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Medford and Jackson County
History from tha fllai of Tha
Mail Tribuna 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 16, 1952 (Wednesdiy)
Camp White, which has
been listed for partial reacti
vation as an Army stand-by,
training camp, may never be
constructed, It was hinted to
day. Most of the employees of
Jackson county have been ac
cepted for coverage under the
federal aocial security retire
ment system, It was learned
today by the county court.
20 YEARS AGO
April it, 1942 (Thuriday)
Medford service station em
ploys girls to sell gasoline in
effort to alleviate manpower
shortage.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Jack
son K. Frost has appeared on
recent morns in the orchards
and was warmly received. '
00 YEARS AGO
April 18, 1932 (Saturday)
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce informed that Med
ford entrance to Crater Lake
National park will be plowed
open In few days.
Evans Valley school closed
for two days after thieves
tea motor which operates
lighting plant.
40 YEARS AGO
April 16. 1922 (Sunday)
Successful Chatauqua sea
son for Medford "assured"
with signing of "not less than
12 sessions for term of six
consecutive days."
Medford city council passes
ordinance "licensing cows
whose milk is sold within the
city limits."
SO YEARS AGO
April 16. 1912 (Monday)
Quotation lrom Ashland
Daily Tidings reprinted in the
Mail Tribune: "Who said Med
ford? Medford Medford
Let's see. Looking at the map
we find such a name attached
to a burg just below Phoenix.
It is a little place with very
big pretentions."
Play In Medford called off
when Miss May Bloom, well
known actress, trips In local
opera house and "sutfera a
very severe fall."
What's Your I.Q.?
Nln or Ian cornet it iuprier;
uvati tr tiht li ocHni; five or
tli it jood.
1. In what areas of the
world are elephants native?
2. Were there any surviv
ors of the massacre of Cus
ter's command?
3. Who were the parents of
Esau and Jacob?
ofnwhIirti i Baton!
4
Roug
e the capital city?
5. Of the two major profes
sional baseball leagues, which
la the older?
6. Which is the lighter gas
-helium or hydrogen?
7. To what historical even)
do these lines refer: "LaFal
etle, we are here"?
8. Is "Sooner State" lhe
nickname for Wyoming, Okla
homa, Minnesota, or Arizona?
9. Do lightning bolls zig
zag? 10. In baseball, dors the
umpire In chief stand behind
the catcher or In the field?
Answers! 1. Africa and
toutharn Alia. 2. On horia.
9. Isaac and Rebekah. 4.
Louisiana. S. National League.
6. Hydrogan. 7. W. W. 1 ar
rival ef U.S. troops In Franca.
6. Oklahoma. 9. No. 10. Ba
hind the catcher.
Ej ASSOCIATION '
NATIONAL EDITORIAl
MONDAY. APRIL IS. 1982
Kennedy and the Press
The nation's newspaper and magazine read
ers are suddenly being informed in great detail
of a story which the Washington press corps had
been keeping pretty well to itself.
The story is that the Kennedy administration,
from the Chief Executive to the prairie scouts of
the New Frontier, is showing an energy in and
a genius for public relations totally new to
Washington.
Almost simultaneously the magazines "U.S.
News & World Report" and "The Reporter" ap
peared on newstands in early April with articles
on the President and the press that might well
have been written by the same reporter.
Sliehtlv earlier the March 31 issue of "The
Saturday Evening Post" carried a lengthy per
sonal interview with the President by Stewart
Alsop which not only contained copious direct
quotation but was publicized by a photograph
of the reporter and the President made during
their talk.
And on April 8 a Sunday news magazine car
ried a full "weekend-with" story on the President.
M0NE of these events, if isolated, would be
' worthy of comment. Coming as they did in
less than a fortnight and there were other, sim
ilar stories thev looked
is unclear is a motivation for inspiration
President Kennedy's own flair for image
building is certain to be demonstrated when he
appears before the American Society of News
paper Editors this week.
This is an ideal forum. The conventions of
the editors sometimes succeed in making news,
too.
Most notable, perhaps, was the supposedly
off-the-record talk by Richard M. Nixon in April,
1954. in which the former Vice President sug
gested that American troops might have to be
sent to fight in Indo-China. This raised an out
cry that seems strange at the moment, when the
death of American soldiers in Viet Nam is dis
cussed without great emotion in the President's
very much on-the-record press conference.
THE President has cultivated a friendship
o lYirtn rr Vi i-i Xq oVi innrf rv rwaaa nni'no oniVi oc
the nation's capital had
i J .1
poners ana editors ana puonsners are irequent
White House social as well as professional guests.
The President has
casually at the homes of
And the exclusive interview has become almost
a commonplace.
lhe presidential apitude for pubhcily a tal
ent which might have made the late George
Washington Hill envious obviously is shared by
the Kennedy family, even to the in-laws. (The
Peace Corps headed by
Shriver, for example, is
paper space.) And it seems to be spreading out
through the ranks.
"DACKGROUNDERS"
sessions by cabinet
always been standard operating procedure in
Washington. The Kennedys and their assistants
have not neglected the device.
Indeed, they have taken it one steap further.
Early on in the new administration the State De
partment began inviting out-of-town newspaper,
radio, and television news people for kaffee
Matches at which a whole spectrum of top-draw
er administration brass
1 his innovation was
inger (it lie was not, benind the scenes, the in
ventor) and others in high office, including, of
all people, Labor Secretary Goldberg.
finally, as has been pointed out elsewhere,
television is an especial favorite of the Kennedy
administration a "medium . . . (the President)
uses . . . demy ana careniuv at every oppor
tunity. 1 hat would seem to go tor both blood
and official families. E.R.R.
Khrushchev at 68
Soviet Premier Khrushchev will be 68 veal's
on Tuesday, but he may not remember this year's
as one of his happier birthdays. Mr. K. has been
abed with the flu of late and has had time to
dwell on such unhappy aspects of life under
socialism as his country's farm shortages and the
deepening Sino-Soviet split.
He also can ponder the meaning of Western
Europe's economic boom, allied determination to
maintain occupation rights in Berlin, recent
American space achievements, the growing eco
nomic and ideological isolation of Cuba, and the
display of American backbone in Vietnam.
I AST year about this
t tunes were at a
peak.
just ridden a Soviet space
to become the first human traveler m space. And
on Khrushchev's 67th birthday itself anti-Castro
rebels were putting Cuba's Bay of Pigs on the
map and the Kennedy administration on the spot.
remaps a quick review of the rJ months will
be in order when the first session of the newly
elected Supreme Soviet opens in Moscow on Mon
day, April 2U. This national legislature is in
theory the "highest authority of the state," and
consists of two chambers the Soviet of the
Union with 791 deputies and the Soviet of Na
tionalities with (552 members.
Too cumbersome to serve as much more than
a rubber-stamp parliament, the Supreme Soviet
nevertheless will want to know where Khrushchev
proposes to take the Russian people in his (iiUh
'year of life. E.R.R.
almost inspired. What
never before seen. Ret
1-1-1 J i.
been known to drop in
his newspaper friends.
brother - in - law R. Sargent
an avid seeker of news
off-the-cuff briefing
or agency heads have
was displayed.
picked up by Pierre Sal
time Khrushchev's for
Mai. Yuri Gaearin had
craft around the earth
Dennis the
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WSfcGlAOlPA HICE 61N SAVE
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Traveling by rail from Kobe
to Tokyo, one gets a good
look at Japanese agriculture.
The route follows the low
lands where the rivers come
down from the mountains and
flow into the sea. Over the
ages, their deltas have pro
vided a considerable area of
rich agricultural land. The
intensity with which this land
is worked is an eye-opener for
Western Americans who are
accustomed to farming on a
big scale.
In Japan agriculture is on a
miniscule scale. It is hard for
an American to think of it
as agriculture. To American
eyes, it looks more like back
yard gardening. Here in Ja.
pan, an average city lot in
southern Oregon or far north
ern California would look like
QUITE a field, and a whole
city block would be a good
size farm.
JAPANESE agriculture Is
run on the village system.
The Japanese farmers live in
villages and go out to the
"farms to work. The reason
for that, of course, Is that by
crowding the houses together
In a village they take up much
less ground space than if they
were scattered out on each
land holding.
One might Jump to the con
clusion that a lot of time is
wasted by this system, but
that conclusion would over
look the size of the land hold
ings. They are VERY small
indeed, and it doesn't take
long to get to them.
JAPAN is a well-watered
countrv. Manv rivers run
down from the mountains to
the sea. In their lower reaches
they are well diked to guard
against floods in the wet sea
son. In the dry season, their
waters are distributed out
over the land by an intricate
system of ditches.
The main canals are usual
ly lined to prevent water
wastage. The laterals are nar
row and numerous. Where
row crops (usually vegetables)
are grown, there is a carefully
maintained lateral between
each row. The rice paddles
are flooded. The rice plants
are carefully transplanted in
rows, by hand.
IN THE area between Kobe
and Tokyo, quite a lot of
tea is grown green tea.
The rows are quite close to
gether and look amazingly
like carefully trimmed box
hedges in our country.
Mulberry trees are fairly
numerous in this area. Their
leaves serve as food for silk
worms. The synthetic fibers
are cutting the silk market,
but Japan still produces a lot
of silk.
rpiIE workers?
A As seen from the windows
of a train, they appear to be
chiefly women and children.
The idea isn't to let the wom
en do the work. In Japan.
EVERYBODY works and
even in the agricultural re
gions there are industrial
plants every few miles In the
thickly settled country. The
men work in the Industrial
plants and on construction
jobs and elsewhere where
heavy labor is required and
leave lhe farming lo the wom
en and children.
ll'HAT of the farming equip
" ment?
Chiefly, it consists of hand
lools hoes, forks, spades,
etc. Occasionally one sees a
watrr buffalo pulling a crude
plow. But not too frequently.
Every now and then, one sees
a little garden tractor at work,
but not often.
It isn't that the Japanese
can't make tractors. They can
make almost anything. It isn't
that the Japanese farmers
don't know how to USE trac
tors. Its lust that THERE
ISN'T ROOM IN THESE
TINY FIELDS lo use machinery.
MEDFORD MAIL
Menace
HIM A SODA?
JENKINS
A TRACTOR requires quite
a lot of room to turn
around in. A hoe or a spade
needs no room at all. In Ja
pan, agricultural land is so
scarce that every inch of it
must be used. No room can
be spared for turning around
space for farm machinery.
So
Japan's farming has to be
done by hand.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harrtt
(c General reaturei Corp.
NAMES ARE ONLY
SKIN DEEP
A reader in Indiana has
written to say, "Please do an
article on the clods who al
ways must ask
'What nation
ality is that?'
when hearing
a name other
than 'Smith,'
or some other
ordinary
A m e r i can
sounding
name. "My
Harm name is ,
he continues, "and I'm awful
ly annoyed at the provincial
ism (and it's that to the ex
treme) of having that ques-
tion popped at me by people
who should know better.
"I was born In this country,
fought in World War II and
emerged as an Army offi
cer. I'm American, and noth
ing but. Mine is the same name
my father had when he came
to this country from Sweden
as a youngster at the turn of
the century."
a a
There is a certain type of
person - and, unfortunately,
this type is widespread - who
does not feel secure with a
stranger until he can "place"
him. Since America has no
hereditary aristocracy, and is
presumably a classless soci
ety, these people are exces
sively interested in the na
tional origin and extraction
of anyone whose name is not
bluntly Anglo-Saxon.
Millions of immigrants to
this country changed their
names for this reason, as well
as for the convenience of spell
ing and pronunciation. Many
of them wanted to avoid dis
criminatory attitudes against
them.
It is not widely known, for
instance, that one of the great
folk-heroes of our Revolution
ary War, Paul Revere, was of
French Huguenot descent. His
father had changed his name
from Revoirc, "merely on ac
count that the Bumpkins
should pronounce it easier."
(Quoted in "World Book En
cyclopedia," Volume IS, Page
24(1 )
Life has not been easy here
for people of foroicn extrac
tion. If they refused to change
their difficult names, they
were accused of being clan
nish and sneered at for their
peculair Old World ways; if
they did Anglicize their
names and adjust their ways,
they were accused of trying
to hide their foreign origin
and pass for Americans. They
were condemned for not
changing, and condemned for
changing.
Democracy - In which each
man is valued for his own
individual contribution -makes
many people uneasy.
Psychologically, they need
some rigid frame of reference
for placing and grading peo
ple; this is the only way in
which they can feel superior
to whole classes and groups.
The obsession with national
origin is really more "un
American" in its spirit than
the "un-Americans" it seeks
to identify and denigrate.
Indeed, if that somewhat
pompous phrase "the Ameri-
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A Brief Rajolndar
To the Editor: I got quite a
chuckle out of Miss (Mrs.?)
Leila A. Morrow's comment of
410 on the recent episode in
the Democratic Central com
mittee: "If the so-called re
tired intellectuals that come
to the valley would really re
tire, it is possible that every
thing would run more smooth
ly." However, lest some others
who have chosen our lovely
valley as a good place for re
tirement take the lady s crack
too seriously, I should like to
offer a brief rejoinder - in the
hope, too, that It may serve to
modify somewhat her present
inhospitable attitude.
One frequently hears resi
dents of Rogue Valley Manor
speak appreciatively of the
friendliness of Medford folk.
A warm welcome has been
accorded us oldsters by all
kinds of organizations. Not
unwelcome has been our con
siderable swelling of attend
ance at church services, con
certs, plays, and other activi
ties - nor our contributions to
their treasuries.
Of course, the banks, stores
and other business establish
ments also have felt, and wel
comed, the steadily increasing
patronge of retirees, of whom
there are many in the valley
besides the 330 living on
Manor hill. The political par
ties have proved no exception.
Indeed, they have been es
pecially active in wooing us
In my own case, I was wel
corned with open arms by the
Democrats and, on the eager
initiative of party leaders, al
most rushed into member
ship on the central committee.
For Miss Morrow's special
benefit, I should like to make
two other important points:
(1) Retired folk do not re
linquish their rights or obliga
tions as citizens and voters
upon becoming retirees. (2)
All counselors to the aging
stress the need for their con
tinuing interest and participa
tion in all kinds of activty, for
their own health and for the
community's good.
Speaking in Medford on
this very theme a few days
ago, Dr. Frank Stange, clini
cal psychologist for the state
department of health, said
Think of yourself as a mem
ber of the community. Don't
withdraw. Be with others for
purposeful activity."
That, too, has been the pur
pose and plan of the far-sighted
leaders of the community
and state who sponsored the
establishment of Rogue Val
ley Manor. Most of us at the
Manor are happy to take our
part in community life and
to know that the community,
for its part, is glad to have us
do so - notwithstanding a
lone, doleful dissent such as
Miss Morrow's.
Arnold Eugene Jenny
Rogue Valley Manor
Medford
More Responsive
To the Editor: The proposed
county home rule charter ap
peals to me for many reasons.
One, it will put county gov
ernment on a more efficient,
business-like basis and at the
same time be more responsive
to the will of the people.
At present, we vote for
eight elected officials in addi
tion to the district attorney,
i.e., three commissioners, a
treasurer, sheriff, clerk, as
sessor, and surveyor. With the
exception of the commission
ers, these offices require men
with special training and skill.
I don't believe In the heat of
an election campaign we can
be very good Judges of which
candidate is qualified to fill
a particular specialized job.
I'd rather elect seven com
petent citizens from around
the county, let them draw up
qualifications for these offices
and, after careful interviews,
let them pick the best quali
fied person to fill the partic
ular job. Because six of these
seven commissioners will be
elected on a part-time basis
it will make it possible for
thoughtful citizens from a 1 1
walks of life to serve the
county who otherwise would
not be able to take the time.
Furthermore I like the idea
that these appointive officials
would be held accountable to
our elected commissioners.
Cities have long had such
charters. It's time county citi
zens had similar powers. The
belter Job we can do with
government at the local level,
the less need to turn Jobs over
can way" means anything. It
means accepting and evalu
ating individuals on the basis
i of their own virtues and
achievements, not on family
status, background or national
extraction. The real subver
sives are those who judge by
1 names, not by deeds.
Pensioners
Br LYLE C. WILSON
Unilad Press International
Washington (UPB There
was in President Kennedy's
denunciation of the steel in
dustry one special paragraph
that need be
changed only
a little to
mean some
thing else
again entire
ly. The Presi
dent's para
graph began
like this: "If
this rise In the
Wllinn COSl OI lieei I!
imitated by the rest of the
industry, instead of rescinded,
it would increase the cost of
homes, autos, appliances -"
and so on.
That was the beginning of
a paragraph that firmly put
on the steel industry respon
sibility for Inviting more rot
ting of the U.S. dollar by in
flation.
Now, to aim that paragraph
in a different direction, read
the opening this way:
"If the politicians continue
deficit treasury spending in
stead of balancing the govern
ment's budget, it would in
crease the cost of homes, au
tos, appliances and most other
5
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Foreign News Notes: Berlin,
Asian Conference Discussed
Br PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Notes from the Foreign
News cables:
Clay's Departure:
Americans in Berlin look
forward with foreboding to
the next Russian squeeze on
the divided
eitv now that
Clay is leav
ing. Without
the dynamic
G e o r g i a n's
I rv I strong perron.
LaaVTLJ vanize the
American mis
Newscm jion t h e r e
they fear the "channels- con
scious" State department and
Army personnel will react
with sluggishness and confu
sion to the next crisis, just as
they did when the Commu
nists built their "wall of
shame" last Aug. 13.
Berlin Talks:
The Berlin situation up for
discussion in Washington to
day still looks far from set
tlement. Observers , pect
Russia to make allied mili
tary withdrawal from West
Berlin the first cordition for
any settlement. The Soviets
have been putting out feelers
for the withdrawal of West
ern forces from the city in
their recent talks with West
ern leaders in Geneva.
If anything, they have be
come more insistent. And the
signs now are that they will
Insist on complete neutraliza
tion of Berlin as the price for
any guarantee of free access
to the city. This position has
been rejected by the West in
the past, and there is no indi
cation it has changed its mind.
Asian Conference!
Look for Communist China
to make a big push for an in
ternational conference to di
cuss the situation in aouth
Viet Nam. There have been
several indications already
that the Peiping regime is
thinking along these lines.
Sources In Hong Kcng say
the Chinese Reds could lay
the groundwork for such a
conference by convincing so
called neutrals in Asia and
Africa that the Viet Namese
war could be ended by talks.
These sources speculate that
Peiping may want from such
a conference a "neutralized
South Viet Nam with no for
eign forces there and some
kind of ties to Communist
North Vict Nam.
Franch Changes:
The jwitchovcr In the
French government indicates
only provisional changes. Ob
servers in Paris say that later
in the year, after the Algerian
referendum details are com
plete, Algerian Affairs Minis
ter Louis Joxe most likely
will be released to take over
the foreign affairs ministry
from Maurice Couve de Mur
ville, believed slated to head
the Bank of France. Mean
while, new Premier Georges
Pompidou'! efforts are ex
pected to be aimed at unifica
tion of Western Europe and
building up France economi
cally.
lo the state and national gov.
ernment.
This is representative gov
ernment at its best.
Marjorie Kf Hog,
Sardine Creek
Gold Hill
in Middle of Price
Feel Squeeze
items for every American
family. It would increase the
cost of machinery and tools
to every American business
man and farmer. It would
seriously handicap our efforts
to prevent an inflationary
spiral from eating up the
pensions of our older citizens
and our new gains in purchas
ing power."
Consumer Oats Squteitd
If the steel industry does
not concede that the cost of
living must Increase if steel
prices are raised, it is equal
ly true that the politicians
do not concede the equal or
greater inflationary curse of
deficit financing. The con
sumer Is caught in the mid
dle. Some of the consumers
this caught will be crushed.
First to feel the squeeze
will be the pensioners men
tioned by President Kenne
dy, with all others on fixed
incomes. Last through the in
flationary wringer will be the
families whose incomes in
crease at least as rapidly as
the purchasing power of the
U.S. dollar shrinks. In the
end, none will escape.
That is, none can escape
the end result of dollar rot
ting if government and in
dustry alone or together en
courage the dollar rotting
Washington Report
By William
(cl Unlttd raatura Syndlcata
POLITICAL STORY
Washington - The biggest
political story since the 1960
presidential campaign is being
made by the
n o n - politi
cians who con
trol big steel
In raising
steel prices in
'I defiance of the
united states
gov ernment
and in disre
gard of the
best interests
of this nation and of all the
Western world, they have
done an incalculable harm. It
will long endure to bedevil
the responsible politics of this
country.
For they have hurt most of
all the very three things to
which they are most devoted:
The concept of American free
enterprise; the concept of po
litical conservatism, and the
Republican party. And they
have immensely promoted
these other things: The mind
that seeks to regiment indus
try and business; the extreme
liberals generally, and the
left-wing faction of the Demo
cratic party.
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THEY have made the way
much easier for all those
who have long wanted gov
ernment regulation, in one
way or another, over basic
industries such as steel. They
have emboldened every wild
and irresponsible labor leader
in the country. The Jimmy
Hoffas and others of that ilk
had sneered at the responsi
ble labor leaders who - under
long pressure from the Ken
nedy administration - had
agreed on a reasonable set
tlement of wage demands with
U.S. Steel.
That reasonable restraint on
the part of labor has now been
repaid by steel with a price
hike which, in spirit, breaks
what everybody knew was a
gentlemen's u n d erstanding.
This unspoken understanding
was that labor would go easy
and big steel would go easy.
What will the Hoffas and
their kind now say to labor's
rank-and- file? Quite simply.
they will say: "Listen to our
kind of leadership hereafter,
and we will get you what you
want. Look at those labor fel
lows who played along with
Try and
ml
White
By BENNETT CERF-
A VERY SELF-CONFIDENT young man had just sub-',
mitted to a long series of aptitude tests, and awaited!
results with lofty unconcern. "I suppose," he told the re-'
turning examiner. "I have
an aptitude for so many
fields that you fellows
are a bit confused about
it alL"
"You have an aptitude
for exactly one field," the
examiner told him tartly,
"and that is a field in
which your father holds
an extremely influential
position."
a a a
A Wichita father ifnt
his daughter, aged eight, to
bed before Hvinr a. blr
shindig in his villi. The
diughter. outraged, wiitd until th festivities were in full
suing, then marched into the. liviv room in her pijimi top.
delivered i note to her father, and without & word, mirched out
ipam.
The note reid, "Dear Dtddy: I hit you. Love. KeX"
trend. In fewer than 23 years
the U.S. dollar (1939 value)
has shrunk to a real value of
less than SO cents in present
purchasing power. The two-bit
dollar is not here yet, but it
is in sight.
Nickel Call Disappears
The nickel trolley rids and
telephone call have vanished
with Tom Marshall's good
five-cent cigar. The dollar
trolley token, subway or bus
ride is something that could
happen here.
National defense can be no
stronger than the U.S. econo
my. The nation's economy
can be no stronger than its
unit of currency. If the econo
my is tied to a sickly dollar,
the national defense Is sup
ported by a sickly economy.
At that point it would not
be surprising if Nikita Khru
shchev could make good on
his promse that he would bury
us. The chain reaction among
currency inflation - national
economy - national defense
seems to be reasonably obvi
ous. It must not be obvious to
the voters. If it were, the vot
ers would fire the politicians
who are spending the United
States toward disaster. Tha
voters would do that if the
voters were smart.
S. Whits
steel and with Kennedy - and
look at what they got."
T ITERALLY nobody in poll
" tics gains from big steel's
action except the liberal ex
tremists, to whom hostility to
business is almost a spiritual
creed. If big steel thinks the
Republicans like its policy, let
big steel privately ask any
major Republican officehold
er. If big steel wants the Re
publicans to carry the con
gressional elections in Novem
ber, let big steel ask the Re
publicans today how they see
their chances in the wake of
the price increase.
This correspondent can tip
big steel off, for a fact, that
it is about as popular today In
the Republican party as would
be an outbreak of adult mea
sles. Wherever one looks tha
storm damage is apparent:
The able Richard Nixon, run
ning for governor of Califor
nia as a responsible Republi
can conservative, has been un
deniably hard hit in a state
which remembers the "public
be damned" attitude of soma
industry of a century ago.
a
SEN. Barry Goldwater of
Arizona, for all his ultra
conservatism, will surely ba
no beneficiary. Gov. Nelson
Rockefeller of New York, a
third Republican presidential
possibility for 1964, will
flinch before this great gift to
his party from the traditional
Republicans of big steel.
Where are the responsible
conservatives - those who
endlessly try to overcome lib
eral extremism and fooiish
doctrinaire attacks on busi
ness - now to go? How much
will the President himself -who
has in simple fact tried
to go along reasonably with
business on the basic ques
tions - bend now by neces
sity toward the left-wing of
his own party?
Though the harm has been
done, at least there is soma
possibility of restricting that
harm. The great community
of American business in gen
eral is in no way to blame
for big steel's decision. But
it would be wise to make that
point very clear. Big steel has
elected to stand alone; let it
so stand, very plainly before
the public gaze.
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