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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
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"You Wanted Me To Get Rid Of Thoe Little
Loopholes"
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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
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j Lane, one of the older citi -
i Ion5: Mr ,n'1 Mrs Albert
Durham, residents of Church
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; 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.