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7s ihis where if begins or ends?' a!3Ti3!3HaatsaEs Homosexuality: moral and security problem Recent security scandals dramatize hazards i .11 uieii.su. . j.u iiiijji.jii mmm By Richard L. Wortnop UPI Staff Wrlt.r WASHINGTON Tlie recent (pate of security scandals in Great Britain has dramatized the hazard of sexual indiscretion by persons holding sensitive govern ment jobs. Espionages agents on both sides of the Iron Curtain are v, constantly on the lookout for per- A 'l cnnal iwalrnoccne CAVital nr nth. i erwise, that can be exploited to fl gain access to secret information. l There is no indication as yet that uio rruiuino cube mvuiveu amy breach of security. But coming on the heels of a scandal involving a homosexual Admiralty clerk, the case raised searching ques tions about British security pro cedures and contemporary stand ards of morality. The central figure in the ear lier scandal was William John Vassall, who had been a Soviet spy for seven years prior to his arrest last - September. It was brought out in court that Vassall had participated in a homosexual orgy in Moscow shortly before Christmas 1954. Photographs ta ken at the time were used by Rus sian agents to coerce him into spying for the Soviet Union. British newspapers pointed out that Vassall's homosexuality had gone undetected by the Admiralty for nearly eight years, while it was spotted and exploited by the Russians eight months after he had arrived in Moscow to serve under the British naval attache. wjvv;3&Jsi Thai old 'Communist' gag crops up again in segregation views The Governor of Mississippi, a man named Ross Barnett, has been absent in lists of Southern leaders in the efforts to improve the politi cal and social position of Negroes in Ms state and in the South. He has been conspicuous by his efforts (at the University of Mississippi, for ex ample) to maintain the one-time status quo in Mississippi. The one-time status quo of the Negro in this country is gone for ever. One must suppose Governor Barnett knows this. Most other per sons know it. Some are not happy It is gone, and will fight delaying actions o one -sort or another. Others are fearful of the change, and as a result have taken actions which are abnormal. Remember the photographs of the restaurant owner kicking the unresisting Negro sitting on a public sidewalk outside the restaurant? The Kennedy administration has proposed a package of new rights legislation. A committee of the United States Senate has been hear ing witnesses for and against the bills. One witness to appear last week was Governor Barnett of Mis sissippi. But Barnett's testimony was unlike the testimony of previous wit nesses before the group. Barnett dragged up an old scarecrow to but tress his remarks. This whole integration furore, he said, is a Communist plot. The Negro leaders in the fight have at tended "Communist training schools," he told the committee. In his view the maintenance of segrega tion is one way to defeat a Com munist move to take over this coun try. This is an old story, and one which has been told, and discredited, before. Communism has been used as a scareword is this country be fore, and undoubtedly will be used again. But actual Communist in fluence is far less strong than Bar nett and others would have us be lieve. The cry of Communism has been used, for example, against the labor movement far more than it deserved to be used. It has been used against college faculty mem bers, government administrators, preachers, editors, and far too many others. It is generally used by some one short on facts, who tries a scare word in place of solid Information when he criticises- something or someone he doesn't like. There Is no doubt America's dwindling Communists the FBI, charged with keeping an eye on Communists, estimates their num bers have dropped about 80 per cent In the past 30 years, while the population of the country as a whole has Increased about 50 per cent are interested in the segregation integration fight. And they are not interested, basically, in improving the lot of the Negro, in the South or anyplace else. They are interested in causing trouble, for this country, its people, and its government. This is nothing new for the Communists. Remember the case of the Scottsboro boys? They found it difficult to gain justice in the South. But their task, and the job of those interested in their welfare, was made no easier by Communist in volvement in the case. It probably, was made more difficult. Governor Barnett raises the issue of Communism. He does so not because he is fearful of Com munism, he must know that domes tic Communists pose little present danger to this country, but because the cry of Communist shores up his own argument. i He, and others in like circum stances, should stop raising the cry. It does their cause, right or wrong, no good at all. The rising candidate With good reason, most of the state's political observers expect Howard Morgan to be a candidate for Governor of Oregon in 1966, pre suming something else does not draw his interest in the interim, and presuming he survives the Demo cratic primary that spring. Both presumptions are pretty valid, one suspects. Who is Morgan? Well, he's of ficially a Deschutes county resident, a factor which might get him a few votes over here, since we've never had a serious candidate for gov ernor from this area. When he's not in Salem, or Washington, or some where else, he lives on the Black Butte Ranch northeast of Sisters. He's a man of considerable ability. He's had quite a career of government service. He was a mem ber of the legislature. He was state Chairman of the Democratic Party. He was state Public Utilities Com missioner. Recently he has been a member of the Federal Power Com mission, where he distinguished himself, among other ways, by writ ing a nasty letter to President Ken nedy asking the President to find someone else to take the job. The President is doing just that right now, and Morgan will return to the Sisters area soon. He's got lots of friends. And he has some strong enemies. Morgan is a combative soul, hardly an attri bute which would gain him universal popularity. The Democratic Old Guard doesn't like him because he kicked too many of them around when he was state chairman of the pftrty. The New Frontiersmen don't like him because he was too rough on their leader, and besides, he's supposedly thinking of writing a book, and people who write things are supposed to be generally dan gerous. Morgan has had a favorite whip ping boy in the past. He spent much of his generous supply of venom on the state's utilities. Partly because of the change in times, and partly because of critics such as Morgan, the utilities have put their own houses In pretty good order in recent years. The old Issues which could get the electorate or a goodly portion of it up in arms in Ore gon 30 years ago have just about disappeared. If he's going to run for Gov ernor, and apparently he is, he'll have to get a now song to sing. It was said that Vassall was so obviously effeminate that he was known to his co-workers as "Aunt ie" and "Miss." But a tribunal that investigated the case assert ed that Vassall's homosexuality was a "private matter" and Uiat the British security services did not collect information on the sex ual behavior of government em ployees. The Vassall case tended to re inforce the popular notion that communism has special appeal for homosexuals. And it bore out the commonly held belief that homosexuals are particularly vul nerable to blackmail by Commu nist agents and therefore are poor security risks. It has been assert ed that homosexuals are emotion ally immature, that they talk too much, and that they have less re sistance than heterosexuals to flattery. These Impressions can be trac ed in part to two other noted se curity cases involving homosex uals. Guy F. de M. Burgess and Donald D. Maclean,- employees of the British Foreign Office, fled to the Soviet Union in May 1951 aft er being tipped off by a collea gue, H. A. R. Philby. It wai said of Burgess that, while at college, he "rolled communism row id his tongue and spouted It at anybody who would listen." Both were heavy drinkers. Rebecca West, author of a book on The Meaning of Treason, asserted: "Both Mac lean and Burgess were homosex uals. Other homosexuals had come to their aid." A security scandal strikingly similar to that of Burgess and Maclean jolted the United States three years ago. William H. Mar tin and Bernon F. Mitchell, em ployees of the top-secret National Security Agency, passed behind the Iron Curtain in the summer of I960. The House Un - American Activities Committee later dis closed that "Martin was sexually abnormal; in fact, a masochist," and that Mitchell had "had homo sexual problems for many years." The federal government's con cern over employment of homo sexuals dates back to 1950. Dis trict of Columbia law enforcement officers told a Senate subcommit tee early that year that one-third of all persons charged with homo sexual offenses in Washington in the preceding three years had in dicated at the time of arrest that they held government jobs. An other Senate subcommittee was thereupon directed to look into the matter) The subcommittee, headed by the late Clyde R. Hoey (D-N.C), came to the conclusion that homo sexuals were security risks In sensitive jobs and unsuitable for employment in non-sensitive jobs. Summing up, the subcommittee declared: "There is no place In the United States government for persons who violate the laws or the accepted standards of moral ity, or who otherwise bring disre pute to the federal service by in famous or scandalous personal conduct." Homosexuals themselves, long fearful of speaking out, recently launched a concerted attack on government employment policies. Representatives of the Mattachine Society of Washington, one of a number of homosexual organiza tions of that name in major cities, have met with security officers of at least one government agency to present their views. In a letter sent to the agency last November, the society asserted that "Increas ingly. . .you will get case after case. . .of individuals who will contest adverse rulings based up on homosexuality, and (those individuals) will contest not the mere proof of fact, but the laws and regulations, assumptions and policies, upon which these rulings are based." The Mattachine Society of Washington maintains that efforts to weed homosexuals out of gov ernment are futile. By its reckon ing, 200,000 homosexuals are now employed by federal civilian agen cies and 250,000 are serving in the armed forces. These men and women, according to the society, are indistinguishable in appear ance or job performance from their heterosexual co-workers and very few of them come into con flict with the law. i iifni-WMfti'ii'i ii Capital Report "fi Springfield teacher gets new picture after three months spent in Russia By Yvonne Franklin Bulletin Correspondent WASHINGTON Zane Phoenix, whose name suggests that he might have risen from the ashes of a Hollywood western, is a young teacher of Russian from Springfield, Oregon High School who has just completed six months with a cultural exchange exhibit of technical books in the USSR. Phoenix, 30, explained before catching a plane for Eugene and a reunion with wife Iva and his three sons, Stephen, 12, Rocky, 8, and Monte, 6, that ho was one of 18 exhibit guides sent by the Uni ted Slates Information Agency to Russia as interpreters. Phoenix said that because of his experience in his father's con tracting business he was assigned to the transportation and con struction section. The 7000-book exhibit was shown in Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev, and lasted a month in each city. The books, all printed in English, covered en ( gineering, medicine, theoretical and applied science, arts and crafts, music, agriculture and bus iness administration. He was constantly amazed at the number of Russians who could speak English. He said that al though the exhibit naturally drew those who could read English, nevertheless the total was start ling. He told of an automobile me 'chanic in Moscow who spoke stumbling English, yet was easily able to read the English texts about automatic transmission and the like. He said the Russians seemed to take it for granted that a specialist should be able to read technical books In English. His duties were to help the visi tors find the books that were of interest to them and answer their questions. Some came back re peatedly and copied or photo graphed the texts which could not be taken out. Phoenix said that the Russians asked him questions about Ameri can education, the standard of liv ing and sometimes about the racial troubles. He said that on the whole they were extremely friendly and curious and only oc casionally were the questioners rude. He regularly read the Russian newspapers, which he said were well supplied with pictures and text of southern policemen and their dogs attacking Negro wom en and children, but the tenor of the Russian questions were mere ly curious "is this so" and not hostile. Phoenix said that he had a to tal of 70 students last year In his five Russian classes in Spring field. He expects to return to teaching and wistfully hoped that more students would be interest ed. He majored in history at the University of Oregon, with two years of Russian, and took his masters at Indiana University, under the National Defense Edu cation Act program for high school teachers. His wife taught In a Bellcvuc, Idaho elementary school during the six months he was away and is at present attending the Uni versity of Oregon summer school. He was enthusiastic about the worth of the cultural exchange program. "I feel it is very worthwhile, because the more opportunity that the Soviet people and Americans have to come in contact with each other, the better chance of im proving relations," he said. Under an agreement signed with tlie USSR in 1959 we exchange visits artists in the performing arts, and experts in technical fields as well. In some cases ex perts study in their various fields in either country. The Bolshoi Ballet came to America, as did the Ukranian dancers to Port land, under this program, and Benny Goodman was one of the many artists sent to Russia. I Washington Merry-gu-round How Congressmen learn facts on their junkets By Drew Pearson WASHINGTON An idea of how the domestic Peace Corps may operate was given on a con gressional air trip to Osawatomie, Kans., and Pine Ridge, S.D. The group left Washington in an immigration plane loaned by Attorney General Bob Kennedy which had been used to carry the last convicts from Alcatraz Peni tentiary and Cuban prisoners from Havana and smelled like it. The plane was an hour and a half late leaving because Sen. Harrison Williams, D-N.J., chairman of tlie Senate Subcommittee on Mental Health, was late. Aboard were Rep. Wm. Brock, R-Tenn.,- the candy manufacturer from Chat tanooga: Rep. Wm. Avery. R Kans., and Rep. David Martin, R Neb., who wanted a chance to fly home. Doctors and nurses at tlie first stop, the Osawatomie, Kans., state mental hospital, had been waiting about two hours, and wore a bit disappointed in not see ing more brass in the party. But they gave an inspiring demonstra tion of how mental patients have benefited from the quivalent of a Peace Crops. Volunteers from the neighbor hood of Osawatomie, ranging from age 16 to 64, have come in to act as hospital aides, reading to pa tients, entertaining them, playing instruments to them. As a result, the hospital, with a capacity of 1.800 resident patients, is now down to 1,000. The reduction was accomplish ed largely by putting across the idea that other people care. Sen. Williams, who has been devoting himself to the difficult and thankless problem of mental health, believes a domestic Peace Corps could work in other hospit als, also could help lift the de pressed areas of the Tennessee and Kentucky mountains. Depressed Indians To investigate conditions on tlie largest Indian reservation in tlie United States, the plane next flew to Pine Ridge, S.D., where the congressmen traveled through many miles of poverty and squal or old wooden shacks, muddy roads, Inadequate water supply. Pine Ridge covers one million The Bulletin Tuesday, July 16,1963 An Independent Newspaper Robert W. Chandler, Editor Clenn Cushman, Gen. Manager Jack McDermoft, Adv. Manager Phil F. Brogen, Associate Editor Lou W. Meyers, Circ. Manager Loren E. Dyer, Mech. Sup't. William A. Yates, Managing Ed. Entered at Sovt Clau Mutter. January . 11?. t.Ke !t office at Kt1 or.n. m.1?r Act ot Manh S. 179. Published aulr excapt Sunday and car, In holidaja by The Hand Bullalm. bo. aii'..'ta jn. auaii lTiu..ui. ' it . ,a-w- ai ttt ;-r-rr --:J and a half acres just below the Black Hills. There Chief Red Cloud made a speech to the visi tors regarding neglect. It was a three-way conversation, through an interpreter, which took place alongside a crude monument of stones piled upon stones in mem ory of the original Chief Red Cloud. "You give us promises, b u t nothing happens," said tlie pres ent Chief Red Cloud. "Your troops massacred us. You put tlie rest of us to live by ourselves, you promise us many things, but you break your promises." Capt. William R. Anderson, for mer commander of the first atom ic submarine, Nautilus, who will be in charge of the Domestic Peace Corps if it is ok'd by Con gress, introduced himself to Chief Red Cloud and answered. Defend ing President Kennedy, he point ed out that tlie broken promises had been made under the previ ous administration, said that everything depends on ' m o n e y voted by Congress. "Wo are here to do what we can," he said. Only one voluntary worker was helping the Indians on the Pine Ridge Reservation Miss Aline Cronshcy, from long Valley, N. J., who has set up a children's nursery. Heading for Home After an Indian war dance. Sen. Williams was ready to go home. Rep. Martin had hoped to be dropped off at his home, Kearny, Neb., but it was too stormy to land there, and the plane headed for the SAC base at Lincoln, Neb. Sen. Williams wanted to get back to New Jersey for the week end, but the pilots were not per mitted to fly again without six hours' sleep. So, much against the wishes of the rest of the par ty, who hated to get up early, it was decreed that the pilots would sleep until 4:30 a.m., then take off. At 3:00 a.m. the phone rang in Sen Williams' room. "I'm a constituent of yours In New Jersey," said a Negro voice, "and my husband here at tlie SAC base is being discriminated against." "Come down to the airfield at 4 30 a.m.. and I'll talk to you," said the sleepy senator from New Jersey. The constituent never came. But the party departed for Washing ton on time at 4:30 after all had promised "not to tell Drew Pear son." MEETS THE PRESS WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi dent Kennedy will hold a news conference at 4 p.m., EDT Wednesday. Negroes, plan peaceful' demonstrations By United Press International Negro leaders in Cambridge, Md., planned "peaceful" demon strations Monday and segregation ists and Integratlonists alike com menced new moves to tip the na tion's racial dispute in their fa vor. Integration leaders in Cam bridge promised their demonstra tions would remain within the bounds of limited martial law, clamped on the town last week, after bloody racial rioting. The town's white leaders requested a meeting with Gov. J. Millard Tawes as soon as possible to dis cuss white-Negro tensions. A Negro leader announced over the weekend that the demonstra tions would resume but promised they could be "well-disciplined and peaceful." However, Mrs. Gloria H. Richardson, head of the Non-Violent Action Commit tee, said "if nothing happens within a week or so we are going to have to court arrest." Cambridge and Savannah, Ga., scenes of racial violence last week, were comparatively calm over the Sabbath. About 450 Negroes sang "free dom songs" Sunday in the shad ow of a monument to Savannah's Confederate dead in downtown Forsyth Park. Three young Ne groes were arrested for staging a "wade-in" at nearby Savannah Beach. A Negro leader called off a protest march because, he said, police broke up an attempted march by a white segregationist group Saturday. "If everyone can't march, we will not march," said the Rev. Andrew Young. Young referred to a march by white segregationists who got three blocks before police stopped them. It was one of the first pro tests of its type during racial turmoil in the nation, dominated mainly by integrationist demon strations. REJECTS UNC DEMANDS PANMUNJOM, Korea (UPH Communist North Korea today rejected again United Nations Command (UNC) demands for the release of two American pilots capiured last May. The Bulletin weleefnee eenlrllwttofis to this ruluiiin from Ma readei. Let ter mull contain tha correct name and adtreaa of tha aender, wak-h may ha withheld at tha newapaper'e tie. eretlun. Ittera may ba cdlled to eon. form to tha dlractlvea af latta and aula. Defense of Domino voiced by writer To the Editor: Because I entertained with a group at the Domino, I would like to write a few words in its de fense. When the Domino was in the early stages of its existence, Bea Clausen was assured the assent and support of tlie City Council. However, only a short time elapsed before the same City Council began imposing restric tions upon the Domino. These re strictions stated that Mrs. Clau sen was responsible for all oc ' currences within a certain area around the Domino. Other condi tions were made mandatory, among them that there should be two uniformed officers at all . dances. One person cannot possibly be held responsible for the things tak-. .ing place around an establishment simply because said establish ment is a drawing card for peo ple. If so, any accident or fight occurring near a business build ing would be the responsibility of the owner or manager. As for uni formed officers at every dance, if parents felt confident of the training they have given their children, they would feel no need for policemen at dances. Responsible teenagers should be treated with courtesy, respect, and trust. Undisoiplinod teenagers should be disciplined, but not by the presence of policemen at dances. Discipline begins In the home, being the task first of tlie parents. The city need exercise discipline only when the parents have failed. Closure of the Domi no is an open admission of fail ure, both on tha part of parents and city. - Adolescent misbehavior will oc cur, whether it be at a dance hall, a . swimming pool, or a church picnic. But a mature, well brought up adolescent will live up to his elders' expectations. An at mosphere does not create delin quency, it is the delinquents who create an atmosphere. Again the remedy lies in parental control. Some teenagers deserve the slanders directed at them but how many of the alleged thefts and acts of vandalism have been reported, let alone substantiated? Juniper Gardens was closed also. The provocation was probably as slight as the incident supposedly guilty of closing the Domino, Sincerely, Lynda Syverson Bend, Oregon, July 15, 1963 PASSES DRAFT BILL WASHINGTON (UPI) Tht House passed and sent to the Senate Monday legislation that would exempt from the draft tha sole surviving son of a family whose father died as a result of military service. f wmmmmtxagmm Barbs What doctors prescribe might cure you for all time If Uit bill for medicine didn't make you sick again. Thoughtlessness and selfishness turn the milk of human kindness sour. Iff lid Tree Fruits Any girl with money tt burn has no trouble finding a Match. Hitchhikers are picked up and taken to ail in an Eastern town. At least they get a ride. 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