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Today and Tomorrow By Walter Llppmann SALUTE TO DE GAULLE Having been one of hit Am erican admireri since June of 1940, when be raised hli flag In Britain ana summoned the French to go on with the war, I cannot pretend to write dispas lionately about Gen. de Gaulle. But Walter c w Llopmana coming back to Washington In triumph, I have been asking myself what is the secret of this famous man? The secret is that he is more than a great man. He is a great man in the sense that he has taken a great part in historic events. But there were other great men in the war days. In addition to being an historic man, he is also, which is rarer than greatness, a genius. This is the special quality which he, and I think only he, shares with Church ill. His genius consists in the capacity to see beneath the surface of events, to see through the obvious and con ventional and stereotyped ap pearance of events to the sig nificant realities, to the ob scured facts and forces which will prevail. This gift, which Is more than leadership as such, la second sight into the nature of history. It brings with it the gift of prophesy ing what is going to happen because to the seeing eye it is Blready there. The ability to see truly the ilgnificant reality carries with it the ability to convey what his vision brings him. Men like Churchill and de Gaulle do not sign ghostwritten books and they do not read ghost-written speeches. For the vision is their own and they alone can communicate It. rpHUS, in the bitter days of 1940 when France had fallen and Britain stood alone, it called for a great man, for brave man, for a resolute and faithful man, to go Into exile and from there to orga nize the French resistance, But it took genius to see how this noble but desperate ven . ture) would end, and to see that France, defeated, demor alized and prostrate, remained one of the great powers, to aee that in the end she would be-as is now the fact-among the principal shapers of the settlement with Germany. .... t THINKING of all that has happened In these 20 years, it occurred to me to see But . . . You can be a "Queen" and "King" in your EW HOME! Our Home Loans are Available to you for BUYING or BUILDING or REFINANCING . . . Individually Planned To fit your needs . . . and your Budget! Make Your Financing Problem . . . Our Problem! GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS NOT THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THt U. S. A. The first Preildtnt of the U.S.A. wai John Hanson of Maryland, who was elected November 5, 1781, to the office of thi first Conore.. of th Confederation. Although George Whington wai the 9th Pre.ldmt of the Congress he H the first to whom the above title was applied. 1 Famouj First Fact., page 407. Jackson County Federal SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION Main Office) -126 E. MAIL TRIIUNI. Mriftre, Or. Sunday April 24, 1960 Public May Take Part in Program The public will be invited to participate in "Adventures in Medicine" over station KBES-TV at 3 o'clock this afternoon, according to Mrs. C. Ivan Burton moderator of the bi-weekly program. The series of programs on health is produced by the Jackson County Tuberculosis and Health association in co operation with the Jackson County Medical Society. "Cancer - Fact and Fiction" will be the topic for discus sion by a medical panel com posed of Dr. Robert n, buck, pathologist; Dr. Brian D. Stringer, general surgeon; Dr. Duane I. Glllum, radiologist, all Medford; and Dr. R. Ray Johnson, general practitioner. Grants Pass. Dr. Aubrey M. Hill, Ash land, will assist members of the Jackson County Unit of the American Cancer Society in taking and relaying tele phoned questions to the panel. Persons wishing to ask questions about cancer may telephone Btntlon KBES-TV, SPring, 3-4581, beginning at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon, Mrs. Burton said. The physi cians will answer as many as possible In the order in which they are received. Cub Scouts Cub Scout Pack 4 Cub Scout Pack 4, Oak Grove and West Side schools will hold their monthly pack meeting Thursday, April 28, at 7:30 p.m. at the Oak Grove gymnasium. Den 2 will conduct the flag ceremony and a skit will be presented by Den 6. An In spection of all Cubs will be held, awards will be presen ted, and other business con ducted. - 1 whether or not my memory was deceiving me. Was It true, as ever since I have believed that in the darkest days of the most desperate of modern wars, Gen. de Gaulle had com municated his vision of an en during and an undefeated France? I find that about three weeks after the fall of France, I had learned enough to be able to write that "In the mis fortune of France It should be our fierce pride to be the last to forget the greatness of France. We must wish to be the first to remember . . . that France Is Indispensable, as in dispensable to the maturity of Western civilization as Hellas was to its birth-and as imper ishable. I learned to say that only from Gen. de Gaulle, (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. I per Annum Currant Dividend Rite Main, Medford Matter of Fact y joph ai.op NIXON AND THE CONSERVATIVES" Washington - Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon and his campaign staff are visibly delighted by the result of the New Jersey primary contest between Sen. Clifford Case and Robert Morris, the for mer associate of Sen. Jo seph R. Mc Carthy and self -styled Republi can candidate for Case's scat. A 1 1 ho ugh iuhCPH alsOp mue nouceo, this New Jersey primary was nearly as Important for the Republicans as the West Vir ginia primary is for the Dem ocrats. It was the major effort by the extreme right wing of the Republican party to prove the existence of a "powerful conservative ground swell." The Vice President Is being daily warned of this ground swell by his party's right wingers. But the warnings can be ignored, now that the Morris effort in New Jersey has proved a flat, humiliating bust. A vegetarian greenback er with leanings to the views of Henry George ought to have done better than Morris, if he had made a comparable investment of time and money against as languid an op ponent as Sen. Case. MORRIS literally devoted two entire vears to an ac tive, continuous drive for votes. His personal bills were apparently paid for him dur ing all this time, judging by his own statement on this point to a friendly New Jer sey newspaper. Certainly his campaign bills were paid on the most lavish scale. Contributions were collec ted from all over the country, from the kind of Republican who thinks the only salvation is to repeal the Income tax amendment. Morris was able to use every expedient of modern campaigning, down to and including the costly ex pedient of telephoning short, recorded appeals to individ ual voters. In contrast, while Case was not pinched for funds, he only campaigned for two months. Even in those two months, his campaigning was intermittent at best, because of the de mands of Senate business Though an incumbent, Case also failed to secure the posi tive endorsement of many of the New Jersey county organ izations. .Yet on a relatively low poll of about only 350,000 votes, Case beat Morris close to two to one. THE MORRIS vote was not much above 110,000, in a state which cast 2,456,000 Or cAJalAWD wASwl AUUttNi Watch Our Next Ad for Proof of This Statement Ashland Branch votes in the last Presidential election. If there were any such thing as a "powerful con servative ground swell," Morris ought to have been able to ride its majestic tide. By the same token, New Jer sey ought to have provided the proof, if there were the slightest proof In the theory that Republicans lose elec tions because countless mil lions of disgruntled conserv atives refuse to crawl out of the woodwork to vote for over-liberal Republican nom inees. Instead, New Jersey showed the silliness of this theory and the total hollow ness of the talk about a "con servative ground swell." No wonder Vice President Nixon, who is determined to follow a moderate line, is pleased by a result which so completely confirms his own judgment. This does not mean that the Vice President will be free, hereafter from pressure from the Republican right wingers. On the contary, the new right wing hero, Sen. Barry Cold- water of Arizona, will shortly add the delegates from his own state to the bagful of South Carolina votes which he picked up some weeks ago. Go 1 d w a t e r ' s most active backer, Roger Milliken, has also been active in Mississippi and Montana. As a result, the Mississippi bagful and some additional Montana delegates will probably enter the Gold water collection. A S OF now, in fact the Nix- on campaign staff thinks that Goldwater will go to the Republican convention with from 50 to 80 delegates pledged to him. The aim, of course, is not to nominate Goldwater. The aim is to push Nixon further to the right, by raising all the banners of the Republican extremists on the floor of the convention Itself. The push would have been pretty strong if Morris had won in New Jersey. The truth is that the aver age Republican party hack (a type well represented among convention delegates) really loves his own party's extrem ists. At the recent Republican giant clambake here, they writhed with delight for Sen. Everett Dirksen of Illinois and Rep. Charles Halleck of Indiana; and they gave Sen ator Goldwater an ovation al most equalling the President's ovation. But after New Jer sey, no Republican who wants to win the election can have much doubt that the Nixon line is the best line, even if he still hankers in secret for the Goldwater line. (c) 1980 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Salem-TOPD-A "peeler core," or log-type piece of wood, is not really a log, the State Highway Commission has ruled. 337 E. Main, Ashland Column Writer Writes 'Home Town1 Letter to Radio Station; Gets Reply White City - Walter Town. send, who writes the "Plckln Pears" column in the Mall Tribune, has discovered there is more than one way to tell his story. Townsend at one time was successful attorney, but now he has ambitions to do some thing worth while as a writer. He has already won several prizes in the national Vet erans Writers project. Troubled with Insomnia, he has become one of the fans who tune in after midnight to listen to Ben Hunter with his homespun philosophy over radio station KFI, Los An geles. He decided to write a "Home Town Letter" which he says In his Introduction, "probably you won't want to read to the other 'night owls' since I do not live In a regular town or city, but stay in a strange sort of place, a domi ciliary of a thousand men." Struggles at Writing He then recites his strug gles at the writing game and tells of his experiences as a columnist for the Medford Mall Tribune. Not many nights ago, Ben Hunter read his letter to the thousands of listeners trou bled with sleeplessness, who listen in as he does. Then the letters began to come to him from quite a number of those listeners who sought to en courage him in his efforts and to tell of their own difficulties In the mastery of English com position, suitable for publica tion. Several were anxious to subscribe to the Mail Tri bune so that they could read his column "Pickin Pears." Another was interested in what he had to say about the famous Rogue valley pears. "I've been a night owl for a long time. It is my only hope," Townsend's letter reads. Sleepless Nights "I spend most of my sleep less nights listening to Ben Hunter. I love to hear him read Home Town Letters in the wee small hours. It gives me a sort of relief, or maybe you might say joy. I suppose it Is because I do not nave a 'real' home to write about. Anyhow, I love to hear about people who do have home towns. "This domiciliary where I sleep and eat good food and have a little bed room of my own, is a little world to Itself, There are some very wonder ful and great people here. One is our librarian. She is highly educated and downright bril liant, and is dedicated to her work. She conducts a literary class once a week in the after noon. Those of us who attend, discuss almost everything from abstract art to Dickens and Victor Hugo. I came here In 1030 and have been here ever since. We are situated on a sort of flat plain, with tall mountains all around, Mt. Pitt and huge Shasta In northern California at my back door. In fact, I can look out of my window In Oregon as I write this let ter and see 9,000 feet of ice and snow jutting up like an inverted Ice cream cone. Famous River "In the distance there is a gleam of water In the bright sun. It Is the reflection of the famous Rogue river flowing across the plain. Everything is silent. The numerous long buildings are brick. "I am a veteran of World War I and once saw Paris. Somehow, these buildings re mind me of Paris; long with many little white windows, they stand like something from the Middle Ages, with red sides and steep roofs. Maybe it is because of the buildings, I never go any where. I look at the roofs and start my work again. "I write most of the time. ; Still I would like to go and ; see tlte great outside world. I There is nothing to stop me except, I do not earn enough I money at writing to pay my train fare. I teach a class in I literature, too, and for years have wanted to go to Holly ; wood. Some day my ship will Marines to Explain Program at College Ashland-Opportuntties for officer commissions In the Marine corps will be explain ed to interested students April 27 and 28 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., in Britt lounge at South ern Oregon college, Ashland. Both aviation and line offi cer programs will be explain ed and interviews will be con ducted by Capt. Richard C. Schulze. Training is conduct ed during the summer at two six-week instruction periods, and graduation from college is required before a candidate may be commissioned. Also offered by the Marine corps Is an officer candidate course and aviation officer candidate course for senior students. College graduates also may apply for a commis sion under the programs. come In and there will be time for me to go. "For creative writing, which I try constantly to do, the government provides me a neat, well-lighted office all to myself and it is nice. In this little office I do nothing but write. Nobody tells me what to write. I write poetry, short stories and novels. None of them are ever published, of course. Still, I keep trying. "Then, too, I write a news paper column called Pickin Pears for the Medford Mail Tribune. This valley is famous for its climate and pears. It is said to be very similar to a certain valley In France where huge delicious pears are grown. 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For my heart is In novels and moving pictures and poetry. "As a writer I am no great shakes myself. The only thing I've ever been able to get neoDle to read is my news- paper column. I appreciate that. But what I want 'em to read Is my poetry. More than anything, I want 'em to reaa my novels. They jusfwill not, it seems. Cannot Quit "Still I cannot quit. 1 go to my office, my desk and type writer every day. Sometimes I write an essay. Next day I read it over and even can see 1.19 CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS, 89c? j98c INFRA-RUB S89c SUCARYL, 4-oz. 3 ;J3.50 METAMUC L RQr. IIAI FY'S 11 tl iinm w mawif 98c CLEEM TOOTH 19c Williams Mug ' 89c VITALIS -far 1 Jl -7 MM -n-f 1'i-eg IJ.1 myself, It ! worthless. I throw it away. But my novels, my poetry, I simply am un able to cast aside. I think they a wonderful. The trouble is, nobody else does. This is the first-home town letter' I ever I have a bike and ride it to the Rogue river sometimes. 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