EPSON 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
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' 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
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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."