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o Fortune Says Foreign Affairs Are Beyond Capacity of Agencies New York. N.Y. American foreign affairs have become so complex and numerous that they are "beyond the managerial ca pacity of the men and agencies responsible for conducting them.'e Fortune magazine says in a special report on. the state department and foreign service to9 published tomorrow. "The world business of the U.S.," asserts writer John Os borne, ""in its sheer volume and variety defies the efforts of good (nen to keep it under executive control." The fact that it is kept under "minimum control", ac cording to the report, "is some thing of a continuing miracle." Running Qountry Fortune also says that U.S. ambassadors "are today" 'run ning' more countries than the records will ever show." The magazine states that the U.S. has had a hand in "making and unmaking several governments since World War II" and that "officially and unofficially" Americans "instruct and indirct ly command foreign armies. They manage and sustain nation al economics." The magazine reports that morale is higher today than it was while both the state depart ment and foreign service were under "constant Republican at tack" four years ago, but that the average calibre of the dip lomatic personnel of both de- parments "is lower than it was in 1953." The latter situation is the consequence, the magazine says, of "a merger, healthy in itself, of the operational staffs of the department in Washing ton d the foreign service abroad." Secretary of Stat Fortune states that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has been called by some a "terrible operator," "no administrator," "a lone virtuoso who has let the machinery of State go to pot." It is true. Fortune continues, "that Dulles has neither the liking nor talent for adminis tration. But it does not follow that the organization and man agement of the state department have been neglected." The re port says that under Dulles' di rection the state department and the foreign service have "under gone the biggest organizational revolution in their history," and that the organization of the de partment is "unquestionably in better shape today than it was when Dulles took over." Bad Check Artist Writes Way Into Job As Editor of Weekly Paper in Michigan Nance Named OLCC Administrator Portland UP) A former assistant director of the Feder al Housing administration in Oregon, Joseph A. Nance, has been named administrator of the State Liquor Control commis sion. Nance, 51, succeeds WiUiam H. Baillie, whose resignation was effective Thursday m i d night. Commissioner Earney Lu cas was named acting adminis trator and will serve until about March 15 when Nance assumes his new duties. Nance came to Portland in 1H35 from Washington, D.C., to open the local FHA office as as sistant state director. Later he was public relations director for 11 Western states. In 1942 Nance joined the staff of the Portland Housing Author ity and in -1944 became a con tract hauler and fuel transport er. He became managerj of the Oswego Country club in 1951 and for a time also managed a restaurant on Lake Oswego. Drummond Deplores Enmity Between Ike, Truman; Asks Truce o o By HOSCOE DRUMMOND Washington One of the most regrettable3 and hurtful aspects of American public life today ist jhe strained relationship J to put it mgdly between Pres-1 ident Eisenhower and former President Truman. n Trie blmit fact is that Mr. Eis 4nhowercsnd Mfe. Truman are not onpeaking terms. The have not seen each oth er, spoken to each other or al lowed themselves to be in the s;tie"room ittteach other since the Inauguration on Jan. 20, 1953. Their meeting then was compulsory. Tpy have been in the same city more than once and have never arranged to see one anoth er. Most (Correspondents believe they arranged not to see one another. Each is deeply offanded in the other. JDach i profoundly and sin cerely convinced that the other is (, fault O ALL OF this wouldn't matter much if only Mr. Eisenhower and Mr. Truman were concern ed. Probably many of us do Qiot speak to somebody. But when the President of the Unit ed States does not speak to a former President of the United States, this cannot fail in some measure to hurt the Presidency, to take something of quality from American political life and, at times, to handicap the gov ernment. It seems to be that this strain ed relationship between Presi dent and ex-President is ser iously disserving the nation righ at this moment. On March 10 the6reek and Turkish gov Gernmeflts are commemorating the tenth anniversary of the " "Truman Doctrine'' which brought economic and military aid to ese Iwo countries in time to save them from Com munist domination. These gov ernments very much wanted to hav the former President of the United States as their honor guest to celebrate the occasion. Secretary Dulles passed on the Oinvitation and Mr. Truman fouMi himself previously engag ed a o flfcider all the circustances I canned escape the feeling that fc) if the invitation had been han dled differently Mr. Truman would fitt have ound that it had arrived too late; that is, if President Eisenhower had per sonally conveyed the invitation PICTURE TUBES o PJUVENATED Is your picture tube dull and weakf Most picture tubes can be restored to original brightness at only a fraction of the cost of replacement. For farther information CALL Electronic Service Jackson, Mich. U.PJ Don Lowry became editor of "The Spectator," a weekly newspa per, by writing bad checks. He never made much money writing checks. But under Low ry, The Spectator is expected to show a profit in 1957 for the first time in 31 years. In 1948, Lowry, an employee of a medical research labora tory, traveled from his home in Canada to Detroit "to have a few." He went on a check- bouncing spree which extended his stay. He has been at Jackson prison ever since. . Lowry had never written any thing but "rubber checks' be fore his work on The Specta tor. Last year, with Lowry at the helm, The Spectator trebled its size and circulation. It be came the first prison newspaper to deal with advertising agen cies in New York and Chicago. Colorful Writers Robbers, ' thieves, arsonists and murderers write for The Spectator. Interspersed are ads for sandwich spread available at the inmate store, typewriters, jewelry - making materials and best selling books. Besides providing inmates with a rundown of news from prisons around the world, The Spectator takes readers) as far Monday. February 25. 1S57 MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE away as South Africa and Japan. Gov. G. Mennen Williams gets a copy regularly, as does mystery writer Earle Stanley Gardner. The paper leans heavily on irony. In the question and an swer column, a question goes, "When is the greeting 'Happy returns of the day' considered appropriate?" The reply: "Only your parole officer can answer that question." To Belter Things , Staffers have graduated from the "confined" quarters of The Spectator to work on outside newspapers. One is an associate editor of a Michigan weekly, I Pennsylvania has about 13,327 church buildings, more than are to be found in any of the other states. another works for a daily in Il linois. Lowry is prison correspond ent for the Jackson Citizen Pa triot and the Lansing State Journal. He free lances for oth er newspapers and sells articles to trade magazines and house organs to support his 10-year-old daughter. When he is paroled or releas ed at the end of his sentence in 1962, he has two jobs already waiting. "It's rewarding," he says, "to see your work in print instead of on a warrant for your ar I rest." TIT FOR TAT . Milford, Conn. (U.R) De tective Hugo Blanderi, a private investigator checking violators of Connecticut's Sunday blue laws, himself was accused of the same violation for working on the Sabbath. TURNABOUT FAIR PLAY Grenoble, France (U.R Twelve mountain rescue dogs were rescued Sunday when a party of Alpinists reached a snow-bound station with ruck sack loads of meat for th starving canines. YOUR LAST CHANCE For Night School This Year CLASSES BEGINNING MARCH 25 Accounting Math English Shorthand Typewriting Business Law Calculators Spelling SPEEDWRITING Robertson SCHOOL of BUSINESS 40-42 N. Riverside Medford, Oregon and had anDointed the former President as an official repre sentative of the United States. As it is, a valuable opportunty to further American good will is dissipated. WHAT has brought this all about a situation truly un worthy of these two very grand human beings? Only the participants can real ly say why they feel as they do but I can cite the overt in cidents which produced the breach. In the 1952 campaign Mr. Eisenhower was stunned by the vitriolic political attacks which President Truman launched against him, implying at one point even that he was pro- Nazi in his sentiments. Such "campaign oratory" was abso lutely incomprehensible to Mr. Eisenhower and at the time he remarked: "Why, he twice in vited me to run for the Presi dency, and this is what he says!" Then there was Mr. Truman's sarcastic telegram to Mr. Eisen hower offering him the Presi dent's plane for the campaign promised trip to Korea "if you still want, to go." On the other side: when Presi dent Eisenhower was in Kansas City early in his first term, Mr. Truman phoned to the tempor ary "White House" at the Muehlebach Hotel to say that he would like to call to pay his respects. Perhaps the message never got to Mr. Eisenhower, but the call was not returned and no appointment was given to the former President. Mr. Truman has also never been invited to the White House when he has been in Washington. He has remarked to friends: "I am the most snubbed former Presi dent in American history." T KNOW only one American of equal stature who is a close and cordial friend of both Mr. Eisenhower and Mr. Truman. He is former ' President Herbert Hoover whom Mr. Truman brought back into active govern ment service after Franklin Roosevelt had snubbed him for twelve years. Mr. Hoover, why don't you invite your two friends to din ner so they can wash away their differences and start fresh? Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. 1 " A Q ' 1 Doesn't new Royal 76 belong in your picture, too? It's the West's most" powerful premium gasoline. It makes driving there almost as enjoyable as what you do after you arrive. You get it at your Union Oil station where (customers tell us) the Minute Man's service is as good as his gasoline. At the sign of the , big 76 where you know you always get the finest. 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