HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath. Fallf, Oregon Thursday. August 15, 1963
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' 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
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". . . 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.