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MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. 4 MONDAY, APRIL 27, 159 MEDFORD TBIBUIf5 "Everyone to Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MKDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6U1 ROBERT W RCHL, Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager GZrALa LATHAM. Business Mgr IRIC W ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor IARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telef Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor PALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as, second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai - In Advance, Copy TOe. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday mm. 8.01. Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Med ford. Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routts. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p f 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City -if-MedfoTd Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Internationa Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST -HOLIDAY CO.. CCC. Of fices in Ke York, Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, cattle. Portland. St. Louis, At otta. Vancouver B.C. uiuf en m m m PUBLISHERS V'A'sSOCIATION RATIONAL EDITORIAL AS(sbclhftTI Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of -The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 27. 1948 (Wednesday) The Medford school board accepts bids for constructing additions to Washington ele mentary school and the senior high school. A national guard building caretaker slays a black bear on the old Camp White mili tary reservation. 20 YEARS AGO April 27. 1939 (Thursday) A local chapter of the League of Women Voters is established here with Mrs Leonard Carpenter first vice- president. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The June graduates from schools and colleges are getting ready to put their noses to the June grindstones." 30 YEARS AGO April 27, 1929 (Saturday) Installation of new street lights along Sixth st. is slated to begin. A Williams creek woman is Injured by the kick of a cow. 40 YEARS AGO April 27, 1919 (Sunday) Oregon wets lose their fight for a referendum on the dry law in the state. Medford National bank sub scribes $30,000 to the victory loan, drive. 50 YEARS AGO April 27, 1909 (Tuesday) H. M. Coss is granted a new trial by the state Supreme court, a reversal of court ac tion here under Judge Hanna. Greater Medford club ladies discuss a municipal house cleaning and Roberts' "Rules of Order." What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Name the capital of Penn sylvania 2. Jose Iturbi, Ray Lev, and Rudolph Serkin are all known for their talent on what musi cal instrument? 3. Of the 32 permanent teeth, how" many are molars- 4, 8, or 12? 4. In the Old Roman cal endar, was December, March or April,- the first month of the year? 5. Linseed oil Is derived from the seed of olives, flax, cotton, or squash? 6. The snorkel breathing de vice is used in high altitude planes, submarines, or coal mines? 7. Which one of these would be most likely to use a saw-horse-jockey, baker, or car penter? 8. Identify the scientist who "advanced the theory of rela-who w 7 tivity, 9. Flora is a term applicable to plant life; what does the term fauna express? ? 10. If you plant an acorn, would you expect a pine, but ternut, or oak tree to grow from it? Answers: 1. Harrisburg; 2. Piano; 3. 12; 4. March; 5. Flax; 6. Submarines; 7. Carpenter; 8. Albert Einstein 9. Animal life; 10. Oak. Although it has only 6 per cent of the United States population, New England boasts 10 per cent of the per gons listed in "Who's Who." Charlie Hawkins9 Crime Pity Charles Hawkins, of Stockton, Calif. Mr. Hawkins has a headache and an upset stomach. The cause? Alka-Seltzer. He sold a bottle of it in his grocery for 14 cents less than the manufacturer, Miles California Co., thinks he should have sold it for an offense for which he is serving 20 days in the San Joaquin county jail. a DELIEVE it or not, that 14-cent reduction on , a bottle of patent medicine made Charles Hawkins a lawbreaker in California. The law he broke is called a fair-trade law, which also means it's fair to make Mr. Hawkins trade his position behind the counter for one behind bars on ac count of his heinous conduct in offering some fellow a few pennies' bargain. We beg leave to differ. THERE are actually x among them Representative Oren Harris of Arkansas and Senator Hubert Humphrey of Min nesota, who want to extend the advantages cur rently being enjoyed by Carlie Hawkins to cover everybody in all the States of the Union. And that s a fact. "Fair Trade" is a right fancy idea, all right, but we can t say it looks overly fair to us, and don't know as we would Post-Dispatch. New York Transit for Sale': At a time when thejtrend is all the other way, New York City is thinking of selling its city- owned transit system to private enterprise. H,ow seriously, it's still a little early to say. That may become clearer this week when Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. hears from pointed to study and Chalk s proposal to buv. Chalk, a high-stepping financier who already owns Washington, D. C, transit lines arid the Trans Caribbean Airways, offered April 8 to take over lock - stock - and would let him earn 6V2 ing revenues after taxes. This would probably necessitate raising fares iately and perhaps to far cry from the storied went the way of the pterodactyl m 1948. AS IS true in most of the industry, the New York transit system has been fighting a progress ively harder battle with declining patronage and rising costs. The system steadily since World War II. The deficit for the current fiscal year could go as high as $17 mil lion, putting New York neck-and-neck with Bos ton in the race to the red inkwell. One reason for the New York system (and riiiri, tt t-i; vuain. o unci i& geiung an 111 teres uju. Hearing; is the huge capital outlay required to keep a step ahead of the junk dealer, let alone to improve service. New York must of enormously expensive facilities, roughly double age m all other U. b. the system in shape will more than half a billion ing decade a stiff order for the city's already anemic treasury. P'HALK has shown in operations can be made to pay. Since acauir ing Louis Wolfson's embattled Capital Transit bo. in iy5b, he has paid ana begun extracting a per cent on the book value of the assets. However, profit isn't -L4. ii 1 1 1. -T- 1 suusianiai scnuoi wnicn Deiieves mat iainng tran sit operations should be subsidized with tax money as a means of relieving the traffic snarl. iNew York City may it certainly has the snarl. Editorial Comment LACK OF INTEREST It's a sad reflection on pres ent day. affairs to note only half the vacancies which will exist on the school boards throughout the county have been filed for as of yesterday, and the deadline for filing is this Friday. wnue its sad it s also un derstandable. Probably there is no more thankless job in government than school board work. You're cussed if you do and discussed if you don't, no matter what the question The job is time consuming and non-rewarding ; in any monetary sense. The onlv re ward for serving is the knowl edge of public service, partic ularly to those of student age are so important to the i ii.; j future of this nation That's hardly enough to cause many to file for these vacancies. Probably another deterrent to running for a school board job is the lack of general in terest on the part of the pub lic. The only time the average citizen attends a school board meeting is when he is per sonally interested in a given matter or when something is to be acted upon which might in some way affect his child or children directly. Most of us forget that no matter what a school board does, in our own area, it is bound to reach members of Congress, care to trade. St. Louis a special committee ap report back on 0. Roy - obligations if New York per cent on gross operat from 15c to 20c immed 25c in two years a far, nickel subway fare, which has been losing money financial troubles of the the chief reason why i i maintain ebout 240 miles subwav and elevated the rapid transit mileJ cities combined. Keeping; require an investment of dollars during: the com Washington that transit otf all the system's debts neat profit of 6-plus per- everything;. There's a 1' j 1 i "l- not have the money, but E.R.R. our child one way or another ultimately. This lack of interest carries on right down to the school election. It is harder to set the rvoters out on a school elec tion than pulling teeth. No one has any interest. This is more true in the case of board elections than it is in school bond elections, but even in the bond elections the percentage of voters who ballot as op posed to those who are eligi ble to is so low as to be ridic ulous when one considers all of us pay school taxes in one or more forms. But if someone writes a book asking "Why Can't Johnny Read?" or why can't he spell, write, paint or any thing elsethe public immedi ately starts throwing criticism around like confetti. The same public which didn't vote on the bond issue, didn't help elect the board, didn't come to the open house at the school, and maybe didn't even make it to the counseling ses sion concerning their own child. It boils down to one thing: if you don't take an interest in the school system, don't criticize it. If you take an in terest in the education of your child, take an interest in the school system. It's the same thing. - Siskiyou Daily News, Yreka. Dennis the fpyi IP - i 'Did you know ws little gopher hole would HOLD f YOUfZ GOLF BALL'S4?' Matter of Fact HERTER'S TASK Washington - A moving scene occurred after John Foster Dulles had been sworn in as the Presi dent's special advisor on foreign af fairs. The Presi dent himself said his fare- wells im medately after the little cere- -ms'Dh Aisop mony. vice President Richard Nixon, Allen Dulles, and Christian Herter lingered for a moment in the sick room. Summoning all his remaining store of energy by a visible effort of will, speaking weakly but clearly, Dulles thereupon made a little speech to his "successor as Secretary of State.' He told Herter that except for the President himself, no other American now carried such a heavy burden of re sponsibility. He dwelt on his own "reverence" for the office he had now passed on to Her ter. With a pride that might have been ironical under other circumstances, he men tioned his own quite excep tionally successful effort to defend the duties and powers of the Secretary of State against all "interlopers." He promised that he would be careful " to avoid the "inter loper's" role in his new post as the President's advisor. And he ended with , the re mark that the future was wholly in Herter's hands. TlHE LAST remark must be - somewhat qualified, since it is known that Dulles is in deed functioning as the Presi dent's advisor. The President drops in on his great friend as often as he can manage it Dulles, whose faculties are wholly unimpaired by pain and physical weakness, evi dently uses much of his time with the President to deliver what may be called his spoken testament , on the Western sit uation. As both the President and Dulles have described these meetings to others, a partial reconstruction of the Dulles testament is 'possible. The Berlin crisis of course con stitutes the central theme. The danger of weakness, the need to stand firm, the cer tainty that every other West ern position ,wiU crumble after any significant surrend er at Berlin, constitute one group of sub-themes. But Dulles equally stresses the American responsibility as chief nation of the West, the need to take the initiative, and the vital importance of crea tive American leadership. r N KEEPING these themes always before the Presi- aenx, uuiies is of course strengthening the hand of his successor. There is no founda tion at all for the idea which has some currency in Europe, that Herter is more "flexible" than Dulles, in the silly sense of that much abused word, One danger is, rather, that Herter may feel forced to be more "rigid" than Dulles, again in the silly sense, be cause the new Secretary of State does not have quite the same freedom of action that Dulles enjoyed. And the other danger is that the President himself may be more "flexi ble," still in the silly sense. now that he is partly deprived of Dulle's stiffening influence. 'Against this latter danger, Dulles has clearly been try ing to guard; and by so-doing he has equally clearly been helping Herter in the best way he can. For the rest, at least until Dwight D. Eisen hower and Nikita Khrush chev foregather at the sum mit, 'the future is unquestion ably in Herter's hands, as Dulles told him. HERTER'S first task is simply to find a basis for. Menace By Joseph Alsop Western unity that will be strong enough to withstand all sorts of Soviet nerve-war pressures in the forthcoming negotiations. It is lamentable, but it is a fact, that there are still undecided differences about the right negotiating ap' proach among the Western allies. Most important, there is a difference between the Germans, French, and Ameri cans, on the one hand, and the British on the other. The British wish to open the ne gotiations with the Soviets by offering concessions, to show good will; and they argue that a revision of the status of Berlin is positively de sirable. The other allies hold that it is a mistake to open any bargaining-session by of fering concessions, which will only be taken as the prelude to further concessions. The difference is really about tactics more than about substance; but it is an im portant difference all the same, since it is capable of producing all sorts of re criminations later on, if and when the Soviet nerve-war pressure grows serious. Fort unately, there is every reason to hope that Herter will find some way to resolve this inter Allied difference, when he meets with the other Western Foreign Ministers before the talks with the Soviets: at Ge neva. 'For the new Secretary has all the - wisdom and knowledge, the tact and imagination and courage, that his task demands. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In Sacramento the legisla ture approves and Governor Brown is expected to sign a bill repealing California's ad mittedly peculiar cross filing law under which candidates, regardless of party affiliation, can file in primary elections on either the Democratic or Republican ticket, or both. This cross filing system has tended to weaken, if not actu ally destroy, party responsi bility. At the same time, it has tended to put a premium on personal demagogism. That isn't good. , It seems to me we need MORE party responsibility, rather than less. Under our two-party system with one party standing for one set of principles and the other party standing for a different set of principles - party responsibil ity is highly desirable. It gives the voter something definite to get his teeth into when he is making his choices in the voting booth. BUT Let's be candid about it. The two-party system would be MUCH BETTER if the parties would adopt honest and sincere platforms instead of putting out a list of pious platitudes designed merely to catch votes. TN SALEM, in an effort to A stretch income to meet de mands, the Oregon legislature is wrestling mightily with the problem of taxes. The prob lem is to get by without mak ing Oregon's tax climate too unfavorable. If that happens, Oregon will find it harder to attract the industries that Oregon needs to provide jobs for its grow ing population. I TS A real problem. For example: In 1940, California's per capita state tax, excluding un employment taxes, was1 $38.13. By 1958, it has risen to $120.60 -or 3.16 times. In 1940, Washington's per capita state tax, excluding un employment taxes, was $35.27. By 1950, it had risen to $137.57-or 3.87 times. In 1940, Oregon's per capita state tax, excluding unem ployment taxes, was $23.65. By 1958, it had risen to I Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circumstances Ihe use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right tc edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent' the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often th case. On Air and Justice To the Editor: May we add a few remarks to the articles in your paper on air pollu tion, and Mrs. Click's case? We found when we first moved here from a Central Oregon town where they had pure air that we often had flu. We did not know the exact cause since we were not ac customed to this heavy air. But we also found by using more and plenty of Drano and Saniflush in the drains and bath rooms the flu did not at tack us so often. Judging by the foul air that one finds when the air is just right that others could help the air condition by using more too. For some times Cen tral Point is very bad when the air is heavy and the odors descend. We notice that epi demics or diseases follow whent his occurs. That alone would help lots if all used more Drano. Some epidemics could be avoided if some would stay home when they have con tagious diseases instead of spreading their disease. While others could avoid colds and flu if they would wait for the weather to be warmer before going in the nude or semi- nude. Too many start this the first warm days. In regard to Mrs. Click, we wonder if her accusers would ask the jury to go ahead and hang or electrocute them if they had been in her place? Or would they do as she did and receive their decision with joy? Especially when she had been aggravated in to it. St. John 7-24 commands us to judge not according to the appearance, but judge right eous judgment. . Matt. 7-12 -also c o m m a n ds, all things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." The jury did this, and we are glad they were human enough to do so. Too bad there are not more like them. Besides that, men have no right to put others to death. The law of Moses commanded that to be done, that law end ed with Christ and John, Luke 16-16, Romans 10-4. Now un der Christ, God is the avenger and He will avenge if we let Him, Romans 12-19 to end, Heb. 10-30. God's ministers and Saints are the rulers God sends, Romans 13-1 to 7; Psalms 149-4 to end, not the judges and lawyers. Read Daniel 4-17. We need officers to keep order, and have to have them. But no one has the right to kill people. If so, it is cold blooded murder just the same as the first murderer. For that is God's privilege. He made and is to take, not men. 1 Peter 2-13-14 has reference to the ones God sends, or min isters as in Acts 5-1 to 16, Romans 13-1 to 7, not to earth ly rulers. We are to obey men's laws that do not con flict with God's.' Mrs. G. C. Cunningham, Box 381, Central Point, Ore. Not Enough Space To the Editor: This world does not have an unlimited amount of space for an un limited amount of people. The laws of nature have a statute of limitation, there are those who choose to ignore them, for which all of us have to pay. William R. Sullivan, 1116 South Flower st. Los Angeles 15, Calif. Constant Reader To the Editor: I have read the Medford Tribune daily for the past 10 years and in my considered opinion it is in many ways ths outstanding newspaper in the. Pacific Northwest. The Tribune's coverage of Urban League Hears Hatfield Portland (LTD The real measure of civil rights is what people think in their minds, Gov. Mark Hatfield said Sunday. Hatfield spoke at the 14th annual meeting of the Urban League of Portland. It is not enough to pass legislation in an effort to in sure equality, he said. Laws only help solve problems, he said. Hatfield listed four areas where he said there was need for improvement in basic hu man rights in Oregon - eco nomics, social relationships, politics, and spiritual. $106.13-or 4.49 times. That is to say: Oregon's per capita tax has been rising con siderably faster that Washing ton's or California's. If that trend continues, Oregon will find it increasingly harder to get new industries and more jobs. I news in the field of politics- municipal, county, state, and national is fair, equal and impartial. Your editorial opin ions in the above areas have been concise, pointed but not partisan. With some of these I do not wholly agree; but I do agree with your consistent endeavor to expose unbridled prejudice, chicanery, bunk and baloney. - In this endeavor you are assisted by the trenchant car toons of Herblock. He too ex poses fraud, pretense and chicanery, in high or low places. Franklin "Jere" Girard, 1070 Emma st. Ashland. Parents' Responsibility To the Editor: A few weeks ago when I read in the M-T that a 5-year-old girl on a bi cycle had been struck by a car driven by a city police man my blood seethed. Thurs day when the news appeared that the girl's parents were suing the officer and the City of Medford for a ridiculous amount because she had been struck, it boiled over. So this expression of my feelings in the matter. I do not know anyone in volved. Nevertheless, I feel I must voice my opinion. I will try to direct it calmly at the child's parents. Why was a 5-year-old girl allowed in the street on a bi cycle? Oh, I know the argu ments a parent has to face; all the "other kids have two wheelers. Perhaps, too, you have to prove that your child is as smart as the others and can do anything they can do. Even a chimpanzee can be taught to ride a bike but I doubt that his trainer would either risk his welfare or trust in his ability to handle it on the street in motor traf fic. No matter how smart a 5-year-old girl appears to be, she is still a baby with un trained intelligence and re flexes incapable of handling the unforeseen situations that arise in street traffic. A 5-year-old on a bicycle? Yes, in an enclosed yard or. a park reserved for that purpose. No driver would strike a child on a bicycle, intention ally. Yet it happens. Usually to children from 7 to 14. Why should these parents invite it to happen to their child of 5? I am sad for these people because through their own lack of intelligent thought and care, their child has been in jured. I grieve for the little girl. However, I sympathize sincerely with the driver who struck her. It was through no fault of his that he was plac ed in this situation. It could happen to any driver. In my opinion, the parents have no more of a case against the man and the City of Med ford, than they would have if they had stood the little girl on a cliff, pushed her over and then sued her for falling. When 'God gave them a child, He also gave them the responsibility o f watching over her until she is old enough to think and reason for herself and thus be able to rationalize the cause and effect of her own actions. Mrs. Mildred Price 701 So. Modoc Avenue Medford D. A. R. Defended To the Editor: Your editor ial, "The Good Ladies Con vene," in the April 24 issue of the Mail Tribune shows very poor taste. You are helping accomp lish something that the com munist party, pink liberals and socialistic minded people have been attempting to do for years, "discredit the pa triotic D. A. R." The official opinions of the D. A. R. are not always the popular or 20th century ones but then, neither is the U. S. Constitution which they de fend and regard as the law of the land. Credit should be given this organization for its outstanding and continuing fight against un-American ac tivities that conflict with bas ic American ideals that we were taught and later fought for in several world wars. A large number of the D. A. R.'s resolutions are of the minor ity kind but they are not just the half-baked ideas of a group of solemn fools nor do they do discredit to the coun try. Anytime an organization Don't Neglect Slipping FALSE TEETH Do false teetlx drop, slip or wobble hen you talk, eat, laugh or meese? Don't be annoyed end embarraaeeq by such handicaps. FASTEETH. an alkaline (non-acid) powder to sprin kle on your plates, keeps false teeth more firmly set. Gives eonfident feel In? of security end 'ort. Nn suniT-'. snoey, n? C-eN Washington Report By WILLIAM HERTER AND CONGRESS Washington-Subtle but im portant changes in our atti tudes in the world will soon flow from the 1 e 1 e vation of Christian Her ter to Secre tary of State. i A new day is coming, no m a 1 1 er how s yfcea rnestly we say there is amnT 4ri a - William S. 6 , "'& 7. white alteration in fundamental policies. This does not mean a "softness" where once there was strength -as in our views toward the Berlin crisis and our non recognition of C o m m u nist China. It does not mean that the bad, old "inflexibility" of John Foster Dulles (as some saw it) will now necessarily be at once supplanted by an excellent, new, Herter "flexi bility." But it does mean that on vital American decision in timately involving the lives and hopes of our allies is like ly ever again to be made by a single man. as Mr. Dulles could and did make such de cisions as Secretary. IF, IN THE future, the Amer iran lino liprp and tliprp should appear less positive and determined, it may well be the stronger, rather than the weaker, for this very fact: it will not be a line, whatever it is otherwise, to which the whole collective institution of the American government is committed by genuine convic tion and prior concert of opin ion. Sometimes Mr. Dulles committed this collective in stitution by acts of foreclc siire; he simply acted and all simply had to go along. In a word, we have ex changed a devoted, powerful, will stick its neck out, well knowing that it is going to take abuse from the majority and the press, I say more pow er to them because that kind of intestinal fortitude is still allowed and admired by most Americans. In Russia, a like organization could not live through one convention. The "Metropolitan govern ment" idea may be a good one in theory but it has its faults and conflicts with lo cal rule to the extent that ar guments against it are made by other than fools. The "Cultural . Exchange Agreement" with Russia is one that may hurt more than help us. What a wonderful chance for cultural minded Khrushchev, through so call ed cultural exchanges of pub lications, art, motion pictures, radio and TV, visitors of all kinds, and scholarships, to in filtrate our country with spies and the like in order to find our weak spots and exploit them. Of course, it is only a wild idea that a bunch of fools might have (D. A. R.), but don't give it a thought. It appears easier to pick up a silly statement by one of ap proximately 200,000 D. A. R. members and use it in order to make the whole outfit look like supercilious idiots. Thank God, (the commun istic Russians can prove there is none) that we have not only the D. A. R., but other patriotic organizations that continue to wave the flag in face of opposition from scof fers. William Doernbach, 143 Mace rd., Medford Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) FRIENDLY, 'lib . I MM m Frank l-Her-? SLtfCPV Perl, S. WHITE resolute but essentially one man operation of our foreign poilcy for a no less devoted and powerful multi-man oper ation. The Dulles technique had the advantage of swift, unhesitant execution. The old gentleman could move in cri sis with the speed and effi ciency of a lashing whip. The Herter technique, however, will not be without its own advantages, and it may turn out to be the more effective in the long run. Dulles had on his side most of all his wholly untroubled self-confidence, plus the utter and automatic confidence of a presidential superior, Mr. Eis enhower, plus the guarded and rarely wholehearted con fidence of the Democratic Congress. Herter will not have quite this degree of self confidence and perhaps not even quite the same total and invariable confidence of the President. But he will have something more. TIE WILL have the full crea tive and cheerful assist ance of the Democrats, par ticularly those of the Senate Foreign Relations committee. And these are among the ablest men in public life to day, fully capable both of helping to prepare high pol icy and of gathering support for it at home. Herter carries the Senate in his pocket, as Dulles never could. And this, at home or abroad, is a weapon whose firepower cannot easily be overestimated. Indeed, some in the Democratically - con trolled Senate already refer to him as a "Democratic" Sec retary of State. They do not, .of course, real ly think they have captured the post in a partisan sense, nor do they wish to fclo so. Mr. Herter is ah authentic, if less than urgently partisan, Republican. What they mean is that there has now come to power a Secretary whose whole basic view whose whole human personality, is agree ably in tune with their own. It may seem odd but it is nevertheless true that these are factors of great practical, and not mere clubby, signifi cance. Christian Herter years ago served in the House of Representatives in close, plea sant association with two oth er young men who were faith ful, if also less than urgently partisan, Democrats. NE of these is today the as " sistant Democratic leader of the Senate and also an in fluential member of the For e i g n Relations committee, Mike Mansfield of Montana. The other is the powerful chairman of that committee, William Fulbright of Arkan sas. Anybody who supposes that Secretary Herter will have less than the full-time, all-out and highly useful as sistance of Senators Fulbright and Mansfield-and of many others-just does not know the Senate or "The Hill" in gen eral, as the men of Congress call it. And anj body who supposes that Herter will withhold anything from these men has forgotten that Herter, too, is at bottom a man of Congress. If there is anything to the no tion that two heads are better than one-and there is-then we acn look for this: a foreign policy deeply protected in its . domestic base as it has never been since the war; a foreign policy far more meshed with the wishes of our allies. (Copyright. 1959. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Hear your fav orite hymns on KMED every Sunday, 10:35 a.m., sung by "Tennessee Ernie" Ford PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 LADY ATTENDANT HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE
