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MONDAY. JANUARY 2, 1911
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Medford nd Jackson County
History from the flies of Th
Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
T. o 1QS1 ITuaadav)
Rawlcs Moore, Medford at
torney, today began a six-year
term of office as Judge oi ine
district court for tht Medford
dilript.
Three minor skiing acci
dents wern reported at L-raier
Lake over the three-day week
end, according to park neaa
quarters. 20 YEARS AGO I.
Jan. 2, 1941 (Thursday)
A total of 247 building per
mits having a valuation of
$212,993 were Issued in the
city of Medford during i4U.
according to building depart
ment records.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "New
Year's prediction - The legis
lature will meet, and pass
more laws. There are so many
now the people have no time
to break them, and a few
more will do no harm, and
prevent adjournment on
time. v ..
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 2. 1931 (Friday)
The state highway commis
sion has announced plans to
widen and straighten Pacific
highway between Medford
and Central Point.
A hydraulic mining dredge
ivili begin operations soon in
the Buncom district near here.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 2, 1921 (Sunday)
City and county schools
will reopen tomorrow ending
the holiday vacation.
Medford and the Rogue val
ley have been lashed this past
week by heavy rains and
strong winds.
SO YEARS AGO
Jan. 2, 1911 (Monday)
Moro than 500 persons were
at Angle's Opera house Sun
day afternoon to witness the
ceremony of installing the
Medford Central Labor coun
cil, under charter of the
American Federation of La
bor. Plans have been announced
to renovate the Nash hotel
here and increase its number
of rooms to 75.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct li superior
oven or eight Is eicellsntj Hve e
lis li good.
1. Are horses classed as bo
vines, ovines, or equlnes?
2. When Christ sent His
Apostles to preach, did he be
stow on them the power of
doing miracles?
3. Was President William
McKinley born In New York,
Pennsylvania or Ohio?
4. Niiuie the pioneer In
woman's suffrage and advo
cate of world peace.
5. Who was the New York
publisher whose memory was
commemorated by a special
postage stamp bearing his own
words, "Our republic and lis
press will rise or fall togeth
er" and In whose name an
nual awards are made?
6. How many inches In
meter?
7. Correct the scntonce,'"lle
played a few bars of the piece
on the organ."
8. Bermuda Is a crown col
ony of which foreign govern
ment? 9. Did Henry .of Navarre
rule France before or after
the French Revolution?
10. Hollywood, Calif., Is
part of which large city?
Answtrsi 1, Equinti. 2. Yes.
3. Ohio. 4. Carrie Chapman
Catl. 5. Joseph Pulllier. B.
39.37. 7. "Ha played a few
measures of the piece on the
organ." I. Great Britain, t.
Before, ij Lot Angela.
This Is What He Asked
Vice President Nixon has looked at President
elect Kennedy's cabinet appointments and has
decided that Mr. Kennedy is robbing Republicans
of some of their thunder.
Republican political
been geared to claims
Senator Kennedy made the promise that this
would be the keynote of his administration. Re
publicans doubted him. But some cabinet appoint
ments notably that of
teary of the treasury give strong indication that
the President-elect is determined that his admin
istration will be fiscally responsible.
una aa gumg lu inane 11 exuemeiy uuucuil,
according to Mr. Nixon, to build Republican
opposition to the new Democratic administration.
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LET'S review what Senator Kennedy said dur
mnr fVio c n i vt v n I n-n
jug biic i.aui cugii '
He charged that the
abroad had dropped to a dangerous low. He
charged that the Soviet Union was moving ahead
at a. much faster pace than this nation had. He
said that the solution to our problems , was to
be found first at home.
all that was necessary
step up our production,
with which to do the job. If our production pro
duced more .dollars it would not be necessary,
he said, to increase taxes.
Let s look at Senator
14 years of government
record of a fiscally irresponsible man. He never
has been a fuzzy-thinking liberal. He is an un-
emotional man who takes a cold, hard look at
the facts and having determined the nature of a
roblem proposes a solution for it. He will not
rush unpleasant things under the rug. He de
mands that they be brought out in the open and
dealt with.
IT IS interesting so soon after the election that
many Republican editors who so severely criti
cized Senator Kennedy are conceding that much
that he said was true. They do after they look
at the front pages of their newspapers and see
trouble breaking out on a new front abroad every
day. They do after they read the predictions of
some men in the Eisenhower Administration that
unemployment may reach 6 million this winter.
It is now at the highest point since the thirties.
Mr. Kennedy said throughout his campaign
that this nation was in trouble. It is. He said at
the same time that it was trouble we could over
come if we would but put our minds and backs
to the job. He asked that all of us work harder.
He has faith that we can get the job done.
His appointments thus far to high places in
his .administration clearly show that we will have
good leadership .as we undertake the job;
. .. Pendleton East Oregonian.
Judges Salaries Unrealistic
We don't like to be
demand more and more governmental expendi
tures and then complain about high taxes. But
there are areas where penny-pinching is not only
short sighted but downright foolish.
One of the most obvious examples of this
policy in Oregon is the relatively paltry salaries
we pay to our judges.
As Woodrow Wilson
the individual is concerned, a constitutional gov
ernment is as good as its courts; no better, no
worse. Its laws are only its professions. It keeps
its promises, or does not keep them, in its courts.
. . . Indeed there is a sense in which it may be
said that the whole efficacy and reality of consti
tutional government resides in its courts."
f"UR judges, of course, sit not only on criminal
cases but every day are called upon to decide
matters which effect our lives just. as much as if
we ourselves were called before the bench. They
decide on Constitutional questions, matters where
the State is the litigant, problems of liability in
hundreds of different situations, commercial law
cases and many others.
Oregon judges every
sions which may make or break you financially
or may send you to jail or set you free some time.
In the Circuit Courts of Oregon alone over
26,000 cases were presented last year. In actual
dollars and cents, it costs almost as much to han
dle the more or less routine cases which come
before the State Industrial Accident Commission
as it does to pay the judges who make many
extremely difficult decisions on a large variety of
matters which affect you personally.
Oregon 'pays its Supreme Court Justices
$16,000 a year: California pavs $25,000 to
$30,000; Washington pays $20,000 to $25,000,
as do Alaska and Hawaii. Only Idaho of the
Pacific Coast states pays less than we do and
they are among the five states which nay the low
est salaries in the entire country.
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WE PAY $13,000 to our Circuit Court Judges.
In Hsi1 ifM'niQ AI'IdLtq anrl Vluwaii f Vin nair
is from $18,000 to $20,000. Washington pays
$15,000. Again, Idaho ranks with the bottom
states at less than $13,000. v
It isn't necessary to point out further the
obvious foolishness of penny-pinching in our Judi
cial system, bach year it is becoming more and
more difficult to find qualified men who will
even consent to run for the various judgeships.
Almost every attorney today is making more
money than the Judge before whom he pleads
his cases.
The Legislature has
matter and certainlv should do so at this next
es8ion. Corvallia Gazette-Times.
philosophy always has
of fiscal responsibility.
Douorlas Dillon as secre-
United States' prestige
He said that we could do
for us to do if we would
thus creating more dollars
Kennedy s record over
service. It is not the
among those people who
said, ". . . So far as
day are making deci
the power to act in this
Dennis the Menace
I said 'Happy New Ate. Wilson,
AN' HE SAlD'WWWAeeT?'
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Worse Than Sophistry
To the Editor: Sophistry be.
comes no one, but to classify
your editorial "Is Mankind All
Alone" (12-28-60) as sophistry
would be flattery.
In the 4th century B.C
Aristotle, and later others, ar
gued the world, was not flat,
though they reached their con
clusion not through empirical
Investigation, but through
logical thinking; in effect, "the
perfect form is a sphere, there
fore the world must be round."
The extremes of the theory
of evolution today, as a cen
tury ago, are rejected by all
reasonable men, of which are
included some theologians.
Namely, animate matter could
not have evolved from inani
mate matter. The life principle
being simple (immaterial, not
composed), could not evolve.
To return to your views;
that science could contradict
theology (where incidently we
must differ with you again be
cause theology Is God-centered,
not world-centered), In any
way is stuffingly' difficult to
swallow, since from all record
ed history, scientific discover
ies in all their brilliance only
confirm theological truths (as
if it could be otherwise!).
Every new scientific discovery
draws back further the veil,
thereby exposing a little more
of the Divine Plan. And since
theology is concerned with
God who is eternal, could any
thing be broader in scope?
Many are the questions as
tronomers ask themselves as
they undertake their objective
though fascinating investiga
tion into the universe, realiz
ing the possibility of contact
ing other life; however, sine?
other life is not yet evident, a
possibility of superior life is
Grants Pass
Holds Holiday Meeting
Grants Pass-Dr. Betty Lou
Dunlop of Southern Oregon
college In Ashland was the
guest. speaker at a Christmas
coffee given by the Grants
Pass American Association of
University Women at the
home of Mrs. John R. Boe
Thursday In Grants Pass.
The main theme of her talk,
addressed to college girls at
tending who were special
guests was the growth in ed
ucation for women In the last
100 years In the United
Slates. She pointed out, how,
in many instances, the AAUW
had been instrumental in ef
fecting Improvements both in
living and teaching standards
for women at many of the co
educational i n s 1 1 1 utions of
higher learning throughout
the country.
Several of the annual cere
monies of the organization
were conducted against the
background of festive holiday
decorations. Mrs. Don Bcnja
main, president of the local
chapter, presided over light
ing of candles for each new
child or grandchild of a mem
ber during the past year. Mrs.
James Bnskcr, state treasurer
of AAUW tn Oregon, present
ed evergreen boughs to each
new member of the past year
and as each one accepted
them, she gave a background
of her college training. A pro
gram of vocal music was pre
sented prior to the business
meeting, by Mrs. Boe, accom
panied by Mrs. Robert Frantz
on the piano.
Fellowship Program '
Each year at the Christmas
meeting there is an attempt
to invite as many college
girls in the area home for the
holidays as can be contacted
so that they may become fa
miliar with the work of
AAUW. Dr. Dunlop, herself a
beneficiary of an AAUW fel
lowship for advanced study,
spoke highly of the fellow
ship program which U an in
ternational one. f
the case.
no more suggestive than that
of a lower intelligence than
ours.
Some astronomers, and oth
ers, will remember that "man
is made a little less than the
angels," also that man alone
is involved with redemption,
and this is somewhat unique.
Robert J. Howard
828 B West 14th st.
Medford.
'tValhalla"
To the Editor: "Valhalla,'
power-packed novel by Jcre
Peacock, a young Marine born
and raised in the west, depicts
the life, the thinking, hopes
and desperations of the forces
of occupation in Korea and
Japan, amazingly well, writ
ten by the young author who
returned recently from the
Orient.
Through a friend I obtained
a pre-release copy.
"Valhalla" is to be released
for publication Jan. 7, 1961,
Some early copies may al
ready have reached distribu
tion points in some towns,
v "Valhalla" carried the high
est rating in Publishers Week
ly last Oct. 17.
Sulen Drangen,
417 Lane St.,
Yreka, Calif,
Lummoxl
To the Editor: Now I know
why the abominal snowman,
who eventually found his way
to White City, likes to make
those peculiarly annoying
sounds with his nose and
throat. I read that "gargling
may satisfy the normal child's
need to make interesting
noises." The big lummox!
David Frisch,
P.O. Box 292
White City, Ore.
AAUW Club
Many different colleges
were represented by the girls
and of special Interest to the
group was the introduction of
Miss Deanne Dayton, winner
of the national Rotary Fellow
ship award which entitles her
to a year's study In South Af
rica. She explained that after
her graduation from Pacific
university in June, she would
not leave for South Africa un
til mid-winter.
Mrs. Sidney Bazctt, wife of
the newly elected representa
tive from Josephine county,
announced that the family is
leaving for Salem Jan. 2
where they have rented a
home for the legislative term.
She issued a cordial invitation
to anyone attending a legis
lative session to visit them at
their Salem home. She urged
people to write her husband
about their feelings as voters
on proposed legislative mat
ters, explaining how helpful
it would be to him to know
how his constituents felt on
pending matters.
Mention was made of the
state-wide "Lights on for Edu
cation" program being spon
sored in all schools. Mrs. R. J.
Millemann announce that the
Grants Pass High school
PTSA would have their pro
gram on this subject, Tues
day, Jan. 3. with Faye Bristol
as guest speaker.
There were about 50 mem
bers and SO college girls pres
ent for the coffee.
COTTON STATES
Columbia, S.C.-Four south
ern states, the Carolina., Geor
gia and Alabama, account for
more than two-ihirds of the
total value of board woven
goods in U.S. cotton maniac
uring. TRANSIT FLEET
New York More than 92.
000 streetcars, electric coaches
and buses are used daily to
carry U.S. transit passcngep.
Wilson Finds 'New
In Light of Realities
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington 0JPB President
elect John F. Kennedy's new
frontiers have receded some
what into the
distance.
They went,
y o u m i g h t
say, t h a t a
way. The new
frontiers
which seemed
quickly attain
able in the dis
orderliness of
camDaien sa-
Wilson
a presidential
pear now in the light of poli
tical and legislative discipline
to be more distant and diffi
cult. The cold political fact is
that it is much easier to make
a campaign promise than to
Today Cr Tomorrow
By Walter
MAKING HASTE SLOWLY
One good New Year's reso
lution Is to recognize that both
at home and abroad the new
A d m i nislra-
I tion will need
I time to get or
ganized and to
get set to deal
with the great
issues.
As of now,
the situation
is quite un
like 193 3
Lippmann when Roose
velt took office. There are
grave problems which need to
be solved and there are agon
izing issues which must be
worked through. But there is
no over - all national emer
gency, like the closing of the
banks in 1933, and, despite the
Congo and Laos and the like,
there is no immediate crisis of
peace and war.
Therefore the Kennedy ad
ministration does not have
to improvise and to proceed
breathlessly to - do things.
There is nothing in sight
which calls for a period like
Roosevelt's first hundred days.
The Kennedy- administration
can act with deliberation, and
for the problems it faces, more
or less long range in charac
ter, it needs to deliberate
carefyjly, tot plan thoroughly,
and then to act decisively.
. i i .; .
rpHE new Administration will
need time, a few months of
time, even though the men al
ready chosen have an extra
ordinary background of ex
perience in public life.
The Cabinet is sometimes
described as a group of pro
fessors. The truth is that they
are a group of public servants,
men who have made public
life a career. There is not one
of them who' does not already
know his way around Wash
ington, and there are few
among them who do not com
bine practical experience with
a theoretical discipline in the
subject with which they will
deal.. They are, moreover, a
highly sophisticated lot. Nev
ertheless, the task of policy
making in this huge govern
ment is unsettled and con
fused, and the new men under
the President's active direc
tion will have to work out
their ways of working to
gether, i
At home, to take one ex
ample, the problem of the dol
lar will engage not onlM) the
White House and the Treasury
and the Federal Reserve. The
central and critical issue in
the balance of payments is the
capacity of American industry
to compete more effectively in
world markets. This involves
the prices administered by big
business and the wages de
manded by the big unions.
The new Administration will
not inherit, and it will have
to create, procedures for ex
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
ARADCLIFFE SOPHOMORE brought her roommate
home with her for Christmas vacation, and since said
roommate combined the best features of Marilyn Monroe
and Elizabeth Taylor, she
created an immediate
sensation. "And here's
my grandpa," said tha
hostess. "Believe it or
not, he's in his 90's."
With a gleam in his
eyes, grandpa hastily
added, "Early 90's, that
is."
There's a talented star
let In Hollywood who Is cut
ting up a powerful lot of
capers for a lass of her
tender years. After watch
ing nor in action, u s nam
to believe she's only sixteen. "That's her proper age all right,"
confirms Danny Kay. "Sixteen going on thirty seven."
On the dance floor at a British e moassy a very fat lady panted,
TU have to sit down. I'm too danced out." "Oh no, my dear,"
protested her gallant partner. "Just nice and plump."
C Ifft Seanstt Cert DlitrlbuUd if Klaf TmbuM Ifuilnt
maka good on it. Of this fact
the Kennedy strategists are
aware.
One Thai-a-Way
For example, consider the
three-month program which
candidate Kennedy promised
in a September campaign
speech:
"The next president," Ken
nedy said, "must be prepared
in the first three months of
his office to send to Congress
messages that will deal with
(1) wiping out poverty, (2) the
problems of full employment,
(3) of a higher minimum
wage, (4) of better social secu
rity for our older citizens, (5)
more slum clearance and (6)
aid to depressed areas, (7)
more help for the marginal
farmer and the sharecropper,
(8) a concentrated drive on il-
lippmann
erting its power and influence
in sucn matters.
'TWERE are two reasons why
in the next few months,
during the shake-down cruise
so to speak, the new Adminis
tration must not be hurried
Into making major decisions
in foreign affairs.
The first is that there are
several agencies concerned in
advising, the President, the
State Department, the Penta
gon, the Atomic Energy Com
mission, the Treasury, and the
Budget Bureau. They will
have to learn afresh what it
is like to work with a Presi
dent wjio administers the gov
ernment. ' They have become
used to a staff system under
which, like feudal lords, they
make treaties with one anoth
er. This diffuses and dilutes
decision. For decision is im
possible unless the ultimate
decider listens to and partici
pates in the critical debates.
A second reason for not hur
rying into the biggest decisions
is that they will surely be bad
decisions if they have to be
taken too soon. There are a
number of important foreign
policies which come down to
us from an era that is passing,
that of the post-war world.
They will have to be reviewed
and reconsidered and this will
have to be candidly explained.
It will take time.
But if the new Administra
tion is forced by events to
make decisions on Jan. 21 or
even on Feb. 21, it will un
avoidably fall back upon the
old formulae. For these, how
ever badly they worked are
venerable 'and undisputed.
Even if the President and his
advisors have reviewed the
old policies themselves, they
will scarcely have had time to
explain their decisions to Con
gress, to the press, and to the
people.
.
OUR allies, let us hope, will
understand that under the
American political system a
change of Administration is
not the same thing as a change
of government in a parliamen
tary state. It is a much bigger
and more radical operation
For while we have a civil
service which keeps the gov
ernment machinery running
no matter who is in the White
House, the makers of policy
extend down at least three or
four levels deep into the Ad
ministration. This may be a good system
or a bad one, but it is the
system we have, and the un
avoidable delay in coming to
grips' with the government is
sues is involved in it.
It follows, and this applies
most particularly to Mr.
Khrushchev, that the way to
deal with the Kennedy admin
istration will be to recognize
the necessity of not hurrying
it into action.
(c) 1961 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Stop Me
Frontiers'
of Legislation
literacy. (9) improved distri
bution of surplus food, and
(10) a better economic break
for all Americans regardless
of their economic status.
The President-e 1 e c t, of
course, could send all of those
measures to Congress in the
first three months of his of
fice. He is too much of a poli
tician, however, to do so with
any expectation of quick ac
tion on even half of them.
The quickie Kennedy pro
gram, in fact, has been solved.
Program Realities
Shortly before Christmas,
Vice President-elect Lyndon
B. Johnson, speaker Sam Bay
burn and others met with
Kennedy at Palm Beach.
Their program for early legis
lative action was as follows:
(1) Aid to depressed areas,
(2) increased minimum wage,
(3) federal aid for school con
struction, (4) public housing
and (S) medical care for the
aged.
None of these approaches a
new frontier. Four of the
projects to which Kennedy
has given legislative priority
are holdovers from the last
session of Congress. The fifth,
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
IN SEARCH OF A TRUMPET
Washington-Of all the men
everywhere who wonder what
the New Year will bring, few
are in greater
doubt as to
what immedi
ate course to
take than
Rich ard M.
Nixon.
.The retiring
R e p.u b lican
vice-president,
so narr o w 1 y
defeated for
the presidency itself only last
month, is receiving shoals of
advice. An endless line of sug-gestions-from
his staff, from
fellow Republicans in and out
of Congress, from the public
-flows across the capitol desk
he is about to vacate after
eight years.
On Jan. 9 Nixon will reach
the not too-advanced age of
48. And this milestone in his
life is curiously paralleled by
Greyhound Bus
Theft Investigated
Oak Harbor-(UPH-The Island
county sheriff's . ffice and the
Bellinghairk Police Depart
ment today were investigating
the theft and abandonment of
a Greyhound bus valued at
$40,000.
Greyhound Lines reported
the bus stolen, saying it had
been taken from Bellingham
sometime Friday night. The
bus was found abandoned
near here Saturday.
Bellingham police theorized
the bus was driven from Bel
lingham to this Whidby
Island community via the De
ception Pass Bridge.
A Greyhound spokesman
said the bus was probably
taken by someone familiar
with its special ignition sys
tem. Portland Church
Damaged by Fire
Portland - 0IPD - Damage has
been estimated at $50,000
from a fire at the Grace Me
morial Church Sunday after
noon. The Portland fire depart
ment said the fire apparently
was started by an overheated
electric coffee maker. Main
damage to the building was
in the auditorium of the
church.
No one was injured.
- Approximately 23 .ircmen
fought the blaze, which bi j'.;e
out about 4 p.m. The fire vs
brought under control in
about 20 minutes.
Oakridge Man
Escapes Crash
Oakridge - (UPI) - Godfrey
Crane, 54, Oakridge, escaped
death Saturday when a South
ern Pacific passenger train
smashed into his car at an
Oakridge intersection.
Crane was thrown from the
vehicle, which was carried
two blocks down the tracks.
He was reported in fair con
dition at a local hospital.
The accident occurred as
the passenger train "Kla
math" was approaching the
local depot. The sheriff's of
fice said Crane apparently
failed to see the train.
SEEKS CONGO PEACE
New York-am-The United
Nations Conciliation Commis
sion, under the leadership of
Jaja Wachuku of Nigeria,
headed to Lcopoldville today
to assemble In an attempt to
Iron out the dispute between
factions in the Congo.
Receding
public housing, has long legis
lative history.
Soma Must Wait
When Kennedy made his
September campaign prom
ises he was thinking of aid to
education in terms of federal
funds for teachers' salaries as
well as school construction.
Speaker Rayburn told him
and told newsmen that feder
al funds for teachers' salaries
would have to wait.
All of the minority voting
blocs which made Kennedy's
election possible have special
objectives of their own, all
promised in the Democratic
platform and equally pledged
by the candidates who cam
paigned on the platform. Ne
groes, most anxiously, de
mand that the Democrats
make good on the campaign
promises to break the South
ern hold on House and Sen
ate by amending the rules of
both.
Organized labor also has its
pet projects, such as easing
restrictions on picketing, Tha
bills dearest to these minority
blocs do not show on the Ken
nedy priority list. Some poli
tical fireworks may be set off
by that fact.
S. WHITE
an opportunity to take any
one of a large number of forks
in the road in his career.
Amid all the uncertainties
which surround him, there aro
only two certainties. He will
not for a moment forfeit, in
any way, the titular leader
ship of the Republican party
which he earned by carrying!
the G.O.P. fight in the recent
campaign. And he has no in
tention of allowing the party
to be captured in Congress
the only place where it now
has any national forum-either
by the left wing led by Gov.
Nelson Rockefeller of New
York or the right wing led
by Sen. Barry Goldwater of
Arizona.
A ND there Is, also, one next-to-certainty.
This is that
Nixon will actively seek the
Republican presidential nomi
nation again in 1964. Mr. Nix
on himself does not put his
ambition this strongly, nor do
his closest associates. All the
same, all his plannlng-neces-sarily
fluid in detail as it is
for the time being-has one
pconstant, basic factor: He in
tends so to conduct his life
as to remain readily available
for '64.
Thus the probabilities are
that he will not aciyept any
corporation job; will not run
for governor of California,
will not take a college presi
dency. He is mest likely to
return to California to a large,
lucrative and undemanding
law practice-undemanding in
that he can pick his cases and
make his time his own.
tTiHIS, however, would be at
-- best an imperfect solution,
and Nixon knows it well. For
he needs some sort of nation
al rostrum from which to
keep his name and views con
sistently before the national
public. The California gover
norship would serve fairly
well for this, as a law firm
would not.
But the trouble with the
governorship would be that
Nixon would instantly become
involved in all sorts of local
and regional issues blurring
and perhaps even distorting
the picture of national leader
ship he must continue some
how to offer.
So the strong odds are that
in thejgnd Nixon will decide
that the least unsatisfactory
of all the routes open to him
will be to return to the law
but to keep his engagement
book wide open to lecturing
and perhaps writing at places
and in publications guaran
teeing him some national au
dience, i
His problem is deeply sig
nificant not because it is
Ttichard Nixon's problem and
not even solely because it in
volves a man for whom so
many voted so recently for.
president.
rpHE central problem Is In)
this new illustration of the
human wastefulness of our po-:
litical sy's'tem. After inaugura
tion day, Jan. 20, we shall,
have three living and unem-;
ployed ex-presidents as well,
as a newly retired vice-presK
dent entitled to speak for very'
nearly half the country but'
lacking much of a place fronv
which to speak. J ;
The two rivals of Nixon for
the headship of the Republic
can party, Governor Rockefel-.
ler and Senator Goldwater,;
will, moreover, have mega-,
phones not available to Nixon
himself. Rockefeller can speak
pretty loudly from the gover
nor's office in Albany; Gold-;
water has the great platform
of the Scnate-which is famous '.
for its publicity value
Nixon, therefore, simply'
must make do with what!
trumpets can be found. '
(Copyright. 1960, By United
Feature Syndicate, Ine.) '