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PAGE HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Thursday, July 11, 1963 "It's Just a Little Workout We Have Every Couple of Years!" NOTHING SPECIAL ivy. B. s.i in MM 47; 1'i f". ' . V , Wrong According to two separate accounts, a young Negro is reported to have told Attorney General Robert Kennedy that he felt no ob ligation to help liberate Cubans if it should ever come to that so long as the United States failed to assure the Negro's full free dom. ' It is said that the attorney general's re ported shock at this statement produced an unbridgeable gap between him and a group of northern Negroes he was meeting in New York. Though it is not an easy thing to do, we ought to try to take the young Negro's prop osition out of its purely racial context and examine it for what it is. He is saying that he will not support his country (a Cuban enterprise is only an ex ample) so long as it deals imperfectly with rights and privileges the federal courts have said were his. By that reasoning, any individual Amer ican could argue that, at any time when he feels deprived of rights and privileges, he is freed of duty to his nation. This might be so. whether he was acting individually or as a member of a racial, religious, foreign - born minority or other group. Let's put it more bluntly: This amounts to saying that a nation still flawed by imper fections is owed nothing by its citizens if they happen to be affected by those flaws. In a highly imperfect world, this is a Making (The Wall Street Journal) Certainly a good many parents of unem ployed young people are going to take excep tion to a juvenile court judge's appraisal of them. He calls them generally overprotec tive, overindulgent, not only tolerating their children's unemployment but sometimes en couraging it. As a group, he says bluntly, these parents are "a generation of well-intentioned slobs who are rearing a generation of sloths." It's also pretty certain that few working women will endorse the suggestion by Judge Robert Gardner of the Santa Ana, Calif., juve nile court that all but those who have no one to support them get out of industry and back inlo the home. Even Judge Gardner, writing ' in the Saturday Evening Post, concedes this is a "hopelessly fuddy-duddy" proposal although it would make more work available to youth. But if not much can be done immediately about permissive parents or women who don't need to work, something can bo done about the "obsolete and unduly restrictive laws" which help to "doom young people to idle ness." For amid all the handwringing in and out of Government about youth unemploy ment, and all of the planning of make-work schemes, hardly any moves are being made to lift legal bars to hiring young people. In California, for instance, the labor code has 72 sections of what Judge Gardner calls HOLMES Hea By HOLMES ALEXANDER WASHINGTON, D.C. It's a rare thing in this town, although not- unheard ot, when a Con gressional inquiry leads not only to legislation, but to a major shift ol Congressional and public opinion. This happened in the early 1950s when constant discovery and ex posure of facts about the Insti tute of Pacific KelaUons did es tablish an acceptance of belief that there were Kcds in Ameri can policy making. It happened toward the end ot the 'Mis when. Senator McCarthy, starting Willi a host of supporters, unhappily frittered away a good many ol them by his performance In com mittee rooms. It can happen here In Uie '60s, I believe, as various segments ot the President's omnibus Civil Rights package arc presented for illumination and examination be fore various committees. This process has, very definitely, com menced in the hearings on the IVulic Accommodation Act, which lias begun its long test before Chairman Magnuson's Commerce Committee. Not to make any secret of the matter, I lnclino to be against icgaiiicj 'ic-idl intervention into businesses that perform personal services to customers. It has seemed to me that a merchant of services, especially the intimate ones of feeding, housing and en tertaining people, should have some option as to whom lie al lows Into his house of business. Slant On Civil seriously unreasonable proposition. What if the argument were taken out of the realm of constitutional protections into, say, the economic sphere? What if millions of unemployed people said: "This country won't provide us with work. Therefore we won't fight its wars, pay the taxes it demands, or respond to any other demands it may make."? Seldom if ever does any people or com munity or nation realize in full its purpose and ideals. But our community and national life would quickly disintegrate if we, as citi zens, were to say we would not fulfill our ob ligations unless all was perfect. . There is another side to this. Along with rights and privileges go duties and respon sibilities. What if the government were to say: "You citizens who are not fulfilling your responsibilities hereby are formally deprived of your rights until you measure up?" There are plenty of Americans of every creed and color who do not in fact measure up in 19G3. Does the government of city, state or nation therefore strip them of their rights? Only when they are convicted criminals. The young Negro offered a bad proposi tion. The attorney general was well advised to be shocked. Those who were said to have been "shocked" at his shock have much to learn about the nature of a responsible free society. A Virtue Of ''paternalistic legislation limiting hours and working conditions of young people." In the education code are 44 sections governing is suance of work permits. Other states have work rules scarcely less complex and forbid ding. Nor is the Federal Government itself very helpful or logical. The Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act doesn't prohibit a firm supply ing material to the Government under a con tract of less than $10,000 from hiring boys under IB and girls under 18, where permit ted by state laws to do so. But if the firm's contract is larger than $10,000, the act forbids keeping boys and girls of those ages on the payroll. It might be added that minimum wage laws, enforced by Federal, state and even local governments, often deter employers from taking on younger workers. Not to men tion the unions, which push minimum pay scales for beginners still higher and often limit entry to apprenticeship programs. Unless these and other obstacles to work for youth are reduced, the best intentions in the world arc not going to broaden young people's job opportunities. Parents who en courage youthful idleness are doing enough damage to the social fabric. It should not be necessary to preserve restrictions that also help p':dkc a virtue of sloth. ALEXANDER . . rings Affect Thinking This is a matter of catering to his own, and his customers', taste or company. It is a personal as well as a business proposition. Moreover, experience tells us that prohibition, even when it pertains to selecting one's clientele, makes bad legislation, and that the ap petite of (edoralia for meddling is insatiable. And yet, since nobody's mind should be immovable, I lake it that mine and the minds of oth ers are bound to be honestly swayed by developments of the early hearings, including: 1. The Performance of Attor ney General Kennedy As Lead off Witness: Kennedy haters would hardly believe without beholding how much legal learning, h o w much skill in courteous repartee, how much reasonableness the .18-year-old Administration spokes man has displayed. Kennedy's winning ways, his sincerity, his stated willingness to have a bill f which does not interfere "with anybody's social life" and which respects a certain amount of pri vacy in small boarding houses, eating places, bowling alleys and barber shops have already been persuasive to the committee ami to the press. 1. Honest Doubts by Senator Monroney: This Oklahoma Demo crat seems to be saying through his questioning that forced Inte gration has limits not fully rec ognized by his party. If it is im portant to end discrimination, it is also important to protect the Rights Sloth meaning and purpose of the Con stitution. Kederal action taken (or a good cause today can become the excuse for bad action in the future. The often-cited "c o m merco clause" of Ihe Constitution (giving Congress power to regu late interstate commerce' has been stretched and strained till its integrity as n fundamental doctrine is all but gone. This worries Monroney. it should wor ry all Americans. 3. The Kace issue and The Republicans: Efforts by the op position to lag the COP as "the whito man's party" a damaging, indirect smear of Ihe Goldwalor conservatives because of their IKipularily III the South may he largely frustrated before this committee. Its members are Heall iMd . Prouty iVt.i, Scott i'a., Morton iKy.i, and Cotton N.H. All of them seem to be for tiie bill, given some clari fying amendments. Scoll, a for mer GOP national chairman, has strong feelings about racial lib eralism ami has a strong Negro following at home, lie has used the committee as a forum to de nounce the "lily while" label for his party. 4. The Kacc Issue and The Southern Democrats: Thurmond of Sooth Carolina Is spokesman for while people (lliey deserve one. tool who object to having their lives and ways disrupted by the f.iddism of tlie equalizer-. Thur mood's sincerity and tenacity have made lliemselvrs felt. IN WASHINGTON By RALPH de TOLEDANO "I marvel," Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D.-Conn.) has been telling his colleagues, "that our newspa pers have paid so little attention to the situation in British Guiana." The Senator has a point. Not that there has been any censorship of news. The press has been just plain not interested in what can explode at any minute into a ma jor international crisis. . Some of the facts are memori alized by a squib here or a short story there. But Uie whole pic ture and its connections with the mess in Cuba have not really been explored. Few people, (or . c example, understand why 'this small bit of territory on the Caribbean is of . such strategic importance. They do not realize that British Guiana, if Castroized, would be the lower jaw to Cuba's uper jaw, for chewing up ship ping going to tile Panama Canal. British Guiana can be taken over by the Communists at any lime. Prime Minister Cheddi Ja gan ran for office denying that he was a Communist. He polled 43 per cent of the vole, but this gave him a razor thin majority lly SYDNEY J. HARRIS Purely Personal Prejudices: The kind of joke a person cannot take about himself is a surer index of his character than the kind of joke he relishes about others; what he does not find "funny" about himself is always the weakest part of his nature. The man who has too high a respect for women is as despised by them as Uie man who has not enough. One of the great unsolved ridiiles of restaurant eating is lh.it the customer usually gets faster service when the restau rant is crowded than when it is half-empty; It serins that the less the stall has to do, the slower they do tl. Nowhere is it more important to "hate the sin, hut love the sinner" than in rebuking or pun ishing a child; his action may ' lie labeled "bad." but he him self must never be called "bad." and we must enable him to dis tinguish between behavior and character, so that his self-conti-deuce is not broken down. What we call "brute force" can be mental as well as physi cal: The person who tries to over whelm another by assailing him with verbal arguments is just as much a bully as one who u-es physical lorce. Most criticism is a form of ego tism: Tlie more different kinds of people a man doc not like, the more right wo have to sus pect that he wholly approves only of those who are precisely like 'him. (But the neurotic inconsis tency In such a critical person is that, if wo probe deeply enough, it will be found that he doesn't like himself very much ai bottom I ' 'v:;w'-:o, :. British Guiana Explosive in the legislature. Then he ad mitted that he was a "Marxist Lcrtinist." His American - born wife patently shares his belie.'. (He has turned over to her his new secret police organization. I In order to get full control of the little country, preparatory to handing Communism its first beachhead in South America, Ja gan introduced a bill giving him the power to appoint all union leaders. This would have broken the back of the militantly anti Communist organized labor move ment in British Guiana. In pro test, the unions called a highly successful general strike which has been going on for almost 10 weeks. As Senator Dodd says, "Here, for the '.'irst time in history, Uie general strike, which according to Communist theory is a weapon of the working class against the capitalist class, is being used by the working class as a weapon of self-defense againsl an incipient Communist dictatorship." This, in political terms, certainly fulfills the-man-bites-dog conditions. Jagan was able to consolidate his power with the help of the British who frequently act as i.' STRICTLY PERSONAL Most "veils of secrecy" over governmental operations con ceal nothing more mysterious than administrative incompe tence; what is called "security" is too often simply the insecuri ty of '.hose running the opera tion. If you are looking for a hair in your soup, you can always find one, merely by shaking your head dolefully as the plate is put before you; and there are people who go through life never understanding why this always happens lo them. BERRY'S WORLD one can't be a pukka sahib un less he is tolerant about the Reds. Prime Minister Jagan has shown his gratitude by signing trade agreements w ith Communist East Germany and Red Cuba. A Soviet trade mission is on its way and so are Soviet oil ex ploration and drilling teams. Since the let-up in U.S. pres sure on Castro, there has been a steady flow of arms from Cuba into British Guiana. Jagan, more over, has at his disposal well over 2,000 Cuban "tourists" men full of the milk of human kindness, and therefore anxious to pass on to the benighted Guianaians what Spanish Civil War veteran Gen. Alberto Bayo taught them of sab otage methods and guerrilla war fare. General Bayo is also a humanitarian; he journeyed es pecially lo Cuba to pass on his knowledge to earnest young ideal ists, for export to Latin America. The AKL-CIO realizes tlie im-. portance of preventing the gener al strike from failing. It has been sending substantial sums of money, though not the hundreds of thousands of dollars charged by Janet Jagan. This has been enough to prompt the Prime Min ister to set up "a commission" to investigate AFL-CIO contribu tionswhich should have been a page one story in itself. Of con siderable and ironic newsworthi ness is that the Soviets and the Red Cubans, both very vocal in defense of the embattled masses, have been engaging in strike breaker activities by sending in their shipping with aid to Jagan. Even the State Department drew Uie line. Usually too timid to offend an enemy, it nevertheless put its foot down when Jagan proposed that oil needed by Brit ish Guiana be stored in U.S. government - owned tanks. Perhaps direct action by the Communist forces will stimulate more U.S. interest in the little country. As for Cheddi Jagan he could use some of tlie flattering pre-victory publicity certain U.S. reporters gave Castro. It is a lit tle late to argue that he is not a Communist (he gave it away himself), but he could be painted by a fawning reporter as a hu mane agrarian reformer w h o wouldn't hurt a fly like Mao Tse-tung. lomraJe Kbruibbti't mail it Most of us have, probably more than once, had occasion to call upon the services and knowledge of members of the medical pro fession. Most of us, I'm afraid, are prone to regard those serv ices and that knowledge as some thing due us, and as nothing more than what one should ex pect. And probably thinking that we have lo pay too much for what we receive. As a group, doctor's are pretty careless about their public relations, and some individuals in the profession are even worse about creating and main taining a favorable "public im age." I've never discussed "why" with them, but I suppose it has something to do with lack of time, and, maybe they just diin'l care, or oan't be bothered. Discussions and controversies over medical care have varied facets. One is the status of the physician in the mind of the Am erican people who trust their lives and their well-being to his hands. It is, beyond question, an image which has undergone great change in a comparatively brief span of years. A recent story in a nationally distributed magazine devotes a long feature article to the mat ter. The author approaches the subject without prejudice. His pur pose is to describe this change in public attitude toward the doc tor, to chart the reasons for it, and to sum up the gains and losses that have resulted. The author states that never before in the history of American medicine has the physician been the subject of so much comment and criticism. Despite his aston ishing success with diagnosis, drugs and techniques, there is an undercurrent of discontent about him, a mental malaise that shows itself in recurrent complaints. Be neath this, the author, goes on, lies a subcurrent of longing for the golden past for the age of the horse and buggy doctor, friend of the family, who always seemed to have an infinity of time, who charged next to noth ing for his services, and whose warm legend lives on in tale and memory. Yet "Old Doc" had small con- WASHINGTON REPORT Reform Sought In Election Practices By FULTON LEWIS JR. A Florida Congressman is get ting nowhere fast in his one-man campaign to enact legislation that would combat massive vote fraud. Tampa's Bill Cramer, whose re search shows that upwards of one million votes are stolen each Presidential year, has introduced legislation that would permit the Civil Rights Commission lo in vestigate all vote fraud cases. Presently the commission is lim ited to investigation of minority group complaints only. Cramer's bill was assigned to the House Judiciary Commitle6, where Chairman Emanuel Ccller, Brooklyn Democrat, hopes to keep it bottled up. Other big city Democrats, often loud in their ad vocacy of civil rights, have in dicated tliey hopefully expect the bill to die in committee. What could the Civil Rights Commission investigate if Cra mer's bill were passed? The peculiar situation in Baker County, Ga., for instance, where 152 per cent of eligible white vot ers are registered to vote. Similar situations exist through out the Peach State. In U n i o n County official figures show there are 3.957 white residents of vot ing age. A grand total of 5.W.2 are carried on the voting rolls as registered, however. It is not only Caucasians, how ever, who are over-Teistored in Georgia counties. Take White County, for instance, where 143 per cent of all Negroes over IS ithe state's minimum voting age1 are registered. In 41 Georgia counties there arc more registered white a.wl in some cases Negro voters than residents of voting age. Twenty live Tennessee counties have more registered voters than is possible. So do 12 Alabama and 16 Florida counties. Tlie most blatant examples of vote fraud can probably be found in North Carolina where regis tered white voters outnumber white adults in 57 counties. Henderson County boasts M.Ran legistered white voters although census figures show there are only 2I.OK2 residents old enough to vote. Joluision County has 4.1.S8.1 reg. istered white voters on its rolls. More than 15,000 of these however, are obviously ghos) voters. trol over a long list of diseases. Pneumonia, for instance, killed 20 per cent of those it attacked and almost all the elderly; the treat ment was rest and waiting. "Young Doc," his successor, in jects an antibiotic drug, and the job is done. There is small de mand on the doctor's time. And this, strangely, seems to be a reason for the dissatisfaction. The doctor of the present is, generally, a specialist no one can be master of all, or even a large part, of the incredibly vast store of medical' knowledge that exists. I suppose our gen eral practitioners come as close as is humanly possible to re semble Ihe old time doctors. Actually, it appears to me that physicians today, spend more lime at their profession than did "Old Doc." Some of Ihe fel lows I know spend 16-18 hours a day. They must constantly , read and study in order to keep up with the endless ttnod of new developments in the various medical fields. I've no more idea than you about the income of doctors today, except the little bit I glean from reading the AMA News. But it is worth noting that doctors' fees rose much less in the ltMO-lWO period than did the cost of food, shoes, transportation, haircuts and all manner of other goods and services. Tlie doctor's share of the health-care dollar is less now than it was 20 years ago. And the cost of a medical educa tion runs to an average of $70, 000. By the time most doctors go into practice at the age, say of 35 they are heavily in debt. The point, I guess, Is that the modern doctor works under great pressures. In modern America there is much less op portunity for a warm dpctor-re-lationship than we experienced back in those slower - moving "good old days." I don't know that I have ever run into a bad doctor. I suppose there are some. But we have a pretty good bunch in Klamath Falls, and they've done much to assure the success of the hospital project. Next time you've got your own doctor down, don't kick him. The Charlotte (North Carolina" Observer earlier this year com pleted an exhaustive investigation into vote frauds in western counties of the state. Reporters Joe D o s t e r and Dwayne Walls were blunt in their findings. "The bedrock of democracy the vaunted right oi every elector to vote his convictions has had a market price as low as one drink of hard liquor in some western North Carolina precincts. "Depending on the heat of the campaign and the voter's bargain ing power, the going rate also has gone as high as $150 a ballot. In those counties with a thriving bal lot trade the average price is prob ably about $10. although last-minute holdouts can command a price of $15 or $20 a vote if they can deliver a family-sized bundle of ballots." Votes were often cast several times in the name of one per son, the Charlotte newsmen dis covered. Doster and Walls re lated the story of Mr. and Mrs. Honeycutt of Marion, N.C. Honeycutt and his wife told the two they each voted once in No vember 19S2. Three absentee bal lots were cast in their names, however. An absentee ballot was cast by "Dorothy Waldroup," of Yancey County, despite the fact she has never registered. She was 20 years old on Election Day. AI manac Rv United Press International Today is Thursday, July II, the l!!nd day of with 173 to follow. The moon is approaching its last quarter. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. The evening star is Mars. On this day in history; In 1R04. Vice President Aaron Burr challenged Alexander Ham il'on to a duel. In 18S4. the Democratic conven tion in Chicago nominated Gov. Grovcr Cleveland for tlie presi dency. In l'Jltfi. German Nazi dictator Adolph Hitler sicned a treaty with Austria and piomised to recognize the Austrian frontier.
