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Show ' A. ' . - . ' , - - . Behind The Day's News C ogress By PETER EDSON NE A . Correspondent WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, I960 CHICAGO , icivil ;The Grade-- B rights fight stirred. up at, the Nixon's Golden Opportunity - is headed for a delayed bout at the coming special session of Con-gress.. ti "r. : t Prospective GOP Presidential Candidate ' Richard M Nixon settled this: when he arrived in Chicago to persuade' the wayward platform writers to' give him a platform he can run-on- . Any Idea that a .minority, of southern Republicans can dictate 'civil rights policy to the northern, and western : majority has' been, preposterous all .along. But it has provided fun in an otherwise dull proceedings. ' But a civil rights floor fight at Chicago has been bound from the ' New, Yorkbetween Vice President, Nixon and' Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, Whatever the final shape of the Republican platform in Chicago, the fact of importance would seem , to be that these two men found a Political experts are bound to be fascinated for a long time by the secret v meeting held recently in . ! nough's Enough There are many 'painful, signs that the world today is plagued by warped values. Certainly the w6rst of these isthe !fact thatthe Soviet Union is able. jo. inject itself into virtually every internal or,;, international dispute that develops anywhere on earth. , Who wouldvimagine that Russia, representing the most ing tyranny that has ever saddled the. globe, could be turned to even for a brief instant by any nation, old or , new, which truly prized its basis for agreement. Many who study' what they agreed : upon as to defense, ecocare for the nomic growth,-medica- l : i -- not-abje- : : ct . , . -- "Me-Too- - Letters from Herald readers ; j ; : . Ed . .... Koterba ... - ... ...... j ..... .. .1 The status of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller had become ap- - - Not necessarily because! of this weird sequence r but for other reasons there are still many people who .emphatically "say Rockefeller would, after the chips were down, say "I do," to the question: "Will you take thjs man, Richard Nixon, as your lawful Presidential partner just as Senator Johnson has ac- parently so contradictory, sistent and confusing over the past week end that even. the people d 'in rooms, were callhim a man of mystery. ing Buj I have concluded there is really no mys- , . . cepted John Kennedy?" - tery about this. Among those who won't give up - man and his plan . teen-age- . is the brilliant Gov. Mark'.Hatfield of, Oregon.. He brushed aside Rocky's flat "I will not serve if nominated'' pronouncement in his (meeting on Sunday with the press. Hatfield talked "glowingly of Rockefeller's possible acceptance of the No. 2 spot .even after Richard Nixon said he himself . would re . The Doctor Says " mmmmT7"'" "" rs . . , spect Rockefeller's "wishes" to keep him off the bottom; half of the ''.'' ' ticket. The way things stood as the con-venti- on . -- . By HAROLD THOMAS ' Newspaper Enterprise Assn. The Public- Affairs Committee, a nonprofit educational organization, in conjunction with the Arth- ritus and Rheumatism Foundation ' has just issued iI another 'of its j J valuable' x pa m- - L ' ' : phlets. . - " , .. r . btdL Arthritus Hoax," f I?T would go down, in defeat, in November? Couldn't he then rioe an you-so- " banner j into possible vie-". . in '64? for himself tory ' When him asked : May Craig if he would pointedly truly risk his party's chances hi November .through selfish aloofness, he called it a sharp question, and then managed "to avoid answering it. , ; . ) . . . , - "Z-ray- I watch dial." Then, there are $300 Atomo-itronthat supposedly give forth "healing . radiation.", Pads and mitts, purported to be es customers. Innumerable machines that cast variHColored lights and glorified aspirin - type remedies, providing 12 cents' worth of aspirin at a cost of' about $3 per 100 tablets claim their share of victims. "Immune- - milk" marketed at a price of $0n7D a quart fools others. Countless' are the liniments, ointments and lotions; herbs, herb juices, bitters and acids containing concoctions of burdock, wild cherry bark', quassia, dandelion root; cohosh, aloes, tag- - elder, licorice root, life root, sarsaparilla and alfalfa, with or without vitamin "supplementations. , . : . vl 'i Alt m .: . i "::. In my day they called it manipulating. Those .who have control have control. If you cant get control then you accuse the other fellow of rigging. -- AJames: Farley, explaining rigging charges against the Democratic con-- vention. : ; election) campaign is a throwback to the age of .innocence and a form of . . . Yet America will not willingly relinquish one; prancing drum majorette, one toot of a trombone ih this ritualistic orgy. J ' T self-indulgen- ce . London Daily Maii. t ', , "costof a quarter - 'I-tol- d-. . - ; . Vice-Preside- nt Men are far more, vain than women. The few people who have refused to sign releases permitting us to use their filmed spots on the; air have been almost all men. Allen Funt, creator of radio and TV's "Candid Camera." The: are . Titled . " . Writers limited to o i letter in 10 days. i .' the , New !ork. Governor . just as soon let the Maflhag column. . . v - Vice-Presiden- ..J. y HYMAN, M.D. . s" . . . "No-I-won't- s" "Yes-you-will- Booklet Strikes at Hoaxes Aimed at Arthritis Victims . to original letter, but letters signed for publication' with writer's full name will be given preference. The Herald assumes no- responsibility for statements' ' appearing in the Letters which exceed space . week opened was: "The limitation may be cut by the more Rockefeller doesn't want to editor. The Herald reserves run for the Vice-Pi- e sidency, the 'y the right to reject letters more everybody wants him to.", ; are not in good taste, which It had become a comedy of of are potentially libelous. and that . one frustrated reporter asked Press Secretary Herb Klein: Would Herb filled with '"radioactive minerals" think it would do some good if he t? asked Nixon to ask . and a stainless .steel wrist watch band (price $22.50) said to conPresident Eisenhower to ask him to. ' tain a "miniature thermopile" are say yes? fradulent gmimicks. other Said Herb: No. An applicator that would proAnd you thocght the Democrats duce health by expanding atoms were going in circles! " has of the body with its 4 So They ' Say " came and address are signed - . ed smoke-cleare- . . r ted, if requested, if writer's CHICAGO . ' , . y . . Since the outlook for Rockefeller in the No. 1 spot is so" hopeless, why does he not take the gamble tA getting to the White House through theTice-Presidenc- y? i E. -- s- r i - E - ', Both in Los Angeles and here in Chicago there has been much talk unci finzz i::rr.:z:ir:.i c::;a:y.i:::;t swindles. "Among the' hoaxes exposed are "uranitoriums". to which more than 350,000 patients have been lured "to take uranium mine treatments" n mines thak ..fortunately, con- - , . It-.i- office. i- a 4 about themorbid prospect that the voters will senda condemned man ;to the White. House in January. based on superstition, but also 'on Jiistory. Since 1840, every Presi- dent who was nominated in a year divisible by 20 the years 1840, '60'. '80, 1900, '20 and f40 died in 22 Dr. Hyman iouis racket that thrives on the misery of the nation's 11,000,000 victims." v Its purpose, in the words of Gen. George 'C- Kenney, president pf "the foundation, js the arousal of puiblie vigilance -- to the end ;that "dishonest' claims, of relief - and cure" may be stopped through 'swift punishment" of those who exploit human misery and human hopes and through elimination of the profit that derives from these , " mailed to 38th; St:, N e w lore uixy io; ex-..poses 'the vie--" . . . ( It " -- r . are invited. They should be brief . (preferred limit, '200 words) ; typewritten if possible y : (double spaced) ; must carry T, writer's . true name and "address and be in good taste. ' Pseudonyms may be permit- - . , . ' I He just simply wants to be Pres- ident. v And he's been iarying' so hard to be available that his wet forefing Koterba ; ' areas, r er is all but dis Jointed from waving it in the draft. That there is too much emphasis in But the only breeze that's .struck' our recent foregin policy upon "peace,". it so far is the breeze? from the "defense," "security pacts" and "settleRocky banners held by ments." Goldwater is 'the only man on off Michigan and. "East - Balboa the. national scene, to my knowledge, Avenues. There is a slight , wind who so much as implied that to keep ' in from the hinterlands, coming our republic we may have to fight ,a but, according to the; forecast, ir war. Anybody who is afraid . of nuclear will be followed by a cold front. warfare has no business livinig in the 20th Century. V ; Strangely, one finds in the 'pale "tiiese fundasome of the are Well, boyish; wan face of the obviously . iinderrested Rockefeller an inner mentals;. which. Goldwater has in keep--1 the quiet ' confidence smugness ing for his party. If Nixon or Rockefelof a poker player .who has the ler winsin November, the new Repub- -. other' guy's pair of kings matched lican President will impress his person--, plus an ace in the hole. ality and. ideas upon the' party. He may even dominate the party to the extent of Governor Rockefeller is aware of I changing its nature-H- as the did fear of the' Nixon forces - : Roosevelt for the Democrats. that their "ticket : possibly cannot But only one parly, can win in Novemwin in November unless Rocky The ber.. joins em. I've heard this theme losing candidate wifl fade, as expressed oyer and over again Dewey and Stevenson have faded but the in; the halls of the Hilton and rejected' philosophy: will go into receivership and await the- - judgment of another ,'. Blackstone Hotels and in the . swirling crowds outside. day.' - This v is as it .should be.- - Ideas, Could it be that since Nixon after aS; life longer than men. refuses to move I for Rocky that er 4 : FORUM RULES 4 A ' - . the cart-loaHe'would never add a new law because tt' was "needed," but only if it were also permissible as a Federal responsibility under the Constitution., That freedom is more, important than welfare, limitation of power is more important than its extension, ."streamlining" of the Federal apparatus is futile until its reduction in size has been accomplished; the Federal responsibilities, such' as ; collecting certain taxes, coining the money, maintaining a national defense, are defined in the Constitution and should be strictly confined to these 4 meeting! by everyone who knew more or less' what he was talking, about, light and knowledge had been brouglt forth sufficiently' to sustain what the shade tree com- mission had authorized, I per-sonally believe. I hope that all controversial issues will be re--i solved similarly in city council ' meetings under the splendid chairmanship of. Mayor Culli- more. I wish to call attention of the public to the fact, that our city physician, Dr. Smith,1 and Dr. Kezarian,r and ' myself are equally virtuous men and equally filled with good intentions. We seem equally to be aware of the facts. The trouble is,' we do not inter- pret the ; facts quite the same. For example, Dr. Smith is opposed' to the sale of raw milk on the basis of very excellent facts, but Dr. Kezarian and I are in favor of a limited and controlled sale of rawi milk, i but not exactly for, the same reasons. Dr., Kezarian: is opposed to. the spraying of our shade. trees even with the relatively ' mildly toxic chemical f being used. Dr. Smith tand myself are in favor of a spraying .program if, conducted 'with judgment and skill; Why this apparent inconsistency in alignment? It JLs simply because of subtleailferenices in basic philosophy and, in differences in how we separately interpret the same facts. If I understand Dr. Kezarian '. correctly, he underestimates the hazards of raw milk drinking and overestimates the hazards of insecticides. If I understand Dr. Smith correctly, he overestimates the . hazards of raw milk drinking and underestimates the hazards of insecti-- ( cide spraying.: I myself believe that in every intention of mankind a certain calculated risk is "involved. Only by careful con sideration of many other important factors can we come to an intelligent conclusion ' whether or not it is worth taking the risk to do a certain thing. My. appraisal of the facts lead me to the conclusion .that the present, risk in our shade tree spraying is so insignificant that we should continue with the program as has been instituted. My appraisal . of the facts leads me to the conclusion that the pre jsertt risk in drinking raw milk produced carefully as specified by the code of the State of Utah is so insignificant that there ought' to be a uniform "law throughout Utah County per--' mitting the onale and purchase of raw milk on the very premis- es of the farmer, but not . in stores, diners, and other, puiblie places. In a later letter I wish to (make clear the real reasons why I advocate this limited and controlled sale of raw milk. Let me assure all people, however, that I am, confident that correctly pasteurized milk is good milk to drink and I commend the milk distributers of Utah for their high standards in the production xd milk and milk products. r' Henry J, Nichole ' j d. Senator '. Lyndon Johnson . is the 're-ceiver' for the Demo- -' erotic party, and Sena tor Barry GoWwater is' Y. likewise for the Re I 1 publican party. If the 'Share Ameri- oa" platform and the f bright young oandi- - I date oi the Democrats should become bankrupt for lack of. votes never in November Old mind! Reliable '.Mr. Alexander will still be senior. Senator from Texas and Majority Leader of the Senate. Lyn don will pick up the pieces, stall off the creditors, liquidate the assets and refinance the party with leadership, and 11 philosophy. . And if the Grand Old Party proves to have gone too Modern, if Richard Nixon can quite , wear the thinking cap of. .''statesmanship,' don't worry! The lean;' and keen Conservatives of the Mesa will ' receive the remains. Three times ' in a. " the row, from 1940-4cam paigns failed for the GOP, but Robert Taft kept the party from pulverizing and blowing away. Now the' task belongs to Barry Goldwater. . He has little or no chance to make the Republican ticket, yet, he is the. repository of .the , two cells of political lifeleadership, and philosophy. Gold- water hasn't been what Senator Everett' official White- House Dirksen. on" the' Senate. floor. But durspokesman ing the $ast two sessions ever, since his, f ' ringing reelection; success of 1958, .Gold-wathas been; spokesman : of the Odd .Guard which, like Napoleon's,-woul- d rather die in its tracks thai retreat I have watched Goldawter as he has taken the Senate floor, on '.bills .and resolutions, on grave historical events ' and on mere occasions for opinion-stat- ing. This manr and nobody, else, speaks for the party. Goldwater, and not Nixon or Rockefeller or Dirksen or Morton or Percy, is the ; Republican philosopher. Goldwater,', and all the 'Kepubiicans who know their own minds, say 'Yes!" Ut " such propositions as these: That there are too many promises in the platform. Does it matter, since so few of 'them are honored? Well, Gold water points out: that kept, promises, , even; more than broken ones, have ' the nation with its endless obli- gations and. debts. It's better, to mak no promisesrat all. 's Tha,t ther 'are' too many laws. aim, as President - or party ., leader, would be to repeal legislation; by Gold-water- ; i prac-ticalpolitici- an. When a political bur-den- ..... .. : . , .. ' counter-productiv- ut . ' k i . party or a business house flails, ; it passes !'into hands of its receivers" a contingency which' must be anticipated for both Democrats and Republicans. . J (D-Il- kindness of the editor, I would I .like "to add more to the remarks of my previous letter, which was about the spraying of shade trees ' in Provo. write! In this letter I wish to about the good intensions of hu- mans. I really believe that Mrs. Broadhead and Dr. Vance, for example, have the very best intentions, and that they did to the spraying of .our. shade trees except because they sincereiy ,believed more harm ' than good would come of the spraying program. Because, they ..." were worried about this matter, they did the right , thing when they asked the city to cease until the matter temporarily could be aired in a public hearing and when they obtained the assistance of a very able doctor of medicine to be their spokesman. After all was said at that Rocky Really Wants to Be President , , . 'ways from President EisenhowJ er's positions. He. has known, all along he had to do this, in some measure irtth-oin any way repudiating the Eisenhower record.! The Rockefeller situation provided the perfect excuse. Nixon is a: very shrewd, He: did: not go to New York to make a surrender, he did not have to" make. .; He obviously went to seek gains whose dividends he hopes to gather at the polls in November. . j Republicans to take a. good campaign trick by exposing insincerity. Mr. Nixon has already worked out his own civil, rights program of eight or nine specific points. They go well beyond the general principles in the Republican platform. ' They will be brought out during the campaign. They do not comprise a punitive or extremist program. , The Vice President has looked on civil rights as a national problem, not exclusively a southern one. What he is shooting at is a program that incorporates obtainable goals and does not impose principles which would be e because they would be risisted in many locali- - : ties. ' Editor Ilerald: If I may presume upon the ; . , ithem. But that would allow the Keep Spraying, Permit ' Limited Sale of Raw ; Milk, Advises Citizen Goldwater Party 'Receivers' is-M- he . " legislation next month could be built around the idea that the special session , is to .last only three weeks;. It has other important issues like minimum wages, medical care for the aged and farm legislation to deal with. Congress spent two months on civil rights earlier, this year. It passed a law , which Sen- - Paul l) declares Douglas tive. But it is not yet tested. To bring up more civil rights bills now might lead to .another filibuster. It would inflame the issue Instead of quieting it down for the campaign. Being in control of Congress, the Democrats could ,of course refer the new Republican bills to the Senate Judiciary Committee under Chairman James B Eastland of Missippi, who would bury L:v::WMgj:.. Holmes Alexander . Y) f Red Rockets' Glare , . . . ' 8, . especially in California. He is acting to maximize his chances. He wants as much harmonious, support as he can get, particularly in : the. big states and he wants to. avoid party fights. On: top of all this, Nixon may have', welcomed the chance Rockefeller gave him to split off in some - , . . (R-N- This will put Democratic dential Candidate John F. Ken- -, nedy and his running mate, Sen- ate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, squarely on the spot. It should clarify just how liberal the Texan really is and how fully he intends to support' the Democratic ."Rights of Man" platform. The ' Democratic alibi for not wanting to take up civil rights . . , , , - " had enough, of Moscow telling them what they can and cannot do, and what Russia will do if they fail to follow instructions. J The Soviet, Union is an immensely powerful country, but.it is not world. Free men, actrunning-th- e ing through the. United Nations and in other ways, should, make this forcefully clear to Premier Khrushchev and his Kremlin as"' sociates. t:'v:y' Russia has no business meddling" in Cuba, in the Congoin, Japan, or. anywhere, else outside its owtf CHICAGO, Illinois f ; men. The free and independent peoples of this earth ought to have , J . . . - - , . , confines. introduce - them- in the August session of Congress, following a "Be it enacted that . , V clause.-- i This would propose legislation that would end discrimination in voting, education, housing, employment and admission to public facilities, the last endorsing sit- -t ins Sen. Keating will seek and probably find liberal Democratic : Russian troops. This last is something, like rioting students, annoyed at the forts of local police to quell their disturbances, calling in Murder,-Inc.to rub out the police. Russia, is .the last nation, any other country should call upon for aid in the maintenance of independence. The Kremlin's specialty is destroying independence. ,The Soviet Union also is the last nation anyone should listen to when it comes to. bringing order in world affairs'. When disorder develops, the need is for policemen, not gun . "sur- beginning to end up as more of a fizzle than the minority report offered by southerners 'at- the 'Democratic convention in Los Angeles. That was gaveled to defeat in a questionable decision by a southern governor, XeRoy Collins of Florida, but it went u without protest. Vice President Nixon showed, that he expected no more trouble in the GOP- when he declared that the Republican platform ' should urge the administration to move .on its civil rights recommendations. Even if President Eisenhower does not act on. this immediately, Sen. Kenneth B. Keating' will bring up the r issue. . says he He will take the Democratic piat- form pledges on civil rights and : . . . . v , rendered" to the platform demands Rockefeller had long, been making. . Yet careful review of their, language of . agreement .' indicates there Was a good deal of accommodation and compromise., ' Why would Nixon, whoas is in the far as commanding position party- leadership is concerned, make ;the initiating gesture and fly to New York to see Rockefeller? The whole pattern of his dealings with Rockefeller this year suggests the answer He wants to hold him close within the Republican fold, t6 avoid any rupture of relations, to, win as an enthusiastic support from; him as possible for the platform and the presidential , ticket. V" Nixon knows, that Rockefeller's backing could make the difference in the fight to win New York's huge 45 electoral votes next - fall. He knows also; that Rockefeller, has backing elsewhere among independents and some Democrats, independence? Yet Fidel Castro, professing' to find America an enemy of Cuban freedom, acts as if he had discov- ered a true friend in Moscow. And "the new Congolese government, unable to "govern - but outraged at Belgium's effort to restore order; threatened to call in ; that Nixon aged, etc., feel far-reac- h- ; , .Rights Boot Ciy.il j - Re- publican" National Convention " tain no more fadiation than that "received from an illuminated . . - ' - - ;.' 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