MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE.
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Meetere) and Jaekeen County
History from tho filet ef The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
end 90 veari ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 11. 1110 (Friday)
.' All volunteer Army enlist
ed reservists in the Medford
area have been ordered to
take physical examinationi
starting next week.
The federal government is
expected to Issue an order
soon that will make possible
a switch of land between the
city and federal government
so the city will be able to
build a second water pipeline
from Big Butte springs.
JO YEARS AGO ,
Aue. 11, 1140 (Sunday)
The state game commission
In court today contended that
a diversion dam being con.
structed on the Rogue river
near Gold Hill Interferes with
migratory fish.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot column: Na
tional emergencies continue
to spring up like mushrooms
and service stations. This
land, if one possesses a nim
ble imagination, is in constant
danger of a 'blitzkrieg' from
everybody by the Hudson Bay
Eskimos."
0 YEARS AGO
Aug.. 11, 1030 (Mender)
President Herbert Hoover
has cancelled his scheduled,
visit this summer to Crster
Lake.
Extra fancy Bartlett are
bringing $40 a ton in the East,
to the delight of local glow
ers. 40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 11, 1M0 (Wednesday)
The Bank of Jacksonville
has been shut down and Its
president confined to Jail.
Ken Lilly of Ashland has
been signed by the New York
Oiant baseball team.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 11, 1110 (Thursday)
Secretary of the Interior R.
A. Bellinger has decided to
make a two-day inspection
tour of Klamath Falls but
will pass up a visit to this
elty.
A Medford couple was mar
ried here in a Chalmers-Detroit
auto yesterday and are
probably the first ever to do
so..-.
What's Yonr I.Q.?
Nine Of fee somtet Is superior!
era or eight Is enalteati Nre Of
1. Is vanilla bean the fruit
el a species of orchid?
2. The name of the London
residence of the British Royal
family is Buckingham, St.
James, or Hyde ParkT
3. At 12 o'clock noon East
tern Standard Time In the
U.S., what time is it In Mos
cow, Soviet Russia?
4. Who Invented the pendu
lum? 5. Which French ruler had
the same name as a form of
French pastry?
3. Judas committed suicide
by what method?
7. What fur is often called
"royal fur"?
9. Which U.S. President
was called the "Great Emend
pator"? 0. The name for a male
swan is cob, cod, or cog?
10. Was the first public
building erected in Washing
ton, D.C., the Capitol, White
House, or Treaaiirv?
Answersi 1. Yes. 2. Buck
ingham. 3. I p.m. 4. Galilee.
s. napoleon. I. Mj henfinf.
7. Ermine. I. Abraham Lin
coln. I. Cek. 10. "While
House,
"Special
"All U.S. civil slrcrsft, without exception, re to
bo grounded during the night of September 940, 1960.
So will all military aircraft not actually participating
in Air Defense Exercise Sky Shield."
This quotation is from a "Special Warning"
carried in the current issue of the AOPA Pilot,
magazine of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots As
sociation. It goes on to explain that the entire North
American continent north of the Mexican border
will be the target of a simulated enemy attack,
with the North American air defense system op
posing them.
It says "this exercise will make all U.S. and
Canadian airspace unsafe for any other flying."
fXNE can say, "Aha, our defense forces are on
w the alert. Good for them. They need the prac
tice. And grounding all
little enough price to pay."
Then come the second thoughts.
If Russia decides to
out an order grounding
U.S. and Canada. North
will have to coDe with
how they can. So what
1 1 . jta t t. a-
ail civil aircraiw jusi w
for the "defenders"?
THE test is unreal.
1 And for an unreal and thus unproductive ex
ercise, the U.S. and Canada are asked to give up
all civilian flying for a period of six hours.
This will be between 3 and 9 a.m. on the
Eastern seaboard, and between 10 p.m. and 4
a.m. Pacific Standard time.
Schedules of commercial airlines will be foul
ed up beyond all recognition, travelers incon
venienced, and hypothetical millions or dol
lars wasted so the fly-boys can play cops and
robbers.
Emereencv air traffic will be delayed. Forest
Service planes will be grounded and six hours
can be a long time in the life of a forest fire.
Air ambulance planes (including our own Mercy
Flights) will be unable to
. . ' 1
or mercy ana six nours
life, or death, of a sick or
WE'RE all for military
eairl an matw times
But this exercise, of extremely dubious mili
tary value, will not only create havoc with air
schedules (including air mail), but also will very
definitely threaten lives and property.
All in all we'd say it is a pretty stupid project.
And while on the subject, who in heck has
th authority to tell several thousand Americans
to stay out of the sky, anyway borne general who
thinks it's a good idea? And under what statutory
authorization 7
The whole thing smacks of military brag
gadocio, leavened with not a little unconcern for
civilian convenience, and a certain unreality as
to what any future war and Soviet intelligence
may be like. E.A.
Forest Signs, Again
A week or so ago we were taken to task for
a "remarkable" suggestion voiced earlier in this
space that the lumber industry, and the federal
forest management agencies, could do a lot for
their public relations by putting up signs ex
plaining what they are doing.
This suggestion was,
mational signs at logging
were visible to the public.
So it is with1 particular interest that we note
the Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree
Farm Association has plans for this very thing.
o a o o o
THE August 6 issue of "Tree Farm News Notes"
- pumisned by suuir A reports:
"Roadside signs will be used by SOCTFA to explain
to tourists and local residents the logging activity they
see along main traveled highways . . .
"The sign idea has been kicking around for some
time, but this marks the first action on it in this
area ... It will explain the type of logging being done,
the economic story of the wood being harvested, some
comments on the job of reforestation being carried
on, and a big plug for Keep Oregon Green. This in
formation should be of Interest to those who use the
highway and see the logging operation. Too often,
through a lack of understanding of logging practices,
the average person will think an area is being denuded
when actually the timber, like a field of grain, is
being harvested properly and the area is being re
seeded for future crops . . ."
Good for SOCTFA.
to good logging and clean-up practices in public
areas, this should do a great deal to modify the
"woodman spare that tree" type of thinking.
LTE ALSO noticed, on a recent trip through
Darts of the Shasta. Lassen. Tahoe. Tnivahe
and Inyo National Forests, a variation in the ef
fectiveness of National
matters to the public.
In one of them, where the highway went
through a clear-cut patch, was a sign saying
ronderosa rine rlantation, which drew at
tention to small reproduction growth otherwise
not noticeable.
Smaller sicng elsewhere also encouraged cood
forest practices, pointed
road routes, names and
iniormation of use to the
;; ; It all helps. E.A.
Evervhnrl
no one have responsibilities any more? Oregon
Statesman.
Warning"
non - military aircraft is a
attack us, it won't send
all civil aircraft in the
American defense forces
the emergency as and
is the good of grounding
1 - . i J I. 1.
mane n uecepuveiy easy
carry out their errands
1. 1 ' 1L.
can De crucial in uie
injured patient.
preparedness, and have
in particular, for infor
operations where they
Combined with attention
Forest signs explaining
out forest camps, gave
destinations, and other
traveling public.
Dennis the
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"ttW KITH? WflOf OUT
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Matter of Fact - jomPh i.oP
MORTGAGING THE FUTUR
Washington - President Ei
senhower has now passed over
the recommendations of his
I I Secretary o f
State and ig
nored the Re
publican plat
form s prom
ise to "Intens
ify, accelerate,
and increase"
the national
defense ef
forts. Quite natu
saying so in
TSSEfrtCSar
rally without
plain words, the President's
Message to Congress indicates
he has merely decided to un
freeze the last Congressional
sessions' added appropriations
for special defense projects.
These funds were voted
against the President's wish.
They were instantly frozen by
the President s and the Budg
et Bureau's order. And now
the act of taking these funds
out of the refrigerator again
is presented as Important and
significant.
The best way to gauge the
real nature of this decision ot
the President is to take a look
at the problem of the airborne
alert. A maximum airborne
alert was urgently requested
last winter, by the brilliant
man who has personal respon
sibility for the American de
terrent, the Strategic Air
Commander, Gen. Thomas S.
Power.
o o a
IN THE PERIOD of the mis
sile gap, which we have
now entered, the SAC air bas
es in the U. S. and overseas
are nakedly exposed to the
Kremlin's long range and me
dium range rockets. Existing
systems provide viewer warn
ing against a missile strike.
Hence the only way to have a
truly invulnerable deterrent
during the period of the mis
sile gap is to keep the maxi
mum feasible number of
SAC'S B-S2 bombers constant
ly in ethe air, with bombs
aboard and ready to fly to
their targets.
According to General Pow
er, a maximum airborne alert
is needed now. The mood will
be vastly more acute in 1961
and 1962, when the missile
gap will be very much wider.
This need in 1961 and 1962
will not be cancelled out, ei
ther, by a Presidential order
for construction of more Po
laris submarines, which can
not be at sea before 1964 or
1963.
A maximum airborne alert
is now Impossible, however,
for the simple reason that air
craft in flight wear out their
engines and other parts. SAC
does not have a spare parts
backlog big enough to main
tain a serious airborne alert
without continuous attrition of
IU B-52 force. With extreme
caution, the last session of
Congress therefore appropri
ated an additional $85 million
to buy a larger reserve of
B-52 spart parts for SAC. This
is one of the appropriations
that has now been unfrozen.
.
ITNLESS Budget Bureau pet-
u tlfogging negates the un
freezing (which is quite possi
ble) SAC will therefore be
permitted to acquire the capa
bility of mounting a continu
ous airborne alert. BUT THE
JOB WILL ONLY BE COM
PLETED NEXT SPRING,
since nine months have al
ready been lost because of the
President's obstinate resist
ance to Gen. Power's recom
mendation. AND AN ALERT
OF 80 BOMBERS IN THE
AIR WILL Bf THE MOST
THAT SAC CAN HOPE TO
MOUNT, EVEN BY NEXT
SPRING.
There is a simple measure
for the feckless inadequacy of
this belated gesture. The for
mer SAC commander, Gen.
Curtlss LcMay, has never
been one to overestimate the
effecUveness of air defense.
YET GENERAL LeMAY
USED TO MAINTAIN THAT
SAC NEEDED TO BE ABLE
TO SEND Orr A FIRST
2"
Menace
(OR ALLIGATORS'. '
STRIKE OF 1,000 AIR
CRAFT. General LeMay 'did not ar
gue that It was necessary for
SAC to deliver 1,000 cargoes
of nuclear bombs, which
would be ridiculous. He ar
gued that a first strike of 1,
000, bombers was tactically
necesary, to make sure of
overwhelming the defenses
and reaching all assigned tar
gets. Furthermore, General
LeMay set up his requirement
of a 1,000-plane first strike in
the period when the Soviet
air defense was relatively very
weak.
a e a
SINCE then, and particularly
in the last 18 months, the
Soviet air defense system has
been greatly strengthened. But
the American government,
with the missile gap staring
us in the face, has now de
cided that it will be quite
enough to have a sure first
strike capability of only 80
aircraft!
More money - and very lit
tle more money - would buy
more airborne alert. An addi
tional $100 million of appro
priations now would permit
an alert of 160 B-52's by next
spring. An additional $150
million would give the means
to prepare a maximum alert
of over 200 B-52's. With the
hound dog missile added to
the B-52's, this kind of maxi
mum alert would be a reason
ably reliable deterrent, unless
the masters of the Kremlin
go mad. But if the spare parts
are not ordered now, the alert
will not be possible later.
A whole series of other cas
es might be cited, to show how
the future is being mortgaged
to suit the present convenience
of the Budget Bureau and the
wishes of the President. If
this goes on, President Eisen
hower's successor, whether he
be Vice President Nixon or
Senator Kennedy, may well
not Inherit the means to de
fend this nation and the free
world.
(c) 1960 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
23 Injured in
Airliner Downdraft
Rome. (UPD A L o nd o n-
bound airliner from Malta hit
a downdraft over the Italian
coast today and plunged 600
feet, throwing passengers
against the roof. Twenty-three
persons were injured, eight
seriously enough to be hos
pitalized. The accident occurred about
10 minutes before the British
European Airways Viscount
with 49 passengers aboard
landed at Rome's Ciampino
Airport. The pilot radioed for
doctors and ambulances to
meet the plane.
The eight passengers hos
pitalized were Italian and
Maltese. ,
Socio Security for
Doctors Turned Down
Washington - (UPD - The Sen
ate Finance committee has
turned down a proposal to put
doctors under Social Security.
Chairman Harry F. Byrd
(D-Va.) said the committee
voted 11-4 Wednesday to elim
inate Social Security coverage
for doctors from a House
passed bill.
He said the American Med
ical association had asked such
action.
SWISS GUARD INSANE
Rome - (UPD - A former
member of the VaUcan Swiss
Guard Wednesday was ruled
mentally unfit to stand trial
on charges of shooting his
commandant In April, 1959.
Adolf Ruckert, 25, was or
dered committed to an Insane
asylum for five years. He
wounded Col. Robert Nunllst
after being dismissed from the
guards. The Vatican turned
over jurisdiction in the case
to Italian authorities.
Communications
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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 necossarlly represent the views of tho
papert In fact the contrary is often the case.
An Encounter
To the Editor: Some few
years ago we were In Jack
sonville, wearing a scotch
plaid shirt, suspenders and a
knapsack with a gold pan, and
met up with a young ener
getic news reporter who ask
ed us if we were a long time
prospector. We answered in
the affirmative, and he began
to talk by asking ponderous
questions about how many
figures in four ciphers of gold
we could account for finding?
Not wanting to be plagued
with a conscience of being a
cheerful liar, we perhaps ruin
ed an illusive gold story that
could have been a yard wide
and all gold studded right out
of the mother lode district.
Well, as we began to tell
him in a modest way that we
only managed to eke out a
living - and no more - our
candid reporter friend
brought the versatile dialogue
to a rather sudden ending
and a muffled close.
We never did hear or read
of our short interview of ven
ture or adventure, and added
up the facts that it takes to
turn out the elements of a
sensational story plus evi
dence and realism, too.
Truth is stranger than fic
tion. Bert Kissinger
520 Boardman st.
Medford.
Poured Water-and Rain
To the Editor: I would like
to say a few words about Dr.
Durno's letter in the Mail
Tribune Aug. 4.
I am disabled for w o r k.
Have been for over two years.
I get over $100 a month Social
Security, just me and my wife.
But as Mrs. Gillaspie said
in her letter, I know of peo
ple that are not getting but
$40 and $50 a month. Would
Dr. Durno feel financially se
cure if that was all he had
coming in to live on? He says
It Is not political. Why does
he want to wait until January,
1961, after the elections, to
decide on It? We know the
Medical association is not go
ing to do anything unless it
Is for the good of them. That
Is why they fight the Forand
Bill. . i
Even If Dr. Durno says It Is
not political, if we read the
papers and listen to the news,
we know they have made a
political football out of the
Forand Bill.
Dr. Durno says, "I would
further recommend that need
be determining factor and
that this investigation be car
ried out on a local level by
local agencies that presently
exist."
That also looks like politics
to me. I know people that are
on relief, and some are get
ting pensions, that say they
are afraid to vote, that they
might lose what they are get
ting. I feel different about that.
I feel if we don't get out and
vote better and help fight our
own battles, we are going to
lose what we have got. I think
we should speak up and vote
for what we think is right.
Let's stop having water
poured on us, and the candi
dates for public office tell us
we were rained on.
I don't know about Dr. Dur
no's wealth. I have seen his
home. If he paid his debts he
said he owed when he came
here and has what he has now
in 30 years, the people here
have paid him well for his
services.
You can't blame him for
wanting to protect it. If he is
elected to congress, I am sure
he will. Also the Medical as
sociation. J. W. Klmbrell
515 Western ave.
Medford
Housing Mathematics
To the Editor: On Friday.
July 22, your paper carried
a story regarding the visit
here of Robert Campbell,
director of the Lane county
Housing Authority and his
talk to the Rogue Valley
Council on Aging, about pub
lic housing for low income
senior citizens.
According to the account in
the paper, each unit costs
$12,000.
In order to be eligible to
live ir. one of these units, the
individual must have an in
come of $3,200 a year or less,
and his rent will be set at
20 per cent of the income.
Thus, a maximum of $640 per
unit will hf charged as rent,
ranglnr presumably to as low
as $200 ner year. The projetS
is financed by a 40 year mort
gage at 4V4 per cent Interest.
The annual payment re
quired to retire a $12,000
mortgage at 4V4 per cent in
terest tr $624.96. A $12,000
dwelling In Medford, if it
bears its fair share of the tax
load, would be taxed at $243
per year. Thus principal, in
terest and taxes would amount
to $867.96. If the maximum
annual rental is $640, it Is
obvious that the balance of
cost, to which must be added
maintenance and administra
tion costs, would have to come
from general tax revenues.
Now the Rogue Valley
Council on Aging is pressuring
the. county court to install
such a project here. The aver
age citizen in Oregon Is now
paying 35 per cent of his in
come in taxes at all levels.
Perhaps for you and me, this
is not too bad, but let us- con
sider the burden that will be
placed upon our children. If
our children have a normal
work span of 40 years, 35 per
cent of their earnings in. taxes
would mean 14 years devoted
entirely to the payment of
governmental costs and that
without any increase in the
tax load such as would in
evitably result from the wide
spread adoption of projects
such as this housing project.
Our children have no voice
in the governmental affairs of
the nation. They can only
look to their parents for pro
tection against the increasing
burden of taxation. One way
that you can help to protect
them is to phone or write the
county court expressing your
opposition to this extravagant
housing proposal.
Dick House
113 East Eighth st.
Medford.
The Devil Exists
To the Editor: In reply to
John Reando's letter in Fri
day's Communications, I agree
-we don't need an old bogey
man Devil, but like it or not,
we've got one.
If we accept God, we must
accept the Bible and it is full
of Satan's contemptible acts.
People who blame him for
the world's woes are not silly,
they're putting the blame ex
actly where it belongs.
Jesus (John 8:44) says that
Satan was a liar and a mur
derer from the beginning. He
proved himself such when he
caused the first pair, Adam
and Eve, to become disobe
dient, bringing the sentence
of sin and death upon them
and upon all of mankind.
(Gen. 2:17-3:4,5 Rom. 5:12.)
Satan was not created a
devil or Satan, but was origin
ally a righteous, cherub of
God's creation by means of
The Word, the first begotten
Son of God. He made himself
such by rebellion against Al
mighty God.
He is not the ugly monster
that we picture him but an ex.
tremely beautiful creature
and he had a very responsible
position in the garden of Eden
as the Anointed Covering
Cherub. It was because of
this that he became lifted up
in pride, and unrighteousness
was found in him. (Ezekiel
28:12-18.) He became so con
ceited that he decided to ex
alt himself and place his
throne above the stars of God
and make himself like the
Most High God. (Isa 14:11-15.)
Finally (Rev. 12:9) we find
him cast out of heaven, "the
original serpent, the one call
ed Devil and Satan." Rev. 12-
12 says '.'Woe to the inhabiters
of the earth and of the sea.
For the Devil is come down
unto you having great wrath
because he knoweth he hath
but a short time." The whole
world is lying in his power.
(1 John 5:19.)
The greatest deception Sa
tan practices is to blind the
people to his existence, so
don't think that he always
uses evil works. Second Cor,
11:14, 15 says that he also ap
pears as an angel of light.
In knowledge we have hope
First John 3:8 says: "For this
purpose, the Son of God was
made manifest, that he might
break up the works of the
Devil." Rom. 16:20 says that
soon Satan will be crushed
under foot. James 4:7 tells us
to "resist the Devil and he
will flee far from you."
Mrs. B. J. Wyatt
1122 West Eighth st.
Medford.
A Dream Dying
To the Editor: Recently,
Dean Acheson correctly
stated: "The first duty of so
ciety is to survive."
Society is a moral organism,
a juridical institution based
on justice. The first duty is
to protect, and vae "second"
duty is to promote the general
welfare.
In 1776, Jefferson wrote
the Declaration of Indepen
dence, a philosophic document
which acknowledges "a cre
ator," not French in origin,
but English frorr the teach
ings of John Locke, whose
"natural law" theories were
taken from Sidney Hooker,
who took them almost word
for word, from Thomas
Aquinas. Hooker took his
social principles from Robert
Bcllarmine and Suarez. Both
of these men believed, "his
tory" is the parent of political
science.
The "blueprint" to carry
out the philosophy of the
Declaration of Independence,
is the U.S. Constitution, which
was also drafted at Philadel-
Drummond
(Walter LloDtnan It on vacation.
from Waihinjron In nil abienae.)
JOHNSON AND
ROCKEFELLER
Washington - Sen. Lyndon
Johnson and Gov. Nelson
Rockefeller are the- "secret
weapons" of the Kennedy and
Nixon Presidential campaigns.
There are remarkable paral
lels In the roles they will be
playing - and in the stake they
have in the result.
Each will be campaigning to
elect the man he tried to de
feat for the nomination.
Each is eoina to elve every-
(hint, hp's cot to helD his
party's ticket win. Neither
.Inhnson nor Rockefeller is a
half-way, half-hearted politi
cal ally.
One, or the other may well
exert a decisive influence on
the outcome, so close is the
election expected to be.
Finally, neither can lose!
Tf he is able to heln elect
Mr. Kennedv. Lvndon John
son, as his Vice President, will
strategically nower-
ful position in the Administra
tion, influential with the rres
Ident, Influential with Con
nross. influential in the na
tion. If Mr. Kennedy is de
feated, Senator Johnson will
emerge as a formidable and
nationally established claim-
ant for the Democratic Presi
dential nomination in 1964.
Tf he is able to helD elect
Mr Nixon. Governor Rocke
feller will emerge from the
campaign with enhanced pres
tige. He can either accept a
hicrh nost in the Administra
tion or run for re-election in
New York in 1962. If Mr. Nix
on is defeated, Mr. Rockefel
ler will become the outstand-
phia eleven years later - In
1787.
Jefferson's much quoted
figure of speech, "the wall of
separation of church and
state," is taken from a letter
Jefferson wrote to a Baptist
minister, in Danbury, Con
necticut, 30 years after he
wrote the Declaration of In
dependence. In 1776, Harvard college
was 140 years old. Establish
ed in 1636, with a $500 grant
from the "public funds' of
the Massachusetts Bay Col
ony, it adopted as the college
motto "Christi Gloriam" (For
the Glory of Christ). Today,
many of Harvard's professors
and students have adopted
their own motto of, "Nullius
in Verba" (not bound to re
vere 'he word of any particu
lar master).
Is it any wonder that pri
vate religious schools' enroll
ment since 1950 have increas
ed 14'i per cent, while public
school enrollment has increas
ed only 42 per cent. Why lo
400,000 attend Jewish paro
chial schools in New York
City?
Few liberals will ever
quote Jefferson's use of the
expression, "Swinish Multi
tudes," which he wrote in a
letter U Mann Page, August
30, 1795.
Today, both political parties
claim Jefferson. He would not
feel at home in either. Jeffer
son was an aristocrat, who
desired an agrarian republic,
governed by an "educated
elite." He feared "the mobs
of great cities," that "our
governments will remain vir
tuous for many centuries; as
long as they are chiefly agri
cultural." O'Shaughnessy, the Irish
poet, once sang: "For each
age is a dream that is dying,
or one that is coming to
birth."
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Romoo Drwnmone1 reports
ing claimant for the Republi
can nomination In 1964.
SENATOR Johnson was re
luctant to accept the Vice
Presidential nomination. Ho
preferred to remain as Ma
jority Leader of the Senate.
He accepted necause senator
Kennedy made it an Issue ot
party loyalty under clrcum- -
stances In which Mr. Johnson
could hardly refuse.
It may turn out well for
both. Johnson may be able to
hold most of the South for
Kennedy and, if so, this would
be the first time that a Vice-
Presidential nominee has
helped carry a single state for
the national ticket. This would
make Lyndon's influence in
the campaign politically
unique.
But there is a large political
dividend which Senator John
son' is already beginning to
earn for himself in this cam
paign. He is having a superb op
portunity to free himself to
tally from the false image,
which many Northern voters
still hold, of his being a South
ern anti-liberal, reluctant on
civil rights.
Mr. Johnson is none of theso
things and he is rightly tak
ing full advantage of his rola
in this election to disprove tho
myth. He started right out in
his campaign-opening speech
in Nashville, Tenn., where he
could have understandably
been tempted to compromise
on the liberal promises of the
Democratic platform.
"Wherever I may go," he
said boldly, "I will never
speak as a Southerner to
Southerners, nor as a Protes
tant to Protestants, nor as a
white to whites.
"I will speak only as an
American to Americans -whatever
their region or their
religion or their race."
In Los Angeles Senator
Johnson simply could not hur
dle the opposition of the le
bor leaders to his nomina
tion and the feeling of the
Northern Democratic politi
cians that he could not win
the rank-and-file labor vote.
Now, Walter Reuther pro
claims his "enthusiastic sup
port" for the two "excellent"
Democratic nominees and
warmly praises Johnson's
Senatorial record.
It is clear that Lyndon
Johnson will be either a pow
erful force within a Kennedy
administration or a powerful
contender for the Presidential
nomination four years hence.
GOVERNOR Rockefeller has
a comparable relationship .
to the Nixon campaign. The
Vice-President thinks the elec
tion so close that the electoral
votes of one sizable state will
decide it.
Rockefeller annoyed h i s
party and helped Nixon by in
sisting upon a more progres-:
sive, outspoken platform. If "
he can help Nixon carry New
York's 45 electoral votes, he
will have demonstrated his
good faith and party loyalty.
Whatever the national result,
Rockefeller will have a valu
able future.
(c) 1960 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
MOVIE DIRECTOR DIES -.:
Santa Monica, Calif. (UPO -Academy
Award winning
movie director Frank Lloyd,
73, died Wednesday in St.
John's hospital. Lloyd's "Mu
tiny on the Bounty" won the .
best picture of the year award .
in 1936. He also won Oscars
for direction of "The Divino
Lady" in 1929 and "Caval
cade" in 1933.
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