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Monday, June 29, 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
June 29, 1949 (Wednesday)
The bonds needed to finance
completion of Medford's new
swimming pool ' are sold to
Portland firm.
Fritz Wertz, Gold Hill artist,
looks forward to a showing
of his portraits at the art
museum at Maryhill, Wash.
20 YEARSAGO
June 29. 1939 (Thursday)
Billy Thorndike. 16, faces
his businesslfuture undaunted
despite an explosion at his
fireworks stand that inflicted
$35 damages.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
magnolia tree at the court
house has a bloom so high
up no flower lover can elope
with it."
30 YEARS AGO ,
June 29. 1929 (Saturday)
Medford's earwig survey
should be completed over the
week end.
Orchard sales in the Rogue
valley for the first six months
of the year total $679,500.
40 YEARS AGO
June 29, 1919 (Sunday)
; Medford is $1,000 short in
the Salvation . Army fund
drive.
A letter-to-the-editor writer
declares the school board is
"autocratic."
0 YEARS AGO '
June 29, 1909 (Tuesday)
Alfalfa is reported the most
profitable crop in the Rogue
valley.
- The Medford Rod and Gun
club plans an "Indian shoot
here this year.
What's Yosr I.Q.?
Mine or ten correct is superior;
even or eight is excellent; five ar
six is good. .
1. In what months of the
year do the equinoxes occur?
2. what Presidents por
trait is on the face of the
fifty dollar Federal Reserve
Note?
3. During President F. D.
Boose velt's administration,
what was the N.Y.A.?
4. For what purpose were
the pyramids of Egypt origin
ally built?
5. Correct the following:
, "In Galsworthy's play he
deals with an explosive
theme."
6. Which Old Testament
book is sometimes called
Canticles?
7. What was the color of
the Owl's and Pussy-cat's
boat?
f 8. Who was our first Sec
retary of Defense?
f j 9. Which of the twelve
Apostles was reputedly a
physician?.
10. Is the Audubon Society
primarily interested in birds,
books, or coins?
. , Answers: 1. March and Sep
tember. 2. Grant's. 3. Nalion-
1 Youth Administration. 4.
Tombs. 5. "In his play. Ga.lt-
; worthy deals . . " 6. Song of
; Solomon. ?. Pea green. 8.
Uames V. ForrestaL 9. Luke.
10. Birds. .
" l The principle of free pub-
lic libraries was established
;in Britain by an act of Par-
lament in 1850.
Do-it-yourself enthusiasts
Tare spending about $60 mil
'lion annually on tools for the
-home.
Hospital Crisis to Come
The strike against seven New York City hos
pitals has ended. The major issues, union recog
nition and a wage floor,
compromise. But the seeds of the recent conflict
remain as firmly rooted as ever.
New York's case is exceptional only in the
dramatic form it assumed. The basic trouble is
partly economic and partly political. j
' As most can testify from bitter personal ex
perience, medical care costs have skyrocketed in
the past decade. (The medical care cost index
stood at 155.2 in April compared to 123.9 for all
items in the Bureau of Labor, Statistics consumer
mice index.) Hospital charges lead all the rest,
outrunning doctor's fees,
6 to 1. .Fer-patient costs
mounting at 6 to 7 per
GAINST this is the
bilitv (choose your
authorities to face up to the dilemma. In general,
local and state governments have been slow in
bringing payments for charity cases into line with
the actual costs of serving such patients. New
York City, for example, has been paying volun
tary hospitals $16 a day per indigent patient. On
July 1, the. rate goes up to $20, but this is still
about $8 behind out-of-pocket costs.
Equally frustrating to hospital administrators
is the insurance picture. Consumer resistance
seems to be growing, and health plans are re
luctant to risk pricing themselves out of the
market in order to increase subscriber benefits.
,
COMETHING has to give and that something
has usually been wages paid unorganized
nonprofessionals in service jobs.
The seven struck hospitals, being non-profit,
didn't have to pay federal or state minimums and
Iso some orderlies and kitchen helpers were get
ting as little as $25 a week. The average wage
ranged from $32 to $38.
The situation in New York is a familiar one.
Indeed, the American Hospital Association esti
mated recently that raising the minimum wage
in all hospitals to $1.25
the average per-patient
a day. E.R.R.
Good-by, Tariff League, Hello
After nearly three-quarters of a century, one
of the best-established
undertaking to change its spots. On Wednesday,
July 1, the redoubtable American Tariff League
becomes the Trade Relations Council of the
United States.
The change, no doubt, is partly perfumery.
Over the years, the word "tariff" has taken on
an archaic, faintly disagreeable air, redolent of
celluloid collars. It conjures up the titanic clashes
between Free Trade and Protectionism which
used to rock Congress to its heels every few years.
,
DUT the renaming also reflects shifting reali
u ties. The Great Issues have gone lower case.
Advocates of free trade and tariff protection still
go at it hammer and tongs, but the battlefield
has shifted.
Today, as League President Ralph A. Butland
conceded recently, "tariffs as, such are a joke"
(though, of course, a notably unfunny, one both
to advocates and contemners). President Eisen
hower's Commission on Foreign Economic Policy
estimated in 1954 that eliminating all U. S. tariffs
in one fell swoop would displace no more than
400,000 American workers and probably fewer
than 200,000.
THE real fence against foreign competition now
Ms the import quota system this and the po
litical horsetrading in which the White House
must engage to win , periodic renewals of the
reciprocal trade program. For example, insiders
say President Eisenhower was forced to barter
quotas on lead and zinc in exchange for votes
to put over the 1958 extension.
These quotas may have serious effects on the
economies of friendly countries. And they may
be illogical from a strictly economic view. (Har
vard Economist Sumner Slichter thinks elimi
nating all restrictions on imports would be an
effective brake on inflation.) But they are none
theless attractive to companies bucking cheap
foreign imports and to workmen . whose jobs
might otherwise disappear. ? .
So Tariff League or Trade Relations Council,
the battle still is joined. E.R.R.
Oregon Wagons Go
Deeper Into Idaho
Montpelier, Ida. - (UPD - The
"On to Oregon' wagon train
pushed deeper into Idaho to
day in the last half of its
2JD00-mile trek from Inde
pendence, Mo., to Independ
ence, Ore.
The Oregonians and their
seven prairie schooners spent
the 'week end camped at the
Montpelier fairgrounds, then
left early today for their next
major stop, Pocatello, on Friday.-
"We're just mighty happy
to. be here," Wagonmaster
Gordon (Tex) Serpa responded
to the greeting of Dr. W. C.
Stock, mayor of Montpelier!
Stays Close to Trail
Serpa, a former cavalryman
and one time movie stunt rid
er, said here Sunday., with
some pride that -the caravan
has never been more than a
have been settled by
for example, more than-
oi nospitai care are sun
cent a year.
unwillingness or the ina-
own word) of political
an hour would increase
cost nationally by $3.15
of political leopards is
mile away from the original
Oregon Trail.
The modern pioneers, are
running three days ahead of
schedule. The mule and horse
drawn wagons make about 20
miles a day, as much of it off
highways as the land permits.
The four-month trip is a
feature of the Oregon Centen
nial celebration. The modern
pioneers left Missouri April 19
and are due to arrive at Inde
pendence, Ore., Aug. 15.
Pistol Presented
Along with greetings from
Mayor Stock and Clair Bar
rett, president of the Mont
pelier Chamber of Commerce,
the lanky wagonmaster was
presented with a. .45 caliber
Colt six-shooter for "protec
tion." ... -
The gift was -from Dudley
Dowell, executive vice presi-
Dennis the
'GO AHEAD AN'TRY IT.
Matter of Fact
FULBRIGHT'S ADMIRABLE
PLEA
Washington - Bring Charles
E. Bohlen back from the Ma
nila Embassy to the State De
partment. Use
his incompara
ble knowledge
of the Krem
lin's ways.
Above all,
give Bohlen
special rank,
as the Presi
dent's person
al representa-
a ' f -
ins-pb aisop nve, ior in
stance; and then let him carry
the day-to-day burden of nego
tiating with the Soviets, in
stead of dropping all your
other tasks to talk to Andrei
Gromyko for weeks on end.
This advice to Christian A.
Herter came from Sen. Wil
liam Fulbright of Arkansas.
It was not offered as advice
from the Chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relation Com
mittee to the Secretary of
State, but simply advice pri
vately passed on by one friend
to another friend.
The good sense of Ful
bright's idea can hardly be
challenged. As Secretary of
State, Herter has authority
next to the President, and re
sponsibilities covering the
whole world. It is monstrous
to :allow the Kremlin to
checkmate Herter for a month
and a half, as just happened,
by the simple device of send
ing Andrei Gromyko to Ge
neva with no more real au
thority than an upper-bracket
government clerk. Having spe
cial standing both with the
Soviets and with our allies,
Bohlen could easily carry the
day-to-day negotiating burden,
under Herter's continuous di
rection, of course, and after
Herter had ''formally opened
the discussions.
THE chances are against Ful
bright's idea being carried
out in full. Ways to avoid
the Secretary of State being
interminably checkmated in
the future are being discussed
by Herter and his highest
subordinates; but the use of
Bohlen as Herter's substitute
is not being currently con
sidered. But the other half
of Fulbright's advice-bringing
Bohlen back to Washington
and making better use of his
deep knowledge of the Kremlin-jibed
exactly with Secre
tary Herter's own desires and
intentions.
Bohlen's prestige as a wide
judge of Soviet purposes is
so high with the other West
ern allies that more than one
of the allied negotiators at
Geneva pleaded with Secre
tary' Herter for Bohlen's re
call to Washington. If there
was to be a summit meeting,
it was said, Bohlen ought to
be there. To this suggestion
Secretary Herter replied that
he had already decided to
bring Bohlen back to the State
Department if he could be
induced to come. This was
more than a month and a half
ago.
In the interval, the Depart
ment offered Bohlen a trans
fer from Manila to another
important Embassy. The offer
was made without Secretary
Herter's knowledge, apparent
ly in the normal course of
the unending departmental
game of musical chairs. It was
refused by Bohlen, who wishes
to retire from the Foreign
Service and enter private
business.
'
BUT another Embassy is al
together different from a
post at the center of affairs,
where Bohlen's special knowl
edge of the Soviets would be
used to the full. The State
dent of the New York Life
Insurance company. Dowell's
company insured pioneers in
1859 against the perils of
"snake bite, buffalo or wild
horse . stampede or outrages
perpetrated by hostile savages
such as scalping, burning at
stake or in prairie wagon, or
Indian wrestling."
f I
Menace
j I " 3r-
Joseph AIsop
Department high command
therefore hopes that Bohlen
will at least agree to put
off his retirement, in order
to become one of Secretary
Herter's highest staff officers
for the duration of the present
crisis.
Bohlen's return to Wash
ington, if it occurs, will have
symbolic as well as practical
meaning. It will imply the
wise reversal of the worst
error ever committed by Sec
retary of State John Foster
Dulles. Wishing to, be a one
man State Department, Secre
tary Dulles distrusted and
even feared independence of
spirit and boldness of imagina
tion in the Foreign Service
of the United States. In Dulles'
eyes, moreover, Bohlen was
the summation of these dis
turbmg qualities. We was
known to complain that "there
were two State Departments,
a . Dulles State Department
and a gohlen State Depart
ment."
. Even at the end of his ca
reer, therefore, Dulles gave
his confidence to very few of
the abler foreign service offi
cers. Assistant Secretary of
State Livingston Merchant
and State Department Coun
sellor G. Frederick Reinhardt
belonged to this tiny group,
whom Dulles was willing to
use as - technicians. All the
other first class men, ' like
Bohlen himself, Ellis Briggs,
and many more, were kept as
far as possible from any cen
tral responsibility. And they
were made to feel Secretary
Dulles' lack of trust in them,
even in their distant Embas
sies.
FOR the same reasons, Sec
retary Dulles also subject
ed the State Department Poli
cy Planning Staff to progres
sive debasement. From a bril-
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Washington:
.The senate votes to throw
open the hitherto secret pay
rolls of its employees to pub
lic inspection. By voice vote,
it approved, a resolution pro
posed by Chairman Hennings
of the senate rules committee
expressing the senate's wil
lingness to make available to
the public the names, titles
and salaries of all senate em
ployees. -
IITHAT'S it all about?
Well, it started early this
year when a Washington re
porter started digging into
the long-standing practice in
the senate of what over the
decades has come to be
known as nepotism that is,
hiring RELATIVES as aides.
This cozy little custom is
legal. But critics have charg
ed that it can be abused if
payrolls are KEPT SECRET.
That is another way of stat
ing an ancient truism that a
lot of things are all right if
NOBODY FINDS OUT
ABOUT THEM.
IT SHOULD be added here
that the house of represen
tatives already makes its pay
roll information available to
the public, and so has not
been involved in the ruckus.
In fairness to them, it
should be added that Oregon's-
senators have made
voluntarily full disclosure of
their own office payrolls, and
so are not subject to censure
in this secrecy business.
BY WAY of further explan
ation, let's put it this way:
If you are a private em
ployer, what you pay your
help is nobody's business but
yours. The wages you pay are
paid out of your own pocket.
But members of the U.S. sen
ate are public employers.
The wages they pay to their
employees are paid out of the
TAXPAYER'S pocket.
So--
The taxpayer is entitled to
Foreign Notebook: France Hear Joining
'Nuclear Club'; Saar
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
From the foreign editor's
notebook:
Nuclear Club
It's beginning to look more
and more as though France
will explode its first atomic
bomb before
the end of the
year. If it
does, it will
make France
a member of
the exclusive
"nuclear
club" now
made up of
the United
Phil Newsom Jstates, Britain
and the Soviet Union. This
achievement will give Presi
dent Charles de. Gaulle re
alization of one of his fondest
desires a bigger voice and
more influence in shaping
world, affairs. About a week
ago, Pierre .GuiUaumat, De
Gaulle's minister of the arm
ed forces, said France was
so "close" to completing work
on its first atomic bomb that
it didn't need foreign assist
ance. This hint c atomic at
tainment was underscored
later when Assistant Premier
Jacques Soustelle told the
Senate in Parjs that France
would not agree to any sus
pension of nuclear tests at a
time when its own bomb was
nearing completion. It's not
expected that France's big
bang will go off until after
the summer months, however.
Deutschland Uber Alles
The Saarland's half million
residents may become full
fledged Germans again soon.
The coal-rich territory which
has been the subject of inter
liant idea-source, the policy
planning staff was reduced in
the Dulles years to its pres
ent melancholy status. It is
now a sort of personnel pool,
where men can be stored on
their, way from one post
abroad to another post
abroad. Significantly, another
item of advice passed on to
Herter by Sen. Fulbright con
cerned the need to restore the
policy planning staff to its
former standing and functions.
The job will have to be
done one day, .and one can
hope that Secretary Herter,
will do it. For there are many
ways in which it is desirable
for Herter to be Dulles' con
tinuator; but trying to carry
the whole State Department
under his own hat is certainly
not one of them.
Copyright 1959, New; York
Herald . Tribune Inc.
Westport Post Office
Rural Rating Proposed
Washington-(UPD-Rep. Walter
Norblad (R-Ore.) recommend
ed today that the post office
at Westport, Ore., be made a
rural station of the Clatskanie,
Ore., post office at an annual
savings of $3,415 in operating
costs.
know who is being employed
and how much he is being
paid. When this information
is officially made a SECRET,
the taxpayer is entitled to be
come a trifle suspicious about
what is going on.
AT THIS point, a question:
How did the senate come
to reverse its position on
secrecy in the matter of the
office payrolls of its mem
bers? I
The answer is simple:
; The secrecy business got a
lot of publicity. It was un
favorable publicity. A lot, of
constituents of senators must
have taken their pens in
hand. Their letters must have
expressed rather sharp dis
approval. Senators who got a
lot of critical letters must
have changed their thinking
about payroll secrecy.
At any rate, , the vote to
ABANDON secrecy is report
ed in the dispatches to have
been decisively large.
THAT suggests a thought:
If you don't like what is
being done by. the congress,
TAKE YOUR PEN IN HAND
AND WRITE TO YOUR
SENATORS AND YOUR
CONGRESSMAN. Tell themJ
what you think. If you don't
like what is being done, tell
them so.
If, for example, you're
scared of reckless spending,
SAY SO. If you want more
economy in government, lay
it on the line in a letter to
your "senators and your con
gressman. Don't think your letter
won't be read. It WILL be -if
it is sincere and thoughtful.
Reno Newspaper
Plant Picketed
Reno - (DPD - The American
Newspaper Guild today threw
a picket line around the plant
of Reno Newspapers, Inc., but
Publisher Charles H. Stout
said "we'll get out a paper."
national tugs of war since
Charlemagne's grandsons di
vided up his empire, was part
of France from 1945 until
Jan. 1, 1957 when it was re
turned to West Germany.
However, it was agreed the
Saar would remain a part of
the French monetary zone for
three years to provide an or
derly changeover. The West
Germans now are ready to
bring the Saar into the Ger
man monetary zone six
months'" ahead of schedule.
One sticky problem is that of
children allowances. In
Communications
Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the writer although nder cer
tain circumstances the use of a
pen name or initial for publica
tion is permissible. The Mail
Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with an eye to
clarification and condensation.
Letters submitted for publica
tion must nrt exceed 400 words
Cows and Things
To the Editor: When I grad
uated from the 8th grade, we
moved from the small mining
town of Placerville, Colo., to
Ashland, and bought a house
and barn on Nursery st. Short
ly thereafter, we bought a
cow, a horse, an old Reo car
and a lawnmower. We kept
them all in the barn. Every-
time I went out to the barn
to crank up the old car, I got
kicked into the rafters. Every
time I went to milk the old
cow, she kicked ..me into the
haymow. She horse, she
kicked me out the barn door
Every time I went in that
barn, I got kicked with some
thing. Everythingln that barn
kicked but the lawnmower.
Today you can get kicked with
lawnmowers. We always kept
the barn full of loose soft
hay for me to get kicked into.
I finally got .tired of the
old cow kicking me into the
rafters, so I tied her two hind
legs together. What did she
do then? She jumped 6 feet
in the air and came down
with both feet in the milk
bucket. What did I do .then?
I went to school and left her
standing in the milk pail,
was studying' Shakespeare,
ain't got time to lift cows
out of milk buckets. I should
have taken time and never
went to school. On my way
home from school, I stopped
and bought a brand new pail
for that old cow to run and
jump into. She did.
Everett Acklin,
Ashland, Ore.
Centennial Play
To the Editor: When Joe
Meek, early pioneer, first
came to Oregon, Mt. Hood was
just a hole in the ground! At
least that's Joe's story. This
and other fabulous inventions
of Joe's are part of the special
made-to-order, Oregon Cen
tennial play, "Go Ahead, Joe
Meek," by Oregon Playwright
Jane Erickson, opening on the
stage of Lewis and Clark col
lege in Portland, 8:30 p.m. on
July 8, for a run of four per
formances, July 8 to 11; then
four more, July 15 to 18. Di
rected by Dr. Clifford E. Ha
mar, drama head at the col
lege, the Meek play is a joint
production of the college and
Lake Oswego Community
Theatre.
Waggish and fun-loving
'Joe has sometimes been call
ed Oregon's "man of firsts."
He was Oregon's first sheriff;
a member of its first legisla
ture; the first man to bring a
wagon into the Willamette
Valley; appointed by Presi
dent Polk as Oregon's first
U.S. Marshal. Yes, wherever
there was action, Joe wasn't
bashful he was out in front
all the way. Even in our na
tion's capitol, where he was
sent to plead the cause of
Oregon, as a cousin of the
president's wife, Sarah Polk,
he mixed in Washington so
ciety, rode in parades with the
President, and generaly kept
Oregon well in the limelight
of the affairs of the moment.
The colorful part will be play
ed by Alberto Cereghino, out
standing Oregon actor, with
other accomplished thespians
in the cast.
Reservations are coming in
from over the state, and Jack
son county people who will be
visiting Portland at that time
and plan to attend should
write Lewis and Clark College
of Portland, or phone NE
6-3602. Tickets are $1.50. This
is an entertaining drama of
events of particular interest
to all Oregon citizens.
Lewis and Clark College
and Lake Oswego Com.
munity Theater,
By Mrs. Chester G.
Murphy,
18725 SW Laurel dr.,
Portland
Don't Neglect Slipping
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To Rejoin
France, the government al
lowance begins with the first
child. In West Germany, it
begin with the .third. The
West German Parliament has
agreed to continue to pay for
the first child in the Saar,
although it fears this may
lead eventually to similar ar
rangements for all of West
Germany. It would boost gov
ernment costs $250 million a
year.
Deep Freeze
.W est German Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer has a
standing invitation to visit
London, but British Prime
Minister Harold Macmillan is
said to hope he won't pick
it up. Macmillan has been
soured by some of Adenauer's
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
BATTLE AND FOG
Washington To the top
combatants the Eisenhower
Administration on the one
tside and the
.... :
gres sion a 1
groups on the
other - the
battle of the
budget is an
i admit t e d 1 y
c o m p licated
affair. In this
Willlam S. , ? . J
white gle, indeed,
the issue of the moment
sometimes is not so much the
plain, dollar-and-cents ques
tion of how much. Rather, it
may be the more subtle ques
tion as to how much is tobe
spent where and under
what kind of politica theory.
The more responsible a
participant is for the out
come, the less able he is to
be absolutely certain that he
is absolutely right in every
single unfolding action of the
great struggle. He can't makeJ
it all clear to everybody all
the time for the unavoidable
reason that it is not all clear,
and never will be.
The less - exalted combat
forces, however, are wholly
untroubled by such doubts
and hesitations. These are the
cheerful and gusty propagan
dists of the Republican and
Democratic national commit
tees. THUS, while the truly sig
nificant contest is going
on cloudily at the top level,
a heady sense of certainty
makes the second-level con
test a good deal more simple
and stimulating, at any rate.
The GOP national commit
tee (for which read publicity
director William Strand) is
issuing a series of spirited
communiques under the large
blue title "Battle Line." Bat
tle Line may or may not have
been so named because Mr.
Strand himself is an 'ex-war
correspondent, . and a good
one. At all events, Battle
Line has no trouble what
ever in distinguishing be
tween enemy and friendly
troops, that is, between the
totally bad Democrats and
the utterly good Republicans.
Battle Line's specially chosen
enemy, of course, is Harry S.
Truman.
In its most recent issue, for
example, Battle Line makes
it plain that nobody ever
had it so good as now and
that few ever had it so bad
as in the Truman Presidency.
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interested in along, of
course, with a well-balanced
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recent acidly anti-British pro
nouncements, resulting from
their divergent views on th
best ways to deal with Sovitt
Russia. Macmillan, aloi
among Western leaders, i
strong for a summit meeting
with Soviet Premier Nikita
Krushchev and is not goineft
to be talked out of it. There
fore, he also opposes any
meeting among Western lead
ers now. There will be6 the?
usual consultations through
"diplomatic channels" but
nothing to patch up frayed
Western unity except possibly
a get-together of Western
foreign ministers in Geneva
just before the four -power '
conference reopens on Julv
13. .
S. WHITE
budget? Is it the cost of liv
ing? Is it family income?
Whatever your question, 5t is
properly solved by the right
answer, which is spelled
GrO-P.
,
1ATTLE Lipe's spirited an
tagonist is a bulletin call
ed "Dispelling the Fog." This
issues, hot and smoking, from
the Democratic national com
mittee (for which read able
publicity director Samuel
Brightman).
If Battle Line takes a poor
view of Mr. Truman and
Democrats' generally, Dispel
ling the Fog takes a no-less-dim
view of Herbert Hoover,
"Ike's budget-balancing act,"
and all Republicans every
where. . Dispelling the Fog also de
nounces as a great evil the
Republican tendency to sup
port high interest rates. Ties
this up with "Morgan banks,"
and admonishes: "Use this
simple formula tox compare
your own position with that
of the Morgan bank: just
stack up all your $1,000 bills
and see how high they reach.
Morgan's $4 billion make
four stacks as high- as the
Washington Monument."
IN A W.ORD, the Bright
mans and the Strands, un
sung though they are, are
the hard-nosed and irreplace
able assault soldiers of this
and all other great political
wars. The current Brightman
and the current Strand know
a thing or two 'themselves
about the complicated inner
realities of the budget battle,
or of any other political fray.
But they know this, too: their
job is not to dwell upon the
qualifications and so ruin the
simple story, to hem or to
haw. , .
They are not academic his
torians, and not even them
selves candidates for any of
fice. And they are both, in
private, perfectly reasonabg)
fellows with plenty of humor
and plenty of awareness that
it is at least conceivable for
any political party to be in
error.
But an infantry colonel
from Texas once told corres
pondents on the edge of Ger
many whgn one questioned
the severity of Allied regula
tions over enemy German
civilians in the battle zone:
"Boys, we ain't over here to
run for Congress; we are here
for attack purposes."
Strand and Brightman, too,
are here for attack purposes
-hence Battle Line and Dis
pelling the Fog.
(Copyright, 1959, by Uniled
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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