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Newspaper Page TextMONDAY. HEDFORDvJJtVrRlBUNB fc, EverylnetnSouthern Oregon Readi The Mitl Tribune ' Published Daily except Ssturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North FirJSt.. PhJlt-flUl ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bus. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR . Mng. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWFTT. Sporti Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'i Editor DALE RICKSON, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered at second class matter at Med ford. Oregon, under Act ol ' March 3. I8i7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance. Daily and Sunday l year fill oo Daily and Sunday 8 mot. J 0.00 Dallv and Sunday 3 mot. 500 Sunday Only One year $5 00 Single Copy (Mailed! 30c Bv Carrier And Motor Route. Daily and Sunday 1 year $21.00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 1.7ft Sunday Only I mo. ftOc Carrier and Vendors Copy 10c Official Paper "of City of Mrdford Official Paper of Jackson County United Pre International Full Leaned Wire U. P. 1. Telepholo Newspicturea 'MEMBER OF AUDIT' BUREAU" r CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES. Office In New York, Chi cago. Detroit, Sun Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Denver. E5 ATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL yninriii.'.iti'.iiiJ Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the tiles ot Th Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 10. 1953 (Thursday) Eagle Point voters approve adoption of new city charter. Railroad Interests charge trucking I n d uslry with spending huge sums of money in Oregon to convince legis lators in other states that eight-mile taxes are unpopu lar; charge is denied by trucking Industry. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 10. 1942 (Friday) Jackson county war bond quota set at $259,500 for Sep tember, fourth highest in Ore gon. From Arthur Terry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Money In circulation Jumped half a billion dollars last month. Not a bit of it whis tled as H Jumped by us." 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 10, 1932 (Sunday) Members of Rogue River Valley Dairy association schedule discussion of pro posed cooperative creamery at next meeting here. Capl. Bill Morgan, Med ford, Is one of nine lcltermcn turning out for University ot Oregon football team as cx Medford High school coach Prink Callison starts his first season as head grid mentor at the school. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 10, 1922 (Monday) All Medford stores asked to close for one day to allow their employees to attend the Jackson county fair. Second day registration brings students to about 3H0; near new record. 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 10. 19)2 Carloads of material arrive here for paving of West lllh St.; work on laying curbs and gutters said progressing rapidly. Brazilian minister of agri culture schedules visit to Medford and Crater lake to study United Sates timber and forestry methods. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct fs superior! seven or eighr is excellent; five or six it good. 1. What is the beam of a ship? 2. Can objects be seen clearly through a translucent body? 3. Italy is a constitutional monarchy; true or false? 4. Are there any States of the United Slates in which snow has never fallen? 5. What product does the hevea tree yield? 8. Does the city of Chicago have a subway system? 7. Which of these is not a monetary unit? rupee, rouble, peso, rondo? 8. In what sport are clay i pigeons used? 9. "Hand" Is a unit of measurement of what animal? 10. Which colonial settle ment was earlier; that at Plymouth. Mass.. or at James town, Va? Answers! 1. Width of ves sel at widest point. 2. No, 3. False (Republic). 4. No. 5. Rubber. 6. Yes. 7. Rondo, i. Skeet and trapshooling. 9. The horse. 10. Jamestown. INSPECTION TRIP Taipei. Formosa 'ITI- Gen. Maxwell D Taylor, new chair man of the U S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, flew Saturday to the offshore island of Qurmoy on a brief inspection trio. SEPTEMBER 10. 1362 Another Candidate's Views The following is Edward Branchfield's re sponse to an editorial invitation to candidates for the legislature to present their views on prob lems of finance and education facing the state in the coming biennium. , Branchfield is one of the three Republican candidates for the house of rperesentatives. The views of John Dellenback, a Republican candi date for reelection to the house, will be published later this week. The responses to the three Demo cratic candidates, Al Bradford, Jim Redden and Charles Crary, have previously been printed. H ERE is Branchfield's To the Editor: You have recently posed some questions concerning the next session of the Oregon State Legislature, which you invited all legislative candidates to answer. You used some specific dollar amounts In your discussion, but I want to be sure that you and your readers realize that at the present time It Is not known, and cannot be known, exactly what amount of additional money will be needed to carry on the state's business in the next biennium. The vari ous state agencies are now in the process of submitting their budgets which are then subject to scrutiny by the Department of Finance. Until that department completes its work, no one will know exactly how much money the legislature will be asked to provide. When all of the budget requests are submitted to the legislature, they will then be referred to the ways and means committee, which will spend several weeks of intensive study before the full legislature will have an opportunity to act. By that time there will also be available the Tax Commission estimates of revenue which it is anticipated will be raised In the next biennium bp present lax levies. Then and only then will the legislature know how much of a gap exists between expenses and income. I assume that the anticipated revenue will be less than the total budget requests. In that event, the leg islature will either have to reduce or delete some services, increase taxes, or provide some combination of both. Since most of our citizens are already carrying an Intolerable tax load, it is my hope, perhaps a vain one, that the legislature can provide for the operation of government without any general lax increase. There seems to be some immutable law which re quires each stale agency and each separate division or unit to be bigger each two years. They all find more .projects which Ihey desire to carry out, and they need more people to handle them. Some expansion is In evitable as our population increases, but I will be op posed to any new programs and to any extension of existing activities except where the public has dem onstrated its need for an expanded program. If the demand is strong for better or different services, then those who make such demands musl be prepared to face and defend tax increases. There is no other source for additional revenue. It Is possible that some state services could be reduced or entirely eliminated. As to that, I would listen to the expressed desires of the voters, ralhcr than to attempt to impose my own per sonal views. I would also ask the advice of Jackson county voters from time to time for guidance in these matters which so closely affect all of us. One of my opponents recently commented In this space that income tax rales are now lower than they were In 1055, and gave ex-Governor Holmes credit for the reduction. He has cither forgotten or does not. know the true facls. In 11155 the legislature was faced with a financial crisis. 11 "solved" the problem by adopting the unwelcome 45 per cent surtax. In 1957 (he Democratically controlled legislature disregarded all fiscal advice which it received and adopted Chapter 586 of the Laws of 1957, which abolished the surtax hut imposed lax rates which were considerably higher than the old normal tax plus surtax. Governor Holmes signed this bill on June 10, 1957, making it law. When he realized that he and his legislature had made a bad mistake. Governor Holmes convened a special session on October 28, 1957, at a cost lo the taxpayers of $90,000. Chapter IS of the laws adopted in that special session reduced income tax rates to approxi mately the 1955 tax rales, including surtax, but step ped up the rales more rapidly, so that most people paid, and now pay, more taxes than under the 1955 rates, even including the surtax. The unnecessary high taxes explain why the state started this biennium with $33,000,000 lefl over from prior years. I do not be lieve the stale should engage In deficit financing, nor do I believe that we should adopt excessively high rales, as in 1957. If more taxes are necessary, they should come, al least In part, from those who now pay practically no taxes. If there arc actual loopholes, not just politically popular targets, they should be plugged. Insofar as basic school support Is concerned, I am in favor ot the automatic increase contained in the present law, plus an additional increase, if at all pos sible. Such increase will give properly owners some needed property lax relief. Al the present time we are far from the long planned and agreed upon goal of having the state pay one-halt of the operating costs of tile school districts. a We do not now know what increase will actually he needed by the Department ot Higher Education. We want to be certain that all young people who can benefil from college, and who desire to attend, have an opportunity. But that does not necessarily mean that Ihe burigrt request is the minimum necessary to do the Job and do it well. Thai budget will have lo be studied carefully along with all the others. The community college program seems to be de veloping rather slowly. The fact that local property taxpayers are called upon lo pay part of the costs may be one reason. Another is that quite thorough study Is necessary lo determine the need for and the scope of such school; that is, whether it should be a voca tional school, lower division college level, adult edu cation, cotiuscing and guidance service, or some com bination. Since these studies all take time, It is doubt ful if the community college program will progress very rapidly In Ihe next two years. If it does, the needs ot these schools will have to be considered as part of the total financial picture of the state. I want to see the needs of the state taken care of, without frills and waste. If Increased taxes are neces sary, which we do nol yet know, then they must be levied in such manner thai they do not force the farmer and the small business man lo throw up their hands and quit the struggle. Edward Branchfield 120 Stark St. Medford. IT IS hoped that, by presenting the views of th? legislative candidates, a livelier realization of the problems facing the state, particularly in the vital and related realms of finance and education, will be generated. Most Of the candidates are against new Ol - higher taxes, if thev can be avoided, most of tU. .., 1 1. 1'..:...- :u:i.-.: . :.. lllVlll lUIIPI MlllUllin IMK . . education. Few WOllld disagree. PUt it remains a fact, ill'Thc Beaver-rortland Cement ctut,. fin...,,.,. u 1o-hr ill..! k.,. ;Co. l Gold Hill, now living! . ......... v v. what you re willing to statement: I OUT I CS lUllSlUHU CS ..v. i. mm ivi, ku " jiay for. L.A. "You Wanted Me To Get Rid Of Thoe Little Loopholes" COMMUNICATIONS fetters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial i for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to ' A'tt ll lttura u.ith u iu In r-lrit i.illnn nri ,nivl.n,i(u.i, I ill... submitted tor 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 oiten he case. Archaeology Display To the Editor: This teller is written in behalf of the Ore gon Archaeological society to request your assistance in pub licizing our organization and our annual exhibit. The Oregon Archaeological society was formed Feb. 9, 1951 at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland for the purpose of recovering and preserving the archaeological and historical material of the northwest. We have accomplished a great deal to further our aims by cooperating with scientific and academic organizations in their archaeological work, by promoting public interest in this fascinating hobby, and by serious study and effort on the part of individual members. Examples of such accomplish ments include the excavation of Wakomap Mound on the Columbia river near The Dal les under the direction of the University of Washington, an nual exhibits lo bring archae ology to the public, and writ ing of articles and publication of books pertaining to archae ology by individuals in the or ganization. The Kalapooya branch ot the Oregon Archaeological so ciety was organized in Eu gene in 1959. One of the high lights of our accomplishment is our role as host in present ing the society's seventh an nual exhibit Sept. 15 and 18, 19(12 at Harris hall, Eighth and Oak sts. in the city park blocks in downtown Eugene. Hours on Saturday will be from 10 a m. to g p.m. and on Sunday the hours will be from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (DST) In the past exihibits have been heid in The Dalles and Portland. This is the first showing in Eugene and by so I doing we are bringing archae ology in this form to a new area. 1 We wish lo emphasize lhal the exhibit is entirely free to Ihe public and that no admis sion charge In any form will be made. This is accomplished by a sincere group effort on our part. To those who have nol attended one of these cx- , hibits in the past, the content and nature of the show is amazing. Every effort is being : made to make the exhibit edu cational as well as entertain ' ing. We plan to have lectures Illustrated with slides bv in dividuals n,oted for their knowledge of various phases i of archaeology. Questions will I be welcome and we will have members of our group on hand to answer all inquiries lo the best of our knowledge. jThe scope of the displays in clude material and artifacts ;from Mexico to Alaska with thc emphasis on the Oregon country and the Columbia riv er areas. j Otlo Henrickson, I Publicity Chairman Kalapooya Branch 1 Oregon Archaeological Society 831 Waitc si., Eugene. Ore. Visit to Ashland To the Editor: A recent trin to the quaint city ot Ashland was most interesting since we 01 macninery in mining, noted the town's new adorn- i My father's family left Ore ments in the way of changes n n the BOs and went to in its streets and modern iard I Indiana. buildings. We also enjoved the ' r,t Indiana 60 years ago. southeast gusty winds that cnurned the town on that day. Among some of the pioneers ,., ii,f l- ........... j Lane, one of the older citi - i Ion5: Mr ,n'1 Mrs Albert Durham, residents of Church II:. ,,,. M 0...1 i l.ll . llllllfllll tl- ; Ker. an erstwhile emnlnver of! on Cluirrh street. I a can waj made on Mr I MEDFORD MAIL Archie Haskins who operates a vintage automobile parts ga rage and shop at 264 Fourth street, Ashland. Mr. Haskins is also interested as a hobby ist in the collection of an tique automobile license plates. A trip to his establish ment is one to be remembered, as It represents a huge assort ment of old motor age ve hicle parts demanded by the old timers club. Our limited time was far too short to get around to meet and visit with all the old friends we would liked to have met while there. We also noted a number of changes in the downtown area, espe cially the modernized appear ance of new structures' under construction. One of the town's attractions is the Lith ia water fountain on the Plaza. All in all Ashland has gone through a great transition in the past 10 years. A copy of the Ashland Daily Tidings rounded out the day's latest happenings and sold at the same old price of five cents a copy. By the way, the Tid ings is Southern Oregon's old est newspaper being 87 years of publication. Many other features are re called to mind but space al this time does not permit all the recorded' incidents of the trip. Bert Kissinger 322 South Riverside ave. Medford Aid Appreciated To Ihe Editor: We wish to express our sincere apprecia tion for your cooperation in publicizing our annual appeal to the community for teacher housing. Our housing coordi nator indicates that the re sponse from the community at large was particularly good and that we were able to find suitable housing in all in stances for new staff mem bers. Without your help in this regard, our problem would have been most diffi cult. We do want to say that in a period of increasing teach er shortage the securing of housing for teachers has play ed a significant part in our recruiting efforts. Your coop eration has made this both effective and possible. Elliott Beckon Assistant Superintendent Medford Public Schools Old-Timer To the Editor: Seventy-eight years ago I was In your city. It was my city then, as 1 had arrived on the 25th of July supposedly the first boy born In Medford. There were a girl or two ahead of me, according lo my parents, who were Gershom and Vashti Garri. My father was there work ing with or setting up some kind of mining machinery. My father's oldest brother, Roswell Card, went to Cali fornia in 1849 with an emi grant train from Illinois and Indiana. He left the train at nprlpn lTtnh atirl wnlkiH nn ahead, beat the train to Sac ! ramento six weeks. He went to prospecting and experi- ! menting with different kinds! have spent 60 years on the i pianw na in me enge ot tne ' mountains. Came to Kansas in 1!1114 L'nt marrirH in 1 (1 1 0 i"d came to New Mexico I h"v" ,nr" children, eight grandchildren. 12 arcat. grand- h,M, .1 c. v..tn,,.,,, biiu 1I .-I T Icmbcr we will celebrate our wedding anniversary, Vurscll B. Card Box 40.1 Santa Fe, N. M TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Foreign News: Japan-Red Bloc Trade; French Worker Unrest; West New Guinea By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Notes from the foreign news cables: Testing The Water The Japanese would like to increase their trade with the Communist bloc, now totaling less than five per cent of Japan ( total both in im ports and ex po rts. But they dislike the Red ' practice of us ing trade as a naked weapon in power poli tics. Last Nrwsonj month seven companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange announced a total of $800 million in new Drummond Reports (Walter Lippmann Is on vacation. Roscoe Drummond reports from Washington in his absence.) (c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc. TV Debates Need Change Washington - The politi cians and the public can take it for granted that campaign debates are here to stay. Many Democratic and Re publican candidates for con gress and for governorships will undoubtedly be appear ing jointly before the cameras this fall. President Kennedy Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris ic Field Enterprises Inc. 100 PER CENT AMERICAN Some pompous ass was de claiming about "100 per cent Americanism at a dun din ner party the other evening, and I despei- fSiSSSSS atelywi,hcd I could nave re membered the answer that was once giv en to that phrase by Prof. Ralph Linton, the c u 1 tural an thropoligist. Linton's com ment many years ago, and so can only give a rough approx imation. It concerns the "100 per cent American" who rises in the morning garbed in pa jamas, a garment of East In dian origin, and gets out of a bed that was built on a pat tern originated in Persia. Our patriot then looks at the clock a medieval Eu ropean invention and goes to the bathroom, where the- glass was invented by the ancient .Egyptians, the glazed tiles by the Syrians, and the porcelain by the Chinese. His bathtub and toilet are Roman deriva tives and only the ugly radiator is distinctively Americanl He then shaves (a rite developed by Egyptian priests), washes with soap invented by the Gauls, and dries himself on a frankly Turkish towel. Back in the bedroom, he puts on clothes whose form derives from the nomads of the Asiatic steppes, shoes made from hide prepared by a process invented in Egypt, a bright colored necktie introduced by the 18th Cen tury Croats, and goes down to breakfast. Here, his food is placed before him in pottery ves sels stemming from China. His fork is a medieval Ital ian device, and his spoon is a copy of a Roman eating-tool. His "American" breakfast consists of coffee, which descended from an Abyssinian plant, orange juice, originally from the Mediterranean, and a bowl of cereal, made from grain that was first domesticated in the Near East. After breakfast, he places on his head a piece of felt, in vented by Asiatic nomads, and dashes for the train, which is an English product. He may take along an umbrella, in vented in Indja. and pay for his newspaper with coins in vented in ancient Lydia. Then he settles down for a smoke, with a cigarct Invented in Mexico, or a cigar derived from Brazil. He reads the news of the day printed in characters in vented by ancient Semites, bv Harris I read Prof a process invented in Germa-' '"'.k about. I'm not anti-press: ny, upon a material invented;' j,lst '"ink we don't belong in China. Then he thanks a ' in lllre debates. Hebrew God in our Indo-Eu-' If 'he nominees are going to ropean language that he is a IU0 per cent (decimal system from Ihe Greeks) American (from Amerigo Vespucci, I Italian explorer) j TRADE FAIR CLOSES Berlin - in - The Leipzig j Trade Fair. Communist East ; Germany's tre-te showplace. I closed Sunday and reported it iwnrnlivl h, M ..a,:.. . r- ui III , I I if in worth of business. ADX. the n.-i i..unrfii .cws Agency, said 6.450 exhibitors from 4 it I nations on both sides ot the Iron Curtain look part. 1 business deals resulting from a Soviet visit to Tokyo. Since then, the stocks of four of these companies have advanc ed. Three have fallen. The Japanese attitude still seems to be one of wait and see. Trouble The French government is bracing for a rough period of labor unrest. Workers in all the nationalized industries, in cluding railroads, coal mines, gas and electricity, are begin ning to press hard again for wage boosts In which they lag far behind private indus try. A new round of strikes is not ruled out. Strongman Philippines President Dios dado Macapagal is gaining the reputation for being the has already offered to debate his opponent in 1964. As he contends in his book, "Six' Crises," Richard Nixon believes that next time the ad vantages will be on the side of the Republican nominee since Mr. Kennedy will be on the defensive and his adver sary will be on the attack as Mr. Kennedy was two years ago. But, despite the fact that the TV debates were probably hurtful to his candidacy, Mr. Nixon does not regret his de cision to debate - and would do it again, He has already challenged Gov. Pat Brown, and a Brown-Nixon debate will undoubtedly be arranged. ryHE continuance of national IV deuaics and tneir ex tension to congressional and gubernatorial candidates are largely in the hands of the voters. "Joint TV appearanc es of candidates at the presi dential level," says Mr. Nixon, "are here to stay, mainly be cause people want them and because the candidates have a responsibility lo inform t h e public on their views before the widest possible audience." If the public wants the TV debates, the candidates have little choice in the matter since the consequences of re fusing to debate would almost certainly be more adverse than the consequences of de bating. To make the '62 and '64 de bates possible congress must either repeal or again suspend the equal-time provision of the Federal Communications act. This stipulates that broad cast time must be sold or giv en equally to all candidates for a particular office. This provision must have looked very tidy and equit able when it was first enact ed. It is completely unrealis tic and unworkable. It means that the stations cannot give equal time to the principal candidates unless they give the same time to a horde of less-than-minor fringe candi dates who, in addition to not deserving the time, would drive viewers away en masse. In 1960 for example, there were 14 legally nominated presidential candidates in ad dition to Senator Kennedy and Vice President Nixon. To require the stations to give equal time to peripheral can didates is the same as though newspapers were prevented from publishing the full texts of the Kennedy and Nixon speeches unless they also pub lished the full texts of (he other 14 nominees. ' IF TV DEBATING is to be 1 come a fixture in political campaigning for all major of fices - as I think it is - there is room for improvement in the format of the debates as they were conducted two years ago. There should be more debat ing by the candidates and less questioning by reporters. The debates need to be at least an hour and a half in length. The candidates, not the reporters, o u g h t to determine what is sues are to be discussed. I think it would be better if the nominees asked each other questions rather than to have correspondents do the ques tioning. Each debate ought to be lim ited to one main subject, plus its legitimate ramifications, instead of having a series of quickie three-minute answers on anything the rcDortrrs 1 n ' n k 'he candidates should 1 laK to oil or ,5 million vot tors several times from Sep- j naturallv assumed that these !? r not' one ,hing ' abs tember to November, the role I thr. nn....r. -;-.. -i .... lutely sure: the bosses will be of airplane whistle-stopping! ill have to be reviewed. One ; of the weaknesses of the 1960 , ... mai mey were so poorly prepared. Mr. Ken nedy and Mr. Nixon were de voting about 84 hours a week to people who gathered by the thousands, and as a result they had only a few hours of rv- i nausted preparation for Ihe I TV appearances before voters gathered in their homes by the I millions strongest Philippine president since Ramon Magsaysay. One Manila columnist has written that Macapagal even is "toy ing" with the idea of guided democracy similar to the iron rule in Indonesia, Burma and Thailand. Macapagal has cracked down on graft, and he does have trouble delegating authority. But he has stayed well with- ing the spirit and letter of the law on all occasions. Rohan D. Rivett of Australia, director general of the Inter national Press Institute, says the Philippines press is the "freest and most virile in the world." Macapagal himself says he wants it to stay that way. And there is no sign that it will not. Tough Job President Sukarno won his fight to annex West New Washington Report By William (cl tlnitee Feature Syndicate RETURN OF THE BOSSES Washington - The one cer tain forecast for that mass of chaos which is now the Dcmo- IT''sWVfh cratic party in New York is that the great "revolt against boss i s m" of yesterday will turn in the near tomor row lo this piteous call from nearly all factions: In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: The United States has asked several of its NATO allies to TRY TO PREVENT their commercial ships from carrying Soviet goods to Cuba. The state department est imates that since mid-July about 60 ships have lefl Soviet bloc ports for Cuba. Of these, 25 are said to be Soviet-owned and most of the rest were chartered from Free World countries. The countries approached on the charter question in clude Greece, Norway, Britain and West Germany. These are said to be the NATO nations whose vessels most frequently are chartered to Russia. rpHAT, somehow doesn't seem to make sense. If Russian goods are being shipped to Cuba in relatively huge quantities, we naturally want to know WHAT KIND OF GOODS are being shipped there. Are they peace goods? Or are they WAR goods? We certainly can't expect Russia lo tell us especially if they are war goods. Nor could we afford to believe what Russia did tell us. Russia is a communist coun try and lo communist coun tries lying is laudable if it helps to achieve a communist purpose. TUT- " If Russia is shipping WAR goods to Cuba goods designed to convert Cuba into a BASE from which the Unit ed States might be attacked and if these war pnnHc nra ! being shipped in vessels char I tered from our friends and allies it seems reasonable to expect that our friends would know what was going on and would be inclined to TELL US ABOUT IT. We would then know what is what and would be in better position to decide what lo do about it. T1ESIDES Why ask our friends to do for us what we seem to be afraid to do for oi'rselves? QUESTION: How did the Monroe Doctrine get started? TT C in GREW out of conditions America. Back in the early 1820's. the three leading abso lute monarchies were Russia, Austria and Prussia. They then termed themselves the Holv Alliance nn nf Ihni great frauds of history. If , " - there ever was an unholy al liance it was this triumvirate of autocratic despotisms. They pledged themselves to "PUT AN END to the system of representative government, in whatever country it may exist in Europe." We quite t suppress representative g 0 v e r n m e n t in the New World. Out of thai ,.m lk. Monroe Doctrine. IN THESF days, we arc cer- tainly justified in suspect- ing that suppression of free government is a prime objec tne of Russian communism. So The Monroe Doctrine ap , plies to our present situation. if ; 1j trail Guinea to the Indonesian re public but he still has a tough fight on his hands. Of the 700.000 Papuans who live on the western half of the is land, some are pro-Dutch, some are pro-Indonesian, some are pro-Independence. But the great majority are unlettered bush dwellers who know noth ing of politics and care less. It has been costing the Dutch $30 million a year to main tain a civil service and mili tary force totalling 25.000 men on the island. Now, some of the tribesmen are talking about guerilla war against the Indonesians, even including the possibility of calling on Communist China for help. The Communist Chinese cur rently are close friends of In donesia and such a develop ment would be embarassing to both. S. White "Bring back the boss, 'most any boss whatever, so long as he can make this blankety- blank railroad run." For years, reformers,, or ganization men, and dozens of shades of shrieking liberals -there are no Democratic con servatives in New York except for such rare relics of common sense as James A. Farley -have traded blows ,with dirk and dagger and the poisoned pen. rpHE reformers beat and ban- ished the old "bosses" last year in the reelection of Mayor Robert F. Wagner -who, though himscly strictly a boss product, now prudently joined those he could not lick and proclaimed himself the very most anti-boss fellow of all. It was a famous victory, but for one or two small points. The reformers found that while they had truly mastered the Democratic party, they had also broken it into petu lant fragments. Though they were capable of smashing the organization with vengeful and righteous cries, they proved that they were quite unable to put it back together again. Moreover, it turned out that the ferries which had carried the old bosses off to exile -to some Statcn island, so to speak - were still running both ways. The bosses began to make the return trip. But they did not return as chas tened and penitent allies of the reformers, purged now of their evil capacity to run a party. HEY retained the ability for practical leadership, an ability which the reformers had not got and will never get. But the party, if that i what it had become, was now in other hands, and those who could lead had nothing now to lead. So they returned, the old bosses, only to watch in mela ancholy satisfaction the crumbling of the reformers' dreams, knowing very well what was bound to happen. The reformers - Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, former Gov. Her bert Lehman and others -were themselves fated lo break apart. The self-righteousness and ineptitude of most of their crusading colleagues became, at last and at times, too much even for Lehman and for James Lenigan, the Green wich Village leader who had I worked to great avail in the unseating of the old guard. For Lehman and Lenigan have at any rate two thing? in common: a sense of fair ness and tolerance, and an adult political skill. VOW the position is that A" four Democrats, none ter ribly well known, are earnest ly vying for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination and thus for the honor of being soundly defeated by the Re publican governor, Nelson Rockefeller, in November. It is said darkly among some of these aspirants that the fourth, Robert Morgcnthau, is him- - .,. . .. '. 5 iscii - sname oi all sname - a boss selection. It Is eve.i claimed that the Kennedy ad ministration has given him the nod and that the highest hero of all the anti-bossists. Mayor Wagner, is going along, too. Whether all this is exactlv 1 b.ack' lor the fimp,e reason ' ,hat in 8 P,acc like N'ew York there is no other way to oper- ate a rational party. And. for a final point. "boss" is only the epithet usci by the outs against the ins. anyhow. When the outs be come the ins, the "boss" be comes a great leader, freely chosen by this great party, ct cetera. The boss is dead: long live the boss.