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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORO, OREGON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1963 Goldwater I Every Political Pol! Shows Arizona fc I. ft mm urn A ' rcepumican Anead foruuf Nomination WASHINGTON (UPD-Every four years candidates for pres ident go through a ritual dance and at the moment Sen. Barry Goldwater is doing what our grandparents called "the hesi tation waltz." You act like you are about to take a step but . don't quite do it. Goldwater will announce in January whether he is a can didate for the Republican nom ination for president. If he says no, it will be the biggest politi cal upset since Harry Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey. On the basis of all available evi dence we are going to assume that Goldwater is running for president right now and is run ning hard. And running in front. Every political poll shows him ahead for the GOP nomination, along with an unscientific one this re porter took on the sidewalks of Washington. It was an attempt to find out why Goldwater is leading, and 10 persons who fa vored the Arizona senator were questioned. Ten Give Reasons Four said because he was against the income tax and two of them said he favored abol ishing it. Four said he would get tough with Khrushchev and the Communists, and one of them volunteered the opinion that Goldwater planned to send the United States Marines to Cuba to throw Fidel Castro out of of fice. One said "Goldwater isn't afraid of anybody and that's what we need to clean up the Kennedy mess." One said she had been for Nelson Rockefeller before his divorce and remarriage but switched to Goldwater because he is a good family man and a good father." Obviously some of the sena tor's followers have a hazy or downright erroneous idea of what he stands for. Goldwater has no intention of abolishing the income tax and it is highly unlikely that if he were elected president he would order the Marines into Cuba without pro vocation. There is nothing unusual about voters being confused on the issues and, in fact, profes sional politicians rate the can didate's overall image far above his pledges. Dwight D. Eisenhower writes in his cur rent memoirs that he was shocked after winning the pres idency when the professionals told him to forget about the platform on which he ran. Projects Fearless Image The image Goldwater pro jects at the moment is that of a hell-for-leather, fearless man out of the West. Lyle C. Wilson, United Press International's vice president for Washington, who has seen politicians come and go, rise and fall, for more than 30 years, analyzes Goldwa ter's political appeal this way: "He sounds like a forthright, earthy politician who doesn't take himself too seriously. He gives the appearance of not be ing afraid to stand up and be counted. He seems to have a real enthusiasm for slugging it out with Kennedy. Goldwater strides on to the political stage at a time when many Americans are showing stress and strain from the day to-day pounding of events. A recent Gallup poll documented this vague dissatisfaction with few 0 o 03V 331CK WEST Confessions of Sin Now Commonplace "yii 1 m jo Try and Stop By BENNETT CERF A BROKER'S ASSISTANT in Wall Street was embarrassed to discover, after eating a substantial lunch, that he had left all his money in another suit. The owner of the res taurant considered the ami am situation for a moment, then chalked up the cus tomer's name, plus the amount of his bill, or. a board br-'-vd the cashier's desk. "Please don't do that," implored the bud-, ding financial wizard. "All my co-workers eat here. What will they say when they see what you have written1!" "They won't see it, my boy," the owner of the restaurant assured him. "Your overcoat will be hanging over it." 99 On the maid's day out, a prominent publisher volunteered to tackle the. Herculean task of putting their four-year-old to bed The exhausted wife threw herself on the chaise lonfruc and picked up the evening papevs. Aa hour lalcr the four-year-old stole UlU the room and whispered, "Daddy's asleep at last!" A teen-ager demanded an autograph from Sue Lyon, th young star of "Lolita," then explained, "It's not for me, yoi understand. It's for my grandfather." C MM. by Bennett Cert Diitrlbuted by Kins FMturaa 3yndlet Venus De Mio To Grace Olympics PARIS (UPD-The French government has given permis sion to the world s most cele brated figure 51-38-47 to grace Tokyo with her charms during next year s Olympics. Still the reigning queen of feminine perfection, Venus De Milo will be carefully lifted from her surroundings at the Louvre museum and whisked by jet to Japan. A 5 MUSICAL TRIO CHICAGO (UPD-The piano and guitar the first and sec ond most widely played musi cal instruments in the United States, the American Music Conference reports. 7T McGUIRE'S HOME FURNISHERS CLOSED TUESDAY TO SLASH PRICES! SALE STARTS 10 A.M. WEDNESDAY! McGUIRE'S HOME FURNISHERS 220 N. BARTLETT - MEDFORD EARLY CAMPAIGNER Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., turns to his aides in wonderment, upper photo, as he is met with a rash of "Goldwater for President" signs on a visit to San Francisco last June. In the lower photo, Goldwater and his wife, left near his shoulder, receive an enthusiastic welcome from supporters upon arriving at Concord, N. H., airport in October. (UPI) WASHINGTON (UPI) - Joe E. Lewis, one of America's best loved tosspots, came here re cently to deliver a series of in temperance lectures at a local lyceum called the Blue Room. Lewis likes the Blue Room because of its decor, which matches the color of his jokes. A press agent was telling me that Lewis would make good column material because he - had become successful doing things that are supposed to be the ruination of man. " In his public image, at least, he has made a career of drink ing to excess, chasing after young girls and squandering his dough at the race track. In my opinion, however, this press agent had the wrong an- ' gle. The truth is that vices are a glut on the market. Practically everyone you meet nowadays has a complete matched set of minor transgressions. Discuss Sin I wouldn't say that people sin more than they used to, but they surely do spend more time discussing it. You sit down by a stranger on a bus and the chances are that by the time you reach your stop he has told you that he drinks too much and is cheat ing on his wife. ' You go to a party and it's a good bet you will spend the en tire evening listening to some blowzy dame in a sequined dress relate the experiences of a compulsive gambler. The tendency of people to blurt out indiscretions that 30 years ago they wouldn't have contessed on a torture rack has reached alarming proportions. Depravity has become a real drag. Things are coming to the point where I would rather have people tell me about their hernia operations. Makes Subject Entertaining What makes Lewis unusual, then, is not that he talks about his foibles in public but the fact that he can make such com monplace subjects entertaining. After 40 years of steady dis sipation, Lewis claims that he still has "the body of a child a weak, pale, sickly child." Why does he continue to drink so much? "I am carrying a torch for Jessica Dragonette," he explains. Small wonder that he should go through life thinking that Hyannis Port was the brand name for a "sweet kosher wine." Or that he would speak well of overindulgence. "Show me a man who can hold his liquor and I will show you a serious kidney condition" is his philosophy. I don't know how much Lew is gets paid but he deserves every cent. It takes real talent to uphold the standards of pro fessional debauchery in the face of so much amateur competition. the state of the nation when it asked citizens of many coun tries whether they were satis fied with their position in the world. Fifty-one per cent of the Americans interviewed were dissatisfied. The happiest peo pl were in Switzerland, West C.rmany, Denmark, Norway and France. We Americans build up hope that the nuclear test ban treaty means a thaw in the cold war and then our hopes are chilled when the Russians blockade the Berlin highway. We are prom lsed a reduction in taxes ana the next thing we hear is that we may not get one because Congress cannot agree on de tails. We are cheered by Khrushchev's removal of mis siles from Cuba, but apprehen sive when we learn Russians are still on the island. Racial Tension High Our home town, whether north or south, lives every day under the threat of racial dissension and perhaps violence. We are irritated by the sting of iodine applied to minor wounds caused by Madame Nhu's practice of biting the hand that helped her. We vearn for a clear-cut victory somewhere over somebody. We doubt the ancient maxim that half a loaf is better than no bread. More than any other man in political life Goldwater has been promising us a quick and sure cure for our frustrations. William Rees-Mogg, political editor of the Sunday Times of London, wrote on a recent tour of the United States that Goldwater symbolized for many of us an unconscious desire to return to the previous century and specifically to the Western frontier. The issues were simple for our forefathers in the West, the federal government was le nient and far away and, within the boundaries of farm or ranch, every man was pretty much a king. Goldwater looks like a fron tiersman. He is tall, lean, tanned, an active outdoorsman and pilots his own plane. Even his speech has a ring of the old West. "I'm a poker player," he said while discussing the presi dency. "I'm sitting with a pair and 1 don t Know wnai me draw will be. If it's a good one, I'll say yes." His speeches arc punctuated with occasional "hells" and "damns" and the other day a woman in Medford, Ore., gently suggested to him in a letter that this was no way for the next president of the United States to talk. Goldwater's political oppon ents have noted this back-to-the-good-old-days appeal. Sen, Jacob Javits, a Republican from New York who doesn't agree with Goldwater on many things, put it this way: "He kind of satisfies a hankering for five-cent beer and a five- cent cigar. It's good old fash ioned conservatism of another day, but it doesn't belong to day." 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