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$ Goldwater Defied Odds PAGE I HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Thursday, November II, 1963 y urn i On "Let us resolve here together that we will so meet the challenge which is ours that we will deserve the confidence of the people of Oregon. They have spoken. There is only one response, and that is 'so be it.' " With these words, Governor Mark Hat field opened the special session of the leg islature on Monday. He, at least, appears to have gotten the message that was so clearly spelled out by the voters In the recent election. , When he called for "no new taxes" at this special session, he also, we feel, was correctly interpreting the will of the ma jority of the citizens of the state. Despite his statement, however, the legislature already appears to be caught up with the idea of new revenues, new taxes, and the talk is already of a sales tax meas ure or a cigarette tax measure. We disagree with both of these. We do not feel at this time that the legislature should be jumping into new tax measures in an all-out effort to maintain the status quo in state services and state em ployes. The voters mandate was for more eco nomy in government. When it comes to economy, we don't feel there is any segment of the state spend Soft' Move about the country and you find great interest in improving and expanding education. Governors in many states have this effort high among their programs. Southern governors especially are eager to broaden their states' educational base as a means of adding much more to the im pressive economic gains they have made in recent years'. Some northern states, hurt by the shift from the older basic industries to the newer, science-oriented fields, are trying just as hard to prepare for schooling a bcttcr trained labor force. Amid all this stir, general attempts to toughen up the American schooling process go forward. But in the view of Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickovcr, regular critic of the U.S. school system, what has been done up to now bare ly roughs up the surface. He believes that the stress too often, and in too many places, still is on teaching young Americans "how to adjust to life," rather than how to conquer the fields of knowledge. As proof that we still are not doing the job we should, Rickover says we have on our hands a "mass of young people so deficient in mental and manual skills that no ad vanced society could provide them all with jobs, except on a charity basis." By contrast, he notes, Europe has so i rtrmi'- : - mm By WASHINGTON STAFF Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NKA) -John F. Kennedy, B.A, Hamml 1940, and a "Ilnvad" Overseer to boot, won't like this. But when U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Kepiwl, B.A. Harvard 1938, cancelled out on a luncheon talk before the Harvard Club of Washing ton, some of the loyal alumni muttered. "There (joes the Har vard vote to Goldwater." What happened was that Rep. dilh Green, D-Ore., had to camel out on n shaking en gagement ;it Oregon State. Site twisted Kepprl'a arm to go to Oregon and make tlie speech lr her. Since tlie congrcssw om an is an important member of the House Education Committee now considering Keppel't legis lation for next year, he couldn't rilu.se. Tlie speech may help Rep. Green get re-elected and It may save the aid-to-education legisla tion. But if tho national ticket loses In November, '64, Uie Har. vards will know whose fault It was. Alty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, alter his Uirec-weck battle to get tlie on-again, off-again com promise civil rights bill through tlie House Judiciary Committee, summed up his feelings with this story: "Seme time ago, I saw two men straining over a heavy Right Track ing that should escape the economy squeeze including education. We agree with the governor's request for power to cut the basic school support fund since this is one of the largest single Items In the general fund budget. We don't agree with his request that he be given the power to effect a speedup in collection of withholding taxes. While this would gain the state $12 million on a one-time only basis, it again is just a stop-gap, one-shot measure that would leave the 1065 legislature already $12 mil lion in the red before it even convened. The fiscal facts of life are rough to face at times, and this is one of those times. All efforts to push through a sales tax or a cigarette tax measure at this special session should be defeated. We're not saying these taxes are bad, but both would require some careful con sideration and careful drafting if they are to prove acceptable as a part of a future reformed tax pattern. All indications we have seen point to the need for a complete overhaul and re formation of our tax structure as the first order of business for the 1965 legislature. Until this is done we are going to be faced with a continuing financial crisis. On Education many well-trained people filling skilled jobs that there is actually a shortage of unskilled labor and it has to be imported. Rickover feels at least part of the blame must fall on what he calls the "incredible stretchout in America education." Euro pean young folk, he says, get at least a third more schooling in a year than ours do. "Our children sit in class more years," he adds, "because they learn less each year." To some extent these are matters in dis pute, and Rickovcr has his severe challeng ers. But few question that, overall, Amer ica's is a relatively "soft" educational sys tem. Worse, perhaps, is the fact that both stu dents and parents have for the most part a "soft" attitude' towaVd schooling. There is not enough deep concern for knowing, for real mastery of knowledge. It may be somewhat symptomatic that acid ridicule of a great American university can bring thunderous cheers at a political rally. Smirking at those who quest after knowledge has always been, in some meas ure or other, a lively American sport. The question is whether we can afford the game any more. In the world of 1963, no prizes are going to those whose only specialties are keeping themselves ignorant and scorning those who are not. A nation thus populated will be neither secure nor well off. WASHINGTON NOTEBOOK Harvard Club Miffed crate and a hand truck. It looked as though lliey needed help, so 1 took o( my coat and pitched in. "After struggling for about 15 minutes without any luck, we took a break. 'Follows,' I said, 'I Just don't think we're ever going to gel this crate onto tlie truck." " 'Get it on?' they cried. 'We're trying to get it off!' "That illustrates how I've tell for the last three weeks." As Son. Barry Goldwnler, R Aril., delivered a luncheon speech before the Nat ional Wom en's Press Club, someone acci dentally banged into tlie key board of a piano in the wings. Quick on tlie draw. Hie senator fired tins shot: "Darn il, I told Harry to be quiet if he could!" William Howard Tall, :7th president of tlie United States, was Uie first in hit family to graduate from Yale and enter politics. A number of his des cedanus have followed In his footsteps, including his inn, I lie late Ohio senator, Robert A. Taft, and lit grandson, Rrp. Robert Taft Jr., R-Ohio. Tafl also started the family tradition of vacationing at Uie Murray Bay Golf Club in Can ada't Quebec Province. The Tails ttill hold to the tradition, as this story about the presi dent's great-grandson, William Howard Taft IV, illustrates: Bill was playing tlie custom ary excellent Tutl round of golf when a stranger approached to ask how long the boy had been playing. "Well. ;ir." Bill answered, "I've played here all my life. And my lather has lecn playing here all his life. Before that, my grandfather played all his hie. And my great-grandfather was president of Uie Murray Bay Golf Club." Fred Korth resigned as Secre tary of the Navy while recuper ating from an ear operation at tile Hetbesda Navy Hospital. A friend asked him about his future plans. Answered Korth: "1 guess, I'll just have to play il by ear." Speaking at a dinner com memorating Uie centennial of tree city mail delivery. Post master General John Gronouskl pointed out that letter car riers always seem to know what is happening before anyone else. "Tlie scheduling of this din ner is a i-ase in point," Gron ouski noted. "Hie date was set months before I even knew I was going to be postmaster gen eral. "Bui tlie letter carriers must have known. Why else would they have set this great cele bration on my birthday?" y.- ? RECEIVES SUPPORT Sen. Barry Goldwater IR-Ariz.l.. turns to aides in wonderment (top) as he is met with rash of "Goldwater For President" signs on visit to San Francisco earlier this year. In bottom photo, Goldwater and his wife receive enthusiastic welcome upon arrival at Concord (N.H.I airport. IN WASHINGTON . . . By RALPIj de TOLEDANO To read the papers, to hear the striped pants brigade at cocktail time, or to respond to the pulse of Uie White House pulse-takers, Cuba is not really a problem any more. Fidel Cas tro is bound to Uipple, the So viet troops arc on the way out, and Red prestige is on the de cline in Latin America. Therefore, from time to time, il becomes important to flash a few bulletins on the situation in Cuba. Certainly there is widespread misery on the island brought on by Communist economic poli cies and the Red Terror. But Fidel Castro and his Moscow bully-boys are still firmly en sconced and will remain there until the United States takes up Uie cudgels against Uicm. Wide spread use of firing squads and the deatlis of thousands of young people in the hurricane-interrupted harvest do not yet threat en the regime. Castro, it is true, has taken to shooting his own miliUa, but so far the re sult has not been to trigger any widespread mutinies. Against this, there is tlie dis maying fact that the Ameri can "embargo" on shipments to Cuba proves increasingly incl lective. The Kennedy Adminis tration had counted heavily on the breakdown of indusU ial and agricultural machinery to slow the Cuban economy to a halt and for a while this seemed to work. But the Soviets have been busily copying American replacement parts and these have begun to flow into Cuba. At the same time, Mexico and Brazil have been buying heavily these parts from the U.S. and trans-shipping them to Cuba. One underground source re ports great shipments of Gen eral Motors parts, still in their original packing. They come from Czechoslovakia via Great Britain. In time, the Soviet copies will be able to substitute completely for Uie bootlcged replacement parts now being sent into Cuba by our Latin A m e r i c a n "friends" and their British cou sins. The effect of this will be to negate substantially whatev er eflect Mr. Kennedy's "em bargo" may have had in tlie past. Meanwhile. Uie Castro regime continues to export stibvei'sion on a large scale. Montevideo, in Uruguay, has always been the nerve center for Soviet espion age in Latin America. It is therefore natural Uwtl it sliould now headquarter Cuban Commu nist subversives, To guarantee them tlie proper atmosphere. tin Cuban Communist regime spent $75,000 in American currency to lorce the creation of a new co alition of Communist groups in Uruguay. Included in this amalgama tion are tlie old-line Commum.-t party, the newcomer Fidchstas. and oUier Marxist lninit groupings. The mime of the new party is a real cutie: Frente QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q-Who was the first tuny born In the White House? A James Madison Randolph, son of Martha Jefferson Ran dolph, daughter of President Jcllerson, Jan. 17, ItUb. Cuba And Castro Not Forgotten Izquierdista de Liberation, or Lefust Liberation Front. The in itials of (he Spanish words: F-1-DE-L. The FIDEL seeks to pene trate the Uruguyan government as a "legitimate" political par ty. Behind it, a campaign has already been launched for es pionage ami subversion. Gov ernment officials are the' main target', of course. At the same time, the Cuban Communist base is being used as a staging area for incursions into Argentina and Paraguay. Colombia, in a touchy political state, is now being invaded by guerrillas from Cuba. These forces, small and mobile, are working closely with bandit groups operating in the hills. President Guillermo Leon Va lencia has charged what should be familiar to us by now: Cas tro intervention and "the send ing of arms and. money from Cuba to the bandits and offering scholarships to Colombian stu dents to study guerrilla warfare and terrorist techniques in Ha vana." Moscow finances Uicse opcra ' tions and gets paid for them in a typical kind of Communist barter. Though tlie people of the Cuban cities are going barefoot, Castro shipped 1.5 million pairs of shoes to Uie Soviet Union last August. A number of shoe fac tories have been transported in tact to the Soviet "homeland." At the same lime. 40,000 jwirs of shoes, sent by exiles to rela tives on the island, were con fiscated "for the victims of the hurricane." They have been go ing, however, to Red officials. It may be miserable (or the Cuban worker but tlie Commu nist elite lolls in onetime Hava na tourist traps, drinks what it wishes of rationed liquor, and orders food without any re straint. The rest of Cuba is lim ited to a bottle of beer a week. This kind of fact about Cu ban life and Caslro activities reaches the State Department and the C e n t r a I Intelligence Agency in wholesale lots. The Administration, however, seems to have forgotten Presidcst Kennedy's promises of libera tion. Have the American people forgotten, too? 'Boss, Do You Want To Ahead Of Private By HARRY FERGUSON United Prett International WASHINGTON UPI - Ari zona has only five electoral voles and that alone makes Sen. Barry Golwater an un usual candidate for the presi dential nomination. Professional politicians prefer a man from the slates with big populations wliich can contribute massive support to the cause. Goldwater did not climb slow ly up the political ladder step by step. He did it in one enor mous leap. In 1951 the only po litical ollice he ever had held was city councilman in Phoe nix. A year later he was elect ed to the United States Senate. It was sufficient of an upset to focus national attention on him. Stephen Shadegg, in a sympathetic biography of Gold water, says the odds were five to one against him. Arizona had not elected a Republican sena tor since 1920, and the voters' registration was heavily Demo cratic. Goldwater won by only 7.000 votes and frankly admits he probably was carried into of fice on the momentum of the LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Take Action An article in the paper Wed nesday night aroused my anger and fear of God! The article stated that Christmas Carols and Christmas scenes would be "Against The Law" at school programs. Do you people realize what is going on? If Christmas is not to celebrate the birth of Christ, tlien I have certainly been misled for 33 years. I am not an overly religious person, but I have been taught the fear of God. This New World was settled so people could have many freedoms and Religion was one of them. If we have no time for God. remem ber my good people. He may not find time for you. I strong ly urge Uiosc of you who care, to take action now, write Al Ullman Congressman. House Bldg., Washington 23, D.C. Don't leave it up to your neighbor, "Do it yourself!" Billie While, 5841 Winter. Al manac By United Press International Today is Thursday, Nov. 14, tlie 318th day of 1963 with 47 to follow. The moon is approaching its new phase. The evening stars are Jupiter and Saturn. Those born today include Uie inventor of the first commer cially successful steamboat, Robert Fulton, in 1765. On Uiis day in history: In 1832. the first streetcar in the world made its appearance on the streets of New York City. In 1851, Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" was published by Harper and Brothers in New York. In 1881, the trial of Charles Guiteau. charged with, assassi nating President James A. Car field, opened in Washington. In 1935, President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed the Phil ippine Islands a free common wealth. A thought for tlie day United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Homes Jr., said: "Life is an end in itself, and tlie only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have enough of it." Sre Government Gel Enterprise?" n Big Political Leap landslide for Owight D. Eisen hower. In 1958 Goldwater was re-elected by 35.000 votes. ' Meett First Setback His first political set-back oc curred at tlie Republican national convention in I960 when he was looking longingly at the vice presidential nomina tion ("I would have to have marijuana in my veins to say I wouldn't accept it". The con vention nominated Richard Nix on and Henry Cabot Lodge and drafted a liberal platform of which Goldwater bitterly disap proved. For a man whose home state could muster only five electoral votes, Goldwater's presidential potential looked unpromising. But he had one factor going for him his two terms as chair man of the senatorial campaign committee for Uie Republicans. This job took him all over Uie nation. He met the professional politicians and made speeches to the voters. He planted the seeds of the flowers that are blooming for him now the argument that Republicans cannot win if they are going to be a "me too" party with liberal platforms and candidates. Many Speech Offers Invitations for speeches began pouring into his office. Not all of them were from political or ganizations, for Goldwater is a Mason, a Sliriner, an Elk, a Moose, a member of Sigma Chi, Eastern Star, Alianza, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Le gion and Woodmen of tlie World. He is not an orator in the sense that he utters ringing phrases and carries lis listen ers to emotional peaks, but he is an effective speaker because he has a sense of humor, speaks out bluntly and gives the impression of sincerity. It is difficult to pin-point a date on which the Goldwater campaign ceased to be an in formal scries of speeches ("just hedge-hopping around the BERRY'S WORLD. A "l don't tare If you rt iht firtt woman astronaut . . . I'm not going to marry youl" The man at the cocktail par ty came up and introduced him self. "I've been wanting to meet you for a long time." he said, "for purely selfish reasons. I'd like you to write something about divorce lawyers." "Always looking for usable material," I replied w ith glib in sincerity. "Just exactly what would you like me to say about them'.'" "Well. 1 happen to be one." lie explained, "and I'd like you to refute the popular belief that divorce lawyers stir up more trouble between the parties. I've tried to reconcile many more couples than not, and most of my colleagues have tried the same." "That's an interesting view, punt." I murmured. "Tell me more." "We're not looking for busi ness," he continued. "S have all e can handle. And c get our fee whether the couple is reconciled or not. It might not be quite as large, but it's much more satisfying to us." Wc continued chatting for a few minutes, and I promised to think about tlie matter. I was absolutely convinced that he meant what he said, and so do his colleagues. They really be lieve that they try to reconcile couples wherever possible and on tlie conscious level, they prefer such an ending to di vorce litigauon. What they fail to see Is that tiie "adversary system" in it self promotes bitterness and countiy talking to people") and became a real drive for the nomination. April of this year may be as good as any other date, for it was then that a young business investment man from Dallas, Tex., named Pe ter O'Donnell, announced he was opening a naUonal draft Goldwater headquarters here in Washington. He said he was doing it with out tlie advice or consent of Goldwater, and the committee rented office space on Connec ticut Avenue for $1,000 a month. O'Donnell spends part of his time here and part travel ling in behalf of Uie Goldwater candidacy. Advised To Run Sometime between now and the end of the year O'Donnell and members of his committee plan to call on Goldwater. They will tell him there is a grass roots demand that he run for the nominaUon. They will tell him about their estimate of how he would fare against President Kennedy in next year's election. That estimate is: California is doubtful. The following states are conceded to Kennedy New York, Pennsylvania, Massachu setts. Rhode Island, Connecti cut. New Jersey, West Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, Alaska, Hawaii, Michigan, Missouri, Minnesota, Nevada and Oregon. Goldwater will win all the oth ers, including every state in the South. He will get 301 electoral votes and only 270 are needed to win. On the basis of that estimate the draft Goldwater committee will urge tlie senator to run. If this correspondent did not live in the shadow of the De partment of Justice and have healthy respect for the federal anti-gambling laws, ' he would counsel you to offer generous odds that Goldwater's answer will be yes. Next: What Goldwater favors mid what he is against. STRICTLY PERSONAL. By SYDNEY J. HARRIS tension and self-interest on the part of both tlie contestants and these tendencies run coun ter to any true reconciliation. The cliief function of an attor ney is to protect the interest of ' his client. While on the one hand the lawyer may be urgina the couple to settle their differ ences, on another level he is there to see to it that his own client gets the best possible "deal" in financial and legal terms. These two attitudes are bas ically incompatible. "Reconcil ing" means giving at least as much as you take, and even a little more. It means sacrificing some self-interest, subordinating one's selfishness, and engaging in a human transaction rather than in a financial one. Even with two attorneys who consciously desire a couple to reconcile, the parties are envel oped in an atmosphere of con test, in which trust is replaced by suspicion and personal feel ings are corseted in formal and legal restrictions. Nor is the law yer to blame for this: it is the very element in which he works, and he is not doing a good job as a counsel if he fails to pro vide for every safeguard. There is a basic contradiction between love and equity: the former is a matter of pure risk taking, the latter depends on guarantee and contracts. There is no "justice" in a marriage: to work, it must go beyond mere justice into the mystical realm of "mercy."
