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end 50 years ego.
10,YEARS AOO
July 15, 1953 (Wednesday)
World championship stunt
contest at Ashland Rodeo
grounds, Including Chltwood
Daredevils, Dragon Drivers
(Tokyo), and Circus of Death
(Germany).
The 1953 convention of the
Oregon State Republican
clubs will be held in Medford
this fall.
20 YEARS AOO
July 15. 1943 (Wednesday)
Mexican labor to be Import
ed for pear harvest.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Roast
ing ears are in season, and the
social problem of how to eat
them with social nonchalance,
instead of ruggedly, with both
elbows on the table confronts
diners. There is nothing like
a do -dad mustache moving
back and forth in the traffic
on a buttered cob."
30 YEARS AGO
July 15, 1933 (Friday)
Tampering with jury charg
ed in fourth ballot theft trial.
Gates tc Lydlard, (Sixth st.
and Central ave.) advertises
cantaloupes, 5 cents each,
Grape Nut Flakes, 9 cents
per package, pineapple, No.
10 can, 39 cents.
40 YEARS AOO
July 15, 1923 (Saturday)
Ground broken for new
Methodist church on West
Main st.
Valley creameries agree to
raise price of buttcrfat to
Portland price, less two cents
per pound.
50 YEARS AOO
July 15. 1913 (Monday)
Work starts on Siskiyou
Heights trolley line.
Steel arrives for construc
tion of Modoc bridge over
Rogue river.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven er eight Is excellent; five or
sli It good.
1. What food product con
stitutes the largest of all our
Imports from Latin America?
i 2. Identify the county
which never has defaulted on
Its W. W. I debts to the U S.
3. Addis Ababa la the cap
ital of which African king
dom? 4. Does the word "hurache"
mean a Mexican cockroach,
sandal, or vehicle?
8. What part of volt Is a
microvolt?
6. What was the name of
Shakespeare's wife?
?. What Is the Interest cost
per month on 950 when the
annual rate Is 6 per cent?
8. Does the standard site
typewriter keyboard have a
total of 32, 38, or 42 keys?
6. Identify the gem that Is
the hardest.
10. Penguins are flightless
birds; true or false?
Answerat 1. Ceffee. 3. Fin
land. 3. Ethiopia. 4. 8andal.
5. 1.000.000th. 8. Ann Hath
away, 7. 25 cents per month.
8. 42. 9. Diamond. 10, True.
P3Gkr-UIUSHI5
MONDAY. JULY IS. 1963
Birmingham on a Patio
When the wind stops even for an instant,
these are the good and golden days on the hill.
These are the days when the wind stops
for sitting in the patio, for bathing in the soft
air, for smelling growing grass seasoned with a
trace of hickory barceque smoke, for watching
roses and carnations riot with calendulas.
The other evening before sunset, mv three
friends and I sat in the patio after a good dinner,
musing more than talking, sharing thoughts as
well as words. There are times like this during
the American Weekend
ard of living," ceases to
comes a poem.
INTO THIS WORLD of well-being, this warm
ordered world, a neighbor's radio dropped
one word "Birmingham."
A distressed word,
mentis ana me who have worked so hard to put
trouble out of our lives. We belong to the Auto
mobile Olub, we plan ahead with our insurance
agent, we take Salk vaccine. But we don't know
what to do about Birmingham.
We are reasonable, tolerant people. We dis
approve of the way the South treats The Negro
(We don't usually talk
about the Negro.) But it
as an article of faith that it takes two to make
a fight. Is Martin Luther King really doing the
Best thing lor his people
ON THE OTHER hand, haven't freedom-
aaawtae, Wl aF Max J ww. u VMUlVIIIUUVtLrl AUVlb
was Crispus Attucks even John Adams said he
was a troublemaker.
Crispus Attucks was
known as the first man to die m the American
Revolution killed by the British in the Boston
Massacre of 1770. A statue of this troublemaker
stands on Boston Common.
A funny war, the American Revolution, in
which a Negro was the first martyr, while no
Alabamans or Mississipians fought at all. Makes
you wonder whose country this is, anyway?
In our warm patio,
is dropped, sending out
thought amongst us. Is
into Birmingham?
HAVE ALWAYS been plagued by out-
siders sticking their noses into our fights.
The Marquis de Lafayette, Baron von Steuben,
Tom Paine, were outside troublemakers like Dick
Gregory and Martin Luther King. For that mat
ter, what was George Washington, a Virginian,
doing up in Massachusetts leading the Rebels
and sticking his nose into the internal affairs
of that colony? .
Yes, but shouldn t the
tience? Aren't more and more doors being
opened to him every day? And what about using
children in demonstrations and plotting civil dis
obedience in churches?
. I am told it isn't the closed doors that hurt,
but the ones that open and then are closed when
it is seen who knocks.
"Have you ever had a car door slammed on
your hand?" my informant said. "Imagine that
it was your soul instead of your hand."
a
THE AMERICAN Revolution was plotted in
churches. And that song they sing in the
Negro churches in Birmingham "Go Down,
Moses." Wasn't the freedom march of the
Israelites pretty hard on the children of Egypt?
So we sit and frown on the patio while spring
burns bright on the hillside and the questions
ripple out and are lost. We have no answers.
We are not troublemakers, my friends and I.
We are not freedom-makers. We are skilled
and discriminating freedom-consumers. Bob
Wells in the Long Beach, (Calif.) Independent
Press Telegram.
A Moral Issue
We have been hearing some criticism of those
clergymen who have been marching in protest to
the injustices that are being done to Negroes. We
neither understand nor like the criticism that
goes, "That's not their proper business. They
shouldn't be getting into politics. Serves them
right if they get tossed into jail !"
As President Kennedy said in his special mes
sage to the nation on the civil rights issue, it is a
moral issue. Because of the nature of the issue
nothing could be more proper than for the clergy
to protest mistreatment of some of God's chil
dren, to dramatize their dedication to God s
words, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the
least of these, my brethren, ye have done it unto
me."
AlE CANNOT understand how anyone can
condone, either politically or morally, the
wrongs that are being done to a group of citizens
of the United States. We find beyond all under
standing the man who calls himself a Christian
and condones it.
How strange it would be if the clergy did not
protest by all means available to them. Every
person who identifies himself with Christian be
liefs 6hould not only expect the clergy to do this
but should applaud the clergy for doing it.
This is something on which a Christian clergy
man absolutely cannot equivocate. He cannot
preach the teachings of Jesus Christ and then
turn his back on those teachings when the time
comes for him to stand up and be counted on a
great moral issue that deeply involves all Christ
ians. J. W. Forrester Jr. in the East Oregonian,
Pendleton.
when the phrase, "stand
imply a statistic and be
a trouble-word to mv
of Negroes. We talk
has been drilled into us
l is he a troublemaker ;
a Negro. He is also
the word "Birmintrham"
little ripples of troubled
it right to stick our noses
Negro have more pa
"It' Not Only The Committee Room The
Whole Country Is Being; Packed With
Those Damned American Civil-Righters"
'1
Communications
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paper, in fact the contrary is often
Socialism The Answer
To the Editor: What age
awaits mankind? For your
consideration we submit this
answer: It will be the Age of
Atomic Power and Automa
tion. But whether these two
far-reaching technological de.
vclopments will be used to
benefit or destroy the human
race is a story the end of
which is not yet known.
for instance, will the Amer
cer) workers wake up to the
real meaning of automation
push-button factories? If they
do not wake soon, theyll find
themselves ousted from their
jobs, and reduced to existing
on a state dole.
This is no exaggeration. It
a sober appraisal of the
prospects confronting Amer
ican labor under capitalist so
ciety as a result of the tech
nological revolution that is
sweeping through factories,
mllLs, offices and farms.
Today automation is com
monplace in many steel and
auto companies and spread
ing with amazing speed
through other industries. The
employers are trying to sell
the workers the story that
automation means pleasanter
working conditions, more jobs
and higher pay. But when em
ployers talk to other employ
ers, they say something else.
They say, instead, that auto
mation means a reduction in
operating costs, an improve
ment In the product quality,
and a reduction in the amount
of labor employed. A Canad
ian business magazine said,
regarding automation, "It
seem unlikely that barring
war we shall see full em
ployment again."
In a capitalist society the
potentialities of automation
are devastating for the work
ers. All signs point to mass
technological unemployment
within a few years. Business
magazines say as much.
The Socialist Labor parly
contends that the working
class is now at a crossroads.
One way, the capitalist way,
leads to endless degradation
and misery for most of man
kind. Automatic machines
capable of producing an
abundance of the good things
of life will exist, but they
will be used to create weap
ons of war and superfluities
for the capitalists. Meanwhile
the workers will barely exist
on such grudging handouts as
politicians think expedient.
The other way, the way the
Socialist Labor Party urges
all thoughtful workers to
choose, leads to the use of
automation for the collective
good. It leads to the end of
wars for markets and ma
terials. It leads to the aboli
tion of poverty, to real free
dom and human brotherhood.
Socialism alone can cope
wilh the problems of atomic
powerand automation.
Henry R. Korman
2640 Garfield St.
Longview, Wash,
Yahshua
To the Editor: Regarding
your column, communciations.
I note a lot of cross-firing of
ideas that tend not to bring
anyone closer to: 1. a reason,
2. an answer, 3. or even a
faith that has consistancy to
II. At the risk of being tarred
and feathered, I'd like to of
fer one of the Creator's an
swers to all this confusion.
Being a Yauwist, I'm one
of the priviledgcd ones in
helping to restore the sacred
name of our Heavenly Father
and His Son our savior bark
to its orglnal place from
whence man has obscured It.
The modern concept of Jesus
that the Christian world uses
today is erroneous and is a
misuse of the consonants
Yhshana. pronounced in Eng
lish with the vowels added
(Yahshua). When the Groeks
translated the Hebrew scrip
tures into Greek the same
consonants looked like this:
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
name and address of the writer.
the case.
IESOUS. The Greeks had to
use an "O or omicron, as it
is known, in order to produce
the right sound. They drop
ped the Hebrew "A" or ayin
and added an "S" or sigma,
all of which brought about
the sounds and name of
Yashua in the Greek.
Then came the Latin. At
that time the Latin and Greek
alphabeis were very much
alike. Their consonants were
the same. They translated the
Greek into Latin and brought
over the name very much the
same, IESUS leaving out the
O" that the Greeks added,
but kept the "S" but still us
ing consonants and retaining
the original sounds to produce
Yahshua,
During a period of time
just before the English trans
lated or just after it, the "1"
was changed to a "J" and
given a "Gee" sound to pro
duce our modern day er
roneous name of Jesus, which
should be pronounced Yah
shua. In closing I'll quote from
Jer. 23:25-27, "I have heard
what the prophets said, that
prophecy lies In my name,
saying, I have dreamed, I
have dreamed. How long
shall this be in the hearts of
tile prophets of the deceits of
their own heart? Which think
to cause my people to forget
my name by their dreams
which they tell every man to
his neighbor, as their fathers
have forgotten my name for
(Baal) meaning LORD in Eng
lish." Any one desiring addition
al information feel free tu call
at my home or write to P.O.
Box 801.
Thomas N. Bostwick
723 West 11th st.
Medford.
Awesome Age
To the Editor: We are liv
ing in tlie most awesome and
outstanding age that this
world has ever known. Yes,
we are having a grandstand
view, as it were, of events
that many of past ages would
have loved to have seen.
The curtain of present day
human history is about to be
drawn down. God is almost
ready to announce "30 for
tonight."
With all of our modern in
ventions, our fine homes, ad
vances in medical science,
and new scientific advance
ment, we still stand with a
great lack of love in our
hearts for our fellow men.
Our eyes have become dazzed
and blinded by the tinsel and
glitter of temporal things. Un
til we individually catch a
vision of what our real task
we will utterly fail.
From the pen of one of the
world's most renowned re
ligious writers 1 quote: "The
true Christian's joys and con
solation must and will be in
heaven. The longing souls of
those who have tasted of the
powers of the world to come,
and have feasted on heavenly
joys, will not be satisfied with
things of earth. Such will
find enough to do in their
leisure moments. Their souls
will be drawn out after God.
Where the treasure is, there
will the heart be, holding
sweet communion with the
God they love and worship
. . . And while they dwell
upon those things which are
lofty, pure, and holy, heaven
will be brought near, and
they will feel the power of
the Holy Spirit, and this will
tend tc wean them more and
more from the world . . . The
power of attraction to God
and heaven will then be so
great that nothing can draw
their minds from the great
object of securing the soul's
salvation and honoring and
glorifying God."
Quoting further from the
same writer, "It is not always
the most learned presentation
of God's truth that convicts
Foreign News: Laos
Talks Hopeful; De Gaulle Visit Rumored
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Notes from the foreign news
cables:
Shock Wave
Western diplomats in Vien
tiane, administrative capital
of Laos, believe that regard
less of the outcome of the
Sino-Soviet confrontation in
Moscow, the
first shock
waves will be
left in Laos
and will be
unpleasant ei
re.
ther way. If
the Chinese
win the argu-
ument against
co existence,
they will have
ewsom
full Communist-bloc sanction
to give more aid and direction
to their Vientnamese and
Pathot Lao cohorts in the
"war of liberation" of Laos.
If they lose or what seems
more likely, if there is a stale
mate the Chinese will return
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
(c) Field Enterprises. Inc.
SLUMS
Not long ago, I was talking
with a teacher in- Chicago,
who had stubbornly remained
in a school
that lies deep
within t h
slums. He was
telling me
about the at
titude of most
of the pupils;
"When peo
ple talk about
slum living.
Harrl. Ile saia, uiejr
think about proverty and
crowded housing and shabby
clothes. But proverty as such
is not the real problem in the
slums-because rural proverty.
for instance, doesn t breed
the kind of reactions you find
in the city slums."
"Then what is the real pro
blem? I asked.
"It's fear," he replied.
"Children grow up, from
earliest age. with fear and
mistrust. The reason they
feel it necessary to be
'tough' is their fear of at
tack; the only way they can
defend themselves is by
becoming like their poten
tial attackers.
"They alio grow up ex
tremely mistrustful," he
went on. "They see only
the worst side of the police.
They learn all about the
fix and crooked politicians
by the time they're 10. They
acquire a deep cynicism
about lew and justice and
the social ideals we profess
in our textbooks. The qual
ities they learn to admire
are force, shrewdness, and
flashiness. How els could
they survive in the jungle
of the city slum?"
"Would more jobs, or bet
ter jobs, or higher income,
help the problem very
much?" I inquired.
Not in themselves." he
shook his hear. "The slum
is a sub-culture, and few
are able to climb out of it
by their own efforts. If
they get extra income, they
use it to solidify their posi
tion In the slum, not leave
it. The alleged values of
the larger community strike
them as phony.
"In my opinion," he con
tinued, "the real threat to
and converts the soul. Not by
eloquence or logic are men's
hearts reached, but by the
sweet influences of the Holy
Spirit, which operate quietly
yet surely in transforming
and developing character. It
is the still, small voice of the
Spirit of God that has power
to change the heart.
The Infinite One stands
with outstretched arms, wait
ing for us to avail ourselves
of His free gift. Why do we
spurn His pleadings?
Henry Johnson Jr.
231S Highway 68
Ashland, Ore.
Publisher's Agent
To the Editor: Thank you
for the letter by Alice I
Black Sunday. 1 had mis
placed the note I made on the
occasion of the original out
burst, and had not yet ordered
my copv of the book. Now I
have the name, and author,
again.
It seems to me that it is
such a shame that so called
Christians take such a narrow
view of life. They apparently
have little faith, if they get so
-riled up about a book. No one
forced them to read it, and it
probably would have gone un
noticed if the publisher's
agent, A. I. Black, had not
called it to everyone's atten
tion. Thanks again, and a tip of
the hat to the agent Black, I
hope she is getting her pay
ments from the publisher.
Respectfully request that
my name be withheld. I'm not
ready for burning at the stake
quite yet.
(Name on file)
Ashland, Ore.
mtmrnm I
SfcaWef'W'ay
home angrily determined
push the Laos war harder.
Hopeful
British diplomats are cau
tiously optimistic that this
week's talks with the Rus
sians may open the way ;o
limited nuclear test ban,
Khrushchev is believed in
need of some success, and
partial nuclear test ban ap
peared the least costly com.
mitment to which he could
subscribe. A partial test ban
will require no controls on
Soviet territory and therefore
should be acceptable to Mos
cow which opposes on-site in.
spection to police a ban. An
accord with the West might
help Khrushchev to divert at'
tention from the troubles with
his Chinese allies and the
threatening break in the in
ternational Communist camp.
How It Looks To Moscow
Moscow also sees a reason
able hope for limited agree'
ment on a nuclear test ban.
J. Harris
our democratic institutions
and processes comes from this
increasing sub-culture, as our
metropolitan complexes grow
and rural communities de
cline. And if the so-called
'good people' keep on desert
ing the cities for the suburbs,
then the apparatus of city
government will be increas
ingly controlled by the stan
dards and values and felt
needs of the sub-culture."
"Then what can we do?"
I asked.
"It's a complex and enor
mous problem," he said, "and
it calls for attack on all fronts
at once-economic and social
and psychological and politi
cal. We can't treat delinquen
cy as an isolated problem, or
consider housing in a vacuum,
or just change the school pat
tern around. These young
people are growing up in an
atmosphere that makes them
fearful, hostile and suspicious;
that's what makes the slum
so awful, and the city so
dangerous. The situation calls
for radical surgey, and we are
feeding the patient aspirins,
and expecting him to feel
grateful."
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Mishmash in the news:
The Kingfisher (Oklahoma)
Chamber of Commerce has
just voted to tell the U.S. Post
Office Department that the
town of Kingfisher DOESN'T
want a new post office. In
stead, it favors improvements
on the present building that
will cost only a fraction of
the proposed $110,000 new
building.
The chamber said it opposes
spending tax money for un
necessary items and would
like to see the national budget
in tne black for a change.'
AND-
A fpuf U7foV-e nan
Congressman Al Ullman, of
the Second Oregon district,
told the Klamath County
Chamber of Commerce that
he thought chances were good
to get a $30,000 appropriation
for another study of the algae
proDiem in upper Klamath
Lake.
In view of the fact that the
algae problem in Klamath
Lake has been surveyed and
resurveyed and then surveyed
some more, the project
aroused no enthusiasm.
So, apparently, it has been
dropped.
QUESTION:
Do you reckon t h e
dangerous heresy to the effect
that IF WE DON'T GET IT
SOMEBODY ELSE WILL
might be declining?
Let s put it this way:
If the time should come in
the U.S.A. when reckless
spending, just to be spending,
LOSES votes instead of WIN.
NING votes, we will get ccon
omy and lower taxes.
I7ROM Portland:
Sol Maizels, operator of
tne Aladdin Theater, has as
sembled the first foreign film
festival for Portland. He has
decided to call it an Art Film
Hootenanny. That leads the
Oregonian's film critic to ask:
"What's an Art Film Hoote
nanny?" He then proceeded to
answer his own question. Like
this:
"Well, it seems that every
thing involving more than
two people or two things is a
hootenanny these days. It
started with folk singers, and
It's spreading to other areas.
Four people get together for
cards, and it's a Pinochle
Hootenanny. Two guys take
their girl friends for a moon
light drive, and it's a Whoopee
Hootenanny. So now we have
a Film Hootenanny, It was in
evitable."
'Shock Wave'; Ban
On the Sino-Soviet talks, dip
lomats expect the exchange
of insults to continue into the
week and end in a neutral
sounding communique pledg
ing new efforts toward a rec
onciliation. However, short of
miraculous developments, a
formal split in the interna
tional communist movement
appears unavoidable.
Trial Billons
Recurring rumors of a
planned trip by French Presi
dent Charles de Gaulle to the
United States in the fall may
be French trial balloons to
test Washington's reaction.
Officials insist nothing is plan
ned yet. But it is recalled
that De Gaulle several weeks
Our Two Parties
In A Nutshell
By Arthur Hoppe
Welcome, ladies and gentle
men, to another in the dis
tinguished Nutshell Series of
Lectures, designed for those
who wish to be well-informed
on the complex issues of the
times, but who have television
sets. Today's Nutshell Lecture
is entitled: "Can Our Tradi
tional American Two-Party
System Survive and Why?"
In a nutshell, the answer is
a ringing "Yes!" Yes, our tra
ditional American two-party
system can survive. All four
of them.
Our four parties, as you
know, are the Northern Dem
ocrats, who are for the Com
mon Man and his votes; the
Moderate Republicans, who
are for the Common Man, but
not too common; the South
ern Democrats, who are for
the Common Man as long as
he's white; and the Conserva
tive Republicans who are for
the Common Man, and let's
keep him that way'.
And the grave danger our
two-party system faces today,
of course, is that Mr. Ken
nedy, a Northern Democrat
with a Moderate Republican
program, will run for re-elec-
WHAT does
Webster
say
about it?
His Collegiate Dictionary
ignores the word. But in his
Unabridged he says:
"Hootenanny: Originally in
the sense of DINGUS, THING
UMAJIG. A fanciful coinage.
Used also as a derogatory
epithet. Assimilated in form
to 'Hootin' Annie' - a meeting
of folk singers, especially for
public entertainment."
TTMMM. What's a DINGUS?
According to the Un
abridged, it derives from the
South African DING, mean
ing thing. Any device; gadget;
humorous substitute for a
name not known or tempor
arily forgotten (slang.)
What's a thingumajig?
It's synonymous with
THINGUMBOB - which, inci
dentally, is an extension of
older THINGUM.
'THAT brings us to JIGGER.
A jigger, among other
things, is ONE WHO JIGS. A
jig, by the way, is a dance in
which the dancers move
quickly up and down, or to
and fro. A small cup or glass
used to measure liquor, usual
ly containing one and a half
fluid ounces. Jigger is also
synonymous with dingus,
thingumajig, thingumbob, etc.
TN CONCLUSION:
Aren't words wonderful?
What would we do without
dictionaries?
iA-jrt tima
The Idea of a Merch on Washington Is ridieuleua. Miiih
of people can't Influence legitlatien, only lobbyists can!"
ago indicated he would be)
ready to go to Washington "at
the appropriate time."
Chain Reaction
Through a curious chain re
action of international eco
nomics, the U.S. farmers' vote
against wheat controls is go
ing to help make it easier and
cheaper for Communist China
to purchase wheat. The vota
is expected to result in mora
wheat on the world market,
which will bring the prica
down. Other aspects of the
story are that Australia and
now France are aggressively
joining Canada in the Chi
nese wheat market, and that
China's own crops are ex
pected to be better this year.
tion against Senator Gold
water, a Conservative Repub
lican beloved by all Southern
Democrats. Who, we must ask
ourselves, will support whom?
Will the Moderate Repub
licans, for example, vote for
Mr. Kennedy and their pro
gram? Or will they, out of
party loyalty, support Mr.
Goldwater and the Southern
Democrats' program? Al
ready, Moderate Republican
Senators are saying that for
them to support Mr. Gold
water would be "an unbeliev
able hypocrisy" but for them
to support Mr. Kennedy
would be equally unbeliev
able. It is undeniably an un
believable dilemma.
The problem, of course, is
party loyalty. If there is one
thing politicians believe in,
it is party loyalty. It's not
that they care a hoot about
patronage, committee chair
manships, financial backing,
precinct workers and all the
other support their party
gives them. It's that they ara
dedicated to the enduring
principles of their party.
And sometimes it's difficult
to determine whether the
Northern Democrats, who be
lieve in civil rights, high taxes
and more government, are
more dedicated to the endur
ing principles of today's Dem
ocratic Party than the South
ern Democrats who believe in
property rights, low taxes, and
less government.
Nor is anyone more dedicat
ed to the enduring principles
of the Republican Party than
a Moderate Republican who
believes in what the Northern
Democrat believes in. No one,
that is, but a Conservative Re
publican, who believes in
what the Southern Democrat
believes in.
Moreover, party loyalty is
essential to the preservation
of our traditional American
two-party system, as the lead
ers of any of our four parties
so frequently tell us.
Yet the Moderate Repub
licans are quite correct in
saying at this stage that for
them to support Mr. Gold'
water would be "an unbeliev
able hypocrisy." It certainly
would. At this stage.
For it is only after the can
didate is nominated and tha
campaign begun, that party
loyalty comes to the fore. It
is only then that our politi
cians must weigh the program
they believe in against the en
during principles of their
party. Like patronage, com
mittee chairmanships, finan
cial backing, and precinct
workers. And traditionally
their choice is the same.
Thus we see that for Mod
erate Republicans to support
Mr. Goldwater at election
time would not be "an unbe
lievable hypocrisy" at all. It
would, ladies and gentlemen,
oe a perfectly believable hy
pocrisy. And that, in a nutshell, is
our present two-party system.