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Newspaper Page Textr MAIL TRIBUNE, MiforJ, Or. Suaoay, Dm. 27. 1959 1 . - -liuua IB Southern OrM. t Baa da The Uaa Trtbgne" -'Published Dili except Saturday t i kCDrORD PRINTING CO North fh gt Pt g 1-S141 : robXht w ruhl editor ITKRB GRE AJvertiirtr Manafer. 'GE7A1J LATHAM Bnatneaa Mgt "ERIC W ALLEN JR. ' Manactae Mrtor , .EARL H ADAMS City Editor .HARRY CHIPMAN Telef Editor . RICHARD JfWETT Sports Editor OLTVE STARIHER Women' Editnl PALE ERICKSQN Clreqlitlon Hr An Indenenden Nearapaper . 1 Entered a wnnd elan matter at Medfori Otkoh under Ac at ' March 3 1897 ' SUBSCRHTION RATES -Br Mai' in Advance Coot 10c . Dan- and Sunday I year SIS 00 . Daily and Sunday S mom iOC . Dailv and Sunday 3 Dm M Surday Only One year S4.30 Rt Carrier In Advance Med ford Aahland Central Point E a c I Point Jacksonville Gold HiU - Phoerd Shady Cove Rofua Riv er Tatem and on motor route Dall7 and Sunday 1 vear tlS 00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo I JO Carrier and Dealer copy 10c All Term Cash In Advance .OffleM Paper of City ml Medford . ornetaj Papet ol jaeaaon conniy United Pre International 1 run Leaaeo wire ', MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU- ' OF CIRCULATION AeVertislnc Representative: WEST HOLIDAV CO . INC Of- flees m Neti York. Chicago De troit. San Vanrlco. Lo Angeles : Seattle. Portland St Louia. Al lan Vancouver B C NEWSPAPf I PU11ISHEM association NATION AL EDITORIAl Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. f 10 YEARS AGO -Sac 27. 1949 (Monday) Holiday week end death toll reaches Sll - 420 killed 1 In traffic accidents. The Lloyd Matthews fam ; lly, route 3 box 346, Medford, : received a set of twins for ; Christmas - bora at Commu nity hospital. 20 YEARS AGO Dec 27, 1939 (Tuesday) - Nearly 7,500 Christmas tur keys remain unsold in valley. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Christ mas deaths totaled 633-41 8 in traffic. The Finns did better, they killed 700 Russians in war during same week end.' I 30 YEARS AGO See. 27. 1929 (Thursday) State Senator A. W. Nor. blad assumes governorship of state; last rites held for Gov ernor Patterson. City returns to normalcy after biggest Christmas in years. 40 YEARS AGO Sac 27, 1919 (Saturday) Over 100 persons die Christ mas day after drinking illegal liquor containing wood alco hol. All dogs in county must have licenses after January, sheriff warns. SO YEARS AGO Dec 27, 1909 (Sunday) Bogus Oregon apples are being sold in London; some carloads have Bear creek la bels. Rnsehall firms in Pnrtlanrl team to withdraw from Northwest league. Vhst's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct ii superior; even or eight is excellent; five or ix is good. 1. Dec. 26, the second day of Christmas, is a holiday in one state; name it. 2. What city in the United States is called The Mound City? 3. The sinking of what TJ. S battleship had much to do with precipitating the Span- lsn-Amencan war? 4. Do vou associate the name Gutenburg with paint- , ug, sculpture, or printing? S TV what r-rti l nf tm- An fVio S three monkeys. See No Evil, ; Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, belong? 6. Four of the five senses are sight, hearing, touch and . smell; name the turn. 11 S&s J 7. Does one set, or sit, in r a chair? t - 8. Where is the largest part of the world's crop of pineap- . pie grown? 9. Where is the United v States gold depository? . -; 10. What are the ends of T the earth's axis called? Answers: 1. South Carolina. 2. St. Louis. 3. The Main. 4. Printing. (He was first lo use movable type.) 5. Japan. 6. Taste. 7. On sits. 8. Hawaiian Islands. 9. Ft Knox. Xy. 10. Poles. Parks for the Future Speaking of America's scenic and natural resources, someone has aptly said that "what isn't saved in the next few years isn't going to be saved at all." A man who has spent most of his lifetime sav ing them, and persuading others they should be saved, is Horace M. Albright, former director of the National Park Service and one of the best known and most respected conservationists in the country. At a dinner in his honor in Washington it was announced that friends of Horace Albright had created a Lectureship in Conservation at his alma mater, the University of California. It is an appropriate testimonial to an inspiring conservationist who followed in the footsteps of the late Stephen T. Mather in building America's great national parks system. THAT SYSTEM, great as it is, must continue to grow as the recreational demands of the Am erican people continue increasingly to press upon the nation's rapidly diminishing natural pre serves. . , Winthrop Rockefeller, whose family has done more than any other in America to advance through private means the protection of scenic areas, said the other day that "forty times" the amount of land now devoted to national parks and the like would be required by our exploding population within another forty years. Ideally, he was right; but in view of the bit ter resistance of every kind of special interest against setting aside such areas or even pre serving intact the ones we have we as a people will be lucky if we are able to increase our exist ing system of national preserves by even four times. THERE ARE many practical places to begin, already designated by the National Park Serv ice, but the funds are lacking. Seashores areas are of prime importance, of which the proposed Cape Cod National Park should receive priority No. 1. Others on the Gulf of Mexico, on the Great Lakes, on' the Pacific Coast, must be acquired within a very short time if their quality is not to be dissipated by the real estate speculators who have already taken over so much of our vanishing shoreline. In the interior, probably the most urgent situa tion is in the Glacier North Cascades of Washington, twice as much of which ought to be preserved as is proposed in the utterly inadequate present plan of the Forest Service which now controls it. The surest way to protect it would be for Con gress to take it out of Service altogether, establishing instead what could become one of the Northwest's and the na tion's finest national parks. New York Times. HeSheds 'em Like Dirty Shirts In 1956 when Adlai Stevenson suggested that testing big bombs be discontinued he was imme diately subjected to a ferocious attack by Vice President Richard Nixon. Mr. Nixon questioned Mr. Stevenson's patriotism and sanity. , As the boys say, a lot of water has gone over the dam since then. It is now official Republican Party doctrine to favor the ending of A bomb tests. President Eisenhower switched this year to the new doctrine and, of course, Mr. Nixon quick ly fell into line. THIS is the most interesting facet, we think, of the Nixon character. He can shed principles and convictions as fast as dirty shirts. He spoke so firmly and so eloquently in 1956 on the neces sity that big bomb testing be continued one would have thought it was a very deep conviction that Mr. Nixon would stand squarely upon henceforth, no matter how strong the attacks against that stand. It is said in some quarters that Mr. Nixon is the most able politician Washington has seen in many years. He instinctively knows, they say, which way to go on a big issue and exactly when he should point in that direction. What he has had to say on an issue in the past is immediately pushed aside when necessity demands and off he sails with the prevailing People who don t like him call" him tricky Dick. His admirers say it him elected to the White dleton East Oregonian. Try end -By BENNETT CERF- TJTJMORIST JIM THURBER recalls that, "The late Harold Ross usually looked harried and aggrieved, but he was at his worst just before a new issue of his beloved New Yorker magazine went to press. On one such oc- casion, he ran into Doro thy Parker. 'I thought you were coming into the office to write a piece last week,' he challenged her. 'What happened?' Mrs. Parker turned upon him the eloquent magic of her dark and lovely eyes. 'Somebody was using my pencil,' she explained sorrowfully." One would-be New Yorker cartoonist in thet' thirties complained to Boss, "Why do you reject drawings of mine, and print stuff by that fifth-rate Thurber?" Ross rallied promptly to the defense of his artist Thurber and his own reputation as an editor. "Third-rate," he cor rected. Then the ia was th girl from Kansas who cams to the San Diego naval base to announce. "I want to mux? a sailor and rear siflmlrglTt' Peak Wilderness in the the hands of the Forest winds of public opinion. is exactly what will get House next year. Pen - Stop Me Harold -$oss Dennis the Menace r& is 'Wea.W G(?5 HERE...I JUST SAW MY FIRST SNOWBALL, Matter of Fact Bv Joseph Alsop THE MUMMY'S HAND Avon, Conn.-What beckons home the traveler? What sym bolizes and exerts the magne- tism of the happy past at C h r istmas time? In this traveler's case, it is a mum my's hand. On a book case in the li brary, in its own air-tight Joseph alsop glass box, the mummy s hand reposes be tween two Lowestoft vases, both badly chipped, amid sup porting platoons of family photographs. There the hand has been these fifty years and more, a iaaing la Del an nounces that the hand was bought in Thebes in 1850- a somewhat grisly souvenir. evidently of a long forgotten grand tour of the Mediter ranean. In life, says the label, the hand belonged to "a person age of the court" of that Egyptian Ozymandias, the Pharoah Thutmose. Maybe it was snobbishness, then, that dictated the purchase of this singular, fragmentary me memto mori from some The- ban tomb-robber. Nineteenth century Americans were odd ly fascinated by court per sonages, as anyone must real ize who has noted the preva- iance ol unbelievably boring courtly memoirs in old li braries. In any case, the passage of time long since quite trans formed the mummy's hand. At least two generations ago, it had ceased to be a souvenir or even a curio. It had be come part of the familiar fur niture of a family's life, never considered as a thing-in-itself (for then, beyond doubt, some one would have put it out of sight). It had begun, in fact, to be regarded with positive affection as something - that-had-always-been-there. rpHE farm house where these words were written, and where the writer was born, is full of things-that-have-al-ways-been-there. They range in peculiarity from a depress ed etching of Connecticut's lost charter oak, allegedly framed in the fallen oak's own timber, all the way to the fang of a saber-toothed tiger that was given by the first Roosevelt to a bitterly disappointed great nephew, who wanted a tricycle. All of them beckon home the traveler, but the mummy's hand beckons most strongly, because it is by all odds the most peculiar deposit in this many-layered sediment of the years. At this season, the beckon ing is more than ever com pelling because, at this sea son, ghosts walk too. For grown-ups, to be sure, each recurrent Christmas always tends to resemble one of those melancholy visits to a beloved scene of childhood-those visits which reveal that everything was smaller, less full of won der and more dustily ordinary than the child's eyes saw. Yet the ghosts walk all the same, and this house is full of them. In the past from which these ghosts return, sleigh bells roused the house at 6 ajn., because breakfast was at seven on the farm; and stockings had to be opened before breakfast. The next sounds were the cheerful calls of "Merry Christmas" from a grandmother who was capa ble of gayety even before dawn and long before the first cup of coffee. Thereafter, with a grown-up apiece to help, the children opened the huge white cotton stockings originally made, quite prob ably, for giantesses suffering from elephantiasis. rpHEN there was a vast farmhouse breakfast in the dining room hermetically seal ed for the occasion. The seal ing was needful because the "big presents" were now laid out in heaps in the library, each heap by a customary chair. Even the shape of the big presents must not be pre maturely glimpsed by the breakfasters. Alter that, a procession formed and marched into the library, chanting, for the sec ond high moment of the day. And after the big presents were all open, and some, in evitably, had been broken, there was the long drive to a larger tribal stronghold, for a fearful and wonderful feast. (Besides turkey, there used to be a pig with an apple in its mouth which always, un happily, proved more exciting to look at than to eat). And after that, there was lethargy mingled with interior unease, It is not and cannot be quite like that any longer- thank God, one is inclined to say, when one thinks of stock ings at 6 a.m. and three courses for breakfast at 7. But the ghosts of the past impose duties in the present. Hence the Christmas of the next gen eration has its own establish ed ritual, less taxing but no less elaborate than the Christ mas of the generation now regretting middle , age. THE need for private ritual; the need for-permanency; the importance of permanency in objects like the mummy's hand as well as permanency in a family's habits-these are the points (if any) these Christmas time reflections are intended to suggest. . Ritual and permanency are increasingly difficult, no doubt, in an American society increasingly fluid and mobile. But surely much is lost when the automobile becomes more important - than the hearth. Surely the next generation needs the sense of belonging, the sense of being part of a continuum, mat permanen cy and family ritual always give. At any rate, if one has this sense, one is grateful for it, even in middle age, and even after many years of wandering this world that tends to seem more danger ously impermanent with ev ery passing decade. , Copyright 1959, New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This is written on Christ mas Eve. That prompts a question: Where does the word CHRISTMAS come from? F T comes rrom the early English term CHRISTES MASSE, which means Christ's Mass. The words "Christes Masse" were quickly com bined into the word Christ mas. The word is used widely throughout the world, but its origin is English. rriHE date for Christmas in -a. most lands is Dec. 5. How did that come about? In the year 354, by order of Bishop Liberius of Rome, the Dec. 25 date was adopted. It was noted later that this date would fall within the rainy season in Palestine, so that the shepherds would not have been in the fields at night, as they were . when Jesus was born. The early church fathers possibly chose Dec. 25 be cause the feast of the sun, or winter solstice, was a familiar Roman feast day celebrating the victory of light over dark ness. It is interesting to note that the Armenians, who were the first people in the world to set up a Christian state, celebrate Christmas Eve on Jan. 6 by eating fried fish, lettuce and boiled spinach. They believe that Mary ate boiled spinach the night be fore Jesus was born. On Christmas Eve, Santa Claus comes down the chim neys and brings gifts to good Washington Report By WILLIAM Washington The wrecker's role taken up. by Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon in the Presiden t i a 1 nomin a t i o n raises both a short and a long question The first is: How much damage may be done to se- rious can didates, who put months and money and desperate effort into their campaigns, by a single bitter man such as this? The second, and far more important,, is this: How long must our system of selecting nominees for the Presidency go on at the mercy of the sentimental disorders of the preferential primary or popularity contest method? What Morse has done (and at least it may force some to look anew at the primary sys tem) is this: he has "agreed" to enter the Oregon primary of May 20 as a Presidential aspirant, but not with the slightest hope of becoming President. The inevitable ef fect of his participation will be to split the liberal vote and so to work heavily against at least one serious liberal Presi dential candidate, Senator Hu bert H. Humphrey of Minne sota. Another slightly less liberal but nevertheless still liberal aspirant, Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, may well be hurt, too. Assur edly he will be if conservative rivals for the nomination are also in the primary. . rpHE irony of it is that Morse, too, is liberal beyond words. Indeed, he considers himself the most liberal of all liberals. He spends much of his time denouncing his more conservative party associates. But for some months now he has been also attacking its two most liberal Presidential con tenders, Humphrey and Ken nedy. (They did not agree with him last year on the la bor bill nor did anybody else in a Senate of 100 members except the late Senator Wil liam Langer of North Dakota). Oregon's law permits a man to be entered in a Presiden tial primary without his con sent. Morse has presented himself as not self-propelled and has declared he would have "preferred" not to be put in. Of course, however, he still need not have made the sacrifice. He had only to say he would not treat the thing seriously. One of his motives is gen erally reckoned among his fellow Democrats to be an ef fort to harm his Democratic Senate colleague from Ore gon, Richard Neuberger. Neu- berger is up for reelection to the Senate next year .and Morse wants to see him de feated for renomination. The assumption here is that Morse will try to arrange to have Neuberger also put into the Presidential primary, against his wishes, in the hope of making him look bad when the Presidential votes are counted. If this seems strange ly unclubby, as between one liberal Democrat and another from the same state, so it is. THE truly interesting point, hnwwpr la nnt that TVTnr-co little girls and boys. Whence came the name Santa Claus? It started with a real per son -Saint Nicholas, the youngest and one of the kind est bishops in the history of the early church. During the Middle Ages, he gradually be came the patron saint of schoolboys. From that it was an easy step to patron saint of all children. In The Netherlands, both young and old still celebrate his feast day. How did Saint Nicholas be come Santa Claus? Well, the Dutch settlers in America brought the feast of Saint Nicholas with them to new Amsterdam, now New York City. The feast, with its giving of gifts, caught on with English-speaking chil dren. The Dutch name for Saint Nicholas is San Nicho laas. English children, trying to say San Nicholaas, espe cially saying it quickly and excitedly, changed it over into Santa Claus. Try it yourself. If you say San Nicholaas very fast, you'll get an approxima tion of Santa Claus. One word more on Saint Nicholas. In the Dutch ver sion, he is kindly and lov able, but he is also strict. If Hans and Katrina have been good children, they find gifts in their wooden shoes. But if they have been BAD, they find only a bundle of SWITCHES there. The Dutch think of Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) as William S. White S. WHITE is doing what he is doing. To those who know him such a course would have been easily predictable. The real point Is that the primary system al lows such a thing to be done at all. Most states wisely re tain the practice of deciding in state party conventions which contender should be backed for President. Primaries were adopted by some in the notion that only in this way could "The Peo ple" instead of the dreadful "Bosses" select a party's Presi dential nominee. (Whoever finishes first in a primary is, generally speaking, entitled to the suppot of that state's dele gation to the national nomi nating convention.) . .The reform looks good and democratic. But in practice it is open to flagrant abuse if, happily, not often in so spec tacular a way as Morse's way. Most politicians and public officials know perfectly well but do not say out loud that it is a bad system on the whole. If can, for example, lead to victory for the man simply willing to make the most irresponsible promises or showing the toothiest grin. The final and best irony of all would be if Morse's action should lead some of the states to face up to the fact that the primary system should be greatly tightened, if not junked altogether. (Copyright, 1959, by United Features Syndicate, Inc.) Today & Tomorrow By Walter THE POLITICAL DOLDRUMS The political campaign is about to have its official op ening, and there are in the running two R epubllc- an and sever al Democratic candidates. Of none of "them c a n it be said that he has identi- fied himself clearly with any large na tional concern or taken a po sition which distinguishes him clearly from his rivals. None has aroused more than what may be called the enthusiasm of a faction. As of now the only issue within either party or between the two parties is who can be nominated in the conventions and who can win the elections. Considering the size and the import of the questions which the next President will have to deal with, it is strange and it is disconcerting to find that there is as yet no prom ise and no prospect that the campaign of 1960 will begin to prepare the minds ' of our people for -the future which is at hand. . " Yet in this campaign there will come to power the new political generation. With the retirement of Eisenhower, the old Generals and Chiefs of the World War and of the post-war period will give way to their successors. These suc cessors will have their own battles to fight, not the same old battles which Roosevelt and Truman and Eisenhower fought. But as of now, the Re publicans are stuck with the ideas of the Eisenhower inter lude and the Democrats are stuck with the ideas of the Truman administration. VET we know that at least - some of the candidates, indeed all the serious candi dates, are aware that at home and abroad we are entering a new period. At home we are entering it because of the need to meet the mounting and unfilled needs of our growing and urbanized popu lation. Abroad, we are enter ing a new period because the brief years of our material, dressed in the robes of a bishop and riding through the streets on a white donkey. The English visualize him as a gentleman dressed in a long tail coat and a squarish bea ver hat. How did our picture of a roly-poly old gentleman with long white whiskers and a fur-trimmed coat get its start? It is generally attributed to Thomas Nast and his famous drawing "Santa Claus and His Works," which appeared as a Christmas picture in Harper's Weekly in 1866. Whence came the reindeer? That legend is supposed to have originated among Sandi navian settlers in America. Cartoonist Nast included the reindeer, the pack of toys and the stockings hung at the fire place. That - brings us down to Christmas Eve of the year 1959 which, oddly enough, is a Christmas Eve with about as little SHOOTING WAR throughout the world as man kind has seen in many a century. Walter Lippmann ewimiccc (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Man (talking to wife in downtown department store the day before Christmas, accompanied by several children): I certainly wish the stores would close to we could go home." Two young matrons talking with each another were over heard as follows: Young Matron No. 1: "Did I tell you my husband traded in our '52 Ford for a '59 Pon- tiac?" Y.M. No. 2: "No, how won derful. But how are you going to pay for it? He doesn't even have a job." Y.M. No. 1: "So what? If we can't make the payments, it won't make any difference whether they take away s Ford or a Pontiac." A lone news staff mem ber was working late one evening in the quiet office last week, and chanced to sneeze. A sepulchral voice came over the intercommu nication system from the "back shop." It said, "Ge sundheii." Two thines attracted our attention last week - the fog, which suddenly vanished the other day, and the higher- than-ordinary number of com munications. A young man we know wrapped up both of them with Lippmann economic technological, and military supremacy are over, Why then is the campaign so listless, so vacant, . so unin teresting, and ' se ' unimpor tant? Some would say be cause the people are lulled by their material comforts and are drugged by the official as surances that all is well and that nothing will happen to them. But this, leaves unan swered, indeed it ' begs,; the question which is why: 'in these momentous times our people have been lulled and drugged into apathy -and com placency? v . v: - i a , I VENTURE to think, that the answer to the question is that the party system is not working as it is meant to work. It is throttling debate and it is stifling ideas. This is because the opposition party, that . is the Democrats, are not functioning as an opposi tion. They complain about Eisenhower, But they do not challenge him. They criticize Eisenhower. But they accept and follow him. Yet without an effective opposition there cannot be a serious campaign debate which will enlighten and educate the country. rpHE leadership of the Demo- cratic party is shared by the Democratic Congressional leaders on the one hand and by the Truman office holders on the other. Speaking broad ly, the Congressional leaders are concerned with domestic affairs and the Truman office holders are in charge of the party's position in interna tional affairs. Beyond the three-mile limit Sen. Johnson defers to Mr. Truman and Mr. Acheson. Inside the three- mile limit they defer to him This cooperative arrange ment - if that is the right name for it has neutralized the Democrats as the opposi tion party. On the domestic front Sen. Johnson has ac cepted without question, and indeed with some fervor, the basic dogma of the Eisenhow er administration. This dog ma is not, as is often said, that the budget should be balanced in time of prosperity and that inflation should be avoided and that the currency should be kept stable and sound. The basic dogma - is that defense and public im provement must be tailored in order to balance the budg et at the 1954 level of taxa tion.! The ark of the covenant is the rates set by Secretary Humphrey when he reduced taxes in 1954. Having accepted the dogma that these 1954 rates are un touchable, unless they are re duced, the Democrats have disqualified themselves from criticizing the Eisenhower program. They are unable to look forward, or when any- look forward, for when any more probable than that in times to come it will be neces sary to divert to public spend ing some larger part of what now goes to private spending. It is conceivable, but it is not likely, that some money can be saved by a reduction in armaments. It is more like ly, however, that more mon ey will have to be spent on armaments because the weap ons are becoming more and more costly. In any event the civilian needs of our people, beginning with our schools and medical services and go- this comment: "I'd rather speak of 'fog cicles,' "That 'dorn both bush and tree, "Than philosophize quit foolish-wise " 'Bout man's perversity." "Fogcicle." incidentally, is his word for the ice form ed on bush, grass, leaf and tree after a prolonged pe riod of freesing, foggy weather. Xavier Widmer dropped us a nice note the other day to wish us a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, and in it he quoted a poem which he thought might well be pub lished, and we agree. Mr. Widmer didn't tell the source, but if memory serves correctly, it was either writ ten, or quoted by, Ex-Gov. Os West, the old indestructible now in his 86th year. Here's how it goes: How do I know my youth has been spent? Cause my get-up-and-go has got up and went. But in spite of all that, I am able to grin When I think where my get-up-and-go has been. Old age is golden, I've heard it said. But sometimes I wonder, as I go to bed. My hair's in a drawer; my teeth in a cup, My eyes on the table - un til I get up. . Ere sleep dims my eyes,' I say to myself. Is there anything else I should lay on the shelf? But I'm happy to say, as I close the door, My friends are the same as in days of yore. When I was young, my slip pers were red. I could kick up my heels right over my head. When I grew older, ray slippers were blue, But still I could dance the whole night through. Now I am old, my slippers are black. I walk to the corner and puff my way back. The reason I know that my youth has been spent. My get-up-and-go has got up and went. But I don't really mind when I think with a grin. Of all the places my get-up has been. Since 1 have retired from life's competition I busy myself with com plete repetition. , - I get up each morning and dust off my wits. Pick up the paper and read the obits. If my name is missing, I know I'm not dead. So I eat a good breakfast and go back to bed. Happy New Year! Japanese Freighter Rescues 12 Crewmen San Diego, Calif. - (DPI) - A Japanese freighter Friday res cued all 12 crew members from the sinking tuna clipper, Sea Boy. The Coast Guard said the freighter, Laplanta Maru re sponded to the 125-foot Sea Boy's "May Day" distress sig nal, and the entire crew was transferred safely. ing on to the replanning and the rebuilding of our cities, will demand a rising share of our expanding economy. It is the business of the Democratic opposition to pre pare the way. It is their busi ness to do it even if they can not be elected on these issues in the year 1960. But this is what they are not doing. What they are doing thus far is to make it as likely as possible that they can elect, not a President, but a Congress. ON the international front, Mr. Truman and Mr. Ach- esor have caused the Demo crats to miss the bus. For what they have done is to op pose the President's effort to find an accommod ation. Thereby they have handed him a monopoly on "peace." , Moreover, they have confirm ed the old and very unfair but very damaging partisan argument that under the Democrats all three wars of this century have broken out. This is not only bad poli tics. It is an unsound and un tenable position. For an ac commodation will be sought as long as the Soviet govern ment wishes to seek it. The sound position for the oppos ing party is to raise the ques tions which will confront the country if and as the accom modation increases. These are at bottom the questions of our capacity to arouse ourselves to the effort, to put ourselves under the discipline, which the formidable challenge and competition we are facing will demand of us. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc.