PACE. I HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Oregon
Monday, June 17, 13
EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . .
Don't Take Lightly
Right Wing Force
"Well, Just Don't Sit There!'
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Racing For The Moon
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Would the people of the Klamath Basin
be willing to put up $10 million dollars to
make certain that the United States gets to
the moon first?
Or even closer-to-home, would every man
woman and child in the Klamath Basin be
willing to put up $200 each to see that the
United States is the first nation to get to the
moon?
When we talk about a $40 billion proj
ect to be the first to put a man or men on
the moon, that's the amount we're talking
about in terms of what it will cost locally.
The hue and cry is on as to whether or
not the U.S. should invest a sum, estimated
between $30 and $40 billion, for this purpose
over the next five-year period.
Last week, former President Dwight Ei
senhower rapped the plan to spend such a fan
tastic sum for this purpose as "nuts."
Scientists engaged in the project are
clamoring for even more speed, and stressing
the angle of national prestige as being of up
permost importance.
Examining the problem coldly, we must
arrive at the conclusion that there are only two
; .basic reasons for such a project in the first
: place. One is the question of national prestige,
namely, getting there ahead of the Russians,
and the other Js man's insatiable curiosity
about the universe.
Of these, only the first would support a
full speed ahead moon conquest plan.
Certainly, we cannot turn our back on
space and Its importance to the future of not
drily our nation but all the world. We also
realize that the moon is only a jumping off
joint for space.
But, we are inclined to face economic
facts just as squarely.
Ten million dollars would build at least
two hospitals and perhaps three that would in
turn provide material aid and comfort to un
told thousands, of the area today and tomor
row. It would seem to us that if we are to
. (Register Guard, Eugene)
: Contract troubles have developed in the
lumber industry. Not to anyone's great sur
prise, however. Nor to anyone's joy.
Talk of strikes against Pacific Northwest
mills, particularly the larger operations, has
been in the air for months. And now the
strikes have begun. And so have retaliatory
lockouts.
' Outsiders are in poor position to judge
who's right and who's wrong or to what
degree both management and the unions are
ignoring logic and practicability in this sit
uation. Trustworthy information upon which
judgments might be based has not been
made pubic.
Whether the prevailing average wage in
the industry is around $2.10 an hour, as
union spokesmen have said, or whether it is
between $3 and $4 an hour, as management
has declared, is probably a question of how
IN WASHINGTON . . .
By RALPH dr TOI.KDANO
The United Nations i.i already
verging on bankruptcy because,
emong other matters. It must
maintain an occupation force in
Uw Congo. For this, tlie Ameri
can taxpayer is stalling out mil
lions of dollars, through his gov
ernment, for V.N bonds of doubt
ful value.
The operating cost of the UN
forces in the Congo. however, is
but a part of the money entailed.
David F. Renwlck. a former of
ficial of tle I N in the Congo who
resigned in dispist, lifts the lid
on what is going on and what K
means in dollars and cents. Ik
is so Indignant that, in typical
British fashion, he has been writ
ing to tlie 1ondon newspapers
(bout it.
During his I N tour of duty in
North Katanga, Mr. Rcnwick was
appalled by "the massive amount
of black markotcering, pilfering,
and outright stealing by certain
IN military personnel." Both
civilians and tlie military use Con
go francs for black market activi
ties, convert their great profits in
to hard currency, and ond It
home thereby siphoning off much
Of the money that is sent into the
African country. "The UN will do
nothing about this owing to politi
cal pressure from New York and
more especially by tlie govern
ments of the troops concerned."
Mr. Renwlck asserts.
Tax-free luxury items bought at
CN PXes are also being black
marketed. This I costing tho I'N
some 500,000 pounds i$l.400,onni a
month. Repair of property used by
spend $10 million of money belonging to
people in this basin for a project, it should
be for something such as this hospital.
We are as curious about the universe
as the next person, but feel there are more
urgent matters closer to home than an all
out assault on a "moon first" program.
Would our national prestige suffer if the
Russians were the first to put a man on the
moon?
Undoubtedly they would. The Russians
in the past have handed us a number of set
backs in the space race principally because
they aimed their space exploration at the
speclacular projects.
In the interim, we were busy not just
planning spectacular one and two-man orbit
shots, but were carefully scouting the path
ways into outer space for such things as radia
tion belts, weather capabilities and many
other fields.
In other words, we have built a careful
scientific approach to the conquest of space.
This careful approach should not now be
dumped aside just to make a spectacular
jump to the moon.
For, if the administration gives the green
light to this project and attacks it on a "crash"
basis, all other types of space research will
have to be curtailed and activity concentrated
on this one project alone.
Space has been with us from the begin
ning and will be around to the end. Let's ap
proach space in a calm, careful manner, con
tinuing our broad, inquisitive approach over
the years, pushing our projects deeper and
deeper into space, but not at the cost of na
tional bankruptcy.
If the Russians want to spend $40 billion
on being first to the moon, good! That's $40
billion less they'll have to spend to make
trouble down here, and will serve to deprive
then- peoples of $40 billion less in material
comforts and hasten the day when they'll cast
off their communistic chains.
s This The Only Way?
figures are figured. Whether the industry's
workers should receive raises of a little more
than 20 cents an hour over the next three
years, or whether their pay should go up 35
cents an hour during that period cannot be
fairly evaluated by guessing.
But labor is going to battle for the 35
cents, and lumber employers seem set on the
lower figure.
It all seems so futile. Right now, certainly,
the economy of the Pacific Northwest could
use all the wages and profits that continued
lumber industry operations would bring. But,
because logical practices of settling labor
management differences, fairly and squarely,
have not yet been devised, the prospect is
that everyone workers, mill owners and the
general public will suffer losses. It may
take months, possibly many months, to offset
these after peace is restored in the lumber
industry.
Congo Force Expensive
civilian and military UN person
nel will be "astronomical, amount
ing to tens of millions" of pounds.
(Tlie pound is worth about $2 80.)
"I have myself seen property
damaged beyond repair by certain
military tie. removal of all fit
tings, pipes, toilet equipment, fur
niture, floors, doors, ami even
window!," says Mr. Rcnwick.
A I'N niidicr admitted that he
had stolen 2an doors from various
houses for making crates to be
used for shipments of this "liber
ated" property by his officers.
"Very many houses and buildings
have been left empty shells by
military personnel, and quite unlit
for habitation ever again."
Tlie removal of such equipment,
furniture, and anything not per
manently nailed down as well as
the thett of cars will cost (be
I'N. when it settles up, another
(1 million pounds ($17 million1.
Hoalkwds of this stolen property
have gone to India. When Mr.
Rcnwick tried to have one ship
searched, he was prevented by
higher UN authority.
Is anything being done to put
an end to those practices or to
punish tlxise who indulge in
tliem? Tlie I'N sets up "courts of
inquiry." but their main lob seems
to be a cover-up. Whitewash. Inc.,
has taken over fully at Ulcse hear
ings, and no I'N oincial will dare
to apportion blame or to take
steps against tlie Indian troops.
This miglit ollend Prime Min
ister Nehru, a world leader who
has yet to put his country's
morality where his mouth is.
Tie most tragic aspect ol this
wholesale looting by troops sent
to bring law and order is Uiat
money will be tlie least of tlie
costs to tlie world. The VN occu
pying force was sent in. we are
told, to keep Communism out. But
how w ill tlie Congolese feel about
the United Nations? Or the Unit
ed Mates which was so deter
mined to thrust the UN's nose in
the Congo?
Premier Adoula remains in pow
er only because the I'N props up
his corrupt regime. If Ute I'N is
withdrawn, then the central Con
go will become a cockpit in which
the blood of those w ho collaborat
ed with tlie occupiers will flow
in the streets and tlie jungles. Tlie
"dim. drums groaning" of Vachel
Lindsay's poem will really pound.
Whatever remains of the tidy
framework of government put up
by tlie Belgians will be swept
away.
Tiiis is tlie kind of maelstrom
Comrade Khrushchev and his
trained Communist activists like
to see. They can profit by it, no
matter what happens while tlie
I N pays tlie bilLs. And none of
it was necessary. The Congo could
have, with the aid of Kuropeans
there, made a peaceful transition
to tndcionoVnc.
But. of course, that would ha
boon too easy. For different rea
sons, tlie State IVpartment and
the Kremlin could mi tolerate a
strong, economically-sound Ka
t.mga. So the occupation was
launched. Tlie United .States he
came the co-author of one of the
dirtiest chapters in contemporary
history.
A Careless Accusation
The Wall Street Journal
The President will find much
sympathy with his impassioned
pica to all Americans: To start
solving the racial problem in their
communities, homes and hearts.
It ought indeed to be possible,
i as Mr. Kennedy said, for Ameri
can students of any color to at
tend any public institution without
having to be backed up
by troops; for anyone to be served
in places of public accommoda
tion; to register and vote in a
free election without interference
or fear of reprisal.
The Chief Executive also ac
knowledged other aspects of the
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
What impressed me most about
the Edward Albee play, "Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
apart from tlie stunning perform
ances of the brilliant New York
company was the playwright's
choice of characters and setting.
It is a devastating and shatter
ing play, and it can be effective
ly criticized on a quite high lev
el tas, for instance, in a recent
issue of "Commentary" maga
zine': but. apart from its inborn
defects. I thought that Albee
showed courage and imagination
making his characters intelligent
and educated, and placing them
in the groves of academe.
It is simply too easy for a
playwright to attack and lam
poon all the familiar stereotypes
of bourgeois life in America to
day to mock the advertising
man or the business man or the
world of clubs, of fashion, of
small town insularity, of his
city opportunism.
Instead. Albee aimed his shafts
at those who profess higher
things: the faculty people, articu
late, oriented, and presumably
civilized. His play is not "anti
intellectual:" he does not deride
these people's intellectual supe
riority. He merely riemonstates
that they are, as much as any
body else, the victims of their
own unconscious conflict.
These people have mure sensi
tivity, more knowledge, more
BERRY'S WORLD
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problem, such as the responsi
bility of the Negro community
to uphold the law. He paid tribute
to those citizens who have been
working in their communities to
make life belter for all.
Vet the unavoidable impression
left by his television speech as
a whole is that 90 per cent of the
American people are engaged in
bitter and unremitting oppression
of the other 10 per cent. "They
arc not yet freed from the bonds
of injustice." And the President
of the United States described the
blessed land in terms of "caste
system." "ghettoes," and "mas
ter race."
We find it unfortunate that Mr.
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
freedom from the pressures of
competitive life, at least in the
grosser ways. Yet none of this
helps: faced with a bad marriage,
with professional frustrations, they
turn on each other ferociously
and behave (because of their very
articulatenesst worse than the
Philistines lliey look down upon.
What Albee forces us to recog
nize is that psychic disturbance
and emotional malaise are not a
matter of class, of culture, even
of mental stature. Immaturity
cuts across all lines: it is as
prevalent in the seminar as in
the saloon, as self-defeating in
the faculty lounge as in tlie fac
tory lunchroom or the hunting
lodge.
Some ways of life, some occu
pations, it is true, may tend to
bring on these disturbances more
quickly or more dramatically;
while others may mask them for a
longer time. But, inevitably, the
price of not growing up is the
same everywhere bitterness,
blind rage and suffocation by the
illusions that do not comfort.
"Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?" may be marred by some
serious flaws in the playwright's
own view of life: yet. for denying
himself the luxury of aiming at
easy targets, and for probing be
neath the flesh of tlio very people
who most admire him. Albee
makes a point that is missed by
most of the satirists and ana
tomists of the social scene.
Vrofumo us LIBERAL .
Kennedy neglected to present a
more careful and rounded pic
ture. The omissions are a dis
service first to the Negroes them
selves. By dint of ability and work
in a climate of opportunity, . lany
have made enormous economic
strides; nor arc their legal and
political gains insignificant. To
that extent they are repeating the
experience of many other minori
ties once subjected to discrimina
tion. A misleading picture is also a
disservice to the image of Amer
ica in the world. Much concern
is understandably expressed at
the impact abroad of incidents
of racial violence, but what is
anyone anywhere to think when
tlie nation's highest voice speaks
of the conditions of Negroes as
little better than slavery?
It is a disservice, not least,
to the U.S. Government. Through
its judiciary, executive and leg
islature and its influence on public
opinion, it actively promotes
equality of treatment. This, we
v.ould say, is the reverse of a
public policy rooted in notions of
p master race.
It is a disservice, finally, to the
overwhelming majority of Amer
icans, North and South. They be
lieve in equality before the law;
they have long since accepted the
Negro, economically and social
ly, in many places; a great many
have worked to the best of their
knowledge to improve his posi
tion locally and nationally.
Even in the places where Fed
oral troops have been called upon
to guarantee enforcement of Fed
eral court orders, the action has
not usually boon necessitated by
tlie community. In more than one
case it has been the prohlem of
a particular politician standing
in all but solitary defiance. Neith
er that community, nor the na
tion, deserves castigation for the
action of one man.
It must also be wondered what
effect the President's picture will
have on the existing racial ten
sions. "Tlie fires of frustration
and discord are burning in every
city. North and South. Where le
gal remedies are not at hand,
redress is sought in tlie streets."
Unless, he said further. Congress
enacts the legislation shortly to
be proposed, tlie Negroes' only
remedy is the street.
It is not clear how such lan
guage will encourage the Negro
leaders to observe their responsi
bility to uphold the law. That re
sponsibility, it seems to us, needs
to be stressed, especially since so
many legal remedies are avail
able and public order and safety
are increasincly endangered by
choosing the street instead. And
in such circumstances the respon
sibly of high office might well
include a much si run nor appeal
to all groups for moderation anil
adlierenee In the law.
America, of all nations, has
assimilated a host of ethnic ami.
cultural strains. If the assimila
tion has not always been com
plete, smooth and instantaneous,
it has nonothclcvt evolved into a
society of high tolerance and mu
tual respect. The process includes
tie Ncairo; tlie process can and
will be speeded and improved, es
pecially, if. as tlie President sue
gosts. people w ill con! inoe to work
mit their problems in their own
communities.
But the cominons are not so
grievous that the whole nalun
must be worked into a frenzy
which can aggravate l he tensions.
And ;n order to improve the con
ditions of an aspiring minority, it
should not he nevetry to maiun
the gHxi nvHues ami (vntinuir.g
eiforts of the majority.
By PETER EDSON
v Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON i.NEAi Any
one believing that the reactionary
ripht-wing element in America is
a- minority not worth bothering
about may have to revise his
thinking in the light of recent
developments such as:
Defeat of the Kennedy admin
istration's wheat control plan in a
national referendum of farmers.
Continued southern resistance
to civil rights.
Unexpected state legislature
endorsement of three states rights
amendments to the U.S. Constitu
tion. Early organization of conserv
ative political action groups to in
fluence the 1964 congressional
elections.
The new Business-Industry Po
litical Action Committee IBIPAO
launched with a $100,000 contri
bution from National Association
of Manufacturers is expected to
draw support from American Med
ical Assn. and similar organiza
tions. The group intends to offset
efforts of AFL-CtO's Committee
on Political Education-COPE.
This will lend added strength
to the four-year drive by Ameri
cans for Constitutional Action to
elect more conservative members
o:' Congress.
ACA has just given public
awards to 154 congressmen whose
voting records show consistent
support for conservative causes.
Twenty freshman congressmen
who have not yet compiled exten
sive voting records, but are on the
"right" track, also were given
awards.
If this is an accurate measure
of conservative strength in Con
gress, it is still decidedly a mi
nority. It consists of 20 per cent
or 20 senators 12 Republican
and 8 Democratic out of 100 sen
ators. H has 35 per cent or 154
representatives )30 Republican
and 24 Democratic out of 435.
Right-wing strength cannot be
measured in Washington, however.
It is found in roughly 1,000 or
ganizations of all kinds and sizes
with an unknown total member
ship scattered throughout the
country.
So far, it has been impossible
to unite them all on any one
Cuuse or program, and that is
their greatest weakness.
Up to now, the prevailing analy
sis of right-wing movements is
that the country has always had
them and always will. They are
considered a necessary part of
the democratic process to balance
the far left.
This was the viewpoint of Mich-
WASHINGTON REPORT . . .
Communists Aiming
At Panama Canal
By ri'LTOX LEWIS JR.
Four times since January,
1959. a dark-haired young wom
an named Thelma King has lelt
Panama for the Promised Land,
Castro Cuba.
There she has broadcast in
flammatory messages over Radio
Havana and huddled with prom
inent Cuban Reds, including Fi
del Castro and Che Guevara.
They have mapped strategy for
one of Castro's most ambitious
projects, a campaign to nation
alize the Panama Canal.
Ever since the Hay-Bunaul-Va-rilla
Treaty of 1903. the United
States has possessed "perpetual"
sovereignty over the Canal zone.
Uncle Sam dug the ditch and paid
for it. He gives the Panamanians
almost $2 million a year and
threw in $24 million worth of
real etatc in 1955.
Nevertheless, the Communist
inspired drive to nationalize the
Canal grows in intensity. A ma
jor reason, says Congressman Dan
Flood, is the policy of appease
ment laid down by occupants of
the State Department's fourth
lloor.
Tlie blame does not rest en
tirely with the Kennedy Adminis
tration During the last years of
the Eisenhower ropme a major
change in U.S. policy toward Pan
ama was foreshadowed. To fore
stall any retreat, the House of
Representatives, on Feb. 2. 1960.
adopted a resolution, by vote of
3HM2. urging the State Depart
ment not to fly the Panamanian
Hag anywhere in the zone.
Ignoring the vote, tlie State
Department waited until Sept. 17.
10. when Congress adjourned
An cecutie order was then is
sued, and proclaimed in Panama
by Joseph Farland. our ambassa
dor there It ordered, for tlie fir.-t
time in history, the Panamanian
lias to be flown along side the
Stars and Stripes throughout the
Zodc.
This exhibition of American
weakness, in the face of outrace
ous Communis demands, has led
to sharp decline in American
ipan Gov. George Romney the
silver-haired boy of many conscrv
rtive businessmen on his last ap
pearance in Washington. "The
Know-Nothing Party of Abraham
Lincoln's time was stronger than
the John Birch Society of today,"
Romney commented. I think
both (the radical right and loft )
are deplorable," the governor de
clared. On another manifestation of
right-wing sentiment in America
today, the governor was even
more emphatic. This was in ref
erence to the three constitutional
amendments put forward by the
Council of State Governments' Vol
unteer Committee on Dual Sover
eignty. They would give the states more
power to amend the Constitution
without participation by Congress,
to nullify the Supreme Court deci
sion on state legislative reappor
tionment, and to set up a super
court of one judge from eacln
of the 50 states to pass on U.S.
Supreme Court decisions.
"This smacks of the states pass
ing the Supreme Court instead of
the executive passing it." said
Romney, "and one is as bad as
the other."
This was one of three authorita
tive denunciations of the proposed
amendments on the same day in
Washington.
The American Bar Association
Board of Governors adopted reso
lutions ppposing the two amend
ments affecting the Supreme
Court. ABA then referred to its
full House of Delegates meeting in
August the proposed reapportion
ment limitation.
Finally, U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Earl Warren, speaking be
fore the American Law Institute,
called for "a great national de
bate" on these states rights
amendments to prevent their slip
ping through to adoption without
challenge.
When these amendments were
first proposed they were general
ly dismissed as so unconstitutional
in themselves that they could nev
er gain acceptance.
But in less than six months. 20
state legislatures have acted fav
orably on one or more of the pro
posals. Additionally, six states
have acted favorably on the so
called "Liberty Amendment"
which would abolish personal in
come taxes and force the govern
ment to turn over to private en
terprise some 700 of its service
operations.
All such proposals are consid
ered well worth as much scrutiny
as the reform programs advocat
ed by the far left.
prestige. It was a clear invitation
to Thelma King and her cohorts
to step up agitation.
The present governor of t h
Canal Zone. Robert J. Fleming
Jr.. in a recent speech cham
pioned "the social revolution of
the 19th and early 20th centuries."
and scoffed at "conservatism and
silly resistance to change."
Congressman Flood warns that
further chance is inevitable un
less Congress spells out exactly
what the Panamanian position
is. This could be done, he says,
by passage of Concurrent Resolu
tion 105, introduced by Rep. Clar
ence Cannon, distinguished chair
man of the House Appropriations
Committee.
There have been ominous signs
in recent years that further
chances in U.S. policy are im
minent. Ambassador to the Unit
ed Nations. Adlai Stevenson, has
told Panamanians that "the logi
cal future of the Canal may be
some form of internationaliza
tion." A university study made
for Sen. Wayne Morse, chairman
of the subcommittee on Latin
America, urged "regionalization"
of tlie Canal, giving all hemis
pheric nations a voice in its
manacment.
Earlier this year tlie State De
partment brought to Panama Ab
dul Hamid Abu Bakr. secretary
general of the Suez Canal Author
ity. This is the bird who carried
out Abdul Gamal Nasser's na
tionalization of the Suez. While in
Panama, as a guest of Uncle
Sam. Abu Bakr was photographed
with Governor Fleming and lec
tured audiences on Nasser's seiz
uie of the Suez Canal.
"Only with passage of the Can
non resolution can we demon
strate our opposition to the piece
meal liquidation of U.S. sover
eignty in the Zone." says Rep
resentative Flood.
That resolution demands th
US "not, in any wise, sur
render to any other government
or authority its jurisdiction over,
and control of the Canal Zone, and
its ownership and protection o!
the Panama Canal."