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,
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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
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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,"