NOTES IN THE NEWS
NOTES IN THE NEWS Same Old Nixon (Cont'd) In these columns last month we ventured the suggestion that the notion of a "new Nixon" was wearing pretty thin. Hardly had we gone to press when the Vice...
...They are enrolled in Catholic parochial schools...
...In some respects they do things better in steel making...
...Benjamin A. Franklin, Morgan's ABC colleague, inspected the Virginia camp where the Bahamian workers "live...
...He is Edward L. Ryerson, former chairman of the board of the Inland Steel Company, who headed a delegation of steel-makers to the Soviet Union recently...
...The key question of state pre-cen-sorship of films was raised squarely in the dissent of Judge Fuld...
...The rest of the states are districted according to area, or a combination of area and population, and the rural representatives who control the situation are holding tight to their political power—and their jobs—at the expense of fair representation for the growing urban population...
...We so hold with full confidence that our Founding Fathers never intended that our federal Constitution be the altar upon which this state and this nation must sacrifice themselves to the ravages of moral corruption...
...Some of the present member nations, and others that become members, have governments that are not representative of the people...
...in Connecticut less than ten per cent of the state can elect a majority to the lower house...
...Dulles wrote: "All nations should be members [of the United Nations] without attempting to appraise closely those which are 'good' and those which are 'bad.' Already that distinction is obliterated by the present membership of the United Nations...
...Backward Progress' A defeated primary candidate is probably the original forgotten man, but there is at least one such candidate in recent contests who has not been forgotten—and in this case it's a woman...
...J. L. Flaherty, school superintendent for the diocese, reports there has been no trouble of any kind during the four years of integration...
...Supreme Court...
...There is no running water except in the central kitchen, at spigots outside the buildings, and in the community bath house, which was littered with filth...
...The revolutionary regime in China has been governing that country for nine years, but we have refused to recognize it and have taken the leadership in preventing her admission to the U.N...
...Two Editions of Dulles Early in 1950 John Foster Dulles expressed a significant viewpoint on admission of countries to the United Nations...
...The New York Times started it all by inquiring at the correspondence office of the State Department how the mail was running on the Administration's policies in the Formosa Straits...
...His report was issued by the American Iron and Steel Institute, one of the nation's most conservative industrial organizations...
...is not of a character which the First Amendment permits a state to exclude from public view...
...Lady Chatterley's Lover' Motion picture censorship cases have come before the U.S...
...There are 68,000 unemployed in Virginia, several hundred of them in the immediate vicinity of the orchards, but Senator Byrd and other large fruit growers in the area import Negroes from the Bahamas under contract with the Bahamian government, pay them sub-standard wages, and house them in hovels...
...The New York State Board of Regents refused the film a license under a 1954 law which forbids licensing films that "portray acts of sexual immorality...
...Msgr...
...The film at issue is an English-produced version of Lady Chatterley's Lover, D. H. Lawrence's classic on adultery...
...This undemocratic situation is unlikely to improve rapidly...
...George B. Merry of the Christian Science Monitor, who has done extensive research in this field, discovered a representative in Connecticut's lower house with only 130 constituents, while a fellow member represents 88,000...
...Today about 150 Negro children are attending classes with whites in 68 parochial schools throughout Virginia...
...Alice Franklin Bryant in the Democratic Senatorial primary in the state of Washington, where she challenged incumbent Senator Henry M. Jackson on his strongly militarist position...
...but also for the reason that the film...
...There isn't any doubt in my mind that they feel as we do...
...The Worm in the Apple The "massive resistance" of Virginia's ultra conservative Democratic Senator Harry F. Byrd to equal rights for Negroes has been revealed to have a private, practical, profit basis as well as a political foundation...
...We indulge in self-deception, in daydreams, when we look for grave maladjustments, for backwardness, to retard Soviet economic progress and to keep us in the lead...
...Jackson won easily, with 334,862 votes against Mrs...
...Fulton County (Atlanta), Georgia, with a population of almost half a million, has one state senator, the same as a rural district with a population of only 16,000...
...In my opinion," he said, "an affirmance [of the Appellate department] is compelled not only on the ground that the term 'immoral,' as defined by the Education Law, lacks that precision of meaning demanded by the Due Process clause...
...Only a rare state can claim a ratio of less than two or three to one between its most under-represented and over-represented districts, and ratios of ten or more to one are common...
...ABC news commentator Edward P. Morgan, one of the ablest on the air, has brought to light the fact that Byrd, who in private life is "the biggest single apple grower in the United States" according to the Department of Agriculture, is exploiting cheap, imported Negro labor as pickers in his apple orchards...
...Jackson leans heavily on military power, has favored continuing nuclear testing, and wants to increase the present arms budget by another four or five billion, all of which Mrs...
...The answer may be "a long time," when a man of the political power and enormous wealth of Senator Byrd continues to exploit his racist prejudices, deny employment opportunity to the people of his own state, and support sub-human living conditions —all for a cold dollar...
...The revolutionary regime in Iraq was recognized within a fortnight after it had seized power...
...Now a new case is on its way to the high court that conceivably could be the occasion for settling this question...
...Other blocks house American Negroes with wives and children, one family to a room with a two-burner gas stove and one double-deck bunk...
...Morale of workers is high...
...In California only 12 per cent of the voters, overwhelmingly rural, can elect a majority of the state senate...
...Kingsley International Pictures has promised to appeal to the U.S...
...Integration in Virginia Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond has invoked "massive resistance" in closing school doors to 12,700 white children in order to prevent the admission of 51 Negro children under federal court orders...
...to undercut the Secretary of State and sabotage his policy...
...I think it's very evident that the people, especially the people in the industrial centers, are much better off than they've ever been, in housing, clothing, and food...
...Increasingly the imbalance can be defined, as in the characteristic Georgian example, as an urban-rural split, with city dwellers under-represented and rural people over-represented...
...A Seattle political writer said Mrs...
...These are among the more extreme examples of inequality in representation, but by no means untypical...
...Top management is competent...
...Report on Russia Here are some quotations by an American visitor to Soviet Russia...
...Bryant gave Senator Jackson "the roughest time of his political life...
...Readers in all parts of the country have inquired about the showing made by Mrs...
...that we should be able to live in peace...
...Said a Negro pupil in a Norfolk parochial school the other day: "Once everybody got over the newness of the idea, things just went along normally...
...The author of these observations is no left-wing egg-head, but a toughminded American steel tycoon...
...Hardly had we gone to press when the Vice President demolished what was left of the theory with an extraordinarily intemperate attack on an unidentified State Department employe...
...On May 7, 1954, ten days before the U.S...
...In his reckless outburst Nixon said the Administration could not let its foreign policy be developed "on the basis of what random letters show the people will support in the light of the minimum and often misleading information available to them...
...Bryant's 55,200, but many observers felt this was a respectable showing for a "protest" candidate...
...Working ten hours a day, six days a week, a worker may gross $54 a week, but from this are deducted travel costs, mandatory health and accident insurance premiums, and fees for administering the contract under which he works...
...And for all the angry feelings generated by the Korean War, he reaffirmed these views in 1957...
...But if in fact they are 'governments'—that is, if they 'govern'—then they have a power which should be represented in any organization that purports to mirror world reality...
...They were expressed in both the earliest and latest editions of his book, War or Peace...
...The Appellate Division reversed the Regents' judgment and ordered a license issued, but the New York Court of Appeals, the state's high court, in turn reversed the Appellate decision, affirming the Regents' refusal to license the picture...
...Bryant diametrically opposed...
...However, a regime that claims to have become the government of a country through a civil war should not be recognized until it has been tested over a reasonable period of time...
...The irony of this is that the growers keep the prevailing wage depressed by the very availability of cheap imported labor...
...Speaking for the majority in a 4-3 decision, Chief Justice Conway of the New York court said the Regents' determination that the film is "utterly immoral in its theme, and that it presented adultery as proper behavior, was entirely correct as measured by the standards of the community...
...There were many factors involved in my defeat," Mrs...
...as desirable, acceptable, or proper patterns of behavior...
...And in every one of the 97 state legislative bodies, a majority of representatives may be elected by a minority of voters, the average percentage running between 35 and 40...
...Supreme Court's historic decision outlawing public school segregation, the late Bishop Peter L. Ireton, of the diocese of Richmond, abolished racial barriers in the parochial schools...
...The same kind of incentives that are effective in our enterprise system are working there: monetary reward, prospect of promotion, recognition and fame, and some specific material benefits like better housing or an automobile...
...I'm glad you are doing this, but I'm supporting Jackson'—these were typical responses...
...One man who professed to like me and my ideas went to Jackson's $100 a plate dinner (attended 80 per cent by Republicans, according to Life), and gave me a contribution of $15— something of a formula for backward progress...
...And a white boy concurred: "The thing is not to get worked up over it and it will go without any trouble at all...
...Rotten Boroughs It is more than a century ago that the burgeoning demand for equal representation in government resulted in the enactment of a major reform bill in England aimed at eliminating "rotten boroughs"—those with only a few voters, but with the right to send a representative to Parliament...
...And the first outcry against gerrymandering was raised back in 1812 when Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry sponsored a grossly unrepresentative redistricting, accomplished by carving the state into odd shapes, one of which resembled a salamander...
...But three times as many Negro pupils are currently attending integrated schools in the same state without fuss or trouble of any kind...
...If the government of China in fact proves its ability to govern China without serious domestic resistance, then it, too, should be admitted to the United Nations...
...Fay Bennett, executive secretary of the National Sharecroppers Fund, which concerns itself with migrant farm labor, asks the key question: "How long will the American public, the United States Congress, and the labor movement allow this caste system to exist, dooming millions to live on a near animal level while continuing a semi-feudal arrangement of worker-employer relations on the large farms...
...I have brought home a sobering impression: the Communists' economic system as applied to the steel industry we visited is functioning efficiently under skillful managers...
...Governors Almond and Faubus have a lot to learn from Southern Catholics and Southern children...
...They are not, we assure you, torn out of context...
...Next day Nixon lashed out at the employe who gave out the information, accusing him of "a patent and deliberate effort...
...he describes it as a "slightly improved slum": "The Bahamians sleep 40 men to a room in double-deck bunks less than a foot apart...
...Bryant wrote us, "but I think none was more important than the irresponsibility of the voters...
...But fair and equal representation is still more a dream than a reality, at least in our state legislatures, and the rotten boroughs and gerrymanders persist in the face of protest and the constitutional guarantee of political equality...
...Only twelve states have both houses apportioned strictly along population lines, but even many of these states have not reapportioned for so many years that representation is badly out of balance...
...A California state senator representing 14,000 rural citizens sits beside a senator who casts his vote for more than four million urban dwellers...
...Here, surely, is the old Nixon again —crying sabotage because an employe, in Walter Lippmann's words, gave "a truthful answer to a legitimate question raised by a responsible reporter in the course of quite normal and standard newspaper practice...
...Tiny New Hampshire's enormous lower house (399 members, largest of all the states) boasts a member with exactly 16 constituents, and Vermont has one district with a population of 49, another with 33,000 inhabitants...
...At this point it is a matter of 'how much better than before.'" "The Russians are as well qualified from a technological standpoint as we are...
...Supreme Court several times in recent years, but so far decisions have fallen short of answering the big and basic constitutional question: can a state or local community pre-censor a motion picture...
...The justification for hiring imported labor is that local employment offers went begging at the "prevailing orchard wage...
...What this means is that one man's vote may be worth twice, or ten times, or in some cases several hundred times, as much as that of another voter living under the same state government...
...You are doing something that ought to be done, but I am going to vote for Jackson...
...The official in charge reported that it was running 80 per cent against the Administration...
...For all the lack of creature comforts outside of the big cities, the people seem keenly aware that they are making progress...
...Here is a sweeping indictment of the democratic process itself, or perhaps more specifically of this Administration's concept of the process, for virtually all of the "misleading" information in the hands of people on this vital problem has come from the repeated statements and speeches of the President and the Secretary of State and the releases of the State Department and the Pentagon...
Vol. 22 • November 1958 • No. 11
