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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.
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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."