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T HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falli, Or. Sunday, September tS. 196$ EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . Korea, Congo, Other Problems Plague UN You Realize, of Course, This Whole Thing's Ridiculous!" Oulside the bounds of Alabama, the new ly programmed desegregation of southern and border state schools proceeded this year almost without incident. The question is why. No one can imagine that when such changes occur they are welcomed, particular ly in Deep South states like Georgia and South Carolina. Yet they are usually accepted in orderly fashion. Counsels of calm prevail. It is apparent that the millions of south erners have a deep commitment to law and order, just as do millions of Americans in other sectors. Often many may disagree with the pur pose and content of particular laws. They may not like what some courts decree as they interpret either the laws or the federal and state constitutions. But they believe that the courts must be obeyed if we are to have rule by law rather than by the whims of men. It is significant that a high proportion of this year's "new desegregation" took place on a voluntary basis. That is, the school districts developed their plans without waiting to be ordered into action by a federal court. (Oregon Statesman, Salem) Among the foremost foes of religious and racial discrimination are the Jews. This is their reaction from the centuries of oppression which they have suffered, some of which they still suffer, even in enlightened Amer ica. It is safe to say that out of that group experience Rabbi Leon M. Adler, of Temple Emanuel, Kensington, Md., framed the prayer which he offered as invocation at the opening of the House of Representatives on August 12th. It is a prayer worth reading for its literary quality as well as its philoso phy. We quote it 0 Lord, Thou hast given us language, the loom on which we weave our thoughts and feelings. Help us this day, as with this gift we fry to weave a design that may have some meaning for our times. "Black Is black," say those who hate the black. "Black heart, black ball, black mass." "And white is white," say those who hate the white. "White as a ghost, whitewash, death ly white." "And never the twain shall meet," is their cry who see the world in simple terms of "black" or "white." But and this Thou knowest well, 0 God the world is not so simple. Black is also black beauty, black-eyed su san; black is the color of my true love's. . . . IN WASHINGTON . By RALPH de T01.EDAN0 ' The time: Autumn, 1961. The place: Attorney General Robert Kennedy's offices in the Justice Department. Tlie topic: How to suppress the to-called radical right. Present at the meeting were United Auto Workers president ' Walter Reuther and his left-wing; brother Victor, They had asked for Uie conference with the At torney General to urge him that the time had come (o wipe out what tliey called the "conserva tive rebellion." Attorney General Kennedy listened to their ideas and then asked (hem to prepare a memorandum. This memorandum has been acknowledged as valid by one of Robert Kennedy's execuUve as sistants. I have been able to ob : tain a copy. It Is a blueprint lor :the suppression of conservatives. ' using the power of government and what sounds suspiciously like . the suspension of civil liberties. . The memorandum, I am in formed, was distributed to all . high Kennedy Administration of ficials and to "certain sympa thetic senators and congress ; men." 1 What Victor Reuther, the real .' author of the memorandum, seeks lis: ' 1. To muzzle the military, to . keep conservatives off active ."duty, end to ban military par ; ticipaUon in the fight against ; Communism. This has been c ;complished by Defense Secretary ; McNamaia. : I. To add to the Attorney Gen ;ral'i subversive list (he names ; of conservative orgeiiations A Lesson In Citizenship . This marks recognition in many quarters that most legal remedies sought as a means of barring desegregation have been exhausted. This being so, more and more communities regard a court fight as a fruitless waste of time, energy and money on all sides. It is a further sign, too, that most Ameri cans of whatever region want their schools open and functioning. The education of mil lions of American children for a new and more challenging day is too important to per mit of any roadblocks. Many southern communities are mindful as well that they are playing an important and growing role in the economic and scien tific revolution that is sweeping the nation. They prize their new place in the scheme of things. They see no point in allowing the ra cial issue or any other to interpose itself between them and further progress. Taken together, these are the reasons some racial change came so quietly this year in parts of the South and border zones. The performance, generally, was indeed a lesson for the whole country. A Prayer And white is also pure white, white sand, white as the driven snow. And if this is true of language, how much the more true of men. ; Woe unto us if we fail to recognize how complicated are the colors which enter into humanity's design, how inter-woven the black and white threads, however the twain must and do meet. May we be granted this knowledge, 0 Lord, for on this slender thread may hang mankind's survival. Amen. Shorter (Atlanta Constitution) ' In these days of disquietude, news that the mile is not as long as it used to be adds but another quiver to the trembling earth of our times. A resurvey of the Mason-Dixon line re cently (they're not contemplating a wall, are they?) revealed the original surveyors of the 87-mile - long line used a measure 10 to 12 feet longer than the present-day mile. We have the word of the Coast and Geo detic Survey for it: the mile isn't what it used to be; it doesn't go as far. You don't have to take anybody's word to know the dollar doesn't either. Reuther Seeks Muzzles which annoy the Rcuthcrs and their friends. 3. To frighten oft financial con tributions to conservative groups by ordering the Internal Reve nue Service to announce that it was investigating those with tax exempt status, 4. To threaten radio and TV stations which broadcast tin servative programs with loss of their licenses. 5. To put a damper on FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover because he "exaggerates the domestic Communist menace." Hie Reuther memorandum ar gues that "an unknown number of millions of Americans of view points bounded on the left by Senator Goldwater and on the right by Robert Welch" of the Birch Society have been organiz ing and presenting their views to Uie American people. The pub lic, presumably, is too stupid to evaluate the arguments of led vs. right and must therefore be protected from conservative "sub version" by Big Brother. "New radical right organiza tions" and the Rcuthers lump all conservatives under that designa tion "have sprung up like weeds in the last (ew years," says the memorandum. "It is estimated by the Anti-Defamation League that almost a hundred such organi zations have been organized In 19K1 alone." The Rcuthers feel that this is somehow un-American. They are particularly dis turbed because John Dalton, then governor of Missouri, "even old cially proclaimed an anti-Communism week" In 1961 when Dr. Kred Schwart ran an Anti-Communist School in SL Louis. If were were anything clandc- Mi stine about Dr. Schwarz's activi tics, there might be grounds for' concern. But he does his work . on lecture platforms, before TV cameras, and in front of banks of microphones. He has the sup port of legitimate business con, corns, movie actors and produc ers, and John Q. Public. The Rcu thers argue that this must stop, and if there are no laws under which (lie Attorney General cir act, then he should go over Dr. Schwarz's income tax returns. ', The Rcuthers. when they are wearing their Sunday best, pro claim loudly the virtues of the Bill of Rights. Free speech, free press, free association these got their blessing. They argue that the Communists, so long as they simply talk, write, and meet open ly (without plotting the violent overthrow of the government) should not be molested. But where Uie right wing Is In volved, they lake a somewliat diiferenl view. The Kcuthor throw up their hands in alarm because "there are vast quanti ties of literature, films, and rec ords emanating from Uie radical right and even such things as rad ical right bookshops are begin ning to spring up." This is really a horrendous thought. Americans are being ex posed (o books by William F. Buckley Jr., editor of National Review, by Senator Goldwatrrr even by the writer of this col umn. Perhaps the Reulhers (eel that these books should be burned and the bookshops that sell them should be smashed. But Sena tor Goldwater writes a newspaper column. To smother his ideas would require repeal of the First Amendment. Bo?' "' mmmmf Letters To The Editor Move Slowly I notice in the Herald and Mews of Sept. S. 1963, that Gold water endorsed former President Eisenhower's recommendation that to the test ban treaty a res ervation be made that the trea ty would not impede U.S. rights to use nuclear weapons in de fense of its security. Surely this recommendation of Eisenhower's is a reasonable amendment to be made to the treaty. Even the average layman knows that oral discussions out side of a written contract con cerning the written contract car ry little weight. We are advised by our leaders that we will be able to use nuclear cannons and other small nuclear arms in our defense and that all of this is understood. But, apparently, lan guage concerning this defense is not included in the treaty itself. We do not need to remember very far back the airlift that we had to put into effect to get coal and food supplies into West By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Every so often, I am greeted by a young, tremulous voice on the telephone, asking me if I will grant an interview. The voice usually wants to be a writer, and is earnestly desirous of ad vice on writing. These requests remind me of a trenchant and amusing article by Wendell Johnson which appeared in Language, Meaning and Ma turity, a book of essays on seman tics. Using the provocative title, "You Can't Write Writing," Prof. Johnson made the obvious but often neglected point that it is as impossible to write "writing" as it is to read "reading," or speak "speaking." One has to write, read and speak something. A poet, for instance, does not write writing: he docs not even write "poetry." He writes poems or. more accurately, a poem at a lime. What is wrong with young peo ple who want to be writers is that they think of writing as an ab stract form that can be learned separately from content. You learn to be a writer, and then you can write but what? They think that writing makes It easy to find a "what," when actually it is the "whatness" that determines how one writes. Shelley and Byron, for exam ple, were superb poets. Were they "writers"? Obviously not, for when they tried to write dramas, Uiey (ailed miserably. In our time. Bernard Shaw is considered perhaps the greatest "writer." Yet his first five novels were failures, and deserved to be. He was a fine playwright and so cial critic; he was not a "writer." If writing has to be about some thing, these young people would be better off learning something that Is. getting a liberal educa tion than learning "how to write." A man cannot be relative ly ignorant of history, politics, psychology, religion and other areas of human inquiry, and still be a "writer" in any meaningful sense of the word. Berlin. It -was understood then, surely, that we had a right-of-way into West Berlin, but since it was not included in the con tract or treaty, some question of interpretation came up which has made for a nervous world from time to time. We have certain proponents for the test ban treaty who want the Americans to ratify this treaty without further study and with out any amendment. There are certain people who wanted to bring our troops home from Germany after a victorious conclusion of World War 11. Be cause we brought those troops home, the world was confronted with much more of a cold war than it would have been had we maintained troops in Berlin of war-time strength instead of act ing in haste. The test ban treaty and wheth er or not it will lead to peace or war and whether it is militari ly advisable is discussed in the U.S. News and World Report of Sept. 2, 1963. Dr. Teller is flat- STRICTLY PERSONAL Indeed, the most serious flaw in many men who call themselves "writers" is that they really have nothing much to write about. They cither possess too little knowledge, or have not sufficient ly organized the knowledge they do have, or else their preoccupa tion with style blinds them to the fact that even the most stylish hat looks empty on a blockhead. When the content is rich and disciplined, all one can do is hope that the style will write Itself. If it doesn't, one has simply chos en the wrong occupation. As final proof, let it be noted that while there may be rules for writing, those who write the rules are gen erally incapable of writing any thing else I BERRY'S WORLD "HtT met tngry ytng nan Tby ctmt tut ualurtUy. ly opposed to It as written as are some of our military leaders, and there are other military lead ers who are giving it very reluc tant' support. There are some of our civic and military leaders who feel that this test ban treaty may bring on war. I further note in the afore mentioned copy of the U.S. News and World Report on page 27 . . . "There are hints that Khrush chev is beginning to think in terms of a large line of credit from the United States . . . would be one approaching $10 billion." It is my thought that some of the civic and congressional lead ers who are attempting to rush us into a test ban treaty without amendment and without further reservations will be the ones who will be in the forefront when the time comes recommending that we make a $10 billion loan to Russia. I personally feel that this $10 billion loan could be used to expand world communism espe cially in the Western hemisphere. What a loss of prestige it would be to the United States if the Russians did not withdraw com pletely from Cuba and we were, in due course, to make (hem a loan of any size. In view of this, is Goldwatcr's proposal that the Russians with draw from Cuba all of -their weapons and all of their person nel an unreasonable reservation? The Goldwater proposal cou pled with the Eisenhower propos al would seem to be in the in terest of the United States. As one individual I feel that further discussion and negotiation should be indulged before t h e United States ratifies this treaty. This further negoUation and in dulgence does not mean that we cannot evolve a test ban treaty which would be fair to all con cerned and preserve the rights of all concerned and our future security and world prestige. Now Is the time to Indulge in further deliberation with a meticulousness and particularity which we have not shown in the past, for the American public is entitled to reasonable safeguards. M. A. Carter, 1KS6 Lowell Street. By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) Near-, ly all of the political issues before Uie U.N. General Assembly this year are holdovers. Thirteen years after the United Nations tackled its first peace keeping operation in Korea, it is still on the agenda with no better prospects for solution. In the past, Soviet Russia has proposed that North and South Korean representatives be sum moned to New York to give the Assembly both sides of the prob lem. Two years ago the United States agreed that North Koreans might come if they would agree to ac cept U.N. decisions on their coun try's future. They didn't come. The same condition was of fered last year. Perhaps the greatest contribu tion to Korean stability that can be made this year would be for South Korea's young military lead er Park Chung Hce to allow dem ocratic elections for the presiden cy, scheduled for Oct. a5. This would silence North Korea's carp ing against the South Korean dic tatorship. By suppressing minorities and jailing his principal opponents for the presidency, Gen. Park has shown his determination to hang onto power, regardless of conse quences. The Congo is probably the most important issue before General Assembly again this year. Secre tary General U Thant would like to close out the U.N. Congo mis sions by the end of the year for lack of money to finance them. So far, the Congolese leaders have refrained from trying to carve each other up. Premier Cy rille lAdoula is still regarded as the most corrtpetent man en the scene, but the county is faced with ruinous inflation and needs help. The Belgian position on the Con go has changed completely. For two years Brussels opposed the U.N. and all its works. Now, most of the Europeans back fn the Congo advising the new govern ment are Belgians. They want WASHINGTON Young Leader By FULTON LEWIS JR. - WASHINGTON A paunchy young man named Josiah Bee man is giving leaders of the Cali fornia Democratic Party night mares. Beeman, an official of t h e Council of Churches, won election earlier this year in a rough-and-tumble fight for the Presidency of the California Young Demo crats. He triumphed over a mod erate Young Democrat, a Negro, who refused to advocate left-wing solutions to many of the coun try's problems. Since then, Beeman has been active in the 13-state conference of Western YDs who won praise from Peoples World, a Commu nist newspaper, for their views last month. In that convention Young Democrats advocated friendly relations with Fidel Cas tro; a non-aggression pact be tween the NATO nations and those of the Communist Warsaw Pact; and removal of U.S. troops from South Vietnam, where Com munist armies threaten a pro West government. Democratic strategists shud dered when Republican leaders, including GOP National Chairman Bill Miller, seized upon the YD policy sUinds. Miller demanded that his Democratic counterpart, John Bailey, repudiate the ex tremist YDs. California Gov. "Pat" Brown, a Democrat, was asked to make a similar repudi ation. Neither has yet opened h i s mouth. To his credit, freshman Rep. Charles Wilson. Los Angeles Dem ocrat, has been forthright in his denunciation of the YDs. The Far West YDs, he said, had faithfully echoed the Kremlin line. They were, he said, "(irm ly in the grasp of a highly vocal group of emotional radicals, peace at - any - pricers, and assorted lunatics." When Wilson arrived at his of fice several days later, he found a blistering letter from Beeman, who accused the Congressman of rightist sympathies. Wilson is a liberal Democrat; he makes no bones about it. His voting record in the Cali fornia State Assembly and the U.S. House has always been lib eral. He is not as Beeman charged in his letter, an advocate of go-slow Civil Rights legisla tion. He was, in fact, one of the comparatively few Congress men present at the Aug. 2a civil rights rally. In his reply, "dlsnn told Bee the U.N. to stay till the country and its economy are more stabi lized. Continuation of the U.N. Emer gency Force of 5,000 men to ob serve the armistice between Israel and her Near East neighbors is another financial problem. Costs of this operation since 1957 have been $112 million. But only $76 million has been paid up and the operation is $36 million in the red. The murder of two Israeli farm ers near the Syrian border became a recent Security Council issue to emphasize the importance of the UNEF role. Magnifying these small incidents into international crises is said to deter their re currence. Presence of the UNEF in the Near East made possible the send ing of a 200-man detachment into Yemen when revolt broke out a year ago. The U.N. assignment has been to effect a disengage ment between Egyptian and Saudi Arabian forces supporting rival Yemini factions. The two coun tries have agreed to meet UNEF costs for two months more, though both are working against it on the ground. It is a tough problem for the U.N. Fifty Afro-Asian countries are demanding that the Viet Nam sit uation be aired in the General Assembly. Presence in the United States of Jlrne. Ngo Dinh TChu, sister-in-law of Viet Nam's Pres ident Diem, while the General Assembly is in session adds a complicating factor to the debate. The United States is trying to have the Vict Nam situation pre sented as a political issue, not as a matter of persecution of the Bud dhists, which Ceylon and other countries want to make it. , Up to now there is no indica tion that Fidel Castro's govern ment, with Communist bloc back ing, will launch the customary ti rade against the United States on "aggression" against Cuba. Other international political dis putes and threats to peace in the shadows of the General Assembly agenda include the India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir, India's charges of aggression by Red China and the Laos situation. REPORT . . . Democrats' On Rampage man he would consult with offi cials of the Democratic National Committee on steps that might deny the California YDs use of the party name. He would, he wrote, continue to press for an official party investigation of Bee man's outfit. Wilson then took the House floor to review other policy positions of the Western YDs. They had, he said, opposed any federal pro gram of civil defense. "Presum ably," the Congressman noted, "the Soviet Union is left free to safeguard its citizens." The 88th Congress has been a "mockery and disgrace to the democratic process," according to the YDs. who urged party leaders to repudiate the entire South. The YDs had further advocated lifting all restrictions on Cuban travel and abolition of the Mc Carran Internal Security Act. Representative Wilson observed: "I am sure the Soviet Union and Red China would be only too pleased to see us adopt the pol icy position of the Western State Young Democrats. Must we sit idly by while the good name of our party is dragged through this political gutter? I do not believe we would be fulfilling our duty as members of the Demo cratic Party if we were to re main silent." Beeman was not shaken by Wil son's forthright stand. He chaired a subsequent convention of Cali fornia Young Democrats where many of the same stands Were repeated. On Sept. 8. the Cali fornia YDs came out for recogni tion of Red China, conditional rec ognition of East Germany, nor malization of trade and diploma tic relations with Fidel Castro, and a gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Vietnam. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q Is the bald eagle, Ameri ca's national bird, in danger of extinction? A There arc only about 4,000 bald eagles in the U.S., excluding Alaska, and there has been a se vere drop in the number of young eagles being hatched. (J-Whal dors the U.S. Constl tution stipulate regarding recess ing of Congress? A Neither branch of Congress may recess for more than (hree. days without consent of Die other.
