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TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 15, I960
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Hlitory from the file of The
Mall Trlb-jnt 10. 20, 30., 40
and 50 vr (),,.
10 YEARS AGO
i All member, of tht Jackson
County Chamber of Com
t merce received their instruc
i tions In the mail today for
j an intensive program to In-
crease the membership of the
i group.
! Seven Southern Oregon
; Conservative Baptist churches
' have been forced to suspend
i work on their Union creek
i recreational area because the
' lite is located on mining claim
property. .
j 20 YEARS AGO '
i Medford high'. Black Tor
' nado will play Astoria or The
' Dalles Nov. 21, Thanksgiving
; Day, in an elimination game
to help determine the state
' football championship, It was
; announced today. '
S ; From Arthur Perry's "Ye
, i Smudge Pot" column: "A new
invention gives new model
aulos 'disappearing h e a d-
lights' in the daytime. They
i should be an improvement
' over the current type, that
: have disappeared for all
; time."
, 10 YEARS AGO
; A scries of revival meet
: ings started this week at Wll
' liams creek.
' A recount is being demand
' ed by the unsuccessful candi
date in the city's mayoralty
race.
40 YEARS AGO
Work has resumed on the
Ruch highway after being de
Mayed temporarily by rain and
, ilormy weather.
A proposal has been made
.to the local school board to
', erect bleachers al tht high
school football field
i SO YEARS AGO
" Bank deposits in the four
Medford banks have increased
22 per cent during the past
10 monins.
The Southern Pacific rale
hearings progressed In Med
ford today with railroad of
ficials apparently unable to
Justify why freight costs more
to ship from Medford than
Portland.
What's Your 1.0.7
Nina at fen correct It superior:
even or eight It excellent) Five ei
IB geoa.
1. What was the name
the woman who was called
Princess Alice?"
2. Name the American wom
an who was known as "Angel
oi tne Battlefield.
3. Who recently wrote of an
episode in her life in a book
entitled "I II Cry Tomorrow?'
4. Name the famous woman
. saloon wrecker of pre-prohl-
owon aays.
o. It is a quarter to 10
o'clock; if the minute and
hour hand . were reversed,
wnai time would It be accord
, ing to the clock?
6. Whal relation Is a dauih
ter of my mothcr'i niece to
me?
7. How many Slates begin
wun ine letler "E ?
8. In whal continent are the
ten highest mountains of the
world?
9. What is the source of the
Mississippi river?
' 10. Unscramble these pieces
or common furniture
TAPNODREV and NIDSROW
1RACH.
Answersi 1, Alice Long
worth Roosevelt. 2. Clara Bar
ton. 3. Lillian Roth. 4. Carrie
Nation. S. Eight-fifty. 6. Sec
ond cousin. 7, None. t. Asia.
(. Lake Itasca in Minnesota.
10. Davenport, and Windsor
chair. '
Electoral College
When will the United States elect its new
President?
Silly, (do you say?)
ago.
No. He'll be elected in January, and not until
then. For authority,' let's go to the Constitution
(which a lot of people talk about, but few take
the trouble to read).
' It says :
". , . Each stat shall appoint, In such manner as
the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of elec
tors, equal to the whole number of Senators and
Representatives to which the stale may be entitled
'i In the Congress; but no Senator or Representative,
or person holding an office of trust or profit under the
United States, shall be appointed an elector.
"The electors shall meet In their respective states,
and vote by ballot for President, and Vice President
. . .; they shall name in their ballots the person voted
for as President, and In distinct ballots the person
voted for as Vice President, and they shall make dis
tinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and
of all persons voted for as Vice President, and of the
number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign
and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the
government of the United States, directed to the Presi
dent of the Senate; The President of the Senate shall,
in presence of the Senate and House of Representa
tives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall
then by counted; The person having the greater num
ber of votes shall be the President, if such number
, be a majority of the whole number of electors ap
pointed . . ."
THERE'S more, spelling out in detail what hap-
pens if no individual receives a majority of
the votes of the college
But in essence, that's
. In Oregon, electors
election. (Did you know you were voting for
electors and not for either Kennedy or Nixon?
You were. Their names
tne ballot just under the
they were supporting.) ',
In other states, electors are named by various
different systems. In Oregon, at one time, electors
were named in the primary election.
THUS the electoral college actually names the
new president under
1 rrorv I 1 ' l
i.oa, ana moauiea somewnai in ibvi.
Oyer the years, many attempts have been
made to change it, so that the electoral college
will either be eliminated, or will reflect more ac
curately the popular vote.
A president can, in fact, receive a majority
of the popular vote and still lose the election. It
has happened. And it came close to happening
in I960, too.
How can this be?
H it is because the electoral college, like the
Congress itself, in effect represents states, not
people. '
POR instance, a candidate could be " elected
president by carrying only 12 states New
York, Pennsylvania, Illnois, Texas, California,
Michigan, Missouri, Georgia, North Carolina,
Massachusetts and Wisconsin, with a total of 272
electoral votes.
Say he carried each of them by only 51 per
cent of their popular votes.
And say the other candidate carried all the
38 other states, and say, further, that he carried
them by tremendous majorities. He would have
a big majority of the popular vote of the entire
nation, but he would lose, because the minority
candidate had the majority of electoral votes,
In I960, it appears that Kennedv will receive
a bare majority or the popular vote, cut his elec
toral vote victory is overwhelming.
WO FEDERAL law says that electors have to
A" vote for the winning candidate of their party.
As a matter of fact, several southern states this
year ran slates of "unpledged" electors, who if
elected would be free to
tney wanted. .
In Alabama, six unpledged electors were
elected; m Mississippi,
pledged. ,
But ironclad tradition, and in some cases state
law (as in Oregon), pledges most electors to vote
for their party candidates.
OREGON'S Republican electors will meet in
Snlmn T"lor 1Q tn nnat than liullnfa fni- Rinluwl
M. Nixon for President.
Of course, it will be nothing but a formality,
in conformity with the constitution and with state
law.
And when Congress
votes will be opened and
John F. Kennedy will be
majority oi tne nation s
Then, and not until then, will, he be formally
T ? 1 i1 il Y. lr. .
riesiaent-eiect or me united states.
IT IS a bit ironic that the Constitution directs
1 the President of the Senate to open and canvass
the electoral vote. -
For,, on Jan. 6, 1961, the President of the
benate will be the Vice President of the United
States, Richard M. Nixon, whose term runs until
dan. zu, iyiu.
Mr. Nixon thus is in
open the electoral votes
opponent, John F. Kennedy, has been elected
nesuieni.
IIP TO now attempts to abolish, or change, the
electoral college have failed probably, as
Lyle ,Wilson pointed out on this pace vesterdav.
at least in part due to
hhu nun me svHium tu men auvantage.
But the closeness of the I960 election mav
once again stimulate action along these lines. It
would take a Constitutional amendment to
change the system, and it takes several veai-s.
usually, to get such an
we elected him a week
of electors.
it.
are named at the general
were in small print on
names of the candidates
a system dating back to
1. a A rtn A
.vote for any candidate
all eight electors are un
reconvenes, thi electoral
counted and ( surprise n
found to have gained a
electoral votes.
the position of havimr to
and proclaim that his
the opposition of voting
amendment approved.
Dennis the Menace
"ra
Ruff's buryin' his bone .... an" I'm
eURVWMy PEANUT BUTTER SAMWICHl
In the Day's News
By FRANK
As this is written, Ken
nedy's POPULAR vote is
some 350,000 in excess 'of
Nixon's popular vote-a . lead
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Townsend Plan
To the Editor: The analysis
of the Townsend plan needs
no introduction to the elderly
citizen. Its precepts are based
on factual evidence of need.
Here are a few of the reali
ties in "a nut-shell":
The Townsend plan bill is
the only practical solution in
principle and recommended
by some United States sena
tors and congressmen alike
The plan would be supported
by collecting a gross income
tax of 2 per cent of all indi
vidual Incomes' of more than
$250 each month. The esti
mated amount, of tax collect
ed each and every month has
been computed by economic
consultants to pay every citi
zen 60 years of age and over
a modest pension of from $140
every calendar month. "It is
Just as simple as that".
At present on social secur
ity minimum benefit we per
sonally nave knowledge of a
few recipients who subsist on
meager sum of onlv S3 a
week. Already in the slates
of Indiana - and Hawaii the
gross, Income tax is a proven
benefactor financially. Are
the rest of the statesmen in
each slate wtihout such a tax
too stupid to adopt the same
principle?
It makes a Townscnite
wonder?
.(Name on File)
Medford
Chimps and Vets
To the Editor: News items:
Washington OIPIl - Tjnem
ployment in October reached
3.6 million, an increase of
200,000 over (he previous
month, the Labor Department
announced.
Houston, Texas IUPH - Three
Chimpanzees will report to
work at Superior Furniture
Manufacturing Co. to replace
two humans, who are to be
fired.
Comment:
I am sure that if Mr. Ben
Friedman, owner of the firm,
would look carefully around
any Veteran's Domiciliary,
he'd find a few partially dis
abled war veterans, who are
about as smart as a chimpan
zee and willing to work. Of
course the chimps did not get
drafted, but that does not
prove them to be of superior
intelligence.
It may be that some of that
3.6 million unemployed could
handle Mr. Friedman's jobs.
Have a banana?
Malemute Slim
White City, Ore.
Taxes
To the Editor: Let's let well
enough alone.
We now have an income
tax. While I do not exactly
agree with the management
of it, 1 do believe as long as
we have the Income tax that
we should not be hogs, and
try to have both the income
tax and the sales tax.
1 represent the elderly peo
ple, and there are many of us
who have so little income,
(hat a sales tax would be a
heavy load for us to carry.
If we could get the Town-
send bill enacted into law, we
might be able to afford such
luxuries as a sales tax.
Arthur C. Lewis
Ass't State Director
The Townsend Plan
244 South Central ave
Medford
JENKINS
of about 1 per cent. His lead
in the ELECTORAL COL
LEGE vote is overwhelming
-about 62 per cent.
That suggests the challeng
ing thought that a candidate
for President could get
majority of the popular vote
and still lose out to his op
ponent in the electoral col
lege.
AS a matter of fact, THAT
f HAPPENED ONCE.
It was in 1876. In that elec
tion, Democratic Candidate
Samuel J. Tilden of New
York received 4,300,590 popu
lar votes. His opponent, Re
publican Candidate Ruther
ford B. Hayes of Ohio, re
ceived only 4,036,298 votes-
a POPULAR majority of
264,292 for Tilden..
But
In the electoral college
After a bitter battle, full
of shenannigans and lasting
more than three months
HAYES WON BY ONE VOTE
IN THE ELECTORAL COL
LEGE, and became President.
TT'S a long story. .
Oregon entered Into it in
quite a big way.'
In the 1876 Presidential
election, Oregon WENT FOR
HAYES in the popular vote
When its electors came up for
certification, it developed that
one of the REPUBLICAN
electors (a man named Watts)
was employed as a fourth
class postmaster at an annual
salary of $268. This office
was held to be one of "trust
and profit," and as such pro
hibited to Presidential elec
tors by Article II, Section 1
of the constitution.
So
Oregon's Democratic gover
nor, L. F. Grover, with the
enthusiastic encouragement of
his fellow partisans, state and
national, ruled that Watts was
ineligible and replaced him
with a DEMOCRATIC elector.
Tis action resulted in a row
that rattled the rafters not
only in Oregon but all over
the country and had immense
connotations in the final out
come of the Tilden-Hayes
contest.
AREGON then had four elec-
" toral votes-two for its two
senators and two for its two
representatives in the con
gress. On the- day the Oregon
electoral college was sched
uled to meet, the four electors
met in a room in the state
capltol set aside for their use.
When they were assembled,
the secretary of state arrived
with the electoral certicifates
and HANDED THEM TO
CRONIN, the Democrat ap
pointed by Governor Grover.
The three Republican electors
asked for their certificates.
Cronin refused to surrender
them.
Thereupon the three Repub
lican electors proceeded to
organize THEIR OWN elec
toral college. The Democrat,
Cronin, retired to a remote
corner of the room and turned
himself into a ONE-MAN elec
toral college. His first act
was to declare that TWO
vacancies existed. He filled
the "vacancies" at once, nam
ing TWO DEMOCRATS who
just happened to be waiting
outside the door.
AS THE national situation
then stood, after a bloody
battle In the South, especially
in South Carolina. Florida
and Louisiana, Tilden needed
only ONE more electoral col
lege vote to win. So, to make
things look good, this rump
electoral college in Oregon
gave one vote to Tilden and
TWO to Hayes.
That was a fatal error.
In the general all-over re-
shift in the national electoral
college make-up that follow
ed the ruckuses in the South,
it turned out that Tilden need
ed . TWO electoral votes from
Mounting
Noted In
By PHIL NEWSOM
' UPI Foreign Editor
One of the many sugges
tions fired in the direction
of President-elect Kennedy Is
that he under
take a pre-in-a
u g u r atlon,
get acquaint
ed tour of
Latin Amer
ica. If he does,
there will be
plenty to oc
cupy his at-
Piin Ntws'o.M tention, from
Salvadore, smallest of the
Latin Republics, to Brazil, the
largest.
Excluding Cuba, which
must remain the No. 1 hemis
pheric i headache, the new
Matter of Fcrcf ly Joseph Alsop
KENNEDY AND THE
LIBERALS
Washington - The main de
cision Senator Kennedy made
as the immediate aftermath
of his victory, was to make
no further decisions at all
until he had
had a rest.
His staff be
gan to press
for answers to
a th o u s and
questions, as
staffs will. He
told them, re
portedly, that
he was dizzy
with the fa
tigue of the campaign, and
would therefore give no an
swers until he returns from
Florida.
Thus he went off for his va
cation with every basic issue
unresolved, except for his an
nouncement that he was ask
ing Allen Dulles and J. Edgar
Hoover to continue at their
posts. This he had wisely de
cided upon many weeks ago.
when he first began to think
about what shape a Kennedy
administration ought to take.
Meanwhile, the biggest of
the unresolved issues centers
in the Secretaryship of State,
It is an inflamed issue, be
cause the liberal wing of the
Democratic party is campaign
ing hard to secure the first
place in the Cabinet for Adlai
Stevenson, and if Stevenson
does not succeed, to insure
the alternative appointment
of Chester Bowles.
' e
T ONG ago, Kennedy laid
down his personal specifi
cations for a Secretary of
Gospel Mission
Cited For Work
Representatives from sev
eral valley organizations
spoke at the semi-annual
meeting of the Medford Gos
pel Mission held earlier tms
month.
Principal speaker for the
evening was the Rev. Clif
ford Phillips, Fresno, Calif.,
who spoke of the role Mis
sions play in the community.
I cannot say too much
about the good the Medford
Gospel Mission does," Mrs.
Frank Fairwcather of the
American Red Cross said
"We are limited by policies,
rules and regulations in giv
ing assistance to service men
and we appreciate being able
to refer them to the Mis
sion."
"I'm taking my hat off to
those who really do social
service work," Robert E,
Kelly, Social Service direc
tor of the Veterans Adminis
tration domiciliary, White
City, added. "Never have I
known the 'Medford Gospel
Mission to turn down anyone
we have sent to them."
James Pullman, adminis
trator of the-Jackson County
Welfare stated that his of
fice is happy and thankful
the Medford Gospel Mission
exists. "It Is a place where
we can send men, whom we
cannot assist, to get a place
to sleep and something to eat
temporarily." he said. "On
behalf of the staff particu
larly I want to extend my ap
preciation to the Mission."
Oregon, instead of only one
So
He lost by ONE vote-184 to
Hayes' 185.
npiUS recital is Included here
a. in some aciau merely as
historical data to point out
the basic absurdity of the elec
toral college system. It leaves
unanswered a lot of questions.
These, for example:
1. Just what IS the electoral
college system?
2. How docs it work?
3. Most important of all,
perhaps: Why did the Found
ing Fathers - wise, patriotic,
dedicated men come to in
clude in our constitution this
institution that now, after the
lapse of nearly two centuries,
seems to us such a patent ab
surdity? There isn't room here to go
into all that. An attempt will
be made in this space later
to provide some answers to
the questions hero raised. ,
J08KPH ALSUP
Unrest, Civil Disturbances,
Many Latin American States
president will find U.S.-Latin
American relations embrace
just about every problem in
the book.
Here are a few for in
stances: A mixed civilian-military
junta has just taken over
Salvador, nestled between
Guatemala and Honduras on
the Pacific, after a coup which
toppled President Jose Maria
Lemus. The United States has
been slow to recognize the
new regime, apparently sus
pecting of pro-Castro, leftist
leanings.
Resentment Mounts
The new government says
it has been convicted without
a trial and resentment against
the United States is mount
ing. State. The ideal Secretary, he
is remembered to have said,
should be judicious enoueh to
use the very best men avail
able to represent the United
States abroad. He should be
intelligent and self-confident
enough to solve minor prob
lems satisfactorily on his own
responsibility. And above all,
he should be wise enough to
identify the major problems
and take them to the Presi
dent for joint solution.
The specifications are im
pressive. But Senator Ken
nedy, who can keep his own
counsel as well as one of his
Cape Cod clams, has let no
one have an inkling of which
individual he thinks will best
meet his specifications.
On the face of the record,
the most important indicator
that this individual will not
turn out to be Stevenson or
Bowles, is simply the inten
sity of the liberal campaign
to get the job for one of these
two men.
ALL the forces that opposed
Lvndon R. Johnson's nnm.
ination to the vice-presidency
are again being mobilized to
plead for Bowles, or, better
still, for Stevenson. Even the
chieftain of the C. I. O., the
redoubtable Walter Reuther,
is reputed to be ready to
plunge into tho fray. The cam
paign's clarion call has al
ready been publicity sounded.
with an extremely able lead
ing editorial in "The New Re
public." The parallel with the row
about the Johnson nomination
is instructive, because the
Johnson nomination row re
vealed the persistent flaw in
American political liberal
ism. This flaw is an incurable
tendency to put shibboleths
ahead of practical facts. Lyn
don Johnson, for no logical
reason at all, was a black
shibboleth of evil to liberal
eyes. Kennedy's choice of
Johnson was therefore de
cried as a "betrayal," which
was pure folly as the event
proved.
In the same manner, though
with better ' reasons, Adlai
Stevenson and Chester Bowles
are the liberals' shining shib
boleths of virtue. Hence there
will be renewed cries of "be
trayal," if Kennedy does not
name either Stevenson or
Bowles to the Secretaryship
of State.
.There would indeed be
grounds for complaint, if
Kennedy failed to offer im
portant places to both of
these men. Obviously, how
ever, he will not fail to do so.
But he may well fail to offer
either of them the one job
their friends want for them.
The reasons for suspecting
this outcome are apparent.
They all He on the surface
of the situation.
.
THE first reason is the one
already noted - the appre
hensive tone of the campaign
in favor of Stevenson andor
Bowles. The Stevenson
Bowles backers would hardly
be so insistant if they did not
have some cause, apparently
of a private character, to fear
a different choice.
The second reason is the
character of Kennedy's speci
fications for Secretary of
State; already listed above.
It points toward the kind of
man who will be temperamen
tally sympathetic to Kennedy,
who will be primarily a first
rate technician, and who will
give his entire energy to ex
ecuting a Kennedy policy in
stead of pressing for an al
ternative policy.
Despite all the admirable
qualities of Adlai Stevenson
and Chester Bowles, it is at
least doubtful whether either
Stevenson or Bowles is quite
the kind of man the Kennedy
specifications point toward.
In addition, there is the ur
gent need to unite the coun
try, after a narrow electoral
victory with very rough go
ing ahead. The truth is. there
Is more need to unite the
country now. than there was
need to unite the Demo
cratic Party at Los Angeles,
when the disputed choice of
Johnson produced the neces
sary result. That, surely, is
the point that has to be most
carefully weighed.
(c) 1960. New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
i
Nicaragua and Guatemala
are in trouble. Armed attacks
by rebels have occurred in
each. Officials charge the
rebels wear Fidel Castro uni
forms and are aupplicd by
Cuba.
Slates of siege have been
imposed in Nicaragua and
Guatemala.
In Costa Rica, rebels killed
the national guard command
er in a border skirmish. Cos,ta
Rican troops have been fight
ing for some time against
forces planning an attack on
Nicaragua, long a particular
target of the Castro regime.
In Venezuela, President
Romulo Betancourt's three
party coalition seems on the
verge of falling apart, partly
because of economic difficul
ties and partly because of
divergent y i e w s toward
Castro. Betancourt himself is
markedly cool to the Cuban
revolutionary regime.
Mounting unrest plagues
the governments of Chile,
Brazil and Argentina.
' A strike called to enforce
demands for wage parity with
Washington Report
By WIUIAM
NIXON
Washinglon-Though it lost
the presidency only by the
most desperately thin popu
lar margin in three-quarters
of a century, the Republican
parly is in a
bad way na
tionally. It is in so
bad a way, in
deed, that the
outlook is ex
tremely good
for iis defeat
ed champion,
n i h a M
William t .
ehi'i Nixon, to gain
a second presidential nomin
ation in 1964.
Paradox is the word for the
present position of the G.O.P.
If it is short on followers, it
is, in a curious way, long on
leadership - that of Nixon.
For he picks himself up from
the dust as still not only the
strongest man in his party
but also as the one man likely
to become absolutely indis
pensable to it for the big race
four years from now;-
In losing in so narrow a
way, as the candidate of a
party which went into battle
trailing by 4 to 6 in voter
registration, he has at any
rate won a bright party fu
ture for himself. It is, in foot
ball terms, far from a dis
grace to lose by a single field
goal when the odds had fav
ored your opponent by a
couple of 'touchdowns.
TU'IXON is in defeat but by
I' no means in discredit; in
his case there is not the slight
est reason even to contem
plate unconditional sur
render. For he has actually become
more than ever necessary to
the G.O.P. because of the
after-effects of the very elec
tion he lost: He is today the
only man around who is re
motely capable of keeping
alive the whole vital center
of the G.O.P,
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of
New York, the favorite of the
fragmentary liberal wing of
tne party, is beyond doubt
headed down and not up. The
loss to the Republicans na
tionally of his own state, by
a majority so tremendous as
to have few parallels in his
tory, has marked Rockefeller
as the man who could not or
would not deliver for his own
party when the bitter chips
were most bitterly down.
It is thus just short of in
conceivable that he could
have any wide influence at
the 1964 Republican National
convention. . '
Try end Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF :
p RUMBLED A VERY FAT MAN to his 8-year-old son on
the sands of Miami Beach, "I brought you all the way
from Indianapolis to swim in the salt water of the Atlantic
oo wny aon t you be a
brave boy and plunge
into those waves?"
, "I will, Daddy, I will,"
his son responded earn
estly "Just the second
you stop standing on one
of my flippers."
e
The "dust unto dust"
idea is developed along
these lines by Prof.
Richard Armour, of
Scripps College:
e e e
The tusks that clashed in mighty brawls
Of mastodons, are billiard balls.
The sword of Charlemagne the Just
Is ferric oxide, known as rust.
The grizzly bear whose potent hug
W feared by all, is now a nig.
Great Caesar's bust is on the shelf
And I don't feel so well myself!
C UM, by Btustt Crt Distributed by King ruturM lynlkttt
the armed services paralyzed
Brazil's transport system last
week.
Other Strike
Expensive strikes also hit
Argentina and Chile whera
government austerity pro
grams are unpopular. Tha
strikes were suspiciously coin
cidental with Moscow's . ob
servance of the 43rd anni
versary of communism's "Oc
tober revolution!"
To these situations may ba
added increasing U.S. con
cern over the enormous flow
of communist weapons to
Cuba, rated far above any
normal defense requirements.
It is suspected that some of
these arms are intended for
other Latin American revolu
tionary groups.
Latin America hailed Ken
nedy's election in the belief
it heralded a new era of
"good - neighborliness." But
Latin Americans long have
been both suspicious and re
sentful of their big northern
neighbor, and their attitur'a
also will be one of wait and
see.
S. WHITE
THE hero of the G.O.P. right
wing, Sen. Barry Gold
water of Arizona, has emerg
ed personally unwounded
from the late hostilities and,
in a way, a bigger man than
before. Here, too, however,
no objective observer can
find any serious rival to
Nixon in '64.
Goldwater, though far more
liked now by practically all
G.O.P. factions than is Rocke
feller, carries all the same a
fatal disability as a presiden
tial contender. Honest, can
did (and wrong-headed), he is
simply too rigidly ultra-conservative
for the world of
reality in which we live, just
as Rockefeller is 'too ineffec
tually liberal for that world.
If the moderate Nixon
could not recruit in 1960
enough independent and dis
satisfied Democratic votes to
win the country, a right-wing
Goldwater in 1964 would not
be able to recruit one-tentli
enough. The Republican prrs
"like Barry," and with gocd
reason, in the human sense.
But they won't "take Barry"
in 1964-because they will
want to win.
e
A LL these circumstances -the
pressure of Goldwat
er on the right and the mere
presence of Rockefeller on
the left - are precisely what
makes Nixon the all but irre
placeable G.O.P. man for
1964. Somebody has got to
keep the true heart and mus
cle of the party, its core and
center as represented by the
moderate-to-conservative, st'll
going. And that somebody is
Richard Milhous Nixon.
He will be in perfect posi
tion to do the job: Out of the
responsibilities of public of
fice; but possessed of the vast
advantages of his titular party
leadership. No longer com
pelled by loyalty to defend
the weaknesses of a retiring
administration. Rid at lasi.
because of a' decent and fair
campaign, of the old whisp
ered suggestions that the. a
was "something wrong" with
Richard Nixon.
Nixon himself is a-walking
casualty sure to recover for
more warfare. But a perman
ent and buried casualty now
will be that old Epithet
which so long punished him:
"Tricky Dick". .
(Copyright, 1960, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Chelsea, Mass. ll'Pil G e n.
William J. Keville. 83, World
War I commander of the Yan
kee Division Ind former?
Massachusetts adjutant gen
eral, died Monday.