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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, James Roton Sena New Yoik Tunes Ins mind is on e candidates accused (o of being Soft o n Communism, a n d Humphrey li a s n't accused Nixon (so far) of An Editor's Notebook Stern Faces Look on Game of Politics The Great Game of Politics, as the late Frank Kent of the Baltimore Sun once called it, is an absorbing pursuit. Those who play the game are divided r o ughly into these categothe candiries dates, party orga n i z a tions, Britain with 50 deprovided stroyers in exchange for air bases. Historian Charles Beard has charged that Roosevelt actually provoked the Japanese attack upon Pearl Harbor. The undisclosed events leading up to that infamous day are still shrouded in myshard-presse- d tery. -- Truman Gained Strength self-seeki- hangers-on- , pressure groups, labor, business and the voters who elect. of And then, Mr. Knight course, we have the press which reports and interprets the campaign, the pollsters who tell us how the political winds are blowing and the youngsters of nonvoting age eager to challenge the political philosophies of their elders. Noise and Fury In presidential election years, the noise and fury reaches its apex. Excepte ing the elections of 1924 when Calvin defeated John W. Davis, the Wall Street West Virginian, and Progressive Robert M. LaFollette, and Franklin D. Roosevelts lopsided victory over Alf Landon in 1936, this century has seen some of the most stirring contests in Coo-lidg- American history. We think of 1912 when Woodrow Wilson was first elected as the Republican vote divided between William Howard Taft and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt. And Wilson's narrow reelection over Charles Evans Hughes in 1916 on the slogan, He Kept Us Out of War." In 1920, Warren Gamaliel Harding the man who looked like a president crushed Democrat James M. Cox of Ohio and Franklin D. Roosevelt, his youthful running mate. The great issue in that year was the League of Nations. Stop the Applause! The campaign of 1928 saw Herbert Hoover triumphant over Alfred E. Smith, The Happy Warrior, who objected to prolonged audience applause because it used up too much valuable radio time. Hoover victimized by the financial crash and severe unemployment, was defeated in 1932 by Franklin D. Roosevelt who stressed repeal of prohibition and a responsible fiscal policy. This was the first of Roosevelts four elections as he turned back the challenges of Landon. Wendell Willkie in 1940 and Thomas E. Dewey in 1944. Dewey lost again in 1948 to Harry Truman, the spunky Missourian who didnt have a chance. Of more modern vintage were the two defeats of Democrat Adlai Stevenson by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956; John F. Kennedy's narrow victory over Richard M. Nixon in 1960 and President Johnson's easy score over Sen. Barry Goldwater in 1964. In retrospect it is interesting to note how seldom the pledgrs and promises of the winning candidate were honored or fulfilled. Wilson was reelected as the peace candidate. Within five months on April 6, 1917, to be exact the United States had declared war against GerWoodrow; many. Franklin D. Roosevelt, considered a conservative on money matters, became an exponent of deficit financing and expanded controls over the economy. Al- to was supposed Roosevelt though observe the neutrality laws in World War II, he was openly hostile to Hitler and Harry Truman, who succeeded to the presidency when Roosevelt died in 1945, began his administration as an admittedly humble man pleading for assistance. Yet he became one of this nations strongest presidents. Truman, who never had to make a campaign promise, proved to be firm and decisive. His high place in history is now well established. Gen. David Dwdght Eisenhower, nominated in 1952 as the only Republican who can win, enjoyed a war record and popularity such as the able Adlai Stevenson was unable to match. The genial Ikes father image gave him twe terms in the White House in an era of good will and peace. He was a good Dr. T. R. Van Dellen Herere Few Tips To Kick Out At Athletes Foot Some people are highly susceptible to others seem to be foot; immune. Between these extremes are men and women who have one or two attacks during their lifetime. Those in the second group have an inherent resistance to the causative fungus. Even though ringworm organisms live on the their skin, Dr. Van Dellen microbes are un- able to penetrate the tissue. In marked contrast are individuals with no resist ance and so sensitive to the parasites, they never are free of symptoms. Those in the third category develop athlete's foot only when ill health or injury lowers skin athletes resistance. Ringworm is best avoided by keeping the feet dry, especially in hot weather. shoes, such as sandals, help aerate the feet. A liberal dusting with ordinary talc has a drying effect. But organic acids such as caprylic, propionic, or undecylenic (Desenex, Sopro-nnTimofax) are better because these powders also contain a fungicide. Further invasions are minimized by drying the feet thoroughly after every shower or bath. Anti fungal powder not only is applied to the feet, but sprinkled into the socks several times a day. Have an extra pair available for a change during the day if the feet perspire. Griseofiilin is an excellent tablet but it is least effective when the feet are involved unless combined with powders, baths, and salves. Tinactin, a topical product, contains a synthetic fungicidal agent and should be used when the usual ringworm remedies arc ir.ef fective. l. anti-fung- President in his first term, less effective in his second because of repeated illnesses. The late President Kennedy's promising career was cut short by an assassins bullet on Nov. 22, 1963. His pledge to return the flag of a Cuban brigade to a free Havana was never fulfilled. In the campaign of 1964, President Johnson derided Barry Goldwater as a war monger while LBJ made a commitment to the American people that American boys would never be called upon to do in Southeast Asia what the Asian boys should be doing for themselves. War Wins Out As we know to our sorrow, this pledge was almost immediately violated as Johnson prepared for a massive escalation of the Vietnam war. But then, Franklin D. Roosevelt promised in 1940 that our sons would never be called upon to serve on foreign soil except in case of attack. Pearl Harbor, contrived or not, absolved FDR of duplicity. As we approach the campaign of 1968, voters should be warned not to accept without question the promises of the presidential candidates. Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Republican Richard Nixon, the two probable nominees, are men with long public records. True enough, public men often change their views as the times and conditions demand. We see nothing sinister in a reversal or modification of a previously expressed opinion if subsequent developments show this position to have been wrong. In fact, the honesty of such a change is to be applauded. Yet no man can have been in public life for so long as Humphrey, Nixon, McCarthy or Rockefeller without acquiring a philosophy of government. Thus Nixon must be accounted a moderate who is conservatively oriented in financial matters but not without an appreciation and understanding of the governments role in this era of civil strife and the severe problems of our major cities. Vice President Hubert Humphrey is an affirmed liberal who believes in a strong central government and the massive use of its resources to correct all ills. Mr. Humphrey is less concerned over what it costs than how to do it. He has the open support of organized lauor and yet manages to attract a considerable following from the big business community. Man of Distinction candor and humor have given the campaign a needed contrast the platitudes of the Democratic estab- delightful to lishment. Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, now engaged in a late but spirited bid for the Republican nomination, is unquestionably able and quite popular with the minority groups which, for the most part, take d dim view of Nixon. In some ways, notably In the spending area, Humphrey and Rockefeller are not nnnpifp. The impression lingers however, that Rockefeller might demand more for the dollars spent than would the vice Mr. Reston planning another Hoover Depression, and wbil ' George Wal'ace is backing into the futuie, nobody, praise the Lord, lias dared to tell the ,Toters that they never had it so good. Seldom in memory has there been so much desperate longing for peace and quiet in America or so few election promises of Immediate Salvation. Yet, while we are being spared the spectacular silliness of the past, the first major issue of the 1968 election between Humphrey and Nixon is beginning to appear. This issue is nothing less than how the United States is to approach the Communist world. Nixon is still talking as if Alger Hiss and Nikita Khrushchev were household wo.ds, and emphasizing what he calls the fundamental fact of the continuing confrontation between Communist ambition and Western resist- Dy C. H. Q. Neither vulnerable, and as 1 South you hold: AK( Your Goren V X 5 4 10 32 K 7 6 j 2 partner opens with four no trump. What do you bid? As South, vulnerable, you (j. 2 hold: A K 9 8 3 4 Q 10 4 A A J 93 The bidding has proceeded: East North West South Dhle. Puss 2 Winn do you bid now? Both vulneiable, and as 3 South vou hold: 9 6 3 K Q J 85 4 2 A ? 63 The bidding has proceeded: North West South East (J. Pass Pass Pas Pass What is your resxmse? Both vulnerable, Q. 4 South vou hold: A 1 N'T ? Q 10 7 6 5 2 A K 9 8 3 and ns 10 2 (Look for answers Monday) nations elsewhere. These differing tendencies between the two leading candidates for the presidency of the U.S. could he fundamental. Leave aside the question of who is right and who is wrong that is a matter of but their minds and priorities opinion ate facts, and these differences between them could be decisive, not only in our ance. Humphrey Points to Changes Humphrey however, despite periods of in the past, is now have conditions world that saying changed and demand new priorities in American policy. They demand, he said this week, a shift from policies of confrontation and containment to policies of reconciliation and peaceful engagement. The most and important area of reconciliation the top priority for American foreign polis that of East-Weicy in the next decade relations. This particularly includes relations among the United States and the Soviet Union, Western Europe and Eastern Europe. The differences between Humphrey and Nixon on this point could easily be exaggerated. Nixon is not saying nothing has changed and Humphrey is not saying everything has changed. Both recognize the changes in the Communist world and also the continuing menace, but the TENDENCIES of their thought are different and this could be highly significant for the future. st Tendency ol Nixon Thought Nixons tendency is to assume the worst about Communist ambitions, to give top priority to military security, to concentrate on Asia. He is not against but the main thrust of reconciliation, election in November, but in world ties between now and the 197l)s. Reservation on By John C. Metcalfe SUMMER BLUES Emblem of Accommodation On such a question, domestic and woild polities get all mixed up. Any hard look at the U.S. federal budget, even beyond the war in Vietnam, convinces not only the Nixon economists but Walter Heller, who is advising Humphrey, that the problem and menace of poverty at home and abroad cannot be funded adequately unless there is a substantial reduction in defense expenditures, amounting to tens of billions of dollars. And this ovbiousjy cannot be achieved without an accommodation, if not a reconciliation, betw een the two great arse Dr. Alfred A. Editorial Chairman Knight Newspapers Messer Brave Widow Must Crumble During the funeral of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, more than one television commentator was heard to dwell upon how the widow w'ell regal bearing of his widow during those memorable four days? However, questions arose in the minds of many as to her and mourning reactions. The ansgrief and family were wer came a few years later during the bearing up. One time of the controversy over thp Mannewscaster noted chester book. Some of the highly personal that on the train reactions of the widow which she and the from New trip family insisted be deleted from the book, York City to were reminiscent of the feelings and exthe Washington, pressions that accompany grief and widow did her best to cheer up others mourning in any individual. In other words, it seemed that the around her. Such widow was going through Presidents gal-aand courage some of t..' mourning reactions which, r v rightfully earned her the publics admiration and under more ordinary circumstances, would probably have been accomplished respect. many months previous. feel Mrs. not will Hopefully, Kennedy It is not infrequent in psychiatric praccompelled to maintain this composure in tice to see patients in their 30s or 40s or a loses For a whenever person private. even 50s who have lost a parent or loved loved one, a period of grief and mourning one 10 or 20 years ago, and who are only must follow. now going through a complete mourning Many religions have ritualized the reaction. whole sequence of grief and mourning. (Copyright) Somewhere along the way, wise men ritrecognized the need for a prescribed ual that allows mourners to come face to face with their grief and sense of loss and abandonment. The process of mourning varies from Reports from Washington indicate person to person, but usually there is some period of shock and disbelief, then that, when it comes to running a city, that the departed one poor people arent any more efficient guilt and than anybody else. was not looked after properly, then protest and anger over the abandonment A look at this summers beach and Eventually, there is acceptance of the poolside fashions indicates that there will death and resolution of feelings. be more girl per girl. When circumstances interfere W'ith A third Senate office building is d mourning, the process may be cr delayed. This was what planned in Washington, as senators need more and more space in which to spend troubled me watching the publics reacless and less time. tion to Sen. Kennedys widow. So much emphasis was placed on her ability to Congressman Sludgepump says he take all of the terror and grief without doesnt need fresh, new ideas when he's breaking down, that this kind of begot his same old, tired constituents. havior may be looked upon as a model for others. Italy has a political leader named One need only recall the events folRumor, and were just as glad the prilowing President John F. Kennedys mary class in punning is on its summer death. Who did not gain courage from the vacation. self-dou- When I see my flowers blooming . . . All the In this satin summer blue daytime Ill be dreaming . . . Dearest one of you . . . When I see the scarlet sunshine In the pleasant azure sky. For your smiling eyes so gentle . . . Constantly Ill sigh . . . When I hear the tender breezes . . . Singing in the clouds above . . . Theyll be filled with recollecOf your faithful love . . . When tions the twilight will be falling . . . And each All my thoughts of tiny star appears you, beloved . . . Will be filled with tears . . . And when nighttime will be present 1 shall long for you till dawn . . . And until the final darkness . . . Slowly has withdrawn. ... ... ... ... ... short-circuite- Sugar House Bountiful Make Room for the 1969 Models To COLOR TV TTA. METER GUIDE" VIEW-- Bu;... lu tun' anil lining 'vninil are ilmi'-- t ninn (liate ill. I'll Hire Buy Now You'll Never Ii.hky If there is a reservation about Rockefeller, it turns on the indecisiveness with which he first declared to the Associated Press about a year ago that lie didn't want to be president, then underwent some change of mind, subsequently withdrew entirely and now is complaining that Nixon won't debate the issues with him. Whoever the nominees may be, the voters will be well advised to consider their total records and not simply the blithe promises of candidates emotionally aroused by the plaudits of their admirers. Naming a president is serious business. Entrusting the troubled affaii . of no this nation to a single individual matter how well qualified lie may appear is not to bn ta.en lightly. to be We have learned fiom history that the pledge is not always found in the pierformar.ee. Integrity and character are more to be honored than glib talk and easy promises quite impossible of fulfillment. John S. Knight poli- Senator Soaper Portraits president. Gorens Weekly Bridge Ouiz A 23 . Sen. Eugene McCarthy Is more the scholar than the professional politician. His courageous opposition to the war in Vietnam and his willingness to take issue with the leader of his own party gives him unusual distinction In an ago when few men are so bold. Smi. McCarthy's complete 14, 1968 nals of democraiy and communism in Washington and Moscow Both Humphrey and Nixon recognize hut their personalities, their this, assumptions and their priorities move them at different speeds and maybe in different directions. Nixon thinks first about the war between the East and the West, Humphrey about the war between the noli ciui the poor, and honest men can diflor about who is right. But the question is now obviously coining to the foie, and if Nixon and Humphrey are nominated, it could he thp decisive question in the election. (Copyright) con- tendency in all relations human lel.ilions, political relations, is to assume the and foreign relations best in other people. Ills top prioiitv in the woild, as he sees it now, is social reconstruction. He thinks fust not about Nixon's pnonty the Cold War but about what he regards as the new Class War in the world between the rub people and the poor people within the United States and the rich nations and the pooi . far) and llumphieys has promised us Good The Old Days or Instant l'eaie and ProNixon sper it Humphrey confrontation'' tainment. The election lamp.cgn NEW YORK has been smgulaily fiee (hi far) o! the political i belies of the past. 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