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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."