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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 25, 1945
(It was Tuesday)
Crater Lake, Motors starts con
struction of new plant at West
Main and Fir sts., to measure
170 by 150 feet
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Indian
lummer has arrived in these
parts, unsung and .without
warning. Not a barbershop,
bank, beanery, or business
closed for two days to properly
observe and welcome the most
magnificent season of the year.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 25, 1935
(It was Wednesday)
Joe Louis scores fourth round
knockout victory over Max Baer
in widely heralded fight; is now
principal candidate for crown
now held by Jimmy Braddock.
Pierce Auto Freight lines ex
tending operations from south
ern Oregon to San Francisco
and bay points.
SO YEARS AGO
Sept. 25. 1925
Ot was Friday)
Prominent speakers to be
gress in Grants Pass Oct. 5, 6,
and 7.
From the Local and Personal
column: Local deer hunters
again have had their hunting
aDtietites whetted on learning
that Morris Leonard, John
Burns, and Don Chase left this
citv at 4 a.m. yesterday for a
deer hunt in the Applegate sec
tion, and by 7 p.m. last evening,
hadbagged a 180 pound buck.
The three men have not decided
yet who fired the fatal shot, as
the three fired practically at the
same time.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 25, 1915
at was Saturday)
Hiah school enrollment
reaches 296.
WCTU holds annual county
convention, elects officers for
coming term.
What's the Answer?
Can You Get 4 of the 7t
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research RafMt
1. If the Tariff Commission
tells the President that imports
are injuring a U. S. industry, he
does or doesn't have to raise
tariff duties to protect it?
2. Which one of these words
doesn't belong in the title of the
4-H clubs: Hand, Happiness,
Head, Health, Heart?
3. The U. S. did or didn't
adopt and go under its present
Constitution right after achiev
ing independence?
4. Which of these occurred
first: Hitler committeed suicide;
Mussolini was killed; Japan sur
rendered; President Roosevelt
died; Chiang Kai-shek removed
to Formosa?
5. Corporations are or aren't
' subject to the federal excess
profits tax these days?
6. Mt Everest is in Tibet,
Kashmir, Nepal, 'Pakistan, or
Afghanistan?
7. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.,
is or isn't now a member of
Congress?
The Answers: I. Doesn't. 2.
Happiness. 3. Didn't. 4. Roose
velt died. 5. Aren't. 6. Nepal. 7.
Isn't.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Editorial Correspondence
San Francisco, Sept. 22 Phil Gelchell never has any luck
with play-offs. He was all even at Pebble Beach yesterday with
Bob Hanna of Oakland in the California state amateur, at the
end of, the 18th, but lost the 19th so is out after playing excellent
golf for two days. In the qualifying round he was in the upper
half only a few strokes over par it takes good golf to get near
par at Cypress Point or Bebble Beach. One good thing about
Getchell, he loves to play, win, lose or draw.
The big heavy weight battle at the Polo Grounds came out
about as expected, only Archie Moore made a better showing than
most of the sports writers predicted. Johnny Carmichael of Chi
cago, for example, said Moore was only "an overstuffed publicity
balloon" and Marciano "would kill him" in five rounds. Accord
ing to the referee, who should know something about what went
on, Moore won the 7th round and didn't take the count until the
9th. He also won the 2nd with a knock-down and 4 count, and
the 5th on points. Rocky admitted the "overstuffed balloon" was
the best boxer he ever met, and could punch with both hands, be
ing much surprised the Negro held up as long as he did. However
it was the old story of a little man not being able to beat a big
one. The two gladiators weighed about the same, but Marciano
was fit as a fiddle at that weight, and Moore, nearly 40 and a
light heavyweight only a few weeks ago, WASN'T.
The heading in the Chronicle pretty well summed it up under
Bill Leiser's by-line, "Archie's skill can't stop human-tank."
Three theatres here put on the fight via TV, and it was a
sell-out for both two days before the fight. It is estimated the TV
total in the country was close to a million dollars, and the gate
at the Polo Grounds not far behind. Moore is supposed to get
$200,000, a new record for the colored vagabond, but our guess
is he won't have it for long.
Considerable football for the coming week-end. Illinois plays
Cal over at Berkeley, and the 49'ers play the LA Rams at Kezar
on Sunday. The big college game will be between UCLA and
Maryland, but we are more interested in the contest Saturday
night in Portland between OSC and Stanford. Probably Stanford
will win as USUAL but we have a hunch OSC will make a far
better showing than they did a year ago. JBeing in Oregon instead
of sunny Cal should help.
Well, again (as predicted in this department) the Yanks had
what it takes and Cleveland didn't. The World Series should be
a whiz-bang this year, in sharp contrast to a year ago. We trust
the bookies in New York won't get wind of it, but the M.T. sport
ing editor (emeritus) will be boosting for the Dodgers. If that
should become generally known the odds would zoom to 3 to
1 for the Yanksl
Rocky Marciano, according to our special representative in
New York, is in the same spot as President Eisenhower. "Rocky"
would like to retire a la Gene Tunney. His wife and mother strong
ly second the motion, for he has enough money and a non-fistic
job awaiting him. But the Box
sure thing money maker in the "Rock," and as long as he remains
that, they Jvill bring too much pressure for even Marciano to
resist.
The "Rock" and "Ike" should
other on one of the facts of public life in the USA the higher you
get the less you can do as you would like.
After over a year of talky-talk
cisco has staged a comeback and has been officially recognized
as "possible." Well anything is POSSIBLE, particularly in San
Francisco, but we doubt if anything concrete is done or poured
until after the GOP convention. If John D. Rockefeller as re
ported, is really interested financially (to get the real estate
and clear the ground will take
per our scepticism but until that is an established fact, we re
fuse to go all out for promoter Swig. However, we shall see what
we shall see.
The proposal envisions a double Rockefeller Center along
Market and Mission in the center of the town, including a new
super hotel, an 18,000 car garage, a convention hall, new office
buildings and an air terminal, all hooked up with the shopping
district via moving sidewalks! Well, why not take a little "swig"
and dream! R.W.R.
British TV Goes Commercial
Great Britain's initial
grams, which, began last
break in the British radio and TV monopoly. They
also test acceptance by the British public of advertis
ing on television after years without it.
At the same time they offer a; distinct challenge
to the government-owned British Broadcasting Cor
poration, which will continue to transmit'its programs
without advertising. - ,
The BBC was owned originally by radio equip
ment manufacturers and dealers, operating under a
license from the Postmaster General. It was recog
nized on Jan. 1, 1927 as a government corporation
under a royal charter. Even with the advent of tele
vision, the BBC continued to enjoy its monopoly until
the Television Act of 1954 paved the way for com
mercial transmissions.
-' '
"THE new Independent Television Authority will not
1 prepare its own programs, as does the BBC, but
will transmit the product'of privately financed pro
gram contractors. Advertisers will not sponsor pro
grams as in the United States, but will buy time on
the stations for messages at the beginning or end
of programs or at other "natural" intervals in trans
mission. ' . .
The ITA program contractors have lured away
from BBC some top talent and programs, also have
arranged to present such U. S. programs on film as
the "I Love Lucy" series. To meet the new competi
tion, the BBC is stepping up its average time on the
air to 85 programs a week, 15 more than it has been
transmitting. It will also give some U. S. programs.
. ....
THE success or failure of commercial T Vin Great
Britain could conceivably affect the controversy
over pay-TV in the United States. The Federal Com
munications Commission on Sept." 9 closed its files for
the present on written arguments pro and con pay
TV. The Commission will probably arrange soon for
public hearings on oral testimony.
Pay-as-you-see television is proposed by Zenith
Radio corporation, Skiatron TV, Inc., and the Inter
natiori Telemeter corporation. All -of these have work
ed out broadcasting devices to send programs into
the home for a fee. Then there is the Jerrold Elec
tronics corporation, which wants to use a wired sys
tem. In opposition are the television networks, the
National Association of Radio and Television Broad
casters, and the Joint Committee on Toll TV, repre
senting theater owners. E.R.R.
Sunday, September 25, 1955
Fight trust in New York have a
get together and console each
the Swig plan for San Fran
$20,000.000) then we would tem
commercial television uro
week, represent the first
Sen. Morse Role as
Independent Shows Up
Futility of
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington The two-year
experience of Senator Wayne
Morse as an Independent before
he joined the Democratic party
demonstrated the dominant
strength of America's two party
system and the futility of trying
to establish a strong third party
today.
This is the conclusion of a
scholarly paper devoted to the
re'eent years of the career of Ore
gon's senior senator by a Wil
lamette university student, O.
Daniel Dearborn Jr., who spent
the spring semester here review
ing the Morse record and inter
viewing the senator and others
familiar with his story.
Quite Trying Years
"The years that he was an In
dependent were quite trying,"
the report declared.
Tracing the highlights of the
senator's career- as it led Morse
into politics as a Republican in
1944, to resign from trie GOP in
1952, to spend the next two
years as an Independent before
registering as a Democrat last
February, Dearborn found that
the role of an Independent was
too rough even for so sturdy a
character as Wayne Morse.
The report recounted how
Morse tried vainly, with all his
parliamentary skill, to retain his
coveted committee seats without
asking for his assignments from
either party in the Senate. He
wanted them as an Independent.
When all he got was the back of
the Senate's hand, Morse blamed
both parties.
Won Choicest Plum
This year when he lined up
with Democrats and received
from them his committee seats,
Morse won the choicest of plums
a seat on Foreign Relations. A
month later- he formally regis
tered in Eugene as a Democrat,
and his "Independent party"
passed into history.
Morse's effectiveness in put
ting through legislation, Dear
born reported, dropped marked
ly during his period of independ
ence. Citing figures compiled
from the Congressional Rectrd.
the report showed that as a Re
Today and
By Walter
BURNED BRIDGES .
The Soviet Union has just car
ried out a diplomatic maneuver
which makes it much more dif-
difficult to
d i s e n tangle
and solve the
German prob
lem. It has
promoted the
satellite East
German R e-
public, giving
it the . same
formal rights
within tho
Walter Lippmann
Communist orbit that West Ger
many has acquired within
NATO. As Bonn SDeaks for thp
West on "the German problem,
so now Pankow, which is the site
of the East German government,
is the spokesman of the East.
Until this time it has been
possible for Dr. Adenauer to
hope and believe that he might
ignore the East German state,
that somehow it would wither
away or that the Soviet Union
would abandon it. That hope is
not now justifiable. The Soviet
Union has engaged its whole
prestige -on the insistence that
in the negotiations about Ger
many the Pankow government is
its bargaining agent.
....
TT IS apparent that in Bonn and
in Washington there has been
a strong disposition to under
estimate the strength of the So
viet position. There has been the
disposition to believe what it
was pleasant to believe. Last
spring, when the Paris Accords
were about to be ratified Mos
cow warned the West that with
German rearmament within
NATO she would not negotiate
for German reunification. When
Moscow reversed itself about
Austria, when later Dr. Ade
nauer was invited to Moscow, it
was widely supposed that the
earlier warning had not been
seriously meant. We now see
that the Soviet retort to the
Paris Accords is to promote East
Germany to eaual nolitical and
juridical status with West Ger
many, and then to tell the West
that negotiations must now be
carried on with this satillite rep
resentative. The satellite East Germany
has long been supposed to be
expendable, something to be sac
rificed by Moscow in an pver
all deal. Whatever the truth of
that in the long run, the fact is
that as things stand now the
East German regime, far from
being "expendable, has been
made into a prime instrument
of Soviet policy.
a V
TT has been plain enough since
ueneva mat tne soviet Union
prefers two Germanies rather
than any settlement that could
conceivably be negotiated now.
Yet apparently there is much
3rd Party
publican In 1950 Morse hit his
peak in sponsoring successful
legislation. In that year, of 38
bills and resolutions sponsored
by Morse, by himself or with
other senators, nine were passed
by the Senate. But in 1953, as an
Independent, Morse put his
name on 83 measures, only two
of which were passed by the
Senate.
Party Would Spread
The report assumes that
Morse wanted badly to make a
go of being an Independent and
of attracting ofhers into his one
man "Independent party." This
was' based on speeches by the
senator in 1953 when "he pre
dicted that if 20 highly placed
liberals were willing to join him
in the new party, "it would
spread like wild-fire and by 1964
would be a great political party."
The 20 liberals didn't enlist.
Instead, Democratic party offi
cials, from. Adlai tevenson to
Howard Morgan, put the candle
in the window for Morse to
guide him "home" to their party
where they thought he belonged.
Dearborn concluded that the
two major parties, because of
their campaign machinery for
raising funds, organizing local
ly, and their entrenched strength
in Congress (their power to dis
cipline independents) as illus
trated by Morse's losing commit
tee fight, offer the only vehicles
for effective political action.
And because of sectional differ
ences that make the two parties
a collection of varying views on
many issues, he found them big
enough to hold men of conflict
ing ideas.
. Morse's attempt to go Inde
pendent, he reported, shows
"that for a person to split from
his rjolitical party only brings to
himself added troubles and ob
stacles."
"Gradually, he came around
to the realization that to be more
secure and more effective he
must align himself with a major
political party," the report stat
ed, concluding that' Morse's ex
perience "will be somewhat of a
warning to anyone in the future
contemplating becoming an In
dependent." Tomorrow
Lippmann
surprise in Bonn that Dr. Ade
nauer's visit to Moscow did not
end by his being treated as in
fact the sole representative of
all of Germany. It is surprising
that anyone is surprised that
what was plainly evident since
July should have been made
plainer in September.
The question which really
ought to be examined is why
and how the illusion arose that
Dr. Adenauer would do better
in Moscow than he actually did.
Is it possible that serious offi
cials in Bonn thought the Soviet
Union had become so weak that
it roust give way on the issues
which it has always regarded
as vital? Apparently this illu
sion was possible. For otherwise
what happened at Moscow would
have caused no surprise in Bonn.
...
A FTER Geneva there was no
"reason to be surprised, except
in detail, by what the Soviet
Union has now brought about in
the two Germanies. The friend
ly spirit of Genevia did not, as
was widely supposed in this
country, open up the prospect
that the Soviet Union would ac
cept the Adenauer program for
the reunification of Germany.
The spirit of Geneva reflected
the sense of relief in all parts of
the world that an atomic war
was not contemplated by either
of the big atomic powers. '
That was the accord reached
at Geneva. It meant that no un
settled issue, like the partition
of Germany was important
enough to go to war about.. It
meant that the status quo was
not unbearable to either side,
it would be changed by striking
a bargain.
...
NEEDLESS to say the pros
pects for he Foreign Minis
ters' meeting in October are
poor. The differences on Ger
many are, as the two positions
have now been declared, irre
concilable. Moreover, neither
side can now give way on any
important point without risking,
indeed without inviting, a tre
mendous loss of prestige and of
political power.
As of now, both have crossed
bridges which they have burned
behind them.
Copyright. 1955. New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
26 Pedestrians Killed
In First Half of 1955
Salem (U.R) Twenty-six
pedestrians were killed in -traffic
accidents in Oregon in the
first six months of this year,
the State Traffic Safety division
said Saturday. .
That compared with 23 killed
in the first half of 1954.
The number of pedestrians in
jured in traffic accidents in the
first six months of this year
reached 600 compared with 574
for the first half of 1954.
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No Fear. No Favor
To the Editor: We have re
cently commented regarding
highway safety and problems
pertaining to our younger citi
zens and are gratified, to learn
that many people endorse our
ideals.
The solution of these prob
lems and many others lie within
ourselves as citizens and voters.
As long as we permit our courts
to pass light sentences on those
who repeatedly disobey the laws
that most of us respect we can
expect those few to continue to
offend the safeguards of our lib
erty. A police officer (city, county,
state or federal) can only arrest
those who commit an offense
and appear as a witness when
they are brought before a court
of justice. At this point it be
comes' clear to most people
where the weak link in our
chain of law enforcement is.
Our courts must get tough.
In a recent report J. Edgar
Hoover, of the FBI, drew atten
tion to our . increasing rate of
offenses against the law and
stated, as we of this committee
do, that the courts have a very
serious condition to deal with
and it must be met by them with
out fear or favor.
We respectfully submit to the
men who sit as heads of our
courts of justice that every of
fense under the law is an offense
against us as citizens and we
insist that these offenders be
dealt with firmly according to
the evidence presented. Silver
tongued oratory or friendship
must not be allowed to influence
the dispensing of justice.
Dan F. Krotz II,
Chairman for
Community Service,
Steelhead Post 6881, VFW,
Shady Cove, Ore.
Thank for Tickets :
To the Editor: I want to let
the. generous merchants of Med
ford know just how much the
children appreciate the tickets to
the circus which they give every
year.
The circus always comes when
school has just started and our
family is too low on funds to
pay for tickets, and if it weren't
for the donated tickets our chil
dren would never get to go.
Our thanks to you, unknown
benefactor, for Circus Day.
(Name on File)
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
We have been advised of
case where a bride will be
bridegroom at her own wedding
The list of marriage license
applications at the courthouse
recently showed that Betty Ma
rie Groom, Central Point, and
Donnie George Summers, Med
ford. Dlan to wed soon.
The bride will be both bride
and Groom, until they are pro
nounced man and wife.
....
The state board of health
last week conducted tests to
determine the amount of air
pollution in and around Med
ford. One of the members of the
' planning commission com
mented that if they'd been
here the day after Labor day
all they'd have had to do was
to come out to her house.
"They could have picked the
air pollution right off . the
bushes," she said.
Chubby's Drive-In, on High
way 99 at Stewart ave., opened
informally recently, and among
the customers was a young fel
low about 16 years old.
' The young man asked for two
hot dogs, without mustard, with
out relish, without rolls just
plain hot dogs.
The waitress got them, re
turned to the window,- and " in
quired again whether the youth
wanted rolls or anything else
for the hot dogs.
"No," explained the boy, "just
plain. They're for my dog."
....
The city council Tuesday
night adopted an ordinance
for an emergency fund appro
priation for the purchase of a
check-writing machine for the
city treasurer, at a cost of
$97.50. The present machine
. is broken.
As with all "emergency"
legislation, the ordinance read
in part. "It is hereby found
and determined that it is nec
essary for the peace, welfare
and safety of the city of Med
ford" that the bill be passed.
It IS sort of an emergency
at that.
...
The Mail Tribune's Big Egg
editor got a new duty last week
that of inspecting a jar con
taining a couple of small dead
snakes which greatly resembled
coral snakes, the small, deadly
reptiles native to the subtropical
areas of the U.S.
The BE editor wasn't quite
convinced that that was what
they were but you didn't find
him opening the jar they were
in to find out
In The Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
U. S. Secretary of State Dulles,
addressing the United Nations
general assembly, declared his
belief that the world may be
entering decade of PEACE
FUL CHANGE in which govern
ments will renounce the use
of war and subversion accept
orderly evolution toward their
goals and develop FRIENDLY
ECONOMIC INTERCOURSE
among themselves.
HE SPOKE of the 10 years of
cold war conflict in which
the world has been beset by
limited wars, subversion, arms
races and INFLEXIBLE atti
tudes. He added:
"That phase may now be end
ing."
I
S IT possible that the Pax
Americana may be beginning?
VOU may ask:
"What is this Pax Ameri
cana?"
Fi ORDER to answer your ques
tion, we'll have to delve back
into some 19 centuries of his
tory.
This "pax" business derives
from the Latin "Pax Romana,"
or the peace of Rome. It began
in the reign of Augustus, when
throughout the world it was gen
erally accepted that no country
was strong enough to make war
on Rome. No country was so
rash as to arouse the anger of
Rome by making war on another
country that was under the pro
tection of the Roman Empire.
With war temporarily banish
ed, trade flourished in the Em
pire. Cities and urban civiliza
tion developed. The ancient
learning of Greece lived again,
after having almost vanished
during the long period of more
or less continuous war.
During this Pax Romana world
prosperity reached a height
never even imagined before.
WHY the prosperity?
T t
The answer is simple:
Because in' this period the
Matter of
THE HARRIMAN PLAN
Albany, N. Y. It is now pos
sible to cast at least a glimmer
of light upon one of the major
mysteries o l
current
American pol
itics. The Pres
idential inten
tions "of Aver
ell Harriman
are strictly
con ditional,
but under cer
tain conditions
he will be-
come . a will -
Joseph Also
ing, active
and determined ".candidate for
the Democratic nomination.
This conditional status of Har-
riman's intentions is the real
explanation of the peculiar con
trast between the behavior of
the New York Governor and
the behavior of his two chief po
litical henchmen, State Chair
men Michael Prendergast and
National Committeeman" and
Tammany Hall chieftain Car
mine de Sapio.
For a long time, and with
continuously . increasing fervor,
DeSapio and Prendergast have
been publicly declaring that
their Governor was their choice
to make the hard race against
President Eisenhower. Mean
while, as though perfectly un
able to. control DeSapio and
Prendergast and seeming almost
unaware of their manifestoes,
Harriman has steadfastly reit
erated, "I'm for 'Adlai Steven
son."
When Harriman says this, he
is entirely sincere. He admires
and likes Stevenson. He was
deeply impressed by Stevenson's
feat in 1952, when he emerged
from a heavy defeat as a major
national figure. He thinks Ste
venson would make a good Dem
ocratic leader and a good Presi
dent, and he would like to vote
to send Stevenson to the White
House. In all these ways, Harri
man is as good a Stevensonian
as there is.
On the other hand, Harriman
has tolerated the apparently
contradictory behavior of Pren
dergast and DeSapio because he
believes that there are certain
practical conditions Stevenson
ought to fulfill, and has not yet
altogether fulfilled, before he is
again ' offered the Democratic
nomination. The conditions can
be rather authoritatively sum
marized as follows. ;
First, Stevenson must show
that he has really solid support
within the .'Democratic party
that he is not leading for the
nomination, in fact, solely be
cause he has no serious competi
tors. . . ''
Second and more important,
Stevenson must also show that
he will make a strong candidate
with a good chance of beating
President Eisenhower, whose re
nomination Harriman takes for
granted. And in Harriman's
view, any Democratic candidate
who ir to. have a chance against
Eisenhower must -be able and
ready to make, not just a civil
ized, literate' and high-minded
campaign but also an extremely
tough, hard-hitting campaign.
. . -
STEVENSON is due to an
nounce his candidacy, if he ,
world enjoyed comparative
PEACE.
THERE is another golden pe-
It is known to the historians
as the Pax Britannica the
Peace of Britain. It came about
because it was generally accept
ed throughout the world that
no country was string enough
to make war on Britain. ,
AGAIN
of
Rome
World prosperity along with
British prosperity O rose to
heights never before imagined
by mankind.
SO, YOU see
. 1UUC as jubiuialoi - yieve
dent for the hope that another
period of comparative peace and
GREAT prosperity may be be
ginning.
If so it will be known to the
historians of the future as the
Pax Americana to Peace of
America. If it comes to pass, it
will come to pass because the
MIGHT of America will be uni
versally recognized and CON
STRUCTIVELY feared.
BUT !
If that, is tn rnmA tn nass
One historical fact must be
clearly recognized. The Pax Ro
mana rested upon the MILI
TARY MIGHT of Rome. The Pax
Britannica rested upon the mili
tary might of Britain. If there
is to be a Pax Americana, it will
rest upon the military might of
America.
We MUST NOT make the mis
take made in 1945 when we
tore down and discarded the
greatest military machine the
world had ever seen. .
We must STAY strong.
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Northern California: Fair Sun
day except scattered showers in
Sierras; local coastal fog; north
westerly wind 12-25 mph near
coast.
Fact Joseph
follows through" on present
plans, in the early part of No
vember. Here in this cozy, shab
by little state capital whence so
many Presidential - candidates
have, marched out to the politi
cal wars in recent decades, Ste
venson's performance after his
November announcement will
be watched with fairly breath
less interest.
Is Stevenson really scoring
against the President? Can
speeches in the Stevenson .style
truly pose the major issues that
1 need to be posed? Are Demo
crats in other states really unit
ing behind Stevenson? These
are the questions that will be
asked in Albany.
If Stevenson lights a fire in
the land, there will be no Harri
man candidacy. But if Steven
son fails to light a fire, then De
Sapio. and Prendergast will go
into business, not just as advo
cates of a Harriman candidacy,
but as active managers of such
a candidacy.
There are two things to be
said about this position that
Averell Harriman has reached
after long reflection. It is, on
the one hand, an entirely hon
orable position, . wholly consist
ent with his friendship for Ste
venson. Stevenson will have an
ample chance to show what he
can do, and if he makes a good
showing, Harriman will stand
aside. .
On the other hand, a Harri
man candidacy seems much
more possible when Harriman's
position is clearly understood.
Perhaps one should even say
that a Harriman candidacy
seems , probable. For Adlai Ste
venson has never yet hit hard
in national politics, in the way
that Harriman thinks necessary
now; and it may be that Steven-.,
son, with his delight in fine
shades of meaning and extreme
intellectual precision, will never
use the plain words that alone
arouse electorates.
ITARRIMAN, it must be added,
now believes that plain
words need to be used because
he is deeply concerned about
the record of the Eisenhower
administration, especially in the
life and death fields of defense
and foreign policy. You may
think he is altogether wrong in
this respect But his concern
is not only intense; if is also ob
viously sincere.
Harriman is a man, moreover.
with a new self-confidence. All
his life, he has ben oddly tinder-
rated. Always he has been ac
customed to hearing the general
buzz that "Harriman surely can
never do this, or that or the
other." The last buzz was that he
could not be elected dog-catcher.
Now he has been elected Gov
ernor of the largest state in the
country, and he is making a
very popular Governor, too.
judging by all appearances.
So he is perfectly reaay.
under the conditions above out
lined, to brave the heavy odds
and challenge President Eisen
hower himself.
(Copyright. 1955,
New York Herald Tribune Inc.)
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