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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1963)
HERALD dubiial (paq& According To Boyle ' One of the more intriguing bits of news to fight its way over the hot wires against such heavy competition as Viet Nam, the tax cut bill, the test ban treaty and the import export balance is an item about an odd prob lem now confronting British airline steward esses. This problem, contrary to what may leap to your mind, doesn't concern middle-aged gentlemen passengers who have a tendency to become cordial to the stewardesses after a segment of the champagne flights. Instead it arises from a physical phenom enon known to science as Boyle's law. Reduced to unscientific terms, Boyle's law says that when you get high up in the air your tummy . has a tendency to expand because of lessen ing air pressure outside. Now anyone who has ever had occasion to glance at an airline stewardess may have noticed that these gals normally seem to have no problem with their physiques or ap pearance, on the ground or in the air. No A number of eastern metropolitan edi tors are poking fun at the "chicken war" be tween the United States and the European Common Market countries. It isn't a laugh ing matter to those who understand it. Although the U.S. has lost $46-milIion in poultry sales since the increased tariffs and gate fees levied by the ECM, the case is far more important than that. If the ECM gets by with this discrimination, it is almost a foregone conclusion they will, within a year or two, place financial barriers against other American agricultural products. And for the benefit of the eastern edi tors who may not know it, we are the world's largest exporter of agricultural products. Without exports our surpluses would be big ger than the financial deficit. President Kennedy, Secretary of Agri By MARQUIS CIIILDS CAMBRIDGE, lid. In this sol id, comfortable-looking town of 12,000 that only a short time ago narrowly averted mass violence are the trouble elements of the racial conflict shaking the Amer ican social structure to its foun dations. It is all here as though con centrated in a small laboratory the old Eastern Shore community with its traditional ways of life, its ancient prejudices dividing the two races bolh physically and psychologically, the persistent ami wide unemployment that has come with a tide of change origi nating in the great world. Outside the Deep South there are hundreds of towns like Cam bridge in West Virginia, Tennes see, Kentucky, the boot heel of Missouri caught in a bitter strug gle between Uie past and the pres ent. What puts Cambridge In the news again and with a new ele ment of hope is that tlx moder ates on both sides of the racial divide are working together in a unique experiment. Negro and while leaders are actively sup porting an amendment to tlie city charter to desegregate all places of public accommodation, includ ing restaurants, molds and ho lds. If it Is adopted in a city-wide election It will be a first step in tlx effort to heal tlx ok! wounds ' and set a new pattern of race relations. , Failure is likely to bring an other crisis of challenge and vio lence. And with National Guards men still unobtrusively on duty here Cambridge dreads a repeti tion of Uie summer when mora than 200 shots were fired and 10 whites wounded. The present pause came in large part as a result of the patient affort of Assistant Attorney Gen eral Burke Marshall. With the town on the verge of open war fare as the Guardsmen were mov- . ing in. he got both sides in' his : office in Washington and persuad ed hcm with the help of Attor ney General Robert Kennedy to work to a common end. Behind the amendment is the hope that if majority of both whites and Negroes vote for it th town will , have put its okay on the begin ning of a new pattern of race , relations. The whit moderates are men AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore. But the British girls complain that skirts which fit perfectly (ah, yes, they do) on the ground become uncomfortably tight at high altitudes when Boyle's law takes over. Well, girls, if it's any comfort to you, we men have the same problem. And Mr. Boyle may be interested to know that we have to gain only about three feet of additional altitude to feel a tightness around the waist. It happens when we rise from the table after a hearty meal. And if we looked as pretty as you girls do in our temporary discomfort, we wouldn't be nearly as alarmed as you seem to be. So keep on flying, girls. And if your skirts get too tight, and if British gentlemen are like American gentlemen, the passengers won't complain. BULLETIN: A news flash has just come in that airline hostesses in America have reported no trouble with Boyle's law. But the least we men can do is to keep an eye on things. Laughing Matter culture Orville Freeman and others in Wash ington are aware that poultry is just the first step and that it must be impressed upon the ECM or any other trade union, that the United States intends to stand up for her right to fair play. That is why President Kennedy is taking such an active interest in the chicken war. Poultry is just one item. The ECM coun tries alone normally import $1.2 billion of farm products from us. The ECM countries import 52 per cent of our dollar exports in feed grains; 31 per cent of our exported wheat and flour; 20 per cent of our fruits and vegetables and 31 per cent of our to bacco crop. The threat of the loss or this market isn't a laughing matter to the men on the farms who grow the crops. WASHINGTON CALLING . 'Instant Equality' such as Edward Walter, Cam bridge postmaster and active in the American Legion nationally, who is chairman of the Cambridge First Committee, and Edward Power, a young executive of (lie American Yearbook Company that recently built a plant here. Mayor Calvin W. Mowbray has taken an active part in persuad ing citizens for the amendment. The old and the new have come together to try to bridge this rough passage. On tire Negro side are Charles E. Cornish who has represented (he Negro Second Ward on the City Council for many years and two ministers, the Reverend Thcasdar M. Murray of the Cam bridge Circuit of the Methodist Church and the Reverend Claude Edmonds of the Waugh Methodist Church. The last named is much younger than (he oilier two and he quotes James Bnldwin's "The Fire Next Time" in prophecy of the peril of delay. The Rev. Murray Is head of tlie Association for tho Advancement of Colored People and he has got Phillip Savage, regional director of NAACP for Maryland, Dela ware and Pennsvlvania, to come Al manac By I'niled Press International Today is Sunday, Oct. 6, the 279th day of ltuvl with 86 to fol low. The moon is approaching its last quarter. The morning stars are Mercury and Jupiter. The evening stars are Jupiter and Saturn. On this day in history: In I8M), Mormons in Utah re nounced the practice of polygamy. In 1S27, the first full-lcngih "talking" movie "The Jazz Singer" was shown. In 1M8. Dr. Eduard Benes re signed as president of Czechoslo vakia under pressure of a Ger man ultimatum. In 1955, aft persons died when a United Airlines DC 4 hit Medi cine Bow Peak in Southern Wy oming. A thought for the day Her bert Hoover, 31st President of the United States said: "A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus." Sunday, October 6, 1963 . Dream in lo lend his weight to the cam paign in the final days. If these men, working in cooper ation in the outwardly calm sur face of the town, fit tlieir roles well, so do the opponents. The white opposition is enrolled in (lie Dorchester (county) Business and Citizens Association. President is William Wise, a fuel oil dealer who is a relative newcomer by Cambridge standards, since he came here only 20 years ago. Wise and his followers attack the amendment along familiar lines as a violation of tlie rights of pri vate property, not that they are for segregation but that integra tion must come voluntarily. He quotes the canned radio programs provided for the local station by a Texas billionaire to prove (lie in tegral ionist movement is Communist-inspired. The Negro opposition is em bodied in one individual Mrs. Gloria Richardson. While she signed the agreement for the pause in Marshall's office, slie came out tlie other day to urge Negroes to slay away from the (Hills. Up to that point Slie had been neutral. Gloria, as she is known lo every one in town with eillier respect and awe or scorn and anger, has powers not to be underestimated. As chairman of (lie Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee, she was in Uie forefront of every dem onstration along with the freedom riders the "outsiders" who sup plied much of tlie resistance that brought on the showdown. As she talks in the comfort able family house her grandfath er, Manny St. Clair, was (or many years a member of the City Council sense of her Iron-willed determination is inescapable. You shouldn't have to vote lor rights guaranteed in the Constitution. She supports without reservation tlie Student Nonviolent Coordinat ing Committee's proposed pro gram for wide civil disobedience, closing down airports and rail ways. When you say. but that will bung violence, her answer is, and, yes, whose fault will it be, tlie fault of the whites. What Is wanted, as one mem ber of the Cambridge Fu st Com mittee wryly put it, is "instant equality." And neither for Cam bridge nor for the country as a whole is "instant equality" a realisable goal. 'Basically There are Three Governments Involved - The Diem Government, The U.S.A., and The C.I. A." IN WASHINGTON . . Treaty Haunt By RALPH de TOLEDANO ' President Kennedy won ratifica tion of the Treaty of Moscow on nuclear testing. But with the vote, he also received a very large bo nus. In political terms, he demon strated that the Senate Republican leadership is in his pocket. Those in the know have been aware of this for some time. But in the past weeks, the display has been public. There is considerable agree ment that two Republican Sena tors might have blocked ratifica tion. Senator Dirksen is Minority Leader and as such has a small amount of patronage at his dis posal. He is also the GOP spokes man in the upper body. Senator Bourke Hickenloopcr is ranking Republican on the House-Senate Atomic Energy Committee. And, more important, he is chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Com mittee. Both of these GOP leaders worked lovingly to win ratification of the Moscow Treaty. Mr. Dirk sen had shown himself so supine in the past that no one expect ed him to fight Mr. Kennedy on the treaty. 'But his colleagues be lieved that he would simply cast a favorable vote and let it go at that. On the contrary, Mr. Dirksen aided and abetted by Mr. Hicken loopcr ought long and hard to prevent any kind of Republican show of strength against a treaty which most of the Senate consid ered highly dubious but support ed so as not to embarrass tlie President of the United States. Perhaps the most startling mani festation of the lengths to which the Dirkscn-Hickenlooper team went was in refusing to let Re publican Senators see research material from the files of their policy committee. One staff member, who owes his job to Senator Hickenloopcr, staled flatly that he could not pro vide material from the files to Republican Senators because "this would establish a bad precedent and antagonize the Democrats." Precisely what the function of the Senate Republican Policy Commit tee is remains a mystery in view of this comment. Ob viously, not to bring any dis tress or after-dinner flatulence to the majority if the staff mem ber is to be believed. And believed he should be, since this is not the first revealing remark of this sort he has made. Without any leadership and knowing that Senators Dirksen and Hickenloopcr took a dim view of those who opposed the Treaty of Moscow a number of fresh men Senators switched over to the Administration side. A few veter ans gave this reason, too. "You don't want us to be isolated," one strong critic of the treaty said. "We've got to go along with Dirk." If this were the first time Mr. Dirksen and Mr. Hickenloopcr acted in this manner, a generous explanation might be found for it. But this is an old story. It has never been reported, but it Is cate gorically true, that these two lead ers of the Republican minority have done their best to frustrate eflorts of their colleagues lo keep tlie Cuba issue alive and to try to force the administration to come to the aid of the tragic little island. Tlie attitude of the GOP leadership was: "We won't try to stop you. but you get no help Irom us." Since those involved included at least one who needs Senator Dlrksrn's help on oilier matters, the point was obvious. Senator Dirksen is not the most popular Republican leader the Sen ate has known. His form of ora tory, amusing at first for its over blown periods, bores after a while. He seems to have no concept of his rote or that of a mindly. Vote Could Sen. Dirksen When the chips are down, he usu ally has left the game. For the administration, this is all to the good, particularly when it divides the GOP. But among the younger Republican Senators, there is a good deal of grumbling. Very quietly, they have begun to whis per that the time has come for a revolt. And with so few Republi cans in the Senate, it would not take many votes to oust Mr. Dirk sen from his leadership slot. It's still a long way off, but if Sena tor Goldwater wins Uie nomina tion and then sweeps in a new crop of Republicans, Mr. Dirk sen's days as Minority Leader may suddenly end. (Second of two columns on the status of (lie civil rights issue, a month after the March on Wash ington for Jobs and Freedom.) By PETER. EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA)-As lead ers of the Aug. 28 March on Wash-' ington For Jobs and Freedom meet in the capital again to as sess what has happened in the in tervening month and to plan their future course of action, they are confronted by a confused civil rights situation in Congress. The draft of a bill to carry out President Kennedy's civil rights reform recommendations for this year is being readied for action by the full House Judiciary Com mittee under Chairman Emanuel Ccllcr, D-N.Y. He was also chair man of the subcommittee which w rote the bill. It is obviously not going to satis fy all demands of tlie march or ganizers, meeting in Washington as members of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. This is a 14-year-old biracial lob by of 80 religious, labor, fraternal and civil liberties groups working for stronger legislation. It recently opened a Washington headquarters under its secretary Arnold Aronson for the duration of the Congressional battle. Its general chairman is Roy Wilkins. executive secretary of the NAACP and one of tlie march organizers. If the Leadership Conference decides that the House civil rights bill is as good as can be obtained this year, there may be no cause for Immediate action. If tlie lenders decide the hill is loo weak, there will be s fight. If even a mild reform hill gels hung up in House Rules Commit tee, tliere will be protest and further demonstrations. Tlie general assumption is that if a good bill is cleared by the Ruies Committee, it will pass the House, though not without consid erable oratorical fireworks. In tlie meantime, the Senate had hecii scheduled to take up as a test case on civil rights prospects QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS O vthn gave Europe the first real Information about the Ori ent? A Marco Polo, an Italian trav eler in the 13th Century. Q-Whal Is a papal bull? A An official document or let ter issued by the Pope and scaled with a leaden seal called a bulla. WILLIAM Viet WASHINGTON - A political cloud a good deal bigger than any man's hand is gathering over the Kennedy Administration in the continuing and worsening confu sion as to what our policy in South Vict Nam really is. The President some days ago plainly indicated that he did not propose to allow the incessant lib eral criticism here of the South Vietnamese leader, Ngo Dinh Diem, to cause the U.S. to run out on that regime and thus lose a desperately necessary war against Communist invaders. Some 15,000 American troops are out there helping Diem's forces to resist this Communist aggres sion. The policy of the United States, Mr. Kennedy said in substance, would be to support whatever pro moted the war effort and to op pose whatever might interfere with it. The net of it was that while this government did not re gard Diem as perfect and would not hesitate to check him in what we believe to be his excesses against the Buddhists, this gov ernment was not going to allow his shortcomings to cause the war itself to be lost. Having laid down this line, the. President then sent Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor to South Vict Nam to review the whole situation. So far, so good. It looked that we were going to keep our eye strictly on the ball. But now, even before the Presi dent's emissaries have had a chance to finish their mission, the American Ambassador to South Viet Nam, Henry Cabot Lodge, has devoted his first public statement in his new post to a puerile denunciation of Diem's sislcr-in-law, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu. That she has been a great nuisance is beyond doubt. Nor can any American withhold re sentment toward the latest of her idiocies, her attack upon "the lit tle soldiers of fortune" among our troops in Viet Nam. ' Still the fact that Ambassador Lodge no doubt with State Do- L I EDSON IN WASHINGTON . . . Government Dallying Increases Impatience for the year an amendment to an unrelated private claims bill. It was sponsored by Senators Mike Mansfield, D-Mont., and Ev erett M. Dirksen. R-Ill. Tlieir rider would make the U.S. Civil Rights Commission a perma nent government agency and en large its powers. The Civil Rights Commission's final report is ready for issuance and the agency is scheduled to wind up its affairs by Nov. 30 unless it is given a new lease on ' life. President Kennedy has recom mended a four-year extension, and this has been approved by a Sen ate civil rights subcommittee. The attempt to make the com mission a permanent agency and enlarge its functions brought on such prompt southern opposition that the sponsors withdrew their amendment, claiming it had been introduced as a mistake. In its placo they offered a simple one year extension. This may prevent an irnmcd iale filibuster, but one is almost sure to develop when the House approved omnibus civil rights bill gets to the Senate by, say mid Novcnilicr. During preparations for t h e March on Washington its leaders announced that in event of a fili buster, march participants would be asked to relurn to Washington "in waves of 2.000." These "little marches" would not confine themselves lo the Washington monument or the Lin coln Memorial. Picketing of both the White House and Capitol might be expected. , An indication of what's ahead Is found in a statement by Wilkins 1 that the proposals made by Presi dent Kennedy in February are now obsolete. "Tlw injunctive power ( of the federal government must be ex tended lo cover all civil rights violations." says Wilkins. "Both Fair Employment Prac tices and the broadened injunctive power were pledged in the 10 Democratic platform, yet the ad ministration si amis in the way of inclusion of I hose provisions in the civil rights bill. "There are of course other fea tures of the i House i bill that need strengthening." adds Wilkins. "The defem of voting rights could be made easier. The lag gard school desegregation pro gram could be speeded up. There should be mandatory withholding of funds from al) federally assist ed programs that practice dis crimination." This is the big change in creased demands by Scp Waf ers thai Vu H&A fiACA if ti$ first mon:h yNu out spacfe q S. WHITE Nam Policy partment instruction has seen fit to act as though Madame Nhu, and not the invading Communist, was the real enemy in South cast Asia is a chilling one to those here at home who support American intervention in the war and wish we could get on with it. Never, surely, has the might and majesty of the United States been drawn up against so ill chosen and so absurdly small a target as the bitter and wagging tongue of somebody's sister-in- WASHINGTON REPORT . . Foggy Bottom Stupor By FULTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON There were precious few experts who did not foresee months ago the likeli hood of a takeover by anti-Communist military men in the Do minican Republic. There is only one trouble: these precious few occupy sixth floor offices in the State Depart ment's palatial headquarters at Foggy Bottom. For months there have been persistent reports that Domini can leaders who had helped knock off Dictator Rafael Tru jillo were dismayed at the soft-on-communism attitude evidenced by President Juan Bosch. Rep. Armistead Selden. t h e well-informed chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcom mittee on Latin America, warned in June that the Reds were mov ing in to positions of trust. Communist operatives, he said, were making "inroads into the po lice, the labor unions, the schools and student groups." He quoted Hal Hendrix, Pulitzer Prize win ning reporter, to the effect that "subtle and peaceful Communist penetration of the Dominican Re public is progressing with in credible speed and efficiency." On July 13, Bosch met with a group of top-ranking military of ficers at the San Isidro airbase. They begged him lo crack dow n on the Communist agents who roamed the nation. They cited Article 87 of t h e Conslitution and offered Bosch their full sup port for any measures he might adopt. Bosch refused, lecturing them on his own peculiar concept of "democracy." Two days later, he went on nationwide television to ridicule Ihe military: "We are af firmative not negative. If the armed forces persist, Ihey must look for someone else to rule be cause I am not willing to lead a dictatorship total or partial." He accused two highly respect ed military figures, an air force chaplain and an air force. judge advocate, of plotting against him. He "busted both. When the priest asked Bosch to substantiate his charges, all he got was stony silence. Bosch steadfastly refused to op pose the Reds. He readily granted permission for Dominion Com munists to fly to Cuba for Fidel Castro's 2(ilh of July celebration. Leaders of the democratic left as well as right began to at tack Bosch. Juan Isidro Jimincs Grullon of the Social Democratic Alliance and Horacio Julio Ornes of the Revolutionary Vanguard, both of whom had supported Bosch lor president last Decem ber, turned against him. They charged Bosch had crawled in bed with tlie Communists and now planned civil war. They were distrustful of Bosch's left-hand man. Angel Miolan. who was for 10 years tlie confiiiant of Vin- "V'thi hn't it, tomrait . . . babutbkm r coming fubionsblt fit Amtrkt!" 6S Wavers law. It is like mounting an ar tillery piece and then firing through its great maw a .22-cali-bre rifle loaded with blanks. It is silly beyond ready belief. To attack Madame Nhu is, of course, not against the law. It is only a violation of comrnonsense and an almost incredible malprac tice in statecraft. First of all, it inflates her importance out of all reason. Second, and more import ant, it raises the gravest ques tion as to whether the President's directive to get on with the war and stop all the nonsense is ac tually being followed. The question is not in the mind merely of one independent col umnist. It is also in the minds and deeply so of some of the most powerful of Democratic Con gressional politicians. These men have long been worried at the Administration's apparent inabil ity to stop the backstabbing in ternal argument over Vietnamese policy that is going on all over official Washington. Now, they are in something like panic, as has just been illustrated by the little noticed of a House Foreign Af fairs subcommittee to make an on-the-spot survey in South Vief Nam These politicians, in short, see the cloud in the sky that the ad ministration apparently will not see. They think, and rightly so, that if this government goes on endlessly concerning itself with the shortcomings of Diem's fam ily, instead of the perils posed by the Communist marauders, a po litical storm is going to break one day. If it does, it will be a hur ricane. The Administration cannot af fordand more importantly this country cannot afford another mess like Cuba or China. If we talk ourselves out of South Viet Nam we will talk ourselves out of Southeast Asia and then to our national interests and to the ad ministration's political interests, the deluge will come. cenle Lombardo Toledano, Mexican Red. Ihe Ohio's Bob Taft Jr. will give up his Congressman-at-large post next year to go after a seat in the U.S. Senate. He will enter the campaign con fident that Republicans can score their biggest victory since 11)32, when Dwight Eisenhower rolled over Adlai Stevenson and Republicans recaptured t h e House and Senate. Taft sees many parallels be tween 1952 and 1984: 1. Then we were involved in Korea in "an Asian stew where Ihe enemy operated from sanc tuary and there could be no vic tory. Today we face a very simi lar situation in tlie mess in Viet nam." 2. "Recently we have seen the replacement of Admiral George Anderson and the muzzling of military leaders who disagreed with administration policies. In 1951. we had seen the removal of that great American, Gener al Douglas MacArthur, because he told the truth about Korea." .1. By 1952. U.S. policies had lost China to the Communist world. "Today our abandonment of the Monroe Doctrine and our pusillanimous acceptance of Com munist influence in Cuba and elsewhere in the hemisphere threatens the even more devas tating loss of Latin America." 4. On Ihe domestic scene vast federal sending had brought about inflation and a threat to our fiscal stability. "Today under the same profligate policies we face another round of inflation." 5. In 1952, the cost of living had risen Ti points over the pre vious year. "Present policies and tendencies indicate a likelihood of a similar rise in the near fi ture unless some sanity is re stored to our spending policies."
