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Show Day's Work arene + & . age 2° = itesHere “ sy) TNS] se a _ a MONDAY, OCTOBER12, 1964 a Fo Stay, Evidently -Richard Nixon stood. up in the Today’s Editorials ballroom. packed to people and ‘the Cook Newspapers: Keyto Our Liberty efforts to improve the quality of amount of lumps in the pursuit newspaper content by sending key of news. Letters to the editor editors and department heads to universities for short courses and professional exchanges. —They seek to improve the brickbats, from General LEisenhower. | Part of this goes with the job methods of training men and women for careers in journalism. —They seek to recruit. young people of the highest ethical and professional potential for careers of being all things to all men — in newspaper service.’ thousands of words on all manner of topics, hot or cold. Some partisans in this supercharged atmosphere don’t seem to recognize anything but praise for their side as fair comment. Some of the barbs addressed to newspapers show signs of com- Jf you want to compare shapes. I don’t think there’s any comparison: to compare his campaign role and his brother’s Barry Jr., with the roles fection, although we do constant- ly aspire to do it. There are 1,754 newspapers in the. United States. with a comne daily circulation of 58,905,- For better or for worse, those newspapers constitute the world’s finest organ of current informa- Inside Washington Boo to you, too. —Robert Kennedy, to hecklers at a New York City rally. press in line.” : Now none among us claims im- countants and licensed barbers, are subject to human failure. We don’t claim to possess per- Mr. Allen —Rep. William Miller, GOP vice presidential candidate. 4 I just want to say hello to you and bring you this glass of champagne. —August Busch Jr., owner of the pennant-winning St. Louis Cardinals, in congratulating manager Johnny Keane. There’s so much dirt under the White House rug, it would qualify for the soil hear what they’re saying.” . Part of U. S. Embassy Story a covey of reporters and hollered: : “If you're from the press, why don’t you clap? Come a. i Repul ‘ By ROBERT S. ALLEN and PAUL SCOTT of the President’s daughters. The men of today in high places should not distort facts to secure -votes. Siberian Spy Reports Only itary attaches and other per- WASHINGTON — The State Department and the Kremlin are “managing the news” about the harassment and manhan- dling of U.S. embassy personnel traveling outside Moscow. While the two governments have publicly traded strong notes protesting the other’s spy activities, neither Moscow nor Washington authorities have the “guts” to tell the full ominous story of what is taking place. Instead of four incidents in- tion. Whatever ‘the individual reader may think about the editor’s political policy as expressed bank. almost unfailingly on his editorial It is too late to be privitive. It is too late to look. at world’ events through the Soviet-China border, The big mystery in this “‘spyone’s immediate glandular reactions. on-spy” affair is why President It is too late for a simplified anachroJohnson and Premier Khrunistic formula for peace. shchev and their aides have —Secretary of State Dean Rusk. page, he must coneede that he is the most. conscientiously informed reader on the entire globe. It has been customary at this annual Newspaper Week to quote from Thomas Jefferson and other men of substance on thevital role of a free press in a free society. This year we’d also like to advance testimony from the actions of the Press itself. Your newspapers bespeak your confidence and support in such ways as these: ' —tThey constantly seek to advance professional standards volving Americans, there have —Senator Goldwater. been more than 40 during the past year with nearly half of these occurring in Siberia near tacitly tried to keep the lid on Our politics must serve our faith rather than foster fears. No one can serve in the office of president without Even the Holy Ghost eouldn’t get in British embassy personnel and them: around, would never have been published ex- e. —Richard Cardinal Cushing, discussing a very cloistered convent. Goldwater tiger in the South or come backinside it. . Police estimated 10,000 persons at this Negro leaders” ina single sentence. She bespoke her love and the President’s Llewellyn Thompson,- the department’s chief expert on Russia, the two presidential advisers decided that only a bare minimum of details should be released to the American pub- On the recommendation of campaigner. She quoted Robert E. Lee. She integrated “white citizens and | Deputy Undersecretary of State who smilingly bombed the Goldwater citadel by deploring “radical’’ propos- “Tweet ‘Tweet Lady Bird.” . There was some eloquent absenteeism in the club car that abutted the rear platform. Congressman Howard Smith, Democratic patriarch of northern Vir- als:and promised to continue “‘the quest for peace with reason and restraint.” Lynda Bird, the tall and handsome daughter, quickly identified herself with the school children who made up mueh of the crowd, and called upon “all the young people” drawl ‘will lengthen with the train trip. Her claiming of “kinfolk” which did so. well: for the Democratic ticket in 1960 is. stil a trump ecard wherever the | Such was the frost that featured the Stars and Bars fly. Though the Virginia — First Lady’s initial stop in Goldwater country below the Potomac, but. there was plenty of sunshine, and her keynote speech of. the Dixie trip would spread some more.. The ranking state officer to be present at this point: was Democrats are conservative, they are — not impractical, as the President knows, . Lieutenant Governor Mills Godwin, an arch-conservative who is strenuously warming up for next year’s gubernatorial race. With Godwin on the platform was the arch-liberal Gus Johnson, eandidate for Congress in this held district. And .the mayor, the state senator, a legislator and five mem- = of the council, plus three ace cere om: eer STRANGE GOINGS - ON — Deputy Undersecretary, Thompson, a former ambassador to Moscow, even suggested that Secretary Rusk temporarily re- BERRY’S WORLD ally invited, I learned, by the First Lady and by the winsome wife of Hale Boggs, the Democratic whip, and had been importuned ‘‘about 50 times,” I’m told, by influential, party-liners of the state. Senator Harry Byrd, first in the hearts conservative in. his own right but no part of the Byrd organization, wasn’t there, either. lie to avoid creating an emotional anti-Soviet wave in the U.S. strict the activities of U.S. mil- ginia, wasn’t there. He’d been person- ‘of all Virginians and beloved by the President, had declined the train ride with thanks. Senator: Willis Robertson, a strong-arming were in the open, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and presidential assistant McGeorge Bundy, chief foreign policymakerin the ‘White House, hurriedly held a series of backstage conferences and/ decided an official protest through diplomatic channels. Johnson' had ridden this far with his “LBJ for McCloskey,” and a derisive in London. j Mrs. Johnson spoke graciously and with the scatter-shot volume-of a skilled for the entire Southland. She was followed by the President, of them) had-come in peace. President cept for a leak to a newspaper to release information about the the Siberia incident and make breakfast-time, small town stop. None _wife and elder daughter.He saw homemade signs of “LBJ for Bobby Baker,” the hotel rooms of U.S. and Once the initial — of this Put to the Crucial Test deep into the Old Dominion to. wonder whether this lady is going to tame the nel. The most recent lurid incident in Siberia, where Soviet secret police forcibly entered True Temper of the South have to ride the Lady Bird Special very the Russians’ shocking treatment of U.S. embassy) person- being aware of his obligation to all humankind. —President Johnson. Holmes Alexander ALEXANDRAIA, Va. — You don’t to record the speakers’ words, complained: ‘‘They’re acting as nutty as the Democrats. That’s the way they are at their meetings, with their damned cowbells and things. You can’t Timely Quotes —Michael Goldwater, who was asked tors, Jawyers, certified public ac- A grumpy newsman, trying * ing from organized groups who have undertaken to “keep the munity against legitimate criticism. Newspapermen, like doc- virtually every man on the state and county ticket did, and the place exploded in furious sound. vou read their newspapers. For knowledge is the key to liberty and liberty is their goal. They’re willing to settle for most readers most days. ’s name was the label ona magic button. Touch it, as and .as Governor Harrison Against the Lady Bird light touch, and the President’s firmgrasp of politi- cal realities maegat gan bbe sonnel to avoid further incidents before the presidential election. This extraordinary proposal, now under consideration by Rusk, is being actively opposed During one outburst a -woman in the front row glared at Mr. Scott “hard” evidence outside of these CP),Xoure ot good Communist. sources that this Struggle is actually going on. As reported exclusively in an earlier column, a number of advisers around President John- by Defense Department intelli- - son, headed by Bundy and Rusk, gence authorities. They are favor supporting Russia in any stressing that the only ‘‘sure” conflict against China. way the U.S. has of ascertainThis joint action is strongly ing first-hand what transpires opposed by Speaker John Mein certain sections of the Soviet Cormack, D-Mass., next in line police state is to have military attaches there. For example: The only information the U.S. has on what is going on between Russia and Communist China in their bord- to succeed President Johnson. McCormack has told the President that the U.S. should keep hands off in a war between Russia and China. Instead of er area dispute now comes from Communist sources in Moscow, Warsaw and Belgrade.’ When the U.S. and British military attaches were forcibly seized, they were trying to determine the validity of a reputed statement by Khrushchev to a helping either of these atheist Communist regimes, McCormack is urging the President to put pressure on the two Red giants to free the imprisoned people of Poland, Hungary, Rumania, East Germany, the Baltic states, North Viet Nam and North Korea. . ficial that he expects. war with China before the end of the year, probably in December following the presidential election. The mauling incident took place in Khabarovsk, a major Soviet outpost on the Chinese border. At the time, Lieutenant Colonel Karl R. Liewer, US.. assistant military attache, and It. Comdr. Nigel N. Laville, assistant British naval attache, were trying to ascertain whether Russia had made any heavy ] troop movements to the ChineseRussian border. Also, these Western military experts were checking on whether the Russians were preparing any air raid defense for cities in the Soviet military defense area bordering Red China. THE JIG-SAW PUZZLE—USS. knowledge of these Soviet preparations — or lack of preparations — ‘is needed to fill out the jig-saw puzzle on whether the U.S.-CHINA CONFLICT ? — Senator ‘J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., chairman of the Senate high Johnson administration of- upcoming Soviet-China border conflict is ‘the real ag or a“ ” war designed as a Tamils to involve the U.S. Foreign Relations Committee, is taking a completely different stand. The mood was revivalist. In this crowded room there was no notion of defeat for Gold- water, in Illinois or anywhere take some derisive back-of-the-' room shouts of “How. about Goldwater?”’ j Ss It was hard to keep in mind what is being said about Gold- water’s chances by polltakers and others. Nixon, ‘his eyes shining as if he were still the nominee himself, gave the frenzy its last electric charge as he said: “Let it be said this was the date something was started in Cook County and in America . . . let's go out and beat ’em.” The interesting question, naturally, is what will happen to these frenzied Illinois conservatives, and their counterparts in many another state, if Gold- water does not beat Johnson next month. t They do not sound like people who would be ready to roll over and play George Romney or William Scranton Editor's Mailba 110 Nations Share Unicef's Vast Child Welfare Program maternity centers ahd schools: Editor Herald: May we offer a few facts and evaluations about. UNICEF for the benefit of those who may share the doubts expressed in Jim C. Vandygriff’s letter of Oct. 8. United Nations for handicapped children are : ing supported jn , and Yugoslavia. Chil- dren’s Fund, built by contributions from ernments and “It is heartw volved in a.conflict with Communist China: before any Russian-Chinese war. Asked if he favored the U.S. “Tt all depends on the circumstances. I wouldn’t be surprised (Distributed: 1964 by-TheHall Syndicate, Inc.—Ail Rights Reserved) Writer Grateful For Fairness in militarily and financially in the rebuilding of Communist China with a pro-Kremlin leadership. While Khrushchev is having his aides leak out stories of the growing border clashes. with China, U.S. intelligence experts have been unable to obtain any BY JAMES O. BERRY, or Nelson Rockefeller in 1968. else. The public opinion polls which show him trailing far » A Goldwater defeat would bring the moderates storming behind ‘the President were disback. Whatever success they missed as either deliberately or might have in regdining Reaccidentally false. Nixon, well launched on his publican control, it is clear in busy month of campaigning for Chicago that it will not be won Goldwater and other Republi- easily. The Goldwater conservatives, cans around the nation, played his audience for all it was well set in good force in many worth. He tossed out red meat places, must be dealt with for a long time to come. with lines like this: The When questioned: by this’ column, Fulbright said he wouldn’t be surprised to see the U.S. in- myth totally acce by the state’s ardent Republicans. At this noisy assemblage, even moderate Charles Percy— Illinois’ attractive GOP nominee for. governor—was cheered lustily. Yet he was the most sparing in his mention of Goldwater, and for this.he had to being ‘bombarded anti-Goldwater and “‘hate #8 fied every day by all of the many The pursuit of these aims is rewarding in itself. Newspapermen ask no other reward except that Ht hard news, opinion, interpretation and entertainment. Newsmen are pretty much. resigned to the fact that not all readers will be satis- BER men’s to. dodge S avd for BFE battle i the i in g ee ents minds, have even had an ers have been lectured and abused. Columnists, the war correspond- essary electoral majority, even without Illinois. But it is a era gait a beads have been unusually tart. Report- i state and regional associations. —They encourage and sustain z rougher-than- af a qi i if been A has Ag It usual year for a profession accustomed to taking a_ certain ican Society of Newspaper Editors, Sigma Delta Chi and many iufli pital iH i i ath t pH i Wi iTh i | | “right” and “left.” Democrat in Cook County who only votes once.” Nixon was visibly warmed would be president today if it :ae7!n &=5 pina Fy eeZiheaE& i citadel of its own integrity, with arrows through its hat labeled heard Lyndon of an ex- endless assurances that he through professional associations such as the American Newspaper Publishers Association, the Amer- cefy 4E 3%. 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