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Monday, Aaf 31, 195t
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History from the file of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40
nd 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 31. 1949 (Wednesday)
Medford- Patrolman Warren
Cole, chasing two racing au
tos, wrecks his motorcycle
and loses a shoe but hops
aboard a Fluhrer's bakery
truck and successfully catches
his prey.
Ten carloads of Bartlett
pears, the first purchased by
the federal government, are
ready to roll.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 31, 1939 (Thursday)
The Medford school system
lists its faculties for this year,
and one new name is that of
Leonard Mayfield as Medford
High school principal.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Some
of the 1940 auto will have
fluid control,' after it is pour
ed into the engine, instead of
the driver.
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 31, 1929 (Saturday)
A scarcity of rental housing
in Medford is reported.
Grants Pass sees a "politi
cal plot" in building a new
road to Diamond lake.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 31, 1919 (Sunday)
Jasper N. Miller, 79, is to
teach at Spencer Creek school
People are urged to eat rye
bread to cut the high cost of
living.
50 YEARS AGO
Aua. 31. 1909 (Tuesday)
A shipment of Rogue Bart-
letts sells for $3.70 a box in
Boston.
The circuit court term
opens Sept. 7, with the State
vs. George Putnam, Tribune
niihlisher. for criminal libel
being a prominent docket
item.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct k superior;
seven or erjht is excellent; five ee
is: is good.
1. According to the Bible,
who was the father of Metnu
selah? 2. What is the American
slang equivalent of an English
bobby?
a Who were the druids?
4. What volatile, inflamma
ble, liquid hydrocarbon mix
ture is used as a fuel?
s Tffhn are the Jaycees? -
6. Was the current small
size U. S. currency first-plac
ed in circulation in 1927, 19Z3,
nr 1931?
7. Is Pablo Picasso famed as
a poet, novelist, painter, or
srulntor? 1 .
8. How much does it cost to
send an Air Mail postal card?
9. In what state is the win
ter resort of Sun Valley?
10. Who was President of
the U: S. when Alaska was
purchased from Russia in
1867?
Answers: 1. Enoch. 2. Cop
or copper. 3. Members of re
ligious order in ancient Gaul,
Britain and Ireland. 4. Gaso
line. 5. U. S. Junior Chamber
of Commerce members. 6.
1929. 7. Painter and sculptor.
8. 5 cents, 9. Idaho. 10. An
drew Johnson.
AUTHORIZZE LOANS
Lisbon - (EPD - The govern
ment has authorized loans to
talling more than $50 million
for the modernization of Por
tugal's merchant fleet and
fishing industry, spokesmen
for the National Development
Plan said today.
Of Timing and the River
Recently, we read that "primaries" in a re
mote province of Malaya require that candidates
for public office swim a river teeming with croco
diles. If they make it to the other side, their elec
tion is all but assured. If they don't well, no
one ever said politics was a gentleman's game.
We mention this simply as an analogy to the
present U.S. political scene, in which avowed,
unavowed and disavowed candidates for presi
dential nomination next year are in somewhat
treacherous waters themselves.
1I7HILE the jaws of pundits, pollsters and
members of the opposite party in our civil
ized society are generally concerned with mouth
ing "inside dope" and caustic commentary rather
than with actual dismemberment of the candi
dates, we wonder if Nixon, Rockefeller, Ken
nedy, Humphrey, Stevenson and the others
would not prefer less show of teeth at present.
Of course, most have brought it on them
selves one way or another by getting into the
political swim, so far ahead of election time.
We hope, for their sakes, that if they survive
the current "ordeal of the? crocodiles" they can
also avoid becoming waterlogged before the
races begin in earnest next year. E.W.
Easy Surrender
A sign carried by a teenage girl in recent
Little Rock school disturbances gives a clue to
the distressing spread of communism. The sign
said, "Integration is Communism."
It isn't communism, of course. It is of mod
erate importance that the teenage girl thinks it
is communism. It is of major importance if the
sign she carried convinces a person who likes
integration that integration is communism. That
person may reason, "If integration is communism,
then communism is for me."
"FHE danger goes even further. Reactionaries
x and foot-draggers of all stripes have charged
that public works are communism. Same for
public housing. And public power. And public
health programs. And the graduated income tax.
And such attempts at world brotherhood as the
United Nations.
These people are, by default, defining com
munism as the sum total of many good things that
many people want and need. Because they de
nounce good things as communism (which they
likely are not), their voices artless authoritative
when they mention bad things that communism
espouses.
IF COMMUNISTS someplace in the world are
favoring integration or public health programs
or world peace, it does not follow that the rest of
us should abandon those projects. Rather, we
should do a better job with them than the Com
munists can do. At the same time we can keep
high the standard of human dignity, which the
Communists cannot possibly do.
The cold war is tough enough, at best. Let's
not give it away by labeling as communistic some
ideals that should be essential in our fight against
totalitarianism. Eugene Register-Guard.
When Sirius Stalks the Sun
When Sirius, the watchdog of the firmament,
and the sun rise in conjunction, the earth simmers
and men are seized by
the ancients. Modems
jLi. j. 7 i.;
uiao me cuujuucuun comes at aiiierent times in
different latitudes, yet they still speak of "the
dog days," that ' almost unbearably hot spell
which comes so often in late summer.
Perhaps dogs are not especially prone to
madness when the forecast day after day pro
claims: Fair and Hot. But when the mercury re
fuses to descend below 90, there is cause enough
for madness even in these days of air-conditioning.
After all, between the electrically cooled
office and the electrically cooled home or tav
ern a man must expose himself at least briefly
to the asphalt skillet. Indeed, the contrast mav
make him all the more conscious of the heat.
MODERNS cannot help wondering how their
ancestors survived "the dog days" with no
more than a palm leaf fan or a cardboard one,
courtesy of the coal dealer to stir the air a little.
At least they were not driven to the verge of
despair when a power failure such as New York's
deprived them of their electrical cooling gadgets.
They put the ice man's card in the window
daily, instead of every other day, and boosted
their order from 50 to 100 pounds. They took to
hammocks under the trees or on a shady porch.
The wet-cold lemonade pitchers were filled and
filled again. The young,
m the heat of the day, lived m the swimming hole
or turned the garden kose on each other.
Yet then as now there were complaints of
hay fever hardly anybody had heard of aller
gies and discussions as to whether the sea-shore
or the mountains offered greater relief. (Actu
ally, neither helps much.) Interest in lawns and
gardens flagged. Tempers
as now, the best antidote
a tall drink. St. Louis
HOLD MANEUVERS
Stuttgart, West Germany-
(UPJ-Troops and planes partici
pated today in "West Ger
many's biggest military ma
neuvers of the year. "Opera
tion Ulmer Spatz" got under
way Sunday with a mock bat
tle involving more than 18,
000 men.
strange maladies. So held
know better. They know
i j .
undisturbed by exercise
grew short. And, then
for a short temper was
Post Dispatch.
ACCUSES ISRAEL
Moscow-(UPfl-Izvestia accus
ed Israel's government Sun
day of "dragging the country
into a military conflagration."
"By its irresponsible actions,
Tel Aviv is making itself look
more and more like Bonn,"
the Soviet government news
paper said.
Dennis the Menace
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for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right tc
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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 the cae.
Fears "One-Worldism"
To the Editor: Thank you
for printing the communica
tion sent in by Earl W. Tem
ple of Rogue River. I believe
you are all wrong in your
opinion of the American Mer
cury. Your entire column in
the Aug. 25th issue was de
voted to slandering the char
acter of the American Mer
cury and by implication the
men who edit it. I would
wish to call your attention to
just one sentence of your edi
torial. "Aren't they (Ameri
cans) able to distinguish be
tween the naked threat of
force or subversion, and the
alternative of peaceful (or non
hot war) competition." The
peaceful or non hot war that
you mention is the biggest
hoax that is being palmed off
on the American people to
day. You cannot have peace
with a rattlesnake. There can
be no peaceful co-existence
with the treacherous butchers
of Budapest. "
The Russian people stand
for everything their leaders
stand for. The ones who don't
will never get to America.
The ones who do get to Amer
ica are no better than the
leaders. Christian Americans
have no mutual grounds on
which they can meet the Rus
sians. And by Russians, I
mean the God hating, atheis
tic, freedom destroying group
of people who are running
Russia today. The only
"Americans?" who have mu
tual grounds to meet the Rus
sians are the ones who don't
believe there is a God and
who deny that the Bible is
the Word of God. People who
don't believe in God have a
place of meeting. At least
they can agree on one subject.
No, Mr. AUen, I do not be
lieve Americans are afraid of
Russian guns or atoms or
subs, but true Americans are
afraid of "One Worldism" by
brain washing from within.
Carroll Powell
Box 621,
Central Point, Ore.
Mr. Rovere's Past
To the Editor: Re: your
editorial, Aug. 25, 1959, "Mer
cury and McCarthy" - "One
recent book, 'Senator Joe Mc
Carthy' by Richard Rovere,
etc." -
You go on to say "Readers
of this review should know
that Mr. Sprague is editor
and publisher of the respect
ed Oregon Statesman in Sa
lem, is a Republican, and is
a former governor of the
state."
You failed to advise your
readers that the "enlightened"
author Rovere was a past
editor of the "People's
World," listed by the U.S.
attorney general's office as a
voice of the Communist party!
Oscar William Cleal Jr.
575 Olive st. .
Menlo Park, Calif.
Truckers Defended
To the Editor: I have sent
the following letter to Sen.
Wayne L. Morse:
In the Medford Mail Trib
une I note that you propose
a rule that trucks carrying
explosives may not pass
through a town or city. Now
may I ask, what do you pro
pose in the event there is no
road around a "town, or as
sometimes happens, there are
restrictions on trucks using
back roads which would be
necessary in order to by-pass
a town?
Mr. Morse, have you ever
driven a truck of any kind?
I'll bet you've never even
ridden in a truck larger than
one commonly referred to as
a "pickup," and then no far
ther than is necessary. I find,
according to Mr. Frank Jenk-
ROaN; DAD! HmCOMlS
BOWUN BALir
ins, of the Klamath Falls
(Oregon) Herald & News, that
there was an Interstate Com
merce Commission rule that
two persons be with the truck,
That would have been suf
ficient, under the circum
stances to have prevented the
disaster. I'll bet the police
of Roseburg did not know ex
plosives was in the vicinity of
the fire. One driver could
have been sufficient had the
police andor fire department
known of the explosives laden
truck. And where to find -the
driver, so that the truck
could have been moved.
Another thing, Mr. Morse,
that you lawyers never think
about. What is the driver of
the truck to do when, after
driving for eight or ten hours,
he'd like a bit of rest? Would
you propose that he sleep in
the cab of the truck? Mr.
Morse! Have you ever slept in
the cab of a truck?
personally, think you are
unqualified to , decide what
remedies -and precautions
would be necessary in cases of
this sort.
Please consider before you
start proposing newer laws to
hamper others what condi
tions they are up against.
Floyd R. McCabe
Mt. Pitt Star route
Butte Falls, Ore.
Dams Needed
To the Editor: Some time
ago we purchased some prop
erty on the Rogue river, hop
ing this would be an ideal
spot to live when we retired.
Our income would be suffic
ient to make it interesting
for the local merchants.
Now, discouraging reports
continue to pour in advising
us to look elsewhere for a
location. River is low, no
water for spawning grounds,
floods in the winter, and
nothing being done towards
building a dam on the upper
Rogue to hold back and to
preserve this precious water
that is lost during the winter.
Would you suggest we se
lect some other location to
retire? Many of our friends
are thinking of doing like
wise. Your paper could help pre
serve this great section of
Oregon. Continue with your
editorials to encourage dam
building.
David E. Hanson,
315 Larkspur,
Corona Del Mar, Calif.
Pasior Explains
To the Editor: I hesitated to
write a letter, but when I read
the statements relative to help
for the lady with six children
in the paper, I felt constrained
to clarify the situation.
I have known the family
personally for several months.
I have delivered groceries and
monies received for them from
our church, people, and those
received from various people.
Some neighbors also have
helped.
As far as I know, the Red
Cross was not contacted for
help previous to the incident.
However, they now have been
contacted, or shall I say, ap
proached, in the matter. Their
answer is this, that since the
welfare commission has offer
ed to transport the family to
Missouri, they wUl do ab
solutely nothing unless the
lady wUl sign an affidavit that
she is entirely destitute of
things appertaining to life. As
the letter states only worthy
needy are given help by the
Red Cross. If this is not
worthy, pray someone teU me
who is worthy? "
The statement that she had
obtained a baby sitting job to
pay her rent is unfounded and
untrue. She has a baby sitting
job of her own and one which,
perchance, most baby sitters
would deplore. As soon as
word was received that she
was a resident of Missouri,
she was immediately cut off
without only time being given
for her to get ready for the
journey. It was an ultimatum
to starve her into submission.
This lady is a legal resident
of Oregon having resided here
almost nine months, and over
six months when she was cut
off from assistance. The state
of Missouri upholds residence
up to an absence of twelve
months. Oregon Law says you
are a bonafide resident after
six months for all general pur
poses, to vote, fish, and hunt.
Exception to this, divorce
laws. The welfare administra
tion adopts its own methods
of procedure, hence, the con
flict. The Salvation Army was
approached for an order of
groceries on July 16 by my
wife. They contacted the wel
fare, who informed them of
the Missouri proposition. On
the basis of this they refused
help. The. welfare said it was
our responsibility, that is,
Philadelphia Church. The lady
and husband made their own
decision to stay for reasons I
cannot state here. We en
deavored to fill the spiritual
and physical need.
We wish to thank the Med
ford Gospel Mission for then
help from time to time, also
others, and the many inquiries
the past few days.
It has wanned the hearts
of the family and has given
them a new lease on life.
After all, this is the real
American way of life, to help
others. This is the Christian
way.
All I can say is God bless
you. If anyone has any doubt
as the authenticity of this
letter, I shall be glad to an
swer any questions to all con
cerned. Phone UL 5-1071.
There is still a need of a cook
stove.
Rev. Thomas White
Route 1, Box 344
Central Point
Pastor of Philadelphia
Church
1851 Grandview ave.
Medford
Comments on Fair
To the Editor: This was a
doozy of a 4-H fair this year.
This is a letter about the
home economics department.
Why doesn't the Jackson coun
ty fair board hire home eco
nomics judges from out of the
county? There is a judge they
have had for three years
straight or more. Some of the
girls she has judged know her
like she was their own moth
er. Nothing against her, she
knows what she is doing, but
she has judged too many years
straight. This judge lives in
Jackson county also. When
you get a judge, get them
from a different county. I
don't mean Klamath and Jose
phine counties. They are still
too close.
This year's style revue must
of had something wrong with
it. There were girls who de
served much better ribbons
then what they got. This year
the girls were supposed to be
judged on how the dress fit,
how the girl modeled it, and
how the construction was
visible from the outside. The
score card on the styling is:
1. The girl; posture, poise,
grooming, and attitude, 25 per
cent: II. The outfit on the
girl, 50 per cent; III. Construc
tion visible from the outside,
25 per cent. This totals 100
per cent. I sure wish the styl
ing judges would follow this.
Maybe they did but if they
didn't there would of been
some different placings. A lot
of girls would have been much
happier.
As a closing note I would
like to say to Miss Marilou
Garner, she has been a very
good agent and I hope she
will have much luck in Cali
fornia. I only hope the next
agent is just as good.
A Jackson County
4-H Member
(Name on file)
Eagle Point, Ore.
We're Panting Today
To the Editor: If you want
action, just write a letter to
the Tribune about monkeys.
You get poetry, funny letters
and articles from various
newspapers throughout the
nation about monkeys, then
at the last you see it on tele
vision, "Tell the Truth." I
hope everyone saw it.
I received another letter
yesterday, it said: "I have
read your letters in the Tri
bune, but I don't know why.
Are you leaving out a few
pages between each letter or
am I reading them back
wards?" He guessed half of
it, so I'll start from where I
left off last week.
The Army got me to Ft.
Stevens v.ith two pair of
pants. It's a good thing they
did, for Uncle Sam didn't
have any pants. The very
tarn
Editorial
Comment
On Visiting Red China
Oregon's Rep. Charles O.
Porter has a couple of strong
points in his suit to force
the Department of State to
issue him a passport to visit
Red China: (1) Executive in
terference with a legislator;
(2) discrimination against a
congressman in that the State
Department has granted per
mission for 41 U. S. newspa
permen to visit China.
The first point would be
valid if he can show that he
wants to visit China on busi
ness of the Congress, and that
should not be difficult. The
second bears on the right of
press, public and government
to find out what goes on-behind
the bamboo curtain.
But even if he wins his suit,
Mr. Porter may not be ad
mitted to China, unless ' the
State Department grants the
quid pro quo of admitting a
Communist Chinese of equal
government rank. That is
what is preventing the news
papermen from entering
China. The Reds' want the
United States to accept an
equal number of Communist
newspapermen, and State
won't do it.-Oregonian, Portland.
Passport Suit Welcomed
Rep. Charles D. Porter, con
gressman from Eugene, again
has raised the right-to-travel
issue by filing suit against
the secretary of state because
of the department's refusal to
grant him a passport to travel
to Red China.
Though the issue has been
raised before by newspapers
and other information media
which wished to send report
ers to China and by private
citizens who simply wanted
to travel, Porter injects a
new point by claiming that
denial "is a violation of the
separation of powers doctrine
and impinges upon the plain
tiff's constitutional rights as
a member of congress."
This issue probably will
raise involved legal points
but even without this con
stitutional question, the fact
remains that the state depart
ment has never given a clear
cut or convincing reason for
its adamant stand on the pass
port matter.
The issue was first raised
by various newspapers and
after much hammering, the
state department finally
agreed that a certain number
of newspapermen would be
granted passports.
Porter now asks, and quite
logically, why, he a congress
man, is denied a passport
when travel rights have been
granted to newsmen even if
the number is limited. A little
over a year ago, in connec
tion with another passport
case, the state department ap
peared to have descended
from its autocratic position
by admitting that there is
constitutional right to travel
abroad. The department still
contended it had a right to
put what is called "reason
able" restrictions on foreign
travel and a spokesman for
the department set out two
general grounds on which the
department contends pass
ports may be denied:
One, the spokesman said,
was membership in the Corn-
first thing one of my Cor
porals lost his shirt and pants
in a crap game. I gave him
one of my pants, because
Uncle Sam didn't have any
pants. Someone stole my Ser
geant's pants and he put me
on guard duty, so the Ger
mans wouldn't steal all our
pants. We had one pair of
pants for the four of us, My
Corporal, My Sergeant, me
and my Uncle Sam. When
Uncle Sam got us some pants,
we took off for France.
On our way home after the
war, we were put in the iso
lation barracks at Camp Dix.
We had cooties. The Army
tried out one of their new
gadgets on us, a kiln to roast
cooties. We left our uniforms
in this machine for two
hours, then nobody had any
pants. Size 34-32 pants were
sanforized to 20-20. Uncle
Sam went out and bought
1200 new pants and we left
for Ft. Lewis. When I got
out of the Army, Uncle Sam
gave me his pants and $60. I
bought a suit with two pairs
of pants, came back to south
ern Oregon with three pair
of pants and $20. I started in
business and by the time I
was 29 years old I had my
first million made. Then
what happened? To be con
tinued. Everett Acklin,
Box 233
Ashland, Ore.
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Washington Report
By WILLIAM
ANDERSON'S POWER
Washington Secretary of
the Treasury Robert B. Anderx
son has become top boss of
the home
front and in
compar ably
the most pow
erful man in
the Cabinet.
Presi dent
Eisen h ower's
incr easing
preoccup ation
with "Nilrita
William S. , . .
white Khrush c h e v
of the Soviet Union, has left
Anderson in all but sole
charge of the Administration's
whole domestic tone.
The Secretary's conserva
tive fiscal views have long
since wholly captured the
President's mind. The Ander
son budget-balancing philoso
phy has dominated the Admin
istration's relations with the
Democratic Congress. And this
Anderson philosophy is, in the
end, perhaps more responsible
than any other factor for the
President's newly "tough"
line with the Capitol - includ
ing his vetoes of unwanted
bills.
This, however, for all his
enormous force in American
affairs, is one of the least
known of all the Eisenhower
Cabinet ministers. Who, real
ly, is this man of such large!
and little - appreciated power?
HE IS, first of all, an ex
Texas Eisenhower Demo
crat" from 1952 who has gone
the whole way in personal
transformation. He has moved
his official residence to Con
necticut and is now a regis
tered Republican. (Very few
native Texans ever, in any
circumstances, become offi
cially ex-Texans.) He is tall,
rangy, faintly stooped, quiet
almost to the point of inaudi
bility except when he wishes
it otherwise. His thin, aca
demic face reflects a studious
and sensitive private nature.
The ironical fact is that the
most orthodox Republican
munist party and the other
is that the proposed travel
"is inimical to United States
foreign policy or detrimental
to the orderly conduct of
United States foreign rela
tions." No one has accused Porter
of being a Communist and the
second ground is so general
that it could encompass al
most anything. Even if it
were more specific, it still
leaves unanswered the ques
tion as to the right of the de
partment to restrict travel as
a part of foreign policy.
Joseph N. Welch, lecturer
on the Constitution and rep
resentative of the U. S. army
in the McCarthy hearings,
said there is nothing about
travel by an individual so
significant, from the stand
point of national safety, that
the federal government
should be allowed to control
travel by passport device.
A suit by Porter or anyone
else which will bring these
questions into the open and
more clearly define the con
stitutional rights of private
'citizens as well as congress
men will be welcome.-Oregon
Journal, Portland.
AUTHOR DIES
Briarcliff Manor, N. Y.-0IPD
-John Corbin, 89, author and
former editorial writer and
drama critic for the New
York Times, died Sunday.
Corbin had written at least 12
books, including "Two Fron
tiers cf Freedom," published
in 1940.
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FRIENDLY.
S. WHITE
now in the Cabinet was born
and brought up in a Southern
Democratic state.
Anderson's predecessor as
Secretary of the Treasury,
George M. Humphrey, is a
member of that wing of the
GOP which historically is the
most teetotally old-fashioned
Republican - the "Ohio Re
publicans," as they have been
called for two generations..
That Humphrey would to a
large extent dominate the
Cabinet was thus more or less
inevitable from the day he
entered it. For the Treasury
post traditionally has lain
close to the heart of nearly
all GOP administrations, as
the Secretaryship of State has
done in nearly all Democratic
a(3ministrations.
rpHE fact that Anderson is
-- likewise in a position of
dominance is quite another
thing. Indeed, it is an improb
able thing, for he is of a differ
ent breed altogether. He has
not reached this point, accord
ing to fellow Cabinet mem
bers with whom this corres
pondent has talked, simply as
Humphrey's heir. He has come
forward on his own peculiar
steam.
THo i - -i: i
viuaiiiics, as ilia dumci
colleagues see them, are two:
a special dedication to his
work, and an ability to throw
off a calm but strong impres
sion of extraordinary compe
tence. His strictly personal,
social relations with the Presi
dent are not so close as were
Humphrey's, perhaps because
Anderson, at 49, is a genera
tion younger than Mr. Eisen
hower. But the ex-Texan ac
tually takes a more decisive
hand in all phases of the Ad
ministration's work than even
Humphrey ever did.
Humphrey, as one Cabinet
informant puts it, would speak
forcefully in Cabinet on the
general fiscal issues closely
touching the Treasury, but
usually left matters there.
ANDERSON does not simply
speak broadly for the
Treasury. He also gets into the
discussion sometimes with a
veto of his own on every
issue before the Cabinet that
involves either major spend
ing or major policy. This, of
course, is another way of say
ing that he interests himself
in everything of any conse
quence, no matter whose Cabi
net department is especially
involved.
This normally would be a
good way to lose friends fast.
The fact that Anderson has
instead the respect and affec
tion of the entire Cabinet thus
must say a good deal about
the kind of man he is. So does
the fact that he retains the re
spect and friendship of the
Democratic leaders of Con
gress not excluding Speaker
Sam Rayburn of Texas, who
ordinarily speaks in smoky
language of Democratic party
bolters.
Then there is this final
point. Asked, ''What does the
President really think of
Anderson?" another Cabinet
officer told me: "Put it this
way: if the President were a
dictator, and wanted to act as
one, he would surely make
Anderson his successor as
President."
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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