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Newspaper Page Text4 A MDrouJwrBUNB ""'Everyone in Southern Oregon Rea'li The Miil Tribune"7 published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Firt., Ph772-6U1 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD 1 LATHAM. But Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN. JR.. Mng. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sportt Editor OLIVE si Aninr.n, wumcn tor Mir Entered ai second class matter Aieatnra, uregon, uiwer t of iviarcn j. isvi SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily and Sunday 1 year 13 no uany ana ouny u 1.0ft 4 23 Sunday cmiy uni year By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagll Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er, laieni ana on niuun Dally and Sunday 1 year $18 (H Dailv and Sunday I mo. 1.5) , Carnei and Dealeri Copy lOi ( All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leaned Wire "MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAtf ATES. Olllces In New York. Chi. Angeles Seatile. Portland. Denver. 0" NIWSrAPIt PUBLISH! ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITOKIAl Us(sbcfoTi5N 3 U i Flight o' Time , Medford and Jackson County History from th flies of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 nd 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 22, 19S2 (Sunday) Two Rogue valley marines express their approval of new armored vests being used in Korean war. Alter 20 years in the city hall, the offices of the Med ford public schools have been moved to a new location on Monroe st., between Whitman and J sts. 20 YEARS AGO Jun. 22, 1942 (Monday) Registration places listed by local draft board for all Jack son county men between 18 and 20 years old to register for draft. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The public in its war news wants the 'naked truth' not even wearing a propaganda smile or fig leaf." 30 YEARS AGO Juna 22, 1932 (Wednesday) Hottest day of the year recorded as the thermometer reaches 96 degrees. State fire marshal appeals to citizens of Medford to use extreme caution with "big" firecrackers over Fourth of July holiday. 40 YEARS AGO Juna 22, 1922 (Thuraday) State highway commission announces that all advertising signs along highway right-of-ways must be removed at once. Small amount of opium Is confiscated as police raid Medtord Chinese laundry, SO YEARS AGO Juna 22, 1912 (Saturday) Twentieth annual assembly of Southern Oregon Chautau qua schedules opening in Ash InnH William Jennings Bryan "tears the lid" o(f national nnmnrratic convention by switching his vote from Champ Clark to Woodrow Wilson; declares Clark nas Tammany Hall backing. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten conect Is luperiot. seven or eight is eiceltent; fiva at lit is good. 1. Is the outside of sphere concave or convex' 2. Alligators are hatched from eggs; true or false? 3. Is a chamois a bird, a fish, or an animal? 4. Who or what are the Hopi? S. In music what sort of in strument is a tympan? 8. Name the author of "Dr. Jckyll and Mr. Hyde." 7. Since 1878, has the popu lation of the United States been less in any one year than the year previous? 8. Are Greece and Turkey members of the North Atlan tic Treaty Organization? 9. What Is the principal grain crop in Kansas: rye, wheat, oats, or corn? 10. During World War II, D day on which the Invasion of Normandy began occurred on June ?, of what year? Answers: I. Convex. 2. Trua. 3. Animal. 4. U. S. In dian triba of S.W. S. A drum. 8. Robert Louis Slevenson. 7. No. 8. Yes. 9. Wheat. 10. Juna , 1944. TO FRIDAY. JUNE 22. 1962 The Senate's The Senate Permanent Investigating subcom mittee headed by Sen. John L. McClellan (D Ark.) on Wednesday begins hearings on the af- . ri mi? iini. rrr . . T ? .. 1 iairs 01 Dime 001 &sies, lexas iarm nnancier, anu his dealings with officials of the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture. The Senate hearings in the Estes case, almost certainly, will be marked by thoroughness, sterness, fairness, and a kind of no-nonsense practicality you would associate with a "good" Southern conservative. This will be a reflection of the character of the man who will preside, Chairman McClellan, the old McCarthy commit tee. , McClellan, who took over when the Demo crats won control of Congress in 1955, has re stored to the subcommittee the prestige it had under Harry Tinman, former Sen. James M. Mead (D-N.Y.) and the late Sen. Clyde R. Hoey (D N.C.). Typically, he has assigned 46 investiga tors to check on the affairs of Estes. About 100 witnesses will be called. The hearings will run several weeks. I JNTIL John McClellan, by the osmosis of the seniority system, became the ranking Demo crat on the Government Operations Committee and its unruly subcommittee in 1953, he had at tracted little attention on Capitol Hill, although he had served in the House from 1934 to 1937 and in the Senate since 1942. Even then he seem ed inclined at first to go along with Joe Mc Carthy, the subcommittee's flambouyant chair man. But McClellan all under a series of improprieties. Finally, when McCarthy hired a discredited ex-preacher and ex-Red as subcommittee executive director, Mc Clellan walked out, taking with him his Demo cratic colleagues. THEY stayed off until r.ir-ln'f nnma anh irif McCarthy. A few months later came the Army McCarthy hearings. Overnight the morose, inde pendent, always fair McClellan became known to millions of television viewers as the possessor of perhaps the only calm voice in what sometimes became a brouhaha of heroic intensity. Investigation of government procurement of army uniforms led eventually to the establishment in 1957 of the Select Committee on Improper Ac tivities in the Labor or Management Field. It promptly became Committee. Its findings sage of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959. of rights" amendment. CRAGGY and f ronnant lif fniri iir in II VUUVIIWJ VMl 11 111 Ml J I, UUUUU iUVWIiidlll McClellan once explained his concept of in vestigative procedure thus: "When those who came before the committee resort to the Fifth Amendment they command no respect from me, as individuals ... I respect their right to resort to it if they feel they must, but it carries with it an implication I am compelled to consider, and not favorably ... At the same, I don't believe in permitting smears and slanders which can t be answered before the same tribunal." Inevitably McClellan's subcommittee has oc casionally been accused most recently in the rather pathetic questionings of B-girls and exotic dancers. But the criticism rarely applies to the chairman of the group the Senate's top investigator. E.R.R. The Legion's Last Stand The French Foreign Legion by the terms of its own charter may not te based in France proner. More than a vear warned that the Legion once independence was mercenaries faces a kind of dispersal among ranee s few remaining Legion headquarters bel-Abbes to a camp near Marseilles. Units will be sent to Corsica, to the Sahara to protect French oil holdings, to French Guiana, and to French Somalia. Madagascar, has asked for troops; it third Infantry. THE French Foreign "fTi'niif familir srtnifl erals have served in the and most distinguished began their careers in its Of late there has been a lull in recruiting, partly the result of complaints from other Euro pean nations that the Legion was recruiting minors under 18 years of age but more im portantly because of the Legion's role in the gen erals' putsch in Algeria in April, 1J61. "THE 25,000 Legionnaires in Algeria 14,000 of them Germans formed the generals' basic military force. The First Parachute Regiment, which had been formed in 1949 and had fought gallantly at Dien Bien Phu, shouted defiantly "Al gerie Francaise" while being driven to their dissolution. And Legionnaire deserters have formed the hard core of Secret Army (OAS) insurgents. German Legionnaires directed sabotage by Al gerian Jews. For over 130 years, Algeria has been the Legion's home and France its Mother. And wrong-neaded and villainous as the OAS has been, the Legionnaires in it were stubbornly maintaining their dual loyalty as they saw it. E.R.R. Investigator the while was smarting December, 1953, and Vrnf nnn riocoinna frnm known as the McClellan made possible the pas McClellan wrote the "bill judicial-mannered are words that artist. aa aKnnf TVTnP.lo 1 Ian of headline-hunting ago the Algerian rebels would be asked to leave achieved. So the army of colonial possessions. will be moved from Sidi- a former French colony, will get a battalion of the Legion considers itself a -f lira nna a m'fiQfoot rratv Legion. Often the highest officers of the Legion ranks. "I'll Have It Filled In No Time" Washington Report By William (c) United Peitur Syndicate NEW POLITICAL CLIMATE Washington It is not the heat that has got hold of Congress and so slowed it ffhS. down Wltn tne official arrival of the s u m mertime. It is the timidity. More exact ly, it is a pause not for r e f r eshment but rather for r e c o nsidera tlon. It Is a halt not for purpose of rest but rather for purpose of re orientation, for looking back down the road already travel ed and up along the road lead ing to the congressional elec tions in November. Washington has entered a new political climate that has nothing to do with the weath er. And it is not really the formidable size of the con gressional calendar that is giv ing an impression of a Senate and a House moving only fit fully and unwillingly about their jobs. rpHE decisive factor in the - current Indecisivencss of congress is this: Congress wants to know or to take a little time at least to try to guess what the country now thinks before it commits it self to major parts of Presi dent Kennedy's unfinished legislative program. For the impression Is now widespread here that changes of unknown depth and mean ing may be taking place in the political attitudes of the coun try. Has the President lost some of what has thus far been a consistently high popu larity? The common congres sional verdict is that undoubt edly he has. A Gallup poll indicating that some 20 per cent blame the President for the stock market slump has been most carefully noted on Capitol Hill, even though It is accom panied by evidence that a vast majority of the country is by no means afraid of a depres sion. TUT Just how much of the - President's popularity has gone, and for how long? And how much does this highly generalized factor of presi dential popularity have to do anyhow with this or that spe cific issue before congress it self, having in mind that highly popular presidents (Ei senhower, for example) do not necessarily always carry con Try and -By BENNETT CERF- A CLEAR THINKER is Mis. O. Strickland, of Cleveland and no nonsense about her. She recently descended from her station wagon to mall a letter. The station wagon rolled down a hill, pick ing up speed en route, and landed eventually at the bottom of a ravine. Asked by the cop why she hadn't set her emer gency brake before she got out of the car, Mrs. Strickland explained suc cintly that she did not consider mailing a letter an emergency. Reservtata recalled for actlva service were griping about ahortagea In equip ment and uniforms. They recalled a Jest current during World War I: a recruit mourning, "I reported at Yaphank Monday morning, and by Tuesday I had a uniform, hat. ahoea. and putteea that fit m like a glove. I don't understand tt. Can I be deformed '" Tha alatna of the account executive has definitely Improved alnca tha day. In 1890, when adman pioneer Fiank Presby opened hia agency in downtown New York. The morning he entered tha building as a tenant for the first time he spotted this sijn over tha entrance: "Peddlers, book agents, and advertising men are not allowed In these premiaea." Somebody made the mistake of asking Joey Bishop hnw his wife could cook. Bishop grimaced, grabbed the inquirer by tha arm. and Imploied, 'Tell me: how can anyona burn lemonade!" O 19, br Xa Ce). rayrejutw bjr King Futures Sradicate S. White gressional elections for their party and that highly unpop ular presidents (Truman) do not necessarily always lose congressional elections for their party. Lacking the answers to such questions, congress is doing what it usually will do in a time of doubt. It is doing, for the moment, as little as pos sible until it can get a better sense of the current popular feeling on specific legislative issues. Thus, when you read that the Democratic leaders are "driving" congress onward. you should put it all down to a shorthand way of saying that the leaders are going through an accustomed drill, TT IS like a minuet. When - congress is "bogged down,' as the cliche goes, tradition expects the leaders to issue various manifestos for more "speed"' whereas the real problem is not lack of velocity in congress but rather a lack of consensus as to what ought to be done and left undone. It is tradition which has now moved the Senate Dem ocratic leader, Mike Mans field of Montana, to announce that hereafter the Senate must work longer hours and come in on Saturdays. For the num ber of hours the Senate spends in session has very little re lationship to what it does. It can move fast enough when it wants to, even if it meets only two hours a day. Equally, it is tradition which impels Speaker John W. McCormack of the House of Representatives to make confident forecasts of com ing successes on this or that bill. If these successes come, they will in no way rest upon encouraging cries from the speaker. They will come or they won't come, depending on what the House learns, or thinks it learns, from the country within the next few weeks. People Attracted To Personality Classes Los Angeles-IUPD-Poise, pos ture and personality classes for seniors in Los Angeles County are for the young in heart. Senior citizens meet once a week in Plummer County Park for instruction in voice and diction, posture, color harmony, wardrobe, person ality development, makeup and hairstyle techniques. Stop Me MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Khrushchev Puts Finger on Phase of Twin-Horned Dilemma of Red Rule By PHIL NEWSOM UPI foreign News Analyst "No one is born as Com munist. I know it from exper ience. In the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for 'their horses' even after they have giv en them to the collective." This was no enemy of com munism, no f..- "V Nawioaa opponent of the Communist collective talk ing. It was none other than Pre mier Niklta Khrushchev dur- Communications Latter to tha Editor must beat the nme and address of the writer although undei cer tain circumstances the ute ot a Een name ul initial tor publlca on Is Darmtssible The MaU Tribune reserves the right to edit all tetters with an eye to clarification and condensation Letters suhmittea for publica tion must not exceed 400 words Forest Enemy To the Editor: This poem has been printed in many of the nation's leading newspa pers and it would please me to see it in the Mail Tribune. Gertrude H. McLean Eastwood Village Cave Junction, Ore. O Forest Enemy No. 1 "Now for my pipe. Aw, what a treat! What an aroma. Deliciously sweet!" The match he dropped was still a-blaze. That forest burned for days, and days. In the flames, wild life died, And others fled, terrified. Valuable timber went up in smoke, . Just because of an aimless bloke Whose carelessness was to blame. This man dropped a tiny flame. The raging Inferno that ensued, Was eventually subdued. There's no estimating the cost, Because, human lives were lost. In the battle waged from sun to sun. With Forest Enemy No. One. -Gertrude H. McLean Can Ba Overcome To the Editor: In battling for anything worthwhile in this life, one meets with ups and downs. That is no reason, however, for getting discour aged. The arguments used in the letter below can be over come. We here on the scene are better aware of the neces sity for hospital facilities in this area. Medical skill is available. It is easier and more economical to act now. David Frisch P.O. Box 292 White City, Ore. O Dear Mr. Frisch: Your letter to the President concerning the need for a Veterans Ad ministration hospital at While City has been referred to this office for reply. Our tentative long range plans do not call for a hos pital at White City. The diffi culty which we would en counter in obtaining quali fied professional personnel would preclude such an un dertaking. When a location is being selected for a new hospital every effort is made to select a site adjacent to a medical college. We then have reason able assurance of the avail ability of professional person nel and a high quality of care and treatment. Your interest In this matter is appreciated. William S. Middleton, M.D. Chief Medical Director Department of Medicine and Surgery Veterans Administration Washington, D.C. 'Crowing' To the Editor: And "thanks" to Gladys Governer for her "Dad" poem. Being a New York orphan the only parents I knew were foster ones. They passed away long ago, but I have many pleasant memorie of a lovely mother and a dad who taught me to love the big out-of-doors where we fished, hiked and learned old Mother first hand. I hope you folks were at the Rooster Crow in Rogue River. It was fun. Our Senior Activity Center Orchestra made m -e noise in the Grange hall han the poul try did at the school yard. When we played and sang "The Rogue River Valley," I didn't say "From" this valley they say you are "Going." I sang "For" this valley they say you are "Crowing." Gosh, I wish I had a better voice. Nobody heard me. If our leader, Edward C. Root, had noticed It he'd have "no noed" his head at me, I bet yuh. So many let on that they ing a tour of collective farms in Romania. In that one paragraph he put his finger on one phase of a twin-horned dilemma in which the Soviets find them selves and which is the cause of a note of desperation in the voices of Soviet leadership. On the one hand is the stub born peasant who refuses to produce as well for the state Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (C Field Enterprises Inc. ABOUT THE 'SNOB' We all know that words change their meaning with the passing of time; but what is more fasci nating to stu dents of lan guage and hu man behavior is the way in which some words reserve their meaning entirely. The word "snob" is a striking Harris example. We use It today to mean someone too acutely conscious of his social posi tion, who looks down upon those he considers his in feriors. But when the word was first put into currency, in England more than a century ago, it meant precisely the op posite. A "snob" was some one who was distinctly not a gentleman, someone of low social standing who imitated his betters and sneered at the rabble- Tha word itself means "without nobility," and was put after tha nama of commonars ai boys' schools, to indicate that they had no litlaa and did not coma from noble families. I thought of this while reading a news story out of Southampton, England, last month, which told of nine haadwaitars on tha liner Quaan Elisabeth who quit ihair jobs "because they couldn't stand tha lower classes." Tha nine ware all classi fied as haadwaitari in the liner's first-class restaurant. Whan ordered to work tha cabin and touriai class res taurants in rotation, they walked out In protest. "Waiters Are Class Con scious" said tha punning headline which comes as no surprise to anyone aware of tha British status system. The biggest snobs in the Empire have always been the upper servant class. The aris tocracy, in private, often makes fun of the peerage; and history records that even the Royal Families have been the object of derision from the gentry. But the servants, properly trained from generation to generation, are the most pre cisely sensitive to subtle so cial differences, the most con scious of caste, the most intransigently snobbish of all. To have worked for a duke, and then go into service with a mere baronet, is a shameful comedown in one's profes sional and personal status. The dukes and the earls wear their titles lightly and, for the most part, with ex treme diffidence. They are not snobs for the simple rea son that their position is unassailable. The common denominator among all snobs whether social or intellec tual is their personal in security. And by the way in which this insecurity reveals itself, they demonstrate (with out knowing it) that they do not belong in the niche they so desperately aspire to. liked our ol' time music that I, for one, got the "big head" and had to remove my hat. The rest of our group ap peared happily smug. too. Best of all, they fed us: Those Rogues-er-I mea' "people" do make the best sandwiches, salads and pies I've tasteds in a dog's age. Thanks, Friends. Back to Ch'cks: I once owned a Barred Rock rooster who was a noisy fellow, but he took exception to my crow ing bark at him and managed to take my knees from under me every time I entered the yard. That tickled my other half prodigiously, but when he got the seat of his new coveralls spurred into two parts, we had hot pie for dinner. 'Bye now, I'll be seeing yuh next "Crowing" time if I should live so long. In the meantime - visit the Medford Fifty Plus club soon, Friday at 12:30 p.m.. Fifth st. and Oakdale ave (North East Corncri. Pearl Spackman. Jacksville, Ore. as he would for himself. Western Challenge On the other is the Europe an Common Market which not only is enriching the countries involved but is proving a bril liant reply to Khrushchev's challenge to the Western world to engage in peaceful economic competition. The Soviets cannot abandon the collective. To do so would be to admit a fatal flaw in the whole theory of communism. In the whole Soviet bloc, Poland stands as the only ex ception to a succession of ag ricultural failures. Except in Poland where 87 per cent of the land remains in private hands, the only answer has been to increase collectivization of the farms and to heap on more hardship and more work for less return. While the Soviet Union, East Germany, Bulgaria, Hun gary and Czechoslovakia were suffering meat shortages last year, the Poles were eating nearly 90 million pounds more meat than they did in 1960. Poland's success with a capi talist - style agricultural sys Reading for Putting Record Straight Is Suggested By LYLE C. WLSON United Press International Washington - IUPII - Recom mended reading for putting the record straight is Adm. Lewis L. Strauss' just pub lish e d me moirs. Men and D e c i s i o n s." The publisher is Doubleday & Co., Inc., Gar den City, Long Island, N Y. E s pecially recommended for reading are: "Decision in LTD Wilson Chapter 14, In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Interesting question: Have you noticed that since the big bust in the stock mar ket we tend to shiver less when we read the FOREIGN news - and even skip some of the headlines? THE home front news is dull today. So Old Kroosh gets back into the picture. In a rather odd way. He spent yesterday talking to collective (meaning com munized) farmers in Ro mania. His speech, coming from the world's top commu nist, had a strange ring. He admitted that communism is having difficulties in persuad ing peasants (the communist name for farmers) to accept collectivization. He said to his peasant audience: "Do not be too proud that you in Romania have finished collectivization of farms. There is always (in commu nism) the psychological prob lem of the soul of the peas ants. "No one is born a commu nist. After collectivization the peasant goes out to LOOK FOR HIS OWN HORSE, and feels that it is still HIS OWN property." TTE COULD have added i but DIDNT-that when the peasant realizes that what USED TO BE HIS OWN HORSE isn't his own horse anv lonecr he LOSES INTER EST IN HIS JOB and no longer cares whether he raises much of a crop or not. After all, he says to him self: "What difference does it make to me NOW whether I work hard and produce a big crop or goof off and produce a little crop? In any event. I won t be allowed to keep FOR MYSELF what I have worked hard to produce." That's the fly in the oint ment of communism. WEIRD note in the news: " The suicide verdict still stands in the case of the mystery shooting in Texas last year of Henry H. Marshall, the department of agriculture agent who had been checkine into the cotton allotment deal ings of Billie Sol Estes. After a month-long probe of the reopened case, the Texas grand jury decided that "the evidence was too incon clusive to substantiate anv conclusion other than sui cide." T ETS sec. " Marshall was found dead on June 3. at a lonely spot on his ranch in Robertson coun ty, near the town of Franklin. He had been shot five times with a .22 caliber bolt action rifle, which lay on the ground not too far away from his body. The verdict at an in quest hv a justice of the peace was SUICIDE. If so. he must have been DETFRMIXED to die. Imug ine shooting yourself FIVE TIMES with a bolt action rifle! 13 tem also led to a marked lack of Polish enthusiasm for an other Soviet desperation plan. Bloc Integration This plan proposed tight economic integration of the whole Soviet bloc, with each country to be assigned special ties which would be produced tor the benefit of the bloc as a whole. It received the enthusiastic endorsement of East German boss Walter Ulbricht whose regime has admitted concern over the anger of people who stand in line for meat, butter, eggs and other dairy products only to find at the end there are none. Poland's food exports pro vide more than half her for eign income, with the United States and other Western na tions her best customers. She is the sixth largest exporter of food in the world. Poland's agricultural suc cesses have given her a cer tain amount of independence within the Soviet bloc. They should also give Khrushchev cause to wonder about the ef ficiency of his own system. by Wilson the case of Dr. J. R. Oppen- heimer." Chapter 18, "Decision in the Senate." In the case of r. Oppen heimer, Adm. Strauss was one of the judges as chair man of the Atomic Energy Commission. The decision was whether Dr. Oppenheimer should continue to be cleared for access to secret informa tion as an AEC co.isultant. Re-examination of the Op penheimer record was under taken on orders of President! Eisenhower. Strauss relates that Ike read an FBI report on the scientist and ordered that a blank wall be erected between Oppenheimer and all secret and top-secret informa tion until a hearing on his clearance had been completed. Democrats Join In Strauss effected Ike's orders. In the end. the AEC commis sioners voted 4 to 1 to sup port the recommendation of a special inquiry panel that the wartime clearance Oppen heimer had enjoyed should be suspended. Gordon Gray of North Carolina was panel chairman. He had been Presi dent Truman's Secretary of Army, a post he left to be come president of his state's university. The panel W3s composed of two Democrats and one Republican. It had voted against Oppenheimer 2 to 1. Dr. Oppenheimer was not found to be disloyal, but lost on grounds that he was a se curity riik. The Oppenheimer incident was xp!osively con troversial. Adm. Strauss' documented record is persua sive proof that the procedure against Oppenheimer was fair. In Chapter 18, Strauss is the accused. He was nomin ated by President Eisenhower to be Secretary of Commerce, succeeding Sinclair Weeks, resigned. After three months of committee hearings and Senate debate, Strauss was re fused confirmation by a vote of 49 to 46, the 10th Cabinet nominee to be rejected in tha history of the United States. Was Senate Fair? The record of the Senate hearings and the circum stances of the Senate vote are adequately documented. This documentation leads inevit ably to the conclusion that if Strauss had been dealt with as fairly by the U. S. Senata as Oppenheimer was fairly heard by the AEC, the ad miral would have been con firmed. Both incidents, Oppenheim er's sad experience and Strauss' humiliation, aroused national controversy lighted mostly by the prejudice?, ig norance and angry passions of the controversialists. Strauss was clubbed with rotten wood. "Men and Decisions" is a fascinating book from begin ning to end. Chapters 14 and 18, however, are especially recommended reading because they illuminate two import ant political episodes that have too long been shadowed in bitter partisanship. These are Adm. Strauss' accounts, of course, and if his antagon isis desire to challenge his facts, perhaps they will do so. Theirs will be no easy task. When the Senate rejected Strauss, old timers recalled two recent secretaries who had passed the Senate test: Harry L. Hopkins whose qualifications were slight, at most. Henry A. Wallace whose disqualifications were such that the Congress reduced th authority of the Secretary of Commerce before giving him the Job. They were two of I FDR's cabineteers.