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'.; 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
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"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.
What capital punishment does
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do is to provide society with an
unjust and irrational outlet for
its anger and fear. 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
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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."