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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon
Thursday, July 11, 1963
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Every Couple of Years!"
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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
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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
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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.