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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."