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Newspaper Page TextFOOT MEDFOHD (OREGON) MEDFORDvTRIBlWE Tvrryone In Southern Oregon PublahM Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-215 North Fir St. Phone 2-4141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertuinc Manager GERALD LATHAM. Buiinesa Manaeer ,nn, ALL Jrf., Managing fcditor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPiJAN' Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE EK1CKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medlord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1357 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six month 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mot. 4 23 Sunday Only One year $4.20. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Aahland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River, Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy AH Terms Cash in Advance Offirlal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County Uni ted Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Adverttsin Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago, de troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vanrotjvr. B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOdhATLN hnnnniu'H'lui NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 23. 1346 (Monday) The matter of meat inspection In the state was the main topic of discussion at a meeting of the Jackson county board of health Friday. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: There is no shortage of ammunition this year. There is plenty for humans to shoot each other, and the so called wild life. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 23. 193S (Wednesday) The taxable valuation of Jack son county property for the year 193S is S24.063.620 as fixed by the county assessor. Ira C. Moss withdraws today as a candidate for mayor of Med lord. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 23. 1326 (Thursday) The opening luncheon of the Greater Medford club for the year will be held at St. Mark's Guild hall at 1 p.m. Monday. The southbound plane of the air mail service was late today, but the northbound plane was on time. 40 YEARS AGO Sept 23. 1316 (Saturday) At the annual convention of the Drama League of America recently held at St. Louis, plans were discussed to widen the in fluence of that organization. Jackson county WCTU will hold their convention in Med ford at the Baptist church Sept. 29 and 30. 80 YEARS AGO Sept. 23. 1308 (Sunday) A piano recital will be given by Miss Irene Brown at the Davis Opera house Tuesday. The second annual gun tour nament closed this afternoon at the shooting grounds. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copt. 193S Editorial Researcb Report 1. If Richard M. Nixon ever becomes President, he will be the 1st, 2nd. 3rd, 4th or 5th Qua ker President? 2. Most public school teachers are members of the Teachers Union, AFL-CIO; right or wrong? 3. Which of the authors of the four New Testament Gospels was of non-Jewish origin? 4. Less than one-fourth, about one-half or two-thirds, or more than three-fourths of U.S. adults use eyeglasses? 5. The island of Madeira in the east Atlantic belongs to Den mark. Great Britain, France, Spain. Portugal or Morocco? 6. Which President of this cen tury married a girl whose mai den name was Roosevelt. 7. An Ampersand is a unit of electricity, kind of gravel, print ing character, type of raincoat or Scotch fabric. The answers: I. Second (Hoover was first). 2. Wrong. 3. Luke. 4. About two-thirds. S. Portugal. 6. F.D. Roosevelt. 7. Printing character (St). ICEBERG NEARS AFRICA Capetown, South Africa (U.R) A 370-foot high iceberg from the Antarctic is drifting toward Capetown at a rate of more than 100 miles a day. it was reported today. Crewmen of the Ameri can tanker Ivy sighted the ice berg 1.200 miles southwest of Capetown. MAIL TRIBUNE How Dumb Are We? Just how dumb are the people of Oregon? That the Republican-chief-of-staff, one Leonard Hall, thinks the voter "I. Q." in this state is far below sea level, has been amply demonstrated the past few months by the upper-bracket strategy regarding this state. It all dates from the pressure put on by chairman Hall which in 24 hours, completely reversed the then Secretary of the Interior McKay's mind, as to resign ing his place in the cabinet and flying home to run against Senator Wayne Morse. One day Secretary McKay publicly declared for the steenth time he would NOT resign and would not make the race against Oregon's senior Senator. He was through with politics. The next day, after a lengthy conference with Messrs. Hall and Adams, he said he would and the next evening he was no longer a member of the Eisenhower cabinet but back in Salem and full of fight for a six year term in the Up per House. How come? When asked if this sudden switch was due to White House pressure Mr. McKay said "no," he had made up his own mind, aided somewhat, however, by overcoming the opposition of Mrs. McKay to six more years of politics and the insufferable Washing ton, D.C. climate. It is hard to believe that White House pressure had NOTHING to do with this sudden change of front, but there is no doubt that the Republican G.H.Q. believed the voters of Oregon, as a whole, would never seriously question it. How dumb can we get? MR- Leonard Hall also had no question apparently that more people of this state would vote for ex-Govemor McKay and against public power, if the eloquent and persuasive Vice President Nixon should tell them to do so. At least he would hardly have dispatched Nixon out to Oregon so promptly and with such a clear cut command, had he any suspicion that such action would lose votes for ex-Secretary McKay instead of making them. But that, undoubtedly, is what happened. Such a judgment certainly could only be based upon a very low opinion of the intelligence and dis crimination of the Oregon electorate. Mr. Nixon not only declared he and his party were against all public-power development but that the federal government by itself can not do the job of a full development of our resources at all, but only the "triple-barreled" Eisenhower program can do it whatever that is. We suppose it means, the job should be handed over to the private power industry, with financial aid from the government, and either local contributions of advice or cash or both. If this is correct then it also means not only the end of all further public-power development in this state and the northwest, but a repudiation of such federal power projects as contemplated or now ex ist, such as Bonneville, Grand Coulee and Hells Canyon. Can the people of Oregon be so dumb and so blind to their own self-interest as to swallow a bait like that? Apparently the G.O.P. High command thinks so or neither Mr. Nixon nor anyone else with such a fan tastic proposal would ever have been sent to Eugene to tell the people of this state, HOW to vote ! R.W.R. Unconscious Irony As a postscript to the above the Portland Oregon ian should reprimand its Page 1 make-up man. ' In its issue of September 20 the lead article on "column left" featured the reduction of power from Bonneville and the probable closing of several Ore gon industries as a result. Alcoa, one of the largest of them, might be forced to use steam power as a stop gap, the article declared, but could not afford to continue it long because of the increased expense. In other words while more hydroelectric power at lower rates is the crying need in the Portland area and throughout the state Mr. Nixon says "Nix!" QN COLUMN right Page 1, Vice President NLxon's attack on all federal power projects was featured under a three-column head and his claim that the only solution available is private power with pre sumably government aid and local controls, included. What an ironical juxtaposition ! For the only way cheap hydroelectric power in volume sufficient to keep step with Oregon's de velopment, CAN be secured is to rush work on the federal projects that have been started and approved, and secure a congress and administration that will promote and defend public power, not do everything it can to prevent and destroy it. The assumption of the GOP G.H.Q. must be the voters in wild and untailored Oregon are too dumb to see it R.W.R. Why? We are merely asking for information to-wit: Why is it that calling Senator Richard Neuberger "Slick Dick" is an occasion for issuing a "medal of merit" while applying the same term to Richard Nixon calls for Republican censure and issuance of a badge of shame? Ah partisan politics, what follies are committed in thy name ! R.W.R. Sunday. September 23. 1958 Today and By Walter NEW FACES It is being said that we are seeing two new men, a new Stevenson and a new Nixon, and that somehow by an act of will the starry eyed intellec tual of 1952 has made him self over into a tough politi cian, the ruth less partisan of 1954 has made himself into a Una H alter l.ippnmnn statesman moving at the higher levels. These two pictures make things simpler, it seems to me, than they really are. No doubt men change with ex perience and as they grow older. But it would be a mistake to sup pose that when the Governor of Illinois was nominated in 1952, he was not already a practical politician who knew his way around in politics. It is simply not so that he was an unworldly man, his head in the clouds or perhaps in books of philosophy, unused to the precincts and the grassroots, and so innocent, so intellectual, and so high-minded that he did not know or would not look at the facts of life. As for the transformation of the Vice President, it is difficult to tell in these days when most candidates read speeches written for them by someone else. TI IS true, however, that this - year not only Stevenson and Nixon but Eisenhower too are showing a different face to the electorate. Stevenson and Eisen hower are both high-minded men, and at the same time each in his way, Stevenson by exper ience and tradition, Eisenhower by intuition, is a practical poli tician. In 1952, Stevenson was run ning as Democratic candidate at the end of an unpopular Demo cratic administration. He had to separate himself in the voters' minds from the Truman adminis tration and he had to persuade the voters who wanted a change that with Stevenson they would get a change. The party organiz ation was Truman's, and Steven son had to appeal to the country over the head of Truman. In 1956, his position is radically altered. He has become not merely the titular but actual head of the Democratic Party, and now his need is to identify himself with the party, not to separate himself from it. Stevenson, in my view, has un usual political insight, and an unusual gift for seeing things as they are. His political judg ment in 1952 was quite accurate, and the kind of campaign he conducted reflected correcUy the difficult facts of his political situation: That the country In The Day's Nobody's shooting yet in the Suez area and the politicians are forking over the same old pile of straw. So let's turn to run-of-the-mill news: TWO San Francisco women died in the crash of their automobile into an embankment 18 miles south of Ukiah on High way 101. The California high way patrol says the car went out of control on a turn, hit the bank and rolled over. (Evidently the driver went into the turn too fast, which is an easy way to get into trouble.) 'V'EAR S a y r e, Oklahoma, a Lakewood Village (Califor nia) woman was killed on big Highway 66 when the car, driv en by her husband, collided head-on with another vehicle. (Responsibility in that case is hard to pin down. Not enough details. But SOMEBODY got out of his proper lane. When any car gets out so its own lane on a big modern highway bad trouble is apt to ensue.) THERE is heartbreak in this one: In Palm Springs a mother stood speechless and paralyzed with fear for half a dozen tragic seconds as her 18-month-old baby crawled in front of a car that was just starting from the curb. The baby died under the car's wheels. The driver, until he heard the mother's screams, was unaware of what had happened. (I suppose the bitter, heart rending moral of that one is that an 18-month-old baby must never be left out of sight for even half a dozen seconds.) SO MUCH for modern trans portation dangers. - Let's turn now to one that harks back to earlier days. PROMINENT 76-year-old rl Hood (Sacramento county) rancher was killed in a RUN AWAY. He was breaking young1 horse to harness in the time-honored wav pairine it with an older well-broken horse. The team was hitched to a cart. His son was helping. The father drove around the barn. When he came in sight again the team was running away. The son tried to stop them, but the cart hit a bump and the driver was thrown out. He fell on his head and died. THERE was a day when run 's- aways were as much a part of everyday life as car accidents are now. There was hardly a Tomorrow Lippmann wanted a change from Truman ism, that Eisenhower was virtu ally certain to win the election, and that the Democratic Party would survive to fight another day if he could give it a new lead. In 1956, he has seen, again I think quite accurately, that the Democratic Party is the major ity party, that there is a power ful undertow drawing the Eisen hower Democrats back to their part-, and that he has a chance to win if he can rally the Dem ocrats. fpHE business of rallying a par--- ty which extends across a continent usually means, in the absence of fierce Issues, that the national leader must involve himself in local politics in the various states. He must exploit the grievances which are im portant locally, he must support iocal hopes, and above all he must work with the local poli ticians. What is called practical politics is for the most part local politics, and it is bound to in volve the national candidate in contradictions and embarrass ment. What this can lead to was dem onstrated in 1952 when Gen. Eisenhower, against his better nature, sacrificed Gen. Marshall to appease McCarthy in Wiscon sin, and allowed himself to be embraced by Jenner in Indiana. Stevenson himself, though he has nothing like that on his conscience, has been doing more denouncing and more promising than he would do if he were not bent on rallying his highly di versified party. rpHE situation of the Republi-- cans calls for a campaign to hold on to the Eisenhower Dem ocrats. They have to take for granted the regular Republicans, the Eisenhower Republicans be cause they like Ike, the Old Guard Republicans because they feel confident with Nixon. The task of the President is to con vince the Eisenhower Democrats that his health and his energy are so good that he can be and will be the effective head of a second Eisenhower administra tion. The task of Vice President Nixon is to reassure the Eisen hower Democrats that if he be comes President, he will not abandon Eisenhower Republican ism. As compared with 1952 and 1954, the Republican situation in 1956 calls for a campaign at a high level. Since Stevenson when he stoops to conquer, does not stoop very low, the prospect is that at least at the top the campaign on both sides will be decent, and that the dirty play ers, such as they are, will work in the shadows. (C) 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc. News bv Frank Jenkins country town anywhere that hadn't seen nerve-tingling run aways right down its Main street. The standard pattern for a hero in those times was the brave young man who at peril of his life stood in the pathway of the runaways and seized a rein as they dashed past and brought them to a spectacular but safe stop. (Too often, of course, the young mn failed in his do-or-die attempt and injury or death to one or more of the occupants of the vehicle ensued.) THE death that stalks our high ways is a grim phase of our modern life. But I can't help wondering sometimes if every thing considered, including the vastly greater density of our modern population the hazards of our modern life are any greater than those that con fronted our forebears. Ever since life began, danger to life has been present. Matter of Fact By Jos and Stewart Alscp ODDS ON NASSER Washington The odds against a shooting war in the Middle East are now quoted rather high in official cir cles. But while the odds on shooting have been going down, the odds that Egyptian dictator Ga in a 1 A b de 1 Nasser will get away with his Stewart Alsop c o n t e m ptu- ous challenge to the Western powers have been going sharply up. The British, according to the official word, have all but prom ised not to fire the first shot. And if the British don't fire the first shot, so the reasoning runs. no one else will, least of all Colonel Nasser. Actually, British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden has not given Secretary o f State John Joseph Aisop rosier uuues any flat and formal commitment not to use force against Egypt. But all their conversations, dur ing the current London meeting, Communications Letters ro the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. not exceed 400 words. Reply lo Reilly To the Editor: I am writing this as an answer to Mr. Reilly's communication printed Sept. 19. Let us take it sentence by sentence. 1st. If the Al Sarena case is so much Democratic hogwash why don't McKay discuss it? 2nd. As Mr. Reilly stated they did have a patent on the mine and the right to sell the timber. No one. Democrat, Republican, Independent or Communist, ever said they didn't. 3rd. Mr. Reilly states, quote: "So what. That's the law." This must be corrected to read, that was the law, before Harris Ells worth was forced to change it to stop his colleague's under handed "give away" program in Oregon. 4th. About twisting the law. What is he trying to do, put sev eral thousand lawyers out of business? 5th. Mr. Reilly stated that Mc Kay believes the people can de velop their own states. Then why did he allow this person from Alabama do our job here in Oregon? 6th. In his last statement he spoke of pinkos throwing rocks. What does he call that statement if it is not throwing rock or mud on his part? He signed his communication with All America Constitu tional Party." I know nothing of this party, but if they all stand back and throw mud at every one who brings facts to the front, I am not interested in knowing about it. George E. Smith 636 Palm St. Medford, Ore. "The South Will Lose Again" To the Editor: Southerners who oppose racial integration are showing their bad side, and unwittingly the bad side of this country. Russia and Red China are probably right when they accuse us of being fourflushing windbags when we speak of America as the free world. True, the Civil War stopped the sale of the Negro on the auction block, but that was about the ex tent of his co-called emancipa tion. I was born and brought up In the south where they said Ne groes were beasts. I refused to believe it. I defy any surgeon, scientist, or anyone else to find any difference between the heart of a black man and that of a white man if they were laid out side by side for microscopic ex amination. The same goes for the brain and other vital organs. White or black, either can act like a beast and sometimes do. I've seen Negroes lynched without trial and their ears cut off for souvenirs, a beastly crime if ever there was one. The pres ent shameful behavior of our southern friends can be blamed on tradition, stupidity and false pride. They claim to "like the Negro in his place," which is generally as a poorly paid ser vant. If it were possible to re move all Negroes out of the south for 12 months so the whites would have to do their own work, I believe they would be welcomed back with open arms and given a better deal from there on out. Southern people are fighting the Civil War all over again and are destined for defeat once more because their inhumane treatment of other human be ings cannot be justified in the eyes of God nor man. Frank Strickland Cave Junction, Ore. Will Vote for Ike To the Editor: It seems to me that your communication section has been pretty one-sided in favor of the Democrats and I am sure there has been a lot of people who feel as I do but failed to get their article printed when writing to you. Now I have been hearing so have been based on the assump tion that shooting must be avoid ed, which almost amounts to the same thing. By contrast, on his first trip to London after the Suez crisis started, Dulles found the British willing and even eager to use force against Nasser. The British reasoned that Nasser must at all costs be taught a lesson. Other wise his open defiance of the Western powers would be fol lowed by more of the same all over the Middle East, disastrous ly jeopardizing vital Western in terests throughout the area. TiULLES' main accomplish " in all his comings and goings since Nasser seized the Suez Ca nal company, has been to per suade the reiuctant and skeptical British that Nasser could be taught his lesson without a shot being fired. The Dulles' version of how this might be done may be authoritatively outlined about as follows: First, the shipping of the ma jor maritime nations is to be di verted round the Cape, thus re ducing the Suez Canal to a "dry ditch" and weakening Nasser's bargaining power. This was, of course, the real purpose of the Dulles-Eden proposal of a "us ers' association" to control canal operations no one seriously ex- Letters submitted for publication must much about how wonderful the Democrats are and how much better off we would be if we vote them in, but there's one question no one else has seemed to think about. If they are so wonderful why is the South so poor and backward in progress? As a native of the South I can say they are about the poorest and backward there than any where in the U. S., and yet they have voted Democrat for years in their local as well as govern ment elections. I myself came out West and to the state of Ore gon because of this as the em ployment is higher and much better wages under a Republican controlled state, and I'm sure most folk who are from the South will have to admit that. I'm for Eisenhower and his ad ministration because it is a gov ernment for the people and has been run with honesty and sin cerity. We have gone from war to peace and from unemploy ment and better wages for all and I'm sure most of the people have the good judgment to see this in spite of what a few might think or say and will again vote for Ike this election and also for a Republican state government. Mrs. C. Poole, Prospect, Ore. Just A Matter of Arithmetic! To the Editor: In a TV appear ance in Medford on Sept. 18, Candidate Morse, who is solicit ing our vote as a Senate candi date, attacked the present Social Security program and proposed that the social security retire ment age be reduced to 60 and the present "shameful" scale of benefits be increased. May we apply a little arithmetic to this suggestion? The present scale of benefits provides a monthly payment of $100.50 for a man aged 65 who has had average monthly earn ings of $310. If his wife is also aged 65, she Is entitled to $50.30 additional even though she may never have contributed any taxes to the fund. What would be the result if this scale were to be applied to age 60 instead of age 65? One leading life insurance company will undertake to pay an income of $5.34 per month for life to a man aged 60 for a single consideration of $1,000. Therefore, $100.50 per month would require a single payment of $18,820. The same company requires a payment of $1,000 to provide a monthly life income of $4.62 to a woman aged 60. It would therefore cost $10,880 to provide the present income of $a0.30. These two figures total $29 700. That is arithmetic; it is fact, not opinion. It is true that the employer would have to pay a share of this, but regardless of who pays, the payment must come from the worker s production, that is, the employer's share is money that could be paid to the em ployee if it was not used up by taxes. Candidate Morse knows these facts. If he doesn't he isn't smart enough to be a Senator. Since he does, his advocacy of a low ered retirement age and higher benefits deserves to be branded what it is. It is a bald faced at tempt to buy votes by a prom ise that he can't redeem. Dick House, "The House of Insurance" Medford, Ore. pected Nasser to accept the pro posal. Second, economic pressures are to be brought to bear on Egypt, and these measures will in turn increase both the inter nal and external pressure on Nasser to make a reasonable set tlement of the canal dispute. When they begin to feel the pinch, it was argued, the small but internally powerful class of Egyptian merchants and busi nessmen will be eager for a set tlement. So will Nasser's oil producing Arab allies, whose oil revenues will be sharply cut. So will other countries on whose support Nas ser counts. Eighty per cent of India's trade, for example, is normally routed through the ca nal, carried largely in British bottoms, and a settlement will then be very much in India's in terest. TTNDER such internal and ex--' ternal pressures, Nasser is to be brought to a reasonable frame of mind, and he or conceivably a successor will ultimately ac cept the minimum Western terms. These terms boil down to some form of international par ticipation in the operation of the canal. Thus Nasser, according to the Dulles, version, is to be taught his lesson without the di rect application of force. Maybe things will actually work out that way. The slow ero sion of economic pressure, it is true, eventually brought old Mo hammed Mossadegh down, and forced an acceptable settlement of the Iranian oil dispute. But there are certain important dif ferences between the Iranian oil crisis and the Suez Canal crisis. Egypt is by no means as eco nomically dependent on canal revenues as Iran was on its oil revenues. Unlike Mossadegh, moreover, Nasser can turn to the POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Reporters are trained to write stories which are as unbiased and objective as possible. They don't always feel that way, though. Once in a while they write a story the way they'd like too but not for publicaUon. One such follows. The names have been changed to protect the innocent: "John Q. Doe spoke at great length to the Blank club at the regular meeting last night. "Doe's talk featured nothing spectacular, and consisted of a series of repititious platitudes, while a bored audience roared with apathy. As he sat down at the end of his talk, the crowd cheered in gratitude." And how many meetings THAT could have been written about! The tame reporter likes to cover those dinners where he doesn't have to pay for the meal. Assigned to one such meeting last week, he had a lapse of memory and had a big supper before leaving. It wasn't until ha saw the linen, the silver and great, heaping platters of fried chicken he remembered it was m dinner meeting. He choked down three big pieces, too. From time to time we feel called upon to report in this col umn on a typographical error we have spotted in this or an other paper. What we want to know is why it's so darn easy to get typo graphical errors when you DON'T want them, and why it is so darn hard to get them into type when you DO want them. A spirited discussion derog atory to jaywalkers was going on in the news room last week when the sports editor sud denly pointed out we might be slandering a member of tho Medford High school foolbaU squad Jay Walker, who plays right half. There are two people on the news staff among whose chief duties are the writing of head lines those things that tell you what to expect when you read the story. One of them writes heads for "wire" stories that is those which come to the paper via the United Press teletype; the other writes heads for stories which are gathered or processed lo cally. Sometimes a story which ar rives by mail will also arrive, in slightly different form, by wire. And once in a while it will happen that each of our two head writers will pick similar stories for use, without either knowing the other has done so. That happened last week. The reason it caught our fancy, how ever, is not because of the ob vious oversight in printing two stories on the same subject, but because both headline writers wrote heads which were identi cal in wording. A five-month-old parmeter chicken, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Sieck. route 2. box 674. Central Point, last Thursday laid an egg. It had three (not one, not two) yolks. Mrs. Sieck put the egg in the freeser. she said presumably to keep it to prove her story when friends doubted it. Did you ever see someone downtown whose face Is vague ly familiar but whose name or connection you can't, for the life of you, possibly remember? That happened to a friend of ours a week or so ago. Both said "Hi" to each other, chatted in idle fashion about the weather, and fell into step. As they walk ed, their conservation got vaguer and vaguer, they walked faster and faster, and soon parted at a corner, both somewhat con fused, embarrassed, and out of breath. Neither is yet sure who the "other guy" is. Soviet bloc for help he is al ready stepping up trade negotia tions with the Communist coun tries, including China. Finally, the economic pressure is by no means all one way. THE oil revenues the British lost in Iran were made up surprisingly quickly elsewhere. But even with the half-promised loans from this country, the economies of Britain and West ern Europe will be badly hurt by a canal boycott. Thus economic bargaining power is certainly not a Western monoply in the dispute with Egypt. The hard fact is that the threat to use force was the central ele ment in the West's bargaining power. No sensible man would argue that the prospect of an ugly little war in the Middle East was ever a pleasant pros pect. But with the prospect fad ing, and the threat of force vir tually ruled out by the Dulles' policy, the chance that Nasser will get away with his slap in the face for the West is immeas urably increased. If he does, the Western powers might as well resign themselves to more slaps in the face, in the Middle East and elsewhere. (Copyright 1956 New York Herald Tribune, Inc)