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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon
Thuraday, June 13, 1963
The Weigh-!n
NOTHING
SPECIAL
(W. B. S.I
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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."