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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
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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.