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HERALD AND NEWS, Klunalh Falls, Ore. Wednesday, August 7, 1963 EDSON IN WASHINGTON 'Do the Plans Call for a Living Room and Roof?" High Rights Goals May Cause Failure ' PAGE t-A New Use For Plastic The other day when 500 employes of a textile mill in North Carolina were paid, they received the regular weekly pay check, plus a plastic bag containing silver dollars equal to the amount of federal taxes withheld. The project was an attempt to show the ; workers how much of their money is paid to the federal government. ' The money in the plastic containers was ' an "eye-opener" advance which is to be re paid to tfie firm over the next three weeks. "We are using this means of dramatizing ; to our fellow employes, the amount of money : they, and all American wage earners must pay regularly to the federal government with its : millions of employes, its foreign give-away, its ' layer upon layer of bureaus, and its annual Interest on an-astronomical public debt," said : Charles H. Reynolds, vice president of Spin dale Mills, Inc., Spindale, N.C. These "billions of dollars each year" could be returned to the wage earner if we succeed ed in eliminating "agencies of government such as electric power generation, insurance, (Milwaukee Sentinel) ; Uncle Sam is getting blamed fairly reg ularly for sticking his nose into foreign elec tions. Echoes of alleged interference in Cana dian political affairs have only recently died down. Now cries are being sounded that the United States interfered in the Italian elec tion. Right wing elements in Italy are attack ing the Kennedy administration as they search for a scrapegoat to blame for the big gain scored by the Communist party, j The rightist newspaper Giornale d'ltalia published an open "letter to Washington," Saying: "Kennedy's advisers, who are full of categorical conclusions but basically are rath er stupid youngsters, were led to believe that the Communist advance could be checked only By HOLMES ALEXANDER "Neither I nor any Scnalor must let hLs antagonism for Presi dent Kennedy have anything to do with the way lie voles on this treaty," dcclurcd Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia from across his office desk. Senator Lcvcrett Saltonstall of Massachusetts, who heads the Re ; publican Conference, said, "Ab solutely!" when this reporter 'asked him if lie assented, as an opposition leader, to Senator Byrd's statement of political mor atorium. Taken togclhcr the Byrd-Salton-stall declarations represent high mindedness of the tallest order, but by no means do they repre sent uncritical acceptance of the President's high-pressured East West Nuclear Treaty. If Hie final vote on raUficalion finds either or both of theso two gentlemen, the moral and intellectual elite of Old Virginia and New England, in the opposition, they will be there with heads bowed to a hard duty. For the President has assigned to this 88th Senate a decision that surpasses in magnitude and dif ficulty any task faced by the rati fying body since Woodrow Wilson brought home the package mat would have put us into the League of NaUons. This Nuclear Treaty, which calls for partial disarma ment in a time of recognized per il, is a more fateful step than membership in the peace-seeking United Nations and a great gam ble than the formation of NATO, ; which authorized the stationing of ; American troops abroad, under a : peace. ; The UN, after all, was an as sembly of supposed neutrals.' NATO was a pact among friends. In cutting contrast, the Nuclear Treaty amount to a trustful, un inspected accommodation with an untrustworthy, implacable foe. We would be agreeing to surrender, 'in substantial part, a weapon ! which we once held as a mono poly and which we sUll hold in : superiority of quantity. We would be pledging our good faith to a nation which has consistently act ed in bad faith and which, less than a year ago, committed an armed invasion of the Western Hemisphere. There it an adamant bloc of Senators, all Southerners, Republi warehouses, welfare systems, transportation, etc." Mr. Reynolds said. Of course these goals will probably nev er be reached, and Mr. Reynolds realizes it, no doubt, but the project does serve the pur pose of putting the bigness of government into proper focus where the working man can see it best in the pay check. Spindale's employes last year paid out, in withholding the sum of $320,503.24, or an average of $6,163.62 per week. , "Sound economics indicate the tremen dous amount of private business such dollars would create. The economic growth would be fantastic," Mr. Reynolds told employes, and he also had a few words regarding apathy that seems to be imbedded in the average citizen today. "When the people become concerned enough and so advise their representatives in Washington, government extravagance and expenditures will be reduced. A reduction will never be made until the people speak," he said. Which reminds us. Have you written to your Senator and Congressman lately? Will We Learn? by collaborating wilh the old ally of the Com munists, the Socialist party. The only lesson Italy has learned from the election returns is to mind her own business and avoid the advice of outsiders. A European and Italian remedy rather than an American one is what our coun try needs." From this vantage point, we have no way of knowing whether such bitter comments are justified. Losers are all too willing to find out side reasons for their failure. But the United States must have done something to lay itself open to criticism. And if we did, it is disturb ing behavior. We don't care to have other countries meddling in our elections. We shouldn't be meddling in other nations' politi cal affairs especially if we ase going to bungle as badly as we are accused of doing in Italy. HOLMES ALEXANDER Virginian And cans and confirmed conservatives, who will oppose the Nuclear Trea ty and suffer no tussle whatever of conscience. It is a Kennedy treaty, and a sofl-on-Communism treaty which fits Khrushchev's do mestic and international needs ergo, it's no good! But men like Byrd and Saltonstall cannot achieve such simplicity of ration alization. To them, and Senators like tlwm, there are these two brutal horns of a high-minded di lemma. The President's commitment. A total rejection of the treaty, or even reservations that could be equated with rejection, would hu miliate Mr. Kennedy before the world as only Woodrow Wilson lias been humiliated. To mortify Mr. Kennedy would be to demean t lie United States as a leader in atomic sanitation and non-belligerent negotiation. True. Mr. Ken nedy may have been too con ciliatory, and certainly Uic world is too ignorant of the American system of government. Even so, BERRY 5 WORLD "How much do you want for your iIo? Tbt littlt woman think it would convtrt into fantastic itudiol" Bags Yankee the inevitable byproduct of rejec tion would be a repudiation of the only President we have. The military posture: Both Byrd and Saltonstall, as senior mem bers of the Armed Services Com mittee, are aware that this is a politically-conceived treaty, a diplomatically-negotiated pact. Al though dealing expressly with military weapons, it does not have anything like the full sanction of our military leaders. To approve it, as written, runs a greater risk than responsible and knowledge able men would take w ithout deep concern for the nation's de fense. There arc times in statecraft and this is one when men of over riding prejudice are to be envied. Those who blindly despise Mr. Kennedy, and blindly hate Com munism, can stroll up Easy Street wlien tltcy come to vote against the Nuclear Treaty. But stony is (lie kiUi and steep the ascent for those who decide this treaty's fate on its merits alone. Y; --a IN WASHINGTON . By RALPH de TOLEDA.NO There are, any reporter will tell you. a good many things crawling under a good many rocks in Washington town and all fair game for House or Senate investigators. It is therefore a little puzzling when the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committtec, J. William Fulbright, starts swinging an ax at certain operators and lets the others go by. It is interesUng, though not mystifying, when he goes after the little and medium-size fishes but makes sure to haul up his line when he approaches the big ones. This is what has been happen ing since Senator Fulbright be gan an investigation of "Uie ac tivities of nondiplomatic repre sentatives of foreign principals in the United States." Like every one else in Washington, Senator Fulbright knows lor he should! that some important people on Capitol Hill were receiving con siderable sums of money from such governments as the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Repub lic. The Trujillos, to be blunt about it, had a regular pay scale for all varieties of elective offi cials in Washington. But the individuals and the or ganizations being clobbered by the Senator and his right-hand man, Walter H. Pincus, are those having little to do with legisla By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Writing about the young people riding around in their white con vertible, as I did recently, re minded me of another incident on the eve of the Fourth of July holiday. It was 1:30 in the morning, and I was parked in my car near the main intersection of the little tow n ia which I spend my sum mers. 1 was wailing for a passen ger due to arrive on an out-of-town bus. During tlie half-hour I sat there, dozens of automobiles whizzed by me. Almost all of them were filled with teen-age boys, circling Uie town noisily, cutting corners sharply, and pretending to them selves that they were having a w ild time. It called to mind what an Amer ican anthropologist said recently about the "rites of passage." In older times, young men were giv en opportunities to prove their manhood, tlieir courage or skill, by pei'lurming certain dilficult rituals that the ciders of the tribe had prepared for them. If they "passed," they were declared to be men. We have no such line demarca tion in our modern industrial so ciety and so the automobile has become, in its svnthetic way. the symbol of the riles of pas sage. The boys whizzing around the corners, brakes screeching and rubber burning, were i in a wist ful and unsatisfying way trying, to demonstrate tlieir manhood. As tlie anthropologist remarked, a good deal of what passes for "delinquency" in contemporary life is an ineffectual effort to create some rites of passage by J "-mt ' Solon Avoids Big Same tion. So far, they have also been the ones doing an honest and above-board job representing for eign principals. One by one, they have been scooped up in the net Mr. Pincus wields. He has gone to public relations firms work ing with foreign governments, mi crofilmed their records, and then hauled them before the commit tee. Mr. Pincus, those who read this column regularly will re call, attended a Communist-dominated youth festival in Vienna some years ago. The Fulbright committee has very carefully stacked the record against some organizations but failed to ask a single question ' when dealing with Administration bigwigs. Take, for example, what happened to Undersecreta ry of Slate George Ball. Mr. Ball appeared before Senator F u l bright and Pincus to give t h e views of his department on vari ous matters involving the suspect activities. But Mr. Ball was asked nary a question about the work done by his law firm when he was connected with it just before join ins the Kennedy Administration. This is rather surprising. The Ball firm right up to the time he became a watchdog of Ameri-, can foreign policy, represented the government of France, the Kuropean Economic Commission, the European Atomic Energy STRICTLY PERSONAL the boys themselves. Society sets no tasks for them, so tltcy try to make their own standards of virility. But this docs not, and cannot, gratify them in any deep, lasting and confirmatory way. It does not receive the approval of the "tribe," and, more important, it actually proves nothing for any idiot can drive a car with reck less abandon. In trying to prove their manhood in this false way. they actually become more juve nile than ever in Uic eyes of so ciety. The puberty rites and the rites of passage that were obtained in less sophisticated societies served a very real purpose, both socially and psychologically. The boys had something to look forward to, and the tests were actually mean ingful, for it took dexterity and courage and endurance to qualify. Most of all. it bound the youths to the manhood of the tribe. Juvenile delinquency, in various forms, is spreading throughout the civilized world even in countries which had no such phenomenon until the present gen eration. There is a vast resent ment and rebellion against the canons of Uie adult world, and the teen-ager forms a sub-culture that is often threatening to the continuity and stability of the so cial order. We are not tackling this prob lem in any sensible way; indeed, we do not even understand its dynamics. As Paul Goodman points out. in his book. "Growing Up Absurd." unless we give youngsters something meaningful to do. they will find a meaning in violence itself. Commission, and four ' other groups. In all seven cases it was required to register w ith the Jus tice Department as a foreign agent. Among the major outfits han dling foreign governments the main thrust of the Fulbright in vestigationis the law firm of Dean Acheson. Mr. Acheson received some pub lic attention years ago because his firm represented the Com munist government of Poland. But in I960, it had moved on ward and upward, registering for 17 clients under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Among them were the Netherlands gov ernment; the Dominion of Cana da: the embassies of Pakistan. Colombia, Denmark, Iran, and Venezuela; and the Royal Swed ish Air Board. But the Fulbright Committee had no interest in Mr. Acheson. If Senator Fulbright was an xious to find out whether the "activities of nondiplomatic rep resentatives" were having an un due influence on the legislative process, he might also have sub poenaed Oscar Cox, chairman of the Commission on International Rules of Judicial Procedure. Mr. Cox's law firm's activities, taken from Justice Department records, included the French and Italian governments; the Belgian and Austrian embassies; and other governmental and quasi-governmental bodies abroad. None of this interested Senator Fulbright or Mr. Pincus. They were too busy looking into the services performed for newspa permen by public relations firms employed to supply informa tion and photographs to interest ed writers. At this point, it is hard to de termine just what the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is achieving. So far, the published hearings show an inordinate cu riosity about the business meth ods of organizations against whom nothing has been adduced. There must be a reason why they were called, but the Senator just ain't telling. letters"" TO THE EDITOR Labels Bad In the past it was the policy of the Herald and News to never attach "labels" to people men tioned in the headlines. I am wondering if you have changed this policy or if the headline I noticed in Tuesday's paper was an oversight. Minority peoples have enough problems without labeling Uieir whole race guilty when one or more has been in trouble with Uie law. Such head lines as "Negro Youths Assault 2 Boys." or "Indian Man Convict ed" lend to discredit all ("copies of those races. If you label them in your headlines why not label people of German descent or Ital ian descent or even English or French descent. I hope you agree with me that such a practice (ends to increase our racial prob lems and certainly adds nothing to your news items or the stature of your newspaper. lk-ulah Balsiger, rt'vi Patterson St. By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON i NEA I The Aug. 28 March on Washington For Jobs and Freedom by 100.000 or more civil rights demonstrators may be doomed to failure before it starts. Leaders of the six national civil rights organizations sponsoring Uie march have set their objec tives so high they cannot possi bly be realized this year. Getting anything less than what the groups want may be consid ered a defeat, calling for more drastic action later. Initial goal of the march was the passage of President Kenne-' dy's civil rights bill as a bare minimum for this year. Now, however, leaders of the six predominantly Negro organiza tions have issued a "March Or ganization Manual No. 1." In it they stale their full program. It includes these demands: Passage of the President's pro gram without filibuster. Immediate desegregaUon of all the nation's schools. A massive public works program to provide jobs for all the un employed and federal laws to pro mote an expanding economy. A federal fair employment practices act to bar discrimina tion by government and private industry. A national minimum wage of $2 an hour. All these proposals have been made to Congress before in one form or another and have failed. Few, if any, congressmen would admit that these extreme meas ures could be passed this year. This is especially true in view of the lateness of the session and the competition with major leg islation such as tax reduction, the railway labor resolution, nu clear test ban ueaty ratification, WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Treaty Ban Proves Russia Has Edge By FULTON LEWIS JR. It was December, 1961, and Ni kila Khrushchev thundered, "We'd be slobbering fools if we did not cany out nuclear tests." There was no evidence of senili ty last week as Khrushchev, smil ing but not slobbering, gave the green light to his diplomatic lack ey, Andrei Gromyko, to initial the partial nuclear test ban approved by representatives of Great Brit ain and the United States. In little more than 18 months, the ever-cagey Soviet premier had seen the nuclear balance of pow er tip in his favor and in July, 1:), it was time for a test ban. Not that the "ban" approved by the Big Three last week is what the name implies. While outlawed by word, tests can still be conducted outside the atmos phere. There is no way, as sci entists of the Big Three agreed in July. 1959. to detect nuclear tests conducted far above the earth. Soviet scientists may find themselves working ;n East Ger many, Hungary, Poland, and Ro mania. Not covered by the ban, the Soviet-dominated countries of Eastern Europe may test in the atmosphere, in outer space, in the sea, below the ground lo their hearts' content. Were the Soviets t.i keep their promise not to test and past performances make this exceed ingly doubtful the lest ban would still be to our disadvan tage. Congressman Craig Hosmer, ranking Republican un the Joint Atomic Energy Committee and one of the country's best experts on nuclear strategy, tells why: 1. U.S. progress in develop ment ' of high-yield, 30- to 100 megaton weapons will be para lyzed at the very time Soviet sci entists have achieved these ca pabilities. The United States will be unable to cope with Khrush chev's long-range program of "hardening" his missile sites. The consequent inability to mete out destruction to Soviet weapon ry will decrease the capability of our deterrent force in direct ratio to increases in Soviet pow er. It is equivalent to cutting back our SAC 'Strategic Air Command i squadrons. ICBM 'Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles! bases, and Polaris submarine pa trols. 2. U.S. progress in developing a defense against enemy missiles will come to a halt at the same time Soviet scienUsts appear to have developed such a capability- A" Sen. Strom Thurmond, a general in tlie Armv Reserve, told colleagues behind closed doors, the Soviet Union has in stalled an anti missile complex at Leningrad. Ami missile defense in I h e hands of the Soviet Union is an the backlog of unpassed foreign aid and other appropriation bills for this year. The NaUonal Association for tlie Advancement of Colored People has called a civil rights legisla tive conference in Washington for Aug. 6-8, wilh a mass meeting Uie last day. This apparently w ill be a warm up for the bigger march on Wash ington three weeks later. NAACP delegations would be sent to Cap itol Hill to ask congressmen for support of the President's pro gram. The big six of the march on Washington also propose to take other direct action to influence Congress this year. "In the event of a filibuster before Aug. 28," says the last, little-noticed paragraph of Orga nization Manual No. 1, "march machinery will be used to send daily waves of approximately 1,000 people to Washington for the duration of the filibuster. "If Uie filibuster has not begun by Aug. 28, march participants will be asked to return to Washing ton at the Ume of the filibuster in waves of 2,000." These threatened actions go far beyond restrictions being put on the big march of 100,000 or more set for Aug. 28. The planning for this event emphasizes there is to 1 be no interference with the opera tions or daily routine of Con gress. While state and congressional district delegations from the Aug. 28 marchers may be sent to the Senate and House to present pe titions for the President's mini mum program, the instructions are that all marchers are lo be off Capitol Hill before noon, when Congress normally convenes. Only a small delegation will ask to be received at the White House. All marchers are to be out of town before dark. other way of saying our deter rent against Soviet attack has weakened. It, too, is the equiva lent of cutting back our manned bombers, our Polaris missiles, our Atlas and Minutemen mis siles. If the warheads carried by these delivery systems are to be intercepted by Soviet defenses with any degree of efficiency, then Ihey will, not loom as large as deterrents to Soviet button pushers. Conversely, the absence of an anti-missile capability by this country permits a Soviet first strike, surprise attack that would destroy our deterrent forces be fore they are put in operation. 3. The partial test ban treaty introduces to America the com pletely new hazard of surprise abrogation. This is the situation, where Soviet scientists, working in secrecy, would prepare an ex tensive scries of atmospheric tests. During this period, which might last for years, U.S. laboratory work would deteriorate in quality and quantity along with our ca pabilities for atmospheric testing. The net effect would be a quan tum jump in Soviet nuclear capa bilities which might well gain for them decisive nuclear supe riority. Rep. Hosmer concludes: "Under such conditions, the West could expect at worst a nu clear Pearl Harbor and at best a surrender-or-die ultimatum." Al manac By United Press International ' Today is Wednesday, Aug. 7, the 219th day of 10B3 with 146 to follow. The moon is approaching its last phase. The morning stars are Jupiter and Saturn. The evening stars are Mars and Saturn. On this day in history: In 1942. U. S. Marines landed at Guadalcanal to launch Ameri ca's first offensive battle in World War II. In 1947. the raft Kon-Tiki landed on a reef in Tuamotu Archipelago alter a 4.000 mile vovage from Peru. In 1954, England's Dr. Roger Bannister and Australia's John Landy each ran the "mile of a century" race in less than four minutes. A thousht for the dav Amer ican writer Ambrose Bierce said: "Woman would be more charm ing if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands,"
