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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore.
Sunday, June !3, 190J
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--And Try to Hang on to This Till You Get Back!"
NOTHING
SPECIAL
(W. B. S.I
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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.