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PAGE I HERALD JjieralilanbJIeUrs It Every real poker player must be wonder ing how he would be playing the hands if he were sitting in on the nuclear test ban parley in Moscow. Here is a big-time session where the players are pros and the stakes are really, really big. The United States knows from past per formances that Khrushchev and his pals play rough and play for keeps. They can also play it smooth and play it gentle. And they have a beautiful change-up that keeps their oppo nents off balance. It would be a tough assignment to go up against these characters if the contest was only a chess game or a tennis match. Or if the chips were only a dime apiece. But when the fate of the world and the lives of millions of human beings may well be riding on how well we play each hand can you imagine the stress and strain on every American around the table? Are the Russians for real in their new found comaraderie and robust geniality? Or is this a mask for a hidden gimmick they may Let (Richmond Newt Leader) , The railroad unions may be wrong as wrong can bp in their Insistence upon re taining some of the more maddening rules of rail operations, but they are dead right in their traditional opposition to anything that smacks . of compulsory arbitration. When the principle of compulsory agree ment comes in the door, in the person of Jus tice Goldberg or anyone else, the principle of bargaining goes out the window. The two can not exist together. The only satisfactory way of curing this old infection, in our view, is to let it come to a head. More legislation is not likely to prove effective; there are too many laws on the books as it is. Further "study" will accomplish nothing; the questions of featherbedding have been studied to exhaustion. Compulsory arbi tration is alien to a free society, as even the President recognized in his statement. Mr. Kennedy said that such arbitration never could be regarded as a substitute for bargaining; it should be viewed only as a last resort when possibilities for negotiation have been exhausted. But in such an event, the President said compulsory arbitration would be "infinitely superior to a shutdown of a vital segment of the nation's economy." We do not agree. Man's freedom never comes cheap; it must be bought and paid for every day, and because of its high value it bears a high price. The question here is wheth er the price of a rail shutdown is too high a price to pay. No one who ponders the question seriously will be inclined to render a snap judgment. At the outset, it is estimated that a rail strike would halt more than 90 per cent of the 200 railroads and idle upwards of 600,000 workers. It would create enormous personal hardships, expanding in ever larger circles from the HOLMES tlA Governors At Midsummer By HOLMES ALEXANDER MIAMI, Fla.-Maybe it wasn't necessary to com down here and attend the Governors' Conference to find out that Civil Rights is (lie most ovcr-cmotionalized sub ject before the naUon's polkicos but that was the primo impres sion. For a brief lime afler their excellencies and tlieir wives, as well as the press and tlic ogling bystanders, got tlieir first guod look at the chic and charming "Happy" Rockefeller, it did ap pear that romance and gossip were going to steal the show but not tor long. Racism has become catnip to t ho nation. It peppers the politi cal blood to such a degree that wo must expect next year's presi dential campaigns to emphasize race-leveling and to downgrade the much more serious, but less stimulating, domestic sub jects of reemployment, federal taxation and the rescue of our agricultural economy. ' Like prohibition in the Roaring 20 s, racism in the 60s is an abso lutely irresistible topic of con versation. Unfortunately, it is also such an opportunity for sen sationalism, demagoguery, unen forceable laws, quackery and vio lence that we muiit expect com mon sense to be driven into a long exile. The conference opened with AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Or. Ain't Parches, be waiting to unveil at just the right mo ment? Is this sudden warmth for America and the West a logical aftermath of the big has sle between the Soviet and the Chinese Reds? Or is it just a shrewd psychological ma neuver designed to lull the United States into lowering its guard long enough to become a patsy for a good, stiff diplomatic clout? Everybody wants peace, of course. Every body hopes and prays a way may be found to thaw out the cold war, or at least to keep it from becoming hot. Nobody in his right mind wants to pass up a chance to slow down or halt the nuclear race toward potential mass destruction. But this country has learned the hard way that we just can't trust the Reds to play it by our rules, or trust them, period. They're a different breed of cat, and our only hope of self-preservation is to be constantly alert, constantly suspicious, constantly steadfast in insisting on our rights. Let's hope the Russian are playing this high level poker on a high level. Them Strike! heart of the dispute. The movement of freight including some vital military freight would be disrupted. The Postmaster General says a strike would "play havoc with the mails"; deliveries of second, third and fourth class mail beyond a distance of 150 miles would have to be suspended. The economic losses would be severe. Yet the dark side of this picture is not the only side. The estimate that 90 per cent of the railroads would be halted comes from union sources. A great many railroads, faced with the moment of decision, might decide they could keep something running after all. There is sound reason to believe that within the operating union themselves a substantial minority opposes a strike. "Why should I strike to preserve the job of a fireman who isn't even born?" asked one dissenter. The stultifying make-work rules are . not unani mously accepted. A full-blown strike at least would clear the air. It would compel the reaching of a voluntary agreement as no other proposal might do. Once both sides were convinced that no help could be expected from the Congress, or the White House, or the Labor Department or from Justice Goldberg once they accept ed the hard proposition that only they them selves could end this thing this prolonged controversy might escape at last from the stifling atmosphere of infinite recommenda tions, infinitely arrived at. A walk-out would be a bad thing; there is no question about it. But not all calamities are equal. Some are worse than others. And on balance, the surrender of one more vital part of American freedom to the forces of compulsion seems to us worse than the loss and inconvenience of a major strike on the rails. ALEXANDER Chairman Rosellini ID., Wash. I proclaiming at the initial press conference that civil rights topped all oilier domestic concerns of the American people. Toward Uie end of the session a reporter ventured to ask Governor Rosellini why he rated Negro equality above the jobs and livelihoods of all Americans. Was it because of disorderly demonstrations in our cities? Or was the matter in herently important? Rosellini seemed to think that the demonstrations were the chief reason. They are certainly the chief reason why President Ken nedy changed policy in mid-session and sent his Civil Rights program to Congress. I would suppose that not often in history has it proved wise for n govern ment to have its policy formed by rioting in the streets. The ac tion of most statesmen has been to restore order first, and to con sider tlie redress of alleged wrongs In an atmosphere con ducive to justice. Governor Brown ill.. Calif.' shattered the Sabbath spirit of peace and amity, such as it is among warring politicians, by calling the absent Sen. Rarry Goldwater a "segregationist." The only reason for Brown to insult Goldwater was Uiat Uie Senator is tlie front-running Republican for next year's presidential hon ors. But I nrte that racism of fered the Democrats the worst Sunday, July 28, 1963 possible epithet to hurl at a par tisan rival. Soon after Brown left the con ference room w here the press sat in almost continuous session to hear tlie performing governors. Nelson Rockefeller made his first live appearance before a national panel since becoming a second time bridegroom. Rockefeller w as ollered a chance to defend Gold water, his personal friend and fel low Republican, from the "seg regationist" slander. Instead of a generous and becoming tribute to Goldwator's high character and to his well-known record as a leader of integration iiv Arizona and as a financial contribiutor to NAACP in the past. Rockefeller would only say that he had no reason to Ivlieve that Brown's insult of his friend was deserved. Laler, Uoekeleller rammed the inferential guilty - by association dagger into Goldwater's ribs by connecting him with Hie Radical Right, and by somehow coupling Republican rightists with Negro baiters. It was not the bride groom's most magnanimous hour. Much should tie forgiven the several performing governors, however, for they were in t h e throes of a mania a madness which may very soon afflict us all. Tlie horrid narcotic ol racisim has become an addiction of the politicos. and it accounts ( o r much of their eccentric and un characteristic behavior. "No, EDSON By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NEA) - Tenta tive plans for the Aug. 28 march on Washington by 100,000 or more Negro civil rights demonstrators call for the marchers to arrive in the capital early in the morn ing and leave that night. Assurances have been given that there will be a delegation from every state. But it is recog nized that many coming from great distances will begin arriv ing the day, before. A list of 51 assembly points for every slate delegation and the District of Columbia is being compiled. As many points as pos sible will be within walking dis tance of the Ellipse, south of the t While House grounds where marchers will assemble at 2 p.m. "Marchers are being told that no food or shelter can be pro vided in Washington. ' "Everyone will have to bring his own lunch," 'says the Rev. Walter E. Faunlroy, pastor of the Bethel Baptist Church in the capital, who is chairman of the coordinating committee for the march on Washington. Local churches that can provide temporary shelter and some food are being asked to offer their facilities to the marchers. Wash ington civic, religious, social, fra FOREIGN NEWS COMMENTARY . . De Gaulle Holds Fast To Attitudes On East-West By JOSEPH W. GRIGG PARIS (UPD President Charles dc Gaulle risks finding himself left out in the cold in the fast-developing reconciliation be tween Moscow and the West. There was no empty chair wait ing for France in the current East-West nuclear test ban talks in Moscow. There simply was no chair at all. There is a growing feeling in Western capitals that a summit meeting of President Kennedy, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev might result next winter if a test ban agree ment, even a limited one, is signed. But, curiously, little or nothing has been said about the possibil ity of De Gaulle taking part, too. It simply is assumed he would not. In fact, Dc Gaulle's whole atti tude toward the cold war and reconciliation with Moscow has done little to encourage his Al lies to try to get him in on the act. He has refused consistently to have any part in diplomatic "probing" talks with the Rus sians in tlie past 18 months. He boycotted tlie Geneva disar m a m e n t conference on the ground that it would achieve nothing. He has cold-shouldered the talks on a nuclear test ban. His argument was that any test ban agreement would be useless un less all existing nuclear stock piles and the vehicles (or launch ing nuclear weapons are de stroyed. In fact, he obviously is determined to stay out of any East-West nuclear agreement un til France has its own independ ent nuclear striking force. Recently, Khrushchev, in a pri No, I Said FORWARD!" IN WASHINGTON Marchers Plan Capital Run ternal and neighborhood groups which are supporting the march and sending delegations to join the demonstration are being reg istered. An unknown number of white people are expected to join the march. Many who are strong sup porters of the civil rights pro gram have said they will march as individuals. And some white and bi-racial churches and other organizations will send delega tions. Delegations will arrive by air plane, U'ain, bus and private auto mobile, says the Rev. Mr. Faunt-. roy. The tentative program calls for state delegations lo send a few of their leaders to congressional offices between 10 a.m. and noon. There will be no mass march on the Capitol and no sit ins. "We will do nothing to detract from regular congressional pro ceedings," says Rev. Mr. Faunl roy. "Since Congress normally convenes at noon, we hope . to have all our people off Capitol Hill by that time." The program at the Ellipse, be ginning at 2 p.m., will be brief. "The most important part of the Ellipse program will be to focus a demonstration at the White House, urging the administration vate message conveyed by his Paris Ambassador Sergei Vino gradov, tried to get De Gaulle to abandon his own nuclear testing if the United States, Britain and Russia reach an agreement to do so too. Dc Gaulle's reply was not made public. But it apparently showed no disposition to unbend on his part. The French leader has made his position clear on a possible reconciliation between Moscow and the West. He will not negotiate until Rus sia quits threatening the West, particularly over Berlin. He believes a reconciliation will come some day and that it will be hastened by the Moscow-Peking quarrel over world Commu nist leadership. But so far lie has not indicated he sees any sign that Russia is ready yet lo talk turkey without threats or duress. Dc Gaulle has kept silent on these and otlier major foreign policy issues since his Jan. 14 news conference. He has sched uled another one July 29. French officials and foreign diplomats are waiting with inter est to see whether Hie tough un compromising De Gaulle of last winter may have thawed out enough to join in "bringing East West relations out ol the deep freeze. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q How did Karl Marx define religion? A "The opium of the people." Q When was the first car toon published in America? A In 1754 by Brojamin Franklin. to propose legislation to bring about full employment in the United States," says Reverend Fauntroy. The possibility that President Kennedy will speak to the march ers here is being widely specu lated on in Washington, since he announced at his last press con ference that he would be in the city on that date. White House Press secretary says there's noth ing in the works and that no in vitation has been received. The official invitation would have to come from the heads of .the six national Negro organiza tinns sponsoring tlie march. A. Philip Randolph of New York, president of the Negro-American Labor Council, is march director. A Kennedy speech to the march ers, of course, would be a major political stroke. Following the Ellipse program, the crowd will march down Con stitution Avenue to Lincoln Me morial in what Reverend Faunt roy describes as "a solemn me morial procession honoring the memory of the slain Negro lead er, Medgar Evcrs." There will be no bands. The Lincoln Memorial program, running from 3 to 5:30 p.m., also is being arranged by the New York committee. "The focus of this program will be to obtain passage of Pres ident Kennedy's civil rights pro gram as a bare minimum for this year," says Fauntroy. If this rally breaks up just as the evening traffc rush from the District to Virginia begins, it could create one of the worst jams in Washington's history. This is one of the many problems Washington police are working on. To direct the marchers, Julius Hobson, chairman of Washington's Committee on Racial Equality, is assembling 10 teams of 50 men each to serve as an internal con trol force. They will lie trained by "The Guardians," a private association of New York Negro policemen. So far, there has been no indi cation that there will be counter demonstrations. Washington po lice have denied a march permit to George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Partv. BERRY'S WORLD i if 6 0 t "Mine's tie ent ultb BROWN HAS TROUBLE . California Legislature Dislikes Withholding By DE VAN L. SHUMWAY United Press International What's wrong with withholding -and why can't the legislature seem to get it moving? At this point, it appears that withholding and the abolition of the death penalty are the only two major fights lost by Gov. Edmund G. Brown in the first session of his second term. The death penalty bill never had a chance. And it never will under the present composition of the state senate, which doesn't show any signs of more than a gradual change. And at first, nobody felt with holding had a chance either. Slate Sen. Hugh M. Burns. D Frcsno, president pro tempore of the upper chamber and generally a good weathervane of the senate, originally said that he didn't see a single vote for withholding in his chamber. But as the general session pro gressed, Burns began to sound more optimistic. At one point, he sounded as if withholding was going to make it. However, in the fnal two hectic days of the session, withholding and the other tax reform propos als fell by the wayside and Brown called the lawmakers into special session to make another try- The lawmakers went home for a couple of weeks. This gave them an excellent chance to sound out local sentiment. Most of the legislators have talked to civic clubs and opened the sessions for discussion after their speeches. "Everybody I talked to raised the question of withholding," said one Democratic assemblyman. "I voted for the bill but they didn't seem to realize it. They congrat ulated me for defeating 'that aw ful' bill." Republican legislators were in a better position. All of them did vote against withholding when it passed the lower chamber. And their constituents were happy with them. That was the problem Brown faced whether he knew it or not when he called the lawmakers back into a special session. Letters To Values Today we are living in what is known as an epistemological so ciety: A society slowly shedding values of a lost era and life, and desperately seeking new ones to take their place. Those who hold the old values do not suffer. They have a frame of reference for personal behavior, and there fore a means to judge the world around them. And neither will the children of some future gener ation suffer: For they will be the inheritors of values being formed now. No, the children of today are the ones who must suffer. They must discover a new set of values to satisfy the yet unborn genera tions ahead of them, and to paci fy the living history of genera tions behind them. Truly, it must be admitted that change in human values and stan dards is not a sporadic, isolated event. This process takes place at every moment that man comes in contact with his envir onment. But history tells us of greater, major changes that have completely altered the face of a society. It is evident that this type of major change is tak ing place in our society, today. The Protestant ethic that so strict ly directed the actions of our an cestors is being shed. The pres ent structure of our society calls for a set of values that will have meaning within its own particular character. Tlie new values that evolve may be similar to the Protestant ethic they may be quite dissimilar to it but they will not be tlie same. And it is the children of today who will make this decision: they will choose the values of tomor row. What do we have to offer them, to help them make this the presidential itaW But he charged ahead anyway. He promptly lost tlie fight. The senate met in a an unusual private caucus to find out what would happen if the withholding bill hit the floor. They discovered it would be defeated. Why? Under the proposal submitted at Brown's request by Sen. Virgil O'Sullivan, D - Williams, the amount of tax the average citi zen ultimately would pay would not be changed except that in one calendar year, 1965, he would actually pay 150 per cent more cash out of pocket than he would have paid without withholding. The personal exemption re mained at $1,500 for a single per son, $3,000 for the head of a household and $600 for each de duction. The tax rates would vary from one per cent of the first $2. 500 taxable income to seven per cent above $15,000. At first blush, the deductions from a worker's payroll don't seem too painful. A single person making $2,340 a year would have 20 cents a week taken from his check. A married person with no dependents would not be touched until he made $4. 680 annual gross income and then the deduction would be 30 cents a week. A married person with two children would pay 30 cents if his gross income figured out to $7,020. With exemptions, about five million Californians would have been included under what Brown liked to call the "current pay ment .procedure." Entirely ex empt would have been farm workers, domestic help and mili tary personnel. There are two major lines of opposition to the tax from the employes and from the employ ers. But the employes don't have a lobby at Sacramento. The em ployers do and it's a farily pow erful one. This lobby was the one that killed withholding. The employers discovered it would cost them millions of dollars to hold the wages from their workers. And they didn't want to spend the money. The Editor decision? Let us hope that it is tlie best of our personal philoso phies, for this is the only truly valuable contribution that we can make to posterity. It is our bid to earthly immortality. Indeed, their decision will be the future of our society, and is in a great way our responsibility. Mrs. R. Peter Lungrecn, 1735 Carlson Drive. Thanks A note to K.F.F.D., better late than never. I want to thank Klamath Falls Fire Dept. for their beautiful dis play of fireworks on the night of July 4. I was parked just below K Hill on Kit Carson Way, same as last year. Some tourists stopped to inquire about the large crowd of people gathered along the high way. I told them we were waiting to see the fireworks on K Hill, put on each year by our fire de partment, also went on explain ing that you would soon light up K.F.F.D. in large letters repre senting Klamath Falls Fire Dept. What a surprise 1 got. But the 1776 was beautiful and everyone enjoyed it so much. Of course I explained about your last year's display, being K.F.F.D. They thought it very unique and in tend to carry the idea home with them. None forgot the many hours of work it took on your part. They remarked about their woit dcrful evening spent in Klamath Falls. Ore., w hile staying over to see Crater Lake next day. They join me in saying thank you, and hope to be here again next year. Gertrude Roark. Al manac By United Press International Today is Sunday, July 28. the 209th day of 1063 with 156 to follow. The moon is at first quarter. The morning stars are Jupiter and Saturn. The evening stars arc Mars and Saturn. On this day in history: In 1914. Austria declared war on Serbia, the real beginning of World War I. In 1932, federal troops drove out more than 15.000 unemployed war veterans who were camping in Washington. The ex-servicemen were demanding immediate pay ment of "war bonuses." In 1945. the U.S. Senate ratified tlie charter of the United Nations. In 1943, an Army B23 bomber crashed into the Empire Slate Building in New York, killing 13 persons and injuring 25. A thought for the dav-Ameri-can essayist, Henry 'Thoreau, said: "It is characteristic of wis dom not to do desperate things."
