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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 10. 1948 (Wednesday)
An Indianapolis Speedway,
veteran, demonstrating for the
; Medford Safety council,
.proves speed saves little time
'by tearing through town, vio
lating 60 traffic rules en route
.but running the courseonly
50 seconds faster than his sec
ond trip in which he obeys
!the laws.
, City police plan to crack
'down on all-night parking.
'20 YEARS AGO
.Nov. 10. 1938 (Thursday)
Snow mixed with rain falls
- in Medford, and snow reaches
"a depth of 30 inches at Crater
.Lake National park.
" From Arthur Perry's "Ye
; Smudge Pot" column: "There
is only one thing wrong with
the election, and its results.
There will be another one
: In two years.
: 30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 10, 1928 (Saturday)
' A ukulele club gains in pop
ularity and polish at Gold Hill
high school.
The California Oregon Pow
er company is installing new
overhead street lights on East
Ninth st. between Cottage and
Portland and at three other
locations.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 10. 1918 (Sunday)
Beef, pork, veal and goat
meat are in plentiful supply
1 at the public market.
Until such time as the
streetcar can be put into com
r mission the mail for Jackson-
. villa is being handled by auto.
; Whal's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct is superior;
I seven or eight is excellent; five of
i sh is good.
; 1. Is it in California, or
Florida, where most of our
lemon crop is grown?
- 2. A gubernatorial election
"would be for the purpose of
filling what state office?
. 3. If a supervisor described
one of his apprentices as mal
adroit, would that signify that
, the apprentice was clumsy, or
skillful?
4. Name the author of the
novel, "Kidnapped."
5. In the human body, the
patella is the anatomical
'name for what?
6. "A-h" is the supreme
being of the Mohammedans?
7. Does it require more, or
' less, power to move a vehicle
with large wheels than one
with small wheels, other
-things being equal?
' 8. In which city was Presi
dent McKinley shot?
9. Was the first U. S,
census taken in 1790, 1800, or
1810?
10. Did the British set fire
to the White House in Wash'
ington, D. C. in 1812, 1813, or
.1814?
Answers: 1. California. 2
Governor. 3. Clumsy. 4
Robert Louis Stevenson. 5.
.Kneecap. 6. Allah. 7. Less
'power. 8. Buffalo, N. Y. 9.
1790. 10. 1814 (August 14),
CUSTOMS MAN DIES
I New York - (CPD - Harry M.
.Burning, 71, former collector
"of customs for the Port of New
iYork. died Sunday after a
!lon illness.
Business Strikes Back
A sort of bisr business "togetherness" may be
the answer to problems
- .
tive bargaining imposed by poweriui unions. Hav
ing failed to curb industry-wide strikes by obtain
ing revision of the Taft-Hartley Act, business is
showing what has been called "a quickening tem
po in employer-initiated mutual defense."
The pact announced by six of the nation's big
gest airlines Nov. 2 is a case in point. This is a
mutual aid arrangement to share extra revenues
Kvhen one or mdre of them is shut down by a
strike. The agreement was signed by American,
Capital, Eastern, Pan American," TWA, and
United.
The plan was filed with the Civil Aeronautics
Board on Nov. 3. The Civil Aeronautics Act of
1 938 reouires CAB to issue orders approving or
disapproving agreements among airlines on the
basis of "the public interest." These include
"pooling or apportioning earnings," and other
cooperative working agreements."
THE airlines' understanding was announced in
the midst of a strike against Capital by the
Intel-national Association of Machinists going
into its fourth week. But behind it lie two years
of industry study aiming at joint labor-management
bargaining. Robert T. Quick, a district JAM
president, on Nov. 3 called the plan "a union
busting move."
The Big Three automobile manufacturerers
npnprnl Motors. Ford. Chrvsler made no secret
nf their solid front in collective bargaining: this
year, terminating in essentially - similar settle
ments in September and October. The Big Three
in steel U.S., Betnieftem, Kepuonc naa oar-p-ainer
iointlv with United Steelworkers two
years ago. And industry-wide
been accepted m otner industries noiaDiy ciotn
ing and coal.
Just before a newspaper strike was averted in
New York City, The New York Times had an
nounced, Oct. 30, that even though it should not
be struck it would suspend publication so long
as any craft union refused to cross picket lines
at any newspaper in the metropolis. Other papers
immediately followed suit.
(XF THE airlines agreement, the Wall Street
Journal has commented editorially: "It is one
more indication of the
practices can force industry into doubtful prac
tices of its own."
, .... . ,.
Certainly it will raise
the U. S. department of
comment. As for the agreement m New York, in
asmuch as newspapers, are quasi-public utilities
and the trustees of the people's right to a free
press, the newspaper unions could argue that they
have a moral responsibility to publish whether or
not a competitor is struck. E. R. R.
J- - ' .SSSSk.
Anniversary Of A Pogrom
The German people are observing a sad
20th anniversary for it
Nov. 10, 1938, that Hitler
ing campaign of terror -against the Jews of Ger
many.. More than 170 synagogues were burned
down all over the nation.
tal Night." The reference
smashed windows of Jewish shops shimmering m
the German streets.
Just a year ago guilt-ridden Germans began
building a Jewish community center in West Ber
lin with a prayer that it would help erase the
shame of Ciystal Night. President Theodor Heuss
sent a message saying the erection of the center
was "a good sign that German Jews are taking
root again in our country and gaining confidence
in the future." Thousands of Jews and non-Jews
gathered to see the laying of the community cen
ter cornerstone on the burned-out site of wrhat had
been Germany's biggest synagogue.
- . . . .
JEWISH refugee from Poland, seeking re
venge for the sufferings his parents had had
to endure from the Nazis, on Nov. 9, 1938 shot
and killed the third secretaiy of the German em
bassy in Paris. In this single lunatic act of young
Herschel Grynszpan the government-controlled
German press professed to see a plot by "world
Jewry."
The next day Jews were disarmed in Ger
many, and Jewish establishments were looted
through a week of disorder countenanced by the
authorities. Thousands of Jews were attacked,
the Germon government imposed a "fine" of 1
billion reichsmarks (about 400 million at 1938
exchange rates) on German Jews, and new mea
sures of repression were adopted.
TPHIS "hideous series of atrocities," former Un-
der Secretary of State Sumner Welles has re
ported, "raised public indignation in the United
States to fever pitch." President Franklin D.
Roosevelt rebuked Germany by recalling Am
bassador" Hugh Wilson to Washington to "re
port." Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull
has recounted how Roosevelt greatly heightened
a press statement prepared by the state depart
ment on the pogrom : "I myself could scarcely be
lieve that such things could occur in a twentieth
century civilization."
Hitler retailiated by recalling Ambassador
Dieckhoff. For the remainder of their relations,
Nazi Germany and the United States were to be
without ambassadors to each other. E.R.R.
in industry-wide collec-
m i 1 X
bargaining has long
way union monopolistic
legal questions, though
justice so far has refused
was just 20 years ago, on
opened his most crush
The Nazi called it Crys
was to .the glass from
Dennis the
jM IL-r,
- esa, the mi .ymiKrz.mc r.Hlt?-
HEy,3irti This means
Matter of Fact
The Ideological Gymnasts
Washington-The scene, last
June, was a big conference
room in Cincinnati. The actors
1 were Ohio's
hardy peren
nial Republi
can Senator,
John W. Bick
er, Ohio's vet
eran Republi
can State
Chairman,
Ray Bliss, and
a large group
lostpb aisop oi leading
Ohio industralists.
The powerful Charles Hook,
of the American Rolling Mills
Co., had called the meeting to
discuss the desirability of
putting a so-called right-to-work
law on the Ohio ballot
this year. The Timken Roller
Bearing Co. and other Ohio
businesses of comparable
standing were also represent
ed. Bricker and Bliss are two
of the most solidly conserva
tive, most sincerely business
minded Republican politicians
in any state in the Union, so
everyone ought to have loved
everyone else.
In fact, however, the two
Republican professional poli
ticians were "treated like
dogs," as one of them has sub-!
sequently recalled with con
siderable bitterness.
"PVEN after the meeting, the
Republican Governor of
Ohio, C. William O'Neill, had
been pressured into staying. at
home. ("If any damn chair
man of any damn board calls
Bill on the telephone, he just
melts," was the explanation
given by s a colleague.) Even
after this desertion, "however,
Sen. Bricker and State Chair
man Bliss insisted on apear
ing before the assembled in
dustrialists, to tell them plain
ly that putting the right-to-work
law on the ballot was a
suicidal act.
The businessmen's reply
was so angrily abusive that
Sen. Bricker drew his dignity
around him, and took his leave
without further ado. Ray
Bliss, who is made of sterner
stuff, stood his ground long
enough to warn the right-to-work
enthusiasts that the Re
publican Party could "lose
everything" in Ohio if they
persisted in their scheme. He
was loftily assured that he
was quite mistaken; that the
Ohio Republicans would win
their greatest victory under
the right-to-w o r k banner.
After that, Bliss also departed.
BY NO means all the Ohio
industrialists d i s a g r eed
with Bliss in this manenr. The
formidable George Magoffin
Humphrey sympathized with
his old friend, for instance;
and many of the leaders of
steel and rubber companies
took the same position. But
despite the split in the busi
ness community, the Ohio
Chamber of Commerce and
the Ohio Manufacturers As
sociation persisted, and at con
siderable expense right-to-work
went on the ballot by
petition.
Even so, all was not lost,
until some of the board chair
men who have the knack of
melting Gov. O'Neill, got the
wretched man on the tele
phone, i As a weak and un
popular Governor, poor
O'Neill was the only Republi
can candidate who was then
in any danger of defeat. There
fore he melted rather more
easily than usual, obediently
announcing that he was for
the right-to- work , law, and
that right-to-work was the
campaigner's big issue.
O'Neill's action in turn en
tangled Sen. Bricker, who did
not want a repeat of the Cali
fornia situation. Along with
Bricker, the whole Republican
state ticket was involved.
In the outcome, Bricker
was roundly beaten by Ste
phen Young, an amiable, old
nonentity whom the Demo
crats had nominated simply
because he was in the habit of
running for office whenever
possible. O'Neill took a fear
ful licking. Of the other candi
. . I,1!1
Menace
yoi'
By Joseph Alsop
dates' for state office, only a
single Republican survived.
Both Houses of the state legis
lature were captured by the
Democrats. Three Republican
Congress seats were lost. And
the righ-to-work law itself was
defeated by the staggering
margin of nearly a million
votes.
HPHIS fearful hecatomb, as
Ray Bliss bitterly pointed
out in a public statement, was
a direct result of the interven
tion of the right-to-work en
thusiasts. Without right-to-
work, the Ohio Republicans
were flue to come through
with flying colors, except that
the brisk Mike DiSalle would
probably have defeated the
feeble O Neill anyway. But
because of the right-to-work,
the Ohio Republican party,
the businessman's 'party, is
just about back to where it
was in the worst years of
Franklin Roosevelt.
The story does not end in
Ohio, either. Right-to-work
laws were on the ballot in five
other states besides Ohio.
They were beaten in four of
these five states. . Their pre
sence on the ballot in all cases
gravely damaged the Republi
can candidates. Even in Kan
sas, where right-to-work was
approved, the issue contribut
ed labor votes to the vic
torious Democrat, Gov
George Docking. Even in In
diana, where right-to-work
had already been placed on
the statute books, the bitter
ness thereby engendered help
ed to defeat Republican Gov.
Harold Handley in his Senate
race.
Altogether, the warning is
clear that meaningless ideo
logical gymnastics should be
carefully avoided by those
who hope to win elections,
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Disputes Speech
To the Editor: This is the
first time in my life I have
written a letter of this type,
but after reading the article
in your paper about Mr. Ken
Pickens discussion of the un
employment c o m p e n sation
plan in Oregon, I feel com
pelled to write.
I can recall only a few oc
casions of a laborer saying
"down with the corporations"
but I am constantly hearing
management saying "down
with labor." Almost all of the
labor force know they must
depend on business for a
means of livelihood. If there
were no corporations there
would be very few jobs. By
the same token, management
should know that they must
depend on labor for survival.
I wonder how much lumber
Medford Corporation could
produce if it were not for the
men who operate the ma
chines and convert the stand
ing timber to the finished pro
duct. He states that a man who
voluantarily quits a job should
be ineligible for benefits.
Granting there are abuses in
this, the cure is not ineligi
bility. It is the only defense
labor has against management
which forces a nan to quit.
Also there are other circum
stances, such as driving so
far to work that it takes a
high percentage of a man's
wages for transportation. This
is not uncommon in the log
ging industry.
As for seasonal work, what
is there besides lumber, con
struction and agriculture?
Why have unemployment
compensation at all if it only
benefits those who are never
unemployed?
The high pay received by
lumber and . construction
Roscoe Drummond
Reports ...
(Drummond is substituting for Walter Lippmann,
during the latter's trip to Russia.)
Why Kennedy Smiles
Washington At several
important points the voting
this past week bears directly
upon those Democrats who see
themselves as Presidential
candidates in 1960.
The biggest beneficiary is
Sen. John Kennedy of Mas
sachusetts who is now the
leading, though not necessar
ily the most likely nominee.
His chances are improved for
two reasons.
First, he not only outran his
opponent mercilessly but out
ran political history as well.
His plurality of 870,000 is un
matched by any Massachu
setts candidate in either party
at any time. It went far above
the most optimistic hopes of
his supporters.
The boon which Sen. Ken
nedy most needed to boost his
Presidential ambitions was
proof that he was a massive
vote-getter in his own state.
workers is. paid because the
work is considered highly haz
ardous. At least our insurance
premiums, show quite a dif
ference between a logger and
an office worker.
The hourly wage is high in
lumber and construction work
but it has to be when you
only work about six' months
out of a year. The annual
wage, not the quarterly wage,
has to be considered because
a man has to go on feeding
his family whether he is
working or not. I believe Mr;
Pickens would find that the
lumber industry would have
to raise the men's wages more
than the few cents they now
pay into unemployment com
pensation if it were discon
tinued. Mr. Pickens has some good
points in his statements but
his speech as' a whole only
feeds the cancer of commu
nism which infects our coun
try today. It tends to make
the .working man say "Down
with the capitalists and man
agement." :
Ralph W. Pittman,
Rogue River, Ore.
More About Road
To the Editor: Several
months ago I was driving
home about 11 p.m. with my
four small children. If I had
not known the road and knew
there was a "blind spot"
ahead, by children and
might not be here today. This
"blind spot"' is a small hill
top oh a curve, a . driveway
coining down off the hill
leaves a dirt pile in the road
causing quite a bump. A car
coming out of Dark Hollow
road onto South Stage rd
must hit the "bump" if the
car stays in the proper side
When a car hits the bump at
any speed over 10 miles an
hour, it will nearly always
veer to the other side of the
road.
This night as we came home
from a late show and was ap
proaching the blind spot,
slowed down as I always do.
All of a sudden a car sped
around the curve, hit the
"bump" and missed my car by
inches I was stopped still by
then and was as far to the
left as I dared to be. If the
oncoming car had hit my car,
we would have been over a
20 foot enbankment. I do be
lieve the Good Lord had His
hand on "us that time.
This is not the only bad
place on Dark Hollow rd., as
the bus accident indicates. My
own children could ust as
well have, been on that bus.
Howeyer, they get off before
the spot that the accident oc
curred. The roads on our side , of
town are dangerous, very
narrow and winding, while
the roads on the other side of
town -areVquite' good. I think
it is very odd. Lets get our
road fixed so our children will
be safe. Next time it may be
my children or yours and they
may not get off quite so lucky.
Mrs. James W. Overturf
3196 Dark Hollow rd.
Medford.
Tribule To A Neighbor
To the Editor: It may not
be customary in this column
to thus write of a deceased
man,. and it, goes without say
ing that his now sorrowing
wife r and other immediate
relatives would in modesty be
loathe to admit a public trib-
ute, yet because my wife and
I were recipients during a
time of great need, namely a
near-fatal car accident (and
since), of his - I should say
their excellent neighborly
kindness and favors, we feel
it an obligation to write these
words, and we are sure his
neighbors would share them.
Every one will agree that
the proof of a man's manli
ness is his acting well the
part of a man. At the funeral
his pastor referred to him as
"a man's man", and that
qualification may share in at
testing. It has been weU said:
"It's better to buy a small
bouquet,- To give to your
friend this very day, Than a
bushel of roses white and red,
He got it. Just winning
wouldn't have helped him,
and he more than won. He
didn't just ride 'the Demo
cratic tide. He was the high
est wave in that tide.
IT'ENNEDY had no real op
position in Vincente Cel
este. But neither did Leverett
Saltonstall when he won the
Senatorship by 561,000 in
1944, the highest previous
plurality. Kennedy topped
this by more than 300.000.
Saltonstall was also running
against a push-over.
The second development
which encourages the support
ers of Mr. Kennedy's Presi
dential ambitions is that oth
er Roman Catholics fared ex
ceedingly, well at the hands
of the voters, like California's
Governor-elect Brown and
Pennsylvania's Governor
elect Lawrence who won
handsomely although there
were many factors contribut
ing to the result. But the
event to which the Kennedy
people attach the most value
is the victory of Senator-elect
Eugene McCarthy over Ed
ward Thye in Minnesota a
Catholic defeating a Luther
an in a Protestant state.
Sen. Kennedy, is of course,
quue aware mat tne religious
iciuiur aixecis ms prospects
and realizes that resistance to
electing a Catholic to the Pres
idency is greater than electing
a Senator or a Governor. But
he is convinced that the re
sistance has appreciably les
sened and that with the man'
ifold signs of Democratic
strength, his chances look
brighter than ever.
SEN. Stuart Symington's
eligibility for the Demo
cratic Presidential nomina
tion was fortified and Gov.
Mennen Williams' was hurt
by the election returns. .
If the Northern and South
ern wings, of the Democratic
party can possibly reach - a
compromise on the integration
issue and I am inclined to
think that they can't then Mr.
Symington would be the log
ical - compromise candidate,
least unacceptable to the
South. Missouri returned him
to the Senate by a big vote.
Though "Soapy" Williams
achieved his sixth consecutive
election as Governor of Mich
igan, his vote-getting magnet
showed that it was losing
some of its" power. While this
was a big year for' the Demo
crats, it wasn't a big year for
Mr. Williams. His plurality
dropped from previous highs
and Democrat Philip A. Hart
won the Senatorship by a hig
her plurality- than Mr.- Wil
liams won the Governorship.
Gov. Averill Harriman,
To lay on his casket when
he's dead." ---'
Many of us who had this
opportunity while he was liv
ing embraced it, and also on
and about the - casket were
those "in memory of" bou
quets and wreaths of colorful
and fragrant flowers to be
speak the color and fragrance
of a life so suddenly and
tragically ended. ,r
Robert (familiarly and af
fectionately called Bob)
Meilicke's mortal remains are
laid in the grave, "what he
has written he has written,"
but his kindliness while he
lived,- lives on in our memo
ries, a challenge, an incentive,
and an invitation to those who
are still in life to live as he
did, and a good neighbor
should, as ?a man's man."
Mrs. and H. R. Bulman
Route 4, Box 316A,
Medford
Cargo Plane Hits
Passenger Craft
New York -flJPD A four-engine
Seaboard ' and Western
cargo plane crashed and ex
ploded shortly after takeoff
today and plowed into an
empty parked passenger
plane at Idlewild Airport.
Both planes went up in
flames. '
Two stewardesses-the only
persons aboard the parked
Trans-Canada Airlines Vickers
Viscount-escaped safely, al
though one was reported to
have been burned slightly.
Flames from the two planes
quickly spread to the old do
mestic, terminal building at
the airport.
A spokesman at the airport
said the Trans-Canada passen
ger plane was to have begun
taking on passengers in a few
minutes after the crash.
Now Many Wear
FALSE TEETH
With Little Worry
Eat. talk, laugh or sneeze without
fear of insecure false teeth dropping.
slipping or wobbling. FASTEETB
holds plates firmer and more com
fortably. This pleasant powder has no
gummy gooey, pasty taste or feeling.
Doesn't cause nausea. It's alkaline
(non -acid). Checks "plate odor
(denture breath). Get FASTEETH at
any drug counter.
Washington Report
By Wiiliam S. White
No More Parades
Washington - The political
future belongs so far as the
eye can see to the middle-
"5 roaders - the
i quiet, . reason-
1 ni.iA :
duic men j in
stead of the
4 angry ana
t shouting men.
can voters are
plainly tired
of "give 'em
hell" in poli
tics, of black
and spoUess.
William S Wtute
dyed villains
heroes. Call them conformist
and complacent. Or call them
simply more grown-up now.
Whatever the reason, the
people no longer look at po
litical candidates and parties
as two frantically hostile rah
rah alumni groups look at a
college football game.
Rather, the people put a
cool eye upon candidates and
parties and then make their"
decisions on this basis; Which
fellow, and which party, will
be better for us on the whole
and most of the time and tak
ing everything into consider
ation? fPHESE are the real lessons
of the recent Congression
al campaign, which has pro-
; duced the largest Democratic
majorities in the Senate and
House since the Roosevelt
New Deal. But these are not
New Deal majorities; at most,
their total complexion is mod
erately liberal.
How did the Democrats win
so largely? By having run a
solid, unspectacular, unbitter
and sensible show through
two preceding Democratic
Congresses. By having got the
job done without howling
and baying at partisan moons.
By having made a record of
true professionalism under
highly professional leaders -Senator
Lyndon B. Johfoson
in the Senate and Speaker
Sam Rayburn in the House.
What has happened in 1958
simply is an extension of
what happened in 1954 and
again in 1956. In 1954 the
Democrats took Congress
only two years after the land
slide' Republican victory for
President Eisenhower. In
1956 they again won Con-
though his years might have
ruled him out of the nomin
ation, would certainly . have
had a lot to say" about what
Democrat would get it if
the voters had not extinguish
ed Mr. Harriman as they ex
tinguished William Knowland
in California. Now Mr. Know
land will not stand in Mr.
j.ixon s ay and Mr. Harri
man won't stand in anybody's
way. .
THERE are, of course, oth
er Democratic hopefuls
whose prestige was not at
stake this fall.
Robert Meyner had already
decisively won a second term
as Governor of New Jersey.
Sen, Hubert Humphrey of
Minnesota and Sen. Lyndon
Johnson of Texas have always
been big vote-getters. They
are bound to be on the 1960
list.
So will Adlai Stevenson.
Unless, of course, the Demo
crats become so divided that
they can't agree on anybody.
What will probably happen is
that there will be two Demo
cratic Presidential nominees
in 1960.
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gress while the people were
giving Mr. Eisenhower an
even bigger re-election vic
tory - while he, too, was still
moderate.
The way for all this was
prepared in Jan. 3, 1953, to
be precise. On that day
Senator- Johnson became the
Senate Democratic Leader.
Two minutes later he told his .
party caucus that he was go
ing to drop most of the old
partisanship. The way to win
in the future, he declared in
this private meeting, simply
was to do things for most of
the people-not to call the oth
er party bad names.
THE Republicans, he ob
served, had spent 16 years
trying to come back by shout
ing slogans against Franklin
D. Roosevelt, who was mani
festly more popular than any
body they could offer. They
should have cut their losses
early, he went on; they should
have forgotten about Roose
velt and prepared an affirm
ative program of their pwn.
The Democrats, he said,
were going to forget about
Eisenhower. They were not
going to throw nasty words
against him. They were going
to put their energies instead
into trying to create in the
public mind a picture of a
"responsible" Demo c r a t i c
party. By this he simply
meant a quiet, orderly, effi
cient party.
Johnson, along with mil
lions of fellow Americans,
had fought in World War II.
He learned there, as did
many others, that- the days of
wild, dramatic charges up '
San Juan Hill were over; that
modern wars are won by
massive organization, by im
personal competence, and not
by blinkin' heroes. All this
he applied to politics. To this
correspondent h e forecast
long in advance almost exact
ly what would happen, and
where, in the Congressional
elections.- s
What did happen was an
immense rejection from coast
to coast of extremists and ex
tremism. Generally, left
wingers and r i g h t-wingers
alike were emphatically de
feated. QJ O M E of Johnson's more
& liberal party associates,
already angry with him for
"being too cozy," wanted to
adopt the technique of fight,
fight, fight. Johnson replied:
"Leave that to the Republi
cans." And so it was left to
them. And the Republicans,
including President Eisen
hower, went out to the coun
try crying epithets - "radical
ism" and so on - that simply
would not stick. The public
knew that the Democratic
party that had so moderately
run two successive Congress
es had not now suddenly
emerged, bearded and with
bombs in hand, from "Some
revolutionary cellar.
The one great Republican
victor in a national Demo
cratic triumph, Gov.-elect
Nelson E. Rockefeller of New
York, knew the people's
mood. Not for him was :Sght,
fight, fight. Indeed, it wts his
opponent, Gov. Averell Har
riman, who rejected the John
son lines and went down. .
Put the torchlights away in
the attic; sadly if you wish,
for many of us will find dull
the new politics of middle
aje. There will be no more
parades - not soon, anyway.
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