Minnesota's young Governor Stassen has a streak that his critics call stubbornness and that his friends call a farsighted awareness of the new needs of a new time. Last week the Governor demonstrated this streak. To the post of the late Senator Ernest Lundeen he appointed—over the protests of Republican politicians —tall, lean, black-haired young Joseph Ball, who has been a newspaperman for 13 of his 34 years.
What made that appointment news was not that Governor Stassen passed over eligible oldsters like Congressman August H. Andresen. Nor was it that Governor Stassen simply made...
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