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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 1860 "Everyone ln Southern Oregon Published Dally except Saturday br MXDFORD PRINTING CO S3 North Fir St, Ph SP2-S141 ROBERT W RUHLs Edlter HERB GREY AdvBTitinf Manaccr GERALD T LATHAM Bui Mjt ERIC W ALLEN JR . MnK Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Tele Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHES. Women'! Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mer An Independent Newspaper Intered as second cltrt matter t Medfonl. Oreeon. under Act o! March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ut Mail In Advance. Cop? 10e Dailv and Sunday 1 rear 115 00 Datrv and Sunday 6 mo! 8 OC DaiW and Sunday S mo! -2S Sunday Only One year U30 Bt Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point E a ele ' Point. Jacksonville Gold Rill Phoenix Shady Cove. Rocue Riv er Talent and on motor rou'w Dailv and Sunday 1 rrar Sinn Da K and Sunday I mo 1 .0 Carrier and Dealer - copy 10c All TerTnjCashinAdyanc "nfftfiiTPaper of-Clr ef'Mfdfnrd Official PaprofJarlion cojuv " Cnited PreM International Pull Leased Wire It P.i Telephoto Nevsplcturea ""MEMBER OT AUTTT Bt-JfilXO Or CTRCtTLATIONS lrfverrlsine Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO. INC ffrel tn Sew York Chlcaeo Detroit- San Francisco Los Aneeles Seattle. Portland St Louis At- tir.ta Vancouver. B C NATIONAL EDITORIAl S -N AS(sbcaTiojr Flight o' Time Wredtord a"d Jackson County History tro.n the tiles ot The Mail Tribun. 10. 20, 30, 0 and 50 vean 0- 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 28, 1950 (Monday) Omar Pinson, 32, one of the nation's 10 most wanted crim inals, and a 1949 escapee from the Oregon State prison, was captured today in Pierre, S.D. An Ashland man was fatal ly injured yesterday when he fell inlo a sawdust burner at the While Cily Lumber com pany. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 28, 1940 (Wdnday) Dick Hancn, 19-year-old golf star from Marshfield, ar rived in Medford yesterday for the Southern Oregon Northern California Golf championships. From Arthur Perry' "Y Smudge Pot" column: "The usual shortage of water, and surplus of wind for this time of year now prevails here." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 28, 1930 (Friday) Ford Potter of Sams Valley has found a bee-tree that yielded 150 pounds of honey. A large crowd from all parts of the valley attended the ded ication vesterday of the new Grange hall at Central Point. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 28. 1920 (Sunday) A local autoist has been fined in justice court for fail ure to dim lights and an ap peal to the circuit court will be made, he said. Medford Bartletts average $5.74 per box in Chicago. 50 YEARS AGO Aug. 28, 1910 (Sunday) The District Attorney ha asked the county clerk to of fer a $500 reward for informa tion leading to the arrest and conviction of the persons who started the forest fires which burned in the county all last week. The Crater Lake highway committee reports that it has collected $30,000 from per sons in both Medford and Portland for construction of the proposed highway. What's Your I.Q.7 Hici tea correct it superior; srre w eisWt ii excellent; fir i six is QOOO- 1. The number of points on the antlers of a deer is. or is not. a reliable indication of b:s age' 2. T h e V. S. Constitution was signed in New York, Philadelphia, or Washington, DC 3. The part of a sentence which makes an assertion about the subject ii called what? 4 What u the international rd)0 distress regnal for shipi" 5. An author f narrative of ha own hie u called an ? 6. Name the three great di- vij.or.s of the Fedetal Gov ernment wt up by the Consti tution of the U.5. 7. Who succeeded General George C. Marshall as Chief of Staff? 8. D.A.V. is the abbreviated name of which veteran's orga nization? 9. Would you find penguins ln the Arctic? 10. On what day of the week did the Japanese sneak attack occur at Pearl Harbor? Answers: 1. Is not. 2. Phila delphia. 3. Predicate. 4. S.O.S. i. Autobiography. E. Legisla tive. Executive and Judicial. 7. General Dwight D. Eisen hower. 8. Disabled American Veterans. 9. No. South Pol. 10, Sunday. ""TrfjZNfWS PA P H jJp'ASSOCIATION The "Gentleman" A newspaper reporter in Los Angeles re cently was given an assignment to do a bit of researching on a former Congressman from there. Here are some of the facts he found : Tho nrio-i-psjrnari started in nublie life when a certain group of important Los Angeles busi nessmen, anxious to beat Congressman Jerry Voorhis for re-election, put a want ad in the L.A. Times, asking for candidates. The congressman in question, then out of a job, answered the "ad" and in reply to the first question as to whether or not he was a good Re publican, said: "I guess I am. I voted for Governor Dewey at the laat election." That proved to be a good start, for the group "in search of a candidate" were very strong Re publicans, and very anxious to unseat Mr. Voor- Press Gallery members west of the Mississippi not agree with the newspaper boys who they regarded as little better than communists at heart themselves. MOREOVER there was no doubt in their minds about Mr. Voorhis being a communist. He had voted for foreign aid, no tax cuts and a re ciprocal tariff! 1 Meanwhile, they liked this young applicant. He was personable, handsome and fluent. Also he was a war veteran, having served in the Navy. . But the young man, when accepted, protested he had no money. "You won't need any," the head of the group answered, "we will supply that. You go out and get this fellow traveller, and give us a good Re publican record in Washington and you needn t worry about money." CO THE young man went out, guided so the record goes by an extremely shrewd and resourceful public relations man and lawyer whose name was Murray Chotiner, and was very highly regarded as a slick one, particularly in Hollywood movie circles. The thing to do, it was decided, was to follow the Joe McCarthy line. That is, not definitely call Congressman Voorhis a communist there, might be a "comeback" to that but stress the fact that a vote for the Republican candidate meant a vote AGAINST communism the rather obvious implication being that a vote for Voorhis would be a vote FOR. ' : , This was done over and over and over again. Not only that but in the district "concerned there were repeated phone calls, all like this : "Hello, 1 am a friend of yours, but can't identify myself. 1 just wanted you to know this; man Voorhis ii a communist." . Then they would hang up and make another call. MEEDLESS to nay it worked ! It worked so well that when the "personable young man" decided to run for the senate, the same Chotiner and the same technique were used against Mrs. Helen Gahagan Douglas. They did not come out in the open, of course, and charge Mrs. Douglas with being a commu nist. Nothing as crude and courageous as that. They harped over and over again on the fact that her voting record, in many ways, was the same as the voting record of Congressman Vito Marcantonio, who often was identified as a communist-liner. And then came the same anonymous phone calls, always from a woman to a woman, the call always to this effect: . "She could testify she had been at Communist party meetings at Mrs. Douglas' home and her husband, the well-known actor, Melvyn Douglas, carried a Commu nist party card." "THIS "woman" was never identified. But again that when the congressman went to the Senate he was again assured bv the same or a similar group of Los Angeles "businessmen," that he need not worry as far as money was con cerned, they would help him out. And they did to the tune of $18,000 cash which the reporter in question termed a "slush fund," but which the recipient piously proclaimed to be only a free will offering to reduce the tax burden of his constituents. jTTHIS wasn't the only "free will offering" to the gentleman from California, however. The same reporter discovered that a certain notorious operator, known as Henry (The Dutch man) Grunewald, had "accepted" a check from former Senator Brewster of Maine for $10,000, and Grunewald then proceeded to give half of it to the "personable young man," not to help out the long suffering tax payers this time, but to help pay his "campaign expenses If this was on the up -and -up, why didn't ; Senator Brewster make his contribution direct as ! chairman of the G.O.P. campaign committee, instead of via a somewhat unsavory Go-Between? "THAT query ha? never been answered. How , ever, the "deal" retired Brewster under a cloud to private life where he is today, but never, j as far as revealed, left so much as a fleck of dust on the lily-white moral record of the "Gentleman from California." What was his name? Well, of course, anyone who has read this far must have already guessed it of course, none other than Richard Milhous Nixon Vice President of the United States, and who, according to all the political wisemen in Wocriinrrtnn nrm' D 1 'ch rr-in ' in K (Reprinted from tha Mail From California as "the best congressman river." But they did Tribunt of Dec. 24, 1857.) Dennis the 'AlOM, WHERE DID YA Communications Letters to tha Editor must baar the nam and address of tha wrilar, although under certain circumstances tha uia of a pan nam or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves lh right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. Th letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent tha views of tha paper: in fact the conlrary is often th case. Boundary Decision To the Editor: I am one of the people who cannot under stand how four men on a boun dary board can vote Medford citizens out of the Medford school district, when these people who are affected were 100 per cent in favor of the Medford district. This is the kind of justice you would expect to find in either Russia or Cuba. It is hard to understand why Med ford should send some of their children to Phoenix and Tal-' ent, when Phoenix voted against sending their children to Medford. Another thing, it was point ed out to me that the reorgani zation committee was set up to improve conditions for the children. Is it an improve ment to send them to a small er district, arid to haul them a good many miles when they have a school almost at their doorstep? I wonder how this boundary board would have voted, had their own children's education been at stake. Arthur H. Boye Route 1. Box 193 Gold Hill, Ore. They Like Olive and Bob To the Editor: Girl Scout Day Camp is over for one more year but as publicity , chairman I would like to ex press the gratitude of every one connected with Scouting for the wonderful coverage of the Little Switzerland Day Camp. Olive Starcher and Bob Vroman. after attending an event at the Country Club in the morning, came the long way, up-up up to our primitive camp and then back. While we realize this is part of their: job. they were so genuinely ! interested in everything these girls were doing and asked many questions not concern ing the immediate job of pic ture taking, we were all a little prouder of our different units. So we want the Mail Trib une's many readers to know and appreciate these two as' we do. Mrs. W. W. Brawn Publicity Chairman Little Switzerland Day Camp Medford. Thank You To the Editor: I would like to give our sincere thanks to Miss Laurene Espey for the wonderful job she has done with the children this summer She has taken five full days a week, plus many hours at home, to help the summer pass quickly and yet happily, for the smaller children in our neighborhood. Onre again I wish to say "thank you" Laurene. and we hope to see you again next; year. Geneva Bit'.le y !)27 Dakota ave. Medford. Com Again, Brother j To the Editor: Some birds, with feathers flock together. Welcome. Brother Helphel from Gold Hill. It's nice to be an amateur preacher. There are many that have no church -only the Medford Mail Trib une. What a friend we have in the editor. He is not a respect er of persons. So. brother, you left your scat and got your name on the wrong page. You must know your v. ay around in the Bible. There is a place it tells about condemn ing those that are more right eous than ourselves. I wonder if the devil has anything to do with th vint. I am not Menace HIDE THE WAWUTff? tongue-tied. I know that two times two equals four. You can't find that in the Bible. Come again, brother. Marshall H. Waggoner P. O. Box 753 Central Point, Ore. Prophecy To the Editor: We recently heard a warning over the ra dio from an economic com mentator, of Washington, D.C. who made the remark that the present unstable trend of price advances would con tinue to skyrocket for the next 20 years. So, that ad monition given by a high of ficial a few months or so ago, to "all citizens to get ready, to tighten up their belts, is not far amiss. Some months before the fatal year of 1929 we listened to a well known official of the- automobile union make the assertion in a public ad dress that the time would approach in America when cars would litterally be sold to buy bread by the needy. Weli that statement was not far from correct in 1932. The pendulum on the clock of time swings both ways, that is, one extreme follows another regardless of set rules. Michel Nostradamus was a prophet who saw the rough time 1555 to 1999, and so far he has foretold the creative age of things to be accurate ly. Nostradamus was not a religious heretic. Bert Kissinger 520 Boardman st. Medford. God and Satan To the Editor: In reply to Mr. Reando'a latest effort: I find it very difficult to un derstand a man saying there is a God, and then saying that God doesn't know what he is talking about. I don't know who Mr. Reando's God is. but mine is ' the author of the Holy Bible as well as the creation. He tells us himself of Satan's existence, as does his beloved son Jesus. Now He didn't say it was just an evil force in our own minds working. He tells us who he is, where he came from, what he it doing, and what is going to happen to him, as Mrs. Wyatt pointed out. It's true there are hundreds of religions (another thing prophesied in the Scriptures), and it separated the men from the boys when you learn to quit taking for granted everything some preacher tells you. and start saying "prove it." If it can be prov en from the Bible, I believe it, if not, I discard it. But. Mr. Reando, Satan Is spoken of from Genesis to Revelation, and you are go ing to have to discard the whole Bible, if you discard Satan. I suggest you study Romans 3.34 which says, in effect. ' Let God Be True, though every man be found a liar," and also I think James 2:19 applies. It reads "So you be lieve there is one God, do you? You do well, and yet "the demons believe and trem ble." 1 think if Mr. Reando be lieves in God he should back up His Holy Word of Truth, not knock it down, and if he doesn't do this he is serving the God of this old world," S:an. Mrs- Barbara Mus Trail, Or. Matter of Fact y jo.Ph aioP THE JOHNSON EFFECT Washington - In politics, what does not happen is more often meaningful than what does happen, but it gets re ported very much more rarely. This re minder is in order, because of the contrast between what has been hap p e n i n g in Washington and what has not been happening in the South. It is a fair bet that the unpro ductive special session now grinding to its close has had almost no influence at all on the political prospects of ei-1 ther party. But it is clear that both parties prospects have been strongly influenced by what has not been happening in the South. What has not been happen ing is the Southern explosion which would certainly have occurred if second place on the Democratic ticket had not been offered to and accepted by Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. FEW major political events have produced practical ef fects which were so widely misinterpreted or misunder stood. On the one hand, de spite contrary claims, John son's Vice Presidential nomi nation has not conciliated the rank and file of Southern vot ers. They are still angry as hornets about the Democratic platform. And Johnson's nom ination has not enraged the Northern Negro voters. They are mainly preoccupied by the shortage of job opportunities. On the other hand, howev er, the Johnson nomination was quite directly responsible for an obscure but significant process which reached a kind of climax two days ago, with the announcement by Gov. Er nest Vandiver of Georgia that he intends to support his par ty's nominees this year. Because of Lyndon Johnson, in fact, almost all the officers of the Southern Democratic army have relunctantly, un happily but decisively, fallen into line. The process began in Louisiana, where the Demo cratic State Committee decid ed, after hot debate, not to enter independent, unpledged electors this year. GOV. Vandiver's announce ment almost certainly means that Georgia will reach the same decision as Louisi ana, in a state-wide referen dum on independent versus Democratic electors which will soon be held. The strong est man in Georgia, Sen. Her man Talmadge, has not yet taken a stand; but the Gover nor would not have done what he did without the Senator's approval. After Georgia's de cision, the independent elector movement will be effectively dead in the deep Southern states. Without Lyndon Johnson, all these states would have entered independent electors. But with the officers of the Democratic army in line in these states, the anger of the troops is unlikely to be effec tively expressed. Thus the probability is strong that the Johnson nomination has given the Democrats an initial gain of the 57 electoral votes of South Carolina, Georgia, Ala bama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas. In the rest of the Southern states, with the probable ex- Why That By ERIC SEVAREID Vice President Nixon is one of the shrewdest politicians I have known. But there is a f3T(ff-3 difference be tween snrewa ness and wis dom, and my horseback im pression -subject to change -is that Nix- iK on is most un Mm M 1 wise , the " as nprcnnal t v stvireid appeal" he was sketching out for himself as the campaign began and prior to the first poll results. Reporters in his entourage agree that he deliberately chose the underdog role. In other words, he initially took the defensive position. He has gone further. Sen. Kennedy has used harsh words about Nixon's principles, so Nixon intends to campaign in a more lofty manner, avoiding "personalities." Kennedy is tough, so Nixon intends to give the impression of a "nice guy." Kennedy was born rich, so Nixon will em phasize his own grocery store childhood, when he made hamburgers that were cheap but honest. In other words, Nixon is cutting his cloth to Kennedy's measure. This is extraordinary stra tegy for a man who for eight years has held with distinc tion the second highest posi tion in the land, who has been intimately identified with the very source-spring of power, involved in th most conse ception of Florida, the effect I of the Johnson nomination has I been to give the Democratic national ticket a serious: chance to win, though a chance that varies from state to state. And this is important, too, because the "Democratic platform, plus the religious is sue, had previously left the Democrats with almost no chance at all in Texas, Vir ginia, and North Carolina, and with a pretty poor chance in the border states. In these other states, as in the deep South, the nomina tion of Johnson has made a difference primarily because of Its effect on the officers of I . the party army. In Texas! alone rank and f ile Demo- crats have also been effected TAKING these states in the apparent order of Demo cratic weakness, Florida s ten electoral votes seem pretty sure to go to the Republicans since the ultra-conservative C. Farris Bryant became Governor-designate. Virginia looks hopeful for the Republicans, too, but may go Democratic if the Byrd dynasty lend their party a hand. Sen. Harry F. Byrd seems most likely to remain silent, but Harry F. Byrd Jr. may give the Democratic cause im portant support, partly be cause he is thinking about running for Governor next year. Even in Virginia, there fore, the Democrats cannot be absolutely counted out. Mean while, Texas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ok lahoma are all up for grabs. In summary, the second ef fect of the Johnson nomina tion has been to give the Dem ocrats a fair shot at the 38 electoral votes of Texas and North Carolina; to improve the Democrats' hopes for the 29 electoral votes of Tennes see, Kentucky, and Oklahoma; and to make it possible, though unlikely, that the Dem ocrats will pick up Virginia's 12 electoral votes. Because of the platform and the religious issue, to be sure, the Democrats may yet take a bad licking in the South. But what may be called the John son effect remains highly sig nificant. (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribun Inc. Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERT ROBERT FONTAINE, successful author himself, has pre pared a manual that will enable fellow scriveners to answer repetitious questions automatically. Examples: Q. Do you have trouble thinking up new plots? .A. Not at all. I've used the same one over and over again for years. Q. My wife and all my relatives think my stories are great, but I can't sell any. What should I do? A. Try to slip your wife and other relatives into the magazine editors' chairs. Q. When writing a story, should one keep one's mind on an imagin ary reader? A. No. Keep it on an imaginary chech. Senator Carter Glass, who believe that "confidential" really meant 'confidential," had a habit of mumbling tidbits to his col league out of a comer of his mouth. President Woodrow Wilson, recalls Senator John Parker, once chuckled, "Glaaa is the only fellow I ever met who can whisper into his own ear!" C HM. by Bennett Crf. Distributed by .ant Teature SyndlcaU Underdog quential national decisions, a man who has done hand-to-hand combat with the world's most formidable leaders. To adopt this strategy is to conform to Kennedy's stra tegy. It is to allow oneself to be upstaged. It is to betray uncertainty about one's own meaning and public identity. If persisted in. it will surely play straight into Kennedy's hands by reversing what should be the natural roles of the two men-just as Kennedy intends to reverse them. For it is Kennedy who is creating the image of su preme personal and political confidence, that is to say, of STRENGTH-whether he tru ly has it or not. Strength is the key to this election. Millions of Amer icans vaguely felt that Adlai Stevenson was not strong enough: millions now feel that Mr. Eisenhower is not strong enough. What the coun try yearns to see in the White House is Power; "likeability" is not enough in this Amer ican mood. Beyond imp ressions of strength or weakness, sad as the thought may be, people will not discriminate very much. They will not vote for an underdog out of sympathy; the "soft sell'' will not deliver the goods. Nor will Nixon accomplish much by humbly asking his audiences to "study the is sues, then vote for principles, not for a man or a party." There is not that much differ nce, ia policy and princi 1P0TLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Everv once in a while (and oftener than you might think), after the paper first comes out in the afternoon, and each staff member has grabbed a copy, and is scanning it to see if everything came out OK, or if there are any major blun ders, or to read the work of f e 1 1 o w-craftsmen, someone walks into the office and says (loudly): "Is that all you guys have to do-read your own paper. " thif, h,a,PPens ,on 'Jf' when all 11 regular staffers , ...i, ,.,u,n hands j clencn tiEntly in an effort to ! avoid strangling the jaunty ' jokester. Actually, th nwspapr staff works hard. Thy'r ither at their desks Cpound ing out a story or column, or writing headlines, or telephoning, or researching a story), or els thy'r out gathering the news. If they're in, our jokester friend comments: "Wassamatter, don't you ever get out where the news is happening?" And, of course, if they're out covering a beat or a news story, he has a different com ment: "Wassamatter, doesn't that guy ever come to the office?" Covering all tha many bases a newspaper staff has to covr can b a bit com plicated at times. Take last week, for instance. The church editor (who also is part-time assistant society editor, part-time assistant city editor, does the society pic torial layout, and is once-a-week city hall reporter and once-a-week courthouse re porter) was on vacation. So was the sports editor. The wire editor, who han dles all the United Press Inter national copy and many of the features, was at home in a sick bed. The regular city hall report er was handling the sports desk, and the regular regional editor was on the wire desk; one of our two summer vaca- 'Image' for Nixon ples, between the two parties or the two men. In any case, it is an aston ishing and revealing phenom enon that a man in the spot light of eminence for eight long years should even be thinking about manufacturing an "image" of himself. To a man who knows what he is. what he wants and what he can do, such thoughts do not occur. He is carried past them by the passion of his ambitions and convictions. Harry Truman was not at all shrewd in 1948; he was mere ly convinced, simple and, in his stumbling way, passionate. So he won. Many of us detest what one reader calls the "fraudulent farrago of the calculated ef fect," though I suppose we must live with it. Kennedy's self-portrait may be quite as mechanically assembled as Nixon's, but surely it better suits the seasonal taste of those millions in the gallery who don't know anything about art but know what they like. They are tired of watercol ors in genteel pastels; "nice guys" among the political painters are apt to finish last. Bold strokes in bright oils are what is wanted, to make the immense canvas of American existence come to life again. Nixon, who was not intimi dated by Khrushchev, gives the curiofs impression of bee ing intimidated by the junior Senator. Perhaps there exist deep-laid psychological reas ons for this. H has just b- tion reporters was plugging the gap on the regional desk. and the other was working on church materials and rushing nere ana mere trying to cover the other bare bases. Then came Wednesday. ; The society editor has a day off occasionally, and this was it.. Vacation-relief report'- er wo. l also had a dav off The regular court house re porter (wno is also the farm editor), was off to the boon docks with the county parki and recreation commission and county court, inspecting Howard Prairie and Hyatt lakes. And our photographer, who works on a schedule thai no one but him has figured out yet (and we're not entire ly sure about him, all the time) was out somewhere, most of the day, taking pic tures. This left the city editor, the potluck editor, the region-al-editor-acting-as-wire-editor, the city hall reporter-acting-as-sports-editor, and vacation relief reporter No. 2. The potluck editor is a dead loss, most of the time, when it comes to day-by-day newsroom operations. But he did wander in after lunch Wednesday, to find th city editor and reporter-sports editor had gone to lunch and the regional-wire editor in th back shop making up Page 1. there sat vacation-relief re porter No. 2, in solitary splen dor. He looked up and said, "Who would you like to see? I'm it." Speaking of vacation re porter No. 2, h handed ui a clipping th other day, which explained that re porters come in three vari tits. It listad them as fol lows: 1. The tall, dashing, rather good-looking youngster who can t spell. 2. The middle-aged, balding beat man who can't spell. 3. The wizened elder-statesman type who can't spell and who carries it off with that certain bravado that comes only after generations of re write. H declined, on grounds of modesty, to identify which classi f i c a 1 i o n h comes under, when asked. But he's neither middle aged nor wiiened. And h promised to bona up on hii spelling this year. Spelling, as such, is a fas cinating art in itself, by the way. For example, we know a proofreader who is absolutely infallible when it comes to spotting errors in such words as, say, antidisestablishment arianism, or floccinaucinihili pilification, or even such rel atively simple ones as ophtha mologist. Where he falls down (if and when he does) is on common, everyday words. Which just goes to prove, probably, that the unusual is what gets our attention. And that's true of news, too. We haven't heard from That Man in Phoenix for a long tim now. Surely we've had our quota of er rors. Can't w depend on ANYBODY any mor? gun, after all, his first real slugging match; politically, ha was spoiled early In life. As he once said himself, "Political positions came to me because I happened to be in the right place at the right time."-Perhaps eight years of self-discipline too deeply in grained the emotional reflexes of the understudy, the second man. I don't know. I do recall a private session around a lunch table some years ago, in the rooms of the Secretary of the Senate. At the end sat Gov. Dewey: at the other end sat Richard Nixon. Dewey was advising Nixon about his forthcoming trip to the Ori ent, from whence Dewey had just returned. He described how Asiatic reporters and photographers had besieged him everywhere, as an illus tration of the world's intense concern with America. "And." said Dewey, "I was only a state governor and titu lar head of a party. But you," he said, dramatically stabbing his finger, toward Nixon, "you are VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!" His tone was that of ona man desperately trying to make another man under stand himself-to KNOW in his bones, viscera and nerve ends who and what he is. On the basis of the Vic President's current behavior, I cannot help wondering i( Dewey made his point. Distributed I960, by th Hall Syndicate Inc. All rights tirvd.