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Robeson's return fo take part in civil
rights movement of dubious value now
"terrific," whatever that may mean.
Paul Robeson, on his own testi
mony upon his return to the United
States on Dec. 22, has been "part"
of the civil rights movement in the
United States "all my life," and in
tends to continue his involvement.
It scarcely needs to be pointed out
that the great Negro basso and All
American football player will be at
best an awkward spokesman for his
race.
A fight with the U.S. State
Department that began in 1950 was
culminated victoriously for Robeson
in the summer of 1958, when he won
the right to travel on a U.S. pass
port. The singer had never made a
secret of his bitterness over racial
discrimination in this country.
Robeson left New York for
London on July 10, 1958. It was his
announced Intention then to make
Great Britain his future home. He
sang In the Soviet Union from time
to time. On Jan. 12, 1959 he was ad
mitted to a Moscow hospital with
a serious illness. However, he re
covered sooner than anticipated and
was able to participate in the cen
tenary season of the Shakespeare
Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon
In April of that year. He play
ed the role for which nature most
generously equipped him, Othello
to the Desdemona of Mary Ure.
Robeson was a two-time All
American end at Rutgers, at which
university he was the third Negro
ever to be admitted. He lettered in
baseball, basketball, and track as
well as football.
He was also a Phi Bete and
commencement speaker. He received
a law degree at Columbia Univer
sity, but relinquished practice, con
vinced that his race would always
prove a barrier at the bar.
Robeson married Eslanda Car
doza Goode while ho was studying
law. It is she who now says that
Robeson still thinks communism is
Robeson In 1958 was made an
honorary professor of the Moscow
State Conservatory of Music. He
has been received informally by
Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev. The
master of ceremonies at a Moscow
concert in August 1958 called him
the Soviet Union's "great and good
friend" and told him "we In the
Soviet Union kept on fighting for
restoration , of your freedom and
your right to travel." Just how this
was accomplished the Russian dig
nitary did not detail.
Robeson in 1953 had received
the $25,000 Stalin (now Lenin)
Peace Prize. Six years later the U.S.
Internal Revenue Service conceded
that the award was tax exempt,
soberly explaining that Robeson was
right when he said that he had per
formed no service for Russia to win
it.
Paul Robeson in 1956 told the
House Committee on Un-American
Activities why he did not live in the
Soviet Union. "Because my father
was a slave and my people died to
build this country," he said, "and I
am going to stay here and have a
part of it just like you."
The singer has made no public
appearance since he contracted a
circulatory ailment in early 1961.
He has a comfortable income from
record royalties and investments.
From last August until mid-November
he had been treated for his ill
ness at a hospital in East Berlin.
Recently Robeson was reported
to have signed a passport affidavit
stating that he had never been a
member of the Communist party.
Even so, his history of strong and
eager comradeship with the Com
munists make him a dubious champ
ion Indeed for a race whoso most
militant advocates can rarely be
accused of subversion.
Aspinall does it again
The Honorable Wayne Aspin
all Is a small-town Colorado lawyer
who, because he never has very
serious opposition, gets elected to
Congress each two years. The sen
iority system has made him chair
man of the House Interior and In
sular Affairs committee. To this
committee was referred, after it
passed the Senate by a near-record
margin, the Wilderness Bill which
has been before Congress for sev
eral years.
Congressman Aspinall doesn't
like the Wilderness Bill. He has at
tempted, with considerable success,
to keep it from the floor of the
House, where it is almost certain to
pass by a large margin. A year ago
he went home some time before the
adjournment of Congress. With no
chairman, the committee was unable
to meet to report the bill out for
House consideration.
Now Congressman Aspinall has
scheduled hearings on the Wilder
nets Bill, He's scheduled one for the
Pilgrimage with Pope Paul (3) HMwrma
Pope Paul will still find serene beauty in storied Bethlehem
EDITOR'S NOTE: Thii ti
the third of four dispatches
describing places Pope Paul
VI will visit on his pilgrim
age fo the Holy Land Jan. 4 6.
Today: Bethlehem
By Ray J. Moloney
UPI Staff WHter
BETHLEHEM, Jordan (UPI)
Pope Paul will find when he
comes here on his pilgrimage
that neither the garishness of
commercialism nor the bitter
ness of war has erased the se
rene beauty of storied Bethle
hem. The road to Bethlehem from
Jerusalem leads past the Gar
den of Gethsemane, through the
stony hills of Judea and after
a long, slow ascent reaches the
little town of Christ's birth. It
is not the same road that Mary
and Joseph took on their way
to the City of David to register
ess
in the census decreed by Caesar
Augustus. The original road is
now inside Israel, across the
line that divides the Holy Land
between Arab and Jew.
The present road runs
through hills pitted with innum
erable caves used by Christian
hermits from the Roman times
through the Middle Ages. Rock
tombs abound. But neon lights
now wink at the traveler by
night where once there were
only the stars and moon.
As Jerusalem drops from
sight Bethlehem appears, an en
thralling image. The knowing
pilgrim, even though he will
shortly recoil at the unashamed
commercial exploitation of the
biblical story the sight of "Je
sus Christ tearooms" now
must stop for a moment.
Scene of Beauty
The eye is caught and held
by the beauty of the hilly coun
try to the right and the left.
Olive trees shine silver in the
crisp winter air. Away to the
east, the land drops to the
Dead Sea and to the mountains
of Moab beyond.
Bethlehem's 16,800 citizens,
about 35 per cent of whom are
Arab Christians, live among
streets and alleys as narrow as
those of Christ's day. There
seems to be no pattern to them
the great city planners of the
ancient world never got as far
as little Bethlehem.
Streets run off at odd angles
and the flat-roofed houses, ex
cept for those that are open
front shops, turn almost blank
facades to the passerby.
The focal point for the Chris
tian visitor is of course the
manger of the Christ child. The
Church of the Nativity stands
guard on the right of the Square
of the Manger. The graceful
bell tower of the Church of St.
Catherine looms over the
square. An ancient olive tree,
gnarled as only an old olive
tree can be, stands in mute tes
timony to the permanence of
Bethlehem's way of life.
Inside the Church of the Na
tivity is the Grotto Sancto
which has been accepted by
Christians since earliest times
as the birthplace of Christ. Ori
gen wrote in 248 A.D. that "in
Bethlehem you are shown the
cave where He was born, and
within the cave the manger
where he was wrapped in swad
dling clothes." St. Jerome made
his home here by 358 A.D., and
it was in a cell carved out o'.
the rock nearby that he trans
lated the "Vulgate" version of
the Bible.
Like much of the Holy Land,
part of Bethlehem's history is
written in blood and savagery.
It was garrisoned by the Philis
tines at the time of Saul and
was the early home of David.
The first historical mention of
Bethlehem is in the Amarna
texts of the 14th century B.C.,
which report of battles at the
site.
At the time of Jesus, howev
er, it was a small and relative
ly modest place. Its fame grew
with the doctrines of Christ.
The Roman Emperor Hadrian
descrated it about 132 A.D. In
531 A.D., Justinian enclosed the
town with a wall. When the Per
sians swept through the Holy
Land nearly a century later
they sacked Jerusalem but
spared the Church of the Na
tivity, because, legend says, it
contained a mosaic showing the
Three Wise Men dressed in Per
sian style.
Next: The Holy Land'
churches.
; Washington f Meiffed-iouud lO-liTO. DlMd
Row between lawmakers tOWS pay off
delays agriculture sum a) institutions
By Drew Pearson
WASHINGTON For almost
six months in 1963, appropria
tions for the Agriculture De
partment totalling over $6 bil
lion were held up, thanks in
large part to a row between
two senior congressmen from
Georgia and Mississippi. They
were arguing over a peanut
laboratory and a food utiliza
taion laboratory.
The delay illustrates the man
ner in which congressional sen
iority has become so encrusted
that it undermines efficient gov
ernment and works toward
communism.
The two rowing congressmen
were Sen. Richard Russell of
Georgia, and Rep. Jamie Whit
ten of Mississippi, both Demo
crats and both powerful mem
bers of the subcommittees
which vote appropriations for
agriculture.
In 1962, Russell demanded a
peanut laboratory costing $1,
600,000 at Dawson, Ga., and
held up the Department of Ag
riculture appropriations bill try
ing to get it. But Mississippi's
Whitten opposed.
For two months the two
southern Democrats sat glower
ing at each other, each refusing
to budge. As a result of this and
other differences, the agricul
ture appropriations bill was the
last one passed in 1962.
This past year Russell upped
his demand to include not only
the peanut lab at Dawson, but
a food utilization plant at
Thens, Ga., at a cost of $7,500,
000. Again Whitten opposed. His
opposition was based partly on
economy. He did not want to
see a lot of new laboratories
built, when the work could be
done in labs which the Agricul
ture Department already had in
operation. Naturally, also, Whit
ten didn't want to see Georgia
favored against his own state of
Mississippi.
Sen. Russell used to be chair
man of the Appropriations Sub
committee for Agriculture, has
now stepped down in favor of
Sen. Spessard Holland of Flor
ida, a kindly gentleman who
doesn't worry too much about
what his Georgia neighbor
wants as long as the citrus fruit
industry is taken care of.
So the deadlock over the pea
nut lab in Dawson, Ga., and the
food utilization lab in Athens,
Ga., dragged out in 1963 until
one week before Christmas.
My Nickel's
Paclflc Northwest, In Olympla,
Washington, on January 9. The next
day, January 10, the committee will
hear witnesses in Denver. On Jan
uary 13, after the weekend, the com
mittee will meet in Las Vegas. (One
suspects that more Congressmen,
members of their staffs, and wit
nesses will spend the weekend in
Las Vegas than in Denver.)
The word has gone out. Various
special Interest groups have called
friends and members, and told them
to be on hand In Olympla, or Den
ver, or Las Vegas. Prospective wit
nesses obtained in this fashion have
been told to "be ready to help Con
gressman Aspinall." Congressman
Aplnall, in other words, Is looking
for witnesses unfriendly to the bill.
Congressman Aspinall would like to
take back to Washington a hearing
record stacked against the bill.
Aspinall wants the hearings to
"prove" his own biased conclusions.
Which is not quite right, in our
book.
Right to bear arms
nets deer for Johnson
To the Editor:
In comment on one of A. Rob
ert Smith's statements, which I
quote: "The Second Amend
ment should be repealed be
cause the right to bear arms as
exercised by every strange
character who feels insecure
without a gun threatens our
freedom instead of protecting it
our freedom to enjoy the
good life for which we have
worked and fought." I would
like to call attention to an arti
cle on The Bulletin's front page,
Dec. 26, '63 issue: "President
Johnson bagged a heavy buck
deer with one shot on a four
hour hunting expedition today
and returned to his ranch
work."
Respectfully yours,
John V. Johnson
Redmond. Oregon,
Dec. 27, 1963
FIRE PRACTICE
CHICAGO (UPI) - The New
York Central Railroad has sold
its station at Mntteson, III., for
$1 so volunteer firemen can set
it ablaze and practice fighting
fires.
"The volunteers will have a
lot of fun." said Frank Tighc,
real estate manager for the
railroad.
Meanwhile the Agriculture De
partment had been operating
ever since June 30 on the old
1962 appropriations bill.
Finally, just before Christ
mas, the gentleman from Mis
sissippi gave the senator from
Georgia the Southeastern
Research Lab he wanted at
Athens, Ga., at a cost of $9,500,
000. The peanut lab at Dawson
was skipped for the time be
ing, but with an agreement that
it would come up in the supple
mental appropriation bill later.
In return, Rep. Whitten got
$1,500,000 to build a cotton weed
control laboratory at Stoneville,
Miss. This yes, you guessed
it is right in Whitten's dis
trict. When the final compromise
was worked out by the two
powerful gentlemen from Geor
gia and Mississippi, they pre
sented it to Chairman Holland
of Florida, who really didn't
know what was in the compro
mise but was glad to accept it.
Thus after six months delay the
bill was passed.
This is how senior members
of Congress dominate Congress
regardless of what(the rest of
the people want.
Protecting the President
Many people don't realize it,
but out of twenty Presidents in
cluding Abraham Lincoln,
through John F. Kennedy, four
have been killed by assassins'
bullets, two shot at, and one
wounded after he left office.
Teddy Roosevelt was hit in
the chest while campaigning on
the Bull Moose ticket; Franklin
Roosevelt was shot at in Flor
ida after his election; Harry S.
Truman's temporary residence,
Blair House, was attacked by
Puerto Ricans; Lincoln, James
A. Garfield, William McKinley,
and Kennedy were killed. In
other words, thirty per cent of
our Presidents have been killed
or shot at.
This is a record which Eur
opeans simply cannot under
stand in a modern, educated
country which prides itself on
being the leader of the capital
ist world.
Here are some Ideas for In
suring better protection of our
Presidents:
1. Appropriate more money
for the Secret Service.
2. Give the chief of the Secret
Service more power in advising
on the movements of the Pres
ident. 3. Secure newspaper coopera
tion in withholding the routes of
travel by the President.
4. Require closer cooperation
between the Secret Service and
the FBI.
Officially the FBI will tell you
that it cooperates completely
with the Secret Service. But
actually there has been a long
running feud between the two.
Over the years, the FBI has
become the most powerful and
sacrosanct agency of govern
ment. Few dare criticize it.
Congress gives J. Edgar Hoover
whatever appropriation he asks,
while examining every nickel
spent by almost every other bu
reau of government. There has
been no real check on FBI
spending for years. Many con
gressmen know that there's too
much on them in FBI files.
FBI cooperation with the Se
cret Service at Dallas was woe
fully lacking. The solution is a
bipartisan commission, inde
pendent of Congress, to check
on the FBI, Central Intelli
gence, and the Secret Service.
Thirty per cent of our Presi
dents killed or fired at is too
shameful a record.
By Zan Stark
UPI Staff Writer
SALEM (UPI) Once or twice
each week members of the
Board of Control tour one of
the state's institutions to see
what is going on.
Secretary of State Howell Ap
pling Jr., State Treasurer How
ard Belton, and Carl Haugerud,
assistant secretary of the Board,
made a typical tour of the peni
tentiary the other day to check
on activity in the prison indus
tries. Warden Clarence T. Gladden
and prison industries director
Gordon McCreadie led the tour.
They surveyed the new metal
shop that is being equipped with
about $25,000 worth of machin
ery the state purchased as "sur
plus" for $1,900.
They checked the furniture
shop which is becoming increas
ingly busy because Oregon's
system of higher education is
having the prison shops do work
now that was let out to private
industry before the tax referen
dum. The prison mattress shop was
starting on an order for more
than 700 mattresses for college
dormitories.
Prisoners were erecting forms
for cement to be poured shortly
for the 84-unit women's prison.
The laundry, which does the
washing for most of the state
institutions, was a beehive of
activity.
In the tailor shop a score of
blue-denim clad prisoners were
making new prison clothing.
1963 not very good year
for Cuba's Fidel Castro
They checked a couple of cell
blocks where cots were in the
hallways because the prison's
population has expaned beyond
the cell capacity.
They toured the new freezing
units where meats and produce
from the prison farm were
being packaged for storage and
later use.
Oregon law requires that all
institutions be visited by Board
of Control members at least
once every 90 days. The East
ern Oregon State Hospital in
Pendleton is an exception only
an annual visit is required
there.
This keeps them in touch with
what is going on. Because the
institutions know the state's key
elected officers are likely to
drop in at virtually any time,
the institutions are better run.
The tours are one of the little
known activities of the Board of
Control members. But they play
a significant part in keeping
state government running on an
orderly course.
Goldwater sets
Portland speech
PORTLAND (UPI) - Sen.
Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., is
scheduled to speak at the an
nual Lincoln Day Banquet of
Multnomah County Republicans
Feb. 11, it was disclosed today.
Goldwater is scheduled to an
nounce Friday whether he will
enter the 1964 Republican pres
idential race.
The Lincoln Day Banquet,
scheduled for the Memorial Col
iseum, is expected to draw
about 2.000 persons, GOP sourc
es said. It Is not a fund
raising affair.
Goldwater was In Oregon In
October when he attended the
Western Republican Conference
at Eugene.
By Phil Newsom
UPI Staff Writer
In the dark hours before
dawn of Jan. 1, 1959, the skies
over Havana were clear and
warm.
At 2:30 a.m., UPI manager
for Cuba Francis McCarthy re
turned to his home in suburban
Miramar from a New Year's
Eve party. He still wore his
black tie and dinner jacket
when the telephone rang.
"Batista is packing," a voice
said.
It was the first word that
President Fulgencio Batista,
his island cut in two by the
rebel forces of Fidel Castro,
was preparing to flee.
McCarthy, still in dinner
jacket and black tie, left
for his office, where he was to
remain the next 13 days. As the
story flowed out of Havana on
that first day, a pillaging mob
moved forward, McC a r t h y
lined his office staff before the
office plate glass windows on
the ground floor.
"Scram, ya bums," he told
the leaders. And, surprisingly
enough, they did, although they
wrecked all other of the 21 of
fices in the Sevilla arcade.
Visits U.S.
Three and a half months
later, a victorious Castro visit
ed the United States.
"We are not Communists," he
said in a speech in Washington.
The veil of hypocrisy cover
ing the face of the Castro re
gime long since has been drawn
aside.
The year 1963, fifth of the
Castro government, did not go
entirely as the United States
had wished. But it was worse
for Castro.
It began on a note of humil
iation with the Russian with
drawal of their rockets and
bombers, a move on which Ni
kita Khrushchev did not even
bother to consult Castro.
And it closed on a further
note of defeat when pro-Castro
terrorists failed to prevent free
elections in Venezuela, Castro's
No. 1 target in his attempt to
export his revolution throughout
Latin America.
In between times there was
more bad news for the Cuban
TO BUILD SKYSCRAPERS
TOKYO (UPI) Plans for
the construction of several
"skyscrapers" in this earthquake-prone
city were an
nounced today. The tallest will
be only 24 stories, but this will
be higher than any previous
building in Japan.
Among buildings planned or
under construction are the 17
story Otani Hotel and a 24
story office structure for the
Tokyo city government.
dictator.
Sugar Crop Poor
Last June he was forced to
admit to the Cuban people that
the sugar crop, backbone of the
Cuban economy, would be the
poorest since his advent to
power.
He blamed the bad harvest
on drought and "our inexperi
ence, our deficiencies and our
errors."
But the worst was yet to
come.
With the Cuban trade debt to
the Soviet Union already in ex
cess of $100 million, Hurricane
Flora hit in early October, de
stroying up to half of Cuba's
sugar and coffee crops, serious
ly damaging the cotton, cocoa
and rice crops.
And as the regime pressed
"voluntary" rationing of food,
jailed reluctant, workers and
further regimented the Cuban
people, rebels against his re
gime fought him from the same
hills that once sheltered him.
Cuban exiles struck in hit-run
raids from the sea.
Courts Red Chines
Castro squirmed under Khru
shchev's rocket slight and his
knowledge of his total depend
ence upon the Soviet Union for
economic aid. Politically, he
moved closer to the Red Chi
nese and opened diplomatic re
lations with Albania, Russia's
worst enemy among the satel
lites. But as 1964 dawns, Castro
still must face unpleasant real
ities. His dependence upon the So
viet Union has increased rather
than declined. ' 1
And there are signs the Rus
sians are tiring both of him
and of their burden.
Barbs
Two teen-age boys started
sneaking away from the rear
of a butcher shop with two
turkeys. Police gobbled them
up.
Some people expect to get
ahead when they're constantly
losing theirs.
Ml
Mom gets tired of doing dishes
because of the number of trips
to the front room after the com
mercials are over.
It's what guests say when
they're backing out of your
driveway that really counts.
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