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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, I960
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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,
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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.