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Newspaper Page TextPACE 6-A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Friday, April II, 1963 "Here, Son, Go Buy a New Test Tube" EDSON IN WASHINGTON . Johnson Tries To 'Manage' History ir The S." In American political life, those who hold stoutly either to liberal or to conservative doc ::'trine are by that fact much attached to the power of words. Many liberals made no secret of it that their durable affection for Adlai Stevenson, the 1952-56 Democratic presidential nominee, was due In considerable part to his superb command of the English language. Beyond Stevenson, the liberals have shown greatest interest in those figures who, like Minnesota's Sen. Hubert Humphrey, tend to articulate the liberal philosophy in "fight ing terms." . It should be no surprise that matters are exactly the same on the Right. A substantial part of Sen. Barry Goldwater's appeal to con servatives is his dramatization as a fighter, a man who rips the opposition up the back. It is not in derogation of the "word fighters" on either side to observe that they can with little difficulty find "applause points" which touch their audiences off in out bursts of cheering. A liberal, chiding our leaders for too much emphasis upon the military element in our ties to foreign friends, can raise the roof with: "What we need is more warm hearts and less cold steel." A conservative, rapping big government, can do the same with: "Let's get the govern ment out of our private lives, and let the people in their infinite wisdom make their own decisions." Yet stony silence can greet the middle roader, addressing either liberals or conserva tives, when he says: The (Tha Christian Science Monitor) The one important fact about the current battle over "managed news" is that it will not, and should not, come to an end. Reporters will continue to press for the maximum of news and often to fight for it. The degree of responsibility and irresponsi bility which they exercise will vary accord ing to occasions, individual' reporters and news media. Officials will continue to do a variety of things: follow an open or a closed news poli cy depending on their inclination and instruc tions; put out favorable publicity for their nolioles and actions: trv to sunnress or muf fle news of their mistakes; safeguard diplo matic and military secrecy; use the cloak of that secrecy to keep prying reporters at bay; coddle "friendly" reporters and hold others at arm's length. Some reporters will respond to bland ishment or banishment. Others will just do their job. This is a built-in conflict which Is in the IN WASHINGTON What By RALPH de TOLEDANO UNESCO Is an agency of the United Nations. It concerns itself with such activities as plumbing the depths of the Indian Ocean, organizing youth conferences nt which tlio United States is round ly criticized, and publishing po. litical tracts. The UNESCO budget is for $39 million, of which the United States pays 30.50 per cent. The Soviet Union contributes 13.18 per cent, which is pretty cheap consider ing that it uses UNESCO, as even the State Department will grudgingly admit, as a propa ganda sounding board. The State Department gets very distraught at UNESCO's per formance and promises Congress faithfully that It is doing every thing within its power to make sure this U.N. boondoggle straight ens out and flies right. What "everything" means is one of those mysteries which our legis lators on Capitol Hill fail to solve. Some members of UNESCO don't pay their assessments, but the United States, like 01' Man Hivcr, Just keep rollin' along. The U.K. doesn't have to belong to UNESCO, or to share Its problems with the other 112 memliers. but it chooses to do so on the princi ple that the U.N. is our last, best hope of peace. Amen. UNESCO publishes hooks and pamphlets which are distributed free to libraries around the world. By this method, humanity's store of knowledge is presumably increased at a substantial cost, of course. But UNESCO publics tions are not bound by tlx rules of historical accuracy one would expect from a bona fide world organltaUon. In fact there aro few. It ny, regulations or guide lines to insure that what Is Issued Power Of Words "Restoring the nation's economy is a very complex matter, with no black and white solu tions. This year we are trying this particular tax formula. If it doesn't work, we'll try some thing else." A typical response of the doctrinaire liberal or conservative to such talk: "What did he say?" The truth is, the doctrinaire people are worshipers of order in a world with not much of it. In small matters they seek the neat package. In large affairs the grand design. They are not readers of history but persistent revisers of history. They believe that the leader who ex-, presses such designs through a pattern of firmly uttered words will succeed in impos ing order on events. Certainly there are moments in history when this may be so. Sir Winston Churchill's eloquent utterances in World War II bespoke a grand design: the survival of Britain and all free lands. Our founding fathers gave his toric expression to a national purpose that has guided us nearly 200 years. Forceful words are always an important ingredient of leadership, but they have their ' limits. Even in crisis, their usefulness is gov erned by the hard realities in the field of ac tion. It is especially so in times of sharply divided outlook like the present. , We need the seekers &i ter order. But we need not buy their argument that all is lost without it. For most of the order the world has had was provided by those after-the-fact packagers we call historians. Right To Know public interest. There have always been checks and balances in the realm of public information about government. They are sometimes painful because there are abuses on both sides, but they add up to a system that is better than any other system. The public has a right to know as much as government can tell without violating genuine security or the indispensable need to keep policies and negotiations secret un til they are ready to announce. In the long run the public has a right to know virtually everything. 1 This right is best served by public of ficials who believe in keeping the public as well informed as possible, and by reporters who are responsible as well as hard diggers for news. It is best safeguarded by the means available to government to keep a secret if it really wants to, and the tenacity of reporters In blasting loose anything else. And it is fi nally preserved by the kind of public inquiry and debate that is now taking place. Both sides are examined for what they have done, not done or overdone. Price UNESCO? under UNESCO's imprimatur Is at all accurate. Recently, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee made nn In quiry Into one of UNESCO's pub lications, a book entitled "Equali ty of Rights Between Races and Nationalities in the U.S.S.R." Since this book is distributed as gospel truth to students of the United Slates and other nations. It might he assumed that the assignment for this project would have gone to a scholar known lor his objectivity. Instead, UNESCO gave the job to a So viet writer, which is pretty much like asking Frank Coslello to write about New York's racke teers. The Kremlin's propaganda ministry couldn't have done any belter, which is hardly surprising since the propaganda ministry probably wrote the book. What does It say? Here are a few examples to remember when Con gress debates appropriations (or the United Nations: . Page 37: "In 11MU. the Soviet regime was restored in the Baltic Republics (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia), which voluntarily joined the Union." The facts are somewhat different. The Baltic Republics were free and independ ent until 1940 when the Soviet Union invaded them, called for elections in which only Commu nist candidates were permitted In run, and then incorporated them into (lie U.S.S R. During the war and afterward, a large pro portion of the Baltic peoples were tossed into boxcars and kidnaped into Siberian exile. P. 42: "The unification of all Hie elements of the Ukrainian people within the framework of a national Soviet state was final ly achieved In 1!H3 after tlio de struction of German fascism by the Soviet army, when Transcar pathian Ukraine became part of the Ukrainian S.S.R. under a friendly agreement between the U.S.S.R. and the Czechoslovak Republic with the wishes of the pinple concerned." What really happened? After World War II. the Soviet Union seized parts of Polaud which it claimed as Ukrainian, harking buck to Tsarist Russian bounda ries wiped away by the self-determination clauses of the Treaty of Versailles. The U.S.S.R. also seized parts of Czechoslovakia which had never been part of the Ukraine or Russia. The peo ple of these regions voted to be come Czech rather than Polish or Russian. The territory was forcibly seized. There was armed resistance from tlio people until nt least 1950. Hands of guerrillas still roam the countryside, but their numbers have steadily de creased. On page 56, the UNESCO book strives desperately to cover up or excuse Soviet anti-Semitism. It states, for instance, that "the vast majority" of Soviet Jews have "freely" given up their for mer language and culture. The facts: RO0 Jewish-language schools have been forcibly shut down by the Soviet government. The 2 3 million books in years in Yid dish published prior to W orld W ar II have boon cut down to zero. Every aspect of Jewish culture has become verboten and the government systematically ex cludes Jews from muny profes sions and institutions of higher learning. This is the kind of material UNESCO publishes, using U.S. dollars. Tlio Stale IVpaitmeut is upset, but nothing is done. Doesn't it make you wonder? By SYDNEY J. HARRIS I was about to recommend a newly published book of essays by that remarkable Frenchwoman, Simone Weil, who died during the Second World War at the age of 34, and who has been described by T. S. Eliot as having "a kind -of genius akin to that of the saints." One of the essays in the book, titled "The Power of Words," more effectively analyzes the false and irrational conflicts in the modern world than anything else I have read. Yet it occurred to, me that it is precisely the people who most need to read it who will not both er, and the ones who will read it are the ones who need it least. This is the most frustrating as pect of communication that only the converted have open ears. from Uie letters I get in re sponse to many columns, it is evi dent that, whatever their views, most people do not listen to their antagonists. They are looking only for arguments that will confirm their existing opinions. They do not know how, and do not want to, receive any kind of stimula tion from the other side. But a real education is ob tained only in this way. Those we disagree with are the only ones who can stretch our intellectual muscles, who can make us ques tion and re-examine our basic beliefs. For example, I have recently been reading a slim paperbound edition of "Nietzsche and Chris tianity," by Karl Jaspers, the fine theologian. Nietsche was a bitter enemy of Christianity in all its aspects and yet Jaspers finds in his pages many illuminat This and That ACROSS 1 Bathroom accessory 4 Be borne 8 Diminutive of Margaret 12 Manner's 39 Kuropean reuion 40 Hamlet, for instance 41 Land parcel 42 lambs 45 Color 49 Squatter's domicile direction tliRh cards Hainbow Kind of chaise St Be indebted S2 Oreedv fW drafted (her.) f)4 Nnthinc 55 Possessive pronoun Sfi Paradise &7 Streets lab.) DOWN Sea frontier rixed salary 1-anat Bow slightly Aces Children Coiy Race course circuit SO City in Missouri 1 Second-year shepp ipl I 32 34 ChinWv 2 Distinct part Straight 3 Neophytes 35 Irfnus of woody 4 Sd plants 5 Statue S Muffle 36 Reply (ah ) TT2 rrl 14 IS 16 17 I 13 19 110 111 T5 13 Ti rg Te w 18 19 P"1 25 L ii nirb" 1 1 1 , ritfJ IhjJ 3iT 31 32 33 36 rl37 38 !""39 r47 4344 -145 4o 47 48 43 50 " 51 52 33 54 55 j6 57 smmMmmm STRICTLY PERSONAL ing insights into the nature of religion. His willingness to delve into Nietzsche's thought, honestly and deeply, has clarified, strengthened and purified his own beliefs; for nobody who fails to understand the enemy can truly understand his own position, its implications and its limitations. Likewise, one of the strongest opponents of Plato's thought in modern times has been R.H.S. Crossman, the British political Uieorist. But, as one of Plato's severest critics, Crossman has concluded: "I still find the Republic the greatest book on political philoso phy which I have read. The more 1 read it, the more I hate it; and yet I cannot help returning to it time after time." This is the only civilized attitude a man can take toward his serious adversaries: it is the only way we grow, learn, change, develop, and genuinely mature into a hu man being. But the ones who most need to know this are the ones who stopped reading at the sec ond paragraph. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q Why are bats clumsy on the ground? ' A Because their wings get in their way and their knees bend backward. Q Who first portrayed Santa Claus as he is represented today? A Cartoonist Thomas Nasi first pictured Santa Claus in today's image in an 1862 cartoon. Answer to Previous Pimle IdIaIr 6 Measures of , 'JO Fruit distance 31 Fraiimenls 9 Assam 33 TV's Burr silkworm 38 Historical MTinnc narrauve It Bewildered 40 Legal 17 Calamitous documents 19 Sheriff's slaff 41 Burdened 23 Rustic 42 Persian title 24 Fountain drink 43 Cround ivy 2o Scandinavian 44 t'rince nod 46 Proportion 47 Upbraid 26 Fabric 27 Sites 43 I jmpreys Apv Si Wl Site 1P"Ig Te SEINhiCiAWtMc5A TE!S V- LETTERS Reply 1 have been challenged to pro duce some evidence to back up my statements on scholarships. I am happy to comply. First, concerning the length of the commencement exercises: the time involved to present 50-60 scholarships at approximately 2 minutes each (approach, speech, handshake, etc.) can be figured by anyone. Second, I stated. "It is a fact that 99 per cent of all scholar ships are awarded on financial need to a special few." Mr. Lcm mon. head of the state scholar ship program, spoke at a meet ing in Klamath Falls on scholar ships. In answer to my publicly asked question, if there are any scholarships not awarded on a financial need basis, he informed the audience that there were none to his knowledge. He further in formed the group that the award ing bodies exercised the utmost care to assure the financial need of the recipient. College pam phlets and catalogs verify this information, also. If parents who permit stu dents to ask for gifts and fill out financial need statements are not needy, as Leora Egger and Tim Mason contend in their letters, something worse is being identi fied. In my opinion, I do not believe parents or students delib erately lie to achieve a lucrative award. I know many of them have been confused and betrayed into thinking their child has earned a scholarship. If so. I repeat, all those meeting the scholastic qualifications would re ceive their award. The truth is that students, by being in an upper per cent, qualify to ask for a gift on a need basis. In this Need Contest, the irresponsibility and hardship of parents will give a student leverage. It is not immoral to "ask for aid," but it is to lie about one's need. Anyone who doubts the re quirement of financial need statements may sec them at my home if they care to. Yes, all graduating students arc meritorious. Tim, I did not say "equally" von supplied that word. In my opinion, the future plumber, truck driver, mechanic, as well as the doctor, teacher, t'nd statesman ate meritorious. There is a difference between merit and scholastic achievement in this issue. One should not con fuse achievement in a special field as entitling one group to usurp the honoring emphasis of the commencement. It is impos sible for me to belittle mv fol lowman who will not go to the university because of his percen tile in a class. Parents and grad uating students who "stuck it out" are meritorious. 1 cannot concede this point, Mr. Mason. 1 believe in the right of choice of any organization, individual, or industry to give a gift to whomever they please for what ever rational reason they choose. What is a gift? It is a symbol of the value of one man for an other an expression of his es teem. When it is given because of need, it becomes an aim: when tlie giver expects to control, it is a bribe. A true gift is the golden mean between an aim and a bribe. If one chooses to give alms rather than gifts. Matthew 61 slated a good plan. I know no better way. Yes. morality is a whole cloth. A responsible parent leaches his child not to ask for gilts when he is small, and is consistent when he becomes a senior, (iiv. eis with moral integrity SELECT recipients and neither require a prostration of need nor sound Iheir trumpets. Flov .Johnson. 419 Delta. By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NEAl - The most important correction of his tory since Nikita Khrushchev look Joe Stalin's name out of all the Russian school books has just been made by Vice Presi dent Lyndon B. Johnson. People who saw the ABC tele vision "Conversation With the Vice President" thought they heard him say that he had not sought the presidency in 1980. If this is the way it was. 10,- 000 reporters in Los Angeles in July I960, including this one, must have been 'nuts. But you know how these jusl-before-bedtime television shows are. You only half listen. You don't take notes. You're never quite sure that you heard right what you thought you heard. The next day's newspapers, however, confirmed it. And the transcript of the proceedings checks it out completely. The vice president was inter viewed by Bill Iawrence, Ed Morgan and John Rolfson, which is as good a team of political reporters as you could ask for. Near the end of the proceedings, the transcript reads like this: Morgan: "I ask this question generally, as well as specifically. Does a man, an accomplished politician, such as yourself, who has once reached for the presi dency, at least for the nomina tion, and failed, reconcile him self not to reach again, or is it in his blood, and he would like to?" After clearing the interference of all those commas, which showed even on the television screens, back came this reply: Johnson: "Well, Mr. Morgan, 1 don't consider that I ever leached for the presidency. My friends put me in the race in I960. They felt that they should have representation, and my name should o before the con vention. "I doubted the advisability of this, and so stated on many oc casions. ... As late as July 5, when I announced I would let my name go before the con vention. I did not feel that I was seeking the presidency. My friends thought they ought to have an opportunity to vote for me, and I agreed ... I didn't feel I was a candidate. I didn't go into any primaries. I didn't go out and ask any delegates In commit themselves to me in I960. And I have no plans to do so now." There wasn't lime for the three By FULTON LEWIS JR. A Florida congressman will soon demand that Attorney Gen eral Robert Kennedy list the Fail Play for Cuba Committee as "subversive." Tampa's Bill Cramer, a Re publican, told this reporter that Kennedy has been derelict in his failure to include Fair Play on his list of subversive organizations. In 1961. the annual report of J. Edgar Hoover said: "FBI investigations have also shown that the Fair Play for Cuba Committee has been heavily in filtrated by the Community Par ty and the Socialist Workers Par ty, and these parties have actu ally organized chapters of the committee." On the floor of the House Rep resentative Cramer made these charges: Committees of House and Sen ate have probed Fair Play, com ing up with hundreds of paqes of testimony indicating that Fair Play has been a Castro-financed, Red-run operation from the very beginning. One of the original founders of Fair Play was Joanne Grant, a lithe young Negro identified under oath as one of the country's "most promising" Reds. In Chicago, the Fair Play op eration is under the control of John Rossen. a veteran Commu nist who has headed up the St. Louis branch of the party. Los Angeles Fair Play is run by leaders of the Socialist Work ers Party, an organization listed as subversive by the attorney general. Mrs. Dorothy Healy. paid Communist organizer for South ern California, has been active in Los Angeles Fair Play. In Fair Play's short history there have been three directors of the organization. None is alleged to have been a Communist. The first man to run Fair Play was Robert Taber. an ex-convict who served lime for armed rob bery. auto theft and kidnapping. He defected to Cuba with $19, 000 in Fair Play funds, then re turned to the states last year. The second director of Fair Play was Richard Gibson, "A ace reporters to nail the man down on this new version of his tory. Or maybe they felt this is what Texas is famous for, and let it slide. But it would be logical to ob serve that if the vice president is no more of a candidate for the presidency now than he was in 1960, he has already started to run for the nomination in 1968. And his disclaimer could be in terpreted as an effort to put him self in the position of not being a once-defeated candidate for ' the job but a fresh, dewy, thorn less yellow rose of Texas just waiting to be picked for the first time. What most people thought hap pened in 1960 was a good bit dif ferent from this. It forces this writer here and now, with full apologies, to correct all the ob viously false and misleading stuff he wrole about events of that lime. Like as follows: In April, 1960. the lale Speaker Sam Rayburn began to campaign for Johnson for president. (But Johnson wasn't a candidate). In May Johnson won a near sweep for the presidential nomination in Texas primaries. (But he wasn't a candidate I. In June Rayburn opened John son campaign headquarters. (But Johnson wasn't a candidate). On July 5 Johnson announced at a press conference that he was "a candidate" for the presiden tial nomination. (He wasn't a candidate?) He said he would be a "working president" rather than a talking or traveling one. (Still he wasn't a candidate). Then, a week later in Los An geles, there was that never-to-be-forgotten debate between Ken nedy and Johnson, arranged at Johnson's suggestion to discuss campaign issues. Johnson scored Kennedy's Senate absenteeism, his lack of experience, his youth ful haste in seeking the presi dency, his bad voting record on farm, power and natural re sources development. Or was this all just a bad dteam? It must have been. Be cause Vice President Johnson now says he was never a candi date. But give the man credit for his honesty. In the opening line of his interview, after Bill Law rence had asked him how he hap pened to run for the vice presi dency, Johnson began: "Well, Bill, after 1 was defeat ed for the presidency in Los An geles . . ." He should have stood in that bed. WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Fair Play For Cuba Group Red Fronted campus bum who moved from campus to campus for 11 years setting up Communist front groups," according to Sen. Tom Dodd. Gibson has since left t h e United Slates for Algeria. He is said to be working as a "journa list" for several newspapers. The present director is Victor Theodore Lee, a seaman who formerly published a Florida pa per in which he referred to President Kennedy as a "jack ass." According to security reports, Lee left or Havana late last year as a "journalist" for radio station WBAI-F.M. That station, incidentally, was the recent tar get of Senate probers who sought lo determine whether or not it was Communist - controlled. Lee returned lo this country in January and has since lectured on the "Truth About Castro Cuba." He has told newsmen that he docs not care if there are Communists active in Fair Play. Lee is by no means the only Fair Player to make a pilgrim age to Havana within the last year. There is Gerald Quinn, a Michigan Negro not a -Communist, who left for Cuba a yeaf ago. A "journalist," he claimed lo rep resent the Los Angeles Herald Dispatch. Quinn has written for Freedom ways, a Communist publication, and is active in the Monroe De fense Committee, a group set up to defend Robert Williams. North Carolina integration leader sought by the FBI on kidnapping charg es. Williams is now in Cuba, broadcasting rabid messages over radio Havana throughout the hemisphere. Representative Cramer has turned over to the House I'nAmcr ican Activities committee t h e names of 94 Americans some with long backgrounds of Com munist activity who have violated I S. law and traveled to Cuba within the past year. He calls upon Attorney General Kennedy to invoke the law, prosecute these Americans and "close this open door to subversion in the United Slates."