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Early Odds On The 1964 Race
With President Kennedy's popularity evi
jfenlly at a high level, as measured by the
bjunion polls, there is a considerable tenden
cy in some quarters to suggest that he may
b almost unbeatable in his 1964 re-election
lit!.
:: Republican politicians no less than Demo
crats are counted among those taking this
view.
It is interesting therefore that the Presi
dent himself, by all accounts, does not hold
to this notion.
He knows, of course, what the polls
show. He is told, too, what any inquiring re
porter is told: that in another election his
Catholicism will not be a serious factor against
hbn. He understands that his youth is large
lyjeliminated as an issue.
; Vet he is said to think of l!)f4 as another
horse race.
Professional politicians are naturally
more cautious than outsiders looking in. Put
Kennedy and his intimate political establish
ment believe the reasons for caution are
ample.
; At the outset, they regard New York's
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller as the likely Re
publican nominee. The judgment is that this
automatically makes New York, with lis 43
plcctoral votes, a tougher fighting ground
than in 1960, when Kennedy whipped Richard
JVixon there by 383,000 votes.
:: Rockefeller's somewhat liberal coloring is
'seen, furthermore, as making him highly palat
able to many California Democrats and Inde
pendents, who often swing away from Demo
cratic candidates. Aided by the religious fac
Letters
i-Stop Fees
I In all the letters I have read
pmted in (he Herald and News
alxHit Die deer situation. 1 have
teen no mention o Uie problem
we should he concerned with.
To me the problem is not wheth
er to Vill or nut to kill does hut
how much lunKer we will have
free access to our government
lands.
livery sjHirUman should read
Hie article on page 14 of the Feb
ruary issue of Outdoor Life and
then write to his congressman
about tins matter. I don't think
a,ny sxirLsman wants the govern
ment to charge him so much per
i;iy to hunt or fish in the national
tjrests or on Taylor graitinR land.
To some people, the cost of a
(toly hunting or fishing (ee be
sides the price o his license
Would mean he could no longer
enoy Hie seasons because the
price would he prohibitive. Any
lee is loo much to have to pay
our government (or access to our
tree land. It would seem, from
reading the above mentioned ar
ticle, that secretary of the Interior
Udall, by adjusting the fees, could
eliminate any number of sports
men and make hunting and fish
In:; really good fur those who
cjiiiild nl lord it.
' I think the Oregon State (iame
Commission, that is composed of
H group o( educated and qualilird
men. is doing and will continue to
do a good job. 1 say. let our
State Came Commiss'on handle
.the fish and game of our stale
ami let's make a concerted etlorl
to block any government "take
oxer" of our national hunting and
IMung sKils. 1 think P. V. Schnei
drr of the (lame Commission is
Very capable and will handle the
Jame to the benefit of everyone.
; frank Hunnicult.
: Merrill, (Ire.
i Good Stuff
; When I was a tiny gill. I recall
piy ciders commenting on the
Joung M'ople of their time, and
now their elders had staled that
Al
manac
Bv t nltrd Press Inlernallnnsl
Today is Tuesday, Feb. S. the
Win d.iyol l!M with .TO to follow.
The moon is approaching Us
full phase.
The moaning star is Venus,
The evening stars aie Mars and
Jupiter.
- Those born on tlu day are tin
ier the sign of Aqu.uius.
;;On this day in history:
.-Til ln.II, linger Williams, seeking
religious freedom in America.
arrived at Salem. Mass
- In I!W, Russia and Japan se
vered diplomatic relations as the
result of rival design on Man
churia and Korea.
In IMS, the I!S. .lid Aimy
broke through Germany's Sicg
filed Line in World War II.
; A thought (or the day Hi ilish
philosopher David Hume said
"The most lively thought is still
bufiiiur to Je7 UlkSat Mtftkahlll-"
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AND NEWS, Klajnath Falls, Ore.
tor, Nixon carried his own state by 35,000.
Michigan and Pennsylvania went for Ken
nedy in I960, but they are now under Re
publican governors. The President is con
cerned with organizational difficulties in both
places.
Still worse is the immediate Ohio pros
pect. Kennedy lost the state by a whopping
275,000 and former Gov. Michael DiSalle was
buried last fall by more than half a million
votes.
Kennedy has not forgotten, either, that
lie won big Illinois by a skimpy, disputed 8,800
votes in 1960.
In the South, the President lost Missis
sippi's eight electoral votes and six of Ala
bama's 11. They wont to Sen. Harry Byrd of
Virginia. The Ole Miss racial situation raises
the odds that Kennedy may in 1964 lose all the
17 votes these two states now have after I960
census revisions.
Further defection in Louisiana is rat
ed possible but not likely.
Despite the President's concern over his
party's organizational problems, history indi
cates that in presidential combat such matters
are not often decisive.
But his aides say Kennedy roots his caution-in
more than this. They picture him as
still persuaded that, his own popularity not
withstanding, this country is nearly as divid
ed politically today as it was in 1960 when
his actual vote margin was less than 120,000.
If Republicans generally were as hopeful
as the President is cautious, then 1964 might
not turn out to be the Kennedy walkaway
so many now seem to predict.
To The Editor
those that read lurid paior-back
thrillers, hy the light of a candle,
and quickly concealed them un
der pillows and feigned sleep
when their elders checked up on
them, had been headed straight
lor perdition!
Then when 1 was lit or there
abouts, and went after milk for
my mother each evening whis
tling at the lop of my lungs 1
was rudely awakened to the dire
results of this by an elderly lady,
who shook her finger under my
astonished nose and said disap
provingly, "Young lady, whis
tling girls and crowing hens al
ways come to a bad end!" And
as a young woman living in the
"Hearing Twenties" we were nat
urally expected to come to a bad
end.
But do you know, some of our
most respected and famous peo
ple are the product of the so-called
"Roaring Twenties" and then al
ter the depression, the war years,
when mothers and daddies had In
make toys, to bring the joys of
Christmas In their children. Then
people were saying, "Our children
are running wild. No good will
come of this." Same old crepe
hanging! And what became of
these wild young people'.' As you
well know, Ihey have become re
spected public servants, judges,
lawyers, teachers, businessmen
etc, and fathers and mothers,
and good ones. loo.
Now again, there are those who
see something bad. something
shamelul in dolls.
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Nothing more, to the children,
bless them, than paper dolls in
the third dimension. 1 am visit
ed by as many as fifty-nine chil
dren a week, in my work, and
I have found no signs of degen
eration as the results of playing
make-lielieve with the dolls in
ipieslion.
Granted, the prices are high!
Mut isn't it lietter to buy one good
toy, in preference to several cheap
ones, soon broken and discarded
Never fear, it is not the innocent
toys (lint could in any way set
the children had examples., It is
directly up to the elders, to
live Iheir daily lives in such a
manner as to give their children
the best example of right, and
to teach them right from wrong!
Idol's not lay our shortcomings
at the feet of enterprising busi
nessmen and cleverly made dolls.
You have the power of choosing
the toy you think best, for your
child. No one forces you to buy
a product.
The people who could see some
thing immoral about these toys,
should never visit an art gallery
for it would he sure to shock
their lender sensibility. I will
close with this thought.
Ry the grace of (hid and the
proper guidance of devoted moth
ers and lathers, these children
loo. will become the respected
loaders of tomorrow.
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Uirnn's Doll Hospital,
14:14 l.akevievv Ave.
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THESE DAYS .
Adm. Rickover Vs. The Women
By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN
Like the late Sen. Robert Taft,
Admiral Hyman G. Rickover is so
honest that even tact annoys him.
The other day, speaking on edu
cation at a convocation of the
Fund for the Republic in New
York City, the admiial really
put his foot in his mouth. He at
tacked women members of the
Parent Teachers Assiciation en
masse, saying that "they're an
infernal nuisance, and ought to
slay home and take care of their
husbands."
No doubt the admiral's language
was a little brutal, hut the truth
is that he is not the only critic
who has been throwing barbs in
recent weeks at the PTA. Kven
some professors ol education have
been getting into the act. For
example. Dr. William C. Kvara
ceus, who is currently on the
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
While looking through a clini
cal paper called. "The Kffecls of
Kathorlcssness on the Preadoles
cent Female,' I ran across the
unexpected sentence: "It is not
possible to say that the fi e 'In
lilas' in this study would have
developed in this manner hut . . .'
The startling appearance of the
word "lilita" in this serious pa
per confirmed my earlier ledum
that author Vladimir Nahnknv
has indeed joined the small hand
of literary immortals who have
provided the languaiT with a new
word taken from a character in
a hook.
The list is not a larne one.
Shakespeare has gicn us "Ho
meo." Byron provided us wiih
"Don .loan " Sinclair Lewis add
ed "Bahhitf to the lanjjuaue.
Conan Doyle gae us "Sherlock
Holmes" as a snohm tor the
shrewd private investigator.
' ieOlit.V evidently tills a re.d
need in the lanuae to describe
a certain type of adolescent cu!;
"nymphet" is the generic trim,
but a proper name seems more
vivid and lilting.
Not many fictional chai .uters
become lived this way in the
speech and culture ul a people
Dickens, moM prolific of all wiiii
puncent names for his charac
ters, has made it oniv with "Fa
gin."' Dean Sw ift pro uied ti with
"Yahoo" in "(.ullivei's Traf!s."
hut the word is uod mostly by
intellectuals and has never made
rts way into the n.aintream "t
sivcih Likewise, Hubert's "Potm
llah" I mm "Hie Mikado" had a
ai eat voue .V eais ai:. but lu
not maintained il popti'aiilv
Karl Capek did much better
in his p'a. "II I II," when hi
name. "Robot." tor a mcthani
cal man, soon gamed internation
al usa.e. And. of com r. Mi
Shel'ey s "Franken-tem" is sr
cuielv lodged in the Fiu;i'i
tonguebut in a cunou.y nun:
ed taliion "Ft ankeiKlem" h,i
come lo mean the monster it-A.
when it was really the name of
its student creator Mis Shel'rv
gae the monster no name at
Mrenoti rang the beil twur
ith one stroke in his "Di
Ifk! and Mi. Hdc." whuh we
stiil ur to describe a wildly p ft
Team on the Continent
faculty of Boston University, has
sounded off against the PTA as
"a female middle-class irrelevan
cy, or, worse, a montnly intru
sion." This idea that the PTA is a
matriarchy that is wilting to dis
cuss anything with the teachers
except matters of importance is
widespread, and for al! I know
Admiral Rickover and Dr. Kvar
aceus may have good informa
ion about the usclcssne.s of some
PTA locals. But they are wrong
when they discuss the PTA in a
context lhat invokes the war be
tween the sexes. The trouble with
most of the PTAs with which I
have had any contact is not that
Ihey have been feminized, but
that they are founded on an over
weening respect on the part of
both Iheir male and female mem
bers for the theory thai only ac-
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
personality: and even so minor
an author as P. ?. WndehmiM
filled a real verbal need with
".Jeeves. " whose name embodies
the quintessence of the upper Brit
ish servant, a species fast vanish
ing from the contemporary scene.
Sheridan's "Mrs. Malaprop"
still lives, and so does Defoe's
"Rohinon Crusoe." for any man
stranded alone. Rabelais" giant,
"darganlua" has become a stand
ard adjective, and Rowe's "Lo
thario" is all we remember of
that author's mediocre output.
"Lolila." if she lasts, will be join
ing a small and select company
of fictional characters. .
POTOMAC
FEVER
leather bulletin: Next time the
New- Frontier gels the country
moving again, let's not move it so
close to the North Pole.
Texan ode In Treasury .Sec
retary Dillon and his plan In
raise petroleum taxes; A Dil
lon, a dollar, a Treasury schol
ar, a man of work and toil.
Ynur Iniitge needs some touch
ing up like boiling It in oil.
An intecrated audience in Mis
sissippi pavs In hear Leontwie
Puce sing. Kcnnomie tri
umphed over race. Roth Negror
and whites agreed the price was
right.
The ma or ieacucs" baseball
rules commit! er en ai ces the
strike 7one. They took a t i
from the cw ork new spaper
printet s.
Xutomatinn has one n tar tn
replaeing secretaries in nnc
nil ice. the ho eaught a Junmr
rei utie tn ing In kis Ihr
computer.
Republicans want to pnhr the
t'thl Ba of Pus invasion U
the tried Republican dxtiine If
it happened rsterd.i. investigate
it If M s happening Uxia, ignoie
it If tt might happen tomorrow,
repeal it retio.it tive.v
FLKTX HFR KNF.BF.L
credited teachers' organizations
( such as the National Education
Association have any right to
talk about the school curriculum.
Kducalion, in PTA meetings, has
been a virtually forbidden topic.
As a result of the theory that
only teachers know enough about
teaching lo talk about techniques
of imparting subject matter, the
schools of the United States went
overlward for a generation for
so called "progressive education."
Phonetic r "phonic" drill was
banished from the courses devot
ed to reading instruction in fa
vor of the hit-or-miss method of
"whole word" recognition that
goes under the name of "look
say." The olticial teacher-sponsored
idea that the eye, not the
ear or the tongue, is the key to
reading proficiency worked very
well for eye-minded students. But
for the ear oriented youngster,
who can only learn about words
by sounding out the separate syl
lables, it automatically meant
reading delinquency.
To their eternal honor some
women in some PTAs had the
murage to question the dogma
that "teacher always knows hest"
when it comes to imparting read
ing skills.
And because of these courage
ous women, more and more
school boards have been insisting
that phonics must le restored to
first and second grade courses in
reading instruction. Today the ear
minded boy or girl has a much
better opjxirtunity of learning how
to read than has been the case
for the past 30 years of domin
ance hy eye-minded fanatics.
Where the PTA has proved a
weak reed for those who have
tried to provoke relevant discus
sion of teaching methods End ( lass
subject matter, there have been
rebellions. And both women and
men have been equally prominent
among the dis-sidents. In some
towns there have heen secessions
from the national PT in favor
of autonomous PTOs or Parent
Teachers Organizations. In Mid
dlebury. Conn., for example, lo
cal men and women organized a
Parent Teachers Organiat ion
with the idea that the proportion
of dues that bad been ymng to a
national body could find better
utilization at home. Toe Middle
bury fathers and mothers have
lound it quite profitabp in their
independent PTO to riiscus both
the content of education and the
techniques of teaching. At last
reports thev hadn't persuaded
their school superintendent lo
aMish the coure in hamburger
cooking lhat goes by the name of
home economics, but at leat they
have given it a pod try.
KIsewhere, as in Fast (ireen
bush. NY. a subuib of Albany,
citizens have formed coups out
side of tlw PTA to ducuss the
improvement of the school curri
culum. But. acain. this has been
done without dragms in the war
between liie ee.
Xdmiral Ru kover has v o m e
i;otd ideas atout ediu at ton But
he has et to learn that half llif
human race i femal?. and lhat
v ou eel now here bv I Amg on
.-,'( the women at om n.
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
11 What new link between the
Amerfras was recently com
pleled? V -- The mile-long Thatcher
bnrie unking North and South
mei ira arrnj the Panama
(anal.
ED5QN IN WASHINGTON . . .
Bay Of Pigs Probe
Just Another Fiasco
By PETER KDSON
Washington Correapondrnt
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON' (NKA '-Republicans
on both sides of the Capitol,
clamoring for an investigation
ol the disastrous Bay of Pigs in
vasion of Cuba tun years ago,
mijiht well take a leaf from the
hook of their late Secretary of
State .lohn Foster Dulles.
He had a rule or operations
policy which went somethiiiR like
this, though it was never record
ed on tape or put down on paper
in quotation marks:
Don't bother about the details of
what went wrong yesterday. If
mistakes were made, Itarn what
you can from them for future
guidance. But yesterday's mis
takes are part of the situation as
it exists today. That's what we
have lo concentrate on, to decide
what we're going to do about it
tomorrow. Don't spend too much
lime looking backward or refight
ing yesterday's battles. Keep your
eyes on what's ahead.
The common sense of this ap
proach might have some moral
value in it for the Democrats,
too. What stirred up this luror as
much as anything else was Atty.
Gen. Robert E. Kennedy's inter
view denying there had been
any promise of U.S. air support
for the Cuban invasion fiasco.
President Kennedy now con
firms no U.S. air cover was
planned. If there had been U.S.
air cover, says the President, it
might as well have been an Amer
ican invasion.
Sen. Wayne Morse's Foreign Re
lations Subcommittee on Latin
America investigated nil this soon
alter it happened. He has been
offering his colleagues a look at
his closed hearings record of two
years ago, but he lias had few
lakers.
But even if the attorney gen
eral had not reopened this old
sore, the Cuban controversy might
have been revived by New York
GOP Sen. Kenneth B. Keating. He
ihsists lhat Russia is continuing
its military build-up on the island.
WASHINGTON REPORT . . .
Teamster Official
Election 'Smashing'
: Ity FULTON LEWIS JR.
Raymond Cohen is a tough-talking,
cigar-chomping Teamsler of
licial, fond of $10 ties and $24,000
yachts, all courtesy of the hard
working truckers who make up his
union, Phildalcphia's Local 107.
Tlie facts about Raymond Cohen
are well documented. A favorite
of Jimmy Hoffa's, Cohen became
Philadelphias' top Teamster in
l!33. Called to testify before John
McClellan's Senate Rackets Com
mittee four years later. Cohen for
got how lo invoke the Fifth
Amendment ("Could I have the
stenographer read if.'"i, hut re
membered in time to invoke its
provisions more than a hundred
times.
Cohen refused to deny that he
had used union funds tn buy luo
yachts, a dozen suits. $12.50 dress
shirts, jewelry, cameras. Florida
vacations, and various Christmas
gills for himscTI.
He would not explain how his
net worth had jumped $4fi,000 in
three years, how he sH'nt $11,000
at one Teamster convention and
how $:07.0il managed to disap-.
iear trom his treasury.
Asked (mint - blank by Chief
Counsel Robert Kennndy. "D i d
you steal funds from the union'.'"
Cohen replied:
"I decline to answer on the
grounds that I am not required
to give evidence against myself
under the law."
Despite the mass of evidence
nuainst him. Cohen recently won
overwhelming reelection as sec
retary treasurer of Un-al 107.
Why?
"t'nion democracy" 5imply does
not exist in Cohen's union. Chair
man McClellan puts it this way;
"Tlie employment of individuals
with rriminal records to intimi
date and tn instill Icar. the physi
cal beatings of those whe do not
'cooivrate.' apHtrs lo have cre
ated a condition whu!i is equal
to or worse than an.' situation
of its kind th.it we have vet
ovinuned "
Shortly after Colien came lo
iower. in a rinsed election less
than a di-tatlr ao. he pursed all
!ix al oflu ials not Iov;il lo
him. Ainndm. lo sworn teli
mnnv. vr-ia were po.d ntf witii
$S. bribes, the money omnia
trom IMal 107 s tic.'Uiy Oth
ers resigned because ' they wan'
ed to stay healthy ." in the words
ot one McClellan Committee wit-nc-s.
Ijx al 107 r ;icnl. V.menl
Minisiln, who oppose! Cohen's'
election and was set ;:prn hy his
henchmen, teslitied
' Somebody hit me froT lirhind.
and I fell on my hands and knees
a:id rolled over to see wit it was
.ipd somebody kukrd me. and
iut kept hf.itins me around, and
I tn.maicd to ;rl away on my
though the missiles and the jet
aircraft have been removed.
The President in his last press
conference tried lo give reassur
ance that this situation was under
constant surveillance. He says tliat
only one Soviet supply ship has
arrived in Cuba since the with
drawal of offensive weapons. It
may have brought arms. The
President also admits that there
are still 16.000 to 17,000 Russians
in Cuba.
This is of course a legitimate
subject for investigation. It is fo
cused on what might happen next,
not on past mistakes.
Senator Morse agsin moved
quickly into this situation, call
ing Secretary of State Dean Rusk
and CIA officials lo testify in
closed hearings. This may head
off further washing of dirty
American linen in public, but
probably not.
To see the Senate or House or
both of them in a joint commit
tee investigation of what went
on two years ago might be just
another exercise in futility.
It recalls the Pearl Harbor in
vestigation of 1947 which ran for
seven months, and the Senate in
vestigation of Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur's dismissal by President
Truman, which ran for four
months in 1951. The latter ended
with only a minority report signed
by eight Republicans, the major
ity voting not to issue any formal
findings.
There was political motivation
in these investigations, just as
there is in today's pressure for
dredging the mud from the Bay
of Pigs once more. It is hard
to see how this will contribute
anything to getting Castro and
communism out of Cuba, which is
the major objective ahead.
Political observers also wonder
what the Republicans can gain
from it. The probe would be all
over and forgotten long before the
VMiA elections. It is also recalled
that former Sen. Homer Capehart,
R-lnd., tried tn make Cuba the
big issue in his campaign for re
election. He was defeated.
': own power after a severe beat
ing" One of his assailants, said Min
ischi, was Joseph Cendrowski. a
salaried "aide" of Cohen's. Cen
drowski's police record shows that
he has been arrested Yi times,
and convicted for burglary, incit
ing to riot, disorderly conduct and
larceny. He look the Fifth Amend
ment when questioned about the
attack on Minischi.
wlien Minischi did r.nt "learn
fast." and conferred with other
union members on ways lo re
move Cohcif from power, he re
ceived another lesson. He testi
fied lhat, reporting to work, "The
first thing I knew someone came
up on the side of me from un
derneath the trailer or where I
don't remember, and hit me along
side the head, the left s'lie, with a
iie.
"I threw myself inside the back
of the truck, and someone hit
me on lop of the head with a
hammer. I still have a hole up
there to prove my point. I tried to
kick this other fellow- oif that was
hitting me with the pipe, and
keep hy hand on lop of my head,
and my leg was out the door, and
he kept hitting me in the shins
and broke up all my shins and
this other fellow hit me across
the arm with a hammer"
Tn make their final point. Min
ischi testilied. the Cohen follow
ers had him fired from his job.
Another Local 107 olficial. Wil
liam Roberts, also oppoed Co
hen. He testilied he was at
tacked hy John Myhosuk. a Team
ster thug who had served limn
for manslaughter. Called to testi
ly. Myhosuk refused o deny Co
hen had paid him In strong-arm
Roberts.
Minischi and Rolierls are but
two honest Teamsters who lought
Raymond Cohen and paid the
consequences.
The local's business asenl and
recording - secretary . Edwin
Walker, was asked if union funds
were used to hire auons to beat
up Cohen's opponents He took the
Filth Amendment.
Is it any surprise that Ray
mond Cohen just won smashing
"leelei tinn" as Philadelphia's
Teamster chieP '.
Thoughts
Vnu ill know Ihem hv Iheir
IruiH. Ar grapes g!hrrrd (rnm
thorn, or lies from Ihl-tles"
Malthr 7:11.
Our deeds Mill travel with in
from alar.
And what we have heen makes
u what we are
C.ror; F.bot.