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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.
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