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."