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tOXJK MEDFORD (OREGON) UOT "Everybody Is Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-flHl DriPrnT W RTTTTT Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager I. C. FERGUSON Managing Editor EASRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD Jtwtu spora ciiwi OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor IARL H. ADAMS. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act ol March 3.' 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ,, -r i Da f r t-i ti lfUi y Mail in iwvamc. to rrr Da'ly and Sunday One yea: . -i r 1 Civ mAntnl n rttl vauy ana aunusj - -- Daily and Sunday Three mot 3.50 Sunday Only One -year $3 j0 By Carrier In Advance - Medford. Ashland. Central P,pl Pt& Jacksonville. Gold mil. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: ,,. nn Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month M Carrier and Bealers 5c per copy All Terms t-aa" m Cffleial Paper ot the City of Medford mncmi raycr i - United Press Fial Leased Wire " MEMBER , OF AUDIT BUREAU OF: CIRCULATION Advertising Kwesentatlve: Offices in New York. Chicago De troit, ban rancia. "7" Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCll-ATLQN 3 sj J N CAW SPA PER. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 8, 1946 (It was Tuesday) Mrs. Dale Stephenson installed president of the Medford Lady JayCees; Mrs. Don Stansell in stalled vice president. . From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Older Girls are weighing plans for repaper ing the whole house. The wall paper in the kitchen where the J 1945 calendar hung is a brighter hue than other areas. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 8, 1936 (It was Wednesday) Medford city council agrees to provide employment for 16 per sons between 16 and 25 under the national youth administra tion program. League of Oregon Cities sched ules Southern Oregon regional conference at Medford. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 8, 1926 (It was Friday) Jacksonville city council asks ordinances b drawn up prohib iting dancing after midnight Sat urday night and prohibiting mo tor vehicles on streets with the "cut-out" open. From Foots Creek news: Joe Woodcock and wife have taken possession of their new home on Evans creek and called at the Carle place Monday to get their cow. The cow decided not to go home that day, but consented to go when they came again on Tuesday. 40 YEARS AGO e Jan. 8, 1916 (It was Saturday) . Residents of Phoenix will vote next week in annual election; E. G. " Coleman, candidate for mayor. ' Rain which began less than ..8 hours ago and has continued in termittently since is hailed as a welcome change in the weather. What's the Answer? Can You Gei 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Racial segregation has been banned by the Interstate Com merce Comm. after Jan. 10 in interstate or intrastate travel, or both or neither? 2. More babies were born in the U. S. in 1955 than in any other year; right or wrong? 3. Most married men on death do or don't leave most of their estates to their widows? 4. Which U. S. crop has the highest annual dollar value: cotton, wheat, tobacco, corn or hay? 5. Which country in western Europe is controlled by a man whose first name would be "Feancis" in English? 6. Most U. S. labor unions do or don't in their constitutions require an affirmative vote by members to call a strike? 7. The name of Dr. James A. Naismith is associated with what sport? The answers: 1. In interstate. 2. Right. 3. Most do. 4. Corn. 5. Spain under Gen. Francisco Franco. 6. Most do. 7. Basketball. TALLY-HO! . De Smet, S. D. (U.R) Clar ence T. Jensen, Erwin, S. D., was fined $10 and costs for driving on the wrong side of the high way. Jensen told the judge he was chasing a rabbit with his vehicle. MAIL TRIBUNE A Partisan Session The US congress starts out true to form. The President's message is given 3 rousing cheers by the Republicans, and approximately the same number of sneers by the Democrats. , , This strictly PARTY division promises to con tinue throughout the session. For this is a presidential election year. The presi dential candidates will be selected in 7 or 8 months, and the fate of the nation be decided two or three months thereafter. . CO WITH a few rare exceptions the representatives of both major parties in Washington will not be so much interested m what might be best for the country, as what will be best for themselves and their party. There is nothing unprecedented or unusual in this. Congresses in election years, have always been less concerned with principles concerned with what they than wnat might benefit them. TT IS too bad. For the great need of the country at A this particular time is not more partisanship but more statesmanship. It is true we still have "peace and plenty" the sun of prosperity for the majority is shining brightly in a clear blue sky, but in all directions there are ap parent to observing people clouds on the horizon some VERY dark ones and what George Washing ton said about war and peace is equally true of good times and bad ones the time to prepare for the latter is during a period of the former. jDUT that very little time in either House will be - spent in this direction is indicated by the reaction of the Republican leaders to President Eisenhower's opposition to any tax reductions until we have a bal anced budget. They don't dare oppose their popular party leader directly, but reading between the lines it is readily apparent that in their opinion the pressure for lower taxes from the upper brackets will prove too strong eventually for the present administration to resist. It is equally doubtful if anything really construc tive will be accomplished to benefit the lot of the farmer. Leaders of the two parties will stage a wild free-for-all in-promising more. and more to the hardy tillers of the soil, with the sole purpose of garnering the rural vote ; but if any of these panaceas work out satisfactorily AFTER the votes are counted or even enacted it will be a surprise to most impartial stu dents of the problem. CO THE Poor Pedestrian might as well prepare for a partisan Kilkenny affair in Washington, from now until adiournment Tt is one nf the inesotmohin penalties "we the people" That has been, except in pattern of US congresses past, mere is no reason to year. R.W.R. In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Ho! Hum! We're less than a week into the year of the big wind and here's what dominates the news: TAemocratic congressional lead "ers including Oregon's not quite dry behind the ears yet Democrat, Senator Morse disa gree with Ike's report in his State of the Union message yes terday that America's outlook is bright with promise. Morse says: "President Eisenhower is look ing at the world, at home and abroad, through rose-colored glasses." Senator Richard Russell of Georgia a statesman except for occasional lapses in campaign years when his party is out of power and wants to get back in says he is not quite as opti mistic as President Eisenhower as to the adequacy of our de fenses. Consider the Democrats' situa tion; If they concede that America's future IS BRIGHT, they haven't a very good argument for getting back into power. People will then say "Don't change horses in the middle of the stream." Under the circumstances, the Democratic politicians just HAVE to be pessimists.' So much for the Democratic politicians. Let's now take a look at the Republican side of the fence. GOP Senator McCarthy let fly with a haymaker at the Eisen hower adminstration, asserting that it would have a much bet ter record if it would get rid of "the Paul Hoffmans, the Harold Stassens and the Milton . Eisen howers." This morning he blasts Fed eral Judge Bailey Aldrich of Boston for acquitting a former Harvard research assistant on charges of contempt of congress. He says the judge's decision is "ridiculous to the point of be ing ludicrous." (Judge Aldrich ruled that Mc Carthy acted beyond the powers of his sub-committee two years ago in a one-man probe of sub version in defense plants. The man acquitted as a result of the decision had refused to tell Mc Carthy whether he knew any communists in defense plants.) W hat's biting McCarthy? Well, a year or so ago he Sunday, January 8, 1958 politically speaking will than -with politics, more think will please the voters must pay for the luxury of timp nf war. flip nnfoiiino- in presidential years in the expect an exception this . was a block-buster. New he's a dud. He comes up for re-elec tion a couple of years hence and he realizes that unless he gets backinto the spotlight he's a goner. T think I'd like to close this rather cynical piece with a little advice to voters who want their country to be wise and great and prosperous down through the generations: If you are a Republican and face a choice between a states manlike Democrat and an any-thing-Lord-to-get-elected Republ ican, VOTE FOR THE DEMO CRAT. If you are a Democrat and face a similar choice between a GOP statesman and an any-thing-for-votes Democratic poli tician, VOTE FOR THE REPUB LICAN. We NEED statesmen. We have too many politicians. Fire Extensively Damages Dry Kiln Prineville U.R) A fire fanned by winds reaching 55-60 miles per hour Friday caused considerable damage to a dry kiln of the Hudspeth Pine Lum ber company mill here. The fire, of undetermined or igin, broke out about noon, and was burning under control five hours later. No lumber was in the kiln when the fire started. The blaze destroyed the kiln's roof and spread through the structure's interior, causing extensive dam age to equipment. Damage was estimated at about $25,000. Company officials said it would take three weeks to re build the kiln. Production of the mill was not hampered. No Decision Yet On Milwaukee Armory Washington (U.R) Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore.) said Saturday he has been informed that no decision will be made on location of an armory in the Kellogg Park area of Milwaukie, Ore., until after Feb. 1. A letter from Assistant Secre tary of Defense Franklin G. Flo ete said Army officers were sur veying sites and would not rec ommend one until the survey is completed, Norblad said. I Matter of Fact THE DECLINE OF SAC Washington Within a rather short time, the American Stra tegic Air Command will be measurablv weaker than its Soviet compet itor, the Stra tegic Air Army of the Red Air Force. It may sound a bit nightmar ish to say that SAC is now losing the p r e d ominant strength that has been the Joseph Alsop heart and cent er of the free world's defense for the last decade. But no other conclusion can be reasonably drawn from the American gov erment's own intelligence fore casts, as agreed and approved by the Nationtal Security Coun cil itself. The melancholy contrast be tween Soviet and American rates of production of advanced aircraft types was disclosed in the last re port in this space. It was disturbing enough. But the really dis t u r b i ng fea ture of the present situa tion is the way these produc tion rates must Stewart Alsop inevitably change the balance of air-atomic power. As the Russian air production program indicates, the Soviet Strategic Air Army is being lavishly re-equipped. Its slow, short range TU-4 bombers are being sloughed off. Their places are being taken by excellent jet bombers, the medium range "Badger" and the long range "Bison," which are comparable to our own B-47 and B-52. YIITHIN about 24 months, the " Soviet Strategic Air Army will consist of somewhere be tween 600 and 800 long range "Bisons" and somewhere be tween 800 and 1,000 medium range "Badgers." These manned aircraft will be importantly sup plemented, moreever, by the medium ballistic missiles, cap able of reaching any European target, which the Soviets are also turning , out in quantity. In the same time period, the American Strategic Air Com mand will retain its existing medium range force of 1,500 B-47s. The only improvement will be made in SAC's 11 long range groups, which have a total of no more than 330 aircraft. In these groups, obsolete B-36s are being replaced by B-52s, but this replacement is going so slow ly that it is unlikely to be fin ished within 24 months. By the end of 1957, therefore, the Soviet Strategic Air Army, with its "Badgers" and its guid ed missiles, will have medium range striking power at least equal to the power of SACs 1,500 B-47s. Meanwhile, with 600 to 800 "Bisons," the Stra- Editorial Comment FLOODS AND THE ROGUE RIVER PROJECT The Grants Pass section of the state suffered about as sev erely as any in the December floods when the Rogue river overflowed its banks and caus ed extensive damage, particular ly in the vicinity of the Savage Rapids dam. As the Grants Pass Courier points out, local dis agreement on plans for improve ments in the Rogue River wa tershed has effectively delayed a project which would have yielded substantial benefits in flood control. The Legislature of 1939 ap propriated funds for water sur veys of streams around Grants Pass. The object then was to store water for reclamation. The state enlisted the cooperation of the Reclamation bureau which spent a great deal of time and money obtaining the necessary engineering data on the Rogue river watershed and finally came up with alternate plans for multiple purpose improve ments: water for irrigation and power, and flood control. Hos tility of sportsman groups and recreationists caused Oscar Chapman, secretary of the in terior, to put the project on ice. The Fish and Wildlife Ser vice was asked to make a study and report on the consequences to fishlife of dams in locations proposed, but after five years it still has made no report. Some attempts have been made to obtain an agreement on a compromise plan, so far with out success. The late floods have stirred renewed ' interest in a multiple purpose1 project. It is reported the floods by scouring out the river bed seriously damaged the spawning grounds below dam sites, probably doing far more injury to fish life than the dams would cause. The Courier sums up the situation quite accurate ly when it says: "The heart of the Whole argu ment is in the matter of a dam or dams on the main stem of the Rogue. "Without local agreement on that issue, we can expect plenty By Joe and Stewart Alsop tegic Air Army will have at least twice the iong range strik ing power of SAC and the dis proportion may be considerably greater. On a straight plane-for-plane basis, the Strategic Air Army will then have the edge on SAC. .-' TUT SAC's brilliant command- er, General Curtis LeMay, and the Soviet Strateigic Air Commander, Lieutenant General V. I. Aladinski, will not just be counting planes and missiles as they measure their relative strength. They" will be thinking' a great deal, for example, about their relative freedom of action. General Aladinski - will have absolute freedom of action. Gen eral LeMay will have none. For his big punch, General LeMay will still have to depend on his medium range force; and this force of B-47s will still be utter ly dependent on its bases over seas. In fact, denial of those bases will have the effect as the total destruction of about two-thirds of SAC's airplanes be fore the' shooting even starts.. In other words, General Le May will be in pawn to the na tions that control those overseas bases the nations that may so easily deny those bases to SAC under threat of Soviet H-bom-bardment. That was of course why General LeMay asked this year for an urgent program to provide SAC with 1,900 B-52s. General LeMay's request was refused for the usual budgetary reasons. Thus SAC's future in feriority to the Soviet Strategic Air Army was by implication accepted by the Administration policy-makers. And in another area of defense budget-making, this future inferiority of SAC was doubly assured. ! IN BRIEF, the U. S. Air De fense Command now has al most no fighters fit to intercept the new Soviet jet bombers American fighters of advanced type, F-102s, F-lOlBs, and F-104s, are good enough to do the job But mere trickles of these ad vanced fighters are being or dered under the current defense program. Thus this country will still have no interceptor force worthy of the name, when the Soviet bomber force reaches full strength. Meanwhile, the Soviet Air De fense Command is being very rapidly re-equipped with the remarkable "Flashlight" night fighter and "Farmer" dayfight er. The "Farmers" and "Flash lights" must be expected to im pose heavy losses on General LeMay's bombers perhaps half the planes engaged in each at tack. But General Aladinski, with slightly more strength than General LeMay, will need to fear only the most trifling loss es. This, in itself, will drastically alter the balance. If you can add up these facts to any other conclusion except the one stated above, you must employ the peculiar mathemat ics that can only be learned on the highest level at the Penta gon. 1956, New York Herald Tri bune Inc. of storm and fury and more expense and no practical ac complishment." If the recent flood damage doesn't force concessions from the various interested groups so an improvement program can be started, then that part of the state seems doomed to suffer continuing losses from floods and from wasted waters that might be harnessed for power and reclamation. The writer has had a continuing interest in this development because as Gover nor he approved the launching of the studies back in 1939. He hopes that the rule of reason can be invoked to obtain early action for the general benefit of the region. Oregon States man, Salem. German Children Send Two Dolls To Area Two dolls, dressed as German natives, arrived at the Red Cross office in . the courthouse this week from the Junior Red Cross of West Germany. They are be ing circulated in the county schools. The boy is dressed in black pants, hat and coat, with a green vest and white shirt and the girl is in a black dress, apron and shawl, with a colorful hat. The clothing was made by hand by German youngsters, according to word from a Red Cross official in San Francisco. They are "symbolic and tang ible proof of the unhibited good will which exists between child ren and young people in dif ferent parts of the world," the of ficials wrote. Light Earthquake Felt In Japan Tokyo (U.R) - A light earth quake was felt Saturday in northern Honshu Island, the Kydo News Agency reported. The agency said the shock came at 7:25 a.m. 3:25 p.m. PST Friday. There were no re ports of damages or casualties. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves vhe right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Defends Mrs. Lyman To the Editor: I am writing in behalf of Mrs. Blanche Lyman. I have been a foster parent for the past six years, and have had constant association with the welfare office and Mrs. Ly man. Having worked in the pub lic some 12 years I have never found a more loyal, conscienti ous person to her responsibilit ies. I believe that , the fact she has served 21 years in the wel fare office is commendable in itself. There are many better paying positions I'm sure she could have had and with less responsibility and grief. Unless a person has had as sociations with such organiza tions they cannot ' realize the many, many problems that con front a person in Mrs. Lyman's position. It would take a very loyal and understanding person to ful fill such a responsibility, one who, after all the years of deal ing with people's problems and having to make decisions if they were eligible for help or just trying to receive some thing for nothing, can still re main Christian enough to want to help a fellow member who was at that time suffering from a family tragedy. True that Mr. Huebner made a grave mistake, also that Mrs. Lyman may have made an error in judgment. But she no doubt felt that maybe, in some small way, she could help a person under great mental stress. Are there any of us who, at sometime in our lives, has not used poor judgment? I think not. Certainly that doesn't mean we are disloyal in what ever the position might of been. . I sincerely hope that anyone reading this who are -foster par ents or that have had any con nection with Mrs. Lyman all these past years will send in their appreciation of a loyal public servant. If a person can't say anthing good about a person it s far bet ter to say nothing at all. Mrs. B. R., Route 1, Box 590, Talent, Ore. Hearing Aids Needed To the Editor In connection with the Junior Service League Kindergarten for Hard of Hear ing Children, we have . become aware of the need for securing hearing aids for children. Unused, unwanted adult hear ing aids can be repaired for use by hard of hearing children whose parents are unbale to purchase new aids. It has come to our attention Today and By Walter DEMOCRACY IN TROUBLE The French voters have elect ed a parliament in which one third, of the members . may be counted as hos tile to parlia mentary gov ernment. Out of about 600 deputies some 150 are Com- - munists and about 50 are Fascists of sorts. The re maining two- W'alter Llppman thirds are di- vided in two tinns. neither unstable coali of which com- mands anything like a majority of more or less like-minded dep uties. 1 Yet under the French system the executive power in the gov ernment is the creation of the parliament. The executive is de pendent for its existence on ar rangements and combinations and deals among the factions in the Assembly. The executive impotence which results from this has now progressed to a point where there is no govern ment strong enough to write an election law and to organize an election under which a true and effective majority can be elect ed. The timing of this election and the conditions under which it was fought are the direct product of the importance of the executive power of the pre vious government. The crucial question is wheth er constitutional and electoral system can still be reformed by democratic means by a coali- ton of the democratic parties. If this is to be done, the members of parliament who still believe in parliamentary government will have to lift themselves out of the morass by their moral boot-straps. Perhaps they will. For otherwse there would seem to be a choice between an auth oritative restoration of the ex ecutive power and a fatal degen eration of the French system of government. "CiRANCE is the victim of a of a political disease to which all democracies are susceptible. It is that the popularly elected legislature will become all-pow erful, thus reducing the execu Impartiality . To the Editor: Each year we spend many thousands of dollars to train and maintain our various law enforcement agencies. We equip these organizations with the most modern equipment to be used in the detection of of fenses against the laws of our country. After being trained and equip ped our police officers are fully capable of performing their duty which is preservation and en forcement of the law. A pari of that duty is to file complaints and to aDtear as witnesses in cases of which they have per sonal knowledge. This is of great importance since they are train ed observers and investigators. It is not conducive to good law enforcement procedure if our not suDDort our police officers. Our courts must realize that they are a part 01 a system which not only penal izes violators of our laws but that they also have a responsi bility to assist in the prevention nf further violations. This can be accomplished locally when our courts realize that people no longer fear minimum fines anJ susnended sentences to con finement. Our courts must get tough and they will receive only as much respect as is due them. Our courts must not select a case occasionally of which to make an example. Each and every case must be an example of impartiality and when guilt is established the sentence must be of sufficient severity to pre vent further offenses of like nature. Dan F. Krotz II, Chairman for Community Service, Steelhead Post, VFW, Shady Cove, Ore. - that there are children in our community who need hearing aids in order to keep up their school work or to preserve their remaining hearing. ' Anyone having any type or Darts of hearing aids can donate them by t calling 2-5406. After the hearing aids are put in wont ing order, they will be available to hard of hearing children of any age, recommended by their physician or the Public Health Department. There will , be no charge for the use of the hear ing aids. . ' "" These hearing aids will be available to any child whose parents are financially unable to obtain them any other way. Medford Junior Service League - Tomorrow Lippmann tive to impotence. Experience seems to show that the demo cratic system ' is extremely un stable, and liable- to fall down into dictatorship, if the executive is wholly the ' creature , of, is wholly dependent upon, the leg islature. It is almost certainly no ac cident that excepting ' only Switzerland which has a special and ancient tradition the suc cessful Western democracies are either constitutonal monarchies as in Great Britain, in the lead ing members of the Common wealth, in the Low Countries and in Scandinava, or are like the United States, where the executive is separately elected and has a popular mandate sep arate from that of the legisla ture. . The French system, which has been described as that of the "enthroned legislature," lacks the essence of executive auth ority an executive possessing a legitimate mandate of its own. - ALTHOUGH our own system wnc rlici an&A n arrti trip dangers of the enthroned legis lature and the impotent execu tive, we cannot take bur own system for granted. Between 1950 and 1954, in the last years of Truman and the first years of Eisenhower, this country suf fered a much milder but none theless a painful and. debilitat ing attack of the same disease which afflicts France. During this time the Presid ent's constitutional powers to conduct foreign relations were gravely impaired by a Congress ional usurpation of which Mc Carthy was the spear-point. It was not until after the elec tions of 1954 that the President recovered most of his constitu tional powers. It has been since . then, and only since then, by the way, that the country has thought of Mr. Eisenhower as a successful President. The last two years of Truman and the first two years of Eisenhower were an in- glorous and dangerous period in . our history. They were a period of what Woodrow Wilson called Congressional govern ment, by which he meant Con gressional usurpation of the ex- POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) ECF The compilers of Potluck, in cluding the regular rrfem'bers of the Mail Tribune's news staff and friends of the paper who . send in amusing or interesting items from time to time, find it improssible, this week, to con tinue as if nothing has happen ed. Fergie died last week, and Fergie was somebody special to each of us. He was a friend and counsellor as well as a boss. It was he who originally start ed this Potluck column and kept it going as an outlet for the hunderd and one little, off-beat items which found no other log ical resting place in the paper. It was his sense of humor and balance which in large measure was responsible for the fact that the Mail Tribune's news room is a" friendly place operating as a team. When illness made it impos sible for him to come to the office, we were the losers. Now that death has come for him, we know it will never be quite the same again. $25,000 Budgeted For TB Treatment An appropriation of $25,000 has been budgeted by the state board of control for purchase of anti-microbiol drugs for treat ment of tuberculosis, according to Dr. Ambrose Churchill, direc tor of the tuberculosis division. Dr. Churchill told a meeting of the Oregon State Health Of ficers association the drugs are for post-sanitarium persons who have been discharged to live at home under close medical super vision. Distribution will be made locally through the ; Jackson county health department and should cost the taxpayer much less than hospital care, Jackson county health officer Dr. A. E. Merkel, said. He praised the Jackson County Public Health association for its part in providing patient care and finding facilities for chest x-ray at the two local hospitals, all of which is financed through purchase of Christmas seals. Salem Has Third Of Sfafe Employees Salem (U.R) A third of Oregon's 20,654 state employees are stationed in the Salem area, a survey by the State Civil Ser vice commission showed Satur day. Portland, Corvallis and Eu gene ranked in that order as centers of state employment af ter Salem. . Other cities had a scattering, including 121 at Oregon City, 128 at . Albany and 73 at Mc Minnville. In the Portland area are 2,749 full-time workers and 796 part time workers. In Corvallis, there are 1,505 full-time state workers and 1,261 part-time workers. Eugene has 1,064 full-time state workers and 995 part-time employees. Judge Crawford To Sit On High Court Salem U.R) Chief Justice Harold J. Warner said Saturday that Circuit Judge James W. Crawford of Portland has been appointed to sit as a temporary member of the Oregon Supreme Court. - The action was taken by the court under authority of an act passed by the 1955 Legislature to expedite the court's business. Judge ' Crawford will assume his duties at once and will con tinue for a limited time. The court will soon call at least two more circuit judges to act con currently with Judge Crawford. The chief justice said the cir cuit judges called to Salem un der the program will be replaced by judges pro tem selected from members of the bar. ecutive power of government. rpHIS BEING an election year, the fundamental question be fore the country is whether and how and by whom the Presiden tial office is to be maintained in its full powers within our system. A weakness in the Pres dency, a vacancy in the Presid ential office, threaten that bal ance between the Congress and the executive which is the inner principle of our constitution. The role of the President in our system is such that, insofar as human beings can take precau tions for the future, it is their duty not to gamble and not to take imprudent risks. For, as we can see by looking around the world, democracy is a difficult form of government and in its future is not yet as sured. It is more than ever nec essary that in America demo cratic government should be able to govern effectively. See ing to that is the main business before the American people. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune Ins.
