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Tuesday, Jan. 26, 1960
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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 26. 1950 (Thursday)
Many local rural mail
routes are being changed to
city "mounted" routes to im
prove mail service, Medford
post office announces.
State soil conservation com
mittee meetings will be held
around county tomorrow to
sound out sentiment towards
soil conservation district here.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 26. 1940 (Friday)
State highway commission
protests to secretary of inte
rior over rates being charged
1 in Crater Lake park to motor-
ists traveling between Med
' ford and Klamath Falls.
' From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: Rus
sians complain to Finns that
their sharpshooters are shoot
ing Russian generals and
brass on the field of battle,
before Dictator Stalin can
line them up against a brick
wall in Moscow.
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 26. 1930 (Sunday)
Mother of Loretta Young,
17, film actress, starts suit
to annul her daughter's mar
riage to Grant Withers.
Standard Oil company will
open new offices in the Lib
erty building Monday.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 26. 1920 (Tuesday)
Holland rejects demand of
allies that Kaiser be turned
over for trial as a "war crim
inal." Growing sentiment among
Oregon Republicans for Her
bert Hoover as presidential
candidate.
50 YEARS AGO
Jan. 26. 1910 (Wednesday)
Medford Commercial club
starts circulating petitions for
amendment to state constitu
tion giving counties right to
bond themselves in order to
build "good" roads.
What's Your I.Q.?
u:. fuiHt i superior;
even er eight is excellent; five er
r is good.
1. The part of a sentence
which makes an assertion
about the subject is called
what?
2. How many times in a
minute is the average heart
beat of a normal man?
3. Are Doberman Pinscher
dogs classed as sporting dogs,
or working dogs?
4. Do cashew iruts grow on
trees or in the ground?
5. Is Argentina on the east,
or the west coast of South
America? v
6. What color feather is the
symbol of the annual Com
munity Chest or One , Fund
Drive?
7. Who was. the founder of
the Congress of Industrial Or
ganizations and its first presi
dent?
8. Supply the last word of
the title of this motion picture:
"Goodbye Mr.-."-.
9. If you had a soiree, would
you eat it, attend it, ride it,
or keep it?
10. What is the name for the
young bees? ..
Answers: 1. Predicate. 2. 72
per minute. 3. Working dogs.
4. On trees. 5. East coast. 6.
Red Feather. 7. John L. Lewis.
Chips.. 9... Attend- it... 10
Nymphs.
Mr. Crutcher s Message
It's too bad that 100 times as many people
couldn't have heard Lewis Cmtcher's talk at the
annual chamber of commerce dinner last Satur
day night.
Mr. Crutcher, the slight, mild architect who
has caused a considerable stir in Portland a
stir of discontent with the ugliness which has
transformed downtown Portland into a sort of
billboard jungle does not make his points by
beating people over the head.
To the contrary, he sort of sneaks up on them
and "underwhelms" them (to use his own word).
DUT, with a combination of wit, timing, intel-
ligence and idealism, aided by the graphic
illustrations possible with colored slides, he makes
his points, and makes them strongly.
In the simplest possible language, what he
was saying was this:
"We don't have to live with ugliness. If we
want to, we can get togther and make our sur
roundings beautiful."
This he proved, over and over.
He proved it by showing pictures of some of
Europe's loveliest cities and then a contrasting
picture of Portland (or Medford), showing what
a mess unthinking, uncoordinated growth can do
when guided only by the need of the moment.
117E MAY, as a matter of fact, be a little further
along the road of intelligent use of our re
sources than Crutcher is aware.
He advised, for instance, that a tree-planting
program be undertaken. He didn't know that
Medford has one a highly effective one, too,
headed by that dauntless crusader, Edith Eden.
He pointed out that
treated, could be a major asset. He apparently
didn't know that, while Bear creek looks like the
wrath of God now, a committee is at work lining
up a plan which can be put into effect to rescue
much of the creek for good purposes when the
new freeway goes through.
But his advice still is
ed. For Medford, despite
long way from having
beautification.
-
pRUTCHER'S chief wrath is directed at that
despoiler of city streets and skylines and
country vistas the billboard.
He proved that many
are never even really noticed by the people they
are supposed to influence. He proved that the bill
board industry will go to great lengths to use an
attractive f oreground (paid for by the taxpayers)
for the advertising background. He proved the
billboard industry was lying when it promised the
Baldock freeway from Salem to Portland should
remain without new big boards.
-And he proved that
regulated use of advertising signs in a downtown
area can turn a lovely city into a jumbled hodge
podge that not even a native could love if he
takes the trouble to notice it.
MERE printed words cannot do justice to his
f Vi nm e y r 4-r Vi i c rvAcnrf of i An
He flashes a colored
tive Portland church, half
advertising toilet paper.
This one, he said,
Next To Godliness."
"Here's another " he
Great Northwest in a
We have plenty of Crutcher's villains utility
poles and the cropped and misshapen trees that
go with them; acres of asphalt without the saving
grace of greenery; big signs of doubtful utility
but undoubted. ugliness;
hoods; unattractive city
We hope he comes back again. And we hope
that when he does wTe can
a little less garish, and
which we can take pride.
Castro's Tragedy
' Current developments in Cuba have been re
ferred to as the tragedy of Castro.
It is an apt phrase.
He could have been one of the great men of
this hemisphere, but he chose, instead, to fritter
it all away, and it now looks as though he'll wind
up as nothing but another penny-ante strongman
and dictator. E.A.
Batten Down the Hatches
As Bulletin writer Ila Grant has pointed out
1960 is chock full of three-day holidays.
New Year's Day fell on a Friday. Memorial
Day falls on a Monday. July 4 also falls on a
Monday. Labor Day, as always, falls on. a Mon
day. Veterans' Day comes on a Friday. And
Christmas and next New Year's fall on Sunday,
an event which causes many f inns to give their
employees an extra day off the following day.
. .
pUTHERMORE, Lincoln's and Washington's
birthdays, which are school holidays in many
states, fall on three-day weekends: Lincoln's
birthday on Friday, and Washington's on Mon
day. And if anyone wanted to take Halloween
off, he'd find, that was on Monday, too.
About the only holidays not falling on Friday
or Monday are Thanksgiving and Easter, which
have to fall on other days.
All of which information leads The Bulletin
to make a Firm Prediction : the national traffic
death toll for 1960 will be higher than in any
previous year. Bend Bulletin.
Bear creek, if properly
good, and it still is need
these starts, is still a
an effective program of
of the huge gansh signs
the indiscriminate, un
slide showing an attrac
- hidden by a huge sign
I call Cleanliness Is
said, "a view of the
beer bottle."
deteriorating neighbor
entrances.
show him a city's face
a little more the kind m
E. A.
Dennis the
'Because she's afraid vod might break it, peak.
Communications
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for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
Licenses
To the Editor: It's the be
ginning of that wonderful
year 1960, and it's beginning
like all Januarys since 1932.
Everyone is trying to predict
the stock market, and their
predictions are about as good
as those predicting a surplus
in the Treasury. I'll bet you
a sawdust burning, sheet-iron
smudgepot, we won't have a
surplus at the end of the year.
It's the first time I've ever
had to pay twice for a fish
license, $4.10 for a fish license
to catch trout and $1.10 extra
for salmon. You can't fish for
salmon, unless you got a trout
license, but you can fish for
trout without a salmon li
cense. There ain't no salmon,
but it keeps us suckers out
of jail, if we got a salmon
license.
I've got to pay $125 for a
shotgun, to shoot pheasants
from off the top of some
farmer's No Tresspassing sign.
If he falls on the farmer's
side of the fence, he eats him.
If he falls oh the side where
I am, he belongs to the game
warden. I should worry, I
don't hit the pheasant in the
first place. This is luxurious
shootin', so I pay $20 luxury
tax on the gun. I go out to
shoot a duck in a pile of cat
tails, freeze to death and stand
in ice water all day. I never
had it so good, it costs me $3
for duck stamps and every
time I shoot a hole in the
smog, it costs another luxury
tax on the shotgun shells.
Everything in Oregon ain't
that bad. You don't have to
have a license to shoot pen
guins, unless they're walking.
Some things is even cheap
er than they used to be.
Take switch engines for in
stance. They used to cost $100,000.
Today, you can buy a good
used switch engine for only
$1.
You do have a cow pasture
and a track don't you?
You won't need a driver's
license for a switch engine
before 1962.
Everett Acklin,
Ashland, Ore.
On Charity
To the Editor: Did you ever
see a wounded white leghorn
chicken? Then did you note
how practically every hen in
the chicken yard picked on
it? They either kept at it till
poor biddy was about dead
or your ire was sufficiently
aroused to isolate the victim.
I think we humans are a
bit like chickens at times.
Back in school I was called
chicken sometimes. Perhaps
I deserved the name, at least
when I would join in with
the crowd to down somebody.
Don't worry. I got it back
with interest.
Reminds me of a local fam
ily. They haven't been around
quite long enough to get a
foothold. In fact a certain
agency paid by us taxpayers
to help the needy, refused aid.
These folks hadn't lived here
long enough and were of
fered help to get back to
where they came from. Might
have been interesting to have
had them go and then apply
for public aid on the other
end. Wonder if they would
have been told the same tiling
there. I've heard of being be
tween the, frying pan and the
fire. Maybe that would have
been -it. - .
Sure, there are lots of folks
who make a habit of depend
ing on others. Yet when I
see a family with three little
ones, a husband who has
worked hard and because of
sickness had to slow down,
then when he wants and tries
to find work there is none-
well I wonder? Sure he needs
medical help but how is he
to get it. True," he " should
have studied when younger
for a profession, then he
Menace
wouldn't have been in such a
fix. I wonder how many
mothers in this area have
been to the place where you
had no milk for the baby,
much less for the other chil
dren? The nipple broke on
baby's bottle and you didn't
have a dime to buy a new one.
At the same time you were
worried day and night be
cause the landlord wanted his
back rent.
We can easily sit in our
comfortable homes while right
around us such conditions ex
ist. The tears of gratitude on
the mother's face as she ac
cepts a Christmas food basket
are touching. But giving
shouldn't end at Christmas.
By the way if any of you
readers should know of even
some odd jobs nearby, let the
writer know. I could tell a
lot more but space does not
permit. I'm glad God knows
each of our hearts and doesn't
misjudge us.
Henry Johnson Jr.
2400 Highway 66
Ashland, Ore.
Forest Incident'
To the Editor: When living
on a homestead in the moun
tains a long while ago, one
day we were surprised to
welcome a cat that greeted
us by answering to the name
of "Tommy." He was black
and white spotted and. indeed
was what we called "an edu
cated cat."
Tommy was often at my
heels on tramps through the
"hills and woods" on pros
pecting days. Even when he
caught a mouse or mole in
the middle of the night, I
would always open the cabin
door in response to his meow,
as a welcome servant.
On going to the mail box,
one mile to the R.F.D. route,
Tommy would generally lie
in wait at the foot of the hill
until I returned to where he
was always waiting. One sum
mer evening on return trip
home, I spied some black ob
jects on the trail ahead com
ing toward us. Stopping
abruptly, Tommy soon made
a by-pass as we were passing
a mother skunk and four kits
heading down to the flat
lands, with the tails of her
brood all bushed upwards. It
was a lucky coincidence, as
I imagined the mother skunk
telling her family in case of
sudden attack, "Let us stop
and (s)pray."
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman st.,
Medford.
Why No Doctor?
To the Editor: I am very
concerned about the letter
Mr. R. Smithson wrote con
cerning his small emergency
at Rogue Valley hospital, and
the unavailability of a doctor.
When the drive for contri
butions to help build our hos
pital was being made, we were
contacted, as was most every
one. Before signing the do
nation card I asked the gen
tleman about emergency fa
cilities, and if a doctor would
be on duty at aU times. He
assured me there would be,
which was the main reason
we contributed to this effort.
Now, I find this is not true.
Why?" ,
Mrs. Leonard Matheus
; 1124 West 10th st. ;
Medford
Responsibility '
To the Editor: Sunday's ar
ticle on ' Caryl Chessman
points up the false doctrine
which underlies much of the
trouble in our society today.
Without taking "sides as to
whether Chessman should die
or not, I am convinced that
he has no business out of
prison with his present atti
tude. Chessman claims he is not
responsible for whatever he
does because of brain disease.
The psychiatrists ir effect
Matter of Fact
By 'Joseph Alsop
The Missile Gap: Basic Facts
(The following article is the
first in a series of six.)
Washington-A deeply dis
turbing conflict of the high
est official opinion, on the
O sole problem
wnich literai
1 y involves
the survival
of the United
States, was
unobtrusively
revealed last
week.
The prob
lem of the
josepb alsop missile gap
was painted in the rosiest,
most reassuring colors in Con
gressional testimony by the
able new Secretary of De
fense, Thomas Gates, and the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, Gen. Nathan Twin
ing. General Twining even
suggested that it was down
right unpatriotic to regard
the missile gap as constitut
ing a problem.
Almost simultaneously, the
same problem was painted in
the most somber and alarm
ing colors by the Strategic
Air Commander, Gen.
Thomas Power. Virtually no
attention was given to the ex
traordinary speech, before
the New York Economic
Club, by the man who has
more responsibility than any
one else for bridging the mis
sile gap. Yet the message of
SACs brilliant leaders was
as grave as possible, as can
be seen from the following
excertps: "TF (the Soviets) could ef--"-
f ectively threaten us
from a position of such mil
it a r y superiority that we
would feel unable to defend
ourselves, our cabability to
resist . . . would be greatly
reduced, if not nullified.
(Such) military superiority
would be achieved through
accumulation of (enough) bal
listic missiles to destroy our
retaliatory forces before they
could be launched. Surpris
inelv. this would not take
very many missiles under
present conditions . . . The to
tal number of installations
and facilities from which we
can launch nuclear-armed ah'
craft or missiles at this mo
ment is only about 100. All
of these facilities present
'soft targets' that is, they
could suffer crippling dam
age even (from) a near miss
"... It would take an av
erage of three missiles, in
their current stage of devel
opment, to give an aggressor
a mathematical probability of
95 per cent that he can de
stroy one given soft target,
from 5,000 miles away. This
means that, with only some
300 ballistic missiles, the So
viets . could ..virtually ..wipe
out our entire nuclear strike
capability within a span of
30 minutes. (Emphasis is Gen
eral Power's.) To further
heighten this threat, only
about half these missiles
would have to be ICBMs. The
rest could be the smaller in
termediate range ballistic
missiles."
THESE WORDS, so terrible
in their . implications as
will be seen, were in the
hands of the Pentagon cen
sorship for no less than three
weeks. During this intermin
able "processing," General
Power's speech was exten
sively pruned and toned
down. If General Power's
facts could have been at
tacked, the censors would
surely have pruned them too.
Hence the foregoing must
be accepted as the first au
thoritative statement, from a
source commanding absolute
belief, of the missile capabil-
agree with him, saying only
that "society must be pro
tected" from his "psychopa
thic personality." Both are
wrong. Chessman has a will
which determines what he will
do. He has control of his
will. He can choose to do
whatever he decides i.o do.
There is nobody but Caryl
Chessman who can control
this. Unless he is brainwashed
Communist style, he is a free
moral agent. Brain disease,
poor environment, poor here
dity, unfortunate experiences
while a fetus -none of these
make any difference.
What applies to Caryl
Chessman applies to every
one else. If our family coun
sellors, juvenile psychologists,
"progressive", ministers, and
others who make a living
from taxes andor private
contributions would admit
this, they might be able to
do some good in stopping ju
venile delinquency, and might
even help some people instead
of just making things worse
by excusing what used to be
called sin as "sickness need
ing treatment" and expect
ing those harmed to let it go
and be helpful in "rehabili
tation of mental illness suf
ferers." This does not mean eye-for-eye
and tooth-for-tooth. It
does mean making individuals
assume responsibility for their
actions.
Parker Bailey
542 "A" st.
Ashland, Ore.
! j
U.S. Patience Still Continues
In Face of Castro's Insults
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
Cuba's Fidel Castro fires
new charges against the Unit
ed States faster than bullets
from a revolu
tionary torn
mygun these
days.
But the
United States
con tinues to
treat him with
great pa
tience. The provo
cations have
PtuJ Newsom
been many, the latest result
ing in U.S. Ambassador Phil
ip W. Bonsai's recall to Wash
ington for "consultations."
Whether he will return to
Havana still is anybody's
guess.
Within the last three
months, Castro has:
In late October accused the
United States of "aggression"
against Cuba charges form
ally rejected by the U.S.
In November repeated
charges "that planes from the
United States bombed two
sugar mills and that criminal
ity the Soviets now need to
bring this country to its
knees.
As might have been ex
pected, General Power did
not overtly challenge the
views expressed by Secretary
Gates and General Twining.
But the challenge is plain
enough and terrible enough,
if you place General Power's
statement of facts against
its background of theory. The
theory of deterrence, which
gives the key to Gen. Power s
speech, is not merely accept
ed by General Power and
Secretary Gates and General
Twining. It is also accepted
by Nikita S. Khrushchev, as
he disclosed in the most sig
nificant passage of his recent
speech to the Supreme Soviet.
IN BRIEF, true deterence
depends on careful calcu
lations of "first strike capabil
iey" and "counter-strike cap
ability." The United States
today, for instance, has
enough nuclear striking pow
er to destroy the Soviet Un
ion ten times over. But the
Soviet Union today also has
formidable striking power.
The United States therefore
has no "first strike capabil
ity," if our first strike can
not take out all the pinpoint
targets . presented by the So
viet panoply of nuclear pow
er. We have first of all to
destroy this power before it
gets off the ground. If we
cannot do this, our first
strike will merely trigger the
Soviet "counterstrike capabil
ity." If we are thus faced
with the prospect of national
destruction bv the enemy's
counter-strike, we are effec
tively "deterred." Just this
is our present situation, ac
cording to Khrushchev.
Furthermore, as Gen Pow
er admitted, America's nu
clear striking power, 'though
vast, is also vulnerable to
missile attack. This is because
our power, mainly SAC, is
concentrated in a few targets,
lacks effective warning, and
so on. For these reasons, a
small number of Soviet mis
siles - General Power says
300 - will be enough to wipe
out virtually all our nuclear
power before it can get off
the ground. With these mis
siles in their armory, the So
viets will not need to fear
our counter-strike; and our
deterrent will then cease to
deter.
This was of course the ex-.
act situation that General
Power grimly described. It
could be. he implied, the true
American situation before
very long. His description
was so grim for two reasons:
his frank admission of .our
deterrent's extreme vulner
ability; and his startlingly
low estimate of the number
of missiles the Soviets would
need to destroy our deterrent.
THERE IS only one way to
reconcile General Power's
statement of the facts with
the interpretation of the
facts offered to Congress by
Secretary Gates and General
Twining. General Power ob
viously suspects that the So
viets may soon have " the
smaller number of operation
al missiles required to destroy
our deterrent. But Secretary
Gates and General Twining
are convinced, as they have
testified, that it is absolutely
impossible for the Soviets to
have this number of missiles
within the period cf our de
terrent's vulnerability.
General Twining and Sec
retary Gates have derived
this comforting conviction,
as they also testified, from
the National Intelligence Es
timates. Thus two questions
immediately present them
selves. Are the National Es
timates correct? And even if
the estimates are correct, is
it permissible to gamble the
whole national future on
mere estimates? These ques
tions will be examined in the
next article of this series.
(c) 1960 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
y IP?
airborne incursions into Ha
vana . . . caused two dead
and 48 wounded persons."
The United States already had
rejected these as "inaccurate,
malicious and misleading re
ports." Rejects U. S. Note
Seized more than 100,000
acres of foreign-controlled ag
ricultural and mineral lands.
Other U.S.-owned lands sub
ject to seizure total more than
two million acres.
Imposed a 60 per cent
royalty for the government
on oil production, and opened
the way to nationalization of
the refining industry in Cuba.
Rejected a U.S. note pro
testing seizure of property
owned by U.S. citizens "with
out court orders and frequent
ly without any written author
ization whatever . . . " U.S.
property seizures in Cuba
now amount to hundreds of
millions of dollars, with only
the shakiest promises of com
pensation. In the 13 months since his
revolutionary forces toppled
the regime of Fulgencio Ba
tista and as Castro himself
has taken on more and more
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
SECOND FRONT
Washington - The Republi
cans are putting unusually
heavy firepower into the sec-
ond front
which fortune
1 has permitted
i them to open
early against
the Democrats
in this major
election year.
The with
drawal' of
Gov. Nelson
William S.
White
Rockefeller of
of New York from competi
tion for the Presidential nomi
nation has done more than
leave Vice-President Richard
Nixon as the unchallenged
heir to that place. It has also
given the national G.O.P. or
ganization professionals a free
run of six months in which
to concentrate not on Presi
dential politics but on Con
gressional politics.
If a real struggle for the
top nomination had persisted,
the Republican National Com
mittee would have been hip
deep in the resulting compli
cations until after the G.O.P.
national convention at Chi
cago in July. Nobody, would
have had time to give more
than a lick and a promise to
the secondary job of trying to
improve the Republican situ
ation in Congress.
VOW, however, Senator
Thruston Morton of Ken
tucky, the national committee
chairman, has pooled the com
mittee's resources with those
of the G.O.P. Senate and
House campaign committees
They are aU gunning together
for Congressional seats.
The notion of "the team"
happily at work in Washing
tion is not always anything
more than a slogan. But in
this case it really does look
that Morton, perhaps because
he is a Congressional type
himself, has got his own out
fit in tandem with the Repub
lican Senate and House cam
paign committees. These ordi
narily go pretty much on
their own way, sometimes
more as rivals than allies of
the national committee.
All these working Republi
cans know perfectly well, of
course, that the 2 to 1 Demo
cratic majority in the Senate
is so big that even with all
luck, the Republicans could
not regain control there. They
do believe, however, that
there is just a chance, if very
slight, to overturn Democrat
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of the trappings of dictator
ship, he and his mouthpieces
have used words against the
United States most usually
applied by Communist states.
Cuba's greatest single ex
port is sugar and its greatest
single customer, the United
States. Yet so far the U.S. has
refused to use the tremendous
economic pressure it could
bring to bear against Cuba
by reducing the Cuban sugar
quota and allowing other na
tions who have been clamor
ing for a part of the U.S.
market to up their supply.
The official U.S. position
has been that the Cuban peo
ple should not be made to
suffer for the sins of Castro.
There is at the moment no
reason to believe that Castro
will turn to more moderate
advisers.
In fact there is evidence
his regime is turning more
and more to the left and that
his closest relations soon will
be with Red nations.
Meanwhile, he will continue
his plunge toward economic
suicide, delayed only by the
temporary income he derives
from seized properties.
S. WHITE
ic control of the House of
Representatives.
ACCORDINGLY, a master
plan has been drawn up to
hit heavily into 90 of the 437
Congressional districts. These
are marginal House seats,
meaning that a little voting
switch could turn them from
Democratic to Republican.
Morton's national commit
tee is preparing a greater con
tribution, in every way, to
this effort than is normally
so. It is going to put in more
money than usual. It is help
ing to set up various advisory
groups which will screen
prospective Republican Con
gressional candidates so as to
turn up the most attractive of
the lot.
It is enlisting a "supplemen
tary force" of businessmen
and professional men to act
as a counter-movement to the
labor-farmer forces allied to
the Democrats.
Special efforts are being
made to bring into this "sup
plementary force" what the
national committee people
rather grandly call "the heal
ing arts." This means physic
ians, nurses, dietitians, hos
pital administrators and so on.
(Committee officials have a
deadpan awareness that when
you call a doctor or a nurse a
member of "the healing arts,"
you don't make him or her
exactly furious at you.)
MOST SIGNIFICANT of all,
"'the very core of G.O.P.
Congressional campaign strat
egy involves a reversal of
that followed, through the
Eisenhower years. . The inten
tion is to run Congressional
candidates on their own pow
er - and never mind Nixon's
coattails. Again and again
such candidates were run
and generally without success
- on President Eisenhower's
coattails.
Nixon himself is hand in
glove with this switch. For he
knows that he has two prob
lems: first, to get elected
President; but next, to make
a go of the job. He wants a
Republican Congress if he can
get it and he recognizes
that the odds remain that he
cannot. But at least he wants
Republican side of the
House made up of men strong
in their own right at home.
Coattail fellows, even when
elected, are rarely entrenched
enough to do much good for
very long.
(Copyright, 1960, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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