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The Mandate For Peace
President Kennedy seems intent on re
storing the notion of peace as an ideal, and at
the same time trying to persuade millions
everywhere that significant moves toward it
are within practical range.
Peace would appear to need restoration
as an ideal. To many it has seemed quite un
. attainable. To some it has been pictured as
virtually undesirable, a status connoting only
appeasement, surrender, slavery to commu
nism. The President declines to accept the idea
that peace is beyond human reach. In his ma
jor speech at American University, he said:
"Too many of us think it (peace) is im
possible ... but that is a dangerous, defeatist
belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is
inevitable that mankind is doomed that
' we are gripped by forces we cannot control.
"We need not accept that view. Our prob
lems are man-made therefore they can be
solved by man. And man can be as big as he
wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond
human beings."
To Kennedy, peace is the "necessary ra
tional end of rational men." But he does not
think of it in consequence as only a distant
dream. The practical peace he says is within
our grasp is based "not on a sudden revolu-
tion in human nature but on a gradual evo
lution in human institutions."
In other words, ho foresees no miracle
of changing heart in the Kremlin or Peking.
Religion's
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Neither God nor the Bible is excluded
from American public schools by the deci
sion of the Supreme Court in the school pray
er cases. It is important that this point be
understood. What the court has ruled is that
no state of the Union nor any agency of it,
.such as a local school board can constitution
tally order a particular prayer or religious
exercise as part of the public school program.
! There still is ample room In the curricu
lum ample opportunity and occasion for
the recognition of religion and morality as
factors in American life. Some years ago a
committee of educators headed by Dr. F. Er
nest Johnson of Columbia University said
in a report for the American Council on Ed
ucation that "no person is fully educated who
has not gained a knowledge of the faiths men
live by."
So long as public schools are supported
by people of varied faiths and convictions, it
is not appropriate that these schools should
"teach religion." They should not inculcate
the doctrines of any sect nor even widely ac
cepted dogma if these hurt the sensibilities
of some. As communities become increasingly
diverse, the sources of friction increase un
less tolerance and understanding grow.
But it is possible and proper that the
study of history, literature, and other sub
jects should include the many effects religion
HOLMES
Two
By HOLMES ALEXANDER
WASHINGTON, D.C. Navy
Cap. William Robert Anderson
(Rctl, 42, commander of tlio
Nautilus when it sailed under the
polar Ice, is a compact, dirk
haired, earnest man with a mis
sion. He left the Navy in 12,
ho (ells me, because he felt that
: the country he'd served so well
' in war and peace had readied a
state of readiness which could
probably deter its militant ene
mies. Ho felt also that the battle
henceforth would be joined in non
combat activiUcs.
He expressed tliose sentiments
to Robert Ketuiedy shortly after
the I960 election and, having some
tenure with tlio Youth Programs
'. of Freedom's Foundation at Val
; ley 1'orgc. Anderson found him
self tapped (o head the Presi
dent's study group on the Nation
al Service Corps. Ho is its pre
sumptive director at $20,000 a
year.
The National Service Corps, if
Congress votes it into being, would
become the domestic version of
the Peace Corps. It would send an
advance guard of 1,000 corpsmen.
costing us $3 million tit first
year, to work among an estimated
30 million distressed Americans
who are rural onu urban slum
dwellers, mentally ill or retarded,
habitually delinquent or destitute.
Much of (lie work would be done
on Indian reservations, in the
southern highlands, in Negro com
munities, and among migratory
workers. The purpose would be
to catalyze our social awareness
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AND NEWS, Klamath Fall!, Oregon
The President argues simply that the "self
interest" compulsions toward peace must be
as great for the Reds as for everyone else.
"Our most basic common link is that we
all inhabit this planet," he said. "We all
breathe the same air. We all cherish our
children's future. And we are all mortal."
Since this is so, Kennedy contends that
the "new face of war," the horrible impera
tives of nuclear holocaust, must be as evident
to our adversaries as to us and just as un
acceptable. "It is an ironical but accurate fact that
... all we (the United States and Russia)
have built, all we have worked for, would be
destroyed in the first 24 hours."
The President's belief that Moscow un
derstands this as fully as we is the foundation
stone on which he would erect a new quest
for the ideal of peace.
That search, he indicates, must inevitably
produce slow, halting steps at best, with each
necessarily ringed with safeguards. But those
small strides can be important when multi
plied. Kennedy acknowledges that the discour
agements from Moscow, up to this very mo
ment, are many. Yet he insists that the logic
of the world's dilemma dictates that we try
again and again.
To yield hope, he says, is to accept the
worst, a "strategy of annihilation," an annihi
lation that could embrace the globe.
Place In The
has had, the enrichment and inspiration that
have come from the Scriptures, and the place
of ethics in the organization of the community.
To these each pupil naturally will bring the
approach of his own church and family back
ground or lack of background.
Every removal of the suggestion of state
religion from public instruction is a challenge
to voluntary religion to supply through home
and church what cannot be supplied through
governmental forms the essence and spirit
of service and devotion, brimming within the
individual.
It must be remembered that thousands
of American children do not come from homes
that have a church affiliation, have never seen
the inside of a Sunday School or been intro
duced to the Bible. Nevertheless, religious
influences, organized or otherwise, are as
much a part of the environment in which
they will live as are the shops in which they
will work, the recreations they will seek, or
the governments under which they will vote.
Hence there is a task before American
educators fortunately it already has been
started to develop teaching materials and
practices that will handle even sensitive areas
of religion with that detached objectivity
sought in civics, economics, and sociology.
This will not be easy; it will require public
patience and cooperation; but it should in
sure that the products of the public schools
will not be religiously illiterate.
ALEXANDER
TeamsOf Conscience
of the hidden misery beneath the
surface of American affluence.
The methods would be those of
the overs ..-J Peace Crrps, whose
volunteers live and work, with
proven success, among backward
people a combination of social
uplift, medical care and vocation
al training.
As might be expected, the en
abling legislation (S. 1321) is
caught in a political badminton
match on Capitol Hill, being bat
ted unmercifully between I w o
teams of conscience. To call each
team by its chosen name, you
could say that this is a contest
of social conscience vs. conscience
of tlie conservative the latter
is Senator Goldwater s happy
phrase.
Those of Utc social conscience
creed, the perennial do-gooders
with public monies, hardly need
an introduction in our times. Hut
the apostles of the conservative
conscience, so constantly deni
grated and misrepresented, can
always use a few kind words of
identification.
Tlieir conscience is a nuysayer
iliko the Ten Commandments and
Bill of Rights' to all that is mor
ally wrong. They rightly conceive
it to be wrong when government
is not frugal, not minimal and not
docenualized. They find all these
faults, and more, in tlie proposed
corps. Vol, for reasons that take
some explaining, (ho conserva
tivesled by Goldwater are not
beyond relenting on Uie corps, if
the legislation can be purged of
Its worst foatures.
Monday, July 1, 1963
Schools
The chief reason for reasonable
ness here is that the conserva
tive conscience has one element
which is entirely left out of Uie
opposite faction the clement of
tolerance. No liberal can give an
inch, but tlie conservative is only
a bigot when he is being a cari
cature of himself. His conscience
is automatic without being abso
lute. There is a trip-switch in his
mind which will, when the occa
sion is right, make an exception,
nv.tch a head of stale some
times, lor Uw right reason, com
mutes the death sentence of a
criminal.
To give the conservatives a
chance to support the corps, the
administration should be willing
to sanitize it, someuhat as fol
lows: cut the salaries of the di
rector and his staff into halves,
provide Uiat corpsmen can oper
ate in a state only by invitation
of the legislature, freeze tlie en
rollment at 2.000 members for 10
years and, possibly, place these
volunteers in a special branch of
military service rallicr than spawn
anotlxM' civilian glamour shoppe.
There Is good precedent (the
Army Corps of Kngincers for
using peacetime soldiers on public
projects.
No disagreement exists in any
quarter as to tlie existence of dis
tressful conditions and distressed
persons in the best of counuies.
A National Service Corps, de
signed under the advisement of
Mil kinds of conscience men
tioned here, would be, in all truth
a godsend.
The
WASHINGTON
By WASHINGTON STAFF
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON (NEA) - Atty.
Gen. Robert Kennedy, speaking
before 300 college students ready
to take a trip to Europe under the
People-to-People Program, told
this story which he says is an
example of individual initiative.
One day last winter when he
and his daughter Kerry were
playing in tho yard behind their
home, he slipped and fell in the
snow, cutting his face and head.
He applied snow to stop the bleed
ing, till daughter Kerry ran up
and said to him:
"Daddy, don't do that."
"Why," asked Bobby.
Came Kerry's reply:
'"Cause you'll use up all the
snow."
Mrs. Lee Sherry, chairman of
the California Republican Wom
By SYDNKY J. HARRIS
Doing tlie "right things" for
children too soon is as bad as
doing them too late, or not at
all. This is a hard lesson for
parents to learn especially for
those who arc ambitious, intelli
gent and well-educated, and there
fore callable of harming Uieir
children in many expensive ways.
Artur Schnabcl, whom I quoted
tho other day, also remarked in
tlie same transcript: "l received
a letter yesterday, stating, 'I
know, Mr. Schnabcl, that you
are not interested in young pian
ists, but l would appreciate it if
you would hear my son. He start
ed piano lessons at the age of
3.' Well, I am afraid he has
been ruined."
So also have been ruined those
little girls who arc given "bal
let" lessons before t)-ci; minds,
tlieir spirits or uvir feet are
equipped for them. And pushing a
shy and reluctant boy into com
petitive athletic events can have
exactly tlie opposite effect from
wliat tlie father intends that is,
it can make the boy effeminate
rather than virile.
I speak from experience, at
least in one area; a minor one.
but still significant, in that it
shows that even a thoughtful par
ent, aware of a child's limita
tions, is nevertheless often too
eager to push. It was only by
the third child that l learned dif
ferently. This was in the buying of toys.
I would invariably bring home
toys that were "too old" for the
child loo complicated, calling
for more dexterity and a longer
Interest-span than the child then
posse sscd.
A great deal of money as
wasted upon toys that were played
with for a few moments, and
then discarded with no interest,
or quickly broken. When I ana
lyzed my constant stupidity in
this area, it scorned clear to me
lliat I was expressing my own
needs, not Uioso of the child.
I was trying to push him to
grow up faster, to become strong
er ami more skillful before iie
was reaily to or needed to. I
wanted to be "proud" of him
a most dangerous word in the par
Hard Way to Write
NOTEBOOK . .
Brothers' Grim
en's Northern Division, has come
up with her version of the best
nursery story of the year, which
she calis "The Elephants Couldn't
Bear It." The story is about three
litUe bears, Johnny, Bobby and
Teddy, who take all the honey
from the people and eventually
are driven from their den (The
White House) by outraged red-white-and-blue
elephants.
A Washington newsman who
does not wish President Kennedy
and his brothers any ill luck nev
ertheless is waiting for that day
when all three of them have a
rather poor go of it.
Whether or not he gets to write
the story, he wants to recom
mend this headline to his edi
tor: "The Grim World of the Broth
ers Wonderful."
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
ents' lexicon which means that
l wanted him to develop at a fast
er rate than nature intended him
to.
Some gifts of elaborate, expen
sive and complicated toys, of
course, are simply a parent's way
of substituting (quite unconscious
ly) material things for genuine
love and understanding. But, this
apart, most gifts of this kind
represent a parent's impatience
with Uie child's leisurely develop
ment, and say, in effect, "Hurry
and get bigger so that you can
do more things that I may brag
about."
Recognizing, and accepting, a
child's own tempo of growth is
difficult for parents who have
set high goals for Uiemselves and
their offspring. The somewhat neg
lectful, or slothful parent, per
'haps does not do as much dam
age to the child as the parent
w ho buys a piano for a 3-year-old.
BERRY'S WORLD
"Vttcomt to New Rojj, Mr. Kennedy! Meet Mr.
Kennedy . . . and Mr, Kennedy . . . and Mr. Ktn
nedy . . . and . . ."
Law
World
When McGeorge Bundy, one of
President Kennedy's top aides,
spoke to tlie Women's National
Democratic Club, he found him
self under good-natured verbal
fire from the wife of an adminis
trative colleague.
He was introduced by attrac
tive Ekpeth Rostow, wife of Walt
Rostow, chairman of the State
Department's PoUcy Planning
Council. Noting that a biographi
cal sketch of Bundy refers to him
as a "general factotum." Mrs.
Rostow said:
"I looked that up. A factotum
is defined as a busybody, and a
servant who manages all of his
master's affairs."
The same sketch, she added,
states lluit Bundy is "politically
a Republican." She suggested that
left unanswered this question:
"In his innermost a-political
soul, what is he?"
Rising to speak, Bundy said to
Mrs. Rostow:
"There's a girl we've got to
keep out of our files!"
He added that his Republican
ism is "something Republicans
never remember and Democrats
always forgive."
Sen. Norris Cotton, R-N.H., has
come up with this verse from
"Space Child's Mother Goose
Rhymes," w hich he says describes
the present Kennedy administra
tion to a tec:
"This is chaotic confusion
and bluff
That hangs on the turn of
a plausible phrase
That thickens the erudite
verbal haze
That lies in the theory
Jack built."
Washington, like other cities, is
playing "Swiftics," which consists
of making quotations in the stilted
style of the old Tom Swift boys'
books.
Example: "I don't care to
drink," he said dryly.
The other evening somebody
gut off tlus one:
"Remarriage won't affect my
political plans at all," said Rocke
feller happily.
EPSON IN WASHINGTON ...
Goldwater To Miss
Washington Rally
By PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON (NEA) - As of
now, you can put down Sen. Barry
Goldwater of Arizona as a man
who would rather be grand mar
shal of a rodeo in Prescott, Ariz.,
on July 4 than to be present as
guest of honor at the "Draft Gold
water for President Independence
Day Rally" in Washington's Na
tional Guard Armory.
Cynics may ask, "Who
wouldn't?" The senator's advisers
may argue, "This just shows how
politically smart he really is."
Such comments are beside the
point. Goldwater can plead "pre
vious engagement" to go cam
paigning in his home state.
But in staying away from the
Washington rally the senator is
sticking to his announced deter
mination not to become a GOP
presidential candidate. Not just
yet, at any rale.
A Goldwater rally without Gold
water may be like cold mashed
potatoes without meat or hot gra
vy for his hungry fans. But
Republican Sen. John G. Tower of
Texas, Reps. John Ashbrook of
Ohio and Paul Kannin of Arizona
have been booked to make up
for that as orators for the Draft
Goldwater rally at 8 p.m. on the
Fourth. A band concert at 7 and
an all-star supporting cast of pro
fessional actors headed by E.'rem
Zimballst Jr., will whoop things
up before and between speeches.
They can be counted on to ring
the rafters and give Old Glory
such a waving as it hasn't had
since William Jennings Bryan held
forth on the Chautauqua circuit
years ago.
The rally will compete with the
usual fireworks display on Wash
ington Monument grounds bar
ring a rainstorm, in which case
the crowds may seek shelter in
tlie Armory.
Most Washington residents who
can get out of town over the
Fourth do so. But the National
Draft Goldwater Committee under
Texas GOP State Chairman Peter
WASHINGTON REPORT
Science
Lacking
By FULTON LEWIS JR.
Communists and Black Mus
lims are both working to "save
Mae Mallory."
Mrs. Mallory is a militant
black nationalist sought by North
Carolina authorities on charges of
kidnaping. She was arrested by
agents of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation in Cleveland, Ohio,
on Oct. 12, 1961. Charged with
"unlawful flight to avoid prose
cution for kidnaping," she was
ordered extradited by Gov. Mike
DiSalle.
Attorneys for Mrs. Mallory, who
had earlier been convicted of
fraud in New York State, went
to the courts to abrogate the
extradition order. Their request
was denied by the Ohio Supreme
Court. An appeal will soon be
ruled upon by the U.S. Court of
Appeals.
To mobolize support for Mrs.
Mallory and to raise $15,000 for
her bond friends formed the
Monroe Defense Committee. An
official government reports says
the group has accepted aid from
various organizations, "some of
which are subversive in charac
ter." Communist spokesmen around
the globe have rushed to Mrs.
Mallory's defense. Spearheading
the campaign to save Mac Mal
lory is Robert Franklin Williams,
who is also sought by North Car
olina authorities on charges of
kidnaping.
Williams now operates out of
Cuba, where he fled to avoid ar
rest. His broadcasts over Radio
Havana have carried "the truth
about Mae Mallory" to all cor
ners of the hemisphere.
He tells listeners tliat Mrs. Mae
Mallory can not expect a fair tri
al in the "fascist United States"
not unless she has "half a mil
lion tanks. I mean military tanks.
And three or four hydrogen
bombs." He boasts that he has
contacted propagandists in Afri
ca. Asia, and Latin America, ask
ing them "to make appeals (or
Mrs. Mallory."
In this country, rallies (or Mrs.
Mallory have been held from
coast to coast. The articulate Mal
colm X. second in command in
Elijah Muhammad's Black Mus
lim movement, has addressed
Harlem rallies to demand "jus
tice for Mae Mallory."
The same plea has been voiced
by Benjamin Davis, one of tlie
country's leading Negro Commu
nists, lie was convicted under the
Smith Act and served a prison
term for conspiring In overthrow
Uie U.S. Government.
Extraordinary pressure has
been put on Ohio Gov. James
Rhodes, who dcleated DiSalle last
(all. Rhodes has received letters
O'Donnell Jr., in charge of ar
rangements, is taking care of that.
Trainloads and planeloads of Gold
water enthusiasts, he says, are
.preparing to descend on Washing
ton and fill the Armory to over
flowing. Meanwhile, the object of all this
affection will be nearly 2.000 miles
away. He will be photographed,
probably on a horse and wav
ing a big hat. This makes a more
exciting picture than with his
mouth open delivering a speech,
which is an everyday occurrence.
In Prescott he will be cam
paigning for re-election as senator
from Arizona, which is the.orily
political office he is now openly
seeking. A year from now tilings
may be different. July 4, 1964.
will be just nine days before the
Republican National Convention is
scheduled to open in San Francis
co. If Goldwater isn't an avowed
candidate for the GOP presiden
tial nomination by then, he should
be.
Political observers in Washing
ton and elsewhere are beginning
to believe that a race next year
between President Kennedy and
Senator Goldwater would be one
of the healthiest things that could
happen in America.
It would settle for some time to
come, maybe, the issire of conser
vatism versus liberalism. It would
let the American people decide
whether they want t h e United
States run by the policies Kennedy
stands for, or the opposite poli
cies that Goldwater stands for.
It has become increasingly ap
parent in recent weeks that Gold
water is Uie only Republican
presidential possibility who can
rally support from the thousand
or more right - wing splinter
groups.
They don't go for New York
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and
tliey might not go (or Michigan
Gov. George Romney. None of the
other favorite son Republicans be
ing mentioned for the presidential
nomination has enough support at
this writing to be worth bother
ing about.
Projects
In Merit
and petitions from as far away
as Los Angeles demanding that
he free Mrs. Mallory.
The Monroe Defense Committee
has been blunt: "Many voted
Governor Rhodes into office with
the expectation that he would
grant Mrs. Mallory the protec
tion of tlie state."
The fact of the matter is that
Mrs. Mallory was not an issue
in Rhodes' campaign. He has in
dicated that her extradition is a
matter for the courts to rule
upon.
U.S. taxpayers have shelled out
$65,400 for a study entitled "Be
havior and Ecology of the Wan
dering Albatross." They have
paid through tlie nose ($20,600)
to leam all there is to know aboit
"Social Behavior in Ants."
These tidbits were uncovered
by Ohio Congressman "Pete" Ab
clc. who made a personal in
vestigation of the National Sci
ence Foundation. Other tax-paid
research projects bear these
earth-shattering titles:
Social Behavior in Termites,
$16,900; Communication Signals in
Birds, $17,500; Modification of Al
cohol Preference in Rats, $16,800;
Mammal Fauna of the Highlands
of Ethiopia. $35,800; Revision of
the Classification oi Earthworms,
$13,700.
Says Representative Abele: "In
view of the (art that the financial
resources of the national govern
ment are not unlimited. Congress
must make a greater effort to dif
ferentiate meritorious research
projects from those of doubtful
value."
Almanac
Ry United Press International
Today is Monday, July 1, the
132nd day of 13 with 183 to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
full phase.
The morning stars are Venus,
Jupiter and Saturn.
Tlie evening star is Mars.
On this day in history:
In 1898, Lt Col. Theodore Rons
evelt and his "Rough Riders"
captured San Juan Hill in Cuba
in the Spanish-American War.
In 1932, the Democratic conven
tion, meeting in Chicago, nomi
nated Gov. Franklin Delano Roos
evelt i jf president.
A thought for the day English
philosopher, John Locke, said:
"The only defense against the,
world is a thorough knowledge of-
it."