of how
that works, take a look at Winston
Churchill. All his life, he has BEEN
HIMSELF. Never has he been any
thing but just Winston Churchill.
As a result, he is probably the
most TRUSTED leader on earth
today.
NO AGREEMENT YET
PITTSBURGH I New steel
strike peace talks ended Tuesday
with industry and the CIO I'nited
Steelworkers in disagreement but
standing by for further word from
tha White House.
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SERVICES
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ER1CK BIRGER OLSON, above
seamon apprentice, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Olof Olson of 814
Thompson St., wds recently on
leave here. He-enlisted in the
Navy lost March and has just
completed recruit training at
San Diego. He is attending
construction battalion school
for utilities men ot Port Hene
ume, Calif. (Photo by Miller
Moderne)
ENLISTS IN MARINES
Charles Willard Walk, 18, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert N. Walk
of Azalea, has enlisted in the Ma
rines for a four-year period, ac
cording to Marine Recruiter
James Larrieu.
Walk is a 1952 graduate of
Glendale High School. He is re
ceiving basic training at the Ma
rine Corps Recruit Depot, San Di
ego. ENLISTS IN NAVY
Steven James Matthews, 17,
son of the Rev. and Mrs. Charles
A. Matthews of Riddle, has enlist
ed in the Navy, Recruiter A. L.
DeMott reports.
Matthews attended high school
In Roseburg in 1951 and before
enlisting was employed by the
Round Prairie Lumber Co..
Eugene Couple Buys
Winston Model Market j
By MRS. GEORGE BACHER '
The Model Market in Winston
has been purchased by Mr. and I
Mrs. E. H. Sauder. ;
The new owners, former resi-1
dents of Eugene, took possession
of the business on Monday. ;
News Brief
Mrs. Lee Altendorf spent the;
weekend visiting her sister, ,Mrs.
Alex L i 1 j a of Bend. Mrs.
Altendorf is proprietor of Etta's
Beauty Salon in Winston.
E. C. Owens of Portland has
been spending the last few days i
with his brother-in-law and sister, i
Mr. and Mrs. J. Kearby Mas-1
ters and his brother, Alton Owens, i
and family of Dillard.
Enjoying a coastal vacation at
Dean's near Yachats are Mr.
and Mrs. Dick DeBernardi of Rose
and Mrs. Ivan Brosi and daugh
ter, Yvonne of Winston, and Mr.
and Mrs. Dick Dcbernardi of Rose
burg. Civil Defense
Funds 'Low' Hit
WASHINGTON iH Millard
Caldwell said Monday civil defense
funds voted "by a shocked and
aroused Congress" after bombs
fall would be useless and bitterly
criticized lawmakers for not pro
viding money now.
The statement by the civil de
fense administrator was another
of a series of his blasts at Con
gress for Voting only 43 million
dollars for a civil defense program
for fiscal 1953. A total of 600 mil
lion had been requested.
"By its action, the Congress has
put the civil defense issue square
; ly up to the states, the cities and
lhe people who must bear almost
'he entire cost and responsibility
for bringing civil defense into be
ing." he said.
He said Congress for the third
time has ignored repeated warn
ings that the civil defense program
is inadequate. , Congress has
slashed requested funds for the
past three years in a row.
Highway Board Post
Given Defeated D.A.
OREGON CITY i.fi Clackamas
County District Attorney Leonard
I. Lindas, defeated in May for the
Republican nomination for attor
ney general, has resigned.
He will become trial counsel for
the State Highway Commission's
legal department.
Winston Bradshaw. chief deputy,
has been recommended to Gov.
McKay as Lindas' successor.
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Sutherlin Grange
To Hold Potluck
Sutherlin Grange met last
Wednesday evening at the Grange
Hall west of town for a regular
meeting with Charles Wahl, Mas
ter, presiding. Several officers
were absent. The next meeting
of the Grange Svill be a potluck
dinner at 7 o'clock on July 24,
with Mrs. Vivian Nieoson as chair
man. Others of the committee
will be announced later.
Mrs. Buck reported on the ban
quet that was given for the Lions
Club and the Lady Lions and
stated that everything went off
nicely. She also announced that
the next Home Economic! meeting
would be held at the home of Mrs.
Floyd Bringle.
At the close of the evening the
hostesses, Mr. and Mrs. Francis
Todd and Mrs. Ellen Liesinger,
served doughnuts and coffee to
the following: Mr. and Mrs. Wil
son Swift, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Wahl, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Parker,
Mr. and Mrs. Orville French, Mr.
and Mrs. Ted Buck, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Nicolazzi, Mr. and
Mrs. Leslie Gleason, Mr. and Mrs.
Icel Clark and Mrs. Anette Wil
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DUNSMUIR, Calif, m An
amateur mountain climber lost his
footing and plunged down almost
a mile of 14,165 foot, snow-blannet-ed
Mt. Shasta Monday.
Dan O'Neill, 34, said he used
swimming tactics to save his
life:
"I kept my head, used my toes
as brakes and steered between
rocks with my arms."
His companion and fellow rail
way postal clerk at Oakland, Calif.,
Carl Miller said Dan's foot
slipped on a slick rock and:
"He was gone. All there was
was a cloud of snow. I never
thought I'd see him alive again."
O'Neill got off with snow burns
and huge bruises.
He still plans to climb Shasta
before his vacation ends.
Randojph S locum
and
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