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FACE HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Sunday, June t, 1M3 "The Time to Fight Is Now, Au Revoir!" NOTHING SPECIAL IW. S. S.I Goldwater Moves Ahead The early milestones In a presidential campaign are not always easily detected. They can la passed almost unnoticed, while the focus of news is on other things. ' This may just have happened in the Re publican arena. Due note was taken, of course, when a "draft Goldwater" organization was formed with headquarters In Washington. There are plans for a giant Goldwater rally there July 4. But it was not this alone that made the milestone. What is most significantly new and it showed up in reaction to the draft an nouncement is a changed attitude among some of Sen. Barry Goldwater's close asso ciates. A recent Gallup Poll places Goldwater ahead of all current GOP choices for the 1964 presidential nomination. They no longer are playing it quite so cool as before. Formerly they echoed the senator's own expressed disinterest in mak ing a race. Now they are beginning to make some of the same strategic political argu ments one hears from his staunchest out side supporters. To be specific, they are repeating the contention that GOP gains in the South have sharply altered both the nomination and the election picture. With this change, so the reasoning goes, it is now possible for a candidate to capture both Hie convention and an electoral vote ma jority through a combination of southern, western and some midwestern states. Goldwater is ottered, by intimates now as well as others, as one who may be pre-eminently qualified to put this combination to gether. It would mean victory without most of the big industrial states and their great urban populations. The matter is taken further. Expecting new use of the devastating old argument that a conservative "can't win," Goldwaterites from the inner circle on out are trying to turn the argument completely around. For the reasons already set forth, they are suggesting that this time their particular conservative can win and that it is the mod erate candidate, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, who will be a poor bet for No vember of 1964. In support, the claim is made that Rock efeller would be snowed under in the very industrial areas where his advocates count him strongest against President Kennedy. What real weight to give these arguments is not the important point at the moment. The meaningful thing is that they have be come the properly of Goldwater's intimates. This is a better sign than any exterior ev idence that, despite all his disclaimers, the senator's 1964 GOP candidacy is moving stead ily toward reality. Farmers Make Bold Move (Th Chriifian Selene Monitor) The vote on the wheat referendum ought to clear the air. We will have the first rea sonably fair test of whether American agri culture has become an Industry, capable of standing mostly on its own feet. The farmers want such a test. We have had no trial of the comparatively free market in wheat since the nineteen twenties and much has changed on the farm since then. If the farmers had voted the other way, for full-scale production and marketing con trols, there would have been a test of that al ternative. But hardly anyone doubts that con trols would work, if voted by the farmers and Congress and applied firmly. The question fs rather whether we want them. And the aver age American, like the average farmer, proba bly would reach the same general verdict; we want effcclive controls only If there is no other workable alternative. It Is plain that the present system, in force since the depression of the 1030's, is neither a valid alternative nor workable. It results in chronic, subsidized surpluses and a monstrosity of government storage and de vices for getting rid of the stuff as well as a great generosity of food distribution to the hungry which can be arranged by other and far less costly means. Is there, then, another and workable al ternative? By going over to the maximum feasible degree of free market and minimal subsidies and controls? We simply don't know. Many farmers assert there is such an alternative. The Farm Bureau in particular says the relatively free market will work. But it certainly did not work in the terrible twenties. More than a decade of chronic farm crises showed there was a built-in downward spiral of overproduction and price collapse. As it sagged, each farm er produced like mad to get more of the re duced price, knowing his neighbor would do this, and that if he didn't he would go bankrupt. But since then the farm has been miracu lously mechanized in the United States. It is possible that farmers, like businessmen, can make workable decisions on how much to pro duce in view of the state of the market. And that the inefficient will drop out or be forced out, instead of hanging on like social and eco nomic derelicts. The point is that we will now find out. The farmers themselves have ordered the test. Otherwise we might have sunk into firm controls without ever knowing. We have one reservation. We would have preferred the Committee for Economic Devel opment plan which moved back toward a free market by careful stages. We hope a plunge back into competition will not prove too heavy a dose. The Kennedy administration has said tartly that if the farmers decide to plunge it will not help them. They are on their own now. But knowingly so. We wish them well. i t? iW THE GLOBAL VIEW The Role Of The Red Spy By LEOM PENNKN Newspaper Enterprise Analyst UNITED NATIONS. NY. NEA)-The trial ol U.S. Navy yeoman NeWon Drummond, charged with selling secret U.S. document to the Russian mis sion of th United Nations, was old stuff emong U.N. diplomats. They hav become accustomed to the fact that Moscow'! spies use U.N. headquarters as their opciations base. "After all Uw Russians did not Invent espionage." said a Latin American delegate whoso coun try is now one of the main tar gets of Russia's secret service. A diplomat from Europe com mented: "Even before Joshua sent out two men to 'view' se cretly the land of Jericho, na tions spied on each other to bol ster their power." His country was also recently rocked by spectacular disclosures of Red espionage. ' Seen with the "above-thc-bal-tie" indifference of U.N. diplo mat, Russia's secret operations in the Free World may seem similar to the espionage con ducted by Uie West against the Soviet bloc. But this is an II hisiha that persists only in the unrealistic atmosphere of the big glass bouse on the East River. Of course tlie NATO nations are trying ruird to peneUate the se crecy of Russia's military plans. But democratic society, especial ly the United States, takes to tspiona; only u a necessary evil. For the Kremlin rulers it is a vital tenet of their Marxist Leninist philosophy. Red agents do not simply spy to gain secrets. Their mission is also to sow chaos and civil strife in countries fighting Communist domination. According to Western intelli gence experts, at least 300.000 Soviet bloc agents operate today in Uie non Communist countries. They consider this figure to be 10 times larger than the com bined total of all Uie secret agents serving the West. Nor is money a problem for the Russians despite their per sistent economic and agricultural crisis. The Western analysts es timate that the Red bloc spends a half billion dollars a year on Its vast espionage ring. Though Soviet agents are fre quently caught red-handed, this docs not mean in the view of United Slates apecialists that Moscow's spy sstem is de fective. Kver since Lenin created the Red dictatorship in Russia in 1917. the Soviet secret serv ice has relied mainly on the "human wave" strategy. Three agents take the place of every spy caught. Thus, the Kremlin seems to he undisturbed by exposures or Uie steady trickle of defectors to the West-even if they are of tlie suture of Oleg IVnkovskv. the Soviet scientist recently exe cuted in Moscow as a Ornish spy. Until the last war it was the Communist International (Com intern which carried on much of Russia's global espionage. Tlie Comintern's section in charge of secret operations in particular ureas was usually headed by a top international Red. Georci Dimitrov, former leader of tlie Bulgarian Communist Party, was "director" of espionage in the Balkans. Ho Chi Mmh, now pres ident of Communist North Viet Nam. held a similar post in Southeast Asia. Tlie Soviet secret service still employs "native" Communist parties everywhere to gain infor mation and recruit agents. But a notable feature of Red espion age since Premier Khruslicliev . came to power is the wide use tlie Kremlin makes of "diplo matic missions," especially in l.ilin America, Asia and Africa. No other country in m o d e r n times has had so many of its diplomats expelled for espionage as Russia. Yeoman Urummond's trial or the recent convKlaon of British Admiralty official William Vas sal, a homosexual blackmailed by Moscow, are merely samples of the Tumorous cases of lied espionage uncovered yearly by eery country outside the Rus sian orbit. Many cases never come to tri al because the Soi let or East European nationals caught spy ing enjoy inimunity as diplomats or U N. oflicials. IS EDSON IN WASHINGTON Romney Playing It Cute By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) Ef forts to smoke out Michigan Gov. George Romney as a Republican presidential candidate, when he appeared before the National Press Club in Washington, were kinda cute. "The governor has said he was not a candidate so many times." observed Bryson Rash, club presi dent, by W'ay of introduction, "that he's thinking of having it tattooed in fading ink, of course." The opening sentence of the gov ernor's speech was, "1 came here today to sell Michigan, and I hope that while I succeed in that, I will succeed also in convincing you that it is my only purpose." The 550 people in the audience responded unanimously with a horse laugh of disbelief. The real highlight of the speech came while Romney was itemiz ing a census of all Michigan's in dustrial, human and natural re sources. "Michigan's No. 1 crop in value is coin," said the governor with deadpan pride. When the audience tittered, he added, "Real corn." Finally came the Q. and A., which in condensed form went something like this: First Question Would you ever consider living elsewhere? Answer I've lived in Mexico. Idaho, Washington and the District of Columbia. But Michigan is the place for me. Q Would you accept a favorite son nomination from District of Columbia Republicans? A I've invited Goldwater and Rockefeller to come to Michigan and see if they want to become its favorite son. Q Are there any circumstanc es under which you would accept the Republican nomination for president? A There are no circumstances under which I will seek it. When this evasion drew another gulfaw the governor added: "I told the Republican National Com mittee that if they would bring the National Convention to Michi gan, I'd take a Sherman." Q Do you consider that the Re publican candidate for Uie presi dency in 1964 will be a sacrificial lamb? A It's too early to tell what will happen in 1964. Q Are you a Republican? That stopped him for a moment, then he replied: A I worked for the Democrats in Washington during Uie depres sion. The Republican Party was then controlled by big business. Labor moved into the Democratic Party and that brought on a stale mate. I resigned from the Republi can Party and joined a citizens' committee. Then I again joined the Republican Party because I be lieved it impossible to form a citi zens' party. But we can't deal w ith our problems till we do. I w as a citizen who was also a Republi can and proud to be one. But there is a need for a genuine citizens' political party. Parties don't exist lu be big business or big labor. That is not government of, for or by the people- QWhy don't you admit you are interested in being a candidate? 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I also lived in Texas as a refugee after my family was driven out of Mexico by the revo lution. The federal government housed and fed us in El Paso for a time. Salmon was unsurplus then and we lived on canned salm on. My older brother still can't eat salmon. But whatever they blow about in Texas, come on up to Michigan and we've got it. That put him right back in Mich igan where he started from. OTHER EDITORS' OPINIONS Land Spurned (.Milwaukee Journal) Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlcvi of Iran is having trouble with the landlords who must give up hold ings so that he can distribute them to peasants. The average peasant, of course, thinks that the whole business is just fine. There are some peasants who aren't average, however. The Khashgai. Boir Ahmadi and Made sani tribesmen, for instance. Their chiefs own huge areas and the tribesmen own no land at all. and that's the way they like it. They are rovers, who move about with their sheep, cattle and other live stock as the seasons dictate. They rinn't want to settle down on land of their own. and they've been nuking their point by battling with the shah s troops. In a single battle they killed eight policemen who were trying to arrange to give them land and lost 32 men of their oun. The giver, tlie shah is learning, is not always blessed. How They Grow IKort Worth Siar-Trlrgraml One way that federal bureau cratic agencies grow: The Kood and Drug Administra tion, according to its head man. Commissioner George P. Larrick. will budget 20 new full-time posi tions for next year. The function ol these new employes will be to work with consumers, particular ly through clubs and organizations, to tind out "what the consumers want us to do for them." Such intensive prompting should turn up a lot of suggestions for thincs the consumers think they would like to see done, whether they need to be done or not. And ol course once this is found out. even more employes will hae to lie hired to do them It looks like the perfect formula for perpetual growth. Lawrence Slater is the source of some information that won't make you feel any happier even if bet ter informed as to what has hap pened to the bucks you work so hard lor. The 50-cent dollar, once regard ed as the ultimate evil fruit of in flation, would now be welcomed back with open arms, according to a study released by the Nation al Industrial Conference Board. For the dollar is now, by the Board's calculation, worth 40 cents or less in prewar buying power. An American family with an annual income of about $7,500 in 1963 has the purchasing power of the $3,000-a-year family in 1939, the Board reported. The reason, inflation and increased federal income and Social Se curity taxes. For those concerned, the report made these other comparisons: To gain the purchasing power of a $10,000 income of 1939 requires a 1963 income of $26,934. An income of $80,549 today buys only what $25,000 bought in 1939. And $100,000 worth of 1939 purchasing power now takes $390,741. ' Alt of which Is mindful that a few years ago men dreamed of getting a salary they'd have a hard time living on today. If all businesses were as ener getic and willing to experiment in pulling in customers as are the thousands of very competitive hamburger drive-ins, there prob ably would be less talk of govern ment aids. Now comes the egg-burger, if you please, to stimulate the sale of hamburgers. We've had the cheeseburger for some time, and it's an accepted item, of course. But egg-burgers are something else. It's a fried egg slapped on top of a hamburger patty. Not too many o.' us. this far away, pay much attention to the problems that occupy the minds of residents of Washington, D.C. But, they've got some king-sized ones, believe me. All cities have their fiscal problems, but in Wash ington: " The federal government pays no taxes. In addition to occupying half the city's usable land, fed eral requirements have set up hundreds of embassies, legations, military missions, purchasing mis sions and so on which are also exempted from all taxes. The federal government is the number one employer and most of its employes who work in Washington live in the sub urbs and pay no income tax to the city. Tremendous expansion in fed eral hiring in recent years has skyrocketed the costs of providing municipal services to these non residents and tourists. Because Americans want their capital to be beautiful. Congress and the original plan of Major L'Enfant demand wide, tree-lined costly streets and avenues. All municipal construction must conform to rigid (and costly) lederal esthetic standards. In earlier years, Congress fi nanced half of the city's budget. Today, the arrangement is a mat ter of debate. Since the change, lump sums have ranged from a high of 39.5 per cent in 1924 to a low of 8.5 in 1954. Historians tell us about the past and economists tell us about the future. Only the present is confusing. For those of us who have little or no hair, it is maddening to go into Uie bathroom and find all of the combs full of greasy kid stuff or that gruesome butch cut wax. I'm reminded of the time the bar ber surveyed the slick hair of a young man who had just seated himself in his chair. He asked: "Do you want a haircut or should I just change the oil?" WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Lunatic Fringe Seeks Goldwater Downfall By FULTON LEW IS JR. Assorted nuts and bolts have launched a desperate attempt to smear Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, leading Republican presidential contender. Southern racists and Northern bigots have joined forces in a ridiculous effort to prevent Gold water's nomination. First salvo in the Goldwater attack was fired last year by George Lincoln Rock well, self-styled fuehrer of the American Nazi Party. Various journals of the lunatic fringe have since devoted their pages to the "truth about this no torious Kosher conservative." The Thunderbolt, a racist rag published in Birmingham w ith na tional circulation, joins the band wagon this month with several articles about "the Judas goat, half Jew Barry Goldwater." Goldwater, they charge, joined tlie Phoenix chapter of the Na tional Association (or the Advance, ment of Colored People a decade aco to work for the desegregation of Arizona public schools. This the Senator readily admits: "I felt this was a worthwhile project. In this respect, I paid membership dues to the Maricopa County NAACP and contributed $400 to this project" "My firmer conviction," he con tinues, "is that desegregation should be conducted at the state level without federal intervention. Therefore. I felt that by contribut ing to the local group as a private citizen 1 was helping its chances by resolving tlie problem. Deseg regation in tlie Phoenix school system w as carried on w ithout in cident due to the mannerly way the citizens of Arizona conducted themselves." Goldwater. who is not now a member of the NAACP, comes under further atlack for his ef fort? to integrate the Phoenix air port in 1952. He is scored, too. lor criticizing racial discrimination in Jimmy Holla's Teamsters Union. Golda ter. the racists point out. voted for a Constitutional Amendment to outlaw tlie poll lax. He is chastised by Thunderbolt editors for voting to confirm that "left w ing Jew," Arthur Goldberg, as Secretary of Labor 'he is now a Supreme Court Justice'. Tlie lunatic fringe says that Goldwater's greatest fault is the fact he is half Jewish. iThey de light in disclosing the Goldwater family name was originally Gold waser The Thunderbolt tries to claim that "S5 per cent of ail spies caught stealing I'.S. atom secrets have been Jews. All Jews are pa triots not for America but for Is rael and Sov iet Russia " Goldwater. thc people sav. in troduced a bill 1S.6376I to create a federal mental hospital in Alaska "that was denounced by almost all patriots as being a Red plan for imprisonment of right wing pa triots w ithout court trial." Tlie bill, needless to say, pro vided no such thing. Other screwball reasons that Golaater is unfit for the Presi dency: His son has contemplated service in tlie Peace Corps. His daughter has talked about visiting Israel tor several years. Note: Goldwater comes under attack from all sides. While South ern bigots attack him as a flam ing integrationist. the Chicago De fender, a militant Negro publica tion, calls him a narrow-minded racist. "If Goldwater is to be stopped before he reaches the river bank," tlie paper says, "Uie movement to impede his march must begin now." Goldwater, K says, "is openly against the broad spectrum of Uie civil rights issue in all its related facets, against enforce ment of federal laws where Ne groes are involved." "He is not a mere disciple in sackcloth. He is Uie exponent and prophet of a new evangelism irA, politics which is akin to the Dixie'' crat's flaming doctrine of racialism." Al manac By United Press International Today is Sunday, June S. the. IVlid day of I'M with 212 to follow. Tlie moon is approaching its full phase. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. Tlie evening star is Mars. On this day in history: In lata. Gen. Robert E. Lee took over the command ot the Confederate armies of eastern Virginia and North Carolina. In 1924. Congress conferred citi zenship upon all .American In dians. In 1946. as the result of a na tional referendum, the Italian people voted to abolish the mon archy. In 19.V1. Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in Westminster Abbey. lndon. by the archbishop of Canterbury. A thought for the day Russian noelist Turgenev said: "I aire with no mans opinions. I have some of my own."
