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PAGE -A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falli. Orrgoa Wednesday. July 3, 196) EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . . Economizers Haven't Been Doing Too Well Tethered? Four score and seven years ago plus a full century the Declaration of Independ ence was signed. That was a long time ago, at least as we measure time by our individual lives. Perhaps that is why it is so easy to think of Independence Day as merely commemorat ing an event that happened once and was over with, that is just another fact of history, just another date. We tend to foiget that July 4, 1776, was more than one self-contained day in history. It was the watershed from which has streamed a great, ever-broadening river of freedom into our own time. We are wrong if we think of July 4th as marking the day when freedom was brought forth by decree and handed to posterity. In dependence, even after the end of the Revolu tionary War, was not a completed event. It was a continuing process, an evolution, a growth. Freedom in America is still an unfinished business. This involves more than the fact that in the past 187 years millions of Americans have Taming (The Christian Science Monitor) A jury in Newark, New Jersey, has con victed Anthony Provenzano, a vice-president of the International Brotherhood of Team sters, on charges of having extorted $17,100 from an employer of members of his union. By some accounts, "Tony Pro" has been considered the second most powerful figure in the teamsters' union second only to James R. Iloffa, president, who is in court in Nashville, Tennessee, for having allegedly tampered with a jury. Members of the ruling faction In the corruption-ridden teamsters' union try to con strue government action against their offi cers as a vendetta between Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and James Hoffa. It is much more than that. It began under the Ei' senhower administration. It is an effort of tho government to give rank-and-file members control over their own union, protection HOLMES ARA : By HOLMES ALEXANDER . Foregoing shadows of next year's presidential election crept over the Senate floor in lust week's debate on the increasing funds for the Area Redevelop ment Administration (ARA). Bennett of Utah said the ini tials stood for Mr. Kennedy's Ad ministration Reelection Agency. LETTERS i TO THE EDITOR : School Books Two of the editorials in C.'j i.-.l Sunday's paper were of particu lar interest to me. The first, ex cerpts from cx-Prosident Eisen hower's May 18 Post article, had been read and discussed here when our Post arrived. We were glad to sec you call it to (he at tention of good citizens every where. The second item, "We Need New School Books?" drew a loud amen here. Wo have only one average school-age youngster three more approaching that age and have heard this complaint for the past two years second and third grade. Who can blame children who are hearing "Ara bian Nights." "The Silver Skates," Kipling's, "Just-So Stories," "Ail About Books" (Random House , etc., and watching even the good TV programs at home for failure to get excited about "Uncle Lcm's New Outboard Motor," etc. Can't our youngsters learn something along with their read ing. I think they are far more intelligent than some educators give them credit for being. And whoever say horror is not for children, has no children, has never listened to children play and has certainly never read the children's classics. Many thanks for publishing this type of tliought-provoking editori al. Mrs. Gene G. Walker, Box S, Harriman Ktc. ndependence Unfinished The Teamster Jungle ALEXANDER . . Fails In Objectives Douglas of Illinois chided Ben nett with voting for Big Business appropriations, such as (he Export-Import banking bill, while being indifferent to the woes of the unemployed. These, of course, arc the stan dard views which each party takes of the other. Republicans see the Democrats as always buying votes w ith tile people's own money. Democrats see tlio Re publicans as truckling with the big money interests. Republicans find that the spend-and-elcet proj ects such as ARA never bring much lasting improvement. Dem ocrats say that the private enter prise system has no social con science, and can't be trusted to do What's right for the economy. The country would be lucky it the domestic issues next year could be laid that flatly on the line. They won't bo because so much else, such as the personali ties of the candidates and the distraction of foreign affairs, will also get into tlw campaign. But there are debates, such as this one, which tell in miniature, more of what the political strug gle is all about, and what the state of the nation is, than the big drama of a national election ever quite dues. The act creating ARA was offered in 1961 by a new Adminis tration sincerely concerned over chronic unemployment in specific distressed areas. The bill was passed by a Congress equally concerned but dubious as to the methods. There are already nearly 100 government agencies which ot ter services to aid local devel opment. The two licst known and most active are tlw Small Busi ness Administration, generally ur ban in its activities, and the Ru ral Area Development program of the Agriculture Department. In addition, there are about M.ono local agencies, holh public and private, which are engaged in trying to attract business to their communities. If ARA had a special mission, it was to concentrate entirely upon places, of which West Vir ginia is always the given ex given their lives in defending their nation against external enemies. This is, perhaps, the easiest form of patriotism. In war, the enemy is obvious, and the course of duty clear. More difficult is it sometimes to recognize other enemies of freedom not necessarily persons, but ideas, entrenched interests, prej udices hallowed by tradition. At one time, freedom in America was for the "respectable" people, those who owned enough property to qualify for the right to vote. Throughout our history, too often free dom has been abridged or denied to certain classes and minority groups because of ethnic background, religion, economic status, po litical beliefs. Yet eventually these groups attained full acceptance into citizenship not by riot or revolution but by steady evolution within the framework of the Constitution. That is the pride and the glory of the United States and the hope of those who are not yet as free as others. July 4, 1963, is another marker buoy on the river of freedom. Beyond, in the future, where the current is pulling, can be seen a great vista that embraces the world. against thuggery, and relief from being sold out by self-elected officials. Shortly before the trial of Provenzano a shop steward who opposed his control of Local 560 was killed in Hoboken. Even if Provenzano goes to prison, his control over the New Jersey docks may not immediately be broken. But the record is, not one to en courage him or the men among whom Hoffa rose to the top. Out of 72 indictments obtained by the Department of Justice against teamster of ficials in the last several years, 22 convic tions have been obtained. Among the con victed are William Pressor in Ohio; Anthony Coralla, New York; Floyd Hayes, Kansas City; and Roland B, McMaster and George Rox burgh in Detroit. The largest union in the country deserves a better quality of leader ship than that. ample, where all else has (ailed and where large numbers of peo ple have been out of work for a long while. But instead of using the precision method, the ARA hill ended by making more than 1.0(H) of the nation's 3.072 coun ties eligible for these redevelop ment loans. The largesse was spread too thin; The 42.000 new permanent jobs which ARA says will eventuiiiy result from 2115 approved projects are scattered around the country, not c o n ccntrated in the places of most distress. Only 16,000 of tliese jobs actually existed as of June 13. Worse, ARA attempted a de fiance of natural economic law by planting business lures in places where business would not normally go. Failing to entice industry into uncongenial cli mates, ARA spent the money anyhow on fringe enterprises and frivolities. For example, it ap proved funds for a convention auditorium in Duluth, Minn. Only 22 permanent jobs were created, and they cost the taxpayer $277. 272 apiece. It turns out that about 73 per cent of loans and grants for developing industrial facili ties, such as water and electrici ty, have gone into vagi.? schemes (or siles that may never be oc cupied by business. Recreation and tourism have taken more than 30 cents to the dollar which was earmarked for creating year round industrial jobs. But since these communities do exist where business cannot prof itably go, and since there are people who w ill not or cannot mi grate from these doomed areas, a IlK'oretical case can be made lor ARA on a limited scale. One Republican, Scott of Pennsylva nia, tried (or an amendment which would have abated the worst abuses, chiefly those of bureaucratic overgrowth. His amendment drew only 28 votes. This is perhaps a measure of how unwilling politicians are to correct tlteir k'gisUitive mis takes. ARA will remain, not be cause it does much alxiut un employment, but because it lets politicians boast that they have "done something" lor their states. s --4 fa: -Mm ' ! IN WASHINGTON By RALPH dc TOLEDANO It is heartwarming for Ameri cans to know that most of Ber lin turned out to greet President Kennedy. America still remains the, symbol of freedom and pow er, however much we may have traded away that birthright in recent years. If the reports are accurate, the reception for the President in West Berlin must have been much like the great emotional outpouring of the Poles when Vice President Nixon visited Warsaw in 1959. I was on that memorable ride from the air port to the center of the city then and it was perhaps the most moving experience of my life. As in Berlin last week, the Poles cheered and wept and sang. To them, as to the Bcrliners, the man they cheered was not an of ficial but America personified. He was hope and the future. He was the dream which the oppressed of Europe have held for genera tions. He was the free air and the abundant life of an America which continues to beckon. But when President Kennedy spoke at the Free University in West Berlin, there was one cold and ominous note in his address which, if the Communists exploit it properly, can mean the differ ence between defeat and victory Ily SYDNEY J. HARRIS Don't you imagine that if there were one single answer to the problem of human beings living together, that we would have long ago found H and applied it to the human society? This is the question I always feel like asking the "single-minded" people who write to me with their definite recipes for curing our ills. These people have what someone has called "monocular vision" they sec through a glass eye darkly. They fall into three principal groups the religious-minded, the political-minded, and the phycho-logical-mindcd. And none of these groups is very interested in what tile others have to say. What they fail to understand is the difference between the neces sary and tlie sufficient. It is nec essary to adopt an ethical view point based on common religious beliefs but it is not sufficient. It is necessary to evolve a political and social order of greater flex ibility and fairness but it is not sufficient. It is necessary to have deeper insight inito the emotional working of ourselves and others but it is not sufficient. Tlie art of life if we ever mas ter it is the art of combination. Tlie single-minded people cannot sec this; they remind one of the old (able about the diflerent or gans of tlie body arguing about which was the most essential tlie lungs, the stomach, the liver, and so on. Of course, in physiological terms, we know that it is (h process that is most important the interaction of the organs, tlie combinations, the dviumir relationships that obtain among them. Good medicine is alwavs "holistic." in that it considers the entire person as a patient, and not just a part of him. In the same wav. tlie person as a social being cannot lie con- Kennedy Speech Ominous for the free world in the cold war. To those on this side of the Iron Curtain, it did not at the momen.t have too much significance. But to the people imprisoned behind it, there could only be one reac tion: despair. Said the President: "When the possibilities of reconciliation ap pear, we in the West will make it clear that we are not hostile to any people or system, provided they choose their own destiny without interfering with the free choice of others." At best, this is a historically in adequate statement. At worst, it tells the captive nations and the people of the Soviet Union: "The United States is ready to come to agreement with your masters." This is the policy of decadence and fear. It stems from the curi ous and twisted analysis of con temporary history enunciated by Walt Whitman Rostow and Arthur Schlcsingor Jr. in White House councils. It is the kind of think ing which led to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to our present horrify ing position as caretaker for Com rade Khrushchev of the Castro tyranny. The President's cynicism, there fore, expresses the further rever sal of American foreign policy which began when (he New Fron- STRICTLY PERSONAL sidercd in a religious vacuum, or a political vacuum, or a psy chological vacuum. It is the ways in which tlie various as pects of his personality combine and function that determine what sort of person, and what sort of community, we shall have. What is so hard about creating a good human society is not that we do not have the answers, but that everybody has a part of the answers, and thinks they are the whole. We will not combine our truths, modify our assump tions, integrate our world-view into someone else's. For no error in the universe is so dangerous as a part-truth that is tenaciously held as a full truth. "If Mao Tif-tung tier escapes, you can bait html" tier took over. American policy has always been boldly based on open and uncompromising hostili ty to Communism and to the Communist system in Eastern Europe. Otherwise, why the bil lions we have spent in foreign aid to the detriment of the American economy? Why the Korean War or the South Vietnamese inter vention? But Mr. Kennedy now tells us that we are not hostile to any system and that includes Communism. Well, I continue to be hostile to Communism. Most of the Ameri can people continue to be hostile to Communism. Some may have been willing to accept the argu ments of the New Frontier that to call for liberation now is not expedient but they have be lieved in the moral position lib eration implies. This has now been tossed out the window. The lib eral pundits are pleased, but what do the American people say? Have they read the speech and do they accept its prescription for "peace in our time?" The tragedy of the President's speech is compounded by the fact that it was delivered at the edge of the Iron Curtain and close to the Berlin Wall. Had President Kennedy used the occasion to pledge American support for the captive peoples, to make a ring ing statement of America's in tent to bury Communism (ju .t as Khrushchev has said he would bury the free West), and to call for a re-dedication of freedom. Hie effect on the Cop?munist em pire would have been iatikulj ble. At present, t!we is peat turmoil among the capthre na tions. They are extremely res tive. The economic ties with the Soviet Union, under the COME CON (Council on Mutual Econom ic Assistance! system, have lieen disrupting the orderly cvels; mcnt of their industry and 'fore: on trade. Communist leaders in Po land, Hungary, and East Gcrn'j ny want desperately to fio.1 a way of breaking loose if i-nly t hold the people in check. A cour ageous speech by the President would have sparked riots in th se three countries, adding immoasnr. ably to Comrade Khrushchev's difficulties. It might have meant revolution. By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEAt Your federal government begins the fiscal year 1964, as of July 1, in the usual confused financial shape. The President has signed into law only one appropriation bill to run tlie government in the com ing year. It's the Treasury-Post Ollice appropriation tor $6 billion. 1( everything else is allowed to go to pot, it's well to keep the mails going and the bills paid. This record is a net improve ment of one more appropriation bill passed than a year ago. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Clarence Cannon and Senate Appropriations Commit tee Chairman Carl Hayden were then having their feud over which side of the Capitol they'd meet on to compromise their dif ferences. They didn't settle the issue till July, while government ran on the cuff. In all emergencies. Senate and House pass and the President signs into law a bill giving govern ment agencies temporary author ity to go on paying the help and spending other money. That's the way it will be done this year until Congress gets around to completing action on appropria tions for newly authorized pro grams, gosh only knows when. In the meantime, the econo mizers haven't been doing too well. Early in the session Republi can leaders announced they were going to cut the President's 1964 budget of $98.9 billion by 15 per cent $14.9 billion. Present indi cations are they won't cut it even 10 per cent, and maybe not even five per cent. You can only have bad dreams about what that might do to the tax cut. If it has to wait for action on appropriation bills, it won't be decided till after Labor Day, and maybe after Armistice Day. There have been some promis ing cuts made by the House Ap propriations Committee, where money bills originate. The Penta- ' gun's $49 billion budget was cut WASHINGTON REPORT . By FULTON LEWIS JR. Congressman Adam Clayton Powell stopped off at Long Beach, Calif., the other day, where he was billed as guest of honor at a testimonial dinner given by 1,500 of his friends. Ninety per cent of those "friends" stayed home and in the end Powell addressed only 150 of the faithful. He called the Presi dent's Civil Rights Message "the greatest statement since t h e Emancipation Proclamation" and then revealed why he thought so: The Harlem minister says he wrote halS qf it. "I rewrote half of that speech the night before it was delivered to Congress. The 1'i-sii-lent had no intenSon of in cluding many of the psints fitt he did in his n.'essBja." The White House had "no cowmcot" when querM about the Powell bo;t. The Hiirleei Cjofo-essw.w refasod to elE-' Orate on his statement. 1 fris been "out of tve office." He refuses to rcftrn Ms caiii. K'.i oftice iow not know wVjj !,i caD le roa oheJ. It is uncertain, Ibi-cHre, exact ly v ' o t!i-!-.t is, one section of ll-.n, Prei'-;u's bill tlfjt is stjd to he nncoBsUtntina'. Sor-e of t'.e lawyers Uol-crt Kennedy's Justice Department are said to consider that Section 11 barring discrimination in all "public places" is at present unconstitu tional. They are confident, how ever, that the present Supreme Court will reverse an old deci sion which called the proposal un constitutional. In March. 1875. the Recon struction Congress passed a bill that banned segregation in pub lic places. "All persons within the United States." read the bill, "were entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommo dations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public con veyances on land or water, the aters and other places of public amusement." The constitutionality of the act was challenged and tlie Supreme Court handed down its ruling on Oct. 5. 1883. The federal govern ment, said the court, had no pow er to impose such restriction on the use and enjoyment of private property, even if it was in part dedicated to a public use. The 14th Amendment, the court explained, does not permit Con gress to enact a statute securing equal accommodations in inns, restaurants, and places of public amusements. It guarantees only equal protection of tlie laws. Sen. Sam Ervin. a former jus- $1.9 billion in committee. A 15 per cent cut w ould have been $7.3 billion. But on the House floor, only one cut of $10 million on procurement of Army radios by competitive bidding was made. This was victory alter a two-year fight by Rep. Earl Wilson, R-Ind. The box score following on House economizing now looks like this, in comparison to what 15 per cent cuts would be with ap propriation, budget request. House cut, and the 15 per cent cut in that order: Agriculture, $7.2 billion. $398 million, $1.1 billion; Defense, $49 billion. $1.9 billion, $7.3 billion; Interior. $1 billion, $43 million, $154 million; Legislative. $145 mil lion, $8.5 miHion, $22 million; Treasury-Post Office, $6 billion, $101 million, $906 million: State, Commerce, Justice and Judiciary, $2.1 billion, $308 million, $323 mil linn. This last item is the closest econ omizers have come to making a 15 per cent cut. The big money bills on which substantial savings are possible are the $5.7 billion space program, the $5.3 billion Health, Education and Welfare bill and the $4.5 billion for for eign aid. President Kennedy has done a little juggling on his January budget requests. First he volun tarily recommended cuts in his programs amounting to $620 million. But in his civil rights message he recommended taking $400 million of this and spending it for aids to integrated educa tion, employment security, health and welfare programs. The President has also recom mended a few increases in the 1964 budget for Bureau of Recla mation, Corps of Engineers, Ten nessee Valley Authority and Vet erans Administration. But they to tal only $6.7 million. This can ba covered in the $250 million ap propriated for contingencies. Perhaps the best news is that the budget deficit for fiscal 1963 will not be as large as the $8.8 billion predicted. Treasury won't have final figures for some weeks, but expenditures will be a little below the $94.3 billion estimated. And receipts will be above the $85.5 billion estimated. Civil Rights Section Said Unconstitutional tice of the North Carolina Su preme Court, is expected to help lead the Southerners in opposi tion to the Administration bill. He disputes the Administration's claim that the public accommo dation statute can be justified under the interstate commerce clause. The Senator, widely re spected as a constitutional author ity, said the other day: "When the Founding Fathers in serted tlie interstate commerce clause in the original Constitu tion, they intended to authorize Congress to regulate economic ac tivities carried on in interstate commerce not uses of property or personal relations within the borders of a state." His argument is accepted by others outside Dixie. Senate Mi nority Leader Everett Dirksen says the Constitution is not so clastic that it can be twisted 180 degrees. He agrees with Ervin. who argues that passage of the public accommodations section w ill mean the death knell of states rights. Says Ervin: "If Congress has the power under the com merce clause to enact the public accommodations section on tlie theory that such places of public accommodations sell or use commodities which in times past have moved in interstate com merce, then Congress has the power to regulate the conduct of all human beings residing any where within the United States." This is obvious, explains Sen. Ervin, because brides and grooms wear clothes which have been moved in interstate com merce; babies use diapers and safety pins which have moved in interstate commerce; and corpses are consigned to the grave in cas kets which have moved in inter state commerce. Al manac By United Press International Today is Wednesday. July s. the 184th day of 1963 with 181 to follow. The moon is approaching its full phase. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. The evening star is Mars. On this day in history: In 13. tlie tkle of the Civil War was tumid at Gettysburg, as Union forces crushed the charge o( Confederate Gen. George Pick ett. In 1890, Idaho became the 43rd state to entc'r'he Union. o o
