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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath. Fallf, Oregon Thursday. August 15, 1963 NOTHING SPECIAL "Suppose You Could Get Up More Pressure?' i,',if j A (W. B. S.I PAGE Q m .4 ' Are you a millionaire? No? Then get with it, boy! What do you want to be, a freak or something! It has just been announced that America is producing millionaires at the fastest clip since the fabulous "20s and that there are now at least 100,000 of them running around loose in this country as proof that you just cati't keep a good man down, and nuts to taxes and the tariff. Now this no doubt is good for the national economy. Certainly it is nice for the million aires involved, and it just has to be encourag ing to aspiring millionaires. : But what's it going to do to the few of us'; laggards who still haven't made our first million? :' How are we going to explain to You Know Teachers: The "professional sanctions" of Utah's public school teachers now have the official endorsement of the largest department of the National Education Association. This is the Department of Classroom Teachers, with 92 per cent of NEA members. Since the NEA is the nation's largest teacher organization, the department action means that the sanction idea strikes a sympathetic chord in many teachers. In other words, no one should be surprised if sanctions hit closer to home than Utah. f What are sanctions? For Utah teachers, the terms means refusing to sign contracts for next year because the Utah Legislature appropriated less in school funds than the teachers thought was necessary. The appro priation would give them a $400-a-year raise instead of the $1,000 they seek, tij' No one denies the teachers the right to sifeek higher salaries. Many are underpaid and the shortage of good ones Is critical. But se mantic confusion about the word "sanction," used to describe a means of pressing their HOLMES ! By HOLMES ALEXANDER 'WASHINGTON, P.C. - Peace hat its over-kill, as does war. Chain reaction occurs In emo tional as well as atomic explo sions. These phenomena wore trig gered Aug. 2 when, on a sparsely populated Senate door, Profes sor IGeorge McGovern (D., S.D.I reacted to the very limited Nucle ar Test Ban Treaty by proposing a swords-into-plowsliares disarma ment program. It would begin with a $5 billion reduction in tin's year's arms budget, to be followed by a phased transition of military plans and weapons into a '.welfare system to be applied "& homo and abroad." George McGovern. 41, a 35-mis-sidn man in World War II, a doctor ot philosophy, a decent hu manitarian, as sincere In his lib eralism and good intentions us the day is long, whs lifting to my seat In the press gallery a mushroom-shaped cloud that mixed some, admiration with a lot of apprehension. It is cusy to get the shudders when a vain or foolish Senator goes headline hunting by hymning the cause of eaco, or when a Senatorial clown or sophist .describes some other world than the one In which we have to live. But McGovern, although lie had a bum argu ment and w as mazed by t h e Moscow pact, is not such a bad guy that ho can't learn better if he keeps an open mind. The distrcssfulness of his Sen ate address is that it extends be yond himself. The fissionable matcriul of psychotic disarma mentperhaps we'd belter give it a name, "paxophobia" was ex ploding all around him. Consider the environment in which he spoke. Senator Hubert Humphrey, the half century's most enthusiastic strip-arUst of national preparedness, was mak ing his last Senato floor appear ance before leaving for the cere monial signing of the Moscow pact Sen. Bill Kullbright, also Moscowbound, had just finished a heavy-humored philliplc against tlip bsent Sen. Barry Gnldwatcr, associating Mr. Conservative's op position to tho Nuclear Treaty with that of Red China's, proving The Midas Touch Whom that there can be no new fall wardrobe for her because things are so tough these days that it's impossible for anyone, but anyone, to put away a dime? Is she going to buy this with love in her heart when she knows that 100,000 other women were smart enough to pick out men who were smart enough to make it big? What burns us nonmillionaires is that if these guys are smart enough to make a mil lion, why aren't they smart enough to keep it to themselves instead of making a big, fat thing out of it? You wonder how 100,000 characters with no more judgment than that can be so lucky when the real geniuses have to keep on strug gling. One hundred thousand of them. Wow! Strikes Or Sanctions? case, should be dispelled. What they mean is "strike." The executive secretary of the Utah Education Association thought he settled the question by explaining: "Since none of the teachers is under contract for the next year, there is no question of a breach of contract or of a strike." But, what else but a strike occurs when a union's contract with a com pany expires and the union members refuse to work under terms of a new one asked by management? The Classroom Department even called on state branches to urge members not to "scab" in Utah this fall by taking teachers' jobs. And they decided to pass the hat for a "special fund for subsistence loans" or in labor terminology, a strike fund. The NEA traditionally has been profes sionally oriented. Lately, the American Fed eration of Teachers, AFL-CIO, has put pres sure on It by mounting a militant organizing 'drive. The NEA, apparently, has decided it must act like a .union to meet its members' 'neocls. All that now remains is to be candid about It. ALEXANDER . . . Beating The Treaty Drums (I suppose) that distrust ot Khru shchov's Russia makes a man a Chinese Stalinist. Following Mc Gnvern't speech (which elided scntentlously but not very scientif ically with biblical quotation: "The Lord will bless his peo ple With peace"), there came overwrought hallelujahs from the paxophobes. , Humphrey found it full of "forthrightness and courage." Church of Idaho said it muy be "the most important address of the session." Young of Ohio called it "a Veal and needful public service" and promised "to fight alongside" the speaker. Clark of Pennsylvania again dis covered "courage" in this risklcss oratory. Kelson of Wisconsin in dicated that he and other un named Senators would later join McGovern in reexamining t h e scientific-military monster uf Na tional Defense. All this, one must write In alarm, looks veiy much liko a fallout, or side result, of the ji GOURMET CLUB ". . . And now, I would liki to introduct our t Xpert oh thi Ittt nobl uinet . . ." Test Ban Treaty. The Moscow pact has received much publicity but little critical appraisal, as yet, by the committees on Armed Services, Space and Joint Atom ic Energy which ought to pass on its disarmament phases before the Senate should dare to talk ratification. Yet Humphrey, who can know little about the technical aspects, trumpeted several times that aft ernoon for the Treaty as an in strument of "peace and justice." Gnre of Tennessee, who is not without technical knowledge, seemed ready to throw the hard ware -facts out tlie window when he proposed that he and other members of the Senate Foreign Itelutiuns Committee "have an obligation of advocacy to take the merits of the Treaty to the American people." There were few around that hot afternoon of a beginning weekend to look the Treaty in the mouth and make sure that it isn't a dove hut a Trojan Horse. IN WASHINGTON By RALPH de TOLEDAXO Senators, Representatives, and the White House staff have been busily counting letters on the test ban treaty. Any analysis of this mail is premature, if only be cause those who receive it are fudging a little on what it says. But one fact is crystal clear: Most of the country doesn't give two hoots and a holler about the treaty. As a corollary to this sentiment, the majority ot letter writers even those favoring the treaty don't trust tho Soviets as far as you can throw the Washington Monument. The volume of mail has been so small, in fact, that many Rep resentatives and Senators have had to go burrowing for it. Their statistics "it's ten-to-one for" or "it's tcn-to-une against" are meaningless when you pin them down and find that the total mail sometimes runs no more than IS letters. President Kennedy's mail is a perfect example of this. When he made his speech denouncing Com rade Khrushchev and ordering a blockade of Cuba, more than 40, 000 letters poured in. Today, Press , Secretary Salinger says that the mail is running 12-to-one for the treaty. But at the last count, the By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Purely Personal Prejudices: It is easy to tell when a woman cares (or a man if, while talking to her, he gazes away, her eyes will unconsciously follow the line of his, to see if he is looking at another woman. Watching a plumber at work in our kitchen the other day, 1 thought of Charles Dudley War ner's remark: "Nothing can move a man who is paid by the hour: huw sweet the flight of time seems to his calm mind." The greatest disadvantage of fame is lliut it coniiels the fa mous to live tlteir lives accord ing to the opinions of others; and only the strongest characters can achieve the independence in fame that the ordinary person has in obscurity. A man who has never made a fool of itimsolf over some woman, and is proud that he hasn't, de serves land visually gets' the kind ol woman who makes a foul of him without his ever knowing it Parents who are always "sen sible" with their children who do the practical, punctual, reason able things, even on vacations are depriving their children of the joyful spontaneity that is so im portant a part of giowing up: and most of the depressed per sonalities in adult life are the vic tims ol such perverted "sensible ness." Public attitudes have not changed much in the half-century since William James observed that a theory usually goes through three stages in its career (rem birth to acceptance: "First it is attacked as preposterous; then it Public Reaction total was a meaningless 3,500. Ex perts on Washington mail re sponse say that the President was probably getting close to that number of letters on nuclear test ing over a similar period of time in the past without even noticing them. That the White House should receive such a thin flow of mail on this topic is a little surprising. Mr. Kennedy has pleaded for mass support of the treaty, and this is usually a sure-fire way of pulling in correspondence. The Committee for a Sane Nuclear Pol icy and the Women's Strike for Peace, if they had a small frac tion of tho membership and sup port they claim, could alone have done better. But on Capitol Hill, how does it gu? Some Senators believe that the voters will cut the throat of any candidate who opposes the treaty. There is no evidence to back their view, but (ears of this ' kind die hard. To get some idea of how the mail shapes up. a staff member of National News Research conducted a check for' me. A liberal Republican Senator re ported that his mail was running two-to-one against the treaty. This ratio was steady. A Midwestern liberal Democrat, on the other STRICTLY PERSONAL is admitted to be true, but insig nificant: and lastly it is consid ered so important that those who once attacked it claim it to be their own discovery." A person without a highly de vclopcd sense of natilre can nev er be a first-rate creative artist: if he is not deeply interested in, and moved by, the natural world, he is temperamentally incapa ble of penetrating into the se cret places of the human heart. Speaking of these "secret places." it has been my observa tion that hardly anyone under stands less about human beings than most of the "experimen tal psychologists" who work with animals and then project their bchavioristic reactions into the ories about people. There is a certain combination of piety and parsimoniousness that offends me more than vice: tiie flamboyantly wicked man is less a scandal than those conspic uous church-givrs who open their arms to God and close their fists against their (cllowmen without ever realizing the fundamental contradiction. Couples who are "blindly in love" need to be reminded of Madame Itecamier's comment that "lovers should keep their eyes wide open during the court ship and half closed alter the marriage." In most cases, it's pre cisely the reverse. Most biographies are so bad be cause they are written by inferior men about their betters, whom tliey scarcely understand: it re quires a certain affini'y for great ness in oneself to write about great man. ' Slight hand, said that he had received 300 letters and wires on the test ban treaty roughly what he was getting on other major issues. Though his mail is four-to-one in favor statewide, it is overwhelm ing against from the big cities a real surprise. Sen. J. William Fulbright. chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, noted very thin returns some 50 letters in all since the President's speech. They favored the treaty, but the returns were so small that Full bright seemed not to be paying much attention to them. Sen. William Proxmire of Wis consin, who has been beating the drums for a nuclear test ban trea ty, received almost no mail until the last few days. The "official" figure for the hundred or so let ters he has had to date is 60-to-40 in favor. A little questioning, however, indicated that it was almost squarely 50-to-50. Mail for Sen. Kenneth Keating, middle-of-the-road New York Re publican, has shifted from 6,305 for and 968 against (6'i-to-one) to 1,857 for and 500 against (3'j-to-one i ' a marked change. Re publican Sen. Karl Mundt of South Dakota has received 18 letters in all 10 of them against. A sampling of 10 other Repub lican Senators showed everything from "strongly for" (in the East' to "heavily against" (in the Midwest and Mountain slates) but all pointed out that their mail was very light. This roughly followed the pattern of a survey made by Senate Republican Lead er Everett Dirksen. The public apathy, if such it can be called, may .help the Senate arrive at a careful decision when it debates the treaty. For if it fi n a 1 I y penetrates the upper reaches of the senatorial con sciousness that the voters are not breathing down the necks of those who oppose lor favor) the test ban treaty, then the issues can be thor oughly explored. The wiser heads in Washington are calling pre cisely for this, as they warn that the hysteria being pumped up by the State Department helps nei ther the treaty nor the nation. Al manac By United Press International To-w is Thursday. Aug. 15, the 227th day of 13 with 138 to follow. Tlie moon is approaching its new pliase. The morning stars are Jupiter and Saturn. Tlie evening stars are Mars and Saturn. Those born today include Flench emperor Napoleon Bona parte, in ITtiii. On this day is history: In 19H. the vessel "Ancon" pa.-soi from tlie Atlantic to the Pacilic and the Panama Canal was oflicially opened. In 19:15. Will Rogers and Wiley Post were killed when their plane crashed in Alaka. In liMT. Great Brilian ended her 200-yoar rule of India A thought for tlie day Ameri can noet Henry Wadsworlh Long lellmv .slid: "Music is tlie uni versal language of mankind ... Poetry their universal pastime and dehsht." I'd like to say that the "press of business" or a vacation has kept me from whacking out a col umn or two a week recently. The plain truth, however, is that I was indulging in plain laziness, for the most part. We did take the kids dVmn to Disneyland. I approached the project with mind closed 100 per cent, knowing that It was go ing to be nothing but a racket. But, by gosh, before it was all over I found myself enjoying the experience more than Ihe kids, 1 think. It's kind of stag gering to contemplate the Imag ination and engineering know how that went into the fabrica tion of that wonderland. I'm go ing back again, If I ever get Ihe chance. One hears a lot of ridiculous tilings these days but few as far out as the news that the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis tration (NASA) has given the Co lumbia University School of Jour nalism $131,000 to study the dis semination of space exploration information. Researchers are go ing to interview reporters who regularly cover the NASA and presumably come up with recom mendations for improving tlie agency's press relations. We can tell the NASA how to improve its relations and the ad vice won't cost a thin dime. Just stop throwing the taxpayers' money away. And, if that isn't bad eivugh consider the news that a chunk of your tax money totalling $1,250,000 has been allocated for a six-year study of the "alfcc tional relationship of an infant monkey and its mother." The National Science Foundation, an independent agency of the fed eral government, is responsible for this lryinkey business. I don't know what the issue is, but that picketing of the new building near Carter's certainly appears futile at best. I get a big kick out of the statements made regarding the proposed referral of the tax law passed by the last legislature. WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Communist Pickets Infiltrate Leaders By FULTON LEWIS JR. In March, 1960, the country's chief Communist, Gus Hall, sum moned to New York his most trusted aides for a closed-door, high-level strategy session. On the agenda: Formulation of plans for Communist participa tion in the massive demonstra tions scheduled for the Democrat ic and Republican conventions that summer. Hall's plan called for local com rades to infiltrate left-wing, non Communist groups working for peace and civil rights. They would demonstrate not as Com munists but as loyal Americans. A memo to Communist leaders followed this meeting. Comrade Hall described in great detail the tactics to be used, and sin gled out the committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy as one ma jor group to be infiltrated. Infiltration was discovered ear ly'by anti-Communist civil rights leaders. Officials of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People noted large numbers of "strangers" turned up at organizational meet ings for the demonstrations. XAACP Executive Director Roy Wilkins. cognizant of tlie Com munist strategy, announced his group had canceled all plans for convention picketing. The Communist Party's West Coast newspaper. People's World, devoted page after page to de tailed plans for the Los Angeles demonstration. Comrades were urged to flock in large numbers to the Los Angeles Sports Arena, where Democratic delegates were to meet, and to parade, hour aft er hour, bearing placards de manding Peace and Civil Rights. They did as told. Security agen cies later reported widespread Communist participation in t h e Los Angeles demonstrations. In Chicago, at least 10 per cent of the more than 1.000 demonstra tors were known Communists, ac cording to Lt. Frank Hcimos ki. chief of the police depart ment's anti-subversive squad. Among them was Sam Kush ner. then vice chairman of the Illinois Communist Party, and now a top-ranking California Red. Also on hand were Lucille Beth encourt, who had been convict ed of violating the Smith Act, and ,liie Green, 18 - year old Everybody (well, nearly every body! agrees that the law is a bad one. Then, the same persons get out and pronounce and work like hell to see that tlie initiative is defeated on the basis that a "worse" tax bill might be tlie result of a special session. I don't see how we could get one that would be much worse, except one must accept the thought that any new tax bill no matter what is bound to be "worse" than the preceding one. Among the nation's unman ageable surpluses are wheat, cotton. Girl Scout cookies and Civian fruit cakes. One experienced fella observed the other day that cither shorts arc getting shorter or the girls are getting longer. Comes a note from Johannes Qe Torquemada: ' In keeping -with our corporate policy, and the requests that have been set forth in your illustrious column, I wish to make amends for the silence that has too long pervaded the typewriters here at Desecrations Limited. Having been requested to close the doors of one facet of our op erations by persons of no little repute in this community. I feel that the pen is mightier than the toilet tissue roll, alter all. Let us proceed with the witch burning at hand. First pyre: I find it interesting that the citi zens of this community can sit by and watch while a small but vocative minority harangues over everything from the adamant state of the law enforcement of fices to the practice of Yoga, generously taking any irrelevant scandal and relevant civic prac tice under their thorny wing, and endeavoring to (an the flames of the former and throw verbal, if not somewhat brackish water on the latter. Perhaps the next step is a set or league of young non-taxpayers, with hell raising learned at the mother's knee. ,Marx, anyone? Yours for Desecrations Limited, Johannes DeTorquemada. daughter of Gil Green, another ex-con who had done time for breaking the Smith Act. Unfortunately, many well-meaning advocates of civil rights ig nored the advice of Roy Wilkins and other Negro leaders and agitators. Questionable charac ters have been permitted to hop aboard the Civil Rights band wagon and some integration lead ers have demonstrated poor judg ment. Example: When the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) picketed the governor's mansion in Columbus, Ohio, among tlie demonstrators was Oscar Smilack, local junk dealer. It was a decade ago that Smilack defied the Ohio Commis sion on Un-American Activities. He was indicted on nine counts of contempt and convicted. Franklin County prosecutor Ralph Bartlctt called him the "Financial Angel" of the Ohio Communist Parly. Asked by tlie Columbus Dispatch to answer those questions he had ducked a decade ago, Smilack iast month smiled and refused. A Brooklyn NAACP Leader, the Rev. Milton Galamison, a moderate, addressed a recent conference of the Progressive Youth Organizing Committee, an outfit that has been labeled Communist-controlled by FBI Direc tor J. Edgar Hoover. Others on the program included Danny Ru bin and Marvin Markman, both identitied Reds. Caleb Peterson, Negro presi dent of the Hollywood (Califor nia! naew Relations Bureau, re cently said: "I suspect there is directly or indirectly Commu nist motivation behind the na tionwide wave of demonstrations. Certainly here in Los Angeles there is no cause for protest marches." He is concerned about t h e recently - formed United Ci vil Rights Committee. The chair man is Thomas Ncusom. an at torney who has represented Com munists in Congressional pro ceedings. Head of the legal staff is Jack Tenner, identified as a Communist in January. 1952. Later that year. Tenner took the Fifth Amendment when asked about party membership by tlie House Un-American Activities Committee.
