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PAOE-U HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Thursday, October 17, 196 'Down, Boy - Not That One -Down, You Dumb Mutt' WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Goldwater Ranks In Maryland Politics The tortuous progress that the Ad ministration's tax reduction bill has been making toward eventual enactment pro vides a significant and interesting example nf rhnndps In IhinVinff that have hflpn fak- 'mg place in this country, and in Congress. ;. The tax bill is at the very heart of Mr. .' Kennedy's economic program. It is, he ar gues again and again, the essential force needed to stimulate economic growth, to provide more goods and services, to create more jobs, to increase the general standard of living, and to strengthen the nation all along the line. The President and his advisors would have had good reason to believe that a tax reduction bill would make its way through Congress with much less difficulty than in the present case. In the past, tax reduction has offered about as sure-fire an appeal as anything could. Bills have gone through with next to no debate. Here is the most tangible of all ways, Congress has felt, to make the folks back home happy. It is very different now not because tax reduction isn't wanted. It is. But there is grave concern over how best to achieve it without creating new and formidable dangers. It is argued, for instance, that balanced budgets are a shibboleth, and that deficits can be almost a way of fiscal life for a na tion without undermining its economic strength and stability. In other words, in ef fect, this theory holds that a nation is not comparable to a business or a family. It is something to which the usual rules do not apply. But this theory has not been tested, and a great many people believe that the policy which would follow its acceptance could be absolutely disastrous. There is strong feeling that any tax cut should be accompanied by a proviso that federal expenditures also be reduced, and IN WASHINGTON Rights By RALPH de TOLKDANO MANCHESTER. N.H. New England, which sired the Abo litionist movement and gave it some of its most licry spokes men, seems to have undergone, a change of heart. This would be minor Intelligence but lor one reason. It affects the out come of the 19fi4 Presidential election and Hie chances of. President Kennedy. It is start ling to hear lobur leaders, busi nessmen, and civic leaders tulk of tlie Administration's civil rights program and Its stance on the Negro issue in terms which would make some South erners blush. What has happened, simply, is that many people hero who took It for granted that civil rights legislation and Iho "Ne gro question" were a Southern problem have been made to (eel that the Federal government is now jumping down their own throats. A labor leader became almost apoplectic as he dis cussed what lie considered the federal government's attempts to tell him how to run his union. "We don't discriminate." he said, "but no one Is going to tell us that we have to give Ne groes preference when they are not qualified. We had a number of Negroes in our union, but if tills keeps up. you can bet tliere won't be a one pretty soon. I've known some absolute down-the-line Kenncdymen who have swung Uie other way complete ly because of this civil rights nonsense. It's a terrible thing that an election should swing on something like this, but that is what's happening." This same outrage is ex pressed by some who have no real cause to feel concern and no real contact with the Negro issue. What was once academic for litem suddenly looms very big and real. However their motives may be Judged and leaving out h rights and the wrongs of the matter they sud denly see their world threatened. The specter of a federal gov ernment, armed with lha new legislation now pending In Con gress, moving in on all their ac tivities shocks them. It should be noted here that the anger and bitterness are not Make Haste Slowly that the Administration pledge itself to hold spending during coming fiscal years to a stated amount. An amendment to this end was defeated in the House, but by a com paratively narrow margin. There is also the belief that even an $11 billion overall tax cut would not mean a great deal to the average family, and would not materially spur spending and purchasing. A corollary here is that the whole tax system needs drastic overhaul, and that this should come first. The tax bill considerably amended has passed the House. But it is due for some rough manhandling in the Senate, where Senator Byrd is chairman of the all-important Finance Committee. There is a good chance, perhaps even a likelihood, that no action will be taken this year. And, now, Senate priority has been given to civil rights legislation. Actually, very little of the Adminis tration's domestic legislative program has gone anywhere at all. Parts of it such as Medicare and aid to education seem abso lutely dead, at least for the time being. Other parts, such as the training plan for young people and urban mass transporta tion, are in a sickly condition. Some of the Administration's most dra matic ideas arc finding the reception cool too. The man-on-the-moon project is one. A price tag of some $40 billion has been tied to it, though no one can really know now just what the cost would be, or if it is prac tical at all. In any event, more and more opposition is appearing, on the grounds that the gains would be tenuous at best, and that this is no time to devote so gigantic a sum of money and resources to it. In sum, the mood of this long-sitting Congress can be fairly said to be one of growing caution. "Make haste slowly" comes pretty close to being its motto. Issue Cuts aimed at the Negro but at the Administration and Mr. Kenne dy in particular. Manchester is a Democratic city in a usually Republican state. It is an indus trial city as well. The union member feels that his livelihood is being put in jeopardy by tlie White House as strongly as do the more prosperous citizens. There is considerable comment here on the recent local Boston election in which oppon ents of an "intcgrationist" school program were handily re elected, despite the zealous campaign of Negro organiza tions. ("In the President's home town." is the ironic comment. I Tlio sentiments on civil rights here corroborate recent polls which show that whereas Uie preponderance of Americans feel that the Negro has not got ten a (air shake, the same group is equally convinced that the Federal government is niov ing Irresponsibly and too rapid ly to right tho wrong. lustico is one thing, but tlie consensus liere is thai Uie Pres ident believes in giving prefer ential status to Negroes. Sons and grundsons of immigrants remark that there was strong prejudice against those of their raco and nationality, but "no -- and There's Where El Presidente Lives When We Have One" ItOSS Deep one went crying to the govern ment for help." It is possible that this rising anti-Administration feeling will become, as one newspaperman hero said, the "gut issue" of 1964. If this is so. it casts a new light on the chances of Sen ator Harry Goldwater in the New Hampshire primary of March. 1964. Mr. t'loldwnter is not n segregationist, nor would any of the people 1 spoke to want him to become one. But he takes a position that these matters should be left up to the states. And to New F.nglandcrs, this makes sense. Tlie problems to be faced arc entirely different for New Hampshire and. let us say, Georgia. A single uniform and punitive law cannot do the job. Between the position of Pres ident Kennedy and that of New York Governor Nelson Rocke feller, there is little difference. Oilier things being equal, Sen ator Goldwater will benefit if the present temper of the vot ers prevails, it would not sur prise me, in fact, if a gocxl many of the old AFL unionists quietly cast their votes I in tlie privacy of tlie polls! for Barry Goldwater simply on the civil rights issue. LEWIS, MILWAUKEE JOUINAt ) ft IN-?? fit woij"TD Per WILLIAM S. By WILLIAM S. WHITE WASHINGTON - Large and troubling questions have been raised around the small, sad and presently all but friendless person of Bobby Baker, w ho has just involuntarily ended 21 years of almost incredibly devoted and skillful service to tlie United Suites Senate. Baker, in the euphemism of that crudest of all professions, politics, has been "allowed to resign" as secretary to the Sen ate's Democratic majority, meaning its principal executive agent. It is a post which can mean anything or nothing much, and in his case it has meant a very great deal, indeed. For he hapiens to be t h a t rare human article, an authen ticif rough - diamond parlia mentary genius. He is, in fact, far abler than many of his late senatorial masters, for all his humble rural South Carolina background and his little night school law degree. And to his country, to his party, to the Sen ate and to them, his late mas ters, he has contributed much more than the public can ever possibly know. For Bobby Baker, now at the less than advanced age of 33, came to the Senate as a 14-year-old page boy and remained there to become a tireless and irreplacable force for decent leg islation decently arrived at. He did those quiet, endless chores to bring that understanding and consent among contending par ties and factions among all of which he was respected and among most of which he was loved which is essential to pro ducing tlie informed, civilized consensus that is legislation at its best. lie was. of course, a Demo crat, and a loyal one at that. But he was much more. He was. at the least end of it. a man of tlie Senate and an unelectcd but brilliant legislator humorous, tolerant, fair but principled over and nlxive any partisan feeling or ideological hair-splitting. He had as many friends among tlie Republicans as among the Democrats; for he played the game in tlie Senate on the level and on the square, and everybody knew it. He was. in short, the untitled intelligence oiiicer of the Sen ate, as far above a "secretary," in tlie ordinary meaning of tiiat word, as an Army divisional G-2 is above, say, the corpora! who counts the underwear in the sup ply room. Why, (lien, has Bobby been JXY I BEHB1TSmHLfl "lUrt't that Utttr bout tht ilounnt ef Congrtu, Senator. Senator!? . . . Semttf) !" WHITE .. Senate Action Unfair n Baker Dismissal "allowed to resign?" Well, it turned out recently that in his life outside the Senate he had - developed tough and urgent pri vate business interests, compli cated in nature but wrong or evil if and only IF it can be established by any trace of com petent evidence that he made improiwr use of his Senate posi tion to forward those interests. The "evidence" against him so far, to the best of my ability to grasp something that is rath er like a moonbeam in a dark room, seems to lie in certain accusations made against him in a civil law suit by an angry ex-associate. Men filing lawsuits in business quarrels are not commonly supposed to be abso lutely fair and objective In what they say. Moreover, the com mon American notion is that a fellow is not deemed guilty, or otherwise at fault, unless and until the court itself has made some such finding. Bobby, however, has not been found either guilty of whatever it is he is supposed to have done under the vaguely sinister but impossibly loose term of "wheeling and dealing" or not guilty. He has just been let go, without any proper chance to tell his story to that full Senate he has served so long. It happens that I am very fond of the institution of the Senate. But I am just a trifle less (ond of it today. I think a man of the Senate even though not ac tually a member deserves a hearing by his peers before Ills career is left in dust and aslies. If he has done wrong, let him be punished. But do let him have his say. And I think the Senate where hardly a single member is innocent of the historic crime of "having outside business in terests" will regret the man ner in which it has disposed of Robert G. Baker. For this is the form of justice expressed in the phrase "Verdict first evi dence later." And this kind of justice does not become tlie Scn atc of the United States. Thoughts My little children, I am writ ing this to you so that you may not sin; but if any one does sin, we have an advocate with the Fa ther, Jesus Christ the righteous. I John 2:1. Jesus did all tlie saving-work. He brought the cross to our level. Get saved by looking to Him, and then live to God. W. P. Mackay. By FULTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON The Goldwa ter for President bandwagon has a new passenger who sur prised many when he h o p p e d aboard. , He is Maryland Sen. J. Glenn Beall. long considered a mem ber of the GOP's liberal wing. The two Solons have served together since 1952. frequently finding themselves on opposite sides of the ideological aisle. But Beall now calls Goldwater "our next President." He has moved in recent months to a more conservative position. The reasons are not hard to discern. Beall faces a serious primary challenge next year from Con gressman Charles "Mac" Mathi as. The vast majority of Free State Republicans appear to be solidly behind Goldwater. So Be all and other GOP figures are trying to out-Barry each oth er. Even Baltimore Mayor Theo dore McKeldin. perhaps the country's most liberal Republi can, says, sure, he can back Goldwater. State Chairman David Scull, also considered a liberal Repub lican, now says publicly that Goldwater -w ill carry Maryland in any primary. More than that, Republicans and Democrats agree Goldwa ter would stand an excellent chance of defeating John Ken nedy in Maryland in November, 11)64. Kennedy carried the state by 76,000 votes in 1960 and few gave any Republican much chance of victory until recently. Now Maryland has become the scene of tumultuous racial conflict, particularly on its East ern shore. National Guards men patrol the streets of Cam bridge. Anti-Kennedy feeling is at a lever pitch. Eastern Shore Republican Rogers Morton won election to the U.S. House last fall. Morton, a brother of GOP Sen. Thruston Morton, has long been thought moderately liberal on the race question. Sizing up political opinion in his district, he now indicates he will oppose the Kennedy civil rights package. One reason John Kennedy's Ily SYDNEY J. HARRIS Purely Personal Prejudices: There is a profound difference between the genuine conserva tive who wants to preserve what was best In Uie past, and the reactionary who wants to re store what was most profitable in the past; and it is hard for one to distinguish between these two tendencies within himself, because to most of us what is profitable is, ipso facto, t h e best. The real evil of war is not the destruction and deatli it leaves so much as tlie reversal of val ues it promotes: it sanctifies force and fraud, and turns bru tality and treachery from vices into virtues: and when it is over, the ordinary man wonders why, if morality can be suspend ed between nations, it should be resumed or respected between persons. Those w ho scrutinize too closely imagine they ore get ting at the "truth" when they arc only distorting nature; af ter all, when glimpsed through a magnifying glass, the skin of the most beautiful woman in the world seems full of large and ugly pores. It is good to know w hen one's limit lias been reached, and to keep in mind that fine old Sa voyard proverb: "I have so much to do that I am going to bed." A neurosis is just a prosUietic device of the mind to help us get through lite after a psychic limb has been crippled or am putated in early childhood: and it can never be got rid of. but only made to function more nearly like its natural prototype. THEY SAY... Tlie Soviet leaders know if some Americans seem to forget that our foreign aid program is a key weapon In the continu ing struggle by free peoples against Communist aggression. Mr. Khrushchev would be pleased to be competing against a crippled effort oa our part. I'ndcrwrclanr ( Mate W, Ar- rrrll Harriman on foreign aid ruts. recent farm state tour was something less than a smashing success: Administration figures show the American farmer is in the worst shape in many years. The Department of Agricul ture announced the other day the parity ratio the relation ship between the prices farmers get and the prices farmers pay has fallen again. The Septem ber figure is 77, down one point in a month and four points in the past year. It has not been this low since 1939. Says Congressman Paul Find ley, a Republican who repre sents a downstate Illinois farm area: "The U.S. farmer is in the worst cost-price squeeze in 24 years. The current parity ratio of 77 is in sharp contrast to the 90-per cent parity prom ised by candidate Kennedy in 1930." Early last month a contingent of 145 Peace Corps volunteers were dispatched to Liberia. Air fare for the group cost $46,856 and Uncle Sam will continue to pick up the tab. Liberia is a nation in which no Caucasian can hold citizen ship or office. Its president, William Tubman, has collected $131 million in U.S. foreign aid. Last year he spent $12 million for a presidential palace. The situation is similar in the Ivory Coast, another emerging nation. President Feliz Hou-phouet-Boigny last year asked for and got $4.6 million from Uncle Sam. He is now building a $10 million marble edifice. Explained Time magazine not so long ago: "As far as most leaders of newly - independent black African countries are con cerned, a new Presidential pal ace, a stable of custom - built limousines, a shiny yacht and a foreign bank account or two arc no more than the legitimate re wards of power, even in the most poverty - stricken nation. "In most British colonies, the new rulers carefully preserved the old pomp and purple, the mace, the wigs, the colonial etiquette and added a few touch es of their own." STRICTLY PERSONAL. The younger the child, the better the dog understands him: it Is only after we ac quire words, education, ab stract ideas, and a rigid sys tem of beliefs and attitudes that we lose the power to com municate w ith those less intel ligent than we are. Man would need at least three lives in order to profit from his faults: the first in which to com mit his errors, the second in which to commit exactly tlie op posite ones, and the third in which to maintain his spiritual balance. Those who complain that an author is "obscure" or "con fused" are sometimes assuming a superiority they may n o t have; it is a good exercise in humility to remember Lichten bcrg's tail aphorism: "A hook is a mirror: if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out." To scorn small talk in social gatherings is as foolish and su percilious as bringing nothing but a hundred dollar bill to a penny arci.de. Almanac By United Press International Today is Thursday, Oct. 17, the 290th day of 1963 with 73 to follow. The moon is new . The morning star is Jupiter. The evening stars are Jupiter and Saturn. On Uiis day in history: In 1777. British Gen. John Burcoyne surrendered his forc es to the Americans at Sara toga. N Y., in one of the great turning points of the American Revolution. In 1931. bootlegger and rack eteer Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion by a fed eral court in Chicago and sen tenced to 11 ears in prison and fined $50 .000. In 1933. Dr. Albert Einstein, a refugee from Nazi Germany, ar rived in the United States and established residence in Prince ton. N.J. In 1945. Juan Peron staged a surprise coup and overthrew the goiernment of Argentina, thus becoming Uie country's dictator. A thought lor the day-Dr. Al berl Einstein said: "As long as tliere arc sovereign nations os sowing great power, war is in evitable. ' ft EPSON IN WASHINGTON Latin America Benefits From Aid Program By PETER EDSON" Washington Correspondent -Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (SEA) News from Latin America always seems to be the most discour aging and there is much more of it. This is emphasized by t h e overthrow of the Juan Bosch government in Dominican Re public and the Ramon Villeda Morales government in Hondu ras, for being too democratic. In tlie past year there has been trouble of some kind in every country from Mexico to Honduras, back up the east coast to Vene- ezuela and on across the Ca ribbean to Cu ba. If there was just one coun try where the outlook was really bright, there would be hope and more encouragement. The United States has been pouring aid into Latin America since Nelson Rockefeller took over the Good Neighbor policy in 1940. Twenty years later af ter nearly $4 billion had been loaned or given away this ef fort really boomed with Presi dent Kennedy's Alliance for Progress program. Some $1.5 billion has been ex pended on it in fiscal years 1962 and 1963. Another $600 million has been asked for the current fiscal year. This would make the total $6 billion. Tentative congressional cuts cf 25 per cent or $150 million on tills year's program have raised cries of alarm from the ad ministration that it will sabo tage the program. But the opposition to it is based on a contention that for eign aid to Cuba did not prevent Fidel Castro from taking over any more than aid to Bosch prevented the generals from throwing him out for being soft on the Communists. So even if foreign aid is not directly responsible for Latin American instability, the Alli ance for Progress may be cut down as a sacrifice on the altars of economy. Latin American reaction to this possibility seems to be that whatever is wrong with the Al liance for Progress is primar ily the fault of United States bad management. The conten tion is that the program cannot be run from Washington. They want it run by a Latin Ameri can organization and not be tween the U.S. and each coun try, separately. Any thought that the United States will turn over to an in ternational organization the con trol of wholly U.S. appropriated funds is ridiculous. Congress would never approve. United Stales officials have made clear to the Latin Ameri cans, however, that their in-, creased participation in plan ning the Alliance (or Progress would he welcome whenever they furnish the bulk of the re sources for development. In two years, only seven of the 19 Latin American countries have been able to work out their own development plans. United States aid cannot be considered as a subsidy to to make up for loss of foreign markets or low commodity prices caused by their own overproduction. Coffee coun tries, for instance, must diver sify their economies. United States loans cannot be doled nut endlessly to close gaps caused by runaway infla tion, as in Brazil. And there must be e whole new school of politicians, career public servants and administra tors developed to give Latin American countries responsible government. They need better educational systems and must provide tliem for themselves. "Only the governments of La tin America can bring about the basic reforms which, soundly conceived and implemented, will ultimately help to make de mocracy secure." says Alliance for Progress coordinator Too doro Moscoso. The question is not whether there will be enough U.S. dol lars to finance these undertak ing. It is whether there is enough patience to wait for the l-atin Americans to carry out 'heir part of the program. OUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q What country claims the es tablishment of the first law school? A Italy, at Bologna Universi tv, in the 1200s. Q-Wht has become of the space craft Died by Colonel Glean la America's first orbital flight? A-Friendship 7 has been in stalled in the Smithsonian Insti tution. Washington, D C.
