HERALD AM) NEWS, Klamath FaUs, Oitjod
Thursday, December S, 19GJ
Write-In Candidate
WILLIAM S. WHITE . .
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We can't agree with those who call for
an end to extremism.
Somehow, the conformists who have
channeled a great portion of this nation's
thinking into a neutralizing middle-of-the-road
position, have taken the occasion of the
tragedy of the assassination of the President,
to condemn those who exercise the privilege
of free thinking.
A wave of shame has been generated
across this nation as an aftermath of this
national tragedy. We disagree with this also.
Just because a fanatic Marxist and
avowed Communist commits a lunatic deed
by shooting the President does not mean
that every voice of disagreement across the
land should be muffled, that every American
should indulge in self-shame.
Disagreement is the heart of the Repub
lic, the oil that keeps a Democracy honest
and moving in the right direction.
Still the voice of criticism and you will
fashion the chains that will bind freedom
forever to dictatorship and tyranny.
No one welcomes violence, and no one
promotes violent extremism willingly.
Admittedly, there are forces afoot In
this land of freedom that have pushed causes
Jails in three Klamath County cities
and towns have been described as a "dis
grace" by a grand jury investigating con
ditions in these facilities. It was recommend
ed they be Improved or abandoned.
Granted jails are not to be furnished
and maintained like the Ritz-Carlton, con
ditions nevertheless should be sanitary and
habitable. A few hard-nosed law enforce
ment people take the attitude that if jails
are unpalatable, members of the citizenry
are less liable to do things that will cause
their confinement in these places. On the
other hand not every person placed in a jail
is guilty of any crime. Frequently they are
not.
Sociologists and criminologists gener
ally agree that jails, whether they be town,
The
By MARQUIS CH1LDS
VASIIINGTON-Whnl is Pres
ident Johnson really like? That
question is being asked not
only all over America but
throughout the world.
The aura ot power and parti
ji politics will rapidly close
in to shut olf the view. This is
inevitable in the office lie now
holds. In the fir&t rush ol sym
pathy Clio sincere desire ol al
most everyone is to Rive all aid
and comfort possible to the
new President who must take
up his intolerable burden.
It is being said with accura
cy that he is the best-ti ained
vice president ever to come
into the Presidency. He has
traveled to most areas o the
world, he has sat in on most of
the important conferences, lie
was at the elbow of the late
President when the great deci
sions were being taken. But
this ignores the temperament
of the 53-year-old Texan, anil
temperament is as important
as training in weighing the bal
ance. From le vera! who have
worked closely with him in hit
nearly three years In the vice
presidency, this is an attempt
to get a glimpse of the inner
man. Kirsl of all, he is a Tex
an in the best sense of that
special statehood, unmarred by
the hatc-mongering so widely
advertised in recent years. He
is. therefore, an activist.
It will be both his strength
and his weakness in the Presi
dency. Hie lesson he must
learn is restraint reflection
and restraint. The model to
serve him well in this depart
ment U the late President Ken
nedy. Yet as an activist in the vice
presidency, Mr. .lohnton has
already been schooled in re
straint. Tlie two men, the late
President and his successor,
had one important trait in com
mon. They were both intensely
competitive. Each in his own
separate and distinct way was
out to win.
When Senator Johnson lost
hia fierce battle (or the Presi
denUil nomination at the Lot
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Let Them Be Heard
to the point of violence and have oftentimes
used violence as a means of accomplishing
an objective.
Extremism in this form should be con
demned. But the give and take that governs the
political life of the nation, the criticisms that
keep government officials honest and pro
tect the basic freedoms that are unique to
Americans . . . these things we must ever
maintain if we are to avoid the pitfalls of
mediocrity and the end result of a stagnated
nation.
While we stand up for the rights and
privilege of being able to disagree, we would
also plead for tolerance as the best weapon
against violent extremism.
Those among us who would promote
class hatred, mob rule or physical violence
should be exiled to their own small, bigotted
world.
But let the voice of honest, constructive
disagreement come forth with a volume in
dicative of free men endowed with the in
alienable privilege of being able to disagree.
Only in this manner can we keep this
nation free In a world of encroaching
slavery.
Dirty Jailhouses
city, county, slate or federal, should be main
tained properly.-And there's no reason why
prisoners shouldn't do a great deal of the
housekeeping. There seems to be no excuse
for "dirty toilet facilities, refuse on the
floor, cobwebs on the ceiling and no mat
tress covers" as reported by the grand jury.
If such problems are caused by the fact
that these jails seldom are used then an ar
rangement should be worked out where
prisoners are brought from these smaller
communities to larger ones where they can
be Incarcerated properly. Then close up
those that are substandard.
It is good to know, however, that the
grand jury puts its good housekeeping seal
on Klamath Juvenile Home, the Klamath
city and county jails.
WASHINGTON CALLING
Real Mr. Johnson
Angeles convention in I960, the
cup ot defeat was far more bit
ter than it would have been (or
most men. His decision to ac
cept second place on the ticket
amazed even his closest friends
and associates.
As an activist in the vice
presidency, it was hard for
ium to learn in the first weeks
and months that he was not
running the show nor even
his own sideshow. Long-time
friends and loyal admirers
counseled him in this trying
period on the need for re
straint. Experience was a haid
master.
One result was an almost ti
gerish loyalty to his chief, the
young man who had bested him.
Mr. Kennedy would say, "Lyn
don. I hope that you can help
me with such and such a job,
and if I could have a paper on
my desk that I could sign with
in three or (our days, it would
be fine." The vice president
would mow every tiling down In
insure Uial Uie task was com
pleted, and under the time
limit, too.
Inevitably he clashed with
some members of the Kennedy
Administration, and tins has a
bearing on the shape o( the
Johnson Adiiunistialion. The
new President felt that Secre
tary of Defense Robert McNa
mara was the most brilliant and
forceful man in the Kennedy
Cabinet. Hut he thought that Mc
Samara's methods were w rong,
and particularly with Congress
where the vice president's
knowledge was surest.
Tlie two men clashed fre
quently. They had sharp differ
ences over the space pro
gram, which was Mr. John
son's special province. An asso
ciate recalls a heated Ihiec
and-a-lialf-hour session of tlie
Space Council. They differed
over the supersonic transport
and how to finance it.
Here another element ot the
Johnson temperament is sig
nificant. As a fierce competitor
out to win. he looks with sus
picion on rivals who crowd in
too close Johnson associates, i!
not tlie President himself, be
lieved McNamara was in close
alliance with Attorney General
Robert F. Kennedy, creating
the possibility of a McNamara
Kennedy ticket in lWlfl. And
there were those who were only
too happy, both in print and in
private, to try to poison the re
lationship between the Presi
dent and Uie vice president
wilii this kind o( suspicion.
Mr. Johnson had his eye ir
revocably (i.ed on 'Ml. Ho was
to win the prize on his own per
formance, and his own record
and anyone thwarting that goal
was an enemy. A Texan fights
and a Texan fights for keeps.
In this beginning interval, a
parallel has liecn suggested
with Harry S. Truman, who an
nounced on inheriting the Pres
idency Uiat Ih- would keep the
Roosevelt Cabuict. Yet within a
short time Uiey had gone. But
Mr. Truman had three and a
half years to shape a new Ad
ministration before an election.
President Johnson has only six
months.
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
ft In what area do farmers
make use ol birds la fornraiting
weather?
A-South Africa The shrill call
o( the osprey is usually heard sec
eral days before rain.
Q What are the chlrl crops In
the Imperial Valley?
A Lettuce, celery, cantaloupes,
cotton and alfalfa.
() Hnw Is the atomic number
n( an element drtrrmined?
A It is based upon the num
ber of protons found in the nu
cleus of the atom.
Q Who la tha patma Hint el
Casta Rica?
A St. Joseph.
Q What Island Is kaowi at the
Pearl ol the Antilles?
A Cuba.
By FULTON LEWIS Jit.
WASHINGTON Title 18, Sec
tion 1114 o( the U.S. Code
makes punishable by law the
(ollowing crimes:
An attempt on the life o( a
(ederal game warden.
The assassination of an Ag
riculture Department file clerk.
The murder of a federal
judge, a U.S. Attorney or his
assistant.
Title IS. Section 1501 makes
it a crime to assault a federal
process server. Title 18, Sec
tion 871 makes illegal a threat
against the President of the
United Slates. Title 10, Sec
tion 888 provides court-martial
for those commissioned officers
of the U.S. Army who utter
contemptuous words about their
commander-in-chief.
Nowhere in tlie federal code
is there a law that makes as
sassination of the Chief Execu
tive a ciime. This gaping loop
hole will soon be plugged if
members of the Senate Judici
ary Committee have their way.
They are drafting legislation to
make attempts on the life of a
President, a vice president, a
Cabinet member, or a member
of Congress, a federal crime.
The advantages in such a
law are evident. The Federal
Bureau of Investigation could
enter the case immediately.
Congressman . Charles Goodell
points out that the "murder of
a high federal official has ram
ifications far beyond the per
sonalities involved. The offi
cials of Dallas found this out
the hard way.
"It is not fair to any local
officials to place such a respon
sibility on their shoulders. How
humiliated and ashamed we
would all have been if the Su
preme Court had been com
pelled to reverse the conviction
of President Kennedy's assas
sin because t h e defendant's
rights had been violated."
Note: Other legislation is
likely to pass as a result of
the President's tragic death.
For two years, Senator
Thomas Dodd has pushed for
passage of his bill to regulate
the sale of mail order guns.
The Connecticut Democrat has
chaired hearings in which vet
eran police officials have begged
for some sort of legislation that
would prevent criminals ami ju
veniles from obtaining lethal
weapons.
Hodd's hill, as originally in
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WASHINGTON REPORT .
Law Needs Correction
In Light Of Tragedy
troduced, would require pur
chasers of mail order guns to
sign affidavits that they have
no criminal record and are 18
years of age.
The Senator has now moved
to strengthen that bill by re
quiring buyers of such guns to
leceive permission from local
law enforcement oflicers.
Lee Harvey Oswald, accused
slayer of President Kennedy,
would have been unable to pur
chase the gun allegedly used in
his dastardly crime if the Dodd
bill had been in ellect.
Representative John Ash
brook will get nowhere fast
with his resolution calling for a
joint House-Senate investigation
of the State Department.
Reason: The department
doesn't want one.
The Ohio Congressman, one
of the most articulate young
Republicans in cither house,
made his demand in the wake
of reports that the department
had advanced Lee Harvey Os
wald $-100 to facilitate his re
turn to this country from the
USSR.
Ashbrook's resolution reads
in part:
"Whereas the Stale Depart
ment which had discretion paid
the way back to tlie United
Stales of Lee Harvey Oswald
who had given an aflidavit re
nouncing U.S. citizenship, sur
rendered his passport to our
Moscow Embassy and then
spent three years being trained
in Communist Russia and af
ter repatriation returned to the
United States and killed the
President of the United States:
"Whereas the 'dismissal of
Otto Otepka signaled the end of
effective security in the De
partment of State;
"Whereas Department of
State personnel have played a
major role in engineering a se
ries o( miniature Munich: in
cluding nuclear agreements,
grain deals, over 53 per cent
unilateral disarmament and a
prospective nonaggression pact
in evolving a policy ot peace
through appeasement . , .
"Resolved by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States . . . that the De
partment of State, its person
nel,, security and other policies
be investigated from top to bot
tom with the purpose of elim
inating subversives and ques
tionable personnel."
By WILLIAM S. WHITE
WASHLNGTON President
Johnson, profoundly relieved
and thankful that the country
has so rallied in unity and
strength from the shock of the
assassination of his predecessor,
now proposes to keep up the
momentum of his administra
tion on every front without
pause or let up.
These recent urgent days
have shown to the nation and to
associates he inherited from the
Kennedy Administration t h e
rapidity of decision and vigor of
the new President in a crisis
time. What these days have not
yet shown is that these attrib
utes are a part of Mr. John
son's ordinary political life.
In all the circumstances, of
course, he simply had to decide
and to act firmly and quickly
and more or less all at once
along tlie whole range of the
enormous problems of an office
thrown without an instant's
warning upon him. He was
racing against nothing less than
national fear and potential na
tional hysteria and chaos and
an ominous tide of confused bit
terness and counter-bitterness.
He won the race. But his in
stantaneous series of unhesitat
ing actions necessarily taken
at times by telephone and with
almost dizzying speed as he
pressed one button after anoth
er to give clipped directives
and a sense of sad but rock-like
Presidential calm to one mo
mentarily shaken official after
another were unusual onlv in
Washington Window
Balanced
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press International
The balanced ticket, so-called,
is likely to make its appear
ance next year in presidential
politics. Balanced tickets are
old hat in the great cities of
the North and East.
It is customary in New- York
City politics, for example, to
distribute nominations for mu
nicipal office among the reli
gious and racial minorities and
majorities. This usually pro
duces a municipal ticket on
which are represented Jews.
Protestants, Catholics, Germans
Italians, Negroes. This is called
a balanced ticket.
There are only two spots on
a presidential ticket. It is be
ing suggested now that the
Democrats may desire to bal
ance their presidential ticket
next year with a Catholic nomi
nated to run for vice president
with President Johnson. For ex
ample, Newsweek remarked
that the Democrats' most criti
cal 11104 decision would be on
tlie vice presidential nomination
and added:
"Robert F. Kennedy would
have sentimental attraction.
Kennedy itiie late President's
brother! is also a Catholic to
balance LBJ's Protestantism."
A columnist team i Rowland
Evans and Robert Novak I ad
vanced Sargent Shriver 'the
late President's brother-in-law I
as President Johnson's current
choice for a 1984 running mate.
These writers remarked that
"for whatever it is worth, Shri
ver would couple a northern
Catholic with a southern Pro
testant" on the 1964 presidential
ticket.
Others, including notable Pro
testants, are being mentioned as
likely Democratic vice presiden
tial nominees. But tlie scattered
emphasis on a presidential tick
et balanced between Catholics
and Protestants is. neverthe
less, significant and something
wholly new to presidential poli
tics. Geographical balance long
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manac
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Today is Thursday. Dec. 5.
the 339th day of iW with 26 to
follow.
Tlie moon is approaching its
last quarter.
The evening stars are Jupiter,
Saturn and Venus.
On this day in history:
In 177K. tlie first scholastic
fraternity in America. Phi Beta
Kappa, was organized at tlie
College of William and Mary.
In 1848. President Polk con
firmed tlie discovery of gold in
California, givuig impetus to the
gold rush of '48 and '49.
In 1933. Prohibition was abol
ished with Uie 21st Amendment.
In 1934. 65 persons were ex
ecuted in the Soviet Union fol
lowing the "purge trials" al
which they were charged with
plotting against the Stahn Re
gime. A thought for the day - The
English satirist, Jonathan Swift,
said: "Satire is a tort of glass,
wherein beholders do generally
discover everybody's (ace but
their own "
the tragic atmosphere that sur
rounded them.
Their s p e e d and firmness
were standard operating proce
dure for a man long known to
his old colleagues in the Senate
as Ureless in action and fretful
only when there was nothing
much that needed to be done.
Of these qualities of decision,
much more will be seen.
Mr. Johnson, in short, has al
ways believed, in every office
he has held, that the enemy of
sound and creative public poli
cy is any loss within its leaders
of the great elan that comes
when the initiative is main
tained and fully used. Doubly
and triply he believes this to
be true of the office of the
Presidency, seeing it as the dis
tilled and ultimate delegated
power of the nation itself a
power which must not be al
lowed to waste away or to be
come diffused into nothingness
by absence of bold action at the
top.
To him a moment lost is not
only something to be deplored.
It is a grave spoilage. For in his
view history in the present
world runs with that nation
which docs not sit down to rest
after each task but finishes one
only to reach with zest for
another.
He w ill, therefore, never care
fully divide his duties and pro
grams and label them "domes
tic" and "foreign," giving pri
ority to one or the other. To
him, a problem is a problem.
Ticket Talked
has been an accepted fact of
U.S. politics.
The art of presidential poli
tics will become much more
complex and its ability to pick
the right men is likely to be
much diminished if the bal
anced ticket deadweights the
system.
After religious balance would
come racial balance and there
after, who knows what balance,
further to confuse tlie already
imperfect means by which pres
ident are nominated for that
office. And if there is to be re
ligious balance, shall Protest
ants and Catholics only be con
sidered or, or example, should
Jews get their turn? And, if so,
how would the choice be made?
Perhaps by playing a little
game of odd man out.
The all - out balanced ticket
system is likely lo be accom
panied by a strange kind of ra-
Purely Personal Prejudices: It
is one of the ironies of nature
that intelligence and talent do
not necessarily go together; and
so we find people of talent with
out the intelligence to control
their gifts, and people of intel
ligence without the talent to ex
press their perceptiveness.
Those who tend to "blame"
science for recent frightening
developments in warfare and
technology should recall what
Gustav Le Bon said a long time
ago: "Science has promised us
truth ... It has never prom
ised us either peace or happi
ness." Marx and his followers were
guilty of a dangerous half truth
when they propounded Uie max
im that "Tlie moneyed class is
not it to rule"; this is true, but
they failed to add thai no class
is fit lo rule and perhaps the
prnletariet least of all.
The only time we are willing
to admit that there are two
sides to every question is when
we do not adhere too strongly
lo cither side.
It is the grandness of sound,
rather than the objecUvity of
meaning, that sways most of
us; for instance, "a Uiousand"
sounds greater than "twelve
hundred'' because Uie very word
"thousand" is more impressive
than "hundred," until we take
a second look at the context.
Tlie most false dichotomy we
can make is between "mind"
and "emotions" or "heart" and
"head " for thinking and feel
ing are inseparably linked to
one another like the blades of a
scissors, and we cannot rut
anything accurately or cleanly
unless both blades are operating
in conjunction
Children, unti they are civil
ized. tend to laugh at cruelty,
deformity or misfortune; in
short, at anything they consider
aiien or inferior to themselves;
as we get older, we discipline
these reactions and no lonjer
laugh at cruelty, deformity or
and the problems and chal
lenges of national leadership
whether across thousands of
miles of ocean or simply up
Pennsylvania Avenue to Capitol
Hill are all big and urgent. He
will be neither a "domestic"
nor a "foreign affairs" Presi
dent. He will only be President,
a job he considers to be indivis
ible. Even as he is pressing Con
gress on his domestic legislative
program he will be pressing his
purposes on the international
scene with what is his greatest
operating skill. This is a capa
city for persuasion to his point
of view already long since
known to the world's leaders,
some of whom he has already
met and will meet again and
again.
Most of all, he will never wil
lingly lose his and the nation's
present momentum in behalf ot
a rest here and there.
He w ill not get from Congress
this year all the legislation he
wants, and perhaps not even
next year. But he will get some
of it; and he will always come
hack and back until at length
he gets it all. And allied stales
men and potential enemy
chieftains, too will find in him
what the late President Kenne
dy also found in him: a skilled,
seemingly casual negotiator
needing no mass of papers and
no briefcase, w ith an absolutely
untroubled uncertainty as
to where the real point in every
discussion lies.
oial segregation in political of
fice. The office of borough pres
ident of Manhattan has become
a segregated job in New York
City. It has become a political
tradition to nominate for that
post a Negro. There are a few
jobs in the federal government
thai have come to be consid
ered the preserve of a member
of a given race or of a woman.
Tlie late President named An
drew Hatcher as his assistant
press secretary. Hatcher was
the first Negro in that job. You
may be sure that from now on
there will be a Negro press sec
retary or assistant press sec
retary for many, many years
to come.
So might a religion or a race
got a stranglehold on a party's
ticket system. We just got rid
of the Protestant stranglehold
on presidential tickets. We
should be too smart to get
hooked that wav asain.
STRICTLY
PERSONAL.
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
misfortune in individuals but,
rather, we transfer such reac
tions to large and anonymous
groups of people who, we per
mit ourselves tlie luxury of feel
ing, are alien and inferior. But
are we any better than the chil
dren? In a surprisingly large num
ber of families, the wrong
member is going for psychiatric
help: the more disturbed one
who is rigidly opposed to gel
ting help has driven the more
flexible and less disturbed one
into treatment which can hard
ly have a satisfactory solution.
Tlie peril of divided authority
was never more forcefully or
tersely put than by Napoleon,
when he observed: "One bad
general does better than two
good ones."
Every true artist is a moral
ist who knows better than to
preach; it is only when there is
a deficiency of art that the mor
alizing seeps through to the sur
face and spoils the work.
BARBS
Why not give black hankies
lo all kids who use them to
wipe off their shoes?
Take care of your health If
ynu expect It to take eare of
you.
Advice to parents: sock the
kids who go barefoot in the fall
and flirt with a cold.
Whe n the prlre of wheat goes
up the dealers nay It with flour.
A lot of drastic steps are be
ing taken by newcomers on
bowling alleys.
You don't have to he slrk ll
break out In a friendly imtle.
Work never hurts a man un
less he ducks away from it.