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PAGE-i HERALD AND NEK'S, Klamath Falls, Oregoa Monday, December 3, 193 A New Hand At The Door WASHINGTON REPORTS Kennedy, LBJ Disagreed Klamath County's United Fund cam paign, over the $100,000 hump and better than two-thirds of the way to meeting the quota, proves people here want to help their less fortunate neighbors. The progress of the drive also illus trates the military has again put a solid shoulder to the wheel. Leaders of the Kings ley Field division of the campaign reported late last week that they had raised more than 100 per cent of their quota. Hats off to solicitors and contributors alike. They've done an excellent job. The Special Gifts Division also war rants a pat on the back for going over the 100 per cent mark. President Kennedy's great sacrifice giving his life for his country should be a history lesson never to be forgotten by the youth of this nation. The late leader of our country not only died as a martyr but once before came within an eyelash of los ing his life during World War II. The PT boat he commanded was cut in half by an enemy destroyer. Part of the crew was lost and young JFK swam to safety and at the same time rescued a buddy. In recent times too many of our young people and with plenty of assistance from their elders have been figuring ways to beat the responsibility to their country. They're not secretive about it. They openly seek some means of staying out of the serv ice like it was the accepted thing to do. Some try to conjure up a physical disability or are hopeful that they have some defect WASHINGTON NOTEBOOK Jfes tories By WASHINGTON STAFF Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) - 111 Iho spring of 1958, the then Son ale Majority Leader Lyndon Bailies Johnson was called to the While iloiifo by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. As their conference broke up the Presi dent pointed to the big leather chair behind his desk and re marked, "One day, Lyndon, you'll eit In that chair." "No, Mr. President," the sen ator replied, "that's one chair I'll never sil in. 1 wouldn't trade desks with you (or anything in Hie world." President Kennedy generally went out of his way to praise his vico president as a "loyal and faithful friend." On one oc casion he told a Democratic din ner, "I must say that the mer ger of Boston and Austin was really tltc last merger the at torney general has allowed, hut it has been one of the most tuccessful." One of Johnson's lesser-known duties as vice president was to act as a one-man watchdog over House Speaker Jolui Mc Cormack at press conferences following White House legisla tive conferences. The Speaker, whoso Job was to acquaint wailing reporters w ith the agreed-upon version of the private talks with Hie Pres ident, tended to stray into po litical booby traps with regular ily. Joluison eventually devel oped the habit of standing be hind McCnrmack'i right shoul der to whisper intensely to the Speaker when ho was alniut U tread on dangerous waters. To new President Jolinson. common sense has a special meaning. As a senator, he said: "One of the wisest things my daddy ever told me was Hut 'so-and-so Is a d -d smart man, but the fool's got no sense." " By sense. Johnson meant the art of knowing what is possible and how to accomplish it. He does not waslo time en lost causes and he realites tliat hot issues are rarely settled by victories for t)x extremists on ciUicr side. Ho has been con temptuous of the crusaders among his former Senate col leagues. "All they do is fight and fight," he once said, "and get 15 Senate voles." As for him self, he once noted. "I would rather win a convert tlian an argument." The President's wife Lady Bird Ulie former Claudia lay lor of Karnack, Tex.) admits United Fund Drive The fact that collections this year are running ahead of last indicates that when people have the money they are willing to part with it for worthy causes like the United Fund. However this is no time to let down. Officials of the vital campaign have ex plained that the goal, $148,311 for 1964 is more than 16 per cent greater than this year's budget so from here on out the going may be tougher if some of those low on the pole don't begin coming through. Divisions which still haven't reached 50 per cent of their quotas: Large firms, Downtown II and County. A Lesson For Youth which would prohibit their putting on the uniform. Others use a teen-age marriage as a crutch to help them avoid a summons from the draft office. We take off our hats to the youngster willing and ready to serve the nation; to ac cept the discomforts of a regimented life in the military; the readiness to leave his home and the fun of living in bis own neighborhood. Somewhere along the line they have learned their responsibility to their country; that freedom isn't God-given .. . that it must be earned; that the United States didn't become the greatest nation in the world without people giving their lives to preserve it. We're sick of hearing someone tell us how they, or their son, connived to slay out of uniform. Cheers for the young man who wears his uniform proudly! Of New President his sense for efficiency. When the family moved into "L e s Ormes," Porlo IMcsta's former Washington homo, Mrs. Joluison went to considerable trouble an glicizing tlie interior of t h e house, in addition lo changing its name to "The Elms." New wallpaper, bookcases, Texas paintings and a hi-fi system were added. When asked what her husband thought of tlie redecorating, Mrs. Johnson replied: "All the furniture he wants is something comfortable enough to put his feet up on." Tlie President as a senator made a practice of hiring mar ried couples when he could got tliem. A shrewd bit of amateur psychology, it resulted in a smooth-running office. "It's lit erally one big happy family, and tlie result makes for the By Hie senseless murder of Ihe President was a mirror we were forced to hold up to our selvesand we' did not like, or believe, the image that we saw. "How could it happen licrc? In this day and age? In our country? I thought such things happened only in history. In Europe. Somewhere else and long ago." Tliesc w ere the react ions of Americans. They bespoke a tre mendous ignorance and delu siveness about ourselves, For, as I have written many times in tlie past (and have been as sailed for so writing', we are a violent people who do not know tlie range and force of our primitive feelings. Why should it not happen here? Tlie last three Presidents out of four have had assassin ation attempts on their lives. Nowhere in Euroi is this true; in most such countries, the chiefs of state walk about vir tually unguarded. In this day and age? This is the age of tlie most ferocious war tlie world has ever known, the most bloody dictatorships, tlie gas owns, tlie conconUation camps, Uic bombings of Hiro shima and Nagasaki by a "peace-loving" nation. In our country? Why not. with our staggering homicide rate, our casual and callous auto fatalities, our shocking prevalence of firearms, our best teamwork and loyalty I've ever seen," said one former aide. Johnson proscribed rigid hours for his staff, the men working every day but Sunday and the women getting Saturdays o f f only twice a month. "People used to ask me why I don't have ulcers when just about everybody who works for me docs," the President once said. "Someone else answered, 'H-l, he just gives 'cm'." On Page 274 of the Washing ton telephone directory is this notation: "Johnson, Lyndon B., Hon., 4040 52d nw . . . WO 6 4030." What makes this listing even more incredible is thai, as vice president, Johnson him self often answered the plwne. One of his cardinal rules was that it should always be an swered on tlie first ring. STRICTLY PERSONAL. SYDNEY J. HARRIS frontier relish for combat and conflict, our contempt f o r courts, our cynicism about Uie effectiveness of orderly process es. If anyone still doubts this, consider tlie cry of applause that went up from the crowd gatliered outside the Dallas jail when it learned that the pre sumed assassin of the President had himself been shot down. This reaction, is, to me. more appalling and more revealing than anything else in the whole nightmare of tlie weekend. Here was a man not known for sure to be the killer. He had not confessed, not been brought lo trial, not defended, not sen tenced. And he was killed while in the very hands of tlie police. And the crowd outside shout ed its approval of this bestial, stupid and irrational act. This is frightening, this is disgust ing, this discloses Ihe profound failure of our society to instill in its citizens any real sense of civilization, any idea of the meaning of law and justice. This is what turns our conn ti v uito little better than a jun gle. If this dreadful murder of a President makes us see o u r selves more clearly, makes us re-examine our feelings, makes us determined to purge the vio lence w ithin each of us and all of us, it will not have been in vain. Letters To Lee Oswald? Here on this earth it is not possible for us to be equal in the eyes of our fellow men, but in death and before God are wo not all equal? Is the soul of any one man more important to God than the soul of any other man? Tlie tears have fallen like the rain throughout our land and countless prayers have been of fered for (lie soul of John Ken nedy, for his wife and for his children. This is right, for he uas a great man. Perhaps our sorrow is not as bitter, our prayers not as fervent, but we have not forgotten Patrolman Tippit, Ms wife and his chil dren. This is right, for while he may not have been a great man. he was a brave man. What of Lee Oswald? How many tears have fallen and how many prayers have been offered for the soul of this poor wretch ed man, for his wife and for his children? Is this our mistake? Is this our opportunity? Naomi M. Bean, 221 Washington Street. Poor Taste The writer lakes three daily papers and two news-week type magazines. Op to a point I also believe, the public is entitled to all Ihe news fit to print. However there is a point where, freedom of the press ceases to be a virtue.' Tlie body of our assassinated President w as hardly cold when the questions asked by represen Al manac By Lolled Press Intcrnntlonal Today. is Monday, Dec. 2. the 336th day of 19;i3 with 29 to follow. The moon is approaching its last phase. The evening stars are Jupiter, Saturn and Venus. On this day in history: In 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor of France. In 1059. John Brown was hanged in the public square at Charlcstown, Va., for his raid en Harper's Ferry in October. In 1942, the Atomic Age began when scientists working under the football stadium at the Uni versity of Chicago demonstrat ed a self sustaining nuclear reaction. In 1952. P r e s i d e n t-elect Dwight Eisenhower arrived in Korea to fulfill his campaign promise to visit the nation in hopes of ending tlie war. A thought for the day U. S. Naval Officer Chester Nimitz said: "A ship is always re ferred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder." IN'ew The Editor tatives of the press were not only senseless, unnecessary and tasteless, they were downright cruel. They must have been heartbreaking to tlie Kennedy tamily. They also must have been most embarrassing to the newly sworn in President and to the legislators interrogated. I refer to the many times this question was asked in various wordings: "Do you think that President Johnson with his long experience and forceful drive will be able to pass Mr. Ken nedy's favorite bills better than Mr. Kennedy could? Do you think he will be more profi cient? Then Sunday afternoon Howard K. Smith and a couple of legislators spent a half hour rehashing the same subject. I, for one, do not believe it w as cither the time or the place for that discussion. If that is "Freedom of the Press" I per sonally will gladly see that free dom curtailed and some long needed consideration of the par tics directly affected substituted in its place. Another brilliant bit was vrrced by the gentleman who asked Mrs. Richard Nixon, "What are you going to say to Mrs. Kennedy when you meet her?" Tell me how do they get that way? R. H. Cook, 4710 Hilyard Ave. BARBS A compromise is w hen t h e whole family goes to the movie Dad didn't want to go to. Work hard. gals, until you've earned enough money lo burn. Then you'll have no t r o u b I e finding a match. Even for the wealthy man home is a flop house after a hard day's rowrk. A stingy man who never gives to worthy causes just gives him self away. So is the cost of Christmas shopping, General Sherman. Conic winter and anybody worth his salt will throw it on icy sidewalks. It's great to be out in the woods in the fall getting close to nature, but when it rains it's too close. 'There arc still a lot of one party lines and Ihe one party is either a teen-age son or daughter. It indicates you haven't much to give when you give up too easily. An Insurance company consid ers golf one of the most dan gerous sports. Mavbc not if you lorget the 19th hole in the club house. Chapter By FULTON LEWIS JR. WASHINGTON In a Congres sional career that spanned 14 years, John Fitzgerald Kenne dy disagreed frequently with Lyndon Baines Johnson. The two found themselves on opposite sides of the ideologi cal aisle on no less than 264 roll call votes. Some were trivi al ; others were not. On the average, tlie two men disagreed on one out of every four votes taken in the House and Senate. They differed often on farm policy, taxes and civil rights. Foreign aid and nation al defense were areas where the two often were opposed. So were those fields of labor and public works, housing and tidelands oil. But there is hardly a subject from A lairports) to Z Izind over which the two were not in dispute at one time or another. The issues run the gamut from antitrust and banking to control and the District of Columbia: from the economy, education, and fireworks all the way through gas. highways, and loy alty oaths to subsidies, trade and waterways. The two were in opposition eight times on Civil Rights, the first time in 1948, when Johnson cast his vote in favor of "sep arate but equal schools" and Kennedy cast his against. In 1957, Johnson voted lo strike Title 111 from the pending Civil Rights bill. Kennedy in sisted such a move would re move the bill's heart and soul. In that same session. John son voted lo send the Civil Rights bill back for seven days lo the Senate Judiciary Com mittee headed by Misfissippi Democrat James Eastland. Ken nedy voted no. IN WASHINGTON . . . By RALPH de TOLEDANO When President George Mea ny of the AFL-CIO warns that automation is a "curse" that could bring the United States to "a national catasU'ophe," he sounds like the Luddites who attempted to break the ma chines which ushered in tlie In dustrial Revolution. Or, per haps, like the theoretician of error. Karl Marx, w ho was con vinced that industrialization un der capitalism would bring end less and increasing misery to the working class the "prole tariat" to him. Both Marx and those w h o tried to stop the course of in dustrial progress were wrong. The machine, which seemed certain to put millions out of work and debase humanity, in stead ushered in an era in which the living standards of white collar and blue collar workers have risen steadily and in which the gap between the high-income and low-income groups has steadily closed. Automation, a word but 15 years old according to the so ciologists, has now replaced Ihe bugaboo of mechanization. The word, however, means different things to different people and the best economists in the AFL CIO 'when they are not talking for publication' will admit that many of the fears expressed at negotiating se.-sions are groundless. Why then is Mr. Meany at tempting to turn back the clock? History and experience have shown that increased mechan izationand that, basically, is what automation consists of to daydoes not depress the econ omy, but on tlie contrary stim ulates it. The many machines being used which "automate" cilice work, for example, have added to employment. With few exceptions, more over, tlie authorities agree that whatever dislocation may be caused by automation, it is temporary. Men are put out of one kind of work, but they are usually reabsorbed by tile labor force. Only in such industries as coal mining, where the miners lor the most part refuse to leave the towns which fringe tlie coal fields, is there persist ent unemployment. And this is caused more by tlie decline of coal as a major fuel than by automation. What bothers labor's leaders is not the eventual effect on the economy but the immediate ef fect on their unions. As tlie na lien automates, the nature of Ihe labor force changes dras tically. White collar workers, hard lo unionize, become the dominant unit. The blue collar worker, still the backbone of present - day unions, is edged out. Tlie unskilled find it hard lo lutd jobs. As a result. Ihe trade unions are shrinking in membership and. perhaps more fearsome lo l!:e labor leader, losing their po litical hold, it will take some On one of tlie first votes in 1958. Johnson lined up with the South in opposition to a limi tation on Senate debate. Ken nedy disagreed, favoring an end to Dixie filibusters. Later that year, Johnson vot ed aaainst confirmation of Wil son White as Assistant Attorney General in charge of Civil ' Rights. Kennedy voted to con firm White, thought a militant foe of segregation. In August, 1959, Kennedy vot ed for an amendment designed to cut off foreign aid to those nations w ho practiced racial and religious discrimination. John son voted no. Three times in I960, the two opposed each other on civil lights. Again Johnson opposed and Kennedy backed Title 111 of the Civil Rights Act. John son voted against and Kennedy for court - appointed referees who would supervise the regis tration of Negroes in areas where they were barred from voting. In a key vote, Kennedy vot ed to cut off a Southern filibust er that threatened passage of the Civil Rights Act. Johnson voted with the South. The two opposed each other frequently on tax bills, Johnson usually voting with the conserv ative Republicans and Southern Democrats. For instance. Ken nedy twice opposed the 27'j per cent oil and gas depletion al lowance. Johnson on both occa sions supported the allowance. On June 20, 1960. Kennedy voled to impose a 20 per cent withholding tax on stock divi dends and bank interest. John son voted no. On that same day, Johnson voted to liberalize business accounts and Kennedy opposed him. Turning Back On Future lime before the politicians come to realize this. There is always a lag in political thinking. But when they do, it will be a bad blow to the AFL-CIO and lo all organized labor. The effect of automation is really not an economic one but a social one. An automating so ciety puts high value on skills that come with education. Even tually, it will create a middle class "proletariat" which will find itself resistant to the ap peal of the union organizer. This shift in the nature of employment comes at a time when labor is beset by another problem: the shift from pro duction to servxe. By that I mean the steady decline of pro duction workers as compared to those in service industries. For tlie labor leaders, this Continuity Keynotes Mrs. Johnson Reign By BRUCE BIOSSAT Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA' Clau dia (Lady Bird) Johnson, the new First Lady of the United States will present an image to the world not unlike that of the late Eleanor Roosevelt. Mrs. Johnson possesses much of the same buoyancy and out going personality of that earlier First Lady so noted for her zest and mobility. As wife of the Vice President she would appear in the slums of Athens and then turn up at a school lunch program in Cy prus pouring milk for children. She has stood in tlie "chow line" with Peace Corpsmen in Puerto Rico, rolled Red Cross bandages with senators' wives in Washington. She can dash through a crowd ed schedule wilh aplomb, exhib iting at 51 the energy of a wom an much younger. Mrs. Johnson's devotion to her role as hostess will, of course, be put sharply to the test, now that she takes up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Her social activities in th e past have reflected not just a sense of duty, but an honest pleasure in meeting people. She recalls earlier limes when as tlie wife of young Congress man Joluison it meant much to her to be drawn into higher cir cles. Later, as wife of the Vice President, she wanted it to be tlie same (or otliers. Her en tertainment lists have included not only foreign guests and dig nitaries but young Washington wives and friends from Texas. Few women, it is believed here in Washington, find as much satisfaction in constant political appearances. Out of her staggering speech travel schedule in the I960 campaign, lor example, she took Ume to tap a vein of 25 cousins during In a key vote in 1955, Johnson and Kennedy split on support of the Nationalist Chinese. Al though both men were hospi talized at the time, Kennedy was paired for and Johnson against a move to exclude Que moy and Malsu from the For mosa resolution which author ized the President to use Amer ican forces to secure and pro tect Formosa, the Pescadores, and related territories against Communist attack. On five separate occasions in 1954, Johnson voted to limit the treaty-making powers of t h e President. Kennedy opposed him on each vote. On key appointments, John son supported Scott McLeod as ambassador to Ireland and the conservative Albert M. Cole as head of the Housing and Home Finance Agency. Kennedy op posed both uf the Eisenhower appointees. On public housing, Johnson voted with the conservative bloc against Kennedy three times from 1957 to 1959. In 1957 John son opposed and Kennedy sup ported the construction of 400. 000 additional public housing units. In 1959 Kennedy favored the appropriation of an addition al $450 million for urban re newal. Johnson did npt. Whether President Johnson will move his administration to ward the center, as his Con gressional voting record would indicate, is unknown. He has vowed to continue the Kennedy program. He realizes that he is comparatively weak in the Northern industrial areas. He w ill be under heavy pressure to alter his moderate image, to become a militant New Frontiersman. means another loss in member ship. It is the production un ions which filled the trade un ion ranks. The service indus tries are being invaded by James Hoffa of the Teamsters, but with no real success. In lime, the unions may find ways and means to apply a compul sory - union principle to serv ice industries, but so far the formula has not been found. Mr. Mcany's panic can be un derstood. But those who write his speeches know that in an economic sense automation is a boon, moving ahead toward days of less and loss physical drudgery or mental monotony for those who produce tlie na tion's goods. It is also our an swer to the growing threat of foreign competition in the world market. a train trip from Washington to New Orleans. It is unlikely that Mrs. John son will make any serious changes in the decoration which Jacqueline Kennedy so pain stakingly carried out in t h e White House. It is true that the mistress of the nation's most celebrated res idence does have a fondness for paintings of western landscapes decoration which has added a touch of the Texas mesquite to the Johnson residence in Wash ington's Green Spring Valley. It is probable that some of these nostalgic items will find their way into the h o u s e on Pennsylvania Avenue. The residential portion of tlie White House, however, is sharp-1 ly distinct from the formal or so-called public wings. It was here in the state dining room, the East Room and the others that Jacqueline Kennedy brought her refined and loving touch. It seems doubtful that these changes so well known by now to millions of Americans will be altered by the charm ing woman from the Southwest. A continuity of style can be exacted elsewhere as well. Americans grown accustomed to the image of the Kennedy children and the image of youtii in the White House can regard the progress of the Johnsons' two teen-age daughters, Lynda Bird and Lucy Baines. Where small Caroline Kenne dy would celebrate her birth day with dolls and toys, the Johnson children can be expect ed to dance in flow ing, corsaged gowns like any other Ameri can teen-agers at a prom. Tlie Johnson girls mirror Hie vital youthful spirit of their motlier. And if the While House can he expected to take on a west ern touch, it will be in the per sonalily of warm and expansive Lady Bird 'Johnson. O l
