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HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Orejoa Friday. Jaauary J, HM
The Grass Isn't Always Greener"
WASHINGTON REPORT .
Gus Hall Embarking
On Red Youth Drive
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Some Sane Suggestions
A Dallas civic leader, Stanley Marcus,
who heads one of the nation's finest de
partment stores, made some suggestions to
the people of his community on January 1.
All of us, whether we live in Texas or To
ledo, Keokuk or Klamath Falls, would do
well to consider some of Mr. Marcus' logic.
The merchant used a half page adver
tisement in the Dallas Mornmg News to put
his ideas across. His signature was at the
bottom of the ad, titled "What's Right With
Dallas?" His primary concern is to get the
people of Dallas to reject a spirit of "abso
lutism" from which, he said, the community
has suffered for years.
An absolutist has been described as
one "who thinks that he aloue possesses
wisdom, patriotism and virtue, who recog
nizes no obligation to accept community de
cisions with which he disagrees . . . who
views the political process as a power strug
gle to impose conformity rather than a
means of recognizing differences."
Marcus pointed out that Dallas has suf
fered from "absolutism" in recent years and
that like a business institution, "a city must
take an honest look at its inventory and be
willing to consider its faults as well as its
assets. A city like the individual or the cor-
. poration can't stand still it must go
' ahead or fall behind."
Dallas' image was damaged badly just a
'. little over a month ago when President Ken-
. nedy was assassinated there by Lee Oswald.
!Then two days later Oswald was shot to
death by Jack Ruby, the night club operator.
Here's one newly hatched word that
ought to be snuffed out immediately before
ft gels any further: "definitized."
It seems to have first appeared in a
news release put out by Marshall Space
Flight Center, in which it was stated that
NASA "has definitized a contract . . ." (for
research on a certain rocket engine).
Presumably, the word means that all
details of the research task have been
woTked out ("the parameters have been de
lineated," we should perhaps say). If that's
so, what in heaven's name is wrong with
Need To Keep Young
By DORIS FLKESON
WASHINGTON-The flags no
lunger ly at half mast, and the
young President who drew into
politics the generation with
whom he had fought a war 20
years befure recedes into his
tory. The Nativity season lends a
special poignancy to this set
back in tlie natural transition of
power. It had seemed to many
I hat the Kennedy Administra
tion by its youth constituted one
vastly significant way in which
I lie United Slates had an ad
antage over other nations,
friend and foe.
Both parties are now chal
lenged by tile question of how
to hold the interest of the Ken
ne.iy generation a'ld keep open
X,n channels through which ils
V'lit'cnl possibilities can be re
alized. It must be done through
the executive branch, as t h e
. Congress is enslaved to seniori
t'' and seemingly enjoys its
citato.
For President Johnson in par
ticular it is a maor testing
area, and miming will be more
interesting and possibly more
fateful in his career than how
he meets it.
He immediately asked I h
Kennedy appointees to stay on
the job, and on the surface,
particularly at tlie White House,
tile association appears to be
Working well. It was hardly in
.'ihe cards that anyone would per
mit open friction during tlie pe
riod of national mourning when
the eyes of the anxious world
were fixed on every detail of
tile changeover.
By the nature of thing s.
change is inevitable, however.
The Kennedy staff was pecu
liarly his own, tied to him and
the interests of his family. Not
only do lliey include RepubH
rans. but they are Kennedy
Democrats first lied not only to
liie late President but to his
family. They took over functions
In his statement in the morning news
paper, Marcus said:
"We think there is a lot right with Dal
las. He cited the dynamic growth of the city
in the past 30 years.
He praised Dallas' leadership which
"has devoted itself unselfishly to community
problems." had a good word for the city gov
ernment as being distinguished among
American cities for honesty and integrity
and pointed out that Dallas' citizens are
"friendly and warm-hearted."
Then he explained that there are thinus
about Dallas which could be improved. He
cited the slums, the spirit or absolutism and
the quality of education and cultural en
deavors in addition to the quantity of them.
The lesson for every city, large or
small, developed in Mr. Marcus' approach
to the problem could be summed up in two
paragraphs in the store's ad Wednesday.
They said:
"We hope they (newspapers) will lead
the way by the presentation of balanced
points of view on controversial issues.
"Let's have more 'fair play' for legiti
mate differences of opinion, less cover-up
for our obvious deficiencies, less boasting
about your attainments, more moral indigna
tion when we see human rights imposed
upon."
People around the country can be grate
ful to Mr. Marcus for turning the spotlight
on a problem almost every city seems to
face. We'll do well to soak up some of the
advice he has offered.
Idiotic Idioms
good old "finalized"? Or is that recent barba
rism already obsolete?
The space agency these days is a veri
table spawning ground for neologisms, as is
only to be expected in this new field on the
frontiers of human endeavor. But so few of
the words have been noted for their grace
or euphony or for filling a need no older
word could fill. "Impacted" and "destruct
ed" are two ugly examples that come to
mind.
If it keeps up, we'll really need a new
word: 'linguacide" the murder of language.
normally assigned to the na
tional committee, they decided
what forces to work with in
states and cities, they devised
strategy. Their loyalty some
times outran their skills, and it
was to person, not party.
It happens occasionally that
aides who basked in the sun of
one President's favor can re
peat the feat with others, but it
is rare. The original association
involves personality affinity as
well as shared ideals, and Pres
idents differ hugely one from
another. Certainly this is true of
John F. Kennedy and Lyndon
Johnson.
It is proper, too, for Presi
dents to want their own people
This is a major reason why the
Senate, despite its right of con
firmation, rarely protects a
"Run, Cabot, Run! Run, Bill, Run!
See Everybody Run!"
1 Ji III i:c!P
Viewpoint
President (mm the conse
quences of his bad choices.
Yet each Presidential change
in important, and will be
weighed in quarters important
to victory in the election so
close upon the country. Former
President Eisenhower, that gift
eil amateur politician, is clear
ly demonstrating his conviction
that tlie Kennedy generation is
one such potent force.
He is reaching down tlie num
Iwrs in an effort to produce for
Republicans a leader of the
Kennedy style who can appeal
to the national appetite for
youth. He truly did not in 19M)
feel that Kennedy was qualified
to succeed him. Removed inex
orably frum the scene, he has
figured out to his own satisfac
tion what caused the result.
WILLIAM S. WHITE
U.S. Line On Reds Explored i
By WILLLV.M S. WHITE
WASHINGTON American
fureign policy in this new year
will see sustained efforts to
reach reliable and enforceable
accommodations with the
Russians in at least some fields
in the cold war. But marching
right alongside this will be a
definitely hardened American
line toward aggressive commu
nism in the two areas most
sensitive to us. Castro Cuba
and South Viet Nam.
President Johnson's central
purpose is to divide the Inter
national Communist monolith
between those who. for whatev
er reason, are willing to keep
the peace and those who re
main determined to make war.
To the first set he is prepared
to talk and to be restrained;
toward the second he is deter
mined to meet force with ever
rising force.
For years, going back to the
days when he was Senate Dem
ocratic leader during the Eisen
hower Administration. Mr.
Johnson has been entirely un
afraid of any amount of nego
tiation, as such, with the Soviet
Union. His view is that so long
as this nation keeps its powder
dry and its determination and
readiness high, there is no
harm in talking to anybody
about anything.
He is perfectly willing, there
fore, as has already been indi
cated in the preliminary explo
rations with Moscow being pre
pared by Secretary of State
Dean Rusk and our allies, to
have a good go at testing So
viet intentions toward some
cold war easement.
The President is not worried
Sea Of Galilee Waters Tapped
By rtllL NKWSOM
I'PI Foreign News Analyst
Running westward and south
ward from the rocky shores of
tlie Sea of Galilee, a !(10 mil
lion complex of canals, tunnels,
pipelines and reservoirs is al
most ready to start carrying
precious water to Israel's and
Negev.
It is a project that has been
10 years in the building and is
part of a still larger scheme to
reclaim 635.0DO acres of land,
to permit new cities and the
settlement of more than one
million immigrants.
Arab nations have threatened
tn go to war to prevent its com
pletion. Chief source of the Sea of
Galilee is Uie River Jordan
which rises in the mountains of
Lebanon and Syria, (lows
through the .Sea of Galilee 'or
Lake Kineret as the Israelis
call it', and finally loses itself
in the waters of the Dead Sea
In the south.
Tlie Arabs charge that diver
sion of the Jordan waters dam
ages not only their lands but
changes the military Muaun
as well.
Both charges hae been re
jected by the Israelis who have
proceeded with at least the
moral support of the United
States.
Arabs tall Meetin(
The near ci'muie lion of the
prnlert it (iy te.ist'O nt
60
ahuut tlie implications of this,
and certainly not worried that
tlie United States might come
out on the short end of the
stick. No more toughly skilled
negotiator has been seen in this
century here a fact that even
his critics concede. And if and
when any arrangement is made
with the Russians, it will nev
er be signed and sealed until
President Johnson personally
has probed its every word and
line for every possible weak
ness from the American view
point. Moreover, though Mr. John
son has never mentioned this
to associates and may not him
self have thought of it. the fact
is that his capacity to deal re
a'istically with the Russians is.
in domestic political terms,
higher than was that of his late
chief. President Kennedy. Fnr
Mr. Johnson is closer, if only
relatively so. to the powerful
Congressional conservatives.
These did not lack trust in the
late President. But their confi
dence in Johnson's ability to
ncgutiate solutions toward his
own basic demands is undoubt
edly the higher, if only because
he has so often exercised it
with them.
But while the Russians will
have a perfectly good opportun
ity in the coming year to make
some accommodations with us,
if they really wish to, aggres
sive communism will find the
new President in a very hard
mood, indeed. Mr, Johnson's
first foreign policy move on
taking office was to make it
clear to the American Ambas
sador to South Viet Nam. Hen
ry Cabot Lodge, that he would
expect a greater degree of uni
month's Arab League meeting
in Cairo called by CA R. Presi
dent Gamal Abdel Nasser to
seek unified Arab action. Of the
U-nation membership, 12 have
responded favorably.
Arab opposition already has
forced Israel to make substan
tia! changes in the original out
line of the plan.
At first, Israel planned to
take about half the water from
the almost mineral-free upper
Jordan before it emptied into
the Sea of Galilee. Syrian inter
ference in the de-militarized
zone altered that plan.
Jordan's decision to divert
waters of the Yarmuk River,
the Jordan's major tributary, to
in irrigation project of its own
brought further changes.
Israeli water now will be tak
en entirely from the Sea of Gal
ilee w4iich itself lies wholly
within Israel. This, according to
Israel, removes any technical
or legal question over the di
version of the Jordan River.
Discount Showdown
Israel, with a populaUon
growth of around "O.ono a year
and facing a desperate water
situation, is betting that the
Arabs will not go to war.
Vnd Arab leaders, noted for
bickering among themselves,
aiso indicate that agreement on
any unified action may be bard
to reach
From Cairo have o'irf rnd'-r.-V'fsns
that N,ssr believe If.
ty than heretofore within the
American diplomatic-military-intelligence
team which is pri
marily out there to help the
South Vietnamese win the war
against Communist invaders.
The new President has fol
lowed this up by advising the
South Vietnamese that previous
American talk of the possible
withdrawal in l'Jtij of the bulk
uf our 18.000-man military force
may now be regarded as no
longer relevant. Our forces wilt .
remain so long as may be nec
essary to crush the Communist",
incursiuns however lung that
may be.
As to Cuba. President John
son has already had one stu
dy made by subordinates for
means of tightening American
isolation-pressure on that is
land. What was proposed to
him in his first review of the
position he has not found suit
able to his purposes: now. the
search is going on again.
Eventually, those conservative
members of Congress who tried
to balk the sale of surplus
wheat to Russia, thus requiring
the President for the first
time tu put his prptige on fie
line in tlie Huuse of Representa
tives, will be far less concerned
about that transaction.
For while they lost that game,
its outcome was to affirm Pres
ident Johnson's right to move
with flexibility in the cold war.
The next time around, and in
far more important circum
stances than this comparative
Iv minor agreement with the
Russians, that same flexibility
may be used to put up more
resistance to armed commu
nism, in just such hot arenas as
Cuba and Viet Nam.
tal Arab political unity must be
achieved in advance of a show
down with Israel.
An influential weekly publica
tion in Cairo charged that Syria.
Jordan and Saudi Arabia would
like to see Egypt embroiled in
war with Israel so they could
"stab her in the back."
The charge drew angry re
torts from both Syria and Jor
dan, and the counter-charge that
Nasser sought to evade his re
sponsibilities toward Israel.
Defeat at the hands of Israel
in 194 rankles deep in Arab
minds and may lead to caution.
A Beirut newspaper, agreeing
that Arab unity comes first,
said: "The Arab tragedy of
l!M8 in Palestine must not be
repeated in anv form."
Al
By tailed Press Interutimal
Today is Friday. Jan. J. the
third day of ISM with 3M to
follow.
The moon is approaching its
last quarter.
Tie evening stars are Venus.
Jupiter and Saturn.
On this day in history:
In 1777. troops led by George
Uashinifton defeated three Brit
ish regiments at the battle of
Princeton. N .1.
In IT I, tV state CapiM
By FULTON LEWIS JR.
WASHLNGTON The formal
education of Arvo Halbcrg end
ed three decades ago at the
Lenin School in Moscow. There
students learned the art of
sabotage and the techniques of
guerilla warfare.
Now known as Gus Hall, gen
eral secretary of the Commu
nist Party. USA. Arvo Halberg
has returned to school. In one
12-day stretch a year ago. he
delivered 37 speeches, most of
them on college campuses.
Hall has embarked upon a
concentrated, hard-sell cam
paign, following instructions
laid down in November, l'JUO,
by Nikita Khrushchev. In Khru
shchev's words, Hall must
"draw tlie younger generation
into the struggle for . . . the
great ideas of Communism."
Appearing more and more
frequently at centers of learn
ing across the nation. Commu
nist leaders slyly Impart the
party line under the guise of
"academic freedom." They at
tack tlie House UnArrerican
Activities Committee, the FBI.
the Attorney General, the Smiih
Act. tlie Supreme Court. They
condemn nuclear testing by the
United States; call Soviet tesis
justified. They demand "pearc
ful co-existence, general d's
armament and stepped-up trade
with the Socialist countries."
Hr'. and other top Reds have
refused to register with the
Justice Department as required
by the Internal Security Act uf
I'JoO. Nevertheless, party func
tionaries loften billed as "Com
munist spokesmen") have ad
dressed hundreds of college
groups from coast to coast.
This campaign is coordinated
by a lecture bureau with offices
at 23 West 2Mh Street, New
York. The same building hous
es the Communist Party head
quarters and the editorial plant
of the Worker, the party organ.
College editors throughout the
country have been notified of
the lecture bureau in a letter
from CPUSA headquarters. It
Tead:
"Communism is a philosophy
':. and .movement which is more
tlmn one hundred years old and
has1 many millions of adherents
throughout the world. The Com
munist Party USA is in exist
ence J3 years and it has. ac
cording to objective historian.:,
made valuable contributions in
the struggles of labor, of the
Negro people, and for the cause
of peace, democracy and social
prugress generally. Communists
have made heavy sacrifices in
Biossat Sets Course
On New Caoital Column
WAi-HLNliTON i.NE.V He.e
is tii2 course Chid Correspond
ent Bruce Biussat sets fur the
new NEA Washington column
he will wr;le in tandem with
Col. Ray Crumley:
"The main qualities w i t h
which we wish to invest this
culumn are a sense cf immedi
acy, of invxrtance. cf vivid
s;edHc content, cf timeliness.
"We wish to offer the read
er columns which, by a careful
biend of clear analysis and in
terpretation and the near-narrative
use of specifics relating
to p 1 a c e s. personalities, and
events, will unfold for him
both the interest and t h e
significance of the nation's af
fairs. "T:e notion here is that in
terest may be quickened by
use if the enlivening details
which mark every development
cf consequence. If that interc.t
be stirred, the interlarded inter
pretation can generally be
counted upon to register with
fuller impact upon tlie reader.
"This column is intended to
range over the whole spectrum
ct domestic affairs and military
and foreign news. Domestically,
aside from the obvious attention
to the majcr political develop
ments of the age. there will be
h e a y concentration en the
great economic problems linked
with automation, unemployment,
a swelling labor force in a bur-
manac
Building in Charleston. W Va .
was destroyed by fire.
In IM4. the "March of Dimes"
campaign to fight infantile pa
ralysis was organized.
In l'.59. Alaska became tlie
mi state.
A thou;l.t for the day Amer
ican writer WilUam Sydney Por
ter known a "O Hcnrv."
sjid: "A straw vote only shows
wh-rh a.iv tli imf ,vr Iiins ,"
the course of these struggles.
They ought to be given a fair
hearing."
One of Hie must active speak
ers has been Hall, who ad
dressed 19.000 students in one
3-day West Coast jaunt a year
ago. Hall, who has admitted he
would ."take up arms" against
tlie U.S. Government, tells his
audiences that the Internal Se
curity Act "threatens not only
a handful of Communists but
the liberties of all."
Another regular visitor on
the American campus has been
Herbert Aptheker, the Party's
leading theoretician and official
historian. He has said t h e
"American people are notorious
for frameups, especially where
some political element is pres
entas with Negroei, strikers,
labor leaders, lelt-wingcrs."
Aptheker is not a ways to
outspoken. Questioned by one
student about the mass mur
der of Hungarian freedom fight
ers, Aptheker mumbled some
thing to the effect that the sit
uation had ben "distorted" by
the yellow press.
Will President Lyndon John
son withdraw the nomination of
a politician named to the fed
eral bench by President John
Kennedy?
No one seems to know. And
that includes David Rabinowitz,
the long-time 'lawyer for tlie
United Auto Workers whose
nomination as Federal District
Judge for Western Wisconsin
has touched off a storm of con
troversy. Rabinowitz, who has worked
for the UAW for three decades,
was named to the bench in ear
ly September. He has not yet
been confirmed
The liberal - leaning Capital
Times. Madison's leading jour
nal, called Rabinowitz' appoint
ment "almost unbelievable."
The American Bar Association
said it was "unacceptable."
The Wisconsin Bar Associa
tion polled its membership and
found the lawyers across the
state opposed lo Rabinowitz by
a margin of more than 2-1.
The President has reportedly
been advised by the Justice De
partment to withdraw Rabino
witz' name and submit another.
To do this would be a ri.-:k'
move from a political stand
point. Rabinowitz is Wisconsin ,
Democratic National Commit
teeman. He is backed by the
state's two Democratic Sena
tors and the state's Democrat
ic governor. He has powerful
friends in the ranks of organ
ized labor.
gconing ro Hilation, the nvissivc
groAlii uf the nation's suburbs,
the continuing national racial
sirugg'e. trends in housing
ard chu-ation, transportation,
health yn:l similar matters.
"The vital de-ings of the Su
pre:ne Court ' will be watched
as U tackles issues pertaining lu
race, legislative reapportion
ment, and others it controver
sial character.
"A close eye will bj kept en
ths White House under its new
ch'er. with thought to the inti
mate workings of tlie presiden
tial sta'f and the new Presi
dent's concept of his office.
"Also under steady scrutiny
will be a Congress which today
is the object of heavy assault
as the cue branch of govern
ment allegedly must out of tune
with swiftly changing times.
"The columnist will not held
himself to Was'mngtui, but
th nk of it as a major operat
ing base from which to fan out
acrcss tlie nation to those po'nts
where news of national im
port is bei:g ntde. The at
te.n;et will be to m;ke this col
umn a digging effort, a prod
uct reflecting solid, intensive,
thoughtful reporting at the
scene cf the news.
"It will not shrii-k from con-t-ovcrsy.
but will not seek it for
its cwn Kike. It wi'l not pritn-i-e
to be 'inside' the news ev
ery day, but will endeavor to
be cn top cf the news every
day. It will aim always at bai
ance. at fairness, at objectivity,
without diluting the substance
of the news.
""It will not pretend lo be in
dispensable, but will try with
unyielding vigor to be as irri
sistible daily as any column of
in.'ormation can be. It wUI try
to throw valuab'c insights rn
yesterday's events, expla n
breaking develcpnicnu. effer in
telligent g u i d e to tomccrow a
news. It will not lecture or in
struct, but present in;"orm:t 1
with useful explanation. H.pe
fuily. it will be both helpful and
exciting to the reader in his un
nVrurRiinz ni the r H I
tr, rs in "