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Newspaper Page Text4 A "Everyonein Southern Oreaon"" Readi TheMiilTrlbune PubfUhed 1 D!ly except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir t., Pr.773-8,41 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor IfKRB GREY. Advertising: Manager . n n l aifuiu Dia Mar ERIC W ALLEN, JR.. Mna. Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women Editor AfTlndependent Newspaper Entered as second clau matter at Medtnrd. Oregon, under Act o( March 3. 18)17 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily and Sunday I year $15 00 uajjy ano Duny .... pailv and Sunday 3 moa 4 25 Sunday Only One year $4 20 Bv Carrier In Advance Med ford, "Anhlnnd. Central Point. EaiH Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rgue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes Dally and Sunday 1 year 91ft -00 Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. I JO Carriei and Dealers Copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance "orririaf Paper of City of Mrdford Official Paper oj Jarkson County UnitedPresa International TJ.P.l Telephoto Newnpicturea .i " ttntT nllDCHt Advertising Reprrenttlve: -NKLSON ROBERTS 4 ASSOC Alba, umt'c. ....... f " co Detroit. San rrnclK-o. Lo Angeles Deaiiicjru. NEWIFAMI PUlLIf HItf ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the tiles ot Tha Mail Trlbuna 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 vaan ago. . 10 YEARS AGO June 10, 1952 (Tuesday) Medford Fire Chief Gordon Barker has announced an new program for inspection of city residences for fire hazards; the program Is voluntary. . The president of the Jack son County Fruit Growers League has denied charges that anti-hail cloud-seeding has had an effect on rainfall In the area. 20 YEARS AGO Juna 10, 1942 (Wednesday) Scrap rubber drive starts here; 150 pounds collected to noon of the first day. Prom Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "There was a lull Sunday, on the kid hatilpfronts all over town as the combatants went to Sun' day School and learned about the Golden Rule." 30 YEARS AGO Juna 10, 1932 (Friday) Glenn S. (Pop) Warner, famed Stanford university football coach, visiU here briefly en route to Crater Lake; predicts success for "Prink" Callison, ex-Medford High grid coach, as Univer sity of Oregon mentor. Thirty-three Army planes pay tribute to Medford com rade killed In a plane crash, by flying low over the home of his widow here. , 40 YEARS AGO Juna 10, 1922 (Saturday) "Great Influx of visitors" expected to attend opening of Oregon Caves June 2fi. Roy Hewitt member of win ning boys relay team in aquatic mod held at Mediord Nalatonum building. SO YEARS AGO Juna 10. 1912 (Sunday) Simultaneous raids by shcr iff's deputies in Central Point, Gold Hill and Ashland uncov er "considerable quantity" of opium In "Chinese dens." Medford Socialist party city councilman cleared of neglect of duty charges by 20 to 2 vote of Socialist local. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten carraci it superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five of sii Is good. 1. Is Morocco located In the northern or southern part of Africa. 2. What Is the only bird whose eyes look straight ahead'' ,1. What Is a samovar? 4. A blanket of snow keeps the soil warm; true or false 5. What relationship are the children of first cousins 6. Does saccharin have any food value? 7. Is the Tropic of Cancer In the northern or southern hemisphere? 8 Is cerebellum the name of angels, a part of the brain, or a period of peace after a war? 9. Which Amendment to the Constitution excuses a person x IS a fact, alas, that the motor car has made &7n5 ' if'Sne I the pedestrian (one. that is. who walks further him1 ! than two blocks) almost extinct. And the dangers in. insert the miming 1 0f walking amid fast-moving traffic on highways name; '.... the Moodier " , . Answ.r.; i. North., a. are manifest. . , , Th owl. 3. watar ha.ting, Rut some consideration for those sturdy souls vassal used to m.k. i.e. 4.jwho prefer shanks mare is definitely in order. No"''7. NoMh.. rjfrj .' Un,iI changes are made, "nobody walks" brain. . Fif.h. io. Minnia. 'will hs more fact than fancy. E.A. SUNDAY. JUNE 10. 1962 Press and President Kennedy, ference, was queried about his attitude toward the press in general. His now-famous reply was: "Well, I am reading more and enjoying it less . . ." His remark has more significance than that of a mere quip, for it is indicative that the "honeymoon'' with the press, which Kennedy has enjoyed (with certain exceptions) since his inau guration, is wearing a bit thin. More and more sharply critical comments have been coming his way via editorial pages, and the "news" columns of such magazines as Time, which have no compunction about stating (or hinting) their opinions in news stories. THERE is an element of the press, of course, which has been critical from the start. But many newspapers held off, giving the new Presi dent the benefit of the doubt until it had further observed his performance in office. Even during the Cuban fiasco, press comment on Kennedy was strangely gentle and uncritical, perhaps out of the realization that it was a situa tion he inherited. But in recent weeks, criticism has been both sharper and more voluminous. THE turning point came, if we read the signs aright, at the time of Kennedy's crack-down on the steel companies over their price increase. This was associated in many minds in the big business community (and, in too many in stances, the nation's editorial pages faithfully reflect the views of the big business community) with the subsequent wild fluctuations of the stock market, for which a number of the (j.U.r.-lean- ing papers blamed Kennedy. This was followed by his proposal for an across-the-board tax cut next year. This too brought predictable howls from the financially conservative papers of the nation," which yelled "fiscal irresponsibility" about a proposed tax cut coinciding with a mounting deficit and increasing national debt, . j THERE was the silly related side-issue of the New York Herald Tribune, which Kennedy cancelled out of the White House list of subscrip tions, for whatever reason he alone knows. Still, the President newspaper reader, and his news conference crack also included the statement, "but I have not com plained nor do I plan to plaints . . : They are doing their task, as a critical branch, the fourth estate . . ." It was probably inevitable that the "honey moon" would end, and Kennedy undoubtedly has known this all along. In recent years, only Presi dent Eisenhower has largely escaped the fangs of the nation's editorial pages, which are over whelmingly 'Republican in coloration, and the surprising tfting is not that they are now swing- ... i ,1.. n iti jt i ...:it.-ij injr at me jrresiaenu dui for as Jong as they have. THIS newspaper supported Kennedy in the election, and has no cause to regret it. We have criticized him when we felt it was justified (as in the Cuban matter, when we said ne was "dead wrong), and supported his causes when we felt he was right (as in medical care under Social Security and others). We shall con tinue to do both. But for some reason, we find it a source of mild, wry amusement to see the pillars of Ameri can journalism, most of whom fought Kennedy tooth and toe-nail during the election campaign, reverting to type. It shouldn't bother Kennedy too m u c h, though.. All he has to do is recall that the bulk of the nation's press opposed Franklin D. Roose velt and Harry S Truman, too. Rut the voters paid no attention. E.A. "Nobody A peripatetic and elderly male relative of ours is an occasional visitor to Medford. For health and pleasure, he walks several miles a day, and has none so for years, in many parts of the world. When he is in Medford he is constantly on the lookout for new pedestrian routes, and is constantly disappointed in his quest after the obvious downtown sidewalks have been covered. It. is a standing joke that "nobody walks" in America any more. The pedestrian is the for gotten man. THIS is a fact. In Washington state Friday, two men were arrested for walking. Roth were participants in the well-publicized four-man walk from San Francisco to Seattle as a publicity gimmick for a well-known brand of beer. One of them passed through Medford a week or so ago. The other, a kilted Scotsman, took another route, but they were near each other in southern Washington when the minions of the law swooped down and arrested them for walk ing on public highways. We hope our uncle never hears of this, for it will only convince him of the barbarism of the West, where "nobody walks," and where this proscription is backed bv the might of the law. . . President at a recent press con remains an omnivorous make any general com mat, iiity nave wiuieiu Walks . . "If You Think Wall Street Ha Been Acting Funny " Matter of Fact sy ai.oP (e New York Herald Tribune Syndlcata NIXON'S OUASI VICTORY Washington - For the stu dent of politics, the California primary won by former Vice r resioeni R i c h a rd M. Nixon has one very special feature. Pub lic opinion polls have never b e f ore had so much influence up on the course, and even on the reporting, of any political fight. To begin with a most re cent example, the reports from the West Coast credit Nixon with a "triumph" be cause he won the Republican gubernatorial nomination from a rich but previously obscure John Birchite, Joseph Shell, a two to one margin. This is puzzling. If you think about it in cold blood, it is not exactly a triumph for the titular leader of the Republi can party to get this kind of a majority in his own state against a novice politician. The answer to the puzzle is simple, however. Nixon, a great poll-user, discovered from his pollers that Shell was likely to get lust about the vote he did. With consid erate prescience, the Nixon camp therefore put the word out, even in Washington, that Nixon would be doing very well if he held the Shell vote below 35 per cent of the Re publican total. SHELL was duly held to be low 35 per cent. Hence Nixon is now credited with doing very well. But has he in fact done so well? In the impartial and usually dependable California based Field poll. Shell began the primary fight with only about 7 per cent of the Republican votes, lie rose to 14 per cent only a month ago. He has now got over twice that percent age. Shell clearly has done well. Hut It is not at all clear how Nixon is now going to deal with the one-Republican-in-evcry-three this primary has revealed as Birch-intoxicated or Birch-leaning. This problem Nixon now has to face is also, in some measure, a poll-created prob lem. Originally, the former Vice President hoped to avoid an open row with the extreme right of his own parly. But President Kennedy's poller, Louis Harris, intervened with soundings showing that the great majority of California voters both disapproved of the Birchite approach to the Communist problem, and very sharply disapproved of the whole extreme right-wing movement. ON the basis of the Harris soundings, President Ken nedy himself pressed Nixon's Democratic opponent, Califor nia Gov. Pat Brown, to chal lenge Nixon briskly to dis avow the Birch Society. Gov. Brown, though not normally given to briskness, thereupon I proceeded to say Nixon would wear the Birch label unless I he disavowed Birch. i The soundings by Harris were confirmed by Nixon's I own pollers - which meant to the former Vice President , that he must either get rid of the Birch label or go into ! the fight against Brown with a heavy haudkap. Therefore ! Nixon reluctantly took on the Blrchites at the California ; Republican convention. This convention fight, which Nixon won by a, far from impressive majority, in turn put a lot of steam into the Shell candid . acy against Nixon, i In addition, the polls have done much to deprive the Nix I on candidacy of the aura of I confidence and coming uc j cess that a rsndidate like Nix 'en rnysds particularly badly. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEOFORD. OREGON It even seems a reasonable guess that the polls have af fected Nixon's own confi dence and nerve, leading him into such mis-steps as his at tack on the President of the United States as a carpetbag ger - a doubly foolish move, because of Kennedy's great current popularity, and be cause of the unhappy choice of language. Nixon had the bad luck, In the Field poll, the Harris pri vate polls, and in all the other soundings, to start out enor mously far ahead of Brown, and then to slip slowly but inexorably until the last Field poll actually gave Brown a slight edge. The trouble here was where Nixon began -much too far ahead -and not where he ended, with per centages sensibly suggesting a close race. A CLOSE race was always the kind nf rnrp tn r-v. pect in California. Despite his national stature, Nixon has innate weaknesses in this contest for the governorship, and Brown has certain solid advantages. Brown has made his mistakes,- but by all accounts he has given California a much better than average state ad ministration. He is also the sort of politician, moderate in views and tone, almost ag gressively amiable, with a personality totally lacking sharp angles, that California voters seem to like best. Nixon, complex and moody, has also been absent from the state during most of his po litical life. He lacks any very good issue to use against Brown. He has never been at home, anyway, with the kind of issues that are impor tant in state politics. Add tn these difficulties the fact that Nixon must now get all the Republican votes and a lot of Democratic voles as well, yet may have a lot of trouble persuading the Shell-Birch enthusiasts to transfer their support to him. It can be seen why a close race is natural. But the first post-primary opinion poll is just as likely as not to show Nixon leading Brown again; for such is the nature of politics. Foreign Aid Reexamination Is By ERIC SEVAREID The massive American "for eign aid" program is moving through t h e Congressional labyrinth, but it is h i g h I y likely that this is the last year the pro gram will emerge In roughly t h e shape and size outlined by the President. Something has I happened. Responsible mem ; bers of Congress, including J some of the most liberal and enlightened members, are simply losing their illusions as to what money. fo,Kt, arms, and exported expertise can i and cannot do in and to "un- derdevelopcd nations." The I privately growing suspicion that every President from Truman through Kennedy has i wildly oversold the prospec ! live economic and political re sults from America's generous ' interventions is now becom ing a conviction. Sooner or later, we are go ing tn witness a public re i appraisal nf the foreign aid concept, fundamental in na ture, and on the highest lev els, as we hcg.in tn witness ! this winter in regard to the United Nations, when Senator j Jackson first sliced deeply iintn that forbidden fruit. A lone Home Democrat, quoted I Severe Id Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann (el New York Herald Tribune Syndlcat MR. BLOUGH AND THE APRIL TEMPEST Mr. Roger Blough, chair man of the U.S. Steel corpora tion and one of the heroes of what he de icribes as '"that tempest of last April," has joined those who wish to avoid a feud be tween b u s i nessmen and the Kennedy a d m I n i s- I.lppmann tration. He has gone about it the right way. Looking back to the April tempest, he is asking that lines be drawn to show where in the field of prices and wages the gov ernment's responsibility be gins and ends. Mr. Blough did not say who should draw these lines. But it is fair to suppose he means that after investigation and debate, lines should be drawn by consent of the interests concerned. This would re quire on the part of the lead ers of all the interests con cerned a desire to solve the problem rather than to pur sue a quarrel. When and how, we may then ask ourselves, can such a rational enterprise be launched? BY A COMMON recognition that there is a problem to be solved. Judging by what is written jn various places these days, there are all too many who do not know that there is a problem to be solved. The solution to the problem Is not now known. The tempest that blew up In April came not because steel prices had been set by supply and demand in a free market and were then pushed 'down by the President's de sire to seize power to fix prices and wages. The April tempest blew up because the higher steel prices that Mr. Blough proposed were not fixed by supply and demand in a free market. The essential fact about the steel affair was that the companies had a virtual monopoly which fixes their prices and they were dealing with un ions which have a virtual mo nopoly of steel labor. If these two semi-monopolies had been left to their own devices, as was the case in other years, the two monoDolics would Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF CHARLES BROWER, of Batten, Barton, etc, warns eager young account executives that if they had courted their wives the way they court prospects, their patter would have sounded something like this: "I can see you are a smart girl: the kind that can't be fooled on value. So you'll notice that I am wearing a $300 suit That suit, Girlie, is only an outward indica tion of the super-hydraulic, synchro-mesh, pat" enled double-action heart that beats beneath it Now listen carefully to something I tell only a chosen few. I am in lim ited supply. There are a lot of women after me. So for one day only, I'm offering to marry you. But you'll have to hurry hurry hurry before I'm all gone." a When a raucous customer proponed his seventh conaecutiv. toast to Honolulu, Bartender Clancy pained to Inquire, "Say, Buddy, you come from Hawaii?" "No," said the customer, "but my wife's flying there tomor row." O 1961. by Bennett Cart Distributed by Kins Paatnna Syndicate on foreign aid in The Reporter magazine has warned, "Next year, unless we see some re sults, it will be pure charity if we keep going." This may come as a shock ing sentiment to many high minded American citizens. If it does, it can only be because they lack first hand experi ence of Africa, Asia and Latin America, or because they are unaware of the hard re-thinking about the "backward" so cieties that is going on In universities and private study groups hy men who cannot he thought of as reactionaries, isolationists or tightwads. The pendulum is making its inevitable backward swing, and our best minds are begin ning to ask themselves what the purposes of foreign eco nomic and military aid really are. after all. It is a fact, that in Washington's recurrent ag onies with spot crises around the world, in Its acrimonious involvement with the person nel, budgets and methods of the foreign aid agencies. Wash i ingtnn has not in years asked itself this first and fundamen tal question. It has merely assumed. It has assumed that chanty is . materially good for the receiv er and morally good for the giver - - the most defensible of all arguments for foreisn aid. But it has assumed, more importantly, that foreisn aid , produces economic growth in have made a deal which raised wages and then raised prices at the expense of the con sumers and of the public. IF THERE is to be the kind of mutual understanding that Mr. Blough would like to have, the inquiry will have to start with a recognition that the problem is how to prevent the implicit collusion of the two giant monopolies. For this kind of collusion pro duces the cost - push infla tion which plagued us In the late 'fifties. It erodes the in ternational position of the dollar by weakening the com petitive capacity of American industry. How to solve the problem of the giant monopolies is by no means clear. But that there is a problem of the gi ant monopolies is indisputa ble. This problem cannot be made to disappear by recit ing odes to the free market. For the giant monopolies the free market does not pre vail. And in this country the problem cannot be solved by the government's fixing of prices and wages. That would produce a chaos that no man in his senses would contem plate. WE SHALL have to feel our way to a solution. In all likelihood the most promis ing way to begin is by affirm ing the principle that in the wages and prices set by the giant monopolies, there Is a public interest which must be taken Into account. That public Interest will have to be represented by the federal government acting, not as the regulator and controller of wages and prices, but as the spokesmen for reasonable be havior and sound economic action. The role of the government, as I see it, is similar to that which it performs when it fixes honest weights and measures. The public interest in the price of steel, for ex ample, is so great that it must be represented in its own right, and not be left to depend on the ex parte statements of labor and of capital. We must hope that such rep resentation and publicity will be sufficient to prevent an un healthy collusion of the gi ants. Of them one might say that they are not in a free market, but on top of it. backward lands, that econom ic growth produces trends to ward democratic freedoms, that democracy tends toward peace and that peace in these areas enhances America's na tional security. These concepts have been articles of unquestioned faith until now. Without adding unqualified endorsement to the arguments made, I do wish that every interested citizen and every Congressman could study four essays on foreign aid recently published by the Public Affairs Conference cen ter of the University of Chi cago. They might pay partic ular attention to the cold log ic of Edward C. Banfield, who goes so far as to suggest that a policy of no foreign aid at all would better serve t h e hard core interests of our na tional security, if not our mor al sensibilities. We are all obliged, it seems to me, to take an unblinking look at the estimate of P. jj. Rosenstcin Rodan w ho as-1 sumes for purposes of forecast ! absolutely optimum conditions and then concludes that if the backward countries got all the aid they could absorb, used it well, and if their popula tions increase by one-fourth In the next 15 years, the average personal income in those countries would be in creased by no more than $30. a year. We have lo ask ourselves i POTLUCCC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Pier 3, San Francisco Dear Potluck Editor: Gosh, 1 hardly know what to say. 1 know I've been ter ribly remiss in not writing to you more often, particularly since you so kindly answered some of my earlier letters. But . . . well, I might just as well come flat out with it. The truth of the matter is -I've met a girl, and I haven't been able to do much of any thing except think about her ever since. Now please don't laugh, Mr. Editor, it isn't funny. Really, it isn't. I haven't been able to eat or sleep (can you imagine?), and my work on the Bountiful has deteriorated to the point that Captain Blye gets a sour, pained expression on his face every time ne sees me. If it weren't that I know you'll understand, I'd be re luctant to mention the matter a,t all, especially after what happened one afternoon last week. All of us on the crew were lounging around the living quarters after lunch, talking about this and that. Well, actually, they were talking about women. First one would tell a story, and then another one would tell something that had happened to him. Finally, during a lull in the conversation, I just had o tell them. After all, they are all my friends and I wanted to share my good fortune with them. "I'm in love," I sort of blurted out. There was a stunned silence for a minute, and they all turned and stared transfixed ly at me. Their mouths had sagged open, and their eyes had a dazed, incredulous ex pression. After a bit, Bos'n Gruff said somewhat hoarsely, "What did you say, boy?" I sat up, squared my shoul ders, look a deep breath and said it again, perhaps just a shade too defiantly. "I'm in love with a girl." I think somebody started to snicker, but Chuck Chump lin quickly silenced him with a motion of his hand. He turn ed to me, his face wearing an expression of sincere in terest. "Well, boy, tell about the lucky girl," he said pleas antly, "What s her name? Where does she work? How did you meet her?" "Yeah, tell us." several of the others said, and they all hunched forward in their chairs expectantly. You'd think, Mr. Editor, that after all the skyhooks and left handed monkey wrenches I've been sent after during these last few weeks, I'd have known better, but I thought they were sincere. I really did. "Well, her name Is Poppy LaTour," I confided. "She's an actress. But she's working as a waitress right now while she's waiting for the right part." "Gee, an actress!" Freddie Robertson sighed, "Imagine that." "Go on, kid, go on," said Bos'n Gruff. And he shushed the other men. "How did you two lovebirds meet?" "Just by chance one night. I happened to go into the restaurant where she works to have dinner. But I didn't notice her at first, not until she spilled a whole plate of Mulligan stew on me. "She what?" they chorused On Way why we assume that inlcrven tion by foreigners in totally alien cultures can produce economic levels, political in stitutions and social mores in 10 or 20 years of the kind produced in western societies only after many generations. We have to ask ourselves why we think we can produce even a respectable fraction of such results In lands where we have no enforcement pow ers, when we cannot elevate life In the West Virginia min ing areas or get on top of the problems of poverty, illiter acy, crime and crowding that are swamping welfare plan ners in our own urban sprawls. Our illusions about econom ic growth and social justice in backward countries date, I suspect, from our successes in Europe and Japan. But we must ask ourselves if econom ic development from scratch is not fundamentally different from economic rehabilitation. And. as a teaser, we might ask ourselves why the one big country in Latin America that seems to be progressing in stability Mexico not only receives none of Amer ica's foreign aid but refuses to accept it. Whatever the Senate and House may vote this year, the true examination of foreign aid has hardlv begun (Diitributad 1962, by Tha Hall Syndicate. Inc.) (All Rights R.s.rv.d) "She accidentally dumped blue plate special all over me. It was an extra big serv ing, too, I said. "I was a mess. Roberto Von Snickle sort of choked, like he was trying to swallow something that wouldn't go down. "But you know what shs did then?" I asked. "No, what?" they all said. "Well, she just stood thera and looked at me for a min ute, and then she said, 'You want some catsup to go with that, honey?' "Honestly, wasn't that tha wittiest, most sophisticated re mark you've ever heard? I knew right then she was tha only girl in the world for me," I said with a sigh. Mr. Editor, I tell you, they all just kind of fell apart then. Really, I've never seen anything like it, or been so embarrassed. Freddie Robertson and Roberto Von Snickle let out whoops, collapsed Into each other's arms, fell to the floor and just rolled around, laugh ing like you never heard be fore. Bos'n Gruff clutched his sides, swayed back and forth like a big bear on his hind legs, roaring "Har, har, har, har," over and over again. I thought Chuck Chump lin's face would crack. Ha never smiles, Mr, Editor, but the corners of his mouth were turned up a notch, and ha just sat there trembling, with the tears streaming out of his eyes. I'm sure glad Captain Blya wasn't there. No telling what he would have done. They laughed and laughed and pounded the floor, and beat each other on the back like wild men. I thought they would never stop. I still don't know what they thought was so funny. Gosh, haven't they ever been in love? I've been very cool to them ever since. The clods. Sincerely. Earnest M. Cantright. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In California, Nixon i.a overwhelmingly the nominee of the Republican party for governor of what at any mo ment now will become tha biggest state in the Union. Democrat Brown has a lead of about seven to ona over the three minor Demo cratic Candidates. TT IS obvious that if Nixon is to win next fall, he must get the bulk of the Shell votes. What will Shell do? He hedges on planting his banner in the Nixon camp. Ha says: "We can win in Novem ber only if we stand firm without compromising our principles." Nixon says: "The vote (in the primary election) is a mandate from California Republicans to move ahead with a program of PROGRESSIVE CONSER VATISM." It looks like an interesting campaign is in the making. CPEAKING of interesting J campaigns, it looks lika one is shaping up in Idaho. A dispatch from Boise says; Vernon K. Smith, who pro poses to LEGALIZE GAM BLING in Idaho, appears to have won the Democratia nomination for governor. Nearly complete but unoffi cial returns give him about 42 per cent of the total vote. Under Idaho law, he need only 40 per cent to avoid a run-off. Smith is a Boise attorney and the founder of an organ ization called Tourists Un limited. He barnstormed tha state with a proposal for can-sino-type gambling on a local option basis. He said it would bring thousands of tourists tit Idaho and would help to cura the state's financial problem. TI IS apparent victory leaves his party in a dilemma. Virtually every Democratia leader in the state shied away from him, disavowed his gam bling and said it would never be a plank in the party plat form. Opponents said lie couldn't bring gambling to Idaho. They pointed out that it would require a constitu tional amendment and action by the legislature. Smith will probably counter that if has the votes, he will be able to handle the rest. rHILE all this was happen " ing on the political front in our country, former Presi dent Eisenhower came quiet ly to his tree-shaded office on the Gettysburg college campus and settled down to the rou tine work of an ex-President. June 6 was the 18th anni versary of D-Day - probably the trimmest exhibition of COURAGE in the history of the world. Let's keep this in mind: Our men had it then. They'd have it now in a similar emergency.