MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOnD, ORE.
4 TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1959
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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Anril 28. 1949 (Thursday)
A group incorporates as the
Southern Oregon Historical
Mnspiim to administer the
. rTH
proposea museum i" "
pni l rthouse at Jacksonville.
Local YMCA members plan
a "kick-off" breakfast for
their membership drive.
20 YEARS AGO
A nril 99. 1939 (Friday)
State officials investigating
th muddv water controversy
between miners and sports
men on the Rogue decide to
establish a turbidity standard.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Young
chickens are on display in
msnv store windows, exciting
more interest than if they
were in a frying pan.
30 YEARS AGO
Aoril 28. 1929 (Friday)
A one-hour limit for park
ing in Bedford's business dis
trict arouses discussion both
urn anH con.
.Os West and Walter M.
Pierce are leading Democratic
candidates for Oregon gov
ernor.
40 YEARS AGO
Aoril 28. 1919 (Monday)
The - Medford city .band
clans to hold its first practice
over the Golden Rule store
tonieht.
The Sams Valley Sunday
school reopens for the first
time since the flu scare.
SO YEARS AGO
Aoril 28. 1909 (Wednesday)
' Smudeing in Rogue valley
orchards has proved a big suc
cess this year, says a depart
ment of agriculture patholo
gist i
Rex grocery receives a huge
head of cheese, a yard wide
and weighing 160 pounds.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Does the wombat most
nearly resemble a small bear.
a bat, or a bird?
2. Thomas Jefferson's like
ness is depicted on two dif
ferent kinds of U.S. money
what are they?
A. Are olives ciasseo. as
n . -1 " 1 J
fruits, or vegetables?
4. In football, how many
points are scored by a field
goal?
r ' no i;orman a unnann is:
H IIIHU W HTH 1 1 LIIllltJLJllC: 42.L C
banned, a highway, or an au-
. xomaiic eievatorr
- a part of the Revolutionary,
Civil or SDanish - American
War?
7. Nitroglycerin, the explo-
; sive, is sometimes used medi-
' cinally; true or false?
Q At Vi Axir ty- - r- r vo-n-e' ? TV
terval is the Holy Year cele-
brated by the Roman Catholic
church?
; 9. To block one s vision of
I the full moon, would you need
- to use a silver dollar, half
- dollar or a dime, held at arm's
' length?
10. Cattle have four stom-
I achs; true or false?
; Answers: 1. Small bear. 2,
'. Two dollar bill, 5 cenl piece.
: 3. Fruits. 4. 3 points. 5. High-
9. Dime. 10. True.
West Germany reports a
10' per cent gain this year, in
trade with the East.
The Blindfold
Thpv insf couldn't wait for iustice at Poplar-
ville, Miss., last Saturday. ;The men who broke
into the jail in that placid, prospering town,
snatched a Negro prisoner from his cell and drag
ged him off into the night, bleeding and scream
ing, wanted to dispose 01
in their own way.
Mark Charles Parker,
tim, was awaiting trial on a charge that he raped
a young white mother last February in a neigh
boring county. Eeports that the woman was preg
nant and mat ner 4-year-oia aaugnier was a wk
Ipnrl the alleged crime a sordid aspect, but
judging from experience
mob s rage was racial prejudice.
Parker's trial was to have started yesterday,
but what of his guilt or innocence now?
LYNCHINGS, like kangaroo courts, "frontier
I'ncti'oo" an A nftipr fnrm? nf lindnp. rrnr.pss.
cro an American travestv. Mississippi leads the
nation in lynchings, this
1955. Most victims nave Peen jegroes:
This incident represents, like others, a bitter
blow to those who are giving so much to the cause
of integration. And its effects on our tender pres
tige abroad already scarred by the Till case,
Clinton, Tenn., and Little kock are consider
able.
IN HER classic pose, Justice carries scales in one
hand an H a sword in the other and she is
blindfolded, marking her
The-men who broke into tne jail m ropiar
ville carried pistols and sticks. And they wore
masks, for havino- lost conscience thev wished to
hide themselves with their loss, lest they be rec-
- A ll I
ognized and called to account lor tneir actions.
Tn dne course, we trust, these men will stand
in' court unmasked, to
they wanted to deny Parker. h.W.
"Cross-Filing" Ended
The California legislature last week passed a
bill which will end California's unique system of
allowing "cross-filing" in primary elections.
For the past 46 years, a candidate could place
his name on the primary
of the party of which he
the opposing party. Some exceptionally popular
candidates, such as Former Governor (now bhiel
Justice) Earl Warren, thus would be given the
nomination of both parties.
But no more.
yHE arguments against
if to on "1 Inmn!) " onri
that primary, elections
that cross-filing tends to destroy party responsi
bility. Arugments for it, on the other hand, are that
it gives the individual voter greater freedom of
choice, and that under the cross-filing system
California has been singularly free from party
"bossism," or party machinations.
Which faction is right remains to be seen.
"ROSS-FILING, as such, has never been permis-
able in Oregon. (The only situation where a
candidate could obtain the nominations of both
parties in Oregon is to run in a primary uoppos
ed, and not only win his own party's nomination,
but also receive enough write-in votes on the oth
er party's ballot to give him both nominations.)
The individual voter should be given the wid
est possible latitude in selecting the candidate of
his choice. He is deprived of that privilege in a
primary election where he can vote only for can
didates of one party.
We view the California legislature's action as
a step backward, rather than forward, in progres
sive and responsive government. L.A.
Had a Good Laugh Lately?
"We want our passenger trains to be good trains.
We think our passenger service is as good as any in
the country. . . and we intend to keep it that way." .
(From a Southern Pacific advertisement appear
ing in the Mail Tribune Monday, and in other Pa
cific coast newspapers earlier).
The statement above from the friendly S.P.
should cause a few disrespectful guffaws from
those who rode the famed Rogue River Rocket
(also known as the "Rattler," and a variety of
other uncomplimentary
killed passenger service
with the intention of keeping it that way.
That the service was NOT "as good as any in
the country" even in comparison to other non
main line runs is hardly beyond dispute, as a
mass of evidence at the public hearings concern
ing the end of service disclosed.
ASA matter of fact, quite, a number of those
giving testimony included evidence tending
to give credence to the belief "that the S. P. delib
erately downgraded the kind of passenger service
which, up to 1955, was available on the line be
tween Eugene and Ashland.
They declared that this downgrading was
done. to discourage patronage, so that this lack
of patronage could be used as an excuse to elim
inate the service altogether.
This, of course, cannot be "proven."
But in view of the S. P.'s record as to passeng
er service in this area, the ad is enough to provide
a good laugh to anyone who hasn't had one late
ly. E.A.
and the Masks
nis case ana 01 mm
their 23-vear-old vic
the chief fuel of the
being the fourth since
-v
freedom from bias.
receive the sort of trial
election ballot, not only
was a member, but also
cross-filing allege that
"hirnrrritirsi ' -nmpPSS
are "party affairs," and
names), betore the b. P.
in this area altogether
Dennis the
"Mafga&t is CZAZYl I dOHT SB NO BLACK ROOTS'
Matter of Fact
GOOD NEWS FOR NIXON
Washington - There is good
news for Vice President Rich
ard Nixon in a poll of the po
litically strategic state of Wis
consin taken a
few weeks ago
on behalf of
Sen. John F.
Kennedy.
There is
even better
news for Ken
nedy; but pub
lic opinion
tests showing
i 1 A.
Josph Alsop me present
popularity of the young man
from Massachusetts are rela
tively old hat. Several past
tests have also showed, how
ever, that New York's Gov.
Nelson Rockefeller would be
harder for a Democrat to beat
than the Vice President would
be. Wisconsin's good news for
the Vice President is a sharp
reversal of this pro-Rockefeller
trend.
- In summary, the Wisconsin
poll showed Nixon defeating
any of the Democrats included
except Kennedy, while all the
Democrats defeated Rockefel
ler by substantial margins.
The results may be tabulated
as follows, with the percent
age polled by the Democrats
given first in all cases.
Nixon Rockefeller
Kennedy 53-47 63-37
Humphrey 48-52 54-46
Kefauver 49-51 56-44
Williams 45-55 53-47
THIS political poll was taken
as a by-product of another
sort of statewide opinion test
by the well-known profession
al poller, Louis Harris, who
has made other polls for the
Kennedy organization. The
name of Sen. Estes Kefauver
was included in the poll be
cause of the strength he was
known to have among Wiscon
sin Democrats. Gov. Mennen
Williams of Michigan was
picked as another unwitting
contestant because there was
vague talk that he might try
to get his presidential candi
dacy off the ground by enter
ing next year's Wisconsin pri
mary. A notable omission
among the shadow candidates
was Sen. Stuart Stymington
of Missouri.
With respect to Nixon and
Rockefeller, the Wisconsin
poll results almost exactly re
versed the results of another
Harris poll of eight West
Coast cities. In that poll, tak
en early this winter, Nixon
was roundly beaten by all
three Democrats included in
the list, Kennedy, Humphrey
and, Symington; while Rocke
feller defeated both Syming
ton and Humphrey, but was
defeated by Kennedy.
Wisconsin is very far rom
the West Coast. The Wiscon
sin Republicans, who were of
course proportionally repre
sented in the more recent poll,
also included a high propor
tion of admirers of the late
Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, who
would favor Nixon over
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
AT A FASHIONABLE night club, a irl-about-town boasted
to a friend in the powder room, "I had my nose bobbed for
eight hundred dollars and already I've been taken for Kim
Novak."
"You've been taken, all
right," sneered the friend
"for eight hundred dollars."
There's 'a quaint lady in
Red Bank, N. J., who's been
going to a psychiatrist twice
a week like clockwork for
years. She says it's done her
no good but he gives green
trading stamps. Twenty
seven, more sessions and
she'll be able to win a couch
of her own.
eloVimfS0 When she reported back for work, .
friend asked, "How did your bridegroom regoster at the hotel.
"Fine," enthused the bride, "just fine!"
1959. by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kins Features Sj-ndwte.
Menace
Bv Joseph Alsop
Rockefeller. Yet the spread
between the Rockefeller vote
and the Nixon vote in this
Wisconsin poll is sufficiently
great to suggest something
larger than a local Wisconsin
reaction.
The Wisconsin poll sug
gests, in fact, that voters
across the country have been
less' impressed by the wisdom
and courage of the Rockefel
ler legislative program, than
by the simple, painful fact that
the Governor asked his New
Yorkers to pay new taxes. If
other polls continue to show
that Nixon has a better chance
to win than Rockefeller, the
Vice President can consider
himself nominated before the
Republican convention even
assembles.
"i
fFHIS very good news for
Nixon is slightly poisoned,
it must be added, by the char
acter of the good news for
Kennedy. Another Harris poll,
taken in Wisconsin in the sum
mer of last year, showed much
the same broad pattern-Nixon
losing to Kennedy but beat
ing all the other Democrats.
But in this 1958 poll, Nixon
lost to Kennedy by a mere
hair, 49.6 to 50.4, whereas in
the 1959 poll the margin of
defeat, 47 to 53, was consider
ably wider. The margins by
which Nixon defeated the
other Democrats were also
substantially narrower in the
recent poll than in the 1958
poll. If these latest results can
be trusted, in short, Nixon
is gaining on Rockefeller, but
his party has been losing
ground rather badly in Wis
consin. Other results in the same
poll cast an interesting light
on the strategically important
Wisconsin Democratic pri
mary. When asked which of
their party's possible condi
dates they preferred, 40 per
cent of the Democrats polled
picked Kennedy; 16 per cent
picked Humphrey; 15 per cent
picked Kefauver; 4 per cent
picked Sen. Lyndon Johnson
of Texas; 3 per cent chose
Symington and another 3 per
cent chose Gov. Williams; and
19 per cent were undecided.
In a two man choice, Kennedy
was named by 60 per cent
of the Democrats, with 40 per
cent going to Humhprey.
Some may be inclined to
suspect these results because
of their source. But Harris is
a serious, professional practi
tioner of , his peculiar special
ty. His results cross-check
very neatly with those se
cured by other pollers in other
areas, especially on the most
doubtful point, the strong sup
port for Senator Kennedy.
And the Senator himself evi
dently regards the Harris
polls as useful indicators, since
the Harris findings in Wiscon
sin were an important back
ground motive of his recent
Wisconsin stumping tour,
(c) 1959, New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Stop Me
Local Election Outcome in Japan Gives
Hope for Continued Good U.S. Relations
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
The outcome of the recent
elections in Japan forecast
continued good relations with
the United States and provide
interesting proof that Com
munism does not flourish in
hand with
prosperity.
The elec
tions were, as
well person
al triumph for
Prime.. Minis
ter Nobusuke
Kishi, who at
at the age of
62, has tasted
success both
trail Newsom
in the post and pre-war Ja
pan and overcame a three
year stint in prison as a sus
pected war criminal.
The elections just complet
ed were for 20 prefectural
governors and for more than
Communications
Another Smudge Protest
To the Editor: I read with
interest heading in Sunday's
Tribune, "Orchard Heating
Smoke Inspires Letters to
Court." Then on the bottom
lines of this writing, "The
county court has taken no
action on the complaints pend
ing a meeting with city offi
cials." You good people and all
concerned with this smuggy
smudge, and especially you
housewives where the burden
of scrubbing, cleaning and
washing things , up after a
night of smuggy smoke, if you
would just write to your main
state official in Salem, your
governor, if you please, I am
sure we will not have this
smuggy smoke to deal with
in 1960.
And for heaven's sake and
Rogue Valley's sake, stop
pestering these city dads and
Jackson county court offici
als about doing something to
have this dirty mess put to
an end. I've been in this beau
tiful Rogue Valley, if it can
be called vsuch, after a day
or two of smoke, since 1939,
and it's the same old malarkie
and hum-ho every year. City
council will see what can be
done about pollution. Yes the
etc. Nothing whatever gets
done about polluting.. Yes the
air, life must breathe.
There are laws, state laws,
where the welfare of the peo
ple are jeopardized. What all
you housewives must do, you
school children also, is to
flood your state capital with
your complaints. The wording
in those letters should be blue
smoke not black smoke.
You take a Sunday after
noon drive in this valley, the
first thing you notice, the
birds are all black. The cows,
the horses and the mice, once-
White w o o 1 e y sheep. Oh
brother.
I see in the Tribune, not
too many issues back, that
orchard men spent $150,000
in one night of smuggy or
chard heating. That sure is a
nasty dirty shame. ,
Get smokeless heaters like
our adjoining state, California.
If heat is what's needed, and
if they are too high priced or
you can't afford them, pull
your pear trees up by the
roots and plant something
else.
Millions of people live good
lives without pears.
H. W. Van Hise,
Route 3, 111 West
Glenwood rd.,
Medford
Humane Slaughter Bill
To the Editor: H.B. 629 has
been tabled. This is the legis
lation to make humane
slaughter compulsory in Ore
gon. The handling of livestock
immediately prior to slaugh
ter causes great pain to the
animals and also causes an
enormous economic loss
through damage to the meat.
It is calculated that the total
damage to meat of all species
resulting from inhumane
methods of slaughter is over
$100 million a year. This loss,
of course, is not absorbed by
packers, but results in lower
prices paid to farmers for live
stock and higher prices paid
for meat by housewives.
Practical techniques of han
dling and slaughtering have
been thoroughly tested and
the packers who have adopt
ed such methods, as the auto
matic stunning instruments,
find that this inexpensive
equipment saves money in
their operations. However,
the packers who are reluctant
to change to humane slaugh
ter have indulged in lobbying
against the proposed law, and
with the indifference of our
representatives in Salem, a
few humane minded people
and ljumane societies waged
a losing battle.
When one animal is seen to
be abused and mistreated,
people rise up in righteous
anger. But because they can't
see what goes on inside the
walls of an abattoir they re
main indifferent to the cruel
ty inflicted on thousands of
2,400 legislative seats, and
under usual circumstances
would be considered entirely
local. ,
However, such is the bitter
enmity between Kishi's Liberal-Democratic
party and the
left-wing Socialists that the
campaign quickly became a
test of strength between Ki
shi's pro-American govern
ment on the one hand and
on the other the anti-American
Socialists who propose
ties with Red China.
Had Union Support
The Socialists had trade un
ion backing and, besides dip
lomatic and commercial rela
tions with Communist China,
also demanded the total abo
lition of all American bases
in Japan and a full ban on
the testing of nuclear bombs.
Both demands enjoy a cer
tain popularity even among
conservatives in Japan whose
merchants eye hungrily the
vast Red Chinese market and
whose citizens well remem
ber the atom bombs of Hirosh
ima and Nagasaki.
Sidelights of the campaign
were the stop-and-go Japan-ese-U.S.
negotiations to revise
their mutual security pact and
Rec3 Chinese and Russian de
mands that Japan scrap the
pact altogether.
Barometers of the electipn
were the outcomes in Tokyo,
the northern island of Hok
kaido, Osaka and Fukuoka.
Kishi - backed candidates
won in Tokyo, Hokkaido and
Osaka. Only in the southern
coal mining center of Fukuo-
animals. And so our meat ani
mals will continue to be hoist
ed by one leg-tendons and
muscles torn-cut in the throat
and bled to death - uncon
sciousness comes "Slowly. Oth
ers are knocked down with
a sledge hammer, often with
repeated blows causing agon
izing head injuries.
If you have not written to
your legislators you are re
sponsible for this brutality.
We cleaned up the county
pound, let's clean up the Ore
gon abattoirs.
Mrs. Eunice Russell
1022 Childers st.
Medford.
Bible Is Cited
To the Editor: The letter
from the Arab Information
Center appearing Sunday con
firms what I said. March 18
Mr. Mehdi is trying to con
fuse the issue by claiming
there are 9 million Arab
Christians who also hate Is
rael. He does not deny that
all Arabs claim to be Abra
ham's true seed, and want to
drive Israel into the sea. He
would gladly support Nasser
in such a move. This is what
I predicted March 18.
Israel is God's chosen race
because Jesus Christ is de-
cended from Abraham
through Isaac, Jesse and Dav
id (Mathew 1:1-18). This has
nothing to do with a superior
race. He was the Messiah
prophesied in the Old Testa
ment. Israel rejected Him,
crucified Him, and lost the
Kingdom (Matthew 21:33-43)
and was scattered in AD 70
The Bible also says David's
house will be confirmed for
ever in Jesus Christ (Luke 1-68-75)
whichr implies that God
will again deal with Israel
after she has been judged for
her sin. (See Romans 11.) In
the interval between Christ's
death and resurrection and as
cension until He returns to
take His church out and ex
ecute judgement, salvation is
an individual matter based on
accepting His finished work
on Calvary, without regard
to race or color. (Romans 4:-13-16.)
God has chose to send Jesus
Christ to Israel to bring His
will to the world. Israel re
jected Him. From that day un
til He returns, it is an indi
vidual matter. There is i no
need for anyone Jew or
Arab or American to go
through the war which is fast
apporaching. Jesus is the way
out.
I am no Zionist. Zionists
generally reject the' inspira
tion of the Old Testament,
just as many professing
Christians reject the Virgin
Birth and substitutionary
death of Christ for sin, plus
the necessity for receiving
Him by faith into the heart
and being born again, as well
as the inspiration of Scrip
ture. Mr. Ben Gurion makes
no claim to believe the Old
Testament as inspired by God.
No Zionist can expect any fav
ored treatment from God
when Christ returns. Since
they don't expect this, it does
not bother them. If the Bible
is God's inspired word, Christ
will return soon for His
church, and whenever Nasser
and the Russians move on Is
rael, the end will come.
If this is a fools hope, one
would do well to make peace
with the Communists. It is
the only thing that can stop
them. 4
Parker Bailey,
542Vi 'A' St.,
Ashland, Ore. ,
ka, normally regarded as a
Socialist stronghold, did a
Socialist candidate win. The
issue there also was clouded
by charges of corruption
against the previous regime.
Income Is High
The outcome surprised even
the Kishi conservatives who
had expected a much closer
battle.
The answer seemed to lie
in the fact that when the
chips were down, Japanese vo
ters decided that orosDeritv
in the hand was better than
Socialist promises in the
bush.
The average income in Ja
pan is the highest in Asia.
On March 31 Japan closed
out its fiscal year with a fa
vorable trade balance of more
than a record half - billion
dollars.
Japanese trade delegations
are active from Sweden to
Ceylon, and .in this hemis
phere are especially active in
South America.
Industrially, Japan has re
placed Britain as the world's
leading ship builder, is first
in the production of silk and
Washington Report
- By WILLIAM
NO EASY RIDERS
Washington-'Mister Crump
don't 'low no easy riders
here."
Thus ran a song by old W.
C. Handy, of
the days when
Memphis po
litical boss E.
H. Crump
took a sour
view of all
who sought
rewards with
risks or food
wuiiams. ,v-:
white Now, Mister
Kennedy - Sen. John F. Ken
nedy of Massachusetts- and
various circumstances are tell
ing all Presidential aspirants:
no more easy riding here.
The Senate, which has long
been latently the cockpit of
1960 Presidential politics for
both parties, has now become
the cockpit in motion. The
great fight over the Kennedy
labor bill is far from over.
But already Presidential can
didates are being required to
go one way or another on all
the complications of this "gut"
political issue.
A HARSH but useful pro
cess of clarification is thus
noy in full swing. And for
this Kennedy, as he takes his
lumps and dishes them out, is
entitled to much credit. The
most open of the Democratic
Presidential hopefuls, he is
forcing the others to take a
stand for candor more than a
year before the nominating
conventions.
It is too early to estimate
precisely the effect on Ken
nedy himself. His initial de
feats by the Republican-conservative
Democratic coalition
were unquestionably damag
ing in one sense: he was shown
to be unable to control mat
ters, momentarily at least, on
his chosen issue. The game,
however, Is not over; it is
entirely possible that his mod
erate position will yet prevail.
But other results, in terms
of Presidential hopes, already
can be put down in fairly firm
terms.
Vice-President Nixon, who
as the Senate presiding officer
cannot vote except to break a
tie, has now had the oppor
tunity - and the responsibility
- for casting deciding ballots
with the conservative coali
tion. He has thus made a
grave and possibly fateful de
cision to stand with the Old
Guard GOP wing for a
"tough" labor bill. This will
help him for the nomination,
Counsel With
Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan
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Or Call
Mr. Friendly
Bill Fish
Phone SP 3-7343
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AGENCY
27 NORTH HOllY ST.
first in fishing. Its film in
dustry turns out more feature
length films than Hollywood.
For Kishi, the election was
another high in a career that
has had both highs and lows.
Charges Not Proved
Today he is firmly pro
American. But during the war
it was he who, as commerce
and industry minister in Hi
deki To jo's war-time cabinet,
found the money and the guns
to support the war against the
United States.
During the occupation of
Japan, Gen Douglas MacAr
thur's administration purged
him from public office.
No war crimes charges ever
were proved against him, but
after he emerged from prison
he still had to erase the las
cist label which his opponents
had pinned upon him. His re
ply to critics then and now has
been:
"I have fully searched my
soul concerning my wartime
responsibility and today I am
resolved to devote myself as
a democratic statesman to the
building of Japan with the
people."
S. WHITE
but it could be a significant
and perhaps even an insur
mountable handicap in the
election itself.
lOR one cannot read again
the Congressional election
returns of last November
without realizing that the
"tough" labor position taken
by the GOP was disastrous in
key states.
Kennedy, too, has run risks.
He hag for the first time been
required to break deeply with
most of the Southerners. One
of the' basic strengths of his
Presidential candidacy had
been that of all the northern
Democratic liberals he was
the most nearly acceptable to
the South. Its convention votes
will be very important, and he
has accepted the danger of los
ing them over labor. ,
But a leading rival, Sen.
Hubert H. Homphrey of Min
nesota, has certainly not im
proved his situation. It was
Humphrey's absence from the
Senate, on a campaigning
sortie in the West, laat caused
the liberals t lose their first
showdown who the conserva
tives. To miss roll call is
rarely unforgivable. Never
theless, a Humphrey present,
rather than a Humphrey ab
sent, would have kept Nixon
from moving in.
TlHIS is bound to hurt Hum---
phrey, if only by indicat
ing firmly to him that he had
better cut down his, out-of-Senate
stumping activity. It
will.be a hard choice; his sola
hope is to make an earlf
showing of delegate strength.
And it is not easy to get tha-l
strength without going out
and asking for it.
Finally, there are the tw
other Democratic "possibil
ities" Senate Democratic
leader Lyndon B. Johnson of
Texas and Sen. Stuart Sym
ington of Missouri. Neither is
an active 'aspirant; each is
more likely to be a compro
mise convention choice than
an early convention choice.
Johnson, however, has been
perpetually in a stand-up-and-be-counted
position. Only
Symington has thus far en
joyed the luxury of compara
tive shelter from the white,
hot light that beats all the
time upon all the others. Now,
even he, as the atmosphere
hardens in the Senate cockpit,
is being drawn toward the fir
ing line, where danger runs a
quickening race with glory.
(Copyright. 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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