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PAGE I HERALD dihrriaL (paqiL Mark Of The Communist What is a Communist? We ought to ask again, because this label is being pinned on some people in this coun try more than at any time since the McCarthy era of the 1950s. Controversy over civil rights, economics, politics, welfare programs, almost anything, can easily end up with somebody shouting at somebody else: "What are you, a Communist or some thing?" To answer the question: What is a Com munist? You can begin, of course, by citing avowed members of the Communist party. You may presume there are a consider able number of secret members, not to men tion actual professional spies working for the Soviet Union. By the very nature of their pur poses, they are not likely to wear red light bulbs over their heads. You can add identifiable persons who, while avoiding party membership, neverthe less unmistakably serve the party's goals as dictated by Moscow. ; Beyond these levels, identification be comes tricky and presumption dangerous. For example, the Reds often try to adopt as their own a flock of foreign and domestic proposals which may accord roughly with pro grams advanced by legitimate political parties in the free democracies. As practiced under Moscow's guidanrc, this device is a conscious fraud. Its aim is to ' i Ur KdC cA Marches Have Little-Effect By HOLMES ALEXANDER . WASHINGTON. D.C.-Congrcss became very Infuriated when a group of menacing citizens marched upon it, presented a list of grievances and demanded al most instant redress. Instead of knuckling under to the threats, the lawmakers passed a blistering resolution against the rights-marchers and went out of session. A leading author, lawyer and statesman a thorough-going egghead later wrote of the principle which the epi sode involved. The principle, as he saw it, was that the wronged marchers did not have as much right in the matter as Congress did. Arguing his point in the col umns of a New York newspaper, this highbrow liberal declared: "The indispensable necessity of complete authority at the scat of government carries its ow n e v i dence with it. . . . Without it, nnt only the public authority By SYDNEY J. HARRIS The phrase "neglected child" conjures up a picture of slums and broken families, of poverty and drunkenness and cruelty, in the familiar pattern of the social worker's caso-history. I think another kind of neglect is even moro widespread, and just as deleterious in its effects. I am thinking of (ho ordinarily intelligent middle-class child who is rarely, if ever, treated like a person by its parents, but only as a child. A few weeks ago I was chat ting with an 8-year old girl of the most appalling ignorance. She didn't know her birthdatc, what her fatlicr did for a living, how oid her teen-ago brother w a s (she guessed "37"). or the most commonplace facts Unit any 5-year-old should be aware of. This w as not a stupid child, but a profoundly neglected one, in the social and psychological senses. It was quite evident from our conversation (and I hasten to add that she was not shy, simply nescient) that her home life is utterly devoid of dialog in any real way. This child was intel lectually underprivileged, and may remain crippled by it for a lifetime. As much as food and drink, love end companionship, a child needs some stimulation at home that can be got nowhere else in the early years. A child requires AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Oregon gain for communism an identity with certain causes the Kremlin believes to be cither popu lar or provocative in the free countries. People in freelands who let the Reds get away with this nonsense are just playing Mos cow's game. It could lead us to such absurdities as hav ing to oppose highway safety and better li braries because the Communists may say they favor them. You don't prove a man is a Communist because he says he favors six or eight or ten American-born programs the Communist Par ty also pretends it wants for the country. Programs in the Communist world are mere stratagems. It is more fundamental to remenfber that a Communist is a person of totalitarian men tality. Whatever his programs of the moment, he is a man who: Brooks no opposition from any quar ter, whether school, church, business commu nity, other political party or what not. Wants not simply to defeat his rivals but to crush and eliminate them. Rule or ruin is the game. In support of these purposes, seeks to control both the thought and the action so that only his ideas, policies and programs exist. Would bend every power element in society every agency of the government and the economy to this overriding goal. Let this distinctively marked shoe fit where it will. Al CVAMhCD might be insulted and its pro ceedings interrupted with impu nity, but (the disorders) might bring on the national councils an imputation of awe or influence, equally dishonorable to the Gov ernment and dissatisfactory to the other members of the (Un ion.)" All this may read like a pre liminary reference to next month's projected march on Washington by 100,000 or more Negroes in demand of their civil rights. Ac tually, the episode occurred in June, 1783, when a mob of un paid soldiers burst upon the Con tinental Congress, then sitting in Philadelphia, and demanded an answer to their petition "in 20 minutes." Congress asked pro tection of the Pennsylvania au thorities, didn't get it, and re cessed in order to reassemble in another state. Writing his Federalist Paper, No. 43, five years afterwards, STRICTLY PERSONAL information, enlightenment, seri ous discourse at its own age lev el. Moro than this, a child des perately needs puns and word games, riddles ami jokes, puzzles and poems. These latter, contrary to popu lar thought, aro not mere luxur ies: they are the basic fabric out of which the adult personality is loomed. The patents of this 8-ycar-old girl will dutifully send her to college, even if tliey can't afford it, will give her a "good education" but by then it will be too late. Education, as Justice Holmes said, begins in the womb, before the child is even bom. Like so many millions of oth ers, she lias little curiosity, no interest in words or the ideas they convey, no sense of Hie rich ness and diversity and wonder of the universe. The parents, per haps, suppose that somehow she will get all this at school-which Is a monstrous fallacy almost wrecking our entiro educational system. Parents, of course, slwiild not push or lend too fast, or expect loo much too soon. Kirt. for every one set of parents who do this, a thousand do nothing; Ihey are content if the child has surface good manners, is "obedient," and keeps out of the way. They would he angry and horrified to be told that their home contains a well fed, scrubbed "neglected child." Tuesday. July , 1963 James Madison plugged for a federal city where the central government would be entirely in dependent of any state and there by free to protect its dignity and safely. The 88th Congress, especial ly the Senate with ils Southern filibusters, is very nervous about what may happen at the end of August. There have always been demonstrators here. Many o 1 d limers still remember the Bonus Marchers of the '20's, the Reds that surged around the late Con gressman Murcanlonio in the '40's, the Minute Women of America who overran the marble corri dors in the days of the Bricker Amendment and the various paci fist groups in recent times. But none of those had t h c magnitude and the potential dis ruplivencss of the threatened Au gust onslaught. Behind the pious pleading by Martin Luther King for "non-violent" action (which can lie pretty disrupting) is the insolent warning by James Bald win and others of "the (ire next time." Tlie President has been rebulfed in his suggestion that the Negroes hold off on demon strations while Congress is con sidering Civil Rights legislation. Ironically, it may full unpon At torney General Kennedy, spear head of the Civil Rights drive, to control the marchers or punish any offenders. It will surely fall upon Vice President Johnson and Speaker McCormack, presiding officers of Senate and House, to keep order tlicre. That won't be easy, as your reporter can testify from a per sonal experience. Nor, as I can further testify, is disorder likely to produce remedial legislation. I was a member of the Mary land House of Delegates in (he 1930s, when our chamber was in vaded by Hunger Marchers. I described it us follows in Har per's Magazine, September. 11)33 : "The lenders . . . advanced boldly In the rostrum ind, Willi out preface, one of them began reading a ic!ition. The Speaker flailed on the desk with his mal let . . . now I here rose a buzz of indignation which culminated in a lusty "Throw 'cm out.' I vaulted over my desk and found myself engulfed in a free - for all. . . . Stale troopers and a posse of deputies charged into the cor ridor wielding blackjacks and firearms. . . . Heads were brok en, blood wa.s shed. . . . "That afternoon the House clerk read their petition. It demanded in part: Stule unemployment in surance, a donation of the mili tia funds to the poor and needy, a rcical of the Jim Crow Laws. " 'liefer to the Ways and Means Committee," chanted Ibc Speaker. Ami that was the last we ever heard of It." 'It Will IN WASHINGTON Uy RALPH de TOLKDANO When the present Atomic Ener gy Commission awarded the Fer mi medal and $50,000 in tax-free cash to Dr. J. Robert Oppen heimer, a little gasp could be heard among those who take the security of these United Stales seriously. Far more shocking to U.S. security agencies were the leaks from high Administration sources that Dr. Oppenheimer's "Q" clearance opening the na tion's most guarded secrets to him would be restored. (It was taken from him after one of the most exhaustive, and sympathe tic, hearings known to Washing ton.) An immediate outcry was ex pected in both House and Sen ate. But there was only an omin ous silence. Congressional lead ers with whom I spoke gave no LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Proper In response to the editor's com ment on lack of care in regards to our law enforcement proce dures, I will say, they, the offi cers, probably become cynical and certainly irritated at t h e ones involved in law problems when arrested, but the very ones wiin arc responsible tor good law enforcement should keep in mind their oath to their office and to conduct themselves, even though in office for years, the proper way. The law is to be handled as written up the proper procedure should be observed at all times, even though the officcf feels it should be handled his own way, he slill has the higher courts to decide this. A person is innocent till prov en guilty. I think the public decides to leave it to someone higher than themselves lo decide what to do about some individuals who do nol serve their jobs correctly. The uflieers after a number of years decide for themselves which procedure to take, usually without asking anyone, or find ing out if it is the correct law procedure. Especially since they do not represent the law them selves. I presume tliey do forget they are public servants, in due course of time. Some people who are arrested probably make them fori they don't have to use the usual procedures on them, as lliey have been arrested so often by them. Say. in a case where the person is arrested for being drunk, that officer involved goes ahead with bis own interpretation of the correct way. This can bo overcome by the proper authorities telling those in office lo never forget the standard way of proceeding, in a meeting held occasionally for just that purpose. If not done correctly, the only w,.y is out a re-evaluation of one's duties and protocol is a necessary must at a1! limes. Let's hope it can be done and real soon. Earl Rnmtio, Kle. 3, Box H7S. Be a Shame If All Is a Bandaid" 1 Oppenheimer Case Blurry very convincing explanation for their failure to protest the Fermi award and the possibility of bringing Dr. Oppenheimer back into the government in a sensi tive position. The most they would say was that he had no stomach for again turning the spotlight on his past and would therefore not return to the Wash ington wars. Having spent hours and days looking into Dr. Oppenheimer's record and having written about it extensively in "The Greatest Plot in History" I could n o t share these views. I knew that Dr. Oppenheimer had a passion ate champion in Presidential aide Arthur Schlcsingcr Jr. Since Dr. Oppenheimer sought to brazen out several investigations, I could see no reason why he would suddenly turn shy. Obviously, great pres sure was being exerted by the White House to prevent Congres sional criticism of the award. Finally, however, a Congress man has taken the bit in his teeth, In a Fourth of July re lease"1 to the press. Rep. Craig Ilosmer (R.-Calif.) warns of ef forts to give Dr. Oppenheimer an appointment that docs not re quire Senate confirmation. And he points out that it might be just a little embarrassing for the President to honor Dr. Oppen heimer, as oilier Fermi award winners have been, by a cere mony at the While House. Docs this mean, he asks, that some kind of clearance is in the works'.' If so, he says, "it would constitute a most grievous mis calculation to assume any at tempt to place him back in a po sition of governmental responsi bility would be tolerated by even a small minority of American peo ple." Mr. Ilosmer may be an optimist. For how many people remember today what the Gray Board, a panel of distinguished citizens, said of Dr. Oppenheimer? Or more important, what the Atom ic Energy Commission, which re viewed the Gray Board findings, added on its own. Let me quote the AEC: "The record shows that Dr. Oppenheimer has consistently BERRY'S WORLD x 0 . r A "Wtll, then goet fotntetn months of vork o cur Umagc'l" You'Need v;, ) placed himself outside the rules which govern others. He has fal sified in matters wherein he was charged with grave responsibili ties in the national interest. . . . The work of the Military Intelli gence, the FBI, and the AEC all. at one time or another, have fell the effect of his falsehoods, evasions, and misrepresentations. Dr. Oppenheimer's willful disre gard for the obligations of securi ty is evidenced by his obstruction of inquiries of security officials." But far more pertinent, since Dr. Oppenheimer's supporters have always questioned the in tegrity of those who condemn their hero, arc his own words. Under oath before the Gray Board, he admitted that when questioned by security officers at tempting to uncover a Commu nist spy ring at Los Alamos and other wartime atomic installa tions, he told them and I quote "a cock and bull story." Dr. Oppenheimer has placed his defenders in a terrible position. A comparison of his recorded words to security people in 1943 and his sworn Gray Board testi mony in 1954 shows that he either violated the law in the first in stance by obstructing an espion age investigation, or committed perjury in the second. A further study of his own words shows (hat he favored full sced ahead in work on the hydrogen bomb when it was designed for use against the Japanese, but then found "moral" grounds for propa gandizing against it when its po tential target might be the Soviet Union. The foregoing is not my evalu ation. I have examined and pub lished tlie text of his positions in 10-14 and 1949 in my book. They allow of no other summary. It may be that Dr. Oppenheim er deserves the medal and the $30,000 for his work at Los Ala mos. But certainly, as Represen tative Ilosmer urges, the Presi dent should make it clear that the award does "not condone the recipient's actions which lost him his security clearance" and that no relaxation of security standards is contemplated by the AEC and-or the White House. PEACE CORPS Bill By PETER EDSOX Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEAl The best slogan which the Republi cans have come up with yet to sweep them back into tlie White House in 1904 is: Make America Safe for Mrs. Murphy. Such a theme might even split the Irish vole in America, that is away from the Kennedys. This Mrs. Murphy, of course, is an imaginary character in no way related to the Mrs. Mar garetta (Happy) Murphy who in real life married Gov. Nelson Rockefeller after both divorced their former mates. There would be a double-take on the slogan if Rocky got the GOP nomination. It was Sen. George Aiken of Vermont as good a rock-ribbed Republican as ever was who dreamed up the modern mythi cal Mrs. Murphy as a symbol. He introduced her during debate on minimum wage law regula tions. Small shopkeepers "like Mrs. Murphy" who ran what used to be known as "Mom and Pop" stores should be exempted from all these government laws affccling wages and hours, said Senator Aiken. Mrs. Murphy got back into the limelight as hearings began on the civil rights proposal to ban discrimination in all business places catering to the public. This lime she was introduced by the GOP National Committee chair man. Rep. William E. Miller of New York, as a widow woman who owned her own home in a resort area and rented her spare rooms to tourists. Would she be required to offer her rooms on an integrated bas is? Ally. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, lead-off witness for the adminis tration's civil rights program, thought that one over carefully and then : said she would not be covered. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Emanuel Celler, D N.Y., presiding over the hear ing added that Mrs. Murphy was WASHINGTON By FULTON LEWIS JR. With the opening of Captive Nations Week but a few days aw ay the President would do well to heed those magnificent words of liis 191)0 campaign: "We must never at any Sum mit, in any Treaty declaration, in our words or even in our minds recognize Soviet domination of Eastern Europe." There have been occasions, too many occasions, when John Fitz gerald Kennedy has acted as if those words were nothing more than campaign oratory. There was July 13, 1962, for in stance, when the President issued a press release marking Captive Nations Week, a proclamation that was noteworthy for its refus al to condemn Soviet rule over Eastern Europe. There are some advisers who have urged the Chief Executive to forget Captive Nations Week in 1903 or to issue a proclama tion so weak and innocuous that it will not "offend" Nikita Khru shchev. This type of logic is expressed by Secretary of Stale Dean Rusk, who had adamantly refused to give his blessings to a resolution introduced by Rep. Dan Flood, Pennsylvania Democrat, that would create a House Commit tee on Captive Nations. Creation of such a group. Rusk argues, could only antagonize the portly Mr. K. He says: "It would likely be a source of con tention and might be taken as a pretext for action by the Soviet Union which would interfere with tlie resolution of tnc present cris is concerning Berlin." It was Rusk. too. who helped "modily" U.S. policy toward Hun gary. He instructed our UN Am bassad'.'r. Adlai Stevenson, lo cease all opposition to seating the fraudulent delegation that claims to represent tlie Hungari an people. He bad Stevenson appiovc the replacement ol Sir Leslie Mon ro, an eloquent anti-Communist, by Secretary-General U Thant as Special UN Representative on Hungary. Thant promptly let it be known tliat the Hungarian issue w a s dead as far as he was concerned. He tlien canceled tlie special broadcasts to Hungary that were often the only non-Communist words (lie Hungarians ever heard. He paid a personal visit in Bud apest to Janus Kadar. the Khru shchev lackey wno mopped up alter Soviet tanks had crushed the lluncari.ni Revolution in 1956. .Sen. Peter Dominick of Colora do, one of (lie most impressive EPSON IN WASHINGTON ... Federal Government Interference Greater insignificant and not worth both ering about. Representative Miller was still unconvinced, with justification. Just how much freedom and independence individuals will have to do what they please in tlie future as America becomes more and more crow ded with peo ple is a growing problem. Government is stepping in to regulate more and more phases of what used to be considered ' private life and private business. Big Brother is watching you. Lit tle Brother too, and the guv' mcnt'll get you if you don't watch out. Business complains about this and all the keeping of records it entails. Then business comes to Washington and in the name of supporting a "Fair Trade Law" backs a bill that would require Mrs. Murphy to sell brand name goods at factory fixed prices, in complete contradiction of a free market. The new regulations which In ternal Revenue Service has just issued on reporting business trav el and entertainment expenses as income tax deductions offer an other example. Tliey affect the Mr. Murphys more than the Mrs. Murphys. They hit not only big shot executive types but also a lot of smaller fry who are salesmen and operators of their own businesses. Internal Revenue Service has now tried to interpret a tough law intended to crack down on expense-account chiselcrs so as lo give the Murphys with legit imate expenses a fair break. But in reporting these expenses, the Murphys practically have to keep a diary of everything they do and how much it cost, as evi dence of their deductions. If Mrs. Murphy goes along with Mr. Murphy on a business trip and her expenses for travel and en tertainment can be legitimately charged off, records of that must be kept, too. The good old days when the Mrs. Murphys who ran Mom and Pop establishments just as they pleased are going, going, and almost gone forever. REPORT Reassurance Needed By Captive Nations young Republicans in Congress, has proposed that the United States take the initiative against International Communism. He says of Eastern Europe: "The minds, hearts, cultures and beliefs of the people in the Captive Nations are still dream ing of their human rights to free domof life, liberty and the pur suit of happiness. Many are still risking their very lives to es cape from the horror chambers imposed upon their minds and spirits. We should stimulate their feeling of independence their, drive for restoration of govern ment based on self-determination." Dominick asks the President to cut off all foreign aid to the puppet regimes of Eastern Eur ope and to prohibit the export of strategic materials to those who vow to bury us. He suggests creation of a Free dom Academy that would instruct our diplomatic representatives in the realities of Cold Warfare. He demands a massive propaganda campaign that would throw the Soviets on the defensive. Dominick wants Ambassador Stevenson to demand a sweeping investigation into Soviet colonial ism, and lo throw the spotlight of righteous indignation on East din Europe. He asks: "Are we to accept the position that the people in the Captive Na tions are doomed to living deaths under Communism?" An answer is anxiously awaited from the President. Al manac By United Press International Today is Tuesday, July 9. the 190th day of 13 with 175 to follow. The moon is approaching the last quarter. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. The evening is Mars. On this day in history: In 177ti. George Washington had tlie Declaration of Independence read to his troops. In IR.V), President Zachary Tay lor died of typlwid in the White House after serving only one year and (our months of his term." In 1943, the United Stales, Canada and England invaded Sic ily. A thought for the day Oliver Wendell Holmes, the American jurist, said: "Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."
