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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 29, 1963)
PAGK A HERALD Your The Chamber of Commerce is launch ing a searching inquiry into what Is needed to make Klamath County a better place in which to live and do business. . - This commendable move will get under way on Wednesday, December 4, when the first of a series of meetings Is scheduled with members of the chamber on this subject. The plan calls for 40 members to be in vited to each meeting at which each person present will be asked the question: "What, in your opinion, is the single most import ant project, activity or thing, which, if car ried out by the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce, would make Klamath County a . better place in which to live and do busi- : ness?" There should be little argument with the program itself. Rather, it should evoke some thoughtful suggestions that could serve as guideposls, not only for the Cham ber of Commerce, but for other organiza tions of the community as well as for all the individuals of this area. ' Each of us is quick to voice his gripes, his complaints, and to ask "Why don't they Anything that reduces the amount of jed tape connected with international travel is likely to be beneficial, so Washington's de cision to permit oral baggage declarations at international airports by overseas travelers is a commendable sign. After Jan. 1, travelers arriving by air from overseas will not be required to fill out the usual detailed customs declarations unless articles purchased abroad exceed in lvalue the $100 exemption per person. Instead of the written declaration, travelers will fill out a pocket-size identifi cation card with name, address, flight num ber arrival dale and accompanying family , (Eugene Register Guard) Problems of public finance being what they are In this state right now, Oregon's cities and counties can have little more than a forlorn hope of getting larger cuts from state liquor profits. But the cities and counties do have some new, Impressive, expert opinion to back no their lonc-arcued contention that they are being short-changed by the state. Rutgers University investigators have re ported that one-third of all U.S. arrests are for drunkenness. Furthermore, excepting only parking and non-drinking offenses, BO per cent of all arrests are directly related to consumption of alcohol. IT"' WASHINGTON CALLING '. By MAIUIUIS Cllll.DS WASHINGTON - If Presi dent Johnson twos a challenge - almost unparalleled in scopo lie ..' also has an opportunity such as few men in our history have been given. That opportunity is to convert the shock, horror and humilia tion of tho events of Uie past few days into a swift, construe live forward movement. The nation in a state of shame and shock over Uiis unpcakallc blow is 6urely ready to accept a powerful initiative. The stagnant, foot dragging Congress has been an expression of the iruiwiatinn and baffle- merit in he country. U has ! cemed impossible to brinR . about any resolution of ' llie deep and embittering divi sions. President Kennedy had become reconciled, outwardly at least, to postponing tlie key pieces of his legislative two gram the tax cut and (lie civil rights bill. This is all that re mained of a liold and compre hensive series of proposals tlie youngest President ever lo serve . "in tlie ofice had advanced, be- .,;ninv with hi first State of '.the Union message. "' At the last press conference , he held Kennedy spoke of an "lfUiwnth delivery" for the two pieces of legislation which were imperative before Uie start of the (Presidential campaign. But ; there was no assurance In view of the sit-down strike of South- ;m commiUee chairmen and ". the certainty of a filibuster con. ! ducted with all the resourceful . ness of such an Implacable ene ' my as Senator Richard Russell AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Help Needed do this ... or why don't they do that?" The "they" we refer to is, in too many cases, just a nebulous someone or some thing that should do something about the complaints we voice. Actually, the "they" we refer to so loosely is ourselves. We are the ones who make a community what It is. We are the ones who make it a worse or a better place in which to live. So actually the Chamber of Commerce is talking about our problem. It is seeking ways to make our community better. You don't have to be a member of the Chamber of Commerce to lend a hand in this project. All you have to do is give the issue some good, level-headed thought, and then jot down your suggestions and send them along to this newspaper. We'll see they get in the right hands if they merit considera tion. A community is no better nor worse than the people in it. It will progress no faster than those people want it to progress. 1 How about you lending a hand to im prove your community? Cutting Red Tape members. The card will be handed out to customs agents, who will determine whether imported articles are subject to duty. Treasury Department officials hope that the new system will further encourage foreigners to visit the United States, thereby helping to reduce the balance of payments deficit. Although the plan applies initially to air travel, it will also be tried experimentally on transoceanic ships arriving at New York. If this proves successful, it will be extended to all ports. Whatever the plan's effect on foreigners may be, most American travelers undoubtedly will welcome it. Houston Post Booze And Budgets Oregon law gives (he slate monopolies on retail liquor sales and upon taxes relat ing to the liquor industry. But tho'stale turns over to cities and counties only about one-fifth of its liquor take. Our cities and counties obviously need larger law enforcement budgets than they would if Oregon still had prohibition. But, as long as our state government remains as financially dry as it is now, units of local government will undoubtedly remain lowly paid enforcers of state liquor laws and un dercompensated menders of all the breach es of public peace which stem from drinking. Opportunity Faces LBJ of Georgia that action could como by March or April. President Johnson In his years as majority leader was a mas ter of the legislative process. The protege and close ally of (lie late Shaker Sum Rayburn, he knew as well as anyone in this century how Congress work ed and how and why it failed to work. While his methods wcro sometimes rough anil he often left bruised feelings in his iwake, he got results. That is his great advantage at a critical moment in tlie na tion's history. Already there is talk in Congress tliat since the two major pica's of legislation arc stalled ui committee it might be vcll to got on with neglected housekeeping such as the long-delayed appropriation bills (or most of tlie govern ment departments and then go home. Uefore Kennedy's assas sination Congress had been scheduled to stay until lVc. 20 ami break up for Christmas re cess. Tlie logic of tlie situation may dictate an interval in which the new President pulls together llie many tangled threads of the In credibly difficult task he lias in herited. But llie danger is that such an interval will efface Uie memory of what tlie country lias Just been through. The par tisan passions, lor Uie moment stilled, will revive and Uie same fractious pieces frozen into tlie old Immobility. This immobility was in part concealed from the world by Uie vigor, tlie outward confidence. Uie high style and good humor of the late President, Those Friday, November 29, 1963 aware in other capitals, howev er, of the heavy responsibility America carries have long been disturbed and uneasy at the prospect of an unresolved dilem ma carried into a Presidential campaign stretching out fur a lull year. Absorbed as we arc in our own concerns, our own political entanglements, it is hard for most Americans to realize how closely everything that happens hero is followed ami analyzed. The shock of tlie President's assassination, climaxed by the fantastic lawlessness of the murder in tlie police station of the accused assassin, lias been very great. Twenty-four hours alter Kennedy's deatli was flashed to the world this report er spent an hour and a half in a telephone link with London. Paris and Hamburg, Germany, discussing llie late President and (lie new President with in formed observers in each coun try, both journalists and high ranking political figures. Tlie questions to the Ameri can participant came thick and fast. Who is this man Lyndon Johnson'.' Will he alter llie for eign policy of ProsKlonl Kenne dy'.' Is this a crushing blow to American liberalism? Will the (act that the accused assassin was a Marxist touch off a new and more virulent extremism of tlie right wing? A new and more dangerous test in Soviet American relations? Tlie words President Johnson speaks to llie nation and Uie workl can supply many answers. Hut deeds, ami immediate deeds, will speak louder than words. By BRUCE BIOSSAT The people of the United States of America must surely be repelled now at the sicken ing cost exacted from them by the strains of violence and ex Iremism which have run through this country for at least a century. In 100 years, four presidents have died at an assassin's hand. Attempts were made to kill four others. Thus 8 out of the 20 presidents we have had in that span have felt the perilous pres ence of the fanatic. This is a land whose whole being, whose crucial liberties, can find lasting safety only in the quiet orderliness of the pro cesses of law. What happens to that peace and that order when a presi dent the highest symbol of these vital elements is struck down by violent means? What happens, too, when his IN WASHINGTON Mr. By RALPH de TOLEDANO As President Johnson quickly takes hold of the reins of gov ernment, he faces the most im portant political decision of his career. It is one that Washing ton has been discussing sotto voce since Uie first terrible shock of John F. Kennedy's as sassination began wearing off. Which image will he present to the country: If Mr. Johnson follows his own impulses and his own bent, he will rapidly emerge as Uie most liberal President since Frank lin D. Roosevelt. He will also win over the Northern liberal wing of tlie Democratic Party in a way which President Ken nedy never did. And he will in herit the Negro vote which has gone to his party in Presidential elections since 1932. A study of Mr. Johnson's rec ord, ever since he was elected to the House of Representatives on April 10, 1937, has been ono of consistent support of strongly liberal policies. In fact, he owes his rapid advancement in both House and Senate to his fervid espousal of the New Deal pro gram and the yeoman work he did in behalf of FDR. He did as much for President Truman and, since lillil, has used Uie office of the Vice Pres ident to cement bonds of friendship and common interest with Negro civil rights leaders. In fact, Mr. Johnson stands to the left of the late President on Negro rights. Unless circum stances intervene, he can be ex acted to push far more vigor ously for the legislation now be fore Uie Congress than did his predecessor. There will be many who urge President Johnson to demon strata immediately his devotion lo the ideology of the northern liberals. Their argument: that t liis is the only way to hold on lo the big urban centers of llie North which, in Uie past, have THEY SAY... Through their unlawful deal ingsthievery, gambling, usury, extortion, bribery, blackmail and murder underworld kings have grown into a dominating force on the national scene. .1. Kdgar Hoover. Why the devil should I bury them (the capitalists)? Their own working class will do it. N'ikfta Khrushchev, addressing workers In Yugoslavia. BERRY'S WORLD "So, I'm not worrlrj party . . . It Hat a Our Safety evident assassin is killed by an other extremist before the first fanatic can be tried according to law? The answer is simple. The fabric of freedom is grave ly torn. Decisions that belong in the courts, in the legislative halls, in the voting booths, sud denly are made in uie streets. No nation, least of all this one with its unexampled traditions of liberty and democracy, can comfort itself with the repeated plaint that violence and extrem ism infect "only a small minor ity" of its people. The great truth, increasingly clear in these dark hours alter the killing of both President Kennedy and his assassin, is that the blood of us all as free men of good will is contaminat ed when these evil elements flow without check. And they do flow freely in this country, despite all our fine pretenses to tlie contrary. Too Johnson's given the Democratic Party its electoral pluralities. Without the industrial states, it is be ing said, President Johnson can not win election on his own in 1964. But there will be and alrea dy are counter pressures. Pol iticians of both parlies have been making some very care ful studies of the 1960 and 1962 election results. Many of them are convinced that the South and Midwest, not the industrial states, will be the pivot of the 1964 election. And it is pre cisely in tliesc areas that Pres ident Johnson's liberalism will hurt him most. These two areas of llie coun try, along with parts of the Pacific Northwest and Moun tain states, are the core of American conservaUsm. In the South. Mr. Johnson's prestige has sunk very low and it is pos sible that control of Texas, the President's home state, is no longer his. The President will be told that he must mend fences among conservatives, that he must at the very least create an Image of moderation. But this is easier said than done. In fact, there are perils and difficulties to either a liberal or a conservative stance. Each has its in-built disadvantages and will lose him support. The most likely course, at Uiis writ ing, is the liberal one. "If we survive Uiis crisis of war," said tlie man across llie dinner table, "if we do not an nihilate ourselves, and the world becomes more or less stable then what do you think is the primary, and most important, problem the human race should concern itself with?" I assumed he expected me to answer in some grand socio-po-litico-economico - philosophical fashion, but I did not. "Chil dren," I said. "The problem of children." He seemed astonished. "How can children constitute the pri mary problem? Are you sug gesting we must start with uieir education in order to make the world a belter place to live in'?' "Nothing so banal as that," 1 replied. "I am suggesting that about lein,F late for tbt 11 our mm hour ago'." Lies Only many Americans in their hearts and minds approve resort to vio lence to achieve purposes both private and public. Perhaps this comes basically from our youth as a country, from the frontier character that so long has marked much of our life. Certainly, however, this un seemly endorsement of extrem ism takes strength from the selfish indifference, the calculat ed permissiveness, the flabby moral fiber which underlie our turbulent, complex, growing so ciety today. Not enough Americans appear to care deeply about preserving the very heartland of the free doms they enjoy Uie core of law and order. We cannot even summon up sufficient concern to strike an effective blow against a televi sion world which, in almost childlike simplicity, shouts at us Image? Mr. Johnson has always been a very sure-footed strategist. But as President, he is sudden ly removed from Uie ordinary levels of political discourse. He must make his own decisions and, whatever his advisers may believe, make them alone. The sudden quiet which s u r rounds a leader at the mo ment he assumes the Presiden cy is an amazing phenomenon and it has an immediate ef fect on Die man who stands in the eye of the Washington hur ricane. The Presidency took an es sentially liberal man like Her bert Hoover and made of him a conservative. It took an essen tailly conservative man like Franklin D. Roosevelt and caused him to point this coun try in the direction of neo-so-cialism. It took an insignificant politician like Harry S Tru man and gave him great stat ure. And obversely, it took a man of decision like Dwight D. Eisenhower and made him in decisive. What the alchemy of the Pres idency will do to Lyndon B. Johnson will be Uie great story of the months to come. How he develops will determine Uie fu ture of the Democratic Party and heighten the struggle w ith in the Republican Party. It will make its mark on history, both now and in tlie year lo come. STRICTLY PERSONAL ny SYDNEY J. HARRIS we devote more of our efforts lo study babies from the mom ent Uiey are born, to learn ex actly the nature of Uie process of maturation, to know which stimuli and which influences are beneficial and which are harmful." "Don't we know enough of Uiat yet?" he asked. "Hardly anything. We have barely scratched the surface. We are spending billions to in vestigate outer space, and pen nies to look into the essential structure of the human being from birth to maturity." He thought I was being cap tious or perverse, but I w as not. To me. there is absolutely no hope for future development of Uie human secies unless we un wrap the mysteries of infancy and childhood. For it is in Uie earliest years that we go wrong, through ignorance. Uirough w ill lulness. through impatience and arrogance and love that is not only blind but deaf, dumb and lame as well. Which forces, which treatment, which emotional and social cli mate would best produce the kind of human beings we would like to see human beings gen erous and flexible, responsive and alert, poised easily and del icately between strength and tenderness? As yet. we can only make some shrewd guesses. Our sam ples are too small, our experi ments too brief, our expendi tures too scanty. Tlie amount of superstition is enormous com pared with Uie amount of (act. Our children are still riddles to us; as infants. Uiey are even more enigmatic. We do Uie most damage without knowing we are doing at all. Yet, since man is a creature continually making himself land sometimes unmaking himsell'. it seems evident to me that the cvuscious "making process" must begin much earlier than it does if we are to turn out peo ple in llie future who are capa ble of sustaining and ennobling human hie. Perhaps we cannot; but. if so. then the socio-pohtico-economico-piulosophical prob lems will remain where tbey have alwavs been. In The Law daily from its screen, in pro gram after endless program, that to inflict deatli or injury by violence is a proper course to wise decision in a free land. Too many Americans, while loftily decrying violence, preach hale, discord, open defiance of law, disrespect for the practi tioners and upholders of law. All too many of these find it not enough to attack fairly, by orderly means, policies and ac tions they dislike and would seek to change. They go beyond to place in a garish spotlight of personal hatred the individuals who conceive or promote or de fend what these people do not approve. In the United States in the past three years, there was al together too much talk of "hat ing Kennedy." Even today, as he lies buried on a grassy lull, removed forever from the great struggle, there are men among Third Assassination WASHINGTON By FULTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON Lee Harvey Oswald is dead. The Fair Play for Cuba Com mittee is not. Their headquar ters are located in a dingy of fice at 79!) Broadway, N e w York City. Their front door is marked with a Cuban flag and the words, in Spanish, "Cuba, Free Territory of the Ameri cas." Chief occupant of the musty office is Vincent Theodore Lee, a onetime seaman who is the committee's third national di rector. The group was born in April 1960. and labeled a Com munist front by a Senate sub committee one year later. In a recent appearance be fore that body, the Senate In ternal Security Subcommittee, l.ce repeatedly invoked the Filth Amendment. He refused to answer questions about Com munist membership or funds supplied him by the Castro gov ernment. He was not always so reti cent. Earlier he had told a re porter for the Tampa Times "he was not concerned about Com munist influence in Cuba and did not care if there were any Communists among the 'Fair Play for Cuba Committee membership." Fair Play's creator is Rob ert Taber. an ex-convict w h o served time for armed robbe ry, auto theft and kidnapping. He toiled as a CBS newsman when he used Cuban dollars to organize Fair Pluy in I960. Taber left the States in liiiil, one step aiiead of Senate prnh- Al manac By United Prcis International Today is Friday, Nov. 29, the 333rd day of 19H3 with 32 to follow. The moon is approaching its full phase. The evening stars are Jupiter. Saturn and Venus. On this day in history : In 1890, the United States Military Academy and the Unit ed States N aval Academy played the first Army-Xav'v football g;uiie at West Point, X. Y.. wilh the final score: Navy 24-Army 0. In 194.". Yugoslavia became a federated republic after Marsh al Tito read a proclamation to tlie constituent and national assemblies. In I'.vW, opera was teleca.-t directly from the stage of tlie Metropolitan Opera House in Xew York City for the first time. In 19S0. Nc'ison Rockefeller announced he would seek a sec ond term as governor of New York m Uie 12 elections. c ukn tav he deserved his vio lent end or who cannot be trou bled by his death because they disapproved what he stood for. If, then, we as a people are to gain any lesson from the President's death and the equal ly horrible assault on his assas sin, we cannot stop with putting in fuller check the fanatics who do these twisted deeds. We must speak out, as Chief Justice Earl Warren has just said, against those who "spread the venom which kindles thoughts '"f violence1 in oth ers." We must find a way to make a whole nation, in its unfolding maturity, care more than it has ever learned to care up to now about disarming in fact and in spirit not merely the violent ex tremist, but all who lend him critical support by preaching the hatred which feeds his dark purposes. REPORT Fair Play For Cuba Committee Lives On crs who sought him for testi mony. He arrived in Cuba with S19.IIW) in Fair Play funds and went to work for Castro's news agency. He returned to this cuuntry earlier this year but has not been active in Fair Play work. Fair Play's second national director was Richard Gibson, a Negro and self-styled Black Na tionalist. Senate records show that Gibson was a freshman at Kenyon College in Ohio 13 years ago, He vanished just before the end of his spring term, leav ing behind a tuition bill of S579 which has not yet been paid. Gibson, too, refused to an swer questions before the In ternal Security subcommittee, then left for Algeria where lie now serves the people's revolu tion of Ahmed Ben Bella. According to Son. Thomas Dodd. the 'Fair Play for Cuba Committee had 7,000 sludent members before il was one year old. Chapters were set up at colleges from coast to coast. The Internal Security s u b conimitlce, which has conducted a searching investigation of the organization, reveals that Jo anne Grant, one of the country's top young Communists, helped organize Fair Play in I960. In Chicago, the Fair Play show has been run by J o h n Hossen. wh0 has refused to deny under oath he is a Com munist. On Jan. 2. 1948, The Daily Worker, official Commu nist organ, identified Rossen as Communist Party organizer for Southern Illinois. Another Fair Play operative working out of Chicago has been Dick Criley, identified by llie House Un-American Activi ties Committee in 1939 as a Communist. Called that after noon to the stand, and given an opportunity to deny the alle gation. Criley took tlie Fifth. In Los Angeles, Fair Play is a jo.nt operation of the Com munist and Socialist Workers rarlies. both of which are list ed as subversive organizations by the Attorney General Dor othy Hcaly. Communist Par tv organizer for Southern Cali fornia, has been active in Fair Play. . - One of the organization's most energetic workers was Robert franklin Williams, a North Car olina integration leader who f.ed to Cuba when sought by ;" '"' kidnapping in 11. He now spews hatred'over the facilities of Radio Havana A number of prominent peo Pie lent their names ,n a news. Paper advertisement 0 Fair !' n its earlier riavs. These include playwright Truman Ca lte. novel,.., Jamcs Baldwin, critic Kenneth Tynan, authors Norman Mailer, and Jean-Paul Sartre. They no longer support the group. ' o o
