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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falll, Ore.
Friday, January 4, 1963
EDSON IN WASHINGTON .
STAR BRIGHT
School For Foreign
Policy Training Set
Our Right To Know
Reverberations are still being felt over
the government's handling of the news in
the Cuban crisis.
The issue involves one of the basic ten
ets of a democratic system: the people's right
to know what their government is doing and,
ultimately, to approve or disapprove.
:" While no one demands the uncontrolled
release of news particularly military news
during a national emergency that might be
of benefit to an enemy or cause a disastrous
reaction among the public, there are fears
ihat a new philosophy is developing in Wash
ington that advocates not only withholding,
put manipulating news to achieve desired re
sults. ; A Defense Department official has, in
fact, stated that the government has a right
jot only to withhold information but even
to. release false information if it will aid the
national security.
This question of "right" is a difficult one.
A government probably has the "right" to
do many things even to sacrifice half the
population to save the other half from destruc
tion. I In dire emergency, there is no time to in
form the public on matters that require top
level, split-second decision; .there is no time
to debate and discuss and arrive at a national
consensus.
Governments and government officials,
however, are often wrong, and the label
"emergency," like "secret" or "classified,"
has an insidious way of coming to be used as
a screen to deflect the searchlight of legiti
mate public questioning.
In a democracy, the people's representa
tives or executives have a solemn duty to
guard against any encroachment upon the
people's right to know. That this is not always
easy is no reason to slip into the opposite ex
treme of deciding it is better if the people
know nothing or know only something that
is not true.
World War II amply demonstrated that
American news media were capable of volun
tary censorship and co-operation with the gov
ernment in information involving the national
security. Certainly they are not now to be
made into messenger boys of official prop
aganda. A nation is most secure whose people
are most fully informed and aware of the
realities their leaders must deal with.
A nation ceases to be free when its people
are considered by their leaders as untrust
worthy, immature and something to be manipulated.
The Rules Changers
(The Christian Science Monitor)
New Frontiersmen in the American Con
gress now are preparing to test whether in
fact their side won or lost the last election.
The test will bo particularly crucial in
the House, where much of President Kenne
dy's "must" legislation of the last Congress
was staved off by a strong conservative coa
lition. Liberal strategy centers once again on
loosening the conservative hold on the House
Rules Committee the routing center for all
bills coming to the floor for a vote.
In 1961 followers of the President suc
ceeded in increasing the size of the Rules
group from 12 to 15 members. But despite
this aid, the House voted down a majority
of the President's basic bills.
, The liberals now contend that while those
votes reflected the uncertain division of the
country after a close presidential election in
1960, the 1962 midterm election endorsed the
President's program.
: This assertion remains strictly conjec
tural. : But the liberals logically claim that they
will only have a chance to test whether Con
gress has heard the nation speaking with a
different voice if the full Congress gets to vote
on Kennedy bills.
So they propose tn attempt three things
as soon as Congress opens in January:
1. Increase membership of the Rules Com
mittee to 15 again.
2. Establish a 21-day discharge rule that
would force the Rules Committee to send up
for a floor vote after that period any meas
ure already approved by another House com
mittee. 3. Establish a similar 7-day discharge
rule to prevent delay of bills already passed
hy both houses but awaiting action by a joint
Senate-House conference committee.
We do not believe there is anything
sacred about the rules or size of the Rules
Committee. But we are concerned about
changing so many caution and stop signs to
green lights at once.
The two discharge rules make sense.
There is no reason why measures duly in
vestigated and approved by specialized com
mittees should not at least reach the floor for
general debate and voting; or why measures
approved by a majority of both houses should
then be pocket-vetoed by a tiny minority of
the legislators.
But, given some such safeguards against
indefinite sidetracking, there seems to be no
reason for the New Frontiersmen to seek to
pack the committee in their favor as well. Suc
cess in that effort would mean they could vote
measures to the floor more hastily, or place
upon them special rules regarding their
amendability.
The democratic system is not served by
cutting all the checks and balances in order to
level a roadblock.
THESE DAYS
Scapegoats Take Blame
. Hy JOHN CHAMBERLAIN
; -This Is the limn (or resolutions
8i0 stocktaking. I haven't boon
al;the job of writing a daily col
umn for lone enough lo know
what I should nviko resolutions
about, hut in taking stock for
the future I find, amid a welter
of penis, one thing that is vastly
encouraging: we have a Presi
dent who is willing to admit mis
takes. In looking back on the
Ray of Pigs catastrophe, when air
cover was withheld from the
brave Cubans who stormed the
beach only to tall into Castro's
clutches. President Kennedy has
confessed that he vrsonaIly
pulled a booboo.
This, unless I have been asleep
at certain important juncture
during the past half century, is
something that is absolutely un
precedented. Tlie standard high level proce
dure has been to admit nothing
and, when things have obviously
gone wrong, to pick out a conve
nient scapegoat and let him go.
(q the samlicl.il block.
Nobody in high places, for ex
ample, has confessed to mak
ing a mistake at Yalta. Nobody
has stepped forward to take the
blame for the plnsical isolation
of West Berlin from the rest of
Die Free World. Nobody has ac
cepted responsibility for confusing
lhe Chinese Communists with the
southern agrarians who put Thom
as Jefferson into the White
House in IBM. The list might be
extended aimost to infinity, but
it is only charitable to limit it
to a few examples.
While we are on the subject.
however, it would be fair to re
call that some of the sacrificial
goats are still in the land of
the living. It is still not ton
lale (or tendering the sort of ajo!
ogies lo them that might make
tlicir declining days a little hap
pier than they ace tMherwi.se
likely to be.
There is old Admiral Husband
E. Kimmel, (or example. He lives
in Groton. Conn., not far from
the Electric Hoat Company ship,
yards in which the atomic sub
marines air outfitted. Amid the
bustle of preparations (or a pos
sible naval war ol the (utiire.
he broods upon naval campaigns
of the past which he was com
pelled, as a sacrificial goat, to
tit out.
Vet what did Admiral Kimmel,
victim o( the Jafvane.se attack on
Pearl ll,irlr, do lo deserve the
role of goal? Far more was
known in Washington than at Kim
mel's post in Hawaii about the
imiM-iKling plans of the Japanese
during that fust ominous week of
lecember in P41. The admu.il's
iieriors, Irvm Commander in
Chief Roosevelt and Admiral Har
old Stark on down, knew on Dec.
It from a cracked Japanese code
message that war was coming
somehow, somewhere, the next
day, hut no move was made to
warn Pearl Harbor.
t'nwilling lo shoulder the blame
for passiveness themselves, the
Washington authorities fouled ev
erything off on Kimmel and on
the Army commander in Hawaii.
U. (Jen. Waller Short, tieneral
Short is now dead, and no apol
ogy can reach lum, but Kimmel
Is very much alive and still
waiting vindication from those
who might offer it to him.
Another sacrificial victim who
still walks the earth is Gen. IXiug
las Mac Art bur. He was removed
from his Pacific command for
having the temerity and the fore
sight to insist that the Chinese
Communists were committed lo
riding an imperialist tide that
could easily engulf the whole
world, (tut nobody has ajxiloguod
to lum. or otherwise moved to
remove the single official blot on
his oUicnvise immaculate name.
The business of insisting on jus
tice (or sacrificial goats is an un
rofitahle one, for nobody likes to
listen to a catalogue of reproach
es that cctws that ancient re
liant of "I told you so." II is
far better when tlie author of a
mistake speaks up and absolves
the sacrificial goat on his own.
After tlie Hay of Tigs disaster,
certain changes were made in the
Criiti.il Intelligence Agency. Some
C I A people who had favored a
"hard'' approach to Castro dis
appeared Irom familiar haunts
along the Potomac and tlie nat
ural conclusion was that they
were being punished for advocat
ing that air cover be extended
to the Cuban invaders. H ancient
precedent had continued to pie
vail. Ibe injustice lo Uie "hards"
in the CIA would never have
been corrected. However, the mir
acle has happened: President
Kennedy has mferentially con
fessed that tlie C I A. "hards'"
weie right alter all.
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Letters To The Editor
Provisions
To the interested citizens' of
this community and also lo those
not too concerned. County zoning
will directly or indirectly affect
all.
Tlie citizens of Springfield, Ore.,
due to lack of knowledge, lack of
proper information had actually
voted for a zoning prrogram
(urban renewal!. It took about 2
years to yet rid of it.
These are some of Uie reasons
why the people of Springfield had
voted it out in 1961. They didn't
feel that It was right and just to
have orderly, well kept properties
declared blighted and deteriorat
ed, and property owners being
forced to sell their property not for
a public purpose, but lo Private
Developers. They didn't feel it
was just to take from innocent
citizens their homes and force
them to leave property Ihey had
owned and lived on for 25 or
more years and at a price set
by the court, in many cases less
than half what it was worth. They
didn't feel it was just to have un
limited authority given to "inspec
tors" to order changes such as
more w indows, more rooms, larg
er rooms or hallways, changes in
location of bathrooms and lava
tories, houses painted, reroofed,
etc.
In a recent Portland, Ore., news
paper this was one of their news
items. "County Zoning Violators
lo Face Legal Action." "Hard
Core" objectors who resist coun
ty zoning ordinances were warned
of possible legal action. The plan
ning commission has a file of 100
to 150 "Known violators." Mostly
(he violations consist of failure
to obtain a building permit or
construction that does not meet
building or zoning ordinances.
Continuing offenses may result
in a fine of $100 per day, up to
a total of $1,000. Non-continuing
offenses could result in a $500
fine." Is this what we want in
our community?
In the "Blue Book" Revised
M
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
By SYDNEY 1. HARRIS
The proper way to compliment
a woman is not on what she has
or is, but on what she has not
or wants to be. The beautiful
woman wants lo be assured that
she is bright, and the bright wom
an that she is attractive. For
everyone has a desire to be, in a
certain way, somebody else.
This, of course, is as true ol
men as of women although men
pretend not to be so susceptible
to flattery. There is no point in
Idling a man Ihat he is good
in something alout whtch he
knows he is good; he will sim
ply regard you as a fool.
But tell the minister llial his
sermon was logical and well
reasoned as a legal brief, and
he will put f up and rcsvnd, "You
know. I did think of taking up the
law once "
When General Wolfe was about
to conquer Quebec, he sighed Unit
he would gladly have given up
all his military victories if only he
could have written Gray's "El
egy." Likewise. Frederick t h e
Great scorned those who praised
bis martial feats: he wanted to
be a French literary man rather
than a Prussian general or. al
any rate, a part of him wanted
to be. and deeply desired assur
ance Uiat he could have been
Goethe took his literary genius
for grained, on the other hand,
and yearned (or immortality as a
scientific innovator he foolishly
thought that his "theory of light
and colors" would outlast his
poetry, and wasted a great dc.ll
of time in defending his trivial
discoveries.
Isaac Newton, on the other
hand, thought thai his profound
scientilic work was less impor
tant than his research into Bibli
cal history, which any schoolboy
could have emulated. The latter
has been totally forgotten by now .
while Newton s scientific explora
tions remain a landmark of West
ern civilization
Sir Arthur Sullivan dismissed
his music for Uie Savoy operettas
as airy nothings, and hoped that
his fame would rest nn his more
ambitious works: but he has
reached immortality only as the
latter half of Gilbert i. In our
time. Artur Schahel. Uie eminent
pianist, desired praise not for his
incomparable renditions of Mo
zart and Beethoven, but for the
atonal modern music he com
posed, which is not worth one
cadenza of a Mozart concerto.
The man who makes vast sums
of money wants to be regarded
as a discriminating art collector:
the Shakespearean actor wants to
be tliougbt of as an astute (inan
cial manipulator. And who knows
what dreams Einstein had when
he picked up his fiddle and
scratched out a tune?
POTOMAC
FEVER
.IKK is the magician of the
year: First man to win the Or
ange Bowl outstanding plaver
award without leaving the bench
lor a game lost 21) months earlier.
Businessman's Interpretation
of Internal Revenue Boss Can
lin's new expense account rules:
If two executives can figure nut
over lunrh hnw tn get Caplin
fired, they can bolh deduct the
meal.
Well, al least the calendar peo
ple are optimistic about the fu
ture. They not only run the linvj
calendar all the way through
lec. HI. but they even put a lit
tle I!i4 calendar on tlie back
page
lievewing his holiday bills, one
fellow savs it in t Ihe running
into debt Ihat hurts, but tlie run
ning into creditors
The missile each armed srrv.
tee pines lor ts one powerful
enough tn demolish its sister
services' budget demands.
I mtod Nations planes slrafp a
Katanga air base in the Congo
One thing about our ss!e. We nev
er quit just because were not
sure whv we started
Fl-ETVHER KNERF.L
Draft on Klamath County Zoning
Ordinances, prepared for Uie
Klamath County Planning Commis
sion by the Bureau of Municipal
Research and Service, April 1961,
it seems that it all depends on
how our "neighborhood police pro
tectors" will interpret the ordi
nances. Do you feel you want to be
ordered not only how, where and
when you can put your buildings,
fences etc., but also the kind of
material you have to use, disre
garding the fact that it may be
completely out of your purchas
ing power?
I've been told, as others have
been told, that in an S-A zone
i Suburban Agriculture! and S-R
zone I Suburban Residential) you
may have your animals. Zoning
will have no ill effects on the
4-H program. By the way, there
are 48ti enthusiastic youngsters
enrolled in animal projects. Many
have more than one animal ex
hibit. Check out for yourself the re
quirements pertinent to these
zones. (Page 9 of Uie previously
mentioned "Blue Book.")
1. The front yard shall be a
minimum of 30 feet. For build
ings containing a conditional use
the setback shall be a minimum
of 40 feet. For buildings housing
fowl, rabbits, cows, horses or
other domestic animals the front
yard shall be a minimum of 70
(cel.
2. The side yard shall be a
minimum o( 10 (eet. For build
ings containing a conditional use
the side yard shall be a mini
mum of 30 feet. For buildings
housing fowl, rabbits, cows, hors
es, or oilier domestic animals the
side yard shall be a minimum
of 50 feet on the side abutting a
streef and 25 feet on Uie side
abu ting a lot.
So figure it out for yourself
Ihat in order to comply with Uie
"Blue Book" setback require
ments, front yard minimums, etc..
your animals will be eliminated
no because you won't be al
lowed to have them, but because
due to the "squeeze method" of
setback requirements, you simply
won t have room for them!
We. the citizens of Klamath
County, have Uie advantage of
knowing some of the hardships,
hectic and tense moments that
another community has gone
through, and one other has it to
bear. So let us use this knowledge
to make sure it doesn't happen
lo our community!
Ann Frei,
3209 Crest.
Program
I wish to express my thanks lo
our police department for the
wonderful work they are doing
for our children, in teaching them
the respect for firearms, their
proper use and care, and in mak
uig good marksmen out of them.
They have devoted much time
and patience to Uiese boys and
girls, and will give them a great
er understanding and respect tor
our police, whom they soon learn
have an interest in their safety
and welfare.
I feci sorry for anvone who
oVes not know the pleasure of
hunting and fishing, and dreaming
along a river bank.
When a child learns these
things, and to love them, he will
also feel nearer to his Creator.
'. hope more children will take
advantage of this course when it
i available again
Mrs. Louis Mandros,
4U'i Trinity St.
By PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON (NEA) Presi
dent Kennedy and Secretary of
State Dean Rusk have made a
complete reversal on past foreign
policy In putting their O.K. on a
National Academy of Foreign Af
fairs. The big idea is that it will
train personnel from all govern
ment departments in the conduct
of foreign policy.
Such an idea has been kicking
around Washington for years but it
has always been rejected. Trying
to establish a government foreign
policy trade school, it was felt,
would narrow the outlook of dip
lomats. It would set up too rigid
a curriculum and put too many
fixed ideas into official training.
It was considered better to send
rising government officials (or
postgraduate research and train
ing in existing universities.
The new enthusiasm for doing
the twist on this past policy and
establishing a National Academy
of Foreign Affairs comes from
three principal sources.
A presidential advisory panel
headed by Vice President James
A. Perkins of the Carnegie Corp.
has recommended il. A Committee
on Personnel for the New Diplo
macy, headed by former Secre
tary of State Christian A. Herter,
has recommended it as one point
in a much broader report on for
eign service reorganizaUon re
quested by Rusk. Incidentally,
Perkins was a member of the
Herter committee, too.
But Uie principal impetus for
this comes from a heterogeneous
group of 12 senators and seven
congressmen from left, right and
center. For three years they have
been advocaUng establishment of
a "U.S. Freedom Academy" to
educate government officials and
private citizens on international
communism and how to combat it.
Their idea was to create a U.S.
counterpart to the Russian politi
cal warfare schools. In short, it
was to train government officials
how to fight the cold war and win
it.
One of the prime movers of this
idea was Alan Grant Jr. of Or
lando. Fla. Through the Council on
Communist Aggrescion, which has
considerable labor and liberal
backing, Grant interested Rep.
Walter Judd. R-Minn., in the idea.
He interested Sen. Karl Mundt,
R-S.D., and he got Sen. Paul
Douglas, D-Ill., to co-sponsor it.
Together they got senators like
Dodd, D-Conn.; Goldwater, P.
Ariz.: Case, R-N.J., and otliers.
They got their Freedom Acade
my bill through the Senate at
the end of 1960, but it died in the
House. It got no place in the
last Congress, but it will come
alive in Uie next one. A Gallup
poll shows 69 per cent support, 14
per cent opposed.
So Kennedy has assigned Rusk
to prepare legislation and he has
assigned Under Secretary for Ad
ministration William H, Orrick
Jr., formerly an assistant attor
ney general, Yale whiz kid and
Stanford lawyer, to organize an
interdepartmental group to work
it out.
The administration idea is to
set it up on a somewhat broader
basis than the Mundt - Douglas
Freedom Academy bill. The Na
tional Academy of Foreign Af
fairs would not do away with the
War College, Annapolis, West
Poinl or Uie Air Force academies.
It would not even replace Uie
State Department Foreign Serv
ice Institute or other specialist
schools which have been training
government officials for overseas
service for some years.
It is Congress which will really
write Uie ticket on this. While
Congress is considering this idea,
they might also take a look at a
leaf from Uie book of Peace Corps
Director Sargent Shriver. He has
found that a lot of his two-year
volunteers would make good State
Department material.
There may be the germ of an
idea here for one course in the
new national academy. Perhaps
the way to learn to be a good dip
lomat is to go get the feet wet
and Uie hands calloused by asso
ciation with the common people
of the underdeveloped countries
o( the world, instead of trying to
learn how to combat communism
in a lecture room or out of a
book. This would be in the best
tradition of the "Ugly American."
WASHINGTON REPORT . . .
Commies Infiltrate
Peace Organizations
By FULTON LEWIS JR.
Members of the House Un-American
Activities Committee may
be proud. Their recent investiga
tion into so-called peace groups
was eminently successful, if the
anguished cries of assorted left
ists from New York to Moscow
are any indication.
Soon after Radio Moscow broad
cast a withering blast at Ameri
can "w itchhunters," members of
Congress began receiving mail
from back home. Investigation
showed that many of those who
w ircd Washington to protest about
the hearings were Communist
Party members.
With disclosure that various
peace groups had been heavily
infiltrated by Communist agents,
the committee was subject to a
new barrage of left-wing pro
tests. I. F. Stone, a veteran Commu
nist fronter who edits a four
page Washington Newsletter, set
the tone: The HUAC investiga
tion was "the dirtiest such affair
suite Uie days of McCarthy."
The National Guardian, de
scribed by a Congressional Com
mittee as "Ihe virtual official
propaganda arm of Soviet Rus
sia." made the hearings its ma
jor story. The "L'nAmcritans' at
tack" was a vicious smear against
peace-loving women, the publica
tion reported in a story that be
gan on page one and rambled on
to page eight.
"Tlie Militant" is a fanatically
left-wing rag. published "in the
interests of Uie working people"
in New York. "HUAC w itchhunt
ers" were roasted in a page one
"Militant" story that praised
peace leaders for defying t h e
committee.
The "Weekly People." published
by the Socialist Labor Party, saw
the HUAC hearings as an attack
by "the vested interests" upon
the peace movement.
Note: Committee investigators
discovered that Communist
functionaries were following the
order of party boss Gus Hall
when Uiey infiltrated certain
peace croups. Less than two years
ago. on Jan. :n. ism. Hall told
tlie I S Communist Party's Na
tional Committee:
"It is necessary to widen Uie
struggle for peace, to raise its
level, lo involve far greater num
bers, to make it an issue in ev
ery community, every people's
organisation, every labor union,
every church, every house, every
street, every point of gathering
of our people. . . .
"It is imperative to brine every
onemen, women, youth and yes.
even children into the struggle.
"It is essential to give full sup
port to Uie existing peace bodies,
to their movements and the strug
gles they initiate, to building and
strengthening their organizations.
"It is also necessary to recog
nize the need for additional peace
organizations . . . above all. Com
munists will intensify their work
(or peace and their efforts to
build up peace organizations."
That many Communists had fol
lowed those instructions to the
letter was clearly demonstrated
by the committee. That the com
mittee then came under frontal
attack was not unexpected.
Texas' John Tower, slated sev
eral months ago to become chair
man of the Senate Republican
Campaign Committee, will not get
Ibe job.
The reason: Northern liberals
objected to Tower, a Southerner.
The main job of Uie committee
chairman is lo raise (unds, and
only one Senator raised more
money for his party last year
than did Tower: the outgoing
chairman. Barry Goldwater.
Kentucky's Thruston Morion, a
former GOP National Chairman,
can have the position. Reelected
by a comfortable majority in I9iv2.
he knows party leaders and
workers across the country.
Al
manac
By United Press International
Today is Friday. Jan. 4. Uie
fourth day of 13 with 31 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
lull phase.
The morning stars are Mars
and Venus.
The evening stars are Jupiter
and Saturn.
Those born on this day include
Sr. Isaac Newton, discoverer of
the law of gravity, in 1842.
On this day in history:
In I854. Sen. Stephen' A Doug
las introduced into the Senate a
bill containing proposals for the
organization of the Nebraska Ter
ritory. In 18Rj. Dr William W. Grant
of Davenport. Iowa, performed
the first appendectomy in medi
cal history with Uie patient mak
ing a complete recovery.
In 18!'. Utah became the 45lh
state to be admitted into Uie
Union.
A thought for the day: Ameri
can humorist James Thurber
said: "Early to rise and early to
bed makes a male healthy and
wealthy and dead."