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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 ...
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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 '
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