$ Goldwater Defied Odds
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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon
Thursday, November II, 1963
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"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
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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?"
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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."