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Matter of Fact Joseph AIsop L i i (;-' .KM OMENS ON ROUTE TWO Greenfield, I n d. No sen sible man could resist the comfortable charm of a jour- Iney along Rural Route 2, I which wanders vaguely through the I soybean fields and cornfields of Indiana's Hancock county. This James -iospb Aiiop wnucomo rti Riley country is rather flat and featureless. But the peo ple are full of savor and won derfully friendly. (Where else would two wandering, totally unknown reporters have been generally welcomed at an afternoon meeting of a ladies aid society?) The fat land and the big barns and the small neat farmhouses in the groves of trees, all brightly gilded by the autumn sun, make a fiiie scene of peace and plenty. For the philosophic eye, even the vast brood sows wal lowing by their roadside pens have the beauty of visible prosperity. But for Republi cans in 1953, this Rural Route 2 is an ominous road, figura tively crawling with adders, shaded my poison sumac, and leading onwards to probable disaster on election day. WHAT makes this road so ominous for Republicans is the simple fact that it used to be a Republican glory road but has changed sharply in the past two years. The fig ures teli the story. In a long day's work, the professional poller, Lou Harris, and this re porter talked with 36 quali fied voters on Route 2 and the intersecting and similar Rural Route S. The farmers who broke off their soybean har vest and the housewives who interrupted their canning spoke with equal frankness. Of the 36, one had been too young to vote in 1956; five had voted for Adlai Steven son; and no less than 30 had voted for President Eisen hower. Some of the younger voters had been out of the -state and some of the women had not voted (as a surprising number of women do) except for the presidential candidate. Thus there were nine non voters for the governorship in 1936. Even so the remaining votes were split in a richly Republican manner, 21 for Governor Harold Handley and only 6 for his Democratic opponent. AMONG these 36 men and women, Gov. Handley is still losing the same six votes in his race for the Indiana Senate seat that he lost last time in his governorship race. Eight additional former Hand ley voters or new voters have already made up their minds to vote for the Democratic Senate nominee, Mayor Vance Hartke of Evansville. Five more voters said they were undecided; and of these, three were ladies at the aid meet ing, where it was an act of courage to talk like a Demo crat. Finally, two former Handley voters were now too disgusted to vote for either party. "I just can't make myself vote for a Democrat," said one leathery farmer of the antique Republican stock. "So by God, I'll just have to vote pro-high (which, being inter preted, meant "Prohibition Party") if I vote at all." In- other words, in this u 1 1 r a-Republican territory where he won by more than three to one last time, Gov. Handley is running only a lit tle better than even today. If this shrinkage in the basic In diana Republic asset of farm votes is repeated along the other rural routes in the other farm counties of the state which is not proven Hand ley is going to take a licking. Judging by Rural Route 2, furthermore, Handley will be licked although no one knows much about his rather dim and dingy Democratic oppon ent, and simply because Hand ley is thought to be even dim mer and dingier. VlfE made a good many fas- cinating discoveries along Rural Route 2. From a" loyally Republican, sternly Lutheran old lady, we even heard how her family had fled from the part" of Germany that Napo leon devastated, and how her great grandmother had virtu ally been sold as an inden tured servant and how her "people had Just gone on votin for the Republicans since Abe Lincoln's day." But there were two discov eries that stood out. On the one, desertions from the Re publican party were just as common among the richer farmers, with their two or three hundred fruitful acres and their many thousands of dollars in machinery, as among the small farmers who eke out .their incomes with part time jobs. ' "It takes two of us now adays me in the factory and my boy in the field to feed this family," said one of these smaller farmers angrily. "So I'm votin' for the Democrats because they're for people like us, and let the others go Republican." .But he was wrong about "the others." His neighbor, who must have been worth above $150,000 in land, plant-machinery and stock, was also voting for the "Democrats "because it's time for a change." On the other hand, there was no real love for the Demo crats among the Republican deserters, as is indicated by the size of the "don't know" and "plain disgusted" groups. Desertion had plainly been en couraged by the character of the Indiana Republican party, which is rent with feuds and stained with scandal. But de sertions on the scale we found would never have occurred if the enthusiasm still persisted that had made five out of six of these people vote for Eisen hower on the national ticket. Amonjj too many, that enthu- Editorial Comment A FINE OPPORTUNITY Organization of the Federal Aviation agency scheduled to become operative on Jan. 1, 1959, provides a fine oppor tunity for sweeping out many of the old cobwebs that have cluttered the civil aviation picture during the postwar decade, and taking a fresh, technically modern and eco nomically sound approach to what is becoming an increas ingly acute problem. The en tire civil aviation picture is badly in need of a new and well coordinated program aimed at alleviating the many technical and economic prob lems that threaten to curb its genuine growth potential. President Eisenhower has made an excellent choice in naming Elwood P. "Pete" Quesada to head the new Fed eral Aviation agency . . . We hope this excellent choice . . . will be followed by the equally wise selection of James T. Pyle, present Civil Aeronautics administr a t o n chief, as deputy to Mr. Ques ada. "Jimmy" Pule has brought a brea'th of fresh au to the musty CAA and has the vigor and courage to battle for the many breaks with tradition that are vital to aviation's progress. One of the major problems facing the new agency is re cruiting sufficient vigorous and technically sound per sonnel to match the pace of its administrator.- Simply tak ing over the - present CAA personnel lock, stock and bar rel would doom the new agency to sterility from the start. There are able men in the present CAA organiza tion, but they are in a minori ty. On the whole, the CAA has become a classic example of how the civil service sys tem can create a bureaucratic monolith that Is interested primarily in preserving a status quo and shuns all prog ress and change. CAA's post war record is a decade of utter futility in coping with the tremendous problems posed by aviation's rapid tech nical development. The fact that we are entering the jet age with a creaking traffic control system and grossly in adequate ground environment can be laid primarily at the doors of the former lighthouse keepers and OX-5 engine ex perts of the CAA whose tech nical education ended with the Jennie ... The selection of Mr. Ques ada to tiead (the Federal Aviation agency) has been widely endorsed by knowl edgeable groups. All of us who have fought so hard to get this type of aviation agency and vigorous leader ship must now fight equally hard to see that it is given whatever it needs to take full advantage of the fine oppor tunity that now lies ahead. -Aviation W.ek. siasm has altogether seeped away. (Copyright 1958. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) s ask your child's doctor . . . then see us for Fd wards MPhlsu Snug hl Itl ' Combination last, shaped long counters Moulded t Balanced Kiting 4 Famous "Thomos Heel 'I i Designed for additional weoging as necessary a teet your doctor's pro scription - iS.'-MiS c Arch Oreo features V Shaped arch and steel snani moulded tor addi tional support where, needed CorecTred slwes Edwards CorecTreds are carefully designed to meet with your doctor's prescriptions. And at the same time they are smartly styled of the finest quality materials. Shown are only a few from our selection of CorecTred Shoes by Edwards. 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Both spoke out against appeasement of Communism and asserted that peace had been preserved un der six years of the Eisen hower administration. Both Eisenhower and Nixon praised Truman last week for taking the position that for eign policy did not belong in the 1958 congressional elec tion campaign. In a few off-the-cuff jabs, Truman" later replied the Republicans had made campaign debate on for eign policy inevitable by do ing it themselves since 1952. Gives 'Price' Version In a speech prepared for a Democratic rally today at Wilmington, Del., the former president gave his version of the "price" the nation has paid for the Eisenhower ad ministration. This included an all-time high cost of living, a S12 billion federal deficit,, a $20 billion decline in farm in come, a doubling of the rate of small business failures and a "dangerous delay" in the strengthening of national de fense. His final item in the "price" was "a decay of our world position, through blunder, bluster and brinkmanship in foreign affairs." ' The Truman attack came wjiile Eisenhower was in Chi cago preparing for his second major campaign speech of the week-this one over a national radio and television network. Before leaving the West Coast Tuesday the President told GOP workers the nation should elect a Republican Congress to insure passage of legislation to "fumigate" cor rupt labor union leadership. He blamed the present Demo cratic Congress for killing his labor program this year. Says Budget Too Big Eisenhower also said the Death Deepens Shooting Mystery New York (UPD- The mys tery, of why four men were killed in a Broadway bar early Sunday deepened to day because of. the death of the man who pulled the trig ger Patrolman James B. McDermott. The 34-year-old officer, fa ther of four children, was gunned down by fellow po licemen after his unexplain ed shooting spree. With five bullets in his body, McDer mott clung to life until late Tuesday. He died in Roosevelt hos pital without revealing any motive, police said. ' Grange News... Shady Cove Grange The Shady Cove Grange was host for the local 4-H Achievement program Satur day, Oct. 15, at the Shady Cove school cafeteria. County 4-H Agents Miss Maiilou Garner and Glenn Klein were introduced by Master Ed Houston. They each talked on 4-H work and then introduced Wes Nissen of the First National bank. Nissen presented pins and awards to the following 4-H members who had finished their projects: ; First year, Judy McKinsie, Sheri Watson, Sharon Hawks, Geneva Lowery, Sue Jean Lowery, Vernon Martin; sec ond year, Margaret Hanson, Leonard Hanson, Cheryl Mil ler, Lois Rodgers, Lloyd Wall sup, Earl Naumann, Linda Fay Paulson, Carole Hale, Ce cilia Kee; fourth year, John Cox; sixth year, Ira Conner; eighth year, Robert Peile; 10th year, Velma Peile. A special award given by the County Fair board for Record Books was presented to Margaret Hanson. Sandwiches, cake, ice cream, cider and coffee were served to 4-H members and guests by the HEC. Reed McKay was presented a birthday card and decorat ed cake. At the HEC meeting held at the Ed Houston home in Shady Cove plans were made for a fall dinner to be given at the Shady Cove School cafeteria Nov. 23. The next regular meeting of the HEC will be Nov. 11 at the Bert Clark home on Butte creek with a 12:30 pjn. dinner. Next regular meeting of the Shady Cove Grange will be Nov. 1. . federal budget is too big and appealed to housewives to join a campaign for less fed eral spending. And he charged the Truman administration with shortchanging the mis- Boy Will Leave Psychiatric Ward New York -(UPD- Melvin Dean Nimer, the 8-year-old boy who once said he stabbed his parents to death, will leave .the Bellevue Psychiatric Ward Thursday to be taken to Utah, to live with his grand parents. The boy, who is called by his middle name of Dean, un derwent six weeks of psychi atric examination after he al legedly "confessed" killing his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Mel. vin A. Nimber Jr., then re canted the story. The child's attorney, Harris B. Steinberg, said Tuesday that psychiatrists at Bellevue found Dean had "an emotion al disturbance that requires close psychiatric supervision" and the condition apparently pre-dated the Sept. 2 double murder of his parents. sile development program. In his Baltimore speech Tuesday night, Nixon said the Truman administration had followed a policy of "weak ness and vacillation" under then Secretary of State Dean Acheson. He said the Eisen h o w e r administration be lieved Communism could be defeated without war only by "military strength and diplo matic firmness." But he tempered his criti cism of the Democrats by say ing "there is no war party in the United States" and add ing "there is only one party of treason - the Communist party." Democrats have interpreted some of Nixon's previous re marks as applying the war and treason labels to the Dem ocratic party. Johnson 'Notable Example Nixon called Senate Demo cratic Leader Lyndon B. John son a "notable example" among Democrats who have supported the Eisenhower for eign policy. He said the criti cism came from leaders of the Democratic party wing "which is radical in its ap proach to i economic prob lems." . Nixon was scheduled to campaign today in Hartford, Conn., Burlington, Vt., and Provident, RJ.r three states with both governorships and U.S. Senate seats at' stake. In a New Castle, Pa., speech Tuesday night, Truman said the GOP was afraid to run on MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Ore., Wednesday, October 22. 195S 5 its own record and had dug up "the old scare-words like socialism" to attack the Dem ocrats. He also said the busi ness recession had not ended and would not end so long as Republicans controlled the administration. 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