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Today and Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann PCS! THE PLATFORM AND SEGREGATION What the Democratic Conven tion did about the problem of segregation in the public schools is n o t merely of party but of n a t ional in terest. For here is as ex plosive and divisive an in ternal prob 1 e m as the c o u n t ry has had to deal with in this century. At Chicago the political leaders of the South conferred and negotiated with the political leaders from the Northern States, many of whom depend for elec tion on the vote of Negroes in the big cities. The question was whether these leaders could find a com mon ground, a substantial com mon ground and not merely weasel words, on which though they differ they are not ir reconcilably divided. If the Dem ocrats, who are a national party in all sections of the country, have answered the question sue- Walter LJppmann cessfully the country will have reason to hope that a dangerous sectional crisis has been avoid ed. THE discussion has enabled us to see what in this argument words like ''extreme" and "moderate" really mean. The two poles, the two extreme posi tions, are, on the one hand, a policy of federal enforcement, and on the other hand a policy of forcible defiance and nullifica tion. Either policy would cer tainly have split the Convention irreconcilably. Once the extremes of enforce ment and of forcible nullification were put aside, a great decision had in fact been made.The de cision is that the problem of seg regation in the public schools is to be dealt with not on the plane of force but of persuasion. This decision, freely and openly negotiated and agreed to by the powerful political leaders from all sections of the country, is an event of national importance. The Republican convention can not negotiate such an agreement because the political leaders of the South are not represented in the Republican party. The Dem ocrats have a legitimate right to claim that they have made a big contribution to the internal unity of the country. rpHE crucial question of how to work for desegregation was a difficult one to answer in a few words for a party platform. For the answer cannot be the same answer in Vermont and Mississippi. It cannot be the same answer in every school district in the same State, nor even, in practice though not in theory, in all the neighborhoods of a city like New York. Where deseg regation is a really difficult ques tion as, to speak plainly, in co educational schools for teenagers in mixed neighborhoods, persua sion must not only be slower but it may well require radical changes in school policy, say in the policy of co-education, and big financial contributions from the State or Federal Government to see to it that the educational level is not reduced. Considerations of this kind cannot be spelled out in a party platform, and in the last analysis the responsible leaders from the various sections must know that they will have to depend upon the character and the general convictions of the candidate, that the policy of persuasion will be what he, if elected, will make it mean. rT IS no accident that Gov. Stevenson, who has so much political strength in the South, is also the candidate of Sen. Humphrey and of Sen. Lehman and of Mrs. Roosevelt, who is surely the oldest and best friend of the Negro people. Support as wide as that has not come to him because he has some slick for mula which means one thing to the South and another' to the North. It comes from the knowledge of the responsible leaders that he means to solve the problem without tearing the country to pieces, and that to this complex and explosive problem he brings imagination and insight and deep knowledge and an old-fashioned sincerity. 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The bureau said Betsy was sweeping more and more toward the northeast at 23 miles an hour. The hurricane was expected to continue its present course at the same or slightly greater speeds for the next 12 hours. Then it is expected to speed up. Weathermen said if Betsy con tinues in its present direction it is not expected to threaten the New England states with either high winds or heavy rains. However, the bureau warned that Betsy still packs a dangerous punch. Ships were warned to ! stay clear of the hurricane's path. Friday, August 17, 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Thornton Rules on Bridge Authorization Salem (U.R) Attorney Gen eral Robert Y. Thornton said yesterday that the State High way Commission is authorized to construct interstate bridges ar.d to enter into contracts or agreements with domestic or for eign political subdivisions for that purpose. The opinion was requested by State Rep. Orval Eaton, Clatsop county, in connection with a proposed bridge across the Co lumbia river at Astoria. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon . Saturday; 10 a.m Monday for Monday: other days 5 :30 previous day. Union Pacific's fteam&te ride PORTLAND ROSE THE . Also direct service to Bone, Denmy , Salt Lake and Sc. Louis. UNIT Fast, Luxurious, Dependable Sernc. ' L"1 PortUod 9:J0 P-- i7 roA.t. UNION PACIFIC TRAIN ifftgf PnMOW MM WWfMMMf till III ' '. j CM CApitot 7-T7T1 1952, and what is going on now is a, bold and ruthless attempt to recover that control. . Mr. Truman himself warned us some little time before the convention that he was not an elder statesman, a role which he regards with contempt, but a practical politician. Nobody quite believed him. There is an aura which clings to men who have been President of the United States. None of us can ever ignore it, and Mr. Truman's re marks were taken to be more evidence of his modesty, his homespun, folksy, whimsical and charming earthiness. His words were in fact literal ly true. Forget that he has been President of the United States. Forget that he has had every honor that his party can bestow upon him. Forget that he is 72 years old. What remains is the normal professional politician who would rather control the party machinery, though he loses the election, than win the elec tion under a candidate who will deprive him of his control of the party machinery. TN THIS role, that "of a political boss fighting for the control of his party, Mr. Truman's be- j havior in Chicago is standard practice and quite normal. His I main objective has not been to nominate Harriman, or to show the Democrats how to. win the election. His main objective has been to stop and to destroy Stevenson. Why? Because Stevenson is at the head of a new generation of Democratic leaders, of the young governors and the young legislators, who are now taking over the Democratic party. The nomination of Stevenson will mark the end of Truman's pow er as distinguished from his in fluence, in the affairs of the Democratic party. The argument that he has used against Stevenson is that he does not think Stevenson can win against Eisenhower. This is the most deadly argument that ca be used in a political convention. In 1952 it was the argument that destroyed Taft in the contest with Eisenhower. But to be deadly, it must be used on behalf of a candidate, such as Eisenhower in 1952, who is unquestionably stronger than his rival. Otherwise it is' a mere device, and that is what it is when used by Truman against Stevenson in behalf of Harriman. For while it may be very doubt ful whether anyone can defeat Eisenhower, there is no objective evidence of any kind to indicate that Harriman is as strong a national candidate as is Steve son. Indeed there is every reason to believe that Harriman would divide the regular Democrats and do nothing to win back, much to repel, the Democrats who voted for Eisenhower. The outstanding fact of the Harriman candidacy is that it has no life of its own, has never been tested outside of New York, and depends upon the political power that Mr. Truman can still exert. When a professional politi cian like Mr. Truman backs a weak candidacy, which has never been put to any popular test, it is a sure sign that he is more in terested in who controls the party than he is in who wins the election. AT THIS writing there is' good reason to thing that Mr. Tru man has failed and that the con trol of the Democratic party will pass to the new generation under Stevenson's leaders hip. 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