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PAGK I HERALD fcdiiifdaL (paqsL Private Rights And The Public Good The Supreme Court decision overturning several iunch counter sit-in convictions of Ne groes in southern states leaves untouched a basic issue of law that may soon have to be dealt with. That question is the extent if any to which an individual property owner, acting from private choice alone, can be Interfered with by federal authority if he chooses not to desegregate his restaurant or other facili ties. The high court this time really ruled on only one point: It said state (city) law or the executive equivalent was used to compel res taurant owners to enforce segregation at lunch counters and that such state law is un constitutional. : : What would it say if there were no such use of stale power? In an opinion accom panying the majority view, Justice John Har lan said: "An individual's right to restrict the use of his property, however unregenerate a par ticular exercise of that right may be thought, lies beyond the reach of the 14th amendment. ;' ' "Freedom of the individual to choose his associates or his neighbors, to use and dispose of his property as he sees fit, to be Irrational, arbitrary, capricious, even unjust in his per sonal relations, are things all entitled to a large measure of protection from government interference." ' This view is of course not the court majority's, nor is it directly applicable to the sit-in cases just now decided. (Minneapolis Star) ; Many people deplore the flood of sleazy paperbacks now on the market and with some reason. But it should not be forgotten that there are thousands of substantial, schol arly titles now in paperbacks at what the late, great Oscar Firkins, professor of comparative literature at the University of Minnesota, once called "an endearing little price." Writing in The New York Times, Eric Goldman, professor of history at Princeton, remarks that for $5.75 his students in an undergraduate course in modern American hjstory can get considerable insight into what has gone on in United States society in the last half century, simply by buying selected paperbacks. The little shelf of paperbacks, named by Professor Goldman, includes Henry F. Pringlc's "Theodore Roosevelt"; John Mor IN WASHINGTON . . By RALPH de TOI.KUANO The Communist regime in Cuba has discovered a new threat to Its stability rook 'n' roll. The very safety of the state, to believe a big new propaganda campaign, l imperiled by an adolescent cr;.o which has petered out al most everywhere except In the So viet Union. Fidel Castro's ter rors are, moreover, a liltl odd since rock 'n' roll never caught on in Cuba, which has music and dances of its own to occupy young ami old. But since Castro scratches ev ery time Khrushchev itches, the explanation for the Castro cam paign comes easily to hand. Itock 'n' roll, for some reason, seems to infuriate the Ineffable Nikila. Not only is It "Western" but he finds it "lewd" ami "obscene." The Butcher of llie Ukraine, who ordered the deailis of hundreds o'. thousands in the Stalin days, turns squcumish at the sight and MHind of an adolesi-cnt phenome non which has lately seized Bus- QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q Who Has the first American scientist to receive the Nobel Prise In phvsics? A-Albcrt A. Mlchelson In 1907 foT the measurement of the speed of, light. ft Vthcn did rolastrel traaprt first make then- appearance la America? A-In the middle of the 19th Century. O How did the audience re ceive Lincoln's Gettysburg Ad dress? i-Ther was little applause. AND NEWS, Klamath Falli. Ore. But it is indeed evident that Harlan's idea gains support from the 14th amendment itself. It says specifically that "no state" shall deprive any person of life, liberty or prop erty without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. In other words, unless it can be shown, as in the newly decided sit-in cases, that state power has been used to deny equal pro tection of the laws to Negroes, the federal government, through its courts, may be hard pressed to find a legal basis for challenging segregation practices on private property. Curiously, when the state and not the federal government is acting to bar discrimi natory practices, the shoe seems to be on the other foot. In a case wherein a property owner chal lenged Massachusetts' antidiscrimination housing law, the state's highest court ruled . against the owner. The court said a citizen cannot use his property "to the detriment of his follows." It added that "equally funda mental with the private right is that of the public to regulate it in the common interest." Other state high courts have ruled similarly in matters involving housing and employ ment practices. But these decisions are no help to the federal government, which is an institution of limited powers. By contrast, say constitutional lawyers, the state can act in the name of the "common good" to do almost anything not barred by its own or the U.S. Constitution. The Good Paperbacks ton Blum's "Woodrow Wilson and the Poli tics of Morality"; Frederick Lewis Allen's "Only Yesterday"; George F. Kennan's "American Diplomacy, 1900-1950"; John Herscy's "Hiroshima," and Theodore II. White's "The Making of the President: 1960." One can get almost anything now in pa per covers, art, history, literature, science, mathematics, law, psychology, drama what ever. Paperbacks have made a revolution in American publishing and in American cul tural history. Too often, there is loo much emphasis on cheap, erotic fiction when pa perbacks are discussed. We tend to forget the fine job the book publishers have done in making the works of most distinguished schol arship available to all. This is part of the na ture of the democratic process in which the printing press is free. Rocanroleros Plague Reds To the bewilderment of Uie po-lik-ally unsophisticated in Cuba, tlio official Radio Itchelde and tlx magazine Bohemia have been almost literally frothing over the putative effects of what they por tray as a rampaging group of "rocanroleros." The "rocanroler os" are being portrayed as a com bination of zoot-siuters. beatniks, Teddy-boys, and lcad Knd kids financed and encouraged by the US imperialists and dedicat ed to the corruption of Cuba's "revolutionary purity." Itadio BebeKle describes the "nlmos rocanroleros" as "a grave crime against our father land, and especially against our youth." Now rovk 'n' roll was never any contribution to tlie musical or torpsichorcan arts but as fads go it was no worse than swallowing goldfish or crowd ing into telephone booths. It was a manifestation of glandular exu berance. Fur the Communist theoreti cians, however, H held something tk-cply sinister. "It is no secret." they argue, "that rock 'n' roll brings w ith it the idea of unbridled youth, of a youth without purpose, really sick, corrupted by a sys tem which, unable to provide high ideals, gives it tlie opportunity to relievo their virile imctus in vicious and non-productive ex pressions." Having seen the rumba as it is done in non-tourist stmts In Latin America. I am a little bemused by this description. This bewilderment persists w lien I learn that tlie proscribed "frcn fied music" is being used to "haul the very young" into the net of "parasitical elements, homosexu als, and dope peddlers." l'm sure that Haul Castro, tlie dicta tor's sadistic brother, would ob ject to any aspersions cast on the last two categories.) Monday, June 3, 1901 One of flic attacks on the "roc anroleros" descrilies what pur ports to lie a typical example: "A long-haired type, wearing a thick red shirt, brown woolen spoils Jacket, corduroy pants, and cu rious shoes and mixture of moc casins ami slippers, cmliellislvcd with grey suede ornaments." If this is an accurate picture, tlion Fidel Castro need not fear the inroads of rock V roll. No young man dressed ill that fash ion could survive the heat of Havana for very long. He will either collapse from a stroke or just melt away. The "rocanroleros" are clearly depraved, and they arc being led even further astray by pornogra phy to go with their pornographic niiiMC Tlie Castro propagandists insist that the U S. is in league with West Germany in this en deavor. In fact, a man idcnlilied as being on tlie slalf of tlie non existent West German Kmbassy in Havana is accused of distribut ing du ly pictures to the nonexis tent rock 'n' roll set. tin the face of it. the sight of Communist Cuba straining at tlie gnat of a half-forgotten fad would be rather funny. But as Radio HeboMe says, giving away tlie show: "'the arts are a subtle form of penetration, and we have to remain on guard against all tpe of penetration " Hook 'n' roll is a straw man, easy to knock down. What Uie Commu nists fear is not tlie music, not the dance, but the idea that any thing American will find accepta bility among the Cuban people. Fidel Castro wivukl ohjecl to Bee thoven's Fifth Symphony, with its "V for Victory" theme, if he thought the enslaved Cubans would associate it with the free dom once dangled before them by the United Slates but now witlidrawn. Letters To The Editor Survey As secretary of the Klamath Union High School District No. 2 Citizens Committee I have been asked to write a survey of the work of this committee. As everyone is well aware, a year ago last May a ballot pro posal for the construction of two junior, high schools was soundly defeated. Following this the School Board of District No. 2 put before the people of that district a pro posal to build a second high school to be located at the Summers I.ane site. For the second time a proposal by the School Board was defeated. By the time school opened in the fall the problem was still unsolved. The board of District No. 2 then turned to the community. Letters wore written to organizations ask ing them to send a representative to an organizational meeting of a Citizens Committee to study the problem. On Sept. 20. 1962. this committee was formed and was asked to evaluate the .situation and report to tlie School Board. Tlie first meetings were spent in becoming acquainted with the problem and the first official ac tion was a motion declaring the committee's recognition that a problem existed. Tlie committee then proceeded to study solutions in the previously proposed and de feated plans. The Junior High System won much acclaim, but how could this be accomplished? To alleviate the overcrowded high school, a junior high system in cluding the eighth and ninth grades had to be established. Where did the problem lay? The barrier was that the first eight grades fell under tlie jurisdiction of District No. 1 and the county whereas the four high school grades are under tlie District No. 2 Board. Tlie children of the high school Medley ACROSS Shade tree Welt (Fr.l nil Completed 411 Solicitude 41 River in Rre ed o( equine s Sw itrerlanri Horn Krench verb to be" 42 Thieves' slang 4S Tramcressing 4W Fringing M Knemv Lineage. Toddler SI! Tropical plant Kit to withstand M Oak. lor instance stormy weather avea Redactors Demolishes t.imb Sea birds Cai.adian hilltide Continent Pry, as wine Alongside Took long steps Classified Retainer Kves I Scot I Crmm!iT"0 M War nod V, Stitches Oracle S7 Vehicle HOW N 1 Crafted iher ) 2 Conduct 3 Intercessors 4 Hriin of twills 6 Parage in the htam a KxiMinges 7 Novel 5 Rich fabric K"de"' ?7 1 12 IJ I 4 b 0 7 d 9 110 111 12 13 14 15 I 16 17 m b p iriu zi 5? I .15 31 rip rp 1 j jo qH 13" 44 pita 46 47 49 W "ST 55 bi 7 I I I I I j "I'm a Pacifist!" had received their primary educa tion under two separate school dis tricts and then upon entering K.U. fell under the supervision of a third district. How could this be resolved? U the voters of Ele mentary District No. 1 (city ele mentary) and the suburban part of tlie County District (elemen tary I were asked to release their eighth grade students to become a part of the High School Dis trict and then failed to provide money to house these students, it would be disastrous. If the people voted to build a school or schools for a Junior High System and then the release of the eighth grade students was denied, we would have a like situation. No solution seemed forthcoming here. Next we studied the building ol one, large Junior High School at the Ponderosa site. It must be remembered that Ponderosa be longs to Elementary District No. 1 and a sale of property would have to take place. Elementary Board No. 1 justly stated that they could not release their prop erties unless they were certain they no longer had tlie eighth grade of their district to, house and educate. Again this could not be guaranteed so this plan had to be set aside. It was generally agreed that be cause of the vote on a second high school at the Summers Lane site this need not be pursued. Continued study convinced the group that the problem lay in the fact that the children of the metro politan area were divided into three separate districts between their first year in school and their 12th. Each "if" seemed to hinge on the separation between the eighth and the ninth grades in jurisdiction of education. Healiz ing that to correct this situation we would have to talk reorgani zation, we began to look into the procedure for accomplishing this. Answer to Previous Pimlo Til M .C t RlRl R r M ATlfP (5 Ol b.Nn I DBA .R r- r aj t 'N. AIOKCBA S-o i eBPvmI uSBAu no E RIT t-,C AN e A si K stl I 1R Al Pain Tunisian rulers Perorated Negotiate Perils Container Musical instrument Serpent Narcotic t'aradLse l;-ak rr-.ttiberatv-e It Appraise anew 3:1 Fortification .IS W ish 411 l-eeat digests 41 (holer 42 Coarse fabrics 4:l Mane part 44 F.xpand 4 Arrow pouon 47 Feminine appellation 48 Toothed wheel SORT b 1 TEAM EAT Life; Ida Ia:ni i iS iMlyojl in 17 W -jf Here again we found many problems. First of all our laws governing reorganization were confusing. Except for two meth ods we could not accomplish re organization without special legis lation, for Klamath County had been made exempt. ' We studied the Single District, Metropolitan, Gerrymander and District within the boundaries of Elementary No. 1. The more we studied the more we realized that this would have to be investigated by people more familiar with the technicalities of education, tax ation and school law. On Dec. 13, 1962, the sum of a three-month study ended with the following recommendation: The committee recommends to the Board of District No. 2 the following: 1. Because the reorganization of our districts into a unified system of grades one through 12 is imper ative to the best education of our children, and 2. Because, until Uie lines or borders of the unified districts arc determined, the placement of the buildings or buildings cannot be determined on a practical basis, and 3. Because tlie people of this community have expressed the opinion that they would like to find a solution to our present problem that would be long range and not a stopgap measure, and 4. Because tlie ultimate decision is the duty of the elected school board. We therefore wish to have Boards No. 1 and No. 2 and the county begin to meet together im mediately to discuss the informa tion and plans brought forth by this Citizens Committee and pro ceed to a definite plan on reorgan ization of our school districts into a unified district or districts, to be completed in time that if legislation be necessary, it can be accomplislied in this legislative year (1863). This committee is to be included in attendance at these meetings. The Citizens Committee contin ued to meet with the combined School Boards Association until tlie petitioned One County District was proposed. In April of this year the Citizens Committee again met and reaf firmed their recommendation of Dec. 13. IW2. Trudy Karr, 2116 Herbert Street. Theory The "more efficient education al operation" Mr. Canlrall advo cates under the one district coun ty unit appears to me to be an opinion based on theory only, without consideration given to lo cal interests throughout the coun ty, and the results of emotional issues, however much we would prelcr otherwise. Personalities and emotional is sues recently resulted in Morrow County's presently being with out an effective school board, without a budget to operate tlveir schools, and with tlie loss of their school superintendent on July 1. One board member was recalled, the budget was defeat ed, four board members resigned, the chairman of the budget com mittee resigned, and tlie super intendent of schools submitted his resignation cffcetie July 1. Mor row County voted to go Into a county unit school district about four years a.o. and this is the result now This muht not happen in Klam ath County, but forcing the one district county unit on the rural icstilents of Klamath Count v By FULTON LEWIS JR. Steve Martinot is a bright eyed, sandy-haired young man whose personal sympathies I i e more with Mao Tse-tung than with Nikita Khrushchev. A graduate of Antioch College, Martinot is now active in the Progressive Labor Party, a group formed in January, 1962, by Milt Rosen and Mortimer Scheer. The pair, top-ranking New York Reds, were bounced from t h e Communist Party in late 1962 for r.eo-Trotskyism, for opposition to tlie party's united front policy. They favored a more militant approach in U.S. affairs and openly, sided with the Chinese and Albanians in their dispute with Mother Russia. Several months after their ex pulsion, Scheer and Rosen formed Progressive Labor. A real "find" is Martinot. Martinot quickly tried to form a Progressive Labor student club at Columbia University, where he was pursuing graduate studies. He told the campus newspaper: "We consider ourselves Marxist-Leninists. Whatever name you want to call us, Communist, So cialist, if it fits, we will wear it. We defend the Communist Party's right to exist in the United States and we are opposed to the sustained campaign against it. "Our goal is to work toward establishment of a revolutionary Socialist Party in the United States. The aim would be for the working class, people who don't have a stake in management or ownership, to seize political control of the state." Martinot is now actively try ing to recruit students for a month-long trip to Cuba this sum mer in violation of U.S. law. It was Martinot and a handful of others who last year formed the Ad Hoc Committee for Travel to Cuba. They planned to visit Castroland last Christmas, but were forced to abandon the idea when Canadian authorities refused to let them use Toronto as a jumping - off place. An Ad Hoc leader then said the trip had not been cancelled. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS "Enthusiasm" is generally cited as an absolute virtue by its pro ponents, who rarely bother to ask themselves whether there is an optimum point beyond which en thusiasm turns into a vice. Indeed, the line between enthu siasm and fanaticism is a thin one; and beliefs that are too pas sionately held tend to deny the rights of any other beliefs. Some times, in fact, enthusiasm is a substitute for reasoned belief, rather than a consequence of it. Some years ago. Bertram! Rus sell warned us that "Tlie opinions that are held with passion arc al ways those for which no good ground exists; indeed, the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction." It is sometimes said to be a weakness of democracy that those of us who profess R do not hold our convictions as ardently or te naciously as those who subscribe to communist or fascist doctrines. This is true, but I regard it as a strength rather than as a weak ness. To be dogmatic and doc trinaire about democracy is a con tradiction in terms. Democracy cannot be pushed down people's throats; it cannot be imposed upon them "for their own good." or it becomes as diabolic as the totalitarian systems. In an interesting article on "Sci entists. Seers and Strategy." in the April issue of "Foreign Af fairs." Prof. Albert Wohlstetter re minds us that, in discussing the complex political - military prob lems we face, "the primary thing is not to be positive." The basic failure of the physical scientists and engineers in their turbulent history during tlie cold war. he tolls us. "is not llicir lack of prescience but their acting fre quently as if they had it." Zealots are positive. Idcalocues are positive. Bigots are positive. But a democratic society must be willing to give up tlie small psychological advantage engend ered by that kind of positiveness; it must be tentat ive. flexible, open to new possibilities, continually would create hard feelings and bitterness that would take many jears to dissipate. With live usual ' no" votes on budcets and build ing levies always found in tlie metropolitan KLunath Falls area added to an almost solid "no" Mle by the rural populace if this is forced upon us. it would he most difficult to pas an operat ing budget, let alone a levy for new buildings in Klamath Falls. Mary I.. Haskins. Merrill. Ore. WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Cuban Sympathizers Will Visit Homeland but merely postponed until sum mer. "We will go via another route," he said. Investigators of the House Un American Activities Committee have discovered that Ad Hoc leaders then changed tlie name of their group to Permanent Committee for Travel to Cuba. They plan to leave this July for Havana and "all expenses includ ing air transportation from Tor onto to Cuba and return are to be paid by the Federation of Uni versity Students of Cuba." ac cording to HUAC investigators. Committee probers' called Mar tinot and two running mates for testimony last week. Martinot talked openly about his plans, but not so Anatol Isaac Schlosser. Schlosser, a much - educated young man, repeatedly took the Fifth Amendment when asked about the trip. Among those ques tions he refused to answer was: "Have you had contact with rep resentatives of the Czech embassy since the severance of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States?" A third witness in the HUAC probes was Vincent Theodore Lee, current chief of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Lee, said committee investigators, violated the law by spending 22 days in Cuba last January without a vali idated passport. He refused to deny the allegation, hiding behind the Fifth Amendment. Asked whether or not he had received funds from Fidel Cas tro, Lee declined to answer. Lee has two predecessors as Fair Play chieftains. The first, Robert Tabcr, an ex-convict who served time for armed robbery, kidnaping and auto theft, left for Cuba when Senate investiga tors began looking into his group. He has since returned and dropped out of Castro activities. The second, Richard Gibson, has gone to Algeria. Lee is a former seaman who now calls himself a "furniture maker." He faces possible prose cution for his Cuban jaunt. If indicted and convicted, he could spend five years in federal prison. STRICTLY PERSONAL questioning its own basic assump tions. This is essentially what science does, when it is operating truly and freely, in a rational atmos phere. The scientist is enthusiastic about his pursuit of truth; but he is extremely skeptical that he has ever attained more than a portion of it. or that he grasps it in ex actly Uie right way. Not to be positive is one of the cardinal virtues of a democraUc society But since political power is usually seized by enthusiasts of one stripe or another, Uie exercise o.' dispassionate reason in a de mocracy aluays faces the danger of being crushed between compel tng passions. Al manac By United Press International Today is Monday, June 3. the ljtlh day of 1963 with 211 to follow. The moon is approaching its full phase. Tlie morning stars are Venus. Jupiter and Saturn. Tlie evening star is Mars. On this day in history: In ism. at the battle of Cold Harbor. Va.. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant failed to outflank and smash Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. In 1933. the French liner Nor mamiie made her maiden voyage across the Atlantic in four davs, 11 hours, and 42 seconds, estab lishing a new record. In I9.T7, the Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII of Great Britain, was married to Mrs. Wallis Warlield Simpson of Baltimore. In 1940. the Allied evacuation at Diinkerque. France, which began on May S8. was completed. thought (or the day Union Gen. I'Ksses S. Grant said: "La bor disgraces no man; unfortun ately you occasionally find men disgrace labor." THEY CAN o T . , . " A textbook flight. ... Bui in the last le hours we used every page in the book. D. Rrainrrd Holms, director of manned spare flight for NASA, oei astronaut Gordon Cooper's 22 rtiil flight.
