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PAGE A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Wednesday, June 26, 1103 EPSON IN WASHINGTON ... Bold Steps Needed To Rid World Of Hunger "Whose Shot?" dii&uaL (paqiL Electoral College Reform Needed The transfer of power from a retiring president to a newcomer, especially if a change of party is involved, has become one of the most complex, cumbersome tasks of : U.S. democracy. ' Many persons caught up in the takeover ; by Dwight Eisenhower in 1953 or President : Kennedy in 1961 will testify to the great dif ; ficultics. : The November-January transition is a gray, never-never land in which the world looks to the new president, who does not yet know his job, and largely by-passes the incum bent, who does know the work. Any circumstance which materially add ed to this seemingly inevitable confusion might by that fact seriously increase the peril inherent in the change-over. Fuzzed-up au thority does not suit an age when maximum ; national danger can arise on an instant. Yet this would appear to be a probable con : sequence of any presidential election which : failed to yield an electoral majority for one : candidate or another and thereby threw the '-decision into the House of Representatives r as prescribed by the Constitution. Even though summoned immediately, as the law demands, such a session might be days in achieving a result. In the meantime the nation, and the world, would be stewing in doubt. Decision by the House is the stated in : tent of those stales such as Alabama, Georg ; ia and Mississippi, which have authorized the : choosing of unpledged electors in presidential voting. (Dallas Morning News) West Virginia Wesleyan College has giv en a right-wing economics professor, Dr. Har old Hughes, his walking papers effective next spring. His ultraconservative views, the college says, interfered with his classroom :; performance. ? A former member of the college board, ; Harold Cutright, brought the plight of the y right-winger to the world. The college's board :'of trustees, Cutright charges, Is a "scared 'nest of little left-wingers whose teachings cannot stand the light of day." Earlier the Chicago Tribune charged in an editorial that the professor was being fired because he IN WASHINGTON : By RALPH dc TOLKDANO '. In the hysteria over civil '. rights, there has been a remark ." ahlc silonoo surrounding a hill In ; troduced hy Hep. William C. Cra mer (R-Fla.l. Mr. Cramer has com up with what la tuday a novel Idea that the right to have one's vote counted must apply to all Americana, not merely to one group or another. And he is par ticularly disturbed because neith er the Congress nor the Justice ; Department Is aroused over Hie ; theft of an estimated one million - votes in every presidential elec linn. : When H is recalled that John '.T. Kennedy's plurality over Rich laid Nixon was UJ.OOfl votes land : that a aw ing ot 11,000 to 12.0(10 ; votes in four slates would have dinncod tlio results of the I960 election!, Mr. Cramer's dclense ot the righl-to-vole provisions of the Second Amendment assumes a proper importance. Vet the Civil Rights Commis sion, set up to study any viola tions of lite Bill of Rights, is speci fically forbidden to move into - areas other than tlmso involving minority groups. If a white Prol teslnnt voter is deprived of his ; civil rights at the polls, this Is ; not presumed to lie a violation ;of tlie Second Amendment under the terms of the commission's ' charter. Let liim look elsewhere : for relief. Tlw Civil Rights Com mission can act only if the In jured arty Is Negro, Catholic, or Jewish. To make tlio Civil Rights Com mission responsive to all voting of fenses, Representative Cramer submitted an amendment to a bill extending the group's lite in 1961. The liberal members of the House ; Judiciary Committee fought (on . aeiously to prevent approval. The ; administration, in the pcrwin ' Deputy Attorney General mow Su- promo Court Justice! Ryron R. J White, testified against this exten sion of the commission's author "ily. ? "Although the amendment was favorably reported." says Mr. Cramer, "the members of the House never had an oiportunity The Heave Ho didn't meet the approval of a prominent West Virginia labor-union official. There probably are arguments on both sides. But what interests The News is a re cent dispatch indicating that the American Association of University Professors will not go to bat for the professor. "The question of academic freedom and views on public issues are not involved" in the dismissal, says the AAUP. If Dr. Hughes had been a howling liberal, voicing his liberalism to students and even politicking in fields where he shouldn't, would the Association of Professors lot him be fired, or would they not be putting West Virginia Wesleyan on probation for violating his tenure and academic freedom? Voting Rights Unprotected to vote on it because, according to the chairman of the Rules Com mittee, no application was ever made to his committee for a rule to bring this bill to a vote." i Before the Rules Committee con bring a measure to the floor, there must tic an application hy the chairman of the committee that considered It. I "Bottling up this amendment in 1961 was a most revealing font of legislative chicanery," Mr. Cramer has told the House of Rep resentatives. "It indicated very strongly that the so-called cham pions of civil rights, the self-proclaimed liberals, are (lie very ones who fear legislation for civil rights for the majority as well as Hie minority." As Representative Cramer points out. vie are constantly told by civil rights proponents that it one American is injured It threat ens the rights of all Americans. Vet these same people think in terms only of minorities as it Americans were not individuals but shapeless masses. In Philadelphia, one election worker voted 327 times on a sin gle voting machine. This means that the votes of 327 people were cancelled out. Each one had a l ight to (lie protect ion of the Sec ond Amendment. There were ex tensive vote frauds In Chicago anil in Texas in I960. If civil right arc to mean any thing, they must be defended everywhere. Hut tlioso who chain, pion them are rc;Kly to practice a reverse segregation. The Civil Rights Commission, they argue, must think only in minority terms. It must discriminate against white voters. Tills is an odd way to read tlie Constitution. It is also a dan gerous nay. lor if we accept the principle that one voter is more important than another it we in sist (hat depriving a Negro of his lights demands the attention of a special commission whereas the same deprivation imposed on a member of the majority is of no concern to the federal govern ment tlton in effect we are set ting up different categories of justice. If they and some other states should pur sue this course, thereby subtracting a sub stantial number of electoral votes from the totals available to the declared party nomi nees, the result could be to hand the House the decision. This almost happened in the Truman Dewey contest of 1948. It could occur in a close 1964 election. It is a good bet, however, that the Amer ican people would let it happen only once. The likely turmoil in the House, especially if the nation or the world were in some sort of crisis, would give a huge push to preventive electoral college reform. Such reform is under study right now by Sen. Estes Kefauver's Committee on Consti tutional Amendments. But the sense of urg ency is lacking. A wide variety of plans clam or for attention. There is no evident consensus for any single one. Some observers feel that at most Con gress might endorse a plan to eliminate the electors as persons but retain electoral votes. This would destroy the prospect of indepen dent action by electors. The electoral votes in each state would go wholly to the candidate gaining a plurality there. There would be no division of a state's electoral vote according to the proportions of the November popular vote, or by congression al districts, as some have urged. Yet even this simple reform may look like a long step to a country which has not to date felt the paralysis of an inconclusive election. The question of vote fraud is, of course, a touchy one for Demo cratic administrations. These frauds occur in the Democratically-controlled big cities where large numbers of votes are cast, or in one-party states. In small towns, tlie poll watchers know their neighbors: there is less chance to bring In floaters or to pack the ballot box. The Demo crats, therefore, have been the major beneticiaries of election fraud ever since the early 1930s, when they took over tlie big cities. But civil rights arc civil rights and the last place we should have segregated thinking is in the Civil Righis Commission. Al manac H.v United Press International Today is Wednesday. June 16. the I77ih day of lata with 188 to follow. The moon is approaching its first quarter. The morning slars are Venus. Jupiter and Saturn. Tlie evening star is Mars. Those horn today include Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Pearl Ruck in 1892, On this day in history: In WIS, the lust issue of tlie "Illustrated Daily News." tlie orig inal pictorial Uthloid newspaper, rolled off tlie presses in New Wk City. In PM.'i, 50 countries signed a charier in San Francisco selling up the United Nations. In 1948, tlie United States an nounced tlie organization of the "llerlin Airlift" in answer to the Russian blockade. In 1939, President Eisenhower and Quern Elizabeth dedicated the St. Utvvrenoe Seaway at St. tambrrt, Quebec. A thought for tlie day French novelist Albert Camus said "Nothing in the world Is worth turning one's back on what one loves." T r Young GOP Faction By BRUCE BIO&SAT Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) Young Republicans love Arizona's Sen. Barry Goldvvater so ardently tlicy will be fighting each other in their June 25-28 San Francisco convention for the honor of loving him most. v Thus an organization whose membership is 80 to 85 per cent for Goldvvater for president may stage one of the most turbulent combats in its history. Goldwatcr's 1901 rivals Govs. Nelson Rockefeller of New York. George Romney of Michigan and William Scranlon of Pennsylvania aren't even in It. All three de clined convention speaking invita tions. Rumor has it they would have been booed and picketed. Goldwater is expected to appear. With no major ideological dif ferences showing, the Young Re publicans find- themselves slicing conservative hairs and falling into factional and personality cliques. - At root this is not a new story. Says one young leader: "For a long lime, the basic By SYDNF.Y J. HARRIS The cant that Is spoken in the political sphere is equalled, if not excelled, only by tlie cant that is spoken in the artistic and cultural sphere. Tlie most absurd and in flated claims are made by pro ixinents in ImXIi worlds. I was, therefore, pleased to read recently tile transcript of some talks given by Artur Senna be!, the pianistic genius, a few years before he died. Among oth er blunt and honest comments, Schnabel had Uiis to say: "All my life I have heard this Uik about the power of art to bring people nearer to each oth er. Uiat world peace will come only if more music is circulated and exchanged. Vet I have seen people deeply moved as deeply moved and affected by music as is possible and the next morn ing they would go into activities which you might call criminal and inhuman." The fact that the Russians love Van Chhiirn's artistry, and we love Gilels or some other Rus sian pcrlormer, has absolutely nothing whatever to do with our evtra-musical activities, either in dividually or nationally. Tlie Ger mans were the greatest music lovers in tlie world they would sob over Schubert and moan over Moart hut the cause of Interna tional understanding was not forwarded one inch hy such appre ciation. And. much as I applaud their god intentions. 1 feel the same way ahout Die people who devout ly believe that speaking a com mon language would make man kind act more like brothers. There may Ive some good practical rea sons for an international I a n guage. but it is sentimental non sense to think that It would pro mole amity among mankind. One of the most distressing les sons on hisiory. in fact, is that lie "rrcost wars and persecu tions often obtained among peo ples w ho spoke the same lan guage. The early Greek city states fought among themselves wilh unparalleled ferocity: so d:l the later Italian cities and duch strategy among Young Republi cans has been to call your oppon ent a liberal before he could call you one." Yet the eagerness of rival groups to be "first with Gold water" puts new fire in this old tactic. It centers on the battle for . the 1963-65 national chairmanship of the Young Republicans. Top candidates: Charles McDevitt, 31, Boise, Idaho, lawyer and state legisla tor, and Donald (Buzz) Lukens, 32, minority clerk of the House Rules Committee in Congress. In the bitter struggle shaping up, rumors of plot and subplot are hatched almost daily. One fac tion is alleged to have tried to "get the job" of a YR working in a congressional office for being "too active" in the campaign. The regional leader of a key faction sept all his campaign lit erature to private homes in San Francisco, fearing the stuff would be hijacked if sent to convention headquarters. He also sent out a man to forestall possible "bug ging" of room telephones. It is taken for granted each STRICTLY PERSONAL ies. The English behaved most atrociously toward the Irish, and our own Civil War indicates that a common tongue did not prevent horrible fratricide. Music is not an "international language," nor are any of the arts. There are only two things that will bring people closer to gctlier one of them is positive, and tlie other is negative. The positive tiling is love, and the negative thing is fear. And since we are not good enough to love one another, we will be brought together (if ever' only by fear by the very real fear, which exists today as never before, that destruction is indivis ible, that we are all sitting in the same little boat in the mid dle of the ana, and to drill a hole under anyone's scat is to sink us all. This is the one interna tional language time w ilt force us to learn to speak. BERRY'S WORLD " "It daddy tbt tlatut iv the statu - Full faction has spies in the other's camp. Some plans travel the cir cuit so fast they are scrapped as' useless. The play among these young "apprentice politicians" of ten gets rough enough to impress the toughest of their big league elders. From 1949 until 1961, one well entrenched clique hand-picked the national chairman and fellow offi cers. The spell was broken year before last with the victory of the present chairman, Leonard Na dasdy of Minneapolis. In the current fight, McDevitt is widely considered heir appar ent to Nadasdy. Lukens is the candidate of the formerly comi nant clique. The latter profess to be the "true breed" of conservatives. They tell delegates a victory for McDevitt would be represented by the press as a triumph for Rocke feller, since McDevitt is expected to gel New York's votes. McDevitt's forces charge their rivals with being a "rule or ruin" group trying to crush not only its avowed enemies but its less-firm friends as well. Says one pro McDevitt man: "On a recent swing I made, I talked to many of these guys. You may find yourself agreeing with them on Si) of loo issues. But if you disagree on the 100th. they ask: 'What arc you, a liberal or something?' " Neutral observers arc wonder ing what the impact will lie of holding the convention in Califor nia, whore the Young Republican organization is now headed by an avowed John Birch Society mem ber. Robert Gaston. But whatever the outcome in tins quest or power and for Goldwatcr's favor, it seems sale to say Goldwater himself will get a fresh "presidential lilt" from having his name bandied about and cheered to the ratters for four days. How much good will (hat do him in the big leagues? Some observers Icel it may serve him well as one more piece of evi dence suggesting he is the presi dential favorite of Republicans voung, medium and old. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q Which is Africa's oldest in dependent country? A Ethiopia, mbol, er it Hyannit Port t symbol!" By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON i NEA i - World wide family planning, a new and extended world food plan with tlie possibility of progressive interna tional taxation to support the ef fort were suggested at the closing session of the World Food Con gress here to insure freedom from hunger for everyone by the year 2000 A D. Speaking to 1,200 delegates from 100 countries, B. R. Sen of India, director general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Or ganization, listed these far-reaching international reforms in the course of a 40-point summary re port to the two weeks' conference. With world population expected to double to six billion people in the next 37 years. Dr. Sen de clared that the world food pro duction would have to be trebled or quadrupled. He said this need will require an effort of nearly Ihrac-fourths of the human popu lation. Without using the words "birth control," Sen declared: "It is obvious that the increase in numbers cannot continue at the present rate, let alone at an ac celerated pace, if the food supply lags behind. In the final analysis, it will be up to the individual to decide how he should conduct him self. Even so, the time may come when not only the nation to which the individual belongs, but also the world as a w hole may have to take a more direct and a more dynamic role in assisting family planning measures through social education and hygiene." On the international level. Sen advocated urgent action to under take a World Food Plan. This would co-ordinate national plans to meet nutritional needs and ar rive at a better balance between export supplies and import de mand, based on projections of fu ture trends. Other World Food Congresses at periodic intervals were suggested to review progress. The three-year Freedom From Hunger Campaign launched by FAO in 1961 will be continued on an experimental basis to develop techniques. WASHINGTON By FULTON LEWIS JR. It's two in a row for Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, who this week passes up his second straight .Young Republican National Con vention. The New York governor de clined to attend the last affair, held in 1961, citing as his excuse a heavy Albany schedule. While GOP juniors met in Minneapolis. Rocky, however, was photo graphed shooting pool in a New York youth center. Months ago Rockefeller turned down an invitation to address the 1963 conclave, which opened Tues day in San Francisco. Republican pros take with a grain of salt his excuse that press ing business would keep him at home. Tlie most likely reason is one given two years ago bv a party leader close to Rockefeller: "Nelson's no fool. He knows the reception he'd get out there would lie positively chilling." Only two so-called liberals will lie on hand this week. Thev are Oregon Gov. Mark Hatfield and Pennsylvania Sen. Hugh Scott. Certain to go down as hero of this convention Is Ariiona Sen. Barry Goldwater. w h o Is sched uled for a major address. Texas Sen. John Tower has promised to Join Goldwater In San Francis co to meet the 1,500 Young Repub lieans from all 50 slates. Several of Die party's blight , young Congressmen will be, pres ent, Including Tennessee's Bill Brock and Texas' Ed Foreman, both unabashed conservatives. A possible gauge of YR senti ment is that both candidates for national chairman label them elves, conservatives. They are Donald "Buz" Lukens, of' Wash ington. DC, an aide to GOP members of the House Rules Com mittee, and Charles McDevitt, member of the Idaho State Leg Ulaturc. Lukens. a reserve captain in Barry Goldwatcr's Air Force unit, says frankly the party must nom inate a conservative in 1964. Mc IVvitt. who claims a conserva tive voting record in tlie Idaho legislature. u nevertheless hacked hy the delegations of New Voik, New Jersey, and Pennsyl vania, all liberal strongholds. Lukens draws most of his strength from the conservative South, the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain Slates. Idaho's Oracle Plot. l"nj a lam;iar fixture in the Htise of Calling on all countries to par ticipate in this international re construction which he labeled, "a beginning of a new world-wide effort in the war against hunger," Sen predicted that "the time may be nut far distant when a system of international progressive taxa tion will be regarded as a logical development even if for juridicial reasons it may be termed a con tribution rather than a tax." Summarizing the world food situation as of today, Sen declared that more than half of the world's population is undernourished or malnourished. Increases in worM food supply have been mostly in the high income, industrialized countries. In other countries it is no better than 'pre-war. Life ex pectancy in the developing coun tries averages 35 years. In devel oped countries it averages 65 to 70 years. Part of the problem is increas ing average income to subsistence levels. In underdeveloped coun tries average annual per capita income is around $100. In devel oped countries it is 10 times that. Low incomes and inadequate diets go together. A minimum goal of 2400 calorics of food per person per day, in cluding 70 Rrams of protein was set. This will require a fourfold increase in Asia and the Far East, a threefold increase in the Near East, a two-to-threcfold increase in Latin America and Africa. The present animal protein consump tion averages eight grams in Asia, the Far East and many Latin American countries, 11 grams in Africa, 14 grams in the Near East. "If hunger and malnutrition are to be eliminated by the end of this century," said Sen, "a much faster rate of economic growth ap pears necessary." Until developing countries be come more self-sufficient, Sen rec ommended adoption of the FAO plan for a $12.5 billion five-year program of surplus food distribu tion by the "have" nations tp the "have-nots." About three-fourths of this would be devoted to economic and social development, the balance to emergency aid. REPORT . Young GOP Meeting Shunned By Nelson, Representatives, tried for the Sen ate last fall. She lost. Washington's Don Magnuson lost his bid for House re-election. Chicago's Sidney Yates gave up a safe congressional scat to run statewide for the Senate. The gamble failed. Congressman Blaine Peterson saw Utah voters turn thumbs down on his bid for a second term. All of the above have one thing in common-thcy are defeated Democrats, but they have found their place at the federal trough. Mrs. Pfost pulls down $18,000 i year at the Federal Housing Authority: Magnuson, $16,000 at the Agriculture Department: Yates. $22,500 at the UN; Peter son $70-a-day at the Food for Peace Agency. There are others. Walter Moel ler. a two-term Ohio Congress man, was upset last fall by Re publican "Pete" Ahele. A Luth eran minister, Moeller now makes SKi.ooo a year at the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis tration. Floyd Breeding found a $17,925 a year slot at the Department of Agriculture after voters turned him out of office. Frank Kowalski was named In the Subversive Activities Control Board at $20,000 after his con grcstional career came to an end. Catherine Norell makes $14,565 as an Assistant Secretary of State. Her congressional district was combined with that of another Arkansas Democrat. Kathryn Granahan. a Philadel phia Democrat, lost her seat through redistricting. She now makes $20,000 a year as United Slates Treasurer. THEY SAY... Industrial confidence is a shy maiden One harsh word and she " retire to a nunnery, from !ich ,tw,l lake more than mm uteria serenades to entice her. -Britain', ljri rh.ndo..' Toe law means nothing to the Negro ho ; is enslaved. What doe, )! cell mean to me? I've jail ,ver since I , a.7!", k"y halr' ' awl Hat fret and big hps
