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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MED FORD, ORE. SUNDAY AUGUST 14, I960 4 A "Everyone In Southern Oregon ftearii Tha Mall Trihunn" Published Dally except Saturday by 33 North Fir St, Ph SP 3-4141 ROBERT W- RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM Bui Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR., Mng Editor EARL H AiyAMS. citf Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSON, CircuUtion Mgr An Indeoendent NewsDaoer Entered as second elasi matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai) In Advance, Copy 10c uaiiy ana ounaay j year aio.uo Dally and Sunday 6 mos. 8,00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.35 Sunday Only One year 94.30 Bv Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland, Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor mutes. - Dally and Sunday 1 year 818 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.60 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Ofrtclal Paper of City of MedforH Official Paper of Jackson Count? United Press International Full Leased Wire UP.1. Telephoto Newsplctures " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU" OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: j WEST HOLIDAY CO., INC Of. fices In New York, Chicago. De trnit. San Francisco. Los Aneeles. Seattle, Portland. St. Louis. At- lanta, Vancouver, B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITOR jAS(p)C0iTlo)l Flight o' Time Medford ind Jickson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 vtari ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 14, 1950 (Monday) The Missouri Flats fire in the Applegate valley is under control today after having burned an estimated 150 acres of brush and timber. City Superintendent Vern Thorpe said today that South Ivy st. will be closed for a short time due to construction work at the public library. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 14, 1940 (Wednesday) Maynard Wilson, Phoenix, was among 74 law students who passed the bar examina tion In Salem recently. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "An up state paper advocating more preparedness declares 'the time to fix a leaky roof iB before it rains.' This is sound logic, unless one holds to the belief it is not going to rain any more. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 14, 1930 (Thuraday) Local fruit experts are planning to travel east on a pear train to study retrigera tion methods. Fifteen fires were started in the Sisklyous last night by one of the worst lightning storms of the season. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 14, 1920 (Saturday) Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Palo Alto, Calif., vis ited Crater lake yesterday and spent a few hours in Medford The city and valley are in the grin of the worst heat wave of the summer with the mercury reaching 101 degrees yesterday. 50 YEARS AGO Aug. 14, 1910 (Sunday) John W. Dennis, an apple king in England, said here to day that Rogue River fruit is superior to any other that reaches Engand from any part of the globe. Plans for a modern busi ness block at the corner of Fir and Sixth sts., were an nounced by Porter J. Neff of this city yesterday. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or tan correct la auperieri Sevan er eight la eicallent; five er ill Is good. 1. Did President Coolidgc serve one or two full terms? 2. Male whales are called what? 3. The Audubon society is primarily interested in birds, books, or art?. 4. By what is the height of horses generally measured? 5. What Is the Gaelic name of Ireland? 6. Would it require four, eight, or sixteen, one-inch pipes to discharge the same volume as a single four-inch pipe? 7. Were Noah and Daniel Webster brothers or cousins? 8. Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution repealed Prohibition? 9. Is the science which treats of Insects known as ety mology or entomology? 10."Hazard," "tee," and "divot" are all terms used in what outdoor game? Answers: I. One. 2. Bulls. 3. Birds. 4. Hands. 5. Eire. 6. Sixteen. 7. Unrelated. 8. 21st. 9. Entomology. 10. Golf. Great America's rocketiy went great guns last week. There was a successful ICBM flight down the Atlantic range ; an instrument package was eject ed from a successful satellite and was recovered f or the first time ; a huge, balloon-like reflector satellite was put into orbit, and the X15, the manned rocket plane, broke two records, one for speed (2,150 miles per hour) and one for altitude (131,000 feet). . These, coming just after the first successful firings of the Navy's underwater Polaris missile, (which itself underwent another successful test) are happy news for American scientists, tech nicians, and military men. ti.A. Loss of Local Autonomy Many people (and we are amonc? them) de plore what appears to be of state and federal governments to take over tne responsibility for ana logically, nave been county government. There are a number ency. Among them is the fact that state and federal governments have sources of tax power which are (a) less susceptible to veto by the voters, and (b) are vastly mon productive in the aggre gate than local taxes, which historically nave Deen on property. THERE is another, and somewhat related, rea 1 son. This is the fact that in many instances, local governments have refused or neglected to take action on problems needing solution. A classic example is at hand the control of pollution. In Portland, voters have refused to vote the bonds needed to pay for sewage facilities to help clean up the Willamette and Columbia rivers. As a result, the state has stepped in, through the state sanitary authority, and ordered the cleanup. In May, the voters again rejected sewage bonds. So the state went to court to force the cit.v to do the job, and the matter is now in the process of litigation. THAT is an example of .Lucie 10 aiiuuici auu snuuai one at tne ieci eral level. The city of St. Joseph, Mo., has been pollut ing the Missouri river, and the U. S. secretary of health, education and tne autnority ot the lederal pollution control act, ordered the city to construct an effepr.ivp wnstA disposal system to protect the health and welfare of the citizens of Kansas downstream. St. Joseph voters, like thnsp jected the necessary bonds. So the HEW depart- nicuu isneu wie justice department to bring suit to force the issue. The federal action is almost to the Oregon action. If both cities will be forced regarding sewage disposal, willy-nilly. And this is why, in just one instance, local autonomy is being lost to the state and fedpral governments when they AllMm 11 iti1... . H i. T uvciau weuare ui ineir A Variety of Cowardice There are various types of cowardice. There is the cowardice in the face of physical danger. This is the sort which is readily under. standable, for no one of eact in a dangerous situation until it happens. There is moral cowardice, where an individ ual fails to stand up and believes in hppniiao if standing, or his business, i i. ' , . , . ""6" : . " ouv.iai tage. And there is also the it is nie must reurenensime and past, nnr prstanri, able of all) of the person ymous, abusive, and sometimes threatening, tele- (juuim can. EACH political year this sort of cowardice is People who have the 1 11.." ., . .. aim tne integrity and the wnat mey Deneve are subjected to the harrass ment of the anonymous telephone call. It happened, several times in fact lnet wool Those who made the ... v. vjkj wicjr onuuiu ue aavisea tnat, not only are they cowards for refusing to give their names; they are also criminals, for threatening the com mission of a felony is, itself, a felony. ANONYMOUS telephone calls don't bother editorial writers too much. We're rather used to it, ana utKe it in stride as an occupational hazard, feeling only contempt for the individual at the other end of the line. But when a sincere, well-meaning citizen, who has had the temerity to express a political opinion in public, is subjected to this sort of in fantile and cowardly retaliation, the time has come to say something about it. And, if necessary, to take ani)ronriatp action thi-nnn-h th io,.r forcement airencies. It is our hope that the political figures indi rectly (and, without a doubt, unknowingly) in volved, will, if called upon, completely disasso ciate themselves from this sort of cowardly and criminal behavior. E.A. Guns an increasing tendency action which, historical v the province of city and of reasons for this tend action at the state level. welfare, acting under the suits are successful, to be "good neighbors" step in to protect the i ? n citizens. Hi.A. us knows how we would be counted for what he! irrM - ,.nflf V,; l or his political advan cowardice (and to us who will make an annn- strpno-fh nf v.m.uv.vi will to speak out on calls know who they Dennis the . ftr woRRy.AtoM. j won't break Wthing wmiL. iwuisb rn-yvie lusitn u uri Drummond (Walter Llppman la en vacation. from Washington in his absence.) KENNEDY'S GREATEST HURDLES Washington - Democratic Presidential nominee John Kennedy sees two major hur dles getting higher as the campaign gets hotter. Between his duties in the hectic recess session of Congress and com nipKnc he details of his cam paign itinerary, he is devoting juq ueai of thought as to how he can best surmount them. The hurdles which the Sen- ator himself believes may prove most troublesome are these: 1. The danger that the heavy support coming from Catholic voters will backfire and will provoke non-Catholics who might otherwise vote Democratic, to support Vice President Nixon. 2. The difficulty of combat ing the Nixon argument that as Vice President hp h--' more useful and intimate ex perience in the conduct of critical foreign affairs. AfR. Kennedy does not at all believe that these dif ficulties cannot be overcome. But he is facing them frankly and realistically. This' is the way he himself looks at them from the standpoint of both problem and answer: KENNEDY PROBLEM-The Senator Is aware that the out look now Is that the "religious issue" will be an asset, not a liability. The latest Gallup poll, for example, finds that "the nation's Catholic voters -with a substantial majority supporting Senator Kennedy are showing more interest in the election than Protestants are." Mr. Kennedy's private surveys indicate that as a Catholic he is likely to run 7 to 10 per cent ahead of the normal Democratic vote in states with large Catholic populations such as New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin. But Kennery's concern does not stem from the present state of the Catholic vote. His anxiety is what the conse quence may be when it be crimes generally evident that there will be a preponderant Catholic vote for him because he is a Catholic. Will the pros- IPect of such bloc-voting by jmany Catholics evoke a coun ter-movement among many non-Catholics to match it - or even to- out-match it? This certainly could happen. Sena tor Kennedy sees it as a ser ious danger. KENNEDY ANSWER - The Senator does not intend to press the arguments he has al ready made on the religious question. He dealt with it di rectly in the primaries and in his acceptance speech. He plans to leave it there unless it is brought up by others, But .he will emphasize again and again that he "hopes no one will vote for him or against him because he is a Catholic." But he knows quite well that there will be some who will not believe him and will vote for him Just to break the religious barrier. His answer to Protestants and other non Catholics Is that the only way to end bloc-voting by Catho lics for a Catholic is to elect a President who is a Catholic. He holds that as long as Cath olics feel that there is a bar rier against a Catholic be coming President, the impulse of many Catholics to vote for Presidential nominee be cause he Is a Catholic is un derstandable and inescapable. Mr. Kennedy is also convinced that the American instinct for fair play" will keep many non-Catholics from voting against him for religious rea sons. KENNEDY PROBLEM-Kcn-nedy recognizes that Nix on has an argumentative ad vantage resulting from , the. Menace Reports Roscoe Drummond reports fact that the Vice President has gained experience in his world travels and in being at the center of foreign policy formulation in the Eisenhower administration.- He believes that this matter could become the controlling issue with enough voters to tilt the out come. KENNEDY ANSWER - The Senator will not be hesitant to pit his grasp of world affairs with that of his opponent. He wiU also argue that if Mr. Nixon is going to claim that his association with the Ei senhower administration has given him useful experience, he will have to accept respon sibility for what Kennedy will portray as the Adminis tration's failures. Kennedy will argue that Nixon can't have it both ways. (Copyright 1960 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK Well It's our turn to brag. We're two up on the Russ- kies. TIHURSDAY we shot a mis- - llo inln nitlpr enaca Tt or bited 16 times around the earth. On the 17th trip, it cut loose a capsule. Our job was to recover the capsule. In or der to recover it, we had to calculate just about where it would drop IF IT DROP PED and got down through the air without burning up as a result of friction. We did It. It dropped rough ly 100 miles from where we had calculated it would drop, and one of our circling planes saw it as it came down. The planes weren't able to catch it in a butterfly net, but it landed In the water, floated and was quickly recovered. QUPPOSE you needed to know what would happen to a high-powered rifle bullet fired up into the air and re covered when it came down, Suppose you had to fire the bullet from a speeding car and then calculate where it would drop so you would be there ready to catch It as it fell. It would take some close calculating, wouldn't it? Everything considered, that is about what our space peo ple did in the case of Explor er XIII and the capsule in its nose. It was quite a feat. THAT was Thursday. Wa vnncf tha Knll attain Friday. "JlHE PROBLEM was differ- We wanted to put into or bit around the earth an enor mous balloon from which ra dio and TV signals could be bounced back to earth - thus improving our communica tions. The balloon we design ed was 100 feet in diameter. It was made of material no thicker than the cellophane covering around a package of cigarettes. Obviously it would be im possible to build a cannon that would fire such a con trivance out into orbital dis tance. So we tackled the job from another angle. We fold ed the balloon into a small package. We equipped it with capsule filled with com pressed gas and then provid ed a valve that would open the gas capsule at exactly the Matter of Fact By PTAH-HOTEP Washington - "If thou be a guest at the table of one great er than thyself, take what he gives thee Cast thy gaze down till he addresses thee, and speak only when speech is called for, Laugh when he laughs, and it will be JOSEPH ALSOP his hpart " Such is the wisdom of Ptah hotep, who lived in the dawn time of civilization, in the hopeful era of the Egyptian Old Kingdom. What with Cu ba, the Congo, and Congress, a holiday from the present seems to be in order; and on such a holiday, Ptah-hotep is an instructive companion. He is, at least, wonderfully, un ashamedly himself, with no boring false pretenses. "Bow to thy superior," he admonishes; "(then) thy house and thy property will endure, thy reward will be what it should be. ... If thou art a man of standing, found a fam ily, and love thy wife at home as is fitting. Give her plenty to eat, clothe her back; oint ment is the prescription for her body ... N TRUTH, this man who lived before they built the great pyramid, is halfway be tween Uriah Heep and Samu el Smiles, with an added touch of the modern marriage coun cillor. He is " 'umble" like Uriah: he is a go-getter like Samuel; and he is also quite remarkably shrewd. In a sacred bureaucracy that serv es a deified tyrant, such as exists in China today, the wise go-getter must learn how to deal with inferiors as well as superiors. Of this problem, Ptah-hotep says: If anyone makes petition to thee ... do not put him off before he has said what he has come to say. A petitioner wants attention to be paid to what he says, even more than to be granted what he asks." In the Egyptian dawn-time, apparently, one could be per fectly materialist, splendidly confident of the value of the JENKINS right time PLACE. and RIGHT TT WORKED. The balloon is now in or bit and radio signals are be ing bounced back from it to earth. Among other things, it will make possible instanta neous, just as it happened, TV broadcasts from all over the world. Because the TV beam goes off the earth at the horizon, that is now im possible. We have to wait for overseas TV until the films can be flown to us. rHE MORAL - if anyf This is it: Anything the Russians can do, WE CAN DO ALSO. There Is evidence . . . espe cially in the past couple of days . , . that we can do it better. Let's get no inferiority complexes. Clean Break With Past Seen in By ERIC SEVAREID So far, all that Nixon and Kennedy have received from the American electorate is what Damon Runyon used to call the "medium hello," Members of both parties have clapped on command, but in his heart every other Repub lican I know is a little uneasy about Nixon; every other Democrat I know is a little uneasy about Kennedy. Why? Not, I think, for the reasons usually assigned. Not because of their "youth." Not really because of Nixon's "white collar McCarthyism" of long ago; not really because of Kennedy's church or his toughness or his father's quick money. Most of us are uneasy about these men because they represent a clean break with the past and we have not yet adjusted. We cannot relate them to our life-long Images of power and statesmanship and the shrine of the White House. These tidy, buttoned- down men are clothed in no myth or mistique, and where shall our m I n d's eye place inem as it ranges back over the majestic skyline of Ameri can history and calls up the rugged and wind-blown cap tains who once led us? . The "managerial revolu tion" has come to politics and Nixon and Kennedy are its first completely packaged products. The Processed Poli tician has finally arrived. The well-trained civil servant is to be handed the ultimate power. Wi shall have govern Joseph Alsop present, happily sure of the prosperity of the future, and careiess of all things but com fort and success. But hear the Man Who Was Tired of Life, another scribe-bureaucrat like Ptah-hotep, who probably wrote towards the end of the long and bitter time of trou bles between tne Old King dom's fall and the Middle Kingdom's renewing rise. "To whom can I speak to day?" cries out this ancient Egyptian. "One's fellows are evil . . . Hearts are grasping. every man seizes his fellow's goods ... To whom can speak today? The sin which stalks the earth has no end!" And then he seems to find the answer: "Death is in my sight today, like the odor of myrrh, like sitting under an awning on a breezy day! Death is in my sight today, like the scent of lotos-blossoms, like sitting on the bank of drunkenness!" BUT AT the close of his dialogue, this enervated but indignant skeptic con cludes that even suicide is s doubtful way out. For him there is no way out at all. A way of sorts was found, how ever, by Amenemopet, a still later Egyptian of the period of decline, whose wisdom probably influenced our Bi ble's "Book of Proverbs." Am enembpet's way was to be hu mane and decent, without re grets for the past or much hope for the future. "Do not laugh at a blind man or tease a dwarf or do harm to the lame," he writes. Do not tease a man who is in the hand of the god (a mad man) . . . For man is clay and straw, the god is his builder: He is tearing down and build ing up every day." How vivid are the differ ences between Ptah-hotep, and the Man Who was Tired, and Amenemopet! How perfectly each is the child of his own time - Ptah-hotep so eupep tic and crassly practical; the Man Who Was Tired so abso lutely outraged, as people tend to be when disorder is not yet regarded as part of the natural order; and good Ame nemopet so kindly and yet so resigned, so much the good man in an accepted downward cycle, in fact. MADE these new acquaint ances in a study of the culture patterns of civiliza tion's first era, "The Face of the Ancient Orient," by the Italian scholar, Sabatino Mos- cati. It is a remarkable work Egypt and Sumer, Babylonia and Assyria, the great Empire of the Hittites and the rich land of Mitanni, and lesser human societies like Mari and Ugarit, Israel and Judah, take form, put on their ornaments, and crumble and collapse in these few hundred pages. Each lives for a while. Each dies in the end. And by no means all of them leave much behind, beyond shards and ruins and a few such dim yet magical scratches as deco rate the walls of the place of power of the Hittite Kings, se cret Yazilikaya upon the mountain-crest. Flux and im- permanence are the lessons. Or are they really the les sons? For how can there be endings without beginnings, final decay without initial en ergy and vigor? These, at any rate, are in teresting questions to think about, as one surveys the per ilous world of Nikita S. Khru shchev and Dwight D. Eisen hower. (c) 19B0 New York Herald Tribune Inc. ment of the people, for the people, but BY the certified manager. And while profes sors of political science may rejoice, most of us are uneasy, for we know that the Presi dency is neither a business nor a science, but an art, and that a very great artist is now required. Nixon and Kennedy are not princes of the blood or sons of the soil. They are not cap tains of industry like a Will- kie or of armies like an Eisen hower. They are not luminar ies of the intellectual world like Wilson or . Stevenson, iney are not powerful pro consuls who grew bigger than their provinces like Gover nors Roosevelt or Dewey. They are junior executives, trained' in the home office with an unerring eye to the main chance. The managerial revolution came to industry when rugged tycoons like Henry Ford were replaced by skilled committeemen. It came to labor when the John L. Lewises and the Phil Murrays were replaced by the Reu thers, when, indeed, the labor movement became the labor business. Now, with Nixon and Kennedy, the great, ec centric and indefinable art f leading a nation has become the Leadership Business. The Oiganization Man has found room at the very top. I have no right to say it won't work. Their souls may yet prove superior to their skills. They must, or it will not work at all. Skills will do IPOTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) A vicuna, children, is an animal from South America with a long neck and soft fur, of which Sherman Adams fa mous coat was made. Got it? OK. Question: What is a toy vi cuna? Answer: A dolly llama. Now to dogs, for a mo ment. Our farm editor re ports on the current contro versy about the so-called dog control measure to the effect that the antiquated 1919 state law on which it is based has one serious trouble, as far at gardeners is concerned. That is, he de clares, that the muzzle is re quired on the wrong end. From llamas to dogs (this is a beastly column today) to livestock, also courtesy of our farm editor: It never pays to wave at friends at auctions, particular ly cattle auctions, according to a local vocational agricul ture instructure. He attended a herd-dispersal sale not long ago, and see ing friends on the far side of the arena, he waved vigorous ly. Before he knew it, he had purchased a $1,500 bull. Sadder, wiser and much poorer, he persuaded the auc tioneer, by a sorry tale of how that was a little expensive for locker beef, to put the animal up for sale again. It sold, all right, but only brought $1,250 this time. A sort of expensive lesson in keeping one's hands in one's pockets. A reporter who has cov ered many of the recent meetings over school prob lem! during the last few years comments that the old school bell never rang half as loud as the dollar does now, in drawing the public to school meetings. On Friday morning, every one was sighing with relief at the relatively cool weather (53 degrees) after a long stretch of really hot after noons. A few people even shivered a bit. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF FOR A LONG TIME, reveals Dr. Kenneth Norris, curator at Marineland, U.S. Navy officials have been studying intensively the habits of porpoises those huge, playful fish) which seem to possess some sort of second sight, and can steer their way unerringly through all sorts of mazes and ob structions in the murky waters far below the ocean surface. Now the Navy scien tists have learned how the porpoises do it. They send out automatic sound impulses at the rate of 200 a second which bounce off any object in the way and serve as a sort of super-radar system. Purpoises can also talk, says Dr. Norris, though we ean'6 figure out yet what they're trying to say. When they start sounding off, adds Dr. Norris, they remind him very stronglj of Donald Duck. To Dr. Norris and his associates, adds. Leslie Lieher, th initials V.I.P. obviously wean only "Very Important Por poises." for a quiet country in quiet times, but only lofty charac ter and iron purpose can lead a turbulent America .through this tumultuous time. (Alas even the cliches of convention oratory are true.) Many of us remain uneasy about them because neither one has acquired a true iden tity; their faces and voices are familiar, but their mean ing as men escapes us. In the past, more often than not, we identified our nominees be cause of what they had al ready done or said, by their association with great deeds or great ideas. They came to us already clothed in their own mistique. Sometimes, to be sure, the cloth was made of shoddy, but we thought it was wool and at least a yard wide. And their raiment was hand and home made, not synthetically processed of water and air, whether their name was Lincoln or Grant or Wilson or Eisenhower. But the washable, wrinkle- proof Brooks Brothers garb of these new and skilled prac titioners of the Leadership Business-what is it made of? How much is real, how much synthetic? Where are the deeds, where the inspiring ideas or rebellious words? They would lead us over the passes to the "new frontiers," they say, but we see no dust on their boots or dirt in their nails, and the graphs and charts they trace with their store-bought pointers leave us still untrusting. If I am unjust, forgive me. This prompted Bob Church, the functionary in charge o( the weather bureau, to de scribe a malady which might be afflicting the valley's popu lace sun-b urned goose pimples. A very frank man Is the member of one of the local fact-f i n d i n g committees, who was overheard the oth er night to remark, "I don't know what the facts are, but I know what my attitude is." ' - We are pleased and proud (vicariously) to report the ar rival of a potential future newspaperman, the 8-pound son of City Editor Earl H. Adams and his wife. The husky youngster joins a husky older brother, Mark, aged lVz. Young Mark may be a bit disappointed at first, for somewhere in the difficul ty of communicating with a l'fc-year-old, he has become convinced that what was on its way was a new puppy. - Note from the courthouse . reporter (also the farm editor): "We often wonder how fast the children'! in noculation clinic at the county health department would clear out if one of the county agents should wander in with one of those over-size veterinarian type hypodermic needles in hia hand." We don't know about that, but we remember big, strong, vigorous, young men falling over in rows on the ground when it came "shot time" back in the Army days. Of course, they were poor ly conditioned for it, what with hearing all the tales from the "old veterans" who had been in the Army for all of three weeks, concerning the square needle, the round needle, and the corkscrew needle, all to be inserted in various interesting portions ol the anatomy. If we recall correctly, tha medics weren't as gentle as one of those nice public health nurses, either. Election It is hardly the fault of either nominee that we have run out of available rugged characters with ready-made records. Per haps what chiefly bothers me is the fact that this should happen precisely with my own age-group. In my college gen eration - the Nixon-Kennedy generation - there were bril liant, strong, idealistic, unor thodox individuals in g r e a t supply. They sweated to grasp the new ideologies of Fascism and Communism sweeping the world; they marched in "peace parades"; they sickened at the Republic Steel massacre of strikers; th got drunk and wept when the Spanish Re public went down; they dreamt beautiful and foolish dreams about the perfectabil lty of man, cheered Roosevelt and adored the poor. I can't find in the record that Kennedy or Nixon ever d i d, thought or felt these things. They must have been across the campus on Frater nity Row with the law and business school boys, wearing the proper clothes, thinking the proper thoughts, cultivat ing the proper people. Men of measured merriment, as Thomas Wolfe put it, and of measured tears. I suppose those boys were smarter than any crowd of bleeders. I al ways sensed that they would end up running the big com panies in town, but I'm damned if I ever thought one of them would end up running the country. (Distributed I960, by The Hall Syndicate, Inc.) (All Rights Referred) 1
