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PAGE 10-A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Thuraday, June 13, 1963 The Weigh-!n NOTHING SPECIAL (W. B. S.I Q Court Moves With The Times Alabama's Gov. George Wallace raises an Interesting point about Supreme Court de cisions affecting school desegregation. He suggests that the precedent of a much earlier ruling which specified "separate but equal facilities" for whites and Negroes should be governing today. The obverse side of that is that the high court's 1954 decision calling for desegregation should not have been made and should have no standing now. All aside from the merits of this particu lar controversy, the governor's position runs athwart the basic approach the federal judi ciary has applied in attacking the big ques tions over a span of many decades. For one thing, the Supreme Court never has felt rigidly bound by precedent. Nor ha-; any court in history. Judicially, precedent always has been thought of as a rough guide, a bench mark giving some stability and order but not a total, final certitude to the law. Secondly, observers of the Supreme Court note that it has normally felt fairly free to reverse or alter previous decisions when they constitute interpretations of the U.S. Consti tution. The court believes it is an accepted part of the American system, ratified by long his torical practice, that it should correct its own mistakes of judgment, enlarge or narrow its interpretations as it deems wise and proper. In further support of this approach is the argument that to change the Constitution by amendment is a slow, cumbersome, little-used device. Only 23 amendments have been adopt ed in some 175 years of U.S. history under this document. By contrast, lawyers point out, the high (Wichita Falls, Texas Times) One statement which appears to be re peated frequently since the first Russian sputnik orbited the earth concerns the lack of knowledge about the ocean depths as well as about the stuff from which the inner stra tas of the planet are made. The comment is that we know far more about what Is above the surface of the earth than what is below its crust and waters. Man has found the oceans, seas, lakes and rivers of the world useful for food and travel since the human race began. From the time of ancient man, natural resources shallowly below the surface of the earth have been mined. In recent years oil and gas wells have been drilled off the shores of many areas of the globe. Holes have been dug and shafts have been sunk but they have not penetrated far below the surface, relatively speaking. IN WASHINGTON . . . '0s What By RALPH de TOI.EDANO It may be rude to nay so, hut wouldn't live U.S. Stale Depart ment and its assorted diplomats be better off If they spent less time at conferences attempting to implement policies we do not have and more time on formulat ing the policies we need? Per haps this is asking too much. In tho Executive Branch of the Federal government, tlie first and sometimes only reaction to a prorTum is to appoint a com mittee. But the business of Internation al conferences has Rotten out of hand. There are so many fining on that the press hardly bothers to notice them and with jus tice. In the week beginning June 3, for example, "officially accred ited representatives of Hie United Stntes Government" 1 am quoting a Slate Department re lease "will be participating in f-venh'en conferences." An eight eenth conference is in recess, but will reconvene in Septemlier. Once upon a time, young men Joined the Navy to see the world. Now they can so into the interna tional conference business. Kor these meetings take place in such scattered places as Thailand, Aus tralia, Switzerland, and tlie Latin American republics. One of the conferences has been going on since March 14. 19)3 with no hope that It will ever terminate its business or accomplish Its mission. To each of these conferences, the United States aends larger or smaller teams with their as sistant, aides, secretaries, and court almost never reverses itself or alters its 'position when it has once interpreted a stat ute. The reasoning here is that if the court has made a mistake, Congress can pass anoth er law which somehow skirts the area of er ror and satisfies constitutional requirements. So the Supreme Court tends to confine its shifting interpretations to provisions of the Constitution. Obviously many parts of the document are not subject to changing apprais al. It says a person must be 35 years old to serve as president. No court can make it 36. But the generalized phrase of the Con stitution are not only susceptible of interpre tation. They demand it. They have no clear meaning without it. What does it mean, for example, to sav as the Constitution does that Congress has power to levy taxes to provide for the "gen eral welfare" of the United States? You could hardly find a bigger tent. The Supreme Court has met this chal lenge by interpreting such provisions in a manner designed to accommodate the Consti tution to a growing, changing nation. Thus a due process clause once used to buttress property rights is now invoked in support of individual civil rights. An inter state commerce clause once narrowly applied has become a strong lever of federal control in some fields. Those who do not like the newer interpre tations naturally fall back on older ones, as Wallace is doing. Yet there is no comfort for such persons in the Constitution's generalized language. The wording supports both the narrow .and the broad interpretation. But it contains no sharp dictate that only the narrow view shall apply. Untapped Resources There is no argument with the observa tion that man Is sadly lacking knowledge about the Icplhs of the planet on which he moves. But why? That there are riches in the water and on the ocean bottoms as well as below is known to man. They exist in quantities uncs timablc but assuredly vast beyond compre hension. The ease with which many oceanic resources can be tapped presents no great problem. Edwin A. Roberts Jr., reporter for the Wall Slrcct Journal, supplies at least a good answer to the why. He says, in effect, that abundance has been found elsewhere; there fore there is no strong impetus for man to lake the initiative. When the present abun dances run out, the untapped reserves will be wailing as substitutes. We Need olher personnel. The Slate De partment spends valuable hours briefing tlie U.S. representatives, preparing position papers for them, and nuking travel arrange ments. How much international conferences cost the taxpayer is a question Congress might ask. Miat they accomplish is a ques tion the taxpayer might raise. Since May 27, for instance, the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East has been hold ing a Conference of Asian Statis ticians and the United States is duly represented. Another F.CAFE conference will take up such world-shattering matters as the economic justification lor li censing taxis in large cities. Tlie Economic Commission for Europe is busy in Geneva conferring on housing for the elderly. Precise ly what a United Nations Com mission can contribute to this problem is anybody's guess. The sad truth is that, having helied to create a United Na tions with a great and growing bureaucracy, the United States must find something to do with it In every instance where tlie countries concerned have refused to pay heed to tlie United Na tions, it has failed to preserve peace or induce an acceptance ol law among its members. The arrogant refusal of Ited Hungary, after the 1956 uprising, to permit a U.N. (act-finding team to enter the country is a case in point. Cuba's tinhorn Communist. Fidel Castro, has ignored Secretary General U Tliant and the majes ty of (ha world body. India has Is Action been in violation of the U N 's will on Kashmir. Tlie catalogue could be extended indefinitely. Hut Uie Secretariat must be kept busy. Therefore councils and commissions are set up. And once in business, they must justify their existence. What was once handled simply and elficiently by tlie dip lomatic corps now requires meet ings with agendas, sieeches, and publicity. (Without this, tlie members of tlie Secretariat would sit idly in tlie public glare at the United Nations building. I The list of U.N. agencies, councils, commissions, and other bodies would make an American politi cian, with patronage to bestow, grow green with envy and those who pay for it blue and white (the U N 's colors) with dismay. Some things arc accomplished. Tlie Unilcd Nations Secial Fund Governing Council finds ways and means to stick the tailed Stales with most of the bill in the interest of world peace, of course. Tlie International Civil Aviation Organization (non-U. N.I hikes up transatlantic air fares against the protests of U S. carriers and tlie Civil Aeronautics Board and to the detriment of Americans who travel most on those routes. But most of it is hustle and bustle, a kind of diplomatic leaf raking. Occasionally there Is some sound and fury, but it signilies little or nothing. In tlie hurly burly, (lie American people forget that the Stale Department is scamping on Its most vital job developing a U.S. foreign policy. ' WASHINGTON New By WASHINGTON STAFF Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) At an outdoor rally for Sen. 3arry Gold water on Uie Maryland farm of Mr. and Mrs. Garvin E. Tanker sley, the speakers had to share top billing with a colorful exhibi tion of high-bred horses. The speakers weren't quite sure how they fitted in. Said Texas Sen. John Tower, the star al tracUon: "I think we're all going to speak after the horses, aren't we?" As the program "The Goldwa tcr West Comes to Washington" unfolded slowly, eager young Goldwatcrites outside the exhibi tion stands hawked copies of the senator's book, "Why Not Vic tory?" Shouted one: "Buy now! Read Ihe book that's giving JFK ul cers. Uie book that's been banned in Hyannis Port!" By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Purely Personal Prejudices: No body is more exasperating and frustrating to deal with, over the long pull, than the person with high intelligence and very little sense especially since the two so often go together. The human animal is so pe culiarly constituted that, lor ex ample, a father would willingly give up his life to save his child from a burning building, but not his afternoon of golf to visit the zoo yet it is the small sacri fices, multiplied many times, that give love more meaning than the heroic gesture in a crisis. The miserable poor drink to forget what they are not: and the miserable rich drink to lor get what they are. Pressing one's advantage loo strongly in a quarrel when one is right, tends, oddly enough, to make one wrong lor the smug ness and self satisfaction that usually accompany Tightness arc often worse sins than the error of being wrong Tlie stale metaphor of the "lad der" has always seemed to me quite inappropriate lor describing Ihe ascent to success which is much more like mountain climb ing, and consists of many lateral movements, some drop backs, and more falling boulders than anyone is told of. Why Is II that the same wom en who loved to walk bare hraried la Ihe rain with us dur ing Ihe rarrh-ee courtship d.ivs won't walk a half-blork to the car In lair weather alter Ihe marriage? When reading obscene litera ture is considered merely we.ik. and not wicked, only then will it lose its appeal : for the psychologi cal fact is that obscenity is cre ated (or the under-sfxed, just as the Peeping Tom is alwaxs man who cannot achieve gratifica tion in a normal masculine manner. NOTEBOOK Soldwater Inside the stands, half a dozen brightly garbed young ladies rubbed it in with a long paper streamer which read: "JFK, We Will Barry You." The remarriage of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York to the former Mrs. Margaretta Murphy has caused a considerable upset in Republican political circles. But it seems to have been good for business in some quarters. Max Hess, an enterprising Al lentown. Pa., department store merchant, says his store's remar riage service and bridal fashion counseling for widows and divorcees has doubled in both response and sales in the past few weeks. He marks the upturn from Rocky's new marriage May 4. While White House press sec retary Pierre Salinger was brief- STRICTLY PERSONAL Everybody is part physician, just as everybody is part iawycr: health and justice are two sub jects that nobody ever Uiinks himself disqualified to pontifi cate about. (And perhaps part of the high fees charged by doctors and lawyers is unconsciously ex acted as punishment for this lay insolence. I The people, said James Harrington, "are deceived by names, but not by things;" and perhaps this Is why Confucius declared that calling things by their right name was the first and fundamental task lor a well ordered society. Bitterness shows in a woman's eves much more than in a man's: he reveals his discontents more by his actions, she by her ex pression at rest when she believes no one is observing her. BERRY'S WORLD "Ami m4 mart Aic Jont teni my tbirtt It tbt Cbtiuu laundry wy mart." Slogan ing the press one morning, a newsman spoke up: "Something bothers me here. Pierre. Nobody seems to take any notes until you say H's olf the record." Salinger laughed and replied: "It's a new procedure we're developing." Growled anotfier newsman: "That's because Pierre never says anything worthwhile until it's olf the record." The ceremony in which Maj. Gordon Cooper was awarded his Air Force pilot astronaut wings ran into a minor snag as Mrs. Cooper found difficulty in pinning the wings on her husband's uni form. Then an expert stepped in. Gen. Curtis LcMay. Air Foroe chief of staff, succeeded in getting t h e w ings on Cooer's chest after some maneuvering. From the audience. Rep. George H. Mahan ID-Tex.). chair man of tlie House Appropriations Defense subcommittee, com mented: "This is one of those things they still have to do manually. There ought to he an electronic gadget to do tlie job." The council on alcoholism was having an annual meeting in a Washington hotel. On a long ta ble outside tlie meeting room were several piles ol pamphlets on the problem. For a time the table had to be left unattended. When one of the council's workers returned, she saw a new batch of folders had been added. Picking one up. she found it w as an advertisement for a Wash ington restaurant. It was briglit ened with a picture showing two filled glasses, a bunch of grapes and a bottle of wine. Newspaper reports that Harold Slassen is interested in the GOP presidential nomination stir Uiis comment from Sen. Karl E. Mundt, R-S D.: "It would really be news if tlie former Minnesota governor had Mid he was not interested in it." Frank Ganong has a facility for expressions of biting humor. He was in his best form last Friday noon when he referred to Ore gon's legislature in this fashion: "In Oregon we have the uadition al two party system only we call them the House and the Senate." The creation of the world Is told in Genesis in 400 words. The Ten Commandments have 297 words, and the Declaration of Independence has 1,821. But a government pamphlet required 2,500 words to announce a reduc tion in the price of cabbage seed. Hal Ogle got to rooting through some old Klamath Falls papers one day, and observed this story in the Klamath Republican, Jan. 21, 1909. It said: KLAMATH COUNTY BANK HELD UP "A few minutes before noon Saturday two masked robbers en tered the Klamath County bank and at the points of revolvers held up the cashier, Alex Martin, Jr., and secured about $3500 in currency and gold. Two customers were in the bank at the time. Don J. Zumwalt and C. C. Brower. Mr. Martin was alone behind the counter, the clerks having gone to dinner. Both men were cap lured by 2:30 the same afternoon, and four days later were sen tenced by Judge Nolan." As Hal observes, that's the w ay It was done In 1909. These days, the two holdup men would probably have two or three trials or have the case thrown out of court because of improperly prepared charges or some silly thing. I'm not much of a do-it-yourselfer, but I'm sure that even the most earnest advocate would agree that a fellow in Jackson ville, N.C., went loo far the other day when he broke into a funeral home and stole a portable em balming machine plus a half-case of embalming fluid. WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Reds Infiltrate Dominican Posts By FULTON LEWIS JR. Juan Bosch, a veteran revolu tionary, was elected President of the Dominican Republic last year with the support of leftist groups. In recent months he has opened the floodgates and permitted more than 130 Communists, in exile dur ing Trujillo's rule, to return. They come from Havana. Prague and other Soviet-bloc capitals. Bosch's policies have greatly worried Armistcad Seldcn. chair man of the House Foreign Allairs Subcommittee on Latin America. In a major speech. Seldcn said Communists have seriously infil trated the Bosch administration. Soviet agents have set up a new Communist-front school called the Institute of Social Science and Economic Planning. There is evi dence. Seldcn said, that Com munists "have made inroads into the police, the labor unions, the schools and student groups." President Bosch shrugcod off tlie Seldcn charges, launching in stead into a personal attack on the Alabama Congressman and ac cusing him of an attempt to "dic tate" Dominican affairs. Much of Scldcn's information comes from Hal Hendrix. Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for tlie Miami News. In an on-the-st investigation, Hendrix charged that "subtle and peace ful Communist penetration of the Dominican Republic is progress ing with incredible speed and ef ficiency." There is ample and ominous evi dence, he said, that Communist forces closely aligned with Cuba and the Kremlin, aided by naive leftist elements, "arc working both openly and covertly to turn this country into a second Communist-dominated bastion in the Caribbean." The Hendrix reports are sub stantiated by Jules Dubois, vet eran Latin correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. He writes that behind Bosch is Sacha Volman, a Rumanian-born naturalized U S. citizen. Says Dubois: "Tlie Rev. Benjamin Nunez, for mer labor minister of Costa Rica and ex-delegate to the United Na uons. accuses Volman of striving to destroy democracy throughout LaUn America." Volman. says Dubois, considers himself a part of the so-called "proaressive left" which seeks to out-communize the Communists. Hendrix. too. blames Volman and his leftist influence upon Bosch. Note: Bosch, exiled Irom tlie Dominican Republic for 2J years, lived in Havana for much of th.it time. AiTordin; to Carlos TKid. former Havana newspaper editor. Bosch was arrested in 1858 alter a larcc quantity of Communist prop aganda had been found in h.i Some Klamath Falls property owners can do a favor for them selves, the city and some unem ployed teen-agers if they'd hire the kids to clean up their prem- I don't intend to get Into a quarrel about it, but 1 olten wonder what in heck Is so im portant about climbing 0 tlie . top of Mt. Everest or whatever to the extent that we spend a half million or so bucks to get the job done. For what? A garage man answered the dis tress call of a woman motorist whose car had stalled. He made " an examinaUon and informed her it was out of gas. "Will it hurt," she asked, "If I drive it home with the gas tank empty?" As this is written (Sunday) we don't know how the consolidation election will come out. But I'm sure that some of tliese fellows who have been saying that a law passed by the recent legislature will provide a solulion to Klam ath County's school situation just don't know what they are talk ing about. Or else, they used that information in a deliberate at tempt to mislead voters. We hear some expressions used by Senators who refer slightingly to their colleagues. But none are more expressive. I think, than John Randolph's opinion of Henry Clay. Randolph said, "This being, so brilliant yet so corrupt, like a rotten mackerel by moonlight, shines and stinks." I'd like to see a serious study made of the possibility of 12 month school sessions. It should be done on a state-wide basis; not just in Klamath County. The ; 12 - month school could provide greatly enriched programs, more continuity in programs, accelera tion and far greater use of tlie school plant. room at Havana's Hotel San Luis. Released after several "import ant" people interceded in his be half, Bosch left for Venezuela. He returned to Uie Dominican Repub lic alter Trujillo had been killed. The Bosch campaign for- Presi dent left many anti-Communists wary. They claim he could not have been elected without the support of the country's four Com munist parties: Tlie Popular So cialist Party, the Dominican Pop ular Movement, the 14th of June Movement, and the National Rev olutionary Party. During four months on the cam paign trail. Bosch did not once speak of Cuba. He took special pains to avoid attacking the Com munists who were, alter all, sup porting him. He promised "People's Stores." owned by the stale: agricultural and fishing cooperatives; and ex tension agrarian reform in which each Dominican peasant would re ceive 628 square meters of land. Dominican wits claim that Bosch, to fulfill that promise, must dis tribute to his followers all of the Dominican Republic, HaiU, Cuba and Alaska. Bosch is reiwrted to have held several secret meeUncs with Man uel Tavares Justo, head of the violently pro-Communist 14th of June movement. A! manac By United Press International Today is Thursday. June II. the IMth day of 19M with 2M to follow. The moon is approaching the last quarter. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. The evening star is Mars. On this day in history: Irish poet and dramatist Wil liam Butler Yeats was born on this day in 1H6.V In 1877. tlie Rosso-Turkish War becan. In 1933. Jim Braddock won the world heavyweight boxing title from Max Baer in 15-round de cision at Long Island City. NY. In 1944. Gcrmam's highly pub licized "secret weapon." ihe flying bomb, was dropped on Eni'ish Uriels tor the first Ume. In 13. Prime Minister Nehru hinted India would accept Soviet MIGS and a factory. A thought for tiie day The English philosopher and author. Francis Bacon, said: "Words and discourse atwundcth most whera tVre is idleness and want."
