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PAGE-4 HERALD AND NEWS. Klamalh Falls, Oregon Tuesday, October 29, 1963 'You'd Better Come In, Mr. Nixon! These New York Electrical Storms Con Be Pretty Bad!' EDSON IN WASHINGTON fcdikfibcd (paqsi Few seasoned political observers doubt that the presidential bug still is biting Rich ard M. Nixon, despite his most ardent pro tests of disinterest in the 1964 Republican nomination. Both Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, :the present front runner, and New York's "Gov. Nelson Rockefeller are political real Isls and they say they think Nixon is a candidate. Many another politician believes the same. There can be no question that certain aspects of Nixon's situation "position" him for such consideration. lie is the middle-road man always ac ceptable, on paper at least, to both conser vative and liberal wings of his party. This would have been an immensely strong point for him had he won the California governor ship last fall and gained that great power base. i Not having gained it, he moved to New York. He could not have hoped thereby to find a new power footing. What he did seek was a chance to get into the brighter spot light which shines on politicians operating in the Washington-New York orbit. This he has managed. The public prints are currently alive with accounts of Nixon's views and doings. He is getting talked about. He is trying to cast his influence over pub lic discussion of the great issues and to af fej:t the tone of his own party's efforts. f. Yet it is one thing to say Nixon is inter ested and available, quite another to argue that the Republican party might nominate him in 1964. - By MARQUIS C1IU.DS McCOMB, Miss. - There is something new under the politi cal sun-a Kepublicun candidate (or Rovcrnor running in the fall election in Mississippi Willi ev ery outward determination lu win. Rubcl Phillips and the candi date (or lieutenant Rovcrnor, Stato Sen. Stanford Morse, arc carrying their campaign to the fartliest boondocks. Nothing like It has been seen since Recon struction days and then Republi can governors were imposed un dor Uic rule of Yankee bayo nets and not lawfully elected. Tlie clique thai has dominated Mississippi for so long under a one-party system doesn't like it al all. As riullips tells every ajidiencc. if lie had not become a; Itopublican and issued the challenge it would have all been over on Aug. 27. That was the date of the Democratic prima ry, one of the bitterest in Mis sissippi's history, with U. Gov. Paul U. Johnson Jr. winning over former (iovernor J. P. Coleman by a landslide majority-Phillips, an attractive-appearing corporation lawyer, links himself with Sen. Barry Goldwa ter. As at his evening meeting hero in the football stadium be fore a crowd of perhaps 600, in cluding many teen-agers. I h e loudest applause conies when he says Goldwater will be the Re publican nominee and pledges himself to vole and work for him. It was on (lie occasion of Goldwater's fund-raising dinner in Mississippi a year ago that Phillips saw the light. And on a visit to Washington in March he was persuaded to get into Uie race. His contention is that the plan of the Mississippi Democrats to put up a slate of unpledged elec tors will simply be Uirowing away the state s electoral vote. In the unlikely event Uiat the Presidential election a y e a r from now is so close as to be thrown Into the House of Rep resentatives, President Kennedy would win in a walk since to per cent of tlie Democratic stale delegations in the House are pro-Kennedy. This may be a subtlety over (he heads of his listeners but they are left in no doubt thai he is against the Kennedys and all tlieir works. Warming up the crowd before tho candidate ar rives aro singing stars of die Grand 01' Opry wbo play from a lighted stage that leu down from Hie van In which Uicy trav. el. Their most rousing song is "Knock Out the Kennedys." Tlie Phillips Morse billboards generously sprinkled lo"8 the highways carry the caption in big letters "K. 0. the Kenne dys." T1 most devastating Nixon's Chances WASHINGTON CALLING Republicans Try Hard Phillips charge Is that Johnson and Gov. Ross Barnelt made a deal wilh Ally. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy at the time James Meredith Mas admitted lo the University of Mississippi. So the picture Johnson used in his pri mary campaign showing him defying tlie United Stales Mar sluils was, in Phillips words, "just rooster fighting." To prove his case he has been quoting from I lie partial trans cript published by Newsweek of the Kennedy llarnctt John son long distance conversation on Hie eve of the Olc Miss show down. Along wilh transcripts of oilier conversations published later this has had an echo in Ihe remolest villages. If Phillips has a chance lo defeat the long cnlrcnched Democratic powers, and Ihe odds arc long against him, il will be because the great Johnson-Barnett dely of the fed eral tyrant is now seen to have been a piece of prearranged stage play. Governor Darnell in his home spun fashion likes to say that lxmk is a magazine for coplc who can't read, the Saturday Kvening Post a magazine (or people who can't write and Newsweek (or people who can't eilhcr read or write. Hut nei llier Barnelt nor Johnson has denied the authenticity of Ihe transcripts. Perhaps Ihe blow that rucked BERRY'S WORLD lllfk 1 " CvJf "Jmt bring me a fortune ceokU that iyi ttntity I'll bt itcntary femrl of tbt VM." Nothing in politics is so fixed or so sci entific that one could fairly rule him out of altogether. Convention deadlocks are ex tremely rare. But if the 1964 GOP conven tion at San Francisco got into some kind of stalemate, it might in its extremity turn to Nixon as a man palatable to all wings. ' Nevertheless, the likelihood of this hap pening is not great. The basic reason is that a high proportion of GOP professionals are quite disenchanted with him. Their recriminations against him for alleged political misjudgments in the 1960 campaign linger on and on. Some of this bitterness, it now appears, existed covertly in the years up to and including 1960 at a time when these professionals were publicly lauding Nixon. The deep source of this attitude seems to be their inability to warm up to Nixon. In 1960 their disgruntlemcnt was founded more practically in the fact that Nixon re fused to listen to them but insisted on pur suing what they saw as an inflexible course toward defeat. On top of all this lies wide conviction that, since he lost to President Kennedy in a year when maximum advantage appeared to rest with Nixon, the former vice presi dent would only be beaten more easily an other time. They have little taste for a Kcn-ncdy-Nixon rerun. Surely Nixon's name will continue to be high in public notice in the big political months to come. But there is no evidence that it is high in either the hearts or the minds of Republican president-makers. Phillips hardest is the charge in full - page advertisements that he was a "moderate." The acl carries quotations of earlier years counseling moderation on race questions and accusing him of voting for Adlai Stevenson in 11)52 and '5li. Yes. Phillips says, making a clean breast of il. I did vote for Adlai Stevenson. What is worse, in llMfl I voted for Harry Truman. And so, he adds, did Paul Johnson, but he w ill not have the courage lo tell you. The slogan of Ihe opposition is "Bury Ihe Scalawags." You have to be born a Southerner lo understand how sinister is Ihe word scalawag a term ap plied lo the Quislings who co oieratcd with the Yankee invad ers in the Reconstruction era. Bui Phillips turns the knife by charging his opponents w i t il borrowing the slogan Irom Khrushchev. He assails tlie one-party sys tem. He says this is why Mis sissippi is No. 12 among the 12 Southern stales in per capital income and in almost every oth er measurement. The crowd sit ting under the stadium Hood lights is not overly responsive. Tliey file out as the Grand OP Opry gives out again with "Knock Out the Kennedys" and this unique Republican show is on tlie road or another set of appearances. IN WASHINGTON .. . By RALPH dc TOLEDANO CINCINNATI This is prob ably the nation's largest Repub lican city, if consistency is a gauge. It is also the citadel of Talt sentiment. The late and great senator is not orgoltcn, and his disciples are evory where. Normally, this would make Cincinnati a natural (or Sen. Barry Goldwater. And if you talk to rank-and-lile Republicans, as well as to those in Ihe working echelons of the party, Ibis is so. But Cin cinnati is also a great industri al and commercial center. The corporations that dominate it bear names like Kroger and Proctor & Gamble. Among those who contribute to the Ohio GOP's coffers arc men like Neil McElroy. one of President Eisenhower's defense secre taries. It is among these people that Mr. Goldwater has yet to find enthusiastic backing. Not that they prefer Gov. Nelson Rocke feller. Far from it. In this part of the country. Rockefeller sen timent is notable only for its ab sence. But or non-ideological reasons, what may be called the "Cincinnati interests" have not yet c o 1 1 o n e d lo the Arizona front-runner. This, of course, is not unanimous. According to re ports, George Humphrey, Mr. Eisenhower's first Treasury secretary, is devotedly in the Goldwater corner. But by and large, reports sti port this explanation lor Ihe aforementioned reticence in de claring for Mr. Goldwater. Among those not yet committed to the Goldwater candidacy. Iherc is a tendency to scak in somewhat nostalgic terms of former Vice President Richard Nixon. He is more llicir dish of lea. i( only because they always had the comfortable feeling that they could influence him more directly. They were, 1 believe, wrong, but they thought of him as llicir creature. It is generally conceded, how ever, that when the Ohio delega tion is counted during the con vention's first tally, it will vote exactly as G o v. James Rhodes and Stale Chairman Ray Bliss dictate. Mr. Rhodes has been promoted to Ihe position of "fa vorite son." which gives h i m bargaining power il there is something to bargain for. But this can come about only in a deadlocked convention, and as Letters To Trick Or Treat Shall we help the Commu nists'.' Is il right before God lo cooperate with a godless con spiracy which on every hand repudiates and blasphemes the name o( God and has announced its determination to destroy the United Stales of America? Tlie answer of every God-fearing American should he an em phatic "No!" Now a great avalanche seems lo have bit us, csiecially since Ihe President, on Sept. 20. IWU. shaking lo tlie United Nations, called for a program of "peace lul cooperation" with the Reds as Ihe sure pathway lo peace. One of the areas where coop erating with tlie Communists and assistance for the Commu nists has been effectively pre sented to Ihe American people is in UNICKF U nited Nations lntmulional Children's Emer gency Fundi. UNICEK is an agency o( the United Nations which reaches Ihe American people directly at Halloween through its "Trick or Treat" money collection "by and for lit tle children." and through Rivet ing cards, especially Christmas cards. What is so significant is the UNICEK officials not only do not deny that they are operating with the Communists, but that they defend this cooperation. Goldwater Facing Problems In Ohio of this writing neither Mr. Rock efeller, Mr. Nixon, nor the two together can muster sufficient" power to block the Goldwater candidacy. Therefore, practical consid erations should compel the Ohio governor and his brilliant slate chairman to make their play fast. At the moment, Ihey can be cozy about it, although pres sure mounts within tlie Republi can organization or a pro-Gold-water declaration. What inhib its them from acting is a very live recollection of tlie 1958 elec toral fiasco in this slate, a re sult of a labor gang-up on the "right-to-work" issue. No one in Ohio wants a repetition of this except the Democrats. What puzzles the politicians, and the political reporters cov ering this area of Ohio is the significance of tlie Negro issue. Almost to a man, they relcr to il as Ihe "hidden issue" and Ihey wonder jusl how much damage to the Democratic Par ty in the stale the civil rights confrontation has done. Ohio's state lows cover most of what the President hopes to get na tionally in his civil rights pack age. But the punitive aspects of this state legislation are (or the most part, a dead letter. Any attempts to enforce them would be most violently resisted by la bor, the mainstay of tlie Demo cratic Party. Senator Goldwater's position, since it rests on a belief in slate option, is ironically t h c closest to the labor position here. Governor Rockefeller's stand, since it is considered a carbon copy of Mr. Kennedy's, is lo compound the irony the most removed from that of or ganized labor, particularly in the powerful craft unions. The imponderables being faced by the lop brass of the Ohio GOP therefore boil down to Ibis: Can Ihey withstand Ihe pressure of the middle and lower echelons for an endorsement of Senator Goldwater; will they lose out by switching over too late to a winner at Ihe conven tion: and is Barry Goldwater. after all. the answer to their prayer for a winning candi date? Governor Rhodes and his slate chairman work in tandem and Mr. Bliss is known lo take some very accurate soundings of voter response. For this reason, Ohio is a state to watch as Ihe time for choosing up sides draws nearer. The Editor "UNICEK, Facts and Falla cies." speaking of its statf. says. "S even come from countries with Communist governments." Rut it is the Communist govern ments which appoint those who represent them in the aflairs of the U.N. Communists don't ap point "non-Communists." The Communists have com p I e I e responsibility for all I NICEF's projects in Commu nist lands. "In IMI contributions In the central account of UNICEF to talled SS2.!.i!.7!6," according to "UNICEF. Facts and Falla cies." "The U.S. contributed $12,000,000 of this amount. Oth er governments contributed $10. 959.79I. UNICEF cooperates with the Communists. That is Ihe truth and Ihe defenders of UNI CEF must conjure up (alse statements in order lo refute this and make it appear that Ihey have been misrepresented. Il is true children need to be helped, hut they should he helped in Ihe name of Jesus Chmt and not in the name of United Nations with the cooper ation of the Communists. We recommend therefore, that those who love freedom do not in any way purchase cards or support I NICEF to collect funds at Halloween. Mrs. E. Rogers. Drug By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEAl - The 13-year-old medical battle that has been fought over tlie so called "anticancer drug" Krebi ozen is coming to a climax with in the next few weeks. The issue is whether Krcbio zen, having now been found to have caused cancer regression in two out of 504 cases on which records are available, should be tested further. On the other hand, U.S. Food and Drug Commissioner George P. Larrick has asked the drug's discoverer, Stevan Durovic, and his scientific adviser in tlie Kre biozen Foundation, Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, to show cause why they should not be prosecuted in criminal court. The drug has been adminis tered to more than 4.200 patients on payment of a $9.50 contribu tion for each injection ampule containing one part Krcbiozcn to 1.000 parts mineral oil. Some patients are reported to have paid out thousands of dol lars for treatment. The total re ceipts could conceivably have run into millions of dollars. Dr. Stevan Durovic. of Yugo slav birth, developed Krcbiozen from an extract of infected horse blood in the Argentine be fore bringing it to America. He has claimed it cost $170,000 a By WASHINGTON STAFF Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEAl Ire. land's Prime Minister Sean F. Lemass, visiting this country lo promote the Emerald Isle lo expansion-minded American indus trialists, has repeatedly denied that his trip has any political overtones. When a reporter asked him. "If Barry Goldwater visited your country, would you give him equal time and the same enthusiastic reception you gave President Kennedy last June'" The prime minister answered smoothly. "If he were elected president, yes." Latest anti - Goldwater gag: "He has been eating so many of his own words lately that he's likely to go into the 1064 cam paign with ulcers." Tlie Pentagon Uikcs seriously its job of feeding 30.000 or more l)eoplc daily. In addition to the many sand wich lines, snack bars, steam ship roast beef lines, regular cafeterias and o f f i c e r s' cafeterias. Ihe Pentagon has an Executive Dining Room, a Gen eral and Flag Oflicers Dining WILLIAM i rSrj Dangerous Moonshine By WILLIAM S .WHITE W ASHINGTON The most im portant election campaign lo the people and government of the United States save one our o n Presidential lest of next year has now been opened in Eng land. The issue is whether Britain is to remain in the control of Ihe Conservative party of such men as W inston Churchill, Har old Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home or is to be turned over to a Uthor parly lieaded by the erstwhile ban-the-bomher and quasi-neutralist. Harold Wil son. Among the elaborate fictions theoretically maintained in in ternational affairs is Ihe genteel pretense Uiat what happens po litically in one country of the Western alliance is no business of the Olivers in that alliance The simple truth is that this is invariably a lot of precious moonshine and that in this par ticular case it is also dangerous moonshine. For Ihe repudiation in Ens land of ihe Conservative parly newly led by Sir Alec, in suc cession to the tired and gallant Macnulian. would create pro found shock all over tlie Western world precisely at a time wlicn that world, under American leadership, is groping, in a risky way. (or some basic ac commodation with the Sniot Union. "Dangerous" is the w-ord (or tins search. There is legiti mate cause (or concern that al ready Ihe West 4iaj made too many concessions in this at Clouds Mount gram to produce. Food and Drug Administration laboratory tests have identified Krebiozen as creatine, costing 30 cents a gram to produce, or eights cents for the amount in each injection. Tlie developers counter thai Krebiozen is not 100 per cent creatine and that il contains an added factor not yet identified. Food and Drug Adminis tration field investigators col lected medical records on 504 patients identified by the Kre biozen Foundation as having re ceived treatments. FDA is now assembling information to see if there has been violation of the law. Points covered by the investi gation include the possibility of misbranding through incorrect labels, the shipment of impure or adulterated drugs not up to standard, shipment in interstate commerce of a new drug with out authorization, the making of false statements as to its effica cy. After assembling all the evi dence, it will be presented to the Krebiozen distributors at an informal hearing. A decision would then have lo be made on whether tlie case should be referred to Depart ment of Justice for criminal prosecution in what might lie the biggest medical case in his-lorv. WASHINGTON NOTEBOOK What Makes Her Tick? Room, and special kitchens for the Chief of Naval Operations, the Army Chief of Staff, the Air Force Chief of Staff and vari ous service secretaries. Finally, there's the Bland Food Line, which caters to wor riers with ulcers. Rep. Odin Langen. R-Minn., gives this view on the Russian wheat deal: "It's like someone offering you a real bargain on a four legged animal providing you promise to keep it in the house. What you don't know is whether Ihe animal is a dog or an ele phant." Undersecretary of State Aver ill Harriman picked up a new Khrushchev story during h i s last visit to Moscow: First Russian "What will be the biographical appraisal of Khrushchev by historians in 25110 A.D.?" Second Russian "An insig nificant art critic who lived in the lime of Mao Tse-tung." To keep pedestrians from cul ling across the grass, the U.S. National Institutes of Health has S. WHITE tempt at a more stable interna tional life. Even the British Conserva tives have been ready enough to press tlie United States into overtures to Nikita Khrushchev. Tiie mind shudders lo think how very far a Labor government under a Harold Wilson would in sist upon going in trusting Ihe intentions of Moscow in this fateful matter. In a word, it is obviously in the highest interest of the Unit ed States that one set of British politicians which has urged us on to concessions to the Rus sians is not succeeded by anoth er set (ar more inclined in llus direction. The distinction between t h e two sets cannot be measured so much by public attitudes as by private and personal qualities. Tlie Conservatives, while ready lo trust Moscow lo a point and only because Ihey think they must, are not and never will be ready to leap into fliat glad, evansclical buddy - buddyism w hich is the tendency of t h e W ilson leadership in England Again, the Conservatives like and support their association with the Uniled States as Hie very foundation of their foreign policy even though at times they get annoyed as the devil with us and we at them. But powerful forces among the La borites though not perhaps Wit son himself neither really like nor really trust the United States An alliance with them could never sustain the old inti macy and easy mutual confi dence with which these io Tlie fact that a panel of 24 cancer specialists has just branded Krebiozen "ineffective as an antitumor agent" in man is not deterring Durovic and Ivy in Ihe slightest. They are going ahead with demands for new, joint chemical analyses of Kre biozen and further clinical tests. The Krebiozen backers base tlieir case on a finding that nat ural regression of cancer with out drugs. X-ray or surgery oc curs in one out of 50,000 cases. National Cancer Institute's ad visory council found two cases out of Ihe 504 reviewed in which Ihe council says regression could be attributed to Krebiozen. On tlie basis of these two cas es, it is argued that Krebiozen is 200 times more effective than nature and therefore worth fur ther research. The whole controversy, which has raged for years, was given a public airing when two rival medical meetings were held in Washington Oct. 25 - 26. The Food and Drug Admin istration and the American Med ical Association arc sponsoring; tlieir second National Congress on Medical Quackery at the Sheraton - Park. At the same lime the National Health Feder ation for Maintaining Medical Fri'edom of Choice is sponsoring a First National Conference on Health Monopoly at the Shera ton - Carlton. put up signs reading: YOUR FEET ARE KILLING ME Speaking of Sen. Maurine Neu berger. D-Orc., James Mere dith, University of Mississippi's first Negro graduate, says: "I can understand a Senator Eastland (Mississippi reaction ary) and I can understand a Senator Hart (Michigan ultra liberal). But I can't for the life of me understand what could put a woman together to make her a senator." The president of a woman's organization recently wrote Sen. Ken Keating. R-N.Y.. asking him to suggest a possible gucH speaker for a luncheon. She noted: "We've just had the privilege of hearing a renowned historian who has told us the past, and we've had a distinguished eco nomist who told us the future. Now only the present is confus ing. Whom can you recom mend?" Keating promptly wrote back: "If jou ever come up with a guest who can fill this bill. I'd like to attend myself just to lis ten." great Western nations have so long confronted the outer world while conservatism has ruled in London. There is, moreover, a very hu man issue involved here. By and -large the Conservative party in Britain stands for Ihe conserva tion, among other things, of old values and traditions whose loss would be a great pity if not a moral catastrophe in a West al ready far too infected with A vulgar, two-bit, cynicism and a spirit of rejection of such an cient concepts as duly, man ners and responsibility.' Already. Ihe Labor parly is signalling that it is preparing to run a campaign of demagogic class splitting against the Con servatives on the claim that these, tlie Tories, are cold and arroaant "aristocrats," and so on. The new head of Ihe Tories. Douglas-Home. is. indeed, an arislrocrat. hut in tlie old and got-d sense of thai term. Though he cannot deny having been "well - born" which is perhaps not et a punishable crime no man against him can lairly deny that being well-born in his English sense means be ing Irauied (rem babyhood to do his duty, lo avoid the cheap and easy ways to success. In iive in lau ncss to those about him. and lo die. when tlie time comes, in honor but without suggesting that his sacrifice is u n i q u among all mankind. And. after all. who but Ihe "well born" have again and again saved England, irom the Battle of Hastings to the Battle of Britain?
