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PAGE. I HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Or. Tuesday. April IS, 1961 EDSON IN WASHINGTON SERIOUS MUSIC $ e rati) and eto;s Administration Asks 1 r fcdii&daL (Pjcujjl Parks Sticker Fee '.; House Democrats have done a complete turnaround in the case of Rep. Adam Clayton Towell, D-N.Y., chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor. ; The majority party has closed ranks in support of its often-far-and-awayward col league, and the case is closed. He gels off with out, even a slap on the wrist. : True, funds for operation of the commit tee he heads have been cut by about 40 per cent to $200,000 for this year. And the chair man has been limited to control over a mere $50,000. : But the cuts can be restored next year after all the furor is forgotten. When Sen. John J. Williams, It-Del., first recited chapter and verse into the Congres sional Record on the New York congressman, it looked as though the Democrats had a first class scandal on their hands. :" To maintain any kind of a reputation for ethical conduct and clean party government, an; example would have to be made of Powell. This was freely discussed in parly councils, al though there were no very firm ideas of what punishment would fit or how it would be ad ministered. ;; Then it began to be apparent there were a jbundred or more congressmen who also wej-e guilty of the more spectacular old charges Williams had enumerated travel abijoad on government-furnished foreign cur rencies and putting relatives on the govern ment payroll. ; Since thai time the Congressional Record has carried a number of reports from both Senate and House committee chairmen! listing in great detail the foreign moneys spent in each country visited by their members and staffs. j; So far there has been no case of a con gressman's conscience bothering him to such an extent that he has refunded these advances. But even forced confessions are good for a legislator's soul and make good reading. But if one congressman were to be made the villain for free and easy ways with pub lic funds, then all would merit the same treat IN WASHINGTON By RALPH dc TOLEDANO The White House: Behind the new campaign to "rehabilitate" Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer is Presidential aide Arthur Schles ingor Jr. Ever since a distin guished board, headed by Demo crat Cordon Cray, revoked Dr. Oppenheimer's security clearance, SclllesinRer has written, spoken, andj sliuuted against those who had! any part in the case, lie blades "McCarthyism" for the Opprnlieimcr plight, although un der: the Atomic Energy Act of V-U8 a review of the case was mandatory. What puts the While , House in a quandary, however, is the record of Dr. Oppcnlieim cr's statements and acts all of which he oienly admits. In 1943. Dr. Oppenheimer told Manhat tan Project security officers one story about espionage attempts at Los Alamos. In 11154, under oath, he told a contradictory sin ry.rThis creates his dilemma: II he Jold the trulli in 1943. then he committed perjury in 1954. It he lolij; the truth in 10J4, he was obstructing the anti-espionage el fori of U.S. security in 1943. State Department: Undersecre tary Averell Harriman's populari ty among the New Frontiersmen has taken n sharp drop since tbe.CommiuiisIs resumed hostili- Almanac Ity I nlted Press International "fcjday is Tuesday, April 16, the lOhth day of IHtU. The moon is approaching ils last quarter. The morning stars are Venus and Saturn. The evening star is Mars. On this day in history: In 18(2, Congress nbohslied slav ery in tile District of Columbia In 1917, Russian Communist leader Nikolai Lenin arrived in I'etrograd from Switzerland where he had been exiled. Ifl 1!M7, more than sou persons were killed when a nitrate-laden French freighter exploded at the docjt In Texas City, Te.x. X thought for the day: Lenin aid: "It is tine that liberty is precious so precious that It must be rationed." Powell Case Whitewash A Reporter's Notebook ties in Laos. It was Mr. Harri man who journeyed to that South east Asia trouble spot as a Ken nedy fact-finder. He returned urg ing I he U.S. to drop its support of the anti-Communist forces and to agree to Comrade Khrush chev's proposal for a "troika" government made up of Commu nists, anti Communists, and "neutralists." In behind - the scencs deliberations at the high est levels, Mr. llarriman argued that the Heds would respect the Soviet-proposed cease-fire a n d "coalition" regime whatever their past history of betrayal ami broken treaties because it would be to their advantage to main tain peace in Laos. Mr. llarri man who helcd engineer the culling off of all aid to the anti-Communist government of Ijos until it accepted the coali tion was also among those in lite Stale Department who op posed putting pressure on tlio "troika" to live up to the agree ment calling for the withdrawal of loreign troops. Red forces re mained anil are the backbone of the new revolt. Embassy Row: Latin American cxperls expect a "peace offen sive" liom Cuba. They point out that Fidel Castro has been forced repeatedly to use bis air force against Freedom Fighters, that some areas of Cuba are no longer sale for Fidelislas. and that his economy is on the verge of col lapse. He llicreloie needs a breathing spell. Vcording lo these exerts, Castro will author ize "free elections" of unimport ant oflicials, but ballyhoo them mightily. He will also release a hamllul of political prisoners and ask the exiles lo return to Cuba. Then he will call iiKin the Or ganization of American States to give bis regime a clean bill of health and a democratic tab He will also seek to make some kind of trade agreement with the Brit ish who are desperately lmikiiig for overseas business to bolster Iheir own economy. From France: Though the news papers reported last month that anil tlaullist French Irader (icorges Ilidault had lieen "discov ered" in Havana by lierman po lice, the fact is that he Informed local authorities of Ins pres ence. Hie reason: He learned that o?ralives of the USE. lOigani- ment. So none has been chastised. Or will be. Democrats in both the Senate and the House came to the support of their errant club member as a great leader of his people with an awful lot of power and seniority. So ignore the whole business, and just hope that the taxpayers and the voters will soon forget if not forgive. Oh, there are several efforts being made to remove the cause of this temptation by bringing counterpart travel funds for con gressmen under a little tighter control next year. But along with that, Congress also is talking about raising its own pay, increasing ils own U.S. travel allowances, increasing each congressman's staff and giving his top assis tant a raise, too. So what is gained? There also was a move on to split the 31 mcmber Education and Labor Committee into two committees of 25 members each. This was proposed by Rep. Phil M. Landrum, D-Ga., third ranking member of the present commit tee. But the House Rules Committee, which has first say on such matters, has just decid ed to defer action. Because, as its chairman, Judge Howard Smith, D-Va., announced, "We just didn't want to hurl anyone's feelings? This touch of tenderness from the usually hard-boiled Rules Committee is a trait few Washington observers seem to have known was there. It must be recognized, of course, that Powell is not only a congressman from Harlem, but also is political boss of his district and a big man to all voters of his race. The Democratic party needs those voters. It needs them especially in New York state. II can use them anywhere. The national leadership of the party is doing everything it can to get more Negro voters registered in the South and see that they vole. The long run objective, obviously, is to hold the South for the party, even if the day should ever come when a majority of ils pres ent voters should go all the way Republican. That's politics. zalion for State Security), the feared French secret police, had learned of his whereabouts and planned to assassinate him or to kidnap him and forcibly return him to' France. Bidault asked (lie Bavarian authorities to pro tect him. In response to his re quest, searchlights were installed in the trees surrounding his house and a detachment of police was assigned to guard him. From Algeria: The Algerian equivalent of Nazi Germany's ra cist luws are being enacted by Premier Hen Bella's National As sembly. First of these laws give "native born" citizenship only to Moslems. Jews who settled there even belorc the Eighth Cen tury Arab invasion arc now con sidered "naturalized" and can have Iheir citizenship revoked. The same applies to French set tlers who have lived for genera tions in the country. Though these laws are in violation of the Kvian Agreements under which Algeria was given ils independ ence by President de Gaulle, the French government isn't lilting a linger. THEY SAY... Only a fraction of Stale De partment business perhaps no more than one per cent is not immediately or imminently pub lic. The Slate Department is as wide ocn as Yankee Stadium and the admission is tree. Hubert Manning, assistant sec retary of slate lor public ( lairs, on secrecy In government. I have never Ix-lieved that a spectacular dash to the moon,' vastly deepening our national debt, is worth tlte added tax bur den it will eventually impose upon our citizens. Dnlght Elsenhower , li s only a question of how it will happen and how soon. Im an optimist. -Allen W. Dulles, former U.S. Intelligence director, predicting the overthrow of the ( astro re gime In Cuba. I By SYDNEY J. HARRIS One man is opposed to capital punishment. Another man is in favor of it. Question: which man is the "sentimcntalisl?" Most people would answer, I think, that the man who opposes capital punishment is the senti mcnlatlist. He is the "bleeding heart," the idealist, the one who is "soft on criminals." This is how words continually betray us. For all the facts we have available indicate that the man who opposes capital punish ment is the realist, while the man who favors it docs so for emotion al reasons and no other. In a new pamphlet, "The Un examined Death," an analysis of capital punishment by Hans W. Atattick, formerly assistant war den of the Cook County Jail, the author states in his conclu sion, "the evidence indicates that those who favor capital punish ment arc sentimentalists, pure . and simple." , The hard-headed and practical people are those who have actu ally examined the evidence and found that "capital punishment is irrelevant to the homicide ' rate." It is indefensible on any rational grounds, and is simply a form of legalized vengeance or "corporate murder." There arc, I believe, good mor al and psychological reasons for abolishing the death penally. But 1 am not concerned with them here; what interests me in Mat lick's brief and pungent study of the subject is the overwhelming evidence that capital punishment prevents no murders. It does not do the one thing ils proponents insist it can do. 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Furthermore, it permits us to close our eyes to the multiple causes of crime by getting rid of the symptoms only. Meanwhile, the crime rate continues lo increase everywhere, despite more stringent penalties. I have argued the case against capital punishment in previous columns, and I have never seen a tactual refutation of it. But what is most ironic is this whole controversy is that the label of "sentimentalist" should be at tached to the opponent of capi tal punishment, while the propo nent smugly believes himself to be the "realist" in the matter. If realism means understand ing cause and effect, if it means proportioning the methods to the ends, if it means being for. some thing because it really works in fact, if it means refusing to be swayed by emotional considera tions then it is the opponents of the death penalty who are real ists, in any meaningful sense of that aboused word. (For a free copy of "The Un examined Death," write to the John Howard Association, B08 S. Dearborn Street, Chicago, 5. Ill.i QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q What ore is the chiel source of aluminum? A Bauxite. Q Whea Is Halley't comet aue ta return? A In 1986. Answer to Previous Puzzle 7 Interest lab.) 8 Abounded t Dormice 10 Bov's nickname IL" Meat dish 13 One season's produce oi the vine 30 Rrave 34 New-fashioned 35 Oleic acid esler 3fl Conger . 38 Lariats 39 Staid 40 Spanish homes 42 Kurv 44 Challenges 47 Artifice 50 Italian pronoun 51 Request 53 Possesaiva 1R Always (poet.) 21 Gnawer 25 Festive 27 Cover street with asphalt -s .xolions LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Candidate Here we go again, getting rea dy to vole on another high school budget. One year has passed and during that time our high school problem has not been solved. There is no indication that it will be as during this past year we've had lots of talk, very little action, and the future looks just as bleak. We are told that we will have to suffer with a split schedule, because we did not provide ad ditional classrooms. We are told that we must budget more money for expenses that will prevail due lo the split schedule. Who's kid ding who? It's time now that this condition comes to a screeching halt. It's time that the people pro. test to the injustices forced upon them by the administration and board, and you as voters can do something about it. First, you must vote the budget down. Not just for the sake of voting it down but because the amount is unjustified. With the mess the high school is in, I see no reason why additional money should be supplied year after year to support the conditions that now exist at the high school. By voting down the budget you in turn can protest the split sched ule. In fact, until the administra tion and board can present a satisfactory adjustment acceptable to the parents. I would just as soon see the school closed. Along with voting on the budg et, you will be asked to vote two members to the school board. In all fairness to the voters, every candidate for board No. 2 should slate his opinions for evaluation. As far as myself, I wish to stale my views, and would prefer to do so in letters to editor within the next few weeks. My first concern is education, as primarily that is what we are sending our kids to school for. I would attempt- to evaluate the necessity of various extra curricu lar activities, and if justified, would seek to limit their capacity or eliminate them entirely. I believe that every student that graduates from KU should be above average iin English, reading, spelling, and good ole arithmetic. Perhaps this may be old-fashioned, but my experi ence in business with students that have graduated from KU has proved to me that a little more effort could be made in these categories. As strange as it may seem scholarship competition has more appeal for most students than in lerscholaslic athletics. Our school must provide all of the neces sary qualilications for these stu dents to prepare themselves for higher education without hin drance from technical fields that are cosily which might impair the quality of education we must strive to provide. Although I have stressed edu cation. I am well aware of the arts and sports. We must main lain our music education . . . our field of dramatics . . . our ex pression of art. We must main tain a good athletic program, with more emphasis on physical fit ness, as with all of us a good healthy body makes for a good hialthy mind. We must take another look at thr social and other extra cur ncular opportunities presented to the student. The processes of the classrooms are still the major part of our school program. It is the responsibility of every par- By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON I NEA l-Anoth-er question on which a lot of people may have definite pro and con ideas is whether tourists and vacationers should be required to buy an annual conservation wind shield sticker at from $2 to $5 to visit outdoor recreation areas financed in whole or in part by federal funds. Admission to most such places is now lice. But a provision in the Kennedy administration's land and water conservation bill inow nearing test votes in Senate and House Interior Committees would impose this and other modest user fees. The fees are similar to those now charged by many states in park and camp areas. Camp sites would be rented at from $1 to $3 a day for each family. Use of a picnic site or swimming facilities would cost 50 cents a day. The present four-cent-a-gallon tax on motor boat fuels would be reallocat ed to recreational area use. Finally, all receipts from the sale of surplus government prop erty, now amounting to about $50 million a year, would go to a recreation area fund instead of to general Treasury receipts. It is estimated that about $80 million would be raised from all these sources in the first year. This sum gradually would rise to $180 million, and average $150 million for the first 10 years. The big idea is to put the great outdoors on more of a pay-as-you-enjoy basis, with those enjoying it footing most of the bill instead of asking all the taxpayers to finance it. The conservation windshield stickers probably would be sold at post offices as well as at park sites. Every purchaser would also get a guide telling where he would then be "free" to go. Some national parks and many of the state parks now charge a small entrance fee for one-time visits. Under the new scheme these fees might be continued.' But they also would be counted as down payments on a sticker admitting buyers to all parks. In addition, the stickers would admit tourists lo Army Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Recla WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Scientist Admits Commie Leanings By FULTON LEWIS JR. In approving a gift of $50,000 to Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, President Kennedy has given the back of his hand to Air Force Secretary Eugene Zuckert. The $50,000 Enrico Fermi Award was given, with the ap proval also of the Atomic Ener gy Commission, to Oppenheimer recently. "It has led to specula lion," says the Washington Post, "that Oppenheimer might be re quested to do secret work for the government." As a member of the AEC nine j ears ago, Zuckert voted to deny Oppenheimer access to classified material. After an exhaustive in vestigationthe final report ran 992 pages Zuckert and his col leagues found Oppenheimer a se curity risk. The commissioners voted with but one dissent to deny Oppen heimer a security clearance, rul ing that he had shown "funda mental defects" of character and "wilful disregard" of security obligations. The AEC probe turned up the following morsels about Oppen heimer, soon to pocket $50,000 of your dough and mine: By his own admission, Oppen heimer was a fellow traveler of the Communist Party from 1937 to 1942. During this period, inci dentally, Joe Stalin and Adolf Hit ler joined hands in their infamous Nazi-Soviet pact. Again by his own admission. Oppenheimer contributed regular payments to the Communist Par ty, ranging from $500 to $1,000 a year. Oppenheimer frequently attend ed meetings with known members of the Communist Party. One such meeting was held at the home of a personal friend. Haa kon Chevalier, and was addressed by William Schneidcrman, secre tary of the California Communist Tarty. The record shows thai Oppen heimer was in touch with other Communists, some of whom are known to have engaged in es pionage. Steve Nelson, head of a Soviet ent of a student from KU lo acquaint themselves with Hie vari ous problems confronting our high school Tlie need for interest is now. The decisions are up to you. Bob Kredrickson. Candidate for School Board No. 2 mation dam site recreation areas. The stickers also would be good in Forest Service, 3ureau of Land .Management, Fish and W ildlife Service areas, where ad mission can be controlled. But for the big national forests, grasslands, land reserves, and probably for the new wilderness area if. Congress approves their establishment there would be no charge, since admission can't be controlled. Only part of the money ie eeived from conservation stick ers and other fees would be plowed back into federal recrea tion area development. That was the Kennedy plan in legislation offered last year, but Congress would have none of it. The big principle in the new conservation fund bill is to make the states primarily responsible for development of outdoor re sorts for the general public. Al located on the basis of slate pop i ulation, area and need, the aver age distribution is expected to be about 70 per cent lo stale park systems, 30 per cent to fed eral recreation areas. But to speed development of more vacation fun areas for the growing population, there's an other provision in the proposed legislation for a $80 million fed eral appropriation for eight years, beginning in the third year of the program. The plan is to have these ad vances paid back to the United States Treasury over a seven year period beginning in the elev enth year of the program, using 50 per cent of the collected fees. The program for acquisition of more federal recreation areas would cost an estimated $5H0 million over 10 years. It would add about 1.4 million acres to the national parks, 4.0 million acres lo national forests and 1.9 mil lion acres to Fish and Wildlife Service preserves 7.3 million acres in all. With the $480 million advance appropriation over an eight-year period, this makes recreation area development more than a $1 billion program. The 'proposed legislation speci fies that none of this money can be spent except by Congressional appropriation, so it isn't a back door spending job. espionage ring at Berkeley, Calif., was a guest in Oppenheimer's home. Asked what he had in common with Nelson, Oppenhei mer told probers: "Nothing, ex cept an affection for my wife." Oppenheimer was a member of numerous Communist fronts, in cluding the American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom, the North American Committee to Aid Spanish De mocracy, and the Teachers Un ion. In a memorandum dated Sept. 19. 1943. Colonel John Lans dale reported a conversation in which Oppenheimer admitted that he "belonged to every Communist-front organization on Ihe West Coast." Oppenheimer later said it was a jocular exaggeration. Oppenheimer was an associate ol Kenneth May, California Com munist, at whose home he at tended a fund-raising affair for the Daily People's World, official party newspaper. Oppenheimer went to that party with Joseph Weinberg and Clarence Hiskey, who are alleged to have commit ted espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union. The official findings of the AEC were that Oppenheimer's activi ties were of such a nature that California Communists looked upon him as one of them, a se cret member whose ties to the Party could not be disclosed. In connection with Chevalier, the AEC found: "Dr. Oppenheimer told Col. Pash i a military intelligence nl ficer assigned to protect the Berkeley atom project against spies-, in circumstantial detail, of an attempt by a Soviet agent 'Chevalier i lo obtain from him information about the work on Ihe atom bomb. "In the hearings recently con cluded, Dr. Oppenheimer ' under oath swears that the story he told Col. Pash was a 'whole fabrica tion and tissue of lies." "II is not clear today whether toe account Dr. Oppenheimer cave Col. Pash in 1943 concerning Ihe Chevalier incident, or the slory he told the Gray Board last month, is the true version. ' If Dr. Oppenheimer bed in as he now savs he did. he committed the crime of know " Sly making false and material statements lo a Federal officer. ' he lied to the board, he com milled perjury in 1954."
