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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore.
Monday, August i, 1961
"Wei! Here Comes Our Candidate for 1996!"'
All the talk about a mass march on Wash
ington in August by the racial demonstrators
has succeeded in bringing back some of the
memories of other marches designed to in
fluence the nation's lawmakers and Presi
dents. There's argument for both the pros and
cons regarding the effectiveness of such pa
rades under the shadows of the White House
arid Congress. It can be said, however, that
the record indicates Washington's reaction
was not favorable.
First, the record should show that a law
forbids demonstrations on the 31 acres sur
rounding the U.S. Capitol. Carrying signs,
making speeches or any other threatening ges
ture is forbidden.
One of the earliest planned demonstra
tions was in 1877 when efforts were being
made to impeach President Johnson. A crowd
gathered attempting to influence Senator
Ross, of Kansas. Plans did not materialize
and in fact, may have boomeranged because
the Senator cast his vote against the mood of
the crowd, thus saving President Johnson
from impeachment.
Perhaps the most famous of all marches
was that of "Coxey's Army." It was made up
of unemployed, the ragged, hungry victims
of the great depression. The crowds streamed
into Washington demanding relief in the form
of a regular sum of money, plus food supplies.
The "dole" they called it. The demonstrators
were arrested as they reached the capitol
grounds.
t. Then there was the mass of "bonus
marchers" in 1932. The crowd was estimated
at 10,000, consisting of the boys who had
- (Dairy Record)
It is understandable that those nations
with problems of food shortages would be in
terested in making barter deals with the
United States for grains, but as the National
Milk Producers Federation pointed out, tobac
co figured in about 38 per cent of the barter
deals, corn 24 per cent, wheat 15 per cent,
and grain sorghum 14 per cent during the first
three months of 1936.
In contrast, nonfat dry milk accounted
for but 8.5 per cent of the barter program
HOLMES
Hard
Jly HOLMES ALEXANDER
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The ad
jective "hard-line," used to de
scribe an adamant position
against all things Communist, can
also be accurately used to de
scribe an unmovable position
against all things Kennedy.
These two attitudes combine in
the Senate today against ratifi
cation of the pending nuclear
test ban treaty. Theirs is not the
only opposition, but it needs to
be primarily noted.
The Old Guardsmen ot the Sen
ate led by Barry Goldwater
are backed in their consciences,
as well as in their constituencies,
by the absolute conviction that
any accommodation ot com
munism is nothing less than
shameful surrender. Their be
liefs have taken the Old Guards
men out to many a brink, and
tlxiy will not shudder at Uiis one.
The Old Guard is already com
mitted to oppose any nuclear
treaty except one that unilater
ally disarms the Communists.
Then there aro the hard-liners
against JFK himself, particularly
those who oppose his racial poli
cies. I would judgo it impossible
for Mr. Kennedy's nuclear trea
tyin any foreseeable form to
get more than a minimum of
support from Southern Senators
who look upon him as a socializ
er, a waster, a Conslilutlon-nib-bler,
a business-buster and a
race-levelcr. In theory, tlie do
mestic issues should not becloud
the foreign issues. In practice,
the hard-liner at home Is very
exceptional if lie is not also a
hard-liner when lie looks abroad.
These two categories will sub
tract substantially from tlie votes
Mr. Kennedy can hope to get for
a nuclear treaty. Another Rroup
which lines up against him is the
military-minded memliership of
' (lie Senate. Iticliard Russell,
chairman of Armed Service, John
Stcnnis, chairman of tlie Pre
paredness Subcommittee, Henry
Jackson, Barry Goldwater end
Strom Thurmond, committee
members, have already taken
tentative positions on the doubt
ers' bench. Three of tltcsc are
Southerners and one Is Mr. Con
servative. They would have to
Unfavorable Reaction
fought in World War I. Across the river from
the capitol grounds stood another 10,000.
Here they had erected shacks from paper and
scrap wood and tin.
As the veterans paraded in downtown
Washington they sang, "America" and then
streamed back across the Anacostia River,
where they resumed their stand in much the
same fashion as today's "sit-ins."
For days they camped there and then in
late July 1932, President Hoover was per
suaded by the commissioners of the District
to use the Army to force the "squatters" to
move on. Hoover hesitated but finally gave
the order and it was General MacArthur,
Army chief of staff, who commanded the
units. Tear gas was used. The shacks were
burned. Violence flared.
The record shows that a number of Sen
ators actually changed their stands on the
matter of paying the bonus and voted against
payment. All because of the pressure from
the marchers. Eventually, however, the bonus
bill was passed but four years had elapsed
from the time of the marches. Also, it was
passed only after a third veto by President
Roosevelt.
Sen. Towers, Texas Republican, has in
timated that Congress would not legislate dur
ing the demonstrations, if they occur this
month. Perhaps it might be fitting that Con
gress declare a recess and get out of town
if the demonstrations do occur. And further,
we suggest young Bobby refrain from making
any speeches to them and the President might
well take off for Hyannis Port. For any high
responsible official to so much as make an
appearance, would only lend dignity to such a
wild party.
What Goes Here?
exports, while butter shipments were negli
gible. !
Under the barter arrangement, the re
cipient countries can pretty much pick and
choose the surplus products they wish, but
after 18 years and at a cost of billions of dol
lars we are still being fed the same old pap
that, we must feed the have-not nations to
keep them from playing footsie with Russia
and the sattclite nations. Tobacco they can eat
and butter and nonfat dry milk they cannot
eat?
ALEXANDER
- liners In Senate
be forcibly convinced, and per
suaded by tlie most overwhelming
military testimony, that President
Kennedy is right just this once.
No such testimony, however, will
be forthcoming. The Joint Chiefs
of Staff do not favor nuclear
disarmament in any form.
Finally, against the treaty be
fore it ever conies to Uie floor,
is a history-minded group. These
members are not exactly hard
liners, but hard-thinkers. They
are not bookish persons, who oil
en botlicr to recite Russia's rec
ord for Ueaty-breaking in letter
and spirit, but cogitating per
sons, who comprehend the exist
ing Russo-American relationship.
In looking for an apt expression
of this relationship. I have
found it in President Kennedy's
own words spoken as recently as
July 17. Tlie President was telling
his news conference why a joint
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Russo-American moon shot cfrort
would be impossible. He said:
"The kind of cooperative effort
which would be required for the
Soviet Union and the United States
to go to tlie moon would require a
breaking down of a good many
barriers of suspicion and distrust
and hostility which exist between
the Communist world and our
selves. There is no evidence, as
yet, Uiat these barriers will come
down. . . ."
Senators who recognize that
"these barriers" apply with even
greater force to nuclear disarma
ment, rather than to moon-shooting,
will very likely join w ith the
hard-liners and the military-minded
in opposition to the test ban
treaty.
Mr. Kennedy will have to find
his supporters among Senators
who fit none of these descriptions.
It won't be easy.
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IN WASHINGTON
By RALPH de TOLEDANO
An extremely worried Senate
is contemplating the nuclear test
ban negotiated by Under Secre
tary Averell Harriman with the
Soviets. There was general agree
ment from the start that it would
LETTERS
TO THE
EDITOR
New Values?
It was intriguing to have
Mrs. Lungreen in her July 28 let
ter 'Inform us that we are living
in what is known as an epistc
mological society. What hap
pened to the welfare society?
What values are we shedding in
this new society? Do intellectuals
of this society no longer hold life,
liberty, and tlie pursuit of happi
ness as constant, unchanging val
ues? A future generation that
does not hold these values in their
frame of reference will not have
a society of civilized men. but
live in a barbaric state. Those
who do hold these values would
suffer if they were lost-and be
distressed at even the considera
tion of losing them. It is from
an altruist-mystic base that de
duces that children of today must
suffer for children of tomorrow.
Through this thinking, slaves are
made.
It is not basic values which are
changing, but tlie ethical code
which must support and sustain
tlie values of man. Proponents of
the mystic codes switch from ra
tionality to moronic stupor, hypo
critical and self-defeating, at one
time making a pretense of sustain
ing values and the next sacri
ficing them. Consistency is not
tlieir virtue. On this altar, the
welfare society had its heyday.
It only took advantage of the
mystical - altruist philosophical
base.
The businessman Ulie one man
found in a capitalist, but not in
a Communist society I has had no
philosophical support. In spile
of the historical proof that capi
talism has produced the highest
standard of living of any society,
it is the businessman who is
damned if he makes a profit and
condemned if he does not. His
guilt, the mystics say. is that he
produces for his follnwman, for
which he is berated as an exploit
er. He creates, develops, supplies
goods, services, and jobs for his
(ellowman. To the extent the mystical-altruist
philosophies were ex
istent in societies, that frame of
reference held him guilty, and
through that psycho-epistemology
chained and drained him.
A philosophical standard to
support values and capitalism has
been Identified. For those who
hold basic principals, consistent
application, and a moral code as
a practical necessity, the philoso
phy of novelist-philosopher Ayn
Rand supplies tlie foundation for
a rational society.
Miss Rand has been engaged
to lecture at Lewis and Clark
College, Oct. 2. Tie murage ami
intellectual foresight of President
.John Howard for this outstanding
event will give him historical sig
nificance In education in Oregon.
Floy Johnson.
419 Delia.
What Does Ban
pass handily, but concern contin
ues as to what it may mean to
the future of the free world.
The Senate's worries have been
for tlie most part kept under
wraps. "How can you talk against
a treaty that's billed as the first
step to peace?" one Senator
asked querulously. Members of
the House have been slightly more
outspoken, but since they do not
share the Senate's "advise and
consent" prerogatives, their com
ments have not carried much
weight.
Off-the-record discussions with
several Senators indicate the
causes of their worry. First, they
are somewhat suspicious of the
great pressure being exerted by
the White House to get uncritical
support. This is a normal politi
cal reaction in the relations be
tween tlie Hill and 1600 Pennsyl- ,
vania Avenue.
A more important cause for
tlieir doubls is the conviction that
the test-ban treaty, in itself, is
only part of the story. Senators
who have not opposed the tieaty
that the President Kennedy, in
his voluminous private correspon
dence with Comrade Khrushchev,
and Under Secretary Harriman
have committed the United States
to a course of action that can at
best be called "unwise."
For example, it is being asked,
did Under Secretary Harriman
promise a further reduction of
American military power in Eu
rope or the closing down of more
bases in return for a Soviet agree
ment? Did the future of NATO
and CENTO come up for discus
sion? The President's steady
withdrawal of support of Cu
ban exile aspirations has been
w idely noted in Washington. Was
there any connection between this
new policy and the treaty?
That Mr. Harriman was the ne
gotiator has added to senatorial
worries. For, as I reported last
March, quoting from an unpub
lished 1944 transcript of a Harri
man briefing session, the Under
Secretary is given to large enthu
siasms that cloud his judgment. In
October. 1944, Mr. Harriman ac
cepted Stalin's promises that the
Soviet Union had no designs on
Poland and the other now-captive
nations. The conferences in which
the fate of Eastern Europe was
decided were characterized by the
then Ambassador Harriman as
"damn good healthy" sessions.
Mr. Harriman assured us, more
over, that Stalin's whole postwar
program was dedicated to the es
tablishment of an equitable peace.
And he was so overcome by the
Soviet tyrant that he expressed "a
great sympathy" with Commu
nist arguments that Germans be
condemned to slave labor (or the
Soviet Union. And he predicted
an era of cooperation in Greece
between the Communists and the
democratic elements.
(At the lime. Stalin was alrea
dy preparing for the civil war
which brought the Greek nation
to the edge of collapse and re
quired the military intervention of
llie British and the Americans to
end
Beyond this, Senators and some
of their House colleagues are an
xious lo know what safeguards
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
Q The name of what Biblical
character hat come to mean a
fast driver or roarhnian?
A Jehu.
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exist to prevent tlie Soviets from
cheating. It is being asserted by
some that it would be impossible
for the Soviets to test in the
air, in space, or under the water
without detection. This is a com
forting thought. But the Senate
has access lo independent scien
tific information and it is not
reassuring.
Edward Teller, the father of the
H-bomb, has warned of new de
velopments in technology which
will allow any nuclear power to
lest in outer space with no chance
of detection, or in the atmosphere
with very little chance of getting
caught. Dr. Teller may be
wrong. But the fact that he can
raise the question leads some Sen
ators to wonder if the United
States can gamble on Soviet good
faith before all the evidence is in.
In both House and Senate, there
is one other unanswered question:
Is any test ban in tlie U.S. in
terest? Representative John W.
Byrnes of Wisconsin, the chair
man of the House Republican Pol
icy Committee, suggests that the
treaty "will give a false sense of
security since a test ban has no
effect upon the real issues of the
fears expressed by his colleagues
that "the proposed treaty will
limit U.S. development of new
weapons, including anti-missile
missiles, at a time when we do
not know whether Russia may
be ahead of us in such develop
ments." When these factors are added
together, it is easy to understand
why the Senate's advice and con
sent comes with such trepidation.
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
When people behave the way
nations behave, we put them
away either in prison or in men
tal insUtutions. No society would
permit any of its individuals to
act in so arbitrary, irrational and
dangerous way.
There can be no peace in t h e
world until the same laws that
apply to individuals apply to indi
vidual nations. No matter how
many treaties we make, how
many pacts we sign, how many
alliances we form, how many dis
armament conferences we attend,
so long as each nation is a law
unto itself, the world can have at
best an uneasy truce, and not for
long.
How could mankind have even
a village if each villager refused
to obey a common law, if he
held himself a sovereign power, if
he declared it to be his inalien
able right to wage war on his
neighbor whenever he saw fit?
Yet the world today is as small
as a village, and even more in
flammable. But we do not have
a common police department, or
a common fire department, or a
common court. Nations today are
no farther apart than Boston
from New York in Colonial days:
much closer indeed in terms of
time, in terms of the capacity
for mutual destruction.
What is insane about tins situa
tion is not that it exists, but that
its existence is admitted by every
oneand yet everyone persists in
behaving as though it did not ex
ist, as though foot soldiers wiih
muskets were still defending Bun
Rv PETER EPSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON i NE A i The .Na
tional Draft Goldwater for Pres
ident headquarters in Washington
will announce the names of its
first state chairmen and State
organizing committee members
within the next few weeks.
All will be regular Republicans
with experience and recognized
standing in the GOP.
The political importance of this
strategy can hardly be overes
timated. It will refute the conten
tion of New York's Gov. Nelson
Rockefeller and others that the
Goldwater drive is the work of
right-wing extremists on the luna
tic fringe.
There is no disputing that most
of the enthusiasm for Goldwater
now comes from grass roots sup
porters and political amateurs.
There have been local Goldwater
for President clubs in many com
munities for two years and more,
but they have been unrelated,
unofficial and outside the Repub
lican party.
The second big job of the Na
tional Draft Goldwater Commit
teeto be done concurrently with
setting up state, county and city
organizations will be to co
ordinate these independent local
clubs with the regular party.
Many of these local clubs have
been circulating their own pe
titions urging nomination of Gold
water as tlie candidate in 1964.
Draft Goldwater headquarters also
has petitions out, and it asks all
signers for a dollar as tlieir con
tribution to the cause.
There are around 100,000 signa
tures on these petitions now. The
idea is to bring them all together.
There is a blank state chart in
Draft Goldwater headquarters
now, waiting for insertion of the
first state totals. The hope is to
run the total number of signa
tures into the millions.
Peter O'Donnell Jr., national
chairman of the Draft Goldwater
Committee, and F. Clifton White,
its executive director, head up
the job of building this organiza
tion. O'Donnell, well-to-do young Dal
WASHINGTON REPORT . . .
Officials Overlook
Ways To Clip Cuba
By FULTON LEWIS JR.
It is a serious charge, but the
evidence is overwhelming: Ad
ministration officials have refused
to implement federal laws that
would curtail free world trade
with Castro Cuba.
The statutes, passed last year
as part of Public Law 87-872,
were designed to cut off U.S.
foreign aid to those nations that
help keep the Cuban economy
off the rocks.
Investigation by Congressman
Mel Laird, Wisconsin Republican,
uncovers the fact that nearly half
a billion dollars in U.S. foreign
aid has since been shipped lo
countries that supply Castro with
strategic and other materials.
The State Department does not
deny that there are statutes that
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
ker Hill. What we call "madness"
in the individual, we call "slate
craft" in the assembly of nations.
W'e stand precariously with one
foot in the 18th century, and the
other in the 20th. Our social, po
litical and cultural concepts are a
mass of outmoded superstitions
and slogans and fossilized atti
tudes; while our technology our
actual physical situation is rac
ing ahead faster than science-fiction
can keep up with it.
And in this physical world, we
can clearly see how things be
come obsolete year by jear: what
we refuse to sec is how our ideas
and our attitudes likewise become
obsolete as (he whole face of the
earlh changes before our eyes.
The prime task of the human
race today is not political or so
cial or economic it is psycholog
ical. It is to force our minds to
grasp the implications of these
new concepts. It is to learn to
think and fast-in terms of the
cataclysmic changes Dial have
come over us in tlie last lew dec
ades. Among tlie most profound of
these changes is the decline of
national autonomy; tlie single na
tion, or even the alliance of a
lew nations, is now as outmoded
as the medieval duchy. Wars can
no longer be won bv combinations
of powers-for wars can no long
er be won This Is the hardest
lesion the human race will have
to learn: that countries are now
forced to adopt ihe same morahtv
they cmorcc upon their citizens'
or perish.
las businessman and Republican
state chairman in Texas since
1D36, knows all the GOP regu
lars. He is on the move, calling
on national and state committee
men to line up responsible lead
ers. While is a New York political
science teacher and public rcla.
tions man who has dabbled in pol
itics since 1948 as a Dewey, Ei
senhower and Nixon backer. He
played a leading role in blocking
Rockefeller's presidential ambi
tions in I960. He wouldn't be averse
to doing it again in 1964.
Some GOP state committees
have a ride that their chairman
must be a neutral, not backing
any one candidate for political
olfice before the primary or state
convention.
In other slates this is a ruling
of the state executive commit
tee, a custom that has been fol
lowed for years, or a personal
preference of the state chairman
himself.
In all such states, O'Donnell,
1 White and their co-workers are
forced to look elsewhere for Gold
water state and local chairmen
and committeemen. But they are
recruiting from the ranks of re
sponsible Republican citizens
who have the Goldwater convic
tion of conservatism not t h e
crackpot extremists.
There is no assurance that Gold
water will allow his name to be
entered as a candidate for the
nation in the New Hampshire
primary next spring.
If he doesn't allow it, a group
of his supporters may try to
present his name anyway.
The importance of all this effort
is that the Goldwater backers
have obtained a big jump on sup
porters of Rockefeller and the
other GOP possibilities.
Rockefeller, speaking before a
few hundred rich Californians at
Bohemian Grove, will make no
appeal whatever to tlie rank and
file Republicans he needs to win.
The Republican Citizens Com
mittee, meeting at Hershey, Pa.,
even under President Eisenhow
er's sponsorship, is just as far
removed from the great mass of
voters.
permit cracking down on traf
fickers with Cuba. A deparlment
spokesman, Joseph Reap, has told
reporters that the Administration
hopes lo use "persuasion" and
not "pressure" to end Cuban
trade.
Twenty seven nations who ride
the U.S. gravy train have yet,
however, lo be persuaded. '
There arc two statutes designed
to end the Cuban trade. The first
flatly bans any U.S. aid to a
"country which permits any ships
under its registry to carry to
Cuba" petroleum or other strate
gic materials.
In the first six months of 1963,
tankers from the United Kingdom.
Greece. Italy, and Norway carried
oil to Cuba. Tlie Executive is giv
en no discretionary authority. Un
der the law, U.S. aid must imme
diately be cut off. What hap
pened? As of March 9, the United King
dom had received $6.2 million in
aid since the statute went into ef
fect: Greece, $07 million; Nor
way, $41.2 million, and Italy, S37
01)0.
The second restriction denies aid
lo any country that permits ships
under ils registry lo enler Cuban
ports with goods of any kind.
The President is given authority to
waive this provision if, in reports
to appropriate committees of
House and Senate, he deems it
t" be in Ihe national interest.
The evidence indicates, howev
er, that President Kennedy has
deemed to igrore this particular
sU:u:e too. Inquiry made of the
Congressional committees shows
that no Presidential report re
quired under law has been for
warded from the White House.
Representative Laird insists Ihe
President is violating the "law
o: the land" in not enforcing
statutes passed by Congress and
signed by his own hand. The Con
stitution, he feels, is clear:
"The Constitution, and the laws
of the United States, which shall
he made in pursuance thereof . . .
shall be the supreme law of the
land."
The While House has no com
ment on the charges of Repre
sentative Laird.
Congressman Frank Bow, Ohio
Republican, is upset over the
growing practice of radio and TV
sations to sign off not with tlie
"Star-Spangled Banner" but "Hail
lo Ihe Chief." instead.
He quotes figures showing that
more than 160 stations across the
nation now use a recently-recorded
version of "Hail to the Chief."
Ihe 130 - year - old presidential
salute, to end tlieir broadcast day.
The song is played by Lester
Lanin. society bandleader and a
favorite of the First Lady.