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Medfcrd and Jackson County
History from the files of Tha
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. II, 1952 (Tuesday)
Plans for the Talent divi
sion of the Rogue valley de
velopment project, now under
study by the Bureau of Recla
mation, are virtually com
plete, according to the region
al director of the bureau.
Sixteen recent burglarics-1 1
In Mcdford and five in Ash
land - have been solved by
Mcdford city police in cooper
ation with local citizens and
Ashland police.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 11. 1942 (Wednesday)
One Mcdford boy dies, two
others injured when car hits
culvert on Crater Lake high
way near McAndtows rd.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Cof
fee hoarders are reported
thwarted by grocers punching
an hole in the airtight can.
One of these days a hoarder
will turn tinsmith and thwart
the grocer by soldering the
Hole when he gets home.
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 11, 1932 (Friday)
Final tabulation of votes
thows S. A. Kroschcl elected
to city council by margin of
nine votes over Walter E.
Rowley.
Hood River high school re
fuses to play Medford high
football team for mythical
state championship; local ath
letic officials hope to schedule
title game with La Grande.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 11, 1922 (Saturday)
Railroad conductor fined
$10 in Eugene when train
blocks crossing: item reported
as "good news to Medford
residents who have had to
wait at local crossings.
n fined $251) each
d conn on charge
Five men
In Medfor
of violating prohibition law.
50 YEARS AGO
Nov. 11, 1912 (Monday)
Judge J. 11. Canon, Mcd
ford. announces he is candi
date for U.S. marshal tor Ore
gon: reports much encourage
ment troui Domocralic party
leaders.
Mcdloid police open trallic
regulation enforcement pro
gram: Chief Unison stands at
Intersection of Main and Front
sis. for several hours "mak
ing teams, automobiles and
even bicycles make the cor
ner properly "
What's Your I.Q.?
Hint or ten correct li tuperior;
even or tight it ticclltnt; fivt 01
lii It good.
1. Who was Noah's grand-1
2. H.m- many frrt arp in. TOO often in rcivnt years, the committee has
6 fathoms.? : 1 sumunbrd to its esoteric, if not "precious"
snuara,rikindo,,an;,itt election of a prizewinner in liter-
cannon, or a set of bells tuned ;
to play the full scale?
4. Is the Ruhr in western or
In eastern Germany?
5. Who was the ".Man of
Destiny"?
6. Osaka, Kobe and Yoko
hama are large cities in which
country?
7. Which floats more readi
ly, a fat or lean person?
8. Which country is called
"the land of the midnight
tun"?
fl. How niHiiy sessions must
a Congressman attend in
Older In qualify?
1(1 Name the Nobel Prize
winner who wrolo "Mam
Street" and "Bahitl"?
Answers: 1. Methuselah. 2.
360. 3. Set of bells. 4. West
ern. S. Napoleon. 6. Japan. 7.
Fat person, S. Norway. 9.
One. to be tworn in and seat
ed. 10. Sinclair Lewis.
NOVEMBER 11. 1962
Steinbeck's Prize
The recent award of the Nobel Prize for lit
erature to John Steinbeck is, apparently, not be
ing well received by the critics.
Oddly, the ones who are complaining the
loudest over Steinbeck's selection are his fellow
countrymen, the Americans.
Prize winners have been panned or attacked
before. Some of the critics have tastes so refined
that no choice could ever please them.
In the case of Boris Pasternak, the Russians
were unhappy about his selection because his
writings didn t square with the party line.
But with Steinbeck, the critics are derogating
the choice because they feel he didn't merit it,
because his work is not of sufficent quality to
receive that highest of all literary honors.
FOLLOWING the death of William Faulkner
some months ago, we attempted an evalua
tion of the current American literary scene.
We found it bleak, and suggested that unless
the Nobel Prize committee should see fit to honor
aging Poet Robert Frost, it might be a decade or
more before an American would again be named.
In the same appraisal, we remarked that
Steinbeck's pen "still
somehow, the prospect
seemed too remote and
considered.
We've been wrong
happy about it.
TXITH all due deference to those immensely
larger talents who have pooh-poohed Stein
beck's selection, and wagged a for-shame finger
at the committee for its less than elevated taste,
we must say we think it an apt and deserved nom
ination. We can't agree with the committee which
found Steinbeck's work to be of equal rank with
his contemporaries, Hemingway and Faulkner,
but at the same time his rather considerable con
tribution to literature should not be minimized
or cavalierly dismissed as inferior.
Both from the standpoint of quality and quan
tity, Steinbeck is a major writer. His mind has
been fertile, his themes varied, and his output
consistent, readable, interesting and at times
provocative.
His characterizations are vivid and memor
able, and his sense of human relationships, while
perhaps too often larger or less than life, is
accurate and sure.
THE bases of the attacks against Steinbeck
have, to be sure, some
He has been too often preoccupied with pat
ently socio-economic themes. His life philosophy
is rawer more snallow than profound.
His handling of sentiment true human emo
tion lapses an uncomfortable number of times
into a mawkish, maudlin
And when he cets a
ing for him in his novels, more often than not,
he rides it and rides it long past the point where
a more talented writer
mounts.
In "East of Eden,"
"timshel" seemingly occurs (it really doesn't) on
every other page, l ie even
His ability to develop
of Our Discontent," is mediocre at best when
compared with the real masters of that most dif
ficult of all literary devices.
DUT if success and reader popularity have any
lJ meaning at all (we're vulnerable here, we
know), then Steinbeck did himself an injustice
when, upon being told he had won the prize, he
stiid he didn't deserve it.
His "Grapes of Wrath" is clearly one of the
major works to come out of the great depression
pernio, its accuracy and validity have never been
successfully questioned, and it has been fre
quently said to have been instrumental in caus
ing legislation to be enacted which better pro
tected the migrant worker from exploitation.
It has been translated into several languages,
and is standard required reading in most Ameri
can literature courses on campuses throughout
the country.
It will be read as an
,1 i i i
wiii uiiiiii i iv pernio in
as the United States and
qtience in the world.
HlUla?.
We would not suggest for a minute that the j
,w,m,!tt., t.,i.,l
ivMiiMumi; Limn Li r umm raic 101 ine , fill aim
then award the prize to the writer who has made
the most money.
But neither would we completely turn a cold
shoulder on the tastes of the ordinary reader.
Wide popularity is not necessarily a prima facie
case for indifferent quality.
The Kintr James translation of the Old Testa-
mnnl li-.-! !..,! I ...id, ; ,1 1,1 I i
iiiv.ui, iih.t (Kill HUH Ull I lis (1 IV IUI I'U' , 1 1, Ot 1 II 1 1 1
by countless millions. And Shakespeare did not
write his plays for the exclusive pleasure of the
literati.
Steinbeck doesn't really deserve to be men
tioned in the same breath with the previous ex
amples, but his staying power ami wide reader
ship tlo, we think, speak
liWil'n f M "1 l I'til'l 1 I ' him ia
,.. '-v "
winner of the Nobel Prize
had some power," but,
of him winning the prize
unlikely to be seriously
before, but seldom so
real validity.
sentimentality.
mmmick hobbyhorse eo-
would have changed
for example, the work
ended the book with it.
alleoorv. as in "Winter
important document of
' i . i
.American n storv so ontrir,-,
its people are of const
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for themselves ami ;
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"""Iplflr. dayhsht Mvint In Ore-
for literature. d.H.R. i tnn wins decisively- I
"Of Course I Know
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
(cl New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
THE DOMINANT
AMERICAN MAJORITY
As I read the election re
turns on Wednesday morning,
the dominant majority, not
only in the
country as a
whole but also
within each of
the parties, is
not on the left
or on the right
but in the cen
ter. The big
R e p u b lican
victories cast
i.iiipniann of the Missis
sippi in New York, Pennsyl
vania, Michigan were won
by conservative but progres
sive men Rockefeller and
Javits, Scanton and Romney.
(I do not know about Mr.
Rhodes in Ohio.) The biggest
Republican defeat that of
Mr. Nixon in California was
the defeat of a politician who
does not have the confidence
of moderate men.
There is nothing in the re
turns to suggest that there is
a Republican majority, much
less a popular majority, for
Sen. Goldwaler and those to
the right of him. The Repub
lican party will have to go to
the country in 1964 as the
conservative and progessive
party of Rockefeller, Javits,
Scanton, and Romney.
'IM1E Democrats have lost, If
1 indeed they have lost
them, only a handful of scats
in the House. According to
the rules of the political game
as played for half a century,
when the party in power loses
little if anything in a mid
term election, it really wins
a victory. President Kennedy
has had a sizeable vote to ap
proval. I do not know, and it may
be impossible to know, how
big a part the Cuban affair
played in the outcome. But in
the long view President Ken
nedy, who is a man of the
center, is entitled to feel that
he represents and reflects a
great centrist majority.
To be a man of the center
is to be at once conservative,
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Americans are in complete
agreement that in the death
of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt we
have lost one of our greats.
Often cynical Frank Lloyd i
Wright once said of her: "She i
fully justified the giving of
the ,-ote to women." j
William D. llassett, who;
served on the staff of Presi-1
idenl franklin I). Hooscvcii i
roni 1!1:I5 until his death in
11145. describes her as "easily i
the world's foremost humani
tarian." and adds:
"Of course, she made pow
erful enemies, but when neces
sary she could always defend
herself with a free conscience
and the courage of a mighty
heart '
ET'S put it tins way:
" l-'ke Ml -t.al.ihad. Mean
or Roosevelt could always say
no mailer how rough the
going might be
"My strength is as the
strength of ten,
"I'lCcause my heart is pule "
1' e o p 1 e like that are
liKEAT.
KliOM ,v,,i'"1
Portland
ui:
otns I iiihtrn-
cd thr nly's purse slrinns in
the Tm-Mi.iy rlcrlion, dotcal-
m.i Ml ' m"KV MK AS.
I'lIKS on thr municipal bM-
lo
Question
Could that be a straw in the
I w ind''
10IK
on the election:
h the vote count com-
" mi mr uiir u'iiim i"ui i
It' Mm. Roo.evelt"
r
liberal, and progressive. Mr.
Kennedy has always- been a
man of the center and in lead
ing the Democratic Adminis
tration to the center position,
he has led the Democratic
party to the place where the
big majority live.
1'HE election has shown that
the Democrats are still the
majority party in the country.
But, of course, they are not a
united party. They are divid
ed into three wings a very
conservative wing based on
the South, a liberal and pro
gressive wing based on the in
dustrial centers in the North
and East, and a centrist wing
which might just as well be
called the Kennedy adminis
tration wing.
If we ask ourselves whether
President Kennedy can turn
his victory in the election into
hard votes for his legislative
program, I would guess that
he will not be able to do that
in any large measure. He is
likely to do something belter
on certain of his welfare meas
ures because the Rockefcller-Romney-Scanton
Republicans
will want to identify them
selves with measures that are
popular in tne great urban
centers. There is also a chance
that, because Governor Rocke
feller is a modern educated
man in economic theory, the
President may win support
for the critical and important
matter of installing an expan
sionary fiscal policy.
B
UT if the President makes
matters, it will not be spec
tacular. There is no popular
support for innovations at
home. The President's great
support is in the field of our
vital national and internation
al interests.
Here his stature has grown
greatly since he first went to
the White House, and with the
new international prospects
that are opening up since Cu
ba and the Chinese-Indian
war, it is good to know that
in the search for peace with
honor he can count upon such
substantial popular support.
JENKINS
Yes
No
37!U).7
IM.Ml
How come, after
years? The answer
ill these
ecnis to
be that most of
us
finally
came around to the conclusion
that next summer we'd like
to know what time it is.
At OKE election aftermath:
A In Oklahoma on Tues
day, a man by thp name of
Henry Bcllmon achieved a
political miraclr. Hp became
the first Republican in Okla
homa's So-ycar history to win
thr slate's highest office the
governorship.
How did he rii it"
The dispatches repnrt that
in his campaigning his fav
orite story concerned a farm
er who had a cow for sale.
The buyers asked him about
the cow - what is her pedi
gree, how about the buttcrfat
content of her milk, and so
on.
This was his answer:
"All 1 can tel you is th.it
she's an hoiu-i. Ii.od-woiki''.i;
,m um- ' M" ?m 11 "r,
all the milk she's K'! That s
what I'll do if I trt elected
Kovernor of Oklahoma. '
T
UK moral
Maybe , I h e nepublu an '
party needs more candidates
of that sort.
Matter of Fact By j0S.Ph a,.
(C) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
THE PRESIDENT'S
SURPRISE PACKAGE
Washington - For President
Kei. nedy, the remarkable
election result is a victory,
and a potenti
al trap - in
short, a triple
threat surprise
package.
i About the
Presi dent's
victory, there
cannot be
much doubt.
The pattern of
Aimp recurring off-
year losses by the party in
power is well-established. By
all the rules, the Democrats
ought to have suffered a sharp
setback this year. Instead, the
President's party has gained
on balance.
I The Republican successes in
the Governorship contests
were important, especially the
victories of Rockefeller in
New York, Scranton in Penn
sylvania, and Romney in
Michigan. But these successes
no more than compensate for
the Republican, defeats, and,
above all, the defeat of Rich
ard M. Nixon after a very
strange uphill, downhill, up
hill fight. The California out
come probably puts the na
tion's largest state into the
Democratic column for some
time to come.
'
T'HE Democratic gain in Sen
ate seats was solid and im
pressive. As for the House
of Representatives, the South
ern seats gained by the Re
publicans were taken from
a n I i - Kennedy conservative
Democrats. Hence the change
in the real line-up of the
House is just about nil. With
good luck and good manage
ment, the President should
even find the new House easi
er to deal with than the old
House.
These are the reasons why
the final score is clearly in
the President's favor. As to
why it is in the President's
favor, the answer is equally
clear.
Until only a fortnight ago,
the atmosphere of the Demo
cratic campaign was down
right dank, to put it mildly.
The President's barnstorming
on domestic issues had lighted
no bonfires among the voters.
There was no enthusiasm, no
spark to ignite the faithful
with excitement.
Then came the Cuban crisis.
The President not only took
the kind of action most Ameri
cans wanted to see taken. In
a moment of grave danger, he
also acted prudently but firm
ly, bravely but very adroitly.
Cuba was the spark that had
been lacking before. In some
slates, the way the resulting
fire singed the Republicans
was easy to see.
TN INDIANA, for instance,
this reporter found two
emotions among the voters -a
great impatience with the
Cuban problem, and a general
lack of enthusiasm for Sen.
Homer Capchart, despite
widespread support for the
Capchart approach to the Cu
ban problem. When the Presi
dent in effect crossed Cuba
off the list, the Indiana voters
plainly decided that there was
no longer any reason why
Capchart should not be cross
ed off the list, too.
In most states, it must be
admitted, the political effects
of Cuba are less easy to pin
down. But there is no doubt
that they were very important
indeed. This is the opinion,
both of the wiser Republican
leaders and of the President
himself and his chief political
advisors.
If & m
Tide of Government
By ERIC SEVAREID
Meanwhile, back at the
White House ...
The foreman and his head
f!sj-'i'jr wranglers are
& n 0 w Iking
1 i ovc r next
I (. year's herd.
' -. r i ,r , i
it .n 1 1 K inn ii.
and withers of
t h r Conces
sional bull s.
cows, heifers
and new born
calves reveal
Jfc?
srvarrtd cd in the after
math of last Tuesday's dust
storm, and estimating their1
chances of driving the crit
ters over the passes of the
New Frontier.
Dropping this metaphor like
a hot branding iron, because
1 haven't the faintest idea of
what to do with it. let me
make the obvious observation
that the President feels he
cannot (.let the Country Mov
ing Again unless lie cm get
the Congress moving agin; but
le! me add the less obvious
o'.eralions that the connec
tion between thr two may not
be as causal as he believes,
What he failed to tel
from rnncrrss this past
ear and very much wants
would help a ureal deal
lo sort out our roll":tiv ;
; affairs, hut il L hard to see
j that It would speed up thel
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
fl'llE President's opportunity
flows from his victory. If
the election had followed the
traditional off-year pattern,
giving the Republicans really
substantial gains in the House,
for instance, one can easily
imagine the displays of feroci
ous partisanship by Rep.
Charles Halleck and others of
his ilk. The U.S. government
would then have been hope
lessly divided, and therefore
stalled on dead center.
AS IT IS, the President can
expect reasonable Con
gressional responsiveness to
his leadership in the next two
years, if he is wise enough
to recognize the potential trap
that his victory also consti
tutes. He is likely to fall into
the trap, however, if he com
placently says, "Well, we did
very well, and we can go on
from here with real confi
dence." The Democrats most em
phatically did not do very
well because the President
stumped the country talking
about medicare and related
matters. Social welfare issues
are important, beyond doubt.
But at this juncture in his
tory, unless the U.S. heads
into a depression, the Ameri
can voters mainly judge a na
tional Administration by its
performance in the fields of
foreign and defense policy.
That was why, of course,
Cuba was so important for
theDemocrals.Ut is contempti
ble and silly to suggest that
the President was even think
ing about domestic politics
when he took action risking
an H-bomb war, and took this
action, too, only in the des
perate, final nick of time. But
it will also be unwise for the
President to ignore Cuba's po
litical lesson.
rpHE lesson is not that the
President must instantly
seek more conspicuous suc
cesses in the world arena.
That would be both imprudent
and impractical.
The lesson is, rather, that
the President needs to con
vince the country that the
same prudent firmness shown
in the Cuban crisis character
izes all the painstaking drudg
ery, all the endless struggle
with intractable, relatively
undramatic problems, which
is day-to-day foreign policy
making. The country needs
to be persuaded that adroit
ness and courage are not just
kept in store for the hours
of dramatic crisis.
It Will not be an easy point
to get across. And it may not
be possible to get across, un
less the President recognizes
the risks he runs from having
an official foreign policy team
that is still visibly afflicted
with schizophrenia of view
point. Prospect Logging
Firm Is High Bidder
S & W Logging, Prospect,
was high bidder on Nov. 5 for
620.000 board feet of National
forest timber in the Needle
Creek select area, Prospect
Ranger district, Rogue River
National forest.
Forest Supervisor C. E.
Brown reported the high bid
totaled S12.572. This is ident
ical with the Forest service
appraised price for the timber.
There were no other bidders.
The timber in this unit con
sisted of 540.000 board feet of
Douglas-fir bid at S22.20 per
thousand and 80.000 board
feet of white fir and other
species bid at S7.30 per thou-
I sand board feet.
county s economic engine and
promote corporate growth and
individual jobs. The kind of
legislative acts that have such
effects are the acts that the
last Congress cfid indeed per
form, although in restricted de
gree in some areas. After all,
it did pass the historic foreign
trade bill. It did raise the
minimum wage level. It did
extend unemployment com
pensation, order heavy foreign
aid spending, heavier military
and space spending, and il
raised federal pay levels.
What it did not do. produc
ing the President's extraor
dinarily heated intervention!
in the campaign, was to '
give bim his department of
urban affairs, medicare under'
social security, federal inter
vention in education, a reor
ganization of farm policies, of i
transportation and of the basic
tax structure. These changes
would have only a marginal
economic effect. Their real
effects w-ould be of an or
ganic or structural nature, no
doubt admirable m most
cases. But they would not
make our economic pulse beat .
much faster, and that is what
most Americans take to be
the meaning of the phrase
about the country moving
again.
The President simply ran
t
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J KREMLIN V
"He used lo be 'Top Advisor' around here kept tell
ing Khrushchev the Americans would never fightl Al
most got us into a lhermonulcear war, the idot!"
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Make Your Voice Heard
To the Editor: Saying the
U.N. can't work is Commu
nist propaganda!
Do you have a voice in in
ternational politics?
How did you feel when you
realized the full implication
of President Kennedy's deci
sion to stem the tide of mis
siles to Cuba? You certainly
applauded him, but did you
feel a little helpless not know
ing exactly what to do next?
Was it too late to have that
shelter built?
You will note that during
the first days of Cuban cri
sis, the Russians did not
stand before the court of
world opinion out in the At
lantic Ocean; they stood in a
General Assembly of the
United Nations; before repre
sentatives of practically every
sovereign nation in the world,
and in a FEW MOMENTS the
basic issues were revealed in
a manner that could not be
construed or suppressed by
radio jamming or censorship.
Once again, the United Na
tions proved to be the effec
tive and ultimate instrument
in taking the first positive
step away from global war.
The United States delega
tion to the U.N. is highly
sensitive to your opinion,
through such agencies as the
Jackson County U.N. Associa
tion. If you would like to see
how this works, join us at the
Red Cross Auditorium, 7:30
p.m., Nov. 13; when five com
munity leaders, under the
moderation of Omar Bacon,
will discuss major issues be
fore the 17th General As
sembly of the U.N. Questions
will be invited from the
audience.
If you are a responsible
citizen, your voice has just
been heard in the recent
elections; it is equally your
responsibility to make democ
racy work on the intern
ational level.
Jackson County Chapter,
Oregon United Nations
Assn.
Medford.
Thanks and a Lesson
To the Editor: Yesterday
afternoon I met two fine gen
tlemen and probably won't
ever see them again. It hap
pened on the 99 Freeway
south of Eugene, just after
bringing my car to a halt after
experiencing a real blow-out
(the kind that scatters rubber
Shifting to States
into an economic downswinc
last year, and would have 1
done so, almost no matter
what the Congress gave him
or withheld. Indeed the w hole ,
western world seems to have
headed into a period of gen-1
eral deflation, and if action '
by the federal Congress is go
ing to take up the slack it
will have lo be action differ
ent in kind and in orders of
magnitude from the specific
actions the President has been !
keeping on his "must'' list. It
is my guess, though onlv a
guess, that by midwinter the,
President will have consider-:
ably revised his list. I
In any case, most of the
truly urgent structural chang
es required in American life
are local or regional and the
arms of government that must
come to grips with tiiese aw
ful necessities are the local
and state arms even mure
than the federal. We are now
an urban people, but our ur
ban life is rapidly becoming
planless, without order, -fantastically
overcomplicated and
overcostly. The great cities
are doubling and trebling in
size, while at the same tune
dying as true cities, as true
communities of men. utterly
losing what unity they had in
their spirit and thctr practices.
in every direction). These men
quickly appraised the situa
tion, had me move the car fur
ther off the Freeway, changed
the tire and wouldn't accept
any fee for their trouble.
They must have been think
ing plenty as they worked:
Why did she drive with such
a bald tire? Why was she in
such a hurry? Why did she
have to pass the truck? Why
couldn't she hear our horn or
see our blinking lights as wa
tried to warn her of the flat?
and, why wasn't the darn
fool a wreckage? But they
never said a word; perhapj
they saw it all in my face.
From their Secretary, who
waited patiently in the car
parked behind mine, I learned
that these two kind gentlemen
are Mr. Alt Mekvold and Mr.
Dealous Cox, Superintendent
and Administrative Assistant
of the Jackson County
Schools. And this letter is a
public thank you to them and
all who enjoy being kind for
kindness sake.
Also, it is a plea for pru
dence on our highways. I've
learned my lesson, but you
may not be so lucky.
Mrs. John Sachs
Route 1,
Creswell, Ore.
Mississippi Program
To the Editor: Much has
been written and said about
Mississippi the past few
weeks. Unfortunately, the
Mississippi viewpoint and the
reasons for Mississippi's situ
ation and attitude seldom get
a hearing before Northern
audiences.
The Mississippi State Sov
ereignly Commission, upon in
vitation, will send volunteer
speakers to recognized service
clubs and civic organizations
lo present in a factual manner
what we call "A Message
From Mississippi". All ex
penses of the speakers will be
borne by the Sovereignty
Commission.
If any clubs in your area
would like to have a Missis
sippi program, or any com
bination of clubs, please writs
Public Relations Department,
Mississippi Sovereignty Com
mission, New Capitol, Jack
son, Mississippi.
Erie Johnston, Jr.
Public Relations
Director
Mississippi State
Sovereignty
Commission
Jackson, Miss.
Some of the greater citie.i
now encompass as many as a
hundred different govern
mental units, involving fed
eral, stale, county and munci
pal authorities in an overlap
ping jigsaw puzzle. Our his
toric governmental structure
no longer really works. Tra
ditional "liberal" or "con
servative" philosphical doc
trines do not really apply.
Politicians must be replaced
by "social engineers" or be
come social engineers.
Surely (he most imporlant
factors in Teusday's election
lie underneath Presidential de
sires and platform planks, and
were produced by the Consti
tution and the courts, not by
the campaign. These are the
re-apportionment of the House
of Representatives following
the liltto census, giving this
decade's tidal shift to the
cities fairer representation:
and the new profile of state
lecislatures. now just ocing
outlined, following the Ten
nessee court case, to the sam
effect. The court action, nt
political action, can give a
whole new life and vitality to
state government, hitherto the
lost orphan of our system
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