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Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 16. 1951 (Friday)
iir..n Mnr'cp 'Inld tllC
Sen. vvajiic
Mail Tribune yesterday the
department ui " "v.
vet to make up its mind on
the proposed reactivation of
Camp White.
The number of influenza
cases reported to the county
health department today was
436, but County Health Offi
cer Dr. A. Erin Merkcl said
the influenza epidemic is defi
nitely subsiding.
20 YEARS AGO
March 16, 1941 (Sunday)
The 41st Oregon legislature
adjourned at 3 a.m. today af
ter the senate and house were
finally able to come to agree
ment on a two-cent per pack
age cigarette tax.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pol" column: "Spar
row. Sparrow, Sparrow and
Robin, the leading architects,
report they have completed
plans for a number of new
nestalows, and construction
has started on several."
30 YEARS AGO
March 16, 1931 (Monday)
The state fire marshal yes
terday praised both the Med
ford and Ashland fire depart
ments on an inspection tour
here.
Pay telephones have been
Installed in the lobbies of the
Cralcrian and Riallo theaters;
service was formerly free.
40 YEARS AGO
March 6, 1921 (Wednesday)
The Ohio association of the
Rogue River Valley met yes
terday at Chaulaqua hall in
Ashland.
The state dairy Inspector
had praise yesterday for most
local dairies. -
50 YEARS AGO
March 16, 1911 (Thunday)
Fifty Rogue Valley "colon
ists" arrived by train yester
day. County fruit Inspectors
have completed the prc-blos-som
Inspection of valley fruit
growers and predict a bumper
crop this year.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct li superior;
seven or eight it excellent five er
sis is good.
1. Does Easter always full
on a dale before the first day
of spring?
2. With what sports do you
associate these names: Babe
Ruth, Bill Tildcn, Bobby
Jones?
3. What government agency
Is indicated by the initials
T.V.A.?
4. What building is repre
sented on the back of the
$5.00 bill?
5. Did the birth rale In the
U.S. increase or decrease dur
ing World War II?
6. Arc bats blind?
7. Is the esophagus the pas
sage for food lo the stomach,
or air to the lungs?
R. What Is a caisson?
9. Name the President who
subsequently became Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court.
10. Which is the larger at
birth, a bear or a porcupine?
Antwtrii 1. No. 2, Baseball,
iennii, golf. 3. Tennessee Val
ley Authority. 4. Lincoln Me
morial. 5. Increased. 6. No.
7. Foot! to stomach, I, Artil
lery ammunition Wagon. 9.
William Howard Tall. 10
Porcupine.
NATIONAL EDI
1SD.Y. MAttCH 16, 1961
Do-It-Yourself Dunes
The Oregon Dunes National Park proposal is
dead at least for the present session of Congress
and opponents and proponents are closer than
they ever have been. For the district's own con
gressman, Dr. Edwin Durno, dismissed the area
as not scenic enough for national park status.
Dr. Durno never has been off the highway,
obviously.
Since the dunes between Florence and Reeds
port already are almost wholly owned by the
public, through one agency or another, why not
try a bit of joint effort? Why not put together a
do-it-your-self park of roughly national park size
but with far less expenditure?
OONEYMAN State
11 small parks in the
natural headquarters area. A number or U. b.
Forest Service camp areas, largely undeveloped,
are scattered up and down the highway within
several miles. Besides these two agencies, the
Bureau of Land Management, Lane County and
Douglas County control
land west of Highway
These five agencies
. l I C.
ments ana planning iunus. ir mey coordinated
their ettorts at the planning level, much could
be accomplished. Jf they went a step further and
pooled crews in such joint-benefit activities as
signing and construction of access roads and
trails, the whole area could be made usable by
recreationists in a short time. Pooling of custodial
and maintenance forces
TO OUR knowledge,
county through federal level never has been
done on this scale in any field before. There
would be policy conflicts and legal problems to
solve. But this doesn t mean it can t be attempted.
And, whether Rep. Durno thinks so lor not, it
would be worth the effort. Capital Journal.
Back To
A cautious optimism is
the possibility of arriving at an agreement among
the nuclear powers to stop weapons testing. It
is as if the second half of a tie football game
were about to begin and our side was putting in
a new team, fresh and eager, but also experienced.
The Geneva talks were recessed last Dec. 5 at
the suggestion of the United States. After 25
months since the discussions began, Oct. 31,
1968 deadlock remained on the number of on
site inspections to be permitted to check on boot
leg underground tests. J he British and American
position had been that teams within the country
in question must be allowed to investigate at
least 21 earth tremors a
sought to limit such inspections to three.
One reason for the
pressed bv Hubert H. Humphrey, chairman of the
Senate Disarmament subcommittee, on March
12. In the past, said Humhprey, U.S. negotiators
did not have "a clear purpose and distinct offers"
to Russia, but now a clear-cut position had been
worked out.
THE RESUMPTION of
c i i ..i.
jreiticeu uy wuik. wussiuiis nuie iti which me
principal British representative was David Orms-by-Gore,
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.
President Kennedy on Jan. 25 named a 13-man
panel of experts, mainly
armament Administrator
Meantime, the ground work for a new ap
proach to arms control had been laid in several
loner series of official and unofficial discussions
that extended well back
election victory m November.
The new U.S. representative at Geneva will
be Arthur H. Dean, a New York attorney a
former partner of John Foster Dulles and U.S.
negotiator with the Chinese Communists in the
Korean War. He is generally regarded as a tough
bargainer, but he is by no means weddetl to the
Dulles foreign policy.
DRES1DENT Kennedy appears quietly to have
dropped his campaign pledge to "prescribe
a reasonable but definite time limit within which
to determine whether significant progress is be
ing made" after which, if the finding were nega
tive, the United States would resume testing. He
is reported to wan to avoid the impression of
an American ultimatum.
Nevertheless, the consensus is that the first six
or seven weeks ol the resumed discussions should
indicate what are the chances of accommodation.
The Russians are supposed to want an agreement
before the "nuclear club" grows any larger
larticulaiiv before Red
become a member.
Moreover, Nikita S.
for Summit diplomacy. When Dr. Walter Rostow,
now a Kennedy advisor, went to Moscow for a
scientific conference last
casion to act as a sort of unofficial envoy. Accord
ing to the N.Y. Herald Tribune, Ro'stow laid
down as prerequisites for Kennedy's agreement
to attend a Summit conference "completion of
the test-ban negotiations" and "a dignified meet
ing of Mr. Khrushchev and Mr. Kennedy in New
York to sign the test-ban treaty." Thus'the path
to the Summit, wherever it should be held, would
appear to be by way of Geneva. E.R.R.
t
Park, one of the finest
West, already supplies a
most ot the remaining
101.
all have parks depart-
1 TC 11.. . . 1 ?
might be attempted later.
interagency pooling from
Geneva
felt in Washington over
year. The Russians had
new optimism was ex
the Geneva talks was
: 1 ..i ...u:..u iu
scientists, to advise Dis
John J. McCloy.
beyond the "Kennedy
C hina discovers how to
Khrushchev is still eager
winter, he took the oc
Dennis the Menace
'WHYt I HAVB A TWIN 3ROTHER? 4
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paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
'Monkeys Sure Hale'
To the Editor: Them mon
keys sure rate. When a mon
key goes up in a rocket and
don't come down, the Army
sends a plane up and brings
him down. If he falls into the
ocean and don't come up, the
Navy sends a submarine down
and brings him up.
When they put me on Deck
Z on the Mauritania, the Army
wuz In f ranee and the Navy
wuz in Pearl Harbor. My pup-
tent wuz under the coal pile
on Deck Z and the elevators
on the Mauritania wuz busted.
A few weeks before I got
on the Mauritania, a German
submarine fired a shot just
six feet under the Mauritania.
That's gettin' pretty close to
my cotton pickin' shirtlaii.
When 1 stepped on Deck A,
they gave me a slip of paper
and pointed down. Maybe I
better read it. It wuz for the
seagulls. The first paragraph
wuzn'l so bad; "You are as
signed to lifeboat No. 13 on
Deck A. You noticed Deck
A when you got on the boat."
I wuzn't there long enough
lb see it, but if they say so.
The next line wuz slartlitig
It said; "Lifeboat No. 13, see-
on trip." I got to wondering
how many lifeboats ever got
back for the second trip. The
next paragraph wuz even bet
tor. It said; "If the Mauritania
is torpedoed, (and a great
many boats are) you should
start running up."
There just wuzn't no other
way to go but up. One step
down nnd I wouldn't even be
in the boat.
Paragraph III wuz the best
one. It says; When you get
Deck A, lifeboat No. 13
won't be there. It s in Liver
pool. Keep your chin up and
don't let the Mauritania sink.
We'll be back."
Everett Acklin,
Ashland, Ore.
Discusses Swallowi
To the Editor:, With an in
creasing number or outdoor
life species decreasing along
with their wilderness habitats,
and an increasing number of
people interested in same, it
seems most unfair for a rec
ognized outdoor-life writer
making statements that arc
obviously unfactual.
This is brought up sharply
by outdoor writer Lynn M.
W a t k I n s in Sunday's Maii
Tribune. Whether it's to go
along with the LA publicity
boys for the Capistrano swal
low myth we don't know. One
time the MT referred to it
editorially as plain canard.
The Audubon Society of San
Francisco commented some
what the same a couple of
years ago.
Just how can a recognized
outdoor writer like Watkins
come out with a flat state
ment that swallows leave and
return from their nesting
places on unvarying dates, "as
if they were equipped with
calendars and time clocks" as
he put it. Obviously ridicu
lous, as any thinking person
must know. For swallows like
all the (Inch family feed only
in (light. Feed on live flying
Insects hatched out when the
weather is right, which we
know varies from year to
year.
Like in 1938 when we made
the rare snow-balls at San
Uardo in a late spring. Yet.
the LA Times came out: Swal
lows Arrive at Old Mission
No such thing (or we were
there March 19. Of course,
no swallows, A couple of nos
ey newsmen located the old
padre who mumbled some
thing about' the huge crowd
of people there had scared
the swallows away. No such
thing. We were there early,
found a few swifts fighting
with sparrows over nesting
rights, but not a swallow
there. And there were none
there next morning at all, for
we were there.
We enjoy Outdoor Writer
Watkins' column in the MT,
even when he makes little
slips like: "the drake wouldn't
give a quack" for whatever it
was. Fact is as any farm boy
can tell Watkins, drakes don't
quack, they're gravely soto
voiced. And the hen duck don't
start setting when she lays
the first egg in her crude nest,
as Watkins wrote. The hen
duck does the quacking; bills
the eggs down in the cool
damp earth till she has a
clutch of 12 to 18, then bills
them out and starts incuba
tion so they will all hatch at
once and get lo water safety.
F. J. Clifford
Route 2, Box 200F,
Central Point, Ore.
Remembers Ox Teams
To the Editor: Almost un
believable, yet true, there are
many people in the last half
century who well remember
as far back as 1910 when
Ezra Meeker, one of the few
remaining "trail blazers,"
drove an ox team from Ore
gon to Missouri.
One couple moved to Talent
via ox team some years later
(in the early thirties.)
From the horse and wagon
slage we entered (he bicycle
age back about the I880's.
The steam age goes back still
further. Then the gasoline age
since the early nineties or be
fore. Then . the - flying age
began. The electric age was
harnessed in the 18th cen
tury. Now the atomic age
plus the jet age are here. We
take them for granted.
All of these self propelling
powers have been improved
upon ever since discovered by
man. We hope lo see some yet
new undiscoverd mode of
travel before we close the
pages of inventive history.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman St.,
Medford
Drawn To Area
To (he Editor: Now that the
Mt. Ashland ski resort seems
to be assured, it may be gild
ing an already resplendent lily
to speak further of the supe
riority of the mountain. I
write this not to persuade
where persuasion is unneces
sary, but for the sheer joy of
it.
We are newcomers in Ash
land and one of the things
that drew us to this area was
the possibility of good local
skiing. I have been skiing for
about 25 years, and am famil
iar with ski resorts in New
England, Ihe Rockies, the
California Sierras, Switzer
land and southern France. We
visited Mt. Ashland twice be
fore Ihe snow fell, and have
taken every opportunity to ski
there this winter, as well as
in other local areas. Without
making any comparisons. I
can simply say that I think Mt.
Ashland will make a first-rate
ski development.
Two important advantages
of Mt. Ashland stand out in
my mind. The first is the un
usually beautiful and varied
terrain. The grassy eastern
meadows, coming down to the
saddle where the proposed
lodge will be, arc ready-made
novice and Intermediate slop
es. They need no clearing and
they can be skied with a very
small amount of snow, thus
assuring an extremely long
season. (About the abundance
of snow, both early and late,
there has been ample testi
mony.) Not far from here begin the
sleep wooded pitches of the
northeast and north expo
sures. Here trails can be cut
to challenge expert skiers, and
here also, because of protec
tion from sun and wind, the
snow will often be of a quality
to excite those who love good
powder. There is almost limit
less terrain on the north side
of the mountain for possible
future expansion of Ihe ski
area.
The second great advantage.
MtUt.'JHD MAIL THlbUNE. MEUhOnU, ORE
2 Events Illustrate Challenge
And Promise in Latin America
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Two events, widely separ
ated but almost simultaneous,
vividly illustrated this week
both the chal
lenge and the
promise for
the future of
Latin A m e r
ica. With Fidel
Castro beam
ing approval
near by, the
Cuban ambas-
Newiom saaor to Mos
cow set forth the challenge in
a speech at Havana university.
The Castro revolution, he
said, is "loyal to communism."
And he added:
"The students of tomorrow
will recall how the people of
Cuba became Communist, and
they will see how all the peo
ples of Latin America will be
come Communist. '
Contrast In Washington
At almost the same moment
in the more restrained atmos
phere of the White House,
President Kennedy was out
lining a 10-point, 10-year eco
nomic and social program for
Latin America to meet a "fu
ture full of peril but bright
with hope."
At the outset, Ihe President
of Mt. Ashland, is its fortu
nate location near a main
highway and close to two
cities, which is also vital to
the success of the ski resort.
In an area in which tourism
is already important in the
summer, the addition of a
winter resort will be of enor
mous economic benefit.
Because of Mt. Ashland's
closeness to settled population
centers in the Rogue valley,
this economic impact will not
be dispersed, but will fall
directly on these cities.
Accessibility, as it concerns
skiers, is of great importance.
I have been dreaming a tan
talizing and heady dream; in
a few free hours I have been
up the mountain, had a couple
of runs, and, refreshed, am
back at my down-to-earth
tasks.
What this means for school
children and SOC students is
easy to calculate in terms of
fun and good health. It
standard practice in resort
towns, such as Franconia, N.H
and Aspen, Colo., for the
schools to arrange schedules
so the children can ski, say,
Wednesday afternoons. This is
with the cooperation of the
resort management, which is
of course happy to be creating
more skiers. Surely this is an
exciting prospect for the
Rogue valley!
Cynthia Lord,
588 Beach St.,
Ashland, Ore.
Must Make A Choice
To the Editor: In 1932, Jo
seph Stalin outlined a 6-point
plan for the demoralization of
America to help facilitate
Communist lake-over of this
country. The first point
named by Stalin was: Attack
religious dogma. This attack
was to be implemented by the
following steps: '
a. Bible not divinely in
spired. b. Attacks on the divinity
of Christ.
c. Enlightened age (intcllcc
tualism) vs. the Bible (which
was allegedly written by un
intelligent, impressionable, su
perstitious men).
d. Virgin birth deprecated.
e. A change in words, ideas
and values.
f. Brotherhood ot man
stressed to the point of a class
less society.
g. Stress on selfishness of
the individual, if he desires
his own personal salvation
rather than to share in the
social consciousness of the
brotherhood of mqn.
h. Interest In the social or
der rather than faith in Christ
and resulting emphasis on
Christian virtues.
The above program is being
pushed hard by the Commu
nists because it is part and
parcel of their basic philoso
phy and necessary for Com
munist victory. But it is also
being pushed by "enlightened
intellectuals," and extreme
liberal religious circles. Win?
The Bible says In John 3:19,
20 "and this Is the condemna
tion, that light is come into
the world, and men loved
darkness rather than light,
been use their deeds were evil.
For everyone that doeth evil
hatclh the light, neither Com
eth to the light, lest his deeds
should be reproved."
"Better is a poor and a wise
child than an old and foolish
king, who will no more be
admonished." Eccl. 4:13.
The (ear of the Lord is Ihe
beginning of wisdom. The
main channel or avenue of
Communist conquest is not
through the stomach, but
through the atheistic mind of
the student Intellectual. When
a young mind is rooted and
grounded In a Godless, mater
ialistic philosophy, he is ripe
material for Communist re
cruitment.
Even more tragic - much
more tragic is this: ". . . he
that belicveth not is con
demned already, because he
hath not believed in the name
of the only begotten Son of
God " John 3 18. Speaking ot
intends to utilize the $500 mil
lion originally earmarked by
I h e Eisenhower administra
tion for a similar program.
But also to be brought into
play are other resources.
"We will immediately step
up our food for peace emer
gency program . . . Hungry
men and women cannot wait
for economic discussions or
diplomatic meeting . .
"We must rapidly expand
the training of those needed
lo man the economies of
rapidly developing countries
. . . The Peace Corps will be
available."
This was the United States'
reply to Communist Cuba's
boast that it is to serve as the
springboard for the Commti
nization of all of Latin Amer
ica.
The
President's announce
Bigger Allowances
For Office Clerks
Would Help Public
By DICK WEST
Washinglon-IUPn - Members
of Congress are forever doing
things for our welfare,' even
if we don t
always recog
nize in what
way we are
being helped.
Wednesday
for instance,
the House of
R e p r e senta
tives decided
that we would
all be better
,ve" off if each
congressman had a bigger of
fice payroll allowance.
. It approved, therefore, a
resolution authorizing House
members either to hire an ex
tra clerk at $3,000 annual
base pay, or to spread that
amount around among their
present employees.
I'll confess that when the
resolution first came to the
House floor, I was a bit mysti
fied as to how it would con
tribute to the common weal.
In fact, I was about to en
tertain a suspicion that it was
designed primarily for the
benefit of congressmen and
their employees. But, fortun
ately, House Democratic Lead
er John W. McCormack was
on hand to straighten me out
For The People
"This is not for the better
ment of the members," Mc
Cormack said, elevating the
resolution to the level of
statesmanship. "It is for the
betterment of the people of
the country, lo enable mcm-
the Great Judgment day to
come, God's book says in Rev
elation 20:15 "And whosoever
was not found written in the
book of life was cast into the
lake of fire."
Jesus and the Communists
have both made this state
ment: He who is not with me
(us) is against me (us). Which
of these two are you trusting
in? A choice we must make.
Bill Henley,
422 Siskiyou blvd.,
Ashland, Ore.
Where Will It Stop?
To the Editor: Here is some
thing to think about. It really
opened my eyes to taxes.
Henry Suburban reaches
out of bed lo turn off h i s
alarm clock (price $5, taxes
84 cents). Out of bed he walks
across floor of house (priced
at $12,000. annual property
tax S20SI); switches on electric
light bulb (price 33 cents, tax
2 cents). He listens to music
from radio (price $30. tax
$1.80). Henry shaves with a
taxed electric razor, slaps a
handful of bay rum ($1.30,
tax 13 cents) across his jowls.
He drosses and fastens tic
clasp (price $3, tax 30 cents).
His wrist watch cost SB0, tax
$6. His- underarm briefcase
cost $25, tax $2.50.
In the kitchen two pieces of
toast, al least 151 hidden
taxes. The electric toaster
cost $16, tax 48 cents.
Off to work in car with
taxes of $518 and operator's
license. S3. 50. He lights a cig
arette (at 25 cents a package,
tax 14 cents). When he com
mutes by train he plays cards
with cronies, cards 40 cents,
tax 13 cents. If he is going to
have friends at his home he
buys a bottle of whiskey at
$3.40, tax $2.10.
Henry sighs (no lax). On his
annual $7,500 income he pays
$986 in taxes. There is a 3
per cent sales tax, which we
don't have here in Oregon.
Gasoline tax is 4 cents fed
eral, 6 cents state.
In his state where Henry
lives his bollle of whiskey is
subjected to 30 cents distilled
spirit tax and 12 cents sales
tax
So you go on and on about
taxes. Where and when are
they going to stop. 1 wonder
how much our forefathers
paid in their homeland in
taxes, when they set out for
the land of Ihe free and the
home of the brave. Nothing
like this I bet.
Erma Milledge.
12 South Orange si.,
Medford, Ore.
ment scarcely could have been
more timely.
This correspondent recent
ly completed a tour which in
cluded stops in Colombia,
Venezuela, Brazil and the
West Indian Federation.
He has witnessed the im
balance of wealth which
plagues Latin American na
tions, has seen the poverty
which invites Communism
and the disaster which can be
fall nations dependent on a
single crop or mineral for
their economy.
He also noted the bound
less hope placed in the new
administration by these peo
ples - hope which if allowed
to grow without a clear Uni
ted States definition of its
limits could lead only to dis
appointments and new bitter
ness. bers to better perform
service. .
McCormack was so enthusi
astic about this method of
public betterment, he suggest
ed it would be a good thing
if congressmen also raised
their own salaries. -
I don't know whether the
other. House members are will
ing to do us that big a favor,
but at least McCormack's idea
gives us something to look
forward to.
Perhaps I should now ex
plain that the S3. 000 figure
meritioned in the resolution
does1 not represent all the ex
tra money that a congressman
will have available for clerk
hire.
If a clerk is hired at a basic
annuual salary rate of $3,000,
he actually will receive $6,
781.24. This is because the
basic payroll is adjusted up
wardly nine limes in amounts
ranging from 5 to 25 per cent.
Even with an electronic
computer, nobody would be
able to figure out exactly
what Wednesday's exercise in
public betterment will cost
the bettered public.
If; to use a conservative
example, 200 additional clerks
were hired al the full $3,000
base rate, the cost would be
$1,356,248. But if twice that
many clerks were hired at
half that amount, the cost
would not be the same. Then
it would be $1,515,52.
You can understand, then,
why Rep. John Kyi (R-Iowa)
described the payroll comput
ation system as a "mathemat
ical monstrosity." He said the
House clerk's office had a set
of payroll tables consisting of
45 sheets with 40 entrties per
sheet.
Far be it from me lo sug
gest that this system was in
tended to mislead anyone. But
in matters of public better
ment, it would appear that the
hand of Congress is quicker
than the eye of the taxpayer.
Goldberg Ends
Jobless Area Tour
Washinglon-fllPll-Labor Sec
retary Arthur Goldberg re
turned to the nation's capital
today with a briefcase full of
jobless complaints from his
non-committal tour of depress
ed areas in three Midwest
states.
The secretary told idled
miners and steel workers at
Hibbing, Minn., "I wish I
could return to Washington
and the President would wave
a magic wand and there
would be jobs for all. But I
can't do that."
The tour carried Goldberg
into Illinois and Wisconsin and
ended Wednesday night in
Minnesota's recession-hit iron
country near H'bhing, where
he talked to some of the 12.
500 unemployed workers in
the area.
"I will carry their ni(,s';ii"f's
back to the President." G' 'H
berg told Minnesota Gov.
Elmer Anderson.
He drew rapt attention from
200 workers in a speech at
the Duluth. Minn., labor tem
ple, repeating his call for a
stepup in steel production to
match that of Soviet Russia,
where he said output at the
present Soviet rate could one
day equal or surpass the Unit
ed Slates.
Former Agriculture
Director Succumbs
Portland-UTI' Funeral scrv-!
ice; are scheduled for 2:30
p.m. Friday for J. D. Micklc,
91. retired director of the Ore
gon Agriculture Department,!
who died Tuesday.
The services will be at Fin
ley's Mortuary.
Mickle was director from
1938 to 1943. He had been
appointed by Gov. Charles
Martin. i
A veteran of Oregon agri-i
culture, he served as commis-i
sioncr of foods and dairies for 1
the state prior to creation of
the state department. !
Matter of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
"JACK. JACKIE. AND
LITTLE CAROLINE"
Washington-President Ken
nedy being somewhat of a
scene - stealer,
Ihe Congres
s i o n a 1 per
formanee i n
the grand po
litical drama
has lately
been getting
r e m a r kably
little atten
tion. Yet this
per formanee
is a I r e a d v
Alsop
well worth watching, if only
because the President is quite
likely to take a hpatino ,h
nis first really major meas- IV
ure, tne minimum wage bill,
comes up in the House next
week. The plain truth Is that
tne story of the adm n sta
tion's legislative program is
going to be a rliff.hanimr
from start to finish.
It was hardlv noticed, vol
there was a fine plifr.hannimf
, ..cl.i,b
episode last week, when the
House passed the obscure feed
Grains hill hv thp nvntiich ma
jority of 209 to 202. As in
the case of the minimum wage
bill at the moment, the odds
were rather heavilv aeainst
passage of the feed grains bill
when it was reported from
committee.
11HE bill was saved by care---
ful counting and hard per
suading by Speaker of the
House Sam Rayburn, the Ray
burn lieutenants, and thp
White House legislative liai
son staff, headed bv Law
rence O'Brien. The problem
was to persuade enough of the
big city Democrats, who nor
mally cast automatic votes
against bills favoring the far
mer, to change their habit on
this occasion.
One of Ravburn's staff nffi.
cers, Rep. Richard Boiling of
Missouri, is reported to have
used the simple plea, "You've
just got to do this, for Jack,
Jackie, and little Caroline"
Certainly the urban members
who helped to put the feed
grains bill over, did not do so
from any deep convictions
about the bill's merits.
In the case of the minimum
wage bill, the lask will be
harder, for the Southerners
and the Republicans are the
groups who must provide the
needed extra votes. One could
be sure of the doom of the
minimum wage bill if quick
foot work by the Kennedy ,
men and Rayburn men had
not secured a self-reversal by
the House Labor Committee.
As the Committee changed its
mind about extending mini,
mum wage protection to ho
tel and restaurant workers,
the big bill still has a chance.
TY a crude count, there a p.
pearcd to be about 160
solid votes for the bill, about
170 solid votes against, and '
about 93 members whose
votes are being viciously
fought-over by the Adminis
tration's vote-catchers and
the two opposition leaders,
Republican chieftain Charles
Halleck of Indiana and the
boss of the Southern Demo
cratic ultras, Rep. Howard
Smith of Virginia.
The outcome will not be
predictable until the debate
begins after the week end.
But it will be something of a
triumph if the Administration
again squeaks by with a ma
jority on the minimum wage
bill. After all, much the same
bill was handily beaten by
the Smith-Halleck team last
year, when the Democratic
House majority was consid
erably larger.
Meanwhile, it is worth not
ing that Rep. Boiling's some
what special appeal for the
feed grains bill is sympto
malic as well as entertaining.
The plain truth is that the
Administration has been try
ing to get by in Congress, thus
far at least, by exploiting the
good will that most members
of the House and Senate now
feel for the President, and no
doubt for Mrs. Kennedy and
little Caroline as well.
PXTRAORDINARY efforts
" are being made by the
While House to increase this
reserve of good will. In the
last five weeks, for instance,
"'resident Kennedy has been
hard al work on an unpubli
tized. self-imposed chore
never before attempted by
any ot his predecessors. He
has been calling in the chair
men of all House and Senate
committees for long, private
talks and this, al the rate of
two and three chairmen a
day. when the President has
no much else on his plate.
The committee chairmen
have come away all smiles, in
most cases. Yet the most ardu
ous cultivation of good will.f
and the most efficient vote-p
counting, and the most coolly
practical use of patronage and
other persuaders, will not bof
enough to assure a happy end-!
ing (or each and every cpi-ff
sode of the Congressional'
cliff-hangers. i
Happy endings will only be
assured when and if two con-:
ditions are fulfilled, which,
have not been fulfilled to
date. In the area of domestic
policy, the Congress must bn
convinced that a substantial
nalional majority is firmly
behind the Kennedy pro
gram. Otherwise, the throng
ing lobbyists will triumph.
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