J4 TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 2, 1963 ' MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOKD, OREGON
Johnson Takes in Entire World as Arena for Political Operations
EDITOR'S NOTE: This l
(he first of three dispatches on
the career of President Lyn
don B. Johnson.
By HARRY FERGUSON
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Lyn
don B. Johnson called politics
'"the art of the possible" and
he is a master of the art.
There was a time when poli
tics meant to him the care,
feeding and cajoling of his Tex
as constituents, but in recent
years Johnson has taken the en
tire world as his arena of oper
ations. He proved that he can
charm a camel driver in Paki
stan with the same easy tech
nique he uses on a farmer liv
ing outside of Lubbock, Tex.
President Kennedy used him
The Medico
By
Emeritus consultant In Mdlctne
Mayo clinic
Emeritus Professor ol Medicine-
Mayo Clinic
(Reilster and Tribune Syndicate,
Need for Growth Hormone
I feel so sorry for the many
people who write to say that a
boy of theirs with a short sta
ture seems to have stopped
growing, and everyone is un
happy about the situation. Oft
en under the strain the boy be
comes "ornery," and perhaps
once decidedly bright, he may
start failing in his school work.
Once social, he may now be
come surly and solitary.
For a while- we physicians
had great hopes when, many
years ago, my dear friend Pro
fessor Herbert Evans and his
associates isolated a growth
hormone from the pituitary
gland (which it situated just be
low the brain). This drug, when
injected into small dachshunds,
quickly caused them to grow
into big hounds. The only
trouble was that this growth
hormone made most easily
and cheaply from the large pi
tuitary glands of cattle when
Injected into boys, did not work
well. Later, it was found that
the growth hormone made from
cattle is so different chemically
from that made from men or
from monkeys that it is of no
use to boys.
Cost Said Great
The hormone that is obtained
h-Am it man will heln a boy,
but the cost ot securing pitui
tary glands from men is so
oront lhal nnlv a little of the
human hormone has been ob
tained ust enough : to snow
Family
Council
Idllor's Note: The Family Conn
ell consists ot judge, psychia
trist, three clergymen, a newspaper
editor, a women's editor, and two
writers. Kacn article Is a summary
of an actual ease history. The
Council reports on proolonis inal
nave been dealt with by respon
sible aeenrlcs and counselors.
(Copyright 1963
General Features Corp.)
Theresa Y. His apartment
looks like a junk-shop.
Mr. F. Y. Sentiment is more
Important than neatness.
. Theresa Y. My dad has
stayed on in the small apart
ment he shared with my moth
er. I go there once a week to
check his food supply, bring his
clothes to the cleaner, and tidy
up. But it's a hopeless job he
won't let me throw anything
away. He can't bear to part with
even a pin. The place is so clut
tered 1 can't dust or sweep it.
Mr. F. Y. I'm glad to have
this out with Tessie. My home
isn't so dirty that it needs her
shaking it up every week, l
wipe the floors and the kitchen
myself almost every day. What
bothers her is that I enjoy hav
ing the old books and vases and
statues around, not stuck up in
a closet. Each piece of furni
ture means something special
to me.
The Council: If wishes were
houses, we'd build one for aged
folks with three essentials (or
preserving their dignity and
equanimity: a room of one's
own, a private bathroom, and a
large closet with a good light.
For, the unkindest, cut of all,
dealt out by the average Home
for the Aged, is stripping them
of almost all personal posses
sions. Of course "space re
quirements" Is the reason giv
en. But in Mr. Y's case, there
is no reason unless fire and
health hazards are present
for separating him from beloved
belongings. The more insecure
one feels, the more one clings
to tilings as links In safety
Take a child who must hug his
favorite toy before he can (all
asleep, or a soldier who packs
some familiar object into his
duffle-bag. "People grow old
with material possessions," says
Dr. Wendell M. Swcnson of the
Mayo Clinic. "To lake things
away from them is to take away
a part of their individuality"...
' Magpie collecting a la Langley
Collier Is another matter, of
course, indicative of personality
disorder. Mr. Y's accumulation
Is clean and makes sense. It's
. the stuff of dreams. Let him
feast, Theresa.
with great effectiveness as a
sood will ambassador and trou
ble shooter at a dozen spots
arm I nH Ihp world. '
.inhnsnn is a single-minded
man. He talks politics, eaU pol
itics and thinks politics through
out one of the most strenuous
working schedules maintained
bv any man in the federal gov
ernment. There are many areas
nf Amsricsn life about which he
has no curiosity and no knowl
edge. He was on the West Coast
several years ago and somebody
suggested he might like to visit
a movie studio ana meei uan
Turner.
"Whn's Lana Turner?" John
son asked. He wasn't making a
wisecrack.
There is no time In his think
Roundup
that it can work, especially for
what is known as pituitary
dwarfism. Because the mole
cule is so big and so compli
cated, there is not much hope of
Its ever being synthesized.
Ahnut the nnlv hone is that a
small fraction of it, split off,
may have the faculty ot pro
moting growth in boys and
girls. There is some reason to
hope that someday such a frac
tion can be obtained. Work is
going forward on the problem.
People ask why one of their
children Is so short, and it may
be that he Is a "throw-back" to
some ancestor who was small
and short. Often a very short
man is perfectly healthy, and
ran live into his 70s. Rarely, a
man is short because when he
was a boy he did not eat enough
food. One study made a while
ago suggested that some small,
short boys are so finicky that
they just don't eat enough.
Perhaps if they would eat nor
mally, they would grow taller.
Bone f irmly rasienca
Fortunately, in many cases,
a boy who at 14 or 15 is much
too short, in his 16th year will
shoot up some three Inches or
more. Some physicians try giv
ing a little thyroid substance,
or a little male hormore, or
some gonadotropin (which sti
mulatcs the cells that make
male hormone), but I cannot
find out If this helps or if it Is
safe. Many parents should know
that about the age of 16 the
two epiphyses (growing ends of
the long leg bones) Decome
(Irmly fastened to the shaft of
the bone, and after that no
more growth is possible.
An X-rav man can tell when
this firm fastening together of
the three pieces of each bone
has taken place. After that
there is no use trying any
treatment for short stature.
Some parents ask me how to
hold down the height of a girl
who is growing too tall, and I'
am sorrv to sav I haven't yet
heard of any good method.
UPI Film Shows
Assassination
NEW YORK (UPI)-United
Press International Newsfilm
early today was first on the air
with exclusive film showing the
assassination of President Ken
nedy. The dim is lfimm enlarged
from 8mm. It was shown on a
New York City television sta
tion. The sequence, shot by an am
ateur photographer in Dallas
Friday, begins with motorcycle
police coming around the corner
followed by the Kennedy motor
cade. The President is then seen
leaning over when the bullets
strike. Mrs. Kennedy puts her
right arm around the President
and he slumps out of vciw. The
film (hen shows a Secret Serv
ice agent running toward the
car.
The film was shown in slow
motion and also slopped at key
points in the assassination. The
scene was shown four times at
different speeds and under dif
fcrent magnifications.
Copies have been rushed In
United Press Newsfilm clients
all over the world.
Funeral Held for
Salem Councilman
SALEM (UPI) - Funeral was
held today for Henry G. Hon
wicsner, 70, Salem City Council
member, who died Friday night
al his home here.
Hohwiesner was president and
general manager of Starr Foods,
Inc., Salem. He was appointed to
the City Council in 1959 and
elected to a four-year term in
1960.
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ing and his activity to inform
himself about Hollywood and
its personalities. A close friend
said Johnson occasionally at
tends football games in Texas.
"But 1 doubt," he added,
"whether Lyndon ever saw a
touchdown scored or knew at
any given moment which team
was ahead. He usually was
leaning over to talk with some
body in the row ahead or turn
ing to engage in earnest con
versation with somebody behind
mm.
When Johnson says politics Is
"the art of the possible" he
speaks from a reservoir of
knowledge going back to 1932
when he first came to Washing
ton as secretary to Hep. Rich
ard Kleberg, owner of the King
Ranch in Texas. What he means
is that there is no point in knock
ing your head against a stout
stone wall. You try to figure
out some way to find a gate or
climb over the wall. Don't waste
your time on the impossible.
Concentrate on the possible.
No Faith in Oratory
President Johnson puts small
faith in high-blown oratory as a
means of influencing people and
getting results. The nation is
unlikely to hear from his lips
such phrases as "the only thing
we have to fear is fear itself"
and "ask not what your coun
try can do for you, but what
can you do for your country."
He puts great store in private
talks as opposed to public pro
nouncements. Last Saturday he
gave an indication of how things
will be run in the White House
from now on when he sat down
for an immediate chat with De-
Swift Plans Packing
Plant at Portland
PORTLAND (UPI) - Swift it
Co. Monday announced plans
to build a new meat packing
plant in North Portland.
The new plant, a one-story
building, will replace its pres
ent plant,- a seven-story struc
ture which will be razed.
The firm said that one of its
major operations, cattle dress
ing, will not be included in the
new plant.
las Vegas Gambling
Center Draws Crowd
LAS VEGAS, New (UPI) -
This gambling city's downtown
"Casino Center," darkened for
17 hours Monday in honor of the
late President was more crowd
ed than ever despite the lack
of gambling.
Many of the city's 120,000 went
to the center where gambling
normally goes on 24 hours a
day in brightly lighted casinos
to see what it looked like
without the lights on.
Casinos, showrooms and bars
in all the major hotels both
downtown and on the "strip"
were closed from 7 a.m. until
midnight.
Try and
By BENNETT CERF
ATAMOUS PRODUCER bought a ranch that he-pro.
posed to Use as a haven to get away from it all. His
wife, however, bad different ideas and invited everybody
ducer walked in on one
typical brouhaha and
heard his wife bemoan
ing the fact that she bad
not yet come up with an
appropriate name for the
ranch. He looked over
the assemblage of guests
with cxmsidernble dis
taste and announced, "I've
got it. 'Bar None.'"
It was reported that
one very superior British
novelist.visited the ranch
another time nnd was
asked to write something in the guest book. She scrawled,
"Quoth the raven," signed her name and departed.
Variety tells about a cocky young singer who has an opinion
on everything, and doem't mind expressing It. "Which kind of
music, do you really prefer? Bach or bebop7' lie was asked on
a TV show. Holliday answered promtly, "It's all the same thing,
friend: It's ail music.1
One of our. moat popnTar advico-to-the-troublcd columnist was
stumped when she opened. thla letter recently: "Dear Lady: I
joined the Navy to see the world. ITvo seen, it. Now, how do I
get out!"
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fense Secretary Robert McNa-
mara on the pressing problems
of the moment.
Johnson has a passion for in
formation and is an excellent
listener. When he was a sena
tor, he had on his office wall a
saying of his father: "When
you're talkin', you ain't learn-
ft' 1
LbjJr &
LITTLE SOLDIER SALUTES - Like a little soldier, John F. Ken
nedy Jr., who celebrated his third birthday Monday, salutes as
the casket of his father, the late President Kennedy, is carried
from St. Matthews Cathedral in Washington. (UPI)
Republicans Take
Renewed Look at
Johnson's Policies
By RAYMOND M. LA1IR
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Re
publican leaders began taking
a wary look at President John
son today to see how his policies
might affect their campaign
and presidential choice in 1964.
Sen. Barry Goldwater of Ari
zona, who is not an announced
candidate, is still judged the
man in front in terms of po
tential delegate strength at the
Republican National Conven
tion.
He has said he would make
a decision in January whether
to become a candidate (or the
now may delay that decision
presidential nomination. He
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in' nothing," His mind soaks up
information like a sponge and
he constantly is demanding
more. He wants everything
checked and rechecked. A story
about him possibly exaggerat
edis that he once asked his
assistant to find out the date of
the Army-Navy football game.
because of reappraisals coming
up inside the GOP.
The Republicans must begin
to function under a new set of
rules because they must pre
pare to campaign against John
son instead of the late Presi
dent Kennedy.
Political Truce
While the Johnson administra
tion was being launched, how
ever, some Republican leaders
were willing to declare a do it
cal truce to extend beyond the
i-nnsimas Holidays.
If the Goldwater drive should
fizzle, former Vice President
Richard M. Nixon and Gov.
William W. Scranton of Penn
sylvania will get much atten
tion as possibilities and Gov.
Nelson A. Rockefeller of New
York can expect more.
There is feeling evident in
Republican circles here that an
other man spoken of as a pos
sibility, Gov. George Romney
of Michigan, was badly hurt
when his Republican dominated
state legislature junked his tax
program.
In any case, the GOP will
watch the Johnson program un
told, -Beginning with his speech
to a joint session of Congress
Wednesday, and carry on a
continuing re-examination of
their own campaign prepara
tions. South Is Power
A typical appraisal recognizes
that the South is at least one
of the Goldwater bases of power
both for national convention
delegates and for electoral
votes in the 1964 presidential
election.
ti (joidwater should appear
weaker in the South against the
Texas-born Johnson than he did
against Kennedy, many Repub
licans will look for a candidate
with more appeal in the heavily
popuinicd industrial states.
They would look first at
Nixon and. Scranton unless
Rockefeller supplies - evidence
that he is much stronger than
most GOP professionals now
believe.
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"The Navy says the game is
on Dec. 3, the assistant re
ported.
"What does the Army sav?"
Johnson asked.
Search for Information
This restless search for Infor
mation frequently goes on 18
hours a day. He never is far
from a telephone. He has one
Lyndon Johnson Tends To
Be Westerner in Learnings
A. ROBERT
SMITH
Mail Tribuns
Washington
Correspondent
WASHINGTON President
Lyndon B. Johnson is more a
westerner than he is a south
erner. This was the burden of his
personal appeal to western
Democrats when he was seeking
the presidential nomination in
1960. Texas, he noted over and
over, is west of the Mississippi,
not just south of the Mason and
Dixon line.
While this was a futile appeal,
there is no doubt that Lyndon
B. Johnson today is more
oriented toward the new west
than to the old south. That
orientation goes much deeper
than the symbols of his western
mindedness the 10-gallon hat,
the big cattle ranch and the
LBJ brand he stamps upon
everything that is his, including
the initials of his three daugh
ters. Guided Rights Bill
Johnson's dissociation from
the old south began when in
1957. as Senate majority leader,
he guided the first civil rights
bill through the maze of filibust
er oratory the tirst sucn ac
complishment since the recon
struction era. That bin created
the Civil Rights Commission,
which has since pointed to evi
dence of racial discrimination
in the varied strata of American
life.
His disassociation from segre
gationist sympathies was made
clear during his three years as
vice president when Johnson
took command of the Kennedy
administration's efforts to get
business and industrial firms to
employ Negro workers without
bias in hiring. He devoted con
siderable time and energy, even
some passion, to this cause as
he identified with the protest of
citizens of both races who op
posed segregation.
For what diehard segregation
ists regard as apostasy, John
son is anathama; and yet iron
ically he has never gained true
acceptance by northern liberals
as a civil libertarian of the true
faith.
While western liberals find
Johnson easier to take than do
eastern liberals to whom Texas
is virtually a foreign land, most
members of Oregon's predomi
nantly liberal Democratic con
gressional delegation have
viewed Johnson in the past with
mixed feelings. They have seen
him as a masterful legislative
tactician, when he was running
the Senate, but not one in whom
they could place full confidence
as a representative of their lib
eral views. They have trouble,
for one thing, accepting any
one who defends the 27V4 per
cent oil depletion allowance, a
favorite target of northern lib
erals, but a "must" for Texans
to defend.
More Conservative
Johnson, by their standard, is
more conservative than was
Kennedy. While neither man
ever fit the requirements of the
party's left-wing, both Kennedy
and Johnson had legitimate
claims to liberalism.
Kennedy was more of an ur
ban liberal, favoring the bread-
and-butter federal policies that
appealed to his early constitu
ency in Boston immigration
liberalism, slum clearance
school aid, unemployment in
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attached to a tree in the back
yard of his home in Austin, Tex.
and pace's as he talks, carrying
a long extension cord with him.
He once booked simultaneous
long distance calls in three ad
jacent phone booths in an air
port. When he was in a hospi
tal some years ago, a nurse was
asked how he was getting along.
surance, etc.
Johnson tends to be a wide
open spaces liberal, favoring the
bread-and-butter federal policies
traditionally supported by his
Texas constituents government
dams, irrigatjon and electric
power works, highways, rural
electrification, farm price sup
ports, etc. as well as the fed
eral emphasis on outer space
research and development.
In this respect Johnson tends
to be like many southern mem
bers of Congress who came to
Washington as he did during the
New Deal and continue to' be
rural New Dealers, but who re
v e a I conservative tendencies
when it comes to urban prob
lems. They would, in a word,
oppose an Urban Affairs Depart
ment of government wnile de
fending every project or expan
sionist tendency of the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Defense Spending
Johnson also is a firm believer
in abundant spending for na
tional defense, and the thrust
of his congressional record was
in this area rather than in the
realm of social concerns Which
attract most northern liberals.
But now he must pick up the
threads of Kennedy's program,
shaping them to suit his own
beliefs but never abandoning
outright what Kennedy advo
cated, at least until such time
as he may be elected to the
presidency in his own right.
In this he will need the legis
lative assistance of Rep. Edith
Green, probably the most influ
ential Democrat on the House
Education and Labor Commit
tee, and Sen. Wayne Morse,
chairman of the Senate educa
tion subcommittee and the Sen
ate's most knowledgeable mem
ber on labor issues. Both are
deeply involved in efforts to put
through federal aid for colleges,
as well as other education meas
ures. Politically, neither Mrs. Green
nor Morse has been close to
Johnson. Last year, however,
as vice president and a tireless
campaigner for incumbent con
gressional Democrats, Johnson
came to Oregon in Morse's re
election behalf. In a speech at
Medford, Johnson praised
Wayne Morse as the voice of
'incorruptible intellectual in
tegrity."
Claim on Loyalty
During Kennedy's years in of
fice, Mrs. Green had a special
claim upon his loyalty which he
always honored because she led
his successful Oregon campaign
in 1960. None of Oregon's top
Democrats has any such claim
upon Johnson's loyalty.
When Johnson was seeking
western delegates in his 1960
bid for the presidential nomina
tion, he got little encourage
ment in Oregon. Mrs. Green
came out early tor Kennedy.
Sen. Maurine Neuberger favored
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"He would be getting along
much better if we could take
the telephone out of his room,"
she said. "He has been here
three days and already has
called Austria twice."
As Senate leader probably
the most effective one in this
century he knew the strength
and weakness of every other
Adlai Stevenson, but due to the
death of her senator husband
early that year and her own
personal bid for his Senate seat
was not involved tn any great
degree in the presidential rival
ry. .
Sen. Morse sought the presi
dential nomination himself.
When he lost the Oregon pri
mary to Kennedy he turned his
back upon the presidential nom
ination fight and stayed, away
from the national convention in
which the Kenned y Johnson
ticket was selected. Morse's
preference among the major
contenders was Stevenson.
Two Favored Johnson
At that convention in Los An
geles, although the Oregon dele
gation was pledged to support
Kenendy as long as he was in
the running, two delegates were
reported to favor Johnson. Lew
Wallace and Jack Bain of Port
land were named by Mrs.
Beulah Hand as possible de
fectors for Johnson. Both de
nied this during the delegation's
first caucus presided over by
Mrs. Green. Mrs. Hand identi
fied herself as a possible de
fector for Stevenson, but Ken
nedy's nomination on the first
ballot ended all chance ot sucn
a split. .
Guests at Kennedy ,
Funeral Get Memento
WASHINGTON (UPD-Guests
at the funeral of John F. Ken
nedy each received a reverent
memento of the occasion a
Mass card distributed as they
left St. Matthew's Cathedral.
On one side, the card bore
a 3-by-5-inch picture of the
dead President. On the reverse
side was a prayer inscribed with
his name and the-date.
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senator, and he used his knowl
edge to get results. He knew
when to turn on the heat and
when to use gentle persuasion.
It was said that there was hard
ly a man in the U.S. Senate
who didn't owe Johnson at least
one small political debt, and he
knew exactly how and when to
demand payment.
Johnson doesn't panic and hs
doesn't scare easily. President
Eisenhower once tore into John
son and the Democrats for not
cooperating enough in his legis
lative program. Johnson made
a short and typical speech: "W
are not going to carry out in
structions like a bunch of sec
ond lieutenants."
Next: A big day: FDR and
the Manhattan cocktails. :
Six Presidents
In Capitol Rotunda
WASHINGTON (UPD-Presl-dent
Kennedy was the sixth
President of the United States
to lie in state in the capital ro
tunda on the black-draped catal
falque which was built for Abra
ham Lincoln.
In addition to Lincoln, in April
1865, the tribute was paid to
Presidents James A. Garfield
(September, 1881), William Mc
Kinley (September, 1901); War
ren G. Harding (August, 1923)
and William Howard Taft
(March, 1930). Taft was no long
er President but was Chief Jus
tice of the Supreme Court at the
time of his death.
Like Kennedy, the first three
Presidents so honored Lincoln,
Garfield and McKinley had
been assassinated. 1
Other distinguished Ameri
cans, including the Unknown Sol
diers of three wars, Adm.
George Dewey and Gen. John J.
Pershing and Maj. Pierre
Charles L'Enfant planner of ths
city of Washington have also
been so honored. Sen. Robert A.
Taft, R-Ohio, son of the former
President-Chief Justice, lay in
state in the rotunda in August,
1953.
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