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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 20, 1960)
SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 20, Mat f er of Fact v j.p ai,op ... . OUTSTANDINO . Washington - The relative ly small number of outstand ing political debts Is a feature of his post-vlc-t o r y balance sheet which must give con slderaole qui et pleasure to Senator Ken nedy. Even President El enhower, In 1952, had a . Joseph ai'VoT punier Bal i .. 1 ance sheet than Kennedy has today. This point was underlined In reverse, so to say, by the recent visit paid Kennedy by one of his principal creditors, Gov, Abraham Riblcoff of Connecticut. Kennedy plays the political game in accord with the accepted rules. He asked Ribicoff to lunch with him at Palm Beach, not only because he like and admires him, which he does, but also because he feels indebted to him. The astute Ribicoff and the equally astute Connecticut State Chairman, John Bailey, were the first professional politicians outside Massachu setts to back the Kennedy can didacy. For a long time, in deed, they were the only ones. As thing have turned out, it was a little like buying Gen eral Motors stock when the company was formed, and never selling a share there after. This fact Is not only im portant to Gov. Ribicoff, who will probably become Attor ney General if he wants the job, and to John Bailey, who may well be Postmaster Gen eral. This same fact is also important to another Connec ticut man, Chester Bowles, since the Bowles claim on Kennedy has to be rated as substantially weaker than the Ribicoff-Bailey claims. BOWLES was a late recruit in the Kennedy camp. Al though it is not generally known, he even refused to speak in Kennedy's behalf In the crucial Wisconsin pri mary. Thereafter, his name was useful at Los Angeles. But he did not "sacrifice" his candidacy for the House to the Kennedy cause, as some of his friends are now saying. In fact, Bailey, who would hard ly have acted against Ken nedy's wishes, asked Bowles to stay in the House race, which was won by a Republi can after Bowles's unexpected withdrawal. . These unkindly facts sug gest why the drive to make Bowles Secretary of State Is unlikely to be crowned with success. The new Cabinet, af ter all, cannot be half-recruited from Connecticut. Political realists will note the same sort of unkindly facts in the case of Adlal Stev enson. Most ironical among them is the fact that Steven son was asked to nominate Kennedy at Los Angeles, after his own chance of being nomi nated had reached zero. If he had taken this opportunity of the last instant, he would be a sure bet for Secretary of Slate now. But he refused. Thus the speeches Stevenson most usefully made during the campaign are his only ma jor credit on the books. TN CONTRAST, the books Jl show solid pre-conventlon credit (the most valuable sort) for Gov. Mennen Williams of Michigan, Gov. Mike DISalle of Ohio, Governor-elect Terry Sanford of North Carolina, Gov. Orville Freeman of Min nesota, Rep. Edith Green of Oregon, and the Los Angeles leader, Jeff Unruh, in Call- fornia. As such lists go, this MORE PEOPLE HAVE MORE CASH SAVINGS IN THE BANK For this unique combination of advantages helpfulness WHY NOT DO YOUR SAVING AT OUR BANK? Deposit insured up to $10,000 for each account . by Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Your savings earn interest at 3 semi-annually. Now Two Offices To Strvs You . . . 1109 Court Street 701 E. Jackson Blvd. I960 is a short on. .. . addition of the two Abou ben Adnoms, Rlbicotf and Bailey. Federal employment will unquestionably be open to the people on the list, when and It they want a Job - ai lome of them already do. Cooperation, i n general, rather than specific jobs for themielvei, will be the de- Ire of the organization men who also hold Important cred its. Preeminent among these are Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago, Gov. David Law. rence of Pennsylvania, Buf falo boss Peter Crotty, and In New York City, the Bronx and Brooklyn leaders, Charles Buckley and Joseph T. Shar key, but not Carmine DeSaplo in Manhattan. By Kennedy's personal or ders, all important campaign contributors were specifically warned that no contract went with their checks. Two very large contributions were actu ally rejected because the in tending donors wanted to be assured of diplomatic posts. This is the main reason why Kennedy's post-victory bal ance sheet is so much better than Eisenhower's was in 1962. But one must not forget the final category of those without money or delegates, whose own hard work con tributed Invaluably to Ken nedy's success. TIEADING this category is Robert Kennedy. Any oth er man who had worked as untiringly and brilliantly as Robert Kennedy worked for his brother, could confidently expect .a place in the very highest rank of the new ad ministration. On the face of the facts, It seems both ridicu lous and unjust that Robert K e n n e d y's relationship to John F. Kennedy should be widely thought to debar him for the kind of post he could otherwise count on. This Is yet another question which must now be decided by the President-elect. After his hard won victory, he sits In Palm Beach playing a game like the game of fitting-pegs-ln-holcs, which is used to test childish I.Q.'s. But In his game, the pegs happen to be living, breathing, hoping hu man beings; and their degree of fitness for the holes may one day mean victory or da feat. (c) I960 Ntw York Herald Tribune Inc. Evils of Censorship Discussed at U of C By New York Lawyer By SID HOLLINOSWORTH Berkeley, Calif. - Morris Ernst, noted New York law yer and defender of civil lib erties, delivered a sermon at the University of California this past week on the evils of censorship, It was nows because It marked a point of departure for this university in its strug gle during the past decade for academic freedom. Ernst selected as his sub ject the highly controversial question of publishing mate rial pertaining to matters of sex. He attacked the Puritan ical viewpoint that renders taboo all mention of the facts of life as a principal con tributor to Juvenile delin quency, Cause of Trouble "Keeping sex in the gutter Is the cause of most of our adolescent trouble," he said, "I don't want my children safety . . . availability . . . earnings... multiple banking services . . . C?BANKil JAe In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Let's talk today about gold. It's In the big headlines, President Elsenhower (striv ing, the correspondents ex plain, for his cherished goal of a sound dollar) has ORDER ED government agencies to adopt emergency moves to cut down the amount of money they spend overseas. He has met with the Na tional Security Council, to confer with his administra tion's top financial, military and foreign policy chiefs. The subject of the conference was how to keep our gold supply from dwindling farther. WHAT'S it all about? This is the situation; As of now, we have rough ly 18 billion dollars worth of monetary gold - much of it buried at Fort Knox. We have nearly 18 billion dollars of legitimate potential demands from abroad on our gold sup Ply. If these demands were all presented at once, we wouldn't have gold enough left to back up our paper dol lars. Gold, as everyone should understand, is the accepted medium for the settlement of international balances. HOW did we get that way? There are conflicting theories. One of them is that we have been Importing too much and exporting too little . . . send ing too much American money abroad for investment, in cluding new manufacturing plants In foreign countries -designed, in part, to take ad vantage of lower foreign costs of production, including low er labor costs. And so on. rpHIS argument smacks a little of politics. It is weak ened somewhat by the fact that this year our export-Import balancehas been favora ble, rather than unfavorable. During most of 1960, our ex port totals have risen faster than our import totals-which is another way of saying that we have sold more abroad than we have bought abroad. So, another question: What's the REAL reason for our gold shortage? THIS seems to be the an swer: We've been TOO GENER OUS. taught anything by under-! ground comments or by under-i ground anything." The rule is: let people talk j unless there it a clear andi pressing danger, he stressed, or as Judge Brandelt said "al low ideas to circulate," "If I had my way, I'd have the head of the Communist party talk In this university," he declared. "There would be no Com munist party if society could judge it in the open." Try to Shield Child Turning to the mass media of books, newspapers and pic tures, he declared: "We have these little vigilantes sitting up nights reading objection able material, trying to shield the child by making the sub ject taboo. Then all of a sud den, the child faces life in the raw. "In circumventing the code set up for them in Hollywood, the producers try to get away with as much violence and suggestlveness as possible. And the impact of non-fiction along this line is greater than that of fiction." In answer to a question as to the propriety of secrecy in matters of defense, Ernst re plied: "There always will be po litical suppression in various pockets of society. It is the nrantino nf malrinO tahnn. that society cannot enforce I that generates the trouble. "But there must be an area j in reserve, In politics as well j as in love, and secrecy must be maintained until man mak es up his mind." Book Mentioned "Lady Chaterly's Lover," the book which has created a sensation and a trial in Eng land was mentioned by Ernst as one which brought into the open, as literature, the reali ties faced by human beings in order to remove the evil connotation. "Women, as a rule, are not interested in off color mate-! rial. There is a romantic and not a pornographic Interest," he added. He summed up his thesis against censorship with the observation that descrimln ations today against creative ncss are unbelievable." 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