CD
o
co
o
o
'O
; O
4 Thurtrfay, July It, 1951
I MAIL. TRIBUTE, MEOFORS, ML
; MEDFORDrTEIIUNE
"Everyone in Southern vrecoa
Z Reads The Mail Trilftine'r
! Published Daily except Saturday by
f MEDFORD PRINTING CO
t 33 North Fir St Ph. SP.2-6141
i HERB GREY Advertising Manaret
t GERALD LATHAM. Business Ikigr.
. ERIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor
EARL H ADAMS City Editor
HARRY CHIPAN. Teleg Editor
RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor
i OLIVE STARCHER. Society Edttor
. DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr.
A An Independent Newspaper
Entered as second class matter at
1 Medford Oregon under Act of
March 3, 189i
S SUBSCRIPTION RATES
2 By Mail In Advance: Copy IOe.
Daily and Sunday 1 year S1300
; Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00
S Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 455
Sunday Only One year $4.20
J By Carrier In Advance Medford
. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle
Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill
; Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv-
er Talent, and on motor routes.
Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00
Daily and Sunday 1 mo 1.50
Carrier and Dealers copy 10c
All Terms Cash in Advance
Official Paper of Ciry of Medford
umcial Paper of Jackson conniy
Unitgii Press Full Leased Wire
MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU
OF CIRCULATION
Advertisintfc. Representative:
WEST-HLIDAY CO.. INC, Of
fices in New York, Chicago, De
troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles,
Seattle, Portland St Louis. At
lanta. Vancouver. B C
tO SfctfSPAPEt
k rUBLlSSEKS
2 NATIONAL ItlTOglAl
t m t ""V t
ASSOCfl-ATljajN
Hj I.UU
Flight 'o Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from th files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 29. 39 and
40 yean ago.
10 YEAgtS A (JO
July 10. 1948 (Saturday)
Screen Guild, productions,
a full-fledged motion picture
industry, plans to set up shop
in the Rogue River valley
filming outdoor sequences. -
The Rogue Valley ' Radio
club has -awarded prizes to
local amateursr including
three to Bud Lasson: the
grand prize, one for working
the-greatest distance and one
for making the most contacts
on code.
20 YEARS AGO
July 10. 1938 (Sunday)
,Miss Helen Norris, Medford
writer, is author of a play
to be broadcast on the First
Nighter hour next Friday.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Roast
ing ears will soon be ready
to eat. They are as awkward
to eat as a bowl of Chinese
noodles, but worth it."
30 YEARS AGO
July 10. 1928 (Tuesday)
L. Walter Dick, in charge
of the Medford weather bur
eau, announces he will fur
nish information on ocean
tides for Medford residents
planning to dig clams at
Crescent Ci?y or Bando. ,
From "Local and Personal"
column: "Federal Prohibition
Agent Terry Talent, who re
turned Sunday evening from
Portland driving "a new eight
cylinder Auburn sports road
; ster which he will use" while
on duty in this section, will
"be stationed here indefinite
ly, according to present
plans."
; 40 YEARS AGO
t July 10. 1918 (Wednesday)
i Two coachloads of'Marines
In drill uniforms staged an
t impromptu concert while
their train stopped at the SP
depot this morning.
1 What's Your I.Q.?
- Nina or ten . correct is . superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good. .
1. The Statute of Liberty in
New York harbor isapproxi
mately 50, 100, or 150 feet
high?
2. At what point do Centi
grade and Fahrenheit ther
mometers register identical
ly? ; ; - .
3f Are Indians naturally
beardless? : " .
4; Halley's Comet reappears
about every 55, 65 or 75
years?
5. Besides "Nutmeg State,"
"the Land of Steady Habits"
Is also applied to what New
England state?
6. Brown shell eggs are
more nutritious than white
sell eggs; true or false?
7. Japan did, or did not de
clare war againsto Germany
during World War I?
8. Common - law marriages
may be' contracted in all
states; true or false?
s SL What portion of an ex
tremity of the human body is
popularly called the funny
bone or crazybjne? , ,
10. What was the first name
of the movie "shiek" whose
last name was Valentino?
Answers: 1150. 2 40 de
grees' below xero. 3 No. 4.
75. 5 Connecticut. 6
"False. 7 Did. 8 False. 9
Elbova 10 Rudolph. ,
' U.S. -Soviet Exchanges
Forty U. S. students are expected to arrive in
Moscow on Sunday, July 13, to make a tour of the
Soviet Union. Meantime, 19 Russian students and
a youth leader arrived in New York July 7 to be
gin a four-week visit to this countiy.
For all the coldness at the top level, cultural
exchange between U. S. and U.S.S.R. citizens is
being accelerated in a variety of activities. The
basic arrangement under which most-but not all
of these East-West wisits were arranged in a
document signed in Washington last Jan. 27.
It was negotiated by Ambassador William S.
B. Lacey, special assistant to Secretary of State
Dulles on East-West matters, and Georgi N. Zar
oubin, then Soviet Ambassador to', the United
States. Covering educational, technical, sports
and cultural activities, it was expected to lead
to exchange visits this year by 500 U. S. and 500
U.S.S.R. citizens.-
CEN. Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.), on June 9 in-
serted in the Congressional Record a progress
report on the exchanges, adding that in addition
to these semi-official visits, "between 4,000 and
5,000 Americans will go to Russia" this year.
Among the more notable Russian groups to come
here this summer was the Moiseyev Folk Dance
Ensemble. The Philadelphia Symphony Orches
tra, which returned from a tour of Russia July 6,
was reported received as enthusiastically behind
the Iron Curtain as were the Russian dancers in
this countiy.
In addition to the exchange of young people
on vacation tours this summer, a swap has been
arranged for September in which 20 university
students from each nation will be formally en
rolled in regular courses in the respective host
countries. More than two score top U. S. track
and field stars are to engage the Soviet Union in
a dual meet in Moscow on July 26 and 27.
COVIET Russia has begun to show a new in-
terest in tennis, having sent two junior stars
to the Wimbledon championships this year. So
Jack Kramer announced June 24 that he would
take three of his pro tennists on a three-week tour
of Russia, probably in September. A group of
U. S. "educators is to inspect the Soviet school
system this summer in a visit arranged outside
the cultural exchange agreement but with the
cordial blessing of the U. S. State Department. '
A group of U. S. women doctors toured Rus
sia in May and June. Further exchanges of medi
cal arid "scientific experts are in progress or in
the making.
However, a U.S.-Russian deal on the ex
change of motion pictures, which was to be a
salient feature of tne new arrangement, remains
in limbo. The Soviet government so far has been
insisting on a picture-f or-picture barter. This has
little attraction for U. S. producers, who would
much prefer out-right sales or rentals. Communist
Poland and Hungary have bought U. S. films, and
with East Germany and Czechoslovakia individu
al deals have been arranged. . ?
7 . , .
pONGRESS of late has been hospitable to U.S.
V . Soviet cultural exchange. Sen. J. William
Fulbright (D-Ark.), on May 21 asked Secretary
Dulles in an appropriations hearing, "Why are
you content with the same (funds) as last year"
for student exchanges?
" The House had voted the $20.8 million to
which Dulles at Budget Bureau insistence had
limited his request. The Senate, June 11, added
another $10 million for educational exchange.
But over Fulbright's complaint at such "non
sense" House-Senate conferees cut the final
amount to $22.8 million.
Probes, Proper and Improper
How the House Legislative Oversight commit
tee is digging up data on Sherman Adams is stir
ring up almost as much interest, and controversy,
as what it is digging up. What, is proper and im
proper in Congressional committee investigations
is again being discussed as heatedly as when Mar
tin Dies (D-Tex.), was chairman of the House
Un-American Activities committee (1938 - 45)
and the late Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wisc),
headed the Senate subcommittee on government
operations (1953-55).
There is, however, one great contrast. Today
the Harris subcommittee is criticized for the kind
of testimony it has let witnesses give in answer to
questions. In the Dies and McCarthy heydays the
chief criticism was of the kind of questions put
to witnesses.
A "CODE of fair practice" for its investigating
" committees was adopted "by the House on
Mar. 23, 1955. This, among other things, let wit
nesses be accompanied by counsel, and gave ac
cused persons the right to reply to accusations and
to ask that rebutting testimony be received.- Also,
if a committee decides that testimony "may tend
to defame, degrade or incriminate," it is to be re
ceived only , in secret session and made public
only by decision of the-full committee.
The Code failed to include the often demand
ed right of. accused to cross-examine witnesses.
However, a ban was placed on one-man hearings,
which had often lent themselves to abuses.
- . . t-E.R.R.
rE.R.R.
Dennis the Menace
'KTTeH$lMClC,y$'. HWAUNycwtt letaie have?'
Matter of Fact
THE SKIING ADENAUER
New York If'Averell Har
riman is comfortably reelect
ed to the New York Gover
norship as
the signs now
suggest he
will promptly
become a can
didate for the
D e m o c ratic
P r e s idential
nomination in
1960.
The news is
jospb Aisop not olli c l a i.
No other politician in the
United States has anything
like Harriman's knack for
total absorption in the task
of the moment. His , present
task is being Governor of New
York state, and to get himself
reelected as Governor of New
York .state by the most im
pressive majority possible. He
is thinking and talking about
nothing else but this immedi
date task. 1
But though the news is not
official, it can still be stated
with high certainty that Har
riman's reelection as Gover
nor will have the national po
litical sequel above-indicated.
A good many people have
doubted whether Harriman
would again seek the Presi
dency, even if he wins again
in New York by a big ma
jority, for the quite obvious
reason that he is now sixty-
six years old.
He will, therefore, be sixty-
eight by the time the Demo
crats gather to choose their
next Presidential nominee. In
theory, this is surely too great
an age for a man seeking to
assume the terrible burdens
of the White House.
TUT in practice, Averell
Harriman at sixty-six looks
not more than fifty, and he
lives at a pace that most men
of forty would be hard put
to match., As he is fond of
pointing out, Harriman is also
fourteen years younger than
Konrad Adenauer, who is still,
at eighty-two, the strongest
leader of the western nations.
And instead of the golf in
a golf-cart practiced by his
contemporary, President Eis
enhower, Harriman's favorite
sport is skiing. Almost every
winter week end, he skis with
conspicuous energy and vio
lence.
A much more youthful Ade
nauer, still wholly capable
of swooping down the steep
est snow slope that, one can
predict, will be the picture
of Harriman presented to the
public when and if his Presi
dential candidacy is declared.
Furthermore, anyone who is
disinclined to take this condi
tional Harriman candidacy
with x complete seriousness,
had better remember the spe
cial Harriman rule of political
analysis. - '
Possibly the trouble is that
Harriman's own determina
tion to succeed in all his
projects is so concentrated
and, in an odd way, ungainly.
At any rate, myriads of peo
ple have repeatedly yielded
to the temptation not to take
Averell Harriman seriously,
whenever he was beginning
a new chapter in his formida
ble career. On the experience
of these myriads is founded
the Harriman rule, which
reads: "Always take him seri
ously, or you'll get your fin
gers burned." -
rpo'BE sure, Harriman's Pres-
idential bid is still wnouy
conditional. If he is not re
elected to the New York Gov
ernorship, Harriman will have
to retreat into 'the already
over-populated ranks of the
Democratic party s elder
statesmen. But if Harriman
will not think or talk about
anything but the Governor
shiD. he is at least ready to
talk about that, and talk at
great length and with much
astuteness. . .
Harriman not only thinks
Joseph Aljop
he i going to win the Gov
ernorship again. -He is also
all-out to win the Governor
ship by the kind of majority
that will impress Democratic
leaders in other states,?,
Certainly he has lot of
assets. To begin with, all but
the more frenzied Republican
partisans admit that Harri
man has made a good gover
nor. To help out, he has made
himself some nice, cosy, useful
state issues, by solid, common
sense improvements in New
York state's important struc
ture of social and welfare leg
islation and administration.
".'
THEN too, Harriman has
measurably strength e n e d
the Democratic organization
uptate. In the main Republi
can stronghold in New York,
in ; fact, Democratic Mayors
and City Councilmen and
County Supervisors have ceas
ed to be exotic blooms. The
crop is not exactly big or
flourishing yet, but there are
enough of them nowadays to
be decidedly impressive. And
finally, Harriman himself has
shaken more upstate hands
than any Governor, Demo
cratic, or , Republican, in all
of New York history.
With all these local factors
to fight against, the probable
nominee, Nelson Rockefeller;
is also going to have to fight
against the nation-wide drop
in the prestige "of "the Eisen
hower administration, plus the
strong Democratic tide that
seems to be running all over
the country. In short, Rocke
feller (if he is the man the
Republicans tap) is plainly
going to have a rough time
preventing Averell Harriman
from reaching his next ob-.
jective.
If Harriman attains that ob
jective, winning the Gover
ship by a good majority, the
rest will follow rather
promptly and pretty inevita
bly. It is highly possible that
Harriman will not be able to
overcome the really big ob
stacles that will stand between
him and the . Presidential
nomination, even after his re
election here. But he is sure,
at least, to speak with a very
loud voice when the Demo
crats make their final choice.
That, perhaps, is what he
really wants.
i
Copyright 1958, New York
Herald Tribune Inc. .
POLAND OUSTS ISRAELITE
Warsaw, Poland (UPI)
The Polish government has
ordered the first secretary of
the Israeli legation out of the.
country for alleged "activity
contrary "to the interests of
P o 1 a n d." The government
charged Wednesday that Ja
cob Barmore tried to enlist
Polish citizens in anti-Polish
"activity."
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
KENNETH WEESNER of Marion, Ind., solemnly swears his
automobile was stalled on a lonely country road when he
distinctly heard a horse remark, "It's probably the carburetor."
Understandably dumb
founded, Weesner demand
ed of the horse, "Was it you
who just spoke to me?"
"Who else?" said the horse.
"What's more, his diagnosis
was absolutely correct.
.Weesner's car again in
apple-pie shape, he tootled
up to the farmer's cottage
and said, "That horse of
3'ours just told me how to
fix my car!"
"That's funny," admitted
the farmer. "Usually we
pay no attention to him
vhatever. He doesn't know a darn thing about automobiles."
A 12-year-old girl was taken to her first symphony concert, and
was bowled over by it "Father," she reported excitedly to her
father that evening, "they played Beethoven's Fifth. It was marvel
ous! I wouldn't have changed a note of it!"
j-f) 1958. bJ Bennt Cert, putribyted by gjjij; future Syndicate.
Communications
Letten to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the writer although under cer
tain circumstances the use of a
pen name or initial for publica
tion is permissible. The Mail
Tribune reserves the right to
edit all , letters with an eye to
clarification and condensation.
Letters - submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
The letters printed in this
:olumn do not necessarily repre
sent the views of the paper, in
(act the contrary is often the
case.
The "Timid" AMA
To the Editor: One infal
lible sign of a decadent soc
iety is unwillingness to as
sume responsibility for its
own acts. It is this irresponsi
bility nlus a callous disregard
for human life that seems to
have prompted the . Lane
county AMA to recommend
restrictions on the Holt fam
ily program for bringing Kor
ean orphans into the U. S. for
adoption.
It is quite true, as the learn
ed gentlemen of the healing
art allege, that many of these
babies are the offspring of
American Service men sta
tioned in Korea. As such, they
are very definitely American
responsibilities. To attempt to
solve the problem by sweep
ing it under the rug in the
hope it will lie there and be
forgotten would simply mean
in this case, condemning hun
dreds of innocent infants to
die of malnutrition and ex
posure, and of diseases born
of these factors.
I leave it to the aforesaid
learned gentlemen to explain
how this adds up with the
solemn pledges embodied in
the Hippocratic oath to which
every reputable physician is
supposed to subscribe.
It is true that' the Holts
have brought in, by special
arrangement,' some suspected
tubercular cases for treatment
at a Denver hospital. A Jew
ish hospital if you please, be
cause the Jews know what it
means to be unwanted and
despised and persecuted, and
out of the bitter depths of
their experience has come a
compassion for all who suf
fer, which one might wish
was shared by these timid
ones in Lane county who have
"grave concern" lest a few
sick babies constitute a men
ace to public welfare.
After all, if we, the richest
nation on earth with the most
advanced means for" combat
ting disease, are to be panick
ed into running from such a
small problem, we certainly
have no place m this atomic-
space age but are already on
our way to join the dinosaurs
and the dodos.
Oregon and the nation, it
seems to me, have every rea
son to be enduringly proud
of the Holts and their high
vision and selfless dedication
to human welfare, and to be
equally ashamed of the tim
orous, bigoted attitude of the
Lane county AMA in this sit
uation. Grace N. Pearson,
Route 2, Box 50,
Jacksonville, Ore.
Deferred Vacation
To the Editor: Anyone late
for their deferred vacation?
There is, or rather there was,
a place in the "mother lode"
country, the only hotel in the
world located in Plumas coun
ty, California, where the man
agement invited their guests
to pay for their meals and
rooms with "free" gold they
pan out. from the hotel's own
rich gravel bar on the prop
erty called the Rainbow'te End
hotel.
To all outdoorsmen it
should be a pleasure to work
as well as to combine work
with pleasure most anytime
of year from January . to
Christmas. At the rate of the
present price of gold, seems
that the effort would be much
easier to pay for a meal than
at the old price of 16 to 19
dollars a troy ounce back in
horse and wagon d?ys and
bicycles built for two.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman,
Medford'
Stop Me
Important-
Won by Chancellor
By CHARLES M. McCANN
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Chancellor Konrad Aden
auer has just won one of his
most important political vic
tories.
For the first
time, his Chris
tian Demo
cratic Party
has won a
'$A clear majori
ty in the leg
islature of
North Rhine
Westphalia, West Germa
ny's largest state.
Adenauer's victorv means
that about 25 per cent of the
electorate of West Germany
has approved his decision to
equip the cpimtry's armed
forces with tactical atomic
weapons. (
For months, the Socialists
had campaigned not only in
North Rhine-Westphalia but
throughout the countrv.
against "the atomic death."
Not Intimidated :
Soviet Russia had helned
or thought it did by making
dire threats of the catastrophe
that would overwhelm West
German in a nuclear weapons
war if Adenauer carried out
his decision. ;
i It was intimated that if
West Germany's armed forces
were equipped with tactical
atomic weapons, Russia would
arm East Germany , similarly:
The voters evidently were
not intimidated by either, the
Socialist admonition or the
Russian threats. '
By his victory, Adenauer
has 104 seats in the North
Rhine-Westphalian legislature
against 81 for the Socialists
and 15 for their Free Demo
cratic Party allies.
Adenauer also will have, as
the result "of his victory, 31 of
the 41 seats in the' Bundesrat,
the upper house of the West
German Parliament. That is
because the state legislatures
elect Bundesrat members.
Majority Assured
Thus Adenauer will have a
nearly three-to-one majority
in the upper house, in which
any changes in the federal
constitution must be approved
by a two-thirds majority.
Adenauer took the decision
to equip the armed forces with
Editorial
Comment
MEDFORD LOOKS BETTER
As we flew into Medford
the other day, we found a
new reason why Eugene and
Lane County should take ad
vantage of every opportunity
to work together for an im
proved passenger depot at
Mahlon Street field. An air
port is an approach to a city,
just as -a highway is. And in
that department, Medford has
Eugene beaten, and badly
beaten. . .
The tourist who flies into
Medford walks.into a modern
building where he finds a res
taurant, smart shops and a
cosmopolitan air that says,
"This is a busy place, this
Medford." Quite a contrast it
is from the one-horse appear
ance of nothing more than a
couple of buildings on the
edge of a cow pasture. Eu
gene Register-Guard.
INTEREST RATE CUT
Washington (UPI) Senate-House
conferees agreed
Wednesday on a compromise
bill to cut the interest rate on
government " loans to small
businesses from 6 to 5V2 per
cent. Under the compromise,
the, new interest rate would
apply only to the federal por
tion of the money made avail
able by the Small Business
Administration and private
lenders.
i XV-
LJU
Charles M.
MeCmn
"A small trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to
your eye and it fills the' whole world and puts every
thing out of focus. Hold it at proper viewing distance
and it can be examined and properly classified. Throw
' it at your feet and it can be seen in its true setting,
just one more tiny bump on the pathway to eternity'
Celia Luce -
Chapel Mortuary
Across from the Courthouse
Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass, FUNERAL DIRECTORS
DAY OR NIGHT - " PHONE SP 2-8030
Political Victory
atomic weapons reluctantly.
He decided, however, that
West Germany's armed forces
must have the best possible
equipment and that no mod
ern army can be ; properly
equipped without atomic
arms.
As for the Russian threats
Adenauer and the voters
were not impressed.
They realize the terrible im
plications of an atomic war.
But they realize also that if
there is an atomic war, West
Germany will be in the first
line of Allied defense. They
realize that despite any prom
ises to the contrary, Russia
would use nuclear weapons
against West Germany wheth
er it had nuclear weapons or
not.
Troop Detest Russia
As for the threats to arm
East Germany with atomic
weapons, Adenauer undoubt
Today & Tomorrowi
By Walter lippmann
THE DEFENSE OF ADAMS
Washington .Thus far, the
defense of Sherman Adams, as
managed from the . White
House, has si
lenced the
President on a
moral issue
about which it
is his special
and peculiar
duty to speak
out and " give
the country a
lead. The cru-
waiter Lippmann cial question
about Gov. Adams is notin
the field of statutory law. It
does not turn on whether
there was a corrupt relation
ship between Adams .and
Goldfine which could be dealt
with in a court. The question
posed by the hotel bills is in
the field of manners that is
to say, what conduct is be
coming to a gentleman who
sits at the right hand of the
President of the United States,
It is the special duty of any
President to answer such a
question. And in view of all
that he has had to say about
leading a crusade' to clean up
Washington, it is the peculiar
duty of this President to an
swer the question. 1
But Mr, Eisenhower has
evaded it. As matters stand
after his public statements, his
moral judgment is that it was
imprudent of Adams to accept
Goldfine's contributions to his
living expenses, but since
there is no evidence that any
law has been violated, the in
cident ought to be considered
as closed. In accepting Gold
fine's money no serious of
fense has been committed, so
we are asked to believe, as
long as there is no legal proof
that Adams repaid Goldfine
by obtaining special favors
from a government agency.
-
IT IS NOT possible to close
the incident pn this point
and at this level. For that
would mean that on the au
thority of , the President and
with the consent of the coun
try, the standard of official
conduct in the White House
had been' greatly lowered and
loosened. The rule would be
that money can be accepted
from interested parties pro
vided nothing is done to re
pay them. This is not good
enough for the President in
the White House, and it im
pairs the dignity of his office
to have to discuss it at all.
. . ,
THE MOST compelling rea
son for refusing to let the
incident be closed is the moral
damage which is being done
by the defense and the apol
ogies that are being inspired
from the White House. -
p Si
Adenauer
edly , shares the r widely-held
opinion that Russia would be
asking for trouble if it did. ?
The Communist satellite
armies are potential liabil
ities rather than : assets to
Russia. Most of the men in
the satellite armies, like the
people of their countries, de
test Russia. The troops could
not be depended upon in, a
war against the free West, s
Soviet Premier Nikita S.
Khrushchev showed his dis
pleasure at Adenauer's elec
tion victory in a speech he
made Tuesday night in East
Berlin, where he is attending
a Communist Party congress.
Khrushchev said , that Ad
enauer is basing his policy bn
a position of strength which
exists only in his imagina
tion. But fear of German
strength lies behind Russia's
refusal to permit German re
unification. The argument that -money
may be accepted provide
nothing is given in .ret;unr is
an attempt to befuddle the
real issue. It conceals the main
point which is that what: is
customary and perhaps toler
able elsewhere may be intol
erable in the close official
family of the President. Of
those who are at the top, the
country has a right to de
mand a self-imposed standard
of conduct which is much
higher than the laws against
bribery and graft. That was
in essence the principle on
which Gen. Eisenhower ran 4
for President in 1952.
, The ultimate power of the
state cannot be entrusted to
men whose conception of nub-
lic virtue is that their integ
rity is adequate if they cannot
be convicted of. crime.1 It is
not asking too much that, in
the highest places men must
be an example of what ought
to be the general practice.
They cannot excuse them
selves by saying that, in fact
they have done only as many
others have done. f
, ; ... . '
TT IS A very demoralizing
argument, which has been
urged since the disclosures,
that everybody is doing it,
and so why set tip a hypocriti
cal outcry because one', more
official is found to be doing
it. This cynical apology is not
i: fact true. Everybody in the
government is not doing it; In
politics and in business there
is, as we all know, a big trade
in influence, and a great deal
of loose conduct. But once we
adopt the view that loose con
duct can be tolerated by he
President in the White House,
we have surrendered and we
have quit in the " unending
struggle for good government.
The line taken by the de
fense is a greater injury to the
country than the original of
fense itself than the hotel
bills and the telephone calls.
Gov. Adams, having confessed
to imprudence, to what is un
deniably loose conduet, can
only be retained in the White
House by tearing down the
higher standards of conduct.
Such a defense, if it Drevailed.
would be a moral disaster.;
(c) 1958 New York Herald V
v Tribune Inc.
HELP US!
We Need Clothing, Shoes,
Dishes, Furniture. We Pick Up.
HELP OTHERS!
Salvation Army
SPring 3-7335