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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore.
Sunday, March 24, 1963
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Civil Rights - And Responsibilities
The Congress on Racial Equality is a
militant organization manned by younger Ne
groes, battling against discrimination in all
its forms.
Its Washington, D.C., chapter president,
one Julius Hobson, spoke out by telegram re
cently when a city police officer shot and
killed a 21-year-old Negro robbery suspect
who refused to halt after a long chase at the
height of the evening rush hour.
Hobson's telegram read in part:
"Murder of James Wall by untrained
rookie policeman establishes need for imme
diate action to protect citizens of 10th pre
cinct from police brutality.
"CORE demands new captain, lieutenants
and sergeants in 10th precinct, thorough in
vestigation of brutality charges against po
licemen and training program on relations
with public."
This message is of considerably more than
local interest. Its background, its tone and its
major omissions come close to suggesting
that what CORE'S Washington leader wants is
some kind of reverse discrimination in the Ne
gro's favor.
In more than a few areas of this coun
try, similar attitudes are felt. There is much
insistent urging of the Negro's rights, and
very little said of his accompanying duties
and responsibilities.
Hobson's telegram makes no mention of
the fact young Wall had just robbed a preg
nant Woman of her purse and that, at some
peril to herself, she had run after him for
blocks before the police took a hand.
The CORE leader obviously is thinking
of the slain youth when he speaks of "ac
tion to protect citizens." What about protect
ing the victim from marauders like Wall? Has
CORE spoken out for this kind of protection,
badly needed in the nation's capital?
Street crime is worse proportionately in
Washington than in any major U.S. city. And
the victims are both white and Negro.
Would Hobson have sent a telegram If a
Negro policeman had shot a white thief who
had just robbed a Negro woman? In this in
stance all these conditions were exactly re
versed. Does he mean to suggest that because
Wall was a Negro he should have been allowed
to escape? Presumably the officers in the
chase would have shot a white thief just as
they did Wall.
Policemen all over this country are giv
en the authority to shoot suspected criminal
offenders if they fail to respond to commands
to halt, or resist arrest in any serious fashion. '
Is Hobson saying it should not apply to Ne
gro suspects?
Certainly police use of firearms must be
a sparing last resort, after full warning to the
suspect. Inquiry to establish what happened
in any given case is wholly reasonable.
But the Constitution's "equal protection
of the laws" cannot and should not mean spe
cial advantage for the Negro or anybody else.
"Equality" is not simply a pathway to
privilege. It is a condition realized when the
penalties for wrongdoing fall with even hand
on all men, regardless of color or other dis
tinction. No Negro and no white man is doing the
cause of real justice the slightest good when
he measures equality in any terms less broad
than these.
Union Shop? An Alternative
(The Christian Science Monitor)
The strike of the International Associa
tion of Maclunists against Lockheed Aircraft
Corporation at its plants in California and.
other parts of the nation crystallizes an issue
that has plagued American labor relations for
decades.
it is uie issue of union security versus
free association or the "right to work." A gen
eration ago there was the "closed" versus the
"open" shop. The Taft-Hartley Act outlawed
the closed shop but sanctioned bargaining
for a' "union" shop (in which the employer
picks his work force but employees must
join a union.)
The Lockheed company insists that a
union shop is still "compulsory unionism." It
refuses to agree to an election on this proposi
tion among its workers although employees
of three other aerospace firms recently have
voted against the membership requirement,
much to the surprise of the unions.
Now there are reasonable and cogent ar
guments on both sides of the union security
question.
From the union point of view the non
members who get advantage of the wages,
hours, working conditions and fringe benefits
for which union members have sacrificed and
bargained are "freeloaders." You might say
they are like householders who want to live
on a developed street without paying the pav
ing assessment.
From the nonunion worker's point of
view, which management often espouses, an
individual ought not to be compelled to hire
a bargaining agent if he is willing to deal
directly with the company personnel depart
ment; nor especially should he have to join an
organization with whose aims or leadership
he disagrees. ;"
As a variation of the union shop in states ,
where "right to work" laws forbid it, labor or
ganizations have demanded the "agency
shop," whose legality is before the United
States Supreme Court. Under it the employee
may refuse to join the union but he must pay
it a fee equivalent to dues for acting as his
presumed agent.
There are serious objections both to a
union shop or agency shop on one side or to
the absence of any union security on the
other. Just as it is repugnant to use union
members' dues for political purposes they may
not desire, so an assessment that goes into a
union treasury may entrench officers some
of them disapprove. Yet in the aerospace in
dustries particularly, due to large labor turn
over, some stability of membership is es
sential to responsible unionism.
Here then is a formula that might be of
use in the Lockheed and other contracts: How
about a provision that an employee, on becom
ing permanent, must either join the accredit
ed union or else contribute the equivalent of
union dues to a welfare fund, scholarship
fund, pension fund, or other agreed worthy
purpose?
This would preserve a freedom of choice
in the rather infrequent case that a worker
wishes to register a protest against the ma
jority spokesmen or where he has scruples
against delegating his rights. At the same
time it would remove any sheer financial in
centive for nonunionism in the form of a
"free ride."
BERRrS WORLD
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mbtut, tK tht now mtlttd."
By I lilted Press International
Today is Sunday. March 24. the
83i'd d;iy ot 13 with 22 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
new phase.
The morning stars are Venus
and Saturn.
The evening star is Mars.
On this day in history:
In KM, the crowns ot England
ami Scotland were joined under
James the Sixth o( Scotland who
began his new reign as James I.
In 1882, Pruf. Robert Koch in
Berlin announced the discovery ot
the pathogenic germs in tubercu
losis. In l!4. Hie United Stales grant
ed the Philippine Islands indc
pendence, to become effective
July 4th, l'.Mii.
In 11153, Dowager Queen Mary
died in London at the age of Rii.
A thought for the day: The
Athenian orator Demosthenes said
"To remind tlic man of tlie gmxl
turns you have done him is very
much like a reproach."
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STRICTLY
PERSONAL
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Purely Personal Prejudices:
Getting fitted for a suit, and be
ing forced to gaze into a three
way mirror, is always a shock
for those of us whose beauty is
less than absolute perfection and
should give us the sobering re
alization that the self-image we
carry around in our minds cor
responds only to a vague degree
with the reality oUier people see
in us.
11 is impossible to persuade
a bigot that he Is wrong for
the admirably terse reason
'" given by William Butler Yeats,
when he said: "When a belief
rests nit nothing, you cannot
knock away its foundations."
Telephoning someone at home
and leaving no name or message
is as rude as ringing someone's
doorbell and running away be
fore it is answered.
Psychological myths die hard:
it is still believed by most people
that a man who looks you straight
in the eye is candid and honest;
whereas the first trait that the
confidence man develops and mas
ters is the frank look, the firm
handclasp, and the utterly guile
less manner.
Whenever 1 see a neon sign
winking "Continuous Entertain
ment," it reminds me of Alexan
der Pope's remark that "Amuse
ment is the happiness of those who
cannot think."
For sheer vulgarity in the
original sense of the word
nothing beats those Vuir spiel,
ers who point out the "fabulous
homes" of the rich, how much
they cost, how many bathrooms
they contain, and how these fi
nancial deities entered the gold
en circle by providing civiliza
tion with beer, bratwurst or
plumbing fixtures.'
Nothing that "subversive"
agents could do to undermine the
American system could possibly
be half as effective as the bulk
of television commercials, whose
excesses and ridiculous claims
make cynics and unbelievers out
of children as young as 5 or 6
which is fully as influential a part
of their "education" as their
formal schooling.
" People will admit almost ev
ery other defect under the sun,
but no one thinks that he is a
poor judge of character yet, as
the divorces in our private life
and the disappointments In our
public life indicate, this is the
deepest, most prevalent!, and
most nearly Ineradicable defect
in the human animal.
Unless a raise is given prompt
ly it docs nothing for morale
like the rancher who had a
Chinese cook for some years, and
after an unusually good dinner
decided to raise his pay. The
cook noted the extra money in his
envelope and asked, "Why you
pay me more?" "Because you've
been such a good cook all these
years." replied the boss. The cook
thought it over, and then said,
"You've been cheating me long
time, huh?"
Every time I hear the phrase,
"states' rights," I recall the men
I have met in state legislatures,
and shudder quietly.
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Other
Editors Say . . .
SCHOOL FUNDS
(Salem Capital Journal)
It's a game any legislator can
play, this draft-it-yourself fad
with tax bills. And the lawmaker
who hasn't yet submitted his own
solution to the state's money prob
lems is suspected of laziness or a
callous disregard for his constit
uents' welfare.
Most of the bills pay particular
attention to the money needs of
education as they must, for
schools are the most voracious of
the tax eaters.
But almost none give more than
a cursory nod to the mechanics of
distributing these millions to the
schools.
This problem, in some respects,
is almost as troublesome as build
ing the fund to be distributed.
In short, apportionment of school
funds is a mess.
It isn't a mess because the
funds' administrator goofs, which
he apparently doesn't.
It isn't a mess because the dol
lars go to the wrong schools,
which they don't.
It's a mess because there is not
a soul in the state who can pre
dict at school budget-making time
accurately how much money a
school district will get from the
state during the budget period.
And it's a mess because no lay
men and few school superintend
ents can explain how even a
rough guess is arrived at.
The mathematical problem is
comparable to that faced by scien
tists trying to figure out how to
make a rocket launched from a
whirling, oribiting earth strike a
speeding planet two months later
on its sunny side.
There are six or seven or eight
different state funds apportioned
to schools, depending on how you
count, and each is apportioned on
a different basis.
.Most of these funds are passed
around according to a formula in
volving the number of children in
the district, plus another factor.
If the other factors didn't throw .
off calculations, a district still
couldn't predict its take. This is a
pie-splitting situation. Without
knowing current enrollment and
other factors for all districts in
the state, close calculations are
impossible.
They would be anyway, for ex
penses of a number of state ad
ministrative functions come off
the top of the funds first, and
these aren't closely predictable,
cither.
Additionally, most of the taxes
which make up the funds haven't
yet been collected at budget time,
and are equally unpredictable.
The frequent defeats by voters
of school budgets around the state
usually are viewed as a combina
tion of unhappiness with school
policy and a resistance to further
increases in property taxes.
There doubtless is a third cause
for some of these defeats: A dis
trust of school district administra
tors because they often overesti
mate or underestimate receipts.
Voters don't react kindly to be
ing told in the spring that they
will have to pay a 5Vmill school
tax and being billed several
months later (or 53 mills. It's hu
man nature not to recall that the
error was in the other direction
tlie year bclore.
And unless tltoy understand the
problem, even an overestimate
causes grumbling. And grumbling
leads to budget defeats.
There is no total solution to this
puzzle, but there are many ways
the legislature could decrease tiie
confusion. School administrators
then might be able to spend part
of the year with education rath
er than finance.
One of Uie principal failures of
local government in practically
every instance is the tendency
of those directly responsible for
government to accept the advice
and recommendations of "mana
gers," "administrators," or "ex
ecutive secretaries," or whatever,
as the last word on any sub
ject. This comes about because
members of city councils,
school boards, fire district com
missioners, etc., etc., find them
selves saddled with the opera
tion of their own businesses, or
almost otherwise totally occu
pied with their own interests
. that they don't have the time or
the inclination to Inform them
selves as fully as they should
on a given situation. This Is
not expressed in a critical sense
it is a fact of life. As a re
sult, city managers, school ad
ministrators and other individ
uals wield far too much influ
ence in determining policies and
actions of local government
groups. Whether this influence
is good or bad is a matter of
determination in specific issues.
I am only saying that the tend
ency is not entirely a good
one.
.Most of us who fell in love at
first sight are now wearing glass
es. This is enough to make you
reach for the bromo bottle: The
United Nations will give Cuba
$135,000 to help them prepare
textbooks and train teachers. It
shouldn't take a great deal of
enterprise to determine where
most of this money will come
from and it shouldn't take a
great deal of imagination to come
to the conclusion that these text
books and the teachers will be
extolling communism. The U.S.
pays 40 per cent of this "pro
posed" program if it is approved
(and who thinks that it won't
be?). I hope that you haven't
forgotten that the U.S. has already
paid 40 per cent of a UN grant
of $1.2 million to be spent to aid
Cuban agriculture. I don't have
the item right at hand, but I be
lieve I read someplace where we
are also contributing some hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars to
wards "training" of Cuban avia
tors through another UN pro
gram. Ack, Ack Dept.: Under the
appropriate title (? "KNOW
YOUR NEIGHBOR" an anony
mous columnist in the Medford
Mail-Tribune had this observa
tion to make: "Klamath Falls is
the duck capitol (sic) of the world,
having more ducks per capita
than one can conveniently shake
a lake at. It has been said (not
by us that they had to widen
their main street to paint the
white line down the center. It is
famous for yams, lambs and
. hams and as a soil of back door
to Crater Lake in Jackson Conn
ty." :
.Now, now. Any more of them
unkind words, and we'll have
tn urge that Klamath Falls citi
zens quit trading in Medford.
Or, maybe, we'll just send Zcl
ma Ochiho over there to live: '.
And. anyway, what the hejk
does he (or she) mean by refer
ring to us as being "famous tfiir
yams, lambs, hams, etc.?" ;t
Legislators are the recipiejils
of some nasty missives. One such
letter brought this response
from the harried lawmaker: VI
am pleased to see that your com
prehensive analysis of this prob
lem is not prejudiced by knowl
edge of the subject."
Ladies, girls, gentlemen: Don't
forget our big cooking school
coming up next week (adv.).
No, we do not want one of
the Civil Defense sirens mount
ed on the Herald and News
building. We can see enough
other instances of stupid gov
ernment waste around as it is.
Fellow stopped in the other
day to oiler his solution to the
"deer problem.'!' He claims it is
not starvation or hunters' guns
that are depleting the deer herds.
Rather, it is a disease flukes in
the liver, hoof-and-mouth dis
ease and related boogies. Well, he
might have something, for all I
know.
WASHINGTON REPORT . .
Troubles At Home
Rock Rockefeller
By FULTON LEWIS JR.
On the tables of a Manhattan
night club are little cards thai
suggest, sardonically, a Rocke
feller cocktail: "The same ingre
dients. Just add 20 per cent to
the price."
In upstate New York, auto
clubs distribute to angry motor
ists bumper stickers that read:
"Don't Tread On Me."
Outside the State Capitol in Al
bany, thousands of college slu
dcnt$ carry signs that protest,
"Who Does Nelson Think We
Arc, Rockefeller?"
The above incidents mean one
thing. Nelson Aldrich Rockefel
ler, running hard for the Presi
dency of the United States, has
some king-sized problems back
home.
In a successful campaign for
reelection last fall, Rocky prom
ised voters that he would not
raise taxes. His Democratic op
ponent, Robert Morgenlhau,- pre
dicted flatly that he would.
In his January message to the
Legislature, Rockefeller present
ed a biggcr-than-ever budget of
$2.89 billion. To finance that budg
et. Rockefeller requested that
taxes on liquor be sharply in
creased, that motorists be forced
to pay more for automobile li
cense tags. Trustees of the State
University of New York an
nounced that students could no
longer attend school, tuition free.
"Uniform" fees of $400 to $800
were imposed upon an estimated
35.000 students.
Restaurant owners joined with
liquor dealers to assail the Rock
efeller plan to hike taxes on al
cohol. Motorists were so up in
arms that GOP legislators killed
the Governor's plan to increase
auto fees. Labor unions, college
students and teacher groups pro
tested the decision to charge tui
tion at state schools.
Rockefeller was suddenly in
the worst political shape of his
career. One Rockefeller lieuten
ant observed sadly to Allan Otten
of The Wall Street Journal:
"Right now. I doubt that he could
be reelected Governor."
None of which bodes well for
the Governor's Presidential am
bitions. A candidate w ho could not
carry his home state would be
in serious trouble.
The bicgest obstacle to Rocke
feller's White House dream may
lie ahead. It could be a spe
cial Grand Jury investigation into
(he State Liquor Authority (SLA,
which dispenses licenses lor liq
uor stores, night clubs, bars and
restaurants. '.
One of Rockefeller's first pa
tronage appointees after his 1953
election was a Brooklyn Republi
can, Martin C. Epstein, to mem
bership on the SLA. Later, Rocky
1 made Epstein chairman at $24.
000 a year. When District At
torney Frank Hogan subpoenaed
Epstein to answer questions about
possible payoffs of $10,000 and up
in his department, the SLA Chief
refused to waive immunity from
prosecution for his testimony.
Such a waiver is required of all
state officials called to testify
about their official conduct be
fore any Grand Jury.
For failure to sign that waiv
er. Epstein was fired.
The second major casualty in
the Grand Jury investigation was
L. Judson Morhouse, state GOP
chairman, $17,000 . a - year
vice chairman of the State Thru
way Authority, and prestigious
member of the Lake George Park
Commission.
Suddenly, Morhouse resigned
ah three positions. The reason be
came clear when it developed that
.Morhouse, too, had been sut
poenaed by the Grand Jury. Like
Epstein. Morhouse refused to
waive immunity from prosecu
tion. The Grand Jury probe contin
ues. The New York Post dis
closed recently that Bernard New
man, a former State Supreme
Court Justice and onetime chair
man of the New York County
GOP organization, has also been
called for testimony.
The Post said Newman was
questioned about his efforts to
"straighten out" licensing prob
lems for a Manhattan key club.
Newman told the Post: "I can
only tell you that this involves a
client and that it's a sacred re
lationship. 1 can't discuss it."
Neither will Frank Hogan. But
the betting is that Hogan, who
has a well-deserved reputation as
one of the country's top crime
fighters, has not spent all these
months investigating the SL foT
his health.
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
Q Was tobacco once used as
money? A Due to the scarcitv of metal
lic money, Virginia. ' Man-land
and North Carolina used tobac
co as currency throughout mot
of Uie colonial period.