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"EVfyonein"Southern Oregon RrarU TheMail Tribune' ubllxhed Daily except Saturdny by MEIUORD PRINTING CO ;i3 North Firt., Ph.72-6141 " ROBERT W RIIHL. Editor HERB GREY AdvurttstriR Manager GERALD 1 LATHAM. Bus Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN. JR.. Mnft. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Tele Editor RICHARD JKWETT. Sporti Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'! Editor DALE JIRICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newpaper Entered as second class matter at Medlord. Oretjon. under Act of March 3. 1S!)7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $1.00 Daily snd Sunday fl inns 8 00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4 25 Sunday Only One year 4 20 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashlhnd. Central Point, Eagle Point Jacksonville, Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv pr, Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year llR.fiO Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. 1 .SO Carriei and Denlcrs Copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City of Mrdfnrit Ol lirlal Paper of Jackson Count y United" Press Internalional Full Leased Wire U P 1 Telcphoto Newspicturrs "lUEMBEflTOF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES. Offices fn New York. Chi cago Detroit, San Francisco, Loi Angeles Seattle. Portland. Denver. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL 51IA55C6TI?N Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County History from the tiles ot The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 7, 1952 (Thursday) Col. Ben Stafford, former Jackson county Civilian De fense director, was elected chairman of the Jackson County Red Cross chapter. From an advertisement: "Through one of those silly little accounting errors, we received an Oregon State bo nus check yesterday for $40, 000.23. We certainly feel no ble for the honest thing we did. We sent back (he 2li cents." 20 YEARSAGO Aug. 7. 1942 (Friday) Hood River plan to over come labor shortage by pack ing all fresh fruit at one grade Is rejected by Rogue Valley fruit growers. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The 01st infantry division will be activated here next Saturday. It will be the greatest mili tary event in the history of this section. Soldiers will march, flags will fly. bands will play and people will shout like they did in World War I." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 7. 1932 (Sunday) Mrs. Harry Prentice, Med ford, completes two weeks training by swimming across Lake of the Woods in half an hour. 40 YEARS-AGO Aug. 7, 1922 (Monday) Ben Bowers narrowly es capes injury in tussle with a bear near the head of Neil rn-rk; bear finally flees when Bowers puts four shots in him. Jerry Jerome returns from Klks convention at Atlantic City. SO YEARS AGO Aug. 7. 1912 (Wednesday) Fred Carrilt breaks all known records for walking to Crater lake from Medlord by doing it in two days. Medford madhouse is clos ed for I Ho second time by Jlisdicl Attorney Mulkey and Acting Chief Cingcade. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; live or sil is good. 1. Newton Minuw is chair-1 man of what federal govern-! luont agency? 2. Name the two islands on w li i c h Napoleon Bonaparte ; was successi ely confined. j ,'t. Can swans fly-1 ! 4 Is Niagara Falls roccd-; lug'.' i 5 Which President of Hie United States was shortest in . Mature? I ti What was the trade of "a certain man named Demi-' Inns"? , 7 Is Wash i n t I n it. H ('.. I north or south of the Mason and lh.MHi line.' 8 From whal M'lious dis ease riiri Julius Caesar suffer-' ; Jl. litis a cappella choir auv ; musical accompaniment'.' ' 10. Is linseed oil made from . the seeds of buckwheat, flax, i or soybeans? j Answers; 1. Federal Com j munications Commission. 2. Elba and St. Helena. 3. Yes. 4. Yes. 5. James Madison. 6 Silversmith. 7. South. 9. Epi lepsy. 9. No. 10. Flax. TELL TaTesTgN London U't Miss Frances Curtis, 2.1, a scnelaiy. said i-he knows she lives in an area lieipirnted by Americans "be rause I see their gum stuck nn my door posts." TUbaUAI. AUuuai . ItfbJ A Commentary? Many expressions of been sounded in recent sense of values what unimportant. This thought turned we inspected the front Francisco Chronicle. Rather more than one-half of the page reported the death of Marilyn Mon roe, under a huge, eight - headline. Next in importance line headline announcing explosion. MEXT was a four-column head at the bottom of 1 the page telling of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's talk at the Rar Association con vention. There was one other news story about Sherri Finkbine's arrival in Sweden to seek an abortion. The rest of the page Lxtra banner, an advertisement, an announce ment that stores will remain open until 9 o'clock, a "Who Am I" puzzle tickler, an index, and a weather box. That was all. XE WONDER if this is a true commentary on what Americans think is important, or inter esting. Probably it is, in a way. For the details of Miss Monroe's death and earlier life will be read avidly. Her death has been called a tragedy. And in a way it is, even in the classic sense of a person being destroyed by a fatal flaw, a weakness or trait of character that leads inevitably to self destruction. In this case this woman had two things a sort of sexy beauty and a fresh sort of naivete that put her on top. But she lacked the inner strength and stability to cope with sudden fame, and all its myriad attendant pressures. TlE CAN feel sorry for her. Perhaps pity is a better word, and it is the word used by Os servatore Romano, the Vatican City newspaper, in commenting on her death. Yet we may still be permitted to wonder whether her death ranks anywhere near in genu ine importance to many other events of the clay. Still, the Chronicle's judgment in devoting more than half of its front page to her death probably is a lairly accurate rei lection ot what most Americans want to read. The motivation behind this is what troubles us, however. Do we read of the sordid details of her life and death out of mere morbidity, or because they constitute a real and moving allegory of human existence? Perhaps both. E.A. Better Than Illiteracy Poet Kenneth Rexroth spoke at the Univer sity of Oregon in Eugene the other day, and during his stay was interviewed by Register Guard Reporter Don Robinson. The quotation we liked best was this: "The Book-of-the-Month Club is not cultural Utopia. But it's a hell of a lot better than illit eracy." In expanding on this he said that the produc tion and consumption of things cultural on a mass scale indicates a continuously rising level of culture in the population. And he added that among other things this means that the artist painter, poet, musician has more opportunity to circulate generally through society. TTHIS is true. We do not yet have, and may never have, the "ideal" kind of democratic society where all people are educated, culturally j attuned, and capable of making the basic dcci-! sions of self-government on a well-informed 1 basis. ' But we're closer to this ideal than at mostj other times in the past. Mass education is a rela-; tively recent phonomcnon, and hardly has yet! ll:wl nn m mni'i i in it r In nrni'ii itlf II ic -ili in I the process of changing to meet changing needs and aims. What the outcome may be, after some generations, one can only speculate. But a climate in which even the Book-of-the-Month club can survive, in which the sale of good records anil magazines is at an all-time high, which supports a half-hundred full-fledged sym phonv orchestras, is, indeed, "a hell of a lot better than "illiteracy." E.A. Short Summer There are days when the most frequently heard remark is "Hot enough for you?" Other days, it's "Cold enough for you?" Yesterday and this morning, as the warm wel come rain fell, the comment was "Short summer, wasn't it?" E.A. JUST AMONG US EXECUTIONERS Wo mc citizens of Orotion We Mipport its U. The s.is i.hitn.brr is part of Oregon law. In Oregon, a murderer's just comeuppance 15 death in the gas chamber. hat s Ills aNaine will die in Oregon s (Ms chain- i brr on Aug 20 for minder most foul. j What s His Name will get his just comeuppance. It's unfortunate that What's His Name has nerves i and a brain and hands, ecs. feet, legs and arms, a stomach, and a heart that pumps blood. j It's too bad that Wh.it'j His Name was crcalrd m j Mods own image, juM as if lie were a nice person 1 like us j We know be in I a nice prison like us. j We II see hr gels his ju-t comeuppance. We ate exccuUoncis. j Portland Reporter I worry and dismay have years about Americans' is important and what is idly over in our mind as pace of yesterday s San column, two-line banner was a two-column, two- a huge Russian nuclear was taken up with a big "At- You Were Saying, Neighbor, Youth Will Be Youth" COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the rume and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with j view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is ofton the case. In the Sight of God To the Editor: The revolt against reason takes on many forms. Not that reason hasn't been tried and failed, but rather not adequately tried. The mind unaided by the heart never provides total answers and reasoning with out faith could be disastrous. There must be a happy me dium. Man cannot live oy reason alone nor can he live without it. The mind is part of the spirit and soul, the only instrument used in con tacting God. The very best works one can do determine how close he will ever come to God or heaven. Too much spiritual faith without reason causes man to lose reality and re sponsibility. Every man has a part to play on this earth. He was put here for a reason. Having fulfilled his obliga tion his body lies a prisoner in the grave while the mind and spirit are free to drift about the universe. They re turn to God the giver who just happens to be every where. Eventually all shall under stand that all human bondage is an invention of ignorance. I am not discouraged by set backs for they remind me that 1 must learn a better approach to fulfillment and encourage me to plan more wisely to ac complish my aims. The power to overcome renders me Im mune from failure and fits me for success in what ever 1 would have, do or be. I choose God's guidance in all 1 do, think and say. I receive God's grace in full proportion to my spirit ual understanding through which all things become pos sible. As my understanding rises level with my faith, I demonstrate to the fullest. I respect the council of others whose experience ex ceeds mine, grateful for their guidance, I hoar persons but I heed the guidance ol God from whom the power was given me to rule over any ! adverse situation or condition I in my life. What the heart j desires the mind can acconi- j plish. For this -.knowledge I ' am ever grateful. i Each morning I awake, re-: born inlo a personal world of my own making. I vision a better life, peace, good will and understanding. Having forgiven yesterday's mistakes and inisiudgmonts, 1 grant I shall make better of this new day. Knowing there is no prog ress without change 1 accept change without hindrance, yet attach not too much impor tance to new things of un proved or passing value. I I do not wasle my seeds of thought on exhausted ground of the past. 1 will not be deceived nor misled by any person or thing What 1 do is in the sight of God. F. Dykes Box SH Eagle Point. Ore. Not Gambling I To the Kdilnr- This vit week end I spent consulting an rMmiali'd SO people of all walks of life m regards to a state lottery hospital benefit : All that 1 interviewed ap peared to bp very much in terested One of the questions aked was, isn't a lottery gambling' It's not, as I see it. In fact, I would not try to promote any thing that w as gambling, as ; I do not gamble myself. This lottery n person do naies. in time of need, they receive, H a pciswii purchased a lucky tickci, I believe that , they could consider it a token for their effort. Gambling, as 1 see it, is when a person has an ache or a p.im and the first thought is to join a pn-1 vale hospital plan, of which premiums run from S6.80 to $13. SO or more per month. After paying these premiums for four to five years waiting for something to happen, then your favorite doctor says, in the hospital you must go. Upon entering, the attendant informs you that your policy does not cover everything, $100 deposit is needed for the hospital's security. When the finai statement is presented, John now re alizes that his policy only paid two-thirds, in some cases only one-half of his bill. John started out as a swin dler, later realized (hat he got took. This as I see it, is gambling. I would ralher purchase two 50 cent tickets per week instead, for a state lottery hospital fund, which would be practical, reasonable and not considered gambling. All 30 that I interviewed, after a short debate, wished me well for my effort. At present, I am receiving letters from some of our column readers in regards to this lot tery plan. Kindly write to our local stale senator instead. Thank you. Howard H. Brown 007 Gilman rd. Medford. Rare Special To the Editor: Very few people in the Rogue River Valley remember me, but I became quite famous when I wuz going to high school in Ashland. It wuz when I left for a big game hunt in Africa. I never got any farther than Portland, but I came home with a very rare specimen, an Apperson Jackrabbit. F.verctt Acklin, Ashland, Ore. What Kind of Reasoning? To the Editor: So the old saw "the end justifies the means'' is rearing its secular head again. If. as Webster defines it, the soul is a 'lifc force.' then the soul is present at the be ginning of life. To end that life, willfully by abortion, is murder. refiarriU-ss of any mis guided humanitarian motives. I was frankly surprised at your editorial. Considering your many editorials ajiainst capital punishment, I had con eluded that human life, to you. must be very sacred in deed. What kind of reasoning protests that the state has no right to take the life of a criminal but advocates the right of the state to take the life of a child? llenc Hull 7 Eastwood dr. Medford. Drivers Honored By Insurance Company For records that prove their professional driving skill, eight drivers for the Medford Vrnerr and Plywood corpora tion, won recognition rccrn'ly from the firm's insurance car rier Those w ho received awards. together with tiie number of. years of accident-free driving ; to their credit, were: Alvin ! Kller. 8 years; Jack W. Little. 7; Walter Prince, .V Donald T. Wright. Charles W. Mad-: den. Robert ,V Doyle. 4; Ger ald riiclan. 2: and Edward L. i Dw.ght, I year Alvin Kller also received an award for driving one half million consecutive accident tree miles. Professional drivers throughout the country are similarly honored each var by their insurance carrier. Employers Mutual of Wan s.tu, for e.uh e,ir of accident- : free driving performance. I MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OREGON European Possible As Negotiation Log-Jam Cracks By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Press International Paris-tUPIi-Westcrn Europe's leaders are talking again about the dream of a politically-united Europe. A three-month log-jam in political unity negotiations ap pears to have been cracked. Prospects look good now for a Western European "little summit" meeting in Rome in September at which plans for a politically united Europe will be launched again-this time with real chances of suc cess. The six European Common Market countries -France, West Germany, Italy, Bel gium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-have been try ing since last summer to agree on a blueprint for a politically united Western Europe. They have achieved an amazing degree o success in Drummond Reports (Walter Lippmann Is on vacation. Roscoe Drummond reports from Washington in his absence.) (c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc. CAN YOU ANSWER THESE? Washington How would you grade yourself in your knowledge of present - day communism? Do you figure you would come off pretty well in a fair examination, or do you think a passing mark might be a little diffi cult - as it was for some of the Marines when Sen. Strom Thurmond's questioners asked them about Marxist dialec tics? I'm not talking about trick questions: I'm talking about reasonable and topical ques tions which laymen, not just the experts, ought to know about. For example, how many of the following ques tions can you answer to your own satisfaction: DOES the expression "dic tatorship of the proletari at" mean that the workers rule Soviet Russia? What is the reason for your answer? How many political parties are there in the Soviet Un ion? What reason would a Com munist party worker give for Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c field Enterprises Inc. PRtNCIPLES VS. PERSON ALITITES Most people are incapable of separating personalities from principles. What they feel about a person inevitably beclouds their ideas of ab stract justice; and both lib erals and conservations are equally guilty of this. I received a number of nasty letters attacking me for my brief observations on the Eichmann case. So far as I am concerned, the trial was im proper, and the verdict was foolish, futile, and vengeful. The fact that Eichmann was a cold-hearted monster has nothing at all to do with the principle of the case. Caryl Chessman was also a monster of a sort and yet his execu tion was stupid and barbarous. We no not have to like a man in order to dislike the way he is treated. Indeed, many of the men who have been persecuted by society have been un lovely creatures. Captain Dreyfus, for instance, was a prig and a fool. But hit conviction was a frame-up, and good men like Zola were right in defending him, even though he was personally distasteful. In his amusing new book of essays, "Rocking the Boat," Gore Vidal points out that Dreyfus himself would have been an anti Dreyfusard if the tables had been turned. "The essential foolishness of the man Dreyfus is beau tifully revealed by a true story." Vidal writes. "The son of one of his friends was expelled from school for cheating. The friend was furious. He was certain his son had not cheated. He ap pealed to Dreyfus. What did he think? After much thought, the man whose name is forever associated with the idea of justice, said: 'Well, where there's smoke, there's fire.' " i . . . j Tom Mooney, also a victim of injustice tn the 1920s in our country, was another in-, tolerable man pompous, self important, and one of the worst prima donnas in the la-! bor movement. Beside, he was supported and inflated by the Communist Party, who used his imprisonment for their own propaganda pur poses. Yet we c.mnot allow even so una!tr.u'ti e a man to suf-. fer prison uniustly. even wnon we basically disagree with Ins viewpoint Civil lib erties have no meaning unless Political Unity Again the field of economic unity. Their aim is to try to match this with a political union which ultimately would point the way to a United States of Europe sometime in the fu ture. But they have run into some major snags along the way. Chief of these is that some of the Common Market countries are shooting for a genuine political union, in cluding a European govern ment and elected parliament and other "supranational" fea tures. Strongest supporters of such a plan are Belgium and the Netherlands. But French President Charles de Gaulle, who is against any surrender ot French national sovereignty, has vetoed this blueprint. He wants nothing stronger than a loose federation of independ- the Soviet view of freedom of speech in the USSR? How do the Communists justify the one-party system? About what percentage of Russian adults belong to the Communist party? What is meant by the "new Soviet man"? How did the cold war start? What are five or more once free European countries taken over by the Soviet Union? Wherein do labor unions in the U. S. and Russia differ in organization and control? What does "neutralist" mean? How does communism ap peal to idealists? IF YOU fail to satisfy your self on the foregoing ques tions and would like better answers to them along with several hundred other ques tions on communism I can tell you where to get them. You can get them in compact, clear, factual, informative style by going to a bookstore or writing to the publishers, D. Van Nostrand company, 120 Alexander si., Princeton, N. J., and ordering a copy of the book, "The Menace of Communism." It is written by two knowledgeable political and social science teachers, Kenneth Colegrove and Hall Bartlett, at C. W. Post col lege, Long Island university. The authors have done such an authoritative job of analyz ing the political, economic, and social aspects of commu nism that "The Menace of Communism" has won the ap proval of the conservative In stitute of Fiscal and Political Education. They have been so objective that they have won the disapproval of the John Birchers. It's an excellent hook. John Marshall, president of Mar shall Institute, reports that it has already placed 10,000 cop ies in the public schools. I found it most rewarding read ing. A Spanish edition is soon to be published. ... nPHEnE is a recent addition 1 to the literature on com munism which is a valuable tool for both the layman and the educator. It is R. H. Shack ford's book, "The Truth About Soviet Lies" (Public Affairs Press, Washington, D. C). Mr. Shackford is the astute for eign correspondent of the Scripps-Howard newspapers. He has watched the Commu nists in action in every cru cial area of the cold war. "The world," Mr. Shack ford points out, "is inundated day after day. month after month, year after year, with a torrent of words that flows from the Kremlin, from the rival Communist capital n Peking, and from all the an cillary capitals and organiza tions of those centers of Marx isms . . . Never in the his tory of mankind have words been such an important part of the effort of a 'system' to convert, nerverl anH cnht-rri man, whether he already be a communist, a sympathizer, or just a potential victim." Mr. Shackford does not iton at just making clear the dif ference in meanings which we and the Communists attach to the same words. He pro duces a revealing and mag nificently documented study of what he calls "the perfec tion of the lie." From Khrushchev's decla ration of the war hp .-all peace, to Moscow's announce ment that it has "abolished taxes." Mr Shackford' re port needs to be read hv all of tis. they are extended lo people we dislike and disagree with: it is enormously easy to be fair to those we feel friendlv to. The real test of a society is its devotion to principles: and by tins test, most societies have failed miserably Genu ine liberals are rarer than we think: most people arc willing to overlook their principles when fear, anger.: hate or self-interest begin pounding In their breast.. I ent, sovereign states, whose leaders would meet periodi cally to discuss political pol icy, defense and cultural re lations. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, originally one of the "supre-national-ists," now has moved closer towards the line of thinking of De Gaulle, whom he great ly admires. The whole problem has been enormously complicated by Great Britain's request for admission to the Common Market. At a conference in Paris last April, Belgium and the Washington Report By William (CI United Feature Syndicate SPLIT IMAGE Wash ington Stripping away any toadying to the administration or partisan rancor toward it, one may fairly ask: Where does P r e s i dent Kennedy now really stand? D i s p a ssion ate anal ysis suggests some con elusions. The Presi dent's personal popularity is In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS There's grim news on the wires. A week ago today a British research scientist was stricken at Britain's micro - biological research establishment at Por ton Downs, in an isolated area of historic Salisbury Plain, site of the mysterious group of stones known as Stonehenge. He died on Thursday, only four days after being stricken. On Friday night, 24 hours af ter his death, its cause was identified as pneumonic plague - the dread BLACK PLAGUE that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages. He had been working on the Black Plague germ. WHAT of the Black Plague? Let's let Winston Churchill tell the story. He says in his History of the Eng lish Speaking Peoples: '"THE character of the pes-- tilence (Black Plague) was appalling. The disease it self, with its frightful symp toms, the swift onset, the blotches, the hardening of the glands under the armpit or in the groin, the horde of viru lent carbuncles which fol lowed the dread harbingers of death, the delirium, the insan ity, the blank spaces which opened on all sides in human society, stunned and for a time destroyed the life and faith of the world. "This affliction, added lo all the severities of the Middle Ages, was more than the hu man spirit could endure. The Church, smitten like the rest in body, was wounded griev ously in spiritual power. If a God of mercy ruled the world, what sort of rule was this? "Such was the challenging thought which swept upon the the survivors. Weird sects sprang into existence, and plague-haunted cities saw the procession of flagellants, each lashing his fore-runner to a dismal dirge, and ghoulish practices glare at us from the broken annals, tt seemed to be the death rattle of the race." BUT Eventually I h e Black Plague was conquered. Doc tors do not know yet any drug that certainly kills the plague bacillus. But it was discov ered that rats are the carriers of the plague. Then it was dis covered that fleas bite the rats and thus get the germ of the plague. Then the fleas bite persons and transmit the ba cillus to the person bitten. The next step was to exter minate the rats. When you board an ocean'liner. you note the shields hung on the moor ing lines. These arc to prevent rats from getting from the pier to the ship. The purpose of that is to prevent the spread of the Black Plague. While no drug has been dis covered that infallibly kills the B'.ack Plague bacillus, these sanitation measures have conquered the SPREAD of the deadly killer. So the death of the British scientist the other day no longer terrifies the world. 'HY recite all this now? This is why: MAN'S ingenuity and per-; sistence CONQl'ERED : THE SPREAD OF THE BLACK PLAGUE. So-- It may he that in time man's ; ingrmntv and persistence mav ' CONQUER THE SPREAD OF, THE NUCLEAR BOMB AND PREVENT ITS FUTURE USE; IN" WARFARE. I Seems Netherlands refused flatly to go ahead with the political unity talks until it is known whether Britain will b a Common Market member or not. But during Adenauer's re cent state visit to Paris he and De Gaulle agreed that po litical unity negotiations should be lifted off dead-center as soon as possible. The next stage now is ex pected to be the meeting in Rome at which De Gaulle, Adenauer and other govern, ment heads of "the six" will try to gel the whole political unity Idea off to a new, more auspicious start. S. White still high, though probably not nearly so high as is suggested in the polls. For these polls have a grave defect. To ask people some such general question as, "How do you think the President is doing?'" will usually return a mislcad ingly high favorable response. He is, in such questions, not running against anybody else. The general inquiry is, in short, far different from the very pointed question asked in the polling booths: Do you prefer this President to that specific, concrete contender for President named so-and-so? ALL the same, there Is no real doubt that Mr. Ken nedy would be reelected if the 1964 election were (jield today. There is, however, much evidence that while he personally is still generally approved, many of his pro. grams and advisers are not. The reason for this seeming inconsistency is not hard to find. His hold on the clectorale results from a wide and cor rect impression that in the one really vital present thing in our lives, the cold war, the president is behaving with courage and skill and without partisan motives. The next biggest real concern of the people the state of business is reducing his edge of pop ularity but has not cut it be low the safety level. In a word, it is along the oldest frontier of all that, frontier defining a nation's safety from without that Kennedy is doing well. And it is along the new frontier that area of domestic innova tion and tinkering in which he is not doing so well. THE smallest look al the ac tions of the present Demo cratic Congress shows this is precisely the case. For lliis Congress has been generous in support of the President for what really matters - for eign policy, foreign aid, for eign trade, defense - and fru gal in the support of the President on New Frontier ac tions. Kennedy's difficulties with Congress (and this columnist believes with the country, too) have not come from his role as this country's one national leader in facing the perils. ar.1l costs, of the cold war. Thoso difficulties have come in his requests to Congress for oo much too soon on things like medical care and urban re form and so on. These are not in themselves insignificant. But in relation ship to the immense and owr i riding problem of the cold war and the next greatest, problem, the economy, tliry are presently almost irrelev ant, both to Congress and to the country. Again, it is wrong to pre sent these difficulties as the work of "the Republicans" and to suggest that if ouiy more Democrats are elected to Congress all will be well. It is not "the Republicans" who have balked the Presi dent so much as it is the Democrats. ... IND among the Dcmcr.'ts x the real source of trouble has not been the moderates and conservatives so much as the liberals. True, the moderate-conservatives have check ed him on nonessentials. But they have massively upheld and strengthened him in the one part of his administration which has been really success ful - the conduct of the coH war. But the liberals have end lessly pulled and hauled at him to concern himself, in this time of universal crisis, with comparatively piddling and foredoomed domestic re forms. These, in inevitably tailing, have made him look comparatively weaker than he need , have looked. Te score for his Congressional program looks poor primarily because he has insisted upon going domestically most nf the time with liberals, despite an involvement in history m which what that wing hsj offered is second rate in im portance and Inopportune la timing.
