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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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,
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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.)
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