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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
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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.