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PAGE tA RERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Fall. Oregon Wednesday, Kovembar 1J. 1963 WASHINGTON CALLING fcdihtual (paqsi It's Your Community Our own United Fund appears to have become the victim of circumstances not of its own making. The goal is a reasonable goal and one that a community this size should success fully reach, but as of now it's a long way from this goal. However, resistance to giving for any thing these days has mounted greatly over the past year. The average citizen feels that everything and everybody has a hand in his pocket. He resents the level of taxation, no matter on what level of government, and his feelings of charity toward his fellow man suffer accordingly. It Is important, though, to put our giving into a proper perspective, and to make our charitable efforts as selective as possible. The United Fund is a community ser vice effort. Admittedly, some of the money collected goes to agencies elsewhere in the state, but by the same token, there are many St r ,., j WILLIAM Civil By WILLIAM S. WHITE WASHINGTON - The pro found fact established by the mattered off year elections, notably in (Philadelphia, New Jersey and Kentucky, is that a new political situation is devel oping in the white North and Border states which could clearly endanger President Ken nedy's re-election next year. What is now done with and about that situation along with what is done to calm the in creasingly bitter Presidential ri- . valry within the Republican par tywill determine tlie outcome of 1954. iPartison Republican claims of vastly meaningful gains in those elections put the c a s e too strongly but only in the use of the superlative "vastly." Partisan Democratic claims that all is well with that party, and with the (President's pros pects, are almost unrelieved moonshine. i'or tlio implications of t h e mayoralty race in Philadelphia, a typical example of those great urban complexes which will reelect or defeat Mr. Ken nedy, have in simple truth tolled a warning bell for him and his party. That a sitting Democratic mayor, James Tate, barely survived an obvi ously weak Republican challen ger, James McDcrmott. is bad enough. That the victory was by the smallest margin for the Democrats in 12 years is worse. That Tate came through with a 61,000-vote plurality out of more than 700,000 cast, whereat Mr. Kennedy is I960 carried tlie city by 331,000 but nevertheless was able to carry Pennsylva Letters To The Editor Bad Bills We would like to call atten tion to three bills presently be fore Congress which are of vital interest to cvwyone In tlhe West and especially in Klamath County. These are bad bills and everyone should write their congressmen urging their de feat. One, Land and Water Conser vation BUI. S.8S8. This is a mis nomer. It doesn't conserve any land or water but seeks to tax everyone, by means of a car sticker costing three to five, dol lars, who enters any govern ment lands. Over 52 per rent of our state belongs to Die federal government. Klamath Falls is surrounded on all sides by gov ernment lands, national forests east, north, west and south of us and great lnuiks of B.L.M. land and Taylor grazing land, bird and animal refuges and national parks. We can't go any olaca witliout ceuina on (rdor.-d land. Because so much of our state is owned by the federal government our taxes are high, and air taxes support roads, state and county, to and through these federal lands. We think M grossly unfair to lax ui further to enter lands which by their wry location cannot bo avoided. Two, tlie. Udall Bill, H.R.253. Tliii it a political plum and a land grab of major proportions. This would empower the Secre tary of Interior to sell any gov ernment land which he decided the government doesn't need. These landt would be appraised S. WHITE Rights Revolt nia by only 116,000, tells its own story. But worse of all from t h e Democratic viewpoint is the fact that examination of the re turns indicates voting on strict ly racial lines to a degree rare ly if ever before shown in American politics. Briefly, Ne gro wards gave Tate almost the sum total of the thin margin of his victory, whereas some tra ditionally Democratic white wards went for tlie Republican MoDcrmott. What this means Is this: A Northern while voter reaction against what are felt to be extreme Negro demands, and undue Democratic submission to those demands from the While House down, is undeni ably on the move. And it is on the move precisely in those ur b a n citadels on which Demo cratic (Presidents live or die in the years since the old S o 1 i d South has become disenchanted. For something of what was seen in Philadelphia was scon, on the same election day, in Boston. To be irresistibly Immodest about it, this columnist predict ed such a Northern white reac tion months ago; and a man seeing his predictions come true must beware tlie tempta tion to overstate their signifi cance. It is necessary, there fore, to put (lie thing in focus. While President Kennedy has had a shocking warning most of all tliat an urban tendency to voto white or black might be come general hi the North and so create a catastrophic white national dominance there is much more to the tale. by appraisers of his choice and sold, not to the highest bidder, but to the person or persons he deemed (lie most rsxinsiblc. Since lie chooses tlie appraisers and the buyers, any of our pub lic domain could be sold to po litical friends or relatives for a Al manac I'nllrd Pro Inlrmiilional Today is Wednesday, Nov. 1.1, tlie 317th day of latf'with 48 to follow. Tlie mom Is approaching its new phase. The evening stars arc Jupiter and Saturn. Those born today include Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson, in lft'iO. On this day in history: In l'.C7, tlie Holland 'Tunnel, running uinlcr tlie Hudson Riv er and connecting New York City with Jersey City. N J . was opened. In 1SH2, tlx Jaiw.se fleet suffered a heavy naval defeat while attempting to retake Unit ed States' positions in the Solo mons Islands. In Wit, the Soviet Union in vited Kuropean nations and the United States to uttend an all Kuroean security conference. In l0, Turkish President Co mal Gursj-I aiuiounoed he had ahjilished the ruling National Union Committee and formed a 23-membcr committee to pre pare a return to democratic government. Klamath Falls people who benefit from these agencies in a very direct, necessary manner. In our opinion, one of the most im portant works of the United Fund is the financing it provides for boys and girls work in the community. In this world of confusion, corruption and conflict, it is imperative that we give as much leadership and direction as pos sible to the efforts of our youths. They represent our hopes for a better tomorrow. The old cliche "charity begins at home" was never truer, and never more applicable than it is today. It is vital that we support our com munity effort in this United Fund drive. Don't wait for a volunteer worker to con tact you. After all, these workers are taking time away from their jobs, already, to try to make this fund drive a success. This community effort is an effort by your community to meet the needs of your community. Give it your best effort. It Is not too late for the Pres ident to draw back from public identification w i t h extremist Negro demands. In fact, some faint signs of such a witlidraw al have already been seen or scented here. And, then, there is the other critical part of the equation the capacity of the Republicans to come together after their Presidential nomi nating convention. The destructive attacks of one Republican aspirant, Gov. Nel son Rockefeller, upon his rival, Sen. Barry Goldwatcr, plainly raise two perilous prospects for the G.O.P.: A shrill bolt within the liberal wing of tlie party should Goldwater be nominated: a sullen sit-down within tlie right wing should Rockefeller be nominated. Moreover, even should neither holt occur and Goldwater, the front-runner, come tlirough in an atmospliere of apparent par ty unity, his chances would bo poor in any event unless some thing Is done soon to arrest the growing impression, even among basically friendly con servatives, that the Senator is too impetuous and too nation alistic in foreign affairs. I found indisputable evidence of this im pression in a recent visit to such a supposedly firm Gold water area as Texas. If Goldwatcr backers simply deny its existence tliey will do him a disservice. For regard less of all other factors even including civil rights this im pression, and this alone, could smash his candidacy, before or alter tlie convention, precisely as it smashed the candidacy of Hobert A. Taft in 1!2. fraction of Uieir value. This could be a powerful weapon (or any party in power and an op portunity for graft tlie like of which we have never seen in this country. Three, the Wilderness Bill, S t. This seeks to set aside 60 million acres, a land area the size of eight slates, into a vast w iklerness area, where no roads could lie built, no motor ve hicles could enter, no logging could be done, no gl azing could be done, no prospecting or min ing could bo done, just a vast vaste land of no ue to anyone except; any of those privileges could be granted at the discre tion of tiie Secretary of Inte rior or Agriculture, but without public notice and to Ihw who happen to lie in faor with those dignitaries. Instead of the multiple use of tlie public do main this hill would create more political plums to he handed out to a favored few. Moreover. wliorcvcr people live within the boundaries of these wilderness areas they could le forced to nvve out. Mast of these vast wiklernnss areas woukl be taken out of the West, probably some out of our own state. Tliesc three hills arc danccr ous and Kid. They take away your rights and your mom') . Please write your congressmen, Ullman and Morse, and do it immediately. Urge your friends to write. If enough protest is received in Washington tlie bills can be defeated. This is y o u r fight. Make It a good otic. George and Ullie Lewis. GOLDWATER FAMILY Sen. Barry Goldwater! R-Arii.) who may oppose President Kennedy in the I964 Presidential election! is pictured with his family in a recent photo. Left to right, daughter Joanne (Mn. Thomas B. Ross); Goldwater; sons Barry Gold, water Jr. and Michael; Mrs. Margaret Goldwater and daughter Peggy Goldwater. Goldwater Hesitating By HARRY FERGUSON United Press International WASHINGTON (UPIl Every four years candidates for pres ident go through a ritual dance and at the moment Sen. Barry Goldwatcr is doing what our grandparents called "the hesi tation waltz." You act like you are about to take a step but don't quite do it. Goldwater will announce in January whether he is a can didate for the Republican nom ination for president. Il .ie says no, it will be the biggest politi cal upset since Harry Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey. On the basis of all available evi dence we are going to assume that Goldwater is running for president right now and is run ning hard. And running in front. Every .political poll shows him ahead for the GOP nomination, along with an unscientific one this re porter took on the sidewalks of Washington. It was an attempt to find out why Goldwater is leading, and 10 persons who fa vored the Arizona senator were questioned. Four said because he was against the income tax and two of them said he favored abol ishing it. Four said he would get tough with Khruslicliev and the Communists, and one of them volunteered the opinion that Goldwatcr planned to send the United States Marines to Cuba to throw Fidel Castro out of of fice. One said "Goldwatcr isn't afraid of anybody and that's what we need to clean up the Kc incdy mess." One said she had been for Nelson Rockefeller before his divorce and remarriage but sw itched to Goldwater because "he is a good family man and a good father." Obviously some of the sena tor's followers have a hazy or downright erroneous idea of what he stands for. Goldwater has no intention of abolishing the income tax and it is highly unlikely that if he were elected president he would order the Marines into Cuba without pro vocation. There is nothing unusual about voters being confused on the issues and, in fact, profes sional politicians rate the can didate's overall image far above his pledges. Dwight 11. Eisenhower writes in his cur rent memoirs that he was shocked after winning the pres idency when the professionals told liinv to forget about the platform on which lie ran. The image Goldwater pro jects at the moment is that of a licU-for-!ea!her, fearless man out of the West. I.yle C. W ilson United Press International's vice president for Washington, who has seen politicians come and go. rise ami fall, for more than 30 years, analyzes Goldwa tor's political appeal this way. "He sounds like a forthright, earthy politician who doesn't take himself too seriously. He gives tlie appearance of not lx' ing afraid to stand up and be counted. He seems to have a real enthusiasm for slugging it out with Kennedy." Goldwater strides on to the political stage at a lime when many Americans arc showing sU'oss and strain from the day-to-day pounding of events. A recent Gallup (Hill documented this vague dissatisfaction with the stale of tlie nation when it asked citizens of many coun tries whether tik-y were satis fied with their position in the world Fifty-one vr cent o the Americans interviewed weie dissatislicd. Tlie happiest peo ple wore in Switzerland, West Germany. Denmark, Norway ami France. We Americans budd up hope that the nuclear test ban treaty means a thaw in Uie cold war and then our hopes arc chilled when (lie Russians blockade the Berlin highway. Wl? are prom ised a reduction in taxes and the next thing we hear is that we may not get one because Congress cannot agree on de tails. We are cheered by Khrushchev's removal of mis siles from Cuba, but apprehen sive when we learn Russians are still on the island. Our home town, whether north or south, lives every day under the threat of racial dissension and perhaps violence. We are irritated by the sting of iodine applied to minor wounds caused by Madame Nhu's practice of biting the hand that helped her. We yearn for a clear-cut victory somewhere over somebody. We doubt the ancient maxim that half a loaf is better than no bread. More than any other man in political life Goldwater has been promising us a quick and sure cure for our frustrations. William Hccs-Mogg, political editor of the Sunday Times of London, wrote on a recent tour of tlie United States that Goldwater symbolized for many )of us an unconscious desire to return to the previous century and specifically to the Western frontier. The issues were simple for our forefatliers in the West, "A university does great things," WTote Cardinal New man a century ago, "but there is one thing it does not do: it does not intellcctualize its neighborhood." Little has changed in the in tervening hundred years since he penned his famous book, "The Idea of a University." We send our children to college, in increasing numbers; and they return home, presumably edu cated to a greater or lesser de gree. But nothing happens to the neighborhood. 1 visit dozens of colleges dur ing the year, many of them sit uated in small or middle-sized towns. In most of them, there is an absolute minimum of con tact between town and gown; what goes on at Uie school rarely affects tlie townspeople, unless sex or drinking arc in volved. One of the purposes of a uni versity is not to turn out tech nicians, like a trade school, but to change the climate around it, to permeate the sur rounding atmosphere with some of its attitudes and values. But what is tlie point of send ing a young person to college if tlie world he returns to has no continuity with the world he lias just been graduated from? It only serves to make college seem frivolous, irrelevant, and "academic" in Uie most sterile sense of the word. Of course, colleges put on plays and hold art shows and offer lectures to the public; but these are just tlie cultural trap pings for parents and alumni and possible donors. "Look how well the children are doing." such projects seem to say. "Don't they deserve a pat on the head?" And one reason that college students do not take the in stitution seriously icxoepl lor getting passing grades and a diploma) is the isolation in which the university exists: a make-believe world (or four years, waled otf from "reali ty.'' and to be visited again only on Class Hay. if at all. This i not tlie students' fault, nor the townspeople's. The uni versity itself seems afraid of propagating kloas. of challeng ing accepted beliefs, of involv ing itself in the actual life of tlie larger community. Rather than a preparation (or life, col leges loo often seem an avoid ance of il; as a result, students the federal government was le nient and far away and, within the boundaries of farm or ranch, every man was pretty much a king. Goldwater looks like a fron tiersman. He is tall, lean, tanned, an active outdoorsman and pilots his own plane. Even his speech has a ring of the old West. "I'm a poker player," he said while discussing the presi dency. "I'm sitting with a pair and I don't know what the draw will be. If it's a good one, I'll say yes." His speeches are punctuated w ith occasional , "hells" and "damns" and the other day a woman in Mcdford, Ore., gently suggested to him in a letter that this was no way for the next president of the United States to talk. Goldwater's political oppon ents have noted this back-to-the-good-old-days appeal. Sen. Jacob Javits, a Republican from New York who doesn't agree with Goldwater on many things, put it this way: "He kind of satisfies a hankering for five-cent beer and a five cent cigar. It's good old fash ioned conservatism of another day, but it doesn't belong today." STRICTLY PERSONAL. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS are graduated not only ill-prepared in their subjects, b u t also totally unequipped to cope with reality. If universities cannot intellcc tualize their neighborhoods, at least to sonic degree, then their influence on the social current is negligible, and their preten sion to significance is absurd. If they refuse to exercise tlieir force on society, then society will sweep them away disdain fully in times of crisis, as the Nazis swept away the proud ru ins of German scholarship with contemptuous ease. Thoughts But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glorification. I. Cor. Knowledge is the only instru ment of production that is not subject to diminishing returns. - J. M. Clark. For he has somewhere spok en of the seventh day 111 this way. and God rested on the seventh day from all his works. Hebrews 4:4. As we keep or break the Sabbath, we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises Abraham Lincoln. As we take just and full measure of all authority. let neither time nor the times press us so hard to render unto Cae sar tlie tilings which are Cae sar's Uiat we neglect to render unto God the things that are God's. A. Whitnev Griswold. Piety toward God is meaning less unless it encourages com passion toward one's fellow man. Rabbi Jacob J. We.n stoin. O Lord, my heart is not lift ed up, my eyes are not raised (on high: I do not occupy my self with things too great and too marvelous for me. Psalms Ut:l. Alter crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser. Ben jamin Franklin. Doubt, Shroud IMS Bv MARQUIS CHaDS WASHINGTON - All the wishful omens read into this week's election cannot disguise the fact that it was really more of the same. We are seeing the politics of a dead center of doubt and uncertainty. What we have 'may not be good enough but what we are likely to get will possibly be worse. The present pause re flects the same narrow divi sion which in I960 split the pop ular vote by a precarious hairline margin. Most of the comment has been to the effect that the re turns show President Kennedy has a tough job ahead to be reelected. Far more obvious is that any man who serves in the office of the Presidency af ter 1964. whether his name is Kennedy, Goldwater, Rockefel ler or whatever, will find it dif ficult, if not impossible, to get even a minimum of agreement on what must be done in the nation and the world. Above all, in the racial con flict the pressures for change change profoundly disruptive of the separate way of life long taken for granted are part of the shadow of doubt. The Ken tucky election is perhaps the sharpest reflection of this fear. The Republican candidate, Lou is B. Nunn, attacked the retir ing governor, Bert Combs, for his order desegregating busi nesses serving the public, and his position was compared to that of Senator Goldwater. The Democratic candidate, Edward T. Breathitt Jr., narrowly squeaked through in a state that normally goes to the Dem ocrats in elections for state of fice. Almost no one here in this stagnant capital speaks except in a private whisper about the fear of what can happen in the months just ahead. It is the fear that the immovable object, namely Congress, will collide head-on with the irresistible force that is the fierce first wave of the Negro civil rights movement. On this . collision course the results are entirely predictable. Already an angry muttering can be heard often from sourc es where it would have been least expected. The lop com mand of tlie United Auto Work ers Union, which has led the way in integration and other "progressive" directions, is get ting the word from the grass roots. Phrased in far more blunt and brutal language it is: "Don't push this Negro equality WASHINGTON REPORT . Bv FULTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON - H a r d pressed Congressmen, who must scrimp and save to make ends meet on their $22,500 a year salaries, have hit upon a sure-fire way to beat the high cost of living. Meeting behind closed doors, members of the House Post Office and Civil Service Com mittee voted themselves $10,000-a-year pay increases. They rejected by an over whelming vote an amendment offered by Pennsylvania Rep. Robert Corbett that would ex empt Congressmen from any federal pay hike. In a generous mood, they of fered the Yice President, Cab inet ollicers and federal judges the same pay increase they vot ed themselves. They increased federal salaries in every branch of government by an av erage of six per cent. Cost to the taxpayers: SiioO million a year. Unable to understand the log ic of these Congressmen is Sen. John J. Williams, who calls the self-approved salary hike of al most 50 per cent fiscally ' irre sponsible: "Surely no private company would give a 50 per cent sala ry increase to its top executive officers and directors when tlie management had produced but six balanced budgets in the past 30 years." Williams has offered an amendment that would ostpone Congress' pay hike until it comes up with a balanced budg et. Joining with him in co-spon-soitng the amendment are two Senators. Colorado's Poter Do nunick and Ohio's Frank Laiische. The maverick Lausehe will win low now Senate friends with this analysis: "The argument is made that we cannot pot judges, that we cannot get people to run for membership in tlie House of Representatives or in tlie Sen ate; that we cannot get prose cutors and top level officials to work for tlie federal govern ment at present salary levels. Uncertainty Recent Vote business any harder, it's gone far enough. The fear of what the coming months can bring has very real dimensions. If Congress by late February or March has not passed a civil rights bill roughly the equivalent of the one reported out by the House Judiciary Committee, contain ing public accommodations and fair employment provisions, the prospect is for widespread civil disobedience. However reluctant moderate leaders may be. they will be unable to stand off the young insurgents. Airports, railway and bus sta tions w ill be put under seige. In an atmosphere of frenzy ad near hysteria violence will gen erate more violence. This is not a nightmare invonted to p u t pressure on a dragging and unhappy Congress. It is the perilous shape of things to come as seen by those close to the advanced wave of Negro lead ership and who would if they could forfend it. White voters could be alienat ed in large numbers throughout the North. And, as a result, all current calculations on the outcome for November of 1964 would be thrown off. A Repub lican candidate would hardly have to utter a word since the ins would be blamed and the outs would be the beneficiaries. In short, all bets would be off. It is hard to recall a time w hen, 12 months before a Pres idential election, the elements that can determine the o u t come should still be in uncer tain suspension and in a sense beyond Uie power of even an in cumbent President to influence. That the Philadelphia election is a register of this uncertainty seems questionable. Above all, Philadelphia is more of the same. The Democrats in con trol of City Hall have fallen inlo the same posture of favors in return for pelf that for so long plagued the Republican machine that owned the city. And the Republicans suffered from the chronic ailment that General Eisenhower so often be wailed a lack of able candi dates willing to start at t h e pick-and-shovel level and build an organization. But candidates, parties and elections to one side, the press ing question is how long the na tion can pause on tlie present narrow plateau of indecision with all hands reluctant to con front the rocky road ahead. The 1064 election can hardly be an other wait and sec. The wait ing time is nearly at an end. Solons' Pay Raise Costs $650 Million To that argument I say balder dash." He scoffs at the idea that a raise of $10,000 a year is neces sary for federal judges, who now make $25,500: "For every judicial vacancy that exists on the federal bench in Ohio, I Hiave at least 30 ap plicants for the post. And let us not forget that the judges are not only remunerated liberally but also receive other benefits." Lausehe disputes the view that federal employes are un derpaid. He cites official statis tics to show that federal work ers in his state, for instance, receive 35 per cent more money than state employes. A nation wide study shows the average federal employe takes down $113 a week, tlie average state employe $92. Note: Congressman Paul Fin dley, Ilinois Republican, has served notice that he will sub mit an amendment to the com mittee - approved bill that would put off any federal pay hike until the national debt has been cut back to $300 bil lion. The debt now stands at $307 billion and the Administration wants the debt limit raised to $315 billion. Explains Findlcy: "Under my amendment, ev ery federal emloye involved in the pay bill would have a strong personal incentive to cut back on federal spending to help make possible a reduction in the federal debt. This would be especially true of Cabinet officers and Congressmen who would have a hefty $10.000-a-yoar pay boost at stake." OUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q 1 there a religious order railed the "Dunken?" A The name "Dunkcrs" has been popularly associated with German Baptists, or the Church of the Brethren. The word "dan ker" comes from tlie German verb meaning to dip or immerse.
