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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.