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Ex-Prisoner Distorts Picture Of
South In National Publication
(WRAL-TV VIEWPOINT, Channel 5, Raleigh, N. C.)
Wind up a Harry Golden doll and it climbs the nearest
soap box to spout off a monotonous stream of insults about
the South. Wind it again and it sits down to a typewriter
and dashes off distortions and untruths about the South,
and its people. Wind it a third time and it stands m. the
corner saying, “What a clever, enlightened fellow am I”.
The very predictable Mr. Golden was in Chapel Hill the
other night—as he very often is—and his theme was the
same as always: a recitation about how r unlovely and how
backwards and how bigoted he has found Southern people
to be. Fortunately for Mr. Golden, his neighbors seldom
are given equal time to give their appraisals of him. Mr.
Golden has no fancy for debates; he ran out on one in Ral
eigh several months ago. Obviously, in Mr. Golden’s judg
ment, the giving of both sides of an argument is carrying;
this business of enlightenment just a little too far.
Which brings to mind a recent piece written by Mr. Gold
en in The Saturday Evening Post a week or so ago. It bore
the title. “Lets End The Civil War.” The article was one of
those literary flowers of the goldenrod variety laden with
the pollen of completely inaccurate and exaggerated state
ments about conditions in the South. In his luual grand and
authoritative style, Mr. Golden cited various statistics, am
ong them the statement that in the Southern states that
composed the Confederacy, one-third of the buying power
and one-half of the credit-buying in these states are con
trolled by Negro citizens.
A number of economists wondered where Golden got his
statistics and how he arrived at his conclusions. In the first
place, Negroes compose only 25 per cent of the population in
the 11 states that once composed the Confedaracy. And, un
fortunately, the family income ratio of Negro citizens is
less than half that of the rest of the population of the states
in question. Therefore, Negroes could not possibly control
more than 12 per cent of the buying power. Mr. Golden, re
member ,said flatly that it was 33 per cent.
So, the Saturday Evening Post received some letters of
THE
MANION
FORUM
In nineteen fifty-nine President
Eisenhower warned us that we
can have no confidence in any
treaty to which the Communists
are a party, except when it pro
vides for self-enforcing mechan
isms.
He realized that Communist
dogma insists that treaties, like
pie crusts are made to be broken.
Whom the Communists would
destroy, they first invite to co
exist and offer a treaty to relax
tensions.
At no time have these truths
been more self-evident than during
the test ban negotiations at Ge
neva.- Our original approach in
these negotiations was to work
towards a treaty banning all nu
clear tests in the atmosphere, in
space and underground. Our nego
tiators said that we can detect
cheating in atmospheric tests be
cause radiation spreads world
wide and we would know about it
almost immediately.
But it is not true of cheating
that might occur underground or
in space. Therefore, we insist that
we must establish means to de
tect cheating in these environ
ments which will include devices
clever enough to detect such cheat
ers and real enough to deter any t
clandestine tests. (
We have insisted that we must
have inspectors on the sites to go
in and look at any suspicious ev
ents to verify w'hether cheating
has occurred or not. This is the
only kind of treaty which would
be safe for this country to sign
because it could not then be bro
ken without our knowledge.
Toward that kind of treaty-the
United States, on April 18, pro
posed an international network of
180 seismic stations, 18 of which
would be located behind the Iron
Curtain. We also proposed 20
mandatory on-site inspections an
nually of any suspicious events.
The Soviets promptly rejected
this proposal. They w-ant no con
trol posts in their territory; they
want no inspectors. Their attitude
is that they will have nothing to
do with any scheme which permits
foreigners behind the Iron Curtain.
The Soviets want us to trust
them to keep their test ban prom
ise. Their strategy is simply to
sit tight, watch us squirm and
wait for us to accommodate their
viewpoint by making the necessary
concessions. They have won this
way before.
In April of this year, 8 so-
called neutral nations, including
India, fell into this Russian Bear-
trap. Detection, under their agree
ment, would be based on an ar
rangement by which various na
tions would feed data from their
own seismic stations into an in
ternational center.
A cheater would be trusted to
furnish any and all data neces-
sary to detect his own cheating.
On-site inspections would be made
only on invitation of the alleged
SENATOR
STRO
HURMOND
Reports
PEOPLE
Washington Cover-up
A NEW BOOK, entitled
Washington Cover-up, hits the
nation’s bookstands this week. It
is conqyned with the subject of
“executive privilege” — the so-
called right of the Executive
Branch to withhold information
from the Congress. In fact, it is
the first exhaustive work on the
subject, and it lays bare numer
ous cases of waste, corruption,
maladministration, and security
risks which were covered up by
use of this Executive-originated
doctrine and later uncovered by
other means.
THE AUTHOR of the book is
Clark Mollenhoff, a Pulitzer
prize-winning Washington cor
respondent who is a close per
sonal friend of Attorney Gen
eral Robert Kennedy and Presi
dent John Kennedy. This per
sonal friendship, however, does
not prevent Mr. Mollenhoff from
expressing himself very candid
ly against use of “executive
privilege” by the President in
the recent investigation into
military speech censorship poli
cies.
IN THE BOOK, Mr. Mollen
hoff cracks Republicans as well
as Democrats in their use of
“executive privilege.” He points
out that the Kennedy brothers
are not the only ones who have
taken a different view when they
moved to the other end of Penn
sylvania Avenue. For instance,
Republican Attorney General
William P. Rogers and President
Eisenhower’s Counsel, Gerald
Morgan, were once Congression
al investigators who protested
loudly against the withholding
of information from the Con
gress by the Executive Branch.
When they went downtown,
however, they advised Eisen
hower Administration officials to
invoke the legally-questionable
doctrine 17 times.
IN TRACING THE use of
“executive privilege” to cover-
up embarrassing administrative
actions, Mr. Mollenhoff goes all
the way back to President
George Washington and winds
up with a brief treatment of
President Kennedy's letters in
1962 (because the manuscript
had alreadj been written by
then) authorizing Defense Sec
retary Robert McNamara and
Secretary of State Deaii Rusk
to refuse to identify Defense and
State Department censors with
specific speech deletions in the
censorship investigation. He
points out that there is no his
torical justification in alleged
examples of how George Wash
ington and Thomas Jefferson set
precedents for hiding behind
what I have called the “execu
tive Fifth Amendment.” He also
makes the point that “executive
privilege” has never been tested
in the courts.
THE BIGGEST GAIN made
! in the game of bureaucratic
cover-up was pulled off on May
17, 1954, the same day of the
fateful Supreme Court decision
in the school segregation case.
On that date President Eisen
hower directed that no informa
tion on advice given within the
Executive Branch be-given to
the late Senator Joe McCarthy’s
subcommittee. Mr. Mollenhoff
described this letter as constitut
ing “a naked claim of an author
ity for unlimited secrecy, with
out regard for laws or the spirit
of a democracy.” This letter was
later used by a numbe r of sub
ordinate Administration officials
to refuse information to the
Congress.
MR. MOLLENHOFF points
out in this book that President
Eisenhower was permitted to gee
by with his May 17, 1954 letter
because “many editorial pages
of a press that was normally
much more objective had de
veloped an attitude that any
thing that is bad for Joe Mc
Carthy is good ft . the country.”
A similar attitude was reflected
by Administration defenders
when efforts were made to have
the censors themsel/es testify as
to whether their censorship ac
tions—many of which were not
defended even by the Adminis
tration — reflected individual
caprice on their part or were in
accord with established govern
ment policies. Others who had
flailed “executive privilege”
when it had been, uaed against
them did not speak out in this
instance, except for Congress
man John Moss, chairman of the
House Government Information
Subcommittee.
THIS BOOK presents invalu
able evidence of the insidious
poison of “executive privilege,”
and how it can be used to cover-
up inefficiency, corruption, and
other embarrassing incidents of
bureaucratic bungling. The full
facts on government operations
must be available for study by
the Congress if the people are
going to be able to govern them
selves with any semblance of
efficiency and good judgment
through their elected representa
tives.
Sincerely,
inquiry. The Post simply referred the inquiries to Golden
with a request that he respond to them. Then is when the
mask fell, and the truth began to emerge.
In a letter to The Post Golden confessed that he had been
deliberately inaccurate and, more amazingly, bragged about
his own cleverness. Perhaps you will be interested in Gol
den’s defense of himself. Here is what he wrote:
I exaggerated. But then I was not writing a statistical
i eport on the retail trade of the South. Research is no sub
stitute tor imagination. Then Golden linked himself with
a poet who is not here to defend himself. To continue the
direct quote from Golden’s letter to The Post: “I am a fol
lower of Ralph Waldo Emerson, that if you want to make
a point it is valid to go a bit overboard for emphasis ...”
Lear in mind that Golden is commenting on absolute in
accuracies with which he has been confronted. But let’s con
tinue our direct quote from his letter: “While I admit I
have not yet found it necessary to do ‘research’ (and then he
adds in parentheses, ‘what the hell is that?’) on anything
I have written to date, this was not such a terrible exag
geration . .^. But I exaggerated on purpose, and malice afore
thought,” Golden wrote. And in a supreme flourish of ar
rogance, he wound up his letter with two words: “Ah! Aha!
Maybe all ot this is not surprising, coming from a man
who once SERVED TIME IN PRISON for postal fraud, and
who has changed his name and moved to the South after
his release. We do not quarrel with his right to believe or
say what he pleases. Still, we stand in wonderment of a man
who proudly uses the big lie technique and, when confront
ed, simply takes the position that he is clever for having
done so. Golden chooses to compare himself with Emerson
in this regard. On Mr. Emerson’s behalf, we deny the com
parison and suggest instead a more recent figure in history
who also used the big-lie technique. But there is one dif
ference: Hitler made a monster of himself; Golden is merely
making a laughing stock of himself.
(If you do not want to give your support to sheets which
run Golden's stuff—you may sit down and mark off your
reading list The Saturday Evening Post—The CHARLOTTE
OBSERVER and the ATLANTA JOURNAL. They all run
his silly tripe.)
Edward Stuck
Rites Sunday
Edward Omerle (Dock) Stuck,
53, of Route 2, Pomaria, died Wed
nesday afternoon at the Newberry
County Memorial Hospital. He
had been in ill health for the past
three years and seriously ill for
the past three days.
Mr. Stuck was born and reared
in the New Hope-Zion section of
Newberry County, a son of the
late Robert I. and Lillia Miller
Stuck. He was a farmer all of his
life until his retirement becatis#
of bad health, and was a member
of St. John’s Lutheran Church and
a former member of the Church
Council. He had served on the
board of trustees of New Hope-
Zion school.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Ellen Koon Stuck; two sons,
Charles Ray Stuck, with the U. S.
Army in Frankfort, Germany, and
Edward Hane Stuck of Norfolk,
Va.; one daughter, Miss Carolinda
(Lindy) Stuck of Pomaria; one
sister, Mrs. J. C. Berley of Po-
rnaria; three brothers, J. Frank
Stuck of Pomaria, R. Miller
Stuck of Chapin, and R. Johnny
Stuck of Los Angeles, Calif.; four
grandchildren and a number of
nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at 3 p.m. Sunday at St. John’s
Lutheran Church by the Rev. G.
Alvin Fulmer. Interment. was in
the church cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Richard
Berley, J. B. Berley, C. B. Stuck,
Ray Wicker, A. S. Harris, George
Setzler Hugh Leitzsey and Virgil
Graham.
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BUSINESS”
By c: WILSON HARDER
(Not printed at government eapenee)
There is a rumor making the
rounds that a measure will be
introduced to raise Social
Security tax rate a fraction of a
cent to provide senior residents
with free plumbing service.
* * *
This new measure, to be
known as
Plumbincare.f^
will provider*^
for fixing!!!
leaking fau- ||
cets, stopped fill
up toilets, in
stalling water
heaters, oth
er plumbing
work for ev
erybody 65 or
over, wheth- C.W. Harder
er they have the means to af
ford a plumber or not.
* * e
Of course, this is a facetious
proposal ... or is it? It was
sparked by the successful set
tlement of a building trades
strike in California in which
the U. S. Dept, of Labor ended
the deadlock, largely so the
vast government projects in
that state could proceed,
e e e
In a kind ef a ‘net’s hold
down Inflation by reverse ac
tion” the plumber’s onion was
persuaded to accept a contract
that calls for pay, plus bene
fits, that will reach 97.55 per
hoar. On regular time this will
give them almost $16,000 per
year, and with a modest
amount of overtime at double
rates, should give plumbers
around $18,000 per year.
* * e
This, of course, gives the
plumbers a bigger income than
the majority of the nation’s
doctors. Now it is being touted
that the nation’s senior citi
zens cannot afford to pay for
medical services. If that is a
true premise, then obviously
they cannot afford to pay for
plumbing services.
^^fitlonal^edarttlan^oMadepiindjint^BujlnMii
In addition, adequate plumb
ing facilities are probably as
essential to good health as
medical care.
* * *
So perhaps this idea of
Plumbincare should not be tak
en as a joke. Some worthwhile
things could develop.
* * #
For example, if Social Secur
ity taxes are raised to finance
both Medicare and Plumbin
care, it would open new oppor
tunities to young men.
• * *
A lot of young men, instead
of spending years and thous
ands of dollars studying to
practice medicine partly under
bureaucratic control, could
elect to become plumbers,
which of course would also be
under bureaucratic control.
They could earn good money
during the comparatively short
apprenticeship, then step right
into earning more than they
could hope for in the first few
years of medical practice.
U***
Of course, in time this is li
able to result in nation having
lots of plumbers, few doctors.
Bat if the situation got too un
balanced, bureaucracy could
rise to the crisis.
* * *
After all, under Medicare
and Plumbincare, both plumb
ers and doctors would be on a
semi-civil service status, and
it would be a simple matter
for a bureaucrat to change
classification of any number of
plumbers fo that of a doctor.
* * *
That would be simple, for
has not the United States,
founded on the principle of
freedom and free enterprise,
elevated to highly influential
positions such men as Gal
braith and Schlessinger. Appar
ently anything is possible.
cheater.
Four months later, in August
of this year, the United States
returned to the Geneva negotia
ting tables with a new test ban
proposal based on this shaky, in
adequate and unsafe eight-na
tions proposal.
The number of detection stations
was cut from 180 to 80 and the
number of on-site inspections
dropped from 20 to 10. The pro
posal that the inspections would
be by invitation only was not ac
cepted.
The defense department issued
a press release on July 7 indicat
ing that new discoveries had been
made that would ease the test
cheating problem. This, it was
noted, would make possible the
proposed concessions at Geneva.
Careful examination of the
Defense departments re’lease re
veals some new information about
old problems involved in siesmic
detection but little, if any, infor
mation about .the answers to
either the new or the old prob
lems. True to their negotiating
strategy, the Soviets have re
jected even these latest concess
ions. They reject them because by
so doing, they are reasonably sure
to get greater concessions which
will eliminate the proposed in
spection procedure. The proposal
made by the eight “neutral” na
tions will be discussed and pro
posed as the terms of a treaty
before the U. N. General Assem
bly on September 20th.
Befoi-e then, Americans have a
right to know just how safe or
unsafe the proposed test ban con
cessions are, and just what has
actually been learned from seis
mic detection devices about the
Soviet tests. If satisfactory data
of this kind cannot be produced, j
then our Geneva position is unsafe |
and the offers and concessions
made at Geneva should be with
drawn.
If the Soviet Union can be per
suaded to sign a treaty enforce
able on it as well as the non-
Communist signatory, then the
world has a possibility 'of settling
some of its problems by negotia
tion.
We must have in such a treaty,
reasonable provability of detect
ing violations; reasonable oppor
tunity to inspect and verify if
cheating has occurred; some mean
ingful penalty for the violator
for getting caught, and conse
quences which are not fatal for
the victim whether the cheater is
caught or not.
A. C. Cook, 46,
Dies Suddenly
A. C. (Mack) Cook Sr., 46, resi
dent of Newberry, died suddenly at
his home Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Cook had lived in Newber
ry all his life. He was employed
by the Newberry Electric Coop
erative, and was due to return to
work Monday morning after a
week’s vacation.
He was a member of the Pleas
ant Grove A.M.E. Church and a
member of the Sons-of-Aid Socie-
ty.
Survi jots include his mother,
Mrs. Addie Griffin; his wife, Mrs.
Florine Cook; one daughter, Mrs.
Agnes C. Jones of Atlanta, Ga.;
four sons, A. C. Cook Jr., Freddie
and Leroy Cook of Newberry, and
Jerry Cook of Washington,- D. C;
one sister, Genell Ruff; and three
grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed today (Thursday) at Pleasant
Grove A.M.E. Church by Rev. J.
E .Moody.
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