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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
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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-
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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
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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.
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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
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' 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.