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Show v A 'V- The Public Forum S'altfak ifibune 01) e rg Isa By Our Readers Sunday Morning, May 24, 1964 Ai. Lincolns Words Affair Perfumed Report on the Balter . ', - - ' . . The investigation was .undertaken to determine how Baker, former secretary of the Democratic Senate majority, was able tor amass a fortune of, two million dollars while receiving a salary of 319,600 a year. (Baker resigned under fire last fall.) THE COMMITTEES report falls into two parts one, a report on Baker himself; the other, proposed rules of conduct for senators and thdr employes.Since the Democrats who ran the committee carefully limited their- - inqulry. into Bakers activities and associations, this part of the report is - inconclusive a coat of whitewash, and incomplete remarked. as the St Louis Even so, the committees own draft report conceded that the Senate as a body and senators individually have suffered the loss of much respect and prestige as the result of disclosures during the investiga- Though the Senate committees report on the Bobby Baker 'investigation was leaked to the press last week, it still has to be formally presented. Thedelay undoubtedly resulted from differences of opinion within the committee. Perhaps the report wilt be revised or modified before it is finally approved. But even if this should happen, the recommendations of the tentative report certainly call forcomment,. . fight on the beaches, tee shall fight on the land ing grounds, tee shall fight in the fields and in the streets, toe shall fight in the hills ; toe shall never surrender." Sir Winston Churchill in a speech to the House of Commons as Britain stood alone against the German onslaught in 1940. Happily the British never had to fight the Nazis on English beaches. . " But now 24 years later, the Mods and the Rockers are having a heigh ho time of it on the very beaches their doughty tion. But the committee majority, while reluctant to come to grips with the Baker case, hopes to prevent future irregularities and misconduct of a similar nature. This would be done by establishing new rules of conduct These provide for: Periodical disclosure of the financial interests of senators and their employes. mums and dads would have so gloriously defended. Who are the Mods1 and Rockers? a who The Mods an British wear tight suits with velvet collars, hats with tiny brims, and suede shoes. The Rocker an their rivals, and they .wear leather Jackets, blue jeans aad teea-ager- . boots. And on Whitsun weekend they migrated by the thousands to the beaches of Margate, Brighton and Bournemouth not 50 or so channel miles from where Hitler pnee weighed success chances for Operation Sea Lion. Rockers pelted Mods with sand and rocks. Mods pursued Rockers and stoned and beat stragglers. Girl Mods and girl Rockers pulled and- scratched. Rockers Mods hurled beer cans cursed passers-bat police. Families picked up their children and fled. We wish we could point the finger of shame from this side of the Atlantic. Wa cant. We have our Betas and Greasers 'and other The prognosis: In five years, most Mods, Rockers, Betas and Greasers will be married, hair shorn, domesticated, scornful of teen-ag- e shenanigans and well on the way to becoming responsible - A requirement that senators must respond to requests from Senate committees for their testimony. A ban on senators interceding with any federal agency In behalf tof "persons and organizations t outside the Senate engaged in conducting business with the .government , ' THE FIRST of these proposals has frequently been advocated, though heretofore senators have been far more diligent In applying the conflict of Interest rule to members oLthe executive branch than to themselves. Tfife second proposal is another step toward having senators treat themselves as they do others. The third, in our opinion, would be unworkable and unenforceable, and probably y. But sometimes we wonder: Will there always be an England? Or a United - States? In fact, this third proposal would - seri- ously handicap senators in performing perfectly legitimate services for constituents. A senator or a representative, for that matter is In effect the delegate of his constituents in Washington. And If he cannot assist them, to whom else can they turn? As a safeguard, however, records should be kept In every instance. It is amazing that a committee, which pussyfooted on the Baker lnvesti-gatio- a, would consider offering such a sweeping set of rules of conduct. Perhaps the committee intends to Living Dangerously Before mowing the lawn, check up on your insurance. The National Safety Council predicts that 160,000 Americans will be Injured and about 100 killed this year by rotary mowers. The machines can eject a rock, nail or piece of wire with the muzzle velocity of a ; shotgun. Maybe you should just forget about the lawn and play golf. But wait! There will be at least 20,000 disabling accidents, this year on golf courses. More than half will involve players being hit with golf balls, and about 9 per cent will be beaned by a partner's dub. And there is the danger of recklessly driven golf carts. Better swear off golf. For one thing, getting to and from the country dub you might be one of the 44,000 persons scheduled to be killed by automobiles this year. Boating Is enjoyable and vigorous, but the National Safety Council is grim about this, too. In the 1961-6- 2 period 2,165 boaters lost their lives, and 61 per cent of them were not novices. Cross out boating; relax on the patio. But watch it. Between 40,000 and 80,000 Americans will walk through glass patio doors this year, and some of them will bleed to death. It might be better to just stay inside except that next to the automobile the home is the most dangerous place you can be. Twenty-nin- e thousand Americans died in home aeddents in 1963, and the outlook for 1964 isnt bright About the safest place to be statistically is In a scheduled airliner, but who wants to fly around all the time? gasoline-powere- d ever-prese-nt Visiting Cartoonist show its heart is In the right place. If that is so, we refuse to go along. The committee should have followed every ramification of the Baker affair. It has not done so. And all the perfumes In this case the rules of of Arabia conduct will not take away the smelL GREATER more attention to fundamental ethics may help the Senate in the future. For the present, the Senate can only mourn lost respect and prestige. SELF-DISCIPLIN- E That Noisy. Monorail! ... David Lawrence GOP Warned From Suicidal Course WASHINGTON The waters favor, Mr. Elsenhower Perhaps the most sensible man en the sidelines today among the leaders of the Republican Party h former President Eisenhower. Re- publican Party certainly qeeds a psychoanalyst or a mentor of some kind to save it from said: as a politician, but he There Is no mo I know. But think this: I personally believe that Sen. Goldwater is not as extreme as some people have in any event, made him.-Bu- t, we are all Republicans. We all have a certain set of .basic principles, and the problem has come about n how we apply them to the issues of the day. And if we dont have some kind of consensus, why then everybody frants to run away, or they talk like they are going to run away. I will say this in the other party, when it comes to election time, they all coalesce, and I think its time we were doing it. He never has been regarded certain- suicide. I dont Well, ly has always displayed common sense and the courage of partythaninto his convictions. In a television pieces interview the other night, the do w h a former president said several California camI things which were not printed 1 paign manager in the newspapers generally. Cafor. Henry So its pertinent to quote, for bot Lodge jdid example, the following: when he anI am trying, first of aH, to nounced that all the strength one individual who is not be mobibeen have that might lized for Lodge would be becoming involved too much in the personal campaigns of thrown to Gov. Rockefeller in individuals, so there is to.be the California primary. at least one to preach the docThis is an amazing antrine of party unity and who, nouncement It means, in efbelieving like I think all of fect, that there are those in y systhe Republican Party who are us do in the tem, will be in the position far more interested in knocking off someone who d likely probably to soothe ruffled to get the nomination than in presenting on his merits a I THINK THIS is Imporrival candidate with a differtant because on one side we ent or even better appeal. hear some individuals saying, is nominatreWell, if attitudes have Negative ed, I dont think I could supsulted in nearly every Instance in party disunity that port him, and on the other has sacrificed the final side, you will hear another say, 'Well, we might just walk out of the convention or words Sen. Goldwater seems to to that effect have the largest number of Now I think this Is all very delegates thus far, and this childish and is very bad. But has led his opponents to fry if we are to fight this going a desperate and frantic' maof inner struggle, then I type neuver to block him at all think it's more than ever imcosts. The move Is incomprethat someone is in a portant hensible because the only efposition to say, Now let's get fective way to defeat a fronttogether and be Republicans runner is to present someone and not be babies. else who is better able to WHEN ASKED whether his articulate the issues In a way that will appeal to a larger position of neutrality would number of voters. not perhaps work out in Gold- - way views. ft But in the long history of political parties, there has been, for the mopart,:a tolerance of differences o: opinion and an effort to compromise and reconcile conflicting viewpoints. Rarely does any faction within a party issue an ultimatum and say that under no circumstances would it support a candidate who holds opposing views. This kind of threat merely aggravates the situation and intensifies friction. TO GANG UP on Goldwater today is a wrong tactic, and it is surprising that the move has not been repudiated by the top men in the Rockefeller and Lodge organizations. Its not the way to produce harmony In a political party .which, after the convention, must do battle against the opposing party. two-part- 0 1964, Nw York Herald Tribune he wants to go when he wants to at the touch of an accelerator. But there Is also much to be said for advanced forms of public transport which provide a better alternative In the rush hours. azines with a total circulation of more than 700 million. THE NAMES of Izvestia-anPravda are widely known outside the USSR, undoubtedly buy-flobecause they are the Moscow organs of the Soviet "government and the Soviet Communist Party. But each of the big cities has its own locally produced Pravda, and there are specialized . publications like Trad for the "trade unions displayed on and Red Star for the army. Mr. Long outdoor bulletin Magazines run the gamut boards.' from the highly specialized to Its not that the newspapers the humorous, like Krokodil, are any good.- They arent and the general, like Ogonyok, They are ponderous and dull, the Soviet equivalent of Life. ' inand the editors emphasize Soviet editors never lose formation and indoctrination instead of what Westerners aljiit of first principles. consider news. As the Great Soviet EncyRUSSIAN READERS learn clopedia frankly says: .Publin the USSR is a powsomething of what's going on, ishing erful ideological instrument of almost though everything comes through a sort of dis- the Communist Party and the Soviet government Newspatorting lens. And Russian editors are great on texts, which" pers, journals, books and pamphlets are extensively may be one reason why used for the education and eninIn an full published terview with the late President lightenment of the working and for drawing them Kennedy by Alexei Adzhubei,, people the into building of commuNikita Khrushchevs nism. For the newspapers, extenThe Russian newspaper buy--' means almost all the sively er is in somewhat the same position as the man who played the crooked faro game because jt was the only one In If Baker ever ing a picture and the Kremlin called and said, Stop pounding! ,' t Diplomats learn to work together. During the thaw In the cold war all conversation in the embassy stops every 40 minutes so the Russians can change tapes. Nobody knows exactly what secret information the Russians got, but if they have paid attention they now know 4,000 ways to make a martini. Of course we have hidden mikes too. Just last week a spy heard Khrushchev asking Kuznetsov: How do you say Mao is a louse In Arabic?, Tse-tun- g tia son-inla- There are plenty of news10,603 In papers, however 1962, with a total circulation of 62 million, and about 4,000 mag Prevention Muffed? Editor, Tribune: One of the unforgotten, basic facts of the present school crisis is this: the recess (ne: walkout, strike, etc.) of the teachers could have been prevented by ernor Clyde as far back 1961. 1961 Legislature House- - and Senate) passed HB. 124 which would have ex- d time. The magazines have a little more latitude, and one of the literary publication will bend a few rules. After all, the boys in the Kremlin realize the need for- - a safety valve. The Soviet Union is. Indeed, the land of managed D6WS. 4 When an important government policy is to be enunciated tiie job is likely to be dons in an article in Izvestia signed by Commentator. The pen name fools no one, however; it is well understood that Somebody Very Important is the author. The Soviet government could not tolerate a free press. The Soviet people themselves dont understand the concept. The press has never been free in Muscovy, either under czars or under commissars. " BUT RUSSIANS continue to be avid newspaper readers. They would like to know more about those strange people who live beyond their borders. Instead, they get distortions and lectures, a little fiction, a few propaganda cartoons and a considerable amount of neighborhood news, theatrical announcements and reports of what is for sale in the shops. It could be that this latter information is a major factor publishBobby es his boric we dont know how in selling those 62 million Find-In- f thoroughly It will be read, be- 'newspapers every day. anything in the shops Is yond the fact that every senator will immediately check the a major undertaking In the UJ5.S.R. Index for his name. . - ' Soaper Says town. , (both The XR transport .that 1 Editor, Tribune; Senator Moss has been scrambling to get on the winning side since Secretary of Interior Udall was forced to make an obvious decision to save Colorado River water behind Glen Canyon Dam. When Udall opened the gates last March 26, and started dumping our water for the benefit of California power-user- s, Mr. Moss parroted the Interior Secretarys weak excuses that it was the only decision the Secretary could :e." Only after Mr. Moss discovered that he was all by himself in his support of this Misconceived decision did he begin to weakly protest and begin to get on the side of the state of Utah. It was not hard to understand Mr. Udalls interest since, California has more votes than all of the Upper Basin states, but it is hard to understand how Mr. Moss can be against the interests of the people in Utah when he sides with the administration and promotes public power. LOANN L. PALMER as ck ualized, gets one where Moss and Powell Every preconvention cam-paign is naturally a contest4 between different, sets of Iz-- y WASHINGTON Finding those 40 hidden microphones in our Moscow embassy was just luck. The ambassador was hang- Lda FOR the Integration Movement One Hundred Per Cent But, Not Next Door to Me. Where News Is Managed Every Day By Jack Wilson (Mod Im Seattle property owners have filed four suits against that city, alleging property of depreciation resulting from operation x the monorail. . The famous modem transit system was built for th Seattles World's Fair and operated at a profit. Is the silly season upon us already? Theodore Long Highway User magazine, whose loyalties are obviously tied to more common and traditional modes of transport, says the property owners contend that the monorail has caused vacancies in offices; The Russians are avid newsand apartments due to the noise of the readers. In Moscow, paper train. when the days edition of Do trucks glide silently over the vestia or Prav- streets? Are cars without horns and appears fumes, and motorcycles without throttles? crowds of The monorail and other advanced conto the ers cepts of public transport in areas of high V aeV s stands. And for' those population concentration have yet to be who dont want given adequate trial. The automobile and to spend a kopek truclr have, and they have been found or so, copies of wanting. newspapers are There Is much to be said for individ- Potomac Fever eprtntflcia The flaw Today these words keep run-- , ning through ' my mind for. their applicability to the current school crisis, for Lincoln could hav given excellent .advice to hU state and .educator) officials involved in the controversy. Take, for example, the wonderful words he placed near the end .of his first inaugural address Nothing valuable can be lost by taking- time. If there be air object to hurry, any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it. . . . Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. When I took my boy to school Monday morning ami waited for a few minutes to see whether he would be able to go to class, I was disturbed to see about 50 little children stamping in unison and shouting, We want home! We want home! We want home! like a troupe of banner-waving picketers. I suggest that Lincolns words, if framed and hung on the walls of the governors office and the walls of the UEA office, might soak in enough to prevent a final break in the bonds of affection that should bind together our public school teachers and their pupils, our state officials and our school officials, parents and teachers, and all others who ought to be concerned for the welfare of the school children. H. S. GREAVES Post-Dispatch .toe - shall had the support of many groups including some representing teachers. Governor Clydes avoidance of, .an ounce of prevention studIs causing ents a pound of pain. OLUE McCCLLOCH 1 ploye pre-colle- Clydes Committee - voice. - The Battle of Britain Clyde vetoed this bill, which public-em- Editor, Tribune: While rummaging through my desk a short time ago I came amiss a scrap of paper on which 1 had written a statement someone made approximately ten. years ago: Although Lincoln has been dead for 90 years, we still seem to listen for his . ! iy wry - N pressly prohibited a strike (by whatever name it is called) by public employes. Governor Editor, Tribune: Governor Clydes paltry excuse for not heeding the recommendation of his own study committee cn education was that it did not do what he had asked, pamely, it did not make a Study of the ability of th economy to support a further grant to education and it did not specify the source of the necessary funds. I would like to pose two questions in regard to this' matter. First of all, why didn't Governor Clyde make it dear to his committee just what was .Forum Rules Letter are welceme bet ta be be published they ezrleaively te The Trib-eaad bear writer rarrert aame aad addreaa. . Sum are withheld If taaperetlT bat reference "la gtvea lizard letter aad tbee aet aver IS ward. Letter are sabjeet te ceadea-atiwhea spar Uwitatlaa require It. et eeb-Bltt- rd ne aa expected of them, or who could and would carry out his instructions? Either way it reflects upon the governor and his ability as a leader. If the report was incomplete it would seem the thing to do now' is to Complete the report antj. then act upon its ' Secondly, how could a man spend eight years as governor and still not have the vaguest idea of the ability of the economy of the state to support its educational institutions? Surely we can expect a man receiving $15,000 a year to do his homework a little better. CHARLES K. GRAHAM Training Ground Editor, Tribune: As a California visitor to Utah, I have a personal interest in the outcome of your present school crisis. I have followed it closely. 1 pray, that Governor Clyde and your citizens will resist the pressures being exerted on them by the UEA. Let tne' explain. California schools receive many excellent teachers from Utah each year. These teachers come to us experienced and trained at Utah taxpayer's expense, not Cali- fornias. Now, if the UEA wins the battle to improve schools and salaries, some of your best teachers may stay there rather than transferring to California. We wont reap the return on Utahs Investment in teachers as we are now doing. Utah is one of the finest training grounds for teachers in the West All the Western states know this thats why they recruit there. We take your best teachers and you barring the keep whats left few dedicated souls who lingo' on. Thats why I pray the UEA loses its' battle. California needs and wants Utahs finest trained teachers. I extend a sincere and warm invitation to them to come to California. They will find that we in California also believe that intelligence is the closest thing to God. But we dont give it lip service. We pay to get it. RICHARD L. PETERSON Manhattan Beach, CaliL Initiative No Way to Form State Policy Editor, Tribune: I should like to comment from the standpoint of political science on the statement of State Senate President Reed Bullen, made In reaction to the report by the governors school study committee. beMr, Bullen said cause the report called for spending considerable money, it would entail an increase in taxesadding: It may be the time for educators to use the device of initiative and referendum and let this come to a vote of the people.. that matter IN OUR republican form of government the basic ingredient is the principle of representation. This means that the people elect representatives from ,, their own number to decide and develop public policy. These representatives are own supposed to use to is what as' best judgment It would be wrong for the people to commit the legislature to a definite program of policy and action before legislators met in debate and discussed a public policy program. gress would tell the President where to get off. The governors telling the Legislature before it meets that it can go so far and no further is a denial of the republican form of government and the democratic process. For a legislator to tell the people 'to use initiative and referendum is a form of passing the buck. FINDING REVENUE for the financing of public policy and public projects is a function of the Legislature and the governor together. It is not the function of the people. It cannot be expected that the average citizen, who is an atom in the collectivity of citizens, will know enough, will , See Page their A-1- 9, Column S Small World : Public policy is not supposed to be the ,result of the dictates of a single If the President of the U.S. ever told Congress precisely what to do and how with reference to public money, Con-- hie? Just aa famocent - Bystander. |
