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Newspaper Page TextEPSON IN WASHINGTON . . . Gop Nomination May Be Real Dark Horse FACE HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falli. Oregon Tuesday, August 13, 1963 HARD SELL In the months ahead President Kennedy's conduct of his office quite naturally will come under severe and unrelenting Republican gunfire. After all, the GOP wants the office, and you don't get it by arguing that it is already well filled. ( But the Republicans might learn a few hard lessons from the Democrats' tactics in pursuing the office four years ago. ,i It does not seem wise to try to define too " sharply what the operations of the presidency should be. Kennedy attempted this when he was on the outside watching Dwight D. Eisen hower conduct the office. And Kennedy has wound up doing many of the very same things Eisenhower did. For example, Kennedy the campaigner was highly critical of Eisenhower for his "traveling diplomacy." Visits to India, Europe and elsewhere were assailed as essentially useless exercises. But Kennedy himself has just completed such a trip. Eisenhower often was attacked for not staying in Washington more. The charge was, of course, that when he was out of town he was neglecting his job. Comparative figures . .Indicate that Kennedy is eone from the White , House at least as much as Eisenhower. :. . A good many Republicans already have taken up similar assaults on Kennedy. If they win the office in 1964, the chances are over whelming that they will have to eat the same irow Kennedy ate when he got the job. What is involved here is more than just 1 , Cflntharn California Industrial "Estimates show that the country's 2.5 million alcoholics are off the job a total of 475 million work days a year." This is the figure offered by Pioneer ".Foundation, Inc., Pomona, a non-profit cor poration, providing consultation with manage "'.jrnent and labor executives in a crash program for rehabilitation of trained personnel afflict--' ed with alcoholism. A cost factor the Foundation fails to "..point out and one which concerns manage- ment more and more is that, on the conserva tive basis of $20 per day, average wage or salary, this loss amounts to a , ,,, mi - D1U10U a year iiiuiuiictuy, tine pu nguic ia . conservative because the alcoholic is not con fined to lower salary brackets and often is found in the higher echelon.) "We have proof-through-experience that our three-week, three sessions-a-day program, is the answer to expensive damage to trained ft m IS Ml ' J By HOLMES ALEXAIM1IC.K It's pretty hard for Attorney General Kennedy to go on pro tending that there is no Red tinge in the Negro revolution when Fi del Castro talks as he did as late as last July 26. "And here we send another mes 'eage of solidarity and fraternity to the United States Negro popu ; lation which has our sympathy," said Castro, adding, "Let the U.S. i Negroes come hero ... to see a I population without discrimina I tion." LX." Castro made an overt Commu ! ,nist bid for Negro popularity a 1 Tfew years ago when he visited .the United Nations. That was Die time he ostentatiously left a down town ManhaUan hotel and moved to one in Harlem. Today one of his regular broadcasters to Uie United States is (lie American Negro, Robert Williams, a fugi tive from justice, a spokesman ; for putting more violence into Uio Negro revolution. Hie Williams (Voice of Communism via Havana Urges "aotioariiy a lovorne term in all Red propaganda) be tween black America and Rod Cuba. Then Utcro arc the two Cali fornia attorneys, Rose Roscnbcrii and Jean KidwoD Pestana. Both were fingered as Communist par ty members by FBI undercover agents back in 1952. Last summer Mesdames Rosenberg and Pesta na defied the passport restric tions and paid a month-long visit to Cuba. This summer tliey have been taking part in West Coast racial demonstrations. Chairman Willis of (lie House Uo-Amcrican Activities Commit tee has referred their cases to Robert Kennedy's Justice Depart .ment or prosecution. Such action Mobile Presidents the technical fact that the White House in practical effect moves with the president wherever he goes. The point is that the presidency is in considerable part a display office. Leadership of this great nation in 1963 and beyond is not accomplished by chaining oneself to the White House desk as a virtual prisoner. Leadership consists in part of moving about, of being seen, of talking to people at home and abroad, of seeing things first hand rather than simply reading reports or listen ing to emissaries. The White House in this age is a crucial core of national and free world life. But it is not an island on which a president must ma roon himself. Today the great currents flow easily and swiftly around the globe. The leaders of all great nations recognize this by hopping about constantly to meet their counterparts in other lands, to study world problems, to get the feel of things. Are we to suggest seriously that in such an era the President of the United States, the most powerful single executive on earth, should be the one leader to hold himself rig idly within four walls? When Kennedy gained that power, he for got his criticisms of Eisenhower and chose to move about just as the general had done. Whoever follows Kennedy most likely will do the same. Cost Of Alcoholism News) personnel," says Fred Geigle, executive di rector. "In addition to off the job absentees there are millions of 'borderline' drinkers who drag through millions of unproductive hangover days as 'half men.' They alienate customers when they are 'low,' make serious mistakes, get into accidents, and provide a major source for tomorrow's alcoholics." Pioneer Foundation, Inc., has recently been named an outstanding "pilot station" by the California State Department of Public Health. "Kaiser Steel Corp., Fontana, was among the first to avail itself of our services. They attributed 'at least 60 percent success' in the cases which took advantage of the Foun dation's tested program," Geigle said. Clinton Keith, chairman, Counselling Service on Alcoholism, United Steel Workers of America, AFL-CIO, Local No. 2869, at Kais er, told Industrial News: "We have found the program of great help." total of $9.5 4nn H. - ! HOLMES ALEXANDER . . Reds Exploit Civil Rights by Justice, of course, would link Soviet Cuba even closer to Uie Negro revolution. It would take the starch of credibility out of tile testimony given by Secretary Rusk to the Commerce Commit tee and Bob Kennedy. Rusk has belittled any international ton spiracy to stir up and subvert our Negro citizenry. Kennedy on the day of Uie Castro speech wrote Senator Jlonroncy of Uio com mittee that Communist efforts to crash integrationist groups hud proved "remarkably unsuccess ful." Well, successful or otherwise, this Communist drive to infiltrate the American race movement is something wo need to hear more about. Tlic Administration has played k down, much as Uie pres ence of Russian men and arms in Cuba was once played down. All of lire information thus far about Reds in Uie race rebellion has come from reporters who have dug, as 1 have, into materi al tlvat is public proierty. or from opponents of the Civil Rights package who would be against it if there were no Communist connection whatever. These, I say, reporter and opponents should not do all the work of relating Uie Civil Rights cause and tlic Communist men ace. I would think that the Pres ident himself should be warning Uie Negroes to beware of treach erous leaders who mean tlicm and Uiis country every ill. I would think Unit tlie Attorney General, who certainly knows how ollen FBI Director Hoover has connected Communism and Negro disturbances, should tell Congress when and how these "unsuccessful" Communist at tempts were made to crash Uie integrationist groups. I can't imagine why proponents of Civil Rights such men as .Monroney (D) and Scott (Rl would leave all the Red-baiting to the other side. H it's true, as seems evident, that the Communists arc trying to exploit the Civil Rights issue, the best way to spoil their game is to cxwsc them. Al manac Ry United Press International Today is Tuesday. Aug. 13, the 225th day of l'.KU with 140 to fol low. The moon is approaching its new phase. The morning stars are Jupiter and Saturn. Tlic evening stars are Mars and Saturn. Those bom today include Amer ican social reformer, Lucy Stone, in 1R1H. On this day ill history: In lft'J, "Under Tlic Gaslight." one of the American theater's most succcsstul melodramas, ocncd. In l!i;i(l, ("apt. Frank Hawkes set an aviation speed record by Hying from Los Angeles to New York in 12 hours, 25 minutes. In 1!55, the Soviet Union an nounced a pending reduction in its armed forces. In l'.Mtt, the Communist began building an anti-refugee wall along the Berlin border. A thought for Uie day Novelist Roliert Louis Stevenson said: "Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral." fy Ws-M IN WASHINGTON . . . jjh Chiefs Oppose By RALPH de TOLEDANO When Secretary of State Rusk. Undersecretary Harriman, and other high Administration offi cials face the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week, tliey should be asked: "Why do the Joint Chiefs of Staff feel so strongly against the test ban treaty with the Soviet Union and why are they being muzzled?" It can be assumed that the doughty gentlemen in the striped pants will deny both parts of the question. They will say that the Joint Chiefs are cautious about the treaty, but not opposed. This line has already emerged from the Pentagon where Defense Sec retary McNamara let military leaders know that he would not tolerate any obvious dragging of heels. But secret testimony before sev eral House and Senate commit tees, as well as private conver sations between individual mili tary men and Senators Uiey trust, show that the military believes the United States is cutting its throat by agreeing to the Soviet proposals. The orchestra struck up "Love Walked In" during the festivities in 'Moscow after the treaty-signing, but there arc many in Washington who feel that a grimmer song should have been the Uieme. The military estimate is not based on any doctrinaire ideas. Very solid Intelligence informa tion, which the country and most of our legislators have not been told, is behind the fears of the Joint Chiefs. That information breaks down into two parts: (1) The success of Uie Soviet Union's last round of atmosphere tests, and (2) the failure of America's iast nuclear blasts in the atmos phere. Very simply, Uie Intelligence community is certain that in her last test series, Uie Soviet Union gained all Uie information neces sary to proceed with anti-missile missile research without further atmospheric shots. On the other hand, U.S. scientists, on orders from tlie White House, launched their own atmospheric tests hasti ly and under protest. They had lost time and momentum during the period of the "moratorium" I w hile tlie Soviets were busily making preparations!, and they "Xeu'i got to BERRY'S WORLD just were not ready. It can be reported that those tests failed. It can also be reported that without atmospheric testing, it will be a very long, very hard road before the United States de velops an anti-missile missile. Our scientists do not have the theoretical knowledge gained by the Soviets in their tests and our Intelligence has no Klaus Fuchs or Bruno Pontecorvo to steal it lor us. There is no certainty that we shall succeed in the anti-missile missile research, but in any case, the Soviets will have the capabilities well before us. i What they do with it is anoth er matter. They have always wait ed for Western scientists to do Uie basic research, then leap frogged to a finished product astounding the world with Uieir know-how. If they develop a work ing, production-line model of the anti-missile missile first, it will mark a milestone for them.) This is what Pentagon leaders mean when they say vaguely that the Soviets are "aliead" in anti missile missile work. Given an other series of tests by our own scientists., the United Stales could easily eliminate t h e present advantage held by the By SYDNEY J. HARRIS When summer houses were built, 75 or 50 years ago, or whenever, I feel sure that the builders furnished them w i t h complete sets of books. Every summer house I have ever vis ited has had almost the identical library as though the books were chosen by some central agency. These books are roughly divid ed into two categories: the un read and the unreadable. The un read arc the grim sets in stiff gray bindings: complete works of Whilticr, Masterpieces of Liv ing Literature, and 20 volumes of Nelson's Encyclopedia, edition of 11107. in print size that cries start being yourtelfl" Test Ban Soviets. The test ban treaty pro hibits this. To make the anguish of the Joint Chiefs even great er, .more is the fact that the Ad ministration has, by Uie stroke of several pens, wiped out the U.S. Air Force and its mighty Strategic Air Command. How many Americans know that by 199 the United States will not have a single operational bomber wing? This means that the B-47s, the B-52s, and the B-58s will be completely "phased out." The manned bomber has a 95 per cent capability of delivering its bomb load on target in spite of the new anti-aircraft missiles. Our very best, most sophisticated ICBMs and Polarises have at most a 70 per cent capability. 'Missilery is still an infant art. But Secretary McNamara and the President, knowing better than the men who have given their lives to the study of weapons and military strategy, are shat ering what lias been called SAC's "Shield of the Republic." This is why the Joint Chiefs are so worried about the test ban treaty and why the Senate cf the United States must demand that Uieir testimony be free from all executive restraints and all fear of White House reprisal. STRICTLY PERSONAL out for a large magnifying glass. The unreadable category is even larger. This includes, invaria bly, "Girl of the Limbcrlost," "The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come," "Sorrel and Son" by War w ich Deeping, "Scaramouche" by Raphael Sabatini, "Beau Geste," "Ben Hur," "Polly and Her Friends," "The Green Hat," "Lcathcrstocking Tales," and "An Antarctic Mystery" by Jules Verne, easily his worst book. Some diabolic anli - literary mind was carefully at work mak ing this master selection. Not only are all the third-rate authors fully represented, but it is their low est el forts that decorate the bookcases. And if a superior writ er like Dickens is there, it is Dick ens at his most maudlin: if Mark Twain is on the shelf, it is al ways tlie foolish "Tom Sawyer" or the provincial "Innocents Abroad," never one of his mor dant and brilliant works. It is as though someone who hated writing in all its more creative and imaginative aspects were put in charge of summer house libraries throughout the country a generation or two ago. I bought a little place on the lake last year, completely fur nished and when tliey said "com pletely urnished," thev meant it: including 300 books that took me two days to haul to the local dump in a station wagon, as my gesture toward Better Literature. Somehow, people won't throw away no-good books the way they will throw away, alter a few years, non-literary junk that ac cumulates. Some of the books in my place were published in 1R70: they were no good to begin with, and they became worse with age. Yet each successive ten ant evinced a paralyzing reluc tance to brush them off the shelves. Perhaps they remained llicre as a yellowing symbol of .Summer Culture. Whatever the reason, it has al- By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA)-A year before the Republican National Convention nominates its 1964 presidential candidate in San Francisco, the job seems up for grabs. Sixteen possibilities are alrea dy being mentioned. More may be expected. The fact that so many nominees are being put in the running indicates nobobdy has the nomination sewed up. The current theory of some ob servers that New York Gov. Nel son Rockefeller and Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater have knocked each other out on the civil rights and far right issues is probably premature. There is still plenty of steam behind both drives, though neither man has formally an nounced. The factor which brings out al the other presidential possi bilities seems to be a fear that Rockefeller and Goldwater will have about equal die - hard strength at San Francisco, with neither being able to get a major ity for the nomination. Since both Rockefeller and Goldwater have their enemies as well as their friends, the hunt is on for a compromise candidate nobody is mad at and who would satisfy a majority in the badly split GOP. This Is what brings out the fa vorite son suggestions. They would control state delegations for the opening ballots to estab lish bargaining positions. There are eight so far. In preferred positions are Gov. George Romney of Michigan, who is not far behind the two leaders, and Gov. William W. Scranton of Pennsylvania. There are two other governors, James A. Rhodes of Ohio and Mark Hatfield of Oregon. In Congress there are three fa vorite son senators Gordon Al lott of Colorado, Clifford Case of New Jersey and Thruston B. Morton of Kentucky, though the last two disclaim any interest. Finally, Rep. James W. Byrnes of Wisconsin. Then you come to the really dark horses of whom there are six so far. Sen. Thomas H. Ku chcl and ex-Sen. William F. Knowland of California are being proposed to head their state dele gation as favorite son candidates lor bargaining purposes. There is an element here of keeping the WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Congressman Spots Test Ban Loophole By FULTON LEWIS JR. Eagle-eyed Craig Hosmcr, Uie California Congressman who is ranking Republican on the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, has spotted a glaring loophole in the partial nuclear test ban. Article IV of that agreement provides that the treaty shall be of unlimited duration. It docs, however, give signatories a right to withdraw if "extraordinary events have jeopardized their su preme interests." The treaty stip ulates that Uiree monUis advance notice must be given before a nation can withdraw and resume testing. This whole arUcle is in direct conflict with Article 49-0 of tlie Soviet Constitution, which enti tles Uie USSR to abrogate any treaty, instantly, with or without cause. There is no provision of Soviet law which provides for the Soviet constitution to be overridden by tlie provisions of a treaty. Based on Article lV's obvious inconsistency with constitutional provisions, the Soviets may at any future time declare the trea ty invalid from its beginning, and the cited of such declaration would be instantaneous. Or, Representative Hosmer says, tlie Soviet Government, acting in secret session of the Presidium of tlie Supreme Soviet of the USSR, may, under authority of Article 49-0, denounce Uie treaty. This act would operate instan taneously to release the Soviet Government from its obligation to deliver three months' advance notice on withdrawal, or any no tice at all. Under these circumstances, the ways fascinated me to visit a summer house for a weekend and browse on the shelves for a good book to take up to bed. With my eyes closed. I could recite the selection from "Ten to Seven teen: A Boarding School Diary" by Josephine Baskam Bacon, to "Heart's Delight" by Louis Tra cy, also the proud author of "Rainbow Island." "Pillar ol Light." and "The Albert Gate Alfair." They used to call these dread ful things "hammock reading." The pity of it is that hammocks have nearly disappeared, but the reading hasn't. ultraconservatives from capturing the delegation and going for Gold water. While former Vice President Richard M. Nixon now a New Yorker has announced he will not be a candidate in 1964, he docs expect to have a loud voice in naming tlie candidate. If of fered Uie nomination as a com promise, he'd probably take it. Gen. Lucius D. Clay is being boomed for the nomination by a committee headed by former Rep. Hamilton Fish of New York General Clay says he is not a candidate. Mr. Fish says the gen eral would be responsive to a draft. Sen. John J. Williams of Dela ware is being suggested by an other group headed by Nicholas L. Kruysman, a New York en velope manufacturer. Senator Wil liams has made a great record v as an cxposer of government waste and inefficiency. He has considerable support from busi nessmen. But in his home state he is regarded more as a vice presidential possibility. All the presidential possibilities who don't get top place on the GOP ticket may also be put in this class. The most intriguing dark horse who has just come out of the shadows is Dr. Milton S. Eisen hower, Ike's brother, who is now president of Johns Hopkins Uni versity. All Republicans agree that the Eisenhower name is still magic with voters. Dr. Eisenhower recently took over chairmanship of a Critical Issues Council for the Republi can Citizens Committee. This is I he group organized at the Eisen hower farm a year ago to mus ter support from independent and Democratic voters. The Citizens Committee has in sisted all along that it is not an imitator of the Democratic Ad visory Committee which oper ated under the late National Com mittee Chairman Paul Butler during the Eisenhower adminis tration. But many responsible Republican leaders now admit that the policy papers prepared by DAC are responsible for John F. Kennedy being in the White House today. If Dr. Milton Eisenhower could perform a similar miracle for the Republicans within the next year, it is conceded he might be the dark horse of destiny they are looking for. USSR could keep secret from all other parties its renunciation of the obligations of the treaty un til such time as it appeared most advantageous for the USSR to suddenly reveal it. Under either alternative, con cludes the California Republi can, all parties to the treaty oth er than the USSR are committing themselves fully to the pact in exchange for what, in actual practice, amounts to no more than a unilateral moratorium on tlie part of the Soviets. Note: Author of the treaty. W. Averell Harriman, appeared behind closed doors last week to brief House members on the ban. Tlie result, says New York Congressman Steve Derounian, was "the most pitiful exhibition I have seen in my 11 years in Congress." Harriman was unable to an swer questions effectively, final ly lost control of himself when Congressman John Pillion de manded to know what conces sions Harriman had made to the Soviets. Harriman tried to paint Pillion as a war-monger. Commented another Congress man: "If Harriman had shown that much fight in campaigning lor reelection as New York gov ernor, he never would have lost to Nelson Rockefeller." When Sam Giancana. reputed bc,-s of Chicago's underworld, went to court recently he was represented by attorney Philip Tisci. his son-in-law. All this was embarrassing to Congressman Roland Libonati, Chicago Democrat, who has Tisci on the federal payroll at $11,829. 84 a year as manager of his district office. Libonati went to Lew is Deschler. House parliamen tarian, for a ruling that would get him off the hook. Deschler obliged and Libonati told his district aide to stay away from Giancana. "I saw nothing wrong in a law cr accompanying his wife's fa ther to court." Libonati now says, "but when I called Deschler he said the conflict of interest Uling has spread so far that I'd bel ter advise Mr. Tisci to stick to his federal duties. He didn't say that what Mr. Tisci had been doing was wrong, just Uiat it would b best if he didn' t do it any more."