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The chronicle., 1963-11-19
Party System

To many - both North and
South. both Democratic and Re-
publican-it seemed slightly odd
for Senator Richard Russell Cd
Gal to use much Of a Veterans
Day address in Dublin, Ga, lam
basting Rep. Charles Halleck (R-
Ind.) for supporting President
Kennedy's civil rights legislation.
Speaking Of Halleck, the House
Republican leader, Senator Rus
sell said:
"The self-styled 'gut-fighter'
from Indiana is now adorned in
the leather shirt and tasseled moe
casins Of the New Frontier.
"On his breast he proudly
wears two large medals for serv-
ice to the New Frontier " and
beyond the call Of duty, personally
pinned upon his proudly palpitat-
ing breast BY Atty. Gen. Robert F.
Kennedy and the President"
Senator Russell was no less
harsh in remarks about Rep. Viii
liam E. Miller, second ranking Re-
publican member Of the House
Judiciary Committee and also the
Republican rational chairman.
Miller performed the same as Hal
leck.
While it might seem strange
that Senator Russell would low
rate these two Republicans for
supporting a program advanced
by the head Of his own party and
say nothing about fellow Demo
Gratis backing the same legislation,
it isn't odd-really. To understand
one must be closer to the Potomac,
we suppose.
The Washington Post, alert to
the phenomenon, has explained it
this way:
"Denunciation Of Republican
Charles Halleck by Democratic
Senator Richard Russell will look
odd only to those who think there
is a two party system in the Con-
gress Of the United States. 1t
would be odd indeed for an emf
nent leader Of the Democratic
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somehow extracting political
concessions from u.s."
He replied:
obviously, they would not be
successful. | wouldn't attempt
to make a judgment as to the
conduct Of the Soviet Union or
what may motivate it from
week to week, day to day, but
| am certain - it is quite OBJ
vious that if it is based on the
p~resumptions you state, that it
will not be successful"
Mr.. Kennedy was asked, of
course, about the wheat deal.
He promptly insisted that it was
not affected by the general sit
uation and pretty much stands
on its own" Yet this is the
very thing that upsets many
members Of Congress. They feel
the United States should not be
doing things for Russia without
getting better treatment in all
its relationships.
At times Mr.. Kennedy gives
the impression that the foreign
aid program is a one-way street
and that the United States would
be making a mistake to insist
upon any conditions when it
gives away taxpayers money.
This, however, tends to encour-
age the smaller countries to
play Russia against the United
States, which also is one Of the
factors that initiates against
the foreign-aid program.
What is most disturbing at
the moment is that, despite
every effort on the part Of this
country to establish friendly re-
lationS with the Soviet Union,
there is no reciprocation by the
Moscow government. The State
Department, Of course, felt
compelled to postpone the ex-
tension Of the cultural-exchange
program, negotiations for t h e
renewal of which were schedul-
ed to begin Tuesday. Likewise,
restrictions on the travel in the
United States by Soviet-bloc dip
lomats have been made. The
President points out that he
Soviet Union keeps rs per cent
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party to criticize the House leader
Of the Republican party for sup
porting the civil rights bill of a
Democratic administration if there
were a two party system in Con-
gress.
1T is not odd at all when one
accepts the existence Of a four
party system, operating by coali-
ton methods. For a long time, IN
many legislative areas, there has
been an effective four party ar
rangement consisting Of Liberal
Democrats, Conservative Demo-
Gratis, Liberal Republicans and
Conservative Republicans. The OPP
Grating coalition majority, most OF
the time, has consisted Of the Con-
sentative Democrats and Conserv-
ative Republicans. The effective
Senate leader of this coalition has
been Senator Richard B. Russell.
What Congressman Halleck did
when he voted for the admlnlstra-
tons civil rights bill amounted to
crossing the aisle in any parlla-
mentary system. His action would
have brought down a government
in many parliamentary legisla-
lures. In this country, it only
brought down upon the deserter's
head the maledictions Of the CO.
alition leader.
Senator Russell will not con-
vince many Republicans that Rep
resentative Charlie Halleck, long
known to them as a conservative,
if not a reactionary, has suddenly
become a dangerous supporter Of
socialistic legislation. His violent
blast ought to convince many cltl-
zens that the vote on civil rights
legislation was an event Of real
political significance. The old CO
alition may be put together again,
but it has cracked open very
dangerously, on this one issue. The
severity Of Senator Russell can
only be understood if it is appreci-
ated that this vote constituted a
crisis that for the moment has
dissolved a governing coalition"
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John Chamberlain
The Animal Has Teeth

mileage out Of his predicament,
committing it to a magazine
("ShoW') in the form Of an ex-
tended essay and expanding it
in a little book called 1.-THE Cold
War and the Income Tax: A
Protest" Mr.. Wilson considers
it particularly outrageous t a t
he could have been threatened
with jail for tax delinquency,
especially in a nation w
Imprisonment for debt was sup
posed to have been abolished at
the time Of the Revolution"
The laughter that can be heard
among the gods on Mount Olym-
pus must be over Mr.. Wilson's
naivete. Indeed, one is a little
concerned for the gods, whose
stomach muscles must have al
ready been sore after laughing
over the previous predicament
of James Lands, a Roosevelt
braintruster and distinguished
authority on government and
law who also forgot to file tax
returns when they were due.
Personally, this columnist
sympathizes with Edmund Will
son and James Lands. The
The chronicle., 1963-11-19

Today in Washington, a House sub
committee opens three days Of hearings
on a Senate-paSSed bill to improve pro-
lection of this nations investors which
every responsible observer in and out
OF Wall Street agrees should have be-
come law long ago.
The chances, though, that the House
will approve this legislation in 1868 are
now exceedingly dim.
The lawmakers apparently have de-
cided there is no urgency to r raising
standards in the securities markets
even though all Wall Streets leaders ad-
NIT that legal Tightening is needed.
The White House apparently has de-
cided it has enough glazing failures in
its stalled tax and civil rights legisla-
ton without getting into another squabble
with the House over stock market curbs.
You, the investing public, apparently
have decided that, since there has been
no shocking scandal in Wall Street re-
Gently, you needn't raise your collective
voice either.
It's a discouraging pattern, particular
" since this is one Of those rare times
when Wall Street actually is welcoming
new policing legislation. While it well
may be that this bill does not go far
enough and there should be more teeth
in it than there are, the measure does
represent major progress as it stands.
The key clause of the bill would force
big. w~idely-held companies with shares
traded in the over-the-counter market to
obey the same rules Of full disclosure
that corporations with shares listed on
an exchange have obeyed for almost 80
wears. The reporting provisions would
apply in the first two years only to
companies with 81 million or more in
assets and $50 or more stockholders, and
after this waiting period, only to COM
panies with this amount Of assets and
500 or more stockholders. Many Of the
$500 companies which would be affect
ed by this clause already are voluntari-
" meeting its requirements namely,
issuing periodic financial statements,
providing full proxy information, disclos-
ing insider transactions in their stocks.
There is no justification for the "dou-
BILE standard on disclosure which exists
in today's securities markets. From the
viewpoint of the public interest, there
is no valid reason why an investor in
an unlisted company should be denied
information automatically given to an in
weston in a listed company.
Who's against this, then? There is
strong opposition from some insurance
companies, which simply resent addition
al regulation of their activities. That's
about all.
Other parts of the bill would: raise
the neutrality-suspicious. standards for
brokers, dealers and securities sales
men give the National Assn. of Securi-
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Here's a funny one. Edmund
Wilson, a distinguished man Of
letters who was in the front
ranks Of our socially conscious
writer's and critics throughout
the Nineteen ThirtieS, approving
costly State Intervention in many
things, has suddenly discovered
that the income tax is now
being used to poison our So
ciety. He has just recently let
out a loud yelp about being per-
secuted for his failure to realize
that he should have filed in
come tax statements for til e
years 1865 whether he h a d
the money to pay his assess
ments or not.
Always expressive, Mr.. Will
son has made double literary
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David Lawrence -.
Floundering Foreign Policy

of its area "off limits to the
United States and that this
country is now applying the
same percentage.
It seems to be more than a
coincidence that the Red Chin
csc are starting trouble in Ko-
rea and that the war in South
Vietnam is continuing to require
the presence Of American mill
tary forces in larger and larger
numbers.
All this indicates, in spite Of
all the talk Of peaceful rela-
tons between the two coun-
tries, that the sources Of fric-
ton have by no means been
diminished. Huge sums are be-
ing spent for military pur-
poses, and while it is con-
sidered probable that the So
viets would not venture now to
make a surprise attack with
nuclear weapons, the idea Of a
limited war of some kind in
some part Of the world-which
would possibly reach the pro-
portions Of the Korean conflict
is not ruled out as impossible.
The chronicle., 1963-11-19
Sylvia Porter >.
That Stalled Stock Bill

ties Dealers power to set minimum capl-
tai requirements for securities firms;
compel all broker-dealers to come under
the self-policing authority Of an appropri-
ate securities association; allow the Sc
c~urities & Exchange Commission to act
directly against any individual who VIC
lates the securities laws.
How can any one reasonably oppose
a requirement that a person entering the
business Of selling securities to the pub
lie have some capital behind him say,
$1,000? How can n argue against bring
ing all in this sensitive business under
at least the self-policing authority Of an
appropriate association? How can e
say that there should not be minimum
training-experience standards for those
who advise us on the investing Of our
nesteggs and earnings?
The SEC deliberately put into this
bill only provisions it was sure could
not be reasonably opposed. That's why
the Senate passed it SO easily and
quickly back in July.
But the House committee has dragged
its feet until today and now it can't
possibly hear all the witnesses scheduled
in three days. Further hearings will be
necessary and these can't take place
until December. Then, barring a sudden,
unanticipated squirt Of activity by h e
House group, there'll be another delay
while the lawmakers 60 off for Christ
mas holiday - and then it'll be 1864.
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pacifists who could never rest
until Diem had been driven
from the scene.
But, at any rate, Diem fs
gone now 80 destroyed most OF
all on the claim that as a Chris
tan convert he has been unduly
repressive Of Buddhism. What
the Administration wants TO do
now Is to look strictly to the
future, to draw our people i'm
Wet Nam together into a truly
common enterprise and to get
on with the war. But we shall
not in fact get on with the war
until the sophomore whispering
gallery in Saigon is silenced and
grown men allied in good faith
grown men alliediin good faith
in the one purpose for which
they were sent to Wet Nam.
They have been sent there to
fight marauding Communists,
not to fight each other.
It is hardly the most hidden
secret in Washington that this
message, among others, is be-
ing carried by Secretary Of State
Dean Rusk, Secretary Of De
Tense Robert S. Mcnamara and
the other VIPs assigned by the
President to meet Ambassador
Lodge and others in Honolulu
on Nov. 20. The general has
acted as a good soldier should,
and so far as this columnist can
see he retains the full conf
dence Of all the top people
here, certainly that Of the Presi-
dent.
But the real question, OF
course. is bigger even than the
matter Of unfairness to a first
rate military officer. It is this:
Can Americans abroad never
learn to play on the same side
Of the ball field? If the present
set Of Americans cannot, it ID
obvious that the President SOON
er or later must find another
set who can. This is no place
for bureaucratic intrigue; but
it is surely a place where con-
tinued intrigue could destroy the
most sensible strategy yet de-
viSed to halt creeping Commu-
mist aggression in Southeast
Asia.
The chronicle., 1963-11-19
Willidm S. White
Tension In Wet Nam

WASHINGTON. - The back
biters in South Wet Nam, whose
general locale seems to be the
American Embassy in Saigon,
have gone to work again.
This time, their chosen vic
tim is the officer who commands
the Is, 0O0-man American mill
tary force which is assisting the
new government there in a des-
perate war against Communist
invaders.
Leaks apparently from En-
bassy sources picture General
Paul d. Harkins as out Of favor
with the new Vietnamese re-
gime, out Of tune with Ambas-
Sador Henry Cabot Lodge and,
generally, as more or less out
Of touch with everything. All
this is deeply troubling and an
gering the highest officials Of
the American government here
at home - not excluding Presi-
dent John F. Kennedy. 1t would
not be exaggerating, one t e 5
sure, to say that the President
is doing not a slow burn
but a fast one, indeed.
It is difficult to believe that
Ambassador Lodge himself can
be responsible for these attacks
upon that vital human linchpin
Of this whole military operation
who is General Harkins. They
are attacks, by the way, re-
markedly reminiscent Of earlier
assaults-by-leak on some Of our
Central Intelligence Agency
people out there.l
Lodge is a thoroughly adult,
decent and responsible politician
who undertook a thankless task
in Wet Nam as a patriotic duty.
Still, whoever may be to blame,
the Ambassador would be wise
to put a stop at once to what
looks here to be a clear effort
to "get" General Harkins be-
cause Of his unashamed and en-
tirely right and proper associa-
ton with the old Vietnamese
regime Of Ngo Dinh Diem, who
was bloodily overthrow by a
revolution Of his subordinate
generals only a little while ago.
For there is no disposition in
the highest quarters here long
to stomach another outbreak Of
back-stabbing. Of girls 5 h
jealousies and tale-bearing,
within the American team in
Wet Nam. Those within that
team who were determined to
see Diem fall have had their
way and should now be satisfied.
And Washington 80 whether to
its credit or discredit only events
can show stood by and al
lowed him to be destroyed. That
is to say the arguments Of the
anti-Diem bloc within our team
finally won out over hose e,
notably including General Hark-
ms, who wanted to 60 on with
him in the belief that his out
fit was the best in sight to do
the one true job. So also won
the arguments at home Of a
claque Of reformers and semi
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Quirks In The News
BOOKED AS

STOCKTON, Calf. CUPID - Pete
Greco, "a, was booked on a vagrancy
charge after he t~respassed on private
property and begged for a coat to wear.
Officers at county jail found he
was carryin $905 in cash and four bank
books showing total deposits Of $4,000.
MADE SURE
TUNBRIDGE WELLS, England CUPID
- Ronald Newick was fined S8.40 Mon
day for damaging an outdoor tele-
phone booth despite his plea that Il
was told the phone was out of order
so / made sure by pulling he wires
out"
The chronicle., 1963-11-19

WASHINGTON, American
foreign policy is Laundering be-
cause Of a lack Of understand
ing Of the responsibility Of the
President and the Congress, re-
spectively, in the field Of for
eign relations. The ConStititu-
ton gives the President the
right to carry on negotiations
and make agreements with other
countries but gives to Cong
reSs the right to appropriate any
money needed to carry out for
eign policy.
Mr. Kennedy is complaining
that Congress is interfering with
the conduct Of foreign policy be-
cause it wants to cut down
foreign add appropriations or
impose limitations or conditions
on how the money should be
spent. The President said in his
news conference on Thursday:
"This program Foreign Aid
is essential to the conduct of our
foreign policy, and, therefore, |
am asking the Congress Of the
United States to give me the
means Of conducting the for
eign policy Of the United States,
and if they do not want to do
so, then they should recognize
that they are severely limiting
my ability to protect the inter-
ests. That is how important |
think this program is. y.
II think it is a very danger
Gus, untidy world, but we're go
ing to have to live with it, and
| think one Of the ways to live
with it is to permit US to func-
ton. Then, if we don't function,
the voters will throw us out.
But don't make it impossible
for us to function by legislative
restraints or inadequate appro-
priations."
Mr.. Kennedy's words come at
a time when the conduct Of for
eign policy by the United States
is largely opportunistic. The
course has not been charted
clearly, and the policies vary in
different parts Of the world.
Only a few weeks ago, the
American people were assured
that the signing of the nuclear
test-ban treaty meant a new era
in the relations Of this country
with Russia. Since that time,
the Soviets have started pro-
vocative procedures on the au-
tobahn in and around Berlin as
American armored vehicles
have been stopped in their law
full trips to the city Of Berlin
conducted according to World
War II agreements.
Instead of a peaceful rela-
tionship, there now are signs Of
irritation on both sides. Within
the last few days, a Yale pro-
f~essor, Frederick c. Barghoorn,
has been arrested in the Soviet
Union and charged with espion-
age. Formal protests were
promptly made by the United
States. President Kennedy pub
licly stated that Mr.. Barghoorn
twas not on an intelligence
mission of any kind"
AS a consequence of the de-
velopment of an atmosphere of
friction between the two coun-
tries, President Kennedy found
himself puzzled by the Soviet
course. He was asked at
news conference whether the
Soviets may be Selling innocent
Americans with the hope of
The chronicle., 1963-11-19

amount Of personal, statistical
and clerical work that is inn
posed on individuals every APP
ril to get their income tax
forms in order is a monstrosity.
The tax itself is bad for society
in that it penalties energy and
rewards incidence. Furthermore,
much Of the money the govern
ment bureaucracy takes in i
subsequently kicked down SO
many rat holes that the
themselves must be suffocating
for lack Of room at the bottom
Of their abodes.
But if Edmund Wilson de-
serves sympathy for his exper-
fences in the hands Of a SUSPECT
GUS Internal Revenue Service,
which, according to his own de-
scription, left his case ''in the
air for years, while more inter-
est and penalties were rolling
up," it must be recorded that
he did as much as anybody in
the decade Of the Thirties to
promote the idea Of putting gov
eminent into %everyman's hair.
| distinctly recall Mr.. Wilson's
zeal, as Of 1882, for promoting
the specialization Of just about
everything. Writing in the New
Republic" he urged the ''liber-
ais" to ''take Communism away
from the Communists and be-
stow the supposed benefits Of
socialism on all Of us under the
banner Of 'progressivism," or
or some such innocent label.
He wanted to force the capital
lists to disgorge their wealth,
whether by taxation or capital
levy.
| am not dredging UP Mr..
Wilson's past history as a writ
er and publiciSt out Of any wish
to be mean. Practically all Of
us who lived and wrote In the
Nineteen Thirties entertained
some illusions about alternating
injustice by redistributing at
least a portion of the wealth
amaSsed by rich men. 1t was
a crazy decade, and all of LID
were touched by It But what il
peculiarly interesting about the
case Of Mr.. Wilson il that he
should be 50 surprised at being
impaled on a spear which he
himself helped to sharpen.
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Copper River current., 1963-03-14

'-l z; /I~zlK>z Ill tvcnt-nino of the rccrc ati onal tracts in the NcCarth area which ucro offered for salc by tho Division of Lands were sold at the pub lie auction in Copper Cen ter on Thursday, February 28.
 Con siderable interest was shown in this sale, and on most tracts bidding was spir- itod, with tho sollin g price being Wcll above tho appraised minimum figure on Q number of the tracts.
 Tho total appraised value of the tracts, which ranged in sizo from 37 acres to 29l acres, was 5L4, 675. Tho total selling price was $3l ,6OO.0O
 Tho Division of Lands is planning another sale of rccrcational tracts and possibly sonc foreclosod lands in the area, which is about 50 miles cast of Chitina, sometime this sumner, probably in June. Paul and "CookiCh Wolfe arc tho owners of homo at Pippin Lake, and divide their timc between this lovely refuge from care and tho moro Work-a-day world of Fairbanks. This fall thr tIolfo's drovc Outside for look and q visit with relatives. Nc received a card from tECm which had been mailed from Topeka, Indiana on March 8. They tcrc getting ready for their return trip to -Alaksa.. .chCckin g tho truck over, and making plans to pick up now John Deere craWlcr tractor for their homo ste ad. Tho Nolfc's Wcrc having nice trip but oncou1tcring terrible weather. r..... snow, foggy, warm, damp, cold, windy, raining hard ponds of water everywhere. ":lc arc anxious to get back to good old -Alasha. Toll all tho good people in the Copper Valley VIC said hcllo.h
 The first annual oratorical contest is now a part of local history, and all the little nbut tcrf lies" folt by the participants can be laid to rest. Every youlgstCr Wh had a "a Tt in the program has reason to fool pr oud; their teachers too, must be gratificd at tho response shown by friends and nc cighbors. Jo in Copper Center: arc cs- . pccially proud of our first place winner, Miss Patsy Johns, of Copper Center School, who took "first" in tho ,, 9th grodc division. Nc arc also very apprcciativc of tho other local children who gay tn cir vcry best to the contest. It was hard tor the judges to pick among such outstanding talent. Tn oso from our area who 77oro t1n- alists included Dcbbic and Diana DonncIly, Teddy Roach, Sandra Goblo, Kenny Johns, Barbara Goddard, Patsy Johns, Jarrcn John s, Laurie 4ash by, Mark and James Aorgan. Each