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. '
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