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Newspaper Page TextPACE 6-A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Friday, May 17, 196J EDSON IN WASHINGTON Citizens Political Party Romney Aim FIRST ROBIN ' i fetf'-o;i-v .a' - . '.' A On May 21 the U.S. Department of Ag riculture will conduct a referendum for the nation's wheat farmers. This referendum con fronts wheat producers with the responsibility for a momentous decision on the future direc tion of American agriculture. The multiple-price certificate plan being submitted to producers includes the tightest, imost binding government controls ever se riously considered for any farm commodity. It provides much stricter acreage allotments than growers have experienced over recent years and a new type of marketing quota and other restrictions. It gives the Secretary of Agriculture vast powers to regulate all hand lers, processors and distributors of wheat : ifj-om the farm to the ultimate consumer. The proposed compulsory wheat program was designed to operate in conjunction with a compulsory feed grain program. This is creating pressure for new feed grain legisla tion. If producers go the supply-management road with wheat, then with feed grain, they will have taken a long step toward adoption of compulsory controls for livestock, dairy and poultry products. IN WASHINGTON By RALPH de TOLEDANO Those who insist that Gov. Nel son Rockefeller'! remarriage to the recently divorced "Happy" Murphy Is a "private matter" are far less realistic than the White House or the Democratic National Commiltee. All avail able evidence Indicates that be hind locked doors, a massive rc avaluallon of Democratic policy Is taking place. Until Hie remarriage. Demo cratic strategists had been mak ing future projections on the the ory that Governor Rockefeller would be the GOP Presidential candidate. It would bo fair to sum up their thinking tills way: "Wo don't know whether or not Barry Goldwatcr can carry the South and Midwest against the President. We don't know how strong or weak a candidate he would make. But we do know we can beat Rocky hands down. So let's get him nominated." ; -There were, of course, many Willing hands in the Republican Party to help bring about a Rockefeller nomination for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is his family's nation wide financial muscle. There were even Republicans who slill Insisted that Governor Rockefel ler was "the only man who can beat Kennedy," although Uieir arguments grew less convincing day by day. The Democrats, however, wero counting on the power within the national GOP of the group known either as "the Eastern "liberal wing" or "the Wall Street group" depending on where you sit. lit is very difficult for many BERRY'S WORLD I oss w T (I I mk L..-fel "Tit enly plac tity w.mt to go h, quote, 'fun. ' loving, tnrtjnt Uaill'l" Day Of Decision Republican Dilemma people to realize that a suhatan-' Ual part of the Republican Party is suspicious of Wall Street, and always has been ! However you may want to designate the group, it has named the GOP'S Presi dential nominee in every election since and including 11)40 with the exception of I'M), at which time I lie group made an uneasy al liance with the Midwestern, Southern, and West Coast wings of the party. The remarriage changed the picture somowhat and the grow ing Goldwatcr boom didn't help any in maintaining the status quo. No one with any political sense, of course, Is writing Rock efeller off. The public tends to be whimsical and if the new Mrs. Rockefeller is as captivat ' ing as some say. she may turn out to be an asset. But in mak ing political decisions, politicians go by the scratch sheet. There Is no doubt that Rockefeller Pld. has slumped. Therefore: a new strategy. While the Rockefeller forces in the GOP keep their fingers crossed, tile fur more practi cal Democrats have been casting about for a substitute, acceptable to the Eastern liberal Republican wing but still no threat to Presi dent Kennedy. So. through friends in court on the nation's lending newspapers and TV stations, the Ixmm (or Gov. George liumncy of Michigan has begun. Qualities ignored when he was running against and defeating a Demo crat for the governorship have suddenly been discovered In Mr. Romney. I am sure those qualities exist. Mr. Romncv is an able and ad- T,' f) mi Writing for the Dcs Moines, Iowa, Regis ter, able Washington correspondent Richard Wilson says in part: "Thirty years ago this month the New Deal was beginning the most audacious adventure in economic control ever undertaken. Now it is $48 billion and six secretaries of agriculture later. . . . not even a close approach has been made to an economi cally sound and permanently workable solu tion. . . . After the passage of ail this time and the spending of a vast treasure to in crease farmers' incomes the great farm tech nocracy is facing a key decision: whether to take the final plunge into the strictest form of control and regimentation of private en terprise ever seriously proposed in' this coun try." It now remains to be seen whether U.S. farmers have been so indoctrinated with the glories of bureaucratic control of their ac tivities that they will vote away their inde pendence and freedom of action on May 21. It will be a sorry day for our country if they do. . ' venturous businessman at a time when businessmen tend to be timid and to operate by the rule book. He defeated the Wal ter Rcuthcr brigades in Michi gan, which took some doing. He may be excellent presidential limber. The operative word, however, is "may." Governor Romney has not proved himself in public life. His ideas on na tional and international questions are not known. For more important, he him self is not known to the Ameri can public. One highly regarded speech or several appearances on Meet tlie Press do nut give a man the kind of national reputa tion that is necessary to win the Presidency. Governor Rockefel ler's reputation was built-in wilh his name and there are mil- ' linns of people today who owe their livos to Rockefeller Insti tute medical research. Senator Goldwatcr has become even better known than the late Robert A. Taft. Some may damn and some may praise, but they know he exists. If he becomes the Republican presidential can didate, they will also know why he exists. But Mr. Romney is tailor-made for the Democrats. In the last week, his name has probably been mentioned more by Democratic strategists than any other as their choice. My own feeling is that while the Eastern Republican king makers were able to sell a rel ative unknown like Wendell Will- kie in 1!H0, they cannot repent that virtuoso performance. This time they're up against some thing new. It is the conservative wing of the GOP which has beat them to the lnc.n n ihr nj,! it was always. "Taft can t win" or substitute another name. Now the conservatives arc saying "Rockefeller can't win. Romney can't win. and neither can your other candidates." This leaves one man Guess who? Al manac By United Press lnternulinnal Today is Friday, Muv 17. the 137th day of 1WJ with r to follow. The moon is approaching its new phase. , The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. The evening star is Mars. On this day in history; In 1875, the first "Kentucky Der by" horse race was held at Churchill Downs in Louisville. Ky. In 177, former President (J. S. Grant sailed from Philadelphia for a round-the-world trip. In 14. in unanimous decision the Supreme Court ruled that rac ial segregation In the nation's pub lie schools was unconstitutional. In 10. summit talks collapsed as Nikiti Khrushchev demanded an apology from President Eisen hower for (he VJ spy plane flights over Russia. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS U you are normally a right handed person, try a little ex periment for a half-hour or so: do with your left hand everything that you usually do with your right. The most simple and obvious acts will become complicated and cumbersome. You will hardly be able to write or cut or cat your food; and you will quickly be come baffled, frustrated and ex asperated. Now imagine this lopsided proc ess intensified a thousandfold, and you may taav? some idea of how painful and difficult it is to think "with the left hand" that is, to reverse our customcry proc ess of thought. Why has science made such enormous strides in knowledge and development, while human af fairs still remain largely as they were in the days of the Assyrian Empire? Largely because every advance in science is gained by reversing the spool of thought by thinking in a way that is op posite of the traditional and cus tomary ways. Of all the habits of mankind, the habits of thought are t h e most persistent, the most tena cious, the most enslaving. We put on an idea in the morning as we put on a shoe, left or right . first, unconsciously and without ever varying the procedure by a fraction. And our resistance against changing our habits of thought is immense and unrelenting. If we try, briefly, we find it as vexing and unrewarding as writing a let This and That ACROSS 1 Ap 4 Vend flCeas 12 Hul! 13 Lara plant 14 Delicacy 15 Impair 16 Maryland city 18 Heavy hammers 30 Choose 21 Bern 22 Oftled 24 1im 2 Belgian stream 27 Mr. Mineo 30 Each 32 Breed of sheep 34 Equipped 3-t Redacted 31 Selected (ah 97 Scandinavian deitv 40 Metal 41 Green vegetable 42 Trick), at 1 tear 45 Supped richly 49 Remtinx 51 Anger 53 Spanish pot .13 Poker stake 54 Chemical luffu S3 Tinted MShoihoneant 57 fiber knot DOWN t Scottish capi 2 Ellipsoidal 3 Unceasing 4 Sea ((old ft Sea eagle A Ees of cameras 7 Meadow ft Berate 30 Shrewd fcot! ' i 12 i I U 14 lt I? I p 9 jio in re rj re z 17 re it rp ' 31 rr, ttzT ?rp rp 26 wp-srsn 35 3iU "32 3T 3? 'ilS jj -.y, g- Ufe I ' La JUJ 1 w rT" TTTp n15" 47 r is si ; 52 53 5? 1 55 ST 37 IK 4- '.- V STRICTLY PERSONAL ter with the left hand. What we are used to is comfortable: what is comfortable is good; and what is good is right Uiis is the un spoken belief of almost all peo ple everywhere. When a scientist, however, tack les a problem that has hitherto seemed insoluble, he abandons all his preconceptions, and all the preconceptions of the past. Only when he begins to question the basic assumptions he has al ways held can he make an utterly fresh start, unencumbered by the intellectual baggage of the past. 1 am not suggesting that a knowledge of the past is not use ful, or that history and tradition have little to offer us but they must be used as tools, not as points of departure. Our think ing about them must involve a painful revaluation of our most cherished ideas and ideals. Not one person in a thousand is willing although many are able to think left-handed for mure than a few minutes at a time. Yet every important dis covery has been made in this way, from Harvey on circulation of the blood to Freud on the role of the unconscious. And we know what derision and abuse such men were subjected to for daring to violate the right-handedness of their times. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q What breed of dog cannot bark? A The Basenji. Antwtr to Prsvtoui Puult 33 10 Auditory 11 Nuisance 17 Ixwked closely 19 Hinder 23 Arabic nation 24 Tatters 26 Weapon used in dueling 2ft Kind of spruce 27 Locality 2ft Dil 31 Churls 33 Cookery term 38 Baby 40 Homeric work 41 Tops of heads 42 Footpath 43 Depend 44 Small island 4ft Grafted (her 47 Gaelic 4 Profound THE GLOBAL VIEW . . . 'Freedom Academy' Necessary By LEON DENNEN Newspaper Enterprise Assn. NEW YORK I NEA The in flux of Russian, Cuban and Red . Chinese agents into Latin Amer ica points up the urgency for the creation by the United States of the long-delayed Freedom Acad emy to train leaders in cold war techniques. A bill IS. 414i to establish an academy to teach Americans . - and anti-Commu- " n'st foreigners act the Beds' non . military drive in sensi- I live areas was reintroduced in the Senate last I January. It was sponsored by 13 Democratic and Republican sen ators and a group of private citi zens, including the eminent Amer ican philosopher, Sidney Hook and Leo Cherne. president of the Re search Institute of America. Even Mexican intellectuals who once sneered at the "Yankee hys teria" about communism now rea ,iic that they are being swamped by Red propaganda. I learned dur ing recent visits to Latin America. "What we need badly to check Castro's growing influence are know ledgeable Americans who will help us combat Communist propaganda as the Peace Corps is fighting to stamp out illiteracy and disease." a Mexican leader told me. The political warfare relent lessly waged by international communism in Latin America is as much a threat to I'nitcd States security as Soviet missiles stockpiled in Cuba. For 40 years the Russians have operated su persccret schools for the train ing of Soviet and foreign agents in political work and underground operations in non Communist countries. Most Soviet "diplo mats" were trained in political warfare at Moscow's Sverdlov University bcfr.re they ueie as signed to missions in Latin Amer ica. There are 150 such diplo mats in Mexico alone. The Russians and their allies have developed their nonmiliiary conflict to a point where they are waging the mid war in every possible field and wilh a variely of proiaganda weapons. Unfortunately, the techniques employed by the United Stales to combat Red propaganda do not cover the wide range of the East-West political conflict. They leave the Communists sub stantially unchallenged in vital areas of the cold war. There is no doubt that many dedicated United States diplo mats and employes of the United States Information Agency are doing their beM to bring the mes sage of freedom under extremely Irving conditions. Traditional diplomacy is no longer able if it ever was to cope with the upsurse m Red sub version in Latin America. This was made clear by At torney General Robert K. Ken nedy after his return from a world tour. He said: "In every country well orcan ued and hichly disciplined Com munist c.idics concentrate their activities in universities, student bodies, labor organizations and i-1 m ftaw fit-rii ' By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Asm. W ASHINGTON iNEAl There may be a long-range political appeal in the line that Gov. George Romney of Michigan handed out here recently before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce annual meeting. What Romney is advocating is a "citizens' political party, di rected, controlled and financed by citizens and not limited to tile views of business or labor or any' other special , interest group." This is nothing that is likely to spring up overnight and sweep tlie businessmen-turncd-politician into the Republican presidential nomination in 1964. Romney in sists in fact, that he is not even a candidate. Until he changes his mind, he must be taken at his word. Also, it does not take a political seer to predict that the odds now favor re-election of Presi dent Kennedy next year. Any Re publican who runs against him is therefore just a brave man likely to take a licking. If the situation docs develop this way, the smart Republi can with presidential ambitions is the one who , plays coy in MM and builds himself up as Mr. Available for 1908. By that time the Kennedy administration may have made so many mistakes that everyone will be sick and tired of the New Frontiersmen. Then it will be high time for a change to some backwoods boy preaching the simple virtues of good but less government. "We definitely must mobilize those who are not advocates or beneficiaries of nationalized gov ernment." Romney told the at tentive Chamber delegates. "We do not want the federal govern ment to dry up state, local or in dividual responsibility. "To slop this, we must go to the ultimate source of power in a democracy the people. If they are not sufficiently informed, don't take the power from them. Enlighten them. Save America from federalization." WASHINGTON REPORT . . . House Committee Probing Defectors By FULTON LEWIS JR. Congressman Francis Walter, seriously ill in a Washington hos pital, will urge Attorney General Robert Kennedy to prosecute sev eral score Americans wno have slipped into Cuba within the past two years. Tlie Pennsylvania Democrat, chairman of the House UnAmeri can Activities Committee, last year ordered an investigation into violations of federal law which prohibits such travel. Committee investigators d i s covered that some 100 Americans had entered Cuba in violation of State Department regulations, is sued Jan. 1. 9161, which ban trips to Cuba without specific passport authorization. With the single exception of Wil liam Worthy, a Iclt-wing news man, not one American has been indicted for violating that ban. One such person is Edward W al ter Shaw, a wheelhorse in the Fair Play for Cuba Commiltee. Commiltee investigators d i s covcred that Shaw left the United States for Mexico City in Sep tember. 1961, and then flew to Cuba, where he spent a month in the workers' paradise. Upon his return. Shaw addressed Fair Play meetings in New York. Chi cago and Detroit, lecturing on the "truth" about Cuba, and showing slides. Shaw is an oid cohort of Rob ert Williams, the North Carolina integration leader who fled to Cuba when sought on kidnaping charues. intellectual groups. Against these there is no one to question their positions, their facts: no organi zation, no disciplined and calcu lated effort to present the other side. And so it is that a small and well - trained iCommunisi' unit can take over a meeting, or an orcanization or even a govern ment." Why. then, is the Senate dras ging its feet on the bill to create a Freedom Academy? "The Communist world is fear ful of military conflicts and will never risk its survival in any war except one it believes it is cer tain lo win." Profess Hook re cently told the Senate Foreijn Relations Committee. "But today it is encaged in a full-scale cold war against the West. ' he said The Freedom Academy, in lhxk's view, should be part of Ihe Free World's front line de-len.-e in live cold war. This is no new line for Rom ney. It has been the basis of his campaign for reform in Michigan. He began his crusade with six associates who got together to save their state from what they considered political bankruptcy. They finally got some 3,000 fol lowers, held a constitutional con vention, instituted changes which Romney now is trying to carry out. , He can't complete this job in one two-year term. He needs at least four years, maybe six. By that time it .should be apparent whether his drive for good state government to take over more of the job from bad federal gov ernmentmakes sense and has the makings of a national political crusade. Romncy's performance In Washington was appraised as having a lot more to commend it than the recent capital appear ances of New York's Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and former Vice President Richard M. Nixon or even the long-play records of Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater. criticizing almost everything and everybody. . Romney didn't mention Cuba or communism. Laos or Latin America, Khrushchev or Kenne dy. He spoke on subjects closer to his heart at this time. Romney assailed attempts by the Department of Health, Edu cation and Welfare to dictate re lief policies to his state. He con demned big business-big labor massive collective bargaining which fosters monopoly in viola lion of the anti-trust laws. "Until such conditions are al tered," he declared of the latter, "we are nol going to have ade quate growth, and we will be headed down the road to disor der and destruction." More than 1.000 Chamber dele gates stood and applauded Kom ney, even after he told them lo stop coming lo Washington with their problems. If all these delegates were to start selling a line like this, hard, after they get home, something might come of it by 1968, if not sooner. Called to testify before a HUAC hearing last week, Shaw refused to deny that he had violated fed eral law, invoking the Fifth Amendment more than 40 times. He would not answer questions about membership in the Commu nist or Socialist Workers Party. The latter has been cited by the Attorney General as a suhver sive organization. Another witness called by HUAC probers was Freddy Jerome. 24-ycar-old son of V. J. Jerome, "cultural commissar" of tlie US Party. The younger Jerome, who has been identified under oath as a Communist, traveled to Cuba three times in I960, before the State Department ban. Commiltee consel asked him: "Did you in Cuba receive any inlormation or any matler that you were requested lo impart or deliver lo persons in Ihe United States known li you to be mem bers of the Communisty Party?" On this and virtually all other questions, tlie pale, dark-haired young comrade took the Fifth. Sul len, then surly. Jerome called the hearings a "farce" and protested that his honeymoon had been in terrupted by subpoena - serving agents of the committee. Committee prober w ish In dis cover why State Department of ficials gave permission In LoRoy McLucas. a "photographer." to enter Cuba Department officials in New York rejected his applica tion for Cuban travel, but were overruled in Washington. McLucas told officials he was working on a book for Simon and Schuster, showing a letter from Elizabeth Sutherland, a senior ed itor, to prove his point. McLucas received permission to stay in Cuba until Dec. 31, On Feb. 2. I9ia he showed up at Ihe Swiss Embassy and asked offi cials time lo contact Washington and have his passport extended. Alter McLucas' passport was extended he Uien informed Wash ington through the Swiss that he was rejecting his passport lo re main in Cuba Sometime later McLucas changed his plans and came back home. He has addressed at least one meeting ol the Fa.r Pay lor Cuba Commiltee smte then and written articles for New Horizons for Youth, a Communist publication. Mi Lucas could not be located for a committee subpoena. The HUAC investigation will continue, however, and McLucas will a,;ain be sought.