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Editorial Opinion
State of the Parties
Republican Congressmen yesterday ousted Rep. Jos
eph W. Martin Jr. (Mass.) as their leader in the House of
Representatives and installed Rep. Chailes H. Halleck
(Ind.) in his place.
Halleck, who has served as a lieutenant of Martin in
previous Congressional sessions, won the position by a
74-70 vote. Although the vote was not seen by political
analysts as significant in the struggle between liberal and
conservative elements of the Republican Party, the revolt
against Martin was led by Congressmen apparently seek
ing moie vigorous leadership,
The Mariin-Halleck vole was the first resolution of
what promises to be a series of power struggles between
factions and individuals of both political parties—struggles
which may be the most significant of recent years, and
which may be expected to last through the 1360 party
conventions.
Not for many years has the Republican Congressional
delegation been so divided. A group of “Eisenhower Re
publicans” in the Senate is trying to give the party a
more liberal leadership there, although apparently without
Eisenhower's support.
And strong disagreements also are foresen in Demo
crat circles, where the liberal-conservative split has been
more pronounced over the years, largely because it is a
sectional one. One of the issues most likely to divide
Democrats early in the Congressional session will be a
move to outlaw the filibuster in the Senate. In the past,
anti-filibuster proposals have been filibustered out of
existence.
Nor i 3 all quiet on the Pennsylvania scene. The Gen
eral Assembly opened its 143rd session yesterday under
what appeared to be an uneasy truce. The governorship
and the state House of Representatives are controlled by
the Democrats. The state Senate remains in the hands of
Republicans. The last similar situation was during the
first two years of Gev. George M. Leader's term, when the
legislature held a session of record length in which it was
deadlocked with the governor over a financial program.
State and national governments in 1959 look to be
marked by an unusual amount of political activity and
disunion
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'East Wind' Slogan May Blow Cold for Reds
By J. M. ROBERTS of two political systems. They ment to this concept.
Associated Press News Analyst are seeking future systems for The propaganda boys, how-
Peipmg radio, joining the themselves which give greatest ever, have not been slow in
world-wide Communist effort to promise of quick material pro- seeking to relate the achieve
link the Soviet Union’s latest gress. ment to the cold war, and to
?^*T™ cnt in ro fketry to po- Soviet scientific progress lends possible.hot war.
ht.cal superiority, has chosen an we ight to Communist arguments The Vmied States j s on ths
espec'ailv mept simile. that their system contains such record as being willing to lead
The East Wind is prevailing Drom j se the world m a great economic
in both cosmic space and the v .' , , , , . . revolution if the nations will de
world,” Peiping boasts. The underdeveloped countries vo j g t 0 resources now de-
The last to use the term “East r niost part, vo j e< j l 0 military preparedness.
Wind,” in such a connotation that world peace is essential to T^e j^ e( j s ee p dragging ev
were the Japanese militarists, their material success. Agitation er yUjjng j n to the cold war,
They used it as a code to trigger olTran" which they started and which
their attack on Pearl Harbor. It cap * has kept the world’s mind off
became a synonym for their sui- haiist dlocks disturbs them. progress it should have been
cide. This feeling creates a point of making since World War 11,
The Soviet Union has achieved no return for the Red propagan- They keep abrading the sore
greatness in the field of science, dists. spots such as Berlin, Quemoy
with strong military implies- President Eisenhower, in con- and the Middle East,
lions. The question is whether, trast to America’s reaction Of They are making clear their
by seeking to overemphasise the fear over the first Sputnik, own position as disrupters, with
political connotations, the Reds greeted the Soviet sun shot a thin pretense of being build
may not get a diminished result, within the concept of man’s long ers.
The underdeveloped countries dream of probing into outer If they keep it up, the East
embracing a vast proportion of space. Wind may turn back upon them
the world’s population are now The Soviet Union itself large- as it did upon the Japanese
engaged in weighing the merits ly confined the first announce- militarists.
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Words to Spare
Cold War Opens
On New Front
By Dick Drayne
Alert press reporters yesterday picked up some infor
mation which somehow seems vastly significant in the
battle for world supremacy between the United States
and Russia. And a perceptive local radio station has right
fully sped the key develop
ments to its grimly fascinated
audience.
According to a news broad
cast on a local radio station
yesterday, a high Russian offi
cial has been helping himself
to some important items in a
tour of one of this country’s
most important institutions.
If we are to judge by the time
allotted to the report on the
incident, the seemingly inno
cent facts must portend some
thing of great importance to
the future of our world.
Anastas I. Mikoyan, a So
viet First Deputy Premier,
took his first tour through an
American supermarket yester
day. And these are the details
dug up by our ever-alert news
men as they furtively trailed
Mikovan through the crowded
aisles
Mikoyan came unannounced.
He pushed his own cart.
(What are they trying to tell
US?)
His first purchase (and this
somehow seems dourly sig
nificant) was concentrated
lemon and lime juices. ■
Mikoyan also bought vege
tables (what are we to make
of this?) and, a BOTTLE OF
OLIVES.
He watched a meat-cutting
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by
those who dared believe that something inside them was
superior to circumstance.. —Bruce Barton
Little Man on Campus by Dick Sib!3*
"Since it'i one week 'til finali, I called you in to ask just what
you plan to do about the 16 weeks back work you owe met"
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 7. 1959
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN 5 1
AT BY A GOPHER?
demonstration. (This isn’t too
unusual ... or is it?)
He hadn’t had the weight of
his vegetables marked, and
thus had to return to get a
price tag on them before they
could be paid for (what sort
of new Red deception is this?)
An aide paid for his pur
chases (does this say some
thing to you about the Russian
economy???)
And the total amount of mon
ey that this aide was called up
on to pay? nine (9) dollars and
twenty-nine (29) cents! (tha
whole scheme is crystal clear)
These are the simple facts
of the case as reported by the
local radio yesterday. Thera
are more details, to be surei
our national newsmen over
looked none of Ihe Russian's
actions, and our community
radio station blurted out much
more than we have space to
treat here.
It is good to know we have
men to trace and check up on
such doings as these. It is good
to know that we have wire
services to speed the news
across the nation. It is good to
know we have radio men per
ceptive enough to broadcast in
detail what the American pub
lic has the right to know.