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PAGE A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Friday. August (. 19fiJ Reels Trying To Infiltrate Negro Rights Group Locally A trend toward year-round schooling, with one month rather than three months of summer vacation, is shaping up in higher ed ucation, enabling students to complete their college education in three instead of four years. , Summer school is not new in American education, but the programs now being de veloped, in numerous colleges and universi ties are a far cry from the traditional summer offerings. In the past, summer on the campus usually meant one or two make-up courses for students who had failed or had missed a re quired credit or it meant special courses for s school teachers or others not attending the "regular sessions. The important innovation today in colleges operating the year around is that the summer term forms an integral part of the academic calendar. It Includes a full range of basic courses and affords regular students the same opportunities to obtain credits toward a degree as are afforded dur ing other terms. The main impetus for adoption of year round college schedules is economic. Raising the money to build the facilities that would be needed under the present system to accom modate all those who will soon be seeking ad mission to college would be enormously dif ficult. Census projections indicate that college enrollment will rise from this year's 4.3 mil lion to 7 million by 1970 and to 9 million by 1980. It has been estimated that if all Amer ican colleges went on an 11-month schedule, around $4 billion could be knocked off the $10 billion that would otherwise be required for plant expansion in the next 10 years. The University of Pittsburgh started the ball rolling toward year-round operation when it adopted the so-called trimester plan in 1959. Under this plan, the academic year is divided into three terms extending over an 11-month period. Pittsburgh students are now in the third trimester of the academic year 1962-63. The first trimester started last Sept. 5 and ran to Dec 20; the second opened Jan. 3 and closed April 20; the current term, which besnn Anril 29. will end Alls. 9. The vear-round calendar has By HOLMES ALEXANDER WASHINGTON, D.C. - "I'll have to have satisfactory answers to the key questions before I vote to ratify this treaty," said Sen. Henry Jackson (D., Wash.) Joint Atomic Energy Commit- tecs. In this scries of interview col- umns, trying to get significant! reactions to the Nuclear Treaty :trom crucial - vote Senators, 1 I have talked with Byrd of Virgin : la, Cannon, Dodd, Saltonstall, and ; 1 expect lo see Symington tonior- row. All of them have pulling power among their colleagues and in their spheres of influence: in the South and the West, in conserva tive and ultra-conscrvativo cir cles, among business folk and journalists. On Capital Hill it is said that Minority Leader Dirk sen will be the swing man who makes or breaks t h o treaty . ratification. But it's said that at ! the White House, the volo and ; the support regarded as hardest ; to get, and most meaningful to have, belong lo "Scoop" Jack-' "son. t This could be because Jack ' son, although amiable and rc ' laxed, is made of what scientists call "imiiervium" the mythical metal that is totally unyielding. He is not going to be moved by While House pressure, by poli tical considerations ihe's up next year for reelection!, by pcace mongcring, by sentiment or scl.' doubt. Only if the facts come down hard on the side of a positive case for Uie treaty is Jackson going lo give it his blessing. And before that happens, lie will have ; obtained convincing evidence of the treaty's worth Irom lop scicn '. lists, the Joint Chiefs of StafI and civilian authorities on foreign af ; fairs. The overriding military v question in his mind is this: ; Does the treaty protect the na ; lion-shielding, peace-keeping de terrent by which we could inflict lh nuclear death-stroke upon a nuclear foe? To got a satisfactory answer, Jackson needs to know whether . Russian quality in weapons can outpaco our present superiority In quantity. This involves a re view of the Jtussians' capacity lo paralyze our strike ability by anti-missile devices, their capa city to penetrate our defenses, tlieir ability lo smash our lr- Ik- k . Year-Round Schoo ticularly strong headway in tax-supported in stitutions, which are under pressure to dem onstrate to state legislatures that they are making efficient use of their facilities. Florida in 1961 became the first state to require by statute that its university system operate on a year-round basis; the trimester plan was put into effect at four universities in that state last September. New York is launching ex perimental all-year programs this summer at three state institutions which are experienc ing heavy enrollment pressures. The Uni versity of Michigan will launch a transitional program next September that is to lead to all-year operation. Interest in the extended academic calen dar is not limited to the large tax-supported , universities. Various small colleges, wanting to accommodate more students without changing their small-campus character, are hoping through year-round operation to take care of a 33 to 50 per cent increase in the student body without enlarging physical plant. Whcslher the year-round schedule will become the standard in higher education de pends on whether enough students are willing to spend their summers in study. For maxi mum economy, the number admitted at the beginning of each quarter or trimester should be roughly the same. Trimester and four quarters schedules are still loo new to make it safe to say whether this will be the case. Signs now point to a steady increase in sum mer registration at colleges and universities which offer a full schedule of courses in that term. A major advantage for the student in summer study is that he may finish his col lege education in slightly less than three years. The requirements for an A.B. degree are successful completion of 12 quarters or eight trimesters. Extension of year-round programs in the graduate schools of some universities makes it possible to lop years off the time previously required to prepare for a professional career. The year-round study plan has proved particularly appealing to medical students. made nar- - , HOLMES ALEXANDER Jackson Needs Proof dened sites. It involves the Ad ministration's ability to maintain our national scientific workshop when above-ground testing has been banned, and the ability of that workshop lo maintain pro gressive achievement despite the hobbles of non-testing. This last applies both lo anti missile development and to our offensive weapons. If ' scientists fail to convince Jackson that tlicy don't know and can't learn enough about enemy capacities, and about our own capacity un der the treaty terms, 1 take it he will not support the treaty. If the military witnesses aren't rea sonably confident that they can live with the treaty, I take it that Jackson won't be on tlic side which asks the country to ignore tlieir informed opinion. As to the foreign affairs view point, Jackson will need some convincing on American gains and Russian motivations. If, by taking the Free World lead in disarmament, wc have sacrificed Western unity, Jackson is likely to think it a bad bargain. If lite treaty is a Russian plot (or dividing NATO, and if Russia cannot logically be expected to BERRY'S WORLD "Daddy fust did keep the U'caty terms in view of Red Chinese rivalry for Com munist leadership, Jackson will have unresolved skepticism that will tug him away from ratifica tion. If ho docs oppose President Kennedy on the treaty, Jack son will be following his own precedent for hard-line decisions. In the 1940s, he supported Lewis Strauss in an unpopular but suc cessful fight or the H-bomb. In the mid-1950s he helped keep Ad miral Rickovcr in tlic harassed business of producing a nuclear submarine. Earlier this year, along with Russell and Syming ton, he instigated a warning to President Kennedy, relative lo far-reaching concessions on nu clear disarmament. How does lie feel about an obli gation not to humiliate Uie Presi dent before the world by reject ing litis treaty? "Well, it's something you wouldn't do without being backed ( up by correct information. But this isn't just another treaty. It deals with our deterrent. I've got to have proof before I can support it." , 22 puib-ups By RAY CRO.MLEV Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON INEAI Secre tary Gus Hall and the American Communist party are making a determined attempt to infiltrate the civil rights struggle. On July 11, the Communist Party U.S.A. issued secret or ders to its members to get in on the Aug. 28 Negro March on Wash ington. In other communications, Hall and the other party bosses have instructed Communists, white and Negro, to join in Ne gro demonstrations in their com munities. The information in this dispatch comes from authoritative sources. The Reds are meeting with re sistance. The Daily Worker of July 7 complained in this regard that, "It is also a fact to be reckoned with, that some of the most respected and dedicated of the Negro people's leaders, who are themselves often the target of slanderous Red-smears, con tinue to indulge in the McCarthy-ite-age fashion of genuflecting be fore the 'sacred symbol' of anti communism." Some of the major Negro or ganizations have already taken By FULTON LEWIS JR. It cost Pennsylvania Democrats an estimated $250,000 to keep in tact a winning streak dating back nearly 30 years. That is' the price tag experts put on Fred Rooney's successful campaign for the House of Rep resentatives. A Republican has not won election from Pennsyl vania's loth District since 1930. Rooney's victory last week is not one to cheer Democratic an alysts. Despite a registration edge of 30,000 Democratic voters, Roo ncy staggered home by only 8.000, the smallest victory mar gin received by any Democratic candidate in Uiree decades. Republican Bob Bartlett, mak ing his first race for public of fice, was handicapped by hostile voter reaction to the recent sales tux hike approved by the GOP Legislature and signed into law by Governor Scranton. Candidate Rooney, running for federal office, made t h e state sales tax (the nation's highest) a central issue. It worked. Rooney's election was guaran teed by scores of high-paid labor, "strategists" who poured into his district from points east and west. COPE (Committee on Political Education) agents traveled from as far away as California to aid Rooney. On election day there were as many as 40 paid unionists in each precinct getting out the vote, even registering voters. Democrats were able to register voters until 12 noon on election day. California voters wil witness a real Dnnnybrook in next spring's Republican presidential primary if two old enemies have their way. Former Sen. William Knowland, Mr. Conservative to his many fol lowers, has long been on the outs . with Sen. Thomas Kuchel, voice . of GOP liberalism. Both agree on By SYDNEY J. HARRIS If you're going to do something nice, be nice about it or don't do it. This is a simple and ob vious tlwught but it rarely seems to occur to certain types of people. I am referring lo those who will go out of their way to do something nice a lavor, a chore, an extra kindness and then silently demand repayment in terms of gratitude or appre ciation. These arc what Dr. Edmund Berglcr. the late psychiatrist, called "the injustice collectors." They go around in life collecting injustices. Tliey do nice things to prove to themselves that other people do not appreciate them as much as Uiey should. Tlwn they sulk, or adopt a martyred pose, or take to their beds with some real or fancied ailment. And, in one way or anoth er, they exact a high retribution for their "mceness." Finally, those around them begin lo realize that ft's not worth the price. Many acts of generosity and scll-saerilicc arc not at ali what they seem to be on tlie surface. Rather, they are techniques em pkned for neurotic ends: these "tyrants of goodness" would be better oil and so would their steps to warn their people of the new Communist approach. The National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People has research men who study the Daily Worker and the National Guardian in order to keep abreast of the twists and turns of Com munist action. Just recently, Dr. John Mor sell. assistant to NAACP Exec utive Secretary Roy Wilkins, passed around a memorandum to key personnel outlining the latest Communist approach and writing below it, "For your in formationwhat they are up to now." Because of this resistance among tlie national Negro leader ship, the Communist Party U.S.A. is now sending specialized Com munists to attempt infiltration into tlie local brandies of the Negro civil rights organizations. It is at tempting lo get its people in on local demonstrations. It is putting a major emphasis on new groups led by young and inexperienced leaders. These Communists are "sleep ers." They have been instructed to keep their party sympathies secret from tlic public and from WASHINGTON REPORT . . $250,000 Price Tag Put On House Post one thing, however. Golden Stale Republicans must have an oppor tunity to select tlieir favorite for the GOP Presidential nomination. Other GOP leaders, including state Chairman Caspar Weinber ger, think that a real primary would wreck the party. The California primary, com ing as it docs only weeks before the GOP convention, will have tremendous impact on delegates from every corner of the country. Both Knowland and Kuchel ad vocate an open, definitive pri mary battle between the leading GOP candidates. They mean Bar rv Goldwater and Nelson Rocke feller. Goldwatcr Republicans have been fearful of their man's chance in the California primary. Cali fornia voters have iong supported liberal Republicans Earl War ren, Goodie Knight, Tom Kuchel. They accepted Richard Nixon over the more conservative Joe Shell in last year's GOP Guber natorial primary by 2-1. Polls now show Goldwater run ning far ahead of Rockefeller, however. The California Field poll, long accepted as an accur ate barometer of state politics, has Goldwatcr running almost 2-1 over Rocky. Goldwatcr is the choice of 43 per cent of GOP voters contacted by Field. Rockefeller rates only 23 per cent. Michigan's Gov. George Romncy racks up 16 per cent and Pennsylvania's Gov. Bill Scranton two per cent. Sixteen per cent of the voters have yet to make up tlieir minds. Field shows that anti-Rockefeller feeling is strong. While a ma jority accept Goldwater as a sec ond choice, the reverse is not Uue. Just three Republicans out of 10 who support Goldwater as their first choice select Rocky as their second. Romncy has more sec ond choice support among Gold water followers than docs Rockefeller. STRICTLY PERSONAL families if they acted a little more selfishly (that is, a little more naturally much of the time. Self-pity is the "lietmotif" in tlic lives of such personalities. They enjoy demonstrating, over and over again, that others do not appreciate them, that they are victims of the world's injustice, that the bread they cast on the waters is never served up to them as toast on a tray in bed on Sunday mornings. What they utterly fail to under stand is that nice things arc done (or our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in tlic applause. Good deeds are, in a deeper psychological sense, a favor to oneself. If this is not grasped, then our whole sense of personal relationships becomes warped. , A kind act. a piece of generosi ty or sclfsacrilicc. must be ils own reason for being, an end in itself, not part of a barter sys tem. It must not be used later to reprove someone else with, or as a lever to pry up ancient grievances under a rock. Vet Uns is what tlie scll sacrificers tend to do They pile up tlieir good deeds like misers stuffing bills in a mat- tlie Negroes they arc volunteer ing to work with. These infiltra tors have been instructed not to take overly prominent roles in civil rights demonstrations, nor to openly push for violence, for fear they'll be investigated and their Communist identity become known. """TV, 1 . J J Gus Halt The mm m rS i , USA IN WASHINGTON Public By RALPH dc TOl.EDANO Pierre Salinger, the President's press secretary, has shown no shyness whatsoever in informing the While House press corps that mail on tlic test ban treaty with the Soviet Union is running 12-lo-l in favor. This may well be. though it could be predicted that the pro-mail would ro to the White House, the anti-mail to the Senate. That there is any mail at all against the treaty is surprising, but not because there is little op position. There has been no anti treaty leadership yet visible and no anti-treaty formulation present ed. Most of the mass media com ment has been favorable without quite saying so. Many peuple. moreover, are confused by the manner in which the treaty is being presented by the Adminis tration to the public. The sales pitch simultaneously follows two lines: 1. The treaty really is meaning less and will change very little if anything. Tlie United States wasn't testing in space, the at- trcss: hoard them, count them over at night, and recite their complaints. Eventually, with this hoard they try to purchase af fection and admiration and grati tude but it does not work that way. The injustice collectors only collect injustices. There arc many people who should try to be a little better; but there are almost as many who should stop trying to be bet ter than they can be. It their hidden feelings (hidden to tliem sckes. if not lo others' do not correspond to their generous acts, there can be nothing but bitter Irint in Hie end, for tliemschcs and for tliose they are so "nice'' to. This grass roots attempt to in filtrate the civil rights movement is currently, at least, one of tlie major activities oi the Commu nist Parly U.S.A. It is part of a long-standing Communist aim of winning over Negroes. In the past the party has been singularly un successful with the southern Ne gro. Reports by tlie Justice De partment have consistently shown membership in the South to be slight. It is too early to tell how suc cessful the Communists will be in their current drive. Reports in dicate that so far the number of these secret Communists w li o have participated in most south ern demonstrations have been quite small: usually, it's reported, only a handful. Their appearance has been spotty. There were some Communists seen at Cambridge, Xld., but not among tlic leader ship. None are known to have ' been at Danville, V.A. So far, it is also understood that Communist infiltration in lo cal branches of Negro civil rights organizations has not been signif icant. It has been reported that the Reds are not known, as of now, lo have secured important national posts in any of the major Rough Road to '64 Q View On Treaty musphcre, or underwater, any how , and ' fur the time being I neither were the Soviets. What, then, do we lose'.' 2. The treaty is historic and of tremendous importance as a "first step" toward an under standing with the Soviets. It will "reduce tensions" and may lead 10 an end to tile cold war. Many Americans can be lost in the morass of scientific con troversy and military inhibition as the meaning of the treaty is debated. It is the second point that must clearly worries people and may be the cause of votes against the treaty by some Sena tors. For if it leads to a non aggression pact, as the Adminis tration rooms tn hope, the Ameri can people will he up ill arms. One of the letters ofiered to the press by Mr. Salinger for its in spection points this up: "If a noil-aggression pact is signed with Russia. I guarantee that I'll vote straight Republican in every election even if tliey run the biggest crooks in town." Other letters in opposition urge that tlic United States demand a the price of any treaties with the Kremlin a withdrawal of So viet troops from Cuba land the laptivc nations' and the tearing down of the Berlin wall. Such a quid pro quo would satisfy the nation's horse-trading instincts. Without it, oilier thoughts come 11 mind. For years. Americans have been repeatedly told that they must keep their ciurd up. that the NATO. CENTO, and SEATO system of alliances must be main tained at all costs, that under his Omar-thctcnlmaker suit Nikita Khrushchev carries an arsenal of hidden weapons, that the Reds arc most dangerous when Ihey are conciliatory. These admonitions have sunk in and now the Administration wishes lo delete them from the Negro civil rights organizations. Attorney General Robert Ken nedy has said tha', based on all available information from the FBI and other sources, "We have no evidence thist any of the top leaders of the major civil rights groups are Communists or Communist-controlled." Since the Communist infiltrators arc "sleepers," it is not certain whether tliey may have, unknown to the Negro civil righters, crept into lesser roles. The Communist technique is to bide time, build up contacts, friendships and associations for the future. Though the orders are that communism isn't to be men tioned, at this lime, tlie infiltra tors do have these instructions: "To patiently and persistently point out that anti-Negro racism is the ideology of the ruling class. This is the primary task. "To combat ideologically re formist tendencies to limit the movement to merely court ac tion, or other tendencies which resist mass actions." The Communist infiltrators have been instructed to ignore what the Communist party leadership calls "Red-baiting" by the Negro lead- ; - - w. nation's consciousness and to sub stitute what key legislators on bolh sides of the aisle in Con gress believe is the entering wedge for a non-aggression Ircaty. Such a Ircaty. they argue, will bring about a slackening of vigi lance and cause to bubble up sub merged antagonisms which can destroy the structure of our mil itary alliances. Once ratified, a non-aggression pact will lead to the obvious propagandists ques tion: Why do we need these mili tary alliances if the Soviets have renounced war in a solemn trea ty? This is the basic source of worm among serious and dedi cated men. Tlicy see i isinq on the horizon another period like the wartime "honeymoon" with Stalin-terminated alter he had taken us for Sll billion in what we t"imed Lcnd-Leasc. 'Some of that money, if repaid, would go lar lo help our critical balance of payments deficit and the dan gerous drain on U.S. gold.) This is also the reason why these men hope that there is a real outpouring of mail critical of the test ban treaty letters to Senators and newspapers. The mail will stilfen the backs of sonic of the Senate leadership who wish to take a stronger stand against the treaty but fear it will hurt their party without ac complishing anything. As of this writing, few believe thai President Kennedy will not get Senate ratification for the treaty. But if tiic vole should be close, it will be a warning that a non-aggression (,d(l W()u(j sami no chance. The idea would then lie dropped by tlie White House. Nothing, after a!!, could more certainly put a quick end to the imlitical career of the Kennedys than the rejection of a treaty signed by the President's surro gate in plain view of the world.
