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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
. Sept. 11, 1945
(It was Tuesday)
Japan premier To jo attempts
suicide.
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From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: The Older
girls are in the jnidst of canning
peaches, a task they tackle with
as .much gusto as spring house
cle'aning. They are assisted in
many instances by the .. bread
winner, who will eat most of
them next winter. He peels the
peaches in the kitchen sink in
which he is not allowed to clean
what he kills and catches in field
and stream.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 11. 1935
(It was Wednesday)
Relief work sought for 47,384
persons in state.
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Open house next Friday at
new Lone Pine school.
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. II, 1925
(It was Friday)
Syndicate of local business
menbuy walls of fire gutted
Pag theater for $25,000.
School board buys Second st.
playground for high school ath
letic field,-
40 YEARS AGO
(It was Saturday
Voice culture studio opened at
Room One, College block.
Vermont Governor Charles W,
Gates visits Medford and inspects
Pacific highway.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955, Editorial Rsseaick Rtperl
1. Harry S. Truman can or
can't constitutionally run for
President again in 1956?
2. Average cash income of the
city man is more than twice that
of the average farm dweller;
right orWong?
3. About 12,000, 24,000, 36,
000 or 48,000 taxicabs are in op
eration in New York City?
4. A dividend in the form of
additional stock is or isn't gen
erally subject to federal income
tax when distributed?
5. Crowley, Layden,1 Miller
and Stuhldreher collectively
. were known as what?
6. Sutton Place is fashionable
street in New Orleans, San Fran
cisco, Boston, New York, Balti
more, or Atlanta?
7. Homi J. Bhabha is a nota
ble Arab statesman, Indian
atomic physicist, Red Chinese
general, Italian composer, or
Moroccan nationalist?
The Answers: 1. Can (22nd
amendment doesn't apply, to
him). 2. Right. 3. 12.000. 4. Isn't
(only when the stock is sold).
5. Four Horsemen (Notre Dame
Backfield). 6. New York. 7. In
dian physicist.
Pink Salmon Netters
At 65 Per Cent Mark
Seattle : (U.R) Commercial
net fishing for pink salmon on
Tiicmr Snunrl is mnw than fiS
per cent completed with land
ings through Thursday of 3,
900,000 fish and a pack esti
mated at 275,000 48-pound
cases.
The figures compare with a
catch of 6.000.000 sinks for the
parent year lf53 and a pack of
443,000 cases. The 1933-03 eaten
t average is 5,123,000 fish. ,
mail tribunb
Is Lippmann a Pink?
In newspaper circles it is pretty well agreed that
Walter Lippmann is not only the dean of news com
mentators, but one of the best informed, accurate
and intelligent in the business. His column is a "must"
in Washington diplomatic circles and, according to re
port, he is the one newspaper columnist, Secretary of
State Dulles never fails to read, when foreign relations
are treated, which is often.
The Mail-Tribune acquired his services a few
months ago but the Oregonian has printed his col
umn as is its custom in this field, for years, but
only off and on.
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IN THE Oregonian we now note a communication
from Aurora, Oregon, in which the writer tears Mr.
Lippmann limb from limb, as a faithful follower of the
Communist line. His offerings are labelled "refined
garbage" and the Oregonian is apparently .guilty by
association, being placed by the writer in the category
of American newspapers which, according to Louis
Budenz, former communist and editor of the "Daily
Worker," are doing everything in their power to turn
this country over to the communists.
Budenz is quoted in the communication as follows:
"If the U.S.A. ever goes communist it will be the fault
of the American press which echoes and reechoes the com
munist party line, with an unfailing, blind and simple-.
minded fidelity. This portion of the press is dark
as midnight and hard for the rays of light to penetrate."
CUCH fantastic nonsense could be ignored, or put in
o the comic section were it not for the sad fact that
this sort of blind "revolt against intelligence," insti
gated originally by Senator McCarthy of Wisconsin,'
has been spread so widely over the United States and
gained such a foothold, that it still presents, though
not as dangerously as a few years ago a genuine
threat to our constructive and steady progress on the
road to world peace.
For what this cantankerous communicant wants,
though he does not say so directly is a preventive
war as far as Soviet Russia and the communist threat
is concerned. For that is the only rational alternative
to what he condemns.
What the gentleman from Aurora objects to as far
as the Lippmann column is concerned, is Lippmann's
agreement with President Eisenhower, when the Pres
ident declared that in this age of atomic and H
bombs, there is "no alternative to peace."
Lippmann agrees. And because there is none a
military stalemate has been reached, balance of
power so to speaK, and wnat tne wnole world wants
which is a permanent end to war, must in this interval
be left to wise diplomacy and the healing benefits of
time, rather than another world war which would
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settle nothing and destroy everything.
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rNE may disagree with that diagnosis we agree
but certainly no one in possession of his senses
could call it communist propaganda or giving aid
and comfort to the enemy.
But this correspondent insists it is peddling the
"commie line."
If that is true then this
for we are practically a nation of communist "ped
dlers" from President Eisenhower, through Walter
Lippmann's ivory tower" down to the lower echelons
of the rank and file.
But of course it isn't true and every thinking per
son knows it. It is simply
as it is, honestly ana realistically, and charting what
after much thought and study, appears to Mr.. Lipp
mann to be the one best hope of preventing another
world war, and making genuine progress on the long
road to peace and world survival.
..
AS TIME goes on conditions may radically change
and a better solution may appear.
But one thing is for sure :
Those who smear newspaper columnists like Wal
ter Lippmann and newspapers like the Oregonian as
"peddlers" of communist doctrine, will never provide
it. R.W.R. 1
How About the S.P. Facts?
There is another thing for sure : To wit :
If and when a hearing is held before the Public
Utility Commissioner on abandoning of all rail pas
senger service from Eugene to Ashland the "Friendly
SP" will certainly have Editor Sprague of the Salem
Statesman as its star witness if It can get him.
For Editor Sprague not only knows about all there
is to know about the railroad problem in Southern
Oregon, but he knows or predicts with complete
confidence just what the PUC verdict will be. It
will, he feels certain, deny passenger service and
OK transformation of all rail service in this 300 mile
area to a single SP freight line.
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Jf OREOVER that, "The Stateman" editor thinks
T will be just dandy not for Salem or Eugene or
any other well-populated and prosperous section of
the state, of course, but for Southern Oregon.
Why? .
Because there is nothing to this protest against
abandonment of all rail passenger service but pride.
That's all, foolish pride. No one wants to ride on the
trains here in Southern Oregon.
All they want to do apparently, is to go down to
the station and see the trains of empty cars go through
and after that inspiring thrill has ended, (the local SP
passenger trains, we admit, were ouite a sio-MN fhor
will hop into their two-tone convertibles and go
wherever they wish to go, a proud and motorconscious
people.
WELL we have never denied the people of Southern
Oroorrm frnm li'lin'Ani eniiflmT.J T " 1
ww6vu via. uugwe
Sunday, September II, ISSS
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country.IS in dire danger,
facing the world situation
suuuihmu ua vo LQcir snare
Today and
By Walter
POLICY AND THE PARTY
A dial Stevenson has an
article in Look magazine which
is severely critical of the way
foreign affairs
have been
conducted by
the Eisenhowr
er administra
tion. As Stev
venson is the
leading can
didate for the
Demo c r a t i c
cratic Presi-
WslUr Lippmann dential nomi.
nation, we may ask ourselves
not whether there is ground for
criticism but whether the Demo
cratic party can take issue legi
timately and effectively with the
Republican administration.
I would thnk that as of now
at least the Democrats cannot
do it. That is not because the
Eisenhower-Dulles record is
above criticism. Far from it. It
is because by their support and
by their silence the Democrats
have forfeited the chance, and
with it one might say the right,
to take issue with the President.
Things may look very differ
ently a year hence. But as of
now the Democrats have no
quarrel with what the Adminis
tration has managed to do. Their
quarrel, long after the event, is
with how by backing and fill
ing, by zigging and zagging, by
talking tough and by talking
soft, the Administration got
where it is today. As the Demo
crats do not criticise the results,
as they did not at the time op
pose the method, they have as
the opposition party no issue.
They have no record of their
own to oppose to the Eisenhower
record. And as the saying wgoes
in politics, you can't beat a horse
with no horse.
As of now, we are, one might
say, in the last act of a melo
drama. The heroine has passed
tnrougn a series of hair-raising
escapes. Win she then marry the
handsome young man who sat
on his hands when she was in
peril because he has much to say
about how hair-raising it all
was?
THERE is no doubt, I think,
that fho ProcMn ha maria
a great, a unique, and a neces
sary contribution to reducing
the probability of a third world
war. He has done this by main
taining our military power and
our alliances and, also and no
less, by clarifying our funda
mental policy in the Far East.
This is not, I realize, the official
line which holds, or at least used
to hold, that having incorpo
rated West Germany and its
twelve promised divisions in
NATO, the Soviet Union was
being compelled to, retire and to
retreat. '
If we pay attention not to
what the Administration has
said but to what, it has been do
ing, We can say that it has puU
ed back from positions of weak
ness, where we were over-extended,
to positions which the
United States and its allies are
strong enough and willing
enough to hold.
THIS is how, after the alarms
of war, that the truce which
prevails in the Far East was
brought about. The" President
planted himself in Formosa and
in South Korea, which can be
defended by the retaliatory
power of the United States. At
the same time he disentangled
himself from the ambitions of
Rhee and Chiang to push for
ward into the Asian mainland.
It is a reasonable guess that
of local pride. They are even inclined at times to re
gard this section of Oregon as the most eauable. cli
matically, picturesque and attractive, in the state. But
it is news to this department that this pride has ever
included tne rain service provided through the years,
by the SP, and the -only thing its abandonment will
injure will be that very human, but not entirely flaw
less trait, of the genus -homo.
We live and learn! - .
And in the end there may be some profit in seeing
ourselves as a former Governor of the state sees us!
At least there will be no excuse for not being pre
pared for the blow when it falls.
However such a sweeping condemnation, deliv
ered before the hearing has been held and all the facts
are known does surprise this department and seems
strangely out of character for the usually fair minded
and judicial Statesman.
Does the Statesman know for example just how
many passengers were carried on the SP between
Eugene and Dunsmuir before the two sections were
discontinued? Does it know the loss of approximately
$500,000 on the Ashland Eugene run alone as claimed
by the SP, is correct, or is a matter of twisted book
keeping? Does it know what the passenger travel would be
if the SP were forced as other railroads have been
not only to resume passenger service but improve it
in the direction of better time, more convenient sched
ules, and more comfortable accomodations? Is the
SP legally liable to damages if it fails to live up to the
terms of its original franchise?
All these items, and many more, seem to us, per
tinent before any final ruling is made.
If the Statesman has these facts we know the peo
ple of Southern Oregon would greatly appreciate
their publication. R.W.R, .
Tomorrow
Lippmann
what relaxed the tension in the
Formosa Strait was that friend
ly mediators convinced Chou En
Lai that the United States would
defend Formosa but that it did
not intend to put Chiang back
on the mainland.
The Administration is vulner
able to criticism for having un
leashed and then releashed
Chiang. But there is no partisan
issue here. The final outcome,
which was to disentagle this
country from its dangerous com
mitment to Chiang, is an
achievement for which Eisen
hower deserves ' great credit. It
was not an easy thing to do.
It was something the Democrats
never did under Truman and in
all probability could not have
done under Stevenson. For it
needed the down-grading to the
vanishing point of what has
been during the days when they
were out of power the chief
dogma of the Republican Party
in foreign policy.
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Fl EUROPE the position is, it
seems to me, less bright than
the general prosperity and the
released tension make it ap
pear. I hope I am mistaken but it
has become hard not to wonder
whether the French politicians
have the lucidity and the resolu
tion to re-establish peace and
liberty and order in North Afri
ca. They overthrew the Prime
Minister who had the insight
and the toughness and the mag
nanimity that were needed for
that great task of statesmanship.
They have now removed the
Resident General who had won
the confidence of the natives
that France is trying 'to pacify.
It is not clear that the French
politicians can take coherent
decisions on the scale which the
situation demands, or that they
can get their decisions carried
out fully and effectively and
loyally when they take them.
The situation contains a grave
threat to the whole Western
positions in Europe. For the
United States as an aUy of
France, and her oldest friend,
the dilemma is painfully acute.
How far can we go and how far
should we go in treating the
situation? as entirely French
How long can we keep the Asian
and African members of the
United Nations from seizing the
problem? Not much longer, I
should suppose, than'' we have
some substantial hope that the
government in Paris is able and
determined to govern. ,
WE ARE expecting French
T support in keeping the
thorny question of Red China's
seat out. of the U.N. during the
coming session. We have a good
case for asking the nations not
to push the. issue. For we have
during this year clarified our
ownrelations with Chiang. Let
us hope that France will do
something comparable so that
we can support, her on North
Africa in the United Nations.
Copyright,.. 1955, '
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
Portland Man Injured
When Revolver Goes Off
Portland U.R) A 43-year-
old Portland man was seriously
wounded Friday night when his
revolver accidentally discharg
ed as he said good night to a
woman friend.
Wilifred E. Gelow was wound
ed by a .38-caliber bullet that
entered his abdomen and came
out his neck. The revolver feU
out of its holster and discharged
as he left the residence of Mrs.
Viola Butler.
Communications
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the right to edit all letters with an
eye to clarification and condensa
tion Letters submitted for oublica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
Says Taxes Too High
To the Editor: It is disturbing
to realize there are people work
ing in an apparent frenzy on
new methods of putting a bigger
bite on the income. This gripe
is not about necessary taxation.
We certainly need to pay for
better schools, police and fire
protection, roads and highways,
etc. However, these local, state,
and federal representatives
sometimes go too far.
Too high taxes can hurt a
community, a state or even a
nation. Oregon, failing in a sales
tax, slapped an additional bite
on in income taxes. In contrast
Florida keeps taxes down at
tracting wealth on a permanent
basis. '
The tax on whiskey is $10.50
per gallon more than the cost
of the whiskey itself. Internal
revenue service reports that in
eleven, months ending in May,
11,418 stills were seized; some
as costly as $75,000 to $100,000
each. Obviously bootlegging is
beating the government out of
collosal sums in taxes which
WE have to make up. Govern
ment figures show, they col
lected more liquor tax money
when the tax was lower.
An increasing number of
American businessmen are find
ing it more profitable taxwise
to operate from certain foreign
countries. .
From the Eisenhower pre
election promise platform to the
White House, in military lingo
should be called "operation big
switch." What happened to all
that beautiful conservatism?
Whoever wrote those speeches
had them fuU of the foUowing
kind -of blather: "The nation's
economy has been on a spend
ing basis, that is why your taxes
are so high. I am going to
change aU that and stop infla
tion so a doUar wiU be worth
something." (holding up two
coins to show how the value of
the doUar had dropped). What
bilge! A Democratic plan to re
duce taxes by $20 was termed
irresponsible. Yet inflation is
still on the rampage.
Now if I were in certain big
business, such as Airlines, Rail
roads, Utilities, Steamship lines,
etc., I could really get a hunk of
tax money in the form of sub
sidies. (Farmers get only a very
small fraction of the total sub
sidies). I borrow federal funds
(tax money) to complete my
project then I file Accelerated
Amortization Certificates so
can have returned to me the
taxes I pay.
Whenever a person works 2
hours and 36 minutes a day for
taxes it is time for good citizens
to start squawking. Thank good
ness, it won't be long until we
can vote those responsible out of
office.
Pat Redmond
Rt. 1, Box 393
Medford, Oregon
Ok but Not Ok Enough
To the Editor: Your gentle
slap-on-the wrist editorial "Stay
Away" in the September 7 issue,
of the Tribune is certainly a step
invthe right direction though a
feeble one.
Why in the name of all that
is good and holy is such utter
disregard for private and public
good tolerated? Day after day
we read of fires homes, busi
ness buildings, forest and in
every instance the added com
ment that firemen were serious
ly hampered and losses multi
plied by the crowds of idle
curiousity hounds who cluttered
the streets and roads. WHY?
Would a surgeon, working
desperately to save a life, per
mit a gang of curious idlers to
clutter the operating room, mess
up his instruments, shut off the
oxygen or the blood transfusion?
The answer "of course is a ve
hement "No!" Yet the situation
differs only in that a life in
stead of property is at stake.
Asking a selfish, thoughtless
public to please stay away is so
much wasted breath. Adults are
merely children grown larger
and, generally speaking, respect
the rights of others when forced
to do so by rules with teeth in
them. Is there any reason why
those in authority "could not ar
rest and fine, on public nuisance
grounds, any person present at a
city fire who had no legitimate
reason for being there? A high
enough price would certainly
cut down the 'attendance. And
could not state or government
commandeer the vehicles and
services of all those who clog the
highways and hamper the con
trol of forest fires? A few hours
of fire fighting would satisfy
the curiosity of most and make
them think twice before rushing
to the next fire:
When. I ask, is something
going to be done to stop this
criminally thoughtless practice?
Talk won't do it."
(Name on file)
Eagle Point
Wants Equal Treatment
To the Editor: The other night
we went to a movie at a locally
owned Drive-In. Naturally we ex
pected to watch the movie from
wherever we might choose to
park the car. But, because we
were in a pickup we were told
to sit in the back row.
Now, this might be alright for i
POT LUCK,-
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)'
At the city council meeting
Tuesday night. Mayor Earl
Miller read a letter from the
Oregon Public Utilities com
mission giving notice of a pub
lic hearing regarding the
speed of trains within city
limits.
Earlier this fall, city officials
were authorised to notify the
commission that whatever
speed - designated would be
acceptable.
Councilman Jack Fitzgerald,
en receiving notice of the
hearing, asked: "Do they mean
freight or passenger trains?"
A California couple visiting
here were given directions to
find a friends house in south
eastern Medford, and the direc
tions were based on the location
of KYJC.
They showed up somewhat
later than expected, a little be
wildered, and told a tale of hav
ing lost their way, making a long
and roundabout search before
finding the right house.
"We kept looking," they said,
"but we never DID see the Jun
ior CoUege."
Young old-timers, who have
vivid recollections of their
one-time draft status, might
be interested to know that the
license number of one of the
Medford Ambulance Service's
vehicles begins: 4F.
,
Martha Shull, Portland teach
er, was elected vice-president of
the National Education associa
tion at the recent national con
vention, as has been duly re
ported. The speech which seconded
her nomination is published in
the current issue of Oregon Edu
cation. It was made by A. D. Holt
of Tennessee, and because it is a
little gem, we reprint portions
of it here: -
As you can see, she is as pretty
By FRANK JENKINS
Political note in the news:
"It seems1 certain the farm
question will be a big issue in
the 1956 Presidential election
campaign . . . Democrats have re
newed and heightened their at
tacks on a variety of Republican
programs including those about
farms . . . Adlai Stevenson says
his attacks on domestic issues
will include charges of what the
GOP has NOT done for farming.
He says the current farm distress
is dangerous to the whole U.S.
economy and asserts the GOP
administration is as fertile of
moralistic slogans for farmers as
it is barren of political ideas for
a solution of the surplus prob
lem. "He accuses the GOP of taking
a free, if hazardous, ride on
(farm) prosperity built up by the
Democratic party."
I'D LIKE to make it clear at this
point that I haven't much use
for political farmers in EITHER
party. The political farmer farms
the farmers for votes instead of
someone with 20-20 vision but I
don't happen- to have it. So, we
got our money back and left.
In this free country of ours if
a person pays the same price as
. , Li 1J 1 4a
me rest ne snouia ue uuuwcu m.
sit wherever he wants.
(Name on file)
Talent, Ore.
Needless Slaughter
To the Editor: We have com
pleted another needless slaugh
ter on the battleground oi me
American highways. There is no
good reason or excuse for this
except that we choose to ignore
the rights of others and the safe
guards erected for' our protec
tion.
As long as highway murder
and maiming are treated lightly
we can expect it to continue and
increase. And as long as we, as
citizens, have this attitude our
courts will act in a namby-pamby
way.
We must realize our responsi
bility to ourselves and to our
community, and we must also
insist that our courts of justice
exercise every means at their
disposal to impose penalties when
guilt has been- established.
The laws of our land were cre
ated for the protection of our lib
erties and each law must apply
equally to all people. We cannot
countenance favoritism under
the law by any public servant
having to do with the enforce
ment or the adjudging of penal
ties for the infraction thereof. If
John Doe a vagrant is guilty
of certain acts then Joe Blow
the influential person is also
for the commission of like acts
and the penalties and publicity
must be the same.
We, as Americans, will obey
and respect the law when it is
administered fairly to all and we
will show respect to the officers
and judges who properly enforce
these laws, but we are equally
ready to show our contempt
when our public servants aUow
favoritism to sway their decis
ions. Dan F. Krotz, n,
Chairman for Community
Service, Steelhead Post
6881, VFW.
Shady Cove, Ore.
In the Day's News
as a speckled pup. When she
smiles, you feel warm inside,
just like somebody has said
something nice about your
grandchild.
She is as shrewd as a farmer's
wife, at a Sears-Roebuck sale.
She knows the NEA like a
moonshiner knows his corn. -She
is as eloauent as a Baptist
nreacher at a camn meetina. and
when she talks she sounds-lik
a spring branch running down a
mountain side. . .
She is as sweet as sorghum
molasses fresh off the mill, and
she is as pleasant as a hog at
She wiU be invited every
where, and wherever she goes.
well be glad she nas Deen.
Editorial Comment
CHANGE IN STATE
FORESTER
Those interested in forestry in
Oregon regret the resignation of
George Spaur, state forester. He
has done a very good job through
his service was once interrupted
by a call to return to military
duty. Spaur is leaving to go to
East Pakistan as consultant in-j
ioresiry unaer our xoreign euu.
program. He will advise the
Minister of Forests there on
forest management and utiliza
tion. Thus he wUl have an ex-
ceUent opportunity to serve the
people of a friendly nation. The
experience should prove an ad
vantage to him, so that when he
returns he can resume some im
portant position in American
forestry.
As successor to Spaur the
state board of forestry has named
Dwight Phipps, a veteran in the
department, who. served as act
ing state forester during Spaur's
leave for military ;duty." He
carries the "confidence of those
concerned with state forestry
and the appointment insures a
continua nee of constructive
policies Salem (Oregon)
Statesman.
Pilot, Passenger
Die in Oregon Crash
Coqu'ille ' (U.R) A studeat
pilot and his passenger were
killed late Friday when their
light plane hit a tree and crashed
while approaching a private air
port at Remote, about 20 miles
southwest of here.
. The victims were identified
as Norman Bechtold, about 23,
of Cottage Grove, the pilot, and
J. C. Genes of Myrtle Point.
farming the land for crops. We
aren't going to get much lasting
good out of that kind of cattle-
no matter what political brand
they carry on their hips.
But it might be just as well to
take a look at Stevenson's accu
satio that the GOP is "taking a
free ... ride on farm prosperity
built up by the Democratic
party."
IT IS UNDENIABLY TRUE that
in the past four decades farm-
eers have enjoyed more prosper
ity under Democratic adminis
trations than under Republican
administrations.
But .
It is historically true that farm
"prosperity" rises spectacularly
during wars. There are perfectly
sound reasons why that should
be true. War, in the very nature
of it, increases 'total consumption
of food and gt the same time
tends to decrease world prod
tion of food. The law of supply
and demand results in higher
prices for farm products in war
time.'
AND- .-. - '
It so happens that all of our
recent wars beginning with
World War I have occurred un
der Democratic administrations.
I DO NOT mean to accuse the
Democrats of being the WAR
party or to praise the Republican
party as the party of guaranteed
peace. That would be as cheap
pettifogging as is Mr. Stevenson's
talk about the farm prosperity
BUILT UP by the Democratic
party. World War I was inevita
ble. It would have come on
and we would have got into it
just the same under a Republican
administration as under a Demo
cratic one.
- I'm sure the same' is true of
World. War H. We would have
got into it, no matter what party
was running our government
when Hitler went on his ram
page. The TRUTH must always
be faced, and the truth is that a
Republican administration could
no more have stood aloof from
the cataclysmic conflict of World
War H than did the Democratic
administration.
The Korean war arose out of a
series of mistakes of judgment,
but I am certainly not prepared
to say that there would have
been no war in Korea if a Repub
lican administration had been in
power.
BUT it IS true that the farm
prosperity to which Mr. Stev
enson refers has been-due pri
marily to war and I think his
left-handed claim that the Demo
cratic party is solely responsible
for it is a bit of cheap dema-
goguery that ill becomes a man
of his superior intellectual at
tainments. I suppose that is what profes
sional politics, if long enough
persisted in, leads to.