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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon
Wednesday, October S3, 19GJ
'Shake The Hand That Shook The Hand .
EPSON IN WASHINGTON . .
Africa Drifting To
National Socialism
BS' ft
Dilemma For Gov. Romney
It is unusual that, months before presi
. deptial nominating time, any state should
become so much a party battleground as
J: Michigan already has become for the Repub
licans. With 48 convention votes at stake,
Michigan is naturally one of the big prizes
for 1964. And right now Sen. Barry Gold
water's partisans are hard after a large
share of that total.
Hence the early struggle. For the nor-
mal political realities make Michigan the
preserve of its new but well known GOP
Governor, George Romney. And the Gold-
water push has given Romney an unlooked-
for predicament.
; The governor himself is often men
tioned as a presidential prospect. He figures
'; fairly well up in many polls. Yet he has re
peatedly disavowed any Interest in the
1964 nomination. Various party and other
:. interests, who want to see him stay on and
:-try for reelection as governor next year,
urge him to make that disavowal rigidly
: final. . j
:' But in so doing they are complicating
': the governor's problems of normal political
;' leadership in his powerful state.
:: For example, some tell him that he can-
;not declare himself a Michigan "favorite
: son" without going all the way in a major
: bid for the nomination.
Most political realists consider this
view to be utter nonsense. Any big state
governor worth his political salt is expected
Frankly, we can't see anything wrong
: with the efforts of the Department of Agri
culture to assist in the retirement of mid
west farm land from production and its con
version into recreational areas even if
some of those recreational areas happen to
be golf courses. With shorter hours and
shorter work weeks for thej vast majority
: (of our citizens there is going to be incrcas
; ing demand for recreational activity. And we
; have plenty of land in crops, now, to produce
': the food we need.
What does strike us as ridiculous is
other activities on the part of the govern
Sir
': : By MARQUIS Clin.DS
; : WASHINGTON A Senate ub
; committee hearing testimony
about the proposed supersonic
; transport plane was told that
lwith a speed of Mach S over
; : 1.000 miles an hour as against
tMach 2 tlie flying time from
New York to Los Angeles could
' . be cut by 30 minutes.
; "But who the hell wants to go
' ; that fast?" Sen. Thruston Mor
- ton of Kentucky demanded of
i tlie witness, Chairman Alan S.
.' Boyd of the Civil Aeronautics
. Board.
This is one of many unan-
; swered questions about a pas-
- scnger plane designed to travel
- from two to threo times as fast
as the speed of sound which
In scientific shorthand is desig
nated as much. The cost of de
veloping a first flynblc model is
put at $1 billion. It will prob-
. ubly como close to $1.5 billion.
'I Vet, with tlio sponsorship of
the Kennedy Administration and
I the strong support of the air
J craft Industry and the airlines,
Jtho initial stage of calling for
J designs is under way. This has
; Income a race comparable in
some respects to tlie race for
i the moon. Tho United States Is
determined to build a faster
. piano and to bring It out In ad
vance of Ihe Concordo with
a speed of Much 2, which ia be
ing jointly developed by France
and Britain. The Concorde will
cost $10,000,000. Last spring
fil'nn American Airways put in
i an order for six Concordes, Con
w linontal Air Lines for three.
J That gave a new Impetus to
; the race and the Federal Avla
; tion Agency stepped up design
; plans. Since then, according to
Najeeb Halaby, KAA adminis-
- trator, 27 of tlie American su
' personic planes tlie SST have
" been ordered by American
companies, lie remarked on
how unprecedented this was,
' since the orders are for a plane
- "as yet unborn and undesigned."
. At one member of the mibeorn
: mlttee remarked, if the French
it had not taken the name Mirage
' for one of their bombers tills
Save A Million Two
WASHINGTON CALLING
Expensive Development
would be appropriate. The
American SST will cost $22,
600.000. One of the biggest cucstim
marks concerns not just the
wifely and well-being of the
comparatively few passengers
only eight per cent of Americans
use the airlines who will fly in
SSTs. All eartlibound mortals
and particularly those living
near airports are concerned with
a still unresolved problem the
sonic boom. This is a question
of man's environment as the
machines ho creates in tlie
name, of progress Increasingly
shatter tho quiet that o n c c
meant pence of mind.
Anyone living near a military
airport or In the flight patch of
supersonic bombers needs no ex
planation of sonic boraii. It is a
noise like thunder, which at its
peak has been known to sli.it tor
windows and crack plaster. The
Air Force had so many com
plaints that it Instituted a pro
gram called Tlie Sounds of
'Freedom to justify the nuisance.
While the boom is loudest as
the plane crashes the sound bar
nor, it is unit unions in a zone
50 miles wide, reverberating
over towns and cities us a p.r
of explosions. FAA experts say
that the SST ran lie designed so
Ihe noise level will be "toler
able." Tlie plane w ill fly subsonic un
til it reaches an altitude of 4),
000 feet, llien It will break the
sound barrier above 40.000 on the
way to fiO.000 or 70.000 in the
. ory over tlio ocean on transat
lantic flights or over relatively
sparsely settled areas on cross
country runs.
Another sound problem to lie
solved Is noise on the runway.
Tlie present subsonic jets have a
noise thrust of about lT.ono
pounds. Tlie new engine will
have 40.000 pounds. This means
a compressor whine well over
twice that of tlie screech of jets
now in operation, liespite hope
ful pronouncements about ways
to combat It in new design, the
far higher scream on takeoff
and approach for landing is sure
to command his party's forces in a nomi
nation struggle, to use them effectively as
bargaining elements for the benefit of his
state.
If he has to make himself favorite son
in order to keep right rein, that is looked
upon as perfectly sensible politics. Profes
sionals do not see in such a course a com
mitment to "go all the, way," even when the
man involved is a popular governor fre
quently placed in the presidential lists.
Romney, on his own, evidently has not
wished to stand as favorite son. Perhaps he
is impressed, too, with the argument it
would thrust him into the 1964 race up to
his ears.
His current situation, however, is not
one a state political leader likes to swal
low. Goldwater elements are claiming up
wards of 20 of Michigan's 48 votes will be
theirs in 1964. Romney in some circum
stances might find himself going to San
Francisco virtually as chairman of a Gold
water delegation.
This could hardly promote the gover
. nor's image as a powerful leader in his own
state and a potential national figure for
1968 and beyond. In blunt fact, it might do
him serious damage, even to affecting his
prospects of re-election as governor next
year.
These are the detached professional as
sessments of Romney's present somewhat
unenviable position. He is believed not to
have too long to work himself out of this
dilemma.
Ways
ment, in this case the Department of In
terior, which are aimed in precisely the op
posite direction. At the same time Agricul
ture is paying out millions to take Iowa
farm land out of production to turn it into
parks, Interior is spending its millions to
build dams in the western states which will
bring more acres into production and at the
same time destroy some of our already ex
isting national parks.
An Iowa Congressman made a sugges
tion of much merit; leave the parks in Colo
rado, leave the farms in Iowa, and save mil
lions of dollars on both ends.
to stir angry protests. Follow
ing a Supreme Court ruling in a
Pittsburgh airport case uphold
ing the right of private citizens
to sue for relief if low-flying
planes lowered the value of
their property, thousands of
suits arc pending across the
country.
As first contemplated the SST
was to lie windowloss because
of the tremendous pressures at
1 great altitudes. From 125 to ItiO
passengers would be hurtled
through space in a sealed metal
tube. One hazard at 70.000 feet is
radiation from solar storms and
a warning system must be
worked out so the SST can drop
tn a safe level. It is a strange
world ahead and w hether man,
wlio has already done so much
to destroy and distort his envi
ronment, ran take it is the big
gest question of all.
Keillor's Note: Marquis
Chillis is on a brirf tour of the
South where he is making in
spection visits at NASA In
slullatlnns In Louisiana and
.Mississippi. In furthcoming
columns he also will write
about next year's election out
look, civil rights and other
topics pertinent to Ihe South.
Al
manac
By I nltrd Press Internalinnal
Today Is Wednesday, Oct. 2.1,
tlie 2th day of lMwith B9 to
follow.
Tlie moon is approaching Its
first quarter.
The morning star is Junior.
The evening stars ate Jupiter
and Saturn.
On this day in history:
III litis, about 25,000 women
marched In New York City de
manding the women's right to
vote In all 48 states.
In I955, voters In the Saar re
jected a proposed statute to
"Kuropeauize" tlie tiny country
and draw It mora closely to
France.
IN WASHINGTON
By RALPH de TOLEDANO
For some days, trial balloons
for Richard Nixon have been
launched by a series of "in
side" stories. Whether Mr. Nix
on was present at Uie ceremo
nies is unimportant. He is clear
ly a man who thinks that the
Republican Parly may yet give
him the nod in tlie 1964 Presi
dential contest.
None of this is particularly
startling. Neither is the fact
that those who have suddenly
discovered that lie is up and
running are being led down a
journalistic garden path by Ihe
balloon launchers. For instance,
one great metropolitan newspa
per, in attempting to show sup
port for Nixon as the GOP Pres
idential nominee, states that
several fprmcr associates of Mr.
Nixon in the last campaign
"have avoided commitments" to
one or another of Uie candi
dates. Among those named is Leon
ard W. Hall, campaign manager
for General Eisenhower and co
nianager for Mr. Nixon in 1960.
Mr. Hall, it is said, has been
sought out by Nelson Rockefel
lers forces but has refused to
plight his troth with the New
York governor.
This, to anyone who has a
good view of Republican maneu
ver, is one of those myths which
arc so easily inspired by the
politicians. The simple fact is
that Mr. Hall offered his serv
ices to the as-yct unorganized
supporters of Sen. Barry Gold
water and received a non-committal
answer. He then let it be
known Uiat he would be avail
able to the Rockefeller team
and received little comfort from
those quarters.
This is, not written in criti
cism of Mr. Hall, nor docs it im
ply that he was rejected. In a
sense, it is too early to become
involved in the kind of politick
ing Mr. Hall can do and nei
ther side was ready to sign him
on. 1 am certain that full use
will be made of Mr. Hail's tal
ents no matter who the Republi
can nominee may be.
But the idea that Mr. Hall or
any top-drawer GOP politico is
holding off Uie rival Presidential
candidates in order to see if
Mr. Nixon has decided to loss
Ins hat in tlio ring Is slightly
ridiculous. Among New Y o r k
BERRY'S WORLD
7 likt tbl lit o tunntl, but io ye bavt to keep
rtftrrlHg to it at the ENGLISH Cbauutli
Nixon And The
Republicans, of course, it may
be a camouflage act to give this
impression. Richard Nixon is
still nominally the head of the
Republican Party and to pay
lip service to his title spares a
careful politician from declar
ing his opposition to Governor
Rockefeller.
All indications are that Mr.
Rockefeller's fortunes a r e so
low in New York that lie could
not carry the state against any
Democrat. Neither could he
make any kind of showing in
California or Pennsylvania.
Since he is unpopular in tlie
South and Midwest, this leaves
him little on which to base a
claim of future victory.
As a result. Republicans in
New. York particularly those
who represent suburban and(
rural districts are increasingly
open in their espousal of the
Goldwater candidacy. In fact, it
is reported by reliable sources
that Rep. William Miller, chair
man of the Republican National
Committee, has told intimates
that he is ready to declare for
Barry Goldwater at any time.
This would require him to re
sign as chairman of tlie It.N'C
w here at least a show of neutral
ity is considered proper.
Mr. Miller, like other of his
colleagues, knows that a Rock
efeller candidacy can cost him
his seat. A Nixon candidacy
would put it in some jeopardy.
Every decade or so, we are
treated to some new translation
of the Bible, which is supposed
ly clearer, more accurate and
"more modern" in language
than the archaic versions our
forefathers were nourished
upon.
Nevertheless, these ancient
editions maintain their hold
upon us, because what one
learns as a child becomes a
comfortable incantation in later
lite, and we need never think it
afresh or feci it anew. Besides,
Presidency
For something new has been
added to New York politics
the Conservative Party. This
grouping is determined to see
an avowed conservative as the
GOP Republican candidate, and
if Mr. Goldwater is not nomi
nated, the Conservatives will run
a ticket of their ow n right down
to tlie Congressional level.
This would be enough, in some
districts, to topple several Re
publican Congressmen. It would
clearly mean the difference be
tween victory and defeat for a
touch-and-go incumbent like
Sen. Kenneth Keating.
When there is talk from New
York politicians that Mr. Nixon
is a candidate and has a good
chance to get the nominaUon,
it is Ito this correspondent) lit
tle more than the gas that es
capes from any trial balloon.
There are too many official and
unofficial groupings of conscrva.
tives around the country within
the GOP and on its periphery,
to make this possible.
In a way, this is sad. If elect
ed in 1960, Mr. Nixon would
have made a good President.
But he has been too buffeted
by the political winds since that
time. The 1962 defeat in the Cal
ifornia gubernatorial race cut a
deep emotional wound from
which he has not recovered.
tf Mr. Goldwater is to be
stopped, the liberal wing of the
GOP w ill nave to find a stronger
counterforce than Mr. Nixon.
STRICTLY
PERSONAL.
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
the powerful and old - fashioned
phraseology of the King James
version maintains an hypnoti
cally awesome effect upon us.
C o n s i d c r, for example, St.
Paul's famous words about the
"flesh" and the "spirit." Every
one who knows the Bible a lit
tle bit knows that the "flesh"
is bad and the "spirit" is good.
Rut hardly anyone, except a
few ignored theologians, knows
what the Bible meant bv
"Mesh."
We suppose, in our haphazard
and semi-educated way, that
St. Paul was talking against
"physical" things that by "Ihe
sins of the flesh" he meant
gluttony and drunkenness and
fornication and the immoderate
satisfaction of all the appetites.
He meant nothing of the sort.
The "flesh" refers to the
"natural man." as opposed to
tlio "supernatural man." It is
tlie total human personality of
the man who has not been "re
born." Thus, tlie sins of the flesh,
according to Paul and the fa
thers of the Church, are primar
ily those attitudes and activi
ties which contrast most
sharply with Ihe supernatural
virtues: creed, vanity, pride,
cruelty, injustice, and the hard
ness of heart that is at the core
of all of (hem.
In fact, the one lesson to be
learned from a careful reading
of the gospels is that Jesus
counted these sins infinitely
worse than the indulgence or
perversion of Ihe physical appe
tiles. Everything in the gospels
inctoate that He preferred the
company of the disreputable to
the company of the respectable
hypocrites.
Because so many have not
understood what the Bible
By PETER EPSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON (NEA)-A six
foot, 280-pound ex-prize fighter
and school dropout who became
prime minister of his native
Federation of Rhodesia and Ny
asaland was received by Presi
dent Kennedy the oilier day.
He had a little-known story
about what he says is going on
in Africa. And he said there's a
moral in it for the United States
on what is now going on in
Latin America.
The caller was Sir Roy Welcn
sky, a white man whose family
has been African for seven gen
erations. His father was a Jew, his
mother a Christian. He is about
to hang up his gloves now at
age 57, having taken the worst
beating of his life, not in the
ring, but in African politics.
Before he retires to go fish
ing and write a book which he
thinks future historians may be
interested in, he wanted to come
to America to meet Jack Demp
scy, now 58 and 215.
"I am leaving politics," he
said at the National Press Club
on the day before he went to
tlie White House. "I was kicked
out. But I want to say three or
four things."
He thinks they need saying.
And whether you agree with
him or not, you respect his
right to say them.
"Do you realize what is hap
pening in Africa today?" he
. asks. "It is becoming a conti
nent of national socialist
states," he answers.
He describes this as the pro
cess: First the Africans are given
the vote. One man, one vote
which is supposed to be democ
racy. Tlien the n a t i o n a 1 leaders
elected to office start to destroy
their opposition. It becomes a
one-party state. A dictatorship
is developed. And the rest of the
world accepts it because it is
told this is the best thing for the
Africans.
"Tlie West has no right to con
demn Africa to one form of gov
ernment," says Sir Roy. "You
will lose Latin America the
same way.
"It is a threat to the peace of
v'the world more power in the
hands of fewer people. If de
WASHINGTON NOTEBOOK . . .
Harriman Quips A
Compliment For K
By WASHINGTON STAFF
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON (NEAi-Under
Secretary of State Averell Har
riman, commenting on his re
cent conversations with Russia's
Chairman Nikita Khrushchev,
said, "He acts now like a poli
tician. He acts like Lyndon
Johnson."
This flippancy drew criticisms
from the vice president's admir
ers. But Harriman got out of
it neatly by saying: "Lyndon
Johnson is the most effective
political campaigner I know."
Ex-President Harry S. Tru
man was in the audience when
Austrian Foreign Minister Bru
no Krelsky made a speech be
fore a luncheon club in Kansas
City, discussing the problems of
a neutral country in the cold
war.
Afler it was over. H.S.T. came
up to the microphone and said,
for everyone to hear, "That's
the best cd speech I've
heard since 1945."
Senate minority leader Ever
ett Dirksen, R-Ill., has a stock
double-talk answer when asked
about his views concerning the
moon race.
"There once was a question on
a mail carrier exam: 'How far
is tlio moon from the earth?"
One fellow didn't know, so he
thought for a while and finally
answered. 'Just far enough so
means by "flesh," it has been
assumed that the "worst sins"
are physical, when, of course,
every competent theologian
knows that they are "spiritual."
Many so-called religious people
een believe that the prime sin
of Adam and Eve was sexual
in nature, which is an insane
distortion. Theirs was the spiri
tual sin of pride and disobedi
ence. New versions of the Bible try
valiantly to correct these er
r o r s and misconceptions of
words, but tlie emotional ties to
the past are too strong. We live
by words rather than by ideas,
and when the wrong word is
clamped to an idea at an early
ace, it is much easier for us to
.follow the word than to examine
tlie idea behind it.
mocracy is right for the United
States and the United Kingdom,
it should be right for Africa,
too."
But the only way the African
type of dictatorship can be
changed, says Sir Roy, is by
coup d'etat or assassination of
the leaders.
Already one African prime
minister has been assassinated
and another has been attacked
twice.
The opposition party in Ghana
is in jail. In his own Nyasaland
15 people have been locked up
for opposing new govern
ment. Slow down this develop
ment, he advises, or the Afri
can people will soon be disillu
sioned about democracy.
The new prime minister of the
now independent s t a t e of Ny-a
asaland also has come to Wash-
ington. He is Dr. Hastings Kam
uza Banda, a black African who
receives official honors as the
head of a state.
It is a state of three million
people with no industry and a
per capita income of $70 to $80
a year. It has been supported by
a $20 million subsidy from the
British.
Now that Nyasaland is inde
pendent, presumably the United
States will be asked to take over
this privilege with development
loans.
Ten years ago the British Par
liament was persuaded to cre
ate a federation of the three col
onics of Northern and Southern
Rhodesia and Nyasaland. But
the constitution forced on the
federation by the British made
the Africans think it was a
creature representing only its
200.000 whites. The eight million
Africans were, opposed to it
from the start.
"The lesson I've learned,"
says Sir Roy, "is that I do not
believe the African nationalist
leaders will accept white part
nership today. Ten years ago
they might have, if it had been
offered to them in the right
form.
"The people of Africa cry out
for education, for skill and for
work. Yet their condition today
is as poor as it has ever been.
"Tlie gilt of freedom has been
to the politician in power, not
the people. Nor can the people
now easily change the govern
ments they have got by constitu
tional means or opposition to
the ruling party."
it won't interfere with me and
the duty of carrying mail.' He
got the job."
A major furor in tlie P(ehta
gon for the past year is over
news management as practiced
by Arthur Sylvester, assistant
secretary of defense for public
aliairs.
Sometimes this censorship and
news management have been
achieved by "classifying" em
barrassing documents marking
tliem "secret" or "confiden
tial." Now a Pentagon wag high on
Sylvester's own staff has put
two signs on the wall back of
his desk:
WHEN YOU MANAGE NEWS
DO IT ACCORDING TO THE
RULES
and
IF IT'S AWKWARD
CLASSIFY IT
Slate Department fan mail
has its ups and downs, but this
is a high period. Excerpts from
typical letters:
"We need a mental health pro
gram in the White House and
State Department."
"It's clear Soviet appcascrs
are having a field day."
One of the persistent rumors:
There are thousands of Chinese
Communist troops in Mexico,
poised to attack tlie United
States. Where this one started
nobody knows, but it has spread
by word of mouth to many parts
of the country.
Every such letter gets a firm
denial in reply.
One woman correspondent,
worried about the Viet Nam sit
uation, closed her letter with
the admission, "I realize that if
I were living in a Communist
country, I would never have
dared write to my government."
Comments one official: "w
don't lose Uicm all."
When a power failure caused
temporary blackout in t h e
State Department the other
day. Sen. Karl Mundt, R-5 D.,
observed:
"It probably didn't cause
much trouble. Some observers
claim that our foreign policy
seems to operate in the dark all
of the time."