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History from the tiles ot The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 20, 1950 (Saturday)
Mcdford and Jackson coun
ty followed the state trend In
Friday's primary by giving
Sen. Wayne Morse a rousing
majority in his bid for the
Republican nomination for
U. S. Senator.
Ashland mayor and a city
councilman were recalled
from office by Ashland vot
ers during the primary elec
tion. 20 YEARS AGO
Mar 20, 1940 (Monday)
According to the county
clerk's office some 58 per
cent of the registered voters
In Jackson county cast bal
lots in the primary-a new
record.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
favorite Italian trick these
days continues to be street
demonstrations against the
allies. Though Russia has
shaken a warning finger at
II Duce, his subjects, as yet,
have no wind to yell: Abas
le Stallnl"
30 YEARS AGO
May 20, 1930 (Tuesday)
Jackson county rates fifth
In state In having largest
number of former residents in
the state prison.
Fire guts the Deuel build
ing at Main and Barllett sts.,
with loss estimated at
$80,000.
40 YEARS AGO
May 20, 1920 (Thursday)
Vote light in local primary
but heavy upstate.
Sheep shearing is in full
swing at Sam's valley this
week.
SO YEARS AGO
Mav 20. 1910 (Friday)
An aviation meet, the first
of its kind in southern Ore
gon, will be held here next
week.
Railroad tycoon Louis W
Hill, arrived in Medfurd to
riav nnrl will tour the valley.
he will be entertained at a
banquet at the Nash hotel to
night.
What's Your I.Q.?
Mint or tan cornet It superior:
even or olaht It oicellcnt: fivo of
tlx it good.
1. Did Simple Simon meet
a highwayman, race horse, or
pieman?
2. Are there 128 or 144
cubic foot to a cord of wood?
3. Where in the United
States Is paper money made
4. In Dickens' "Christmas
Carol" who said "God bless
us every one "?
5. Does a bullet travel
farther when fired vertically
than In any other direction?
6. How many times was
Calvin Coolidge elected Pres
ident of the U. S.?
7. How many picture cards
are there In a standard deck
of playing cards?
8. Which is the last Book
Of the New Testament?
9. There are 1 1 spaces be
tween a I2 plcket fence. How
many spaces between a wheel
with 12 spokes?
10. How long after lister
Is Ascension Day?
Answers: 1. Pieman. 2. 128.
3. V. S. Bureau of Engraa.
Ing;, Wathington, D.C. 4. Tiny
Tim. S. Yes. 8. Onr, 7.
Twelve. 8. Revelation. f.J
Twelve. 10. Forty days.
4
Why, Oh
Why, oh why won't they let us be?
We've live here so long, happy and fret.
People move in and boss our land;
Iff time we arise and take our stand.
Don't they ever think of the Golden Rule;
Of the lessons learned In public school?
We're born equal, so we've been told;
And have a right to the land we hold.
What right have they to come In and ssy:
You can't do this or you'll have to pay?
If we give in we're no 1-jnger free;
We'll have to bow to powers that be.
Come on, Friend, let's fight to the end.
If you will help we're sure to win.
This bit of ah poetry, which was brought
to our desk a few weeks ago by a resident of the
west side of the valley where a zoning proposal
is under discussion, reveals a lot about the senti
ment against zoning.
It talks about "they," who are trying to "ram
zoning down our throats." Who are they?
"They," in this case, are people living in the
area who want to protect their homes and prop
erty values from damage caused by unregulated,
destructive development.
The poem says: "People move in and boss
our land . . ."
Actually, the zoning measure is not to "boss
the land" of the people now living there. They
can still use it exactly as before. Zoning will,
however, prevent OTHER people from "moving
in" with junk-yards, slaughter-houses, or tar
paper shacks, or with other uses which will de
stroy the pleasant life in that part of the county.
"THE poem cites the Golden Rule. This Rule
is phrased in many different ways, but the
best-known is this "Do unto others as vou would
have others do unto you."
In effect, the zoning plan is putting the
Golden Rule into a practice through the law
making power of the county.
reopie now living in
keep their cows and horses, can continue to farm
their land can continue
do now without any diniculty at all.
None or these good
their neighbors by putting in a garbage dump,
for instance. But zoning would protect them
from having a garbage clump, for instance, put
? Al ' 1 1 1 1
in meir neignDornooo.
ZONING protects things as they are.
Tf nni'tYi l f a nil n vi rra . uaa TJnf swili ah
J.U 11 4111 LO .iiuiigc jco. XJUly Ulllj 111 all K)lm
derly, regulated and intelligent manner.
Jackson county, or at
overdue for the protection which zonintr offers.
Tf v.ni;n u
IX JUU UUU U UV11CVC 11,,
unplanned, helter-skelter
areas into suburban slums.
That is what "they"
If you are opposed
Do we want this pleasant
overgrown slum? E. A.
Voting "Right"
Today is primary election day. The polls re
main open until 8 o'clock
II you don t vote, you
plain about the outcome
test. E. A.
Measure To
Although it is onlv
tion day, one can be permitted to look forward
to November, and the decisive choices to be made
at that time.
Voters will not be faced then with the long
lists ot convention delegate candidates, but they
will be faced with a long list of measures to be
decided. There will be at least a dozen, and
very likely more put on
ative by then.
One of the most important measures is one
which could be (although it need not be) mis
understood.
IT is a simple proposal
state system of higher
amount of its bonding
ings wnicn pay tor themselves.
It is not a tax measure. The bonds are re
tired by income from the
sports facilities, and
measure.
But it is important because, over the years,
about half of all the building's on Oregon's cam
puses have been built with this pay-for-them-
seives plan.
It's something to keep in mind. And we'll be
reminded. That is one of the purposes of the
oiieges i or uregon s
cently organized. E. A.
Why
The city council last night voted for the wid
ening of South Riverside ave.
This will involve the removal of :i mimiW nf
big old trees to be replaced with smali, young
trees.
Wouldn't it be smarter to wait for the free
way, to see if that relieves the heavy traffic on
Riverside? Wouldn't it be wiser to' hold on to
those old trees, which, once trnne. r:innnt he
fllllv I'PllhifPfl? lUavhp snnnriinrr S''!! OHO wouldn't
be necessary after all. Whit's the Jjwry? JS.A.
Why...?
a zoned area can still
to do everything they
folk would impose upon
least part of it. is loner
r'i:f : i
U LU VjcUllUI. lllcV wneits
growth has made huge
are fighting against.
to zoning, think it over.
valley to turn into an
this evening.
have no right to com
of any election con
Remember
Mav, and primary elec
the ballot via the initi
which would permit the
education to increase the
authority to build build
dormitories, cafeterias,
others, covered by the
future committees re
Hurry?
Dennis the
'IF YA WANNA GO TO THE STORE Off SOUETHIN'AWS. VViLSOM,
I'LL BE GLAD TO BABY SIT FORXA'
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the
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name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail
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clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for pub
lication 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.
Another Old Editorial
To the Editor, and West
Side Residents: I think this
editorial expresses the
thoughts and opinions of quite
a few Jackson County resi
dents. Please print in in your
communications column and
see if I'm not right.
This came from the Aug.
30, 1957, "Times" and it is
quite a prediction. I quote:
"Last week we pointed out
editorially that if the county
court approved the subdivi
sion ordinance as its first law,
other laws would follow and
freedom little by little would
be taken away as the county
assumed more police power
over our daily lives.
"What we didn't know was
that before we had predicted
more laws would follow an
other was in the hopper of
the county court and the
planning commission.
"You will read on the front
page of the court authorizing
the planning commission to
begin study on a building
code (law).
"We, like about half of the
people of the county, live in
the country. We live in the
country by choice. We like
it. We would not move. And
if we want to build a pig pen,
we're going to do it without
asking the county court or
anyone else if we can. And
we are not going to put up
with a parade of inspectors
coming and going to see if
we are living up to the pre
conceived Idea of some con
sultant living in San Fran
cisco on how we should do it,
"We know personally the
three members of the county
oourt. Individually, they are
nice fellows, but collectively
they seem to go haywire. We
can only believe that they
must be bad company for one
another.
"A county building code is
even more ridiculous than a
county subdivision ordi
nance."
John D. Koelmel,
1858 Ross Lane,
Medford
Progress (?)
io tne tailor: We were
rather amused recently to
read a caption to a silly yet
quite impressive little cartoon
in a mid-western magazine
showing two cowboys in a
hick town of only one build'
Ing. The one line underneath
went like this: "There is not
room in this place for both of
us.
So. likewise the world con
tinues to "shrink", when autos
smash into one another al
most as a daily occurence.
Not so long ago there were
the "four great powers", men
tioned in the press. Now It
seems there arc only two
"great powers" any more.
Around the turn of the cen
tury fire-arms were in the
experiment stage to actually
shoot around trees. Now 80
years later someone is trying
to improve missiles to fly
around the world. One au
thority makes claim that when
man reaches a stage where
humanity will roam the space
age at will, this old earth
will be rather useless, and
will disintegrate and not re
main to clutter up progress
any longer.
Bert Kissinger.
520 Bonrdimm st.,
Medford
Calling Marchers
To the Editor, and the citi
zens of Medford: When your
telephone rings, you lift the
receiver and answer. A pleas
ant voice asks, will you give
Just enough of your' tima to
ring doorbells, collect the of
fering your neighbors wish to
give for the nr.xt drive.
I wonder if you kuw if
some of us who work faith-
lulLy mcurmg (V ul u 0.1 1 c, r,
Menace
marchers for all the drives
can't wear your high heels,
and go tripping along your
street, as you can? We would
be so happy; we feel we would
gladly walk all over Medford
as bell ringers. Not all the
captains who telephone to se
cure marchers are crippled or
handicapped, as some of us
are.
As we can't be marchers,
due to different kinds of
handicaps, we are glad we
can contribute our lime to
help with the drive of secur
ing marchers.
June is City of Hope
month in Oregon. When we
volunteer telephone girls call,
asking you to volunteer to
march as a bell-ringer, Thurs
day, June 16, for the City of
Hope, if you are able to work,
won't you please thank God
in your heart you are not a
cripple; not be so eager to
answer, "No, I am not inter
ested . . . You will have to
call Mrs. Smith across the
street, she is the one who al
ways marches."
Please, when you are call
ed, say, "Yes, I will try."
A volunteer marcher in
heart, who will be calling you
to march for the City of Hope
drive.
(Name on File)
Medford.
Nature of Culture
To the Editor: As Jewels
are usually encased in small
containers, this rule of thumb
was illustrated by Dave Red
mond in a little gem of a
Communication under the
heading "Humor in Commu
nications." It is small but bril
liantly scintillating.
People in their seflish zeal
make any incongruous expo
sitions of prejudice and char
acter. Convictions of some
seem absurd to others. Which
is due, no doubt, to a dispar
ity in material interest and
culture. In our class society,
"What is one man's meat is
another man's poison," spirit
ually as well as materially.
However if we are ignorant
of the discrepancy we swal
low the "line" along with the
bait. The communists are not
alone in swallowing the party
"line." There are many "par
tics" and many "lines." And
directly or indirectly each
line extends to a gravy bowl.
On TV the programs were
rigged. In Korea the elections
were rigged. At the Summit
meeting the "rigging" men
have been busy on both sides.
The least astute has been our
side. We have never learned
to be extremely clever in di
plomacy. The American peo
ple are and always have been
a "pushover" and our riggers
were at a disadvantage being
matched with "riggers" that
are experts. Then we become
a little miffed at being caught
in the pantry with our hands
and face covered with Rus
sian plum jam.
When our riggers found
that prevarication was of no
avail they belligerently said:
"Yes I done it and I'm glad,
I'm glad. I'm glad."
Whether we like it or not
the Russians are masters at
diplomacy. We could learn a
lot from them by asking ques
tions. We should know who
Santa Claus Is and what he is
going to bring us, without
peeking into his pack. They
have pinpointed the moon and
a spot in the South Pacific.
They have told us that they
want pea.ee and are willing to
sacrifice to get it. Thty heve
eaten crow for 40 years. Is it
good diplomacy to press our
luck?
What the Russians have
done .h;y hsvr accomplished
because they fait 'hat it was
urgent. Pulling 8 "cutie" on
the eve of a serious confer-
XHlc is certainly an affront
Both Danger
Fallout From
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington-WPD-There is a
threat of war In the fallout
from the summit explosion in
Paris. There
also is a fac
tor of comfort
fnr thft Amer-
rl lean people
and their al
lies. The factor
of comfort is
this: If the
U. S. airplane
vTiitT Wilson u-z couia ana
frequently did fly far into the
interior of the Soviet Union,
then the B-52 bombers of the
U.S. strategic air command
surely can do so. The United
States has about 500 B-52s.
If that is the fact of the
matter. Premier Nikita S.
to all except the prankster.
But it does reveal our culture.
All of which reflects the
class nature of our society
and our complex standard of
morals. We see it all, day aft
er day in letters to the editor.
Again we chuckle. We
would like to hear more from
Dave Redmond.
Walter Reece
Galice rd.
Merlin, Ore.
Evil and Good
To the Editor: Please put
this into your communications
on Mr. Khrushchev.
I am not one who likes to
say "I told them so." I have
never been in favor of dicta
torship nor can I see why our
greatest men as brains do fall
in their open trap. Mr. K,
with is boasting and his crude
way of expression, we could
only pronounce him as the
butcher who pulled himself
out of the gutter of ignorance
by his boot straps. In order to
become so prodigious in Rus
sia he must earn it by actions.
The human innocents' blood
that is on Mr. K's hands and
boots does not give him the
right to call the President of
our United States a thief. I
feel that Ike should be very
thankful to have found Mr. K
out before he was faced with
real situation. This slimy
figure cannot be trusted even
if you keep your eyes on his
head.
History has proven that the
whole Russian history has
been based on thievery, dis
trust and evil propaganda.
We know what they are,
and what their aim is, and
peace there can never be un
less we all become commu
nists. They want to get us off
balance and then finish us
off. I feel Ike should not lose
any sleep because words from
the evil does no harm to the
good.
Leo A. Rifenbark
1131 Pinecroft ave.
Medford.
You're Welcome
To the Editor: This is to
thank you for the generous
space you have given to the
publicity of the Wednesday
Study Club the past year.
Bess R. Watkins
(Mrs. L. V.)
President
'1024 Queen Anne ave.
Medford.
"Thank You, Mr. Copco"
To the Editor: Having lived
in the Copco area for the past
28 years and being a property
owner the past 4 years in the
Central Point district, I have
experienced a very unpleas
ant situation with our local
monopolized power company,
"Copco."
Having financial problems
with Copco of $7.41, I came
home from the doctor with
my 3-year-old and 2V4-month-old
baby, finding the heating
and cooking facilities discon
tinued. Seems as though the
bookkeeping department is be
hind as the order was given to
discontinue service.
Due to late weather condi
tions my husband was de
layed in employment as a log
ger, therefore our living and
spending was limited to a
minimum.
.Even then Copco was al
ways one of the first to re
ceive payment or part pay
ment when bills could be paid.
Courtesy and friendliness!
Neither were displayed. On
calling the power company I
was informed my husband
was a very poor provider and
not responsible for his family.
Little do they know the hours
he worked (13-20 hours) to
support his family. Have any
doubt? Call me! It would be
nice if everyone (husbands)
were fortunate to work for a
large company such as . . .?
On calling their office after
arriving home (thank heavens
the phone isn't operated by
their electricity) I was able to
reach them before closing
time. I talked to a lady who
was very nice. She checked
into the matter and returning
she stated she had located my
payment which was received
that a.m. and a serviceman
would ba out to reume pow
er. I heated en babv's bottle
in tbe car with bottla
Wtrmrr.
Despite such problems we
have hd v;!! our powitr conv
Pny y. cry-living in Oiup'
and Some 'Comfort' Seen In
Explosion of Summit Hopes
Khrushchev may not act here-
after as tough as he talks. It
will not be news to the SAC
pilots that their airplanes
with nuclear bombs can pene
trate Soviet defenses. Charles
Corddry can tell you about
that. Corddry covers the Pen
tagon for United Press Inter
national. He made another
visit a fortnight ago to SAC
headquarters in Omaha, Neb.
Can Penetrate
"SAC officers did not need
any proof from the U-2,"
Corddry said, "that their air
planes could petetrate the So
viet Union and return. They
had no doubt about that at
any time."
The American people have
had doubts, however. Dispute
about the adequacy of nation
al defense has developed so
many conflicting claims that
the taxpayers who pay the
bill do not know what nor
whom to believe.
The people of the Soviet
Union probably were less con
fused. Their government per
mitted no public arguments
De Gaulle Unavailing in Bid
To Keep Summit Talks Alive
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Eidtor
The min of the week:
President Charles de Gaulle
of France.
The place: Paris, at the
summit.
The quote: "The absence
of Premier Khrushchev was
noted. President de Gaulle
r.cied that in these circum
stances the planned discus
sions could not take place."
Soviet Premier Nikita
Khruschev's vicious attack on
President Eisenhower sig
naled the end
of the long
awaited sum
mit confer
ence at its
very begin.
ning last Mon
day. Of all the
rV 1 ers, de Gaulle
I'UII New&wu iicm umi leu&l
enthusiastic about the summit
meeting and had been the last
to agree to it.
But with the meeting final
ly assembled and with world
hopes focused upon it for at
least a hint of lessening of
world tensions, de Gaulle
Joined whole-heartedly with
Prime Minister Harold Mac
millan in an attempt to save
it.
Salvage Attempts
In a private meeting Sun
day, the day before the meet
ing opened, he had tried ear
nestly to get Khrushchev to
temper the anger of his re
marks over the U2 spy plane
incident.
Khrushchev was saving his
ammunition and was non-committal.
On Tuesday, with the con
ference wreckage scattered
about Jiim, de Gaulle tried
again.
At 11:30 a.m., he invited
Khrushchev, Eisenhower and
Macmillan to meet with him
in a summit conference at
3 p.m.
It was hot and sunny in
Paris and Khrushchev, with
all the appearance of a man
whose conscience is clear,
was out for a drive in the
.country. On receipt of de
Gaulle's message, however,
he sped back to Paris.
Rogue valley and beautiful
surroundings, even though the
kerosene cook stove and wood
fire for heat may have to be
put into service.
In closing I'll say "Thank
you, Mr. Copco" for being so
friendly and courteous to me,
while my husband is away at
work, depriving his family of
wonderful conveniences and
living conditions that he can
not enjoy the year around.
However campfires certainly
do their part.
Mrs. R. S. Simmons
475 Hopkins rd.
Central Point, Ore.
Search Starts for
Old Hearing Aids
A nation-wide search to lo
cate the oldest hearing aids
still in use is underway by
Maico Electronics Inc., Minne
apolis. The hearing research and
manufacturing firm is offer
ing $10,000 in its latest minia
t u r e transistorized hearing
aids to persons now using ob
solete aids, or to persons who
help find such instruments.
Henrv Myhre of Maico of
Medford. 820 East Main St.,
said "we wouldn't call a 10-year-old
tar obsolete, and cer
tainly not in sntlque. but a 1
1950 model hearing aid can be
as out of date as a buggy
whip." -
He said that a surprisingly ;
larg number of hard of hear-l
ing persons ire still using In
struments 10 tft 15 years old.
The old hearing aid "round
will last through June 30.
1M
about national defense. Khru-
shchev and his Kremlin asso
ciates never varied the party,
line. They told their people
that the Soviet had what was
required not only for national
defense but for the destruc
tion of any nation which
might challenge.
The Soviet citizens must
be wondering about that now.
Their own premier has proved
to them and to the world that
a U.S. airplane has overflown
Soviet territory from time to
time and, on the last flight,
was some 1,200 miles inside
the U.S.S.R. before it was
brought down. How it was
brought down is a matter of
dispute. But there is no dis
pute about the fact of deep
and repeated high flying pen
etration of Soviet defenses.
So, this question arises:
Will Khrushchev force the is
sue of peace or war before he
has established satisfactory
Soviet national defense
against an invasion and nu
clear attack by SAC air
planes? At 3 p.m., the Western
leaders assembled at Elysee
Palace for what should have
been the second meeting of
the summit. Khrushchev's
chair was empty.
At 3:20 p.m., the Soviet em
bassy telephoned. Was this to
be considered a preliminary
meeting or a meeting of the
summit?
If it was to be a summit
meeting, Khrushchev would
not attend until the United
States President had met his
demands for an apology for
the U2 incident and a promise
that there would be no repeti
tion and that those involved
would be punished.
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
SHADOW CONTESTS
Washington-The Republican
and Democratic presidential
front-runners are running now
not so much
against other
men as against
the shadows
which the fu
ture may
throw across
the earth.
tvniu k n o w a b 1 e
shape of a world that Nikita
Khrushchev may have made
by November.
It wopld be too much to say
that Khrushchev may elect
the next President of the
United States. It is undoubt
edly possible, however, that
he may help to nominate a
President.
How truly it is "one world,"
all nostalgic denials to the
contrary, has never been more
decisively proved.
Two weeks ago Vice Presi
dent Richard M. Nixon was
as surely the next GOP nom
inee for President as any man
ever could be before the ac
tual event. A week ago Sen.
John F. Kennedy was moving
all but irresistibly upon the
Democratic nomination.
TODAY the partisans of Gov.
Nelson Rockefeller of New
York are again marshaling
They are preparing for anoth
er go at displacing Nixon
wtih the governor. And the
governor himself is cooperat
ing all the way in this new
"stop Nixon" movement. This
is why Nelson Rockefeller has
said he is not planning to at
tend the Republican conven
tion. He is trying to disassoci
ate himself absolutely from
the Eisenhower-Nixon admin
istration and its recent past.
Nixon is totally linked with
that administration's cold war
summit policy. Rockefeller
is not. That is the short, short
story of it.
Today Kennedy, despite his
primary victories, is becoming
slightly vulnerable, too. If the
world crisis should be at hand
or in sight in July, he may yet
be shunted aside by the Dem
ocrats for an older man.
It should be emphasized
that the odds still are very
long against the dumping of
either Nixon or Kennedy. The
point is that even such a pos
sibility exists - because of a
man named Khrushchev. He
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In mid-week it seemed like
ly that Khrushchev would
hurry from Paris to Berlin
and there sign with East Ger
many a peace treaty. Immedi
ate signature thereafter seem
ed less likely by the hour.
East German spokesmen sim
ply denied that a treaty
would be signed this week.
Mr. K. in Paris, simply said
he would sign in his own good
time.
When and if he signs, the
question of peace or war
should not be long unan
swered. The United States
and the West must decide then
and quickly whether to ap
pease Communism or to con
front It. By airlift it might be
possible to keep open supply
lines to isolated Berlin. An
airlift sufficed in 1948.
The other way would be
the hard way, overland with
tanks and trucks. The West
cannot choose that way unless
what the U2 seemed to prove
is a fact: that SAC can pene
trate the Soviet defenses with
a knockout blow.
Not known then was the
fact that as the Western lead
ers assembled and waited,
Khrushchev was luxuriating
in a hot bath at the Russian
embassy.
Until 4 p.m., the exchange
of telephone calls continued,
with the Western leaders by
this time more amused than
orjgryt
At 5 p.m., it was over and
de Gaulle, with the approval
of this allies, issued the state
ment quoted above, sounding
the death knell of the first
summit meeting in five years.
De Gaulle had been even
more right than even he
could have anticipated.
S. WHITE
has moved with brutal skill to
capitalize on undeniable
American errors over the "spy
plane" incident, but far more
upon our own extraordinary
capacity to lament overmuch
and with a puritanical petu
lance about how bad our gov
ernment has been.
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WASHINGTON is a great
town for embracing a win
ner and shunning a loser. So
are the political parties. And
the anti-Nixonites are now at
work to present Nixon as a
loser.
Still, to knock him off
would take very much doing.
He still has the GOP organiza
tion. And nothing in our po
litical history suggests that
any Presidential candidate
whose party still controls the
White House can run inde
pendent of its occupant or of
his record.
Adlai E. Stevenson attempt
ed desperately in 1952 to get
away from the then White
House tenant, Harry S. Tru
man. It did not work then. It
is extremely unlikely that
Rockefeller, even if nominat
ed, could make the technique
really work now. And the
more Khrushchev insults Eis-enhower-and
Nixon-the less
likely it would be.
KENNEDY, for his part, can
not of course be shown as
a loser. He has no responsibil
ity for the Eisenhower-Nixon
policy. He can, however, be
presented as perhaps too
young to take over in a great
crisis. This impression will be
fostered by his rivals If the
world scene should look as
grim-or grimmer-in July as
it does in May.
This, too, will be far from
easy. For Kennedy, like John
son, has avoided the major er
ror Into which Stevenson and
some other Democrats have
fallen. He has rejected the
temptation to pick fretfully at
the Eisenhower administra
tion In its hour of grave dif
ficulty. For if political Washington
has little time for a loser, the
country itself will have even
less time for those who forget
that, approve him or not,
Dwight Eisenhower is still
President of all, repeat all, of
the United States. He is the
only spokesman we have pres
ently got; and it is not he who
is in a jam, it is the United
States of America.
(Copyright, 1960. by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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