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Newspaper Page TextPAGE (A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Friday, May 31, 1M3 EDSON IN WASHINGTON . . . . Air Fare Wrangle Is U.S., Britain Issue 'NO!" If some of the labor unions aren't riding for a fall, something has gone dismally wrong with the thinking of the people of this sup posedly free nation. Take, for instance, this recent event: The little town of Forest Grove, Ore gon, has a 48-member glee club. Over the ', years It has developed an international reptir tation. It is 100 per cent amateur, the mem- bers being housewives, businessmen, profes sionals, and so on. Its funds come from volun tary donations. The club was invited to appear in a big Los Angeles hotel to sing to a convention of dentists. Any revenues were to go into a pot Federal, . . The newest events affecting the racial sit uation in Alabama suggest that this country may be moving into one of the most tttrbu- , lent ordeals in the whole of its domestic his- "lory. The bloody riots at the Ole Miss campus last fall could be only a foretaste of what is in store. For the stage has been set for a naked clash between federal and state power. If that conformation comes to pass, there can be no predicting the full outcome. But it could be very, very grave. History never quite duplicates itself. The defiance by Gov. Orval Faubus at Little Rock disappeared quickly when President Eisen hower acted. Though Mississippi's Gov. Ross Barnctt several times defied U.S. marshals, he yielded at a late stage. Alabama's Gov.' George Wallace says, however, that he will plant himself at his state university's door to bar entry of Negroes now set for June 10 and will not yield. . What will happen if he stands that ground? Alabama's Atty. Gen. Richmond Flowers says serious violence may occur. This scjms a reasonable forecast, since the state already has seen riots over racial issues this year and they occurred at Ole Miss in spite of de liberate plans to avoid them. We are unlikely to see again any exten sive use of federal marshals such as was re sorted lo by President Kennedy at Oxford, Miss. The experiment failed, and (he troops which first appeared at Little Rock came in the end to Ole Miss. There can be little question but that the Army would be called on speedily to break IN WASHINGTON . . . Right By RALPH dr TOl.KDANO Back in lire dear dead days when being u Communal, a fci low traveler, or a chronic Joiner o( party fronts was considered as undesirable as using the wrong deodorant, a number uf Individuals banded together to publish news letters like Counterattack or Hike Aware i to prepare dossiers. A small book, listing (lie front af filiations of people in radio-TV, appeared. It was called Jted Chan nels and caused more excitement on Madison Avenue than 1 Lady Godiva with midriff bulge. These activities raised the lib eral frinscrs lo heights of Indig nation. The American Civil Liber ties Union financed a high-priced study of Uiis Red-listing. Tho book produced was somew hat gar bled, hut the ACLU stood behind it on the theory that It is better to be wrong Hum right-wing. There was an agonicd outcry that the publication of these lists and the dissemination of information fllHiut pinkos and pmkas were somewhat violative of the First Amendment ind perilously iloso to treason. But that was, to iuotc Christo pher Marlowe, in another country and besides the wench Is dead. I have been keeping my ear to the ground and a damp finger to the wind attempting to discern some kind of reaction to a new development in what the Al'LU and its friends would call black listing. An organization called (iroup Research, Inc., non profit nnd including among its Incorpora tors an individual connected with the ACLU, has gone into business w ith a bang. COPE (Committee on Political Education', Hie "political arm of the AfTyCIO. Is pushing CRTs product with energy, even passion. And what, dear readers, is that product? 1. "A directory on individuals, organisations, and publications" of those dirty, vicious, fascist, reac tionary namc-eallcrs of the right wing. 2. A semi monthly newsletter on ditto. COPE, In a memorandum to Riding For A Fal State Power - Wingers Blacklisted friends and associates, urges all and sundry: "When you bear that a right-wing speaker is coming to town, check him Immediately in the directory and alert friendly groups. Inform your local newspa per by personal visit If possible of tile character, background, and connections of tlie speaker." This is what the ACLU, Americans for Democratic Action, and oilier ster ling adlierenls of free sieech and tlie free marketplace of ideus de plored so violently In the l'.i.ios when employed against the far left. But read on in tltc AFL-CIO memo: "Labor union members rombatling (extremist groups!, ei ther heading them off before they really get started or by limiting the damage they do and helping dry them up. Preventive action is best, of course , . . Ordinarily it is best not to pass resolutions or take a vote." (Of course not. The white hood of tlie night rider Is more effective.' Instead, the aiiti-conscrvalive witch-hunter call do much better "arranging a meeting at which community leaders actually sign a warning statement, for release lo the press. In advance of right wing meeting." (Would this kind of warning do? "Tlie tar and lea tliers are ready. This means U." The COPE memo urges that "editors and broadcasters should be visited with facts about right wingers which they presumably do not have at hand." (Fads pur chased, of course, Irom Croup Research, Inc.! "They should be urged to publish such material " i.nd if they don't, buster, you know what to do!" "In many cases, exposure alone will turn the tide." Counterattack. Awaie. and Red Channels argued in pre cisely tlie same manner but "exposure" was considered some what heinous by the ACLU. the ADA, and their camp followers. Tlie aim of all this activity is simply to drive away tlie right wing, to create a climate of public opinion which will make it dilficult for a conscr ir to to pay the club's way to Europe, where it has been invited to perform in various cities and countries. And what happened? A union said that it would picket and close the hotel unless the club members, each and every one, joined up and paid an initiation fee of $175 per person along with dues of $36 a year. The Los An geles appearance was cancelled. If this isn't an example of a cruel and callous use of monopoly power, what is? And if this doesn't show the need to include or ganized labor within the framework of the antitrust laws, or something akin to them, what does? Clash a defiant stand by Wallace and quell any re sulting civil disturbance. In past interviews Wallace has said he knows this consequence may follow. He wants this test, at any cost. He says he thinks the forcible removal (and perhaps arrest) of a governor would stir the nation to the peril he finds in the U.S. government's course. Implicit in this is his idea that, once awakened, a majority of Americans would call on the President, the Congress and the fed eral courts to change course to a direction ac ceptable to the forces sternly resisting deseg regation. Everyone concerned with this desperately serious problem, whether near to it or stand ing at some distance, must ask himself: Is this, or is it not, a nation whose indi vidual parts (states) are stronger than the whole? Would a majority of people rise, as Wal lace hints, in support of a course that would confirm state superiority? Or would a majority support the federal power as supreme? There is not much time before the next crisis. By all means imaginable, letter, tele gram, public opinion poll, tho country's clear answer to these questions ought quickly to be made known. We are deciding not just a matter of civil rights. We are deciding again what kind of a nation we want the United States to be. Reason, the elemental reason of a solid thinking people, should inject itself into this controversy before a hard collision comes and perhaps brings with it ungovernable vio lence and a train of events deeply injurious to all Americans. he heard, to silence all right-wing opposition. It will be violative of tlie Kill of Rights to protest the appearance in your local high sihool auditorium of the peripa tetic leaders of the Communist Party. Head the screams in the l!5s from the agonizing lib crallclt when anti - Communist groups attempted to prevent this. Rut it will be good clean fun If William F. Buckley Jr., editor of National Review, or Admiral Ar leigh Rurke, former Chief of Naval Operations and now bead of Georgetown Universty's Center Strategic Studies, tries to oien his mouth. Both these men are on a long blacklist prepared by GR1 and the AFUCIO. In fact, almost everyone to the right of Senator Hubert H. Hum phrey is on the list or is honored by a GRI dossier. Soon they'll be asking conservatives lo wear dis tinctive armbands and to get off tlie sidewalk when lilvcral-laboi-folks come down the street. Al manac Hv I'nllrd Press International Today in Friday, M.iy :tl, tho J.Mst day of li3 with 214 to follow. 11 k moon is approaching it lull phiix. The niorninfi stars are Venus, Jupiter and .Saturn. The cvi'innt; stjr is Mars. On this day in history: In UK7, a flotilla o( "taimoter rabi" imported from Pans, ar rived in New York, the firs! "taxi" to he seen in an Amen ian city. In IU3. Secretary of Mate Wi! Iim Jennings Bryan declared th l?th Convtitulional Amendment m cltect. It piouk-d for popular election of U.S. senators. In 1131, Kadio Moscow claimed that television was first invented by a Russian In IW7. !n l.ttf, Adolph Kichmann was h;.ned in Israel for his part in the mass murder of six million Jews during World VS.tr II. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Purely Personal Prejudices: The chief difference between art and entertainment is tlie demand that each makes upon us; enter tainment permits us to remain passive, while, art requests that we meet it at least halfway; A should be no wonder, therefore, that tlie great majority should al ways take the line of least resist ance, and prefer tlie passive re ceptivity to the active approach. Some languages can be learned, and others only imitated; I am convinced that French cannot be truly learned after the age of 10. but only poorly imitated, because the lips, the tongue and even the nose are uniquely positioned In speaking tlie language properly. Seeing a revival of a Eugene O'Neill play reminds one how much our psychological grasp has expanded In the last 30 yean: half of what he says Is already commonplace knowl edge, and the rest has been dis carded as obsolete. Most academicians talk about the "value" of an education in the humanities, but the best rea son was given by some anony mous dean who said: "Tlie pri mary purpose of a liberal educa tion is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure." Love and justice are impossi ble at tltc same time toward tlie same object; if we know an ob ject with love, we cannot help bestowing upon it more than jus tice. Alale authors who write about Foodstuff ACROSS .19 rutt 1 loo yong 4tMlcan current 4 Spinish 41 Small luinor Bt'orn 4U Odd job lKorn 4.M.ooking fixedly 13 lllhitlt filint 4!jrdnn form 61 Mediterranean, 14 Sea bird for instance 15 Sailor t2 l-andcd la Vilifying S.ir.reat Ukt ! Deletion 64 Steeped 20Mrataiem4 foodstuff 21 Burmese wood SI Small ueisht aprile M .loin closely 22Scolt,: bTRrplviabl alKd'iMe" I nraMed lliert rootvU'tlc "Ve-hiirtus ?T Silent .1 Mower :to Sharper 4 I real term : aj K.ter of M roster I oleic ai .1 S Photivraphx 14 Hid orr len-e : :i.', Mud ,oli-anl 7 Mulch ritv in Itiltrr velrli S llliN of lare : 1" V " fi r..'-,. tjil . 1 i 13 I 14 p 16 17 I ? a 110 ill is rr l id rrpSr L-1 mJ LA 31 J35 35 37 T r35 I Li . Z 43 44 rj45 4o 4 4d 55 ' 6 1 31 Wk jmmmmmmmi ' ' ,vv J.Jr m 4-'-" -, itl liiWfli STRICTLY PERSONAL women in a patronizing or critical tone are generally those who have been unsuccessful in their per sonal relations with women, and turn a temperamental flaw into a philosophical position; even so profound a talent as Nietzsche's was not exempt from this uncon scious perversion. Nobody today has a right to insist that all vre have to do Is lo "read the Bible" and fol low what it says in order to obey the word of God unless such a person has himself read the Bible in its original lan guage. In Its earliest manu scripts, with no vowels tn the text, no punctuation, no capitali sation, no spacing b e t w e en words, and nothing but conso nants. A rare and sensible perspective on one's attainments was ex pressed recently in an interview, by Kingsley Martin, long time edi tor of "The New Statesman" of England, who remarked: "Life consists of achieving things and tlien realizing how small a thing you've achieved." Even though America may have tlie highest level of medical care in the world, not more than 10 tier cent of the population at most is receiving the most advanced and sophisticated treatment known to medical science and this small percentage is concen trated in three or four large cities. Those who end their letters w ith tlie phrase, "as ever." are giving reassurance tliat they have not changed to people, perhaps, who wish they would. Answer to Previous Ptiztle KlA'4' A h e NJ AS C A,T.r'c;T P.TTi I jO NJ T.ONJF k:i.f-.wes ? Frnnar .11 Whirlpools Hnti-.li prmcesi Hntily ji.irt .1.1 oninr Uf Kntrrt 4't Thrrxdhare 41 le(Trascd 42 St uf f 4 ( BiMiral nam? 44 out 4H Uhnr 47 iJaWMit f Irmrnt 4R Hrrarhti Mnall Mime I'hmtnm VIMtnr lrrcEiilir Ktniale equine (If niii of mnplrs t-tvit print NiMTitdtan king .snnsnnnfan 1". mi t lirftf J? t I't'lm 'fit. i " LETTERS ' TO THE EDITOR Experienced With the full realization that few experiences in life are more boring than to hear older people cite their past achievements to prove their points, I feel that in this case I must do so. I served as one of seven mem bers on tlie state committee, lat er called the Holy Committee, which first conceived and inaugu rated reorganization in Oregon. Then in my seven years as a member of the State Board of Ed ucation we worked constantly with this question, and, after the bill became a law, we held count less meetings and hearings around the state, a large number of which I attended. I believe 1 at tended every open meeting of the Klamath County Reorgani zation Committee, constantly try ing to see tlie solution to our un usual situation. It has long seemed to me that the one most equitable financial ly and best in the long run from our educational standpoint, would be a complete county unit with the entire wealth of the county, including industry, forests, utili ties, and business, educating all of the children of the county. In every case of reorganiza tion, some people have felt that they would be injured, mostly economically, sometimes w- i t h real justification. However, in our case. I do not feel that their fears will result in as much dam age as has been anticipated, cer tainly not enough to offset the advantages of better education. Moreover, for many years the levy of District No. I and District No. 2 for education has exceeded that of tlie county unit, and there seems to me no valid compari son between taxation for schools and that of the water levy on larm property. You may think I t:ike this stand because I live in Klamath Falls and our millage may be decreased, but such is not the case. All I care about is the welfare of education. Almost any plan of reorgani zation inevitably results in ad ministrative difficulties, p r o h lems which are solvable, as we have seen tor over a quarter of a century that the many prob lems of a county unit have been most successfully met under the able and efficient leadership of fine administrators such as Car rol Howe and Cliff Robinson. No one can truthfully say that, with tlie inclusion of the entire county, inequities would occur which would be much different in facil ities and curriculum from t h e seemingly necessary ones that ex ist now because of distances, pop ulation, and geography, and I be. lieve many or all of these will he solved under a one real county unit. I long dreaded the day w hen re organization would occur in Klam ath because of the bitterness and suspicion which I have seen in other communities, and it is mv sincere hope that our people can act both obtectie!y and without rancor. All of the city and countv schools have long olfered fine educational programs to our rhil dien. and it is my belief th.it one county unit will provide im provement, will he a real ad v.uitace for years to come. Whatever plan is adopted by the electorate. I assure you that 1. for one. will accept it w.th complete acquiescence and coop eration Untie O'Neill, 1954 Portland By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent .Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) The hassle between the United States and the United Kingdom on transatlantic air fares is the worst mess international civil aviation has been in since World War II. For a time the Americans and British were standing eyeball to eyeball, threatening to deny landing rights to each other's planes. Then Washington blinked and backed up. It will be some time before the issue is settled. Every gov ernment has the right to deny its air space to planes of another country. The question of whether inter national air fares are to be set by governments or by operating civil air transport lines still is to be resolved. There are two alternatives. President Kennedy has asked Congress to give the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board tlie power to fix rates to and from the United States, subject to his approval. Air Transport Assn.. which is the American private industry trade organization of civil aviation companies, wants the government to have only Die power to sus pend objectionable rates while negotiations are carried on to adjust them. v Chairman Warren Magnuson, D-Wash., of the Senate Inter state Commerce Committee has introduced bills to carry out both the government and the ATA proposals. When Congress finally decides what powers CAB shall have in this field, it will settle a long-standing controversy. Existing organizations for es tablishing international air travel rates were set up at the end of World War II. First the prewar European International Air Transport Assn. IATA was revived in 1945 for area rate traffic conferences. In 1946 the Americans and British met at Bermuda to work out the first international air transport agreement. This was By FULTON LEWIS JR. Atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, sent to death for treason 10 years ago, w ill be hon ored in massive demonstrations next month. American Communists plan tlie celebrations for June 19. 10 years to the day that the pair met death in the electric chair al Sing Sing prison. New York's staid old Carnegie Hall will be the scene of a gala rally in their honor. Speakers, who include Dr. Harold Urey, noted scientist, will revere the Rosenbergs' memory and urge freedom for Morion Sobell. now serving a 30-year sentence for espionage. The anniversary celebrations include: A gathering at the graves of the Rosenbergs at Wellwood Cem etery. Pine Lawn, Long Island, on June 16. A "youth appeal" at the While House June 15. Meelings in other U.S. cities. Protests by world leaders around the glolic. A typical lead er: famous philosopher Bertrand Russell, British ban-thc-bomber. lxud Russell, who believes the Rosenbergs like Alcer Hiss were framed, has made a sec. ial movie short in which he ap peals ior Sohell's freedom. Tlie Rev. Adam Clayton Powell readied a new low in racist dem agogy tile otlicr day. Addressing an outdoor rally in Englewood. N.J., tlie dapHT Conmcssman clergvman leveled serious charg es against U N. Ambassador Ad lai Stevenson. The ambassador, said Powell, was a tvpical white liberal, glib, facile, who felt only contempt (nr his black brother. To prove his point. Powell told his audience that Stevenson's 50 man UN staff included only one Xegro Powell charged further that Stevenson, out lo improve h:s libera! im,i;e. recently asked President Kennedy for three Ne groes ught-skinned Negroes, at that to work in h s oirice as clerk-typists. "He didn't want them as full secretaries and be didr. t want them b'.aik." Powell told his au dience of 4O0 Negroes meeting in Kn'.ewcKxl s MacKay Park The tacts, however, are some thing else. There are not sou empkives, but 112. under Steven sons direction. Amoni them are not one. hut 12 Negroes. Ambassador Stevenson has not once spi.ken to President Ken nedy about tlie necessity f o r "light -skinned Negroes" in h,j of fice, both Adlai and JFK agree. the pattern which later was ex panded to take international air carriers of about 25 countries into IATA. It has operated suc cessfully for 18 years and fixes rates by unanimous agreement of airline operators. The current controversy arose from a new package of rate adjustments negotiated by IATA. Foreign carriers, nearly all of which are government subsidized and operating at a loss, wanted a sharp increase in all fares. The American carriers wanted to continue easting rates but fi nally agreed to go along on a deal they considered good. It knocked $25 off the first class luxury transatlantic fare. It continued existing group and economy excursion rales which is where the volume traffic and profits arc. It cut the 10 per cent discount on round trip fares to S per cent. The last item amounted lo a $27 increase on the transatlantic fare. Foreign carriers insisted on this. American carriers opposed it but gave in. Here, however, the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board under Chair man Alan S. Boyd entered the picture and disapproved the 5 per cent discount. CAB believes tlie best way to promote air travel is to push rates down ward. Then the U.S. State Depart ment got into the act in support of CAB through C. Griffith John son, assistant secretary of Eco nomic Affairs. Presumably, though this hasn't been admitted, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Kennedy got involved. A decision was made to force a showdown with the British, who were prime backers of the smaller round trip discount. The British Minister of Trans port made a hot speech in Com mons and rallied European sup port to defy the United States. A threat was made to deny British planes if they sold round trip tickets at tlie 5 per cent dis count, but tlie administration chickened out. WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Congressman Powell Travels First Class The whole story, it appears, is a fabrication. Powell's demagogy did not end with his attack upon Stevenson, however. Greeting a group of Negro kids who "sat-in" predom inantly while Englewood schools in protest against residential seg regation. Powell said: "I'll bet you've never shaken hands wiUi a Congressman before, because your Congressman would never shake hands with you." Powell knows full well that Congressman Frank Osmers. who represents the district, harbors no anti-Negro sentiments. The Congressman, a moderate Re publican, has actively supported all civil rights measures before Congress. He has had substantial Negro support in his election campaigns. Powell tried to whip his audi ence i estimated at 95 per cent Negro i into a frenzy w ith appeals such as this: "The white man is alraid. He's not afraid of the physical black man. He's afraid r( his conscience. He's afraid when he dies and goes before tlie Lord. God will say, 'Go to hell, damn you.' " The Congressman lashed out at whites who help make up tlie leadership of organizations fight ing (or greater Negro rights: "It is as ridiculous for a white man tn lead the Negroes' fight as it would have been for a Brit ish officer lo lead the American Revolutionary troops." Powell then left for Paris, on another taxpaid junket, this one to attend a meeting of the Inter national Labor Organization. He told his audience of his plans, according to the New York Her ald Tribune's Terry Smith: "They tried to slop me . . . hut I'm going again . . . this Sun day ... tlie luxury flight to Paris . . . with lots of relatives ... at the government's ex pense . . ." Someone in the audience shout ed "first class!" "Yes. first class." said the Rev. Mr. Powell. OUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q-Mhai i, (he postal agree ment hri.ren the I'nltrt Nation and the lulled stairs relative to the sale of l.N. sumps? A-Tlie U S. Post Ofiice Depart ment retains all revenue from the Mi of U.N. sta;r.ps for postal Purposes; the United Nations re tains a;! revenue derived from philatelic sales of U.N. sumps.