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THURSDAY, ' "Ewyohen-Southern-Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune'; Published Daily except Saturday by MEUKOKD PHINT1NG CO 33 North Fir St, Ph.772-6141 " ROBERT W RUHL. Editor jivHIJ GRKY Advertising Manaiter CFRA1.D T LATHAM. Bui Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR . MnK Editor KARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHII'MAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporth Editor OLIVE STARCHKR Women' Editor DALE ER1CKSON. Circulation Mr ArTlndcpendent Newipaper Entered at (.econd class matter at Medtord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance , 'Daitv and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily and Sunday 8 mo 10 00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mo .1 00 Sunday Only One year 5 "0 Sincle Copy IMailcdl 30c Bv Carriel And Motor Route. 'Daily and Sunday 1 year $21.00 Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. 1.75 Sunday Only 1 mo. ftOc Carrlei and Vendor! Copy 10c Otftrlai Paper of City of Medford Official Paper ol Jackson County " United Press International Full Leased Wire U. P I Telephoto Newspictiire 'MEMBER "OF AUDIT BUREAU" Or LIIiLLLrtHUa NELSON ROBERTS Si ASSOC! ATES Olflcea In New York. Chi cacn Detroit. San Francisco. Loi Ansclis Seattle. Portland Denver. NATIONAL EDITORIAL AaSbCrrATIQjN UIU1MMUWJM Flight or Time Medtord and Jackson County Hislory from th files of Th Mail Tribun. 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 year$ ao. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 15. 1952 (Saturday) Two Medford high foolball crs. Guard Don Jacobs and Halfback Alton Stone, have been named to the first team of the Medtord Mail Tribune's 1052 Southern Oregon con ference all-slar squad. One of the most famous choruses in the world, the General Plaloff Don Cossacks, will perform in Medtord to night under the sponsorship ot the Medtord Lions club. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 15, 1942 (Sunday) Forty-eight nurses from New York arrive at Camp While; one brings 52 cakes ot soap afler hearing no soap is available here. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Vic tims ot mild ('.') tlu hereabouts resent 'the feeble jests' about it and them. Boiled down, the jests leave them more feeble than the flu." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 15, 1932 (Tuesday) Local residents adopt reso lution asking that "civil tur moil and agitation cease now that the turmoil election is over." Roscburg citizens announce Ihcy will send delegation to Salem lo request a 50 per cent slash in the cost of automobile license plales. 40 YEARSAGO Nov. 15, 1922 (Wednesday) Move launched to boost membership of Medford Na tiomil Guard company to ill). Medtord High school foot ball team defeats Grants Pass HO to 6 in contest at Grants Pass. ' ' ' 50 YEARS AGO Nov. IS. 1912 (Friday) Oregon State Hotel associa tion starts movement for con struction of stale highway to Oregon caves. J. W. Mitchell and City Council President J. E. Watt announce they are candidates for mayor of Medford; C. K. Gales and W. W. Kitert ex pected lo announce their can didacies. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct ti luparior; acven or eight ii excellent; five ot tit ii good. 1. Were the "Seven Won- j ders of the Ancient World'' all works of man'' 2. Was Cassandra n famed Macedonian general, a Greek ' city, or an ancient prophetess? ;i. Which department did ; Herbert Hoover head in the ; cabinet of Calvin Coolidgo' , 4 Is llynophohia a dread nl breaking a leg. morbid fear of sleep, or desire to become tineiHiM'ious'' I 5. Is whisky or is ti not, an I approved medical Rttlidote tor ! snakebite? j ti Which slate Is nicknamed i the "Hiickcye Slate"" 7. Willi equal wind velur- t lly, would you say that tele graph wires hum loudest m cold or hot weather? 8 The French engineer. Major Pierre C. LFnfanl. de signed the original plan of 1 which l.'.S. city'.' 9 An- dragonflies harmful to in. ill'' 111 Was Old Ironsides sloop, frigate, or corvette? 1. Yes. 2. Prophetess. 3. De pertinent of Commerce. 4 Fear ol sleep. 5. Is not. 6 Ohio. 7. Cold weather. 8, Washinnlon, D.C 9. No. 10, Frigate. 4 i 1 1 NEWS PAP I S(ln!?V PUBLISHERS Wji-ASSOCIATION NOVEMBER IS. 1962 Eastern (The Mail Tribune's city editor, Earl H. Adams, was a member of a party of southern Oregon educators which recently returned from inspecting schools and educational methods in the east and midwest. His report will appear in a scries of articles elsewhere in the paper. Here he gives some of his Impressions of the areas he visited.) Winding country roads lined with small trunked hardwoods dressed in a few scattered brown leaves are within ton, Mass., and Norwalk, Conn. I hey present a sharp contrast to the Rogue valley's drives where city and county are more distinct. From the Lexington school administration's office, which was housed in a remodeled school house, to schools in the city, it was a refreshing drive along narrow roads with trees forming the curbs. The colorful foliage of a few weeks previous was all but gone, but one could visualize the grandeur of the New England countryside after the first frost. THE woodsy New England look has been pre atfmr in i h n it t .f Mr.i'if a 1 la Pnnn u n f 1 vicinity where home lots must range from a half an acre upward, to at least an acre in Norwalk residential areas. In the summer, it would be pos sible in some instances without seeing the residences nestled back in the trees. But not far from these country roads in the city are the mazes of modern highways carrying traffic to and from the metropolitan areas of Boston and New York. There are several high ways which compare to the West's freeways thr'uways, turnpikes, tollways, expressways, and parkways. All but the thruways and expressways are toll roads. The West's use of the term freeway has not caught on in many of the eastern areas, and the word is seldom used. ""THERE may be a half dozen different ways of getting to a nearby town, and each way may be as confusing as another unless the driver is famil iar with the area. Going from Boston to Lexington, the caravan of school representatives in four cars failed to make a turn according to provided directions. It didn't make any difference, though. The group followed the route directly to Lexington. Two things were obvious throughout the coun try during the trip, and both reflected the Ameri can's desire to travel. One was construction of air port facilities, the other was highway construction. AT EVERY major city, where the party landed, airport facilities have been improved, or are in the process of being improved. And in every area, heavy equipment is changing the face of the earth to provide modern wide lane highways for commuters, travelers, and commercial vehicles. In Chicago, traffic on an expressway from near the Loop to the O'Mare airport area was three and four abreast, bumper to bumper for the almost 17 mile trip. The "El" and subways in Chicago, during the morning and evening rush hours, are crammed with people. About one million people are trans ported by bus, subway, the "El, and automobile to daily jobs in the Loop, an area which encom passes about 20 city blocks. npiIE CORNER of State and Madison sts. is considered to be the busiest street corner in the nation. It could be. The individual is lost in a mass of human beings burring home, to the of fice, to the store, or nowhere. Rain or shine, peo ple move silently through the downtown Chicago area amid the honking automobile and bus horns, and the roar of the "El." The "El" for mile afler mile passes the back side of apartment buildings in north and south Chicago. Many of them appeared unkempt and the morning wash hung on tlie back torch where inclement weather prevented it from drying. Some of the flats, apartments or tenements appeared to be nothing more than hovels where the occupants have perhaps never seen a single home on a single residential lot surrounded by green grass, flowers and shrubs. . " ""THE FLAT, unbroken land immediately out side Chicago was dull compared to the rolling countryside from Lexington, Mass., to Norwalk, Conn. There, even in the rain, it was a pleasant drive lo the southwest area of Connecticut with the brown hues of fall blending into the grey aft ernoon rain. In the Lexington and Norwalk areas, the stu dent of history would have a field day; some of the buildings are older by almost a century than the oldest building in the Rogue valley. E.H.A. "The Music Man" Having, on past occasions, been caustically critical of certain Hollywood productions, it is now our pleasure to give tine now playing here. We refer to "Ihe Music Man." It is the imly film in many years that we have gone tti see twice. This is nut a great classic, nor a film of any particular importance or message. Rut it is gay, tuneful, humorous, colorful, and is a plain, relax ing pleasure to w atch. It is a nearly-literal film presentation of Mere dith W'illson's Broadway smash hit, with ebulient Rob Preston as its star, and we recommend it without reservation. E, A. Contrasts the city limits of Lexing to drive along city roads unstinting approval to1 MEDFORD L';1,;'H.X''V ;!M: ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor mutt bear the nam and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen na.ua or initial for publication is permissible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not nacestarily represent the views ol the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Parents' Fault To the Editor: The thoughts of many people are shared in a spiritual crisis. The inspira tion and special qualities' that once were taught lo children, such as self respect and re spect of others, can be put down as past history. For all the disrespect and spiritual failings go to the par ents. The Bible taught us all spare the rod and spoil the child. The modern generation is always on the move. They are perplexed and adrift, hav ing lost all bearings. This is not growing closer to each other, as a marriage or a fam ily. The marriage breaks into degradation and failure. Chil dren are murdered because they're in the way or left wan dering about the streets. This is modern America. We call the children hood lums, but are they? They are destructive, critical, ignorant of respect and faithless. Why shouldn't they be? They are born into a world not of their own making, and all too soon discover they are tossed aside and resented. The lacerating hurl these 20th century children feel is released in their fast pace, driving forces and stress which we call destruction. Their minds need both parents for proper mental balance as well as to function properly as an American citizen, as we would ask them to be. ff the parents had taken time on de mand of the child to help him wilh his or her problems in the light of God, or given litem protection and under standing that they need, we would have more to be thank ful for In the children. All children have a father and mother to honor. Bui the honor the parents get depends on Ihe parents. Most fathers and mothers can be located in the local bar having a drink or attending the neighborhood gossip center while their chil dren are out on tile streets honoring them, or parked on a shady lane using llteir in stincts the dear Lord gave them. They are heading down the wrong road because they don't know any belter and no one to teach them. K. Dykes, llox 58. Kaglc Point, Ore. Changes Needed To the Editor: Wall street must be getting pretty hard no. when they have to bring our news boys into this cold war. Panhandling to keep Ra dio Free Kurope on the air. It Ihi-v ever broadens! the truth. the whole tiling would col lapse. Why not keep Ihe kids out of this mess? Let the ones lhal buill it finance it. The next move will be lo ask the kindergarten youngsters to empty their piggy bank. Cuba. India and Berlin lake up most of the headlines, com munism here, communism there, c o m m u n I s I s every where. I don't think there was a man on the democratic tick et that was not accused ol be ing soft tn communism. Com munism seemed to be the big issue of Ihe day. Sig Unan der's campaign manager said "we were Cubanied." that is the reason they hist. Boy Oh Boy. whan an alibi. Why don't these candidates have something to otfer the people besides being anti this or aotl lhat? Why don't they have a solution to the unem ployment problem, the lax problem, and many more that are lacing us right here at home ' What we need is a new par ty, a labor party or maybe the people's party. The labor leaders have sold us out, We don't have more than one it two labor leaders that arc any good for labor. The big boys of thr labor MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. wmmi movement are nothing but po litical stooges. What have they got to offer the unemployed? Nothing but some more of the same. There are over 29,000 unemployed in the state of Oregon now. What will it be before spring? Our economy is obsolete. Technology is forcing the change. Communism has noth ing to do with it. Our system has to hide behind something, so it is communism. You know, Henry Ford was finally forced to change his model and that is exactly what is happening to our economy, it has got to change. Ray Prichard, 414 South First St., Central Point, Ore. White City Comment To the Editor: This is about the veterans at the White City government domiciliary. It recently went over 1,000 mem bers for the first time since it began as a Home. Like any service camp during the War, the average city where a V.A. Home is located gets the wrong impression of the mem bers, since a few make a bad name for all by getting drunk in public and giving a "black eye" lo the Home. The average member here is sick, either transferring from a hospital or coming from the outside where he hasn't worked and needs a place to stay. One of the re quirements to get into the Domiciliary is that the vet eran is unable to work or can't pay for the cost of food, cloih ing, medicine, etc., which is part of domiciliary care. Most feel it is not an ideal life where you have privacy and the comforts of home. The blowing of a whistle at 6 a.m. starts a new day, including week ends and holidays. There are long lines seen at the mess hall three times a day (pay line, diet line, cripple line in cluding canes and wheel chairs), as well as medicine lines, cigarette lines, mail lines, check lines on payday, etc. The day ends at 10 p.m. with lights out and bed check, so Ihe whereabouts of every man can be accounted for. A lot think this life is too much like the service but in a place of this size, there have to be some regulations and order. Otherwise, with no rules to govern the men, things would get out of control and no way to slop the offenders. At least 75 per cent are alcoholics, some will readily admit it, others won't. In most cases, drinking has interrupt ed their normal lives, jobs. careers or marriages. The reason the average pay job here is only SH0 a month is thai after the first pay cheek, most men would go on a drunk and lose their jobs, be coming nndependable to their employers. No outside super visor in bis right mind would hire anyone who is unreliable. Remember that these men are veterans of the wars, many have no family or relative.:, and have need of friendship. It is up to the public to come out to White City lo visit, not only during an open house but any time during the week or week end Then they can see that not all the 1. Olio-plus men here are drunks or winos. that some are hard workers and hold jolts. As taxpayers, voti are helping to keep this Domi ciliary open and oo a per--manent footing. Cet to know these fellows as long as they i make their home here. Show' them that Medford is a friend ly city and ignore the minor-: it y who hang out on Fronl Street whenever they so to town. F H Oakes White City, Ore. 30 Yean Ago ! To the Kditor. For a emv sidcr.ihlr time thr JIT, has I been publishing a series o( 'historical articles chronologi- OREGON Indications Mounting That All Not Well In Russ Domestic Economy and Planning By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst For many weeks, long be fore eruption of the Cuban crisis, unusually frank dis patches from Moscow have been report ing mounting troubles for Nikita Khru shchev at home. These included wide spread agri cultural fail- KewBom ures and a seemingly endless list of in dustrial snafus running all the way from a shortage of wom en's black lace lingerie to pro duction of cement. This week brought new stories of Soviet labor unrest which, coupled with earlier reports of rioting against in creased meat and butter pric es, added to evidence of mounting discontent among the Sovtet people. cally paralleling the progress of the Civil War raging 100 years ago. Thirty years ago, here in Medford, a civil war was brought to a head shortly after the election contest of 1932, during the deep depres sion. fnflamed by a malicious group of agitators, masquerad ing under the false cognomen of "The Good Government Congress", a large segment of Jackson county's misinformed or ignorant populace enlisted in the "Congress's" effort to take over our county govern ment by fair means'or foul. The turmoil and lawless ac tivities that were rampant be fore and after the election, finally culminating in the murder of Constable Prescotl which brought on the inter vention of the newly organized State Police, should make in teresting reading for the pres ent residents of our county, most of whom have never seen the small stone marker near Ihe sidewalk between Holly and Ivy in the city park, honoring George Prescotl. Research the 1932-33 edi tions of the Mail Tribune cov ering these months and you'll learn how the medallinn ihi.i graces your masthead got mere, n niignt be interesting to present day readers also. F. T. Fish Box 56 Phoenix, Ore. Autumn Days To the Editor: Pumpkins in the fields glowing as we go by. Cornstalks faded gently blowing are they waving goodbye? Tom Turkey strutting around the place before Thanksgiving Day, Not knowing that he will grace a bountiful display. Pumpkin pies on the shelf will be cooling sooner than you expect, And Old Jack Frost is not fooling, the leaves he did bedeck. Cranberry jelly red and shimmering, a compliment m Tom. Whose golden goodness is rich and glimmering when taken from the oven by Mom. To be placed in honor on our dining table: second helpings we will be taking. Let's hope all will be able to walk away, without aching. II. Itumpal. PO Box 21, Central Point. Ore Soviet Freighter Clears Bospfiorus Istanbul. Turkey -HTl'- The 3.000-ton Soviet freighter Za yarak passed through the Hosphorus to the Black sea Wednesday on iis relurn from Ihe Atlantic ocean where it turned back before reaching the U.S. blockade of Cuba. The 12.000 -Ion Soviet freighter Frunze, her deck cargo covered wilh white cloth, passed through the Hosphorus from the Mediter ranean Tuesday night. The freighter was reported to have been carrying missiles and other armaments AMBASSADOR NAMED Washington - ITI - Outer bridge Horsey, a career for eign service officer, has been named new U S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia. President Kennedy Wednesday -ppoint-cd Horsey to succeed Edward T Wailes. who is reining Hor.-cv has been counselor o( Ihe Amine, in Emba-'sv in; Rome. I raKen togeiner, tnese Dis patches gave new reason for other Moscow reports that the Kermlin now seeks a period of quiet on the international front so it can turn its atten tion to problems at home. Disappointing crop reports came from virgin lands of Northern Kazakhastan and from the Ukraine. Only in Great Russia, the area sur rounding Moscow, was there a report of a "record" grain har vest. Industrial failures alone would give the party Central Committee plenty to consider when it meets next Monday. Last summer, reports never confirmed by the Kremlin but generally credited by the West, told of wild rioting in the southern industrial city of Novocherkassk, near Rostov, over the hike in food prices. Later reports have told of thousands of Soviet construc tion workers walking off their jobs in the industrial Kuz netsk Basin in Siberia. The workers were protesting un satisfactory living and housing conditions. These same reports told of more than $600 million tied up in unfinished construction projects and more than S80 million worlh of machinery idle because of unfinished fac tories. All this points lo new shake up in Soviet planning agen cies and perhaps to more belt tightening for the hapless Sov iet citizen. Among those seeking straws In the wind pointing the di rection of Soviet nolicv. narlv slogans accompanying the ccienraiion ot the Bolshevik Revolution's 45th anniversary seemed to provide interesting food for thought. The slogans virtually ig- Strictly Personal By Sydney io Field Enterpriser inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES In fairy-tales of all lands, the beautiful maiden kisses a frog and finds, to her de lighted surprise, that he has turned into a prince: but in real life it more often happens that the beautiful maiden kisses what she thinks is a prince, and finds that he has turned in to a frog When you face the sun, you cannot tee your shad ow; only those who turn their backs on the light are troubled by their dark re flections on the ground. Even the most loyal and forthright of husbands will customarily lie lo his wife about two matters: how much he lost at poker, and how much it costs him for auto re pairs. People who pride them selves on speaking the truth should ponder the distinc tion made by Coleridge, when he said "Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention ol com municating truth." The chief crime of modern society is neither economic nor political, but educational in that it increases man's lei sure without at the same time expanding his capacity for en joying it in a creative way, and thus only provokes more boredom, restlessness and dis content. Not all the makeup, clothes, furs, jewels, or shape of body can make ap Try and ' By BENNETT CERF- rjtHE PROPRIETOR of a small village drugstore was called - out one sleepy summer morning, leaving the establish ment temporarily under the and very uneducated porter. "Just answer the phone if it rings. Jim." instructed the proprietor. The phone rang. "Hel lo." said the porter. "Do you have streptomycin and aurcomycin''" asked a voice at the other end. The porter scratched his head, then said. "Ma'am, when I said 'Hello." 1 told you everything I know!" "I accept your proposal of marriage." saul a maiden coyly, "provided, of course, my pappy gives his consent. He loves me madly, and he's mighty tough and choosy, so be rareful how you approach him " Thus warned, the s'utor chaigeii into pappy's study and blurted out. "I want to many your daughtei Go ahead, and blessings upon you. young man." beamed pappy. "By the way. what did vou s.ty your name was?" Lni.i Slim, coloiful British general, ordered raviar served to h,s men one evening wnen Ins rerun. ami was m a nj:on where that delicacy was plentiful. Not eveiy soldier appieciated the neat. One, in fact, piotested v.corouslv, 'Sir. uv.t jam tastes of fish! ' C IS1', t'i buin-.U Cut. L.jtiitu',cJ l) K.ns I'ealuitf Sn-li.att nored heavy industry, indica ting a continuing de-emphasis on that branchof the Soviet economy, along with curtail ment of new capital invest ments. Coal miners were urged to their "utmost" to make full use of their tools, but there was no mention of further me chanization or automation. Similar omissions were not Matter1 of Fact ' (el New York Herald THE REPUBLICAN TEMPTATION Washington Now that just about all the election re turns are in. they make a rath er clearer pat tern than they did last Wed nesday. It is worth having another look at this pattern too, for it just possibly fore shadows ra'.h e r important basic changes Alunp in the shape of American pol itics. Broadly speaking, the Democrats did very well in deed in the Northeastern states. They gol more votes than anyone expected in the midweslern states. And on the Pacific coast, they scored a po tentially decisive gain in Cali fornia, where Richard M. Nix on's defeat by Gov. Pal Brown may well mean a decisive California! movement into the Democratic column. These are the. reasons why the election has to be adjudg ed a victory for President Kennedy, despite important Republican gains like the nar row win of George Romney in Michigan and the impressive J. Harris pealing a woman whose mouth turns down in per manent creases of petulance and disappointment-a point that nine out of ten "sir-art" women wholly ignore in their relentless quest for what they think is "charm." The most tactfully ambigu ous reply to a bad author was given by Disraeli to an author of meagre talents- who had sent him an advance copy of his book. "Many thanks," re sponded Disraeli, "I shall lose no time in reading your book." Just as political positions form a circle rather than a straight line (in that the ex treme right eventually meets and touches the ex treme left), so do social po sitions form a circle, in that the very rich share more at titudes with the very poor than either of them do wilh the "respectable" middle classes. Every great man Is both a repository of immortal wis dom and a child of his own times: and it is the task of future generations to separate Ihe one from the other in its great men - for even so mighty a mind as Thomas Aquinas held the 13th century belief that heretics should be burned for their own sake, and so profound a revolution ist as Freud clung to the 19th century belief in a mechanis tic universe. A former Bermuda town barber became the first Ne gro representative in the U.S. Congress. J II. Rainey left Bermuda afler the American Civil War. Stop Me sole management of a vorv old. Q ed in the oil and gas indus tries. Rapid expansion of electric power, building, woodwork ing and chemical industries, according to the slogans, will be continued. And smacking suspiciously of capitalism have been re cent suggestions that an incen tive system should be installed for Soviet workers. By Joseph Aliop Tribune Syndicate victory of William Scranton in the contest for the Pennsyl vania governorship. IN ADDITION, careful study of the results in the House of Representatives reveals a small net increase in the mem bers whom the President can depend upon to vote with him. The gain results, of course, primarily from the replace ment of anti-Kennedy Demo crates with pro-Kennedy De mocrats. While the number of dependable Kennedyitcs in creased by three or four mem bers, the Republican Housa representation also increased by four members. The Republican increase in the House exactly equals the number of new House seats the Republicans took in tha South one each in Tennes see, North Carolina, Texas, and Florida. And this points, in turn, to the most interest ing element in the election's pattern. The South, to put it blunt ly, was the one region vvhero the returns indicate a substan tial upsurge of Republican strength. In Kentucky, with its ancient Democratic tradi tion. Republican Sen. Thrus ton Morton was re-elected by a generous majority, whereas he just squeaked in last time, when he was on the same tick et with President Eisenhower, IN THREE other elections in the South, the Republican nominees lost, but they gava their Democratic opponents an uncomfortably close run for their money. In Alabama, vet eran Sen. Lister Hill, one of the most likeable men in Con gress, was re-elected by a mar gin of only about 4,000 votes or 50.8 per cent of the stale wide total. Despite great personal strength wilh the folks back home. Sen. Olin Johnston ot South Carolina won only 57 per cent of the statewide vota against a Republican contend er who tried, and failed, lo compensate for his obscurity by his shrillness. In Texas, fin ally, former Secretary of the Navy John Connally took the Governorship by an unimpres sive margin, with only 54 per cent of the statewide vote. Until very recently the Re publican party in the South simply disappeared except in Presidential elections. The fig ures this year therefore indi cate a substantially further advance of Southern Republi can strength since 1960, when President Kennedy lost four Southern states, Florida, Ken tucky, Tennessee. Virginia, to former Vice-President Nixon, while a Dixiecrat ticket took Mississippi. Suppose this Southern Re publican trend continues and deepens, as seems entirely pos sible if not downright prob able. In that case, the Presi dent in 1964 will find himself facing a difficulty of the grav- esi Kina. I j INSTEAD of a solid remain A ing base of Southern elec- toral votes, the President will j not be able to count with cer I tainty on any Southern state except perhaps Louisiana and I Georgia. And he will there j fore have to make up his do tcntial loss in the South with a major sweep in the North. This is the development that the right wing Republicans like Sen. Barry Goldwater have always been praving and planning for. Under" the guise of "state's rights." thev have always taken the kind of stand on racial desegregation that pleases Southern Democratic voters. The Republican rightwing ers have, furthermore, con tended quite bluntly that it was no use for the" Republi cans to be generous to thn v. gro voters because the North lent voting Negroes were ,01 i i d I y and overwhelmingly Democratic which tin y once again proved to be In ibis election. In sum. the so-called "Southern strategy" that Sen. alor Goldwater advocates for his party must look consider ably more tempting to Repub lican leaders today than it looked two weeks ago. This fact will automatically influence, or warp, manv oth er Republican calcula'tions. For instance, a Republican ticket headed by Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York will be decidedly weak in the South, unless Goldwater in the second place balances Rockefeller in the first. But these fine points are less im portant for the moment than the main point, which is that. Ihe "Southern strategy" will be a major Republican temp-taiion. f 1
