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Medford and Jackson County
History from tha filet of Tht
Mali Tribune JO, 20, 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Gov, Douglas McKay will
dedicate a atatue of liberty,
one-nineteenth the lize of the
original, In Hawthorne park
Monday; the statue was pre
sented by a Medford man to
the Boy Scoutf of the Crater
Lake area council.
Weather Control, Inc., an
nounced the completion of
two cloud seeding flights Fri
day afternoon, In attempts to
prevent, hail damage to pear
crop in the Rogue valley.
30 YEARS AGO
Medco's worker at Butte
Fall have voted for the In
dustrial Employee union as
their bargaining agent.
From Arthur Perry' "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
nM nirla rural dlvlaion)
are busy these day with
spring chicks. Their city lis
ter are debating tie aavua
bility of washing the lac cur
tain and bringing on another
imudge."
10 YEARS AGO
Art Starbuck, Pacific Air
transport pilot who was wide
ly known in Medford, died
yesterday in a California
plan crash.
Cnrjco haa ltarted work on
a flume and canal Which 1
the last phase of their Pros
pect hydroelectric project. .
40 YEARS AGO
The city council has been
asked to put a stop to the
practice by soma west Med
ford resident who are cutting
down trees on their own lots
and usulng them for firewood.
The 44th anniversary of the
Rogue River Baptist associa
tion will be observed this
. week end. -
10 YEARS AGO
" Dr. J. F. Reddy has re
ported from New York that
he was able to purchase Rogue
valley fruit in all the coun
tries he visited on a recent
trip to Europe. -
The largest graduating class
In the history of Medford
High school, 27 students, will
receive diploma this sprln g.
Efcft Yc:r I.Q.?
Mb t tea terraes Is an eerier;
savea a e4f a Is excellent! five er
li la )).
1. I the Alaskan Brown
bear or Gristly the larger?
2. According to astrologers,
persons born between Oct. 23
and Nov. 11 are governed by
what sodiacal sign?
' 1. According to the New
Testament (Matt xtl, 40), how
many day did Jonah spend
in the belly of a great fish,
called whale?
4. Madagascar formerly was
a colony of which European
nation ,
5. In reference to the quo
tation "Sugar and spice and
everything nice," what are
little boy made of?
. Row long Is a fortnight?
7. Are spider Insects?
" (. Was the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation estab
lished under the administra
tion of Hoover, Roosevelt, or
Truman?
0. Lightning never strikes
twice In the cam place; true
or falsa? .
" 10. Do the piston In an
automobile angina come to a
standstill before reversing
their thrust?
AsMwersi 1, Brews, g. Seer
pie, I, Tare, days. 4. France.
I. afatU and snails and puppy
t tails. I. U days. 7. He
ters. 1. Heaver. 1.
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FRIDAY. MAY . 1H1
Gagarin and
Is it possible that the
piled on top of the lesson of Sputnik, is begin
ning to be learned in Oregon?
Over the past several days we have been
watching the exchange papers coming m with
reports of school budget elections which were
held up and down the state.
Now school budgets in recent years have been
voted down in depressing numbers. In many
cases, of course, there were special situations in
volved about which distant observers knew notlv
ing. But it was also evident that much of' the
"taxpayers revolt ' was just simply that a re
volt against high school taxes and not neces'
sarily a revolt against education as such.
'HIS year, however,
have fared remarkably well.
In Jackson countv. not onlv did the rura!
school levy pass, so did
district budgets which
Monday s elections. '
In Douerlas countv. where the Rosebur? school
budget was defeated twice in one year two years
ago, the budget passed handily. And in all the
rest of Douglas county,
failed of approval
Gardiner. (The Gardiner
e e e
UP' IN Benton county, the rural levy and the
budgets of the Corvallis school district, and
all other districts but three, were ok d.
In Osweiro. ola?ued bv hisrh costs and a rapid
lv increasing student population, the buderet lost.
But it appears that all other school budgets in
Clackamas county, including Oregon City, West
Linn and North Clackamas, the largest ones,
were passed.
Lane county voters passed all school budgets
presented to them, including the rural levy and
those in the three largest districts bugene,
Bethel and Sprinrfield. . O
In Marion county,
budgets pass, but so (by a close margin) did the
rural school levy for the first time in about 10
years. '.; .
ALL the districts reported as voting on budgets
in Klamath, Linn, Coos, Clatsop and Jose
phine counties, as a sampling, passed them with
out much difficulty. (In. Astoria, the district
budget passed Monday
In addition, the Sweet Home district voters
approved a $475,000 bond issue for a new junior
high school reinforcing
have noticed in the past
school bond issues passing, rather, than being
ueictueu. . ,
And down alone the
the creation of a new Community College District,
which will make possible the kind of innovation
Bend voters have approved, and supported with
their tax dollars a local
a e e
ALL in all, it looks
' educational support in Oregon are better.
' In addition to the community college bill,
the legislature seems ready . to increase basic
school support (thus reducing local school prop
erty taxes), and to grant a major portion of the
requested budget for higher education.
All this may not add up to the massive sort
of support for education wnich some of us feel
is the hope of America.
But it may be a sign that the neglect, the
apathy, the lack of support evidenced at many
times and in many places over the last half dec
ade or so, may be coming to an end.
One prays this is so. Only an educated, liter
ate, thinking America will have any chance for
survival in the long, difficult years ahead. E.A.
The Teachers the Thing
As to the quality of education, contrasted
with" quantity, much has been said, and more
should and will be said.
The more we think about it, the more we are
utterly convinced that the key to GOOD educa
tion is GOOD teachers.
Not buildings, not administrators, not school
buses, not even academic "ratings" or grades or
personal evaluations or successful athletic teams
or debate teams , or dramatic presentations or
choirs or anything else teachers.
1X7ITHOUT good teachers, none 6f these things,
" no matter how necessary or desirable in
themselves, have any educational meaning.
There is a big field to be explored in "auto
mated" teaching devices such things as pro
gramed teaching machines, television, and other
audio-visual aids; But without oualified teachers
teachers who know WHAT they're teaching
as wen as tiuw to teacn they don't mean any
thing either.
We believe that there
decades, been far, far too much emphasis on
HOW to teach, and far, far too little on the
subject matter to be taught
GOOD teacher a really good one is a rare
asset to the community and the nation whose
value cannot be properly assessed.
. A good teacher a really good one offers
enthusiasm, an instinctive rapport with his stu
dents, a sense of discipline extending both out
ward and inward, a love for the subject matter
at hand, and a love for the process of extending
knowledge and meaning and understandin? ;.o
eager, receptive minds, i '"
if we can encourage more people with these
qualities to enter teaching; and stop Discourag
ing them by "method" courses and dull pedago
gical theory, then lj-e'll be on our way to an .ed
ucational system second to none. E.A. l'
School Budgets
lesson of Yuri Gagarin
school budgets seem to
six of the seven schoo!
were presented at last
only three district budgets
in sutnenin, &iKton and
vote was a tie.)
e e
not only did all district
on its second try).
a trend we think we
six or eight months, of
coast, voters approved
college.
e e '
as though prospects for
has. in the past two
Dennis tht Menace
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Semantics and Liberty ;
To the Editor: In his letter
in the MT, May 2, Robert
Howard again Indulges in one
of hie favorite sports, playing
fast and looje with the Eng.
llsh language (a la H.U.A.C.)
in an effort to make things
appear what, in truth, they
are not; and thus, by - innu
endo, to smear people or
causes with whom or which
he does not agree.
Bob talks flippantly '' and
Inaccurately of "the Liberal
clique." Obviously, the word
"liberal" to him somehow is
tainted If not downright evil.
I do wish he'd-take my advice
previously offered, to go back
to school (Adult Education Di
vision) to improve his knowl
edge and use of our language
-'twad from mony a blunder
free him, to quote Bobby
Burns. Meantime, I offer an
other free lesson to. Bob, and
others In similar need (among
other things, I used to be a
teacher of English):
My Funk St Wagnalls de
fines "liberal" as follows: "Ap
propriate or fitting for a broad
and enlightened mind. Free
from narrowness, bigotry, or
bondage to authority or creed,
as in religion; inclined to
democratic or republican
ideas, as opposed to monarchi
cal or aristocratic, as in poli
tics"; and a liberal, as "a
member of a party which ad
vocates liberty of thought,
speech, or action."
The dictionary might well
have added: one who believes
in and supports the American
concept of political freedom
as defined in the First Amend
ment to the Constitution:
Congress shall make no laws
, . abridging the freedom
of speech, or of the press, or
of the people peaceably to
assemble, and to petition the
government for a redress of
grievances."
This latter, incidentally,
was the real purpose of the
student s' demonstrations
against the H.U.A.C.'s smears
of patriotic citizens critical of
its extensively doctored film,
Operation Abolition", and
the Committee's undemocratic
and highly. Improper "pack
ing" of its San Francisco
"hearings" with Its friends
and supporters who were giv
en tickets of admission, to the
exclusion and dismay of the
general public.
Surely, Bob Howard
wouldn't want his careless use
of words to put him in the
same category with the Rus
sian Communists who take
equal liberties with accepted
definitions when- they call
their satellites "people's re
public" or, In the case of East
Germany, the "German Demo
cratic Republic." All rather
redundant, anyhow: both "de
mocracy" and "republic" be
ing essentially government
'of the people, for the people.
and by the people" as Abra
ham Lincoln so well defined
It.
Arnold Eugene Jenny,
Rogue Valley Manor
Medford
Show Plana
To the Editor: We wish to
thank you and your staff for
the excellent coverage you
extended to the Crater Lion
1961 Sportsfair Home it Gar
den how. This is our fourth
year In producing this show
and you have helped each
year to see It grow in size and
scope.
It Is our sincere intention
eventually to produce a
Sport and Homcshow of
which all southern ' Oregon
can be proud. It is conceiv
able that through the future
Sports and Homeshows,
southern Oregon can be bet
ter promoted to the stale and
west coast, and be recognized i
for its excellent recreation
business and livini wealth.
Thank you again for your
cooperation.
. Frank Wilson ,
. Ronald Rlcketts
Publicity Chairman
Crater Lions Club
. Medford.
Mud in Reservoir
To the Editor: Our mayor
of Gold Hill has discovered
mud in the bottom of one of
our city water reservoirs, and
has challenged "us writers"
to come and see It when he
has thu tank drained and
cleaned on May 3.
So what? It is not surprising
that mud settles out of water.
Maybe we don't even need a
settling basin. Maybe all we
need is to have the reservoirs
cleaned once in a while. If
there is that much mud in the
resorvoir. we couldn't hm
had very much in our pipes.
wny has this reservoir
cleaning work been postponed
until just before the filtration
bond election next Tuesday?
Vera Stewart
619 Fifth ave..
Gold Hill, Ore.
Love and Hate
To the Editor: You have a
very interesting group of peo
ple who read your paper. I
nave found some of your con
tributors to the communica
tions page very nice and some,
saa 10 say, not so nice.
Recently one lady whose
name has appeared at various
times in the communications
became quite perturbed at
yours truly. As I understand
It, she was visiting in the
home of one of my acquaint
ances nearby. My name was
mentioned and she exploded
with, "I hate that man."
Well, when this came to my
attention I sat down and
wrote her what I thought to
be a friendly Christian letter
asking her forgiveness for any
wrong I had done. I have
never met this lady person
ally. The letter I received in
return was a woeful recital
of bad things that had been
conducted by members of the
church I represent In the Med
ford area. Everything from
knifing neighbors tires to mis
using public funds in a fluor
idation promoting program,
I'll state right here that. If
all of the unchristian acts
committed by those who claim
to be members of my church,
are to be put on my shoulders,
well I'm really doomed. On
the other hand if all of the
unchristian things I know of
that have been committed by
members of this lady's partic
ular church were to be
blamed to her, well, she's
doomed too.
However, I have never felt
It best to reason just that way.
It is sad indeed when those
who profess Christ's name
deny that name by their ac
tions. Even so I shall never
hate my Methodist, Baptist, or
Catholic friends just because
some of their members do un
christian acts.
To any who might harbor
feelings of hate, might I sug
gest you take the concordance
in your Bible and look up the
word hate. Then read some
of the references given. One
in Luke 6:22 says: "Blessed
are ye when men shall hate
you." Well, that' comforting
to me. I John 4:20 states that
if one say he loves God, and
hates, he Is a liar. And finally
In Luke 6:27 we are told to
love our enemies and do good
to them who hate us.
So if I follow this out I'll
(how true Christian love to
all Including the lady In Med
ford. Henry Johnson Jr.,
2315 Highway 66, 1
Ashland, Ore.
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
Friendly Japan Keystone of U.S. Policy
In Asia; Premier's Visit Is Important
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
A friendly Japan is a key
stone of United States foreign
policy in Asia.
And as the
Com munlsts
press to ex
pand their in
fluence among
Asia's mil
lions, the
for thcoming
visit of Jap
anese Pre
mier Hayato
i
L. . ..
Newssai
Ikeda
tance.
assumes more impor-
Ikeda and his advisers al
ready are at work on the half
dozen or more topics he hopes
to take up with President
Kennedy in Washington when
he arrives in mid-June.
Topping the list is Red
China. Other Important sub
jects will include economic
assistance to the under-developed
Southeast Asian coun
tires, relations between Japan
and the Republic of Korea,
ions
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Coming Into London at
night, you gauge your prox
imity to the city by the lights
below you. Crossing over by
the Great Circle route, you
see lights first as you cross
the south of Ireland.' Then
everything below goes black
as you cross the Irish Sea. As
you approach the English
coast, lights begin to twinkle
again through the blackness
beneath.
At first, the lights appear
in little clumps, each clump
representing a village. When
you first begin to see them,
they are far apart. Then they
begin' to draw nearer togeth
er. At the same time, they
grow larger, indicating that
the villages are increasing in
size, as well as in number.
This process is continued un
til the villages that are rep
resented by the clusters of
lights come so . close together
that you know you are near
ing a great city.
Almost before you know It,
they merge into a vast sea -of
twinkling pin points of light,
and at the same time the
plane begins to lose altitude.
In a few moments you feel
a gentle bump as the wheels
touch ground, and you are
in London. Your watch tells
you that you are about six
hours, give or take a little,
from New York.
rpHE process of disembarka-
Hon is simple and orderly.
A few hours earlier, your
stewardesses have distributed
printed instructions telling
you uactly what to do. With
this printed slip in your hand,
you don't waste a minute.
When you are through immi
gration and customs you call
a taxi.
two . minutes after your
taxi takes off, you get your
first shock. It's a rude one.
You glance over the driver's
shoulder and there, dead
ahead of you, is an approach
ing line of traffic-and heavens
to Betsyl The crazy idiots are
all over the WRONG LANE
and bearing down on you at
what seems to be the speed
of light.
YOU brace yourself for the
shock. B u t NOTHING
HAPPENS. Then, slowly, it
dawns on you that over here
they drive on the left hand
side of the road.
You calm down. But it will
be several days, before your
heart quits skipping a beat
every time you look out front.
This seeming imminence of
unavoidable collision is
heightened by the narrow
ness of London's streets,
which weren't designed some
dozen or fifteen centuries ago
for automobile traffic.
ANYWAY, you reach your
hotel eventually, all safe,
and sound in wind and limb.
Your luggage is all present
and accounted for. You sign
in. (In London they call it
the reception desk, not the
registration desk.)
A courteous porter takes
your luggage on a cart and
disappears in the distance,
and you head for the passen
ger lift (they're "lifts" here,
not elevators.) There you get
another look at English ways
of doing things. The lifts are
all fully automatic, but an
lmpre ssively uniformed at
tendant goes along to push
tha buttons for you.
Ah, well. Thi i London.
WHEN you arrive at your
door, the porter is already
there with your luggage. He
unlocks the door, using a IrVy
that must have been modeled
Japanese defense, U.S.-Japan
trade and continued United
States occupation of Okinawa.
Look at Mainland
Many Japanese business
men look longingly at the
Chinese mainland as a vast
outlet for expanding Japanese
industry, and therefore would
like closer relations with Red
China. ,
Working against them, how
ever, is Red China's lack of
foreign exchange.
On the question of Japanese
aid to under-developed South
east Asian countries, Ikeda
will promise to step up that
aid and probably will propose
Government Living Within Its
Income Not Mastered in U.S.
By LYLE C. WILSON
. United Press International
Washington -flJPD- Treasury
Secretary Douglas Dillon was
telling an audience the other
day that the
United States
had not mas
tered the art
of keeping the
U. S. economy
operating a t
its highest
sustain a b l.e
levels.
Another art
the U n i t e d
States has not mastered is a
lot closer than that to the wel-
Strictly Personal
By Sidney J. Harris
c General Features Corp.
DOUBLE EMPLOYMENT ,
STANDARD
Many, if not most, institu
tions that deal directly with
the public seem to have a
double stand
ard in hiring
e m p 1 o yees.
Those whose
work brings
them directly
in contact
with c u s-
tnmiare nr
CSV. clients are
Barria suominea I o
a much more
rigorous test of character and
temperament.
In restaurants,. for instance,
cashiers are often given the
SAM Aptitude Test. SAM
stands for "Scowl and Mut
ter." If the applicant does not
wear a chronic scowl, aid
does not reply to all
with a surly matter, he or she
is summarily removed from
consideration.
Building guards, elevator
starters, people who take your
money at parking-lots - any
one at all, indeed, who repre
sents the company to the con
sumer - are put through a
severe examination to see if
they can successfully avoid
the three terrible P's - Pleas
antness, Promptness, and Po
liteness. A company doesn't care
how cheerful or civil an em
ployee may be if he works in
back where the public cannot
get wind of this; but it is a
rank violation of the best
business procedures to let
such a person come into con
tact with the customers. An
elite corps must be specially
trained for such sensitive po
sitions. I have managed to obtain
an undercover peek at one of
these highly secret tests, and
I assure you that only the
most qualified candidates can
pass muster. Most of us would
flunk out Ignominiously.
For example, one question
goes: "If a patron makes a
mistake and hands you a one
dollar bill for a $1.25 check,
what do you say?" Three al
ternative answers are given:
(1) "Sorry, sir, that's not
enough." (2) "May I please
have an additional quarter?"
and (3) "Whachu trine do,
huh?"
a e a
Obviously, (3) is the only
correct answer. Answers (1)
and (2) immediately mark the
candidate for a back-room job
where he will not be able to
contaminate the customers
with courtesy.
Another real stumper goes
as follows. If you complain
about a scratch on your car
in a parking-lot, the alterna
tive replies are (1) "I'll be
after the keys to the Tower
of London.
You enter what Is known
in London hotel parlance as
tne outer lobby. Ahead of
you is the bath room. To your
left is your bedroom. Speak
ing in military terms, it isn't
quite large enough to quarter
a platoon, but it would pro
vide plenty of elbow room
for a squad.
. Down one side of it is a
row of closets. Above the
closet doors Is a row of stor
age spaces, reachable by the
process of standing on a
chair. So you settle yourself
down to what you are sure
is going to be an intending
and rove! experience.
that it be financed through
use of Japan's occupation
debts to the United States.
For security reasons, Korea
is especially important - to
Japan, and the removal of
former Korean President
Syngmsn Rhee should, make
it easier for the two nations
to reach agreement.
Continue Iti Effort
Against United States dis
satisfaction with the slow
tempo defense build-up, Ikeda
will plead Japan's unique do
mestic situation. He will tell
Kennedy that Japan will con
tinue its effort to strengthen
its 250,000-man defense force
fare of the common man. This
other art is the art of govern
ment living within its income.
Treasury Secretary Dillon
is the money man of the Ken
nedy administration. You
might assume that a banker
would bi? mightly hard nosed
on the subject of living within
income, whether by a govern
ment or a working staff or a
business corporation. Banker
Dillon, on the contrary, is a
spend-it-up man, a believer in
treasury deficits as a means
to improve the citizen's lot.
No Cause For Alarm
He estimated that a $2 bil
lion deficit was coming up in
glad to call the manager, sir,"
(2) "If you'll come in to the
office, we'll make out a re
port," and (3) "I just work
here, bud."
Again, obviously, (3) is the
only correct answer. In fact,
"I just work here, bud" turns
out to be the correct answer
to almost a dozen of the test
questions, rivaling in popular
ity such gambits as "How
should I know?", "The man
ager's out and nobody knows
when he'll be back," and
"That ain't my department,
Jack."
Winners, of course, are
given a lovely framed Certifi
cate of Sullenness to hang
proudly in their kennels.
Washington Report
By William S. White -
tci United Feature Syndicate
Washington - The Republi
cans have come through mag
nificently in the first grace
ca.pjjcltytoM1t
1 with responsi-
bility as a mi-
Every lead
er of every
wing of t h e
GOP has seen
his duty and
i Jf V la&rj aone it-irom
white nelson KocKe
feller on the left wing
through Dwight Eisenhower
and Richard Nixon at the par
ty center and on to Senators
Styles Bridges and Barry
Goldwater on the right wing.
Every one of them has re
fused the cheap temptation to
leap upon President Kennedy
and his luckless staff -which
is to say upon the United
States itself - for the failure
of the anti-Castro invasion of
Cuba. Every one of them has
recognized that it is not sim
ply Mr. Kennedy who has suf
fered a setback; that it is
really the United States.
Every one of them - Mr.
Eisenhower most poignantly
from his own still-Cresh mem
ories of the burden of the
White Koufc - has recognized
tbpt " -'.ever party's presi
de t is in power in a time of
r :.s.s should be free from
sterile second - guessing, not
merely in ordinary fairness
but also under the highest
demands of national interest.
For no president can do his
best work if, as the already
sufficiently harried represen
tative of all of us, he must be
continually protecting himself
against those of us who bear
none of his responsibilities
but are ready at the instant
of any failure to bite at him.
e e e
pVERY one of these Repub
lican leaders, to go on, has
recognized that to spend na
tional energy now on a shrill
search for devils about Cuba
would be worse than simply
schoolgirlish. It would be a
lament for the past, produc
ing nothing for future beyond
back-biting and rational di
visions which might serve the
Russians but hardly us.
Mr, Eisenhower has put the
thing In perspective. He has
contemptuously rejected this
sort of thing as the mere
witch-hunt it would be. Wher
ever we have been, we have
been there already. What
counts is where we go niv.
An inquiry to find facts might
a-TO,
but also will ask continued
U.S. military aid.
Japan's gross national prod
uct, increased by 16 per cent
last year and its industrial
production jumped 29 per
cent. But despite its booming
economy, Japan still spends
only 1.4 per cent of the na
tional income for defense, one
of the lowest rates in tha
world.
Ikeda will renew Japan's
bid for an early return of
Okinawa to Japan, but Is not
expected to press this demand
against this key U.S. de
fensive base in the Pacific.
this fiscal year but assured
his audience this was no causa
for alarm.
"On the contrary," Dillon
said, "it is a stimulus to re
covery that can, and should,
be readily offset by surpluses
as prosperity returns." '
To anyone who has been
around Washington for 30
years or so, Dillon's discus
sion of spending, deficits and
prosperity is a familiar tale.
That is just about the way
Franklin D. Roosevelt dealt
with spending, deficits and
prosperity. FDR was sold on
the idea that the U.S. govern
ment could spend the U. S.
economy out of depression,
end unemployment and create
a bright, new world for tha
common man. It didn't work.
Enjoys Prosperity
The United States has en
joyed great prosperity since
the end of World War II, spot
ty, but great. There has not
been, however, any appreci
able offset during the pros
perous years of past deficits.
Instead, they have accumu
lated into an astronomical
public debt on which the bill
for interest now runs around
$9 bnlion annually.
Since 1939, government de
ficits have contributed to tha
dirtying dollar until its pur
chasing power now is less than
47 cents compared to 100 cents
just more than 20 years ago.
The next generation will
jingle in its pants a two-bit
dollar. - .
be one thing; a scapegoat
hunt would be quite another
thing. . ' . -:
So, if it is not easy to find
large ground for much satis
faction, it is possible to find
solid ground for some satis
faction in the behavior of tha
principal Republicans.
For, after all, their right
restraint is, happily, infinite
ly more important than tha
unrestrained righteous n e s s,
after the event, of the hand
ful of Democratic second
guessers and their friends
now so busily proving how
right they were and how
wrong the president. ;
And, parenthetically, they
were "right" anyhow only in
the sense that they nearly al
ways prefer to settle for no
action at all .rather than faca
the hard dangers of any kind
of action.
rjIVEN a hotly partisan Re
publican reaction to Cuba,
on top of this earnest self
vindication by such Demo
crats as Senators William Ful
bright and Wayne Morse, the
president - and the country -might
well have been para
lyzed on policy for months to
come.
Ail this is not said to "de
fend" a man named Kennedy.
Nor was much the same said
by this same columnist to
"defend" a man named Eisen
hower when much the same
clack was raised from much
the same sources over hi ef
frontery in sending "spy
planes" over the Soviet
Union. It is said in behalf
of an institution called the
presidency of the United
States.
It is the president who is
elected by the people to run
their foreign affairs. If he
does not "listen" to certain
Senators and others-so what?
Their opinions often are
easier to come by than his.
And their strategic plans can
be comfortably forgotten if
they don't happen to work,
and none the worse for it.
And (horror of all horrors)
If the present president went
so far as not to "listen" even
to Adlai Stevenson and Ches
ter Bowles - again, so what?
These two disappointed aspir
ants for secretary of state are
admirable men. But neither
is president. And neither bears
an ounce of responsibility or
power that is not assigned jo
him by the president.