PAGE (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.