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PAGE ( HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Tuesday, July 30, 1963 EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . Keating Reaps Hay Talk Business That Fellow's From Internal Revenue The fact that nearly a fourth of all se lective service registrants in this country fail their mental examinations is a staggering reflection on U.S. education. This rejection rate is indeed the fact. The percentage of failures actually exceeds 30 per cent in 11 states, and bests 50 per cent in two states South Carolina and Mississippi. It is interesting to note that in the 11 states with the poorest showing, the amount of schooling generally acquired is considerably less than for the nation as a whole. The National Committee for Support of the Public Schools reports that in these 11 states, among people 25 years or older at the time of the 1960 census, 16.1 per cent had less than five years total schooling. This compares with 8.3 per cent in the entire nation. The inadequately schooled, in other words, bulk twice as large in percentage terms In the states with the weakest perform ance in draft mental tests. . By and large, the best showing in these tests and the best record in the matter of minimum adequate schooling is found in some . of the mountain and Pacific coast states. j Curiously, Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire look good in amount of schooling, but their records in the selective service men taf tests are not comparably good. HOLMES By HOLMES ALEXANDER MIAMI, Fla., Nelson Rocke feller tried hard at the hot-tempered Governors' Conference to play the role of a man dedicated to -the serious subject of civil rigSts, but the impression he left upoh this observer was not so muth of dedication as of despera tion. This is particularly unfortunate in a Republican candidate for President because we recently saw much of that quality in Rich ard Nixon. The former Vice Pres ident, and I960 standard bearer for the GOP, was always a man giving the dice of life a desperate roll for stakes that were far be yond his means of attaining by any way except the gamble. Tills is not meant in unkind ness to Nixon. Ho is out of public life- and is beyond the hurt of political critics. But it's a fact that he never was the caliber of man who should have been run ning for the presidency. He could nevfcr have come even close on his owo merit. He went as far as ho did, of course, by a parley on the popularity of Dwlght Eisenhower. In the last week of his presidential campaign of '60, and again In the last week of his gubernatorial campaign in California, Nixon oft en behaved like a man who feels his luck running out and who must become more reckless still to win the high stakes. Al manac By United Press International Today is Tuesday, July 30, the 21 llh day of 1063 with 154 to follow. Tlie moon is approaching its new phase. The morning stars are Jupiter and Saturn. The evening stars are Mars and Saturn. Those born today include Amer ican automobile inventor Henry Ford, in 1863. On this day in history: In 1619, the first American rep resentative assembly convened at Jamestown, Va. In 1916, German saboteurs blew up a munitions plant outside Jer sey City, N.J., and two people were killed. Damages amounted to $22 million. In 1937, a new union was formed The American Federation of Radio Artists. In 1942, President Franklin I). Roosevelt formed tlie WAVES, "Women appointed for voluntary emergency service," in the Navy. A thought for the day British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill said: "If wo open a quarrel between the past and present, we will find that we have Intt to iuur." Staggering Ignorance For the most part, the big industrial states do not come off as well in educational statuses one would think, considering the size of their outlays for schooling. The "school sup port" committee argues that these states' ranking is generally lowered by migrants from states with poor school systems. Can we really live comfortably with the knowledge tnat a quarter of our young men are mentally unqualified to serve in the coun try's armed forces? It is obviously a matter for shame. We are not exactly one of the underdeveloped nations. But unmistakably we have in our midst a great many underdeveloped persons, both adult and young. The National Committee for Support of the Public Schools is dedicated to the propo sition that one big remedy for this sad condi tion is to put more of the citizens' money into the schools to improve their quality. If one does not wish to see the federal government take a larger role in school fi nancing, what the committee proposes is the necessary, the only course. Not to provide a good school system is to save money, but waste tragically our human capital the resource on which we must de pend for our future safety and well being as a nation and a people. ALEXANDER . A Political Desperado Rockefeller brought to this con ference much of that all-or-nothing air which Nixon carried around. The New York Governor's friends are saying of him that he no long er cures for the challenges and satisfactions of public life on the state level. He is said to know that he cannot win another term as governor in I960. The taxes and fees he has imposed in his slate have cost him his once-high pop ularity. The scandals within his administration have taken the glow off his glamour. Rockefeller is in the position of having to run for the presi dency in 1364, even though the time is not propitious, or never to run at all. The talk of New York Republicans is that If Rocky fails to get the GOP nomination next year, he will resign the governorship to Lt. Governor Malcolm Wilson and fade back into private life. But. meanwhile, the glitter of the White House has become all the more alluring as Rocky's hand icaps increase. Mr. Kennedy proved that precedents are not very binding in American poli tics. Unearned wealth and Ca tholicism, a mediocre record in House and Senate, did not stop JFK. He overcame all by his boldness and a grim will-to-win wlien only numerous people named Kennedy thought he had any chance. Rockefeller's disadvantages are hardly less formidable than Mr. Kennedy's were. Rocky will have to overcome the two term White House tradition, a poor record as governor and a private life that BERRY'S WCm . Yv ". . But without our iwimmlng fool, would wi ban any frltudi" is open to criticism. The odds look steep but not more steep than those which Mr. Kennedy overcame when he set out to get the Democratic nomination with every Democratic leader of the day against him Mrs. Roose velt, Sam Rayburn, Harry Tru man, Lyndon Johnson and Adlai Stevenson. Indeed, if Rockefeller's politi cal associates know his mind, Rocky may be following the Ken nedy example very closely, es pecially as it relates to t h e Stale primaries. The Governor is said to be ready to go Into the New Hampshire election next March with the same kind of money and thoroughness that car ried JFK to his big win in West Virginia in 1960. "Rocky," said one of his fellow New Yorkers over a tart martini, "will pour so many dollars into New Hampshire that people will forget about the issues and see nothing but the greenbacks. The race won't be a contest of ideas. It'll be a battle in public rela tions. While Barry Goldwater is definitely more popular in New Hampshire, I think It's far from impossible that Rocky would bent him on organization alone." The "organization" which this man had in mind can be de fined as the art of collecting the votes of people who wouldn't ordinarily go to the polls. The votes of the indifferent and I lie ignorant, the venal and tlie vain, are what make up the winning margin or, at least, that's what tlie professional organizers believe. IN WASHINGTON . By RALPH de TOLEDANO There is much talk about the "law of tlie land" every time tlie Supreme Court rules. But according to the Constitution, any enactment of Congress unless and until it has been voided by tlie courts is the law of the land. The President of tlie United States has no right to decide which laws he will enforce, which he will ignore. This, as Rep. Mclvin Laird of Wisconsin has pointed out, is pre cisely what Mr. Kennedy is do ing. It is an index of the apathy in Washington that Mr. Laird's documented case has caused no outcry cither in Congress or among tlie members of the press. It will bo recalled that the Foreign Aid Appropriations Act included a proviso banning United States aid to any country which "permits any ships under its reg istry" to carry oil to Cuba. This is a flat prohibition, with no dis cretionary powers. The act also denies aid "to any country which sclis, furnishes or permits any ships under its regis try to carry items of economic assistance to Cuba." Only if the President decides that withhold ing this aid to Cuba .would be against tlie national interest and then reports his determina tion to the Foreign Relations and Appropriations Committees of both Senate and House can this second proviso be waived. Last January, the State Depart ment made clear its know ledge of tlie two prohibitions. Press Offi cer Joseph W. Reap announced By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Driving up to tlie country, 1 stopped in a little town for lunch, and took a tabic near tlie restau rant w indow. A while convertible drove by, with the top down: the occupants were two boys and a girl, all about 20. During tlie half-hour 1 sat there, tliey cmised by four or five times. They apparently had noth ing to do and nowhere to go: what struck me most forcibly about Uiem was their heightened awareness of themselves. Youth, of course, is Uie time for allowing off but this was something else. This was a kind of public imitation of joy and happiness, as though it were more important to convice the spectators than to convince them selves. "Look at us," they seemed lo tie saying, "young and gay and attractive in our new white con vertible. Envy us, applaud us. make us bask in the radiance ot your approval. We are having such a good I'mc." It all seemed so wistlul and hollow to me. They were like marionettes, with no inner hie of Uicir own, who became ani mated only wivn public eves were upon them. For tlioir kind ol intense self-consciousness is tlie deadly enemy of all sponta neity and genuine pleasure. But these have become among tlie paramount values of our so ciety: tlie substitution of t h "image" (or the reality, the tak !iiiih S I' c Mrs. Breaking A Law that the department had warned nations receiving U.S. foreign aid of the terms of the new law. The Secretary of State, Reap said, had told them that aid would be "cut off to countries whose ships carry goods to Cuba." That was, as I said, last Janu ary. The country was still stirred up over the missile bases in Cuba and demanding some kind of action. The boys in tile back room at State and the White House didn't like tne prohibitions in the law, but they had no choice. Representative Laird has now discovered that in the New Fron tier there are two laws of the .Jand (or the White House what ' the President likes and what lie dislikes. The prohibitions in the act, therefore, have become a dead letter. The Executive Branch is simply ignoring them and al lowing nations on Uie receiving end of U.S. aid to do as they please. Says Mr. Laird: "In calendar year 1962, 27 countries (trading w ith Cuba I received economic aid and-or military aid from tlie Unit ed States. In the first half of fis cal 1963, A.I.D. expenditures to these countries totaled $245.9 mil lion. Through March 9, 1963, mili tary expenditures to these coun tries amounted to $231.7 million." In short, the Administration handed out close to half a billion dollars to countries not entitled to U.S. aid in violation of the statute. In those first six monUis of 1963, moreover, tankers'from Great Britain, Greece, Italy and STRICTLY PERSONAL ing of tlie shadow for Uie sub stance, Uie need to impress rath er than the urge to express. The white convertible gave them a synthetic sense of identity that, by a cruel and familiar para dox, only served to blot out their individuality. 1 If you watch youngsters play ing and enjoying themselves, you will see Uiat they attain their in dividuality only by forgetting it by throwing themselves into tlie activity, by giving themselves to it, by losing themselves. For tlie scriptural truth is a deep psychological truth as well: that only by losing ourselves can we find ourselves. As we grow older, if our per sonalities arc not allowed and encouraged to develop in crea tive channels, we give up our center of gravity in ourselves and transfer it to oilier people. Then, what tliey think, how they respond, becomes the tremulous measure of our content. There can be no permanent satisfaction in tliat. however: for alter a while even tlie white con vertible begins to pall, and tlie image needs to be enhanced by new supports from the out side. It is bad enough Ui witness tlie rat-race in the so-called adult world; it is dismaying to see the little mouse-race of tlie young people, w Ik may never learn that you can't trade yourself in on a new model every year, no .matter how much you are willing to . spend. Norway carried oil to Cuba. A check of the committees which were to be informed of any de termination by the President that cutting off shipments to Cuba would be detrimental to the U.S. shows that at no time did Mr. Kennedy submit the required cer tification. fn short, America's "do noth ing" policy on Cuba has now shifted to a "do something for Cuba" policy. This is a strange pattern of behavior for a Chief Magistrate who has sworn to up hold and execute the law of the land and who must set an ex ample for lesser mortals. Representative Laird says fur ther: "For Congress to permit any individual to exercise a dis cretionary authority when such discretion is not provided by law means that Congress is abandon ing its prerogatives. There is some controversy as to whether Supreme Court decisions become tlie law of the land or the law only of a particular case. There is no controversy, however, over the status of laws passed by the Congress and signed by the Pres ident.". Ironically, Mr. Laird is right: There is no controversy. The President simply tossed this law aside like a scrap of paper. And no one in Washington really seems to care. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Strenuous I read in your Wednesday. July 17, 1963, sport section where a tiny nine or ten-year-old girl may have set a world's record in the 440 yard dash. It also states that an attempt will be made to see if it is a record. To assist those interested I would like to say it probably is, because I have been connected with track more ways than one for 50 years and have never known an adult in any other locality who would permit a child of six to ten years of age to par ticipate in such a sUvnuous race. I ran in Jackson County in the early twenUes w hen children were permitted to run longer races tlian now, however, no child In school below tlie ninth grade was permitted to run more than 220 yards. Tlie grade school track meets in Klamath County from tlie late twenties lo tlie present Ume had as its longest race for 12-13 year old boys only 220 yards. Girls 12-13 years ran only 75 yards as their longest race. Now your paper states that six year old boys and eight year old girls may run 440 yards. What docs a race of this length prove. I wonder. Those children aren't mine but I hope through your kindness in publishing this note that we can prevent the horror of someone having to carry a dead child olf the track. I (eel quite sure any competent doctor will agree with me that Uie 440 yard dash is too strenuous for these tiny children, boys or girls. John Balani. Visitor From Applcgate, Ore. By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON 'NEAl Sen. Kenneth B. Keating of New York runs one of the smartest biparti san radio and television news commentary programs originating in Washington. Though he is a dyed-in-the-wool and rock-ribbed Republican from way back, he puts Democratic guest stars on his show and lets them say what they please in an swer to his pointed questions. He doesn't argue with them. But he often puts on his piogram Demo crats who support his viewpoint. So far this year he has had 10 Democrats on his 13-minute week ly shows, to seven Republicans and 11 other government officials or prominent private citizens. He began this in 1949 when lie was still in Uie House of Repre sentatives. He pioneered the use of television as a supplement to his letters and weekly reports to constituents. In 14 years he has become something of a pro as he sends out advance transcripts of his shows to political writers and he makes news. He has built up his program so that it now goes out over seven to 10 television sta tions and 36 to 41 radio stations in New York state. He also runs a .five-minute program for two oth er television and 26 other radio stations. Buying the tapes, they carry the programs as public service newscasts. This is another rea son why Keating has to keep them nonpartisan. If they were straight party line, they might have to be paid for as political broadcasts. His shows move fast and aren't dong speeches. The senator uses about half of his time at the ibeginning and end of his program to answer the most intelligent let ters he has received from con stituents during the previous iweek. He puts over his own ideas in these answers. The other half of his time is an interview with his guest. Among the prominent Demo crats he has had on his show re cently are: Ambassador to India Chester Bowles on foreign aid: WASHINGTON By FULTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON Pink - cheeked, baby - faced Peter Dominick is rapidly earning a reputation as one of the most eloquent Repub lican critics of Administration critics of Administration foreign policy. A freshman Senator elected in thumping style last fall, Domin ick has spurned the free advice traditionally offered to first-termers. He has refused to sit quietly on the Senate floor and has in stead spoken out forcefully . on the necessity for a get-lough poli cy around the globe. Shortly after he took his oath of office, Dominick rose to deliver a masterful address on the Admin istration's tragic policy of accom modation in Laos. On Thursday of last week, the Colorado Senator ripped apart the Administration's policy (or lack of policy) designed to cope with Fidel Castro's number one ex port, revolution. He reminded Senate colleagues of the humiliation last month heaped upon U.S. soldiers sta tioned in Caracas, Venezuela. On June 5, eight members of tlie Castro-financed Armed Forces of National Liberation alerted news men that they would attack head quarters of the U.S. Military Mission in the Venezuelan capital. Brandishing pistols, the Marxist punks overran the mission, knock ing out four Venezuelan guards, forcing six U.S. Army officers to strip, then stealing their clothes and Uieir firearms. Tliey set fire to the building, and left, chanting "Down with Yanqui Imperialism! Cuba, Si! Yanquis. No!" Two days later. Radio Havana hailed the attack ers as "paUiots." Dominick inserted in the Con gressional Record reports of Cas tro ' subversion throughout t h e hemisphere: The Minister of Interior of the Colombian Government recent ly charged that "Peasants' Leagues." similar to the militant Communist groups in northeast ern Brazil, are operating in two provinces of his country. They are. he said, armed and financed by Castro Cuba. At a Communist Labor Con gress in Prague, Czechoslovakia, tlie Cuban delegate told the as semblage that Cuba was stimulat ing "support for the people of Venezuela, Colombia and Nicara guawith tlie aim of overthrow In Nonpartisan Show Sen. Thomas J. Dodd of Connec ticut on the Congo, Laos and Viet Nam; Undersecretary of State Averell Harriman on the nuclear test ban negotiations in Moscow; new Undersecretary of Com merce Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. ; Ken. Warren G; Magnuson of Washington State, chairman of the Commerce Committee which is now holding hearings on equal access to public facilities in the civil rights program. Keating says lie gets a little .fan mail from lifelong New York Republicans, asking why he puts these so-and-so Democrats on the air. But he gets far more mail and comments from Democrats, commending him for giving both sides. For Keating, this is smart poli tics. In his state the Democratic registration is about 400,000 high er than the Republican in a seven million total. Also, New York has a Conservative party which polled 130,000 in the last eiection, a Lib eral party which polled nearly 300. 000 and a substantial independent vote of unknown division. In short, a Republican running for president, senator or state of fice in New York has to attract a lot of Democratic votes if he wants to win. Keating has to run for re-election in 1964. So he has to make his pitch at the Democratic in dependent and liberal voters in New York. About the only thing compara ble to the Keating show is the se ries of joint broadcasts made to Pennsylvania by its two sena tors, Republican Hugh Scott and Democrat Joseph S. Clark. They really do a job of informing the "voters of their state on party dif ferences. They debate issues in the best interests of educating the public. Intelligent, independent voters think there should be more of this kind of informative discussion on 'both sides of the many controver sial issues facing tlie country. The old-time partisan debate based on the theory that one party is always right and the other always wrong is long gone. Both parties are hopelessly divid ed between conservatives and lib erals. So party labels no longer have any meaning. REPORT . Half-Measures Can't' Whip Communism ing the governments of these countries." Earlier this year a group qf 69 young Peruvians returned from Cuba where they had received training for six months in sabo tage and guerilla warfare. On May 20, they swooped down on the town of Puerto Maldonado in the northeast corner of their coun try. Authorities arrested several and discovered the terrorists were following a Made-in-Cuba plan to unleash revolution throughout the nation. Other targets in the plan included Lima, the national capi tal, and the ancient Inca capital . of Cuzco. w hich is considered the -Communist center of Peru. Evidence uncovered by the Cen tral Intelligence Agency indicates that large amounts of cash are smuggled by Castro agents into Latin countries. The funds are used to finance subversion. Revolutionaries throughout the hemisphere have been supplied with tracts on guerilla warfare, written by Che Guevarra and Al bert Bayo. tlie latter a Communist veteran of tlie Spanish Civil War. They include instructions on Uie use of explosives and other in cendiary preparations that can be manufactured easily. Senator Dominick calls upon the Administration to push within the Organization of American States for action that would curtail the travel of Castro agents through out the hemisphere. He demands to know why the Administration has dropped plans for an economic embargo of Cuba. He wants real steps taken to end tlie steady stream of free world ships Uiat make the jaunt to Cuba. ' In short, he wants action, not empty rhetoric. He rejects Uie idea that Latin America may turn Communist unless massive for eign aid is channeled southward. "It is the myth of 'stomach Communism' Uiat beguiles us into believing that to counteract subversion, humanitarian sympa thy will do Uie job; Uiat wiping out illiteracy is the same thing as cutting off systematic infil tration by trained cadres of the Communist underground; that to eliminate poverty is to block Com munist penetration into every free Republic in this hemisphere. "It is the myth that half-measures can blunt Uie thrust of world Communist aggression. It is the illusion Uiat massive ex penditures can substitute for a militant will to win. It is, I sug gest, an invitation to disaster."
