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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, I960 "Everyone in Southern Oregon d A m in,. Mali T-rlhim" Published Dally except Saturday by M North fir St., Ph 8P 1-8141 ' ROBERT W RUHL, editor HERB GREY Advel-tislng Manatar CERAI.D T LATHAM Bua Mir ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mn Edltol KARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor toiruAnn jrWRTT Snnftl Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'a Editor PALE ER1CKBUH. circulation ma An tnilMHndent fiewsoaner Kntered at second class mailer at Medford, Oregon unaer nv w March 3, H97 KtinsrniPTlnN RATES By Mall - In Advance, Copy 10; Daily and Sunday 1 year 118.00 Dally and Sunday mot am Dally and Sunday S mos 4.J5 Sunday Only One year J4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Elf I Point. Jacksonville Cold Hill Phoenli Shady Cove, Rogue Rlv TalMtit ami an motor rOUtOt Dally and Sunday 1 vear 100 Dally and Sunday 1 mo 1.80 Carrier and Dealera copy too All Termi Cash Injiawme "Of'lelal Paper of City of Medforet official Paper of Jackson Cjinntr United Press International Full Lraied Wire I1.P.1, TelephotoJJewspleturea . "SemiTer brTCuntf-" simEAfl- Of CIRCULATIONS ;. Advert (sine Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO., INC Of flcea In New York Chicago. De. trolt. San Francisco. Loa Angeles. Seattle. Portland St Louis At lanta. Vancouver. B.C NIWSPAPII 'USUSHf (S ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EOITORIAI Flight o' Time Midford and Jackson County History from thi filea ot Thi Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and SO vein ago. 10 YEARS AGO The Preserve the Rogue as sociation, meeting in Trail, took action yesterday favor ing cooperation with all in forosinri ffrouns toward "a reasonable, well-rounded proj ect" of Rogue basin develop ment The Medford division of the. .lnrkson county commu nity chest stood at 78 per cent of its goal today. 20 YEARS AGO Medford football coach Bill Bowerman spent the day to day drilling the Tornado team for a Thanksgiving day clash with The Dalles. The game will be one ot two being played for the stale cham DlonshlD. ' From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" ' column: "A definite speed limit for autos on Oregon highways is iore- aqsI ne nn nf the acts of the oncoming session of the legis lature. A definite- speed limit Is also needed by the legisla ture, so they can get through In the 40 days allotted them." 30 YEARS AGO The Jackson county grand jury has launched an Investi gation into the slaving of an F.acip Point man during a raid on a still In the Reese rriir district lait week. A special guard has been nlarpri at the armory to try and stem the tide of broken windows which numbered 800 last year. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 17, 1920 (Widnisdiy) borne z.iz lncnea ui iam M I 1 - ' I flooded city streets last nlgnt. High water in the Rogue river has damaged the Savage Rapids dam. SO YEARS AGO Nov. IT. 1910 (Thursday) Professor P. J. O'Gara, nnthnlntflet In charffe of Jack son county orchards, believes the red and black spots ap pearing on local apples re cently, are caused Dy impur ltin in th moth SDraV. The city of Baker has ac cepted a Medford Chamber of Commerce offer of $5,000 to any city in Oregon mat can show it has more , re sources within a 40-mue ra dius than Medford. What's Your I.Q.? Nina h Ux correct it Aran eiakt la eieelknr; fivi lit la food. 1. How large would a draw- ing of a field 8 X 12 yards be if the scale was y men to a foot? 2. Docs a grown dog have more or fewer teeth than an adult human? 3. What fighter was called the Manassa Mauler? 4. Who lends the money, the mortgagor or the mortgagee? 5. How many plr,yers are there on a lacrosse team? 6. Is a numismatist interest ed in mathematics, coins, in surance casualty rates, or wild fowl? 7. What offering did Abra ham offer up to God, in place of his son, Isaac? 8. How many obtuse angles can there? be in a triangle? ' 9. Where is the Taj Mahal located? 10. Complete the saying. "Nothing ventured . . ." Aruwirs: 1. 12 X 18 Inchei. 1, Mora - dog has 42. 3. Jack Dempsiy. 4, Mortgagee. S. Twilvi. 8. Coins. 7, A rim. I. Only en- 8- Agra, India, 10. , . nothing jiimd." New Orleans and Little Rock Why, why, why do and the people of New termined to create a new Little nock incident l Nothing will be served by their recalcitrance : the constitutional question is settled, and all they can possibly accomplish is to bring disgrace to their city; their state, and to this nation in the eyes of the world. They are not being asked to accept immediate, full, social integration; all a few little Negro girls sit in the first grade with their own children. "THE obduracy of the legislature, and of some of the people of the city, is both futile and illegal, and it flies in the face of U, S. laws, of the sense of the congress,- and of the explicit pledges of both great political parties. The schools of New Orleans will, eventually, be integrated. One would think they would ac cept this fact, and concentrate on seeing that it is done with a maximum of grace, dignity and good will, rather than making the words "New Orleans" another disgraceful slogan for the Com munists to use, as they have used the words "Little Rock." ' There's something ludicrous about a state and a people flying into such frenzies of fear at the presence of five little girls, who are the in nocent "firsts" in the march to dignity and to the equality guaranteed by law to their people. E.A. : Legislative Politics All signs point toward a "political legislature next year. And present indications are that there will be a mad scramble to organize both house and sen ate. In the senate, the Democrats will nominally be in control, with 20 members to the Repub licans' 10. But the situation is complicated by other factors, including a split in the senate Dem ocrats themselves. There are two avowed candidates for the senate presidency Sen. Alf Corbett of Mult nomah county, and Sen. Harry Boivin of Kla math county.. pORBETT represents the "liberal" wing of the party, and Boivin the "conservative" wing. Rumor has it that Corbett has 14 votes pledged to him two shy of the necessary majority. Boivin, according to the political gossip, is hop ing to pick up enough -Republican votes, to add to the conservative Democrats, to put him in the presidency, ... . .', v With the split as close as it apparently is, the decision might well hinge on the new Republican state senator from Jackson countv. to be aDooint- ed by Vie Jackson county court to succeed Dr. Tn-l-.-i T-V ..l. . '11 1- - J! il. EiUwiii uui'tio, wno wui senate to go to Congress. THE Boivin forces are er rumored that they have been active in Jackson county, hoping that any state senator named from here will be committed in advance to Boivin. How strong this pressure has been, and how much effect it nas had on local party leaders, is a well-kept secret. But if it is true, as rumored, that GOP central committee backing hinges on support for Boivin by any potential candidate, it is not a healthy sort of politics. We are inclined to discount the rumor. In any event, the maneuvering between now and the opening of the session next January should be something to watch. IN THE house, Democrats have a much slimmer edge in numerical strength, with 31 Democrats and 29 Republicans. With "party discipline" something that is more honored in the breach than in the observ ance, there is a real possibility that the GOP, with an assist from a few Democrats, may elect the speaker. Conversely, the Democrats may well need the assistance of a few Republicans to maintain their control of the house organization. And, either way, in party-vote matters all during the session, the division will be exceeding ly close. The organization question could be resolved this week end, in party caucuses for the two houses. But more likely, a decision will await con vening of the session. One hopes it does not fore cast four months of inter and intra party conflict to the detriment of the state's business. E.A. TskTsk.PTN In a light-hearted and ing i in this and other newspapers this week, ra cific TelephoneNorthwest spoofs some of the untrue facts supposedly believed about Ore gon by denizens of less "Other than home town pride, the ad asks, "why should you care if the rest of the world has the wrong facts about And it goes on to answer the question. We're glad PTN brought up "home town pride" itself. We have a , .. mi. i n ister. ine aa mentions roniann, oaiem, cugene, Bend, Pendleton, Corvallis, Ashland, Albany, Rogue River and Jacksonville. All other cities are referred to only as "Trading Posts." Tsk, Tsk, PTN. Medford is Oregon's fourth city in size, and its first almost everything else. Not even a mention? E.A. the Louisiana legislature Orleans appear to be de they face now is having De resigning irom me doing everything they informative ad appear- enlightened areas. Uregon r small complaint to reg- ai 1 n .l re Dennis the CM I HAVE A PIECE OF C - IN THE HALL C L-O-S-E-T Matter of Fact y Joseph auoP THIS MANDATE BUSINESS Washington - The narrow ness of Senator Kennedy's margin of victory is an im portant politi cal fact. It has touched off a debate about whether the P r e si d ent elect really has a mandate to carry out his program. He says, rath er firmly, that he has a mandate, but others disagree. Again, ' this same alimness of victory margin has power fully strengthened the argu ment for giving a bi-partisan character to the new admin istration, especially in the area of defense and foreign policy. Kennedy was leaning this way from the start. But now it is virtually certain that a rather dramatic ges ture of bi-partisanship will be made when the cabinet is chosen. All the same, the impor tance of the slim Democratic margin can too easily be ex aggerated. If you look at the voting figures, to begin with, you discover that it was a considerable feat to win by any margin at all, I e NEW York state, a Re mihlimn 1I15B malorltv of nonrlv 1 Ann.nnn was turned inln n Dprnnnratic maioritV Of 400,000. In Illinois, a Repub lican 1956 majority ot just under one million was suc ressfullv overcome. There is no use prolonging the list. The point Is that the riepup- licans had an enormous cush ion at the outset. The Demo c r a t s consequently had to overturn really unprecedent ed numbers of votes In almost every state they captured. , These calculations are far less significant, however, than another , forgotten fact which will soon loom very large indeed. In brief when Kennedy enters the White Hnnsp hp will automatically acquire the keys to the closet where the skeletons are Kept. There are skeletons enough, imhnnnilv In p h B n ff 6 the mood overnight. There is the grim series of U. S. informa tion agency reports on this country's true standing and influence in the world. There is the nightmarish Gaither Re port on our defense posture; and there are at least three earlier reports which are broadly comparable to the Gaither Report. This defense aeries started. Indeed, witn the "Solarium" paper of 1953. IF AND when released, in whole or in part, these sup pressed documents and many others like them will prove to the country that the national situation has been grossly and persistently m i s represented for years on end. They can not be challenged as partisan documents, either, since they were prepared by and for the Eisenhower administration. The simple fact that the administration then put these documents in the skeleton closet, without further ado, will have its own consider able impact. The bleak facts contained in the documents will have vastly greater im pact. Once the truth emerges from the skeleton-closet, the Kennedy mandate is certain to be more decisive than it is today. If allowance Is made for this vital future development, one can make a fairly accu rate computation of how far the Kennedy mandate will ex tend in all but one of the main policy areas. In the area of foreign and defense policy, to begin with, the mandate will have no serious limlta Hons. The country and the Congress arc more likely to want the new President to do too much, than to place ob stacles In his way. in the social welfare area, again, Inert is tvery reason w JOSEPH AL?OF Menace A - N - O - y THAT "040 HID V to believe that the new Presi dent can get the Congress to do what he wants about medi cal care for the aged, , t h e depressed areas, aid to edu cation, and minimum wages. Though represented as radi cal, the measures he advocates are for from extreme. With no one in the White House to hold them back, a fair num ber of middle-of-the-road Re publicans from industrial states will go along with Ken nedy. TN THE area of civil rights, the first question mark is encountered. It is put there by the important role of the South in the Kennedy victory. Yet the Southern Democrats knew what they were getting when they chose Kennedy in stead of Nixon. Neither he nor Lyndon Johnson ever spoke out of both sides of their mouths at any time in the campaign. Furthermore, the biggest needs in the area of civil rights are not legislative needs. The biggest needs are for more vigorous executive action, and for more deter mined moral leadership in the White House. Hence the question-mark about civil rights is not really grave. t The only grave question mark is to be found, in fact, in the area of fiscal and tax policy. In this area, unhappi ly, acutely painful measures may be essential if the U. S. is to pay the bill for regain ing the ground we have lost in the area of foreign and de fense policy. When the skeletons in the closet are publicly exhibited, and the whole country knows how much ground has been lost, the clamor to regain the lost ground Will be fierce. But will it be fierce enough to secure general consent to the measures needed to pay the bill? That question will prove the sharpest test of Kennedy's leadership, (c) 1960 New York Harald Tribune Inc. in fhe Days News By FRANK JENKINS Wayne D. Criddle. TTlah state engineer, tells the Na tional Agricultural Credit Conference in Denver that if we can rocket a man to the moon we can bring the Mississippi and the Columbia rivers to Ihe arid parts of the West. He adds: "Nature delivers enough water. The trouble is that the distribution of It isn't equal and uniform. Our prob lem is not that there isn't enough, but that we do not THINK we have the funds to develop it- where it is needed." 'THAT'S in the distant fu- lure. Let's take a look now at the present and the near fu ture. . i JAR. G. B. WOOD, head of " the department of agri cultural economics at Oregon State College, tells the Ninth Annual National Agricultural Conference, which is also meeting in Denver: "The builk of the food and fiber consumed in this coun try by the end of the 1960s will come from fewer than halt a million farms. As of now, 56 per cent of our farms produce only NINE PER CENT of our farm products.' He added: "Due to the changing na lure of agriculture and the REVOLUTIONARY FORCES at work, this country loses a farm about every FIVE MINUTES. WHAT are these revolution- " ary forces that are de creasing the number of Amer lean farms at the rate of about one every five minutes? The MACHINE is one of them. In this day and age, it De Gaulle In Attempt To Resolve Algerian Problem By PHIL NEWSOM UPI ForiiBn Editor President Charles de Gaulle has taken a first, dramatic step toward an early ending MPmn of the Aigeri jWS an war - and m tnererjy once again placed his great pres tige among the French people on the iine. His a n n o u ncement philnws'om that the peo ple would be asked to vote on his plan for a semi-Independent Algeria in a national referendum meant that he was counting on his own immense popularity to win over forces which toppled the French Fourth Republic and on Ar mistice Day took to the streets again to shout, "De Gaulle to the gallows." Early this month it became apparent that De Gaulle plan ned to move decisively to break the Algerian stalemate. West Finds Himself Lacking Enthusiasm For Wild Game Food By DICK WEST Washington (UPI) The en velope itself looked innocent enough, but when I opened it my stomach began flip flopping like a troupe of Russan gym nasts. It contained an invitation to have lunch with the Ant eaters Associ ation. Possibly you have heard of the Anteaters Association. Or possibly you have been kept mercifully in the dark. As for me, I have followed its activi ties for years with a fascina tion bordering on nausea. The association is a loosely formed group of gourmets, trenchermen, and various others who get together each fall at the . National Zoo res- lakes relatively as much ma chinery to run a small farm as a big one. The volume produced by the small farm isn't equal to the task of buy ing the machinery necessary to produce economically. So the small farms are being merged into bigger ones. BUT that isn't the point of this piece. What we're in terested in today is FIBER. What is FIBER? In the past, we have thought of fiber chiefly in terms of cotton, wool, silk, etc. But In the realm of fiber, some thing new has been added. The newcomer is WOOD fiber. It is a versatile prod uct. Many synthetic textiles originate from wood fiber, Paper is made from it. The latest thing in that field is STRETCHABLE paper. They are now using it for bags and packing materials. Industry is flirting with the idea of making disposable shirts for men and disposable dresses for women of stretch able paper. No wash. No iron. Not even drip dry. Wear 'em and BURN 'cm. HERE in our State of Jef ferson, we produce no cot ton, relatively little wool and NO silk (rayon made from wood fiber substitutes, from our standpoint, for silk). But We have IMMENSE sup plies of wood fiber. Wood fiber comes from trees-and trees are a CROP. We can go on growing them forever. THAT brings us back to water. When the time comes (as it must) when we are utilizing fully our wood fiber supply, we are going to need IM MENSE quantities of water to process it. So, if we are wise, we must see to it now that TOO MUCH of our "sur plus" water isn't taken away from us for use somewhere else. SURPLUS water-what is it? If by surplus we mean ALL THE WATER ABOVE WHAT WE ARE USING NOW, it can be made to ap pear that we of Southern Ore gon and Far Northern Cali fornia have a lot of water to GIVE AWAY. But if we take into consideration the water we are going to need when we begin to utilize fully the fiber In our trees, our surplus may be very small. We may not even have a surplus to give away. CONCLUSION: We must begin NOW to take into consideration our water needs In the future. If we don't, we might be badly crippled. 5 Again Puts Prestige on Line In a speech on Nov. 4 he declared that the time might come when the French army in Algeria could put aside its arms except In cases of "le gitimate defense." Dtpandi on Army From this came a predic tion, denied by French offi cials, that De Gaulle soon would order a cease-fire, open ing the way for political talks De Gaulle's success or failure depends upon the French army. Aligned against him would be the French rightists, the one million European settlers in Algeria and a hard core of army professionals. With him would be civilian draftees in the 500,000 man French army in Algeria, ap proximately 100,000 Moslem troops in the army and the 12 million Moslem inhabitants of Algeria. Under these pressures and with the added fact that the only alternative to De Gaulle seems to be civil war, the army is expected to yield. Then would come a politi- taurant for . a series of wild game lunches. Their motto might well be "We Eat Any thing." As far as the association is concerned, nothing that has horns, fins, tails, scales or feathers is regarded as indi gestible. Over the years, its members have dined on such volcanic viands as kangaroo soup, whale blubber, Guate malan iguanas and rattle snakes. Mora Like Challenge You can understand, there fore, why I was reluctant to accept the association's invi tation to sample the fare at one of this year's lunches. It seemed more like a challenge than an invitation. I mean the association uses a chef where I would em ploy a taxidermist. Further more, I didn't know whether my insurance would cover the rental of a stomach pump But after talking it over with my research assistant. young Dr. Zhivago, I decided to undertake the venture, pro vided that he accompany me, Communications Lettera to the Editoi must bear the name and address of the writer although undet cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name oi initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit oil letters with an eye to clarification and condensation Letters suhmittea for publica Uon must not exceed 400 words Electoral College To the Editor: We would like to add a little fuel to help keep the Electoral College pot boiling. We will not attempt to explain this law or com ment on its unfairness, ab surdity, waste of tax money or that it is outdated, as the articles and editorials that have appeared in the Mail Tribune recently, written by Don Stathos, Lyle Wilson, Eric Allen, Frank Jenkins, and possibly others that have not come to our notice, have done this far beyond our pow er so to do. Then the question arises, what to do about it, or the best procedure to follow to remedy the situation? There may be better ones, but until we learn of them we plan to write to our Senators and Con gressmen urging them to put forth every effort to have the sections of the Constitution re ferring to this law deleted in their entirety, and substitute therefore a section with the provision that the majority of the popular vote shall deter mine who is elected President of the United States. At the time this law v,as made a part of our constitu tion it may have had merit, but due to changed conditions it certainly does not belong there now. As Eric Allen sug gested it may take some time to get it off the slate, as it will require an amendment to the Constitution, but the soon er we get at it the sooner we'll get it done. So let us try and get it done by any legal and honorable means. G. O. Sanden Mrs. G. O. Sanden Route 2, Box 443A Medford HONORS THREE UNIONS Washington-OIPD-Three en tertainment unions were hon ored by the government today for providing talent and mus ic to the Voice of America during the last 20 years. The agency's distinguished service award went to the American Federation of Musicians, the American Federation of Tele vision and Radio Artists, and the American Guild of Mus ical Artists. cal roundtable paving the way for Algerian self-determination. Represented at the round- table would be all phases of' Algerian, opinion, including the leftist-leaning rebel pro visional government led by Ferhat Abbas, Moslem mem bers of the French parliament and possibly other members of the French African com munity lending their good of fices. ( Confident of Result Almost from the day he took office, De Gaulle has been making it clear he be lieved in the Inevitability of the rise of an Algerian repub lic. Equally, he believes that Drummond (Walter Lippmann ii in South America. Roscoa Drummond reports from Washington In his absence.) DIVIDEND FOR KENNEDY Washington The anti American, pro-neutralist, anti- defense treaty riots, which forced President Eisenhower to cancel his trip to Tokyo, are about to be repudiated by the Japanese people. This is the predictable re sult of the Japanese general election on Nov. 20." There are four indications of a decisive victory for pro- Western Premier Hayato Ike da and the Liberal Democrats whose leadership is consis tently anti-neutralist. The Japanese public has re coiled with displeasure and distaste at the organized vio lence of the Socialists and Communists. The Liberal Democratic par ty of Premier Ikcda has been uniformly supported in local elections since the riots. In recent elections for gov ernors in rural prefectures, where the Socialists and Com munists were united behind the same candidates, the vot ing strength of the Liberal Democrats was not even dent ed. In American political term inology, the Japanese people quite literally "have never had it so good." They are go ing to vote accordingly. Un der the policies of the Liberal Democrats, who are conserva tive in their economics, the Japanese have experienced six years of unexampled pros perity and economic growth. While President-elect Kenne dy aims to bring the U. S, It was Dr. Zhivago who assist ed me in an experiment with "presidential cocktails ear lier this year, so I trusted his judgment. v The first item on the menu was "barbecued tidbits of wild game," which didn't taste too bad until the wait ress identified it as elk meat. We had passed an elk while driving through the zoo and that didn't help my appetite any. Eatt With Relish Dr. Zhivago, however, con sumed the dish with relish, remarking that he was so hungry he could eat a horse. That didn't help my appetite any either. The second course featured roasted buffalo, which I po litely pushed aside until Dr Zhivago had tested his por tion. "How is it?" I asked. "It's a meal fit for an In dian," he replied, smacking his lips. "What does it taste like?' "It tastes like the elk," he said. At its next lunch, the asso ciation plans to feast on broiled Arctic Circle ptarmi gan and shark fin soup. Then it will have East African ante lope. These dishes may be deli cious but I won't be there to try them. I just became a vegetarian. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF THEY TELL ABOUT a pislol-totin', rip-roarin' son-of-a-gun from the West who swaggered into a Broadway barbershop, waved a hundred-dollar bill in the air, an nouncing to an ana sun dry, "I'm payin' this C note to the cayote who'll give me such a close shave that the gal I'm takin' out tonight won't feel a single whisker. But if said cayote so much as takes one tiny nick out o' my y sensitive skin, I aims to shoot him dead. Now who'll volunteer?" The barbers at the first six chairs turned pale and hastily looked the other way, but a barber at No. 7 chair called out calmly, "Step this way, Mister." The shave was completed swiftly and neatly, and th Westerner handed over the big bill. "Confess," he chuckled, "that you were a wee mite nervous. If you'd-a nicked me, I really aimed to plug you, you know." Barber No. 7 pocketed the bill and grinned. "It was really you who was on the hot seat," he nodded. "The second I nicked you, I'd have cut your throat!" ' C U6Qk Beaattt Ctrl. Distributed by King ftaturn Syadlcaf t h e majorily of Algerians, given a free choice, would ' elect to retain close ties with France. Relying upon his strong man position in the govern ment, he has cracked down swiftly and hard on his critics. Other factors were prod ding De Gaulle. One was Com munist "de facto" recogni tion of the rebels and tha possibility they would be bol stered soon by a flow of Com munist weapons, Another was the belief that, with the in auguration of the Kennedy administration, new pressures might be brought by the Unit ed States to end the war quickly. Reports rate of economic growth to 5 per cent, the Japanese rata of growth during the past year was a phenomenal 16 per cent. THE expected victory of tha Ikeda nartv. which un qualifiedly supports the Jap anese - U. S. defense treaty, does not mean that the Japa nese voters unqualifiedly sup port the treaty. There is no doubt that this election in turning more on economic policy than upon defense pol icy. Premier Ikeda's program promises to double the aver age family income in ten years - from $330 to $660, with a 25 per cent advanqo during the next four years. The record of the Liberal Democratic government has earned credit with the Japa nese people and the more rad ical proposals of the Leftist parties, like government own ership of industry, have as little appeal in Japan as in Britain, Germany and France. But Premier Ikeda in near ly every speech of his cam paign has made the defenso treaty as a foremost commit ment of his government. Ha is condemning the political riots of last June and he is making it clear that support for his party means rejection of the neutralist policies of the Socialists. "Hungary tried to find tha middle way, the neutralist way," he reminds his audi ences, "but Russian f o r c a squelched that." The Premier then asks the Japanese voters to give him a decisive victory "as a great endorsement of the security treaty" with tha U. S. IT NEEDS to be understood that the Japanese people have genuine misgivings about this treaty which per mits the stationing of Ameri can forces on Japanese soil. Instinctively they would like to stand free of the swirling wins of the cold war. They would like to shed the bur dens of the cold war even as the American people would like to do the same - if it were possible. Premier Ikeda knows it is impossible and he is putting his pro - Western, collective security position so p r o m i nently to the force that the voters can have no doubt what course he will pursue. Mr. Ikeda has already re invited President Eisenhower to visit Japan before he re tires on Jan. 20. The Japanese people would provide a great welcome. Thus, through a chain of events which Mr. Eisenhower has not directly influenced either way, it seems virtually certain that the new Kennedy administration will inherit an unearned dividend of nation al prestige, (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc.