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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.