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4. .v. . PAGE (A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore, Friday, October 11, 1963 BERRY'S WORLD IN WASHINGTON GOP Optimism Premature ? The Ignored Assassination ij:: Ever hear ol Aaron Presnell? . .He was shot down in cold blood recently :-iear Whitwell, Tenn. Whitwell is located in :;fhe Southeast Tennessee coalfields where a j-600-worker UMW strike has been in progress c tor a matter of months. : The reader will not remember Presnell's ; name, because he has become conditioned ; over the years to murders committed in the course of labor disputes. ; x Presnell was just another man who was Offered a job and took it in defiance of a United Mine Workers' decree that he I 'shouldn't. - He will be mourned by his family, who ;aye probably lost their breadwinner, and by "'Tils friends in the area where he was gunned down. His murder evoked no oratorical outburst from the President of the United States. His picture and a report of his widow's reaction have appeared on no national TV network. His assassination will not be considered a na tional disgrace. He will receive no burial in Arlington Cemetery in Washington, even though he may be a veteran. No dignitaries at tended this poor man's funeral. Easy Yesterday two bits bought a lather and clip job, easy on the sides, please. Tomorrow it appears 28 bits may just buy the clip job. Members of the International Barbers Union recently announced a goal of $3.50 for hair cuts. This has a number of implications to the average American man who is already chasing himself in circles to keep in step with the cost of living. If Mr. America has three sons it means he will spend $20 a month to keep them shorn. If he's a bachelor he'll spend roughly $84 annually to keep well-groomed. There are, however, a few bright pros pects to the otherwise disheartening thought of watching $3.50 fall around your shoulders every two weeks. EDSON IN By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NEA) - Crea tion of a government field serv ice for consumer protection throughout Ui6 country is one of the more challenging ideas to be suggested in tlio first report from President Kennedy's Con sumer Advisory Council CAC now being readied for early re lease. And to top this, there is another proposal that the government sponsor that is, publish a month ly news letter to provide a two way flow of Information between consumers and government agen cies charged with protecting the public interest. Tlieso and other such forward looking Wens may lw shrugged off In Washington ns just a lot more welfuro slate planning, which goes on nil the lime. Then, around the country, among merchants ami manufac turers, any thought of more gov ernment horning in and reporting on consumer goods offered for sale to the public in a free mar ket may bo considered too much , interference with private enter prise, even to protect buyers. The Consumer Advisory Coun cil report In nearly final form is said to contain such an un systematized collection of recom mendations that it is something of a mishmash. v It asks the U.S. Department of Agriculture to review Its stan dards for grading and labeling, to obtain more uniformity. The council asks for souped-up en forcement of consumer protec tion orders, with less discretion left to tlx) Judgment of inspec tors who pass on everything from meats to housing. The council endorses the idee proposed by Sen. Vance Harke, D-Ind., and others for labeling of food products and household furniture. This would Rive con sumers the same protection they now have on wool and synthetic fiber textiles. Labeling would also be required on all repackaged imports. In its recommendations on con sumer safety, CAC advocates more staff for the Food and Drug Administration for premarketing inspection of cosmetics and label ing hazardous substances. There is no real difference between the assassination of this poor man and that of Medgar Evers, field secretary of the NAACP, who was also piteously gunned down. Both men were citizens of this country. Both were entitled to live out the life God had given them. Both were entitled to the protection which all citizens of this country are guaran teed under the Constitution- of the United Stales. Both were fighting for a principle and were assassinated for persisting in the face of a threat of bodily harm. The point to be made here is that one part of our federal constitution deserves the same respect and support from the nation, and especially the federal government, as any other part. The man assassinated was attempt ing to exercise his right to work in a free country just as Medgar Evers was attempting to exercise his right as an American citizen. There is something wrong with the think ing of both the nation and the federal gov ernment when one assassination becomes a matter of national concern while the other is treated as a local happening scarcely worth a half column in any newspaper. With The Clippers! Higher prices will conceivably mean cus tomers will get the -juggling, neck - vacuuming inventions which have made the old barber counter look like a launching platform. From an economic standpoint another rise in haircuts will be a godsend. For every disgruntled adult who decides to boycott the corner barber there will be electric clippers, talcums and combs to buy (not to mention hats when do-it-yourself attempts go awry). But most importantly a 28-bit haircut will cut down the ranks of psychologically dis traught males who seek comfort on the psy chiatrist's couch, Why go to an analyst when you can get the usual sage advice your barber offers. ... at the quite respectable fee of $3'.50 per half hour! WASHINGTON Council Is Unnecessary National safely standards would also lie set on electrical and other household equipment. National as opposed to state standards are recommended for highway safely. The council asks for a study of converting all U.S. measurements to the metric system. It rec ommends that the Bureau of Stan dards bo strengthened (or more research and dissemination of in formalinn to I lie public on c o n siimer hard goods. The council also endorses such varied programs as health insur ance under social security, low income tax-reductions, better pub lie accommodations for Negroes and much more public educa tion on consumer credit uses and costs. Those are mere highlights in what is probably the most com prehensive report on consumer protection ever compiled. The 12-membor Consumer Ad visory Council was appointed over a year ago at the suggestion ol President Kennedy. It has worked quietly perhaps too quietly Willi the President's Council of Economic Advisers un der chairman Walter Heller. There have been no public hear ings and no progress reports. 'Stop The World -I Want to Get Off 3? mm This has given some impres sion of inactivity. Actually, the final CAC report was dialled by Dr. Robert J. Lampmnn, professor of econom ics at University of Wisconsin. The draft report was submitted to the 23 U.S. government agen cies now having offices (or con sumer protection. Alter their review, lunil revisions were mode by CAC and CEA. Members of the Consumer Ad visory Council under chairman ship of Dean Helen G. Conoyer of Cornell's School of Economics include: Dr. Caroline Ware, for mer chairman of Consumer Clear ing House; Mrs. Persia Camp boll, City University of N e w York; Mrs. Helen E. Nelson, Cali fornia Consumer Council; -Mrs. John G. U'e, former president. League of Women Voters; Sylvia Porter, financial columnist. Also, those male members served: David Angevinc, Cooper ative League, Chicago; Dr. Ed ward S. Lewis, New York Urban League; Minnesota's Attorney General Waller E. Momlale; Dr. Richard L. D. Morse of Kansas University, and Dr. Colston E. Warne, president of the Consum ers Union. is s if j . . . And with the determined efforts of Canada and the United States . . . We can bury world communism first with our surplus wheat!" By SYDNEY J. HARRIS At the airport the other day, 1 was informed that my plane was late because the landing radar was "inoperative." This meant it was out of commission, not working, broken down. 1 picked up a newspaper while waiting, and read that some milk companies were not, as they, thought, being boycotted they were being subjected -to a "selec tive patronage program." There was some mail from the office in my briefcase, and I took out a communication from the "Council for Independent School Aid." In my day, these were called "private" schools; now, apparently to avoid the stigma of snobbism, they are officially re ferred to as "independent" ones.. And so it goes. We live in an atmosphere of euphemism, of the soft phrase to cover the hard fact. Not only do we refuse to coll a spade a spade (except when we are emotionally upset), but even the men who wield shov els for the city are called "sani tation employes" rather than street cleaners. One of the most fantastic re versals of the English lan guage in the last few years has been the word "exceptional." which is now applied to troubled or retarded children. In my time, an "exceptional" child was one who showed more promise, not less. It seems that as we become WASHINGTON REPORT . . . I Foreign Countries' Debt By Fl'LTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON Eighteen years and more than $100 billion laid , Uncle Sam still lacks accurate records on myriad loans made under various programs of forjign aid. A red-fared David Bell, riiirf of the Agency for . International Development, was forced to admit he has no tabulation of what Co. eign countries owe what to the U S. Treasury. After all, he lend Senator John J. Williams, strh an undertaking would be a "ru'.p. er massive typing and cleric a! job." The explanation did not salWy Williams, known as Mr. Economy to his colleagues. He asked Be'l to prepare a report listing evo-y outstanding loan; the manner in which it is to be repaid; Uie ou1 standing balance; and other spe cifics. Bell, who winced as the House of Representatives chopped more titan lialf a billion dollars from his budget lost month, is in no mood to annoy anybody. He prom ised Williams Ilic report would be ready in no time flat. That was in August. In a matter of days, Hell now says, the figures will be available. Backers of Senator Barry Gold water arc cheered by the findings of Klelclier Knchel. Washington correspondent for Look Magazine. In a recent swing across the Southwest, Knebel found "the Goklwaler surge strong and vi brantin places even bellicose." Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, ami Oklahoma, Knebel tinds. will wnd Goldwater delegations to the UM Republican Nalional Conven tion in San Francisco. If nominated. Goldwater will carry all four states, something no oilier GOP possibility could do, according to Knebel. These four would give Goldwater 42 of the IH3 electoral votes necessary for election. Goklwaler would pull into of lice innumerable other Republicans. STRICTLY PERSONAL. more violent in our behavior, we feel the need to become more euphemistic in our speech. An honest despotism in the past used to kill dissenters; today, a totalitarian government merely "liquidates" its enemies. They used to imprison foes of the state; now they are placed in "protec tive custody." Governments, corporations, la bor unions, institutions and collec tive entitles of all kinds engage in mass euphemisms, to soften the impact of their desires, to dis guise llieir inadequacies, to ex cuse their blunders, to shift the blame from the personal and the immediate to the vague, the abstract and the mechanical. The "system malfunctions" when the people in charge have goofed. We spend the summers in the cherry orchard country of Wis consin. I was explaining to my boy, during cherry-picking time, the various kinds and breeds of cherries, and the different uses to which they are put. "Those are sour cherries," I said. "They are used for canning or pie-making, not for eating directly." "We don't call them 'sour' any more," said an orchard owner standing next to us. "We call them 'tart cherries.' People don't like the idea of buying sour cher ries, so we changed the name." That night I told my boy the fable of the fox and the tart grapes. Still Unknown yielding the most bountiful GOP harvest in history. "A shower of blessings," says Oklahoma's GOP Chairman William Burkctt. Goldwater could net the Rcpubli. cans another Southwest Governor U hey now have two); another U.S. Senator (they now have three); tour to six new Representatives (they now have four out of 34); and perhaps 100 additional state legislators (they now have 90 out of 551). No other Republican nominee could run as strongly, according to Oklahoma Governor Henry Bell mon. his state's first GOP Chief Executive. Democrat Jack Camp bell, Governor of New Mexico, says much the same thing: "Goldwater has made an im pact on this state, and he'd add something to the Republican tick et. I'd rather run here against a ticket headed by Nelson Rockefel ler." Allen Duckworth, political ana lyst for the Dallas Morning News, quotes an intimate of Vice Presi dent Lyndon Johnson to the. effect that Goldwater would carry Texas by more than 150.000 votes. Other Texas experts feel the GOP can oust Sonalor Ralph Yarborough. ultra-liberal Democrat, and pick up several seats in the House of Representatives if Goldwater runs. Almanac Ry l ulled Press International Today is Friday, Oct. 11. the 2fHth day of 1983 with 81 to fol low. The moon is approaching i'.s new phase. The morning stars are Mercury ami Jupiter. Tlie evening stars are Jupiter and Saturn. On this day in history: In 1811, the first steam-driven ferry in the world started its run between New York City and Ho boken, N. J. In 1868, Thomas Edison filed papers for his first invention, an electrical vole recorder. Bv RALPH de TOLEDANO With considerable glee, the Re publican National Committee has been looking over the South and acting as if it were already in the two-party corner. But this joy may be premature. Everything points to a massive shift of politi cal sentiment south of Mr. Ma son's and Mr. Dixon's line. But this can go for naught under two condiUons: 1. If the Republican Party nom inates a candidate hand-picked by the Eastern "liberal" (or Wall Street) wing. 2. If the "uninstructed elector" move takes hold. So far neither of these possible eventualities is any more than a cloud on the horizon. The Southern Division of the Republican Na tional Committee has been able to report a continuing movement to the GOP in the South. Democratic clubs in Georgia, considered among the least threatened of Southern states, havo been voting resolutions en dorsing Republican candidates and the party itself. Southern officials admit openly that they can spot a real trend. Governors of eight Southern states are visibly shying , away from the Kennedy Admin istration. It is dubious if the "state house gangs" which rallied to Lyndon Johnson and helped save most of the South for John F. Kennedy in 1960 will show very much enthusiasm this time. And the polls, for what little they are worth, show Senator Gold water comfortably ahead of Presi dent Kennedy in the South. But it should be noted that they are for Mr. Goldwater. A candidate like Nelson Rockefeller, the New York governor, would make no headway in the South and it re quires no pollster to confirm this conclusion. However, there are still some in the GOP who believe that the South should he written off, that the Midwest will go along with any Republican candidate "because it has no place else to go" (except to remain at home on election day), and the GOP will win or lose in the "big in dustrial stales" (which, of course, is where "liberal" Republicans have steadily been losing in Presi dential years). Democratic strategists would like nothing better than a Repub lican Party committed to such a policy. Conservatives can win big "WASHINGTON CALLING By MARQUIS CHILDS WASHINGTON As in almost every term since the racial con llict became acute the Supreme Court will once again, as it re sumes its sittings, be in the eye of the storm. Far more than Congress this third coordinate branch of gov ernment has moved in response to the upheaval shaking the coun try. The decision on school inte gration written for a unanimous court in 1934 by Earl Warren whom President Eisenhower had made Chief Justice was in a sense the signal for all that has fol lowed. Eisenhower, incidentally, never quite concealed his unhap piness over that decision and his reluctance (o work toward its im plementation. In the new term school integra tion is only a minor matter relat ed to past decisions. Another his toric issue is involved in the 24 or 26 civil rights cases the court expects to hear. That is the right ol access by all citizens to public accommodation versus the charge of trespass and the right of a private owner to say who shall be accepted for trade on his property. The ruling of the court may prove as far-reaching as the school integration decision. And if Con gress continues to stall the deci sion could come even before the passage of a civil rights bill with a public accommodations provi sion. The cases to be heard involve sit-ins and the freedom riders in a dozen or more communities. Two grow out of the refusal to admit Negroes to amusement parks and the mass protests that followed. The noise, the vio lence, the fury of these racial struggles will have an echo In the solemn marble temple of the highest court. This is in itself a significant commentary on the American system. Despite rumors to the contrary, some of them seemingly inspired by w ishful thinking, the expecta tion within the court is that it will not be altered by retirement at this term. Next week Justice William O. Douglas will be 65 and, therefore, eligible to retire at the full salary of $35,000. When he was divorced for a second time and shortly thereaf ter remarried speculation had Justice Douglas stepping out. He was interested, so the rumor went, in taking a post with a large foundation. This would en in the suburban and rural areas and eventually, this vote will enable them to smother the big cities whose claim to po litical power is highly exagger ated. But a "liberal" Republican has only a hardly appreciable ad vantage over, let us say, Senator Goldwater among the solidly Democratic minority groups. The "uninstructed elector" move is linked to the need for a conservative. Those who clamor for this kind of political maneuver in effect, asking the voters to sign a blank Presidential check do not realize that they are allow ing their opposition to the Ken nedy Administration to blind them. President Kennedy's one hope to take the South from a conserva tive Republican is that enough "uninstructed electors" are chos en to split badly the anli-Adminis-tration vote. Every vote for an "uninstrucled elector" with no chance of piling up enough of them ,to elect a Southern Demo crat neutralizes a Republican vote. Guess, then, who wins? So far, the Republican Party seems determined to nominate Sign Of The Times II fmmwnsm 01 11 Supreme Storm able him to travel to the faraway places where he has spent most of his summers since he was ap pointed to the tribunal by Presi dent Roosevelt in 1939. But his associates expect him to remain. The other justice still on the court to be appointed by FDR is Hugo L. Black. Now 77 years old he took his seat in 1937. Justice Black was also reported to be contemplating retirement. With his health excellent he plays ten nis every day the weather per mitsBlack has no intention of retiring. He is just now casting about for a young man to serve as his law clerk in the term to follow, that is, beginning in Octo ber, 1964. One of the disquieting rumors was of the nature of the succes sors considered for two vacancies if they should occur. To one a Negro would be appointed and to the other a Southerner of strong known Southern views. This would be an obvious political balancing act too obvious and in official quarters it is scoffed at. Such appointment would further fragment the court ethnic, reli gious and geographical grounds. This is already an unhealthy trend with the tradition of one Catholic and one Jew. Great jurists do not come by religious or geographical prescription. When this has been said, how ever, the court has a w ay of prov. ing out the finest in the men ap pointed to it. Justice Black is him self the best proof of this. He came to the court as a senator from Alabama. It was established after his appointment that as an ambitious young politician he had been for a time a member of the Ku KIux Klan. Yet the record he has written on the court assures him of a very high place in the annals of the law and in the history of free dom in America. Irving Dilliard has put this together in "One Man's Stand for Freedom," which s a monument to Justice Black. It contains his great dissents in the civil liberties cases when by five to four the court was find ing against a series of hapless victims whose ideas had run aloul of prevailing fears and prejudices. So once again this curiously comprised court finds itself at the stormy center of a time of trou bles. Besides public eccoiiwiMa turn. 14 or U caaes to U ki;d involve (uiporihmnwnt of M4 j,. uUtures. brwjmg up it (1 m si kfimtors euvotinn, , Barry Goldwater. (The White House expects that nomination and does not look forward to a contest with him.) Governor Rock efeller dwindles in importance as a threat and can only stir up a very small breeze. At the same time, the "unin structed elector" proponents have been considerably embarrassed by their leaders. Many Southerners who believe in states rights are simply reminded of federal inter ference when one of their gover nors overrides municipal authori ties. But any political observer knows that logic is not the most im portant ingredient in the electoral stew. As conventions and elections approach, people often forget what is to their own advantage. Their principles are somehow con fused by their emotions. Trouble may then develop. This Is what makes the bandwagon psychology so important and what causes stampedes. That the conditions for a good Kennedy showing in the South are unlikely docs not mean that they are impossible. It is precisely this thought that less ex uberant Republicans are holding. "ill.' iUMt Bruce Shanks. Eu.'.'lo "vening News Center sentatives of the great cities. For all the furor of the radical night the decisions the nine reach in their lonely conclave are the law of the land and therefore they touch every citizen. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Fine Job In reference to the editorial "Tax Referral Not a. Disaster." Your last paragraph of the edi torial dated Aug. 25, 1963, states, "Maybe the legislators could for get the lobbying of the labor leaders long enough to write a sales tax bill that would go far to straighten out all of our tax problems." But I believe the people of Oregon voted against a sales tax. Was the present tax bill by the legislature made so bad on purpose, so that a sales tax or per cent one shot tax could lie forced on the people of our slate? Just as the unfair voting on Daylight Saving Time was dune. I feel that Governor Hatfield deserted the vole of the people when he allowed the daylight time bill. I also feel he is re sponsible for the failure of the legislature to produce a sensible tax bill. If the people of Oregon paid as much atlention to what is hap pening in our government, and spoke their views (as they did about the Game Commission) we would find the governing bodies would support the vote of the people. Do we know what Bill S-839 is- If not. let's find out and speak up. Or are we going to let the governor and legislature run the state for us? I believe Dan L. Eastman's re port in the Herald and News of Sept, l. 1963 was a good report. 1 think the Game Commission hi, none a fine job. In either sex hunts the first deer killed arc the sick, the old. or last year's cripples. This is a big help to the deer herd. U the past fiv i yri I hiv, ft a sick er, but I have sx vir d wr staying tli yr mnw4 it their summer habits 1 oejtamjt 0id hate to f; tip bu,thtt ot th fc-
