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Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF- "DUDDY LESTER tells about a spy who was captured by J- Chinese Reds and summarily condemned to face a firing squad. "You're entitled to one last meal," announced aa inscrutable celestial ."to show you how humane V . "" T': we are in th niw China, ! - L ! ' ' . On the menu today are sweet and sour pork, Subgum Chow Mein, and Wonton soup." . "Is that all?" grumbled the spy. "Well," conceded the grim celestial, "if we .had rounded up a couple of more spies, you could have ordered our special combination dinner of Egg Foo Yong and Lob ster Cantonese." A Kentucky bridegroom demanded an annulment a week after the wedding. "I just found out," he reported happily, "that my pa-in-law had no license for the gun." . .' i "Yog exercises? Nothing to "em," scoffs Myron Cohen. "I can do them standing on my head!" C by Bennett Cert, Distributed by Kin? Features Syndicate. j Matter of Fact jeph ai.o ( .4 ventions. . irrevei ! tribe w K 1 Fil A. BIG MONEY'S ROLE New York-There is a little song that certain Republican brothers used to sing at their r?""-- party's Presi : '' J dential cob- r ent would march 1 frenzied halls, i chanting the sad refrains: ' Winthrop Jaipb Aiiop A 1 d r l ch al ways WINS! , , , "But only in JULY!" The chant predicted the outcome of every Republican convention from 1936 until 1952. Alf M. Landon, Wendell Willkie, Thomas E. Dewey, and Dwight D. Eisenhower were all strongly supported by the great New York fin ancial ' community, with the then-chairman of the Chase Bank in the forefront. The chant only ceased to be ac curately prophetic in 1952 because the victory in July was capped by the victory in November, after which Chase Bank chairman Aldrich be came U.S. Ambassador Al drich. By any rational test, more over, the New York financial community did a vital ser vice, both to the country and to its preferred political par ty, on all these past occasions. Without the power of New York money to call a halt, the Republican party would surely have yielded to its odd, persistent impulse to froth at the mouth and rush over the nearest cliff, in the manner of the Gardarene swine in the Bible. The fight in 1940 was a truly heroic occasion, for America's role in the second World War was the real is sue at stake in the Philadel phia convention that sum mer. THESE reminiscences of the recent Republican past are currently relevant, more over, because a great many . people expect the power of New York money to play a big role this year. The same men and the same forces that Winthrop Aldrich so long rep resented and . typified are widely expected to charge into the contest that is shap- - ing up between Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon and New York's Gov. Nelson D. Rockefeller. Many ordinarily astute Nixonites, at least un- til recently including the Vice President himself, further more expect that the "big money will side with Rocke feller." Very likely this expecta tion would have been ful filled, if a dramatic Repub lican revival had not begun last summer. The leaders of the New York financial com munity are very much more pragmatic than the men of the great industrial dukedoms outside New York. They try to pick winners, instead of giving their private ideolo gists a run in the yard. If the inquiring Dr. Gallup were still giving his former support to the "Nixon can't win" slo gan, the chances are the big money would be siding with Rockefeller at this moment. But in Wall Street, as in many other areas, the Repub lican revival deriving from the so-called "peace issue" has mortally hurt the Rocke feller candidacy. To be sure, you cannot exactly run a pri vate poll of bank presidents and other money men. The towers of Wall Street are less pollable, so to say, than the ranch houses and split levels. But it is still easy to earn the line-up in the New York financial community today. There is some active support for Nixon. There is a vast amount of passive support for Nixon. And there is very lit tle support, either active or passive, for Governor Rocke feller. EVEN THE Chase bank, which has the reputation of being a Rockefeller appan age, has not got into the act, although almost everyone supposes the contrary. Prior to Governor Rockefeller's West Coast tour, the question of the Chase bank's role in deed arose. The question was whether the bank's, connec tions across the c o u nJt r y would be used to arrange bus iness contacts for the touring Governor. The present bank chairman, John J. McCloy, answered the question in the negative. David Rockefeller was act ing as a brother, and not as an official of the Chase bank, when he asked a West Coast Standard Oil executive to give a dinner at which Gov. Rockefeller met "other Cali fornia business leaders. This much talked about dinner might not have been arranged for any other guest of honor. But the main effect of Gover nor Rockefeller's family con- Washington Report By WILLIAM S. WHITE KNEE-JERKS AND HST Washington-The knee-jerk variety of Democratic liberals are painting themselves into a very small r' corner by their continu ing attacks on that well known ultra- conserva- tive, Harry S. Truman. This is brac- inff nowc fnr ., William 8- the Presiden- whit tial year, or it suggests that the knee-jerk liberals-who are proving their own most dev astating critics-may well talk themselves right out of any real influence in the 1960 campaign. Mr. Truman's recent blast as the New York Democratic gathering against . the intou erance of the "hot house" lib erals still raises a hissing sound wherever the earnest knee-jerks gather, from coast to coast. A knee-jerk liberal may be thus described: he usually runs with a coterie called Americans for Democratic Action. Most of his kend have never won-or even import antly campaigned in-an elec tion. But they have long since nominated themselves to run the Democratic party. And, regrettably, they are able to trade on a handful of famous names, including that of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. THE KNEE-JERK liberal re snonds in an automatically predictable way to the stimu lus of any of the slogans of his set. He is like a patient who will raise his leg in a nr.Hirtabl wav when his kneecap is tapped with physician's rubber hammer. Say "nuclear disarmament and the knee jerks in approv al. Say "South" - anybody's South, moderate or conserva tive-and the knee lerks in disaDDroval. Say "negotiate with the Russians" and the knee jerks in approval. Say "compromise" - any kind of comrjromise for any reason- and the knee jerks in disap proval. Say "tradition" and the knee jerks in disapproval. Say "Catholic", and in most cases the knee jerks (if rather furtively) in disapproval -though the knee-jerk liberals make a career of denouncing other people's prejudice. And now it has come to nection is still an automatic effect, unsough by the Rocke fellers. Awareness of the weight of the Rockefeller interests visibly helps to confine all sorts of Nixon-sympathizers in the financial community to a passive role. Otherwise, many more Wall Streeters would be on the march for Nixon in the old familiar manner of the past. "The New Yorkers for Nixon," founded by the youthful Dillon, Read partner, Robert Flanagan, is an impressive outfit, but it would be a much bigger out fit it the Governor of this state had any other name but Rockefeller. As matters stand, "New Yorkers for Nixon" is an ex ception that proves a rule. For the first time in this century, the New York finan cial community seems unlike ly to plunge into the fray, at a contested Republican con vention. (e) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. COME AND SEE! 250 Children of the Apostolic Faith Church presenting 9 scenes of "The Birth and Life of Christ" In colorful costumes and joyful songs. Tuesday, December 15th at 7:30 p.m. A Treat for Every Child Supervised Nursery Friday: Evangelistic Service Sunday: Radio Broadcast, KMED Sunday School . Morning Worship 1 L Camp White Christmas Program Evangelistic Service c 8:00 p.m. 9:05 a.m. 9:30 a.m. .11:00 a.m. 2.30 p.m. 7:50 p.m. APOSTOLIC FAITH CHURCH Loyee C Carver. Pastor Phone SP 2-2757 3rd and Central, Medford' pass that the name "Truman jerks the knee in disapproval. So does the name "Acheson" -Dean Acheson, Mr. Tru man's Secretary of State. MR. TRUMAN got himeslf into this dire position by following grave offense against knee-jerkism: (1.) He is not instantly ready to end all testing of atomic weapons. He has per sisted in seeing this: even as suming a good-fafth Soviet agreement, a simple nuclear standoff with the Russians might hot be wise in the ab sence of an actual and large reduction in Soviet conven tional military force. That force now outnumbers West ern conventional force by maybe six to one. (2.) He has refused to pro mote the alleged "issue" of Federal assistance to other countries for birth control. He has insisted on accepting three facts of life: that the birth rate of foreign countries is intimately their own affair; that no sensible administra tion would try to make it any thing else; and that this kind of an "issue" would hopeless ly divide the Democratic par ty. (3.) He has refused to go along with a conviction of the knee-jerk liberals that - any Democrat disagreeing with them on any single point is necessarily unfit for public service. (4.) He has thought, . and said, that a party with some unity is more likely to win than a party with no unity at all and armed only with the glowing true faith of the knee-jerk liberals. "OUT IN leaping upon JVlr. Truman for these truly in famous observations the knee- MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Monday, Dec. 14, 1959 5 jerk liberals have made a big mistake. Those heretofore consigned by them to outer darkness were easy marks -demonstrably evil fellows like Southerners, and all non-knee-jerk Northern Demo cratic "bossess," like Carmine DeSapio of New York. But it will not be easy to convince the Democratic par ty at large that Harry S. Truman is an overly-conservative chap. So the knee-jerks, to twist a muscular metaphor a bit, have at last dangerously overreached themselves. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) CHRISTMAS CARDS GIFT WRAP, RIBBONS, CHRISTMAS NAPKINS and TABLE COVERS BOOKS GIFTS RECORDS h WARDS OPEN EVERY NIGHT TILL 9 THRU CHRISTMAS FREE PARKING FOR A WORLD OF TERRIFIC VALUE-BUYS, THERE'S PLACE WARDS! Special! Carol Brent granny qowns 2 99 A must for winter pretty .yoke-style style gown. All rayon for softness. Pretty pastel colors. Trimmed upper bod ice. 32-40. 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