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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 30. 1945
(It was Tuesday)
Highway engineers survey the
land along Rogue river near
Camp White as possible state
park.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: Halloween
outbreaks are due. Let's be fair
to youth, and not blame soap
scribbling eight feet up, on a
small boy who would have to
reach three times his own
length to commit the outrage.,
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 30. 1925
(It was Wednesday)
Snow blankets Medford and
Rogue valley; melts under warm
sun.
Sheriff Syd I. Brown
nounces start of personal
collections.
an
tax 30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 30. 1925
(It was Friday)
From Climax Ceimbs: Good
xoads - and sunshine have been
welcome surprises to Climax res-
idents this fall. Old timers sar
that it is unusual for the roads
to be in such excellent condi
tion at this time o. the year.
John Carle, Southern Pacific
agent, transferred to Medford to
' become station and yard agent.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 30, 1915
(It was Saturday)
Washington grammar school
chorus organized by Miss Inez
Coffin practicing twice weekly
From the Local and Personal
column: At a recent meeting, the
' city council approved the may
or's appointment of Mrs. . B.
Warner, Mrs. F. W. Mears and
M. V. Hillis as members of the
library board for a period of
three years.
What's the Answer?
Can You Gel 4 of the 7?
Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Reeeri
1. The U.K. charter does or
doesn't specify how a U.N. mem
ber may withdraw from mem
bership? ..
2. About 10, 20, 30 or' 40 per
cent of all new car sales are
fully for cash (including trade-
in allowance)? . " -
3. The Government's "Proj
ect Vagurd" is on a new type
of atomic bomb, space satellites,
radar detection or weather
forecasting? .S .
4. Most Americans si11 rural
areas do or don't live on farms,
or is it about 50-50?
5. The game of basketbaU
originated in England, Canada,
Scotland, the U.S. or Russia?
6. A Captain inthe Navy gets
the same fcpse pay as a Captain
in the Army; right or wrong?
7. Scuttlebutt is slang for a
drunk, gossip, a wornout pugil
ist, a drug addict, a coal miner,
or inferior merchandise?
The Answers: 1. Doesn't. 2.
40 per cent, says Auto manufac
turers, association. 3. Space
satellites. 4. Most don't 5. The
U.S. 6. Wrong; he gets more. 7.
Gossip. -
PRESS CHIEF EN ROUTE
Rio De Janeiro (U.R) Paulo
Bittencourt, president of the Inter-American
Press Association,
and publisher of Correio da
Msnha, left by plane for New
Or'.eans Wednesday night to at
tend a meeting of the IAPA,
EES)
MAIL TRIBUNE
Lowering Some Barriers
In terms of real agreement, the most important
item on the agenda for the Big Four Foreign Ministers
conference at Geneva probably will turn out to be the
third and last.
The July 23 directive of the Big Four "summit"
conference pledged the foreign ministers to take up
"European Security and Germany" and "Disarma
ment," in order named. Third, they were to study
measures to:
(A) Bring about a progressive elimination of barriers
which interfere with free communications and peaceful trade
between people, and (B) bring about such freer contacts and
exchanges as are to the mutual advantage of the countries
and peoples concerned.
TJAROLD McMillan, British Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, was speaking for informed opin
ion in his country and here when he told the Con
servative Party Conference on Oct. 7, that it was the
third item on which "I think we really should be able
to make some progress."
The eliminating of East-West barriers, at least on
the surface, already is well under way. The U.S.-Rus-siah
exchange of farm delegations, the visit here of
Russian construction experts and Russian journalists,
the freer access to Russia for Western newspapermen,
all have been highly publicized.
Perhaps the first chink
War II cultural Iron Curtain in June 1954 when a.
Russian chess team defeated a U.S. team, 20 to 12, in
a tournament in, New York. This year, in July, the
U.S. team lost a return match m Moscow, 25 to 7. But
Samuel Reshevsky of New York won prestige and
much acclaim from the
world champion, Mikhail
THE first athletic competition solely between Amer-
icans and' Russians since World War II was a
weight-lifting match in Moscow last June 15. The
match was a tie, 9 to 9, but 340-pound Paul Anderson
of Tocca, Ga., became a hero to the Muscovites by
setting two world records.
band played The Star-Spangled Banner!"
On another cultural level, East-West harmony was
sounded at a 10th anniversary celebration at' U.N.
Headquarters in New York on Oct. 24. Leonard Bern
stein, American composer, and Sir William Walton,
British composer, conducted the New York Philhar
monic Orchestra, and the soloist was Emil Gilels, bril
liant Soviet pianist now on a U.S. tour.
.
PRESIDENT Eisenhower's Emergency fund for cul-
manent by a bill to be introduced at the next session
of Congress by Rep. Frank Thompson Jr. (D.-N.J.).
Iit each of the past two years Congress has voted
$5,000,000 for the fund at
The fund has made possible such projects as the
coming tour of Russia by an American production of
"Porgy and Bess." The
will go to Russia next spring as a U.S. cultural repre
sentative.
Russia is reported to favor increased tourism
not only to snare U.S. dollars but also to provide an
outlet for the comparatively fat wallets of its pnvi
ledged class of technicians and managers. And of
course, -at bottom of all Russian overtures is the de-
desire for increased East-West trade. Back in 1930
three years before the U.S.
regime the U.S.S.R. had become the sixth best lor
eign customer of the United States. E.R.R.
All Hallows9 Eve
Hallowe'en could be called, as some anthropolo
gists do call it, a "degenerate" holiday. It has degen
erated from the deeply religious character of All
Hallows that is, All Holies or All Saints Day of
which it is the evening or
THE religious nature of
served in much ot Europe and .Latin America, rne
"trick or treat" rites associated with the Eve in the
United States derive from Celtic traditions that held
on in Scotland and especially in Ireland, and that first
took hold m this country with immigration from those
lands.
The old Celtic year ended on the last day of Octo
ber, when the crops were all m hence the pumpkin
and the corn shock as symbols. It was the time of the
year when Saman (or Samhain); the Lord of the
Dead, re-judged the souls of humans that had been
condemned to dwell within animals, and when Druid
priests passed sentences for crimes and also settled
personal problems.
ALL Hallows' Eve was when sorcerers and sooth
"sayers were especially gifted in predicting the fu
ture. Even ordinary folk could find out what lay in
store for them by tossing an apple peel behind them,
or roasting nuts in the fire, or burning candles.to the
Sun God.
On no other night of the year did witches, goblins
and "the little people" (fairies) cavort so numerously
or so wildly, and hence could be blamed for any mis
chief that a human felt called upon to perpetrate.
And it was the night for repeating fervently the old
Welsh litany: to be delivered from ' "ghoulies and
ghosties, long leggedy beasties, and Things that go
BUMP in the night." E.R.R.
Starlike ascidians belong to a
group of sea creatures that sug
gest evolution in reverse, says
the National Geographic Society.
They start life as tadpolelike
larvae with a cartilaginous
"backbone." Maturing, they lose
this'" structure "and degenerate
into primitive creatures resem
bling fungi.
Sunday, October 30, 1953
opened m the post-World
Russians by downing their
Bbtvinnik.
Moreover, a Russian police
the President's request.
violinist, Yehudi Menuhm,
, -
recognition of the Soviet
e en.
All Hallow's Eve is still ob-
A portrait of a president is on
bills of most denominations but
the $10,000 bill has a portrait of
Salmon P. Chase, secretary of
the treasury under Lincoln.
Only nine hundred $10,000
bills are currently in circula
tion, compared with 6,000 in cir
culation in 1940.
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear
the name and address of the writer
although under certain circum
stances the use ot a Den name or
initial for publication is permia
iible The Mail Tribune reserves
the right to edit all letter with an
eye to clarification and condensa
tion Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
(Editor's note: The Mail
Tribune last week received
two letters on the same sub
ject. Both were of considerable
interest, but neither was
signed with the name of the
contributor. Anonymous let
ters will not be published. If
the writers will identify
themselves, their letters will
be considered for publication.)
True Justice
To the Editor! Our law en
forcement officers are selected
for their intelligence and phy
sical ability to perform the duties
assigned them. Much time and
money is expended to make
these men efficient and ob
servant. They form our first
line of defense against the law
less and inconsiderate element
of our population.
A good police force, whether
it be State, County or City, is
effective only when they have
the support of the people and
of the courts before which of
fenders of our laws are brought.
If we want a reduction m the
number of offenses committed we
must insist that more strict en
forcement of the laws be made
and that the trial judges are fully
aware of their responsibility to
the people.
A trial judge must consider
only the evidence presented in
each case and must not be
swayed by the attempts of the
defense to befog the issues at
hand. If guilt is established the
judge must impose sentence pro
portionate to the offense with
out fear or favor to any person
or group. 4
When there is true justice for
all the people we will have a new
respect for the law and for those
whose duty it is to dispense jus
tice. Dan F. Krotz II,
Chairman for
Community Service,
Steelhead Post, VFW,
Shady Cove, Ore.
Sees Chill Shadows
' To the Editor: It's a crazy,
illogical position we're in now;
factories busy, new buildings
everywhere with wages at an
all time high, giving a sense of
great prosperity. But over all
this, chill shadows are creeping,
shadows from mountainous farm
surpluses government ' bought
with tax dollars. We had a first
hand look at one near Tillamook
where a mountain of barley lift
ed it's crest toward the top of
190 foot high blimp hangar
doors, barley that cannot be ex-export-sold
due to high initial
costs or given away as it lessens
purchasing power of people who
would otherwise have to buy,
or make with something cheap
er. Some there are who take
dim view of government surplus
giving to school lunches as it
lessens local buying power just
that much. Visitors three days
from Iowa tell of hogs there
$11.25 per hundred live weight,
beating the low of 1942. Secre
tary of Agriculture "Ezra T. Ben
son at last has been boondogled
into granting some $5,000,000
tax dollars to halt sagging hog
prices. This "glad" news brought
train loads of hogs to markets.
Buyers became coy or plain
scared, held off as if saying
"let Uncle Sam take the rap,"
if rap there is to be.
Reuther of CIO and some jil-
tery high-brass in Washington
are castigating Sec. Benson for
his courageous statement in his
Sept. 20 speech in the New
Orleans Farm Equipment insti
tute, that union labor must share
some of the blame for declining
farm prices. Shout ?s he may,
Reuther must admit that high
wages he wrangled are pricing
farm machinery out of reach of
farmers to pay, just as farmers
found it impossible to stand for
the shorter hours and higher pay
of the one time hired man.
Those who wring our susten-
ence from the earth's soil and
waters must be regarded as a
ladder to which we cling and
climb to a better" way of life.
Parities fixed or flexible wll
not strengthen the ladder of
farming when overloaded. There
is just one way, shift some of
the farm tax load to others bet
ter able to pay, then let the
farmer sell on the markets of
supply and demand with no
chill shadows, then, of govern
ment bought surpluses threat
ening our ecomomy.
F. J. Clifford
1211 West Main
Medford, Ore.
Club Expresses Thanks
To the Editor: May we have
the privilege through your paper
of expressing our sincere appre
ciation to the following Medford
business firms for. their cooper
ation and assistance in making
possible a fine parking lot for
the Girls Community Club:
Tru-Mix Concrete Co. for the
labor of clearing, scraping and
filling in the lot; Medford Con
crete and Construction Co. for
donating the gravel and labor
for completing the parking area;
California Oregon Power Co.
and the Pacific Telephone Co.
for moving a pole that blocked
two parking spaces; and the
Medford Elks Lodge for the do
nation of used poles for bump-
Matter of Fact By Joe and Stewart Alsop
EZRA'S MISFORTUNE
Washington There is very
little doubt about it any long
er. During the coming session,
the farm prob
lem is going to
give the Eisen
hower admin
istration about
the worst Con
gressional trouble it has
yet experienc
ed. What has
happened i s
basically rath
Joseph Alias
er simple.
There was disaffection among
the farmers in 1954, but it was
acute and inflamed only in
states like Minnesota, where
fiairying is important. In most of
the farm belt, the farmers stuck
with the Republicans. At the
last session, therefore, the Eisen
hower farm program was suc
cessfully defended, although by
a very narrow margin.
In the Interval, however,
wheat, corn and hog prices have
dropped sharply. The same sort
of disaffection
that appeared
in Minnesota
in 1954 (and
gave the Dem
ocrats a whop
ping victory
there) has now
spread to
wheat-growing
Kansas, Iowa
with its corn
and hogs, and
even in some
states as 111-
Stewart Alsop
measure to such
inois and Ohio.
Among Republican members
of Congress, the reaction to this
development has been mixed
thus far. Some of them, like
Rep. Cliff Clevenger, of Ohio,
for instance, have been arguing
that Secretary of Agriculture
Ezra Benson's flexible parity
payments to farmers have not
yet been given a real test; and
that it is necessary to wait and
see what happens to farm sur
pluses before trying anything
radically new.
But there are other stalwarts,
like the House whip, Rep. Les
Arends, of Illinois, who have
been bombarding Washington
with furious demands that the
Administration do something,
do almost anything, to calm the
farmers' dicontent. Furthermore,
it seems pretty clear that the
last year's narrow margin in
favor of the Administration's
farm program has now been
changed to a margin on the
other side. At least seven Re
publican Senators can now be
counted as anti-Bensonites. and
the final count may be consider
ably- higher. ': , - ;;
The wave of this storm in the
farm belt would probably be
sonsiderably less dangerous to
political navigators, if Secretary
of Agriculture Benson had been
a bit more eager to pour oil on
the angry waters. But he has
been, and he is now, the very
opposite of eager.
lENSON is not only an ex
tremely courageous and.
as4ssssn
Editorial Comment
LENIENCY MAY BE WRONG.
Discussing the arrest of eight
Corvallis High school students
at Sweet Home following a foot
ball game Friday night for pos
session of beer the Gazette-Times
editorially places major blame
for such offenses on the young
sters' parents.
Says the G.-T.:
We. didn't get the names be
cause it is against our policy to
print the names of juvenile of
fenders unless they commit a
major crime. If it were possible
to print the names of the parents
ers.
We now have space for nine
cars that we hope to rent for $5
per month to individuals for
private parking. This lot is only
2A blocks from Main street and
V4 block off of Central st. We
have been told there is a great
need ' for downtown parking
space and as we have a great
need for some sort of income,
we hope it will prove beneficial
for everyone.
Because some organizations
and interested individuals are
making generous donations, we
have been able to operate on a
restricted scale. Our property at
229 North Bartlett st. is for sale.
When it is sold we expect to
start an immediate drive for a
Medford Civic Center building.
Mrs. Dolph,Phipps,
President, Board of
4 Directors,
Girls Community Club.
Those Good Intentions
To the Editor: What happened
to all those good intentions re
garding the name and address
on the reading material of your
paper?
R. C. Eastgate,
Route 1, Box A,
Jacksonville, Ore.
(Editor's note: Mr. Eastgate's
reference is to mailing labels
which occasionally get pasted
over pictures or reading matter
on mail copies of the Mail Trib
une. His complaint has been
called to the attention of the cir
culation department, which pro
mises to try to do better in the
future.)
deeply religious man. He also
has an intense inner certainty
that his farm program is the
best farm program, and pretty
nearly the only possible farm
program. He has sheaves of fig
ures to show why the farmers
ought to be happy, even if they
are not. He inclines to shrug off
the whole attack on his program
as merely "political." He has
been heard to dismiss one group
that has been holding protest
meetings in Iowa as "leftist
dominated," although one of its
flaming speakers is the arch
Republican Governor of the
state, Dan Turner.
Not aU the President's ad
visers feel as Benson does, to
be sure. Vice President Richard
Nixon, for instance, is known
to be greatly disturbed. He re
quested a meeting with Benson
after his return from seeing the
President in Denver. At their
luncheon together, Nixon strong
ly emphasized the point that
even if the Administration does
not sacrifice the central principle
of its farm program, serious
moves must be quickly made to
convince the farmers of the
Administration's interest in and
concern for their plight.
The sequel of this meeting was
Secretary Benson's announce
ment that he intended to spend
$85,000,000 on pork products
for the Federal school lunch pro
gram, in order to bolster pig
prices. Unfortunately, pig prices
dropped to their lowest point in
thirteen years the day after the
harried Benson held his press
conference. The farmers were
not conspicuously mollified.,
Nonetheless, Benson is jour
neying to Denver to see the
President this weekend in some
thing close to a defiant mood.
He does not intend to back down
in any major way. He expects
the President to support him
fully, and it seems virtually
certain that his expectation is
well founded.
WHAT then lies ahead? Sec
"retary Benson is ready to
take at least one soothing mea
sure. He is talking of rather
more than doubling the present
level of soil conservation pay
ments by adding about $200,
000,000 to the planned approp
riation for the Agricultural Con
servation Program.
But Benson takes an extreme
ly dim view, to date, of the
much more ambitious schemes
for a "soil bank," with the Fed
eral government directly rent
ing farm acreage to take it out
of production. He is also death
ly opposed, of course, to any
return to the fixed 90 per cent
of parity payments that both
Adlai Stevenson and Gov. Aver-
ell Harriman have now declared
for.
Nonetheless, it now seems
highly possible that a fixed
parity bill will pass the Congress
this session, thus forcing a Pres
idential veto that the Admin
tion's political stragegists shud
der to comtemplate. In any case,
there is bad farm trouble ahead.
C 1955, New York Herald
Tribune, Inc.
without further embroiling the
youngsters, however, we would
gladly do so because it is they
who are primarily to blame.
That touches on a problem
which has become moot among
newspapers. Like most of them
we have been following the same
policy employed by the Gazette-
Times, but of late even juvenile
courts have been pondering the
question as to whether or not
this policy is due for reappraisal.
Some juvenile officers have
come . to the conclusion that
youngsters, particularly those
just under 18, are taking advant
age of their immunity from pub
licity. Thus, these officers be
lieve, delinquency is being en
couraged rather than retarded by
the well meaning newspapers.
Parents, in most cases, to be
sure, are more or less to blame
for their yoiingsters' behavior,
but equally culpable, if not more
so, are the persons who sell liq
uor to minors. If the salesmen
were punished with sufficient se
verity and regularity it is quite
likely there would be far less
drinking among juveniles. More
often than not,- however, the
youths won't talk and the offi
cers are rendered helpless.
. Perhaps if in these cases, at
least, juveniles would be more
cooperative if they were not so
sure their offense would be
shielded by secrecy. Albany
Democratic-Herald.
Higdon Author of
Cover Crop Article
R. J. Higdon, of the horicult
urad crops research branch of
the U.S. Department of Agri
culture research service, Med
ford, is the author of an article
on western cover crops appear
ing in the current issue of West
ern Fruit Grower magazine.
The article discusses the ad
vantages and disadvantages of
permanent - and annual cover
crops for orchards.
The lumber industry claims to
be the oldest in America, since
Captain John Smith brought
"eight Poles and Dutchmen for
the purpose of erecting saw
mills" to Jamestown Colony in
1608.
jPOTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
A Medford doctor we know
last week went into the woods
with a group of veteran bear
hunters. The doctor was a novice
at the sport. ,
Luck was with the party, and
they'd not been out too long
before they heard the baying ox
the hounas. The men tramped
up and down the steep terrain
and finally arrived at a tree
where the dogs had cornered the
bear, which was about 50 feet
up.. The tree was on a steep
side-hill," which the doctor
climbed to a point where he
could practically look down the
bear's throat. He fired, and down
came the bear.
ftn route hpme, word pre
preceded the physician , and the
doctor's children, all excited,
ran up and down the street cry
ing,. ;Daday shot a bear! Daddy
shot a bear!"
The result was that when the
conquering hero arrived home
there were about 75 people on
the reception committee.
So, if you have occasion to
drop into a certain clinic in town
ana asK for Dr. Davey Crockett,
theyii Know who you mean.
Speaking of hunters, J. H.
von nununann, of Ashland,
tninks ihey snouid be tested
for color - blindness before
being issued a license. And
he's got a good argument, too.
He relates how, early in the
season, he was deer hunting
in the Green Springs area, and
sat down for a breather on a
large rock. He was suitably
attired in red hat and red
shirt. Visibility was good, tie
said. But suddenly a rifle
bullet slammed into the rock
he was sitting on, about six
inches from him, showering
him with chips. There Was a
second shot, too, which went
wide.
Von Kuhlmann saw the man
who was doing the shooting,
and ran toward him. but didn't
catch him. The shooter climbed
into a truck and raced away,
eluding von Kuhlmann after
they got to the main high
way. Whether the guy was color
blind and trigger-happy, or
whether someone was gunning
for him, he's not sure. But he
still thinks color - blindness
tests for hunters would be a
Good Idea.
Remember the man mentioned
here a few weeks ago who
bought two chipmunks for his
youngsters, then bought a cage
for them, then lost the chip
munks before he got home?
VieU, he's still having chip
munk troubles.
A friend of his read the item,
and guessed who the man was.
The friend acquired two more
chipmunks, and brought them
as a gift. The youngest daughter
Washington
WATCH THIS MAN
Washington If you want to
know today what Democratic
party policy and strategy are
going to be tomorrow, keep an
eye on Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson.
of Texas. He's the man to watch,
In the last session of Congress
he was a valuable man to watch
but now more than ever. The
reason is that during the com
ing months Mr. Johnson is going
to be exercising an influence on
Democratic affairs far more
powerful than would his nor
mal role as Majority Leader in
the Senate.
TN HIS unobtrusive, let's-talk-
this . over,., what's-good-f or-the
whole-party, quietly - decisive
way, Sen. Johnson is actually be
coming the Majority Leader of
the Democratic party in the na
tion. This will be more evident
when Congress reconvenes in
January. It is already evident -to
watchful political writers and to
the diverse array of Democratic
leaders who, one after another,
have lately been dropping in at
the Johnson ranch in South
Texas.
Sen. Johnson's voice in Demo
cratic matters would ' not be
heeded the way it is now being
heeded if he were primarily
serving his own personal ambi
tions. As a by-product of what he
is doing, his position as a na
tional political figure will be
enhanced, but for the present, at
least, Sen. Johnson's objectives
are the objectives of numerous
other influential Democratic
leaders. I feel sure that Sen.
Johnson, though he has not late
ly been talking much for publi
cation, would not deny it if I
said his objectives were these:
1. To keep control of Demo
cratic party policy predominant
ly m the hands of. the party s
Congressional leadership.
2. To make sure that Demo
cratic policy continues to reflect
the "moderate consensus" of the
party and that the 1956 Demo
cratic platform rests on and rati
fies this policy.
3. To keep the Democratic
Presidential nomination open for
at least another six months, and
if possible right " up to the na
tional convention itself.
' 4. Sen. Johnson has one other
objective more particularly his
own: to ensure that the Demo
cratic South will be able to exert
an influence upon the nomi
nating convention ;,. reasonably
of the chipmunk man accidental
ly let one get away, one day, and
it scampered into the crevices of
a davenport. The other one got
away entirely, and hasn't been
seen since.
Now the one in the davenport
wasn't through yet not by a
long shot. Somehow it escaped
that piece of furniture and
wound up in the rear of the re
frigerator. Our chipmunk man
got out the family vacuum clean
er, put on a long attachment,
and retrieved the chipmunk
from the refrigerator, wind
blown but unharmed.
Shortly thereafter, his friend
brought two MORE chipmunks,
making a net total of three. The
ending to the story (if, indeed,
it is an end) is that a young vis
itor the other day let all three
of the surviving chipmunks out
of the cage, and they have .van
ished totally.
By now,, the man wishes he'd
never heard of a chipmunk.
Many people complain these
days they can't get their cars
into their garages. Maybe Jun
ior's toys are in the way, or it
could be garden tools, or pack
ing boxes, or maybe dad's
building a boat.
But a family on West Main I
st. has a different problem.
They've got an airplane ul
their garage.
Not a model, either a ie8l.
live airplane.
Commuters needn't - worry
about sudden and unexpected
take-offs, for it has neither
motor nor wings. But it's a
real airplane. 0 '
A recent issue of the Oregon
Health Bulletin, published, by
the state board of health, tells a
tale of devotion above and be
yond the call of duty.
Three . sanitarians of . the
health department recently vis
ited Roseburg to collect mosquito
larvae in connection with., re
search for the state mosquito
eradiction project They collected
about 40 pints of stagnant water
which were full of the larvae,
and took them back to their
motel. Then they cleaned up and
headed for dinnerl
Well, it was a warm August
day. And they left the lid of one
jar slightly loose. So, when they
returned in the evening, they
found the larvae had hatched
out - .,
The Bulletin says: ; .
"There may be. humans in
this world to whom the sight of
400 to 500 voracious adult mos
quitoes loose in a bedroom would
cause instant headlong flight.
Even the strongest could hot
be censured for at least retreat
ing for a bug bomb. But these
men were of sterner siff.TIn a
monumental battle which some
feel may , go down in public
health history, the three recap
tured every one' of their prizes."
Roscoe Drummond
equal to its electorial importance
to Democratic victory. -These
are the objectives which
Sen. Johnson has been .working
on while - he has been steadily
recovering from his heart attack,
objectives which he will have in
an advanced stage when he re
turns to Washington next month.
.
V"HAT SEN. Johnson is really
getting at is this:
He wants to keep the substan
tially conservative center of the
Democratic party in command
of the Democratic party.- -
He doesn t want any nit-pick
ing opposition to the White
House- because he believes that
was the fatal error of the Re
publican party- when it was out
of office so long).
He wants to reduce the danger
of rival contenders for the Demo
cratic Presidential nomination
riding rough-shod over the Dem
ocratic Congressional record in
bidding for fringe support with
in the party.
He wants the -national plat-"l
form and the selection of the
Presidential nominee to reflect
the Democratic record in Con
gress, not be at variance with it.
He wants to postpone until at
least toward the end of the nekt
session of Congress a coalalcing
behind any one Presidential
candidate so that the Congres
sional leadership will have had
further opportunity to write its
record of policy into 1956 legis
lation.
EN. JOHNSON'S greatstrength
comes from the fact that he
is not a lone-wolf political op
erator. He succeeds largely by
persuasion, not by dictation.
He himself is going on the
premise and will help make it
reality that the Solid South's
pro-Republican break-away is
over. But he wants to make sure
that the South is not taken for
granted at the 1956 convention.
The plan is to get as many South-
ern delegations as possible
pledged to Sen. Johnson or other
"favorite sons" for bargaining.
purposes. Since Mr. : jonnson
does not really expect to be nomi-.
nated, there will be a tendency
among supporters of Sevenson,
Harriman and .Kefauver to go
along with this plan or not to
resist it very stubbornly.
For a variety of reasons I-
would say, keep an eye on Lyn
don Johnson.
(Copyright 1955.
New York Herald Tribune. Inc.)