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PACE A HERALD AM) NEWS, Klamath Falli, Ore. Friday, September 20, 1963 EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . . UN Power Politics Will Create Trouble "Guess What! You're Almost Holding Your Own!" It is the view of this newspaper that Senator Goldwater is rendering a signal serv ice to the American people in withholding his approval of the test ban treaty until Russia's good faith is evidenced by removal of that na tion's troops from Cuba. Just as Hitler's intentions were spelled out in advance in "Mein Kampf," Russia's program of using periods of false friendliness tied in with trivial and meaningless conces sions to soften up her adversaries has not only been proven by the record but plainly set forth in outlines of policy. it is hard to believe that the state of our foreign policy has fallen so far in one year. . Last October, our young President, freeing himself for a time from the debilitating in fluence of the Rusks and Harrimans, gave us a feeling of national pride when he assured us that communism in the Western Hemis phere would not be negotiated and the Mon roe Doctrine would be upheld and also in spired our confidence by stating the fact proven by history that it is more dangerous 10 give Ml Siep Dy step lu amjiesaive uiciaiui- ships than to stand firm. Now we have the spectacle of Russian pronouncements that Communism is estab lished in Cuba beyond challenge, together with extensive military ,ind naval activity gravely threatening the Americas. We have (The Blade, Toledo, Ohio) Poor old Univac! After performing loyal ly for 10V4 years for the Army Map Service with nary a squeak about being overworked and underpaid Univac I, a pioneer in the au tomation breakthrough, finally got the sack. Not unlike many a human machine, Univac has been replaced by a young whippersnappcr known as Honeywell-H 800, which is supposed to be a lot smarter, faster, and more efficient. The map service people held a little re tirement ceremony for Univac I the other day. Folks who had watched Univac perform down through the years praised it for its faithful 1 WILLIAM By WILLIAM S. WHITE WASHINGTON-So much atten tion is being fixed on the iffy mat ter of whether Sen. Barry Gold water will actively seek the Republican Presidential nomina tion as to hide, in ail this pre occupation with the uncertuin, something thai Is already both certain and profoundly significant. This is the great certainty: No matter what his eventual attitude may be toward asking for the big prize, Senator Goldwater has al ready the final determination and the undoubted capacity tn force the Republican National Convention into a historic light for control of the mind and pur poses of the party. It can well be '. a struggle between right and left '.of a severity matched in Uiis cen tury only by the bitter conten tions of tho William Howard T a f t and Theodore Roosevelt ; forces a lifetime ago. ; Goldwater, as Is clear to those ;ln position to watch him at close ;hand, is painfully involved in a debate within himself as to the wisdom of going all-out for the -nomination. One day the balance tips toward "yes." Another day, it teeters down toward "no." But this Indecision on the point of his personal ambition is accom panied by a totally fixed decision on the point of what policies the Republicans should take to the - country in next year's President! ' al election, no matter who the standnrd-licnrcr may lie. . Goldwater has said privately that his one unshakable resolve is not to seo the GOP leave next year's convention hall with a platform on the harsher do mestic issues notably civil rights that seeks In any way to "out promise" the Democrats. He has added that if he should seek and win the nomination he would "refuse to run on any platform that attempted to further divide the American people." Rather, he will "insist on a statement of unity that would tend to bring America together rather than to continue to divide it for the benefit of politics." This gen eralization means, among other things, that GoldwaUr will not ac cept any compulsory civil rights Jilank tltat would be genuinely nlolerable as distinguished from merely unwelcome to the South ; ern and Border Stales. ; It means, too, that should he mm A Worthless Treaty the recent memory of wining and dining and a friendly badminton game between our Sec retary of State and Mr. Khrushchev at about the same time that women, children and help less elderly people were being shot down in cold blood at the Berlin wall. We hear reports that our President is going to demean him self by being willing to speak to the same Mr. Gromyko who lied to him barefacedly last year about the rocket installations In Cuba. This newspaper certainly does not recom mend that the United States should start at mospheric testing, unless some real need should arise. Other nations of the world are concerned, and rightly, about poisoning of the atmosphere. If possible, we should let the Russians bear the onus of starting the next atmospheric tests. Meanwhile, it is important to keep our powder dry. Also, we should keep our per spective. The works of the Russians are such that no faith is justified. We say, "Stand firm, Barry. Your vigi lance may save us from , the sleeping on watch that could be the end of free America. You are right that in the face of Communistic invasion of the Western Hemisphere and Com munistic barbarity in Berlin a treaty with Rus sia is no more than a piece of paper. Even taking the trouble to ratify it is much ado about nothing." Hope For Man, Yet service, a few sentimental blokes gave it a fond parting pat on the console, and that was it. Didn't even rate a gold watch or a lapel pin. We can all take some encouragement from this evidence that the machines that man invents that replace other men in jobs don't last forever. Many of the people who showed up to pay farewell to Univac were on the job there when the electronic wonder made its debut. And chances are, they will be around to pay their respects to Honeywcll-H 800 when it, loo, will follow Univac I into obsoles cence. , , S. WHITE . . . Goldwater Holds Cards himself not enter the race, his immense power at tho convention and it will be a power among the regular Republicans not ex ceeded even by Uiat of the man actually nominated will slill be exercised to veto any platform proposal he considers to be ex tremist in tone. It is not merely on civil righls that Goldwater disagrees with nearly all the other Republican Presidential possibilities now in sight including Governors Nel son Rockefeller of New York. Wil liam Scranton of Pennsylvania and George Romney of Michigan. A similar disagreement, polite but real, exists over nearly the whole field of social welfarism. All the olliers almost certainly would want to commit the GOP lo a strong touch of urban wel farism. Willi this, Goldwater sim ply will not go along. Where the olliers will see this urban welfarism as only a prop er recognition of urban interests, Goldwater will sec it as an un BErTRTS WORLD "You Uk I hi gtrbtgi tut... I'm cblcktnV justifiable pandering lo urban voting blocs. He looks upon the Democrats as already fatally losl to a meth od of urban power politics which, rightly or wrongly, he be lieves to be Increasingly disrup tive of national unity. He is ready In commit all his influence against any Republican emulation of that model, any Republican "mc-too-ism." Thus, the preconditions are al ready firmly established and. again, regardless of whether Gold water himself goes for the nomi nalion for an immense contest within the GOP. Almost beyond question, he can win. or all but win, that contest in Hie conven tion, so far as its platform poli cies will be concerned. Kor it is not easy to see how a liberal Republican can be nominated without at least his sufferance. And il Is even less easy to see such a liberal marching from the convention hall on a platform not, at the end. essentially "cleared with Rarrv." ti-. : - V' IN WASHINGTON . By RALPH de TOLEDANO Back in the McCarthy Era, lib erals complained bitterly that anyone who disagreed with the junior senator from Wisconsin or his followers was accused of be ing a Communist. The statement was hardly true, but it was broadcast to the four corners of the country. Now the pendulum has swung the oilier way, and it seems stuck there. So if you stand to the right of center, watch out. A reading of the Congressional Record shows that day after day the New Frontier's orators attach the "far right" ,type of expletive lo anyone who doesn't believe that a new Revelation is emerging from the White House. During the debate on the test ban treaty. Senator Hubert Hora tio Humphrey (D.-Minn.) lashed By SYDNEY J. HARRIS A reader has suggested that 1 incorporate in my next "preju dices" column a paragraph about the use of the phrase "true facts." He insists, and properly, that this redundancy is a common error, since anything that is really a fact has to be "true." Grammatically speaking, he is correct. We use many redundan cies in sjieech and writing: some of them come out of ignorance or sloppiness or the felt need for emphasis. A few. like "true facts," can be defended. Why does anyone say he wants the "(rue fads" instead of mere ly "the facts'.'" What lie means, 1 think, is that he wants more than the acts he wants the true significance underlying them. We all know how master propa gandists, orators, politicians and special pleaders can take facts I all of them true in themselves! and glue them together tn give a totally false picture of a situation. All of us. at times, have been with persons who seem to have all the facts about a particular problem in their possession. They can rattle them off glibly: and yet their position and conclusions do not satisfy us. This is because facts do not salisly us. We are oltcn in the strange position of believing tliom to be true and false at the same lime: they may be true in a physical sense, hut false in their implications or in the values they seem to carry. It is a facl, for instance , thai Lincoln suffered from involutional melancholia and sometimes con templated suicide. What can ue do with such a fart? His political enemies might use It to indict his sanity or stability, but we rightly reject Ihis indict ment because it tells us little about his true character. And adding up all (lie facts about an individual still does not give us the essence ol his personality. Grammarians may sneer at the phrase, "true facts." but this is only because they are not psy chologisls. and fail to see be neath the words into a deep hu hi r III L m ta ill j Ft What Is The 'Far Right? nut against what he called "the fright peddlers, fear mongers, and professional anti-Communists who haunt this land." In the cloakroom. Senator Spessard Hol land (D.-Kla.l agreed and com plained that he was swamped by mail from the "far right." But what were these two honor able members of the Senate re ferring to? Simply to the people who opposed the treaty and feel that it will endanger the United States. To say that the Soviet Union has systematically violated its treaties and cannot be trust ed a historical fact is consid ered a sign that one has surren dered his soul to the "far right." (This will make difficulties for the Messrs. Humphrey and Hol land. Their very liberal colleague, Senator Paul Douglas (D.-Ill.i. is among those placed by Capitol Hill STRICTLY PERSONAL man hunger for value and mean ing and perspective. In the end, nobody is more deluded and de feated than the man who builds his life on facts. Almanac By United Press International Today is Friday, Sept. 20, the 2S:lrd day of 19S.1 with KB lo fol low. The moon is approaching first quarter. The morning star is Jupiter. The evening stars are Jupiter and Saturn. On this day in history: In 1519. Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan begun his global voyage to find a western passage to tile Indies with five ships and 270 men. In 1873, financial chaos reached a climax in the panic of 1873, and the New York Stock Ex change closed its doors. in 1881, Vice-President Charles A. Arthur became the 21st Presi dent of the United Stales upon the death of president Garfield. In IfltiO. the United Nations ad mitted 13 African countries in tlie opening of a turbulent Gen eral Assembly session attended by several Communist leaders. A thought for the day The Swedish statesman. Axel Oxen slicrn. said: "Behold, my son. with how little wisdom the world is governed." OUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q What year was known as the "year of ronlusion?" A When Julius Caesar adjust ed the calendar and made 40 B C. 15 months long. O Which was the only eheml rjl element discovered la the .Middle Ages? A Arsenic, discovered by Al hertus Magnus in the 13th Century- observers in the doubtful column on the Treaty of Moscow. And he has always been unrcgen eralcly suspicious of the Com munists. In fact, he has broken the liberal code by siding with those who oppose membership in the United Nations for Red Chi na. This therefore must make Senator Douglas a member of the "far right".) The mail against the Moscow Treaty has been overwhelming, and it grows heavier every day. One senator whose mail was evenly balanced ten days ago now finds that it is ten to one against. This is being dismissed as part of a campaign by the "far right," although no senator has yet come across the distinguishing marks of pressure tactics similar word ing, punctuation, etc. This should indicate the spontaneity of popu lar concern. It is not only over such mat ters as the test ban treaty that the "far right" accusation is made. It has now gotten to the point where a statement in support of a balanced budget is met by the charge. Yet this is a matter of economics, and Harvard profes sors can he found who feel that a chronic budget deficit must be ended if this country is to avoid serious trouble. But this is only the beginning. If you mention that there is more tn the Constitution than the Four teenth Amendment or that by loo-7calous attempts at enforcing it the First Amendment is some times violated than you are dauhed with the "far right" tar brush. Federal aid (o education, area redevclooment. urban renewal, raising the debt ceiling these is sues are also tests. If you op pose them, you are in league with the "far right" and. of course, not fit to be admitted tn public accommodations. If you favor a stronger line against Communist Cuba, ditto. Some Republican liberals have begun to take up the chanl. Sena tor Thomas Kuchel of California, who owes his Senate seat to Rich ard Nixon, has sung the "far right" song. So. loo, has Gover nor Nelson Rockefeller, who may have euchred himself out of the GOP nomination with the dit ty. But docs the phrase mean any thing? It was first aoplied. and properly, to the crackpot (rince of tlie right. But it has been grad ually extended by liberal phrase makers and propagandists to in clude anyone outside what Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. called the "vi tal center" a position which to him included New-Fair Dealism, socialism, and left liberalism, i Mr. Schlesinger himself conceded that the "vital center" was an extreme.1 What does the use of this mis nomerwhen applied to construc tive conservatives achieve? At first, it tended to smear those against whom it was directed. But It has been used so indiscrim inately, that it is rapidly losing its elfcctiveness. Eventually, it will be used as a cover by tlie real "far rightists" and those who wield tlie term like an ax will find their efforts defeated. "Liberal" and "conservative" are good enough words, even as de fined today. Senator Humphrev would do well to confine himself to them instead of resorting to a verbal tar-and-feather technique. By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON INEA! Secre tary of State Dean Rusk will be in New York for the first two weeks of the United Nations Gen eral Assembly session which con vened Sept. 17. Unlike Secretary Dulles before him. Rusk will not appear as head of the American delegation nor will he make the official American address in opening gen eral debate. That will be left tn Ambassador Adlai Stevenson or to President Kennedy if he at tends. What Secretary Rusk is going to New York for is to hold pri vate talks with all top foreign dignitaries and permit them to conduct bilateral discussions with the United States. This is what Assistant Secre tary of State Harlan Cleveland calls "switchboard diplomacy." It is one of the most valuable aspects of the Assembly. It per mits direct discussion of trouble some issues not on the U.N. agen da and keeps them from becom ing donnybrooks in open debate. Sosa Rodriguez of Venezuela for the past two years his coun try's representative on the Secur ity Council is considered a shoo in for the General Assembly pres idency this year. There will be a fight over selec tion of three new members, of the Security Council, for there are four candidates. Bolivia will suc ceed Venezuela as the Latin Amer ican member. Ghana, which has been considered tlie British Com monwealth member, will be suc ceeded by the former French col ony Ivory Coast as a member for Africa. Malaya Malaysia is slated to succeed the Philippines which split the last two-year term with Romania. But the Communist bloc is backing Czechoslovakia as successor to Romania and a rep resentative of Eastern Europe. Russia has also made a pro posal that the British Common wealth seat and one of the two Latin American seats on the Se curity Council be given perma nently, to Asia and Africa. This will create a ruckus in U.N. power politics. WASHINGTON REPORT . . .Political Strategy Backfires On Rocky By FULTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON A carefully conceived political sUategem has boomeranged and Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller finds himself on the outside looking in. The stratagem: Tie Barry Gold water to the Radical Right. For months the New York Governor has hammered away at Goldwa ter and his conservative backers. As a result, Rocky has thor oughly antagonized party pros who see him as a divisive element and a positive threat to GOP unity. When Rockefeller jour neyed west to Ogle County, III., last week, he saw at firsthand the fruits of his labor. Not a single GOP leader was on hand as Rockefeller addressed the Ogle County Fair at Oregon, a town of less than 4.000 per sons. Rep. John Anderson, who rep resents the area in Washington, refused to show up. So did Ever ett McKinlcy Dirkscn, GOP Sen ale Minority Leader. Three can didates for Illinois' GOP Guber natorial nomination also declined to meet with Rocky. That Hayes Robertson, a con servative, and Charles Carpcn lier. a moderate, turned down bids, was nol surprising. Political eyebrows were raised, however, when Charles Percy, for a long lime thought a Rockefeller parti san, refused tn appear. In recent months Percy has tried to appeal more and more to the Party's regulars. He says Goldwater would make the strongest Illi nois race of any GOP nominee. He has moved to cut all lies with Rockefeller. Several local GOP leaders were conspicuous hy tlieir absence. One was Mrs. Katie Hoffman, presi dent of the Women's Republican Club of nearby Winnebago Coun ty. Rocky's Illinois appearance came two days after New York City voters gave him a sharp rebuke. Rockefeller had personal ly selected a cousin, Richard Al drich. as GOP nominee for Man hattan Councilman - at - Large. When little-known John Lamula announced he would challenge Aldr'ch in the primary. Rocke feller aides attempted to have Lamula denied a spot on the bal lot. Ijmula finally won the right tn run, then came within 342 votes of the organization choice. Al drich. A local headline screamed: t Rockefeller is primary's big kis- ' er The New York Journal-Amer The United States will oppose the Czech nomination on the grounds that an Eastern Euro pean representative on the Secur ity Council has never been agreed to. The U.S. does favor enlarge ment of the Security Council to give the new African and Asian nations the greater U.N. roles they seek. 'Russia has consistently opposed enlargement of the Security Council until Red China is admit ted to membership and replaces Nationalist China as a permanent member. Just how enthusiastic Russia is going to be for admission of Red China to the U.N. this year in view of the widening split be tween Moscow and Peking re mains to be seen. No new nations are scheduled for admission to the U.N. this year. It now has 111 members, eventually may have 150. The little island of Malta in the Mediterranean is next in line but will not get its independence in time. It will be the smallest U.N. member with a population of 320, 000 and an area of 95 square miles about the size of the Dis trict of Columbia. The membership question that really has the General Assembly worried this year is a drive by African nations to expet South Africa and Portugal because of their racial policies. The U.S. opposes this because the U.N. charter provides that members may be expelled only on recommendation of the Se curity Council. Tampering with membership would soon make the U.N. a too-exclusive club and de stroy its value Failing in their drive to expel South Africa and Portugal, the Africans may resort to boycotting General Assembly or committee sessions when Portuguese or South Africans speak. The tactic of "conference rioting" was em ployed at three U.N. specialized agency conferences this summer. An effort is being made to con vince the Africans that accepting the disadvantages of democracy also means accepting some of the disadvantages. This includes hav ing to sit bored or disgusted while those you don't like speak. ican saw in this "stinging re buke a possible local handicap to Rockefeller's 1964 Presidential hopes." To make matters worse. Demo crats then rejected a GOP deal that would call off a state-wide judicial election this fall. Fearful that Rocky's popularity has plum meted badly, the Governor's aides approached Democratic leaders with a proposal. The GOP would endorse a Demo crat for a vacancy on the State Court of Appeals. The seat had been held by a Republican and party leaders hoped the Democrats would return the favor by endors ing a GOP candidate in 1915. No dice said Democratic stra tegists, including New York May or Robert Wagner. So Republicans announced that they would en dorse the Democratic candidate anyway. The New York Herald Tribune explained: "Mr. Rockefeller, a leading candidate for his party's Pres idential ' nomination next year, was reportedly unwilling to jeop ardize his political prestige in what would have been the only state-wide contest in the Nov. 5 election." Note: Rockefeller-endorsed can. didates did win primary contests in upstate Erie County last week. These victories arc not consid ered particularly significant as the GOP candidates were first endorsed by Stale Senator Walter Mahoncy, GOP leader in that body. Mahoncy is a solid conserva tive. He will, in fact, address the first annual dinner of the New York Conservative Party, the llcdgling outfit that took more than 100.000 votes away from Rocky in last year's gubernatorial race. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Roadblock I have just read of tlie arrest of a man for driving his car into a train on Midland Road, t can sure understand how he felt, for I sat there an hour recently wail ing for one to move. The man was arrested for being drunk. Maybe the train crew should be fined for keeping a road blocked for "so long. John Welch, P.O. Box 58, Tulelake, Calif.
