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PAGE S-A HERALD AM) NEWS. Klamath Falls, Ore. Thursday, November 1, 1963 The Spotlight Shifts NOTHING SPECIAL (W. 8. S.I Q ' I '.''if'.i. ' &i V.; Elect Bob Chandlei One of the strange situations of the pres ent campaign is the absence of incumbent Congressman Al Ullman from activity in the Klamath and Lake County areas. It is possible that he considers that he has a safe lead in the southern part of his district and there is no necessity for working in this area. If so, Mr. Ullman is due for a surprise. Bob Chandler, his Republican opponent, is a serious, hard-working candidate who is pulling out all the stops to make himself known to the voters in the district. Chandler is determined to win the election, and if effort has anything to do with results, his determina tion should pay off. Bob Chandler has other qualities than determination and a zest for work. He is in telligent, aggressive, open-minded and devot ed to the philosophy that a man should, in , some degree, at least, be able'to chart his own course in life, without paternalistic govern ment interference at whatever level. At the same time, Chandler is not one of those who feels that there is no need for consideration of the less fortunate, and he shows a considerate, human approach to so cial problems that is above reproach. Some idea of his attitudes can be attained through some of the statements he has made in his far-ranging, hard - hitting campaign. Some samples: FARM POLICY: "I would favor return ing agriculture to what is basically a free economy, subject to only farmer-operated and farmer-imposed controls to maintain quality and avoid excessive swings in the market." CUBA: "I favor stronger action in the Cuba situation. I do not think the American people want Khrushchev to control Russian missile bases located within a few seconds of flight of our own coastline." GOVERNMENT: "I do not believe the government owes me a living. I do think it owes me a chance to make a living." LUMBER: "I advocate at least five means of effecting a cure in the ills of the lumber industry fl) immediate action under Buy American provisions; (2) imposition of a sur tax, tariff or import quota; (3) changes in marketing policies by federal agencies; (4) consultation with community groups in arriv ing at solutions to timber problems; (5) con tinuation of a promotion program to restore some of lumber's lost share of the building materials." FISCAL POLICY: "The only excuse for a national deficit budget, is some kind of grave emergency, such as war. In other times . . . there is no excuse for continual deficit spending and for adding large sums to the national debt." These viewpoints are quite in contrast to those of the incumbent Congressman. Mr. Ullman is considered the darling of the Ameri cans for Democratic Action and other left wing national groups. He has a perfect, 100 per cent voting record by ADA standards, as he also has with the Industrial Union Depart ment of the AFL-CIO. He has backed the New Frontier of the Kennedy administration free spenders with unqualified support, and there is no evidence at hand which indicates that he ever voted against a bill that called for federal spending, for whatever cause. His record proves, too, that he is an aggressive ad vocate of federal government interference at every imaginable level. He should not be re turned to Washington in 1963. We are hopeful and urge that the voters of the Second District will give Bob Chandler a chance to show how it is possible for a Congressman to effectively represent the interests of his constituents in Washington. Fair Apportionment (Medford Mail Tribune) Measure No. 0 on the Nov. 6 election ballot is worded as follows: "LEGISLATIVE APPORTIONMENT CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT Purpose: Changes legislative apportionment formula. Creates 30 permanent representative districts. Permits enlargement of Senate to 35. En larges House to 65 or more. Provides for en forcement." This proposal has been discussed several times in these columns before. We support its adoption because we believe it to be a fair compromise between the "federal plan," whereby areas have representation without regard lo population, and the "pure popula tion" plan, whereby population has represen tation without regard to area. What this proposal would do would be to insure that no major area of the state would he wholly deprived of representation, which could conceivably happen under the "pure population" plan. It resembles the federal plan only insofar as each state of the union is entitled to a minimum of one Representative, no matter how small its population. The proposal would set up 30 legislative districts, and guarantee them a minimum of one representative. All other legislative seats, both House and Senate, would be apportioned on a population basis. Arc not the people of tfeei vast reaches of eastern Oregon, scattered) iajl feji as they may he, entitled' jtjttoe'prMgfet'ivicriey can have some hope cPKBowIng' .fndSltiiig to? We thinki'.so. Thai, is wh.1, tM's 'plan would accomplish'.' tffejjjijisc, tA'vvery h like the presents laiFwjr'' apcrvtifenrogiill;. We'stipport, aii'd'ai'v.-Kys Ijiiili supported, the ideal situation 4Tii,crJiiPB, one vote," when it is po's'siWie to at'Iiefe it Practically, however, it is not, a ! as there are coun ties and districts used in apportioning repre sentation. The only way that "one man, one vote" could be achieved in Oregon would be for the entire legislature to be elected from the state at large and what a mess that would be! Measure No. 9, in our view, is the fairest that can bo devised fairest to all parts of the state. We recommend a "ves" vote on No. 9. j? 4 X. THESE DAYS . WhatlsABIockade? By GKOHliK E. SOKOI.SKV In international relations, their Is no Mich formality ns a quar antine except for hoof and month lisV.se, $n':injo nd 'imilwr abominations. What President Ket nedy did wis to Institute a blockade o( C'uh.i and let ns call a spade a ;:.!,. A blockade is an act of war, but there have been different methods and different attitudes almut it. For instance in 1!1I4, the State Department held: ". . . The existence o! war between foreign governments does not suspend trade or commerce between this country and those at war. This right to continue to trade with belligerents is upheld by the well-recognized principles of international law. . . ." One of the most important amenities of a blockade is Uiat there must he notice. This un doubtedly explains the pains that President Kennedy took to make the blockade of Cuba known lo the world. The rule on the sub ject is: "1 a neutral vessel attempting to enter a blockaded port has had notice of the blockade in any way, she shall he captured and .sent in for adjudication; b u t should formal notice not have been given, the rule of construc tive knowledge arising Ii-om no toriety should be construed in n mvner Mhe-s! to the neutral." A blockade must be limited lo the ports of the enemy. In the case of Cuba, there was no war. but a threat of war; no enemy, but the assumption that a foreign power had taken control ol Cuba for inimical purposes. Yet that foreign power, Soviet Russia, had not been declared to be an ene my. At most, Uie President had pronounced its officials to lie li ars, but a liar is not necessarily an enemy. This explains the use of the term quarantine for this particular blockade. In May 1015 ". . . The Depart ment (,( State instructed the Am bassador in Home te inform the Italian Foreign Ollice that it ap peared that i!; coasts of a non combatant had been declared blockaded and that the Adriatic had virtually been declared n closed sea; that in the opinion of the t'niled States there was no authority in international law or usage for tins action. . . ." The United Slates has, in ellect. tn the present blockade, shut the Caribbean off from the rest ol the world. But at this time, such weapons exist as the world has not known Ix-forc and it Is essen tial thnt this country defend itself from the use of tilese weapons against her. Heretofore, it had been as sumed tlv.t the Russians pos sessed weapons which they could employ from their own soil to damage th? t inted States. How ever, it appears that the Russians need to depend uxn weapons out side of Russia to bury us. They have therefore established a base 90 miles from our coast with tlitf object of tiring weajHms at us to destroy our principal cities. This being so, the I'nited Slates would indeed be governed by morons net to take strong meas ures to deleml this country from such losses. The only pos sible criticism of the President's action is that he waited overly long, hut no man wants to bring on a nuclear war it there aie other ways. Neither the Presi dent nor anyone cNe could trll in advance what the effect of a blockade would be. It is interesting to note that when during World War 1. the Allied governments proposed to mis 1i 7- ':. ,5"-" ills t y.swm$st mm a Wmmm "mm ill;;, (Mm. smsIwi $30 4 K&fcS : m?e(uiM im Letters To The Editor Benefits Many persons have asked us for an example showing the need for the degree of local repre sentation which will be assured by the passage of ballot Measure Number 9 for legislative appor tionment. Through your newspa per I'd like to give such an ex ample. First, do officers of labor or ganizations, headquartered as they are in Portland, truly repre sent their members in upstate communities? Their recommen dations are often contrary to the best interest of their members in small communities. But does this mean that all union members will be best served? As one of 350 growers operating a cannery in Hood River that processes 25 per cent of Oregon's Bartlett pears each year, I am interested in marketing our fruit profitably and in doing so pro viding hundreds of jobs for local people. But here's what is hap pening. Returns from Bartletts for four consecutive years have been less than that paid by Cali fornia based canners. We cannot meet their kind of competition because we don't have the diversity of pack. When they lose on Bartletts, and they do, they are able to absorb that loss by making it up on some other line outside of pears. We only pack a few apples and by-products, so our loss is direct. Impatient with a continuing loss operation, can we continue indefinitely? The answer is ob vious. Should we cease operating, a local payroll of $600,000 an nually will be lost! Will the "labor bosses" think of a situation like this when ask ing the Legislature to increase unemployment compensation ben efits? They've never done so and it is highly unlikely in the fu ture. That's why working men STRICTLY PERSONAL By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Purely Personal Prejudices: The people who know what they want are able to travel in a straight line and either achieve or miss their goal; the people who don't know what they want are able to drift aimlessly through their lives; but it is the people who want opposite and ir reconcilable things at the same time who can never be satisfied with fate. (This, by the way. is why most public performers are perpetually discontented: they want both notoriety and privacy in equal measure.) 1 think H Is not wiUiout some deep significance that man stands halfway In size between the atom and the universe that, In physical terms, each atom within us bears the same ratio in size to our body ns our body bears lo the total uni verse; thus, man Is truly "In (he middle," of creation. the very fulcrum blockade Communist Russia, the Stale Department held: ". . . A blockade before a stale of war exists is out of he question. It couid not Vie rec ognized by this Government." In l2 it is recognized that a peculiar stale of war does exist between Soviet Russia and the I'nited States, the "Cold War." It is a war for position which does not include belligerency. As such a war is unknown in tech nical international relations, it has to be conducted w ithout rules. There is a war, but no enemy in a technical sense. Perhaps .lolm Koster Dulles best described it as on the brink of war and a new word, brinkmanship, came into the language. The fact is that it has been constant Irom about I'.MT-ltHa. It has been nerve racking, costly, and has imped ed the liquidation of World War II. It has been a horrible experi ence in history. Thus, il the Cold War can ex ist, a blockade can be employed without a declared enemy. But if, to be punctiliously right, we need an enemy, we cin call lum Soviet Russia. If you don't return home from a foreign trip with the feeling that your own country has some odd habits and peculiar customs, then the trip has not "broadened" you it has merely flattened you. Whenever we have an argu ment with ourselves, the side that usually loses is the one that, shouts, "You shouldn't!" and the side that usually wins is the one that whispers. "You deserve it." Not to suggest that soft voiced people cannot he stu pid, but it Is generally true that the louder the voice the lower the level of Intellect. Husbands who tend lo be ex tremely critical of their wives in public are often quite dependent upon them in private; and the public treatment is simply a way of expressing resentment of the private dependence. No pacifist or idealist has been ab!e to say, more tersely or con vincingly, what Napoleon said in summing up his career of con quest and collapse: "The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anvthing dur able." The oj,dinary people are duped by their simplicity, and the extraordinary people are duped hy their sophistication; raeh type falls in the direction of Its own special weakness, which It thinks tn be a strength. Women are unjustly aciv.ywVwK babbling a great deal, (.!' tEWs how the feminine proBSs of "Stiic works; unlike a man, a woman, cannot tell what she thinks. she hears what she says Che male muid is an exquisitely tfigi nccied "feedback" sslcm. Krnm birth until 25 or so. we shae our lives: from 25 to 50 or so, our lives shape us. and we spend the years (rem 50 until death wondering how this curious reversal came lo be. and women in Hood River need a local representative in the Leg islature. Our people are no different . than people anywhere else. They are interested in employment, not unemployment compensation. A further increase might well be the straw that breaks this camel's back. This example undoubtedly ex ists in many communities throughout the state. Ballot Measure No. 9 will es tablish a degree of local repre sentation that will consider all factors, including the diverse in terests that exist between "big labor" and local labor. Working men and women, un ion or non-union, will best be served by voting "Y'es" for Measure No. 9. George Annala, 0 Secretary, Citizens Committee For Representative Government. Choice More Morse? Do the voters of Oregon plan ning to cast their vote for Morse realize these truths: J. F. Kennedy tolerates him but does not want him. He gluts the pages of the Con gressional record with his speech es delivered to nearly empty chambers. He was personally responsible for the loss to Oregon of 'the Re gional Postoffice at Portland. The things he has done for Oregon have been by and large in the form of Federal Projects, which can only raise the taxpay ers burden. His clever tongue, his double talk, which is amusing to the vot ers of Oregon, has done untold harm in the shaping of foreign policy. The books published to bring people the truth about his rec ord in contrast to what he. him self, tells them, and which it has been said he'd give a lot to he able lo suppress, he has found words to twist to what he hopes will be lor his own behalf. He has said of them: "If 1 was as bad as the opposition paints me I'd be behind bars." This is a strange statement coming from an ex-law prolessor. There is noth ing in these books to convict him of criminal acts, but plenty to prove his bungling ineffectiveness. He is even using bis title as a "Tiger" to his own advantage, he surmises. The vast amount of publicity he sees to it tli.it he sets is piooi positive of his hollowness as a senator. Ex-President Truman has stated in his memoirs that the really good congressmen are the ones whose names you seldom see in the newspapers, who are in their oflices hard at work on the business they were elected to do. The people of Oregon deserve better than "1-Mc-My Morse." I'nandcr is mv choice. F.leanor Thomson, lilv, Ore.. Assurance 9llo1 Measure No. !) has been ; TjV'eo! on the presumption that 'tff'A'-iies the principle: one per w'VC. or vote I call to your attention the (act a .slate Representative is elected for a two-year term. This will in clude one session of the legis lature of approximately four months. The balance of a legis lator's term is spent in his home district. Serving the people of my dis trict in matters pertaining to slate government will require Mrs. Frank Krok was inducted as a Den Mother last Friday. It was an occasion, I'm sure, that will not be forgotten by the youths and the adults who were accord ed the privilege of being pres ent Mrs. Krok had written a let ter to the editor before the meet ing, asking that it be published. I got mixed up in the dates, and held it for Sunday publication, thinking the meeting was to be held Oct. 29. Un fact, it could be said that I wasn't "thinking" at all. There's nothing in her let ter that would lead one to make such a silly mistake). Well. I know I can't make up what was done. So I'll just do the best I can. Here is what Mrs. Krok wrote to me, hoping that it would appear before the meeting, so her feelings would be adequately ex pressed. I'm sorry I've done Mrs. Krok such a disservice, and hope that she will forgive and give us another chance. "On October 2fl, 1938, at the age of 22, I arrived for the first time on the shores of this great American country. Being shy, and not wanting to get in the road of anyone, I remained in my cabin until my name was called lo depart. Then leaving the ship, I tried Ifi step on American soil very softly, feel ing unwerthy of it so very un worthy! "Then, proceeding on my trip on a train from New York lo Chicago, I found everyone so gen tle, so concerned over the wel fare of a person entirely unknown to them. I was struck with the generosity and thoughtfulness of those around me. "Looking out the train window, I thought to myself: 'How could anyone ask for more than to live in a country like this?' "From my childhood I was taught to work hard and love God and to love my neighbor which means everyone. This knowledge and training, it seems to me. to fit in with the pattern of require ments and urgings of the Amer ican Constitution. "Hard work brought security for the future. Love of God hrought peace of mind, purpose for living, and reason for suf fering. Love of my neighbor made me free from any social, racial or religious prejudice. I have learned that a small hu- man heart li capable fit lor liiK love for the whole world. "This knowledge and this phil osophy I want to share with the youngsters of America, so they will carry on when I am gone. This is why I have chosen to be a Den Mother!" Well, with such a philosophy, I'm certain that the youths in Mrs. Krok's group will be unusu ally prepared 10 make a contri bution lo the country when they reach adulthood. As for Uie rest of us: We might reflect on the sentiments of Mrs. Krok for a few minutes and determine il we have the same purposefulness, the same loyalty, the same humility, and same love for country and people that can prompt us to lead more useful lives and stand ready to defend the principles and greatness, of America. This guy should have lived in Klamath County for a while: The Southern preacher was try ing to get the petty racke teer to do some soul-searching. He asked, "In time of trial, what do you think can give you the mpst comfort?" The racketeer proudly answered, "That's easy, Suh. Ah'd say a hung jury!" The Eugene Register - Guard carried some comment the other day regarding one Elder Ray mond Cronk, the Eugene man who went to jail in Portland be cause he got confused on Har bor Drive. He refused to pay a fine, contending that he should have received only a warning ticket and that his stint in jail might serve to publicize a great civil wrong Harbor Drive. Well, I don't know what the circumstances were involving Mr. Cronk. I remember vividly, though, one day when Ellen and I were headed out of Portland on Harbor Drive and I got tangled some way. To make a long story short, I really goobered things up, and we were involved in about three traffic transgnpssions before we got straightened out by a very helpful and courteous Portland policeman. Some days it pays lo he ralher stupid-looking, I guess, hecause he figured I was just a poor old country boy, and after citing a couple of freeway laws, he guided us lo the proper street and lane, and we were on o u r merry way without ticket, or oth er unpleasant memento. WASHINGTON REPORT , lerican Prisoners Held In Cuban Jails By FULTON LEWIS JR. The die was cast in October. 1939. A revolution of Cuban patri ots was now betrayed. The gov ernment of Fidel Castro was without a doubt, a Communist regime. Maj. Pedro Diaz Lanz, chief of the Cuban Air Force, had fled, charging ,a Communist take-over. The man who made the revo lution. Maj. Hubert Matos, had been arrested for "conspiracy" when he protested the Castro sell out. President Manuel I'rrutia Llco had been fired for activities that, said Castro, "bordered on trea son." The Ministry of National De fense was no more, replaced by the Revolutionary Armed Forces, headed by Raul Castro. Haiti had been invaded. But the men who made Ameri can policy, here in Washington, could not see. They insisted that Fidel Castro could be won to the side of the West. They in eluded William Wieland. w h n told friends privately, m 195S. that Castro was a Communist. It is pertinent to review the story of John V. Martino, an American businessman recently released from a Castro prison. The story apparently did not make the major newspapers of New Y'ork or Washington or Chi cago or St. Louis or Louisville or San Francisco. U appeared to my knowledge, only in the Fort Lauderdale from three to eight days a month II will require hundreds of miles of travel and numerous long dis tance telephone calls. The same is true for citizens in my dis trict enacting me on problems dealing, 8h state government. Ballot Measure No. 9 will as sure citizens in less populated aieas the service of an elected otficial in dealing with the com plex problems of government. Don McKinnis. State Representative, 24th District, I'mon and Wallowa Counties. iFla.i News, in an exclusive ac count by William A. Mullen. He tells the story' of Martino, ar rested in October, 1959, by tha militiamen of Fidel Castro. Martino first went to Cuba in V July, 1958, on business. An elec tronics specialist, he journeyed south from Atlantic City, N.J., to install an electronics security sys tem in the gambling casino at the Deauville Hotel in Havana. He returned the next year, after the fall ol Fulgencio Batista, to see t he director of Havana's Oriental Park Race Track to install new totalizator equipment for parimu tuel betting. Martino, who had spoken out against Communism in the U.S., was arrested in a Communist trap on July 23, 1959. Machine gun toting militiamen seized him and he was charged with plot ting to burn sugar cane and run ning guns to anti-Castro parti sans. The charges were ludicrous. On Oct. 5, 1959, Martino was convicted by a military tribunal and sentenced to prison A prison jailer, an anli-Uatmumst, spir ited him to me American Km ' " v, rather than to Principe in. re an official, who is al- cd to have refused to intercede in his behalf, reportedly told him that he should go lo prison for the sake of American-Cuban relations. According to Martino. he was told that if he went to prison he would he free the next morning. He continues: "I went personally to Principe Prison ami stayed there until my release on Oct. 7, 19ii2 " He was released then because of badly failing health. Martino says that 20 Americans are among 100,000 prisoners now in Cuban jails. He says he knows the names of each Yankee but will not talk of them "because they would be placed in jeop ardy." "They are all in jail for the same reason." he says. "They are Americans. Any American in Cuba is in bad shape, not with the Cuban people but with Uie present regime."
