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PACK HERALD AND SEWS, Klamath Falll. Oregon Thursday. August I, 1903 WASHINGTON REPORT The General Lends a Hand Former Commie Gets Pink Slip From King The The year 1924 was an interesting one in politics. This was the year when the Demo crats gathered in New York where they were deadlocked for days and days. Finally, they came up with the nomination of John W. Dav ies of New York. He was defeated at the polls by a two to one margin by Calvin Coolidge. Those were the days, too, after World War I when the nation was getting back on its feet, economically, and there was resent ment over prohibition, Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations. The Democrats, general ly, were in the doghouse but good. Thoughts went back to those days when someone dug up a copy of the World Almanac for 1926. Page 877 showed four paragraphs taken from the platform adopted by the Dem ocrats at the 1924 convention. We're repeating them: The Rights of the States An (Milwaukee Journal) Just before resigning as United States com missioner of education last July, Dr. Sterling McMurrin lobbed a well aimed volley at the confusion, bureaucracy and lack of congres sional support he encountered in 16 months in office. Now the attack has been taken up bv Representative Edith Green (Dem., Ore), chairman of a house education subcommittee. In a staff report just released she com plains of "inconsistencies and even contradic tions" that have arisen because federal ed ucation programs are scattered through so many agencies and legislation is channeled through so many congressional committees. On scientific research grants, for ex ample, "there is no uniformity even within a single agency in such administrative details as record keeping and progress reports. There is no government-wide policy on how much the government will pay to cover indirect costs associated with the research." Some agencies require matching funds with their university construction grants; 7m By HOLMES ALEXANDER. WASHINGTON, D.C. - As. a matter of courtesy, and maybe ot strategy, the home team in base ball always bats last. Something like this is happening as the Civil Rights Act ot 1M3 plays out its schedule before various committees of Senate and House. The visiting team to Capitol HilU which is to say the demon strators, the reformers, the moral ists and their Administration spokosmen, got first at bat. They have scored freely in the early innings with almost unlimited publicity and a good deal of pub lic acceptance. The bare proposi tion that everybody deserves a fair shake, regardless of race, scored a clean hit. By squeeze plays, sacrifice hits, stolen bases and hit-and-run errors, the speci fic propositions have advanced: the right to vote, to be accommo dated In lodgings, to get an edu cation and to get a job. But It now becomes noticeable that some of these truisms are being matched by verities from the home team which Is to say, the possessors of legal knowledge and experience who are the nat ural defenders of the houses of legislation. Sen. Sam Ervin. former asso , ciato justice of the North Caro lina Supreme Court, and a book worm on Constitutional Law, has never defended racial injustice or racial inequality. But Ervin contends that there are plenty of lows on the books to enforce tliem. He's against making "end runs" around the Constitution in order to hurry up history. He lec tured the Attorney General for trying to rig the slate election laws in "a cynical attempt to camoufUigc e failure" to win cas es. Ervin argues with force, and not without loquacity, that it is anarchy to sacrifice "the liberty of all Americans ... for the false equality of a few." Sen. Frank Lauschc, formerly a Municipal and Common Pleas judge, attacked the Administra tion's claim that compulsory laws for accommodation and employ ment will necessarily attract in dustry and increase jobs. The Ohio Senator gave Labor Secre tary Wirtz a bad time on some labor statistics. It seems that Midwestern states with liberal laws, and somewhat hypocritical customs, Iiava been losing Indus Democrats In Educational Mess others do not. Some agencies, in their stu dent aid programs, make provision for fees and tuition; others do not. Mrs. Green suggests creation of an inter agency council in the executive branch to do the job. Actually, a vehicle of such coordin ation already exists in the office of education, which, according to the government organi zation manual, is "the principal agency of the federal government responsible for formu lating educational policy and coordinating educational activities at the national level." This stated function has little relation to re ality, however. Thanks largely to congress ional jealousy and an alleged fear of spawn ing some kind of domineering educational monstrosity, legislators have effectively ham strung the office so that it is more a weak service organization than an instrument for coordination and leadership. With some 42 federal agencies dispen sing more than $2 billion a year to aid this country's educational system, it is high time for more unity and coherence in the program. HOLMES ALEXANDER . . Home Team At Bat try, whereas Southern stales, with restrictive laws and admittedly restrictive customs, are gaining. Lausche aid: "I have before me a study made by a conference of econo mists of the Midwest. It covers Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minne sota . . . each one of these stales has lost in gross national prod uct since 1853. . . . Tell me, why is Ohio losing . . . and why are Florida and Georgia and Alaba ma gaining?" Wlrtj agreed that oilier fac tors than civil rights must be at play. Then Lausche hooked him on another point. There is noth ing in tlic Administration's pack age which allows a worker, de nied union membership because of color, to call upon the Attor ney General to bring suit, as the Civil Rights Act would provide in oilier cases of discrimination. "Why wasn't that included?" Lausche demanded of the Labor Secretary. "(The amission) has, on its face, implications that the little individual was to he cov ered, but the powerful and the mighty were not." "What day! tvtn BERRY'S WORLD i - 1924 "We demand that the States of the Union shall be preserved in all their vigor and power. They constitute a bulwark against the cen tralizing and destructive tendencies of the Republican party. "We condemn the efforts of the Republi can party to nationalize the functions and duties of the States. "We oppose the extension of bureauc racy, the creation of unnecessary bureaus and Federal agencies and the multiplication of of fices and officeholders. "We demand a revival of the spirit of local self-government essential to the preser vation of the free institutions of our Repub lic." Somewhere along the line this platform must have been given a super-dupcr classified stamp and buried in the most remote corner of the classified information storerooms. Another home team, or law yer's, inning is played out in an analysis of the Civil Rights pack age by a past president of the American Bar and Mississippi Bur Associations, John C. Satter ficld. He says that the enact ment would extend control over business, industry, citizens and states in a degree to exceed "all decisions of the Supreme Court and all Acts of Congress from 1787 to Juno 19, 1963." Satterficld finds that laws gov erning over 100 federal financing agencies would be amended by the Civil Rights Act. His list begins with the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Home Loan System, banks and other institu tions served by the Federal De posit Insurance Corporation and virtually all the agricultural loan agencies. Says Satterficld: "When future generations look back through the eyes of history at this legislation, they will rec ognize ten per cent 'civil rights' and ninety per cent extension of raw federal power." Of course, tlie ball came isn't over yet. But the home team, slugging with statistics and inter pretations not heard in the begin ning, is making a contest of it. my ytt-mtn tail 'no'!" IN WASHINGTON . Test By RALPH de TOLEDANO When the test ban treaty Is mentioned at the Pentagon, fixed smiles automatically appear on the faces of the top military men. They are just about as unhappy as they can be about it. But the President has made it clear that he will brook no opposition. So far, the Joint Chiefs of Staff have not been given the order direct to say they approve of the treaty. But the White House has told them in no uncertain termB to say that they "accept" It. On Capitol Hill, there has been much scurrying about in the up per senatorial echelons as Re publicans and some Democrats seek a formula which will per mit them to speak their minds truthfully on the treaty without courting trouble at the polls. At every turn, there are wild hopes that Chairman Richard Russell of the Senate Armed Services Com mittee, one of tlie most highly respected members of the upper house, will lead an effective oppo sition. But no one really believes that he will. Along Embassy Row. the pass word is "watch and wait." but there is almost no hope that one-third-plus-one of the Senate will cast votes against the test ban treaty. Their governments, in some cases, support the Kennedy-Khrushchev love feast and diplomats must always seem to By SYDNEY J. HARRIS I remember a little street cafe in the Piazza della Republica in Florence, where 1 was sipping a vermouth late one altcrnoon. and listening to an argument at the table next to mine.' A small bird-like man with an intense face was trying to con vince his companion that the coalition government in Italy was too incompetent to last but what fascinated me was not so much tlie logic of his argument (which 1 could barely follow) as the eloquence of his hands. Never before or since have 1 seen such artistry. His hands were as magnificently attuned to his speech as a conductor's to a symphony. He had a vast reper toire of gestures, an almost end less variation of waves, points, tremors, taps and clenches. Many times since, I have thought of this verbal virtuoso, and have contrasted him with conversationalists in the cold er Ango-Saxon countries. It seems to me that we lose a lot, in charm and gusto, by being ashamed to use our hands as an accompaniment to speech. The body, alter all. is a unit: the mind and tongue cannot work independently ol tlie whole or ganism. Intellectual passion in creases the heartbeat; arguments raise the blond pressure: deep convictions brighten the eye and harden tlie jaw. Our restraint is not natural to the human animal: it is conven tionally impost-.!. Hut beneath the soil tone ami the motionless arms 1I3 Ban Pact Jitters be disengaged. But private com ments are hardly diplomatic. The general concern is not in the treaty Itself, although they can make a case against It, but in what it Implies, what impres sion it will make behind the Iron Curtain and among the neutral ist nations, and where it is lead ing the United States. The scientists and tlie military will offer technical arguments on the possibility of a test ban with genuine safeguards If they are permitted to do so by the Administration and by the chair man nf the Interested Senate com mittees. But In the overall picture, this may be secondary. The fact that the United States lias strolled into (he garden with the Soviet Union will cause some bitterness among our allies who have been told by us to stand strong against the Kremlin. These allies, and the neutralists as well, will now argue that the U.S. has thrown them to the wolves in favor of a partnership with the Soviets. The Iron Cur lain countries, already embittered by President Kennedy's increas ing reluctance to honor Captive Nations Week, will be convinced that their aspirations for libera tion have been jettisoned by the Administration. Henceforth, they will assume that we no longer care about them. Undersecretary W. Avcrell Har- STRICTLY PERSONAL there often chum much heat and scorn and indignation, which smolder sullenly until bursting into hate. It is no accident that the quiet and seemingly controlled person is often, ultimately, the most violent. It is common to see Italians, or other Latins, argue so intensely that you are sure they are going to exchange blows in a minute. They rarely do; the tension is broken by a laugh, and they walk off arm in arm. It is a kind of psychological game, played within strict rules, and the players almost never violate the unspoken code, which is: hit with your words, not with your fists. Where this kind of conversa tional release is not obtained, and where the culture frowns on great emotional expressiveness. ieople are more sensitive in argu ment. When you attack an Ameri can's ideas, he feels you are at tacking him personally, and is filled with resentment. He cannot stand, or understand, a heated controversy that may be personal in expression but is quite ab stract and objective in nature. This may explain why, unfortu nately, so much of our social conversation is polite and vap id: we are alraid of starting a verbal fight, for we don't have the kind of formalized and built in controls to prevent it from degenerating into a physical fight. A man who is busy talking with his hands has neither the energy nor tlie incentive for hitting with them. "i t :, ,.-.r. i ' Y .::. -.."' 5 v. 1 riman has implied in so many words that to think in terms of the eventual overthrow of Com munist tyranny in East Europe is impractical, that we must recon cile ourselves to perpetual Soviet hegemony over the captive na tions. With this, he has deprived the free world of a formidable ally in the persons of the people of the captive nations. For them, there is no longer any hope, or any good reason for struggling against the Communist tyrants. Far more dangerous to the sys tem of alliances created by Pres idents Truman and Eisenhower is Secretary of State Dean Rusk's hint that the United States, Bri tain, and I he Soviet Union might negotiate a non-aggression pact. For those of us who remember the Kremlin's idea of "non-aggression" and how it dishonored similar treaties with the Baltic States I invaded and absorbed, their populations massed-shipped to Siberia) or Adolf Hitler's World War II the term sends shivers up and down the spine. But even if the Kremlin is ready to honor its own word, any "non-aggression" treaty means that the United States must prom ise to sit idly by while Soviet expansionism, now at mid-tide in Cuba, sweeps over the rest of Latin America. Once Comrade Khrushchev has our signatures on a "non-aggression" pact, he will wave the scrap of paper under our noses every time we seem about to come to the defense of freedom in Asia, Africa, or the Western Hemisphere. "Naughty, naughty," he will say, you are not singing our song." And the international law yers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue will solemnly warn us that any move on our part would be in violation of the treaty. Meanwhile, our atomic installations having slowed down to a talk, as they must and as a sign of "good faith," would complain that they were no longer ready. "Belter Red than dead," says Britain's Lord Russell. The new line in Washington seems to be "Better wrong than strong." Al manac Bv I nitod Press International Today is Thursday, Aug. 8, the 220th day of 1963 with 145 to fol low. The moon is approaching its last phase. The morning stars are Jupiter and Saturn. The evening stars aie Mars and Saturn. On this day in history: In 19iO, the German Luftwaffe began a scries nf daytime raids on (lie British Isles which were to continue until Oct. 31. In 1943, President Harry Tru man signed the ratification of the United Nations Charter. Also in 1!M5, the Soviet I'mon declared war on Japan. In 1'.130, Florence Cl.adwkk of San Diego, Calif., set a women's record in swimming the English Channel. A thought for the day Ameri can author Edgar Allan Poe said: "All that we see 'or seem is but a dream within a dream." By KILTON LEtt'lS JR. The Rev. MarUn Luther King has given the pink slip to a top ranking aide exposed as a former member of the National Commit tee of the Communist Party. He is Jack O'Dell, a 40 - year old Negro whose real name is Hunter Pitts O'Dell. Until the early fall of 1962. O'Dell served as a Staff Consultant to King's national organization, the South ern Christian Leadership Confer ence. O'Dell was then promoted to Acting Staff Director in charge of voter registration and inte gration workshops. Several weeks after O'Dell as sumed that post, his background was revealed by several newspa pers. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the Birmingham News, and the Atlanta Constitution disclosed that O'Dell was a member of the Communist Party's National Committee. O'Dell had been expelled from the National Maritime Union in 1930 for circulation of a pro-Soviet petition attacking the United Slates. On April 12, 1956, identify ing himself as Hunter Pitts O'Dell, he testified before the Senate Internal Security Subcom mittee, invoking the Fifth Amend ment when asked if he was a Southern district organizer for the Communist Party. Subcommittee counsel Robert Morris then revealed that in formation in his possession showed O'Dell to be one of tlie prime Communist operatives in New Orleans. Using two aliases Ben Jones and John Veseyi, O'Dell served as a district orga nizer for the Party, issuing "di rectives to the i Communist ) pro fessional group" in that city. Hundreds of documents seized at O'DclPs home by New Orleans police also established his posi tion in the Communist movement. On July 30. 1958, again as Hun ter Pitts O'Dell, he appeared be fore the House UnAmerican Ac tivities Committee. Identifying himself as a Montgomery, Ala., Oregon Editors Opinions Treaty Mystery (Corvallis Gazelle-Times) President Eisenhower olfered a test-ban treaty to Soviet Premier Khrushchev April 13, 1959. that would prohibit tests that did not require automatic on-site inspec tion, which had created the ma , jor stumbling block to negoti ations at that time. President Kennedy offered a test-ban treaty on Aug. 27, 1962, that also bypassed the contro versial underground tests and con centrated on those in the atmos phere, to eliminate the danger to the world from further fallout. Before that, and for the past 17 years, the United States had made persistent efforts to prevent the proliferation of nuclear pow er with various treaties that would prohibit testing, but to no avail. Now a treaty has been reached in exactly ten sittings in a confer ence in Moscow opened by a jo vial Khrushchev and concluded by a smiling Foreign Minister 'An drei A. Gromyko, whose grim visage when he was his country's chief delegate to the United Na tions still haunts American televi sion viewers. This complete turnabout is cred ited by some observers to the dis covery by tlie Soviet Union lead ers that their real enemies are tlie Communist Chinese, rather Teaching (Oregon Statesman) In late years courses in educa tion liave come under severe criti cism. More emphasis should be put on content of courses rather than on teaching methods. Teach er preparation should embrace more "solids" in the field of learn ing. Colleges of education have veered to conform to tlie winds of change and are increasing course requirements in liberal arts, reducing the requirements in methods. As a matter of fact, however, much of the current research is in developing new teaching meth ods. Tliere is the teaching ma chine, for instance, which calls for quite a different approach to learning and hence to teaching. Audiovisual equipment is coming into use the teacher must know how to o)crate projectors, slide changers, tape recorders. More than that, he should understand the basic psychology involved in use of this method for imparting learning. Machine teaching itself calls (or preparation. To enable presently employed teach ers to "catch up" with tre ma chines, Oregon College of Educa tion is holding a two-week work shop where the devices and their u.-e will b demonstrated. Much of the old normal school curriculum is superfluous now; but we shouldn't discount tech insurance man, O'Dell refused to answer questions about his Com munist activities, citing the First and Fifth amendments. Embarrassed by disclosure of O'Dell's background, King fired his controversial aide last fall, lie told reporters. A few months later, O'Dell was very much in evidence as direc tor of King's New York office lo cated at 312 W. 125 Street, Man hattan. When my associate, Bill Schulz, contacted King's New York of fice, he was told by the recep tionist that O'Dell no longer worked there. Miss Ruth Bailey, secretary of the office, then took over to say she could say nothing: "No com ment. Call Dr. King in Atlanta." Dr. King was not in. Mr. Schulz talked to Edward Clayton, King's public relations director, who ex plained first that O'Dell had been rehired seven months ago be cause he was found to be a dedi cated Christian. He quoted Dr. King: "After what we considered a thorough and good faith investigation we concluded that Mr. O'Dell had no present connection with the Communist Party, nor any sym pathy with its philosophy. "While he may have had some connections in the past, we were convinced that he had renounced l hem and had become committed to the Christian Philosophy of non violence in dealing with Ameri ca's social injustices." On June 26. O'Dell and Dr. King had another meeting. They both agreed that "segregationists and race baiters" could cite O'Dell's "alleged" background and smear the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. So O'Dell left Dr. King's em; ploy for the second time. The" whole episode. Dr. King insists, is a red herring. He says: "This issue of Mr. O'Dell's is only an other attempt to forestall and hamper the true essence of to day's civil rights struggle." than the United Stales and Its allies, and a desire for eliminat ing pressures from tlie West in order to be free to deal with those from the East. So much so, that the air is filled with talk of a summit meet ing at which other differences be tween East and West can be worked out, and a live and let live way of life be established between the two great power complexes, tlie North Atlantic Treaty Alliance and the Warsaw Pact of Communist nations. If such a non-aggressive pact freezes the present status quo of Eastern Europe's people, who are captives of communism, it will be too great a price to pay for a peace I hat at best depends on tlie whim of the men who rule the Kremlin. The United States and its al lies arc dealing from strength. The great rift between the So viet and China is ours to exploit. Also, the military, political and economic power of NATO is so superior, that it should be possible to exact promises of relaxation of the chains binding Eastern Europe so thai those people even tually can choose their own fu ture. That would do more than anything else to reverse the march of communism and destroy its dream of world conquest. Methods niques and methods too severely. During the war the Army was able to s p e e d up instruction through its unique methods. To be able to impart knowledge and to stimulate learning with use of new tools, teachers must spend considerable time learning how to use them. This is no substitute for acquir ing ample knowledge of subject matter to be taught; it claims an important part in the preparation of teachers of the present and fulure. THEY ' SAY... I wasn't in favor of it. I don't like to sec people memorialized while they are still alive. I might go shoot someone and they would have to take it down. Harry S. Truman, referring to statue of him erected in Ath ens. A homage to the august and sacred personage of the Pope and the generosity of the Holy Catho lic Church. Decree Issued by Spanish dic tator Franco freeing all political prisoners who have been in jail l least 20 ynv
