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PAGE- r- Sen. Karl Mundt of South Dakota is $mong the leaders in government who advo cate changes in the method of electing the president. He and other government officials and students of government will be interested in the report on the method of selecting a chief Executive which is being prepared by the public Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. The report is part of a Chamber educa-' tlon campaign looking toward a Chamber ref erendum on the subject in 1965. Among facts reviewed in the report: Three men were elected President of the United Slates, despite the fact that they re ceived fewer popular votes than their chief opponent. They were John Quincy Adams in 1824 (he was elected by the House of Repre ' The welfare staters who have been ad vocating government health insurance might very well take a look at some figures released in; the annual report of the Health Insurance Council. The report says more than 141 mil lion Americans had some form of health in surance at the end of 1962. This coverage represents 76 per cent of America's civilian population. Never before have the figures been so high and the insurance companies pqint out that next year the percentage may be even greater. ; To quote some more figures from the an nual report, the amount of benefits paid last year was $6.2 billion, also a record. The com panies paid, in addition, $906 million in bene fits from loss-of-income policies. Hospital insurance covered 141,151,000 Americans and surgical expenses covered 131,185,000. Regular me'dical expense insur ance offered protection to 98.204,000 and WILLIAM By WILLIAM S. WHITE WASHINGTON The Ropuli can pros have now begun the en circlement by which they mean to destroy the presidential aspira tions of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York. They intend, if pos sible, to finish him off very early in the first-in-the-nalion Repub lican primary next March in New Hampshire. The odds are 3 to 1 they will succeed. The obvious reasons for the governor's weakness against Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, the present front-runner for the GOP nomination, have been a hundred times mashed over: Rockefeller's divorce and remar riage to a divorced mother of small children; his untypically Republican views, and so on. All these, however, are no more important than another reason never yet mentioned aloud. The deep, underlying disability of the Rockefeller candidacy is the curi ous" Isolation of Rockefeller him self an isolation matched, too, by that of the New York Demo cratic politicians from the most basic political realities of the na tion at large. The bottom truth Is that New York, which on form ought to be lJie- most politically significant state, has become, in both parties, almost as removed from t h e rest of the country as has. say, United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan. Not many years ago, New York and New Yorkers fundamentally ran our presidential politics, and. in the end, I he internal na tional politics of both parties. Today, the fortunes of t h e Democratic party in New York have fallen so low that it is im possible to name a single Demo cratic figure with the remotest national appeal. This is not to say that there are not good men In Hie party. It is to say that tho party has be come a shambles and a fiction in terms of organized strength and political rcak'sm. The nearest thing to a state wide leader, using the term loose ly, is perhaps the mayor of New York City, Robert Wagner. But Wagner In fact is more an un easily perched symbol of a fran tically jealous and parochial-mind-ed factionalism than a leader of anything that could be called an HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Electing A President s Medicare Still Needed? S. WHITE . Rockefeller In Trouble organized Democratic party with any national savvy. Today, the Republican party in . LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Canine I know this letter is a bit un usual and you probably won't print it but maybe you will and wo will feel much better to know we'vo left no stone unturned. You see on a Sunday night about 0 o'clock our little dog was hit and killed on the highway, though really of no fault of the , driver. Tho little guy had just followed our older dog across and I went out to call them back. The older dog came right away but the little guy hesitated a sec ond so I started scolding him. Then I saw the car coming up Hie road but it was too late, the little guy ran right out in front of it to obey me. We dearly loved the little guy and he w as like a member of I lie family. He w-ent everywhere with us, even to town or Just to the store, inspecting each pack ago to see If we'd bought him something. We've tried In find out who raised him but came to a dead end at Albers feed Store where we bought him throe years ago In I960, in June. Ho was 6 weeks old at the time and no bigger than a minute and his tan color ing, big ears and eyes and such a tiny face made him look like a little fawn. We would dearly love another little guy to fill Die gap but can't find out who raised the puppy. He was supposed to be Chihua hua and Pekingese cross and was put in a big box at Albers Feed Store on South Sixth where we bought him. Another won't lake his place he cause he was more human than a lot of people I know, but it will ease our loneliness for the little guy and our two little kids will soon get over his loss. Mrs. D. Duff Monday, September 30, 1961 sentatives), Rutherford B. Hayes in 1867, and Benjamin Harrison in 1888. In 11 other presidential elections, the successful candidate received less than 50 per cent of the popular vote. This last happened in 1960, when President Kennedy nosed out former Vice President Richard M. Nixon. The Chamber believes that inasmuch as the man who occupies the White House can have an important impact on the lives of all indi viduals, everyone will want to work to see he is elected in the best possible way. Frank P. Fogarty, executive vice presi dent, Meredith Broadcasting Co., Omaha, Neb., who is making the report, hopes it will stimulate thought and interest. He said: "A decision on the matter will come about only through enlightened public opinion. . . ." major medical expenses covered 38,250,000. This showed an increase of 12 per cent from 1961. Again private enterprise has shown it can provide what the welfare staters think is an obligation of Uncle Sam. And it should be borne in mind that these policies are ad ministered by private individuals on the pay rolls of insurance companies and not on a government payroll, financed by you and you and you. In Texas recently a group of insurance companies perfected plans to pool resources to offer hospitalization policies to the aged at a modest cost probably cheaper than the government could do it. Which would be no great feat. ' Therefore, these figures seem to indicate no further consideration of the vaunted med , icare program is needed. The government can now look after its own bellyache. New York Stale is not really much better off. Wagner, as the more-or-less Democratic leader of New York, is the victim of years of furious ideological hair-splitting in a par ty which largely occupies itself with absurd inner rivalries as to who can be more foolishly "lib eral" than whom. That he himself has long whipped up this girls school feuding does nothing to ease his problem. On the Republican side, Rocke feller is tho victim of his own in capacity to come to grips with the root fact that his is not only a very wido but also essentially still a moderate to conservative country and that most of it lies beyond the Hudson River. Since 1958 he has been running his show as though the interests and attitudes of his own pail of the East ueabonrd were rightly and inevitably the interests and attitudes of the balance of the na tion. This explains his tendency to read out of tile party as "bad" Republicans perhaps members of some sinister "radi cal right" all who do not meet tile local standards of good or "liberal" Republicans which he has assumed to be the only prop er norm. Undoubtedly he has developed a strong and informed view of in ternational affairs. Only his kind est friends, however, could argue that he has shown much under standing of national politics. Hie consequences of his apart ness from the Republicanism of the nation generally are now be coming clear. Rockefeller is un able to find effective party al lies outside his own bailiwick: he has driven away too many of the pros for their heretical unwilling, ness to lit his concept of the proper Republicanism. He has. to be blunt. Just about localized and liberaled himself out of busi ness, as the co-called Democratic leaders have done. Thin he enters the great test of next March in New Hampshire against Goldwater with that most wignant of all shortages to a po lilical commander: He just hasn't got the troops among the pros. Goldwater, on the oilier hand, has many troops. Indeed not least a powerful and sitting Republican senator from New Hampshire. Norris Cotton, who Is now going to the Iron! for him. r. ', 'jit?-',Mi, - r'ji'f , Nflri ' I cm Bfy Xj?'' Ji ' - Lack By RALPH de TOLEDANO A VOICE FOR FREEDOM IS SILENCED The fight for freedom is every man's. It must be shared by all those ready to pledge their life, liberty, and sacred honor for the principles which have lifted man out of bestiality and given him the right to claim with dignity the love of God. Freedom fighters have died in Budapest or in Cuba their blood spilling out on the cobblestones and into the dirt. There is, how ever, another kind of death, less dramatic but far more tragic. I mean the death of those who have fought without thought of rec ompense but find themselves, si lenced. This is the great frustration to be alive, to know, but to be gagged because too many people have their eyes glued to the television set to care, too many politicians have their cars to the ground of public approbation, too many "statesmen" have forgotten the first lesson of patriotism. All of this is preamble to a very sad fact. The Cuban Infor mation Service which means Car los Todd and a group of devoted assistants has been forced to cease publication of its invaluable newsletter. This may sound minor. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS The distinguishing mark of a good mind, it seems to me, is the ability to hold two conflicting ideas at the same time, and to be dominated by neither. This is extremely hard to do. Consider the two propositions: "Everybody is different" and "Everybody is pretty much the same." I believe that both these statements arc true, and that a realistic view of life consists in holding them in balance at all times. If we are dominated only by the first proposition, "Everybody is different, " we become Hie most arrant kind of individuals. If we overstrcss the uniqueness of tlie individual, we ignore the fact that nun's nature is basically so cial. The consequences ol such a view arc usually despotism, oli garchy, or fascism K we are dominated by the second proposition, "Everybody is pretty much the same," we become the most insensitive kind of collectivist. If we overstrcss Al manac By I'nlted Press lntrrnational Today is Monday. Sept. 30, the 273rd day of IWIt with 93 to fol low. The moon is approaching its full phase. The morning star is .lupitcr. The evening stars are Jupiter and Saturn. On this day in history: In 19.18. Germany, France, Brit ain and Italy met in Munich for the conference which British Prime Minister Neville Chamber lain said promised "peace in our time." The Great Thaw i "r ! i- .in , tfrWn- IN WASHINGTON . . . Of Funds Hut it is of the utmost importance. For the CIS has been the most accurate reporter of events in Cuba under Fidel Castro. Week after week, it has been an authentic voice of conscience and truth. Where the great news gathering agencies and the im portant newspapers have failed to know or to tell the truth about Fidel Castro's Cuba, the Cuban Information Service has presented and documented the facts. It has reached out to 27 countries, to over 700 newspapers and 1.000 .adio and television stations from one end of the Western Hemis uhere to another. ' The Central Intelligence Agen cy has paid serious attention to the CIS reports. Newspapermen have been able to find solid substantiation for their stories on Cuba. Fresh and vital information has appeared in the multigraphed pages of the CIS newsletter long before the news media have got ten around to it. Perhaps more important, Cu bans and Americans have derived nourishment from tho news found in the CIS newsletter. It has helped to keep alive the spirit of rebellion within the Castro Com munist prison-island, and the spir it of faith among the Cuban exiles. This, in itself, was enough to STRICTLY PERSONAL. the common denominator of man kind, we ignore the fact that it is the spirit of individuality that gives meaning and flavor and delight to human existence. The consequences of such a view are often mass mediocrity, sheepish subservience, and communism. Proust, in his great novel, re marks that "The universe is the same for all of us. and different for each of us." The same for all of us we liave the same needs, the same loves, the same fears. Uic same rights, the same respon sibilities. And the man who de nies this in the name of "indi vidualism" becomes a dehuman ized creature. Different for each of us for each is a distinct unique person ality, with his own way of look ing at life, his own independence and autonomy, his own freedom to make decisions, his ow n end in himself. And the man who de nies this in the name ol "society" cruelly sacrifices personal values or abstract social ones that can never be realized by collective action. Humanity is perpetually in tlie position of a charioteer with two horses wanting to go in opposite directions at the same time. If we give in to one or to the otltcr, we cannot avoid crashing over the precipice. Like every good horseman, we must give each steed just the right amount of Irvcdom and lite right amount of control. To determine these de grees, and the proportions be tween them, is the continuing hu man task. It cannot be done if we allow either conflicting idea to run an ay with us. out of fear, or greed, or simple ignorance. The skillful combination of opposite is almost the whole art of living. Hits CIS warrant continued publication. But the college libraries, the members of Congress, the diplo mats, and the student organiza tions which received the CIS news letter without cost could add a word concerning their indebted ness. The Cuban Information Service is dead because it has run out of money. Voluntary contributions have not been enough to keep the operation going. The unpaid help of those who realized its worth has not been sufficient to sustain the newslet ter. Its editor has been forced to realize that he must, from lime to time, act. And the CIA, which scatters its billions as it will, with no check from Congress, cannot find it in its heart to aid CIS. CIA has em barked on some wild adventures all expensive overseas. But it cannot extend a helping hand to tlie Cuban Information Service. What then is the result? And who will profit? The steady but vital flow of in formation on Soviet moves in Cuba will dry up. No longer will correspondents learn of military activities on tlie island, of the clandestine shipment of arms, of the growing command of Cuban armed forces by the Soviet mili tary, of the battle between free dom guerrillas and Castro's mer cenaries. The net gain will be to the Communists, for every scrap of information on Cuba is detri mental to the Reds. What the Cas tro Communists are doing to sub vert this Hemisphere will be for gotten. But this need not be. If there arc enough Americans who real ize the importance of keeping the news lanes open, of encour aging a 24-hour alert, and of not letting the Cuba issue die, then the Cuban Informaiton Service can be revived. If you agree, then write to Carlos Todd at 5807 Pon de Leon Boulevard in Coral Ga bles. Fla. Urge him to continue his work. And contribute enough so that the cost of educating all of us in this hour of peril will not fall to a single, dedicated man. BERRY'S WORLD "Tltb this tcMutf, our ucmfioVHetl tourt tiil tauntrr tb Rrpublicw' noupelitinl tourtl" Letters To Preserved President Kennedy is expected to fly over the sand dunes south of Florence soon, after which he will probably say that this "unique area should be preserved for the public to enjoy." The facts are: the sand dunes area is already "preserved" be cause it is administered by the U.S. Forest Service some 19.000 acres along the coast from Flor ence almost to Coos Bay. Eleven excellent recreational areas with 272 overnight camp sites, boat ramps, access roads and other fa cilities are maintained by the for est service. In addition, there are state parks, including Umpqua Light house of about 3,000 acres and Honeyman of 522 acres. These two state parks ouldraw Crater Lake National Park. There is no van ishing seashore here and no need of wasteful duplication. The Neuberger dunes park proj ect would also take in about 276 homes and private businesses. Al though there is a provision in the bill prohibiting condemnation of homes, this means very little. Sen ator Ernest Gruening of Alaska has declared "sooner or later the home owners would be squeezed out." Conrad L. Wirth stated plans call for returning the area to wil derness and removing all housing. Wirth, director of the National Park Service, has written, "An other thing I would like to sec is the elimination of private hold ings in national parks." The agency can make it very incon venient for home owners, as their water supplies, roads etc., ' depend on the park officials who don't want them there in the first place. The proposed park would take in a large tract of private proper ty which now helps through taxes By FULTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON A Federal grand jury has summoned for closed-door testimony leaders of a radical new group who advocate violent revolution to establish a "genuine workers' state." Security officials reveal that Milt Rosen and Mort Schcer, for mer key operatives in the Com munist Party, broke with their su periors several years ago. The two New Yorkers accused party boss Gus Hall of ideological trea son in backing the Soviet Union in its long-simmering feud with Red China. They charged Hall with a lack of militancy in fighting the class war. They denounced the United Front policy w hich he favored. By tlie fall of 1961. Hall and the other members of the Com munist hierarchy were forced to take drastic action. They expelled the tw o dissidents, citing their pro Chinese sentiments. With the expulsion ol Rosen and Schecr, Hall found he had lost the services of several hundred young Communists who, too, favored the Chinese approach. In late 1961, Rosena and Schcer formed Progressive Labor. They now claim 1,000 members, 90 per cent of them under 40 years of age. Approximately 350 arc for mer members of the Communist Party. The Progressive Labor philos ophy has been described by Levi Laub, a dark-haired young man who led (he recent tour of 58 Americans across Cuba. He says: "We consider ourselves Marxist. Leninists. Whatever name you want to call us Communist. So cialistif it fits, we'll wear it. We defend the Communist Party's right to exist in the United States The Editor to support local schools, hospitals. Unlike the forest service, the park service locks up its hold ings. Only two per cent of Yellow stone is used and about the same in Olympic Park where few of the 880,000 acres will ever be visited by vacationists. If Presicent Kennedy really wants to economize, protect home owners, and provide recreation for the American people he will ' speak out against this needless sand dunes park. Dr. Thomas M. Hunt, Florence, Ore. Thanks (Letter from Dagmar Henry. American Field Service student'. To the Community of Klamath Falls: Hi, Pelicans, here I am back home in Germany, thinking of all of you wonderful people in Klam ath Falls, my second home town half way around the world from here. I want to say "thank you" to all of you who helped to make this year so great for me: my dear family, the AFS chapter, the kids and teachers in school and all the people of Klamath Falls. I will never, never stop being thankful for the fabulous time you gave me and all the fun I had and all the friends I made. It seems impossible to me that I won't see Klamath High's teams fighting for a long time. This coming year for me is work because I'll have a hard time in high school. I hope only for one more year! I know that I will see you again though I don't know yet when it will be. Half of my heart is and will always be with you. I love you, Daggi WASHINSTON REPORT . . . Radicals Called For Grand Jury Testimony and we're opposed to the sustained campaign against it." The goal of PL leaders, Laub says, is the "establishment of a revolutionary Socialist Party in tlie U.S. The aim would be for the working class, people who don't have a stake in ownership or management, to seize control of the state." Laub testified before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee on his return from Cuba, refusing to cooperate in any way. His tes timony touched off a riot on Thursday, Sept. 12. There were at least eight Pro gressive Labor members on the Cuban jaunt. All assumed leader ship positions. An undercover agent for the FBI and CIA, Barry Hoffman, testified that PL mem bers conferred with Chinese and North Vietnamese Communists while in Cuba. They had no con tact with the Russians, whom they considered to be soft, ac cording to Hoffman. Several "elder statesmen" of the far left youth movement were on hand for the HUAC hearings. They included at least two top ranking young Communists who quit the party for PL. Jacob Rosen (no relation to Milt Rosen) led a U.S. delegation to the Moscow Youth Festival in 1959. There he dipped the Ameri can flag in salute to Nikita Khru shchev and later toured Red Chi na. Identified under oath as a leading young Communist, Ro sen took the Fifth Amendment when given an opportunity to deny the allegation. Since joining Pro gressive Labor, Rosen has been active in North Carolina integra tion activities. Freddy Jerome, a 24-ycar-old son of V. J. Jerome, cultural com missar of the Communist Party, USA. The younger Jerome was also identified as a top young Communist and he too invoked his constitutional protec tion against self - incrimination. Jerome is now active in PL af fairs in Manhattan. He is running the campaign of a PL candidate i Bill Epton, an admitted former Communist) for the City Council and editing the movement's offi cial magazine, Progressive Labor. Both Milt Rosen and Scheer have been called before a Brook lyn grand jury. So have other PL leaders who helped organize the Cuban trip. Soft-voiced John Williams, num ber one economizer in the U.S. Senate, won a typical victory the other day. He spotted in the fine print of an appropriations bill a provision that would permit the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, to pay $30,000 sal aries to a select group of anony mous employes. This is some $10,000 higher than officials of any other department may earn under civil service reg ulations. Williams Rot Sen. Lister Hill. Democratic floor manager for the bill, to agree that the pro vision would be dropped in a pend ing joint Senate-House compromise- e
