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Show Meeting of Minds--- Bruce Biossat Bushels of Letters About Civil Rights TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1964 WASHINGTON — (NEA) — A high administration official, commenting on the white backlash against Negro civil rights demands and demonstrations, blurted with some impatience: “Whoever said this country’s northern white population is united on civil rights?” He finds nothing particularly surprising in the expectation that Alabama’s Gov. George Wallace may run up substantial protest votes in the Indiana and Maryland primaries — as he did in Wisconsin early this month. Another leading administration figure underscores this view. He suggests that what Wallace got in Wisconsin and may get in later primaries is perhaps a rockbottom protest, that another southerner with a “better national image” might pull far more. “J have no doubt that a tremendous number of northern white Americans are against the civil rights bill,” adds this second official. Among the evidence for this is the virtual hero status being accorded the only two northern Democratic congressmen whovoted against the big rights bill when it passed the House in mid-February. The two, of course, are Reps. John Lesinski of Michigan’s huge 16th dis- Today’s Editorials Communication, 2-WayStreet Communication is a two-way street. For understanding, ideas and thoughts must travel in both directions. What happens. when, sume- where along the route, traffic snarls? Misunderstanding and confusion can result. In a series of experiments, a Each of the in each group were placed in a specific pattern; the dominoes of the other person (B) were unorganized. “A” was told to tell “B” by telephone how to set up his dominoes in the same pattern, Bell Telephone Laboratories sci- but with this difference: entist has graphically demonstrated the role of two-way communication in tackling a prcblem. In each test, six people were talk to “A.” Result: none of the “Bs” got the pattern right. _@ In Group 1, “B” could not @ In Group 2. “B” could only indicate by pressing a buzzer that he didn’t understand the instructions of ‘‘A,” who was allowed to Twined-Hearts, repeat the instructions. Result: some of the “Bs” got the pattern Automated right. Romanceis one field of human endeavor which you might think would be immuneto the advances of technology. And yet matchmaking machines—kissing cousins to computers—are programing Cupid right out of a job. It all started when some unromantic soul went into partner- SE divided into pairs. six was given a set of dominoes. The dominoes of one person (A) @ In Group 3, “B” could talk to “A.” Result: all of the “Bs” got the pattern right. When interviewed after the tests, “As” in Group 1 thought the “Bs” were dim, since they couldn’t understand simple instructions. But the “Bs” felt the “As” couldn’t explain things. ship with an electronic business The Group 2 participants ex- machine andset it to work pairing off young men and women in compatible twosomes. As a result, matchmaking centers have been set up in several major cities. Business, according to the boy-meet-girl people, couldn’t be better. pressed similar views, but not quite as strongly. Only the Group 3 people—who had been permitted full two-way communication—felt happy about of you like jazz, hate olives, are closed. Small wonder, then, that a com- “Miss Brown,” the machine might say, “meet Mr. Smith. Both allergic to cats and take long walks. You’re ideally suited to each other. Have fun.” Actually, the machines don’t match personality to personality but, the unromantic process of card elimination, find two or three suitable mates for the inquiring client. Someone who’s looking for a mother-image, for example, wouldn’t be happy with a clinging vine. Tf automated romance becomes fashionable, where will it all end? Perhaps your great-grandchildren will depend for introductions on the local computer, instead of today’s overworked mutual friends. Or young couples may have to apply to a computer for compatibility tests before being issued a marriage license. But be of good cheer: A computer will never be able to program so unpredictable an item as love in the male-female relationship. And love, they say, conquers all. Even computers. the experiment. The tests seem to showthat it’s easy to misunderstand, misinterpret and become completely confused when two-way channels are mon phrase these days is, “Well, what I meant to say was...” Timely Quotes Under the shadow of Communist power, ‘‘neutralization’’ would in reality be an interim device to permit Communist consolidation and eventual takeover (of South Viet Nam). —Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. To hell with your aid. We can do without aid. We'll never collapse. —Indonesia’s Sukarno comments on statement that there’ll be no more aid for Indonesia until Malaysia dispute is settled. Wewill be laying up a harvest of woe for us and our children if we shrink from the task of grappling in the world community with poverty and ignorance. —President Johnson, in submitting $3.4 billion foreign aid program to Congress. : Holmes Alexander _ Three Kennedy White House ',, Aides Still With Johnson WASHINGTON, D.C. — Myer (Mike) Feldman, a tall, tennis-playing Philadelphian has been the defacto White House legal officer since January, 1961, but only since the departure of Ted Sorensen has he taken over thetitle of special counsel to the President. Sorensen was essentially a speech-writer and idea-man. Feldman’s upgrading tells something of the Johnson side of the quiet revolution, called by the President ‘“continuity without confusion,” which has occurred at the White House since last November. We read much about the departure of Sorensen, Schlesinger, Salinger, Reardon and Bellino. We read little of those devoted Kennedy-men who have stayed on with Johnson — and why. Feldman was in an airplane over the Pacific when he heard the shocking news from Dallas. He immediately wrote out his resignation, unable to believe that he could ever transfer his loyalty to another man. In this feeling, and his subsequent change of heart, Feldman is like a number of others on the White House staff. They have now come to think of Johnson as the only man on earth to be the inheritor of their deep attachment to JFK. They have imaginatively reconstructed the ticketsthat-might-have-been in 1960. Not one of the other possible running mates with John Kennedy, it is now conceded, could have kept so many, and lost so few, of the apostolical band that followed Kennedy into power. How has Lyndon Johnson evoked this transfer of loyalty? Quite obviously, his adoption of the Kennedy domestic program, and abovethat, his immense success in putting it over in Congress, have been the prime persuaders. Less known, but of greater emotional force, has been his fervid personal appeals, and those of think, kept from the country, has been Johnson’s higher personalized, transworld telephone diplomacy with foreign leaders in every international crisis. Only one of these frequent discussions and exhortations, the one with President Chiari of Panama, has been publicized. I hope later, with permission, to report on someof the others. Meanwhile, there is no doubt that Johnson’s standing as a foreign relations operative is much higher inside the White House than outside — whatever that may mean for the country. Feldman would be hard to replace because of his special experience as the President’s personal lawyer. He studies all bills as they pass Congress and writes the legal opinion on whether they should be signed or vetoed and with what comment. He writes all presidential proclamations and drafts the executive orders which frequently define the President’s personal power in dramatic actions like Moyers Becoming Dominant " 7 Assistant In White House Mr. Allen A e BERRY’S WORLD foreign interventions, the recognition of quick-change governments, as recently became necessary in Brazil. All tariff decisions and all international air routes are the President’s personal decision, and are the work of his chief counsel. trict, and Walter Baring, Nev- e tic National Committee’s pubBy ROBERT S. ALLEN licity department. and PAUL SCOTT At present, Moyers is waging WASHINGTON — Bill Moyers, a backstage battle with Carter 30-year-old ordained Baptist and Jenkins to expand this minister, is rapidly emerging as mushrooming empire. Heis trythe dominant figure on Presiinng to add to the White House dent Johnson’s White House staff Wilson D. McCarthy, constaff. gressional relations officer of With the same “‘can do’’ forcethe Peace Corps. fullness that his boss constantly proclaims, Moyers has comWhile the Carter - Jenkins mandeered the office previously team has temporarily blocked occupied by Theodore Sorensen, McCarthy’s official transfer, No. 1 aid of the late President Moyers has given his private Kennedy. ie House pass to McCarthy, From behind his impressive wiho is serving as his private new desk, Moyers has take “messenger’’ to Attorney Genover the direction of the entire eral Kennedy. White House staff, including the White House insiders report recruiting of new members and that McCarthy can be seen trotstaffing of key positions in other ting back and forth between the government agencies. White House and Justice DepartUnder a private agreement ment several times a day with with Kenneth O’Donnell, a foran occasional call at Sargent mer Kennedy aide now serving Shriver’s anti-poverty office. as Johnson’s appointment secreWhat McCarty does, if anything, tary, Moyers has been given the for the Peace Corps is the big final say on all visitors’ appointmystery at the White House. ments. Moyers, still officially on the A slender Texan who has been Peace Corps payroll at $20,000 a at Johnson’s side since the new year, holds the titles of ‘‘assistPresident succeeded Kennedy, ant to the President” and ‘‘deputy director” of the Peace Moyers is using the Peace Corps. Corps, where he had served as deputy director, to recruit new By wearing both hats concurrently and commandeering Sorstaff members for both the White House and the Democraensen’s former: office, Moyers tic National Committee. has succeeded in becoming the most influntial member of the Despite the violent objections White House staff in less than of such trusted Johnson aides as four months. Special Assistant Walter Jenkins and Clifton Carter, the The big question reportedly being raised by such Johnson President’s top political adviser veterans as Jenkins and CarMoyers has succeeded in bringing back into the White House ter, who are constantly being Richard Goodwin, the former out-maneuvered by the young minister, is how does Moyers free-wheeling Latin American plan to use his new power be“expert” who favors normaliztween now and the last week in ing U. S. relations with ComAugust, when the Democratic munist Dictator Castro. national convention meets to Goodwin, whose Latin Amernominate its presidential canican capers with pro-Castro didate. politicians got him quietly Moyers, liaison man between shifted to the Peace Corps unthe Johnson and Kennedy der the late President Kennedy, groups during the 1960 presidenis back at his old stomping grounds, writing speeches and tial campaign, already is shooting for a kingmaker’s role at handling special assignments the convention. from Moyers. BUILDING AN EMPIRE — He and O’Donnell are reorMoyers also has succeeded in ganizing the powerful ‘Presibreaching the tight defenses of dent’s Club,” which consists of Clifton Carter, long-time John$1,000-a-year donors to the Demson .aide, by installing Lloyd ocratic party. Traveling togethWright, another Peace Corps er on overnight hops from Washofficial and staunch supporter of ington to major cities, they have Attorney General Robert Kenbeen soliciting members while privately boosting Bobby Kennedy, as head of the Democra- strike intervention, the use of troops in BY JAMES O. BERRY Mr. Scott nedy for a place on the 1964 ticket. * * * INSIDE WHITE HOUSE — When White House visitors ask Kenneth O’Donnell, the late President Kennedy’s closest political adviser, whether Attorney General Robert Kennedy would accept the vice presidency with President Johnson, he replies: “T can’t believe any Democrat would turn down the President, if asked.” . . . At the moment, O'Donnell is convinced that Johnson is in better political shape throughout the country than President Kennedy was at the time of his assassination. He stresses that Johnson has picked up strength for the party in the Rocky Mountain states and the Far West . . . The Chief Usher has complained to the First Lady that so manyactivities are now going on in the White House that the staff simply does not have time to keep the President’s home in order. Tours now last until 2:00 p.m. instead of noon each day, and with an average of two luncheons, a musical and tea every day, the staff is overworked. “We don’t even have time to change the light bulbs,” he reported . . . Photographers assigned to take pictures of Mrs. Johnson say she is becoming more sensitive, claiming the popping flash bulbs hurt her eyes .. . A State Departmentreports reveals that more than 80,000 messages are received each day, of which 1,000 are sent to the White House. PITTSBURGH — Methodist Bishop Gerlad Kennedy urging abolition of the denomination’s administratively segregated central jurisdiction: “We are dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, all men are brothers, and all men are eternal worth in the eyes of God.” ada’s sole representative. Both have been showered with hundreds of commendatory letters and telegrams, mostly from their own constituents, but now and then from more distant precincts. Baring has received only a handful of disapproving letters, while Lesinski’s correspondence runs 2 to 1 in support of his stand-out vote. The Michigan lawmaker is the only Democrat on the “‘no” side who represents a highly urbanized district liberally Editor Herald: Although I in no way intend to defend the writings of Frank C. Robertson, or government in general, I do feel the comments of Mrs. Sharon Ferwerda about our “unemployment plan” do need a rebuttal. First of all, Mrs. Ferwerda demonstrated her ignorance of the Unemployment Insurance Act by calling it a “pension.” For her information (and anyone else who might be interested) the program wasset up because “economic insecurity due to unemployment is a serious menace to the health, morals, and welfare of the peopleof this state.” It is paid for entirely by employers through payroll taxes and, therefore, is not in a direct sense government money, nor does it come out of the worker’s pocket. Government has only two functions as far as unemployment insurance moneys are concerned, and they are the collection of the money and the payment of same to qualified workers in time of need. Mrs. Ferwerda’s statement about people welcoming a period of unemploymentso they cansit eral Bob Kennedy. Perhaps it will not be bridged until we hear that the Democratic ticxet for 1964 willbe Jormsom and Robert Kennedy. é a ployment benefits in the State of Utah. Of this number, 4,324, or 16.2 per cent were not unemployed long enough to draw any benefits. Furthermore, only 18.7 per cent of all the workers exhausted their entitlement. The average weeks duration of all unemployed workers was 12.5 weeks, which overwhelmingly indicates the greatest percentage of workers draw benefits only when they need them, and then only for a short period of time. Anyone who wishes additional information on the Unemployment Insurance Act would be welcome at the local Employment Security Office. Larry K. Wardle 439 N. 250 E., Orem Wall Street Chatter NEW YORK (UPI) — Reyn- Wife In a Mood? You Talk Her Out ofIt Don’t look now, gentlemen, but it may not be a man’s world much longer. A judge has refused to grant a legal separation to a man merely because his wife calls him names and slaps him around. And here’s the judge’s explanation for his decision: ‘“‘Wives are creatures of mood. If they get into a mood,it is up to the husband to get them outof it. Tell them they’re wonderful and makea fuss _ over them.” lesson. Either that, or to look her in the eye and say, ‘You're behaving like a child.” The men have gotter. away with indulging their own moods, while expecting their wives to be “more adult” in controlling their own. Now a judge says a husband can’t just walk out on his wife the country and for the consternation of all‘those, here and abroad, who wished to see the administration fall apar@ back and collect their unemployment pension is also a broad generalization which» does not hold up under even the briefest examination. For example, during the calendar year 1963, 26,686 workersfiled a claim for unem- olds & their emotions have oriented toward JFK’s attorney general rather than to- still yawns in the personal relations between the President and Attorney Gen- While the complainants bespeak freedom, individual rights andstates’ rights as they commend Baring, only rarely do they charge that the legislation is Communist-inspired. One writer called it “the socialist omnibus bill of 1963.” Lesinski says his mail, too, exhibits marked emphasis on the ‘‘federai control’ theme, though manyof his letters get into specifics. What is unclear, as the bill stands before the Senate, is how effective these generalized broadsides may be. They indicate discontent — but of the same order as usually accompanies almost any major federal legislation. About ‘Unemployment Plan’ Forever and ever, that’s the way wives have been handling their husbands because, forever and ever, women have been taught that men are creatures of mood, who have to be babied, sweet-talked, admired, coaxed and flattered. But men have never been taught to handle a woman in such toa ’s moods a fashion. The pted and unreasonable behavior is to walk out of the house, slam the ward his former vice president. Strangely whatever chasm that ever existed between Lyndon Johnson and John Kennedy has been bridgéd. But a chasm “I don’t think this bill is the answer.” Rebuttal Given to Letter Three other White House staffers — specialists in matters affecting legislation, Latin American affairs and national military security — are today still lingering at the banks of their Rubieons, uncertain whether to stay with Johnson or leave him. If they leave, it will be partly because Mrs. Johnson to wives of the staffers, that they close ranks for the good of known at all, and foolishly, I Allen-Scott Report sprinkled with nationality minorities and some Negroes (roughly 60,000 in a total population of 804,000). Nevada has a mere 15,000 Negroes. At the time of this writing, Lesinski’s mail on the subject was not. available for perusal. But this reporter had a look at half a hundred or more of Baring’s letters. Few of those read showed any of the usual signs of inspired ‘‘organization mail.” Many were scrawled on cheap paper. The mostsiriking thing about them was huw few made any reference to the specifics of the pending civil rights legislation, or to Negroes. The bill is assaulted basically as a ‘‘grab for federal power” as a measure leading toward dictatorship and a snuffing out of individual rights. This theme is, of course, one that is hammered ceaselessly by lobbying foes of the civil rights bill. One way or another, it seems to have reached the ears of countless citizens. Some letter writers insist they favor granting Negroes full citizenship rights, but add door majestically, and stay out until the wife has learned her and call it quits because she isn’t always sweetly reasonable and easy to live with. He acknowledges that women, being human, are creatures of mood, too, and he goes even a step further to say it’s a husband’s duty to sweet-talk his wife into behaving herself. That’s the kind of equality women could get used to in a hurry — even though it is the kind men are going to be reluctant ‘to grant. Co. says the recent heavy selling on the stock market reflects investor distrust of the speculation Canadian mining stocks and traders taking their profits after anticipating most of the good business news. But Reynolds views the 'selloff as a healthy correction and looks for “real support” to develop around the 810 level of the Dow-Jones average. The brokerage house adds that it does not see a good reason at this time to sell investment grade securities. Walt McKibben of Forbes In- vestographs notes that interest is starting to shift away from the bluest chips toward secondary issues. But McKibben states that investors who look for a resurgence in speculative stocks, special situations, and over-the-counter stocks ‘‘are being a bit previous. JOHNSON PLAYS GOLF WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Johnson took advantage of sunny weather Sunday to get in a round of golf. The President played at the Country ‘Club, where golfed several times this . |