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4 A MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUllS. p. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, I960 "Everyone In Southern Oreion Reads The Mall Tribune" Published bally except 6aturday5y 33 North Fti St., Ph BP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHLl Editor HERB GREY Advertising ManifST UGKM.U T LATHAM BUS Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR., Mng Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Ed'.tor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr . An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Merffot-d. Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year SI 9 00 Dally and Sunday-6 moi 8.00 Dally and Sunday 3 mos 4 .29 . Sunday Only One year M-30 By' Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Bail Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove, Rogue Rfv er Talent and on vnotor routes Daily and Sunday 1 vear 118 AO Da'.ly and Sunday 1 mo UK) Carrier and Dealers copy tOo AH Terms Cash tn Advanca "Official Paper of city of "Medtofil Offlclal Papur of Jackson CquntT i,!lnlted Press international Full Leased Wire 1 U P I Telenhoto Newaplcturea "Tatmbkr or AtfmtmmEAU" OF CIRCULATIONS XHvfrfUlnif Pnriiientfltlve; WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fir In Nw Vnrk ChlnaffO. D trnlt. San Francluco. Los Angeles Seattle, pnrtiano at louis at- Inrta. Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL E0ITORIAI Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the til of The Mall Tribune 10. 20. 30, 40 and 50 veari ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sepi. 19. 1950 (Tuesday) Attendance a t Medford High school is up 10 per cent th year to a total of 825 stu dents. Two represe itatlvcs of the state traffic engineering de partment are in Medford to work out preliminary studies for a traffic survey of Med. ford streets. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 19, 1940 (Thursday) Shoes are being deposited this week in a large barrel in front of the Evans shoe store to be sent to British refugee children. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A Portland Democrat was he.e the first of the week warning the faithful it is going to be a ffght to keep Wall St., from snatching Bonneville Dam out of ,tio mouths of the people." 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 19, 1930 (Friday) Three persons so far have filed their petitions with the city" recorder as candidates for the office of mayor. Pear and: apple shipments from the valley now total 2,528 carloads. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 19, 1920 (Sunday) Frank P, Farrell has been named president of the local Warren G. Harding club. ' More than 1,000 persons at tended the Elks barbecue yes terday. 50 YEARS AGO Stpi. 19. 1910 (Monday) iThe Medford Camp, Woods men of the World, plans to erect a $10,000 log cabin In downtown Medford to b used as a lodge. (One railroad employee stabbed and seriously wound. ed another during an argu ment here yesterday follow ing a gambling game. What's Your I.Q.? Nine ei ten cermet It tuperleti iqyen ei eight It eicellanti He ef ill li (serf. h Does the Coast Guard operate airplanes as part .of us standard equipment? i 2. The fall of Constant!. noplo occurred In 1453, 1403, 1MB or 1620? ' '. 3. Name the twin brother o Esau. ' 4. Ibn Sand is king of which country? - : 5. The Now York Stock Exchange was founded un der ;a tree; was It a beech, oak, ash, or buttonwood tree? ' 6. How many children did George Washington have? I 7. Is "hopoing" the pres ent or past partlclpal of "hope?" 8. Name the early Amer ican ' who published "Poor Richard's Almanac." : 9.; Was Mary Plckford, Helen Hayes, or Shirley Tem ple : known as "America's Sweetheart?" 10. What Is the size of a "hand" as used In measuring the height of horses? . , . Answem l.Yee. 2. 1453, J. Jacob. 4. Saudi Arabia. 5. But tonwood free. 9. None. 7. No "Hopink" is. . Benjamin Franklin. . Mary Plckford. !Q,..r?ur inchtfc Argument About Freedoms Someone recently clipped out a Mail Tribune editorial and for some reason mailed it to our old friend; Giles French, the crusty, outspoken, tough skinned and soft hearted editor of the Sherman County Journal, in the pleasant little wheat coun try town oi Moro. So Giles sat him down at his typewriter, and wroie as ioiiows : FREEDOMS An editor of the Medford Mail Tribune, signing himself as E. A., which should make him Eric Allen, wrote an editorial In August in which he inquires rhetorically "What freedoms have you lost lately." It was his contention that conservatives In arguing -' against the new deal cited loss of freedoms without being specific as what ones. It is true that the growth of populations limits the freedoms of an Individual. That is natural and cannot be helped. But the growth of government under the new deal type of thinking has limited freedoms much faster than the increased population would make , necessary. E. A. does admit that he has noticed the loss of - freedom to spend his own money, which is important but less so than others. He mentions the freedom to starve to death in old age. That Is certainly a lost freedom and a very important one. The freedom to fail is necessary to the freedom to succeed. No people can be free unless some can fall; no society can make progress unless the un fit and unworthy can fall. On the other side there must be rewards for the successful. We are so bound by laws and union regulations that a man can hardly tell whether he is a success or a failure. A boy starts school at six and barring deliber ate refusal to cooperate is graduateed at eighteen from high school. He gets a Job and if he pays his union dues he keeps it until social security retires him. Thousands of such persons have insufficient freedom to tell whether they are a success or a failure. They never tried. Without the freedom to die broke man becomes like a barnyard animal fed by the solicitous hand of the master. That is the philosophy of materialism which which Karl Marx gave such a boost because he never could make a living at anything. That is the philosophy that elevates the stomach over the spirit, the belly over the brain. Sure, E. A., the freedom to starve is a real one. Without the freedom to starve there can be no free- dom to succeed, no opportunity to do things for one self. The nation, therefore, loses the fresh approaches of the brave and adventurous, and becomes stale and stodgy for where there is no reward for thinking there is none and the end is dismal drabness. If Americans are to be men they will welcome the adventure of living and accept the penalties of failure; if they are to be steers in a feed lot they will think only of a manager full of grain. Take your pick. AS IS often the case in arguments of this na ture, the opponents agree on many points and their disagreement isn't as wide as each might make out. If a starvine man were to stumble into Giles' office, we have a hunch without a handout. Giles' trouble is that starvation. They're two different . CTARVATION is dying for lack of food, and there can be a dozen causes. Failure is not getting clone these things which you, or society, think are important to get clone. Some of the worst failures we know are well-to-do men. '.. Some of the most successful people we know are poor. . , And if Giles thinks that the world of today has fewer truly successful people than it had before, we've got news for him there are more successful people today than ever before. Thre are more "failures," too, of course. There are more people. But the proportion is about the same as it ever was ; if anything, the proportion of successful people has gone up a bit as the op portunity for education has broadened. CO, UP to this point we have received two replies to our inquiry "What freedoms have you lost lately?" 1. Giles French says we've lost the freedom to starve in old age. We still think that's a lousy freedom, in the richest nation on earth. And, despite Giles, we still have the freedom to strug gle and work and make a success of life. Every one we know, who's worth knowing, is doing just that including Giles French. 2. In a communication it is alleged, in a gloriously confused way, that today "abortion abounds; and there is the growing acceptance of euthanasia." What this has to do with the subject at hand the loss of individual freedom due to governments escapes us. THERE is much freedom in this land today. But there seems to be an increasing trend for people not to use is as they should. Too many peoule are meekly ouiet when they should speak out on issues of the day. -. Too many people are afraid to dissent, to pro test against social conformities and picayunish traditions and customs. 1 . . IF WE have lost freedom, it is not because of frfiVOlninnf ifo Kfna on i n it nf . anoiol f.V V allllill' R11U 1VO services. It is because of fear: terial things; of failure to think and probe and wonder about the whys and wherefores of things, and to speak out acrainst fat-headed, stuffed- shirt, greedy, materialistic nincompoops. No, Giles. You are as free today as your grandfather was, except in those things where your freedom infringes on that of others in a world growing crowded And if trio froorlmn tn hooray, say we. E.A. , " he wouldn't go away he equates failure with things. Ul Villi's. - OUV (. of over-attention to ma too fast. Dam, ? JiniaHr.rr o uuiiuiiwiiiij, Dennis the Menace MWSiSSW ESS ' Qay, you sure must have ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor must bear the nam and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the. right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication 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 me case. Begging the Question To the Editor: The reply to Mr. M. J. Olsen that appear ed in last Sunday's (Sept. 11) paper certainly was a master piece of evasion and begging the question. The only question that was answered was concerning the national debt and the answer that such a debt in private business "would be a private affair with the creditors do ing the worrying" shows desire to bury the issue with out letting anyone else real ize that it is there. I also wonder just how you can judge if Mr. Olscn is pray ing without conviction? I cer tainly wouldn't want to make that judgment myself. I be lieve that even many religious persons who deny some of the things that I consider fun- elemental to Christianity may pray Just as sincerely as I do. And, as for the accomplish ments of the Russians in the lust 40 years, if America had not , 'saved the bacon" for them in two (sic) world wars and financed them through several emergencies they wouldn't even be here to be making threats at us. Their government has been run on other people's dollars from its Inception. Ask the Spanish what happened to all their gold and silver reserves in 1936. Moscow claimed it was all used up in pursuing the "People's War." Incidentally, the perpetrators of that crime were later found to have de posits in various banks throughout Europe of over $100,000 each. You say that the national debt was accumulated under free enterprise. True. But it was a far cry from the free enterprise of 40 years ago. I would assert that Social ism Is a Godless system that is thoroughly discredited and the only reason that it is problem to us today is be cause we have aidud and abetted It in its establishment For not "championing any cause or religion," Mr. Reese you certainly go out on e limb to praise all that Russia docs and that Socialism does. Dorland F. Woods Prospect, Ore. What E. A. Did To the Editor: Will you please state in your columns what E. A. was doing during the war. Was he in the tren ches at one dollar a day or did he have a nice soft job with the paper at 40 or SO per day? L. W. Coiey (World Wor I Veteran) Phoenix, Ore. Editor's note: E. A. Pfc, ASN 308B30B4, 002nd TG, AAF. Disch. 7 Jan 44 under Sec. II AR61B-36 and SO No. 5, Par, 35 HQ TS & BTC No. 12, AAFWTTC. Routine Process To the Editor: Knowingly or otherwise, your editorial Sept. IS, 1060 Is part of a rou tine process, . National security becomes a term devoid of meaning, and observant and informed pa triots are worn away from their purpose by the futile de fense against the shameful and wallowing, yet Immense ly powerful, dally, or secular, or popular, or liberal press, which has pragmatically (now called realistically) chosen to utterly disassociate itself with the truth on these matters of security. Your remarkably su perficial and negative defini tion of security hardly at tains even that vague norm which qualifies as newsprint for public consumption. The Journalistic process for at least the past 25 years has becn 10 rit legitimate investigations, whether by In I dividual! or Congressional a LQMG clothesline ; committees, apriori. Remem ber, only individuals or the groups themselves have been condemned, while all evidence in these matters has been de liberately ignored. Consider a case at random. The FBI carries on an investi gation; a Congressional com mittee uncovers large amounts of evidence; a defector from communism in this country voluntarily comes forth with further testimony; another de fector seeks asylum from com munism in West Germany and Army Intelligence adds their bit of evidence. As a result, through unbe lievable coincidence, all this evidence from all these groups and individuals over lay and completely substanti ate each other. There is no apparent variation. Rather a very clear picture of subver sion is painted. Then the news wires, the commentators, and editors get a hold of the story. The first step is to ignore the evidence, because at present it appears to be incontrovertible; but declare all those involved in the investigation as being demagogues, or opportunists, or threats themselves to seJ curity, or "witch hunters," or "cowards." . Couple this with a sea of ref erence in the press to the Rus sian technological advance, and the obvious superiority of the Soviet methods (Nome on file letter Sept. 15),-and be fore you know it the FBI, the Congressional committee, the ex-communists, and Army In telligence is completely dis credited, or at least forgotten The process of misinforma tion is successful, and we may continue to smugly, sup fur ther into slavery with silly contented smiles on our faces. R. J. Howard 828 B West 14th st. Medford. Police Headaches To the Editor: He was heav ing favoritism-loaded "brick bats" at Medford, its police force in particular. When ask ed for something more be lievable than lung -wind, he gloatingly produced a much used letter to the Editor. It was the one in early season that accused a police traffic officer of passing up a big new car with parking viola tion flag up, and putting a ticket on a workingman's jalopy, also overtime. He con sidered it a squelcher. My version was that the parking meter was out of whack and had been listed for fixing. A few inquiries at police headquarters proved me wrong. There was a form of favoritism, but only extended to out-of-state cars, obviously tourist or private, that got a first offense courtesy card clipped under the wiper, In the Interest of interstate har mony, but that this practice does not extend to commercial cars, like the ones carrying sample cases, etc. It was also lnstrucuve to learn that the Name on File letter had hardly hit the news stands when a check was put out locating the traffic officer concerned, who explained that headquarters was out of courtesy cards from the Cham ber of Commerce so, having none on hand, the fancy tour ist car had to be passed up. Just to complete the inquiry, It was found that the name and address of the Name On File party was not listed in the city directory, city water dept., or with the power, light and heat facilities. Also a trip out South Grape st. way to the address given was found to be a most primitive place of abode, a weedy, empty lot. Recently, a parking-lot care taker complained to the police of empty beer bottles being thrown his way. The thrower proved to be a fighting type female next door who ex Foreign Notebopk: United Nations; Red By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign edltor'i notebook: - Russia ts. United Nations The Soviet Union is ex tremely annoyed with United Nations Secretary-general Dag Hammarskiold's handling the Congo cri sis, but Com munist diplo mats do not Imply they want him fir ed - at least for the time being. When Soviet Premi- er Nikita K h r u shchev makes his U.N. appearance it will be to level sharp at tacks at U.N. Congo policy but at the same time to stress the growing importance of the world body. Red Harassment No matter what actions the plained that she- was merely returning empties that beer guzzlers had tossed her way, Despite such justification, it was explained that throwing of bottles or trash anywhere is a serious offense and would not be allowed; that she should have reported it in and prompt inquiry would have been ordered, the same as for the caretaker. Such places are ever a source of trouble that the city police are constantly concerned with. But with limited personnel, such places cannot be pa trolled as they should be. F. J. Clifford Route 2, Box 200F Central Point, Ore. Liquor License Protest To the Editor: Recently prominent business place in this area has undergone renovation: As none should deny, it presents a much bet ter appearance than formerly. We do not know where all of the money came from but the Investors are naturally inter ested in the financial success of the undertaking. . Now to a touchy subject. A liquor license was applied for, The first application was de nied or put off. The case was appealed and as we now un derstand the license has been granted. It was a warmly con tested issue. Some very prominent Ash land citizens are behind the securing of this license. One of them personally told me that liquor was needed to put the place on the profit side. In fact I fear he was a bit disturbed over my feelings about the matter. Those of us who do not drink are not trying to de prive anyone of their liberty If it's anyone who is, doing this, it's the drinker. Why? Simply this. When one places himself under the influence of alcohol and drives down our highways he Immediately poses a threat to the liberty of others. If my liquor drink ing friends can assure us that this has not and will not happen, then we might not say what we do. The trouble is that many who oppose this diabolical traffic are fearful of financial reverses should they voice their protests. My small efforts against this enemy liquor don't amount to much, I know. But if we would and could sense the responsibility we owe one another, we'd do more to battle an enemy that is loose in our midst. If a rattlesnake were turned loose he'd pose a far less threat than liquor on the loose, simply because all of us would promptly take proper measures to get rid of him. Not so with liquor. We coddle and fondle it. We try and see how high class we can make the places selling it. Regardless of the dispenser, whether he be a high rate placu with out of state money behind it, or a skid row joint, the stuff sold makes bums, potential killers and derelicts just the same. Can we wash our hands in the matter and not be quilty before God and yet voice our approval of this stuff? It's high time to stop and think. Henry Johnson Jr. 2400 Highway 66 Ashland, Ore. Freedom and Taxes To the Editor: In answer to Mr. C. R. Burrill's letter to the Editor In the Sept. 12 is sue of the Mail Tribune. I be lieve he read much more into my letter than I intended or perhaps I did not make my self clear. Our found.-ng fathers wrote the Constitution, with the ex perience fresh in their minds of what a government with too much taxing power could do to the freedoms of the in- Communist bloc may take at the U.N., they have plenty of opportunities to stir up trou ble elsewhere. Western diplomats fear the Soviets may be considering harassing actions In the three 20-m!le-wide air corridors to West Berlin. The stage for So viet intereference could have been set by the Soviet charge the Big Three are using the corridors illegally to transport militarists to the city. The So viets have increased their pa trol activity in the vicinity of the corridors, and on Friday scored a "near miss" when one of their fighters nearly collid ed with a British air trans port. Another trouble spot is Laos. Unconfirmed t e p o r ts that Communist-led military units have infiltrated the jun A 'Look at the Record' Shows Communist Plan of By LYLE C. WILSON Washington-IUPD-Too bad Al Smith isn't around to deal with the United Nation's most d i stinguished v 1 s i t o r, the Soviet Un ion's Nikita S. Khrushchev, Al Smith had a way with phonies His way was to hear them out, consider (. c wuioo weir proposi tions carefully and then to propose: "Let's look at the record." False arguments and false men could not survive Al Smith under such circum stances when he went nosing into the record of the past to determine the judgment of the present and the 'future. Al Smith is gone, but the Foreign Policy Research Insti tute of the University of Penn sylvania is very much alive. The Institute prepared and the government printed a 40-page pamphlet entitled "Khru shchev's Strategy and Its Meaning for America." This pamphlet is not always pleasant reading for an Amer ican or for any free man. K's strategy is doing pretty well. Its meaning for America is not good. Much of the Com munist- record and of Khru dividual. With that knowl edge fresh in their minds they did eVL-ry thing possible, In the writing of the Constitu tion, to stop the federal gov ernment from ' getting that hold on the American people. That is the reason for the state governments. They knew that It would be easier for the taxpayer to keep tabs on his tax dollar, and also that if a man thought his state was getting out of hand tax wise, he could go to another state, instead of another coun ty like they had to do. A good example of this is our foreign aid spending. Once Congress votes foreign aid funds the executive branch of the government handles the disbursment of the funds. For millions of these dollars no one can ques tion what we are getting for them. There is just no control over them. Is that American- Ism, Mr. Burrill? I think not, I think it is another seed of Socialism. As for our national debt, did not say I was against fighting a war for freedom. I did not say I was against na tional defense. I did not say I was against old age assist ance. However, I am against our federal government being In competition in hundreds of businesses with private enter prise. 1 am against the fed eral government buying huge farm surpluses. I am against federal aid to education. I am also against foreign aid. These are but a few of the reasons for our staggering national debt. I do think and believe in good education and old age assistance, I will always be lieve them to be a local or state problem. We never have and never will get full value from our tax dollars by send ing them to Washington and getting back what is left when the Socialistic minded bureau crats have spent what they think is necessary for other things. I was sorry to rcaa tnai you tninR a people wun public debt of about 23 bil lion dollars 30 years ago, and now have or are facing a public debt of 700 billion dol lars, "have a better way of life." Somehow your reason ing escapes me. Speaking of losing freedom Mr. Burrill, please don't for get that everytime we lose a little freedom, we become more slave. I am with you on the last part of your letter. Let's all work for Americanism. Edwin A. Olsen 190 Clover Lane, Medford. U.S. vs. U.S.S.R. in o Harassment Viewed gle borders of Laos from Com munist North Viet Nam sug gest that Red Chinese leader Mao Tse-Tung might be try ing to . make his "invisible presence" felt at the U.N. Gen eral Assembly. Mao started the 1958 Quemoy crisis be cause he wanted to resume negotiations with the United States in Poland. A Laotian crisis now would create atten tion for China by shifting the world news scene' away from the Congo which Russia has dominated. Red Strategy The Bonn West German government has its own ideas of Soviet strategy. The Ger mans expected Khrushchev to reveal sensational disarma ment proposals to impress rep resentatives of new African shchev's record is there, how ever. The pamphlet is some thing every American should read if only to insulate his mind against K's effort to brainwash the United States with smartly conceived prop aganda. First Objective ' The, institute study finds disarmament to be K's prime strategic and tactical objec tive. Disarmament of the Unit ed States and of the West, that is. His disarmament pro posals and other sweet talk of co-existence are likened to just so many tranquilizer pills. The United Nations' dis tinguished guest hopes to "tranquilize" the West with co-existence. Page 31 of the pamphlet of fers the Communist record on disarmament. Not merely K's record but the Communist record since Maxim Litvinov in November, 1927, proposed across-the-board disarmament to the conference then sitting in Geneva. The institute study finds that Litvinov's 1927 proposal curiosly parallels both in ap proach and substance the across - the - board proposals Khrushchev made to the U.N. General Assembly one year ago Friday when he was visit Washington Report By WILLIAM TAKING CLEAR TURN Washington - The Kennedy Johnson Democratic presi dential ticket is now taking a clear turn to ward a rela tively more c o nservalive position, but it may be too late a turn in t h e south and border states, any how. E x tremelv Bad news for the Democrats, for example, :.-s just come from Georgia, a state never in modern history carried by a Republican presidential can didate and a state which, above all others in the south, the Democrats had believed to be safe for November. Against the universal ex pectation of the professional politicians, Georgia Demo- crats have turned in an ad visory vote favoring unpledg ed electors rather than elect ors committed to the Demo cratic ticket. THIS does not necessarily mpan thn final Inc. A Georgia to Sens. John Ken nedy and Lyndon Johnson. But It is a heavy blow, at the very least. If they should go on to carry the state in No vember, a majority of the electors no doubt would still cast most of the state's elec toral vote for the Kennedv- Johnson ticket. For, most of the electors already had en dorsed that ticket. (People In no state, of course, vote directly for presidential candidates. Thev vote instead for a slate of electors which In turn Is bound by long custom, but noi actually by law, to cast the state's electoral vote for the presidential candidate re ceiving a majority in Novem ber.) What the Georgia Demo crats have done, in short, is this: They have said they do not wish to see Kennedy and Johnson automatically take Georgia's electoral vote, even if they win the popular vote in November. They have not said they would automatically prefer the Republican ticket of Nixon and Lodge, either. THEY have only said that they want to see the state's electoral vote withheld alto-, gether. This is in the hope that, in the highly unlikely event of a national tie for the presidency, Georgia would be in position to bargain. Such William S. White and Asian nations, also Latin America. Bonn feels that anal ysis of the Khrushchev pro posals will show, as before, that what he really wants first of all is the removal of U.S. bases In West Germany. Dim View in Franco France will boycott any General Assembly debate on Algeria and already has warn ed it will ignore any U.N. de cision which might favor the Algerian rebels. But there might be additional troubla for France over Morocco's claims to the African French community of Mauritania and over the Mali Federation from which Senegal walked a few days ago. As a last resort, France might threaten to quit the U.N. Duplicity ing tne. united States. K re ferred to the 1927 proposal when he made his own last year. The Institute said "his claim to an honest offer to dis arm was not well served by alluding to the Litvinov pro posals," One year after Lit vinov wanted to down arms, the sixth World Congress of the Communist International cynically revealed the true purpose of the disarmament plan. Pure propaganda. Tha Aim "The aim of the Soviet pro posals is not to spread paci fist illusions," the congress held, "but to destroy them . . . disarmament and the aboli tion of war are possible only with the fall of capitalism. It goes without saying, that not a single Communist thought for a moment that the impe rialists would accept the So viet disarmament proposals." Thatvis part of the record. Another part is the institute's conclusion on the basis of available facts that "K's dis armanment campaign is to clear the strategic landscape of a serious roadblock to world revolution by obtaining the nuclear disarmament oi the West." Perhaps then K could make good on his boast to bury us. S. WHITI a tie would throw the election into the House of Representa tives for a decision there. Now, all these things al-, most certainly will not hap pen. But what will surely happen is this: The Georgia straw vote - which already means the repudiation of Gov. S. Ernest Vandiver as a pro- Kennedy man - will put fear into every Democratic leader in that state, and all over the south. It is an ominous por tent for Kennedy and John s o n everywhere below the Mason-Dixon line. Doubtless, Georgia Republicans entered the Democratic referendum as "ringers." But,' let's face it; there are not many Georgia Republicans. Georgia's two Senators,. Richard Russell and Herman Talmadge, had been awaiting the straw vote in the expecta tion that It would give them a mandate to back Kennedy and Johnson. The mandate has not come, and the lesson' will- be read among other powerful southern politicians. It would be unwise to bet much that Russell and Tal madge - or Governor Van- diver for that matter - will now break thetr backs to carry Georgia for the, Ken nedy-Johnson ticket, y IN THE meantime, both Ken npriv nnH .Tnhncnn a Vo.f been forecast recently in this column, had already begun to move a bit away from the Democratic left wing. In the very home of left-wingismj New York, Kennedy had in effect publicly rejected ultra- liberalism, on the very night the Georgia ballots were be ing counted. Johnson at the same moment was moving into the west with a cry for conservatism in spending and taxes. ; 4 The point needs underlining again: The Democrats would be in trouble in the south, and among moderate-to-con- servatlve Democrats every where, If Kennedy's Catholie religion had never been raised against him and if civil rights- had never been heard of. ' His brave and moving re sponse to the so-called "Cath olic Issue" is one thing. But the ultra liberal Democratie convention platform - prepar ed mostly by men who never won an election to anything and never could - remains a heavyweight upon the Kennedy-Johnson ticket ' (Copyright. 1SS0, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
