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Newspaper Page Text4 A- THURSDAY. AUGUST 30. 1362 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON KSDFOHDiTEIBUNX "Everyone in Southern Orefion Ri:hJ JheNIilTribune'; Published Dally txccpt "Saturday by MEUrOHD PRINTING CO. 33 North Kir St., Ph.772-6141 ROBKRT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY AdvertiainB Manager GERALD 1 LATHAM. But Mr. ERIC W ALLEN. JR., Mns. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRV CH1PMAN, Teles Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women'! Editor DALE EBtCINlrcuijtjonMgr An Iiidependent'Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medlord, Oreson. under Act ol March 3. 1807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year J1S.00 Daily and Sunday fl moa 8 00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4 20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. AihUnd. Central Point, ERl Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er latent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday I year $11) .on Dailv and Sunday 1 mo, 1.50 Carrie' and Dealers Copy 10c All Terms jCash in Advance "official Paper of City of Medford OiftclalJaper of Jackson Counly United Press International Full Leased Wire U P I Telephoto Newsplcture "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OrClRCULATIONS ArlvcrrYaVnn Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES. Otllcea In New York. Chi caeo Detroit, San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle, Portland. Denver NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL A! imiinn.'iHMiii Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackion County History from the files of Th Mall Tribun. 10. 20. 30, 40 and 50 years S.o. 10 YEARS AGO on ia9 falurdavl ftua, , civ inlurorl in week end traffic accident; many persons jailed for being drunk in pub lic and being drunk on a pub lic highway. Portland's Bob Atkinson and Mcdford's Eddie Simmons are finalists in annual South ern Oregon Golf tournament here. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 30. 1942 (Sunday) Assessor's levy on cities In Jackson county is announced: Eagle Point is lowest with 39.8; Jacksonville's 61.9 tax is county's highest. From Arthur Pecry's "Ye Smudge Pol" column: "The es teemed Oregonian in a recent Issue editorially discussed pol itics and war, without staling any conclusions as to which was worse or which caused the other." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 30. 1932 (Tuesday) Holly theater celebrates Its second anniversary with third Edition of "Holly Follies" vaudeville show. Jackson county government moves Into new courthouse in the midst of "impressive cere monies"; Engineer Paul B. Rynning and Assessor J. B. Coleman among those making the change. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 30. 1922 (Wednesday) Mail Tribune campaigns editorially for crossings of the Southern Pacific tracks at Fourth,' Fifth and Sixth sts.; favors extending Sixth si. under tracks for fire protec tion. Miss Flo Thompson assumes charge of the Jacksonville post office; she replaces John Miller who was temporarily appointed following the resig nation of Louis Ulrich. SO YEARSAGO Aug. 30, 1912 (Friday) Lone fisherman struggles more Ihiui an hour to land 20-pound salmon on swaying foot bridge over the Rogue river at Cold Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Humph ries appear at Medfurd's Star theater ill end of firsl lap of proposed tandem motorcycle trip around the world: Humphries bet theater mag nate Oscar Hiimmerslein he would rover OS, 000 miles In 100 days. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct it superior; seven or eight i etceltcnt; five or six ii good. 1. Does two-thirds of the area of Africa lie north or south of the equator? 2. How often must Congress mert? H. What was the pen name used by Samuel L. Clemens'.' 4 What is another name for punishment by drain? .". What is the Kohinonr? fi What is a tester bed? 7. What is another name for smear case'.' B In South Africa a group, band, or flock of lions is call ed a what'.' ' II. Is jade all of Ihe same color; III. Was the first printing press of the New World lo cated in Mexico City. St. Au gustine, Plymouth or Charles town? Answers: 1. North. 2. An nually, 3. Mark Twain. 4, Cap ital punishment. 5. Large dia mond. 6. Canopied bed. 7. Cot tage cheese. 8. Pride. 9. No, it varies greatly. 10. Mexico City. Who Would The Eugene Register-Guard, in discussing the threat of war, the other day had this to say: "The real threat to world peace lies not in countries like the United Slates and Russia. They are rich coun tries, with abundant resources, educated people, every thing to look forward to. They have so much to lose that they dare not be reckless, ideology or no ideology." While in today's world we more or less agree with this observation, nonetheless we wondered about it. Say the date was 1913, and the same para graph appeared, changed only in that "United States and Russia" were changed to read "Ger many, France and England." IN THAT ERA, those three countries, by stand- ards of that clay, were rich, with abundant resources, educated people, everything to look forward to. Yet they were plunged the following year into the worst war in history up to that time. Still, we agree with the R-G's thesis. It added: "The real threat lies in the 'have not' nations, the frustrated nations, the nations with overwhelming internal problems, the nations with reckless leadership, the nations with a grudge against the world. China is the largest of these and the one that probably has the least to lose." What is it that makes the situation of 1913 and that of today different? It is, we believe, atomic weapons. HPHE day is past when a rich nation, with abun- dant resources, educated people, everything to look forward to, can afford to start a war in hope of "winning" as, in effect, Germany did in 1914 and again in 1939. No one would "win" a nuclear war. One or the other might or might not "survive" such a holocaust, if the word survive can have any mean ing when half or more of the population, indus trial plant and social organization is wiped out. No no so-called "civilized" nation could afford this. But, and this was the Register Guard's point, some nations might have no hesi tation to begin such a war, figuring they had more to gain than lose. Israel is determined to become the fifth nu clear power. So is China, and it has been pre dicted that it will within months. And the day is not far off when Yugoslavia, or Ghana, or Indo nesia you name it may have nuclear capa bilities. A bunch of drunken and suspicious gunmen in a darkened saloon make for a dangerous situ ation. Translate that into international terms and it could mean the end of things. E.A. Plague! If three-score people had died within a month from, say, polio or tuberculosis or influenza, there would be luiRc headlines proclaiming an epi demic; doctors would be giving advice how to avoid the plague; public health authorities would be besieged with demands to "do something," and many people would be panic-stricken. So what happens when more than people die in traffic "accidents" on Oregon highways in less than a month? The most violent reaction (except from friends and families of the dead and maimed) is a shake of the head, or a muttered "tsk, tsk!" "OREGON was headed for a "safe" year on the highways up until August started. Then the slaughter began. No single cause can be named for the deaths. Too high speed, sleepiness, carelessness, reckless ness, mechanical failure each of these played a role in one or more of the fatal accidents. In highway driving, each individual is not only responsible for himself. He is also, in a very real sense, "his brother's keeper." Those who are not are little better than potential suicides and murderers. This is one fatal plague which could be cured, permanently, by universal application of the Golden Rule. -K.A. Sailing A convert, thev saw his religion than is one born to it. Likewise, those who are long-experienced in some sport or recreation are less vocal in its praise than one newly indoctrinated. Well we went sailing for the first time last week end, and with the ardor ol a convert and New Hoy, let us record that it is a sport without peer. Hill Harker has been telling us this for years, so last Saturday when his son Tom offered to take us out on Howard "Prairie lake, we jumped at the chance. It was all Hill had said, and more. w ITU a brisk breeze ), with the proper water slapping vA tho bow, with the sun shining ;lown lmm a blue sky, ami glaring up trom the bright water, the tensions ami eont'liets of tkiv i to-day oft'iee routine seem a million miles awav. Ducking the boom as the boat swings onto a new tack, ami giving an inexpert haul at the jib sheet, gives one the feeling of real participation. And tlie skill of the young helmsman at gauging the wind, jockying the boat over the dancing wavelets, and giving his quiet orders to a neo phyte crew, was something to admire and to envj, too, jut a bit. MA Start a War? ! is often more ardent in filling the mainsail and heel to the boat and "I Think Them Feds Got Me, Boy, But I Know You'll Carry On" COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor muit bear the neme 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 u view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for Dublicatfon 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 often th case. Committee's Value To the Editor: No Mr. Al len, your hostile feeling (MT 8-28-62), about the "Un-American" part of the House Com mittee probably has some merit. Un-American may be a poof choice of words. How ever, because of previous com ments you have printed and (Tuesday), continue to print, one can only hold that your hostility runs somewhat deep er (read superficial), than the mere title of the House Com mittee. Now as before, we consider' your ideas on this matter al most entirely un-founded - meaning not or non and we wonder at the precise timing of your latest criticism of HCUA. It has already been suggested a renewal of the at tack on our national internal security system was to be ex pected this fall. There has al ready been an attack on J. Edgar Hoover for his state ments about t h e internal strength of communism. It could prove to be inform ative to yourself and all oth ers to read a new report re cently released by HCUA, a report on their investigation into the National Security Agency. It is significant that during this investigation, NSA's hostility toward HCUA disappeared. And in turn, the Committee lauded the De fense Department and NSA for "an outstanding job of cor reeling the deficiencies" brought out by this investiga tion. This latest release again demonstrates the great value of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Robert J. Howard 702 Beekman Medford Young Pickers To the Editor: 1 have been seeing and hearing stories to the effect that all the pickers available are working - I wonder if you know aboul a group of local teenagers who were fired from their picking jobs last week to allow a I group of transients to have the ! positions? I know one of the hoys j personally and he is a good i industrious worker, and a i good picker, picking from 75 10 80 boxes a day. Another boy, I understand, could pick j an average of 100 boxes a day. I And they did not "goof-off". I The reason given by their foreman was that a group of transients were coining in and was lo be put to work. I think this is an injustice lo our local people especially j as at, and just before, the season began the paper and j Ihe other news media vrp Idling aboul the "shortages" ; m Hie labor field. I believe lhal our local people should be allowed lo work if they are : available, and like my friend ; able to do a good iob and a : good days work l.el the Irnn slcnls, whn are usually too shiftless lo hold a job for long. move on lo some oilier place. if our full. Mis. Eric de Place l:!2 Poplar dr. Medlord I can give ihe name. r s and phone number of Itic one hoy. JuvemU Delinquency To the Km tor Inr porl doctor usually iinitlycs he n.i! tirr, i, ha r.iiMrr mid i,;otc of a dio;iso bo fore attomptnin to apply ; suitable romoclv lie does not euro ;i m.UiKn.int die,ie i;h soothm. m rup. Neither will juvenile delin quency be e i.i aj w p. h tap on the wns! or remand. the def impieM lo Ihe euslodv of delinquent parents for disci pline Nor will the me be cured wtth a lack of punish ment j Several years azo the law in many sUtrs uj? applied i as follows: Children under eight were presumed incap able of committing crime. Be tween eight and 12 they were presumed incapable but that presumption could be re moved by proof that they knew they were doing wrong. Raising the criminal respon sibility age to 18 is one of the main causes of juv-mile crimes, second only to de linquent parents. Another cause is the lack of a parental responsibility law. In stales with such a law parents know where their children are and what they are doing and de linquency has been reduced, in some cases, more than 50 per cent. According lo a report by J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, while the population was increasing about 40 per cent crime increased 100 per cent and more than half of the crimes were committced by boys under 18. The Orefcjn legislature missed the boat, when they failed lo make: the aulo license age 18 to curb crime and save lives. It is no recommendation for home discipline or school ed ucation to have the children under 18 without the knowl edge of the difference be tween right and wrong. One of the first duties of government is to protect the people from any and all form of aggression. Of what avali is law if the people and their property are exposed to dam age and vandalism by juven iles without any recourse or protection by the law? The effect of crimes on the peo ple or the community are of the same degree wjicther com mitted by an adult or a juven ile. The present setup handi caps law enforcement offi cers in protecting people and their properly. Some of the main causes of delinquency are lack of dis cipline, delinquent parents, lack of a parental responsibil ity law. failure to punish and' publish Hie names so the peo ple would know them to pro tect Ihemsclves from depra dation and vandalism. e knowledge that no punish ment would result if crimes were committed. Idleness is another cause. J Cure for the di.si-a.se, old j fashioned toil. Rehabilitation! farms similar to Hoys Town of 1'alhcr Flanagan type thai put many boys who had stray ed from Ihe paths of rectitude back on the road lo respected cit izenshlp. Ed Rlaek 2573 Camp Joy id., Grains Pass. Ore. Johnson Heading For Cyprus Talks Istanbul. Tm ke ! I'm Vice President l,ndon IV Johnson concludes a four-day visit to Turkey and flies off to newly independent Cyprus today for talks Willi leaders, On behalf of President Ken nedy. Johnson wv? expected hi trv lo further convince Archbishop Markarios. pi esi dent of Ops us, of the need for economic eieveiopmcm projects lo uct the nation tno it.. forward . Cyprus, which won inde pendence fro; i P.rPain. is phiiaicd not on!v bv ec difficulties hnt' by dittVivni es be i rn t r no's and the Turks In aueition the Com parly has made si rens in Cyprus Johnson, on a : tour of vit.ii Miora: Mediterranean ratio: ready ha :sMcd bv vine ona! in and non !o Lebanon and m add Cyprus will aUo stop Greece and paly off m South Vietnamese Operation Success Militarily, By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst In mid-August, big Sikor sky helicopters with U.S. Marines at the controls and some 4,000 South Vietnamese troops aboard lifted from fields below Saigon for the biggest attempt yet to clear Communist Victcong from South Vietnam's southern delta. Drurnmond Reports (Walter Lippmjnn ii on vacation. Roscoe Drurnmond reports from Washington in his absence.) (c 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc. CASTRO NOT DYING ON THE VINE Port-of-Spain, Trinidad No where in Latin America have I encountered any sup port for the wishful thinking in Washington that Castro is going to die on the vine or that the Cuban dictatorship will soon fall from its inner weaknesses. The prevailing view in the Latin American capitals I have visited is that while con ditions in Cuba are getting steadily worse, the Castro re gime itself is becoming stead ily more entrenched. One South American news paper correspondent, who had spent considerable time in Cuba and left only recently, put it this way: "Fidel Castro is proving himself totally in competent to manage the af fairs of his nation but extra ordinarily skillful in manag ing the apparatus of a police state." This raises a question of acute importance to policy makers in Washington who are rather counting on wak ing up some morning and finding that Castro has dis appeared in the dust. The question is whether any Communist police state, holding all the weapons of terror and repression in its own hands, can ever be over thrown by a popular uprising armed with jittle more than sticks and stones? SPHERE is no doubt that con ditions are deteriorating inside Cuba. There is clearly developing an angry, resent ful, frustrated, and humil iated people who, while still passionately supporting the "Castro revolution," are hearl-sick over what Castro has done to the revolution. The evidence is mounting that there is hunger and un dernourishment. Cuba used to produce food for export and now cannot supply the needs of its own population. Private farmers have no incentive to increase their crops, and the peasants on the slate collec tive farms ' are wondering when Ihcy arc going to re ceive "their land" as prom ised by Castro. They still can't quite realize that Castro's Communist slate has taken over both the land and the peasants to work it. The situation is so out of hand that you have the upside-down condition of farm Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris to Field Enterprises, inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES No person is hopeless until he has lost his capacity to de spise himself for being less than he ought lo be; in this sense, self-contempt is the lasl bastion of human dignity. Hardship strengthens character, up to a point; be yond that, it weakens char actor and it is the greatest arrogance lo prescribe what degree of tolerance another person can endure, when we scarcely know our own. People who are inordinate- j !y proud of their "common sense" usually have little else to bo proud of. The rrost wonderfully I peculiar talent o! a woman ! i 15 her unfailing ability lo j j redress the balance of na- j lure: she can immediately perceive the flaws in a ' bright man and the virtues j in a fool perhaps be- ! cause this is the only way j she could comfortably live j w,!h either. There is no use in coins lor j advice to a man who has not j had your kind of troubles, for i he will inevitably translate them into his kind of troubles, ! and Hive you hichly inap pronri.ne advice. When parent says to a 1 child. "Don't let me catch ; Klamath Falls Hotel In Hands of Receivers Klamath Fall? - m - Two e Cvp- otiict r of tiie Washington Mutual Savings Bank in Seat :nuim tie took possession of the Wil nroads lard Hotel m downtown Klamath Falls Wednesday o-wrek when a one-year waitina pc- and nod for ledemptton of a tore s, a:- closed ir.oil tae on the bn'.td- ir.c and property expired They s.ud the bank is dcfi- mtoy looking tor a buvcr tor ! lie hole !. Question This week impressive early successes were being report ed, including the severe maul ing of two Vietcong battal ions. The campaign also was un earthing impressive new evi dence of the depth and frus trations in this political mili tary war to which the United Slates has committed itself. ers appealing to the cities to send them food. Economic aid from the Soviet Union and Red China is failing to live up to prom ises even as Fidel has failed to live up to his prom ises. Castro is finding that Communist bloc assistance except arms is not only doled out very carefully but is also costly. Cuba's slim re serves of foreign currency are steadily being drained away, largely because Cuba no longer has the exports it can sell to the hard-currency countries. UT LATIN American sources on the continent are convinced that Castro is steadily tightening his grip on the Cuban state and on the Cuban people with so much Soviet help that he is both ally and captive. Castro's armed forces seem to be all that he needs and more to prevail over any op position that might develop. The Soviet Union is stepping up its shipments of arms and thousands of "technicians." Castro has recruited the forces in ample volume. There is every reason to assume that the army is loyal to Castro's bidding. While the regime has been unable lo feed his people properly, it has taken care to see that its troops are a fav ored class. This means that the Castro army is massively armed, well-fed, and heavily disciplined for its duty lo keep the dictatorship in con trol at all costs. A distinguished European liberal who has recently visit ed Latin America contends that Cuba ought to be liber ated by the Organization of American States. These are the words of Salvador de Madariaga: "The argument that 'Castro had better be left alone and given enough rope to hang himself is worthless. The ex perience of other nations fal len into the unscrupulous hands of the Communist party allows of no such optimism. Time could only make of Cuba an impregnable base for communism to spread all over Latin America. The Latin governments who shilly shally over it are only pre paring the rope with which they will be hanged. Castro must go soon." But wishful hoping will not free the Cuban people. Castro will fall only If he is pushed. you doing that again," ihe child resolves not to let the parent catch him, and so learns stealth rather than honesty. The person who complains thai "you lose your friends when you're down and oul" never really had any when he was up and in. Loafing is as much an art as business is; and more businessmen have died pre maturely by not knowing how to loaf, than loafers have died prematurely by not knowing how lo work. Those who think it is use less for a woman to have a higher education. beeaiiMi "she's oiiiiT to get married anyway.'' should ponder the incisive comment by Richard Melver that "When you edu cate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family." "Logic" is what we ap peal to when the facts are on our side; "intuition" is what wi sppeal lo when the facts are against us. More persons have perished by persevering too long al the wrong things than by quitting too soon; there are so many maxims about the value of perse erance. and so few about the necessity for ruth less self-scrutiny. A woman can forgive a man for his infidelities much more easily than she ceuld forgive him for being indifferent lo her own. Why 15 il that the person who can't keep a secret al ways expects you to? Engraved over the doors of most offices should be the piercing words of Sen eca: "A man who hat taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay." Mark Politically The French could not con trol this area when they held Indo-China, and it never has been under the control of the present government of Presi dent Ngo Dinh Diem. Military Success When, in the current oper ation, the soldiers dropped from the helicopters into the waist-high mud and water of the canals and paddies, they moved into tiny villages whose huts displayed prom inently garlanded photos of North Vietnam's Communist president Ho Chi Minh. As in the past, most of the Vietcong guerillas had faded away before the sound of the I approaching choppers, but some were caught and killed in the muddy waters of the paddies. Then, the villages "cleared" the regular South Vietnamese troops withdrew. Militarily, the operation was a success, politically a question mark. The frustrations are many in this dirty little war in which some 7,000 American "advisers" risk their lives and sometimes die. President Diem does not take kindly to criticism, as the Americans have found out, and has been known to act summarily against critics among his own people, wheth er military or civilian. U.S. Advice Attacked Pledges to relax his au thoritarian rule largely have gone unfulfilled. American advice is attacked as an in fringement of Vietnamese sovereignty. Matter of Fact (cl New York Herald By LAURENCE BARRETT (Joseph Alsop is on vaca lion. During his absence his column will be writ ten by reporters expert in national and international affairs.) NEW YORK'S DEMOCRATS A HOUSE DIVIDED New York - One year ago in New York, a small group of Democrats did a wondrous thing. They gave Tammany Hall a lovely drubbing. In so doing, the rebels, or "reform ers," toppled the party'r in ept rtate leadership, its suc cessful New York hierarchy, and that model modern ma chine chief, Carmine De Sap io. The victors excited the im agination with their "wit, en ergy, and attractive girl war riors. More important to the parly's state and national prospects, the deform faction appeared to offer an antidote to Governor Rockefeller. Mr. Rockefeller, in his po litical debut four years ago, routed the Democrats with his own fresh vitality. Lickety split, he was a possibility for the Republican Presidential nomination in 13B0. Now his candidacy is a probability for 1964, provided he can make a strong showing at home this year. A year ago, it seemed, at least to some of us, that the reform Democrats had the charm and intellect to form their party's cutting edge in this year's content. They are not doing so. The reasons for this disappointment merit scrutiny. They point up the difliculty in converting sue-; party. He has not been gen cessful rebellion to effective ' crous to them with patronage. rule, and provide, l ocncvc, the major reason why Gov ernor Rockefeller has no com petition just three weeks be fore the state nominating conventions. rpHE reform movement real ly operates on t u levels. Firsl, there is the corporate entity, the New York Com- of ihe regulars, particularly mitlep for Democratic Vol-! Rep. Charles A. Buckley of ers. This organization opcr- j the Bronx, were early Ken ales on a practical scale. , nedy supporters, seeking to win minor party j If Buckley survives the and public office for it? mem-1 primary Sept. 6. he will owa j bers. it to President Kennedy's Above this there is the party regularity. Not only did vaguelv defined coterie thai ! the President publicly an orbits Herbert II. Lehman, the I nounce his approval of Buck- former Governor and Sen - ator, .Mrs. cicanor rtoosevcii, and a few others of their ecn cration. Here we come to the firsl paradox The younger mem bers on the working level arc j more radical than the elder statesmen. There has been considerable disagreement especially over which old time regulars tn forgive and which to behead. Another problem is still more serious It is the failure of the movement thus far to' secure a broad-based member ship. C'DV has established about 50 clubs in New York : City, none to speak of out of the city. More important, the membership is too homogen eous to constitute an effective political force. It is composed mainly of upper middle class professionals. Probably the largest ethnic group m it is Jewish. IJOLITICS in New York City revolve lo a mauir decree around racial, relig'ous. and nationality groupings So far Ihe reformers have oern un- Early this summer, in- a well guarded military com pound near the outskirts uf Saigon, this correspondent talked to a Vietnamese officer who was perhaps more frank than wise for his own goQd. To use his name now sim ply would expose him to re prisal. He is an officer "in South Vietnam's psychologi cal warfare section and thia is the gist of what he had '.to say: The government has made mistakes. It has had poor ad ministrators and village chiefs often have not acted in the interests of the people. The Vietcong gained fame and admiration as resistance fighters against the French. Now they have the same a'cl miration as resistance fight ers against the Saigon gov ernment and the Americans who are presented as invad ers. Twenty-five thousand hard core Vietcong have perhaps one million supporters among the people who provide sup plies, carry messages aDd sometimes fight. The government has not won the confidence of the people. Young men flee Hio government-supported strate gic self-defended villages out of fear of being drafted. The young officer offered what seemed to be a self-evident conclusion: "If we get the people wkli us, then this war is over."., As of now, it is far from over. By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate able to attract large numbers of Negroes, Puerto Ricails, and Italians - three segments of the community vital 'to long-term political success.' Organtecd labor also Iras been cool, and in some cases hostile, to the new wave. This is understandable, given tha fantastic pluralism of poli tics here. The left-win , un ion leadership has a political mechanism already, the Lib eral party. More conservative labor chiefs disdain the ideal ism of the reformers. These difficulties would be negligible, however if tho reformers had managed .'to gain the affection of Cit Hall and the While House. Mayor Wagner had been' a regular Tammany Hall man for 2.t years before a num ber of circumstances forced him to break with the old ways. But he never joined the reformers' organized branch, relying instead on 'a tenuous relationship with flie movement's mystique-ma kei's. He grabbed the reformers' "anti-boss" banner lasl year and waved il frantically - and successfully. Back in office for a third term Wagner found a vacuum where the party leadership should have been, and moved into that, also. fTUIE younger rebels like Wagner. They accepted him only on the say-so o Lehman and Mrs. Roosevelt. Now Wagner got even. In stead of treating the reform ers as worthy supporters, ha relegated them to the status of just another faction in tha Nor has he given strong sup port to their Congressional candidates in next week's party primary. Still further up the ladder, the White House again shows its elephantine memory -in matters of political loyally. Most of the reformers were ! Stevenson men in 11)60. Soma j ley. but he fnghtene-' Mayor Wagner away from a logical embrace with Buckley's op- poncnt, a nice chap who might make a pretty good Congressman. riniE upshot is lhal the Dcm - ocrats are going into tins year's state election campaign in terrible shape. It need riot have been so. The Democrats ha , a regis tration advantage of 400. Odn. While Governor Rockefeller remains a strong contender, higher taxes, his divorce. and normal wear and tear liaVe reduced his popularity, at least a little Ail lite Democrats needed to make a good showing vs an early decision on a good candidate and a fro.-h. offen sive stance. The Ptcsid;t and the Mayor coulti ha-.s supplied tile forrnei and ;h rrf 'Tiers the ia'.'er t r, s lc" I tile Democrats ar? dr. nd o i canrt ds-e iri , far i:o offering no r . ' .utfr.!. me o Ro. Kr;'.l'e. j poh'.t-. I: i a -i :... '.. f.-c major election go lv, gtUv.i.