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PAGE I HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Tuesday. April I, 1963 Heralfc auditor fcdihrdaL (pjaqjL Proposed Constitution Needs Support ; We are hopeful that the House and Senate committees charged with studying the pro posed Oregon Constitution Revision report will resist efforts to make many substantial changes in the suggested document. The proposed Constitution, while cer tainly not perfect, does go a long way in remedying most of the imperfections of the present Constitution something more than 105 years old. Two principal points at issue in the leg islative committee deliberations involve the executive department and judicial depart ment changes proposed by the Revision Com mission. The Commission report recommends that the executive department be organized under a single elected official the governor. Pres ently, three elected officials comprise the executive the governor, the treasurer and the secretary of stale. While there seems to be considerable public resistance to the idea of a single elect ed state official, we feel that there is con siderable merit in the Commission's recom mendation. Uricfly, the arguments in favor are that the single executive would not be sharing executive authority; he would be quickly and "visibly responsible"; he would not be facing the threat of political rivalry by elected subordinates while he was in of fice. Merely by removing reference of the offices from the Constitution does not mean that the state would have to get along without the services of, say, the secretary of state, the treasurer, the attorney general, the labor com missioner, and so on. Undoubtedly, similar posts would be maintained under an appoin tive system. The nature nf public resistance to the More than slightly disturbing in recent months, has been the tendency in the Klamath area (and particularly in Klamath Falls) by a few detractors to tear down and discredit the structure of orderly government. We would maintain steadfastly, the right and the responsibility of groups and individ uals to make honest criticism of government agencies and officers. However, when that prerogative turns to maliciousness and vin dictivencss that's something else. To question decisions of public bodies Is one matter but to question the motives of individuals on those bodies (mostly non-salaried) is another matter. Loose charges and ir responsible statements regarding the personal philosophies and actions of members of those bodies are not to be condoned by responsible IN WASHINGTON . . . By RALPH At TOLEDANO Senate Cloakroom: Richard Nix on has boon telling friends that he intends to blast the Administra tion (or its harassment of the Cu ban exiles, its use of legal force to prevent preparations for an up rising in Cuba, and its "inform ing" to other countries to prevent exile raids from out-of-U.S. bases. But the feeling among those who take a strong anti-Castro line and liopo to push President Kennedy into keeping his promises of sup port for Cuba's freedom fighters is, "What's the use?" They are still discouraged by Senator Kv-. erctt Dirksen's prompt endorse ment of Uie I'rcsidenl criticism of exile hit-run raids on Uie is land. "It used to be," one Senate staff man said, "that Ike w a s always pulling the rug out from tinder the Republican Party. Now Ev has taken over the job." Embassy Row: Kor the first time, reports from usually reli able sources indicate that Soviet military units in Cuba have been thrown into battle against I h e growing antl Castro guerrilla movement. It is estimated that these antl . Communist forces In Escamhray and risen here on the island now exceed 4.000 a larger number than Fidel Castro had with him in the Sierra Maestra at the lime that adulatory U S. corres pondents were predicting his im minent victory. Tlie, Castro re gime has resorted to tle use of Soviet troops, it is said, because it cannot rely on its own militia unless there are backstopping RusslanjJlie Soviets are now in Cur ""fly uniforms, but they 1 proposal, as we understand it, is that it would permit the governor to establish a political dictatorship. As far as that goes, it would be possible under the present system. The check on such a situation, of course, is the general election where the voters cojuld turn out a governor who proved too politically ruthless. If this public resistance is too great, we can see no great harm that would come from a compromise under which the voters would elect two state officials who would run in tan dem both from the same political party. Presumably this would be the governor and the secretary of state. Another point of, controversy is the man ner of selection of judges in the various levels of state courts. Now, they are supposedly elected. Under the Revised Constitution, they would be appointed by the governor, and "stand" for election every six years. Actually, right now, most judges assume their judicial role through appointment, and they seek reelection when the next ballot ing comes along. Sometimes they have op position. There is nothing so sacred In the Commission's recommendation here that it cannot be changed to make the situation more palatable to the legislature and the people. There are other minor provisions in the Commission's report (such as the proposed annual sessions and apportionment) that can be modified by the legislature committees now at work on the report. The important thing, here, we think, is that the legislature complete its work on the Report in time for it to be approved by the full legislature so it can be sent to the people for a vote. It would not be consistent with the high purpose of this legislative assembly if our law makers did not bring this report to a vote of the people. We've Had Plenty citizens. If a personal attack is being made, the attacker should have the facts to sub stantiate his or her charges before loose talk is permitted to destroy the character and the effectiveness of the person or persons involv ed. We all know the results of gossip and what it will do to the unfortunate persons involved on both sides of the fence. Not so well known, or as easily recognized, is what character assassination and unwarranted at tacks on school boards, city councils, county government and other local agencies can do to a community. Purposcfulness, initiative and good government are destroyed. Anarchy in one form or another results. We do not need any more of it in Klamath Falls. A Reporter's Notebook Organization of American States: A nagging question among Latin American diplomats: Can they extinguish the fires of re sentment which have begun to separate President Ramulo Bel ancourt of Venezuela and Presi dent Juan Bosch of the Dominican Republic? Publication In Caracas of a confidential report by the Venezuelan Charge d'Affaircs in Santo Domingo to his Foreign Of f'co chief underscores the feud. The Venezuelan diplomat charges that Hosch, like ChsIio, has "skillfully exploited the misery and ignorance of the Dominican lcople" and that lite Bosch re gime Is infiltrated by Communists. It is being recalled that Belancourt was one of Fidel Castro's sup porters, then turned on him when Castro began attempting to un dermine the Venezuelan govern ment. Bosch was also a memlier of the Belancourt group tit also includes Governor Luis Munot Marin of Puerto Rico'. But those who believed that Bosch would bring modcr.ite government and sound policies to the Dominican Republic are now taking some worried second looks. House Cloakroom: Congress is debating a Domestic Peace Corps. Bui while the legislators talk, the Executive Branch is acting. Rep. irsentalive John W. Wydler (R , New York! complains that the Administration, without waiting lor Congressional approval, es tablished Its own Domestic Peace Corps. It already has an ofhee, a staff of 25. and is screening applicants. When you phone this office, a voice answers: "Domestic Peace Corps." This, of course, is in addition to the $250,000 DPC set up on a pilot basis in Har lem, New York's Negro section, by the Department of Health, Ed ucation, and Welfare again with out a Congressional by-your-leave or any appropriation. Obviously, HEW has plenty nf cash to spare. Post Office Department: Ru mors persist that Postmaster Gen eral Day is resigning to run for public office. What effect this w ill have on the Kennedy Adminis tration is moot. Mr. Day has gone out of his way to antagonize and alienate several million articulate stamp collectors in this country as even the most casual read ing of the philatelic press shows. His attitude is that stamp collect ing is a child's pastime so he has refused lo cooperate with impor tant philatelic groups around the country. Oddly enough the Phila telic Agency of the Post Office is the only part of the department which shows a consistent and sub stantial prolit. Postmaster Gen eral Day's insistence on reissuing in multi million lots the Dag H.immarskjold "invert" error infuriated collectors around the (ountry. They say that this has destroyed the philatelic integri ty of this country by involving it in the production of phony errors. The philatelic press refcm to this reissue as "Day's dumheit" and the major publication in that firld loudly applauds the possible pass ing from the government scene ol the present Postmaster General, li the next election were up to the stamp collectors of the coun try, the traditional Chinaman could defeat Mr. Kennedy. These By SYDNEY J. HARRIS The other evening 1 heard a man arguing that a certain book should be suppressed because it contained material that could be "dangerous" and "harmful" if it fell into the wrong hands. His attitude so common and so wrong-headed reminded me of what Jacques Maritain. the great Catholic scholar, had to say on the same subject: "If books were judged by the bad uses man can put them to, what book has been more misused than the Bible?" In the 1500 years since it was codified and made canonical, the Bible has been used by innumer able sects and rulers to justify land indeed to exalt) the burn ing of witches, the torture of heretics, the practice of slavery, the extermination of peoples, the subordination of women, the cus tom of polygamy, and scores of cruelties, barbarities and bigo tries of the most odious nature. Almost anybody can use almost any book for almost any purpose. I have been recently going through a collection of Nietzsche's works. All most people know about him was that he apostro phized the "superman" and that the Nazi movement seemed to take much of its philosophical impulse from Nietzsche's writ ings. But a careful reading nf his work shows quite the contrary. He was violently anti-Gorman, and considered himself a "good European." Some of his finest passages indict nationalism and war; he opposed anti-Semites as vulgar and brutish. His "super man" was the diametrical oppo site of Hitler's "Blond Beast." And he anticipated many of Freud's Music Man ACROSS 37 Drive off 1 Musician, Percy 41 Theow 42 Apex 44 Unusual 45 Kast (Kr 1 4ft Swiss canton 47 Mr. Chancy 48 Rank worker M Formal display 54 Sneeie (Scot.) 55 Puff up ftn Sea birds 57 Gluts POWN 1 ARnculturist 2 Takes as one's own 3 Electrified particle 4 Town (Cornish prefix) n Fsret 6 Undaunted 7 Sick ft I p.ip eeff 6 Hts rendition! are of a quality 11 I rim li 1 Nullify 13 Presser 14 Chances 16 Royal Mounted Poiic (ab.) 17 Row in k implement 1ft Miss West 20 Allot 22 Nothing 23 Arachnid 24 Malicious burning 26 Marred 28 Tree fluid 30 Perched 31 Herb eve .TJ Be sealed 33 LowrM 3 K u I 11 18 iT 2l""l 122 1 23 2b !b 27 28 Ui I JO " 31 j 42 46 1 43 34 lib 49 bO New Gadgets Are twwrmm 1 -jaw. .... :---..7-lI"' STRICTLY PERSONAL deepest insights into the irration al character of prejudice and hate. Our own Founding Fathers provide a similar example. We can find in the speeches of Wash ington and Jefferson and Madison- and Franklin enough to pro vide us with ammunition for near ly any cause. I could easily com pile a selection of Jefferson that would make him sound like a rev olutionary Marxist; and a selec tion of Franklin that would make him sound like a pacifist and a toady lo King George. To repress a book because it contains "dangerous" or "harm ful" material would be to extir pate 80 per cent of the world's great literature for the greater a work of art is, the more uni versal, the more embracing, the more it can be misused for ev ery perverted cause. The only book that cannot be dangerous or harmful is the bland book, the meaningless book, Uie insipid and characterless bonk that discourages thought, feeling and reaction. And it is such hooks that proliferate when con troversial works are suppressed: censorship, whether in Russia or America, always leads to the tyranny of the commonplace. THEY SAY... These poisons can no longer he treated on an "out-of-sight, out-of-mind" basis. Dr. L. It. Rarlcmcier of the A.MA, endorsing President Ken nedy's plan for mental hospi tals in everv community. Answer to Previous Puzzle IE3E 9 Having dropsy 10 Appraise anew 13 Feminine appellation IS First principle IS Assist Jl llvesluff 'J:l Kiement 2S Biblical name 21 Festival ot a sort I91s 3:1 Fm-onr.trr 34 Hebrew ascetic SS Horn 36 Hunat mound iScot ) 3ft Mouth roof 39 Fata away 40 Smooth 43 Heard in his orchestra 49 Boy's nickname 50 Compasa point 52 Winihkt part 53 Rodent 7 IB 10 12 14 IS 32 JO I til 38 iJ3 40 43 J 144 I in "51b2 153 I 55 57 fepafMKi Sioia'&I IP etglrl IsitIy Great!" WASHINGTON NOTEBOOK Tax Ruling Could Raise Family Havoc By WASH1NGTOX STAFF Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEAt - Ex plaining new regulations on tra vel and entertainment expense deductions for income tax pur poses. Mortimer XI. Caplin, In ternal Revenue Service Commis sioner, declared that a- bachelor businessman might be allowed to charge off the costs of a girl friend or secretary if she served in place of a wife as a hostess for essential business entertain ing. "But as a family man," Caplin said, "1 want lo express my concern about entertainment expenses for wives." The mystery of why Morocco's young King Hassan II did not bring his wife along on his official visit to Washington and New York was cleared up by the Mo roccan embassy with the expla nation that she is awaiting the arrival of her second baby. The first child, born last 'August, w as a girl. The Princess Consort she is not called Queen in Morocco and won't be until she bears a son who will become heir to the throne is described as a beauteous Berber girl, not yet 20, daughter and granddaughter of governors of a northern mountain state. Her brother was military aide to the King, and that is how he hap pened to meet her. It was a real romance and not an arranged marriage for political unity in the kingdom. Their marriage was a quiet one. celebrated throughout Morocco by royal gifts to the poor. Even though she is the King's wife, the Princess takes no part in of ficial functions, is never photo graphed and is given no publicity by tlie royal palace. Asked if there was any con nection between his kingdom and the famous Manhattan "Club El Morocco," King Hassan replied that unfortunately the night club paid none of its taxes to his government only to the stale of New York. Air Force Secretary Eugene M. Zuckert and his boss. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, have been put on the spot by Con gress in connection with the TKX Tactical Fighter Experimental controversy. Zuckert tells friends he feels "as surrounded as a goalie on a hockey team trying to defend his goal with two of his men out of the game in the penalty box." Another TFX story now circu lating in the Navy corridors of the Pentagon claims that t h e TFX tri-service fighter plane problem really had its start bark a year or so ago when the top defense brass came up with a unilied tri-servu-e belt buckle. Political satiricist Mark Russell has written a song parody on the doings of Rep Adam Clayton Powell of New York. Title of the Mine: ' How to Succeed in Wash ington without Really Reing There." Entertainer Eartlia Kitt a? of Washington ollicials: "They hae a sense of humor about every thing but taxes." EDSON IN WASHINGTON Chamber President Fights Power Grab By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON NEA ' - A new set of devils said to be respon sible for tlie growing power of the federal government regard less of whether Democrats or lie publicans run the White House and Congress has just been identified by the president-elect of the U.S. Chamber of Com merce. He is Edwin P. Ncilan of Wil mington, Del., chairman and president of the Bank nf Dela ware, who will be installed May 1. for a one-year term as head nf tlie nation's largest business or ganization. Speaking just after announce ment of his election by the cham ber's board of directors, Neilan declared that the impetus for "nationalization" in the United States remains the same regard less of which political party is in power. "It comes," he asserted, "from a relatively small group of en trenched civil servants who use both parties to extend their pow er and social philosophy. "They appear to be beyond any adequate control by the thin lay er nf political appointees at the tup." Neilan names no names, gives no specific examples, does not i d e n i f y in w hat government agencies "the entrenched" are lo be found. , But this is something brand new in the way of a charge from the business community as to who is responsible for all the big gov ernment programs businessmen object to. Neilan's target isn't the Ameri cans for Democratic Action, the favorite group to blame for what's wrong with the country. Neither dues he make the Communists his whipping boy. Nor does he hold that new Washington policies are dictated by the labor bosses though he docs have some defi nite views on treating the monop oly power of labor unions the same as business monopolies. Democratic new frontiersmen aren't blamed any more than the Republicans by Neilan. No, it's this unspecified little group of top grade civil servants gov By FULTON LEWIS JR. "The United States is faced with a new kind of warfare which deals not in bombs and bullets but in commodities and car goes." That is the way New York Sen ator Ken Keating describes the ' "economic offensive" waged against this country by Soviet Russia. "The economic policies and the political drive of the Soviet Un ion are meshed for the greatest aggressive impact," he says. " 'Business as usual' relations with the Soviets, therefore, can only strengthen their economy and add thrust to their political objectives." Senator Keating has words of praise for Joe Drago, a Long Island machinist, who fought a valiant battle to prevent ad vanced machinery from going to the Soviet Union. When Drago, an employe of the Fairchild Stralos Corporation, came to work one morning in December. 19M, he received a worried call from Shop Steward Ron Pcttit. "You better hurry right over here." he was told, "we have a problem." "What kind of problem?" asked Drago, who is president of Ma chinists Local 893. "Hold onto your hat," said Pct tit excitedly, "we're making some machinery lo be sent to Russia." "Come on." snapped Drago, "I don't have any time for jokes." "No fooling. Joe," Pcttit insist ed, "we're making machines for Russia." As Drago soon found nut, it was, indeed, no joke. Heavy in dustrial machines, to be used in paper making, were to be shipped behind the Iron Curtain via Ja pan. Reaction on the part of Ilia go's fellow unionists was quick. As he tells it: "They wanted immediately to go on strike: there was talk of contacting the Disabled Ameri can Veterans to picket the plant, and the workers who were in volved with the actual building of the units wanted to disassemble what they had built. "I told the fellows we would have none of that; we were a law-abiding union with obligations to a contract, that we would thor oughly investigate the problem, then seek a solution." Drago went to company higher ups, a.-kins tliem to reconsider ernment career men barred from political activity by the Hatch act, bureaucrats if you will who are now held up by him for indictment on charges of running the Establishment. In this connection, it is recalled that when the Eisenhower ad ministration came to town 1(1 years ago there was a definite effort to get government career men out of all policymaking jobs and appoint Republicans in their places. The effort wasn't completely successful. But when the Kennedy administration took over it very definitely removed all Republican policymakers and replaced them with Democrats. Most career civil servants, con sidered experts in their respective fields, stayed on in their non- , policy-making jobs. The best of ' these people are usually singled out to get annual meritorious service awards for carrying out plans approved by the policy makers as authorized by acts of Congress. But. says Neilan, "these federal officials are on the road selling their subsidy programs as pain less panaceas for almost every type of community problem. "They endeavor to convince business, civic and political lead ers that shopping for money in Washington is like visiting the bargain basement. The next step will be to create a cabinet-level Department of Urban Affairs and turn our cities into federal de pendencies." This last point is what Ncilan hopes to oppose most vigorously in his year as U.S. Chamber pres ident. He is on sound ground here, although he probably is fighting a hopeless battle. He admits it is easier for may ors to come to Washington for $100,000 grants or loans than to try to raise money at home. Neilan identifies himself polit ically as a great ticket splitter. Born in Michigan, reared in the midwest and Texas, he voted for Al Smith and Franklin D. Roo sevelt the first two times. Then he became a registered Republi can. "I'm not sure I can qualify as a conservative," he says. "Some of my banking competitors say I'm not." WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Russians Get Heavy Machinery From U.S. the decision to build the ma chines. On December 27, 1961, "an inter-office memo" went to every employe. The company assured its employes that the Soviet sale was government-approved, could help build world trade and safe guard world peace. At the January, 1962 meeting of Local 101, members voted unanimously to take all legal steps to stop the material from falling into Communist hands. Drago and Pcttit went to Wash ington to confer with leaders of the Machinists Union on ways to block the shipment. "This was the first shock of many," Drago remembers, "we were met with blind eyes and deaf ears." Finally the two men got ap pointments with State Department lop brass and were ushered into plush offices. Drago says: "From behind the grand ma hogany desk, and out of the well padded leather scat came the of ficial 'rationalization' which we were not looking for." Told that the trade would help case world tensions. Drago and Pettit wore mystified: "Perhaps we are 'simple' lay men." says Drago. "We cannot understand this confusing, ambig uous and contradictory policy which condones the sale of eco nomically strategic goods to an enemy when the United States is asking its fighting men to give up their lives for its freedom." Rebuffed in Washington, the two unionists returned to New York. They were able to steer through the convention of the 100.000 member New York State Council of Machinists a resolution beg ging the Administration to pre vent the export of strategic goods lo the Soviet Union. They told their story to the Senate In ternal Security Subcommittee, which held a New York hearing on trade with the enemy. Bui all in vain. The Fairchild Stratos Corporation earned its dollars with the approval of our government. And the Soviet Un ion has advanced technical ma chinery available onlv in the West. ' ' QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q Whlrh U.S. president wi criticized for asking the Senate to ratify a treaty joining Hawaii in the United States? A Benjamin Harrison.
