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One question is naturally foremost in
our minds today: "What will the new year
bring?"
What will it bring the world, our na
tion, our communities, our families and
ourselves as individuals?
The question is natural because we so
often seem to think of the future as an un
folding of events that remain hidden until
the appointed hour for them to occur.
Perhaps tha.t is why many are fasci
nated by those who claim to be able to peer
beyond the veil of the future; why there
are probably more fortune tellers in the
20th century than at any previous time; why,
when something happens, people so often
say, "Ah, yes, it was fated."
On the other hand, we may be thor
oughly rationalistic and take little comfort
from a view that has everything foreor
dained, foredoomed. Yet there may still be
the tendency to wonder: "What will the new
year bring?"
The question should be: "What do I in
tend to bring to the new year?"
VP Dilemma Confronts LBJ
Bv BRUCE BIOSSAT
WASHINGTON I XE A
Choosing a 1964 vice presiden
tial running mate may be a
more delicate task for President
Lyndon B. Johnson than it has
been for any presidential nom
inee in recent decades. He has
some odd dilemmas.
Most leading Democratic pro
fessionals, including southern
ers, take it for granted that
Johnson, with his Texas base,
will pick a liberal perhaps a
Catholic from a northern in
dustrial state. Such states are
expected to be his hard battle
grounds in 1964.
But many party leaders see
the President's needs as much
more special than this. Their
views, sampled by this report
er in a check of states coast
to coast, suggest he may be
looking for a remarkable com
posite of youth and wide expe
riencewith a clear line of in
heritance from the late John F. .
Kennedy.
On the experience factor there
is no dissent. The shock of Ken
nedy assassination seemed to
settle that issue. New Jer
sey's Gov. Richard Hughes
sums it:
"I don't think the country will
ever again accept a lightweight
as a vice presidential nomi
nee." No such general agreement
exists on the matter of the can
didate's youth. Yet several vet
eran professionals were deadly
serious in stressing its impor
tance for Johnson in 1964. Says
one:
"There was a tremendous in
volvement of young people with
John F. Kennedy. They feel a
heavy loss. They believe power
is back in the hands of older
politicians again and they're un
happy about it."
A newcomer to the Demo
crats' professional corps goes
farther:
By LEON DENNEN
Newspaper Enterprise Anslyst
UNITED NATIONS. N.Y.
'NEA i Foreign affairs prog
nosticators and crystal baH gaz
ers predict further relaxation in
East-West tension in 1964.
Moscow's "pinpricks" in Ber
lin will continue, of course.
There will also be sporadic
roups, "revolutions" and "wars
nf liberation" in the usual trou
ble spots of Asia. Africa and
Latin America.
However, they are not expect
ed tx) alter the course of events
set in motion by President Ken
nedy in 1963.
Mounting conflict between
Russia and Red China and the
critical economic situation in the
Communist world will do much
to deter Moscow and Peiping
(icm embarking on any milita
rv rr .i!itiral adventures that
.- 'ikely m threaten peace.
T'lrr il no doubt that 11
ric'-;- rc.-i ban arecmcn'
''iart?l 1:te begsr.nin: o! a itcp
Icrwanl in the relations be
''vcen te Free World and the
Soviet b! c It brought some
hj-s to a world a tcjr of an
ai.m.c comuil.
However, tne great traeedy
of the century befell civilized
men when an assassin ended
. the life nf .tnhn kennedv, '"If i
Most Of 1964
This is more than a mere cataloging of
resolutions having to do with personal hab
its or attitudes towards those around us. It
involves more than a code of personal ethi
cal behavior, good though that is.
It has to do with the very purpose of
our existence, whatever we may conceive
that purpose to be. It is the difference be
tween a negative acceptance of whatever
comes and a positive determination to
shape the future closer to the heart's desire.
This positive outlook should function
both in our most immediate and closest re
lationships, right on up to our duties as citi
zens of local and national communities.
The question was stated in another way
by the late President Kennedy in his in
augural address:
"Ask not what your country can do for
you; ask what you can do for your coun
try." This is a question we should ask our
selves regularly, and especially on this first
day of a brand new year.
"What do we intend to make of 1964?"
"if we don't come up with a
young one for vice president,
we're going to be in serious
trouble."
Just how young is young
enough, these party men do not
make wholly clear. It is pre
sumed they would prefer a can
didate under 50.
Significantly, some Republi
can politicians who freely as
sailed Kennedy now talk about
finding a youthful prospect
much like him for .their top
spot next year. '
Both parties are mindful that
by 19C4 some five million more'
young people will be of voting
age than was the case in I960
It is a rich market.
The question of a candidate's
possible identity with what
many political figures now are,
calling the "Kennedy tradition"" '
may prove the toughest of all
Johnson's dilemmas in naming,
his running mate. " "
The key to the puzzle is At
torney General Robert F. Ken
nedy. A Democrat of national
stature says:
. "I would think the one mar
riage Lyndon Johnson has got
to make is with Bobby Kenne-
V
In this man's judgment, the
attorney general is the inheri
tor of the late president's man
tle "and no one else is."
To some, this means the
younger Kennedy should be
high on the list of vice presi
dential prospects. To others it
simply means "He's got to be
in the campaign somewhere."
presumably in full support of
Johnson's choice (or the No. 2
place.
Robert Kennedy himself is as
yet giving no clue to his future
political intentions. They may
take shape slowly. But he can
appreciate his special status,
and the value to Johnson of his
personal network of political
contacts.
THE GLOBAL VIEW...
Thaw' Forecast
the authors of the tent ban
agreement.
But even in tragedy an essen
tial truth about America was
revealed to friend and foe alike:
Democracy is steadfast in the
United States. President Lyn
don B. Johnson, in a few short
weeks, has proven that a free
nation provides an able leader
for just such tragic contingen
cies. While the world greeted Ihp
treaty. President Kennedy cau
tioned: "It is only a first
step step toward rea
son, a step away from war . . .
But it will not cause tlie Com
munists to forego their ambi
tions or eliminate the danger
of war."
These are also the views of
President Johnson who pledged
to continue the Kennedy policirs
in international affairs.
Communist Cuba will remain
a major problem (or American
foreign policy. However, hy
rnd ol 1953. Fidel Castro ; ap
peal and influence tad substan
tially dirrunuhed and he is ex
pected to lose more ground m
1964.
Castro's- subterMon an! ter
rorism is uurej-inriy slimy
laLr.; Latin American s'n'n t
join together in an effort to
curb him. The te5t will come in
nil-rich Venezuela. Cuba's No. 1
tar:et If all sncs we H in Vene
Studies of Southern sentiment
confirm early guesswork: the
attorney general's name on a
Johnson ticket might cost the
President a sizeable part of his
evident heavy Southern support.
Bobby Kennedy, even more
than his older brother, has been
a symbol to southern segrega
tionists of the federal govern
ment's pressures on civil rights.
In the South and elsewhere,
too, he served from the outset
es-'a lightning rod attracting
heavy ; charges that otherwise
might have been directed at
his brother. -
These factors explain w h y
politicians disagree so strong
ly as to the specific role the at
torney general should play next
year. Outside the South, howev
er, his importance to the John
son cause is broadly accepted.
His name will likely be on all
vice presidential lists for
months to come.
The other principal pros
pects make up a now familiar
roster: Sens. 'Hubert Humphrey
and Eugene McCarthy of Min
nesota, Peace Corps Director
Sargent Shriver (who is relat
ed to the Kennedys by mar
riage), U.N. Ambassador Adlai
Stevenson, New York's Mayor
Robert Wagner, Gov. Edmund
G. (Pat) Brown of California.
The word from key sources is
that friends and supporters al
ready are actively working for
the two Minnesota senators,
Wagner and Brown. There are
even a few riffles for Undersec
retary of Commerce Franklin
D. Roosevelt Jr., though he is
on no one's "serious" list.
Stevenson is a relatively re
cent "mention." He has expe
rience, demonstrated capacity,
name value as a two-time pres
idential nominee. But he will be
64 next year and his link with
the "Kennedy tradition" is un
clear. Nor are his desires
known.
In 1964
zuela between now and March
when (President - elect Leoni
takes office, communism will
have suffered a serious setback
in the Western Hemisphere.
' The year 1963 witnessed a
change in the leadership of
three major NATO nations:
President Kennedy, Britain's
Prime Minister Macrr.illan and
West German Chancellor Ade
nauer were succeeded by John
son, Home and Erhard. But the
new leaders are expected tn
continue the polirie of their
predecessors.
To be sure, there i3 dissension
in the North Atlantic Alliance.
But as a top Western diplomat
said. "The NATO nations stand
solidly together against commu
nism though seemingly divided
on how U cope with peace."
President Johnson, a skilled
negotiator and realistic politi
cian w ill meet with French
'President De Gaulle and t h
traders of West Germany. Italy
and Britain m an effort in it on
ii difference:
Finally, in 1304, as in the pre
vious year, idealistic y o u n j
Americans serving in the Peace
Corps will devote their tinv.
i'ior and talents generously lor
(lie aJvanccmcnt d human de
cency and social and economic
progress in the undeveloped na
tions of Asia, Alrica ami l.atin
America.
EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . .
Rights Proponents
See Long Road Ahead
Bv PETER EDSON
WASHINGTON (NEA) - The
honest but discouraging word is
that no one has any accurate
idea when civil rights reform
legislation will emerge from
Congress in 1964 or what will
be in it if it is passed. There
is a long, hard fight ahead.
There was considerable jubi
lation among liberals in Wash
ington when Judge Howard
Smith of Virginia, chairman of
the House Rules Committee, fi
nally said he would open hear
ings Jan. 9 on the bill approved
by the House Judiciary Commit
tee. Smith is personally opposed
to this bill. He has requests
from a score of other congress
men who want to testify against
it and he expects more. There
will be some witnesses for the
bill, too. Hearings, may run
through January.
House majority leader Car!
Albert, D-Okla., is more opti
mistic. He thinks the hearings
might run two weeks and that
the House will pass a bill by the
end of January.
Either way, and assuming
that the bill eventually passes
the House, it will then have to
clear the Senate. And no one can
write a timetable on that ac
tion. Republican House whip Leslie
Arends of Illinois speaks f o r
many in Congress when he says
that President Johnson will
have to work out some kind of
compromise .with the southern
ers to get a J)ill through I h e
Senate.
The imponderable question is.
What compromise?
If it is a compromise that
' satisfies the southern senators,
it -won't satisfy the Negroes nr.
the leaders of nearly a hun
dred church, labor and civic or
ganizations working actively for
a new deal on civil rights.
Senate segregationists include
the most skilled parliamentari
ans in Congress, They can he
counted on to use again every
delaying tactic in the book of
rules to dam up or water down
the provisions of whatever bill
the House passes.
Civil rights leaders took a
terrible beating in the Congress
in recent weeks. They had del
uged congressmen with letters
and telegrams, phone calls and
personal visits to get 218 signa
tures on a discharge petition.
This was to bypass Rules
WASHINGTON REPORT . .
Leftist Seeks
Oswald Not
By FULTON LEWIS JR.
WASHINGTON A New York
Democrat named Mark Lane
has set out to prove Lee Har
vey Oswald innocent in the
murder of John Fitzgerald Ken
nedy. Lane, who ran unsuccessfully
for Congress a year ago, has
filed a 10,000-word brief with
the Warren Commission that
tries to show Oswald innocent.
The brief was published in its
entirety last week by the Na
tional Guardian, a far left pub
lication once termed by Con
gress a "virtual official propa
ganda arm of Soviet Russia."
Lane has a long record of left
ist activity. He was a member
of the pro-Communist Ameri
can Labor Party from 1948 to
1952. He has been active in the
National Lawyers Guild, serving
as a member of the group's
Executive Board from 1953 lo
I9."4.
Lane has addressed rallies nf
the National Committee to Abol
ish the UnAmcrican Activities
Committee, a group cited by a
Congressional Committee as
Communist-controlled.
He spoke before another pro
Communist group, the Citizens
Committee for Constitutional
Liberties, only two months ago.
In that speech he praised the
Communist Party for fighting
racial discrimination.
former member of ihe Ni w
York State Assembly. Lanr
caf up his seat lo cliallen.f
Hep Leonard Farbstein in the
Democratic primary a year ajo
In that campaign Lane received
the support of Owen Lattimore,
a fnrmer New Deal adviser. Lat
'imore was indicted twke by a
federal grand jury, but the in
dictments were dismissed.
Other backers of L;jhi in tl'Si
l' Conusessittml s3 lJ)jJ!l
til:
i- m M til at . '-
Committee consideration of the
bill and bring it directly to the
House floor for debate and a
vote.
They failed by approximate
ly 60 signatures. They wanted
Congress to stay in session dur
ing the Christmas holidays just
to consider civil rights. They
failed on that, too.
But there was no retaliation.
The "Christmas boycotts" which
some of the more aggressive
Negro leaders had advocated
were not called. On the whole,
civil rights leaders have acted
responsibly and respectably.
They may not do so indefinite
ly. 11 may take another March on
Washington far less peaceful
than the first one, with active
lobbying, picketing and demon
strations in other cities, to con
vince Congress that a weak,
compromise civil rights bill will
not be enough.
On the other side of the ar
gument, there are some things
In be said in defense of both
Democrats and Republicans
who did not sign the petition
for discharge.
Sen. Richard B. Russell. D
Ga., anti-civil rights leader in
many previous battles, jumped
on House GOP leader Charles
llalleck of Indiana for his re
vision of the original House bill '
to make it more workable leg
islation. But if Halleck had not
done this, the bill wuuld have
been loaded with extremist pro
visions that made certain its
defeat.
Also, Judge Smith may not
have been too dilatory in bring
ing the final House Judiciary
Committee bill before his Rules
Committee.
As Rep. Jerry Kurd, H-Mich.,
points out, it took the Kennedy
administration 29 months Jan
uary 1961 to June 196.1 to send
Us civil rights proposals to Con
gress. It took four months more, In
Oct. 29, for the House Judiciary
Committee to draft the bill it
finally approved. It look anoth
er month, to Nov. 21, to get
Part I of the Judiciary Commit
tee report on the bill to House
members and two weeks more,
to Dec. 4, to get Part II distri
buted. In the rush of last - minute
business to adjourn Congress,
there just wasn't time to give
this controversial legislation any
consideration at all.
Proof
Guilty
Benjamin Dreyfus, a San
Francisco lawyer identified un
der oath as a member of the
Communist Party.
Angus Cameron, former edi
tor and vice president o.'
Little, Brown, book publishers.
He resigned after Louis Budenz
had identified him as a Com
munist. Hubert T. Delaney, a for
mer judge with a long record
of left-wing activities.
Steve Max, who ran the Stu
dent Committee for Mark Lane.
Max attended the Youth Festi
val at Vienna, Austria, in 1959.
Jomo Kenyatta, the one-time
Mau Mau who heads the newly
independont nation of Kenya,
has been entertaining a notori
ous guest.
He is Chen I, Communist Chi
na's war-like Minister of For
eign Affairs. Marshal Chen vis
ited Kenyatta on the day Kenya
received its independence, Dec.
II. He brought with him the
best w ishes of Mao Tsc-tung and
Chou En-lai, who have long
backed tlie cause of self-determination
for Kenya.
He invited Kenyatta to Red
China and plugged the Commu
nist line in international affairs.
Several days later Kenya's UN
delegate launched into a bitter
attack on the West and demand
ed admission In the world body
tor Red f'hiiw
Liberal Democrats are furi
ous at their party's House lead
ership. Speaker McCormack.
Majority Leader Albert, and
Majority Whip Bosas each re
fused to sign a discharge peti
tion that would get the Civil
IfcQhte, M nst l Irulas
7flffiHWJ tiS iV fl
at man. '
PAGE JB
HERALD
Thoughts For New Year's Day -
Time Is
By DON OAKLEY
Man, like all living things, is
a creature o time. All that live
are subject to it; none can es
cape its relentless pulsing cy
clesexcept perhaps such low
ly forms as bacteria and amoe
bae, which divide and rediviilc
and redivide again, deathlessly.
When wc jK'i sonalize lime, es-.
pecially at this season, it is an
old man swinging a long, inex
orable scythe that no one can
forever avoid.
Yet in many ways, we have
mastered time. As the only ani
mals with a cultural as well as
a biological inheritance, we pre
serve our own todays in books
or on tape or stone and pass
them on to countless tomor
rows. Or wc measure time and di
vide it into small pieces and
hang it on the wall, or split it
into even tinier bits mid strap
it to our wrists.
We use time, wisely or not,
and it is the only commodity
which we can spend prodigally
and yet receive a fresh 6upply
of every new day for a time.
At regular intervals, we set
aside a portion of time called
a day to celebrate the passage
of another longer portion called
a year. That day marking the
beginning of the next portion
is called New Year's Day.
To say, "at regular intervals,"
however, sounds strange. Why
not "once every year?"
But what is a year? 11 mere
ly happens to be the number
of days it takes for the earth
lo circle the sun; and a day
happens to be tlie time needed
for the earth to spin once upon
its axis; and minutes and sec
onds are arbitrary divisions of
a day.
This limn of ours is good only
. , Actually, there it
test bun Treaty bat
BERRY S WORLD
AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon
l-9--64-Hike
iKSJigir,
. .--
An Earthly Creation
on this planet; it would be "nut
of time" on any other.
If we venture into deeper
realms of astronomy, we can
dizzy ourselves with figures and
the strange things that happen
to "lime."'
For instance, our solar sys
tem is pacing out its own cy-
de. speeding through space
- in tltfc general direction ol the
constellutiun Lyra at something
like liO miles a second. (Of
course, we will never reach
Lyra, some 156 trillion miles
distant, for it too is moving.)
Our Milky Way galaxy is it
self a timepiece billions of
stars revolving about a center
duskily obscured by interstellar
gas, revolving once every 21)11
million years.
Thus if wc reckon from the
creation of the sun, currently
guessed to have occurred about
10 billion Icarth) years ago. our
sun, dragging its planets along
with it, has made that vast cir
cumnavigation but no limes.
Happy golden anniversary,
sun.
Then, too, in space we
liecome involved in the unfami
liar logic of relativity where
time can shrink or lengthen and
a space traveler return home
younger than his twin who
stayed behind; where It is
meaningless to speak of simul
taneous events on different stars
because each star and its plan
ets if it has any) and any crea
tures on those planets are
locked within their own proper
time.
For "time" is g sequence of
events, and relativity says that
to different observers 'if their
velocities relative' to one an
other are great enough), the se
quence of events will vary.
What is past for one may nut
yet have happened for another.
Umking into the heavens on
tery little evidence that the
fouled up the tutather."
Wednesday, January 1. 1964
a starry nighi.'we have to re
mind ourselves that what we
sec is not the universe at "pres
ent" as it "is" but a mosaic
of the universe it various stages
in its history. It is a view of
the cosmos unique to our earth
and our "time."
A star shining resplenden t
to our eyes may long auo have
ceased lo exist in ,its ow n prop
er time. Conversely, light from
a new born star may not reach
the earth until the days of our
great - great - great - great
grandchildrenor not until the
sun is burned nut and the earth
is gone find only motes of dust
remain as unseeing witnesses
to the coming of the light.
All of this, of course, has Ut
ile to do wilh our lives upon
tin's local planet. Time for us
is mostly a sequence of obliga
tions, and we have precious lit
tle time between obligations to
spend on philosophic meander
ings. If we are forced lo think
nliiiut it. w'e will admit that we
arc pretty insignificant things
in the universe and that our
New Year's Day is a rather
parochial event, to say the
least.
Bui we also know that if we
arc hound hy time, we are also
timeless. We have minds that
are unconstrained by the stric
tures nf relativity theory, that
ran leap backward and forward
in history at will, that can cross
the unmissable gulfs nf spacft
and return again, and never
mind the limitations nf the
speed of light.
Such mind - stretching is good '
exercise occasionally. And
though the stars keep their se-
crets, some of us like to think
thai somewhere, some "time"
out there, other minds have
made the same jouniev.
A!
manac
Ily United Press International
Today is Wednesday, Jan. 1,
Ihe first day of 1964 wilh .165
to follow. TikIjv is New Yr;ir's
Day.
The moon is approaching its
lust quarter.
The evening stars are Venus,
Jupiter and Saturn.
On this day in history
In I86J. President Lincoln
sign Ihe Emancipation Procla
mation. In 1!IH2, Michigan Ix'at Stan
ford. 49-0. in the first Hum- Bowl
game.
In 191.1, the U.S. Purer! t'n4
vslem brjan nierating.
In I9t2, some ?" nations and
the United Stiles siiiM in
Washington a declaration fnim
ing the nucleus of Ihe United
Nations organization.
A h"u?ht for the day Amer.
.Vir 'sv;i;ist .and poet Ralph
ftJDVflBVjin sul: "Nothing
W05Wl'-Tjiif but yuur-