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Medford and Jackson County
History from the flies of The
Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. 7, 1950 (Saturday)
A search by the local draft
board for an Ashland youth
who failed to show for his pre
inductlon physical ended yes
terday when it was discovered
that the youth had enlisted in
the Army in Portland several
months ago.
The new bridge at Rogue
River was dedicated yester
day in official ceremonies, but
it is still without a name;
three names have been sug
gested - Joshua Patterson,
Woodville and Tallholt - but
none has proved acceptable to
all concerned and It was de
cided to dedicate the bridge
anyway.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 7, 1940 (Wednesday)
nroimn rtnv. Charles A
Cnrodnn tnHav nropri voters to
vole against a measure that
would permit tne private stue
or liquor.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "One of
the 1041 models had a run
ning board that wasn't there
stepped on yesterday by Its
driver."
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 7, 1930 (Thursday)
The state labor convention
here yesterday voted to favor
a llminr prohibition law.
Julius Meier, independent
candidate for governor, cam
paigned here yesterday,
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 7. 1920 (Saturday)
An Indian summer followed
a light snow at Crater Lake
this week. 1
A Medford resident has
turned up safely after being
lost in Diamond lake country.
50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 7. 1910 (Friday)
Partial results of last week's
primary election indicate that
Republican Jay uowerman
and Democrat Oswald West
have won their respective
party's nomination for Gov
ernor. The Ashland Elks club will
dedicate their new temple
week and have arranged to
have a special display of elec
tric lights for the occasion.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is suparleri
seven or eight Is excellent! five ei
la Is good.
1.
Wirr Ihe "Soven Wond-
ers of the Ancient World" all
works of man?
2. Was Cassandra a famed
Macedonian general, a Greek
city, or an ancient proph
etess? 3. Which department did
Herbert Hoover hea. in the
cabinet of Calvin Coolldge?
4. Is Hypnophobia a dread
of breaking a leg, morbid
fear of sleep, or desire to be
come unconscious?
5. Is whisky, or Is it not,
an approved medical antidote
for snakebite?
6. Which state Is nick
named tiie "Buckeye State"?
7. With equal wind vel
ocity, would you say that
telegraph wires hum loudest
In cold or hot weather?
8. The French engineer,
MaJ. Pierre C. L'Enfant, de
signed the original plan of
which U. S. city?
9. Are dj-agonflles harmful
to man?
10. Was "Old Ironsides" a
sloop, frigate, or corvette?
Answers! 1. Ym, 2. Prophe
tess. 3. Department of Com
merce. 4 Fear of sleep. 5. Is
not. 6. Ohio. 7. Cold weather.
8. Washington. D. C, 9. No
10. Frigate.
The Rise of Homo Sapiens
We're all famfliar with the old answerless
question, "Which came first, the chicken or the
egg?"
There is another similar question, a bit more
complicated, but the answer seems closer.
The question can be phrased thus: "Did early
man invent tools, or did tools assist in the evo
lution of the sub-human creatures which became
early man?"
CHERWOOD WASHBURN, professor of an
thropology at the University of California,
leans toward the latter hypothesis.
In the Scientific American, he reports:
"From rapidly accumulating evidence, it is now
possioie to speculate witn some confidence on the
manner in which the way of life made possible by
tools changed the pressures of natural selection and
so changed the structure of man. Recent findings in
Africa show that creatures able to run but not yet
to walk on two legs, and with brains no larger than
those of apes now living, had already learned to make
and use tools. It follows that the structure of modern
man must be the result of the change in the terms of
natural selection that came with the tool-using way
of life."
AFTER describing the
ha orlrfo
"What subsequently evolved was the pattern of
life of intelligent, exploratory, playful, vigorous pri
mates; the evolving reality was a succession of Social
systems based upon the motor abilities, emotions and
intelligence of their members. Selection produced
new systems of child care, maturation and sex, just
as did alterations in the skull and teeth. Tools, hunt
ing, fire, complex social life, speech, the human way
and the brain evolved together to produce ancient man
of the genus Homo about half a million years ago.
Then the brain evolved under the pressures of a more
complex life until the species Homo sapiens appeared
perhaps as recently as 50,000 years ago."
Once this was accomplished, Professor Wash
burn notes, the stage was
rapid advance. The details
history are better known than the mistv pre
history of the time when
ana men going inrougn
r 11.. i;-
ui lamuy, uiucti, nuiiiauic, agricultural, city ana
early national life.
THE increasing speed of human development
lnll'imioo Pit. f ArnAn "IaTo -.L, L,, !l LAa
uiuiigucc iiuicooui rr
He says:
"Today, in the midst of the latest tool-making revo
lution, man has achieved the capacity to adapt his
environment to his need and impulse, and his'numbers
have begun to crowd the planet.
"Thus In ourselves we see a structure, physiology
and behavior that is the result of the fact that some
populations of apes started to use tools a million
years ago. The pebble tools constituted man's princi
pal technical adaptation for a period at least 50 times
as long as recorded history.
"As we contemplate man's present eminence, it is
well to remember that, from the point of view of
evolution, the events of the last 50,000 years occupy
but a moment in time. Ancient man endured at least
10 times as long, and the man-apes for an even longer
time." -
ALSO, as we "contemplate man's present em-
mence, we are faced with a new challenge,
one which is only about 15 years old namely,
the fact that in his brief span mankind has fi
nally achieved the power of self-destruction.
He has, for the most part, achieved control
of his environment. He has solved the problem
of adequate supplies of food (at least for his
present numbers). He has solved unbelievably
complex technological problems in transporta
tion, communication, manufacturing.
And yet, despite all these triumphs, man still
is not a success. And he will not be a success
until he learns, at long last, how to distribute
these good things, and, more important, how to
get along with himself.
The tools are at hand for an idyllic, produc
tive, creative, happy life. But we have not yet
achieved it. We may never do so.
e
"THERE is, however, one rule of life which, if
universally adopted,-
and by their social organisms including nations,
would make possible just such a life.
The lesson was written many, many years
ago, and it occurs in virtually every major re
ligion. This rule, phrased
remains the same, and is
universal rule of conduct. The version we all
know best goes:
"Do unto others as
do unto you. b. A.
AWF and UMC
Congratulations are
United Fund drive, which went over its goal with
a whoop and holler in just a few days.
This is the kind of civic responsibility and
public-spirited response which makes a city a
good place to live.
It must have made the workers in the United
Medford Crusade sit up and take notice, a bit,
for, although they're doing fine so far, they can't
begin to compare with the speed that the A-T
drive succeeded.
THERE are arguments against United Fund
drives some of them valid; most of them
nothing more than "excuses" not to give.
But even the valid negative arguments are
far overbalanced by the arguments in favor of
the UFs, and the many worthwhile things which
are accomplished with the donated dollars.
The story of the UMC has been told in some
detail elsewhere in the Mail Tribune over the
months and years. This, then, is simply a re
minder that now is the time to do your bit toward
making it a success, and maintaining Medford's
long-standing reputation as a good place to
live. E. A.
finds in some detail,
set for an even more
of mankind's recorded
mankind was evolving
tne successive periods
i ?i - i
aoiiMuiu, sj lb naa ua.
both by individual men
in many different ways,
still the only truly basic,
you would have others
due the Ashland-Talent
Dennis the Menace
1 didn't use upjflywa perfume scwe
OF ITS -STILL W MV WATER PISTOL."
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
VITAL DIALOGUE
Washington - The truly vi
tal world dialogue now going
on is not the public debate be
tween the free west and the
Soviet east, for this will not
soon come to
anything, any
how. It , is
rather, an ur
gent p rivate
discussion be
tween the
west and the
so - called neu
t r a 1 or un
committed na
tions. And the kernel of this frank
talk is that the west, through
its top leaders, is now telling
the neutralists that their free
ride at last is over. They must
now decide whether any sort
of order is to be left in this
world, through the United
Nations, or whether they wish
to remain so very nobly "un
committed" as to help the
Soviet Union destroy that last
hope and agency for peace.
For a decade now the neu
tralists have been the canon
ized saints of international
knee-jerk liberalism, the one
set of really good guys on all
this earth, They would join
neither west nor east. Instead
they pointed accusing fingers
at both, though mainly at the
west, while scooping up all
they could get in aid money
from each-though, again,
mainly from the west.
THIS policy in itself has in
evitably appealed to knee
jerk liberalism . - herein de
fined as the kind of liberalism
which favorably reacts to the
pompous self-righteousness of
neutralism as automatically as
a knee tapped by a physician's
rubber hammer, -
The international knee-Jerk-ers,
though never pro-Soviet,
have always refused real al
legiance to the west. After all,
the west includes the bad old
"colonial powers," like Brit
ain and France. And there is
another country, the United
States, which has thus far re
fused to throw away its nucle
ar safeguards just because the
neutralists-and the Soviet Union-thought
it ought to do so.
The knee-jerk mind, like
the very similar neutralist
mind, has remained proudly
untouched by all the massive
evidence against . its happy
theories. Some of the saintly
lands of neutralism - notably
the country of the neutralist
archangel, Prime Minister
Nehru of India, and Sukarno's
Indonesia-are manifestly rath
er shorter on civil liberties for
most of the people than were
the nasty old "colonial" re
gimes they succeeded
A GAIN, Nehru himself can
make at the United Na
tions a speech of interminable
length and breadth and all
that, but one which has a
small fault: It is difficult even
for the experts to determine
for sure whose side he is on
and when.
Any western statesmen so
curiously unburdening Mm-
self would be Instantly de
nounced as a straddler and
trimmer, at best. But not
Nehru, of course; his address
is only another illustration of
the profound sensitivity and
"intellectualism" of the best
neutralist minds. -
All the same, time and cir
cumstances now seem to be
running on the side of those
forces of common sense which
are urging ttr9 neutrals to
leove their angelic sphere and
come down Into the rude cock
pit of the rude world of today.
For one illustration, the left
wing of the labor party in
England now proposes dis
armament" schemes so horrj
fyingly irresponsible
tastically suicidal as to give
pause to the knee-jerk liberals
outside Britain, and to some
extent even inside it.
, T TIIE same time, the anti-
knee Jerk leaders prime
William I.
rhit
S. WHITE
ministers Harold Macmillan
of Britain and Robert Gordon
Menzies of Australia, along
with our own people In the
U.N. are putting in some
heavy licks. This is about
what they are saying to the
neutralists:
"You think military alli
ances for safety against Com
munist imperialism are evil.
You take pride in the 'inde
pendence' of your neutralism.
Whatever you may think to be
wrong with the west, we at
any rate cannot possibly be
called the people who are try
ing to break up the United Na
tions. "And "since you don't be
lieve in alliances, and are for
ever howling about 'disarma
ment' at every cost, where In
the world will you have any
voice, any protection, if you
now help Khrushchev to
smash this one place where
you can practice your orecious
'neutralism' in safety?"
(Copyright, 1960, By United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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False Issues
To the Editor: Facts remain,
as even the Republican big
wigs well know, that private
enterprise, like Hoover rug
ged individualism, cannot
ever again be self - sustained,
or even survive without Gov
ernment credit, often referred
to as priming the pump.
The Republican big wigs
will allow the pump to be
primed too little and much
too late, and only after reach
ing their desired quota of mil
lions unemployed, and then
only when recession gets deep
enough to threaten Big Busi
ness. That has ever been the
Republican creed, it remains
their veiled policy notwith
standing their lean toward
Democratic ideology at elec
tion time. Basically they are
now, as before, a party of
Dog eat Dog, with special
paternalism to the biggest
ones.
Consider what the candi
dates stand for. Mr. Nixon,
with a strong aversion toward
his humble past, has with
consuming passion pursued a
course to fortune that may
lead as the winds of fortune
blow. The obstacles must fall,
fair or foul, Nixon is for
Nixon.
In deep contrast, Kennedy
is a man with vision of na
tional purpose, who has the
moral fortitude to understand
that in priming the pump, it
must be done in time to fore
stall sinking spells into re
cessions before disastrous un
employment develops, before
the little fellow s mortgage is
foreclosed, before recession
ridden, and depression-motivated
crimes may be commit
ted. In Kennedy lies the hope
of the future, to rise above the
big wigs' abject surrender to
the evils of our time.
With respect to economy in
Government, a -stitch in time
saves nine, but the economy
minded Republican bosses do
not ever comprehend. With
characteristic lethargy and
willful procrastination, they
walked, stumbled or bungled
into the 1958 recession. There
they economized the treasury
Into a $12 billion deficit.
There they economized the
people they threw out of work
into a $40 billion loss of
wages, and the nation a $100
DrrQbillion loss of commerce, in
fair nn. vear.
It seems this money wise
gang can afford anything that
is expensive to you, not to
improve your lot, but to pur
sue their primary purpose, to
subdue and control labor and
small business, to advance the
Tito Feels
Cold War
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
The' man-of-the-w e e k:
President Tito of Yugosla
via. The place: New York.
The quote: "We have
done, together with our
friends, everything that
was in our power to nar
row the gap and reduce
tension between East and
West and to enable the As
sembly to work in a con
structive way. But the re
sults achieved in this re
spect so far are less than
modest. What is more, I
feel that the atmosphere of
the cold war has been in
tensified and this is what
causes concern."
Saying that, Jesip Broz-
Tito, Marshal of Yugoslavia,
independent Communist and
one of the
world's most
1 n f 1 u e ntial
neutrals, sail
ed for home
after two
weeks of poll
ticking and
m a neuvering
at the current
United Na-
phil newsom Hons ueneral
Assembly. The stocky Com
munist boss of the small
Balkan nation did his best to
warm up the atmosphere of
the cold war while he was in
New York.
He took the initiative in
calling together other leading
neutralists and proposing
another meeting between
President Ensenhower and
Soviet Premier Nikita Khru
shchev.
At its end, they came up
with a formal resolution
which they dropped into the
Assembly hopper. It first
made a "request" for Eisen
hower and Khrushchev to
meet in the interests of eas
ing tensions. Then it was
modified to "express hope"
the two would meet.
Eisenhower and Khrushchev
both rejected the suggestion
before it got through the
General Assembly. But they
didn't say positively. Tito
and his neutralist cohorts
presidents Jawaharlal Nehru
of India, Kwame Nkrumah of
powers of monopoly.
I Since this outfit cannot
hope to be reelected on their
dark brown record, they must
devise other ways to turn the
trick, so they will allow in
jection of false issues to grow
and fester in their behalf.
Sulen Drangen
417 Lane st.
Yreka, Calif.
U.N. Rat's Nest
To the Editor: Does Khru
shchev really want to destroy
the U. N. as he seems to?
Does he even want to remove
it out of the United States?
10 inose wno are wen in
formed the answer is a big
loud "No .
The plan is (American Mer
cury, July, 1959,) to hand
over to Harry Dexter White's
U. N. World Bank control of
the United States economy,
and all our gold. The plan is
for a U.N. pool, situated in
neutral Geneva, or Jerusa
lem, to hold all our hydrogen
and atomic bombs, and guid
ed missiles, and to place all
our forces under the control
of the U. N.
The military department of
the U. N. has always been
headed by a representative of
the Soviet bloc. Its present
head is Anatoly F. Dobryin
of the U.S.S.R. When the fi
nal transfer takes place,
Comrade Dobrynin will have
charge of the U. S. Army, the
U.S. Navy, the U.S. Air
Force and the U. S. Marines.
Fantastic? Not at all. At
this very moment the United
States cannot even defend it
self without first getting per
mission from the U. N.
Before the American peo
ple can be talked into all this
before they will be willing
to surrender thir sovereignty,
and liberties, and freedoms to
this monstrous, anti-American
Tower of Babel t hey
have to be resold on the
"wonders" and "glories" of
the U. N.
And the best way to resell
them is to make them think
that Khrushchev is de
termined to destroy it or
move it while in themean
time the suddenly verP"pow
erful" and "heroic" U. N.
thwarts him on every turn.
Don't letQhis master propa
gandist deceive you. The last
thing in the world he wants
is to destroy or move this
vast base for Russian espion
age so beautifully established
nere on ine American uonu
nent, where his espionage
agents can operate under dip
lomatic immunity.
The U.N. charter, which ,
Ate
U.N. Conclave Intensified
ils in
Ghana, Sukarno of Indonesia
and Gamal Abdel Nasser of
the United Arab Republic
had made the opening
gambit.
Tito sailed for home, and
Nasser left by air. Nehru
stayed and pushed the neu
trals' proposal at the United
Nations.
It won't be for lack of try
ing that the American presi
dent and the Soviet premier
won't meet.
Rise to Power
For Tito, the initiative in
this case was quite in char
acter. He has risen to the top
Both Candidates Leave Door
Open For
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington-fflPD-The presi
dential candidates have left
themselves plenty of room for
lush spending,
w h ic h e v er
takes office
on Jan. 20,
1961.
Both have
just answered
up to a ques
tion from
Scripps - How
ard Newspap-
lh. c wuiof ers, wnicn, in
the common tongue, would
read like this: "Are you
gonna balance the budget and
begin paying off the national
debt, or ain't you?"
"Yes, maybe ," responded
the candidates. Candidate
Nixon said the government
should try to reduce the debt
but that spending for nation
al security takes priority over
all else. Also, he said, the fed
eral government must spend
for essential things the states,
local governments and non
government resources cannot
accomplish. However, he said
to do this federal spending
by deficit financing would
fan inflation and, ultimately,
bring bankruptcy. .
Two Fence-Sitters
The late James E. Watson,
of Indiana, would have de
fined the foregoing as taking
a firm position on both sides
our Congressmen signed
without even reading, is
STILL "the machine-gun that
looks like a baby carriage.
exactly as Senator Jenner
said it was in 1954. It is
STILL the rats' nest for the
promotion of World Commu
nism and slavery" that Gen.
Mark Clark said it was. It is
STILL "the trapdoor to Sta
lin's jail, baited with the
Dove of Peace" just as the
famous lawyer, Glenn O.
Young, described it. Except
that now Khrushchev is the
jailor.
And don't you forget it.
L. C. Powell
316 SE Eighth st.
Grants Pass, Ore.
Thanks, Bill
To the Editor: The follow-.
ing letter is being sent to Bill
Williams, of Pacific Tele
phone, Northwest, and it
would be appreciated if you
would publish it, so the peo
ple may know:
Greetings, Bill:
The state police, the sher
iff's office, and the coroner's
office wish to thank you, and
through you, Pacific Tele
phone, Northwest, for the use
of the emergency truck, and
for the hard work you put in
yourself on Sunday, your day
off, assisting in the recovery
of the bodies of the two Cali
fornia couples from the plane
wreck on Dutchman's Peak.
In that rough country,
without your assistance, and
your winch-equipped vehicle,
this very difficult job would
have been much more diffi
cult, if not well-nigh impos
sible. Again, many thanks, Bill,
for a job well done.
Oregon State Police,
Jackson County
Siieriff's office,
Jackson County
Coroner's office,
Medford.
Hammer It Tongs
To the Editor: I see by your
letters column, Sept. 29, 1960,
that Bill Tugman, my old
friend, is going after me ham
mer and tongs on behalf of
my Republican opponent. He
says he doesn't, however,
question my patriotism and
for that I suppose I should be
duly grateful-
Bill says Criticism is all
right but a pox on my "mis
chievous meddling," such as
suing the Secretary of State
to permit me to go to China,
an action that now awaits the
Reconciliation Try
by acting on his own many
times in the past.
The peasant son of peasant
parents, he became a lock
smith and then a professional
Communist worker.
He took a poor nation of
17 mililon persons and made
the world think it is im
portant. He fought the Germans in
World War II and at its end
emerged the victor in the in
tramural war with General
Mikhailovich. The latter was
shot, and Tito became un
disputed boss of Yugoslavia.
He was anathema to the
Deficit Financing
of the question.
Candidate Kennedy, re
sponding to the national debt
budget question, said it was
extremely important to main
tain a balanced budget-if pos
sible! Kennedy said a great
emergency of national secur
ity or serious unemployment
would warrant an unbalanced
budget.
It is the consensus, how
ever, of those who have read
the Democratic platform-not
many, probably-that a great
deal of unbalanced deficit
spending is written into that
platform's numerous prom
ises. Candidate Kennedy
stands four-square on the
Democratic platform. So, how
much promise is there from
the Democrats or Republicans
that inflation-breeding deficit
spending will cease?
Not mnch, is a reasonable
answer to that question.
Neither candidate came up to
the question with a simple,
unqualified answer. Neither,
evidently, has any plan to re
duce the national debt and
to maintain a balanced budg
et, else the possessor of such
a plan would have mentioned
it in response to a direct ques
tion. People Don't Complain
Candidate Nixon is an able
and experienced politician.
When he says that deficit
spending would fan inflation
consideration of the Supreme
Court. Bill doesn't discuss my
widely stated belief that a
Member of Congress has a
duty to inform himself first
hand where . possible so that
his decisions .can . be based
firmly on the best facts, as
well as other reasons for a
different China policy.
Bill's partisanship " causes
him to lose whatever object
ivity he did once possess with
respect to politics. I did say
that some (not all) American
investors in Cuba did not de
serve reparations because
they greedily exploited the
Cuban people, hand in hand
with dictators like Batista,
and had received many times
their investment back in
profits.
Bill says he isn't going to
question my patriotism but
he goes right ahead to accuse
me of appeasement and apolo
gizing "for what we are" and
of not having a "positive faith
Jn American principles." He
offers no evidence for such
slurs, but I believe that it
should be plain to any fair
minded reader that Bill is
working hard for the Repub
lican candidate and with no
concern for facts or the real
issues.
I suggest that he, as public
relations man for my oppon
ent, might do him more good
if he helped him produce that
"positive program" which he
promised the voters earlier
this year but which somehow
has never been presented.
Charles O. Porter,
Member of Congress,
Eugene, Ore.
Summer's Dreams
To the Editor:
Beside my .chair outside the
door
So many little creatures
pass,
The lizards scuttle quickly
by.
They all go plop! upon the
grass.
A rotund squirrel ambles
in.
Though fat, he wiggles
'twixt my feet.
Startled, both, we look sur
prised; His cheek-pouch holds a
winter's treat.
A gentling shining hum
mingbird Sits on a cactus by my arm.
He rests from sucking pol
len in,
I gaze, amazed, at all his
charm. ,
A croaking sound from out
a tree.
The frogs' noise comes
from everywhere.
Are they talking back and
forth?
Saying Winter's coming
here?
When the rain comes, I'll
Kremlin for years, but was
reconciled to an extent when
Khrushchev came to nower
There have been hot and cold
moments in that relationship
ever since, but to this day
Tito remains more national,
istic than any other Commu
nist leader.
The United States alone
has poured .more than $2 bit.
lion into Yugoslavia to keep
Tito as a burr under the
Moscow saddle. Tito has
smiled, been charming and
accepted everything giving
little.
and, ultimately, cause nation
al bankruptcy, he means just
that. Mdreover, he Is correct
in his judgment,
That should be ehough to
alarm citizens, to send them
milling into the streets shout'
ing in protest against deficit
spenders; shouting, like the
Cuban mobs, "To the wall."
If the citizens were sharp and
alert, they would yearn to
clobber candidate Nixon be
cause he didn't say yes and
he didn't say no to a question
which, in his own judgment,
relates directly to the nation
al solvency.
Sharp and alert citizens
would yearn to clobber can
didate Kennedy, also. He likes
the big spending Democratic
platform. He still is talking
about unbalancing the budget
to correct serious unemploy
ment despite a years-long
demonstration by Franklin D.
Roosevelt that it won't work.
What ended unemployment in
the Roosevelt administration
was World War II.
There will be plenty of
spending in the next admin
istration, whoever wins. The
big time spender would be a
bolder, better patriot if he i
would accompany his plat
form and other promises to
the welfare state pressure
groups with a promise to lay
on taxes to pay the bill.
be missing
Watching, listening, In my
chair;
Though it's empty through
the winter,
Summer's dream will still
be there.
Mrs. Delbert Casey
Route 2, Box 358
Central Point, Ore.
Nominee's Humility
To the Editor: An open let
ter to all Democrats, and to
all of the thinking, open
minded people who will vote
for our Democratic nominee
this November:
In your zeal and admira
tion for our great Democratic
standard bearer for President,
John Kennedy, have you ever
searched your mind and ask
ed yourself what there is
about this vital, outstanding
young man that arouses the
admiration and loyalty of all
who meet or study him?
In searching and asking my
own mind these questions I
came up with the word "hu
mility." JAin Kennedy's hu
mility is to me what lifts him
head and shoulders above all
the rest, and if he keeps this
great characteristic, which I
believe he will, it will always
raise him above the average
man..
I liked some of the other
Democratic candidates before
our Democratic convention,
but they paled and had some
thing lacking when one heard
John Kennedy speak. When
some of the senior Democratic
advisers hurled charges of
youth and inexperience ai
him, did he stick his chin in j
his collar and become in- j
suited?
He did not.' He replied, "I j
would be glad to 'ask' him (or :
her) for their help and advice
in my campaign for presi
dent." And after his triumph
ant nomination for Democrat
ic President, he has not once
expected our senior advisers
to come to him to give him
their advice. He. has taken
time out from his busy sched
ule to go to them. And, I ven
ture to say, that with all of
the humility that is a part
of his great nature, he has
"asked" our senior advisers
for their help and advice, and
has had his mind open at all
times to listen and learn from
others' experience.
So, without our necessarily
being of any religious faith,
let us as staunch loyal Demo
crats pause a moment as we
contemplate this fine young
nominee of ours, and send out
a thought of hope and faith
that however far in this
world his fate may send John
Kennedy, no matter how great
he may become, that he may
always keep his greatest asset
-his 'humility.'
Pansy Hallock,
Box 24,
Takilma, Or.