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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."