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'Relax ihey agreed fo wait a while!' f Washington iMerry-go-ronnrl twisty tyW.KMW.ty m4 J' - Ad Pacs of mutual assistance may be preferable fo non-aggression treaty "The most avowedly aggressive state may conclude pacts of non aggression with some states in order to free its hands and secure its rear and flanks for an attack on other states." These accurate and proph etic words were uttered almost 30 years ago. Ironically, they were spoken by Maxin M. Litvinoff, then Foreign Commissar of the Soviet Union. . He Is here quoted from a New York Times Interview of June 24, 1934 in which he rejected military alliances and the policy of the bal ance of power as tending to unleash rather than prevent war. The irony was that five years later, plus only two months, the Soviet Union was to sign a non-aggression treaty with Hitler's Germany that most certain ly unleashed World War II. World public opinion was totally unpre pared for the announcement in Ber lin, Aug. 21, 1939, that Foreign Min ister Ribbentrop was flying to Moscow within two days to affix his signature to a non-aggression treaty. That Ribbentrop had been the artisan of the Anti-Comintern Pact of 1936 only made the shock more dismaying, the irony more complete. The specific effect of the 1939 non-aggression pact was just what Litvinoff had predicted. His rear and flanks secured, Hitler gave the order to march and Nazi troops in vaded Poland by land and air on Sept. 1, the day after the Russian Supreme Soviet went through the motions of ratification. Lcss than two years later, on June 22, 1941, German troops poured into the Soviet Union. Vyncheslav M. Molo tov, who later replaced Litvinoff as Foreign Commissar in time to nego tiate the pact with Hitler, said: "We had not deserved this." That the Soviet Union should now be pursuing a new non-aggression treaty after so traumatic an experience is surprising. In any event, a pact in the specific terms proposed by Soviet Premier Khrush chev "between the two main mili tary groups of states, the NATO countries and the Warsaw Treaty states" now seems out of the question so long as Charles de ' Gaulle is President of France. In his mass press conference of July 29 De Gaulle offered his own "sol emn declaration through the voice of the President of the Republic that there will never be any aggression by France." Therefore, De Gaulle reasoned, "a pact of non-aggression is hence without purpose." The Russians in the past have been Inclined to tear up treaties the moment these proved Inconvenient. In the period between 1926 and 1933 the Soviet government concluded a series of non-8ggression treaties with neighboring governments. Yet in 1939 Russia invaded Poland and Finland and in 1940 seized Bessa rabia from Rumania. After the fall of Paris in 1940, Soviet forces hast ily overran the Baltic states in vio lation of existing treaties. And after the surrender of Germany in 1945, Soviet forces Invaded Japanese-held territory despite a Soviet-Japanese non-aggression treaty. , Foreign Commissar Litvinoff back in 1934 had an alternative to ndn-aggression treaties that is at least tempting to consider: "By a process of elimination we . . . arrive at another means name ly, pacts of mutual assistance, which must by no means be regard ed as an attempt to encircle any one, since every state belonging to a region may join . . . Having equal rights and an equal measure of security, not one signatory of such a pact should be considered en circled or subject to any danger if he shares the other signatories' de sire for peace." Look at those problems in Pasco Those who get worked up over the current proposal to piace off street parking lots in downtown Bend, ought to live in the Trl-City area of Washington state. This is the triangle where Rich land, Pasco and Kennewlck are lo cated. These three cities have their fun. And fun it has been for all three In the past few years over downtown parking. Pasco is the latest to have problems. Up to 1961, the city used cour tesy tickets on cars that had over stayed meters. Offenders were sup posed to place a dime in the enve lope and leave it with a merchant. But that didn't work because people just ignored the tickets. Then, as downtown parking spaces started to fill up, the busi nessmen decided that a 51 fine would have to be Imposed upon overtime parkers. They got their bellyful of that last week, after two years. The trouble was, shoppers were going to Kennewick, w h I c h has courtesy tickets, or to Richland, which has no meters at all. And besides, residents were getting tired of Pasco city officials voiding their own tickets. The final coup came Friday when the Pasco Chamber of Com merce gave the city 550 to permit free parking during a sale. A woman who objected to this as illegal tried to arrest a friend during the sale. The friend stood for the arrest, but the police judge refused to issue a warrant. So now Pasco businessmen don't know what to do, which places them in the same boat as some Bend business people. The above information is pass ed on just to illustrate the point that downtown parking problems can get so far out of wack that people can't see the forest for the trees. The eventual result is that parking gets the blame for all kinds of failures and frustrations on the part of the business people. Bend is luckier than most cities. It has meters and excellent traffic flow. This is the result of earlier planning and the courage to stick with a program. Another program should be added to this to point to 20 years from now. ( Famous brothers-in-law are at odds on fest ban By Draw Paarton WASHINGTON The Russians don't know it but they have caused a family feud between two of the most distinguished brothers-in-law in Washington. Senator Stuart Symington, the Missouri Demo crat, isn't speaking to his brother-in-law, former Ambassador James Wadsworth. Reason is: The test ban talks and whether you can trust the Russians. ; Senator Symington, the hand some former Secretary of the Air Force who did such an excellent job in breaking the Russian blockade around Berlin, still re members that day, claims the on ly answer to the Russians is the diplomatic straight arm and force. His brother . in - law "Jerry" Wadsworth, a staunch Republican, who served under Eisenhower as U.S. delegate to the United Na tions and American envoy to the Geneva disarmament talks, has come te know the Russians. He sees a difference between Rus sian tactics under Stalin at the time of the Berlin blockade and Russian tactics under Khrushchev today. Significantly, Wadsworth now heads an important new commit tee of American citizens includ ing many Republicans to support the Democratic President regard ing an end of nuclear testing. On the committee are two former Ei senhower cabinet members, Mar ion Folsom, former Secretary of HEW and now head of Eastman Kodak; together with Arthur Flemming, also former Secretary of HEW and now president of the University of Oregon. They urge bipartisan non-political support for Kennedy in straightening out dif ficult problems with Soviet Rus sia for peace. But the Democratic brother-in-law of GOP Ambassador Wads worth is just as vigorously oppos ed. Mrs. Symington, very attrac tive sister of "Jerry" Wadsworth, is the daughter of a distinguish ed Republican, Jim Wadsworth, who served in the U.S. Senate from New York and later came back as a member of the House of Representatives. Jim Wads worth was a great military man, served on the Military Affairs Committee. But his son is a man of peace. And even though his Democra tic brother-in-law won't speak to him, he has written a vigorous article in the current issue of Red Book predicting that the test ban treaty will be ratified by the Sen ate and telling of his own person al negotiations with the Russians. Wadsworth reports: "It is only too easy for Americans to put all the blame on the Soviets, to re peat the well worn cry 'you can't do business with them.' The trou ble with that is that it is not en tirely true. "In a strange sort of minute," says Ambassador Wadsworth, "they have actually advanced far more than they have retreated . . .their acceptance even of the principle of inspection is a con siderable concession indeed." Those are the views of one of the top diplomats of the Eisen hower administration and that's the reason why two brothers-in-law, both able men, aren't speaking. Impatience reported with Negro methods, demands ional witness to get some atten tion as the spokesman for an or ganization with a big sounding name but no office, no members and no telephone number. Evidence Of Impatience There is some evidence, how ever, of northern white im patience with Negro methods and demands. There is evidence, for example, of strong northern voter sentiment for enforced civil rights in the South but against the same in their own northern home towns. There is white resentment against Negro demands for a quota system of hiring Negroes on construction jobs, notably those financed with federal, state or municipal funds. On this one the Negroes may find themselves in a didn't know-it-was-Ioaded predic ament. For example: On a given con struction job employing 400 per sons, there would be at this mo ment mighty few Negroes be cause of the prevailing and unfair refusal of organized labor to give the Negroes an even break. If the Negroes were able to impose their demand that they be allotted 25 per cent of the jobs available, it is evident that nearly 100 white workers would have to be dis charged to make way for the quota of Negroes. This would mean trou ble, bad trouble. Some Negro leaders advocate a system of special compensation for Negroes who have been de prived of some part of their civil rights. Whitney M. Young Jr. is executive director of the National Urban League, which was in annual convention last month in Los Angeles. Young said Ne groes must be compensated for past injustices: that they should receive favored treatment In com parison with whites. Better Facilities "The Negroes." Young said, "should have better schools, bet ter teachers, better social work ers, better health facilities." When nsked better than whose, Young replied, "better than, say, students in (white) suburban schools." The National Urban League has been among the least demonstrative of Negro organiza tions, similar in that respect to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 'NAACP'. It is sijniticant in terms of 1964 politics that the league and the NAACP ore becoming belligerent ly aggressive, possibly in unavoid able competition with the street demonstrating Negro organiza tions. What Poindcxter actually was saying to the Senate committee was that Negro support would be a handicap to any northern can didate in 1964. That would be the biggest political story of the year, if true. Next year's presidential election will prove Poindcxter right or wrong. Meantime, how about a poll? .i;i..r.a By Lylt C. Wilson UPI Staff Writer Politicians will want to know more about Thomas L. Poindex tcr, co-chairman of the Greater Detroit (Mich.) Homeowners' Council (250,000 members strong ). This was the billing under which Poindcxter appeared last week as a civil rights witness be fore the Senate Commerce Com mittee. He testified that northern white resentment was swelling against extremes of Negro agita tion for civil rights. Poindexter said he doubted that any candi date of either party who was supported by Nergoes could carry Michigan next year. What politicians will want to know about Poindexter is whether he was speaking for any substan tial number of citizens or merely for himself. If he was speaking merely for himself, Poindcxter would not be the first congress- Kennedy back in Washington HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (UPI) President Kennedy flew back to Washington today from his fifth weekend in a row on Cape Cod to watch for further signs from Moscow of a new era in East West relations. The President departed at 9:09 a.m. EDT aboard his jet plane from Otis Air Force Base, leav ing his wife and children behind at the Kennedy summer home. Mrs. Kennedy will remain here several weeks until the expected birth of their third child later this month. The President, back at his White House desk, will be keep ing a sharp eye on developments in Moscow where Secretary of State Dean Rusk and his British and Soviet counterparts were to sign the limited test ban treaty today. Rusk and British foreign secre tary Lord Home, in addition to this formal ceremony, were meet ing with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev and Foreign Min ister Andrei A. Gromyko today and Tuesday to discuss the possi bility of further steps to assure peace. Sunday, Kennedy relaxed cruis ing on his yacht. Honey Fitz, and golfing at the Hyannis Port club. ANSWER TO A SCARE SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - A post office clerk casually tossed a small package into a bin the other day, heard it begin to whis tle and summoned authorities. Army demolition experts arriv ed on the scene and carried the package gingerly to parking lot. They unwrapped two small walkie-talkies, whose switches ap parently had been turned on. The Bulletin Monday, August 5, 1963 An Independent Newspaper Robert W. Chandler. Editor Glann Cushman, Can. Manager Jack McDtrmott, Adv. Manager Phil F. Brogm, Associate Editor Lou W. Meyera, Circ Manager Loren E. Dyer, Mech. Sup't. William A. Yatat. Managing Ed. Eninrt fta 9-ind Class Mltr. Jamjar? a. 191?. at the Pit lnca it trvi Ortivn. unilrr Act or Mari-o & UTS. PuMtsb salts' nmf SuM&y tn4 carum tfcMi by ln4 BatxJ UULMlin Inc. Youngsters send in suggestions to space agency By Alvln B. Webb Jr. UPI Staff Writer CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) If from the mouths of babes there always came words of wisdom, Cape Canaveral would be a land of giant fans, ski-ramp launching pads and "Saturday-only" astro nauts. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has a file cabinet full of proof that the minds of America's children, uncluttered by physical laws and fiscal budgets, display a genius for the imaginative. Youngsters have carried into the space age their penchant for helping their elders spend mon ey. Uninhibited by worries about income tax 1040 and the like, they bombarded NASA with scores of letters monthly suggesting ways to improve and often speed up the use of that $35 million Amer ica has committed to conquering the moon. Suggests Ramp Sometimes, the letters are in the form of helpful suggestions, such as the one from Harry B. of Prescott, Ariz. "To help get your missiles off, why don't you build an overgrown ski ramp with a half-mile slant at the right end?" If Harry's suggestion is ignored and U.S. scientists continue to fire rockets in the old-fashioned straight-up manner, some atten tion might be given to the matter of all that black smoke thai cov ers the pad at blast-off, says Lu ther W. of Charleston, S.C.: "Why don't you put giant fans to one side of the launching pad? Then when you shoot your mis siles off, the smoke would be blown away so you could see what is going on." There is a suspicion, Luther, that sometimes they would just as soon not see what is going on. Cape Canaveral has its bad days. Navy Studied Pigeons Grownups might be inclined to snicker at these youthful ideas. But the U.S. Navy once spent three years trying to figure out how to use corn-eating pigeons to steer guided missiles. The Navy learned a lot about pigeons, in cluding their inability to guide rockets. A fair number of NASA's youth ful fans volunteer not only ideas but themselves for slights into space although, occasionally, there is a catch,- as in the case of Tommy W. of Chicago: "I am interested in space and would like to become an astro naut, but it will have to be on a Saturday, as I have to go to school during the week." Moscow session could pave way for 'summit' By William J. Fox UPI Staff Writer Notes from the foreign news cables: Possible Summit: The gathering of high - powered statesmen in Moscow this week could well lead to a summit meeting at the United Nations in Now York this fall. With the sign ing of Uie partial nuclear test ban agreement out of the way, the diplomats now go to work in their bland and quiet way to see what other agreements might be worked out between East and West. W. Averell Harriman led the way with his open explora tions that led to the nuclear ar rangement. Now Secretary of State Dean Rusk will go about checking Soviet intentions on fur ther relaxation of cold war ten sions. He will probe and proba bly question, but he is expected mostly to listen, for Washington sources say there will be no seri ous negotiations with the Soviets without full consultations with the Western allies. Whether these probes will result in further rounds of quiet diplomacy or to a full-blown summit perhaps at the United Nations remains to be scon. But the fact that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ap pears determined to drive Red China more tightly into diploma tic isolation because ot its bellig erence in their ideological batUe, indicates there will be continued easing of cold war pressures. Discount Threats: Western officials are discount ing threats against Berlin made agaiast Berlin traffic by East German Communist Leader Wal ter Ulbricht. They expect no trou ble in the immediate future. They feel that Soviet Premier Khrush chev, in line with his new co-existence campaign, will keep a tight rein on the East Germans.' American Satellite: Nationalist China Is quietly try ing to tell Premier Khrushchev Unit if Chiang Kai-shek gets hack to the mainland, a capitalist Chi na won't necessarily be an Amer ican satellite. The Nationalists fear that the Russians uould rath er deal with Communist boss Mao Tsc-tunc no matter how difficult he gels, raiher than have an American client government run ning China, The Russians are not Biggest inroads in South's school desegregation due By Al KueHner - UPI Staff Writer Public school desegregation will make its deepest inroads into the rural South this fall. There will be integrated classes in counties with well over 50 per cent Negro population. Despite the move out of the big urban metropolitan centers, there is no present indication of im pending rural racial troubles ex cept possibly at one spot, Powa hatan County. Va. There is talk around Powahatan, its county seat, of closing public schools and embarking on a system of private education. Among the rural counties par ticipating in the racial transition in schools, Charles City County, Va., is one that leaves many won dering whether it is worth all the trouble. Seems Almost Forgotten The little county seems almost to have been forgotten in the hur ry of the modern civilization around it. It lies just 30 miles east of Richmond and has a pop ulation of more than 4,000 Ne groes with fewer than 1,000 white residents. The county has two Negro schools that put the one white school to shame. Negroes have attended good schools simply be cause they got more money for education on the basis of a popu lation head count. The white school, known simply as the Charles City School, has one wing for high school and one for elementary pupils. Last winter a window was bro- ken in the third grade room and it never was repaired. There was money only to buy uniforms for eight of the 13 players on the football team. For two months the elementary school had ho paste. The room where music and commercial math were taught was heated through a severe win ter with only a small electric heater. The Negro family of Richard Bowman has now applied for transfer from the comparatively palatial Negro school to the run down white school. The six Bow man children have been accepted for fall admission. Just For Principle "We are entering the children just for the principle involved," a member of the Bowman fam ily said. Next year the Bowmans plan to re-transfer their children back to the Ruthville school for Negroes which has the latest equipment and modern lighting. The NAACP is active In rural Charles City County. Its leader there is a home-town boy, now 27, who drives 90 miles a day to a job at the naval weapons sta tion in Yorktown. "All we ask for is an equal op portunity so that if one of four people is equal to the task, he can have a job," said NAACP leader Charles Bowman, no kin to the school integration family. "We know we have plenty of vot ing power here but we want to show the world that just because we have the power we aren't going to abuse it." " Chicago's South Side has brief outburst on Sunday By United Press International Chicago's racially troubled South Side had another outbreak of violence Sunday night but po lice quickly restored order. A crowd of white teen-agers gathered at an intersection fol lowing reports which authori ties discounted that a Negro family planned to move into the block. Police attempted to break up the gathering and youths scuf fled with the officers. Police arrested 35 youths for disorderly conduct and the other teen-agers dispersed. There were demonstrations by white crowds most of last week in a predomi nately white "neighborhood of South Chicago into which several Negro families had moved. Three thousand Negroes marched through downtown Indi anapolis, Ind., Sunday in support of President Kennedy's civil rights program. There were no incidents. More than 200 Negroes Sunday held a prayer vigil outside a Gadsden. Ala., jail where hun dreds of Negroes, arrested dur ing a demonstration Saturday, are being held. More than 600 dem onstrators were arrested Satur day but many women and a 1 1 children were released. Other developments'. Nashville, Tenn. Two prcvl- Quake jars S. F. Bay area SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) A sharp earthquake jarred the San Francisqo Eay Area Sunday, but there were no reports of damage and only one reported injury. William T. Hichey said he was making planter boxes in the base ment of his San Francisco home and had a hammer in midair when the quake struck. He was treated at Park Emergency Hos pital for a smashed thumb. The temblor struck at 10:35 a.m. PDT. It was felt from Pacifica, south of San Francisco, to San Rafael, 20 miles to the north. ously segregated high schools were to open their doors today to sixteen Negroes. The action in both cases is strictly voluntary, but results from the fact there are no Negro high schools in the area. Farmville, Va. Negroes end ed a daily series of racial pro tests in their Price Edward Coun ty town Sunday but demonstra tions were expected to resume to day. Clarksdale, Miss. Aaron Hen ry, Negro civil rights leader jailed for participating in an anti segregation demonstration, was free on an appeal bond Sunday after spending six days in jail. Montgomery, Ala. Three Ne gro women will be hired by the police department to supervise traffic at crossings near Negro schools. Commissioner Lester B. Sullivan said the women would be chosen from a group of 25 who took examinations last week. New York The Social Action Council of the United Church of Christ urged 15.000 ministers and lay leaders Sunday to participate in the scheduled mass civil rights demonstration in Washington Aug. 28. Barbs A Michigan woman sued her maid for stealing her husband. Be careful what you leave around the house, men. About all brain storms do is make things look darker. Farmers have started standing along the road selling tilings you thought you were going to grow in your garden. One thing nice about a base ment it that you don't have to put things where they belong. 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