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jToday fir Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. THE PICKING j AND CHOOSING '' One thing comes through fclearly enough from the way Senator Kennedy has been cnoosing n i s iaoinet. u is that he has not been putting together just a Cabinet. He has been put ting together an Adm i n 1 s tration Hr had nn Lippmann intention, it Jseems plain enough, of follow ing the Eisenhower pattern. , He does not mean to appoint , a few men like John Foster Dulles and Georee Hnmnhrev and then to delegate all but a iew ultimate decisions to (hem. Senator Kpnnpdv py. -pects to be at the center of ins aaminisiration, not to pre side above it and in large de "gree aDart frnm it He is not, therefore, hand ing over 10 tne Secretary of oiaie me conduct of our for eign relations and in th Spn. retary of the Treasury the conduct of our financial and economic concerns. Rathpr he is selecting the teams of Key men In the Departments, having it in mind that he will work with them. ' Doing that is an intricate lask. He must find men who have ability. He must find men who believe in, not mere ly who accept, his general tdnception of our situation and our needs. He must find men who are politically avail able and are personally com patible. They must have fresh energy, which means normal ly that they must be in the creative period of a man's life. They must have experi ence, not in the sense that they have lived through it all but because they are educated and, therefore, know the task from having studied it. TT HAS been, of course, a fascinating game to specu late about who would be tapped. But it is easy to take our own curiosity too serious ly, and to assume that from the names of the men who are chosen, as compared with the men who are not chosen, we can read the future poli cies of the United States. In fact, among the different men seriously considered for the State Department, the Treasury: and Defense, there were not, I ( believe, any sub stantial issues of policy which would collide with the deci sions of the President himself cm foreign or on economic policies. The differences among the men have been differences of style and of per sonality, differences of how and not differences of wheth er or what. " In the Administration of a strong President, which Mr. Kennedy most surely intends to be, Cabinet officers do not play the role of policy mak ers as did Dulles and Hum phrey in the Eisenhower ad ministration. For these reasons the choice of the key men, of which the Cabinet officers are by no means the whole lot, could not be done in a hurry. The time that the Senator has been spending since election is not long in view of the fact that he, is organizing his adminis tration and not merely his Cabinet. If he can get most pi his key men in place by the end of this month, there is. no reason why he should not be ready to take over three weeks later. Ike To Leave Army Hospital Washington-flJPD - President Eisenhower was scheduled to leave Walter Reed Army hos pital today following comple tion of part two of his annual physical checkup just 36 days before he retires from the White House. The 70-year-old Eisenhower, oldest U.S. Chief Executive, was expected to leave the hos pital sometime in the after noon. Presidential press secretary James C. Hagerty, who em phasized that Eisenhower was not ailing and had no symp toms of illness, said any state ment on the examination would.be issued at his White House office. ,,,,. Eisenhower entered Walter Reed Tuesday night to com plete the final head-to-toe checkup he will undergo as President. He leaves office Jan. 20. He was pronounced in- con tinued excellent" health fol lowing the first half of the tests, Sept. 15-16. Hagerty said the three-month delay in com pleting the tests occurred be cause Eisenhower had been "fairly busy" since mid-September. . . , Hagerty said the President "feels fine and just wants to get the yearly examination concluded." ANE thing has struck me "while we have been wait ing for the picking and choos ing to produce the results. It is that on the central questions of foreign affairs and eco nomics, the criteria among the available men have not been ideological, not whether they were to the left or to the right. When the whole list of selec tions has been announced, it will be a mistake to read it as meaning that the Kennedy administration will be "con servative" or "progressive." It will .be too active. and too varied to fit comfortably into either category. The Administration will move with a broad concensus, which is broader than the Democratic party because it includes a large wing of the Republican party, comprising such men as Governor Rocke feller, Senators Case, Cooper, and Javits. The old labels of the Thirties and the Fifties do not really fit the actual situation at home and abroad in the Sixties, and the sensible thing to do is to handle all these labels very gingerly. Copyright 1960, New York Herald Tribune Inc. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, I960 Junior Ranger Badge Returned To Iowa Youngster Editor's note: Rertntlv I'PI r. .,.., : i , . i ,u , .. ... .. . ... ported thnt a 9-year-old Iowa boy. Erie Rlcgenbarh. turned in to Smokey year his junior Forest Ranitcr badge because he started a fire. Eric wanted the badce re turned more than anything. In the following exclusive dispatch, the UPl's Agriculture Department cor respondent reports that Smokev has forgiven the boy and sent back the badge. By GAYLORD P. GODWIN Washington - IUPD - Smokey Bear has forgiven Eric Rig genbach. Last September, Eric, the 9-year-old son of a Williams burg, Iowa, couple, turned in his coveted Junior . Forest Ranger badge because he con sidered himself unworthy. He started a fire that almost got out of control. Eric was the first youngster ever to resign under such circumstances. Put on Probation He told about it in a scrawled report to Smoky Bear, the symbol of fire pre vention. Smokey is stern when it comes to fires. He put Eric on probation. Smokey's master the men and women of the U.S. Forest Service - told Eric the badge would be returned in three months if he refrained from playing with matches and was careful with fire. The boy atoned for his mis take and made the most of the probationary period. Instead of starting fires, he became an active fire preventer. He made a fire prevention speech at his school, appeared on a local radio station to give his message, and otherwise aided the cause at every op portunity. At the end of three months he wrote Smokey this letter asking to be taken back into the Junior Forest Rangers: "Dear Smokey Bear: "I haven't played with matches or fire. In fire-pre vention week, I made a speech on fire prevention in school. I was on the radio. Every one in school heard it. Most of them on the bus. "A news reporter called me. He was from New York. He asked why I sent back my badge. I said I was not worthy of the belonging. "In my room I have a bear. I named it Smokey. I want the badge back. I will carry it everywhere. "Yours truly, Eric Riggcn bach." Eric's mother, Mrs. J. E. Rlggenbach, also sent a letter to Smokey, certifying her son's activities. "He has been careful, and very good since he turned in his badge." Mrs. Riggenbach write. "I feel he would make a good Junior Ranger now -one you would be proud of." 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