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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackion Countv
History from thi flies ol Tht
Mall Trlb'jn. 10. 20, 30, 40
and SO vara ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 6. 1950 (Monday)
The retail trade committee
of the Jackson County Chan
ber of Commerce today rec
ommended that all stores in
Medford close Saturday in ob
servance of Armistice day,
' The Tiller-Trail highway
was closed yesterday after a
washout occurred 3.S miles
south of Tiller.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. S. 1940 (Wadnssdav)
President Franklin D.
Roosevelt is leading in Ore
gon today for reelection to a
third term dosoite the fact
that Oregon Sen. Charles Mc
Nary is running on the Re
publican ticket for vice presl
dent.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "As
things turned out, some of
the .Public opinion pons were
draws that showed which
way the wind wasn't blow
ing." 30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 6, 1930 (Thursday)
The bill to close the Rogue
river to commercial fishing
went down to defeat in the
state election.
The official count gives E.
M. Wilson a margin of 14
votes in the Medford mayor-
allty race.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 6. 1920 (Saturday)
Plans have been announced
to remodel the Clyde hall at
Phoenix.
Local boscs are selling in
New York at $7.90 a box.
50 YEARS AGO
Nov. 6, 1910 (Sunday)
' The Portland Beavers cinch
ed the Pacific Coast League
baseball pennant last night
with a 7-1 victory over Ver
non, while second place Oak
land was losing game to
San Francisco.
A federal site agent said
here yesterday that it will be
at least two weeks before
the location of Medford's new
federal building will be
known.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nina or tan carracr la luparlon
wen of eight It eicellenti five
ill It good.
1. What Is the square root
of .04?
2. What mythical king of
the lumberjacks scooped up
lakes for a drink and used
trees for tooth picks?
3. Docs the Constitution of
the United States stipulate the
number of members In the
President's Cabinet?
4. How many primary col
ors are needed to make a
complimentary color?
8. For what do the "H's"
stand In the 4-H Club?
6. In what country docs
the greatest amount of annual
rainfall occur?
7. Is the Panama Canal ap
proximately 15. 25, 50, or 350
miles in length?
8. What book in the Bible
is the Apocalypse?
9. What do the years 1837,
1873, 1803 and 1929 have In
common in American history?
10. How many sides are
there to each cell in a honey
comb? Answers: 1. .2, 2. Paul Bun
yan. 3. No, no mention is
made of cabinet. 4. Three.
5. Head, Heart, Hands and
Health. 6. India. 7. 50 mllei.
9. Last book of Now Teita-mant-Rovolatlons.
9. Yean of
financial panic. 10. Six.
Election Letter Winners
The Mail Tribune today is pleased to an
nounce the winners of its election letter writing
contest. Both are Medford High school seniors.
A total of 18 entries was received, 13 for
Kennedy, 5 for Nixon. Letters came from Grants
Pass, Central Point and Ashland, as well as
Medford.
Judging was difficult, for all of the letters
were good, and many
judging (done by the
stall) was originality,
overall etrectiveness.
The winners will receive $25 U.S. savings
Donds trom the Mail
FOR NIXON
To the Editor: I'm back
Ing Vice President Richard
Nixon for the Prosidqncy
of the United States be
cause I believe In the Amer
ican system of Individual
free enterprise,
' It is an Irresponsible
misrepresentation for Jack
Kennedy to allege that the
problems of this nation can
be overcome by artificially
expanding our economy by
federal spending. My gen
eration will be paying for
F.D.R.'s programs. I don't
want my children saddled
with the debt that would
result from Kennedy's In
flationary big government.
Mr. Nixon insists on fis
cal Integrity in a free eco
nomic system. This has ob
viously worked In the past,
and it Is the only system
compatible with the Amer
ican belief in personal
freedom under a strong but
limited government.
Whenever a government
docs for its citizens that
which they have the ca
pacity to do for them-'
selves, it begins to destroy
both their capacity and in
centive to do for thorn
selves. It begins to weaken,
rather than to strengthen,
the foundations of freedom
and the means to progress.
Many people regard our
Constitution as the means
by which government reg
ulates the people. But no,
it is the means by which
people can regulate their
government. We have a Bill
of Rights, not to be sure
that our government will
take care of us, but to in
sure that our government
cannot Interfere 'in our tak
ing proper care of our
selves. Rights are not guaran
teed by the government;
rights are guarantees
against the government, '
even against our own gov
ernment, because this is the
way to keep it a good gov
ernment. Richard Nixon and the
Republican party are not
going to try to buy the
peoples' vote with the tax
payers own money!
I do not say those things
because I tm a Republican;
I am a Republican because
these are the things which
I believe with all my heart.
Jerry E. Gnslincau
(Senior, Medford High
School)
2647 Eastover dr.
Medford.
Candidate Recommendations
FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT
101 John F. Kennedy (D),
and Lyndon B. Johnson (D).
FOR U.S. SENATOR (SHORT TERM)
103 Maurine B. Neuberger (D).
FOR U.S. SENATOR (LONG TERM)
105 Maurine B. Neuberger (D).
FOR REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS,
4TH DISTRICT
108 Charles O. Porter (D).
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE
110 Monroe Sweetland (D).
FOR STATE TREASURER
No Recommendation
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
113 Carl H. Francis (R).
FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE,
JACKSON COUNTY (VOTE FOR TWO)
116 Robert B. Duncan (D).
118 Evelyn (Eve) Nve (R).
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY
120 Gerald J. Scannell, Jr. (D).
FOR COUNTY ASSESSOR
122 Ray J. Schumacher (D).
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER
123 Paul B. Rvnning (R).
FOR COUNTY TREASURER
125 Karl L. Janouch (D).
FOR COUNTY SURVEYOR
No Recommendation
NON-PARTISAN BALLOT
FOR JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT,
POSITION 4
129 William C. Perrv.
FOR JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT,
POSITION 5
,130 Alfred T. Goodwin.
FOR JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT
131 Orval J. Millard.
E.A.
were excellent. Basis of
entire Mail Tribune news
sincerity, torcetulness and
Tribune. Here they are:
FOR KENNEDY
To the Editor: Today,
America stands at the cross
roads. Down one road is
progress and success as the
world's greatest nation,
Down the other road is
status quo and second place
among nations. The direc
tion the United States
chooses will be decided as
each eligible voter casts his
ballot on Nov. 8.
The election of Sen, John
Kennedy for the office of
President can Insure lead
ership in the right direc
tion. Senator Kennedy
fully realizes that America
must be FIRST, not first IF,
first BUT, nor first EX
CEPT. This is the kind of
a country Americans want.
This is the kind, of United
States Senator Kennedy
wants.
Democratic Presidential
nominee Kennedy has spent
his life working towards a
greater America. He is wor
ried when the President of
the United States is forced
to cancel a visit to Japan
because protection against
anti-American mobs cannot
be provided. He is deeply
concerned when Russia puts
the first sputnik into air
and continues to produce
greater rocket-thrusts than
the United States. He Is
gravely worried about Com
munist Cuba lurking 90
miles off the mainland, and
about the increasing Influ
ence of Castro in Latin
America.
Senator Kennedy, as well
as muny other intelligent,
sound thinking Americans,
is shocked when Vice-President
Nixon claims wrongly
that American prestige is as
strong as ever. All evidence
proves Mr. Nixon wrong!
Senator Kennedy has con
tinuously opposed those In
dividuals or groups seeking
to restrict Individual free
doms. He drafted a ten
point plan to provide older
people with housing, med
ical care, and recreational
facilities. He has never
wavered In his efforts to
better American internally
and externally.
Before anyone voles, It
Is his duty to set aside emo
tionalism and propaganda.
It Is the voters' responsi
bility to find the facts and
to weigh them carefully.
Choose the right direction
and the greatest leadership.
Vote for Senator Kennedy.
Martha Simpson
(Senior, Medford High
Schooi)
801 King st. -Medford.
Dennis the Menace
'YOU KICK THEM OUT. THEY JUST
Matter of Fact
"ANOTHER F.D.R.I"
En Route with Kennedy
In this reporter's fairly long
experience, there has been
nothing quite
J comparable to
traveling wun
Senator Ken
norlv In h a
1 climactic week
of the i960
campaign.
r--J From dawn
I to late at
nignt, me peo-
aLsoP P'e are always
there, in clumps of hundreds
along the highways, in crowds
dense-packed behind barriers
at the airports, in eager yet
patiently waiting knots out
side the hotels, and in many
tens of thousands-even hun
dreds of thousands in such a
city as Los Angeles-for the
big urban parade.
But these multitudinous
smiling faces, these countless
wildly waving, wildly reach
ing hands, are not so impres
sive merely because of their
Incalculable numbers. They
are so impressive, rather, be
cause of the feeling which
Kennedy has somehow in
spired in these people. ;
Slowly, at the merest snail s
pace, the open convertible
carries him forward through
the clotted masses of human
ity. He stands to wave, or
leans to touch the offorcd
liflnds. The people slurge
about, and over, and behind
the car. And almost every face
visibly glows with affection
and with hope.
IT IS mysterious how any
modern Dollticiun. in this
less and less personal and in
timate era, has managed to
arouse und focus on himself
so much emotion, ana almost
all in the brief, lurid, hurly
burly of this one campaign.
After a day or so of the cam
paigning routine, one ceases
to remember very clearly in
dividual speeches, motorcades,
or meetings. All the episodes
of each long dny begin to blur
Into one another. But the un
varying emotion of the peo
ple always remains vivid and
memorable and distinct.
What is it, then? What Is
the character, what is the na
ture, of this feeling Kennedy
has known how to stir? One
clue to the puzzle is perhaps
provided by whot people say
aftor the convertible has
passed onward. I made the
arduous, even somewhat per
ilous experiment of following
behind Kennedy's car for a
i net.
JOSKPlT
Measures Recommendations
. STATE
1 Fixing Commencement of Legislator's
Terms Yes
2 Daylight Saving Time No recommen
tion. 3 Financing Urban Redevelopment, Proj
ects Yes
4 Permitting Prosecution by Information
or Indictment No
5 Authorizing Legislature to Propose Re
vised Constitution Yes
6 State Bonds for Higher Education Fa
cilities Yes
7 Voter Qualification Amendment Yes
8 Authorizing Bonds for State Building
Program Yes
9 Compulsorv Retirement for Judges No
10 Elective Offices: When To Become
Vacant No
11 Financing Improvements in Home Rule
Counties Yes
1
Continuity of
Attack Yes
13 War Veterans' Bonding and Loan
Amendment Yes
14 Personal Income Tax Bill No
15 Billboard Control Measure Yes
COUNTY
16 Dogs Running at Large No recom
mendation; except we suggest voters
1 inside Medford city limits not vote.
E.A.
VOTED ME htePpBTtt Of &Q'
By Joseph Aliop v
while. I found that as the
cheers died and the surging
ceased, the people would quite
often turn to one another and
say, "He could be another
F.D.R.," or, "He looks like
another Roosevelt, let's pray
he is," or something of that
sort.
This was the nearest to self-
analysis that they ever came,
at any rate. It was curious,
too, how many of those who
looked at Kennedy .and re
membered Franklin Roose
velt could hardly have remem
bered the Roosevelt of the
first years of the New Deal
the years when cold fear was
driven out.
rlHAT young father, for in--S-
stance, with his three chil
dren festooned over his
shoulders who kept telling his
four-year-old son, "Always
remember that! You've seen
the Senator, you've seen the
Senator! Always remember
that!" He must have been an
18-year-old G.I. when the far-
flung armies of the West got
the news of what hud hap
pened at Warm Springs on
April 12, 1945. So many of
the others are in the young
father's generation, too.
Perhaps indeed the recollec
tion of that day at Warm
Springs, and of the whole
world in mourning after that
day, Is another clue to the
present enigma. For all that
was controversial! about
Franklin Roosevelt, all that
used to stir anger or doubt,
has begun to be forgotten.
What is now remembered is
the great leader, able to in
spire America and the world,
who was lost on the eve of
victory unimaginable. That is
the Roosevelt for whom nos
talgia is so widely felt today.
The strange tides of our pol
itics caused the American ma
jority to hanker for comfort
and reassurance and consoli
dation in 1952 and 1956-and
in 1952 and 1956 the folk
memory of Franklin Roose
velt gave no aid to Adlai
Stevenson. But the tides are
running differently now, or so
it seems. The call to comfort
no longer commands its for
mer audience. The country lis
tens, now, for a call to great
ness. e
KENNEDY'S success - if he
has succeeded - most cer
tainly must be understood in
these terms. It is widely said
that he has been "promising
everything." But his chief so
cial promises more aid to cd-
Government in Enemy
Today & Tomorrow
By Waller
THE DIFFERENCE
The campaign has now
reached the point where there
is no longer time to raise
new issues,
and make new
arguments. In
deed, at this
late moment
any new issue,
any new ar
gument, and
any new move
made by either
side must be
Wilier
LlBomann
looked upon
with great skeptcism and the
utmost suspicion.
For, as Mr. Charles P. Taft,
the Chairman , of the Fair
Campaign Practices Commit
tee, has just said, last minute
charges, and we may add last
minute stunts, are made "with
the cynical knowledge that
the facts probably won't
catch up with them until after
the votes are counted.
Were the charges or the
stunts put forward honestly,
they would have been put for
ward long since, while there
was still time to investigate
and to debate them.
IN THE field of our foreign
relations the two ranrlirlatps
have made quite clear what
is the difference between
them. It is not, as is occasion
ally said, that they have dif
fering purposes and objectives
about Russia, China, Europe,
Latin America, or Africa.
Both men recognize the same
national commitments and the
same national interests. There
Is no issue between them in
the sense that Mr. Nixon
wants to go in one direction
and Mr. Kennedy in the op
posite direction.
The real difference, then.
is not about ends and aims.
It is about ways and means.
It is about how to meet our
ucation, stronger housing bills,
a better minimum wage law.
and medical care for the aged
-do not make an unduly for
midable list. Latterly, more
over, the Vice President has
been making almost much the
same promises. The promises.
in truth, cannot be the secret
of Kennedy s success.
The secret is. I think, two-
told. The flat, Boston voice.
chopping out the short and
vivid sentences, somehow con
veys both a strong concern
and a deep commitment - a
concern for the less privileged
in the American community.
and a commitment to the high
destiny of America.
Maybe the concern is pre
tended. Maybe the commit
ment is assumed. No man on
earth, including the candidate
himself, can tell what sort of
President the candidate will
make until the election is over!
and the candidate passes the
portals of the White House.
But vast numbers of the
American people are now
convinced of the reality and
power of this concern and
commitment. That is why the
faces are aught with hope and
affection, and why they re
member F.D.R., when Ken
nedy comes Icampaigning
among them.
(c) 1960 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
'How's That Again?Severeid Queries
Ttu PBTf" CFtrDrTT i r- I i ii i I . .
By ERIC SEVAREID
If it were not for the risk
of being tarred and fcatherad
by 85 million fellow citizens,
we would like
to ask the two
p r e si dential
candidates if
they would
mind repeat
ing it all once
more, Just for
our sake. We
didn't quite
catch it the
sevr.reld first 300 timeJ
around.
A lot of you feel you did,
so you will cheerfully line up
at the polling booth and crisp
ly mark your ballot, confi
dent that you voted for the
better man and exactly why.
We would envy you, save for
a still, small voice. The voice
speaks to us in dim though
not blank verse with a re
written version of Kipling's
"If," saying: "If you can keep
your head while all about
you are losing theirs - maybe
you don't understand the situ
ation!" As a supporter of The Situ
ation, without which we
would have had to go to work
or into real estate long ago,
our personal view is that nei
ther Kennedy nor Nixon has
answered the real questions
about America or the world
or themselves. Not, at any
rate, the questions that bother
us.
We have been totally un
able to find out if either man
truly understands and accepts
that:
In spite of all their prom
ises about parity payments,
wage levels, defense appro
priations and pensions, it is
the quality, not the quantity,
of American life that is the
great domestic concern, A
lippmonn
commitments, to protect our
interests, and to promote our
purposes. In the terms of the
campaign speeches, Mr. Nixon
is relying on his personal "ex
perience" and that of Mr.
Lodge. Mr. Kennedy is call
ing for a national revival.
Mr. Nixon's view is that the
great contest of the cold war
is a kind of personal duel be
tween the President and our
adversaries abroad. Mr. Ken
nedy's view is that the con
test is one of national i.nver
in all its forms, military,
economic, scientific, and cul
tural, and that prestige, about
which so much is said, is the
by-product of national power.
So Mr. Nixon has been tell
ing the voters: "Elect me and
Lodge, and we will arrange
it for you."
Mr. Kennedy has been tell
ing the voters: "Wake up, go
to work, realize the deadly
seriousness of the contest, and
persevere."
-
IT HAS been said that the
hard doctrine which Ken
nedy preaches downgrades
America.
Quite the contrary. The
preachers of the hard doc
trine, which calls for effort
and sacrifice, have usually
been, like Winston Churchill
in the days of Stanley Bald
win, the greatest patriots and
the truest servants of the peo
ple. Those who arouse the peo
ple from torpor and compla
cency, who shock the people
with the bitter truth, are the
ones who believe in their peo
ple, who believe in them
enough to summon them to
greatness.
The Churchills, who cry
out when the people are lazy,
selfish, and sluggish with pri
vate indulgence, do not down
grade the nation. They force
it to look at its best possi
bilities, and in doing that they
revivify, they rejuvenate, they
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
IT'S FUN tracking back the origin of stories some scribes
have the gall to claim they "originated." Here are two
you may recognize, for instance, that Maxwell Droke spotted
in a jokebook published
in the 1870's:
1. Before the War Be
tween the States, a South
ern proprietor of a cross
roads store called to his
servant, "Amos, have you
watered the whiskey?"
"Yas, suh," "Sanded the
sugar?" "Yas, suh."
"Added dirt to the pep
per?" "Yas, suh." "That's
fine, Amos. Now you can
come in to prayers."
2. A hat was passed
around a certain congre
gation to provide a purse
for the visiting minister. It came back absolutely empty.
The visiting minister shook it mournfully, then raised his
eyes to high heaven and exclaimed, "I thank Thee, dear
Lord, that I got my hat back from this congregation!"
Rory Baxter writes that a couple on his floor have worked out
the ideal arrangement One night a week he goes out with the
boys and the other six nights, she goes out with them.
C I960, by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate
Great Britain, in spite of her
system . that has found opu
lence is blindly searching for
its own cultural form and tone
among the civilized societies
America knows what it can
do and get; now it must know
what it can BE
Americans in their heart of
hearts wish not only to like
their President but to respect
indeed, revere him and
his office, and they yearn for
loftiness, so utterly lacking in
tnis snrewd and sharp cam
paign.
Americans will forgive er
ror and understand inconsis
tency if only there is honest
candor.
Humor remains one mark
of the large-minded man, and
the people will respond to the
leader who laughs at himself.
knowing it is only the unsure
man who will not.
Americans want to be led,
not to be given "what they
want," for in numberless con
texts they cannot know what
they want until expriments
are tried.
"States' rights" has become
the wooden, totem-pole lan
guage of far too many who
cite one letter of the Consti
tution in order to deny anoth
er letter, as well as the spirit.
Equality for Negro citizens
cannot wait upon "changes in
the hearts of men," as Elsen
hower seems to believe, for
it is the Illumination of ac
tions that produces changes in
the heart, more often than the
other way around.
The farmer is riot neces
sarily nature's nobleman nor
the salt of the earth, and the
family farm is no more sa
cred in a rapidly changing
economic pattern than the
family flat it is only more
difficult to move out of.
In an era of total wars that
In the Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written, the
United States has formally ac
cused the Soviets of sending
THOUSANDS OF TONS of
new ARMS to Cuba, together
with technicians to show the
Cubans how to use them.
These arms are reported to
include tanks, artillery, tens
of thousands of rifles and pos
sibly warplanes.
The note adds:
"With the notorious assist
ance of the Soviet bloc, Cuba
is expanding rapidly its ca
pacity to give ARMED SUP
PORT TO THE SPREAD OF
ITS REVOLUTION in other
parts of the Americas."
WHAT to do?
Well, the Monroe Doc
trine still lives. Under the
Monroe Doctrine, the United
States pledges itself to Gp TO
war If necesarv. to prevent
Old World nations from ob
taining a foothold in the west
ern Hemisphere.
WE BELIEVE In the Mon
roe Doctrine. We have al
ways believed in it. It is the
foundation stone of our for
eign policy. Us purpose was,
AND IS, to prevent the West
ern Hemisphere from becom
ing another Europe, torn by
the ambitions of rival nations
to gain supremacy.
If we abandon the Monroe
Doctrine, we will abandon
everything that has, made
America America.
CO- gg
O Tf w have to-
Let's FIGHT.
Let's never abandon the
principle that the things that
are worth having are worth
fighting for.
If we abandon that prin
ciple, we're goners.
renew the spirit of the peo
ple, and invest them with the
pride that goes with the full
exercise of human power.
Copyright I960, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Stop
make everv fifth or sixth
adult male a "veteran" by the
mere act of donning a uni
form, only those veterans
and their families who suf
fered directly from the fight
ing have special claims upon
the national treasury, and the
rest of it is organized greed.
"Non-interference in the in
ternal affairs of other na
tions" is a standard to aim for
under normal conditions, but
cannot be a policy strait
jacket in a revolutionary
world struggle in which the
United States affects the
scene in other nations when
it FAILS to act about as often
as when it acts.
Israel is a sovereign nation
among other sovereign na
tions, to be treated as such;
it is not our orohan ward
with special claims upon our
moral sense.
"Matchine Russia's rate of
economic growth" is an un
necessary as well as an un
dignified purpose. Russia is
late in the race, and in nnv
sprint the acceleration during
the first few yards is faster
than that during the final few
yards.
Russia's advance in wealth
through not in weapons, is a
happy and not an ominous
thing, for by this process are
revolutionary societies
altered to conservative so
cieties.
NATO'S fabric Is shcrlrlino
away, partly under the strain
of viewing strategic nuclear
weapons not merely as the
war preventative but as wea
pons for acttiallv WAffinp war
t- j .
For any crowded Eurnnrnn 1
- ,
nation this proposition wipes
out the ancient choice of vie-
tory or defeat and replaces it
with the choice of survival or
extinction, which is no choice
at i
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
Heigh, ho.
On Tuesday it will be all
over, and then maybe things
can get back to a semblance
of normal. Including Potluck.
Not that the campaign
hasn't been fun and Interest
ing. It has. It's also gotten a
bit rough, at times, so come
Wednesday let's hope every
one can regain their usual
good humor.
Maybe even Herblock will
stop being satiric and critical.
But we doubt it. It's the func
tion of a political cartoonist
to stick pins in people, and
he's won two Pulitzer Prizes
doing it.
Anyway, we hope the jani
tor doesn't remove our latest
decoration for a few days.
Here s a picture of It:
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All Urged To Vote
To the Editor: As Chairman
of the Democratic Central
Committee of Jackson County
I would like to urge the reg
istered voters, regardless of
party, to go to the polls and
vote.
We of the Democratic party
have put out an intensive ef
fort to get the people regis
tered, and to my knowledge
have shown no partiality, but
have registered others with
the same grace afforded our
own party. This has been a
rewarding work, for this year
an all time record in number
of voters has been reached. I
would pay tribute especially
to Arthur Lewis, a disabled
Veteran of World War I, who
personally registered 2,879
people. This is the highest
total of any registrar in Ore
gon, and I am sure compares
well with any in the nation.
This has been a hard fought
campaign, from the national
level on down, but I believe
the issues are the important
thing, and now the duty falls
squarely on each man's shoul
ders, which can only be met
by voting in this crucial elec
tion. Provision has been made
for the transportation to the
polls for those who are unable
to get there otherwise. The
Moose Lodge has again volun
teered to assist, and also the
Citizens for Kennedy Head
quarters, which can be reach
ed by calling SPring 3-1030.
The Central Committee has
presented a slate of candidates
to the voters of Jackson coun
ty with great pride, and en
dorses each of them whole
heartedly. With strong desire
I urge all to be sure and vote.
Harper Edwards,
Chairman,
Democratic Central
Committee,
Medford
Commonwealth, can nn lnno.
er go it alone and must at
tach herself to a larger con
text, preferably an economia
"Atlantic union", which will
require an American action of
immense size and conse
quence. By no means are all back
ward peoples ready for politi
cal independence, whatever
the anguished backlash
against the American leader
with courage enough to say
so.
"Masterly inactivity" is
sometimes the hallmark of di
plomatic wisdom, in spite of
the American tradition to the
contrary. To admit that the
United States cannot directly
deal with every threat in the
world is not to be a appeaser.
A danger postponed often IS
a danger averted. We will
know no absolute peace but
will live in the twilight be
tween peace and war. This is
not insupportable. Tim. i.
life.
Surely, these are among the
real truths involved in
America's choice of a new
leader, truths which neither
Nixon nor Kennedv has
ken or clearly Indicated they
are aware ol.
Both candidates have lnl ,,a
understand that they are
praying men. Our choice in
this contest would have rnm
much easier if nnp nf th
men had indicated that he
lives Dy tne spirit of a very
short prayer, the only one our
own father ever admitted to:
rlease. God. Bivp mo lba
courage to tackle these prob
lems I can solve: give me the
tm, suive; give me tne
h,,miiii i . .,
Mis
............. tU muse proD-
lems I cannot solve- and give
me the common sense to
know the difference"
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