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They Say He Has an Enormous Herd in America" t EDITORIAL PAGE LA GRANDE OBSERVER Friday, December 18, 1959 "Without or with Mend or foe, we print your daily world u it goes" Byron. RILEY ALLEN, publisher ' Grady PannelL managing editor George Challis, advertising director Tom Humes, circulation manager It's A Woman's World " Watch out, they're organizing the women. In a letter to lulxif councils in the state, William Schnitzler, AFL-CIO na tional secretary-treasurer, has announced , that' a full-time staff member will be assigned to work with AFL-CIO auxili aries throughout the nation to build up a "grassroots army of women" who will back up policies and programs of the AFL-CIO. The auxiliaries are an important arm of the trade union movement but most labor auxiliaries have been concerned with minor duties since World War II. In-the Washington State Labor News this development hinged on the fact that prosperity and a larger or less formal labor movement changed the or iginal role of the auxiliaries. Quite frankly, the auxiliaries have found themselves with little or nothing to do in recent years. -. At the convention of AFL-CIO auxili aries in San Francisco changes were made in the by-laws and resolutions were adopted in an effort to get the auxili aries assistance in implementing the work of the union organization. ' Next thing you know women will be running the unions. Might be a good idea, too. Taft Blamed Press For His Defeat Senator Robert A. Taft left a strange thing among his papers. It was an anal ysis of the 1952 presidential campaign when he lost the Republican nomination to Dwight Eisenhower. In this analysis he says that Eisenhower won out be cause four-fifths of the nation's press supported the general and because New York's financial interests favored Eisen hower over Taft. This is one of the few times in the last 25 years that newspapers have been given credit for having much, if any, political influence. Franklin D. Roose velt, who was eelcted four times, pro bably had less support from newspapers than any previous president. I lis re peated successes in the face of news paper opposition led politicians to. speak scornfully of the role newspapers play in American politics. Taft probably is right about the part the press played in bringing about Eis enhower's nomination and subsequent election. Taft was not the right man to be president. Newspapers said so over and over. Especially he was not the right man to be president in a year when Dwight Eisenhower was available. As it turns out, Taft would have been a president who died in office and there is no way of knowing now who would be president instead. This Taft analysis is brought to light now partly because another close battle seems to be shaping up for the Republi can nomination in 1960. Vice President Nixon unquestionably is in the lead. But suppose the press should get behind Governor Rockefeller the same way it was behind Eisenhower in 1952? Would that, plus the financial backing that cer tainly would be behind a Rockefeller, be enough to win him the nomination? That makes an interesting political ques tion, but that's about all. Nixon has newspaper support that Taft never had. He is not likely to lose much of it no matter how glamorous a candidate Nel son Rockefeller turns out to be. Cecil Edwards Has Raised Rumpus Cecil Edwards, secretary of the Ore gon Cattlemen's Association, raised a rumpus around the state with a recent editorial in the Oregon Cattleman, as sociation magazine. Edwards criticized the lied Had Day promotion of various agencies and out door groups. The program, he said, may uctually be working in reverse. . Red Hat Days were founded to pro mote better relations between landown ers and sportsmen, with a parallel motive of improving hunter conduct and cut ting down on property damage. "Perhaps we could suggeest that by exciting desire and furnishing a fashion able incentive to the man on the street, this program has impelled a large num ber of otherwise disinterested persons to take to the field," Edward said. There is no other explanation for the increasing number of novice and inexperienced hunters, he feels. Well, there is another explanation. That is the increasing amount of lei sure time available to almost everyone. Coupled with a steadily increasing stan diud of living, which frees money for various non-essential pursuits, outdoor sports have experienced a bopm in re cent years. " . The boom has brought its problems. ' Foremost among these is the hunter who feels that a high-powered rifle and a bottle are the only two necessary in gredients for a deer-hunting trip. , Drains, too, would be a help, but are often left behind. It's hard to assess the value of the Red Hat Day program. Damage might have been even worse had no such program been in existence. Only two things are certain. Damage Continues to occur. And unless some method of control or of assigning finan cial responsibility is found, more and more land will be closed to hunters and fishermen. DREW PEARSON SAYS: Ike Now Able To Evaluate Talks With Heads Of State EN ROUTE For the first time since his hectic, historic trip be gan. President Eisenhower will hive the opportunity to look back from the relaxing vantage point ot the U.S.S. Des Moines and evalute his various conversations with world leaders. In general he can make two im portant conclusions: (1) the presi dents, prime ministers and po tentates he has seen and talked with are split five to three re garding the vital question of whether there will be a relaxa tion of the cold war. The ma' jority Sengni of Italy, Bayar of Turkey, Ayub of Pakistan, the shah of Iran, Premier Caramanlis of Greece are worried over Ike's conciliatory talks with Russia's Premier Khrushchev. The min ority Gronchi of Italy, Nehru of India, and the king of Afghani stan want a continuation of the talks and concentrated efforts to ward world peace. Of course the worry of these leaders whose borders , are cheek by jowl with Russia is Influenc ed in part by a desire for con tinued American aid and continu ed support for American military bases on their soil. This leads to the second general conclusion Eisenhower must make as a re sult of his trip to date: the in tercontinental ballistic missile makes many of these bases almost as out of date as were slingshot armies after the development of the bow and arrow. . The little country of Afghanistan illustrates this point. When Ghengis Kahn conquered Afghanistan, he had developed the laminated bow which shot much farther than the old English bow. As a result he used a small army to swoop down from Afghanistan and con quer all Asia. Russia Far Ahead Today, Russia has successfully tested at least 12 ICBM's. We, according to ex-secretary of de fense Neil McElroy, are far be hind and have no plans for catch ing up, which means Moscow is now in a position similar to thaU of Ghengis Kahn with a new mis sile arsenal which can sail right over the U. S. bases in Turkey, Spain, Morocco, West Germany and Pakistan. That, partly, is why these countries are so wor-l ried over relaxing of tensions for they see their importance, and U. S. aid which comes in ratio to their importance, diminished. .. i There are three other factors;1 however, which Eisenhower must consider. They are: (1) aren't some of these bases necessary purely as retaliatory insurance to prevent war? The United States now has 450 bases scattered around the world. Many are quite insignificant but others, such as those at Thule in Greenland and at Sidi Slimane in Morocco arc bristling with nuclear bomb ear ners. Their chief value is to warn Moscow that its use of an ICBM would bring instant retaliation. At Pearl Harbor the Japanese tried to destroy U. S. naval strik ing power. They failed because they hit only one base. The rea son for U.S. ramification of bases is to keep our striking power, scattered so all of them cannot, be knocked out at one time. This, is purely insurance against war J (2) Would the talks between Khrushchev and Eisenhower ev entually permit dismantling of these bases? The answer for the time being is no. They must be kept as insurance. Better Use for Money (3) Aren't we wasting a lot of money sending arms, plus money. to maintain small military cs- U'blishmens when these funds could better go into tractors, road building machinery, dams and irrigation projects? To illustrate. we have sent jet fighters to Pakistan thereby causing great resentment in India which fears Pakistan may v use them to take over the disputed territory of Kashmir. Indian reseme mentn Kashmir. Indian resentment flared to fever pitich when two American jets, piloted by Pakistani, shot down an Indian transport plane. The Pakistani army and air forco would be valueless against Rus sian missiles, and the equivalent ol funds expended there could be used to alleviate near starvation Another illustration: In Af ghanistan Russia is supplying MKM7s and Aleutian bombers to Afghanistan') air force. The reason for this is the number of '. S. fighter planes we have sup plied Pakistan. The two countries are carrying on a bitter dispute over Baluchistan, so the Afghans turned to Russia for planes to counterbalance the American planes supplied to Pakistan. Here is a situation where Khrushchev and Eisenhower might make a concrete beginning toward a bet ter understanding by agreeing that neither would supply arms to rival countries. . In Afghanistan also King Zahir told me that the educational work done by Columbia and Wyo ming universities is creating a more lasting friendship than Russia's military contribution. What President Eisenhower has to make up his mind about, tht-refore, are the following: He took this trip to assure our allies bordering on Russia regard ing his peace talks with Khrush chev. Did the trip result in their persuading him to abandon his peace efforts with Khrushchev? If not, will we proceed to con centrate on certain big bases as war insurance, and convert the money put into small bases and miscellaneous irritating military am into more solid economic aid for our friends? Those are the problems Eisen hower must consider as he nears the end of the most interesting irip ever taken abroad by a pres ident of the United States. TO DISSOLVE CHAMBER RANGOON. Burma (UPI President U Win Maune an nounced Tuesday the Chamber of Deputies will be officially dis solved on Dec. 19, opening the way ior general elections next February. Gen. U Win took over the reins of government in Oct. 1958. REMEMBER WHEN ... 25 years ago, I'nion County teachers were selected to represent this area at a state wide teachers meeting in Port land. C hosen as delegates and al ternates here were Cecil Posey. J. W'. Leonhardt. Arthur E. Wriuht. La Grande; Kdwurth J Gleason, Milton Boring. I'nion. Alternates: Miss Aslrid bcrtidalil and Kenneth La Violette, Cove: Miss Vivian Johnston and Mis Janice Aikina, Imbler, and Mel- vin Parker, Elgin. 1 In Berlin, rumors that the ris ing German dictator Miller bad been shot by a girlfriend were hotly denied by the riht wing government. A school census throughout Union County revealed more hoys than girls, 101 to be exact, a re versal of the national average. THREE BAT FATALITIES CEN'EVA iLTIi Bats were responsible for three of the 11 fulal cases of rabies in the Unit ed Stales in the past two years, the World Health Organization re;orted Thursday. v Press International, Sunday morning. will be held VANGUARD RADIO DIES WASHINGTON il'PIi Radio transmitters in the Vanguard 111 satellite died last Friday ufter functioning for 85 days, it was announced Wednesday. The satel lite, launched Sept. 18 as the last in the Vanguard series, is ex-, pected to continue in orbit for as long as 40 years. ... 15 years ago, Sgt. Curtis E. Roper, 20. Summerville, was awarded the Air Medal while stationed with an Army Air Force unit in England. He served as a bomber turret gunner. The son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Roper, he was a graduate of Imbler Ilijjh Schoul. America was making huge gains in the Pacific fighting around Mindora, and Tokyo fear ed that U.S. bombers were get ting ready to strike at Luzon. In Europe, strong German forces had broken through all along the Ar dennes Forrest and reports by U. S. Army hadquarters were tense and terse. The Ladies Aid club of Island City met at the home of Mrs. Renwick Clark for their Christ mas party. La Grande High Tig ers were dumped the second time in succession by Pendleton, 44-26. OBITS BIRMINGHAM. - Ala. l'PI Matt H. Murphy, 74, one of the founders of the American Legion and a former assistant slate at torney general, died Thursday. Murphy helped form the Legion in France after World War I. DOBBS FERRY. N Y. UPI George Drumm, 85, a violinist, composer and arranger, died Wednesday at Dobbs Ferry Hos pital. Drumm of Irvington, N.Y., was a solo violinist with orches tras at 14. NEW YORK (UF'Ii Services for Joseph L. 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