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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
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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."