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PAGE -A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Wednesday, August II, 1953 EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . . West Won't Gain In China, Soviet War Learn As all parents with college-bound children know, the cost of higher education is reach ing for the sky and shows no signs of leveling off. A recent study by the University of Mich igan reveals that the average annual bill for an American college student is $1,550. In a few years we may look back and wonder if tilings were ever that inexpensive. But right now, this sum of money (it is only an average; costs can be much higher at individual schools) looms as an insurmount able obstacle for far too many otherwise qualified high school graduates who are now going through a "summer of discontent" be fore reconciling themselves to the fact that college, through no fault of their own, is not for them. Fortunately, there is another trend off . setting the gloom of this one: Sources of fi ' nancial aid for students (over and above the - traditional scholarships and part-time jobs) are increasing in number, size and availabili ty. Today, the financially hard-pressed stu dent CAN get help in paying for his college education not just the superior student, but the run-of-the-mill student whose grades are satisfactory. Last year at Tulane University, for in stance, 2,200 students nearly half the full- Peace - Even though we know the Russians too well to drop our guard, it must be admitted that it is a pleasant change from the Cold War to be on the receiving end of Russian effusions of friendship. Relations between our two countries could not have been more cordial than they have the past few weeks. Our envoys to Mos cow and those from Britain could not have been more warmly treated. The signing of the nuclear lest ban treaty, limited and imperfect as it is, makes worthwhile the seemingly fruitless years of argument that went before. - Assuming that the Soviets may intend to abide by the treaty, there is still the nagging suspicion that this sudden sweet reasonable ness may not be quite genuine, that there is some ulterior reason which may, in the end, work to our harm. The obvious answer is that Khrushchev is mending his fences facing the West be cause of deteriorating relations with the East Red China. Knowledgeable observers seem to agree that the Russian about-face is gen uine, that it does bode well for the future of mankind, and that we should take advantage of it. Surely the vehemence with which the HOLMES By HOLMES ALEXANDER - There is one advantage In being usually in the minority opinion, as is the Republican party and your columnist. The conscientious dissenter has the exquisite privi lege of truth-telling without the temptation to go pandering after popularity. On Capitol Hill the other day. Senator Everett Dirk sen did himself proud by indulg ing in this privilege, while a large group of House Republicans did themselves dirt by casting it away. Dirksen in the Senate's hand some conference room faced a 100-mcmber, well-dressed, well mannered delegation from the NAACP. As minority leader, he was there with other Republican senators because the GOP has always solicited Negro votes in the Northern cities and needs them next year as seldom before. But when Dirksen was chided in front of this audience for his opposition to tlie public ac commodations section of the Civil Rights bill, he admirably refused to grovel for himself or his party. Instead, he said: "You may not be satisfied with . my approach, but 1 don't go ; around particularly trying to please tverybody. I will adhere to .3 I Now, Pay Later time enrollment received financial aid from various sources totaling $2 million. The university itself makes loans run ning some $400,000 yearly, on liberal terms. Other important sources include: The National Defense Student Loan Pro gram, under which needy students may bor row up to $1,000 for one academic year and up to $5,000 for the entire course of their higher education. They may take as long as 10 years to repay the loan, at 3 per cent an nual interest, beginning a year after they graduate. In addition, those who go into teach ing can get writeoffs of up to 50 per cent of the loan. Private educational financing organiza tions also are playing a growing part. Under some plans, the family repays tuition loans in monthly installments. Still another source is commercial banks. Loans can be negotiated on a long-term basis with interest usually lower than on other types of loans. An advantage here is that a family need not be "needy" but merely have a good credit record. Thus, while college costs have increased tremendously, ways to meet those costs also have increased thanks to national and local governments, public and private groups, prof it and nonprofit organizations. All are resolved that in America, no qualified young person be denied access to the best education he is capable of mastering. Is 1 So Wonderful? Red Chinese have denounced the treaty and Khrushchev and the Russian Communist party for signing it indicates that the nu clear ban is hardly just part of a larger So viet plot, any more than Gen. De Gaulle's maverick behavior is part of over-all Western strategy. Whatever the truth may be, Americans are accepting the treaty with restrained re lief. Opinion polls are almost unanimous in painting a picture of the man in the street who is wary and not exactly overjoyed, but is nevertheless hopeful that some good will come of it. Americans' attitudes might be summed up as: "It's better than nothing." Or to para phrase Churchill: "Ban ban is better than war war." Senate scrutiny of the treaty, we hope, will be thorough although the cries of the Senate eggheads lead us to believe it will be anything but thorough. "Peace" is wonderful but we retain the skepticism that leads us to believe that the Russians will get the best of the bargain. We have little faith in Harriman and the other "peace at all costs" delegates that head our state department policy makers. ALEXANDER . Privilege And Humbug my conviction, and pursue it ac cording to my rights." Coming from a political leader, in the particular circumstances that now beset the Republicans, Dickson's retort rang with echoes from Barbara Frietcliic's "Shoot if you must this old gray head." and from Nathan Hale's "I re gret that I have but one lite to give for my country." It was nervy, it was honorable, it was right. But at almost the same hour. Dirkscn's colleagues in the House of Representatives were enacting a scene of hokum and hypocrisy on the same subject of racial politics. Before the House was the Vocational Education Act of ltitvl to which Uiere was a final opposition of only 21 votes. Almost every member, that is. favored adding W50 million dur ing the next four years to the measly -7 million now being spent by Uie federal government to match state funds for voca tional training. Yet. with hon orable exceptions, tlie Republicans could not resist the temptation to put themselves falsely on rec ord as pro-Negro and to bare the well-known North South rill in the Democratic parly. Accordingly the Republicans, al most, en masse, supported an amendment named for Adam Clayton Powell to provide that tlie funds be expended without re gard to race, color, or creed. The provision, as everybody knew, was needless. The President has said he intends to spend the money that way. law or no law. But the Republican strategy, a weari some trick by this time, was to attach the anti - discrimination amendment to the bill, curry a bogus favor with the Negroes, and hope that Southern Senators in what the House calls "the other body" would filibuster it into defeat. In the latter case, of course, nobody would get the use of the much-needed, almost unopposed increase in Vocational Education. Tlie amendment wasted nearly three hours in useless debate and was dcteated 217 to 181. It was an exercise in liunilnic. an exhibit of perversion in ra cial politics. Tlie House Republi cans ought to have formed a queue and kicked one another out of tlie chamber. They had, in con trast to Everett Dirksen. passed up the privilege of taking an honest position without pander ing for anybody's approval. It's a privilege, if you're asking me, of inestimable worth. l)'$. IN WASHINGTON By RALPH de TOLEDANO It seems like only a few weeks since Governor Nelson Rockefel ler was lambasting the "radical right" and implying that Senator Barry Goldwater was both its idol and its ideologue. That didn't work in knocking the Senator out' of the Republican Presidential stakes. Few people among the GOP's rank-and-file accepted the Rocke feller charge, and it was clear that an attempt at making the Goldwater position and John Birchism synonymous would get nowhere. The next push came from other sources. To believe them, Barry Goldwater was a racist with an anti-Negro record. Pickets were sent out to a number of choice locations including tlie Sena tor's home state of Arizona to spread the word. Most people yawned. ' Therefore, a new line is now being displayed. It is, perhaps, more vicious than the others be cause no defense exists against it. It goes like Uiis: Senator G oldwater is not a member of the "radical right." He is not a racist. But he can't carry the South, a necessary condition to victory, because the By SYDNEY J. HARRIS "Crops are grown in the coun try." said an ancient Roman writ er, "and words in the city." Lan guage does not spring from the soil, but from the stones of ur ban communities; and most lan guages have an inbuilt bias against the rustic. Consider the word "villain." Today it means simply an evil man, a wrong-doer. But originally a villain was a serf or peasant, who was attached to the "villa." or farm. Because the arbiters of lan guage in those days regarded the farmers as churlish, rude, and bestial, the word "villain" came to be applied to anyone having those characteristics. "Boor" has the same snobbish history. At first it meant any cul tivator of the soil; subsequently it came to mean any person w ho w as coarse and unmannerly. The same is exactly true for "churlish. " Ancient monasteries, as well as schools, were" responsible for the class-consciousness ol luimuac. It is not widely known, lor in stance, that "pagan" was first a villager, as opposed to a towns man. It was not thought that the villagers could be good Christians, and only late in Us iife did the word come to mean a heathen. "Clown" is alo a word onui nally designated for a ruial per son. A "knave" was once simplv a servant tlien it came to mean any rascal who co.ild not be trusted. And when we say that, a person is "unciv il," we are real ly saying that he is not city-bred, that he lacks the cultivated man ners of an urban dweller. It is one of tlie ironies of mod em society at least, mice the In dustrial Revolution that the vil lage has been growing mure mannerly, and the city more un civil. As tlie city increased in size, it reached and passed its op timum point of "civility." Shakespeare, in his "A Midsum mer Night's Dream." relers to the "rude mechanics" tlie rural 1 : , Getting Goldwater "radical right" and the racists hate him. He doesn't stand a chance and at this point you can hear the speaker tut - tut sadly because lie has a Jewish grandfather. It's a shame that people should be so bigoted, the vicwer-with-sadness says, but after all that's a fact of life. It may be that anti-Semitism will defeat Senator Goldwater. When John F. Kennedy was run ning for the Presidency, lie made his Catholicism help rather than hurt by making an issue of it. His campaign workers, in their word-of-mouth propaganda, more than implied that those who op posed Mr. Kennedy were anti Catholic and beyond the pale. But Senator Goldwater does not intend to use this strategy. Those working for him know that he does not want them to so much as mention the religious issue. Even if the bigots are silenced, however, there are others who normally would show disgust at this method of winning ejections but who are not above it. For some time, members of the Wash ington press corps have been aware that a well-liked Texas Congressman has made oblique use of the Jewish issue by care fully reminding constituents in his STRICTLY PERSONAL weaver, the tinker, the joiner, and so on. Yet the really rude mechanics today arc found in the jungle of the city, and the more polite and friendly and neighbor ly ways seem to have persisted only in the village atmosphere. The long-standing hostility of the countryman to the city dwell er is simply a reaction to the city dwellers' sense of superiority over the centuries, which is deeply and unconsciously imbedded in his language we still speak of "hicks" with a deprecatory air, even though the modern farm is a sophisticated enterprise. Technology in the 20th century has made the people more homo geneous than ever before: they road the same papers and maga zines, see the same television shows, have access to much the same fashions, and share a com mon viewpoint. "Yf . . hut iott it BERRY'S IRLD newsletter of the religion of Gold water's grandfather. The mention is made in tlie context of point ing out the equal opportunities offered by America. Those correspondents who are most ecstatically and violently, anti-conservative chortled at what they thought was a neat thrust. Others felt somewhat queasy about it. In the last days, how ever, a columnist close to Pres ident Kennedy (and who writes for a pro-Rockefeller newspaper) has mentioned the Congressional reference to Goldwater's grand father. . It can be expected that anti Semitism will play a growing part in the efforts of respectable political leaders to torpedo the Goldwater candidacy. I am sure that some of them will, with pious tears, deplore the campaign and disavow it. The very disa yowol can be expected to do some damage. But I suspect that it will do little harm in the South. North ern liberals tend to have a fever ish and outlandish concept of the region below the Mason - Dixon line. If 1 am any judge, however, there is less anti-Semitism in the South than in any other part of the United States. It exists for the most part in Uie back country, not in the cities and the suburban areas on which Barry Goldwater must depend for sup port. The American Nazi Party, George Lincoln Rockwell's rag tag and bobtail group of tinhorn fascists, picketed the July 4 "Draft Goldwater" rally in Wash ington. There are other groups of similar ill-repute and unimport ance which scatter seeds of hatred across Uie land. These groups, with their noxious publications, have had an increasingly diminish ing impact on Americans if only because the appeal is so hysteri cal and in such bad taste. True, political analysts have seen a startling rise in Negro anti-Semitism over the last years. But since no Republican can be expected to get more than :i per cent of the Negro vote lac cording to opinion surveys' and Senator Goldwater counts on an insignificant 2 per cent, this will not affect the course of history. As of today, it is not the bigots who stand between Senator Gold water and the Republican nom ination or the Presidency but the liberals. hart poutr iir)i?" By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. (Second of two columns on Russia-Ked China split.) WASHINGTON (NEA Warn ing flags already are being run up against hope that the United States somehow will make big gains from the cold war be tween Soviet Russia and Red Chi na. "This isn't a permanent split." cautions lormer Rep. Walter H. Judd, R-Minn., who still rates as one of the few remaining "old China hands" around Washington. This is just a lift between a couple of Communist theoreti cians, Dr. Judd insists. It will be decided by the accepted princi ples of Marxist practice. "When it is all over, some body will have to walk the plank," says Judd. "It may be Mao or it may be Khrushchev. "Whoever it is, the Communist Party will still remain exactly what it always has been. For un der the theory of 'democratic cen tralism,' the party can never be wrong. Only individual members can be wrong." Sizing up the two tup antago nists in this rift, Judd points out that many Communist cells around the world have never accepted Khrushchev's policy of de-Staliniz-ation. Mao may have more sup port than he is credited with. What Khrushchev is doing, there fore, in his test ban treaty and his proposals for a nnnaggression pact with the West is to protect his rear while he wages ideologi cal war on his eastern front. "This is my great fear," warns Judd. "Remember that less than a year ago, Khrushchev could have destroyed the United States from Cuba. There can be no peace till communism itself fails. "We can never relax until Khrushchev takes steps that will show he is genuinely interested in permanent world peace." Four acts that would show this intent are listed as: End colonization in eastern Europe as Russia now wants Por WASHINGTON Rockefeller Blasts Young Republicans By FULTON LEWIS JR. The man who wasn't there has offered a less - than - penetrating analysis of the recent Young Re publican National Convention. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller turned down an invitation to ad dress the San Francisco conclave for sound political reasons: His appearance was a guaranteed bomb. Nevertheless, Rocky sounded off the other day: "Every objective observer at San Francisco has reported that the proceedings there were dominated by extremist groups, carefully organized, well financed and operating through the tactics of ruthless, roughshod intimidation. These are the tactics of totalitarianism." Rockefeller went on to charge that supporters of Barry Goldwa ter "disgracefully subverted" the convention in electing Donald "Buz" Lukens as National Chair man. The record has been set straight by E. Slrother Smith, co-chairman of the Virginia YRs. Unlike the New York governor. Smith was in San Francisco. As a mat ter of fact, he and his fellow Vir ginians backed Charles McDevitt. whom Lukens defeated for Na tional Chairman. Virginia YR leaders authorized Smith to write Rockefeller as fol lows: "Tlie Executive Committee of the Young Republican Federation of Virginia was truly shocked and amazed to hear anyone with such a position of trust and responsi bility as you have making such unfounded and prejudiced re marks about a group which has done so much toward Uie further ing of Republican aspirations across the United States as have the Young Republicans." Point by point. Smith dissected the Rockefeller blast. "You charged tlie Young Re publicans with racism." wrote Smith. "Just ask the Negroes of the New York delegation how tlicy got along with tlie racists from North Carolina. Georgia and Ar kansas i in opposing Lukens'. - "As far as the conservative forces being well-financed, it was obvious to all who were truly ob jective that, comparatively speak ing, it was tlie more liberal can didate i McDevitt ' who had the greatest financial resources. In lact. his financial backing was so much greater than anyone eke s that his opposition could charge that be was backed by 'Rockefel ler money.' If there was any out side financing, it certainly seems that it was from tlie liberal side rather than the conservative " Richard Obenchain. chairman of the Virginia YRs, who, too. sup tugal to end its colonization in Af rica. Modify Communist doctrine on world domination and concentrate on better living for Russian peo ple. Completely withdraw Russian support of Cuba. Settle tlie Berlin question by allowing reunification of Germany under free, democratic elections. "There is too much day-to-day thinking about our relations with the Communists," says Judd in summary. "We go into a conference with maintenance of the status quo as our maximum objective. The Rus sians go into a conference with that as a minimum objective. They want more. We don't think far enough ahead." The likelihood that Khrushchev eventually will purge Mao Tse tung is foreseen by Chinese Na tionalist sources on Formosa. If that happens, it is expected that Peking again will fall under Mos cow's domination. Tao Hsi-sheng, chairman of the Central Daily News of Taipei, sees little possibility of Mao softening his antiwestcrn attitude in an attempt to consolidate his own po sition and win allies to China's side in opposition to Russia. Resumption of talks Sept. II be tween American ambassador John Moors Cabot in Warsaw and Red Chinese ambassador Wang Ping nan after a four-month lapse is interesting but not significant. The talks have been going on for eight years without result. Red China's Premier Chou En lai has relayel to Washington an invitation for i new world-wide conference on disarmament. But it is given even less standing than French President Charles de Gaulle's similar proposal. President Kennedy declared, in fact, at his last press conference that a continuation of Red China's present policies would lead to a more dangerous situation in the l!)70s than any faced by this coun try since the end of World War II. There is no hope in that outlook. REPORT . . . ported McDevitt for chairman, ob served: "Hard as Governor Rockefeller may try to tag the Young Repub licans with the odious epithet of extremism, he succeeds only in exaggerating the desperation of his own political strategy. The Young Republicans were virtual ly united in their enthusiasm for Barry Goldwater and their deep belief in the sound principles of constitutional government." The reports of respected news men make Rockefeller's charge more absurd. M. Stanton Evans, editor of the Indianapolis News, writes in National Review that "ruthless, roughshod tactics" were used not by Lukens' sup porters, but by those out to beat him including YR officials from Rockefeller's New York State. Outgoing YR Chairman w a s I-conard Nadasdy, a Minnesota liberal who used every parliamen tary trick at his disposal to de feat Lukens. With the convention machinery arrayed against Lu kens, Editor Evans writes, "the Conservative forces found com munications a particularly diffi cult problem. The difficulty was intensified on the eve of tlie bal loting, when Lukens' headquarters found their phone lines had been cut." Largo groups of liberal dele gates, scrgeants-at-arms and pri vate police idubbed rent-a-cops by conservatives ' roamed the con vention floor to prevent Lukens' workers from moving about. But Lukens won despite almost impos sible odds, and the Young Repub licans had a Goldwater Republi can at their helm. Al manac By United Press International Today is Wednesday, Aug. 26. tlie 2:Urd day of 19M with 132 to follow. The moon is approaching its first phase. The morning stars are Jupiter and Saturn. The evening stars are Mars and Saturn. Those born today include Brit ain's Princess Margaret, in 1930. On this day in history: In 1M0. a group of English (hildren arrived in the United States to seek temporary haven from German air attacks. In Bin, Leon Trotsky one of the main builders of Soviet communism was assassinated in Mexico City. A thought (or tlie day Will Rogers said: "Everything is fun ny as long as it is happening to somebody else."
