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PAGE HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Sunday, June !3, 190J it --And Try to Hang on to This Till You Get Back!" NOTHING SPECIAL (W. B. S.I m Russia's Design In UN The Russians, as we in the West well know, are unpredictable. So we cannot be sure they will not suddenly pay up their long overdue assessments in the United Na tions and thus preserve their vote in the General Assembly. The rule is the vote is lost when a mem ber nation falls more than two years behind in payments. The Soviet Union still has a few months to go. More than once before, the Kremlin has reversed itself in U.N. matters. But if it should not do so, if it should choose to yield its vote, it would be a signal that Russia's concept of the U.N. has changed. No sober observer of world affairs has any illusions about what the Soviets had in mind when they joined up. They intended from the outset to use the agency as a propa ganda sounding board. They intended also 1o use its processes to block the effort of in dependent nations to keep free of Soviet dom ination. To that end, the veto was used countless times in the Security Council. After a while therefore, the General Assembly, where no veto could be imposed, became the main scene of U.N. action. Since it could not muster sufficient allies to turn the Assembly tide in its favor, Russia finally began trying the current "financial veto" refusing to pay its share of U.N. costs in hope that enterprises hostile to So viet aims would thereby fail. If the Kremlin should now proceed to formalize this tactic by allowing its vote privi leges to lapse, it would be open admission that Russia is in the U.N. as a wrecker. It would mark an end to the transparent pre tense that it is a legally functioning member genuinely bent on the quest for world peace. From the outset an effort has been made to build the U.N. as a universal Organization open to countries with every kind of political system. But when nations openly demonstrate that they are participating only to try to de stroy, even the thinnest screen of universali ty is lost. If, in such circumstances, other U.N. members choose not to oust the destroyers, then clearly they must find ways to serve their high aims in spite of the destruction. It cannot be easy. Are Politicians Necessary? (Argus Champion, Newport, N.H.) Hardly anybody uses the word "politi cian" as a compliment. The history of gov ernment is cluttered with the shameful deeds of so many self-seeking politicians that the very word has fallen into disrepute. But if we want good government, we ought to make a sharp distinction between the self-seeking politician and civic-minded politician. Actually, under our system of self-government we are all politicians. Whether we are good politicians or bad politicians depends upon how we fulfill our responsibilities as citizens. This does not mean merely paying our taxes. It means taking a lively interest in the deeds of government, keeping ourselves informed, and acting conscientiously and courageously to bring about the kind of gov ernment we believe is right. Politics in its finest sense is not the busi ness of vote-swapping, wheeling and dealing for personal advancement or personal profit. It is rather the hard work of making govern ment succeed in the difficult task of preserv ing freedom and providing the services need ed by citizens. Plan For Double Shift (Oragon Statesman, Salem) Although the youngsters would be un willing to entertain such a notion now, the end of school means fall term is just three months away. Fall term in Salem means a double shift at North Salem High School. A community group is at work trying to anticipate some of the problems which double-shifting will bring, but the responsi bility for keeping the free time of North High youth profitably occupied rests pri marily with the parents. Each family situa tion proscnts its own peculiar problem. Some parents have grown so accustomed 1 to having their children's time taken up dur ing normal school hours they have come to think it is an obligation of the school district to continue this. Most families have schedules built around the normal school hours. Where there are working mothers as well as fath ers, the home may normally be empty during the half day when the double-shifted student will be out of school. Long before autumn comes around, par ents in the north section of the city will have to consider the advisability of having one parent at home in the daytime during the school year. Many will be forced to weigh the advantages of the extra income from two wages against the possible price of leaving teen-agers with too much time idle on their hands. There are many possible alternatives. The time to begin considering them, how ever, is not on the opening day of school next fall. THE GLOBAL VIEW Russians Tracking Polaris? By LEON PENNEN Newspaper Enterprise Assn. NEW YORK (NKA)-Are tlie Russians now able to keep our Polaris submarines under surveil lance? According to Adm. S. Gorslikov, chief ol the Soviet navy, there is no basis for the view of Ameri can military exierts that the nuclear-powered missile submarines arc immune from detection. He Asserts Uiat Polaris submarines have actually been tinder "Soviet naval observation in various areas" of the Atlantic and Pa cific oceans. The Red Admiral says this in a review of U.S. naval strength entitled "Shortsighted Strategy" Viluch was printed in lzvestia. Hie newspaper edited by Premier Khrushchev's son in law, Alckscl Adzhuhoi. In the view of some United Stales specialists on Russia, Ad miral Gorshkov's claim Is anoth er attempt by Moscow to create dwilit about the Polaris among the NATO lilies and add fuel to tlw dispute between the Kennedy administration and Krench Presi dent de Gaulle. Nevertheless it is unprecedent ed for the extremely secretive Kremlin rulers to disclose so much detailed knowledge about Ameri can naval strength and strategy even to sain diplomatic and prop aganda d .intakes. The Russin tnny chief ridiculed "the conservative mentality" of the Pcntaron officials who contin ue to build aircraft carriers con shlotcd by them until recently "the primary striking force and universal means of war of lite United States Navy." It is now well known, he wrote, "that avenyi comparatively small atomic missile, launched from an airplane or submarine into a naval formation, ir capable of destroying the aircraft carriers along with tlie planes on tliem and their re serves of atomic weapons before lliey arc able to use them." Yet, according to the Soviet ad miral, tlie U.S. program to ro cquip "strike carriers" as "anti submarine carriers" is continued by the Pentagon. This despite the fact that "with tlie development of atomic missile weapons the vul nerability of all types of aircralt carriers and cruisers has become increasingly evident." As seen by Russia's naval strate gists, "the actual slate of tlie American atomic submarine fleet by no means justifies the boastful statements of American military leaders." Admiral Corshkov challenged the Pentagon s assertion that "the range of the Polaris missile is 3.700 kilometers labout 2..HM miles!." Actually, he wrote, "sub marines in the class of t h e George Washington have missiles w hose range does not exceed l.RiHt kilometers (about 1.120 miles'." He also stressed that "out of ift missiles, launched by the I'mt ,d States under testing ground conditions, only six reached their target." The Polaris A -3 which the Pen tagon is now testing "is faring even worse." the Admiral said "Twelve launches from shore in stallations were made with this rocket and only three were suc cessful." Russia's navy chief also report ed "grave structural delects which are peculiar to tlie American atomic submarines." He cited tlie loss of the Thresher as "proof" of his assertion. The Thresher was lost "because of technical and design imperfec tions and the poor training of its crew which did not know how to deal with an emergency situa tion." he said. Gorslikov concluded his survey with the warning that "from a military-strategic point of view it is foolhardy to consider any w-cap-on. however modern, as univer sal." Was tlie Russian merely whis tling in the dark? Tins is pre sumably what US. military ex ports now seek to determine. Al manac fly Tnllrd Yrt International Today is Sunday. June 21. the 174th day of ima uiih 191 to follow. Tito moon is approaching its firt quarter. The morning stars air Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. The evening star is Mars. On this d;iy in history. In ItUfi. the 1' S. Treasury oV nM a surplus of more th.m KH nullum among 2f states. Ih lWl. Wiley Post and Harold tlally took off for a round-the-uoild plane flicht which lasted eiclit days and lit hours. In livut, OniNe.-s rivaled the t.'ivil Aeronaultcs Authority to reg ulate air traffic. A thought for tin day Irvin forth one wrote: "Lay mv ashes at the roots of a dogwood tree in Fadm-ah at the proper plant iiig season. Should the tree lie that will bt monument enough tor me.' i . A X ITS. Vi' V---;S 1V. HAmZ Hi CA EDSON IN WASHINGTON vanov In Trouble At Home liy PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEAI As in terest in former British War Minister John Profumo's relations with 21-year-old party girl Chris tine Kceler now focuses on the third leg of the triangle Soviet Naval Captain Yevgcniy Mikhail ovich Ivanov the wonder grow s in Washington diplomatic circles that the Russian was allowed 1c continue his scandalous conduct openly for nearly three years. When lvanov was assign-! to the Russian embassy in Lundon in 1060 as a military attache, he was already a known intelligence agent with a long record of es pionage and playboy scandals at his previous post in Oslo, Nor way, from 1933 to 1938. This is what now appears to be the major breach in British security. It is recognized he should have been kicked out as persona non grata long before. What finally forced Capt. Third Class Yevgcniy M. Ivanov's re call to Moscow last January was not his notoriety as a drunk and a woman chaser. It was his as sociation with Col. Olcg Henkov skiv, recently executed in Russia after a trial in which he was ac cused of having given Soviet se crets to western intelligence agents. Ivanov and Penkovskiy know each other intimately. They had been classmates for four years at the Military Diplomatic Acad emy, Russia's top intelligence training school. When Colonel Pen kovskiy came to London several limes during Captain Ivanov's tour of duty there, 1960-62, they spent much time together. Ivanov was merely one of a number of Soviet intelligence of ficers who were yanked back to Moscow from all over the world to give an accounting of their relations with Penkovskiy. It was apparently Russian fear that Ivanov might be giving So viet secrets to the British and was himself a security risk that caused his recall to Moscow not the other way around, that he was exposed as spy and play boy. There is much speculation that Ivanov may now be in serious difficulty at home, though there has been no news filtering through the Iron Curtain on such a de velopment. Ivanov's record shows that he OTHER EDITORS' OPINIONS . . . The Hatemongers Have Little Faith In People (The Sacramento Reel A quietly voiced indictment was printed in the Eugene. Ore., Register-Guard which is must reading for any American concerned with (lie rise of tlie fright peddler in all his guises, whether inspired by profit or nursed on ignorance or fear. The newspaper commented on the Senate speech by California's United States Senalor Thomas H. Kuchcl. It liked Ktichcl's refer ence to fringe rightuingers as dealers in paranoia, and lament ed, as does Kuchcl. their practice of going around stirring up hatred and scaring tlie daylights out of the witless. And incidentally col lecting ots and pots of money. Said the Register-Guard: Everywhere they see a plot. They warn against the faceless "they " However, it is not all paranoia. Much of it is simple lack of confidence. Those to whom the hatemongers appeal have lit tle faith in tiie resilience of the America they boast of lovini. Out of one side of their mouths they speak ecstatically about this great land of ours and its great tree people. Out of the otlier side they imply that Americans are a bunch of saps who will buy any oddball ideokigy that comes along, includ ing theirs. And Uiey do see a plot cer where and in even thing. Tiiey see no lack of logic in their extrem ism: as they view it. it simply is a battle, their crusade, between "we" ami "the " To play a bit with an old phrase . i,ie would hold: "Think as 1 think, or damn yon." Ami characteristic ol all mobs who blindly worship at tlie cult of fanaticism recall Hitler and Mussolini and now ("a. Iro? they do not stop to think where their tortured logic .;! take them, and that in inellectivr ly fuhting a straw man they may be civaLnj a real monstcu These milling few, for example, see nothing wrong with irrational and dangerous proposals to "force Russia into a showdown." to w ipe out income tax levies while financ ing a bigger, better military es tablishment, to impeach Chief Jus tice of the United States Earl War ren because he holds the Constitu tion of the I'nited States a sacred document to be followed; or for that matter to kill the court it self. As tlie Register-Guard opines, it is not all paranoia. Much of it is a simple lack of confidence in our institutions and in our people. In tlie end, the people and our insti tutions will survive of course; meantime, tlie agony goes on. claims to have attended the Rus sian Naval Academy in Vladivos tok and to have been graduated from the Caspian Higher Naval Academy. He was commissioned in 1947 and served at sea for three years. In 1950 he was select ed for Soviet Military Intelligence Service, GRU, and completed its four-year training courses in 1953. His first assignment was to Oslo as assistant naval attache. He soon disclosed that he was a very active intelligence officer, making no efforts to cover his trail. He openly took photos of North Atlantic Treaty naval vessels in port. He was an uninvited ob server of NATO naval maneuvers in northern waters. He openly met with Norwegian Communists. And he immediately established a rep utation as a drunk and a woman chaser. In 1954 he was picked up by Norwegian police for disorderly conduct, but was released because of his diplomatic status. Tlie next year he was in trouble after an all-night brawl with a naval of ficer from another foreign coun try and a buxom hotel maid at a northern ski resort. Tlie maid was fired. The other officer was transferred. Ivanov went scot-free and remained in Oslo until 1958, when he was reassigned for two years' service at home. Ivanov's wife is the daughter of A. F. Gorkin. chairman of the Supreme Soviet Court. She is described as a chubby, plain type, in marked contrast to the glamorous model Christine Kceler, with whom her husband and the disgraced John Profumo w-ere involved. Chief Justice Gorkin has anoth er daughter who is also married to a Soviet military intelligence officer. Col. A. M. Konstantinov. He was Russian air attache in London before Ivanov was as signed there in 19M). These marriages are cited to show the heights into which the executed spy Col. Penkovskiy's contacts readied. Marriages with the daughters of influential So viet officials enahle young Russian officers to obtain not only plush apartments at home, but the best assignments overseas. BERRY'S WORLD GOIDWATER Jess Kirk dropped by the other day to bemoan the fact that we don't have the horsemen we used to have in the good old days. When he was 14, he recalls, he could ride anything that could walk or run. but he hadn't seen a car. Now, the kids can't ride any thing, but they're experts (more or less) behind the wheel of a ear at 14. 1 don't suppose it's reason able to think that the three present school boards can get together and work on a plan to solve the education dilemma in Klamath County. But I'm hope ful they'll authorize their re spective superintendents (Ray Hunsaker, Cliff Robinson) to get their heads together to see what can be worked out in establish ment of two school districts, grades 1 through 13 in each. Now that the one county unit has gone down to decisive de feat, we should get at a solu tion to the problem that will please most of the people in the county. I guess It's not reason able to think that we'll ever find a solution that will please everybody, or even a large ma jority, for that matter. While we keep hollering about federal taxes and spending, we might better be keeping our eyes on what is happening closer to our pocketbook. For instance, a 25 per cent hike in the state in come tax doesn't do anything to realize benefit from a token re duction in federal income taxes tif any comes, at all). Somehow, one gets the impres sion that the racial problem is restricted to the Southern states. While we don't have the problem in the magnitude we hear about down there (riots, et al) a great many of the discriminatory prac tices down there are quietly in effect in other areas of the na tion. I don't like the idea of all the legislation we see and hear about regarding desegregation and integration, as some of it ap pears discriminatory to the oth er side. By that I mean, we should have on our books legislation that provides basic quality, and recognition of the rights of mi nority groups, If we don't alrea dy have It. But it should stop there. It should not provide special privileges, by law. for those groups or individuals. Has this cycle ever occurred to you: New superhighways in crease auto traffic; more auto traffic makes for greater conges tion; greater congestion compels us to build more superhighways and on and on we go. I w ish I could get more of you readers to provide more grist for this column. Send in your jokes, your ideas, your comments. You can never tell what might come of some of those ideas. Someone, I suppose an engineer, lor, maybe, a fireman) sent this one; An engineer when taking his shower slipped on the soap. Then he tore his shirt while he was putting it on. On the way out of the house he fell down the stairs. He finally got out on his run, and as he was traveling 60 miles per hour he looked ahead, and there he saw another train coming at bim at the same speed on the same track. He turned to the fireman and said, "Joe, have you ever had one of those days when everything went dead wrong?" Be sure and save your mon eyyou never know when it may be valuable again someday. As one thinks about it. it is quite shocking to learn that Unit ed States airlines have entered a large order for supersonic air planes designed and produced in France and England. Reason is that there is no comparable plane available in America, and there won't be for a couple of years or so after tlie European planes are on the production line. I h a d thought there was no other air plane industry comparable to WASHINGTON REPORT Johnson Faces Tough Civil Rights Choice 7 thought I tali low firofU Vm not randiJstt unit ei&Drr tbe right!" By FLI.TON LEWIS JR. Vice President Lyndon John son may soon make the most important ruling of his Vice Presi dential career. He must approve or veto mas sive demonstrations by militant Negroes in the nation's Capitol building. He can. if he so rules, legalize sit-ins under the Capitol dome. Or he can call out the cops and break up the demonstra tions that Rev. Martin Luther King has promised to stage on Capitol ground. Dr. King has said he will lead hundreds of thousands of Negroes to Washington to demand faster action on civil rights. And here's the rub. Federal law 'Title 40. U.S. Code 193, Section Gi prohibits any or ganized demonstration on the Cap itol grounds, in the Senate or House Office Buildings, or tire Capitol itself. The section reads: "It is forbidden to parade, stand or move in processions or assem blages in said United States Capi tol grounds, or to display therein any flag, banner or device de signed or adapted to bring into public notice any party organiza tion, except as hereinafter provid ed in i subsequent I sections of this title." The subsequent sections permit the Vice President and Speaker of the House to jointly lift such restrictions as they see fit for an "occasion of national interest." Are the King demonstrations an "occasion of national interest?" The Rev. Dr. King must certain ly think so. So must the leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. So must a number of ultra-liberal Democrats with whom Johnson works closely. The Vice President, a Texan by birth, faces a real dilemma. If he approves tlie demonstrations he will alienate Southern Democrats w ho have been his loyal supporters 'and who control the committees through which Administration bills must flow. He will set a precedent that will he difficult not to follow. Him can Johnson deny the Capitol grounds to union members, farm ers, businessmen, and any others who have special axes to grind' It is by no means an easy de rision for him to make Nnr for Speaker John McCormack. who has long steered a cautious road on civil rights. Note: There is substantial agree ment with Senator Thruston Mor ton that beating a Southern fili buster will be tough. Dixie Demo cratsincluding those who sup port the President on other mat ters will talk day and night to prevent a vote on the President's civil rights package. A substantial number of Repub licans have indicated that they, too. will oppose any effort to cut off debate. New Hampshire's Nor ris Cotton last year explained why he is so reluctant to invoke clo ture, to crack, a filibuster and force a vote on the issue at hand: "As a Senator from a small state, who may some day find the welfare of his people threatened by combinations representing tlie more powerful and populous states of this nation. I do not in tend to surrender this (filibuster) weapon." The Administration must get two-thirds of those Senators pres ent and voting to invoke cloture. The difficulty was shown in last year's abortive cloture attcmpt. A liberal bill to establish uni form literacy tests fell 21 votes shy of the two-thirds needed, fall ing considerably short of a sim ple majority, in fact. On five occasions since 1917, when unlimited debate was modi fied, the filibuster has been brok en, however. Senators seeking to prevent a vote on the Versailles Treaty in 1919 were gagged. So were those who sought to kill U.S. participation in the World Court in 192fi. Bills on branch banking and Prohibition reorganization, both in 1927, were passed after cloture had been invoked. Cloture was invoked after North ern liberals last year tried to kill the Communications Satellite bill, leading that talkathon was a handful of Northern liberals who will try this year to break the civil rights filibuster: Democrats Young. Morse. Burdick. Gniening, Neuherger. Douglas, and McNa mara. Southern Democrats and North ern Republicans point to the Satel lite Communications vote to insist that cloture can be won if neces sary lecislation is threatened. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q Do's a naturalized elll trn M the United Stairs have the same rlghu as a natlvr-bnrn rillen? A - Yes. except that he mar r,n become president.
