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Newspaper Page TextHERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Oregon Monday, June U, 1361 EPSON INI WASHINGTON . . . HST In Rare Form At Warm-Up For His 80th Some Take the High Road PAGE Confrontation In Alabama Whatever tests between state and federal authorities on the civil rights issue may still lie ahead, they seem unlikely to be made in the personalized terms employed by Ala bama's Gov. George C. Wallace at Tuscaloosa and Mississippi's Gov. Ross Barnett last year in Oxford and Jackson. When Wallace called off a plan to bar tjie door to a Negro student at the University of Alabama's Huntsville branch, it probably signaled a historic turning point. Wallace's confrontation with United States officials at Tuscaloosa was difficult and emotion-charged. The whole nation must be grateful that it was managed without stirring violence. : True to his word, the governor is main jaining strict order in the critical areas. Ad mirable restraint and responsibility shown by university students and Alabama citizens con tribute importantly to the atmosphere of calm. Wallace candidly acknowledges he stood in the doorway at Tuscaloosa partly to redeem ar.1962 campaign pledge. But he also says he hoped thereby to arouse the country to a new appreciation of certain constitutional Issues between the states and the federal govern ment. The governor finds the core of the dis pute in the 10th amendment to the U.S. Con ttitution. It says powers not expressly dele gated to the federal government under the Constitution, or not prohibited to the states by it, are reserved to the states, or the people. ' Authority over education is not one of the Step (Portland Oragonian) The Administration bill to establish the Pacific Northwest as the primary marketing area for federal power from the Columbia fcasin system won an unexpectedly easy vie-' tory in the House Reclamation Subcommittee, 15 to 3. But the most vigorous opponents of this measure needed by the Northwest before transmission lines are built to California to sell surplus power in that market were hold , ing their fire. Reps. John Saylor of Pennsylvania and Craig Hosmer of California, both Republicans, lave an armload of amendments, both frivo lous and vicious, with which they will seek fo kill the so-called "Northwest preference" bill before the main Interior Committee votes on it in about two weeks. Failing there, they will carry the battle to the floor in the hope IN WASHINGTON Don't By RALPH dc TOLEDANO Freedom House, a New York or ganization which dors not find it Impossible to be liberal atld anti Communist, has issued a report at a meeting It railed nl 25 writ ers, publicists, and academicians "seasoned observers and ana lysts" to discuss Uie Cuban prob lem. On the minds of Freedom House directors was Uie fact that thouch the American people unit ed solidly behind the President to force the wilMrawal of missiles and troops, "more than half a year has gone by and Hie Job has not been completed" Of this group, H were friendly to the Ad ministration, 7 opposed, and 4 would not say. : When the deliberations had ended, a poll was taken on fl num ber of key points, "la Washington fully committed to a policy to bring down Castro in practical terms?" Eleven answered no, and three gave a qualified no. Only three nave an unqualified yes. Three abstained. "Does Washing ton have a plan on Cuba?" Only One parUcipairt gave an unquali fied yes, whereas 13 gave an un Qualified no and two more a quali fied no. "Can Castro's regime be toppled wiUiout an invasion by the U.S.?" Vessel from 21, without qualifica tion and not a single no. "Can Castro-Communist subversion be contained wiUiout action larger than presently exists?" To this Question. 19 unqualifiedly said no. f Were Uie hit-and-run raids con frrbtiting to creating difficulties for Castro?" Twenty yes answers. Did raids not based on U.S. soil fml.inger the peace?" Unqualified no. 18; unqualified yes, I. The pattern of the answers and other questions corroborate Una ii quite clear. Tliese friend ly experts believe that tlie Admin istration is not really trying to tyerthrowr Castro, that it is not Containing subversion, and that the powers given to the federal establishment. Wallace says the U.S. insistence on entry of Negro students into Alabama's schools amounts to use of federal authority in the education field. He argues that, in conse quence, this presents federal usurpation of state powers. The arguments of the federal authorities in both the courts and the executive branch are that in directing the entry of the Negroes into these schools they are not in any way at fecting the operation of Alabama's educational system as such. They say the state is free to control teachers, curriculum, and school ad ministration. The federal contention goes further to say that what U.S. officials seek is simply to assure to the Negroes involved the general rights of citizenship given to all Americans. It is argued that these are federal rights which know no state boundaries and go with the person wherever he walks, whether in his home, in the voting booth, in a public place or a public institution such as a state-supported school. Government lawyers offer the 14th amendment to the Constitution as the legal support for this argument. Governor Wallace wants this controversy adjudicated in the manner prescribed by the Constitution which means in the courts. It h a dispute which has been there before. But perhaps the country will benefit hugely if, as the governor wishes, these issues are threshed out again and strong, clear, thoughtful words are spoken from the bench for all the nation to hear. Toward Intertie of prejudicing the votes of many representa tives who do not know the facts and will be gullible on this issue when it is presented, falsely, in a "government power" light. The subcommittee did vote an amend ment, subject to review of the main commit tee, instructing Secretary of Interior Udall to make every effort to negotiate non-federal transmission lines to the Southwest. This, Interior is willing to do but not before the present bill to protect the basic, prime-power supply of the Northwest from California raids is adopted. The adoption of this bill will not forestall, however, a mean fight on federal appropriations for intertie lines. The sub committee action was encouraging for the Northwest. But there are barrier reefs to cross. Care-Or reasons it gives for its dilatory tactics arc simply cover-ups. Tliis should come as a shock to those who insist that only a hand ful of pug-ugly Republicans Hi Con gress arc really disturbed by the Cuban situation. And it throws doubt on an argument heard here frequently that Cuba will not be an issue because people know that there Is nothing President Kenne dy can do about it. Tlie other side of the same coin comes from Cuba itself, from a new Free Cuban Commando group operating successfully in the Es cambray mountains. Pedro "Chun go" Ramirez, head of this group, says: "Eighty per cent of the iCastrm militia is coniKscd of men who serve only out of terror. Their morale is very low, divert the opportunity and the assurance that lliey were on tlie winning side, we could count on massive defec tions." Nevertheless, defections do occur among those who would rather die (or Cuba than live in slavery under Castro. W ithout tlie arms tliey once got from tlie Unicd Stales, (he various guerrilla groups are extremely short ol weapons even lacking rlotlies, shoes, food, Ramirez sat s. "Our sources of supply are the iCastroi militia Uiemseives." Tlie only weapons available must be taken from members of militia units wlio are killed in combat or who defect to Uie commandoes The guajiros lor peasants I supply what they can tn the way of (noil and slieltor. They also serve to identify Communist agents wlio at tempt to infiltrate the guerrillas hy claiming tu tic idealistic re cruits. Ramirez points out that in this battle lor his country, "loo.mo Communist troops wouid have dif ficulty wiping out tlie guerrillas in tlie Escamhray." Commando units operate in group of II to IS Afraid? and "extreme mobility is our chief weapon." But what (liey really need is proper support from Uie outside. This means guns and supplies, cer tainly, bu( most important of all what tliey need is the knowledge that the Kennedy Administration is on their side. This knowledge would cause widespread defec tions. Instead, they see Uiat Uie Ad ministration has turned its back on them, pleading (ear of a nu clear war. Tliey believe Fidel Cas tro when he says, "Who has failed? Tliey. Uie U.S.A., has failed. Who has won? We have won. Well, then, arc the conquered going to impose conditions on the conquerors?" This kind of propa ganda is pervasive and murder to the cause of freedom. Tlie Cuban people know thai tlie United Slates had already con quered, that it lost its nerve, and that the conquerors gratefully ac cepted tlie conditions of those who were in full retreat. The last laugh was Castro's and Khrush chev's. Is it any wonder then that sea soned observers friendly to the Kennedy Administration feel that nothing has been done about Culw because those in the seats of Uie mighty do not care to or are atraid QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q - lias the origin at the name "bourhna whisky" aeea traced? A It was first made by a pioneer preaclier at Georgetown. Ky , in ITS. Georgetown at that tune was part of Bourbon County. WASHINGTON By WASHINGTON STAFF Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEAI - Nerv ous over the reacUon (o New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's remarriage, one top backer tried recently to get the best he could out o( the old applause meter when he introduced the governor's new wife, the former Margarctta Murphy. State Republican Chairman Fred Young, addressing the par ty's annual fund-raising dinner in New York City, told the assem bled Republicans: "Now I want to introduce two of the most charming, gracious mid intelligent women this state has ever known the former first lady. .Mrs. Thomas E. Dewey, and tlie current first lady, Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller." The applause was warm and long. But no one knew what part was meant for whom. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS One of the interesting psycho logical side lights on Gordon Cooper's space Might is Uie fact that he nearly didn't get to make it. After his flight was successful ly completed, a wire service story Irom Cape Canaveral reported: "His kidding on Uie ground since Uw program started is such that some ol the humorless mem bers of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration were against his selection for such a serious assignment." It was only the "strong intercession" of oth ers, the story went on, that eventually won him the align ment. It is a common mistake of pon derous and humorless men to equate mere solemnity with "seri ousness." The Rev. Sydney Smith, one of the wittiest and most erudite clergymen of his lime, once explained why he nev er attained a bishopric while inferior men did: "I sink hy niy levity." he remarked, "while oth ers rise by their gravity." In our own time, Bernard Shaw was perhaps the most deadly se rious of writers yet in many quarters he was considered Hip pant and frivolous because he wrote in a sardonic ami humor ous manner. At the other end o' lite philosophic spectrum. G. K Chesterton was long suspect for his mirth, while being a passion ale and prolound religious com mentator. "A solemnity of bch.it inr." wrote La Hocheloucauld. "is oft en a trick to disguise the tlcn ciencies ol the mind " Most of the serious-sounding men I hate listened to. in various fields, hate used solemnity to conceal their poverty of thought: they appar ently feel that a heaviness ol man ner masks an emptiness of sub. slance. There is no more serious cxliua tor in the United Stales Ulan Huh ert M. Hiitchins nor one who has giten deeper thought lo tlie basic problems of education tn a democratic society. But because he has been a wise-cracker. ,m irreverent stepper on academ e toes, he has sometimes turn dis NOTEBOOK Applause Meter Hijinks A British political leader visit ing Washington says that he has to come to America once a year just to keep up on the new words in U.S. government officials' vo cabularies. Last year when he came the bureaucrats were all saying that Uicy were having "dialogues" about controversial issues. What they meant was that Uiey were having debates. ' This year the fashionable word among Uie deep thinkers is that they are WTiting "scenarios" on how to handle specific situa tions. What they mean is plans. There's a difference between American and British politicians and diplomats on what the word "consultation" means. To the Americans, it means just "con versation." The Britishers want it to mean also, "participation." When teamsters wives came to STRICTLY PERSONAL missed as the mere Feck's Bad Boy of education. "A monkey looks terribly se rious and Uioughtful," he once said. "But tlie monkey is just thinking where to scratch himself next." Mark Twain suffered much the same fate for many years, and was regarded as little more than a high-grade parlor entertainer, because of his irony and jokes: while some of Uie dullest and stuffiest writers of his period were regarded with hushed ven eration for their pompous plati tudes. At his life's end, he felt quite bitter about this evaluation. Many men who seem to be tak ing tlieir subjects seriously are simply taking themselves tieri ously: they cannot afford the lux ury of laughter, w hich would threaten to shatter facade of Uieir false dignity. Solemnity is not an intellectual weapon, but a psy chological armor. BERRY'S WORLD I "Vi Ukl to it mmtibint town to picket tlie White House, a snoup who came by saw no pickets so he asked Uie White House guard where they were. Replied Uie guard: "Oh, tliey're inside touring the White House first." Sen. Norris Cotton, R-N.H., says tlie $10 million government aqua rium w hich is to be built in Wash ington reminds him of Uie magni ficent palace built by Frederick the Great of Prussia. At tlie very moment his enemies were arrayed against him and he was squeezing the last cent from his serfs to maintain his armies with uncon scious irony he named it "sans souci" meaning "without worry." Says Senator Cotton "this may be a fitting epitaph for the 83th Congress." Trying to make sense out of agricultural policies has proved lo be a completely frustrating business to both American and European negotiators on tariff and trade. But one French economist has finally reduced the situation to utter absurdity by four hypo thetical theorems: 1. Anything which is nonsense ill any other sector is the height of sophistication as regards agri culture. 2. Every farmer has Uie right to produce as much of everything that is not needed as he pleases. 3. As soon as he produces more than is needed, raise the prices above Uie levels that people can atford to pay. 4. Give aid to Ihe developing countries so that tliey can pro duce more of everything that is not needed for sale at prices that arc higher than can be paid in a free world market. Virginia Sen. Harry F. Byi d had his own comments about Presi dent Truman and others at Uie birllxlay party given in his hon or by die National Press Club. "I've spoken to all the presidents during the 30 years I've been in the Senate." he said, "and they've spoken with me. But I didn't agree with anv of them." tbout rttpfortionmtnt.' By PETER EUSON Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON INEA' - Plans lo make furmcr President Harry S Truman's 80th birthday. May 8, 1964. a real wingding are already under way. This came out, along with a lot of inside political stor ies, at the 22nd anniversary re union of the Senate's World War tl Investigating Committee on Na tional Defense. Truman was in Washington for the affair as guest of honor since he was the com mittee's first chairman. He made Ihe committee famous, a n d it made him vice president. Charles Patrick Clark, associate counsel on the original commit tee staff, hosted this year's black-tic dinner for 40 old Tru man cronies, and was its master of ceremonies. It was Clark who announced that the committee's 23rd anniversary dinner next year will celebrate Truman's 80th. Vice President Lyndon John son, at this year's dinner, gave Truman a large measure of credit for the Democratic victory in 19B0. After the Los Angeles nominat ing convention, Johnson revealed. Sen. Kennedy told his running mate. "Go see Harry Truman and ask him how to run for vice president." "Get as far away from home as you can." Truman advised John son. "Go to Boston. That's where I opened my campaign. The Irish will receive you with open arms. Then get Jack to go to Texas. ' They won't be as afraid of a Catholic if they see one." "John McCormack 'Speaker of (lie House) g o t some fellows out." Johnson told the Truman guests. "He hired enough lo fill tlie hall and he even had a horse out in front." Johnson riding a horse in Texas wouldn't be news. But Johnson doing a Paul Revere in Boston was news. Every paper in Texas carried the pictures. And that helped Kennedy and Johnson car ry Texas as well as nine other WASHINGTON By FULTON LEWIS JR. Gus Hall is a taciturn man. not given to broadcasting lus likes and dislikes. If he were. Uie port ly boss of U.S. Communists would rank Attorney General Robert Kennedy about as high on his list of favorite people as Floyd Patterson would Sonny Liston. For Kennedy, a one-time boxer, has backed Hall against t h e 'opes and opened up with both hands. He has Hall and Moscow's other agents in serious trouble. In recent months, tlie Attorney General has initiated legal action against 27 top-ranking Reds, ask ing the Subversive Activities Con trol Board iSACBi to require them to register as members of the Communist Party. Based on evidence lurned up by Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover, Ihe Board has thus far ordered 14 to register. It has not yet ruled on the other 13. If tlie board's deci sion is upheld by the courts, the 14 must register. If they refuse as they have indicated they will they face prison sentences of five years and fines of Sio.nuo in the event they are convicted. Hearings a fortnight ago dem onstrated the spadework of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Kennedy's Internal Security Division. The FBI sprung four agents to testify against four Par ty leaders. Perhaps Uie most im portant witness was Allen Prince, a red-haired Brooklyn lad who has re(iorted to the FBI lor ten years. Before he led tlie Party last year. Prime was regarded by Mali as one of tlie country's most prom ising young comrades. He sertcd as a member of the Party's New York Youth Commission aiid chair man of his party branch His wife. Helen, also worked lor the FBI as an undercover agent. Like her husband, she left the Party to testify before the SCB Prime was a chief witnc-s in proceedings against Mortimer Daniel Rubin, the Partv s bricht young Director of Youth Activities. He told of secret meeting in which Rubin charted strategy to win recruits. I!un. Prince Xid reported directly lo partv bo..,' Hall, who was particularly con. cerncd almut youth progress in New Yoik tilt. Prime was uod lo Klentilv Irt ing Pntah. labor commivdr ( the US. Party Two other undei. .over agents .Floyd Roger, and Uicius Armstrong lo iricntilicd Potd.li. who i, ,, ., ,0 I S. law cnlorcemcnt ollicers. He w. n.niicted under the Smith Act of conspiring to over throw the US Government Upon his release from federal prison lie was reported to his native Poland Snorty thereafter, in v.,:,7 Pnt a-h a smu-M h;,ck ,, lh,( states, where Johnson made 108 speeches on his way back home. Former Sen. Burton K. Wheel er of Montana, Truman's first Senate boss as chairman of the Commerce Committee, paid tri bute to Uie ex-President because, "he had guts. Tlie more 1 live in Washington." said Wheeler, "the more I think it's more im portant to have guts than to have brains." Responding to all these and a lot more tributes, Truman, pink-cheeked and in his rare, uld form, said in reply, "What in hell can a man say or do after all that? But one of these days," he continued, "I'll be in a position where I can't hear what you say. I hope you'll go on saying it anyway. "When a man has a responsi bility to 180 million people he can't please them all," Truman reminisced, in a mellow mood. "He has to make decisions. A third to a half of the people al ways have to raise hell about it. "Now they're being very kind to an old man. I wish they had been more so then." Truman paid some beautiful tri butes to former President Herbert Hoover, who had responded to Ins call for help. "I asked him lo do for me what he did for Woodrow Wilson feed the peo ple of Bulgaria and Romania and Iran and Syria and Azerbai jan. And then I asked him tn plan the reorganization of the federal government. And we put three-fourths of his recommenda tions into effect. "I got President Hoover lo come down to Independence and dedi cate the Truman Memorial Li brary. While he was there he came to tlie house where Mrs. Truman was entertaining her bridge club. And one old ga) there asked him what an ex president did. Hoover's reply was: " 'He takes pills and dedicates libraries.' " REPORT Bob, Hoover Have U.S. Commies On Run country lo attend the super-secret, closed door l?th Convention of the Communist Party, USA. Nabbed by the FBI, Potash was convicted of illegal entry and served two more years in jail. Again, deportation proceedings were initiated, but Poland's Wlad yslaw Gomulka iwho has received more than half a billion dollars in U.S. foreign aidl thwarted Amer ican efforts to get rid of Potash. Gomulka refused to accept him, and Potash remains in this coun try today. According to sworn tes timony, he travels throughout the country, addressing secret Com munist meetings, giving orders on infiltration of American industrial plants. Neither Potash nor Rubin both ered to deny the charges made against them. Neither, for that matter, have any of those against whom Kennedy has moved, al though they have been given ev ery opportunity to refute the alle gations and lo present witnesses in tlieir behalf. The Reds' only hope is for the Supreme Court to hold the pro ceedings unconstitutional. Govorn- mcnt lawyers are confident, how ever, that the statutes in question will he upheld. Al manac By United Prrss International Today is Monday. June 24. tlie lT5th day of una wilh 100 to follow. The moon is approaching its liist quarter. The morning stars arc Venus. Jupiter and Saturn. Tlie ctcning star is Mars. Tlmse born today include Henry Ward Beccher. American preach er and opponent of slavery, in 1313. On this day in hislorv: In 1W7, explorer John Cabot reached North America and ('aimed lo lie the first European to visit the continent since thff Norsemen. In 18M, Gen. Robert E. Lee Martcd lo cross the Potomac Riv " at Harper's Ferry in prepara tion for his Civil War invasion of Pennsylvania. In i"48. Russia blockaded all 'ail and road traffic between West Eerhn and West Germany. In 1148. Republicans chose Gov. Thomas Dewey of New York to run lor the presidency lor tha ccond time. A thought for Die day - Tlie Trench writer. Henri Beyle Sten "ahl. wrote: "One can acquire ""tilling in solitude - except haraclcr."