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PAGE -A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore. Wednesday. July it. 196J EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . . Hard Words Traded In Commie Camp "Scram The Honeymoon's Over!" There used to be a television game called "Beat the Clock." A game in real life that enjoys great favor today is called "beat the system." Viewed lightheartedly, this is a kind of sporty rebellion against too many laws and . rules, too much massiveness in business and government, too great an entrapment in the ' tangled thickets of modern society. Surely this revolt has many harmless, . amusing and even heartening manifestations. It is also unhappily a fact that as indulged . : in by many individuals, it is simply a cloak V' for thievery and cheating. The scale can be . grand, or it can be very small. One of the new "sports" in the system beating line is limited largely to New York's theater world, but it illustrates well the way the game is played. It is sometimes called "second-acting." You pick a musical or stage play you want to see badly, and then show up on the sidewalk outside the theater to wait for the first-act curtain to come down. When the crowd drifts back in, you go along for free. You take any empty seat you can find, or join the standees. Of course, you never get to see the whole show, but you can hardly complain when your paying seat-mate is putting out $7'.50 or $9.90. There are, naturally, many ways of weas eling your way into sporting events and other costly affairs. Where hotels, motels, restaurants and night clubs are concerned, beating the system (Oregon Journal, Portland) We doubt that the Post Office Depart ' ment is optimistic that the stamplicking public will take very kindly to the ZIP code form of addressing which it introduced recently. ; No matter how many government post cards are delivered to home mailboxes, show ing a jolly little cartoon character extolling !;3he new system, it seems unlikely that many jjjiersons willingly will add another five-digit jraiumber to the addresses on their outgoing ff.5nail. It's against human nature, as the Bell iSystem knows from the resistance to its in- Production of 11-digit telephone numbers. . - ' But the system does make sense, par- ticularly for the handling of large and pro ' fessionally controlled mailings such as those sent out by the magazine publishers, insurance companies and mail order houses. Already ' they have been required to sort their mail ,i in advance by cities. Now, labeling a city- HOLMES By HOLMES ALEXANDER From now on, that's a Repub lican "war" in Cuba, just as it was a Democratic war in Ko rea. Ten years ago COP Presi dent Eisenhower liquidated Mr. Truman's "police action" in the Far East. Next year, if the Re publicans regain the V h 1 1 o House, they will be as good as pledged to liquidato Mr, Kenne dy's stalemate in the Caribbean. One after another the warriors of tlie party which freed Cuba from the Spaniards in McKinley's day are agitating for belligerency to liberate Cuba from Castro. This month Chairman Bob Wil son of tlie GOP Congressional Committeo held up lo scornful review the President's succes sive back-downs on the Bay of Pigs air support and on-site in spection for missile bases, his passive acceptance of Soviet troops and his active repression of tlie anti-Cuban freedom raiders. Thruston Morton, Wilson's oppo site numler in tlie Senate, gave -a" blistering run-down of the Ken nedy policy. Senator Allott of Col orado has twk-o conic out for planting an exile Cuban govem jiieiit at (lie U.S. Naval Base at Guantnnamo Bay. Goldwntcr has backed tho plan. Curtis of Nebras ka has boarded the battle wagon with both feet and Scott of Penn sylvania with one foot. Republican legal researchers are probing for loopholes in tlie treaty which gives us the use of Gitmo Bay (or tlie protection of both countries but forbids its use as an immigra tion port. It is now argued Uiat the protection clause can be stretched to include tlie restore .tion of free government. '' Chairman Jim Batlin of the Beating The System consists mostly of taking things that don't belong to you. A line has to be drawn here. The fellow who backs up a truck or a sta tion wagon and cleans out a room right down to the lavatory seats is a thief. The man who walks out with a lamp or a television set is just proving to the management that it can be done. It isn't just the profit-making outfits that suffer the ingenuities of the system-beaters. In one large city, the public library loses 200,000 books a year a tenth of its whole stock. Talk to factory managers, store mana gers, construction supply bosses almost any where and you'll get a well filled out picture of what "beating the system" means. Those who use things, without either buy ing or stealing, are really on the fringes of the game. They lack nerve. Typical, at the petty level, are the folk who read books, magazines and newspapers at the stands with out laying out a nickel. Some muster just enough defiance to toss the wrinkled product carelessly back on the pile. Generally, these varied efforts are brought off with a smile and a jaunty air. The idea seems to be that in a society which has the size and weight and pace of a glacier, it can be positively therapeutic to dash about slash ing at it with an icepick. Luckily there are still millions of Amer icans who believe, however, that beating the system doesn't mean robbing it, that vibrant individuality can find defiant voice by means wholly honorable and decent. ZIP Code Is No Snap bundle by a number which can be read by a sorting machine when such machines are introduced should make for savings in time and expense. We predict more difficulty in machine reading the numbered address written by a lady with a leaky pen and a touch of arthri tis, whose glasses are upstairs and who can't quite remember anyway whether Cousin Em ma's ZIP code number is 97210 or 92701. But the day when that becomes a problem still is a few years away, and those computers are getting smarter all the time. At least the Post Office officials have spared themselves the anguish of abolishing town names altogether, as the phone company is doing with its exchange names. The music of a name like Yoncalla or Latourelle Falls, the tang of one like Zigzag or Plush, will re main. A dutiful citizen simply will sprinkle a few numbers on its tail, like salt. ALEXANDER Belligerent Republicans House Republican Policy sub committee on Cuba and Subver sion of the Western Hemisphere has pushed through a resolution for resurrection of the Monroe Doctrine. Tlie House Conference of all Republicans is expected to endorse it. Senator Mundl, along with Battin, has demanded full enforcement of last year's Foreign Aid Bill, which intended to forbid military or economic aid to any country shipping eith er strategic or wvllarc goods (except medicines) to Cuba. Mundt has listed vessels carry ing goods into Cuba from Janu ary through May, 13. He finds in this category 33 British ships, 23 Greek ships, 7 Italian ships and 2 Spanish ships all from countries taking some share of our military dollar. He lists 5 Polish ships and 5 Yugoslavian ships from Red countries still provisionally drawing U.S. favors. From the Administration's view point any unauthorized use of Git mo would risk war by treaty violation, anil any further cur tailing of Cuban trade by allied and friendly nations would have to bo permissive. While the Re publicans call their measures "short of war," theirs is the counsel of daring brinkmanship. Republicans have read w i I h alarm certain newspaper reports that Mr. Kennedy is ready to deal w ith KhruslK-liev for resump tion of normal relations with Com munist Cuba. Any formal treaty tlwt included recognitkm of Cas troism in the Western Hemisphere would be doomed in the Senate. But Republicans fear that the President will accept an unof ficial but de facto package Uiat trades a nuclear stand-down (or "peace" in Cuba and Berlin. The price would be further loss of European confidence in America's trustworthiness as an ally. Dwiglit Eisenhower clinched the last Republican presidential vic tory with, "I will go to Korea." The next Republican nominee (or President could well be handed a party banner with the inscrip tion "Castro Must Go" at what ever the cost. Al manac Ry United Press International Today is Wednesday. July 24, the 20th day of 1MI3 with 100 to follow. The moon Is approaching its first quarter. The morning stars are Jupiter and Saturn. Tlie evening star is Mars. Those born today include Amer ican aviatrix Amelia Earhart, in ihh. On this day in history: In 1847, Mormons led by Brig ham Young arrived at Great Salt Lake Valley in Utah. In IBM, Tennessee became the first Confederate state to be re admitted lo tlie Union. In 1929. President Herbert Hoover declared that the Kellogg Briand Treaty which renounced war was in effect. In HIM, Vice President Richard Nixon and Russian Premier Ni kita Khrushchev carried on a kitchen debate at an American exhibition in Moscow. A thought for tlie day French author Alexandre Dumas said: "Great is truth. Fire cannot burn, nor water drown it." W l " : : . 1 IN WASHINGTON . . . By RALPH de TOLEDANO Fighting conservatives and "hard" anti-Communists has be come a big business in the United States. The Fund for the Repub lic, with a multimillion-dollar kit ty supplied by the Ford Founda tion, put a spot on more than one writer who was ready and able to grind his thumb into anti Communist eyes. Today, Group Research, Inc., an organization in Washington which, for a fee, supplies lists of conservatives and anti-Communists, is raking in AFL-CIO shekels, (. , . ,. . But the biggest prize of all came when Gov. Nelson Rocke feller of New York lashed out at tlie so-called "radical right" in a speech designed to put conserva tives to rout. Tlie phrase "radical right" is the invention of Professor Daniel Bell, a sociologist at Columbia University, who boasts that he is a "left socialist." Mr. Bell once fought the Communists with some vigor, but since he has moved into the more perfumed groves of the Academe, he has found it far more amusing to turn on the anti-Reds who were once his col leagues. Governor Rockefeller's venture into the unti-anti-Communist field surprised few who have read his utterances and noted his acts since the days when he worked for Presidents Roosevelt and Tru man. But it did raise a question: who, at this time, put him up to the new political posture. Neither Rockefeller nor his associates By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Those who are looking for a distillation of wisdom, for a quick and easy magic formula to lead ' them to the truth, shoull be told an ancient Arab fable, translated in various forms by Anatole France, Maurice Kues and Charles Badouin: Lung ago, a certain Sultan asked the sages and dervishes of his land to provide him with wisdom. The learned men imme diately began collecting tlie books whose contents they considered most valuable. Finally, a long caravan appeared before the Sul t;m a hundred camels laden with thousands of books. "This is too much," said the Sultan. "I could not read all that. It is for you wise men to ex tract for me a judicious selection of the very best books, tlie only essential ones. Go and do this!" The sages set to work again: they re-read the books, argued and calculated, discarded this, retained tliat. Al last a small party of sages appeared before the SulLin with a single camel laden with books. Again he said. "You have done a good job but there are still far too many books. Distill them into one volume, so that it will be enough fur me to read this sin gle book in order to possess alt that the wisest men of all the Squeezing The Trigger confide in me. But if you put the facts together, you find some would indicate to this suspicious mind that there is a more than casual connection between what he recently said and what the Kennedy Administration has co dified. ... I am not suggesting that this is a conspiracy. Conspiracies just don't exist any more and even the callowest Ph.D. will look at you askance if you suggest that they do. A cautious writer, therefore, . merely notes what must be de scribed as a marriage of true minds. Both Governor Rockefeller and the Democratic-labor alliance describe the so - called radical right as a "lunatic fringe," as "subversive" and as dangerous lor more so) than the "radical left." This last is a wobbly phrase. It can mean anything from the Communists and the Trotskyists to the violent - non violcnts and Americans for Demo cratic Action. The listener makes the choice. Governor Rockefeller found the radical right "every bit as dan gerous to American principles and institutions as the radical left." A little bit of checking turns up a similar quote from Wal ter and Victor Reuther in a re port they recently made to Presi dent Kennedy. The Reuthers. who represent the left wing of the American labor movement and the political activists of the AFL CIO, come up with these propositions: STRICTLY PERSONAL centuries have deduced and thought." A few more months went- by, during which tlie wise men labored and did Uieir utmost to extract the quintessence of wisdom. At last the Grand Dervish appeared alone before the Sultan, with a single book, bound in the finest Cordova leather. The Sultan was on his way to tlie harem, and hardly stopped. "This is very good." he said, "but it is too much: from this volume extract for me a single phrase which contains all that is needful to know, as the grain of incense contains all the perfume and releases it when it is burnt in the censer." The Grand Dervish set to work and finally presented to the Sul tan this sentence on a sumptu ous parchment: "Man is born feeble and naked. He increases in strength and desire. He obtains Ises by his strength than he covets by his desire: then he de clines and dies." The Sultan, setting out on a new war, was furious. "I know this!" he exclaimed. "You are all pre tentious rascals!" And the moral to be drawn from this tale was given by Alain, when he wrote: "Culture is not transmitted, and cannot be sum marized." But tlie Sultans of to day arc still asking, and the Der vishes are still trying to meet tins impossible demand. 1. "The radical right poses a far greater danger to this coun try . . . than does the domestic Communist movement." 2. The Communist movement "has been branded subversive by the government" but the radical right has not. FBI Director J. Ed gar Hoover "exaggerates the do mestic Communist menace at ev ery turn." 3. "There is no need for a fur ther effort to dramatize the Com munist issue." The real need now is "to rein in those who have created" an "unreasoned fear" of Communism. The language of the Rockefel ler attack is more restrained. But the attack, itself, underscores in sweeter tones the Reuther memo prepared for the President. Any reporter with a long memory who was on the inside of the 1948 Re publican campaign knows that the Reutlier-Rockefeller line was the one imposed on Thomas Ed mund Dewey by the Earl Warren wing of the Republican Party. None of this is in any way sinister. Governor Rockefeller has as much right now as Governor Warren had in 1948 lb adopt a series of political propositions con cerning the Communist move ment. In fact, both would have been derelict in their duty to the voters had they tried to hide their opinions on so important a sub ject. On the other hand, it would be improper and hardly cricket to deny those who hold opposite views to make some deadly par allelsor to point out, however maliciously, that Governor Dew ey and Governor Warren never made it to the White House. If the Rockefeller brothers and the Reuther brothers believe that the enemy within is a handful of John Birchers and if they do not see that the domestic Commu nist movement is an extension of the international movement they simply ignore the Ameiican ex perience and tlie documented facts. No one discounts the 'mger of a killer just because it i! small. It cj'i slid squeeze a !i gger. "When the boss tott oh aluayt bat ma By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEAl - There are a couple of new twists in P.us sian policy toward China. Care ful analysis of the Soviet Com munist Party's Central Commit tee reply to Chinese Communist negotiators in Moscow reveals them. But there is no detectable change in the basic policies of the international Communist con spiracy. Conciliatory language which marked previous Russian replies to the Chinese Communists is not found in the 20,000-word Central Committee letter which appeared in Pravda July J5. Moscow now is making unre strained attacks on the Peking government. The expectation is that this will continue. The Kremlin also is expected to begin purging Communist lead ers who in tlie past have argued for caution in dealing with the Chinese to promote unity. The Soviet Central Committee says it will wage "implacable struggle against deviationists." ' This is not taken to mean there will be actual war between Rus sia and Red China. The conflict will be waged on ideological lev els. In the future it will become increasingly difficult for tlie Communist party of any country to remain neutral between Mos cow and Peking points of view. Splits within some of the na tional Communist parties thus be come a possibility. This would dim the prospect in the immedi ate future for another Congress of Communist parties from all over the world to resolve their differ ences., The effects of a further split between Russia and Red China on relations with the West and with the United States in parti cular can only be speculated upon. President Kennedy has just laid down the line that the U.S. should not talk about something By FULTON LEWIS JR. The dapper Adam Clayton Pow ell, Congressman-Minister from New York's Harlem, will deliv er his sermons and write his bills behind bars, if a constituent has her way. She is Mrs. Esther Matilda James, a 66-year-old widow who Powell once identified as a "bag woman" or graft collector for crooked cops. Mrs. James sued, and was awarded $211,500 in damages by the New York State ' Supreme Court. That was April 4. Since that time, however, Mrs. James had been unable to find her Congressman. She now wants to arrest him on what is known as body attachment and wants him kept in custody until he pays up. Mrs. James' attorney, Raymond Rubin, went before Stale Su preme Court Justice Charles Marks, the other day, to petition the court to have Powell picked up. The Congressman, , says Mrs. James, visits his district only on Sunday when legal service can't be made. From Mond.-- 'o Satur day, he can be found in Washing ton (sometimes), Paris, Puerto Rico or Rome. Tlie Congressman's defense is simple. Under the Constitution, he argued in an affidavit to Mr. Justice Marks, he could not be vacation, Mr. Pettnyfeather rtinii for lunch." over which it has no control. The new Central Committee statement seems to make con ciliatory gestures to the West. This could be motivated only to refute Red China policy. "We sincerely want disarma mentit is not an expedient," says the Central Committee. Then the policy is qualified by thef statement that the Soviet Union will continue to use organized agitation and propaganda to whit tle down western demands. In another place the Central Committee statement declares that the Soviet Union will not be the first to use nuclear weapons. This is a change from recent Soviet policy, even though the United States has previously pro posed a ban on nuclear weapons except in defense of aggression. The Central Committee does not say, however, that the Soviet will not use nuclear weapons against a conventional weapons attack and will not use them in a local war which becomes escalated into a major war. On Cuba, the Central Commit, tee declares that, "If the U.S. imperialists . . . invade Cuba, we shall come to the assistance of the Cuban people." Chairman Nikita Khrushchev again is quoted as having ex pressed the party line with the statement, "There will be libera tion wars as long as imperialism exists, so long as colonialism ex ists. . . . Therefore it is only through struggle, including armed struggle, that the peoples can win freedom." The Central Committee state ment then boasts that the Soviet Union is now giving the broadest support to the nationalist libera tion movements in Vietnam, Egypt, Iraq, Algeria, Yemen and Cuba. . This is obviously inserted to overcome Peking's charges against Moscow's softness. It restates past Communist policy which Red China endorsed less than three years ago. So basical ly, nothing is changed. WASHINGTON REPORT ' . . Victorious Plaintiff Looks For Legislator touched while Congress is in ses sion. Senators and Representatives, under Article 1, Section 6, Clause I of the U.S. Constitution "shall in all cases except treason, fel ony and breach of peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance of the session of their respective houses and in going to and returning from same." Explained Powell, heretofore not renowned as an authority ft Constitutional law: "The found ing fathers of the Federal Con stitution deemed it necessary that members of Congress should be privileged from arrest when important work of. Congress de mands their attention." More than 50 of the country's most promising young Marxists gathered in New York last month to map organizing strategy. They were leaders of the Pro gressive Youth Organizing Com mittee, a group described as Com, munist-controlled by J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. They heard a number of speak ers including the Rev. Milton Ga lamison, a Brooklyn NAACP lead er and one of the sparkplugs in the New York school integration fight. Featured attraction at one ses sion was Marvin Markman, an identified Communist who now heads up party youth activities for New York Slate. The delegates heard one speak er order mass demonstrations when the Subversive Activities Control Board holds hearing to de termine whether or not Advance, a local youth group, is run by Communists. . He called for demonstrations inside and outside tlie hearing room, a la San Francisco, where three years ago. Communist-led rioters broke up a hearing of the House UnAmerican Commit tee. Republicans have served notice that they will oppose the latest scheme of the Area Redevelop ment Agency, a proposed grant of $1.5 million that would air-condition the Atlantic City Convention Hall in time for tlie Democratic National Committee. Sen. John J. Williams, influ ential Delaware Republican, was blunt: "I most respectfully sug gest that if tlie Democratic Na tional Committee desires air-conditioning it pay for it." Atlantic City, which boasts a thriving tourist trade, is neverthe less considered a "depressed area."
