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Medford and Jackson County
History from th tiles of Th
Mail Trlbun 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 yrs too.
10 Y.5ARS AGO
Aug. i. 19S2 (Tusday)
Extensive radio communi
cations system are being In
stalled by Southern Pacific to
facilitate train operations In
the Sierra, Cascade and Siski
you mountains.
Fifteen-year-old Richard
Reeves of Grants Pass leaves
for National Soap Box Derby
at Akron, Ohio.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. S, 1942 (Wednesday)
USO receives thousands of
coat hangers from local peo
ple, but it is reported that
the men at Camp White need
many more.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Roast
ing ears are now big enough
to be purloined from fields
abutting on the river and be
come the main Hem of what
was socially intended as a
wiener roast."
no YEARS AGO
Aug. S, 1932 (Friday)
The sheriff! office esti
mates there are 0,200 licensed
automobiles in Jackson court-
Mrs. Sidney Richardson of
the Jackson county humane
society makes calls on several
Medford boys, lectures them
nn the killing of birds and
then returns to her office
with slingshols relinquished
by the conscience - stricken
boys.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. ft. 1922 (Saturday)
Weather bureau figures for
July show the area had a
mean temperature of Bfl; high
est temperature was inn de
grees. Discussion of a proposed
Ashland hotel and sanitarium
Is begun: Jrssl Wlnhurn an
nounces he will Invest $20,000
In the project.
SO YEARS AGO
Aug, S. 1912 (Monday)
Sophie Tucker schedules sn
appearance In Medford tomor
row as part of the cast of
"Louisiana Lou."
The Frldeger orchard nn
ih S-T A In P . iBnli.nntillU
highway was sold to a Salt j
Lake City group headed by
nns a. A. Birn.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nina r tan correct la superior;
even or eltht It estalltnl; live or
it la good.
life, has been worked until it has grown dull.
l The highest military mcd-1 Similarly, the graphic sex scene, so success-whaprdrrtb-vFri,nr'i'"llr,i:fiilly
utilixed by Krskme Caldwell, for example,
2. Ail mammals have some in "(toil's Little Acre," has become so routine that
hair, true or false- 'the onlv question now with an author is which
in',,e mlnr''S1 , chapter he should put it in.
sues, is extracted from scrap
greases, fats and nils'1
4 What was the nationality
of the designer of the Stntue
of Liberiy?
5. In mythology who ad
judged Venus Ihe fairest of
the goddesses?
6. "Eureka" is the motto
of which State?
7. Is a practitioner of cul
inary art a doctor, painter,
conk or writer?
R On what continent are
the llama, alpaca, gtianarn and
vicuna found?
9 In early American his
tory, what was Ihe chief whal
ing port In New England''
10 At what limes is the
inn, in .-i-ii luiiiiiiiiiip
Aniwm 1, Medaille Mill- I milieu 111 WHICH I lie aillSl lives ailfl WOI'KS, ami
uirn. 2. Tru. 3. Glycerin. ' since the nation itself is in a stage of total tran
4. rrnch. s. Paris- - Caii-j MtjoH, any nredii tioii on the subject of future art !
form. 7. Cook. R. South: , r ' . , . ,,.',: ,.,n.. ;,. '
Am.rica. 1. Nanluck.l. 10. i
NYr. 1
SUNDAY. AUGUST S. 1962
Titans' Voices Stilled
In the space of about a year's time, this
country has lost its two greatest fiction writers of
the 20th century Ernest Hemingway and
William Faulkner.
It has been an irreparable loss. Both were
Nobel Prize winners, singularly deserving of that
highest of all literary honors.
Unless by some chance the committee should
bestow a Nobel Prize on Robert Frost soon (and
we certainly hope it does), it may be a matter of
a decade or more before an American writer is
again similarly honored.
THE period of the literary titans in this country
the meistersingers, as one critic called them
is over. The great voices of the 20's and 30's,
that once compelled the whole world to listen,
are stilled, or have lost their vitality.
How easily their names come to mind: F.
Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Sinclair Lewis,
James Branch Cabell, Eugene O'Neill, H. L
Mencken, E. A. Robinson, Upton Sinclair, John
Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, and another poet
who died this year, Robinson Jeffers.
But now try this test: name a half dozen or
so major contemporary
America who are on the rise or in their prime.
Difficult, isn't it?
Granted, one can scrounge up a handful of
names by drawing liberally from current best
seller lists, but we speak of enduring greatness.
IT IS a disquieting thought that, though more
Vinnko. 9lo hninrr rtiil-ilJcVioz-l unrl mrio nnnnlo
are reading them than ever before, the quality of
American poetry and prose is at a low ebb.
j To be sure, the picture is not entirely bleak,
, nor the intellectual climate completely sterile.
John Steinbeck's pen still has some authority.
James Gould Cozzens has a small but devoted
audience. Bernard Malamud and Philip Roth
seem to have won a probationary approval from
the critics. Herman Wouk continues to turn out
good and bad novels with a craftsman's regular-
T 1 T T" fa 1 . 1 1 1 I
ny. d. u. saunger is currently preoccuping me
literati and provoking useful and insightful
comment.
DUT nonetheless it is apparent and painfully
clear there is no one writing in this country
now of sufficient genius to attract and hold an
international literary audience.
Doubtless, dozens of reasons could be offered
to explain the paucity of first-class writing talent,
and a few decades from now Ph.D. candidates
and literary historians, with the advantage of
time and perspective, will do just that.
In the meantime, we will rashly essay one
or two. We would not want to offer them as any
thing other than conjecture, and, of course, in
several individual cases they wouldn't hold up.
'
ENIUS or greatness, if you will seems to
have a better chance to develop when society
is confronted with some pervasive, all-embracing
challenge.
It may be viewed as a situation in which the
talent is latent and requires only a fertile climate
in order to grow and flourish.
Such was the case, we
decades during the first half of this century.
Great upheavals in tradition and thought in all
areas social, economic, religious, political
were occurring with such force and magnitude
that even the most disinterested and uninformed
citizens were being affected.
A brutal war, after which the peace was Inst,
followed shortly by a (' .pression so paralyzing
and humiliating that whole generations have nev
er recovered from it psychologically, w e r e, of
themselves, sufficient impetus to set dozens of our
artists raging their protests.
CECON'DLY, we think that during a period in
which a group of great writers dominate the
scene, fledgling authors are motivated, subcon
sciously or not, to emulate the successful.
Thus, since Hemingway caught on, publish
ing houses and American readers have been
plagued with rafts of novels about hairy-chested,
liard-as-nails, two-fisted heroes who take their
women and the worst that
out batting an C,V(
Skillful imitation mav
ly, but it precludes any possibility of develop
ing an individual style or technique.
This is at least one reason why our present
American fiction lacks v itality. The realism form
ula, which insists on revealing the seamv side of
I AND so because, for whatever reasons, wide
. ranging intellectual ferment at all others but
the scientific level is nearly non-existent, and be
; cause the younger crop of writers has been too
jbusy copying the meistersingers, it is unlikely
; that much literature of significance will be pro
duced in this country for some years to come.
' An unspoken conformity in the land result
! ing, to some extent, from an external threat, has
also acted stealthily to stifle and inhibit free
i Mvinginjr experimentation.
I A renaissance in the arts in the United States
i is inevitable, but the direction it will take is
anybody's guess.
i Since art in large measure springs from the
,,, . i'ii ,
''" "I iu,iiu.
less. li.M.h.
writers or poets in
submit, in the middle
fate can pass out with
often pav off financial
. I i i
i p .u ut. .tii. nit ...mi- j
The Best
In the Day's News
By FRANK
The U.S. Department of
Commerce has just come up
with an Interesting bit of in
formation. It says that person
al income of the nation's citi
zens in June rose to a "sea
sonally adjusted" annuel rate
of $440.4 billion which
means that if Americans go
on earning all through the
current year at the rale they
earned In June the total In
come of the whole 180-odd
millions of us will total up to
nearly half a trillion dollars.
Sounds pretty good, doesn't
it?
BUT wait a minute.
Thai's what we'll all
earn in 1BS2 if we go on earn
ing throughout the year at
the rale we earned In June. It
has nothing to do with what
we OWE.
And--
Our old Uncle, who runs
our business for us, owes a
total of ,100 billion dollars.
'THAT'S another wW of say-
- ing that if our national
debt was paid off at one time
it would take a little better
than two-thirds of EVERY
BODY'S income for 1962 to
pay the bill.
It's slill another way of
saying that If you were as
deeply in debt as is your old
Uncle, your IOU's would
equal about two-thirds of
your annual Income.
Which is another way of
saying that if your outstand
ing IOU's equalled two-thirds
of your total income, you'd be
in a bad way.
u
NCl.E, of course. Is better
off than you would be.
He can reach Into your
Drummond Reports
(Walter Lippmann la en vacation. Roicoa Drummond report! from
Washington In hit absence.) (el 1962 Ntw York Harald Tribune Inc.
ANTI-SEMITISM IN RUSSIA
Washington The mounting
anti-Semitism, -practiced of
ficiallv by the Soviet govern
ment against Ihe 1.500.000
orthodox .lews In the U.S S.R ,
is causing acute anxiety to
Jewish leaders in many coun
tries. The Rabbinical Council of
America has appealed to the
religious leaders of all faiths
"to arouse and mobilize the
peoples and governments of
Ihe world In a vigorous cam
paign lo reverse the anti
Semitic outbursts" In the So
viet Union.
There is good reason for
this appeal. H rests upon the
most detailed and documented
evidence of Krelmin-sanction-ed
and anti-Semitic acts ear
ago. nod out in the press and in
the courts In many parts of
the Soviet Union. These prac
tices are directed against
Jews individually, also against
the Jewish failh.
This is what has come out
into the open In recent
months:
1 A total of 17 Jewish cit
izens have been sentenced to
death for alleged "economic
offense." Others have been
sent to jail.
2 - Si Jewish lay religions
leaders in Leningrad and Mos
cow have been arrested
3 The Jewish congrrKa
tional chairmen in Minsk,
Riga, Kiev, Vilna, and Tash
kent have been deposed by
the government
4 Anti-Semitic attn-lrs are
appearing in the niaior news
papers of the l;ui;c provincial
rities often m the s;nne ver
sion. 'pilKSE articles Inset hrr vv nh
the nnttsnallv detailed ".e
ports of tile alleged ' economic
cnnics ' and the impi ivedrn' -ed
death senieiHes diM-lose a
tnainr prop.iK.indit nffniMve
directed itu.iint the Jews of
the Soviet I'nion by the So
Viet government
The aiticlrs. which are
clearly aimed to foment rub-
MEDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD. OREGON
Laid Plant
JENKINS
pocket and lake what
needs to pay off his IOU's.
he
AND-
Besides
If worse comes to worst,
Uncle can start the printing
presses and print whatever
amount of money he needs to
pay his debt.
If you and I tried that,
we'd wind up In Alcatraz
or some other equally un
pleasant place of residence.
1TNCLE has a lot of worries.
He owes a lot of short
term notes.
He can't pay them off in
cash because in only six of
the past 32 years has the old
spendthrift taken in more
cash than he has spent.
That means that every year
he has to go around lo his
creditors swapping new notes
for his old ones.
fS TOP of all that, Uncle
" now has to pungle up about
NINE AND A HALF BIL
LION DOLLARS IN INTER
EST on his debt.
In 1940, it cost the old gen
tleman only $9,063,032,204 to
run his whole shebang (mean
ing the government of the
United States of America!.
Now It costs him more for IN
TEREST ALONE than his
whole operating expense
amounted to only 22 years
If our old Uncle were a pri
vate cili'.cn. it isn't improb
able that some of his nieces
and nephews would bo asking
that he be declared incompe
tent and a guardian appoint-
lie hostility, appear almost ex
clusively in the cities which
have large Jewish populations
numbering many hundreds of
thousands.
Most of these cities are lo
cated in areas where anti
Semitism is ancient, tradition
ally widespread, and deeply
rooted among the masses of
people.
The .substance of the ar
ticles, many of which I have
examined in translation, seek
to confirm or bolster all the
old anti -Jewish stereotypes;
they attack the Jewish reli
gion and Jewish religious
practitioners; they viciously
try to portray Jews as natural
ly and almost unanimously
I "money grubbers," "thieves."
"deceivers," and either poten
tially or actually "subver
sives." j Willi tfle exception of two
short pieces published in a
; Moscow monthly, this anil-
i Semitic crusade is kept to
the outlying provincial cities
and towns. Thus the articles
rarely come to the attention
of the Western correspond
ents in tlie Soviet Union and
can tiierehv he confined al-
I most exi-lusiv civ for home
consumption.
'IM1KSE featured ' educ.ition
( al pieces' carry awesome
; and mystery-laden titles. One
i i.s called "Under the Dark
: Vaults of Ihe Synagogue"; an
other. "Under Ihe Synagogue
I Vaults " A central theme is
that "Jews are money wor
shippers " Rabbis and lay
leaders sre portrayed as ex
horting money from the faith
ful tor ostensibly religious
purposes but really to feather
their own nests llrunkenness
is suggested as a frequent in
cident in 'lie sv nagoaues and
Jew ish believers are described
as devoted to drink, as tipsy
su.'rlers who "mix up thfir
piavets while under the in
fluence of alcohol " i.Mcohol
imii is noiahty low among
Jews thioustioiit the world)
I The Russian Orthodox re
Matter of Fact n j.Ph ai.oP
(e) Ntw York Herald Tribune Svndtol
THE PALLID ISSUES
New York City In the
slatternly reaches of the tip
per Bronx, the red brick cliffs
o f Parkches
tcr rise like a
monument lo
humble com
fort. This
huge lower
middle in
come com,
munily, hous
ing thousands
o f families,
has its own
historic interest as one of the
first big urban redevelop
ments. The job was so well done,
moreover, that people who
get into Parkchester tend to
stay there until the undertak
er comes. The result is an ab
normally high concentration
of elderly and retired people.
And it was this feature which
attracted this reporter and a
member of the staff of Louis
Harris and Associates to Park
chester. for a long and ardu
ous session of doorbell-ringing.
We were trying to find out,
in fact, whether the issue of
medical care for the aged still
retain the great political pull
that all the pollsters began to
report some time ago. The
need for such a sounding had
been suggested by a day's
pavement pounding in subur
ban Huntley Estates.
a
AS ALREADY noted In this
space, President Kennedy
had made deep inroads among
the Huntley Estates people
since 1960, when they gave
former Vice President Nixon
a handsome majority. Yet
Kennedy's new support seem
ed a bit mushy and unreli
able, because there was little
fervor and passion among the
new Kennedy admirers.
One reason for this was
that the President clearly had
only one major issue going
for him in a big way. His
handling of foreign and de
fense policy commanded
strong support. "He's careful,
but he's firm too." was a typ
ical comment. On the other
hand, the people in our Hunt
ley Estates sample were
downright snappish about
medicare, professing active
disapproval of the President's
bill by a ratio of nearly three
to two.
Hence, we w e n t lo Park
chester to check the Huntley
Estates evidence in a quite
different community. The re
sults of a large number of in
terviews were particularly In
teresting, because the Park
Chester pattern, despite the
difference in Income-level,
average age-level, and envir
onment, was so close to the
Huntley Estates pattern.
HERE, too, the President
had made substantial
though not dramatic inrofds
ligion is allowed one church
per 1,800 believers and one
priest per 1,100 believers.
Jews In Russia are allowed
only one synagogue and one
rabbi per 22.000 believers.
A Russian-language Bible
was reprinted in 1957 for the
Orthodox church and for
Baptists in 1358 The Koran
was published for Moslems
the same year. No Hebrew
Bible has been permitted for
Jews since 1917.
Thus another Soviet prom
ise to Its own people is torn
and tattered the promise of
the "Soviet Constitution" that
it would guarantee freedom
of religious propaganda.
Kennedy's
By ERIC SEVAREID
The President seems to
have decided on an across-the-board
tax cut. as this is
written, and
it is ironic
that the first
major act by
a fresh, youth
f u 1 adminis
trator to "get
t h e country
mnvlngj
again" should '
he a tactic
that is old, i
orthodox and. indeed, assnci- j
ated with conservative, not
liberal regimes.
It is ironic, atsn, in the ;
complete uncertainty of its
effect. I say this because
among the current crop of :
popular illusions is the no
tion that with the advent of
a new team of brilliantly ar
ticulate economic advisors,
brilliant new solutions would
be found to the problem of
governmental management
and stimulation of our com
plex economy. These men pos
sessed the secret keys to Ihe
mysteries.
To be sure, the new- advi
sors themselves never claim
ed such Ilelphir powers Ftul
their ent nusiastic champions
in the press have, in effect,
marie the claim for them.
They were impatient with
the fflta'.is'ic ntd-foeevism of
that supreme'y orthodox eco
nomic thinker, former Secre
Alsnp
mi
among people who had over
whelmingly voted for Presi
dent Eisenhower and given
Nixon a narrow majority.
And the Republicans had
lost even more than Kennedy
had gained.
A small percentage of vot
ers had switched decisively
from the Nixon column to the
Kennedy column. But a
somewhat larger percentage
of former Nixon voters were
now undecided about wheth
er they would vote Repub
lican again. Thus Kennedy's
absolute majority of the de
cided voters was large. And
when Gov. Nelson D. Rock
efeller was paired against the
President, the Repub
lican showing was even more
melancholy.
On the other hand, this
Parkchester sample, at least
40 per cent composed of men
and women already eligible
for medicare's prospective
benefits, showed only very
moderate enthusiasm for this
supposedly sure-fire vote-getter.
Only one-half of the per
sons in the sample favored
medicare. Among these there
were also many who merely
said "something should be
done." but professed doubts
about the President's actual
bill. One of the big private
health insurance schemes had
just announced a steep rise in
premiums. Otherwise, it is
doubtful whether medi
care would have had even 50
per cent support.
Among the other persons in
the Parkchester sample, 40
per cent were opposed to
medicare, and most of these,
including many elderly peo
ple, were quite sharply op
posed. Ten per cent did not
know how they felt about it.
Most of those who favored
medicare were also rock-bottom
Kennedy supporters. Ov
erall, the President seemed to
have gained only the barest
handful of votes by medicare
in this Parkchester commun
ity where the scheme ought
to have been as hot as a fire
cracker. AS FOR the lax cuts to stim
ulate business which are
now being debated in Wash
ington, their political effect
may well be the exact oppo
site of what Washington ex
pects, if the Huntley Estates
and Parkchester evidence is
not misleading. In both com
munitites, a substantial ma
jority of the people polled -at
least 55 per cent - were
positively opposed to tax cuts
at this time.
"Anvbodv d like a tax cut,
but we've got to pay for the
government, haven't we?"
was a characteristic comment.
Others were: "Defending the
U.S. costs money, and it's
Just politics lo pretend it
doesn't." And: "I think we
ought to balance the budget
instead of cutting taxes."
In truth, the sturdiness of
these people under a heavy
lax burden was exceptional
ly impressive, even though
I their grasp of Keyncsian econ
j omics was plainly inadequate.
; But this means that even gen-
crous income t a x cuts, if
I eventually voted, may not
1 helo the Dcmocracts in the
fall election.
Truly, something is always
lo be learned by revisiting
the grass roots. They are the
best way station from Wash
ington to anywhere else, in
cluding even a short vacation
which this reporter is about
to take.
Dilemma:
tary of the Treasury George
Humphrey, who once told a
Senate committee: "There is
no man and probably never
has been, and I think prob
ably never will be, who can
see very far into (he future "
This seemed pure nstrichism.
a denial of the new knowl
edge of economic cause and
effect.
What went unnoticed was
a lecture soon after that, de
livered by one of the truly
original - minded high priests
of economic theorv now advis
ing the President, Professor
J. Kenneth Galbraith. He en
dorsed thai particular affir
mation by Humphrey and re
marked: "It was once supposed by
economists that empirical
knowledge might, in effect,
narrow the scope . . . by pro
viding a better Insight into
what the future might hold.
This is an idle hope; there is
no chance, given the present
character and constitution of
capitalism, that the tech
niques of economic forecast
ing will ever provide a basis
upon which government ac
tion can be pr nicatod "
So there we are The ad
ministration wishes to try a
massive tax cut, not because
it knows what the result will
be hut because it does not
know what else to try within
the small area of w-hat is po
litically possihle to liy If we
are heading for a new fron
tier on the economic horizon,
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
GERTRUDE-WHERE ARE
YOU?
Can it be ?
Can Gertrude have sur
vived? You remember Gertrude,
the boa constrictor who got
lost in the cold wilderness
atop Mt. Sexton last Christ
mas? She was given up for
lost after several days because
of the cold, snappy mornings.
But now . . .
A fronl-page story In the
Eugene Register - G u a r d re
ports that a deputy sheriff at
Swisshome on Highway 36
had reported a rumor that a
11 or 12 foot long boa con
strictor was running (shouldn't
that be crawling?) ioose in the
Swisshome area. The deputy,
alas, was unable to confirm
the rumor.
Do you suppose that Ger
trude, hardier than she was
given credit for being, made it
the 150 or so miles from Mt.
Sexton to Swisshome?
FLYING SAUCERS?i
Th sam iisut of the R-G
-lh sam story, as a matter
of facl-alio reported num
erous cases of people sight
ing Strang object, or ob
jects, in the sky.
Now this is of interst be
cause th satellit Echo has
been visible in our southern
Orgon ikies in recant
nights. One of our less ex
citable staff members says
he's watched it for several
nighti In a row, and can
almost "set my watch by
it."
Some of lh more excit
able Eugeneani opine th
objcl ihey taw might have
been a flying saucr chas
ing Echo around ihe world
to s what it is. Others just
don't know what they saw,
and report it variously as
fluorescent green, green and
red, brilliant blue - while,
having flames and sparks,
and not having flames and
sparks.
Anyway, whatever it was
happened, or flaw by. or
No Really
we are starting the march
along a well-worn detour.
The final "image" of a Presi
dent consists of two elements
- his personality and "style."
and the substance of what he
accomplishes. To date, Mr.
Kennedy s image has consist
ed almost exclusively of the
first element. As the two ele
ments begin to fuse, judging
j by the score to date, it seems
j probable, though not certain,
i that t h e Kennedy image a
! year from now will he very
i different from the one pro-
jectcd and accepted today.
And this tax move, with its
air of frustration, increases
, the tempo of the change.
Various writers have ana
lyzed the spectacle of a vig-
orous, aggressive President
' unable to move a sluggish
j Congress, of the hard young
fist hitting into a massive
j sponge. I cannot add to their
; comments save to say that I
doubt that the prime cause is
! his "failure to educate the
people." There is a nearer
blockage. The truth is that in
spite of Ihe fresh greenery
in which they are now dress
ed, these matters of housing,
health, education, farming
and so on are, especially m
Congress, worn and weary
matters They have been ar
gued for at least 15 years In
dividual and group positions
nn each of them were taken
long ago; it would require a
. social upheaval, reflected n
saucered by, or something,
1 about 10:45 p.m. last
Tuesday. And th usually
staid and reliable Associat
ed Prss reported to lh R-G
that at about that time -thr
were barometric prai
sur changes recorded at
weather bureau stations in
Seattle, Olympil tr.6 To
ledo. Wash.
The Register-Guard also re
ports the fears of a housewife
about the possibility of an in
flux of wild alligators, should
little ones, now being sold as
pets, ever escape and grow
up.
An R-G editorial writer re
calls a for-real alligator scare
back in 1929, when some
cheerful University of Oregon
football players, just back
from a game with the Uni.
vcrsily of Florida, staked out
a live alligator behind the
Sigma Nu house.
The beast bit off ils leash
and swam up the millrace,
only to climb out on the lawn
of a startled housewife.
Let's turn from wild 1
things to more mundane af
fairs, like th tribulations
of driving across town and
back these busy days.
Th wife of on of our
staff members went to visit
a friend th oiher day, and:
1. Had lo detour around
a paving project on Stew
art ave., and almost got loli.
2. Had to detour from
Eighth St., which was
blocked because of freeway
work,
3. Had to detour from
Riverside ave. b c a u s
heavy equipment was block
ing the roadway.
4. Had to detour from
Jackson st. because of a
paving project.
Oh, yes-about that Stewart
ave. paving job. One of our
spies reported that no sooner
was it finished than anolher
crew started digging it up
again.
Presumably that is Ihe sig
nal for the street patching
crews to get to work covering
up the new parking and lane
marking paint stripes.
To conclude our rport on
a week of portents, disas
ters, and Strang sights and
toundi, ws should tell about
when th power went off
Wednesday juit at press
time.
In th back shop, th lino
typs sal idler, thir mtal
pots slowly congealing. In
th nswsroom. th lights
went off, and the chatter of
the teletypes want lileni.
Th clocks stoppd.
When th power returned
we xplaind our plight lo
th UPI bureau in Portland,
which sent us th top
stories we would have
missed, and then followed
with this:
Your unrelenting mechani
cal jinx
Yet may driv us all to
drinks.
It's grown so epidemic w
By now Just offer sympa
thy .. .
And plead with you la
mend your ways
By adding this apprt,hn-
siv phrasa:
We'll hang our headi in
horror and sorrow
If you do it again tomor
row! Regards and condolancas.
New Issues
elections. In change them sub
stantially. Mr. Kennedy's
"frontiers" are new in the
j sense that we have not reach
ed them, but old In the sense
! that everyone has looked at
them, as at a familiar moun
tain range, every day of hu
lite.
Some observers now pri
vately worry about how the
quick- tempered, intensely
ambitious President will he
have as and if his frustrations
grow. It is not only that there
: is no such word as failure in
I the bright lexicon of youth.
This President's personal
problem is compounded, be
;cause intellectuality, not
j youth, is his really distln
, guishing characteristic.
I ' '
! He is not a "natural man"
; as was. say Mr. Truman. He is
an intellectual which means
1 that he both enjoys and suf
i fers from the "double vision."
I seeing himself constantly
from the sidelines as a figure
i in history Not to be one of
1 the great Presidents would be
intolerable to him. On present
readings, through no fault of
his own, he cannot achieve
this historical niche short of
the traditional setting of our
"great" Presidents - some
truly terrible domestic or
foreign crisis, which he. no
more than others, would wish
to see
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