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Matter of Fact The Puzzle The Southern Strategy Jj Is Segregationist Strategy iK: Published at 285 Broad Street, Hartford 1, Connecticut Friday Morning, December 7, 1962 Established 1764 The Oldest Newspap er of Continuous Publication in America LA By Joseph Alsop Washington The predicted Republican flirtation with Senator Barry Gold-water's Southern strategy has already started. The temptation of the Republican gains in the South in the last election is proving to be strong indeed. Hence the Southern strategy's pros and cons will certainly be the main topic of the Republican National Committee meeting here. This is one of the reasons why the Republican National Chairman, Representative William Miller, has announced in advance that the committee meeting will be held behind carefully closed doors. The Image of the State G.O.P.

Success in politics depends on a judicious mixing of the practical and the ideal. The breaks help, too. But it is the intuitive art of knowing when to stand on principle, and when to give in to mankind as it is, that wins elections. The political pros are often so concerned with the practical that their men don't get elected. The idealists ditto, in reverse.

Nicholas B. Eddy, a young lawyer in politics, still has things to learn about the practical side of the trade, including how to get preferment within the party. Nevertheless he also has something to say, along lines that some might dismiss as idealism, that have their practical side. For the most practical factor of all in Connecticut politics right now is the registration figures: Republicans, Democrats, independents. 488,064.

Wholly apart from the current maneuvering, these registration figures give point to something Mr. Eddy said yesterday to his fellow Republicans in the House: It it my belief we have been too timid too concerned with our image. We must now direct all our efforts toward down-to-earth accomplishment. The image will take care of itself. This is not as easy as we think.

In my book, it means voting out the party lever, which carries many in this House to victory without the persona) effort and expense other have promised India military aid too, Pakistan1 is annoyed not only by this strengthening of the foe but because in the minds of the Ayub opposition at any rate the West seems to be neglecting an old ally's interests, or in short Pakistan's claims to Kashmir. The West will doubtless try to placate Pakistan as far as practicable, and if President Ayub comes to some understanding with India, it will help, of course. But what the West realizes is that India's plight is far more important in the face of Communist aggression. If Pakistan in turn wants to do something for its old allies, it might drop its Kashmir quarrel for the moment and line up with the West against Red China. The Food Crusade The holiday season is a time for gift buying in the prosperous countries.

But in a good share of the world it is only a time to go on worrying about getting enough food to end ever-present hunger. The food crusade of CARE is now at its holiday season peak. Gifts of American food are sent to children, refugees, disaster victims, and destitute families in Africa. Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Most of the food comes from American abundance, and can be easily spared.

The aim of the crusade is to deliver 7.5 million packages to the needy of 20 countries. Most of these people are never sure of their next meal. Contributions at the rate of $1 a package will complete the plan to help feed 26 million hungry people during the coming year. The gifts are linked with CARE part-nership programs whereby local governments pay distribution costs. The food crusade benefits hungry people without regard to their faith or country.

This is the essence of the Christmas spirit. Gifts of dollars should be sent to CARE Food Crusade, New York 16, N.Y. The People's Forum worst of the extreme right-winger, there are few Northern Republicans who can forget that the Southern strategy has moral implications as well as practical temptations. The difficulty is, however, that a preliminary decision will have to be made by the opening of the next Congressional session. The fact is that the change in the House rules, enlarging the Southern-dominated Rules Committee, lapses at the end of this year.

Hence a new rules fight is unavoidable. The Northern Democrats, with White House encouragement, seem likely 'to sponsor a change in the rules more radical than mere enlargement of the Rules Committee. The scheme now being bruited is a rule permitting a mere majority of the House to bring any bill to the floor after the Rules Committee has sat upon it for 21 days. This would effectively, break the Rules Committee's ancient power over legislation. Renewed enlargement of the Rules Committee is the obvious compromise measure.

Even for this compromise, however, Republican votes will almost certainly be essential. On the previous, occasion, the change in the rules carried by a majority of five, with 21 Republicans voting for it. This year, a minimum of 16 Republicans will be needed, according to Democratic leadership calculations. In the last session of the outgoing Congress, most of the Republicans who voted for the rules change were subsequently transformed into mere robots, under the command of House Republican Leader Charles Halleck, grand author of the Republican-Southern Democratic coalition. If the Republicans in the next House vote as solidly behind Halleck as they were doing a few months ago, the rules change will not carry.

Defeat of the rules change, in turn, will be a major initial triumph for the advocates of the Goldwater idea. It will be so advertised by all the Northern Democrats, from the President on down. It can be the sort of episode, in fact, that almost constitutes a Republican commitment to the Southern strategy. The answers to two questions must therefore be awaited with eager interest. First, will all the Republicans in the next House continue to follow Halleck, which means taking the Goldwater line? And second, will the other Republican Presidential hopefuls, and Governor Nelson A.

Rockefeller in particular, continue to stand aside from this fight, which has so much meaning for the party's future? 1941 York Hwald Trlbun Inc. Closed doors are desirable for a discussion of the Southern strategy, at least by Northerners, because it is basically a segregationist strategy. The ugly word is not and will not be used, of course. Powerful admiration for states' rights will be professed instead. But-this amounts to the same thing in the present circumstances.

The idea, long advocated by Senator Goldwater, is that most Southern Democrats are deeply disillusioned with their own party, and will change parties for good if the Republicans make the correct sympathetic noises about states' rights. This is now a portmanteau phrase, into which is packed the notion that the Supreme Court has been wrong about desegregation. The corollary of this basic idea is that the Republicans are impractical fools to worry about the Northern Negro voters, because nothing will tempt the Negroes from their solid Democratic The idea's glittering aim, finally, is an election in which the Republicans will take just about all the Southern electoral votes, plus enough above the Mason and Dixon Line to regain the White House. In the last election, the Northern Negro voting gave a color of practicality to the Goldwater idea, as did the vote for Republicans in the South. Hence the Northern Republicans who would be most damaged by adoption of the Goldwater idea, like Senator Jacob Javits and Kenneth Keating of New York, are already crying out in anguished warning.

Meanwhile the Republicans of the extreme right have held a rally in Chicago, conspicuously attended by the ultra segregationist fuel-oil salesman, James D. Martin, who came within a hair of taking the veteran Lister Hill's Alabama Senate seat. The lines, in short, are beginning to be drawn. If there were plenty of time in hand for the Republican decision, one could be pretty confident of the ultimate rejection of the Gojdwater idea, at least in its extreme form. Except for the Anything for a Laugh To the Editor of The Courant: I am deeply aroused concerning a record album called "The First Family." It is most un-American regardless of ones political affiliations and nationality.

I have yet to see anything that could arouse more animosity. For instance: Question: "What do you think of the chances for a Jewish President?" Next you hear, supposedly, the voice of the President. "I think they are pretty good. I don't see why a person of the Jewish faith could not be the President of the United States. I know as a Catholic I could never vote for him, other than that As a member of the American Legion Auxiliary, Unit Number 2, Bristol, Connecticut this is not the way I interpret the preamble to the Constitution of the American Legion Auxiliary.

Is there no censorship of records? Can anything be sold for a laugh? Marian V. Chamberlain Bristol Noise in the Age of Anxiety Behind the Headlines Unrest in the World By Ralph McGtll The Courant welcomes letters to the editor, which must he accompanied by name and address of the writer. Please use one side of paper only, and double' spaced typing where possible. The Courant reserves the right to condense letters before publication and the shorter the letter the better its chance of publication. had been defeated and the war was over.

Chamberlain, involved in a hectic political campaign, siezed the opportunity and announced to the English people that complete victory had been achieved. Lord Roberts was brought home and awarded the Order of the Garter, an Earldom. All this to impress on the British people something that was not so, as the third and decisive war proved. It was in this third Boer War that Kitchener won his great reputation. The diplomatic exchanges of that day read exactly like the present verbal emanations from both sides reported in today's newspapers, and were about as effective.

Khrushchev and his forces may be withdrawing from Cuba but they, like the Boers, are only making a strategic withdrawal. Let us not overestimate the present widely acclaimed success in Cuba. Words mean nothing in today's world. It is only facts that count. C.

O. Lawes Old Saybrook Drifting Along To the Editor of The Courant: This concerns the letter by John See published in The Courant December 4. Mr. See accuses those understandably averse to contributing to the welfare of persons whose motives are inimical to the welfare of the nation, of having a lower mentality than his implied expansive mental endowment. I refer to his championship of Pete Seeger, a phony folksong singer.

Mr. See feels that Seeger is as pure as newly fallen snow because of Seeger's supposed artistry, and therefore should be supported in the attempts to ridicule the nation. Seeger may have been pure as the driven snow but he drifted. Since when does on artist, real or phony, become superior to the people of the nation and the laws governing the security of the country? Further consideration of Mr. See's letter leads this writer to think of those who, because of their own false image of their supposed exalted intellectuality, are always ready to ridicule those of rational minds because of the latter's reluctance to support anything questionable.

Richard Markey Hartford Be Ready to Fight At the Drop of a Hat To the Editor of The Courant: It seems that this Administration is more interested in building up a royal family and side stepping and pussy footing around with Castro and Khrushchev. Our forefathers would fight at the drop of a hat if any man, beast, or country tried to threaten American principles. They would have given Castro 24 hours to show proof that those missiles and bombers are not in Cuba, or we would send our men in there to make sure. George W. Read Manchester The creator of Tom Swift is dead.

This generation of boys may have to be reminded that Tom invented a lot of stuff that hasn't been invented yet. wise required. It means passing a bill to protect the equal voting rights of our citizens by -districting the State Senate. (I believe this can be done constitutionally in this session.) It positively means voting the second round constitutional amendment, cutting the size of the House, even though this will prevent the return of almost half of this body. It means outlawing racial discrimination In even one housing unit.

It means doing something to spread the school tax base. It means doing something significant to Improve educational opportunities and standards and providing the money. Not everyone will agree with this prescription. Yet It is true that he who worries about what the current cliche calls his image is likely to come out with an image that is ludicrous. A still older cliche has it that actions speak louder than words.

It is not so much who gets What job, what public attitudes are struck, or what other image-cultivating actions are taken lhat will determine results. What the G.O.P. docs now, notably in the coming General Assembly, will loom large in determining the outcome next time around, in November, 1964. Less Record-Keeping On Expense Accounts The critical response to proposed new regulations to curb expense account spending have brought changes that will be welcomed by the business community. The Internal Revenue Service intends to relax the requirements for record keeping.

This was the point of most of the objections. Complete details of every small sum spent on travel, entertainment, or gifts are not needed to stop the abuse of the tax-exemption privilege. Such record keeping would have been a burden for people who had legitimate expenses. In a statement explaining the changes that will be made, Commissioner Mortimer M. Caplin said it has been difficult to draw a line between the personal element and the business element in expenditures.

Tax deductions have been allowed for unsubstantiated estimates, and often with inadequate proof. The tax laws encouraged luxury spending as a charge on the Treasury. Congress acted to check this spending, without ending legitimate entertainment de-ductions. Under the new rules the taxpayer will not be required to keep records of the amount spent, the timt and place in a complete form. Expenses that do not exceed a given amount may be excepted.

There is a chance that the present $10 limit may be raised to give further relief from record keeping. Hotels and restaurants benefit from much of the expense account spending. New regulations may not go far enough to satisfy them. Hie government expects more than $85 million in additional tax revenues from the restrictions. The new rules will go into effect January 1.

Last minute changes should give comfort to those to whom the new system threatened to be a hardship. An Over-the-Barrcl Act In Pakistan Politics While India burns, the politicians of Pakistan continue to fiddle around. The government of President Mohammad Ayub Khan realizes that it now has Premier Nehru over a barrel, while the opposition is quite aware it has Ayub Khan in a similar spot, with the added possibility of gelling the United States and Britain into a like uncomfortable position. India and Pakistan have been drawing bead on each other for a long time now over which one Kashmir belongs to. With the Red Chinese staving in the front door of Assam, Mr.

Nehru would surely like to shift as many Indian forces as possible from the back door Pakistan border. He has therefore abandoned his former adamant stand that the Kashmir problem could not be negotiated, and agreed to talk it over with President Ayub, In any discussions, the Pakistan leader has more at stake than Kashmir acreage. His own future oems tied to the bargain. Opposition parties in Pakistan have been fuming over the Constitution President Ayub promulgated in the spring. It still cramps their style, they say, and is insufficiently democratic for the country.

Ayub Khan can read the handwriting, and he has already played along with the Assembly by saying Pakistan should patch up its relations with Red China, and by agreeing to a continuous assessment of defense pacts with Western countries. At the moment, the Western countries are mine concerned about the falc of India than the future of Kashmir. This has irked the Pakistan Assembly, whose outlook is more parochial than international. Pakistan belongs both to SEATO and CENTO partly because the Ayub regime is Western oriented, but evert more because Pakistan has wanted the West on its side in its arguments with India. Membership in the two treaty organizations has meant military aid for Pakistan, as well as a feeling of friends in court.

Now that United States and Britain The Facts of Life In a Nuclear Age To the Editor of The Courant: The facts of life in a nuclear age are not pleasant but they are simple and definite. In the event of a nuclear conflict there can be no victor, only losers and death. These are the facts and they are not pleasant. If one faces them and accepts them, he can see that war is not a possible solution to any world problem. War might end the problem, but only because of the end of us as a people.

In view of this situation those who cry out for action against Cuba, or state that tlrv fear we may have to negotiate, or say that when we don't fight we are obviously either stupid or Communists, are doing our country a disservice. If we are to preserve our way of life in America, it can only be through negotiation entered into fairly and honestly. We must seek and support actions which will lessen the strains in the world. If we do this we have a chance. When we as Americans let our government know that we favor a policy aimed at peaceful alternatives rather than an overwhelming military power then we can begin to head in a direction of national security.

Emil J. Slowinski, Jr. Storrs Words Mean Nothing To the Editor of The Courant: If the young men in Washington had read history they would see an exact repetition in today's Cuban incident of what happened in the Second Boer War. Yes, there were actually three Boer wars. second war was in 1900 when Lord Roberts and Kitchner came to South Africa with large forces of new troops.

The troops after some fighting did force back the Boers and relieved Mafeking and other besieged towns. However it did little to seriously damage the Boer army, which only made a strategic withdrawal. At the close of the war the Boer army was stronger than ever, though widely scattered. Lord Roberts telegraphed Samuel Chamberlain, the Colonial Secretary, that the Boer army Laughing Matter Noise is often said to be one of the greatest forces at work tearing the human mechanism apart in the modern age, and persons Who live in the vicinity of airports angrily declare you can say that again. Propeller driven planes are noisy enough, but the steadily increasing number of jets is driving them out of their minds.

The complaints have now snowballed to a point where the House Commerce Committee in Washington kas called a panel of experts for advice on what can be done about the situation. The experts, including officials of the Federal Aviation Agency, Civil Aeronautics Board, and airlines and pilots association, have melancholy words for the complainants. Airplane noise has been reduced just about as far as it can be, they say. It cannot be cured so it will have to be endured. The opinion of the FAA spokesman was partly philosophical.

This is an age of anxiety, he observed, when anxious people are easily irritated and airplane noise is only one more element in it. Some of the airlines resorted to economic defense. The aviation industry has spent $50 million to design noise suppressors, and $73 million to buy and install them, Bnd they still cost the airlines $36 million a year because they reduce a plane's payload capacity. But what all the panel agreed on is that further devices to decrease sound, or further changes in the maneuvering of planes, will endanger flight safety. The FAA and CAB both emphasize there can be no compromise of safety requirements to achieve less noise.

This is an argument that certainly cannot be combatted, particularly in view of the rash of plane disasters around the world. Not that they were due to noise-reducing equipment. But air safety is an increasingly important subject by the minute, and no factor of it can be put to more risk than man and nature provide already. Stamford They Can Catch Bookies The successful Stamford raid by federal authorities and the state police again raises the question of how effectively local police in Connecticut are enforcing the anti-gambling laws. Time and again, in Hartford and elsewhere, state and federal authorities have moved in to make arrests that one would naturally assume should be made by local police.

Theoretically there is no one who should know about book making and bookmakers faster than the local policeman who is right on the spot. If he does not know, or knowing does nothing about it, one may assume there are good reasons for his lack of initiative. And not always, let it be said, is the fault in the police. It has long been a tradition in the larger cities of Connecticut that certain bookmakers lead charmed lives. On the rare occasions when they are arrested charges are usually modified and the courts are often quite lenient, much preferring to levy a fine than to send these characters packing off to jail.

And on those extremely rare occasions when a group of bookies are sent to jail the influence lhat acts as an invisible shield around them sets to work and invariably they are released before the termination of their sentences. A new element has entered the picture by the renewed activity of the Federal Government. Bookies are now being charged with the federal offense of operating without a gambling stamp. This means that the local courts of the state can be short-circuited and the defendants brought before a federal judge. At least one of these, Judge William H.

Timbers, has already announced his belief that the courts have been too soft on bookies. Suiting action to his words he has already sent a few bookies into durance vile, a thing that violates the bc-kind-to-bonkies philosophy that seems to dominate most spheres of local government. It is reassuring to know that the Federal Government appears to be immune to the influences that seem to operate in local areas. But one can only wonder just how far political influence dominates police and local The lid has never really been taken off. But occasional symptoms that appear indicate that there is a great deal more to the situation than meets the eye.

jr An educational convention is told that teachers need a ense of humor. It's helpful to be able to laugh at the least little thing such as the pay check. Dietitians warn us that the day should start with a good, hearty breakfast. Anything, in fact, except an alarm clock. The bluntest and most accurate answer to why we should be' concerned is that we must be, if we are to survive." We can extract from this conclusion one part of it which should convince even those who regard themselves as isolationists, pragmatists, or, as we say, "realists." By now, as we move on toward the glad new year of 1963, there surely is no person of any intellectual sensitivity whatever who believes that civilization can escape the political results of the seething unrest of the masses of peoples in the world who are hungry, miserable, and who, for the first time in the world's history, are awara that in other parts of the world there is food, there is medical care, there is housing, there is education, there is a chance at a life short of wretchedness.

The Communists have sought to sell the idea that communism struck off the bonds of illiteracy; that communism would create a world in which people would not die for lack of a doctor or medicine; that children did not need to die of They have not succeeded. Mr. Hoffman believes the U.N. can do the job. He also believes that those nations which participate will profit.

And so I say to the little old lady, and to all of her mentality, that even if they do not agree they owe it to themselves to know the facts of their world. Mr. Hoffman's book is a good primer. Bristles By Christopher Billopp Bristles are that part of a toothbrush which brushes the teeth. When the toothbrush is new the bristles are firmly embedded in the framework of the brush.

As the toothbrush ages the bristles loosen. Then an occasional bristle is discovered in the mouth. Bristles do not melt or disintegrate. This leads to fear of what might happen if one were swallowed and lodged in the throat; or if it got farther down and remained as foreign matter in one of the organs of the body. When a loose bristle is found in the mouth should the toothbrush be immediately discarded? One loose bristle is hardly enough to justify" such drastic action.

It will be hoped that this is an exception and all the other bristles will hold fast. But it is seldom a single bristle is loose. Several days, or perhaps a week or two, may pass without another appearing. Then, just as the matter is forgotten, another loose bristle will turn up to cause further alarm and reopen the issue. (I dedicate this piece to a little old lady I do not know and whom I have seen only once.

She was short and plump. Her gray hair showed beneath a small crimson hat. She wore a pepper-and-salt cloth coat. Her glasses wre gold-rimmed. At the end of a talk, in a Midwestern city, she came to the edge of the platform, clutched the cuff of my trousers and tugged- at them for attention.

"Young man," she said (flatterer that she was), "don't you know the United Nations is bankrupting the United States and is filled only with Communists." I replied that I did not. "It is," she said and, smiling sweetly, departed. I forgot to note whether or not she wore tennis shoes.) Agreement of the Russians to the election of Burma's able Thant as Secretary General of the United Nations is a development growing out of the Cuban complex. This is a hopeful development. It may enable us to focus attention on the United Nations as a mechanism for avoiding war, if not for bringing peace on earth, good will to men.

If, now, the Soviets will come forward with their share of the special assessments, there might indeed be an opportunity to proceed also with the necessary job of attacking, not on a charitble, gift basis, the corrosive, destructive poverty and misery in which almost half the world's population lives. The cynics, with their scorn of "do-gooders," have sicklied over with the pale cast of ridicule the fact that the people in two-thirds of the world actually earn about the equivalent of half a loaf of bread a day. These persons, largely from the extreme political right, have distorted a problem we must face. They have implied that this world condition exists only in the imagination of "do-gooders" and "one worlders." We can face the facts a great deal better if we read "World Without Want" by Paul Hoffman. It was Hoffman who directed the Marshal plan to success.

It is he who is managing director of the United Nations Special Fund. The book admits mistakes of the past, but points tc an inescapable fact, we cannot evade the condition which exists. The political and economic instabilities of the Congo, of Algeria, of others of the new African nations, those of America; the impact of hunger on the governments of many nations such as India, Pakistan, and others around the globe, should enable us to understand some of Mr. Hoffman's conclusions. One is: "Morally we cannot escape concern; politically the seething unrest demands it, economically, we will gain from it.

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