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PAGE -A HERALD AM) NEWS. Klamath Falli. Ore. Thursday, January 31, 1963 NOTHING SPECIAL Hamming It Up . . (W. B. S.I States' The battle for power between the stales and the federal government goes on. Congress and the 47 states with regular legislative sessions in 1963 are being asked to approve three striking proposals which would material ly enhance slate authority. Only Virginia, Kentucky, and Mississippi do not convene their legislatures in regular session this year. The proposals being put before the others would bar the federal courts from acting on stale legislative reapportionment, would make it easier for slates to initiate amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and would establish a so-called Court of the Union which in major re spects would be superior to the U.S. Supreme Court. These propositions are the product of the General Assembly of the States, a nationwide conclave of legislators and other state offi cers. They are being proposed as amendments to the U.S. Constitution. One anonymous expert on slate govern ment says no more than three states are like ly to endorse the revolutionary court plan. Most probable are Alabama and Florida, with Mississippi a prospective third slate if it should call a special session for that pur pose. As for Hie oilier proposals, it is antici pated that perhaps 10 may approve the idea of simplifying procedures by which slates can initiate constitutional amendments. And just five or six are expected to endorse a ban on U.S. court rulings in state apportionment. There is no thought that any of the plans will get anywhere in Congress. When Congress docs approve an amend ment it must then gain ratification by three fourths of the stales now 38. For the states to initiate an amendment, two-thirds of the 50 Thirty-Six Thousand Five Hundred More (Th Wall Strut Journal) Now that members of Congress and in terested taxpayers have had time to read the fine print in the Administration's budget for fiscal 1064, it's dawned on them what the President really was saying in his budget message about "management improvement, and cost reduction" in Government employ ment. , What President Kennedy said was that Jiis budget had been prepared "with special attention to employment trends in the Feder al Government." And that "requests for ad ditional jobs have been reduced or denied wherever possible." The key phrase there is "requests . . . have been reduced." For the President certainly did not say that the num ber of Federal employes is going to be re duced. Or even that he proposed to hold the THESE DAYS . . . Anti-Communist Dilemma Ity JOHN CTIAMIIERI.AIN As perhaps the author ot this . rnltimn docs not need In toll anono, he has a host of dcdn alod anti-Communist (riT.ds. They .rein discouraged these Hays, mid lor reasons that must seem mystt lying In the average hopeful American. Here we have Khru shchev and Mao Tsctung trad ing insulin with caili oilier huh ought In please all good anli Communists, We also have t h e svectarle o Uie .Soviets backing down in Cuha at least In the ex. lent o( making a show of pulling their more, dangerous missiles out. This. loo. ought In he eause lor anti-Communist happiness. The better things look on the surlace. however, the more dole ful become the looks on the fai rs of Hie anti-Commnnisl hard core. And. Uiough it is hard to explain it, there is good reason for anti Communist discouragement. The reason lias to do with Khrush ihev's current addiction to what might he called the sliding lactic As the Soviet dictator told his East German comrades recently, he villi expects to see capitalism "buried." But when the Big Boss ol tbe Kremlin turns his head lo the East and addresses llie Chi nese, he lakes a leaf out ol Lis cnliowcr's book and says, in ef Kl. that atomic waifare is "un thinkable." This means that Khru shchev is yielding a gambit in the Cold War In our side. Hut who among us has llie nerve In say that atomic war would he quite "thinkable" if the pro ration were sufficiently great' It s all a diplomatic shell game, o course, when Khrushchev sol emnly assures us Ihal there's an dive branch concealed under one of his shells, But while the shell game Is going on, how lan the truly conMnced anti-Commnnisl keep his followers in a stale of dedicated while hcaC" Can you imajine King Henry the Filth nf Rights And Wrongs must apply for a constitutional convention. Congress must then summon the convention to consider amendments. Those approved must again have the endorsement of three-fourths of the states. This cumbersome method never has been used. Under the new plan, whenever two thirds nf the stales agree on a specific amend ment, it would automatically make the rati fication rounds in quest of the same three fourths vote. Since congressional approval of the three plans is unlikely, the states this time would have to use the cumbersome machinery to win first-stage approval. And they are present ly a long way from the necessary two-thirds majority. Remotest prospect of all is the revolu tionary Court of the Union. In the states as sembly in December, it was dropped just 21 to 20. The other proposals gained heavy ma jorities. The proposed new court would consist of the 50 state chief justices. It would have power to decide whether judgments of the Supreme Court affecting rights reserved to the stales or the people under the Constitu tion were properly within Supreme Court jurisdiction. Observers at the assembly meeting say the three proposals are the work of such staunch conservatives as William Chappcll, Florida legislator, and Fred Gulick of the Kan sas legislative council. One observer suggests that many states' voles were cast by individuals "not even rep resentative of their unrepresentative legisla tures." That the proposals arc under study at all is perhaps stout proof of what militant, energetic "believers" can accomplish. line on Federal jobs. The fine print discloses that the President gave "special attention to employment trends," all right. And those trends, as usual, are ever upward. For instance, the President asked for an increase of 5,315 employes in the Agriculture Department, which would raise the total to 121,583. For the Commerce Department, where Secretary Hodges has been making such stirring pare-thc-payroll talks, an increase of 3,407 is being asked. Indeed, in only two places is a decrease in the number of employes apparent, and these two cuts total only 78. Altogether, the President is asking Con gress for almost 3fi,5()0 more Government em ployes. 11 certainly makes for an interesting approach to management improvement and cost reduction England making his famous bat tle plea lo his army on the eve of SI. Crispin's Day il the French had been husy at the moment with a Hummel y nf olive branches and sudden sciittlings to the dis tant rear nf dispu'ed territory? Psychologically, the bold King Henry would have been al a loss (or words and Shakespeare would have had In wrile a different play. .lust what should aiill t'cimmu nisls he doing in the upcoming era of the sliding tactic? When Khrushchev says he is willing In make a deaf on a holiday Irom nuclear testing that will permit some insieclion of Russian atom ic installations, can the anti-Communists say. "I Hint under any circumstances talk with the man?" When Comrade K. in dicales that he has nn hard-ami-(as date lor settlement of the "Berlin problem," have we the nerve In send haltering rams against the Berlin wall' The nnti-Cnnimuni.st reply In Khrushchev's sliding lactic in the Iwo matters nt Benin and Cuba would be to step up our own Cold War strategy to a ixunt of in tensified miransigcame For if Comrade K truly thinks Ihal atomic warlaie is "unthinkable." he would not risk any military lesjvonse if we line down the Ber lin wall or staked llie Cuban exiles lo sullicient airplane coer lo make a successful landing at the Bay ol Pigs. But how many Amrr icans ate in the mood for such heroism? I've asked many peo ple Ibis question, ard lind veiy lev wbn would willingly go be yond our present anti-Soviet com mitments as long as Khrushchev is making a show alnnil hema amenable to some conciltaloiy diplomacy If the hard core ann-Coninm-nists are wrong in thinking that logic has a chain e of determin ing our curicnt loieign polity stance. Ihey are right In worry ing about the mood for relaxation that prevails in the country. For under Hie cover nf the sliding lac tic the Soviets will assuredly get away with their habitual murder. By refraining from overt action in the Congo, for example, the Russians have succeeded in mak ing Mnise Tshombc . hard anti Communism seem cither untmpnr I. uit or unreasonable and as a result of Ibis nnlmdy really cries out when the l' does Tshomlie in. When the current Congo show is over, we may very well have a weak central government in I.eo(ioldilIe thai will be duck soup lor Communist mliltrators. What can be done lo keep Amer icans wary in the age of the sliding lactic'' I wish 1 knew. Al manac By I nitrd Prr International Today is Thursday, .Ian. 11. the Mt day of l!Hvt w.th .HI in billow. Thr moon n approaclun; its lirM quartet Tho nioinuui stars arc Venn and Mats Tho PMNiinn slais ate Jupiter and Natut n Those Unn on this dav include tivtnan composer Fran Shu Seil. in IT'iT. On tins dav in hivtoi y. In lHti.i. Robert K lee was ;ip pointed commander-in-chief of all (onledeiatc Armies hv oYllersnn Oavis, president nf the Confeder als . In HVVt. Holland experienced on of its wool floods in history a moi e than 2.ono persons lost their lies when dikes crumpled, flood ing XW 0OO acres nf land In pv. the tiisl I S. satellite. Ilxplorcr I. was launched into orbit. IN WASHINGTON Wh Sandpaper Negotiations By RALPH de TOLEDANO In the new nuclear lest ban negotiations, the Soviet Union has replaced its usual switchblade knife with a piece of sandpaper In wear away the United States position. This metaphor comes from Representative Craig Hos mer of California, tile ranking minority member on the Joint Atomic Energy Committee. Mr. Hosmer has repeatedly warned that President Kennedy's advisers have been willing to re treat steadily in what were con sidered the Administration's rock bottom terms for a test ban agreement. He has documented this warning, drawing on knowl By SYDXKV .1. HAIUtlS Purely Personal Prejudices: The men who succeed in their own lifetime are generally those who know how to piny upon the weaknesses of other men; but tlin.se who achieve immortality ate theones who know how to call upon the strengths of other men, not merely for their own time, but tor centuries to come. .Speaking of the different sorts of success, it seems to me that reputation is a balloon that must be blown up by others, not by oneself; the man who blows up his own balloon inevitably gives the one extra exhalation of breath that bursts the balloon into frag ments. Much, tf not mn.t. nf thr iron hlr In personal affair I caused hv people who make difficulties tor themselves when they real It have no choice. Once we assuage our conscience, by calling something a "neces sary evil," it soon begins to look more and more necessary and less and less eul thus do societies, in every age. justify ain thing from slavery to atomic- bomb ICstV When politicians ak citiens to make "greater sacrifices" tor their country. I am alwav re minded of I'ncle Uemus' fine command '"You do de puilm", -Sis Cow, en I'll do de gi'inlin ." If the conservative vice K narrowness, the liberal vice i rtf-rightrminr; as Anatete France said of a liberal of his riat : "fir flattered himself on being a man without any preju dices; ..h1 this pretension it ef is a very ureal prejudice." Process in urkierstanding i o slow for the principal reason that in order to ask the right ques tions!, one must already know a j;oid share of the answers. It is a public truth that actors must "feel tlieir part" in order to protect such feeling to tlie ait d:ence. only the actor who has a. hieed emotional "diMame" fn'tn the role can protect ettec l;c for acting is a Nm of edge gained in the deliberations ot the committee. Now he has dramatized his point by compar ing llie original American position of lDaS with what the President and his negotiators are willing to concede today. In so doing, he has made obvious the threat lo Iree world security implicit in the frantic desire for a "trealy for treaty's sake" shown by U.S. negotiators. This is Mr. Hosmcr's analysis: In 19J8. scientists urged that a network of 180 internationally manned and controlled seismic stations would be vitally neces sary if there was lo be no cheat ing by the Soviet Union. In the STRICTLY PERSONAL seduction, and as Hazlitt said, "An accomplished coquette ex cites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none her self." The hardest person In the world to bear with equanimity Is a prosperous fnol. 11 is the falsest of metaphors to call marriage "a lottery"; for in a lottery we choose numbers by chance, hut in a marriage our choices are determined by our un conscious drives, and the "num ber" we pick is related to our deep needs for gratification or punishment, or both. The worst bore is tlie profound Iwire. who mistakenly bclices that his erudition makes up for his lack of charm. POTOMAC FEVER A magazine expert says the Kennedy brothers are the dec ade's leading cover boys. The only one they missed was the Cuban air cover. .lames Meredith may not re turn in the I'niversity of Missis sippi. This saddens Army re cruiter who had a new slogan: "Join the Armv and give it the old college try." Ode to American lashinns; Men m fur hats look sightly ersatz. Republicans will hold a fund laising dinner honoring Barry tioldwater. The theme: Fiscal icsponsibility. The slogan: Cash and Barry. TV expert Slvestcr Weaver sas the future joh of commu nication will he lo tell every body at once with the speed nf Imht. The result wi.l he known a tnstant chaos. Alteration in White Houe de tor: The Blue Room i now white. The Sun Boom is a kindergarten. The Press Room has become the utm2c factorv. nrTVHKR KNKRVL current negotiations, tho U.S. has abandoned this position and is ready to rely on the "voluntary" submission of derogatory seismic information by the Soviet Union. Nineteen of these international ly manned seismic stations were to he within the Soviet Union. Tli is has now been dropped in fa vor of three unmanned and "tam-pcr-prone" stations to cover a territory of 8.5 million square miles covering one-sixth of the world s surface. These unmanned stations would be equipped with an electronic "black box" about whose effectiveness the sci entific community has expressed great doubts. The "black boxes" would be installed and serviced by Soviet personnel and could be moved about the USSR at Soviet will. Tlie original U.S. plan called for 20 "on-site' inspections of suspi cious underground disturbances. The State Department has coop eratively whittled down the num ber of physical inspections to 10. Comrade Khrushchev caused great rejoicing at Foggy Bottom when he announced that he would be willing to consider two or three "nn-site" inspections a year. Test ban negotiators are bargaining over the number, but they start out by giving away half the game. In t!K, it was the U.S. position that these inspections would be held at the initiative of an inter national control commission. This, too, has been jettisoned. "Now the discussions revolve around a scheme which contemplates in spections only at the 'invitation' of the suspected cheater, a high ly unlikely occurrence." Mr. Hos. mer notes. When the negotiations began, the United States lield that inspec tions were to take place in any suspected test area. We are now debating the Souet position that inspection teams would not be al lowed tn enter vast "security areas" nf the USSR the very places where secret nuclear tests are held. Teams, moroovci, would be required to travel on Soviet planes whose windows were blacked out. with further restric tions on how they might operate. In short, what the United Slates is now attempting to "negotiate" with Nikita Khrushchev's repre sentatives is an inspection system so hamstrung as to he utterly useless. In the name of adequate safeguards against cheating on atomic testing, the United Stales has stacked the deck against it self, on this basis, tho Soviet would be bmlish not to garner all the propaganda value of agree ment. They give up nothing and at t!ve same time allow Administra tion spokesmen further to lull the American people into a sense of security. What would be the result of a treaty which the Swtets can vi olate with almost no chance of getting caught'1 "The risk of a surprise Souct nuclear break through to overwhelming nuclear superiority." Representative Hos mer solemnly wains, "must be precluded unless the United States wishes some day to face a 'sur render or die' ultimatum ." This is precisely what all the shout -tn has been about since the Communists becan nihbir; down with their negotiating an:lwpcr the nieruan dcirrmiration to prernt a nuclear PcjH Harbor. What is more frustrating than a sleepless night? The eighth annual inventory of U.S. Government property recent ly filed by the House Government Operations Committee shows real - estate holdings valued at Sufi bil lion and personal property ap praised at $213 billion, for a total national dollar worth of $2D9 bil lion. That is practically equal to the national debt, so. theoreti cally, the country is solvent. At hand is a document from the Liberty Amendment Committee of Oregon. It urges that the peo ple pass an amendment to the constitution which says, among other things, in Section 1 that "the Government of the United States shall not engage in any business, professional, commer cial, financial or industrial enter prise except as specified in the Constitution." That is a noble and not-so-far-fetched objective. If the govern ment would sell off the personal property which is competing with private industry, it would get that money and more taxes from private sources. Also, it would tend toward re-establishing the sovereignty of the individual 50 states, and add to the economic and personal freedom of taxpay ers. There's much more tn the proposition than can be covered in the few paragraphs available here but don't laugh off the idea. Sign In the window nf a paint store: "Husbands Choosing Col ors Must Have Note From Wives." I am receiving copies of the Con gressional Record from Al UII man's office in Washington, and copies of the House and Senate bills introduced into the Oregon Legislature and you readers are welcome to reler to them if you Uh. II is not unusual lo read nf one of our Klamath Falls policemen getting a rap or two. or otherwise running into a hard time when they try to break up some of the family rows or drinking parties that abound. Along this line is a WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Cabinet Officers To Seek Elective Jobs? By KL'l.TON I.F.W1S .IK. Al least three members of the President's oflicial family one a member of his private family are considering political races of their own. They are: Interior Secretary Stewart I'dall, Assistant Secreta ry nf State G. Mcnnen Williams, and Attorney General Robert Kennedy. I'dall. the Peck's Bad Roy of this Administration, is under heavy pressure to take on Arizo na's Sen. Barry Goldwatcr, up for reelection in 1!M. Goldwatcr. lor one, expects I'dall lo be his Dem ocratic opponent. A former Congressman. I'dall is a proven vote-getter. So. how ever, is Goldwatcr, who in I'll trounced Gov. F.rncl Mi Farland. a former Majority leader of the U.S. Senate. Apart from Udall. there are no Democrats who could give Gold water much ol a tussle. The Sec retary's younger brother, Morris. "Little Mo." serves the Second District as a Congressman, but is thought to be trading on his brother's name. Representing the Third District is Democrat Georce Senner. a Ireshman. unknown throughout most of the far-flung state. If Udall should resign lo make the Senate race, and then lose, it is thought certain he could re turn lo the Administration in some jmst. "Soapy" Williams, restless al llie State Detriment, is anxious tn get bai.k to Michigan, where he served 12 years, from l!'4f In 19HI1, as the State's Chief F.xccutive. Like many others. Williams ex pected that he would win appoint ment as Secretary of Lalw or of Health. Education anl Welfare for his part in tlie President s l!Wl victory. His State IV partment job -in which he oversees all of Africa has bored Williams and be served notice fortnight aso Hut he is ready In go back home and lake on Repuhbcan Gov. (ioor;e Rnmncy in li. He told tiie Detroit News be would run "If the occasion would ai ;-e where I would be nioxt able lo carry llie IVmocratic banners in Mich igan and it was more important tn work there than in lnia" Williams explained' "This would be something mabe the Presi dent would decide " The Chief h'xcui'ne. it is known, would not hp heartbrok en tn see Williams lr?e Wash bit of information that brought nut that in a little less than thre years. 100 police officers in the United States were killed in tht line of duty. Several thousand nf them were assaulted, many of them brutally. It is no surprise Ihal 37 of these killings grew out of police efforts to interrupt burglaries nr robberies in progress. Armed men . threatened with capture seldom hesitate to use violence to attempt escape. Of growing alarm, however. Is the evidence that officers ten tn hrpalf lin flic. rels, rowdy parties, near-riots are being subjected In mount- . Ing pern. I weniyiwu ihiiivi men lost their lives in such ef- . forts in the past 3.1 months. The FBI noted recently that 25 officers were killed while either making arrests or trans porting prisoners. Some day, when the opportunity presents, I'm going In ask those in charge the purpose of all of the lights at 11th and Pine. Looks like real uptown stuff, but why so many? A news story of the organiza tion of a community development corporation in Pendleton aroused again the question of why 'Klamath Falls can't do the same thing. Unfortunately, we seem to have groups who want to pull apart rather than proceed in a constructive, positive manner. A notable exception tn this im plied criticism i I'm not being crit ical; just wondering! is the work of the joint school boards in the county. They are working ob jectively in attempting lo find a common solution to the school problem in the county. They have every reason to be optimistic. If every agency of government, and public-spirited citizens would ap proach their problems with tha same open-mindedncss and de termination exhibited by the school hoards, we'd get s o m place. ington. He would, of course, like lo see the Lansing State House occupied once again by a Demo crat. And he realizes that W i I liams' experience in foreign af fairs was nonexistent when he look over at foggy bottom, and that he has put his diplomatic fool in his mouth more than once. Sen. Frank Lausche, a mem ber of the Foreign Relations Com mittee, says that President Ken nedy told Williams midway through his first and most disas trous African jaunt: "Come home and leave Africa to the Africans." The third member nf the Ad ministration known tn be consid ering a move is Robert Francis Kennedy, the President s brother and Attorney General. Rrports persist that Kennedy has his eye on the Massachusetts Governor ship, up again in lti. If Rolierl Kennedy should seek the Democratic nomination f o r President in V.x he mu-,t show his party's convention delegates a sol id vote-getting strengt'i. There is no major office up for grabs in Massachusetts in IVM. aside from Senator and Teddy got there lirst. Tlie Governorship that Bobby is thought lo covet is now held by Demixrct Kndicolt "Chub" Pcahody, who rode Ted dy's enattails lo victory last fall. J( Bobby should want the nnm ination, however, be would prob ably gel it. Sen. Ben Smith, alter all. stepped down for Teddy last year and Pcahody could prob ably he jiersuaded not tn seek a second term. If he were foolish enough lo risk a primary fight, Pcahody would probably emerge badly bat tered. The Kennedys, it seems, cannot lose in Massachusetts If you find that hard lo heliev-, ask Eddie McCnrmack. He learned tlie hard way. Note: Two members of the Ad ministration have so far retired to make political races back home. HKW Secretary Abe Ribicoff won Senate victory in Connecticut. Also elected tn the upper house was South Dakota's George Mr Govern, who served as Food (or Peace director. QUESTIONS AND AN5WERS Whirh Is the blot i-rmnlrr lo (ain Independence (rntn Great Rrilaln? A The Island of .lamaicj.
