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Flight o' Time
History fiom the fliei ot The
Mill Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
nd 50 vun oo-
The New Nomads' Needs
After Labor Day week end (it seems almost
impossible that it is arrivinir already, so swiftlv
l it. . .i " " y
nas me summer gone ) tne pressure on Oregon
camps and beaches will drop off shamlv.
But for the hardy lover of the outdoors, who
braves the chill and an occasional shower, the
camping season isn't over. It is, though, for most
ioik, wno nave youngsters in schoql and who now
are getting ready to. buckle down for the long
t rnu..i i ri...;..i -
liuu mj iiiaiiRBgivmg ana nnsimas.
The pressure on the camps and resorts and
waterways will resume next year and judging
by all the signs, it will be heavier and. more, de
manding than ever.
fNJL phenomenon of the new craze for the out
v doors is the vacationist who doesn't camp only
for the thrill of sleeping outside of walls. He is
the one who turns back the clock 40 years, and
camps out because ot Us ease, convenience and
economy.
Ihus there is a full circle.
Shortly after World War I. when automobiles
and highways were in their first real snurt of
popularity ana aeveiopment, "camping" with a
tent was an accepted means of travel.
Gradually, "cabin camns" trrew un to accom
modate these folk, who liked their ease and avail
ability, and preferred them to the more formal
hotels.
Dennis the Menace
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 1, 1950 (Friday)
The retail price of milk
here has Increased by one cent
lo 22 cents a quart, It has been
announced.
Hugh De Autremont, con
victed of train robbery and
murder near Ashland in 1923,
will not be considered for
parole this year, according to
the state parole board.
20 YARS AGO
Sept. 1, 1940 (Sunday)
Four Jackson county farm
er! have organized the Logan
- Combine Harvester service
near Beattlc.
Srom Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
Republican party high com.
mand Is reported nissaiisnco
particularly the 'Old Guard
It .looks like Herb Hoover
who went fishing six weeks
ago In the wilds of Deschutes
county returned to so-caiico
civilization too soon.
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 1, 1930 (Tuesday)
Citizens of Medford will
vote on the proposed Cottage
st. bridge over Bear creek in
November.
A road to Diamond lake Is
being contemplated for next
year.
40 YEARS AGO
,'. Sept. 1, 1920 (Thursday)
Mayor Lambin of Ashland
has come out in favor of a pro
posal to move the county
courthouse from Jacksonville
' to Medford.
The C. E. Gates Auto com
pany here has been allotted
408 Fords to sell during the
next year.
Proposed Japan Visit by Dutch Warship
Stirs Hassle; Indonesia Protests It
Dennis was pretty worried last night until I tolv HIM
THAT OWL WAS S4YWS 'WHO' INSTEAD Of 'QQQ' "
Communications
pla
SO YEARS AGO
Sept. 1. 1910 (Thursday)
A number of farmers In the
Talent area are opposed to the
proposed Incorporation of that
town and have hired attorneys
to present their case to the
county court next week.
The Ashland city council
has ordered the Home Tele
phone company to stop work
in that city immediately until
terms of their franchise arc
worked out.
What's Your 1 0.7
Nln ot tin sorrtct It superior:
sivtn or tight Is oxctllentj Hve or
ill ft good.
1. Is the Tropic of Cancer
North or South of the Equa
tor? -
2. What is the English
translation of the name Puer
to Rico?
3. Gifts for the 20th wed
ding anniversary should be
tin, china, or wood?
4. Name the fruit that has
the highest food value per
pound.
5. Did Nixon or Kennedy
lead In the first Gallup pole
taken since the nominating
conventions?
8. Is pure lead normally
hard, soft, or liquid metal?
7. Is Jade harder than a
diamond or flint?
8. Under the Jewish mode
of reckoning, does the eve
of holiday begin at sunset
or midnight?
8. What proverb Is directly
contrary In meaning to "Yon
can't teach an old dog new
tricks"?
10. Correct the following:
"Each of the soldiers paid
their chare."
Answers: 1. North. 2. "Rich
Perl". 3. China. 4. Avocados.
5. Nixon. S. Soft. 7. No. f,
Sunset. 9. "Never lee old ie
learn." 10. ". . . his share."
Powers That Be
To the Editor: Well, we see
where the powers that be,
who abide by the wishes of
the majority, have decided to
spit in the eye of these cit
izens and go ahead with their
ans to ruin Hyatt Lake
We did think that they
would at least have had the
courage to notify people lb
salvage some of the tons and
tons of large crappie, catfish
and 5 to 10 pound bass that
they murdered and left to rot.
The only answer to that is
they were too ashamed to let
people see their dastardly
deed.
In some countries of the
world people who override
the wishes of the majority
are called dictators and the
ordinary citizen can do little
about It. But here in Amer
ica it Is different, we have
what are called elections, and
you can bet that in due time,
when they come begging for
votes, quite a few thousand
of us will throw them out
of office and back on their
farms and in their garages
where they can dupe only a
few.
Also E. A. boasts from lime
lo time about the Tribune be
ing so fair-minded about print
ing nil the news and both
sides to controversial subjects
A picture or two of the de
vastation of fish life at Hyatt
Lake would have been much
more newsworthy than the
photo of a few sticks in the
lake Inst week.
M. J. Olson
Route 4, Box 325
Medford.
rABIN camps evolved into motels. And motels
ai'o finur oimlvi'niT fnn infA 1nviitinna "mnf rt
w w it viuirinjj vw V) jiihj I UAUI 1UUO JJlUbUJ.
hotels," with all the conveniences and luxuries
the mind can dream up.
They are the new caravansaries, and even the
hotels are adapting many or the techniques and
advantages to their own purposes such things
as swimming pools, clnve-in cneck-ins, and so on.
But meanwhile, the traveler, an independent
l i ' ; i. .
sun oi cuss, nas in increasing numoers gone oacK
to the tent, the camp, and the cheap and unbut
toned ease of the outdoors. And once again cities
are eyeing these travelers as they did four dec
ades ago.
THERE was a "public camp" on the banks of
1 Bear creek, just north of the Main Street
bridge, in 1920. It lacked conveniences, to be
sure, and the city -fathers weren't particularly
proua oi u.
. Bo, in April of 1922, the city purchased the
property for $6,500, and by summer had im
proved it considerably for the accommodation of
the traveling public.
.,. It was adjacent to the then public market,
and to the Natatovium (that old Medford land
mark wmch unally was torn down only a few
It was landscaped, trees were planted, dut-
uuur stoves instance-, ana eventually mere were
lavatories wun not ana cold running water. As
time went, on, caoins were added.
COR a time the "camp" extended for a distance
on both sides of Bear creek, and the Mail
iribune in those days of the ear v '20s had fre.
quent little stories renortinor the numhor nf mn.
ers who had spent the night there campers in
high-wheeled ''touring" cars with foodbox and
tent strapped to bumper and running board.
(Know what a "running board" was, junior?)
T -inn. ;i i . .. " . '
in ivto it, was leased to Walter Merrick, op
erator of the Natatoritim. who ran it. f- tho oit
, .. . AV wiv, x-tuy
m anivi n itAniM - -I J 1. "
ouwic jctuij uuuer a irancmse.
Then, as "motels" suceendnrl "nnlili'p r.imnc"
and 'cabin camps," it gradually fell into partial
disuse, and by the time the Natatorium property
changed hands, the tent camp had vanished and
only a few cabins remained.
QTHER cities up and down the Pacific High
wway maintained similar mihhV com no tf
varying periods of years in the 20s and 30s. Eu
gene was one of them.
The Eugene Register-Guard reports it was
a common sight to see traveling families pitching
their tents in the park at the base of Skinner's
uuue. .
And the O I'Ciron Statesman in Sulnm rnnmtnrl
that in those days cities vied with hup nnnt-.w
to provide "auto camp grounds" for those making
'mntm nni.o, np U
The Statesman said :
"It may not be necessary for clt'lrs to go into the
campground business again, but It looks as though the
pressure for camping accommodations will increase on
state and federal agencies serving the touring public.
We may find operators of motels and trailer parking
lots adding sections for the tenting nomads of the
motor sge."
ND the Register-Guard adds:
"Indeed wo may. At least It would seem that mir
cities would gain business they are now missing out
on almost entirely. And, if the tent and trailer vaca
tionists could be Induced to visit us overnight In num
bers anything like those counted In the const and
mountain parks, this would add up to a considerable
gain In what la already credited as our third largest
Industry."
Medford's camp is long gone.
As a matter of fact, the closest place to pitch
a tent in a developed campground is probably
the Forest Service camp at McKee bridge, which
is now so overcrowded that overnight use is ban
ned on week 'ends. .
There are other Forest Service camps at great
er distances, and there is the new Laurelhurst
state park up the Rogue.
But close to Medford there is nowhere that
these new nomads of the road, who travel with
a pocket full of money and distain more elegant
accommodations bv choice, can nitch their touts
and buy their groceries, camping equipment, and n J,ln,g
Loiters to ihe Editor must bear the name and address of the
writer, although under certain circumstances the use of pen
name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail
Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view
lo clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for pub
lication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in
this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
Mining Data Sought
To the Editor: The Galice
Historical society would like
to contact owners of mining
claims in the Galice area.
We believe there is an error
in certain procedures of con
fiscation of mining properties
in the Galice mining district.
As Senator Morse is assisting
Galice miners in this matter.
It would be a great help to
him to get all the assistance
possible.
Even if you are not in need
of assistance yourself, what
Information that you have
might be valuable to him and
others.
Phone or write.
Waller Reece,
Galice rd.,
Merlin, Ore.
Cheap Housing
To the Editor: While down
lo the Senior Activily Center,
6(11 Jnckson Blvd., I was ask
ed to write regarding the
cheaper housing plan and
whether It Is needed and
wanted.
I understand that ttie money
Is there for the asking and
that there will be no great
debt left for coming genera
tions "not" to pay for.
There Is no question as to
cheaper rent being needed
With the present cost of com
modities, I've wondered how
anyone can live graciously
even when earning top wages,
lei alone oldsters who, though
often willing und able to
work, are unable to get em
ployment of any kind. The
reason: "We never hire any
one over the age ot 65."
A healthy person of that
age has had years of experi
ence and no better help could
be had.
Not all seniors have been
able to save, but they have
to live.
1 know of cases where nil
of their savings went for hos
pital, medicine and funerals.
Too proud to ask for help
they merely exist.
Having been farmers, they
If each house were to be
built near the edge of town,
and have a small lawn and
garden and rent reasonably
I am for it.
To be happy, old people
need to keep busy. Some want
a few hens to care for, pets,
flowers, etc.
Nobody can live well on
Social Security, and pay rent,
as it now stands. Naturally,
low rent is the answer at
least partly.
.f earl bpackman,
Jacksonville, Ore.
James L. Reed for President
To the Editor: I thought,
first, it was all foolishness
when I read the announce
ment in your issue of Aug.
25 of James L. Reed having
passed through Medford as
the common man's candidate
for our next president. But
after giving It some serious
thought, I concluded that it
might not be as foolish as I
at first thought.
No, its quite true that we
ihaven't had a President as
common as Abraham Lincoln
was, a great martyr for the
rights of man, a result large
ly due to the readings of Tom
Paine, which he was alleged
to have loved to read. And
a truer book never was writ
ten. It's just too bad that we
haven't got still more Tom
Paines and Lincolns today.
I don't know too much
about Mr. Reed, as he isn't
given much publicity, but this
much I do believe, that as a
carpenter he has sufficient in
telligence to be capable of be
ing our next president, and
besides he belongs to the
working class, and must be
ambitious, otherwise, he
wouldn't have the aspirations
and be doing what he is do
ing. He puts me In mind of an
old friend of mine back in
Kansas, an old union soldier,
then an old farmer, and a
socialist, who was running
for congress. He was asked
by an opponent, what he, an
old farmer, would do, "Why,"
he said, "Do Right."
And that's more than ever
has been done. So my friends,
if you don't know who to vote
for and don't want to lose
you vote,, and would like to
get what you vote for, vote
for Mr. Reed. Even though
he's not elected you will not
have lost your vote, as you
have voted for what you
wanted and lost, otherwise,
if you vote the old parties'
tickets you may be on the
winning side, but you will get
what you voted for "Noth
ing."
So, lei's vote for Reed and
sec how many good Intention
ed and hon -st people we can
record anyway.
J. P. Wirth,
3022 Butte St..
Klamath Falls, Ore.
By CHARLES R. SMITH
Tokyo- IUPD -The Japanese
government, which only three
months ago canceled an in
vitation for President Eisen
hower to visit here, is in a
diplomatic bind today over
another international visit.
The visitor this time is not
the president of a friendly
country. It's a Dutch warship.
Japan is under tremendous
pressure from Indonesia to
withdraw permission for the
Dutch aircraft carrier Karel
Doorman to visit Yokohama
Sept. 8-12. But, it appears Ja
pan is not very likely to
renege on her diplomatic
agreement in this case.
It's a case where Japan
has little to gain and much
to lose.
The Indonesian govern
ment has made a number of
strong protests and some in
fluential Indonesians have
made threats of reprisals, es
pecially economic-if Japan
permits the Dutch vessel to
come as scheduled.
Feels Slighted
Indonesian President Su
karno said his nation would
"feel slighted" at the very
least if Japan permits the
vessel to call at Yokohama.
It has been strongly implied
that the Indonesian ambassa
dor to Tokyo will be recalled
as a protest measure if the
Karel Doorman calls at a
Japanese port.
The Indonesians also have
indicated that the recall of
the Jakarta envoy would be
a minimum step. There's talk
in Jakarta of breaking all
economic relations with Ja
pan if she permits the ves
sel to visit. It's known that
the cabinet has discussed this
possibility but this would be
a difficult and drastic move
for Indonesia and probably
would hurt her more than it
would Japan.
The Dutch haven't said
what they would do if Japan
should withdraw permission
for the Karel Doorman to
visit. But Japanese Foreign
Minister Zentaro Kosaka told
the cabinet the other day in
plain, simple economic lan
guage the Netherlands is a
member of the European
common market and could
hurt Japan economically if
this should happen.
Why the Furor?
Why all the furor over the
call of a Dutch warship to
Japan on a visit that's billed
as a goodwill trip in com
memoration of the 350th an
niversary of Dutch-Japanese
relations?
It's all part of Indonesia's
bitter a n t i-Dutch campaign
that centers around the Neth
erlands continued control of
Dutch New Guinea, which
Indonesia calls West Irian
and claims as her own ter
ritory. The vessel arrived in New
Guinea earlier this year with
about 1,000 troop reinfqrci
ments for the Dutch forc
there. Indonesia said the pre,
ence of the warship in ti)
disputed area was "an act t
war provocation" and even
ually led to the breaking oj
of diplomatic relations wit
the Netherlands by Sukatnc
Matter of Focf ey
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
SHAPE OF THE CAMPAIGN
It is plain enough that the
Democrats would be better
off if there had been no Au
gust session of Congress. Sen
ator Johnson and Speaker
Rayburn who
engineered it
made a mis
c a 1 c u lation.
They sup
posed that
the session
would help
Johnson t o
win the Pres-
Walter
UoDDunc ination and
then to shine in August as
the great legislative operator,
In fact, with President Eis
enhower in the White House.
tne odds were overwhelming
ly against any bemocratic
success. For while the Demo
cratic majority can say no to
the President, and they did,
a Republican President can
say no to a Democratic ma
jority, and he did. In our Con
gressional system positive po
litical achievement in a very
short session against the will
of the President is impossible.
Though Kennedy and John
son have come out of the ses
sion with a record of frustra
tion, Nixon has come out with
the prospect that, if elected,
he will be a deeply frustrated
President. Kennedy was not
able to get his proposals en
acted. But he came very near
to doing that and the vote
showed clearly that if elected
it is virtually certain that he
could get his proposals en
acted. Nixon, on the other
hand, comes out of the ses
sion with the demonstration
that there is a strong and
angry majority against him
in the Congress.
Kennedy, as a candidate, is
unable to lead the Congress.
But unless there is some kind
of Republican landslide in
November, Nixon as Presi
dent will be in a perpetual
struggle with Congress.
France To Explode
Third Atom Bomb
Paris -dinu France will ex
plode its third atomic bomb
underground in the Sahara
Desert Oct. 15, informed
sources said today.
The third French explosion
was expected to be smaller
than those which took place
above the ground Feb. 13 and
April 1 in the Sahara.
The purpose of the under
ground test will be to enable
French scientists to study
more closely the exact process
of the nuclear blast and its
destructive force.
. The new explosion was ex
pected to be the first of a
scries of such underground
tesU.
rpHE August maneuvers have
revealed something of the
general shape of the cam
paign. More than most cam
paigns it will be conducted
at two levels, one avowed by
the candidates and the other
disavowed but tolerated and
counted upon. The main, but
by no means the only, item in
the subterranean campaign
will be Kennedy's religion, an
issue which cuts unpredict
ably both ways.
In the open campaign, Nix
on's problem is, of course,
how to get full vahfe out of
Elsenhower's support without
identifying himself with the
Eisenhower record. Nixon
has worked out a formula to
solve this problem. It is to
run not on the record itself
but on his own personal ex
perience in having been for
seven years a leading insider
In the government. Thus he
hopes to avoid a defense of
the record while building up
his reputation as a man of
unusual, indeed unique, ex
perience. His divorcement from the
Eisenhower record is follow
ing two lines. One is to op
pose openly the most politi
cally vulnerable parts of the
record, the farm problem at
home and the risks taken by
Elsenhower with the defense
establishment. Thus Nixon
opposes Benson openly and
embraces Rockefeller, despite
the fact that Benson is a fav
orite of the President's and
Rockefeller is no favorite of
the President's.
The other line of divorce
ment from the Eisenhower
record is to be sufficiently in
favor of virtually everything
in the Democratic platform to
blur the Issues which really
do exist between the Demo
crats and the Eisenhower ad
ministration. This is the tac
tic of fudging issues. On popu
lar welfare measures, such as
medical care and education,
Nixon does not, as would
Senator Goldwater, oppose
Kennedy. He joins Kennedy
just enough not to cause an
explosion of wrath in the
White House.
- '
J'ENNEDY'Ss problem is, of
course, how to get the
whole Democratic vote, which
is numerically a large ma
jority. For this he has, of
course, to override the relig
ious issue. He has also to cre
ate an eager Democratic nr.
ganteation in the states which
will bring out the Democratic
voters. These are his tasks at
the surface and below.
Above ground, where he is
appealing to the great mnss of
the electorate, he has devoted
nis tirst altenti, though not
the whole of it, to the laree
bloc which constitute the Dem
ocratic majority: to the tradi
tional Southern Democratic
voters, the farmers, organ
ized labor, the eggheads, the
veterans, the Negroes, the
new immigrant minorities,
the Jews, and the liberal
Protestants. He has been tell
ing them what they want to
hear.
There are reasons for say
ing that something else is
needed. In Congressional elec
tions the Democratic major
ity is the sum of its parts. But
in a Presidential election, the
whole is something above and
greater than Its parts. This
rqeans that Kennedy cannot
assemble a majorltj, bloc by
bloc. He must arouse and
fuse a majority out of a hete
rogeneous mass.
To do this, that is to make
a national appeal, Kennedy
nas cnosen lor nis theme the
need to arrest and re erse the
decline of American power
and influence in the contest
with the Communist world
This is indeed the paramount
issue facing the country, and
it is also an issue on which
the Eisenhower administra
tion is deeply vulnerable.
UT it will not be enough, I
believe, to keep telling
the country that it must arm
more efficiently, though that
is essential. It will be neces
sary also to awaken the coun
try to realize that national
power is more than arms, and
that education, for example,
is not a mere welfare meas
ure which can be treated as
mere spending, but an indis-
pensible element of national
power.
Beyond thai, what the
country needs and will sure
ly respond to Is a conviction
that, as Churchill once said,
"We arm to parley," that the
purpose of building up our
power is not to sit sullenly
trading insults but to over
come the fiasco of last May,
and to bring the Soviet Union
back to the conference room,
Politically, this looks like
a hot potato. But. as Presi
dent Eisenhower was proving
until the May disaster, there
is political magic in the man
who in a posture of strength
is able to build a bridge across
the abyss,
(c) 1960 New York Herald
Tribune Ine.
NIXON'S DANGER
IN THE SOUTH
Washington - The rising an
ti-Catholic agitation in the
South, which is already be
ginning to re-
call 1928, is
m uuviuuaij aiii.-
f H tn take the
South's votes
awav from
Sen. John F,
Kennedy. I n
reality, how
ever, it is an
equally pain-
for Vice-President Richard M.
Nixon.
It goes without saying that
if Nixon benefits in the Soutn
by this increasingly sharp out
burst of anti-Catholicism, he
will be an entirely involun
tary beneficiary. He has had
nothing whatever to do with
it. He has even directed all of
his campaign workers never to
mention the so-called religious
issue in private talk.
In the same fashion, former
President Herbert Hoover was
also an involuntary benefici
ary of the vicious attack on
Alfred E. Smith's religious
faith. Yet anyone who studies
the returns from the 1928 elec
tion can quite easily see that
Hoovers innocence was al
most irrelevant. Besides pro
ducing important but tempo
rary Republican gains in the
South, the anti-Catholic out
burst in 1928 caused heavy
and more enduring Republi
can losses in the North.
ORIOR to 1928, many of the
nation s Dig clues,, like Chi
cago, had been traditionally
controlled by Republican city
machines. After 1928 the Re
publican party had all but
sunk from sight in every big
city in the country except
Philadelphia and Cincinnati,
where Republicans lingered
on for a while. The reason for
this grave setback was the
Northern Catholic reaction to
the anti-Catholicism in the
South. The bleak fact of the
agitation itself, without regard
to Hoover's innocence or re
sponsibility, was what affect
ed the Northern Catholics that
year.
In 1928, it is also well to
remember, Roman Catholics
constituted only 10 per cent of
the voting population. Today
they constitute 25 per cent,
with the heaviest concentra
tions in the great industrial
states which any winning
Presidential candidate must
carry.
In recent years, further
more, the Catholic migration
to the Republican party, which
began in 1940, has been the
most significant single trend
in American politics. The
Catholics in very low income
groups, like the Puerto Ricans
in New York, remain solidly
Democratic. This naturally
weights the Catholic vote in
favor of the Democrats. But
despite this weighting, Presi
dent Eisenhower is authorita
tively estimated to have won
the support of at least 55 per
cent of all the Catholic voters
in New York state in 1958.
THIS means that in 1956,
Eisenhower secured a corn-
Joseph Alsop i
manding lead among all NeA
York state's Catholics froi
the lower middle-income leye
upward. Today, moieovei
when Northern Catholics 'si
still unaware of the anti-Catt
olic outburst in the South, $81
John F. Kennedy has byj n
means won back all the 5i
publican-voting Catholics.'
So far as this reporter .ca,
learn by doorbell-rininj
Kennedy's chance of winnin
back any individual Repub'l
can-voting Catholic quit
largely depends on. the ind
vidual's date of migration, ir
to the Republican party,, B
the first Republican vote wa
cast in 1956, a return to Ih
Democratic fold is h i g h ;
probable. If the date was 193S
it is much less probable, a
so it goes, back to 1940. I
On this basis, Kennedy not
seems likely to get about 0
per cent of the Catholic vote
in New York. This transfer 'i
Catholics to Kennedy is a sor
handicap for Nixon, but it J
not an insurmountable hand
cap. Of the 7,100,000 NaN
Yorkers who voted in 1.95(
30 per cent, or something lis;
2,150,000 were Catholics", a
the best estimates are corretf
Eisenhower therefore got th
votes of about 1,170,000 Ca
ones in New York.
If 60 per cent of New Yor!
Catholics now vote for Keniii
dy, about 320,000 votes wjl
thereby be transferred froi
the Republican to the Deii
cratic column. Without alloji
ing for losses among Prdtei
tants, which are impossiblfc
estimate, the Catholic transflj
means a cut in Eisenhowea
1956 majority of about 640,00
voles. But. Eisenhower carna
New York by better than
500,000 votes.
TN OTHER words.'the degr
- of Catholic transfer t h d
now seems likely is very ti
from certain to defeat. Nixoj
in the crucial big states of th'
North. Nixon has a goo
chance, too, of reducing th
transfer. The truth is that Nij
on appeals very strongly i
the naturally conservati4
Catholics. I
But 1 e t the anfi-CallToll
agitation in the South gal
volume and produce the inetf
table effects in the N o r t
Then Kennedy may well tak
80 per cent of the New Yorj
Catholics. The transfer wi
then reach something -1 i t
750,000 votes, causing a dro
in the 1956 Republican 'nil
jority of over 1,500,000 J i
short the total amount of ti
majority.
There is Nixon's problerr
in coldly practical, politics
terms. In the long run, Nfxoi
will hardly be able to soly
this problem by refusing ji
discuss the religious issue, 'urn
by ordering, his campaigi
workers to do likewise. At j
guess, he will be unable ,b
solve the problem without tn
strongest sort of affirmative
action to halt the Souther!
anti-Catholic agitation. If th
agitation continues, nothin
less than strong affirmativ
action can really be couhte
on to prevent a Northern
action to what is happehin,
in the South. i..
(c) I960 New York Herald
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