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MONDAY, JULY IB. 1080 MEDFORD MAI", THIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. "NEVER ABK THE END" Los Annoli'S - A friiKimml of (IIiiIiikiiii tiolwvrn John Fltr.Kt'nild Kennedy mid III I) o null nil, Matter of Fact By Jottph Aliop liiK IiIh own most vital affairs with tlio dry humor nnd cool, iimilytlnil romotenms that most pimple reserve, for llio iifrnlm of others. In mini, tlio Democrats huvo not nu-roly chiwon a furmld nlilu conUmtiint; thoy have chosen a truly rrmurkiiblo mini, full of promiso, with u nlrciiKtli ii lid atnturo no one enn doubt who nlucllfs hi punt performance, It oiixht to ru new our fulth In our national vitality, to mo tho now Kn erntlon In American pollllci led Into tills yenr'i Prenldcnt la) ciiilipiilun by two such champions nn John F, Ken nedy nnd niclinrd M, Nixon, (o) I960 N.w York Herald Tribune Inc. LSXJ I youiiK wife I afford n ma Jor clew to tho cliiiriicler of tho now D a in o mi lie nominee. 1 n tho midst of tho toilsome, risky W o t jOBi.i'ii iMv Vlwinlii pri mary, Mm. Konnody once romiirketl Ihul who wished alio could know how tho Unlit would end, "Never ask the end," mild Konnedy Willi midden stern ness. "You mliihl learn tho end would bo failure." Thla la a man, then, with an appetllo for content for Ha own sake, and with u passion to drive to win which for bids hla even l think about tho chance of failure. Another atory of tho Kennedy trlbo (appropriate, iiliiee lliey aro 11 10 stronifly tribal) xlvei atlll another useful Insight. Mrs. ltoberl Kennedy wus asked whether she minded a llrltlsh description of her hus band us "looking like u Sioux brave about to take a scnlp." "Why should 1, since ha generally Is about to?" she replied with emtio relish. aMIE Kennedys, in other words, not only enjoy alruKiiUnK nnd prefer win nlnif; they are also proud to bo hard-hlUhiK fluhtcrs. Thoy flKht wllliln tho rules. Olher wlsc proof to llio contrary would have beon produced by now by their many adver saries, who huvo been eniierly aeekliiu audi proof. Yet they aro formidable within the rules, for the Kennedys com bine with their grim combat iveness an astonishing talent for organization. No political army In Ameri can history has hud so many right men in the right Jobs as tlio army John F. Kennedy formed nnd led to Los An geles. From this, one must deduce that Kennedy Is an exceptionally good Judge of nion. Mo also knows how to command the dedicated loyal ty of Uie nustandingly able mon ho recruits to serve under him. They regard him. In truth, not Just as their leader, but as the symbol of a stir ring cause. Much bus been written about the role of money In the Kennedy pro convention campaign. Money has not been lacking, but It has played minor rolo compared to the fnctors above described. No amount of money will help a horscpliiyer. either, to muko a good parlny. Yet Kennedy won the means of victory, here In Los Angeles, by what amounted to a slx-horso par lay in tile primaries - a feat which took both guts and good Judgment of the odds. SUCH, In Ii let, arc the quali ties of John F. Kennedy the politician. To these, Ken nedy the candidate adds other qualities of high imparlance. For Instance, although he is often as elevated nnd literary ns Adlai Stevenson, he has the knack of nlwnys speaking to tho voters mnn-to-mun. And ho also had the clear, Invalu able, chemical power of mak ing vnst numbers of people like him - of making them foci pcrsnnnlly warm towards him - when they huvo only accn him dimly and at a dis tance, on a television screen or on the platform nt n meet ing. This Inst power which Ken nedy so clearly possesses Is the chief reason for thinking that Vice President Richard M. Nixon now has a mighty dangerous opponent. Ken nedy Is not liked, cither, be cause he appeals lo his audi ences' prejudices or emotions, or becnuse he blandly prom ises thnt nil is for tho best In this best of possible worlds. Instead of offering bland promises, ho hns been snylng, again and ngnln, thnt ours Is world full of danger ns well as hope; thnt no nation can remnln grenl In tills danger ous world without uncenslng effort; nnd that llio United States must gnthcr llsolf ngnln for efforts worlliy of our greatness, Tho npponl for ef fort Is no normally popular, but It seems lo work for Ken nedy. HE HAS chosen to risk Ibis novel political nolo, be yond doubt, becnuse he Is very much more Ihnn n hnrd-drlv-lng, ambitious, combative young pollllclnn. Ho is, In reality, a deeply serious mnn, reflective In his monlnl hablls, historically minded, and giv en to seeing men and nations nnd events In the sobering contest thnl history provides. . AsnhumnnbelnK.be is also humorous, easily bored by dull roiillno but open lo nil fresh experience, careless of of tho superficies of life, warmly loyal to his friends, nnd oddly detached about him self. Ills most curious trnlt, In fuel, Is his way of discuss- Foreign Notebook: Kishi Still Has Influence; Visit Foreseen By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From tho foreign editor's notebook: Old and New Wounds Out going J a panose Prlmo Minis ter Nobusko Klshl would llko to muko a personal "h o 1 1 d a y" visit lo the United States this ycur af lor he resigns after he re- V) mil. Nt.wsoM Ills office and Washington Report By WIUIAM S. WHITE Ilium a. Whit presidential HARD. TIGHT RACE Los Angeles The Demo cratic purty now offers a tick et for nullonul unity that would have been utterly I m p o s slblo without the man who lias agreed to be come tho jun ior purtner. Sen. Lyndon B, Johnson's decision to ac cept tho vice nomlnntlon on a ticket bended by Sen. John F, Kennedy hnd turned this convention right nbout. Only hours beforehand the purty hnd stood In tho position of saying goodbye to most of the south nnd to most of the con servative opinion all ovor this country. Tho platform which had been adopted here would, without Johnson's participa tion on the ticket, have amounted lo an appeal direct ed wholly lo the big indus trial states and urban areas. Morcver, the nomination of Kennedy himself for the top pi nee had been accomplished largely by Catholic Democra tic big city lenders. This was going to raise, In an embittered way, the re ligious issue which Kennedy, himself a Catholic, had long sought to avoid. IN A WOHD, Kennedy had won a nomination In a way which, on objective analysis, was very likely to lose him tho election In November. Kennedy, himself, who Is a coolly objective politician, sensed this situation even as some correspondents Includ ing this one were wrltting about It. Having analyzed the prob lem, ho simply approached Johnson and asked him to provide the cement so sorely necded-the Image of a pro testant southwestcrner so that the total Image would not be solely that of a Cath olic easterner. What it means, among other things, is that Johnson In all probnbility will permit the ticket to hold most of the south nnd to do far better In every farm belt area than It could possibly have done oth erwise. - lyilAT hns been done here " also underlines a curious fact of polltlcnl life. It shows thnt of nil polltlcnl forums nnd offices, the United States Senate mnkes tho biggest pol- iticinns. it was n big thing for Johnson, who is SI to Kennedy's 43 nnd hns been the Senate majority lender while Kennedy was a com parative recruit, to agree to become No. 2 to Kennedy's No. 1. By nil ordlnnry polltlcnl slantlnrds, the post of Senate mnjorlty lender is Incompnra- uvciy more powerful than thnl of vice-president. John son himsolf never wanted lo take the vice-presidency and In fnct hnd left Wnshinaton privntely determined not to do so, He consented to go along becnuse he Is, In the last analysis, a faithful Democratic pnrlisnn. There is also the un- WE FILL ALL PRESCRIPTIONS with ifalling accuracy from frosh stocks of pure, potent drugs. 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The outlook now Is for a hard, tight race and prudent men will not at this stage risk a bet of more than a dime on it. (Copyright, I960, United Ftalur Syndicate, Inc.) cuporutcs from an assassin's attempt on his llfo. How ever, Klshl's aides say he Is "very anxious" about the re ception ho would receive In the United Slutes us result of llio forced cancellation of President Elsenhower's visit to Japan. Inside Politics Although Kishi stepped out, ho still will wield considerable Influence Inside the ruling Liberal Democrat party and the government, Insiders say there Is no chance for Kishi himself lo make a comeback as premier, but he will be able to help Finance Minister El snku Sato make a bid for It when the time Is ripe. Mean while, no real change In Jap anese foreign policy is expect ed when Internationa) Trade and Industry Minister Hayato ikeda takes over the reins of government from KLshl. Ikeda is expected to dissolve Parlia ment in October or November and cull for new elections. This Is believed the only way to refute Socialist claims that the Klshl government rammed the controversial Jnpan-U.S. Security Treaty down the throats of the Jupanese people against their wishes. Behind Diplomatic Scenes The French are reported acting through diplomatic channels and behind the scones at the United Nations to oppose the sending of Egyptiun Iroops lo the Belgian Congo. They fear Egyptian antl French propaganda In Equatoriul Afrlcn. No Chang The new Anglo-American accord on U.S. use of air bases in Britain Is expected to be little different than the one already In effect. Prime Min ister Harold Macmlllan has no desire to reduce the value of the U.S. bases since he be lieves they are a vital neces sity for mutual and western defense. The new arrange ments simply will add some of the bases for delicate mis sions. Britain will be inform ed in advance of any mission such as that which led Russia to shoot down a U.S. RB-47 on July 1. Details of the new agreement will be kept secret for security reasons. Asia Rift The open exchange of ac cusations between Communist China and the Indonesian Army probably has killed what little remaining chance there was for an amicable set tlement of the Slno-Indonesian dispute over the treatment of overseas Chinese in Indonesia. The Army says President Su karno and the entire govern ment is 100 per cent behind the crackdown on the over seas Chinese. 'Beatnik' Party Sponsors Gorilla New York HPli - Tha week-long convention of tha Beat Party opens here today to approve a plat form calling for the aboli tion of lb working class and a H0 billion subsidy for artists. Dark hone candidal for president, who will be beat before he even gets started, is Mr. G. A. Gorilla who es caped from In Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, according to Slim Brundag, operator of the Collig of Complex es her and in Chicago. The platform approved In plenary session Sunday also advocatos "making peace with everyone, sine all bealnlks ar cowards." MRS. D MILLS DIES Hollywood IUPD - Constance De Mille, 86, widow of famed producer Cecil B. DoMille, died Sunday night. Mrs. Dc Mille had been under a doc tor's care and was confined to her bed at her Hollywood home when her husband died Jan. 21. 1959. They had been explicit safeguards for the use I married 56 years. ; Mr. Today and Tomorrow By Waller llppmanr, KENNEDY AND JOHNSON Boring though so much of a convention is to the spec tators, no one is likely soon lo Invent a substitute for It. Behind all the hoopla a con vention Is the way by which the men who have political power In their locality meet and con fer face to fane T h e V Utpmiiui more than choose a candidate for Presi dent. They have also to ap prove a platform and to agree to a vice president. They have to coordinate these three elements - the two can didates and the platform. The Democrats did this by nomi nating Johnson after they had taken Kennedy and a plat form, which in its controver sial plank is addressed to the Northern states. A combination of this kind, which each party seeks in each convention, could not be worked out if the men who have the political power did not all come together in one city. JOHNSON was nominated " by acclamation because the political bosses of the big Northern states agreed with Kennedy that he added the most strength to the ticket. The civil rights plank in the platform is a formidable set of declarations and pledges, calling for much more moral and even legal Intervention by the president of the fed eral government than the South has known since the end of Reconstruction. Kennedy's choice of John son cannot fairly, I think, be interpreted as meaning that he is nullifying the Dlatform. that ha mn,ni in run nn nnp ' kind of civil rights plank in the North and another in the South. For Johnson is a Southern er but not a sectionalism More than any other man In pub lic life, more than any poli tician since the Civil War, he has on the race problem been the most effective mediator between the North and the South. He Is the man who In duced the Senate to accept the Civil Rights legislation which strikes at the dis franchisement of Southern Negroes. Johnson is, in fact, aware of and ready for the advances toward equality which the platform describes. But no one knows better than he how much of and how fast an advance the changing sen timents of the South Is ready to accept. "PHE PROBLEM of accom- modatlng the North and the South on the race ques tion is a problem in both par ties. Nixon, naturally enough, has hopes In the South. Kennedy is a Catho lic, he is Eastern and urban, the platform goes far on civ il rights and it goes further on the welfare measures than conservative South erners like. But Nixon cannot run in the South as being softer than Kennedy on the issue of civil rights. For if he does, Nixon will be in trouble In the Northern states. It is probably true, as many good observers have been sny lng, that events abroad, which cannot now be foreseen, may decide the contest between Kennedy and Nixon. As of now Nixon's main talking point is that for near ly eight years he has been in the know, has had access to all information and has been in a position to hear the arguments which have led up to the decisions of the Eisen hower administration. Kennedy's main talking point is that in these eight years the American position, relative to the Soviet Union, has declined - and that it must be due to a failure to develop American power and to a lack of wisdom and skill in conducting our affairs. TN MY view, Kennedy has the better of Nixon on these points. As for their com parative experience, while Kennedy has not been on the inside of the Elsenhower ad ministration, he has been a member of the Senate com mittee on Foreign Relations. He Is, therefore, far from b-., lng' an ignornnt outsider,; Whnt Is more, he Is far less committod than la Nixon by the mistakes and omissions of the past, and he It much' freer to set in motion that re-' appraisal and revision ot the Acheson-Dulles system of al; llarices, which Is now Inevtl-' ble and Imperative, . ' To be four yean older means nothing when both" men are in the prime of their lives. As for political experi ence and maturity the Ken-. nedy-Johnson combination is; a highly professional one. In -domestic affairs, their com- blned experience would be I hard to match. In foreign af-; fairs, Kennedy, who knows" the score himself, has within' reach a great many men, be- ginning with Stevenson and -Fulbright and Bowles and In cluding many of the ablest members of the foreign serv-. Ice. These men know very', well Indeed what the world ' is like today. , There is then no danger that our a:f-ir will fall into. the hands of inexperienced amateurs. (c( 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. We're in Business Again! BBlm WIBi-B-B-B-tMBBsssaissftiiiiMaHaHaa-i-Ba We Have Leased 3 Plants To Continue Serving Your Laundry Needs! Our Dry Cleaning Department It Now Operating as Usual at 32 N. Riverside DIAL SP 2-6165 FOR PICKUP AND DELIVERY SERVICE The Dumas family, and their employees, thank you for your cooperation since the fire and hope they may continue serving you with fine, dependable laundry and dry cleaning service. Dumas Domestic Laundry and Dry Cleaners It's Leon's Tots-to-Teens BIG HALF YEARLY Tremendous Savings On All Children's Clothing! 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