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PAGE-I HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Tuesday, October I, 1963 'I'm All Right Now - This Time I've Changed My Name To Bo-Beep' WILLIAM S. WHITE . . . ssues Will Decide Voting m Senator Goldwater Surges Ahead If the Republican presidential nominat ing convention were to be held tomorrow, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona would be the party's candidate against President John F. Kennedy a year from next November. That is the view of the great majority of political writers and pundits, whether or not they happen to personally agree with the Goldwater philosophy. And it is backed up by public opinion polls with excellent past per formance records. In these polls, the Senator is significantly ahead of other possible candi dates. The Goldwater boom has been a dramatic one. Numbers of his followers are imbued with almost a Messiah-like zeal. Goldwater clubs have sprung up throughout the country. Gold water stickers and buttons are seen in grow ing number. He seems to have a particularly strong following among the younger Repub licans, which is a very great asset indeed. And this has happened even though he is not a formally announced candidate for anything except his Senate seat. He has taken it in stride, with modesty and good humor. Senator Goldwater is a conservative, who has small use for most of the' ideas of the liberal wing either in or out of his party. Yet he is a strong party man, who had charge of the campaign to elect Republican senators in '62 and labored loyally for all concerned, including some with whom he is in profound disagreement. Moreover, he has gone to some length, particularly of late, to dissassociate himself from the extreme conservative right wing. He has modified some of his positions on taxation, certain government welfare ac tivities, and other controversies. But he is the tireless and eloquent enemy of policies which, in his view, threaten to create a central gov ernmental colossus, possessed of virtually lim itless powers, at the expense of local and in IN WASHINGTON . Latin By RALPH do TOLEDANO The official who decides what the United Stales should do in the Caribbean is not tho Secre tary of Slate. Nor is ho the Pres ident. Since January, 1961, the most important man where Latin ' American affairs are concerned is Governor Luis Munoz Marin of Puerto Rico. Not only is his advice heeded, but it is immed iately Implemented by two of his people. Alliance for Progress coordinator Tcodoro Moscoso and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Slate Arturo Morales-Carrion. Mr. Moscoso was, for many years, Governor Munoz's right hand man In Puerto Itican govern ment. Mr. Morales-Carrion was known In San Juan, when ha worked for tho governor, as a yes-man. Governor Munoi's influence, however, should derive from the consent of President Kenne dy. Under the Organic Act which gives Puerto Rico its unique sta tus as a "commonwealth," all foreign policy for the island is left in (lie hands of tho United States. But Governor Munoi has convinced tlie Slate Department that he is indispensable as the "bridge between tlie U.S. and Latin America." To be fair about it. this was true once upon a lime. Many leaders south of the border were highly Impressed by the Job Gov ernor Munoi had dona In improv ing Puerto Ulco's economic con ditions. But tho prestige gained in this manner was dissipated w hen he became one of the leading drum-heaters for Fidel Castro. As an eNpcrt on such matters, tho governor was highly Influen tial in arguing that Castro was not a Communist. Fidel Castro's fall from grace, however, did not bruise Gover nor Munoi's reputation at the State Department for perspica city and a tliorough knowledge of all things Latino. Tho biggest Munoi coup w as his sale signed, sealed, and delivered to the Administration of Juan Bosch. Sr. Bosch, boss until recently of the Dominican Itepublic, was known tn be Munoi Marin' man and that was enough to con vince Die White House that he was a winner. But the new Do minican government turned out to be inefficient and high-handed, with a tendency lo permit if not encourage a steady Infil tration of Communists. When Sr. Bosch took power, agents of the dividual rights and responsibilities. The in dividual human being looms very large in his esteem. He doesn't think of people as statis tics. But the fact that the Senator now seems well ahead of any other Republican hopeful does not mean that this condition will obtain next summer, when the convention is held. A great deal of water can go under the bridge between now and then. Some Goldwater sup porters feel that the drive to nominate him may have started too early that it may run out of steam at the crucial time. In any event, a real fight looms. The anti-Goldwater forces are now gathering, in large part at least, be hind Governor Rockefeller. The Governor, like the Senator, is not formally a candidate. But a few doubt that he will make a run for the prize. And, like the Senator, the Gover nor has been clarifying his ideas on the big issues in speeches and interviews. His pur pose is to avoid labels, cither liberal or con servative, and to make it clear that views aren't just a Republican version of the present Administration's. He has strongly emphasized his faith in private enterprise, in maintaining vigorous and responsible local government, in holding federal spending to the present level, and so on. Actually, there are a good many important areas in which he and Gold water see pretty much eye to eye. But there are others where the differences are great, and it is this that will be stressed in the months ahead. Meanwhile, there seems to have been an upsurge in GOP optimism so far as '64 is concerned. There is a feeling that Mr. Kennedy can be beaten; that he has lacked decisiveness and effectiveness, and that the electorate has been disappointed in him. Next year's election will show whether that feeling is right or wrong. American Policy Munoz Puerto Rican government were helping to run Uie show. Since then. Governor Munoz has been "Uie man lo see" where Caribbean affairs arc concerned. At tlie time of the Dominican coup d'etat, which overthrew Sr. Bosch and announced restoration of the U.S.-stylc constitution which hud been suspended by the Bosch regime, representatives of Gov ernor Munoz flew into the Domin ican Republic in an attempt to block the new rcgimo. At the same time, the governor begun calling the Venezuelan president, Romulo Betnncoiirt, and other sympathetic Latin American lead ers and heads of government. He suggested that they light a fire under President Kennedy and the Stale Department by urging military intervention lo keep Sr. Bosch on his shaky throne. This meddling in the loreign policy of the United Stales is a violation of the law. Only the president, and those specifically delegated by him. have any Con stitutional right to speak for this country. (It will be recalled that tlicrc were loud outcries when the late Senator Joseph R. McCarthy "Afttr work, UtU tUb eff for tt tbm talorl bard driulu'l" got a number of shipowners to sign a "pact" that they would desist from trading with Uie Com munist enemy.) There arc, in fact, laws which make what Governor Munoz is doing a pun ishable offense. The State Department can, of course, be counted on to say that Governor Munoz was acting with the President's consent. But it is a little troubling when an official who docs not have the right, and has shown no sign of the proper ability, begins to serve as a kind uf super-State Depart ment In the Caribbean. Governor Munoz Is a brilliant man and he has done much to bring economic health to Puerto Rico. But he has helped to saddle us with a disas trous Cuban policy. Now he is seeking lo force the Dominican Republic to take hack Juan Bosch. That voices in the Senate, taking their lead from him, now call for war in order to restore tlie Bosch regime, shows how far off base we are. If the Administration wants to show its muscle, it can take first tilings first by dealing with the Castro danger. By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA)-A mas sive, nation-wide campaign reach ing a climax Thanksgiving week end is being planned by the March on Washington leaders to pres sure Congress for passage of strong civil rights legislation this year. Local campaigns will be con centrated on states and districts represented by perhaps 100 con gressmen whose position on civil rights reform is considered doubt ful. Individual Idler writing ap peals and group petitions from these congressmen's own constitu ents arc to be organized. There will be other petitions lo city councils, state legislatures and governors. Local marches are planned lo accompany petitions to tlie post offices, to slart them on their way to Washington. Delegations of 15 to CO local citizens will be brought to the Capitol to sit in the galleries while civil rights debate is on and key votes are being taken. Meetings will be sought with congressmen in their own d i s tricts, especially during Thanks giving weekend. Nov. 27-30. It is expected that civil rights leg islation will be emerging from the House about this time and entering the Senate for commit tee consideration. A second phase of the cam paign to deal with an expected Senate filibuster will then be thrown into gear. In announcing these plans after an all-day meeting of the Leader ship Conference on Civil Rights in Washington, its chairman, Roy Wilkins, declared there would be no sit-ins at congressmen's of fices. Wilkins also opKscd plans for a nationwide boycott of Christ mas shopping. "We have used boycotts against specific merchants effectively." he said. "If this is scattered to the 50 slates, it will lose its pow er." Any idea of postponing action of or passing only the tax cut or the civil rights bill this year is rejected by the Negro leaders. "I think we can have both," says Wilkins. "But if not, we've got tn have ours. Tax cuts can Letters To Peeved I am writing in hopes this let ter w ill be published in the paper for everyone to see. I would like to express my feelings on this tax increase. It is supposed to go the people (or a vole this fall. What good will it do if three fourths of Hie people vote against il? Krom what I have read and lieard, it we vote against it, the property tax will go up. It seems to me. it doesn't make any difference what we, the peo ple, do. the government will get what it wants anyway, so why let tlie people vote? If we vole for il. we will have higher taxes to pay. If we vole against it, we will have higher property lax. We will have higher laxes either way. It seems as if the government has all the say so and the people have none. I can remember when there was a lime when ue didn t have lo pay high prices and high taxes on everything. It seems like everytime a new generation grows up. prices and taxes both go up too. Prices are so high now that Die poor man can hardly afford lo live. He does well if he can buy enough clothes Ift esvrfj- taovk'f end enough food eso o , EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . . Congress Hit With Rights Pressure be made retroactive if passed next year. But our people are being killed. - "This is not 1957 or 1960. It's 1963, and if any politician thinks he can postpone action, it is a monumental blunder." These strong views were ex pressed in Washington on the same day that the U.S. Commis sion on Civil Rights filed its third biennial report just before the Senate gave it a one-year lease on life. Its report was a frank admission that it had failed to accomplish its mission. "The conclusion is inevitable that present legal remedies for voter discrimination are inade quate," says its report. "The only effective guarantee is enactment by Congress of some form of uni form (federal and state I voter qualification standards. "Nearly 10 years after the Su preme Court decision in the school desegregation cases, Negro chil dren will attend segregated schools in all parts of the na tion . . . because of existing housing patterns and employment practices. "Within one year after issuance of Executive Order 11063 (ban ning discrimination in housing), little has been done to implement it so far. "The vast majority of Negroes arc unskilled n semiskilled workers. Displaced by machines, they swell the ranks of the un employed. . . . The reasons in clude inadequate education, infe rior job training, discrimination by private employers and by state and local administration of fed eral programs. "Civil rights denials exist in all areas of the nation, but their intcr-rclationships are more ap parent in the heavily populated urban areas. . . . This is the challenge of the 60s." The Civil Rights Commission makes a score of detailed recom mendations to correst these abus es. In every case, these recom mendations go far beyond pro visions of the House Judiciary sub committee civil rights bill. Negro leaders hail the report as "a clean and welcome break from the old piecemeal ap proach." It is considered better than President Kennedy's origi nal program but still not good enough. The Editor to feed himself properly. He docs really well if he can provide for his family he loves. I have often wondered what is really going to hapiien to us all. Maybe the good 1ird knows. One thing is for sure, 1 don't think we do. Another subject I feci so strong about is the dogs and cats. Why do we vote for leash laws and pens for the animals that God meant to be free? I am one that did not vote for tlie leash law. We got a big Collie dog lo play with the children, of which we have five. lie is a darn good playmate and followed the chil dren everywhere they went. When ever I wanted the children for something, all I had lo do was look for his big tail or head and I would find tlie children. The picture of a dog that was in a recent paper was very pitiful. The caption read "This Is Your Week Rover. But Celebrate At Home." Where else can he cele brate? He has to be chained up all the time, it Is very unlikely that he will go anywhere else lo celebrate. What is to be celebrat ed anyway" Being tied up all day and night? Mrs. Helen M. Dale, 1M0 Addison Street. By WILLIAM S. WHITE WASHINGTON So many great questions are shaping up for the 1064 presidential campaign as to make it strongly probable that the voters' decision may be based on issues more than on personalities to a degree not seen in many years. Already, more than a year ahead of Election Day. five ma jor issues are at work: the nu clear test ban with the Soviet Union: civil rights: Cuba; South Viet Nam, and the deep fiscal argument involved in the Kennedy administration's tax-cutting bill. On the test ban, President Ken nedy, in, the detached opinion of this columnist, is well ahead to day and will stay well ahead if the Russians do not again break their word. The "peace vote" is a big . one. On the two domestic issues here the civil rights and tax bills Kennedy is in trouble. First of all, he has put both down as "must" for this session of Con gress, and one or the other is al most certainly going to have to be deferred. If the one set aside for next year is civil rights and the odds are that civil rights it will be the President may expect far sharper attacks from extremist Negro leaders who already are charging that he is not going far enough. He will at the same time in no way placate much South ern and Wcstein and Midwestern and possibly also Eastern feel ing that he is trying to go much too far, especially in seeking to force integration in private prop erty and private housing. As to tax reduction, he has a better chance to bring off a bill than on civil rights. But even an administration success here will be of doubtful political value if a cut is at length approved with no absolute guarantees, of the kind being demanded by tlie Re publicans, for major reductions also in federal spending. There is great doubt based on polls, on Congressional mail and on letters to this columnist that a majority of the people really favor tax relief if it is not to be accompan ied by a rugged paring down of the costs of government. As to Cuba, there is more anx iety in the nation about that Communist-dominated island than the administration seems to recognize. Though the President stood up to Nikita Khrushchev last October over Cuba, the fact remains that w hat would have been only a bad nightmare a few years ago is an enduring reality now. This is the presence in this hemisphere of an actively hostile Communist re gime. If the President elects to enter the campaign of next fall with Castro communism still standing triumphant and not visibly hurt in the Caribbean, he will take an enormous risk. It .could be a fatal risk should Castro and-or the Rus sians decide to humiliate (his By FULTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON Not until re cently has Nelson Rockefeller, who first entered politics at the age of 50. shown much interest in Young Republican affairs. Three times (1959. 1961 and 19631 he rejected invitations to address Ihe YR national conven tion. On July 14. little more than a month after the third such con clave he had refused to attend. Rocky issued an exaggerated statement in which he charged that "well-financed extremist" el ements had taken over the Y'R's. Radical right lunatics, he said, successfully engineered a dis graceful subversion of Y'R prin ciples in electing a Goldwater con servative, Donald "Buz" Lukens, National Chairman. The Governor was promptly re pudiated by a group of Young Republican Congressmen who had been present at San Francisco. Rep. Bill Brock and Ed Fore man, among others, issued state ments sharply critical of Rocke feller's analysis. YR delegates, in cluding many who had supported Lukens' opponent, Charles McDev ill. WTotc Rocky to set Ihe rec ord straight. The governor was silent. Then, on Meet the Press two weeks ago, he renewed his attack on the right wing fanatics who allegedly seized control of the YR's. Now Rockefeller is again con demned, this time by several for mer Young Republican National Chairmen. They include: John Ashbrook. the articulate young Congressman from Ohio's 17th District : Kansas banker Ned Cush ing; and Herbert Warburton. a former official in the Eisenhower Administration. Tlie only recent YR chairman who did mt ondorse the criticism of Rockefeller Ckwley MnWhor ler, a V ii.w actifc country during that campaign by some impudent gesture in Cuba underlining our national power lessness to get rid of that point of Communist infection. In a word, Kennedy is a prisoner here of Communist initiative. Eitlicr Cas tro or Khrushchev could destroy the election for him by a single irresponsible act. The position in South Vict Nam is no less grave. Here, the United States is committed to a sen sible program to halt creeping Communist aggression in South east Asia by supplying arms and military advice and also 15,000 American troops in or near the forward battle line. If the admin istration has made a single bril liant stroke in military-foreign pol icy, it has been this very concept of fighting a wisely limited war, at small cost in American life, for the limitlessly important ob jective of holding Southeast Asia. But the basic division in the Democratic party between moder ates and conservatives on the one By SYDNEY J. HARRIS On the chill and rainy days this past summer in the country, I spent some time watching tele vision in more sustained seg ments than I had ever done be fore, and today I'd like to discuss some of the moral and intellectu al ramifications of this medium. But first a word from my syn dicate. ... Do you know that the Harris column is more widely syndicated and read than any other column written by a man named Harris? Young wives say. in interviews from coast to coast: "I prefer Harris because his verbs are so clean, his adjectives glisten for hours with a lustrous sheen, and his conjunctions fit so superb ly and luxuriously." To get back. . . . What most fascinated me about the medium is its ritualistic attitude of imi tation. There is not the slightest deviation from the accepted can ons of each stereotyped pro gram: all the parts seem inter changeable, including the MCs. the panel contestants, the family groups, the comedy routines, even the poignant dramas of . . . I'd like to interrupt to remind you to watch for next week's col umns, which will plumb t h e depths of the human mind, soar lo unprecedented heights of specu lation and offer a well-rounded, warm, human, gripping and yet funny overview of the cosmic sit uation today. ' Where was I? Oh. yes. It seems clear to me that a quite new moral and intellectual frame WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Rockefeller Is Fading in Rocky's GOP organization. The YR chairmen were blunt: "Governor Rockefeller erred in indicating that the San Francis co Convention was ruled by the radical right." They referred lo a YR platform that was conservative, not radi cal, which did not advocate repeal of tlie income tax, withdrawal from the UN, or impeachment of Earl Warren. , Note: Rockefeller's frequent target, current YR Chairman "Buz" Lukens. saved the gover nor from severe embarrassment a week ago when members of the Young Republican executive com mittee met in Chicago for their first meeting since San Francisco. They were angry at Rockefeller for his frontal attacks on the YR's. They were strong in advo cating passage of a resolution cen suring Rockefeller (or his stands. It was Lukens who urged that the motion be tabled as It might be construed as a divisive meas ure. Republican Congressmen who represent upstate New York say Governor Rockefeller's popularity has plummeted badly in their dis tricts. This is the finding of Edwin Safford, highly respected Wash ington correspondent for tlie Syra cuse Post Standard. Safford inter viewed four GOP Congressmen from the Syracuse area and learned that all four have writ ten off Rocky as a presidential prospect. Explained one: "He is a dead duck. The remarriage hurt him with the women in my district. His state income tax reversal also seems to have turned many against him." Said another: "The plain truth is his name is mud in my dis trict. 1 spoke to a lot of party side and liberal extremists on the other, which has been tlie Pres ident's greatest weakness from the start, is threatening him here. The bulk of moderate-to-conscrva. live Democrats, certainly in Con gress and probably in the coun try, too. support this war all the way. They are increasingly con cerned that we do not somehow lose it by concentrating on the shortcomings of the South Viet namese government rather than on the perils posed by the Com munist invaders. It is the Democratic ultra-liberals who incessantly press the President to center on what is wrong with Ihe "dictatorial" Viet namese leadership. Here, as al ways, the President's left wing is his Achilles heel. It is alienating moderate opinion in this country on this and other matters. This is precisely why the conservative front-runner for the Republican Presidential nomination, Sen. Bar ry Goldwater, is indeed running in so front a position. STRICTLY PERSONAL. of reference is being created by the medium, in terms of mass manipulation of the basic emo tional cliches. I'd like to quote some pertinent studies made by Talcott and Parsons, as well as a most illuminating paper pre sented last year by Gordon All port at the International Psycho Social Conference in Berne. But now . . . , All your friends are talking about the new improved Harris column so refreshing, just mild enough, but full of flavor. Try Harris for a week and see if your literary taste - buds don't perk up. if you don't experience a new surge of pure joy, if you don't say to yourself, "Where has this wonderful man been all my life?" Remember, Harris uses only the most expensive words, hand-picked, in a secret formula combination, Magiword, that no other writer can duplicate. Try him today, won't you? In the Talcott and Parsons study, it was shown that tlie age level from 6 to 11' was the most profoundly influenced by the em phasjs on violence, and by a wholly pragmatic and empirical approach to ethical problems. Thus, the traditional values in the Western world, which have heretofore been transmitted insti tutionally, are now undergoing a rapid transformation in terms of . . . But my space is up. Remember, I'm followed on tlie next page by the Obituary Column Club, with new personalities each day. Don't miss il! workers and they just do not have a high opinion of him as a win ner." Safford quotes one Representa tive as saying anti-Rockefeller sentiment is also noticeable among his colleagues in Washing ton. Only last year, the Congress man explained. Rockefeller was talked of by mid-West Republi cans as tlie almost-certain GOP nominee in 1964. "It is a long time since that has happened, though," he says. "Now these same people are for Goldwater." Al manac By United Press International Today is Tuesday, Oct. 8. the :81st day of 1963 with 84 to fol low. The moon is approaching its last quarter. The morning stars are Mercury and Jupiter. The evening slars are Jupiler and Saturn. Those born today include World War I aviator Eddie Rickcnback er. in 1890. On this day in history: In 1871, the great Chicago fire began and burned more than 17, 000 buildings. In 1923. Germany's shaky post war economy produced a wave of such disastrous inflation that one U. S. penny bought more than million marks. In 1940, Congress passed an act levying taxes on excess profits of corporate earnings. A thought for the day Tlie American naturalist and author. Henry David Thorcau. said: "It takes two to speak the truth one to speak and another to hear."
