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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U.S. Constitution repealed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
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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
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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." '
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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.
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