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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, Medford', Or. Sunday, Jan. 3, 1960 MEDF0RD4TRIBUia "Everyone te Southern Orecoa Ban.lo Pita Trimi' Published Dhi1 except Saturday by M'.JJi'OKlJ PKiNTINU CO 33 North ffa St Pb SP 2-6141 ROBI.lr W HTTHL Editor HERB GRE Advertil!C Manager LATHAM Basineu Mgi IKK W JK. Managing UrtJtor EAPL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JKWETI Snorts Editor OIJtVE STAR-'HEB Women Editoi dale EWICKSN Circulation Mr An Independent Newsoaner Entered a semnd class matter al Mediorr" Orrcon under Ac of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br M a ' In Advance Codv 10c Call- and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos 8.00 Dail-v and Sunday 3 mos 4.25 Sunday Only On year $450 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point E a e 1 e Point Jacknonville. Cold HiD Phoenix Shady Cove Roeua Riv er Taln and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year SIR 00 Daily and Sun:y 1 mo 1 50 CarrleT and Dealers c o p y 10c Ail rerms casr tn Advance Officii! Papxr of City f Medford orriciai Paper ot Jackson County United Pres? Internationa H"uD Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO INC Of fices 'n New York Chios eo De troit San rrancisco Los Anceles Seattle. Portland St Louis. At- Ian'" vaiwiiveT B C EWSPAPEK PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION 1NAI EDITORIAL IIWSIHI A SB DC Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 3, 1950 (Tuesday) Medford fireman helps to put out fire in own house. Cigarettes cost Medford taxpayers more money than city services, Vernon Thorpe, city superintendent, announc es. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 3, 1940 (Wednesday) U.S. formally protests Brit ish seizure of U.S. mail bound for Germany. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "An Ohio man won the national liar's contest recently, and made a fair showing consid ering he was not a candidate for any office." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 3, 1930 (Friday) Production of corn sugar for bootleg whiskey shows record increase during past year. Hearings on taxpayer's charges that Butte Falls school district pays teachers excessive salaries are being held. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 3, 1920 (Sundav) Oregon is fifth nation in production of apples. County court reportedly plans to purchase fairgrounds within next two weeks. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 3. 1910 (Monday) Post office receipts increase 33 per cent in last year to $19,000. Deposits in Medford banks increase from $600,000 to $1,- 800.000 in last year. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or : ten ' correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; live or tix is good. 1. Who was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic? J Who wrote grlru's Progress"? "The Pil 3. Which of these is larger in area-Mexico or Colombia? 4. Are eels born in salt wa ter, or in fresh water? 5. In which New England state was President Calvin Coolidge born? 6. What is known as the "Eternal City"? 7. Where does former Presi dent Harry S. Truman make his home? 8. Do mosquitoes have four, six or eight legs? 9. According to the Bible, what was placed at the en trance of the Garden of Eden to guard it, when man was driven out? 10. In what once -popular game is there talk, of winds, flowers and seasons? Answtrs: 1. AmelU Ear. hart. 2. John Bunyaru 3. Mex ico. 4. rresh water. 3. Ver mont. 6. Rome, Italy. 7. Inde pendence, Mo. 8. Six. 8. A flaming sword and cherubim. 10. Mah Jong?. r Ms n m f .Bjaji Federal Intervention The ironic outcome of the Mack Charles Parker lynching in Mississippi could be a further diminution of states' rights. The U.S. Department of Justice is expected to recommend to Congress at the 1960 session broad legislation empowering the federal government to intervene in cases where states fail to prosecute. Attorney Gen. William P. Rogers Nov. 17 de clared that his recommendation would "not nec essarily" be for a federal anti-lynching measure. And he added: It seems clear to me that if the states are going to disregard responsibilities to the extent of not even calling witnesses in a case like the Poplarville case, then the federal government must consider something ' else. THE REFERENCE was to the refusal of a Mis- sissippi grand jury in Poplarville to hear the testimony of Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in connection with the Parker lynching. The grand jury, sitting in early November, in deed refused to touch the case, though a 378 page FBI report, the work of 60 agents, reported ly naming seven to ten members of the lynch mob, was available to it. Parker, a negro accused of raping a pregnant white woman, had been dragged from his Poplar ville cell by hooded night riders last April 25, shot, and thrown into the Pearl river. The FBI had entered the case with the approval if not at the request of, Mississippi's Gov. James P. Cole man. It found no proof that Parker was dragged alive over a state line, so prosecution under the federal Lindbergh kidnaping law was ruled out. But the FBI report was forwarded to the governor.- pONGRESS will undoubtedly be asked at the 1360 session to make lynching a federal crime. Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.) introduced an amendment to that effect to the Senate Judi ciary subcommittee's civil rights bill at the last session. In the past particularly in the 1930s when lynching was much more common and various anti-lynching measures were proposed it was contended that the Constitution in the Tenth Amendment renders Congress powerless to make lynching, or murder, for that matter, a fed eral crime except when committed on federal property. Javits' amendment was phrased to get around that argument by stating a congressional interpretation of the Constitution. ", Proposals for anti-lynching legislation nave met with strong Southern opposition and the threat of filibuster whenever they have been raised in Congress. But more recently Senate Ma jority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Texas) has advocated an anti-lynching constitutional amendments TNALLY, the Parker case has triggered still another reaction repugnant to white suprema cists. John A. Hannah, chairman of the federal Commission on Civil Rights, Dec. 6 disclosed that his fact-finding body had into "shocking" abuses in justice." The Commission, established by the Civil Rights Act of 1957, had previously limited its in quiries to discrimination in voting, education, and housing. Hannah made specific reference to the Parker case, maintaining that "when one man is lynched the security of each of us is dimin ished." E-R-J?1 Middling Good News from Iraq Despite reports of renewed unrest in Iraq, the Iriqi embassy in Washington assures Editorial Research Reports that political parties will be al lowed to resume activity on or before Army Day, Jan. 6. This would fulfill a pledge made by Premier Abdel Karim Kassem last July 14 on the first anniversary of the revolution which over threw the monarchy. Since the general's coup of 1958, the Iraqi Parliament has been suspended and formal polit ical life frozen. Last May 1 Kassem declared that he was opposed to political party activity in the immediate future. IF SUCH activity now is to be allowed, it would appear to mean that Kassem doesn't fear the well organized Communist party in Iraq. In an interview of last May 30, Kassem declared that he felt ready and able to check the party if it should become a threat to "the rights of the peo ple." Kassem's further pledge back in July was that elections would be held and a new Parliament established by the second anniversary of the rev olution. Performance on that promise would make a real show of stability. E.R.R. In the Day's Hews By FRANK Problem as this is written: What to write about on the last day of the year, with New Year's Eve only a few hours off. Here's a BIGGER problem: How to write something that would be worth reading. TJERE'S A sample of what B-js being written and sent out over the wires in these last hours of the old year It will cost more to ring in 1960 than it did to welcome 1959 according to a nation wide survey of New Year's Eve night clb puces. Tcbs at begun an investigation "the administration of JENKINS the better bistros will range from $20 to $50 a cpuple and could go a lot higher. This would depend, a Chicago night club manager says, "on how wild you want to get." PRICES in the plush iest places,, the story goes on, include a dinner, a floor show and ONE drink. Other drinks will be extra. Note: ' It's the extra ones that will determine the degree of wild ness. tHE SURVEY adds: There is a growing Dennis the rlAPPy BfffrWDAy to fljFF ! HAPPY amoAY TO RUFFf COME W: VX7f00Y SArff: HAPPY BITW,UAR KU-UFFj..." President Use Veto By Congressional Quarterly Washington President Ei- I senhower and the Democratic- controlled 86th Congress will prove again in 1960 that the doctrine of mutual deterrence works at home as well as abroad. The President, now enter ing his last year m office, can be expected to wield his veto power even more forcefully than in 1959. Congress, for its part, is certain to exercise its own veto power by refusing to act on key Administration re quests. The full extent of the forth coming executive -legislative clash will depend on the deci sions of Democratic leaders re garding the appropriate stra tegy to follow in an election year. Already, however, It Is apparent that on certain issues compromise will prove elu sive. Presidential Vetoes Likely Here are the principal ques tions on which a. Presidential veto awaits the more likely Congressional proposal: Housing Democrats are itching to pass a omnibus housing bill with generous provisions for urban renewal, public housing, direct loans to veterans, etc. The President, who vetoed two such pack ages in 1959 before signing a third one, is expected to op pose any new omnibus bill in 1960. School Aid A substantial program of Federal grants for school construction will be pushed vigorously by Senate Democrats and may well reach the White House. The President, who dropped his own grant proposals after 1957 because of his. concern for the budget, will insist on a much more modest bond subsidy program. Social Security S t r o n g support has developed for add ing health insurance for the aged to the social security system, a step long opposed by the Administration. If such a bill is sent to the President, he will be under as heavy pressure to sign it as to veto it. 'Inflationary' Proposal Minimum Wage The Ad ministration . regards . as "in flationary" the proposal, backed by organized labor and many Democrats, to raise the minimum wage to $1.25 per hour. The President almost certainly would veto such a bill. Area Redevelopment Con gress will hand the President a bill, passed by the Senate in 1959 and slated for early House action, carrying up to $300 million in grants and loans for the Nation's econo trend this year to seeing the New Year with parties at home. Sounds good, doesn't it? But wait a minute. These home-type celebra tions are varied. There is the host in suburban New York, for example, who ' plans to spend $32 a head for a house ful of reveling guests. WHAT OF him? He's a show-off. In this modern world, we could do with FEWER show offs and more plain, honest, hard-working pluggers. WHAT OF the old year that will end at midnight to night? The prevailing opinion that it was pretty tough. is YlfHAT OF the new year " that will begin when the old year ends? The tradition al expectation is that THE NEW YEAR IS GOING TO BE WONDERFUL. . How about it? Let's put it this way: J The new- year will be won derful for those who MAKE IT WONDERFUL. For those who merely sit and wait for something wonderful to hap pen to them it will be just about like all the other years. Menace Can Be Expected to Power More in 1960 mically-depressed areas. He vetoed a similar measure in 1958 and won't hesitate to do so again. Water Pollution The Fed eral program of grants to com munities for building sewage treatment plants would be doubled, from $50 million to $100 million a year, under a bill passed by the House in 1959, and raised to $80 mil lion under the Senate-passed version. Either one will be vetoed by the President, who wants Congress to turn the program back to the states. Legislative Inaction Expected Complementing these issues on which Democratic-sponsored proposals face a cold White House reception is a se ries of Presidential requests that will have tough-sledding on Capitol Hill. Here are the principal ones: Postal Rates The President again will ask for a 1-cent in crease in the firstclass mail rate and perhaps for a 1-cent raise in the air mail rate, to overcome a $650-million post office deficit. Congress re fused to act in 1959, is likely to do so again in 1960. Gas Tax Another h a 1 f- Matter of Fact aisop THE YEAR OF DECISION Washington - New Year's day of 1960 is to be comically but appropriately bracketed by two an- nouncements of Candida dacies. Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota threw his hat into the ring on Wed n e s- d a y (having p r e s u m - JOSEPH ALSOP ably retrieved it for the pur pose after an earlier hat- throwing party held some months ago). Humphrey's shy confession will shortly be echoed by the confession of Sen. John F. Kennedy of Mas sachusetts, that he too is aim ing for the Presidency. After that, one hopes, Miss Jayne Mansfield will call a press conference to announce, breathlessly, that she is a member of the female sex. If she does, it will be more un expected, but not inherently funnier than the antiquated rituals of American politics in an election year. I N 1960, however, the rituals have a deeper meaning than they have possessed in any peace-time election year in the history of the United States -r unless you regard 1860 as a year of peace. For it is not exaggerating to say that our future and the world's fu ture will depend, as never be fore, on the man the Ameri can people send to the White House. This is not true because there is much truth in Car lyle's view that History is made by Heroes. It is true, ra ther, because of the character of the American political sys tem and the character of the turning point the world has reached. The American political sys tem has never worked well, and in modern times it has hardly worked at all, without a strong, active and thought ful President. All sorts of efforts to prove NEWSPAPERMAN DIES Spokane, Wash.- (DPD - Jack B. Evans, 49, a Spokane news paperman, died, Thursday night in a hospital here where he was being treated for can cer. Evans had joined the Spokesman - Review in 1952 after having . worked with United Press International, Associated Press and the Seat tie Star. Washington Report By WILLIAM Washington-The other shoe has at last been dropped by Senator Hubert H. Humphrey r J r?fcj of Minnesota. and we now have one-but only one-open, avowed, de c 1 a r e d, an nounced, com mitted and ad mitted candi didate for P r a irlfnt. in William S. . ncn rr,, White 1960. The no toriously open campaign wag ed for months by "Ole Hu bert" is now strictly official. This Democratic liberal of the liberals has said f ormally what no other aspirant in either party has yet announced: He is running-and just as hard as he possibly can. The Bible says the first shall come in last. Humphrey hopes this will be altered so that the first shall remain first. Alone of the five Demo cratic "availables"-the others cent boost in the gas tax will be proposed, to rescue the fal tering Highway Trust Fund. Congress is more likely to meet the issue by diverting funds from general revenue. Interest Ceiling Interest Ceiling The Presi dent wants Congress to lift the 4.25 per cent ceiling on the interest the Treasury can offer on its long-term bonds. Democrats, who hope to make a campaign issue of high inter est rates, will strive for some other solution to the Treas ury's debt management prob lems. Farm Program Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Ben son wants to get rid of parity based price supports; Demo crats want to get rid of Ben son. The Administration's farm proposals appear to have little chance of acceptance in 1960. Item Veto Congress didn't even consider the President's 1959 request for authority to veto individual items in ap propriation bills. The request is expected to be repeated and again ignored in the coming session. (Copyright 1959, Congres sional Quarterly Inc.) the contrary have been made during the Eisenhower admin istration, especially during the President's periods of se vere illness. But all these ef forts to provide substitutes for the President have only shown once again, that our system needs vigorous, per sonal, and unremitting Presi dential direction. Otherwise the whole machine collapses into inanity and impotence. TN FORMER times, this sel dom mattered very much, because the American govern ment seldom mattered very much. The election of Abra ham Lincoln, instead of an other Buchanan-like figure, was certainly a matter of life or death just one century ago. But it was equally certainly not a matter of life or death whether Cox or Harding,' or Coolidge or Davis, were sent to the White House-to name two contests within the life times of most of the elector ate. AU that is changed now, The area of American su premacy" may have passed, as Walter Lippmann has re marked; but the era of Ameri can leadership of the cause of freedom in the world most emphatically has not passed. If America does not lead, there is no leadership at all, if only because no other free nation has the power for the task. And the task of Ameri can leadership has become ten times more difficult and exacting during the fallow, comfortable, prosperous Eis enhower years. The great success of the Eisenhower years is this coun try's internal reconciliation. The President inherited a na tion divided and neurotically embittered. He will hand on to his heir a nation united and at peace with itself. But this great, undeniable, and deeply valuable success has been achieved at the expense of - one might almost say, by the device of - shoving all sorts of critical problems un der the rug. . THE GRAVEST of all these emblems has elearlv hppn the problem of the world bal ance of power. The power bal ance has been permitted to tilt terrifyingly far in favor of the Soviet bloc. The Presi dent's heir will have to lead an America living from day to day, for the first time in history, and whether most Americans know it or not, in the most deadly peril. The years of the missile gap will, S. WHITE being Adlai E. Stevenson and Senators Lyndon Johnson of Texas, John Kennedy of Mas sachusetts and Stuart Syming ton of Missouri-Humphrey has dropped the amiable cover of ill-camouflaged intentions. TIE IS already pledged to "enter 1960's primaries in at least three states-Wisconsin, Oregon and South Dakota-plus the District of Co lumbia. And when more cam paign money is raised, he will enter others. This will be a strange pre convention campaign. Hum phrey's one hope lies in the highly debatable assumption that a prosperous country will want to return in effect to the Roosevelt New Deal of the '30s. When he says he knows it will be "an uphill fight," he understates the case. All the same, he cannot be counted out in advance. For he is one (indeed, perhaps the only) advanced liberal in the Democratic party who is also a practical and gifted politi cian. MOREOVER, he is one of the very few-if not, again, the only one-in this group able to avoid the self-righteous rigidity so common to it. A darkish, rather dapper man of many thousands of eager words for any occasion, he is able to disagree with oth ers, and suffer them to dis agree with him without: A. Giving up any real prin ciple on his own side. B. Insinuating that his op ponents are hopeless fools at best or, more likely, actually crooks and knaves. This columnist, as an ex- Senate correspondent, knows "Ole Hubert," he believes, from the ground up. What follows should not be consid ered a political testimonial for this one Washington ob server has no trouble what ever in disagreeing fundamen tally with Humphrey, it is only a true account of the extraordinary progress of Hu bert Horatio Humphrey in the United States Senate. ; - TTUMPHREY came to s that proud and clubby body in 1949 under the worst possible omens. He had just all but wrecked the 1948 Democratic National Convention - in the view of so liberal a man as President Harry S. Truman as well as of moderates and conservatives-by leading a re bellion for an extremely "lib eral" civil-rights plank. He was brash. He talked immeasurably too much in place that has always believed any newcomer is lucky to be there at all and surely ought in common decency, to hold his tongue until he is spoken to. , But somehow, without apol ogizing or going back on what he believed, within a year he was making crusty old Senate types like him. They never approved his ideas and never will-nor will many, many oth- ers who are not nearly so crusty. But they conceded him this much: He was a fair man, if a wrong-headed man given to extreme views. And he was able, perhaps the best speaker (if maybe a little overpower- ingly so) in the Senate. CJO THERE are many Demo- cratic politicians who actu ally know "Ole Hubert" who could never go along with his ideas. But they nevertheless would wish him well now, if only in conscience they could For even if he could restrain as President his own far-from- moderate notions, he could hardly reach office without becoming captive to the even- less-moderate notions of most of those who would surround him. So, the mood among these politicians is rather this: "Hail, Hubert-hail, but also farewell!" " (Copyright, 1960, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) by their very nature, require a new kind of Presidential leadership. But there are a great many other grave problems that have also been shoved under the rug: problems of national growth and national invest ment, educational problems, inter-allied political and stra tegic problems, and so on and on. All have grown more dif ficult by being neglected. Al most all will urgently demand the next President's immedi ate attention. And failure to find viable, practical solu tions will mean eventual fail ure of the free half of the world in the remorseless com petition with the un-free. - . That, in essence, is the char acter of the turning point we have reached. Freedom's fu ture depends on the workabil ity of our system in the years just ahead. Our system only works with the right kind of man in the White House. Good luck to us, then, In choosing him, and - good luck to him when he is chos en! (c) I960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Once in a while, this col umn comments on the foibles and fripperies of the news paper business. So, today, we are going to 'iborrow" a column from the trade magazine, "Editor & Publisher," which republished it from the Charleston (W. Vo.) Gazette, where it was written by City Editor L. T. Anderson. He called it "Lan guage of the Client," a list for newspaper newcomers of phrases most frequently heard around a city room, and their ACTUAL meanings. Here goes: Where did you get that story? (Who squealed?) "Here's the material I talked to you about yester day. (My job depends on the number of clippings I send to the main office.) I KNOW you'll throw this in your wastebasket. (This negative psychology will in sure its publication.) I'm an old newspaperman myself. (I sold classified ads one summer for an obscure weekly.) riiya pals (1 am a press agent for a circus.) "I have a rather unusual re quest to make of you. (I was out with another man's wife and we had a car wreck and I want you to keep it out of the paper.) I've been wanting to meet you for a long time. (I want a story in the paper.) "I want you to meet a friend of mine. (He wants a story in the paper.) They told me you were the man who'd take care of this. (Exaggerated respect might impress you.) "You know what those damn Republicans have done? (They fired me.) Today & By Walter SOME POLITICAL NOTIONS Although Mr. Nixon is now the President's one and only heir, there is a most impor I tar th tant part of e estate which he can not inherit. It has been Gen. E i senhower's u n i q u -b c h ievement that he has been able to nlflM Viimcolf Lippmann as .President above the party battles, and to invest for the time being the office with the attributes of a constitutional monarchy. This has enveloped him with an aura - . of invulnerability such as no other President in modern times, if ever before, has enjoyed. Whatever has gone wrong has been blamed on his ministers and he has moved above it serene and untouched. ' ' . , " This exalted position is uniquely Eisenhower's, and it cannot be passed, on to his successor. It is . entirely be yond Mr. Nixon's reach. As a candidate, as a President if he is elected, Mr. Nixon will be down in the dust and the heat of the battle, not above it in the clear blue yonder. In this critical 'respect there could be no sharper . contrast than between Eisenhower and Nixon-between the non-political world famous soldier who was drawn into politics at the top and the ambitious young man who clawed his way up from obscurity. TlHE CONTRAST is a warn- -- ing that a Nixon admin istration will not be and can not be"a' Continuation of the Eisenhower administration. We shall find, I believe, that the Eisenhower, administra tion has been an interlude which cannot continue and will not soon be reoeated. The party struggle which has been throttled down un der Eisenhower is certain to break out again under Nix on. Our present situation -that of living under a divid ed government with the Re publicans in control of the Executive branch and ; the Democrats pf the Legislative- has been made workable by President Eisenhower's pres tige with which he ha3 over- awed the Democratic Con gressional leaders. With Nix on the party struggle would be bound to revive, and a divided government would then seem far less benign than it does under the Eisenhower-Johnson regime. . AS A CANDIDATE, the im mediate question about Nixon is whether he will be carried into office by the Ei senhower tide, or whether he wiU have to fight for his elec tion. The Eisenhower tide Is a strong one, and1 it wiU con tinue to run strongly if, as the economists say, the bus iness boom continues, and if He's a member of a very prominent family. (He's a relative of mine.) "This is a story that'll blow . the lid right off this town. (I was jailed for drunkenness and disorderly conduct and I want to get even with the cops.) Everybody up heie reads your paper. (If you don't print this story, everybody in my community will stop buying the paper immediately.) "Everybody is anxious to read about this. (I want to get my name in the paper.) I'M KNOWN as a political' independent. (I've been cut out of the graft.) "I know your editor very well. (You'd better print this if you know what's good for you.) f HOW COME you guys have it in for me? (Why did you ; expose me as a fraud?) "I've been taking your paper for 35 years. (I want' you to take my uncle's pic ture.) We want you to settle an argument for us. (We've been drinking.) "I know you people are al ways looking for pictures of children. (I want you to take my little girl's picture.) This is the REAL story. (This is my side of it.) "Don't change a word of this. (I write beautifully and you'd just ruin it.) THE PEOPLE who made this charitable project pos sible ought to get a little rec ognition. (I don't believe in doing any charily work un less I am paid for it in the form of publicity.) "This story has a lot of human interest. (It's about my grandmother.) Your crossword puzzle is a gyp. (I lost again.)" Tomorrow Lippmann at the summit meeting in May there is a prospect of some continuing accommodation. It is not easy to build up an opposition to Eisenhower. As a party the Democrats have not yet been able to make an effective case againsV him. and Gov. Rockefeller found that he could not make one either. Yet there is a case to be made, and some fine day perhaps not yet in the 1960 elections-someone will make the case. . The case against Eiseaifbw er's prosperity is that we are not producing enough wealth of the right kind. Our eco nomic growth is slower than is required by our position in the world, which is chal lenged as it has never been challenged before. And of the wealth we do produce too large a proportion goes into consumer goods which are not necessities, and too small a proportion into public necesr sities, both military and civ ilian. The case against the Eisen hower administration on the peace" issue is not that he is seeking accommodation with the Soviet Union. With the race in nuclear armaments as menacing as it is, it would be a neglect of the President's duty if he did not seek the accommodation. The great charge to be made against the Eisenhower administration is that it has been fumbling the ball in the contest of armaments with the Soviet Union. Thus it has cqmpelled us to negotiate for the accommodation from s second rate position. Although, no doubt, mil tary expenditures ought to b increased, the primary source of the fumbling in the" Pen tagon is a feeble leadership from the White House. ... . . THUS, WE ARE not meeting the challenge of the So viet Union. It is a dual chal lenge - to negotiate and to compete, to reduce the inter national tension and to. in crease the national effort. This is the case which, if I have read the record rightly, Rockefeller would have made had the Republican contest been an open one. This . is the cause which the Demo crats need to make if - ever they can unite behind a can didate who understands the case and has the eloquence to take it to the country, (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. New York Transit Strike Threat Ends New York-d!PD-A crippling strike of aU the city's sub ways and bus lines was avert ed today only one hour be for the deadline. Mayor Robert F. Wagner said the present 15-cent bus and subway fare would not be raised. But he said the city would have to help the private bus lines.