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Matter of Fact is now v 3 THE KENNEDY QUESTION Milwaukee What may be called the Kennedy Question the most interesting, or at least the most puzzling quest ion in American pol i t i c s. Unless the opi n i o n polls are total ly misleading, m 1 1 1 1 ons of Amer i c a n s are eager to 4oipb Alsop Clc" young, still incompletely test ed man to 'the Presidency But why? To be sure, John F. Ken nedy is no dully ordinary, or dinarily ambitious politician. Admiration or envy, or both, are equally inspired by his war record and his wife, his fortune and his appearance, his public charm and his private capacity for unlimit ed, grim, hard work. When there is so much to envy or admire, the result is a kind of elamor. no less real be cause it is indefinable. All the same, one suspects that Alcibiades - even the Alcibiades of the great years before the fleet of Athens set sail for Syracuse - would not have appealed greatly to American voters. He might have succeeded in the movies, but hardly in the Senate. In short, the Kennedy glamor, while it may highlight his other political qualities, is not the answer to the Ken nedy Question. . rpo TRY to find the answer, this reporter came out here to Wisconsin, where Kennedy has been looking over the ground in prepara tion for the crucial Democrat ic primary. The two-and-a-half-day barnstorming tour was a grueling business. The pace was breathless. The crowds were stifling. And when Kennedy and his beau tiful wife escaped the crowds, coveys of politicians descend ed upon them. Kennedy positively seemed to enjoy it; but that is a usual requirement for a successful candidate. With the exception of a shrewd discussion of the great contest for Asia, Ken nedy's speeches were also usual enough, at least in con tent. Republican sins, Demo cratic virtues, the needs of Bv Joseph Alsop the old, the hopes of the young and the challenge of the age were the topics. But the style of the speech es was not at all usual, to begin with. When Kennedy rises to speak, he seems angu lar and tense, despite the dis arming grin. At first you think of an earnest, high school valedictorian. Yet he is eloquent, decidedly elo quent; his is a highly literate eloquence, too, with an odd reminiscence of Adlai Steven son. In a single speech, before a university audience to be sure, he quoted Bismarck, Goethe, Swift, John Quincy Adams, Clay, Calhoun, Thom as Hart Benton and Queen Victoria. And then, as though to show he could do just as well without advance prepar ation, he added a verse by Robert Frost and a quotation from Winston Churchill in the question period. Further more, this odd. jerky, almost aggressively lit erate Kennedy eloquence can be exceedingly moving on occasion. When he was talk ing about the right attitude to the harsh perils of our time, he told the same uni versity audience about the darkening of the sun, which led the good people of eigh teenth - century Hartford Conn., to think the day of judgment was at hand. The Legislature was sitting in Hartford. The Speaker of the House stilled the commotion by declaring that the dark ness did not matter unless it announced the world's end and if the world was indeed ending, he chose to meet his Maker while doing his duty "I ask that -candles may be brought, the old man con cluded, "so that this house can continue its business When Kennedy spoke that culminating line, it made the short hairs prickle on the neck. Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF- XTOR is the 11 , peculiar Ken nedy style the only un usual feature of his public performance. The twin themes that recur in almost all his speeches are not exactly usual either, at least amopg politicians. The first is the theme of deep respect for the intellect and even for intel lectuals (which is not sur- prising, considering Ken nedy's huge private stable of FUMTUKI Modern and Period Styles Artistry Projection at Travis Court Laurente GATES FURNITURE DREXEL Dealers 341 N. Central HILLBILLY and his 10-year-old son came down to a big city for the first time. The boy was thunderstruck by what he saw, and asked countless questions, not a single one of which his father could answer. Finally, the boy said, "Paw, I'm sorry if I'm so dumb. Hope you don't mind me asking all these fool ques tions." "Go right ahead, son," said his father heartily. "That's the only way you'll ever learn things!" A wit in Rome bought two chariots from MGM when the filming of "Ben Hur" had been completed an? installed them in the garden of his estate. One chariot is marked "His" and tha other "Hurs." Cedric Adams wonders why nobody's commented on the fact that Brigitte Bardot's brother is a famous band leader. His first name, ot course, is Guylum. , 1 1959. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate. Civilian, Domestic Programs Said Behind Heavy Spending Editorial Comment AN IDEA THEY'LL NEVER GIVE UP Recently The Journal ha3 jousted with several upstate editors on the question of "who hates whom" as between Portland and the rest of Ore gon. We have now become con vinced some of these gentle- egghead consultants). "What we need now in this nation most of all is a con stant flow of new ideas. . . . We cannot obtain new ideas until we have a government ,' and a public opinion which respect new ideas and the people who have them. . . . Our country has surmounted great crises in the past, not because of our wealth, not because of our rhetoric, not because we had longer cars and whiter ice boxes and bigger- television screens than any one else, but because our ideas were more compelling, and more penetrating, and more wise and more endur ing." These are typical sentences on the first theme. The other theme is the gravity and novelty of the problems now confronting the United States. The following sentences are representative: "For now the age of consolidation is over, and once again the age of change and challenge has come upon us. . . . The next year, the next decade, m ail likelihood the next gener ation, will require more brav ery and more wisdom oh our part than any period in our history. We will be face to face, every day, in every part of our lives and times, with the real issue of our age '- the issue of survival." The note is unexpected, at least in a Presidential candi date in a period of flaccid outward complacency. The performance, over all, is quite impressive enough to explain why Kennedy has become a ery serious candidate in deed, in the past two years, but it remains for Kennedy to outline bis new ideas for meeting the new challenge which he so starkly and stir ringly portrays. (c) 1959, New York Herald Tribune Inc. men have such a good thing in perpetuating the myth that Portlanders look down upon and seek to exploit upstaters they will never give it up There is also treasure to be had among their readers, they believe, in displaying a sort of half-contempt, half - pity for those benighted city-bound people. They like to use the words "hicks" and "sticks" as ap plied to themselves, with the implication these are a part of the city dweller's vocabu lary. J. he fact is, we never hear city people use them ine only tune we ever see them is in the writings of the upstaters. Eric Allen Jr. of the Med ford Mail Tribune quotes an extreme letter allegedly writ ten by a Portlander to the Bend Bulletin which talks of "hick towns," "hick editors' and "hayseeds. Its wording is such that we suspect it of being a phony or a plant. As we said, we've abandon ed hope of "converting" these editors, but there's one point we'd like to impress upon Al len, who referred to Sherman County Journal Editor Giles French's piece about Portland as the thing which started all this flurry. French's prejudice is not just against Portland, it's against all western Oregon. He prob ably doesn't think much more of Medford than he does of Portland. So therei-Oregon Journal, Portland. Open House Set at H. P. Jeweff School Central Point - The annual open house will be held at H. P. Jewett school, Central Point, starting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Classrooms will be open be tween 6:30 and 8 p.m. for par ents to meet teachers. The Parent Teacher association will sell pie, cake and coffee. A musical program of sing ing, rhythm band and num bers will be presented by first and second grade pupils at 8 p.m. in the school cafetorium. Mrs. Jeanne Carothers will di rect the group. rathe Great Whiskey of the Old West 3 B tbe mli 0D fsl Sl 3 'SSMfW-'' arlisl-Jrederic Remington -ig Jlgl 5 ife1. f h rM -5 KifS J&ts? "A PASH FOR timber fjj JtlBROOKl I i v nnT SO PROOF STRAIGHT $2.90 Pt. $4.45 45 Qt BLENDED WHISKEY S2.90 Pt. $4.45 45 Qt. By STANLEY C. HOPE President, National Association of Manufacturers New York -(UPD- If you were to stop the next man you see on the street and ask him why the federal government is spending so much money, he probably would blame it all on the cold war and our need for strong national defense. This is quite a natural as sumption, for we are spending billions upon billion to keep our military might second to none. And rightly so: But if you will dig into the federal budget figures, you will find some startling facts. You will find that defense is not responsible for the major gains in federal spending in recent years; rather, it is the civilian and domestic pro grams. Here are the figures: From 1955 to 1959 military spending increased $5.5 bil lion, but non-military spend ing zoomed $10.9 billion -about twice as much. This huge increase of $10.9 billion that's more than it cost to run the entire federal government . in 1940 went for such things as billions for: grants-in-aid to the states; sup porting the price of farm prod ucts; public housing; airports, rivers and harbors; holding down farm acreage; soil con servation and veterans, hospit alization. Yes, the multitude of fed eral departments and agencies are costing more- and more. They're starting more welfare programs, hiring more people to run them, and spending bil lions to help relatively small groups of citizens at the ex pense of all taxpayers. And ine congress oiten even in creases the budget requests of the agencies. A searching study of the 1960 budget made by the Gov ernment Economy Committee of the National Association of Manufacturers offers con vincing evidence tnat it can be trimmed $3 billion under the President's . $77 billion level without placing it in the austerity category. And this without even touching mili tary expenditures. Here are a few of the major cuts the NAM proposes: in agricultural price supports,' $490 million; rural electrifi- reel Chatter New York (UPD - "We be-jtive side.'-Investors Advisory Wall St lieve that calmer and cooler markets will develop over the intermediate term based on admonitions given wide pub licity by responsible financial sources to approach investing with care . . . viewed over-all, the probabilities f avon higher markets after the present con solidation phase is ended." Fifth Survey. "The loss of momentum in the stock market . . . has not been recovered convincingly, despite the early April rally, and investment planning should lean to the conserva- Institute On the basis of trends in the first three months Stand ard Oil Co. (Indiana) appears headed for an impressive re covery in 1959. Indications point to net profit comparing more nearly with the 1957 showing of $4.27 a share than with last year's $3.29. -Horn-blower & Weeks. Aneusher-Busch and Pabst seem to be the best situated companies in so far as earn ings and growth are concern ed in the brewing industrys International Statistical Bureau. 90 Per Cent of Crashes Involve Law Violation "Traffic law violators arejly if every driver and pedes- acciaem maKers, niei oi trian wonlrt acr-onf bility Police Charles R. Champlin said today, He added that approximate ly 90 per cent of all accidents involve a violation of traffic law on the part of at least one of the drivers involved. These records', the chie said, prove tnat traitic acci dents don't "just happen, they are caused. Chief Champlin said that law enforcement agencies alone cannot do the job of re ducing accidents. "We need the support of the whole com munity in building greater re spect for traffic laws," he added. "Unfortunately," he said, too many drivers think of traffic law violations in terms of traffic fines rather than in terms of death or injury." Deaths and injuries in Or egon would be reduced sharp- HY THIS GREAT KENTUCKY WHISKEY COMES IN TWO BOTTLINGS! There are two great tastes in American whiskey. Some people prefer blends. Others like straight bourbon. Sunny Brook -the great whiskey of the' Old West offers you both with every drop Kentucky whiskey. Follow your taste. Choose the round bottle blend or the square bottle straight. THE OLD SUNNY BROOK CO., LOUISVILLE, KY DISTRIBUTED BY NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS COMPANY. KFNTlirKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY, 90 PROOF . KENTUCKY BLENDED WHISKEY. 86 PROOF 65 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS SOC Head Attends SF Conference Ashland-Dr. Elmo N. Stev enson, southern Oregon col lege president, attended a regional workshop on "Qual ity and Opportunity in High er Education" April 9-10 in San Francisco. Attending were more than 200 gover nors, state legislators, college and university presidents, and other state officials from 13 Western states, including Alaska and Hawaii. Governors Albert D. Rosel- lini of Washington, Grant E. Sawyer of Nevada, and Rob ert E. Smylie of Idaho pre sided' and spoke at sessions. Sponsored by the Western Governors' Conference, the Council of State Govern ments, and the Western In terstate Commission for High er Education, the workshop was the second annual meet ing of western leaders in state government and higher edu cation to discuss the problems facing public universities and colleges in the region. Featured speakers included Dr. Alvin C. Eurich, vice president of the Fund for the Advancement of Education, and Fred M. Hechinger, news paper publisher and author of "The Big Red School House," a study of Russian education today. The workshop 'was preced ed by a one-day session on "The Budget Process in State Colleges and Universities," which considered the uses and limitations of "formulas" in assigning funds to public higher educational institu tions. State executive and legislative budget experts from 13 Western states attended. NAMED MISS ENGLAND London - (DPD - Drama stu dent Pamela Searle, a 21-year-old beauty with 36-24-37 measurements, won the Miss England title Tuesday night. responsi- to know the traffic laws and to comply with them, he added. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Wednesday, April 15, 1959 S cation programs, $335 million; public assistance, S203 mil lion; soil conservation, $456 million; veterans' hospitaliza tion, $250 million. You may say, "veterans de serve the best hospital care possible." But did you know that almost two-thirds of all the patients in Veterans Ad ministration hospitals are re- i ceiving care and treatment for ' illnesses and disabilities not ! related to. their military serv- J ice? J ' And you may say, "soil con servation is a good thing, too." But did you know that the fed eral government has three separate soil conservation pro grams and that they have been i allotted a total of $701 million ! tor tiscal i960? For years, the duplication of over-lapping of two of these agencies have been pointed out. Consolida tion is in order, but the spend ing goes on and on. These are just a couple of examples of how your tax money is being spent ineffi ciently and ineffectively. More Government Growth All of us should realize that the government gets bigger and bigger only at the expense of the private economy. And one of the major questions fac ing us today is whether we, as a nation, want to have more government growth - or more economic growth. What this growing nation needs is more business, not more government. We need the things that business cre ates more jobs, more goods, more incomes, more opportu nities. These good things are with in our reach. To obtain them we must put the brake on government spending. One of the best ways to do this is to provide forward - scheduling of tax rate reform as pro vided in the Herlong - Baker bills. This legislation would force the legislators in Wash ington to be more careful of our tax dollars. But if government economy and tax reform are to come about, we citizens must speak our minds. We must let our Senators and congressmen know that we are dead set against letting the federal spending tide engulf our economy. KING VISITS NEW YORK New York -(UPD- King Hus sein of Jordan visits the Em pire State Building and Uni ted Nations headquarters as part of a crowded schedule of activities today. 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