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History from the files of The
Mai! Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO year ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 9, 1953 (Thursday)
Employment In Jackgon
county increased with a rush
the last ten days of June, the
state employment service said
today.
More than 200 teenagers
from Klamath, Jackson and
Josephine counties were in
volved in free-for-all fights at
Lake of the Woods Saturday,
according to state and Klam
ath county law enforcement
officers.
10 YEARS AGO
Jul 9. 1943 (Thursday)
A. C. Hubbard, pioneer
county hardware merchant,
die.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudire Pot" column: "All re-
ports from the South Pacific
front indicate Nipponese soia
iers are realizing 'their fanati
cal desire to die in battle for
the Mikado' much faster than
they bargained."
10 YEARS AGO
July 9. 1933 (Saturday)
Major Morris named direct
or of Medford Ice and Storage
company.
County court abolishes of
fice of probation otiiccr and
appointed official is ousted.
40 YEARS AGO
July 9, 1923 (Sunday)
Plane landing at fair
grounds nearly hits cow.
Valley resident charged
with possession of whiskey
fined $250 and given 30 days
suspended sentence,
10 YEARS AGO
Julv 9, 1913 (Tuesday)
Butte Falls site chosen for
fish hatchery.
Special train to take Med'
ford citizens to Ashland Chau
tauqua.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina ar fan correct li superior)
seven ar sight Is eicellentf live ar
it is lead.
1. What Is the length nf Ihe
term of office for U.S. Repre
sentatives?
2. When Is All Saints' Day?
3. Is Kodiak a U.S. naval
base located In Hawaii, the
Solomons, or Alaska?
4. Is the British Imperial
gallon larger, the same as, or
smaller, than the U.S. gallon
9. Do let-propel led planes
use gasoline, kerosene, or at
cohol?
6. Complete the simile. "So
ber as a ."
7. In the Florida Everglades
live the Utes, Sioux, or Semi
nole Indians?
. 8. Alexander Hamilton died
after being wounded In a pis
tol duel; with whom was the
duel fought?
0. Under the Constitution,
the President hag the privi
lege of vetoing part of a bill
without i n v a 1 1 dating the
whole; true or false?
10. Which north eastern
State is the only stale that
holds Congressional elections
in September instead of No
vember? Answers! I. Two years, t.
Nov. 1. 3. Alaska. 4. Larger.
1. Either gag or kerosene. 1.
'. . . Judge." T. amlnolea. 9.
Aaron Burr. I. Falsa. 10.
Main.
Pr& PUIlliHERI
VJaIiOCIATION
RATION At EDITORIAL
TUESDAY. JULY 9. 1963
Rath, Jobs and the Economy
The impending railroad strike which, unless
a near-miracle occurs, will begin Thursday, with
all the resultant human tragedy and economic
waste is an example of an irresistable force
meetiner an immovable
If a near-miracle DOES occur, it will have
to be in the realm of an entirely new approach
so that the force and the body will not collide,
The saddest thing about the prospective strike
is that, paradoxically, both sides are right or,
and perhaps more accurately, both are wrong,
THE operating unions, faced with a new set of
' work rules which will put many thousands of
their members out of work, are right in doing
everything they can to
The railroads, faced
tion and desperately trying to keep alive with
modern techniques, equipment and automation,
are right in attempting to operate with as few
men as possible.
The operating unions, however, are wrong
in not facing up to the
industry, which is increasing automation.
And the rails are
Bang!!, like that to
bedding work rules into
affecting the very livelihood .01 thousands upon
thousands of employees, without any major at
tempt to seek better solutions.
THUS, in this prospective strike, we have the
most graphic example so far of the times of
economic turmoil and uncertainty and tragedy
which have been expected, which have been just
around the corner"; but
There have been other
none ciuite so stark. The
strike was one example.
but automation was the
And there have been
which have given some
Kaiser Steel settlement,
from increased productivity, was one. The Big
Steel settlement, where
onger, paid vacations, was another. The western
dock and maritime settlement, whereby savings
from automation go for retraining, was another.
THESE settlements may give some hint of the
flit 1110 Vint tVioii HiTTioneinria am tinir nnm-
pared to the full size of
The plain fact is that we are going to be
faced with mounting and
ment on one hand, and a desperate shortage of
trained and skilled personnel for the service and
manufacturing industries
Any viable solution must, first of all, be based
on a new way of looking at employment. It must
recognize that a higher level of education will be
necessary to operate an increasingly technical
economy, and that stop-gap solutions, such as
retraining, while valuable
a small part 01 the answer.
e
ANOTHER major prerequisite to any real solu
firm M7il1 liQ an Dpnnninv nvnonrl i 11 re of o rtitinli
wwii niii Mil vvuiiuiuj aj a ill 14 1. J. J
faster rate than the one we are now experiencing.
An these things more and better education,
etraining of displaced workers, a faster economic
growth, new alternatives to dole-fed unemploy
ment and the psychological attitudes in creates
all these things will be
the new industrial revolution.
It's going to take some doing. We are not
cheered when we observe
appears to be blindness, at worst, astigmatism,
at best, regarding what seems as plain as can be.
remaps industry and
tions. But simply because of the size of the prob
lems alone, it would appear that the federal gov
ernment is going to be
more active role. Because of this, we'd be a
lot happier today if Congress gave any sign what
soever that it realizes what is happening. E.A.
NegroesJJobs and the Economy
The ."racial problem" in this country is inti
mately related to the problems discussed above.
The Negro worker under-educated, too often
unskilled, and still subject to prejudices 'which
have nothing to do. with innate abilities but only
with skin color is, in the telling .'phrase, "last
hired, first fired." . A . .,
He is the first victim of an upsurge of unem
ployment, and the last to be made productive
again when employment climbs.
Unless he can overcome the now-almost
insurmountable difficulties facing him he will
never be able to take his rightful place in society.
1XHAT good is it if a Negro has a "right" to
" sit at any lunch counter he 'wishes, but can
not afford to do so? ' ; ,
What good is it if he is no longer . barred
from decent housing because of race,, but is still
barred because he lacks the money to acquire it?
What good is it if he is no longer automati
cally barred from employment because of his skin
color, but is still not hired because he doesn't have
the knowledge nor the skill to do the job?
e
IT IS THUS that education and training and re
1 training, the rate of economic growth, and an
entirely new set of attitudes, not only about the
Negro as a citizen but about employment in gen
eral, arc necessary before any real solution to the
"racial problem" can be acenieved.
The racial problem, in terms of civil l ights, is
on the way to solution.
But the racial problem, in terms of economics
where it is crucial is still a long way from
being solved. E.A.
body.
protect them.
with uneconomic opera-
wave of the luture in
wrong in attempting
put new anti-feather
effect overnight and thus
which are now here.
examples, but perhaps
New York newspaper
There were other issues,
chief one.
other approaches tried,
promise of success. The
where workers profit
workers benefit from
the problem.
permanent unemploy
on the other.
in themselves, are only
necessary to cope with
in Washington what
labor can achieve solu
forced into a more and
"Imagine Trying To
Can Do in Their Own Place of Business!"
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Sin and the Church
To the Editor: Your "What
Happened to Sin" (MT 627)
reminded me that the saga of
man not only tella of his "gods
many and lords many," but
Iso reveals that, rellgion-
wise, "he mounted his horse
and rode off in all directions!"
He learned along the way,
however, to exercise caution
when attempting to define
sin"; that, like Joseph s coat.
it was of "many colors."
Someone told him that "Sin is
this to you, and that to me";
another, "Nothing is right or
wrong but thinking makes it
so"; while long ago he was
admonished to "Judge not
that ye be not judged." He
read that even the great
Socrates only searched for
knowledge and wisdom; that
his philosophy was always a
quest, never body of doc
trine.
There is today a growing
skepticism with regard to all
beliefs that cannot be proved
In the arena of life or in the
relentless laboratory of sci
ence. Even Einstein, when
inked how ha discovered rela
tivity, answerea: uy cnai
lenging an axiom.
Skeptics long ago repudi
ated the doctrine of "original
sin." As one stated; "I can't
imagine a Supreme Being
creating an earth just to pop
ulate it with sinnersl Nor can
I accept the idea of an inno
cent man paying the penalty
for a crime he did not commit.
Even man-made law punishes
only the guilty."
It seems that today less
emphasis is being placed on
sin and more upon the dignity
of man and his nobleness
when he lives The Golden
Rule. Could It be that people
are becoming more interested
in making a "heaven on
earth" than in their soul's
salvation, and are longing to
become like the fabled Abou
Ben Adhem, whose "name led
all the rest" as the result of
his prayer to the angel: "Write
me as one that loves his
fcllow-mcn"?
In closing, 1 quote from t
cliping that I pasted in my
scrap book many years ago:
"You cannot make a man's
soul responsible before the
Judgment and deny him his
rights on earth. If you talk
salvation on Sunday you must
stand for human rights on
Monday, or be a blasphemer.
You can't make men Infinitely
precious to God in the church
and make them theap in the
street and on the market. Hie
one yardstick, the one scale
measures or weighs' in both
cases. '
George M. BHhcock
41!7 Hospital dr. .
Ashland, Ore.
Big Step Forward
To tin? Editor: The follow
ing is information.' I believe
that you arid the general pub
lic will, find most interesting
Recently there was tele
cast conversant with "water-
pollution." During the course
of the program iaundry de
tergents were extensively dis
cussed, mainly because they
did not dissolve, and poseo
some rather unique and dis
turbing aspects of water-pollution.
The use of such "de
tergents" constitute a 40-mil-lion-lb.
yr. market.
Announcements by four
"major" chemical companies
recently, stated that they have
developed a "break down
type detergent. These com
panies are as follows:
1. Union Carbide Co.,
which has facilities under
construction at Texas City,
Texas, and at Institute, W. Va
where a pilot-plant Li now in
operation. Union Carbide Co.
intend) to have ISO-million
Ib.yr. capability early in
1964.
2. Continental Oil Co. gave
no statement as to rapacity,
but will spend $'0 million on
plants at Lake Charles, La.,
.1
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
Tell People What They
the use of a pen name or initial
Mail Tribune reserves the right to
the case.
and at Baltimore, Md. Ma
terial is expected to be com
mercially available In Sep
tember, 1964.
3. Esso Research and Engi
neering Co. disclosed that its
research has developed a new
process for "detergent raw
material." Develop m e n t is
now on the pilot-plant scale
at Linden, N.J., with "full-
scale" plans under consider
ation. 4. Monsanto Chemical Co.
of St. Louis, Mo., expects com
mercial quantities available in
1964, and a complete change
over to the "break-down" type
of detergent in 1965. Mon
santo product is now In the
hands of producers for test.
This looks like a big step
forward in the alleviation of
'water-pollution," and with
out utility sacrifice to the
consumer.
Ken Mayer
817 Broad st.
Medford.
A Comparison
To tha Editor: Paul Harvey,
In his broadcast of July 4th,
gave the personal histories of
the 56 men who signed the
Declaration of Independence
on July 4, 1778. A compari
son of condition then and now
Is in order. -Then,
as now, our country
was at a crossroad. Then the
colonies were ruled by a for
eign power whose appointed
governors were reinforced by
the power of British troops.
Now our danger is from those
within our country who are
working to turn our country
over to Communist control as
was done in Czechoslovakia
and Poland, this to be accom
plished by 1970. It is the firm
determination of the John
Birch members and other
"Right Wingers" to prevent
this if humanly possible. In
1776 the determination of the
leaders who signed the Declar
ation of Independence was to
rid the country of foreign con
trol and establish a new coun
try with a republican govern
ment which would give each
individual citizen more free
dom than had ever before
been known under any gov
ernment. The aim of the
"Right Wing" now Is to pre
serve what those 56 men gave
us.
These 56 men were men of
Irreproachable character.
Some were lawyers, others
were farmers or plantation
owners. Still others were en
gaged in various business pur
suits. Ail were men of educa
tion and culture. Also all had
some degree of wealth be
cause each had made a success
of his own personal life. As a
result each was a trusted lead
er In his community. And
each one was a man of great
courage because each knew
that to sign that document
was to sign his own death
warrant.
As leaders in what was
then the "Right Wing" move
ment of their day, there was
heaped upon them all the
scorn, smears, and calumny
that are now being fieaped
upon the John Birch members
and others. In addition many
had lo go Into hiding all lost
wealth. One died in rags and
was buried In an unmarked
grave. One, when he came out
of hiding, found that his wife
had died in prison and his
children scattered.
What was so true of them
is also true of the Right Wing
leaders of today. Against not
one of them have the Com
munists been able to bring
any derogatory accusation.
As a result they are smeared
as being: "(1) wildly misin
formed and appallingly gul
lible: (2) incredibly stupid: CD
nuts." Their personal records
show nothh.jr could be farther
from the truth.
Anna M. StreeH
.16 North Peach St.
Medford.
A
Study of Red China Concludes Growth
Has Made Nation a Major World Power
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
China always has had "big
ness." Now it has "organized
bigness.
Prof. Choh-Ming LI, chair
man of the center for Chinese
studies at the University of
California, has drawn up a
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written, two
breeds of Communists are
holding a big pow-wow in
Moscow. One faction is led by
Russia's Mr. Khrushchev. The
other is captained by Red
China's Mao Tze-Tung. One
of the correspondents with a
penchant for big words puts
the situation this way:
"Khrushchev s policy holds
that while East cannot meet
West politically, because of
the clashing of ideologies,
they can live side by side
through peaceful coexistence.
'But the Chinese line of
Mao Tze-Tung is the converse
East, he says, not only cannot
meet West but East must DE
STROY West - with nuclear
war, if necessary.
SOUNDS COMPLICATED,
doesn't it?
In an effort to simplify the
situation, let's put it like this:
Kroosh holds that if you
can't agree with the way your
neighbor runs his establish
ment the two of you can still
live in the same block. These
Commies are all fond of big
words, so Kroosh calls it CO
EXISTING. He thinks you
might even go so far as to nod
your neighbor over the
fence. i
Old Mao disagrees sharply
with that kind of living; He
says you must SHOOT: the
S of a B. People like that, he
contends, mustn't be allowed
to live.
That's about the long and
the short of this Communist
quarrel that is filling the
papers and clogging the air
waves.
JOW TO SETTLE IT?
Well, back in the dim vistas
of the past, an unknown au
thor offered a solution that is
worth considering. He cited a
quarrel between the Shah and
the Czar. It was an irrecon
cilable conflict-but. instead of
going to war, they decided to
settle it by personal combat,
So each chose a retainer to
represent him. The unknown
author describes them as fol
lows, beginning with the
Shah s gladiator, whom he
pictured thus:
"The sons of the prophet
are brave men and bold,
"And quite unaccustomed
to fear,
"But the bravest by far
in the ranks of the Shah
"Was Abdul the Bulbul
Amir."
H
E THEN WENT on to tell
would uphold the Czar's cause.
Of him, the unknown author
said:
"Now the heroes were plen
ty and well known to
fame
"In the troops that
were led by the Czar,
"And the bravest of these
was a man by the name
"Of Ivan Peruskl Skavar,
INHERE ISN'T SPACE here
-- to tell in minute detail
of the conflict. It was long
and it was harrowing-as will
be recalled by all Boy Scouts
and Girl Scouts, with whom
the verses used to be very
popular indeed. They helped
to while away the tedium of
long hikes and dull the pangs
of trail hunger.
But the conflict was event
ually settled. As I recall, it
ended in a draw. Anyway, it
saved a lot of lives. And it
saved the subjects of the Shah
and the Czar a lot of tax
money. Wars, you know, don't
come for free.
CO...
J For what It Is worth . . .
This solution of their prob
lem is offered to Old Kroosh
and Old Mao. Personally, I
think it would be a very good
idea indeed. Think of the gate
money they could rake In. It
would fill their treasuries to
the bursting point. Everybody
in the world would want to
see it.
And the outcome, whatever
it might be, would probably
be just as satisfactory to all
concerned as if they went to
war.
Installation Slated
In Jacksonville
Jacksonville-District Depu
ty Grand Master Dan Moon
with the installing team from
the Ashland lOOF lodge will
install the Jacksonville offic
ers of IOOF lodge at 8 p.m.
Friday. July 12. In the Odd
Fellow hall in Jacksonville.
Refreshments will be serv
ed by Mrs. Charley Hawkins.
Mrs. Robert Lamb. Mrs. Al
bert Hackert and Mrs. Wal
ter Couch, all of Ruth Re-
bekah lodge.
balance sheet of Red Chinese
achievements and concludes
that "China has attained for
the first time in modern his
tory the status of a world
power."
"It has," he notes in the
current issue of Challenge
magazine "extended its po
litical and economic influence
to as far away as Cuba in the
Western Hemisphere,. Albania
in Eastern Europe, Guinea
and Ghana in Africa, not to
mention the Chinese military
adventures in the Far East
and Southeast Asia."
And it is from this position
of strength that Red China
now challenges the Soviet
Union and Nikita Khrushchev
for leadership of the Com
munist world, despite serious
and continuing problems at
home.
Professor Li's study is pri
marily economic.
He notes that Red China
reached its present status both
with the help of its military
pact with the Soviet Union
and through effective political
control of the people.
But the chief contributing
factor, he believes, was Red
China s i n d u s t r 1 alization,
which enabled her to more
than quadruple productive ca
pacity in the years from 1954
through 1958, enhancing her
military might.
This was the "great leap
forward" which in 1958
merged with the rural com
munes. The communes were
to do for agriculture what al
ready was being done indus
trially. But mismanagement, three
years of drought and a mis
calculation of the effects of
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
fc Field Enterpriser. Inc.
The phrase "neglected
child" conjures up a picture
of slums and broken families,
of poverty and drunkenness
and cruelty, in the familiar
pattern of the
social work
er's case-history.
I think
another kind
of neglect is
even . more
wide spread,
and just as
deleterious in
its effects. I
Harris a m thinking
of the ordinarily intelligent
middle-class child who , is
rarely, if ever, treated like a
person by its parents, but
only as a child.
A few weeks ago I was
chatting with an 8-ycar-old
girl of the most appalling ig
norance. She didn't know her
birthdate, what her father did
for a living, how old her teen
age brother was (she guessed
"37"), or the most common
place facts that any 5-year-old
should be aware of.
This was not a stupid
child, but a profoundly neg
lected one, in th social
and psychological lenses.
It was quit evident from
our conversation (and I
hasten to add that she was
not shy, simply nescient)
that her home life is utter
ly devoid of dialog in any
real way. This child was in
tellectually underprivileg
ed, and may remain crip
pled by it for a lifetime.
As much as food and
drink, love and c ompan
ionship, a child needs some
stimulation at home that
can ba got nowhere else in
the early years. A child re
quires information, en
lightenment, serious dis
course at its own aga level.
Mora than this, a child des
perately needs puns and
word-games, riddles and
jokes, putties and poems.
These Utter, contrary to
popular thought, are not
mere luxuries: they ara tha
basic fabric out of which
tha adult personality is
loomed. Tha parents of this
8-year-old girl will dutiful
ly sand har to college, even
if thay can't afford it, will
give her a "good education"
-but by then it will ba too
lata. Education, as Justice
Holmee said, begins in the
womb, before tha child it
even born.
Like so many millions of
others, she hRs little curiosity,
no interest in words or the
ideas they convey, no sense
of the richness and diversity
and wonder of the universe.
The parents, perhaps, suppose
that somehow she will get all
this at school-which is a
monstrous fallacy almost
wrecking our entire educa
tional system.
Parents, of course, should
not push or lead too fast, or
expect too much too soon. But
for every one set of parents
who do this, a thousand do
nothing: they are content if
the child has surface good
manners, is "obedient," and
keeps out of the way.
They would be angry and
horrified to be told that their
home contains a well-fed,
scrubbed "neglected child."
human nature, reversed the
great leap forward which then
became the "great fall back
ward." China was forced into the
world market to buy grains,
to restore private plots to the
peasants and permit a limited
amount of capitalism.
This year, with the help of
the private plots, grain pro
duction is reported about back
to the 1958 level.
Industrially, other reports
say the Chinese still are
having trouble.
Steel production last year
may have been about half of
the peak of 18 million tons
reported in 1960.
A shortage of coal is said
to have reduced all heavy in
dustry to about 60 per cent of
capacity.
But with all her difficul
ties, Red China-has neither
eased up on her dispute with
Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop
(e) Nw York Herald Tribune Syndicate
CANDIDATE WITH A
DIFFERENCE
New York - Unlike large
numbers of other Republican
politicians, Gov. Nelson A.
Rockefeller is
emphatically
not counting
himself out of
the Republi
cs i Presiden
tial race. He
is still an
active candi
date for the
R e p u b Iican
nomination in
AJSOP
1964 - but a
candidate with
a difference.
He does not pretend to anv.
one, and least of all to him-
self, that his remarriage has
not knocked into a cocked hat
his former happy position of
prospective nominee-by-acclamation.
But he adds that the abrunt
change in his situation has
one good side. Great numbers
of Republicans all over the
country clearly consider that
the Governor's remarriage
has released them from their
former commitments or semi-
commitments to him; and that
is bad. But by the same token,
Rockefeller has also been re
leased from his commitments
to them; and that is on the
whole good.
"I'm freed," is the way he
puts it. "I can do a decent
job."
TN BLUNTER words, Gov--
ernor Rockefeller is no
longer required to carry wa
ter on both shoulders or to try
to be all things to all men.
He does not need to pay inces
sant court to the so-called con
servative wing of the Repub
lican party, or to hint to all
and sundry that he would
love to have Senator Barry
Goldwater of Arizona as his
running mate - as he was do
ing while he could still hope
for an almost unopposed nom
ination. In that earlier period, Sen
ator Goldwater almost cer
tainly meant what he said
(and is still saying) about not
becoming an active Presiden
tial candidate. Today, how
ever, quite largely because of
Rockefeller's intervening set
back, Goldwater can hardly
avoid becoming an active can
didate, even if he wishes to
do so. And Goldwatcr's can
didacy will also keep Rocke
feller in the race, even if he
might wish to get out of the
race under circumstances.
This is because the elector
al strategy Goldwater has al
ways urged upon the Republi
cans is to ignore the Northern
Negroes "who never vote Re
publican anyway," and to go
after the electoral votes of
the Southern segregationist
states that used to compose
the Democratic "Solid South."
Goldwater is no racist, but a
Goldwater candidacy will
automatically make the Re
publican party into the
"white man's party."
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"He must ba dalarminad ts get hit civil
rights bill passed he brought back
shillelagh from dear ole Ireland!"
the Soviet Union nor slowed
her economic offensive
abroad.
Professor LI points out that
since 1954, Red China has
established trade relations
with more than 80 countries
outside the Communist bloc.
She has, moreover, extend
ed economic grants, technical
assistance and low - interest,
long-term loans to such coun
tries as Albania, Cuba, Hun
gary, Mongolia, North Korea
and North Vietnam in tha
Communist bloc, plus Algeria,
Burma, Ghana and a halt
dozen others on the outside.
Furthermore, these commit
ments have increased stead
ily. "In fact," Professor LI con
cludes, "internal stress and
difficulties may impel Com
munist China to become bold
er and more aggressive in it
external relations."
HPHAT unpleasant phrase is
already being used with
relish by some Republican
politicians, who think that
Goldwater can be elected
President with the Southern
electorial votes, plus enough,
votes recruited in the North
by Negro excesses in ths
present agonizing racial cri
sis. But Governor Rockefeller
is genuinely appalled by tha
mere idea of his party's tak
ing what will amount to art
anti-civil rights stand.
He is appalled as a man -his
great-grandfather ran a
station on the underground
railroad, and a Negro educa
tion was one of the first majoe
fields of his grandfather's ex
penditure for public purposes.
But he is also appaled as m
Republican.
In his own state, fop in
stance, the so-called conserv
atives ran a candidate against
him in the last election who
pulled well under 150,000
votes. Governor Rockefeller
was re-elected by just over
half-a-million votes; and at
least that many Negroes and
Puerto Ricans voted for him.
Sen. Jacob Javits, who got a
far larger majority, also owed
nis Dig win almost wholly to
minority group support.
Such are the practical rea
sons why the Governor is con
vinced it will be fatal for the
Republicans to "foreclose the
opportunity of leadership in
the industrial states. "For
these practl-al reasons as well
as the moral reasons already
noted, the transformed Rock
efeller candidacy will be a
fighting candidacy. He will
fight to "defend the heritage
of Abraham Lincoln."
fPHERE are several things
to be said about this. In
the first place, everyone who
gives a snap of his fingers
for true Americanism will ba
grateful if Rockefeller real
izes this conception of his can
didacy. The effect on the United
States hardly bears thinking
about if one of the two great
political parties willingly ac
cepts the role of the "while
man's party." If Governor
Rockefeller fights unyield
ingly against this new Repub
lican trend, he will deserva
gratitude and admiration,
whether he wins or loses.
In the second place, even
the hardest fight on this great
issue of principle may well
fail to gain the Republican
nomination for Rockefeller.
But if such a fight is mada
with persistence and skill, it
is at least likely to defeat
Republican advocates of whit
Senator Goldwater calls the
"Southern strategy."
In that event, even if Rock
efeller is not nominated, his
fight will tend to secure tha
nomination for another Re
publican with much the same
outlook. He can hope,, in
short, to be either victor or
kingmaker - which is a pretty
satisfying return for doing
the right thing.