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PACK HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Oregon Mooday, July II, 1963 EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . . GOP Three Way Split Jeopardizes Chances "This Is Where It Begins, or Ends?" We President Kennedy seemingly won a diplomatic victory in the Cold War when he quarantined Cuba last October and forced the Russians to remove their offensive mis siles. Red China's Mao Tse-tung, Nikita Khrush chev's bitter foe in the Communist world, denounced Moscow's Cuban retreat as a "So viet Munich." There is little doubt that in a world where "face" is important the Soviet premier suffered a loss in prestige. Yet in six months, while United Slates diplomacy was paralyzed by partisan quarrels, Khrushchev was able to snatch victory out of defeat. lie even had the effrontery to an nounce that he had accepted Castro's invita tion to visit Moscow's Cuban satellite 90 miles from Florida. As seen by specialists on communism, Khrushchev was able to turn defeat into vic tory because the Russians never conceded that it was the U.S. quarantine that forced them to remove their missiles from Cuba. Moscow's Pravda and Izvestia write to this day thai the Soviet premier's "sacrifice to peace" was due solely to President Kennedy's alleged pledge not to invade Cuba and to pre vent anti-Communist Cubans from overthrow ing Castro's dictatorship. This has also been repeated with deadly monotony by Moscow's global propaganda or gan Novoye Vremia (New Time) ever since the United States failed to press Khrushchev for the agreed, on-site inspection of missile bases. Such inspection was the main condition for lifting the quarantine, President Kennedy said last fall. The State Department was obviously re luctant to engage in a public debate with the Red press. Thus, the United States never de nied officially that a pledge to bar force against the Castro regime was the price paid Khrushchev for removing his missiles from Cuba. However, it was the Soviet premier him self and not anonymous Red journalists (Mail Tribune, Medford) The role played in the development of southern Oregon by John C. Boyle can hardly be exaggerated. The list of honors he has won in his profession is a long.one. He was, in real truth, a pioneer in the electric utility business. These things are known to his colleagues and co-workers. But to the citizen who has never had a chance to get acquainted with this dignified, HOLMES By HOLMES ALEXANDER WASHINGTON, D.C. Rev. Eu 1 geno Carson Blake, a respected classmate and clubmnte of mine at Princeton, lives In New Canaan (Conn.), and Philadelphia, but he came to suburban Baltimore over the long July 4 weekend where he was perhaps the most promi nent leader of the lntcgrationist commando raid against Gwynn Oak amusement park In subur ban Baltimore. Although Gene played varsity football lor Old Nassau, his greatest scrimmage must have been this one, which ho helped to precipitate in the Freo State. The holiday air was filled with rocks and tomatoes, insult and blood, as the jaded police Jailed over 200 persons In protection of a law which permits a property owner to post his land for no trespass. Dr. Blake, like tlx ante-bellum Abolitionists, Is a icalous man of conscience and deserves respect for that reason. But out In Chi cago over the same weekend the Communist Ben Davis, former ly a New York City councilman, was among several Hods whoso presence during the NAACP con vention waa noted hy tlie FBI. . While the motives of Dr. Blake, the NAACP and the Communist Party are divergent, their actions in the civic disturbances through out the nation in this turbulent summer pose a common prob lem. How much longer can tho local police forces contain such demonstration! within Ui IuujU Should Be Told who recently warned that Russia will aid Cuba if the United States failed "to carry out" the agreement Khrushchev says he reached with President Kennedy in October. The Soviet Premier spoke at Moscow's mammoth rally for Fidel Castro. Here, as re ported by Pravda, is what he said: "A breach of obligations by the United States could not be regarded otherwise than as perfidy." . . . "If the United States does not strictly observe the agreement reached and aggra vates the situation, the world might find itself in an even more dangerous situation than during last year's Caribbean crisis-." Truth, of course, is not a tenet of Marx-ist-Lennist double talk. Nor is Khrushchev known for his veracity. But he is the leader of one of the world's most powerful nations. His words about an agreement with Presi dent Kennedy, spoken in public, were clear. They can no longer be ignored or dismissed with vague denials by the United States. Should Moscow's statements stand un challenged, the belief that President Kennedy pledged to bar force against Castro under any conditions will bolster Red prestige in Latin America. It will play havoc with the Alliance for Progress. It will sow confusion in the United States. No phase of the Kennedy administration's policy baffles the ordinary American more than the policy on Cuba, as this writer has found on trips around the United States. Surely Americans are entitled to know if there are pledges of the kind Khrushchev is talking about. It is not enough to say that the foreign policy of a free nation is the busi ness of the government. Policies pursued by democracies are credible and can be effective only if the whole people share the conviction that their aims are right. Are the Reds indulging as usual in reck less propaganda? If so, no time should be lost by the State Department in contradict ing officially and without ambiguity Khrush chev's claims. John Boyle's Role kindly, white-haired and determined man, Boyle's accomplishments can be summarized by saying that he and his engineers are re sponsible for the burgeoning industry in southern Oregon, and for the fact that when the switch is flicked, the light goes on. We wish Mr. Boyle many long and pro ductive years in his new role as consultant and elder statesman in his field. ALEXANDER . Restore Domestic Peace of mere roughhouse and token arrest? The President himself, in ad dressing the mayors at Hawaii, expressed apprehension at what explosion might come from the mixture of hot weather, hot tem pers and hot blood. With the Negro insurrectionists quarreling among themselves, we are near the historical point, described by Thomas Carlylc, when a revolu tion begins to devour its chil dren. Aiter thai, if the revolu tionary formula runs in this coun try us it has elsewhere the Keigu of Terror. Newspaper readers and editors must bo excusably irked these days at the unremitting down pour of racial stories which drench their sheets. I have felt apologetic about adding anything lo a disagreeable subject, but it is w ith us and uxm us, a f a r more Immediate menace than nu clear fallout, the National Debt or the unemployment rate. The tnkenfor-granted job of keeping law and order Is an elemental business of all government. Over whelm tho local police, swamp tile jails with Inmates, fail in the protection of lifo and prop erty, and civilization totters. TIk'so commando raids, hitting cities in North and South, are no longer to be judged as having a good purpose or a bad one. By their results, present and pend ing, they are so clearly against the national Interest that t h e President and the Congress have no mora conspicuous duty than to act and act now. Whatever the outcome of the Civil Rights legislation, currently before com mittees in both houses of Con gress, there is a prior need to restore domestic peace. Mr. Kennedy, with his great per sonal popularity and his prestige of oflice, could do much with the kind of speech he is capable of making. As to Congress. I have found only one bill which seems to address itself to the crisis. This is a measure (11. H. 7329) by Congressman Tuck, a former governor of Virginia. It is lucid ly entitled: "To amend the crim inal laws of the U.S. to pruhihit any persons from crossing stale lilies lor the purpose of violating the laws of any state." The Tuck bill would apply equally to clergymen and Com munists, Freedom Marchers ami avowed lawbreakers at slate bor ders, head off demonstrations that are beyond the control of local police. Pt the federal gov ernment (whose position in all this is much too equivocal) on record and on the alert against itinerant inciters of riot, whether they are well-intentioned or not. Congress is now fully commit ted to examining the sweeping equalization reforms placed be fore It by the Administration and demanded by the Negro insur gents and tlieir white sympathiz ers. There was never a belter time, or a belter reason, for the American people to insist that tlieir leaders call an end lo this hubbub. Stf - IN WASHINGTON By RALPH de TOLEDANO According to the best and most reliable Intelligence information available on Cuba, the Soviets have begun to move in replace ments for the missiles they look out last November. Eyewitness reports state that great objects, encased in zinc and carrying a red stripe along the center, are being brought in as they were in the summer of 1962. Soviet crews handling these objects w ork w ith extreme caution as they load them into truck-trailers. The objects, obviously missiles, are then shipped to five Soviet bases where the launching sites were previously set up. So far, neither the State Depart ment, nor the Pentagon, nor the White House cares to discuss these "objects." As in the past, they are discounted because tire information comes from Cuban exile groups. This was the atti tude in 1962. Though the Stennis Committee sharply criticized the Administration for ignoring re ports of this kind and for down grading or ridiculing exile Intel ligencethe Pentagon and t h e Central Intelligence Agency con tinue to brush aside what is being waved under their collective noses. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Not long ago, I was talking with a teacher in Chicago, who lias stubbornly remained in a school that lies deep within the slums. He was telling me about tlie altitude of most of the pupils. 'When people talk about slum living," he said, "they think about poverty and crowded hous ing and shabby clothes. But pov erty as such is not the real problem in tlie slums because rural poverty, for instance, doesn't breed the kind of reac tions you find in city slums." "Then what is the real prob lem?" I asked. "It's fear," he replied. "Chil dren grow up, from tlie earliest age, with fear and mistrust. The reason tliey fool it necessary to tie 'tough' is tlieir fear of at tack; the only way they can de lend themselves is by becoming like their potential attackers. "They also grow up extreme ly mistrustful," lie went on. "Tliey sec only the worst side o( the police. They learn all about the fix and crooked politicians by tlie time they're 10. They acquire a deep cynicism about law and justice and tlie social ideals we profess in our textbooks. The qualities they learn to admire are force, shrewdness, and flash iness. How else could they sur vive in tlie jungle of ! city slum?" "Would more jobs, or better jobs, or higher income, help tlie problem very much?" I in quired. "Not in tliomsclves." be shook his head. "The slum is a sub culture, ami few are able lo climb out of it by llieir own cflorts. If tliey get extra income, they use it to solidily tlieir posi. Cuba Buildup Continues There is, of course, a reason for this Administration apathy or lack of belief. While the White House keeps its eyes tightly closed to the rising flood of So viet aid to Communist Cuba, the State Department works night and day its wonders to perform. Feelers are being secretly put out, as this is written, for an agreement with Castro which will allow the United States to resume diplomatic relations with Cuba. It should be recalled that in 1960. there were loud outcries from many Democrats because Presi dent Eisenhower declared the government of Cuba non grata and broke olf all direct diplomat ic intercourse with the island. The United States freeze of Cu ban assets, stopping the flow of American dollars into the island, is being cited as evidence that the Administration is embarking on a new and rigorous policy. A check here in Washington shows that the move came as a result of quiet but strong pressure from the Latin American countries now leeling the cutting edge of Cas tro Communist subversion. Riots and demonstrations as well as the organizing of guer rilla movements were being financed with the Yankee dollar which the Cubans were buying STRICTLY PERSONAL tion in the slum, not to leave it. The alleged values of the larger community strike them as phony. "In my opinion," he continued, "the real threat to our demo cratic institutions and processes comes from this increasing sub culture, as our metropolitan com plexes grow and rural commu nities decline. And if the so called 'good people' keep on de serting the cities for the suburbs, then the apparatus of city gov ernment w ill be increasingly con trolled by the standards and val ues and felt needs of this sub culture." BERRY'S WORLD Tit threatened 'compu it won with other currencies. The Or ganization of American States has for some time been calling on the State Department to im plement a formal resolution call ing for a currency freeze. It should be' noted, too, that the Administration suffers from a split personality on the Cuban question. The military men (as opposed to the civilian leaders at the Pentagon) have been pushing hard for some kind of action. Oth ers in the Administration have usually succeeded in stepping on the brakes. If the United States can reopen its Embassy in Havana and the Cubans can stroll back to Wash ington's Diplomatic Row then tensions will diminish. This, at least, is what some of the brighter minds at the State De partment argue. And, it is said, our diplomats will have a listen ing post in Havana which of course will mean that they can deny all reports from exile groups about Soviet activity. One report from a second secretary sitting in an air-conditioned office in Havana will then count more than all the eyewitness accounts of men who risk their Jives to get in and out of Cuba. A Soviet missile build-up, the incontrovertible evidence that no Soviet troops have been removed from the island (despite Presi dent Kennedy's assurances that they had been), and the new State Department "accommoda tion" effort arc a chilling com bination. What makes it even worse is the knowledge, based on sad experience, that if the Secretary of State announces re sumption of diplomatic ties, there will be very little outcry from the two-to-one Democratic majorities in the Congress. At the present time, the Admin istration plans to hold off on any change in the Cuban status until Congress goes home. Then, should the move be unpopular, there w ill be no procession of Senators and Representatives to Secretary Rusk's office. In any case, it is believed that they can always be routed by the question: "Are you ready to accept a nuclear holocaust?" This kind of politi cal thinking, however, may ig nore the reaction of the American people. Ijory arbitration,' and it ill I uork!" By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) - The standard Republican line now is that tlie Democrat!? party is so hopelessly split that it is com pletely ineffective. This was the theme of the Joint Senate-House Republican Leadership manifesto. Using President Kennedy's statement that Democrats in Con gress would need Republican help lo pass comprehensive civil rights legislation this year. Senate mi nority leader Everett M. Dirksen intoned the idea that this was a confession of Democratic admin istration disunity. This raises the question of just how united the Republican party may be a year before its na tional convention. As a curtain raiser, speaking at the San Francisco convention of Young Republicans, GOP Sen. Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania urged that elements of the party "not beat each other to bits." It seems to have been a futile appeal. Full reports on this convention, brought back to Washington by participants, indicate it was a pretty rough affair. There was wide-open feuding between pro gressive and conservative f a c tions. And it was only by the narrowest of margins that the organization escaped a takeover by the far right-wingers. What this fight indicates is that the GOP may be just as badly split as the Democrats. There is abundant evidence that the ultraconservatives make up a much larger percentage of the Republican party than in the Democratic party. On civil rights legislation in particular, the Republican party even if it were so completely victorious in 1964 as to sweep the White House and Congress would have to depend far more on Democratic support to put through an effective rights pro gram than the other way around. WASHINGTON REPORT . . . FCC Proposals Stir Racing Fan Protests By FULTON LEWIS JR. The controversial Newton Min ow may be gone but his memory lingers on. The storm-centered chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has deserted the "vast wasteland" of radio and television for a lucrative Chica go law practice. But commission members con tinue in a dogged campaign to regulate tlie listening and view ing fare of John Q. Public. Lat est FCC proposal is one that would prohibit radio and TV sta tions from broadcasting almost any news about thoroughbred rac ing. The plan is based on the pre mise that any information about horse racing is of interest to "persons engaged in illegal off track betting." Radio and TV stations would consequently be forbidden to broadcast virtually all racing news: track conditions, post times, scratches and jockey as signments. The FCC rules would prohibit, w ith rare exceptions, the sending out over the nation's airwaves of any horse race anywhere in the land. Stations could no longer give race results unless every race had been run and the track closed for "at least one hour. This would be several houis after newspapers hit the streets with race results carried on tlieir front pages. The FCC proposals are ludi crous, according to those fami liar with organized crime and big time gambling operations. Far more money is wagered on baseball and football, even golf, than on horse racing. Will the commission soon rule tliat Amer icans can no longer watch on tlieir 21-inch screens as Mickey Mantle roams tlie outfield, or the Green Bay Packers move to ward another pro-football cham pionship, or Arnold Palmer wins the U.S. Open? Tl,e FCC regulations may well be unconstitutional. The National Association of Broadcasters has advised the commission: "The fact that there may be illegal wagering on an otherwise legal activity docs not give rise to a right to place a prior re straint ... on tlie programs built around that activity. The natural result of such a policy would be similar restrictions on virtually ?very sporting event." Maryland Gov. J. Millard Tawes. a lawyer, has sent word to the FCC that the proposed rules "exceed commission author ity and raise serious constitu tional issues." The Fourth of July Goldwater. for-President rally in Washington was notable in that there were no Negro Republicans inside the' Armory. The only Negroes around were in a delegation of Black Muslims demonstrating out side the hall not in support of Goldwater, it might be added. Actually, the Republican party today seems to be split three ways not just two. There are GOP conservatives and progres sives who correspond to the re actionaries and the liberals in the Democratic party. In addi tion, there is the new Republi can National Citizens Committee. This modern and moderate ele ment of the GOP is centered around ex-President Dwiglit D. Eisenhower and his principles. But at the present time it has neither a candidate, a platform nor much of a following. The 50 to 100 well-heeled Re publicans who bead up and, in fact, are the GOP Citizens Com- 1 mittee today, have as one of their principal objectives definite inroads on the Democratic strong holds in the North and West. The Republicans simply have to woo Democratic voters in the metro politan areas to get a majority. Perhaps the only way tlie Re publicans can get a meaningful program for 1964 is lo reverse the traditional American political procedure which is to adopt a platform, then nominate a can didate to stand on it and like it. When the Republicans convene for their national convention in San Francisco next July they might try picking their candidate first, tiien let him dictate the platform. If that candidate should be Sen. Barry Goldwater, the platform would read one way. If the can didate were Gov. Nelson Rocke feller or almost anyone else, it probably would be completely dif ferent. That's how the Republican par ty stands as of today. The FCC, which published the proposed rules on April 23, will make a final decision sometime after July 23. It has been flooded with protests from radio and TV stations, from lawyers, from horsemen, from everyday Ameri can citizens interested in thor oughbred racing. The National Association of State Racing Commissioners says the rules are "nothing more than a discriminatory blackout of le gitimate news to over 61 million horse racing fans." General Electric, which owns a radio and TV station in Schenec tady, has also voiced its objec tions to the plan. News reports say GE has raised the grave question whether the proposed rules constitute censorship and abridgement of freedom of speech contrary to the First Amend ment of the Constitution and the Federal Communications Act. Similar protests, couched in le gal terminology, steeped in le gal precedent have been received from coast to coast. The most co gent objection of them all, as lar as this reporter is con cerned, comes from Vernon Wold,' a $2 bettor in Cincinnati: "Please, FCC, don't join the ranks of dictatorial fanatics, crackpots and reformers who want to legislate every step of how I should live my life." Al manac By United Press International Today is Monday, July 15. the lth day of 1963 with 169 to follow. The moon is approaching its new phase. Tlie morning stars are Jupiter and Saturn. The evening star is Mars. On this day in history: In 1876, George Washington Bradley of the St. Louis baseball team pitched the first no-hit game in the history of major teams. In 1912. tlie United States won tlie Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden. In 19. Italy declared war on her former axis partner, Ja pan. In 1948. the Democratic Nation al Convention meeting in Phil adelphia, nominated President Harry S. Truman as its presiden tial candidate. A thought for the day-American Ambassador Adlai Stevenson once said, "The time to stop a revolution is at tlie beginning, not the end."
