Matter of Fact
By Joseph and Stewart Alsop
Jotph Alsop
licans fumbled
Stewart Alsop
THE "PEACE ISSUE"
Washington In retrospect,
it is clear that the Republicans
fumbled the ball at the very be
ginning of this
campa.ign.
Now, as the
campaign
ends, it begins
to -seem pos
sible that the
R e p u b licans
will recover
the ball but
in a highly
danger ous
way.
The Repub
when, needled
by such Democrats as Sen. Paul
Douelas of Illinois, they de
nounced all talk of economic
trouble as "gloom and doom,"
and loudly proclaimed that
everything was just Tim dandy
on tne eco
non.c front.
This gave the
Demo c ra.ts
precisely the
o p p o r t unity
they were
looking for.
In a way, of
course, Repub
lican boasts of
prosperity
were justified.
Most of the
important economic indices
national income, total employ
ment, and so on remain at
boom time levels. But the fact
t also remains that everything is
not just Jim Dandy. .
Very large voting groups have
been hurt at least to some de
gree. There may be only 3,000,
000 unemployed at the moment,
for example. But estimates of
the number who have suffered
periods of unemployment this
year run as high as 12,000,000.
And the number of people who
have been worried at one time
or another about being unem
ployed this year must run much
higher than that.
Or take the farmers. Farm
politics precisely illustrates the
spotty but nevertheless very
great influence of the pocket
book issue in this election. If
there is a universal farm revolt
under way against this Admin
istration, it is not detectable to
the human eye. The Benson farm
program is not even really a
dominant issue except in the
dairy areas and some of the
wheat, states, where price cuts
plainly marked "courtesy of
Benson" have been taken by the
farmers.
But in general, where the !
farmers have been hurt, even
by such impersonal causes as
drought, they are angry, and
they are included to take their
anger out on the Administration.
Conversely, where they have
done well as in the corn and
hog areas of, say, Iowa or Illin
ois a majority of the farmers
are pleased with themselves and
with the Administration.
TUT the point is that there
" have been enough wounded
pocketbook nerves in the coun
try to give the Democrats much
their best issue and the Re
publicans obligingly made 'the
issue better by pretending at
ifirst, that it did not exist.
The other Democratic issues
the "give away" of natural re
sources, the "rich man's tax bill,"
and all the rest simply fed and
sustained the main, central eco;
nomic issue. And the ineptness
of the Republican response made
it especially easy for the Demo
crats to claim that they were
the "party of economic progress
and security" and to picture the
Republicans as the "party of
economic privilege."
As the campaign has progres
sed, the Republicans have des
perately searched for an issue
;with which to counteract the
democrats' largely pnony "eco
jnomic issue." At first, the Re
ipublicans thought that the Presi
dent's coattails would carry
;them home. Some Democrats
thought so too, and tried to
scramble aboard. But the old
rule that a President cannot
transfer his popularity effective
ly to local candidates has held
good.
Then, particularly after the
New York poll which scared the
daylights out of the Republi
can high command, some Repub
lican orators conspicuously
Vice-President Richard Nixon
tried to revive "the Communist
issue." It had new trimmings,
especially the disingenuous "se
curity risk firings" gimmick. But
McCarthy is discredited, and the
issue is old and tired.
NOW, the the campaign draws
near to its close, the Republi
cans have at last found their
issue. It is the "peace issue." It
was a natural Republican re
sponse to answer the Democratic
cries of "special privilege" by
calling the Democrats "the war
party." It was no doubt natural
to go further, and to indulge in
such oratorical flights as "the
blood of 140,000 American boys
on every Democratic dollar."
But now the Republicans are
going further still. Innumerable
campaign orators, including fig
ures high in the Administration,
are coming precious close to
"peace in our time." There is
not much doubt that this is a
politically effective promise.
These reporters have been con
ducting a long distance telephone
poll of a number of states, and
in almost every case they have
been told that the Republicans
have been moving up in the last
few days. The explanation of
fered is almost always the same
"the peace issue is beginning
to take hold." But although it
can be politically effective in
the short run to promise peace
in our time, it can also be danger-
100 Attend Juniors
Halloween Party
More than 100 boys and girls
attended the annual Halloween
party of Bliss Heine's Juniors
Friday evening at the Moose
hall.
Renee Johnson placed first for
the girl's costume judged best;
Judy Morris, second; Jay Morris,
first for boys, and Robert Ed
wards, second. Sidney Yarnell
received a special prize for his
costume depicting "Bozo,"- the
clown.
Judges Listed
Chief of Police Charles Champ
lin, Mr. and Mrs. Mirl Morse
and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Laurine
were the judges.
The parents committee which
assisted with the party was. made
up of Mrs. Fred Foust, Mrs. Tom
Morris, Mrs. Leo Webster' and
Mrs. George Adams.
The program included tap
dancing by Gail De Rushe and
Marlene Davis of the Colleen
Hope Dance studio; a dance by
all Juniors present led by the
captain of the drum section, Billy
Foust, accompanied by others
from the drum section; and a
surprise selection of Scotch brass
drumming by the original bass
drummer of the Juniors, Jimmie
Bishop, who now is a corporal
in the Air Force now visiting
here on furlough.
Refreshments were served at
the close of the party.
Sets Annual Sale Chin Up Club
Jamaica's supply of alumin
um ore is expected to last 50 to
60 years.
ous in the long run as Neville
Chamberlain discovered to his
sorrow.
(Copyright, 1954
New York Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Russian Agreement
To Disarmament Plan
Big Question Mark
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Foreign Analyst
One of the biggest questions
in the field of international pol
itics today is whether Soviet
Russia ever
will agree to a
workable dis-armament
plan as long as
it remains a
dictator
ship. The conclu
sion of a dis
armament treaty, provid-
chanes. iMnatin ing for world
wide reduction of armaments
and the outlawing of nuclear
weapons, would be a moment
ous development.
It would stop the arms race.
It would free millions of men,
and untold billions of dollars,
for productive instead of de
structive purposes. It would re
move the threat of a holocaust
in an' atomic war.
But the question always ar
ises whether the Kremlin, even
if it wanted a treaty, could
agree to a system of inspection
and control which would insure
fulfillment.
Two Obstacles
The United Nations has been
trying for nine years to work
out a cheat-proof treaty. Again
and again it has run against
two obstacles:
1. Russia wants a reduction
of armies, air forces and navies
by percentages. This would
mean that Russia, with the
largest fighting forces in the
world, would be given uncon
tested military domination.
2. Russia has refused to agree
to system of inspection and con-
trol that , would give teams of
experts the right to inspect its
factories, its arnsenals and its
nuclear installations.
The UN , political committee
has just voted to start a five-nation
sub-committee of the dis
armament commission at work
on the drafting of a treaty. The
United States, Canada, Britain,
France and Russia will be the
sub-committee members.
Delegates of the five coun
tries will work secretly so that
they may talk freely without
the temptation to indulge in
propaganda speeches. They pro
bably will meet in Paris or
London. .
In political committee debate,
Soviet Chief Delegate Andrei Y.
Vishinsky appeared to make
some concessions.
Slippery Diplomat
But Vishinsky is a slippery
diplomat. Each time he appear
ed to make some concession as
regards arms reduction by per
centages, or a satisfactory sys
tem of inspection and control,
he soon dragged back.
The work of the disarmament
subcommittee will be a matter
of months unless it breaks
up in disagreement.
There have been indications
that Russia may give in on the
issue of reductions by percen
tages. But there has been no indica
tion that Russia will or even
can give in on the issue of
inspection and control.
Russia is a vast prison in
which its whole people are con
fined. The ordinary Russian goes
beyond the Iron Curtain only as
a fugitive. No country in the
world is so secretive. If the
Kremlin ever permits foreign
ers to inspect its war-potential
facilities, it will be renouncing
its entire system of dictatorship.
Oregon and the Nation Need Vigorous Men
of Integrity and Ability in Congress
ELECT
CHARLES O.
TO CONGRESS
DEMOCRAT
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Final plans have been com
pleted for the Chin Up club's
fourth annual hobby sale, to be
held at the Eagles Hall, 217
West Main st., Friday and Satur
day. Displays will be set up Friday
morning and the sale will open
at 1 p. m., continuing until 10
p. m. Saturday hours will be
9 a. m. to 10 p. m.
Among items to be featured
are fancy work, weaving, dolls,
antique items and a cooked food
sale. Club spokesmen empha
sized"lhat all items, except the
antique merchandise, is new.
The Chin Up club is composed
of handicapped persons and non
handicapped who are interested
in working with the handicap
ped. This year the club plans to
use funds derived from the sale
to further its handicapped aid
pool, which was recently set up.
Under the plan equipment will
be loaned or rented to handicap
ped persons who are unable to
obtain needed equipment them
selves. Anyone is invited to enter
merchandise for sale and may
obtain, price tags by calling
2-2974.
ANCHORS AWEIGH
Manchester, Mass. (y.R)
When George Poor launched his
new 37-foot ketch here. he did
it in style. A five-piece Dixie
land band ' played appropriate
nautical tunes from the dock
side. Poor, himself a profession
al musician, played trumpet.
Monday, November 1, 1954
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
CAP Begins New
Class Schedule
A new class schedule for the
air patrol has been announced.
Medford squadron of the civil
The squadron meetings are
scheduled each Monday evening
at 7 o'clock at the CAP build
ing at the Medford airport.
The class schedule includes
subjects offered for both cadets
and senior members. Included
will be an extensive study in the
flight manual with detailed con
centration given to prepare
cadets for national merit awards.
The CAP is a nonmilitary or
ganization, but former members
going into the armed services
have found their CAP training
an asset both for advancement
reasons and for making the
service more' enjoyable.
Films will be shown on var-
Christmas Cards
Order Your
Name Imprinted Cards
NOW.
umv$
ious subjects during the season,
on tha second Monday eV. aing
of each month, the first film to
be shown on Nov; 8. Parents of
CAP members are also invited
to the meetings. -
ELECT
BILL
TUCKER
CITY
COUNCIL
FIRST WARD
Tucker for Council CommittM,
Ken Cook, Chairman.
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