NOTES IN THE NEWS

...Some groups opposed to "shared time" and other avenues of benefits to sectarian schools which they believe were widened by provisions of the new Federal law have announced their intention to test these controversial aspects in the courts...

...As Senator Dirksen works to help the Negro win votes that his amendment would transmute from gold to lead, we are, as so often before, dazzled by his many images...

...Dixie's political leadership could segregate Negroes into populous Negro voting districts for legislative elections, and allot a disproportionate number of assembly or senate seats to sparsely settled areas dominated by whites...

...Mortimer, it would seem, could beat a dead horse in Look's arena, but the arena is closed to Senator Hart...

...It will surprise no expert then to learn that the American Civil Liberties Union, which has brooded over the problem since communities began experimenting with "shared time" years ago, should have required a whole year of the most intensive review before announcing recently that it opposes certain kinds of "shared time" plans...

...Sections of the new act, or conceivably the entire measure, can still be challenged in the courts...

...It was Senator Russell B. Long of Louisiana, the Administration's whip in the Senate, who laid down the new McCarthyite line when he lashed out at "modern-day appeasers and isolationists" for undermining the President's policy...

...In recent weeks the daily escalation of the conflict has also been accompanied by an officially encouraged escalation of language amounting to a McCarthy-style attack on those who dare oppose our present policy in Vietnam...

...The amendment was defeated...

...No wonder that some veteran Dirksen-watchers complain of dizzy spells...

...Blacking Out Senator Hart The }80 billion processed food industry, with its vast advertising budgets, has long had most of the nation's communications media eating out of its hand...

...Johnson's program while five per cent of the Republicans changed from opposition to support of the Administration...

...With the announcement of this position, the forty-five-year-old civil liberties organization will be contesting in the courts, when necessary, the types of "shared time" programs it specified as being contrary to the Constitution's "Establishment Clause," whether these activities are financed in whole or in part with Federal aid or with state or local tax funds...

...The drop, ironically, would have been sharper— by an additional five per cent at least —were it not for the new-found support the President now commands among those who embrace the Gold-water position that Mr...

...Two large-circulation magazines retained writers to do stories on truth-in-packaging but the stories somehow have never seen print...

...Words like honor, patriotism, appeasement...

...The new rules also require that as a part of the "substantial good faith start" toward desegregation, steps must be taken to integrate teaching staffs and transportation facilities, and certain safeguards must be provided concerning individual student assignment to schools...

...Chamber of Commerce, and when it happens we take pleasure in acknowledging the event...

...If Commissioner Keppel's administrative measure produces the desired results, it will provide evidence that to be effective even a U.S...

...These decisions "will touch on the most sensitive matters—subjects to be taught, hours to be devoted to particular courses, textbooks, other teaching materials, and even 'appropriate' instructors for each course...

...Now it has them jumping through hoops...

...Title VI prohibits giving Federal funds to any public school district that practices racial discrimination...

...When the Federal school aid bill was before the Senate, the ACLU and other organizations asked that it be amended to permit judicial review through taxpayers' suits in the Federal courts...

...Just a year ago, in these columns, the occasion was the Chamber's annual convention action calling for more liberalized trade with the Soviet Union and its satellites...

...Integration Speed-up Eleven years after the U.S...

...In its April issue Coronet carried an article by Senator Hart giving the facts about deceptive packaging and a description of the legislation he has proposed to correct the short-changing of millions of shoppers...

...Tax money expended for "shared time," the ACLU said, "is no longer being used incidentally for the child's protection and health, but is instead being utilized to support academic programs for children receiving their basic education in church schools...

...There is no defense against the big words...

...An honorable exception to such "cooperation" is Coronet magazine, whose circulation is only a fraction of that enjoyed by the big magazines...

...Supreme Court's landmark decision outlawing racially segregated schools, more than half of the school districts in the South and in border states still maintain completely separate systems...

...In the same breath we felt obliged to scold a more common riding-mate, the AFL-CIO, whose President George Meany that very week denounced any attempts at conciliation with the Soviets...

...The alternative would be the loss of Federal aids, something few school districts—especially in the South—could afford...

...Facing north, he helps to fashion a voting-rights bill designed to give Negroes the long-denied franchise in Dixie...

...However, Cowles continued, "It is my present guess that the public does not feel any strong need for reform in the area Mr...

...Now he is a statesman, now a clown, now an alchemist, now a Janus, now the soul of sincerity, now the operator of a carnival shell game...

...Mortimer's opposition to his bill...

...Now Johnson goes and does it.' " The findings of the Harris and Lubell surveys are confirmed by the third of the public pulse-taking organizations, Dr...

...Consumer Reports, which recently disclosed some of these developments, reported that Look provided "a final fillip" for Mortimer's propaganda by taking full page advertisements in other magazines, including food trade journals, to publicize what Look called "this compelling article...

...Now the U.S...

...government "to explore steps designed to more effectively open channels of communication with the people of mainland China...

...Negro registration might be greatly increased by the Federal law, but the Dirksen amendment could keep each Negro vote from attaining equality with each white vote...

...ACLU on 'Shared Time' One major effect of the new $1.3 billion Federal school aid law will be a marked rise in the number of public schools that share their resources with parochial schools—unless the courts bar or restrict the practice...

...In most of the others, integration is token, involving only a few Negro children, or piecemeal, covering only one or a few grades...

...Under the new regulations, every school district must submit either a statement that it is not now segregated, or a desegregation plan that falls within the guidelines prescribed by the Office of Education...

...Hart also revealed in the article the blackout that he and consumer interests are up against, while the food industry has easy access to the press and television, and is defended in canned editorials used by hundreds of small newspapers...

...Therefore, I have no doubt that our losses in Vietnam will increase so long as anyone suspects that the handful of Senators and Congressmen and the bearded beatniks with the peace-at-any-price placards represent anything more than a small, poorly-regarded fragment of American thinking...

...The Chamber feels these might eventually lead to the opening of trade with China...

...George Gallup's American Institute of Public Opinion...

...Whether they support or oppose such loosely-named "shared time" programs, legal experts agree that it is one of the thorniest subjects in all the many bramble patches of constitutional law...

...It markets 250 products, decides where $100 million in advertising is to be spent yearly, and is currently fighting a government anti-monopoly order to dissolve one of its mergers...

...We do not pretend to know the precise motives behind the action of the U.S...

...Of the nation's 27,000 school districts, 22,400 had filed compliance statements at this writing...

...They are argument busters, debate end-ers...

...The most recent Louis Harris Poll disclosed that in the three months from February, when the President embarked on his policy of bombing North Vietnam, until April, five per cent of the Democrats and five per cent of the Independents withdrew their approval of Mr...

...This violates the Constitution's First Amendment provision that the government shall not "establish" a religion, the ACLU board said...

...Dirksen vs...

...Whether or not Federal aid to public elementary and high school systems is out of the woods at last, "shared time" has barely begun to enter the judicial forest...

...Three times I have had television appearances cancelled, and have been told privately it was because advertisers had protested...

...Possibly both houses of a legislature could be redistricted in such shocking fashion for this incredible proposal, sponsored by the Senate's Republicans and Dixiecrats along with a few other Democrats, declares that "the right and power to determine the composition of the legislature of a state and the reapportionment of the membership thereof shall remain in the people of the state...

...The results of a fifteen-state survey of public opinion by Samuel Lubell, the eminent one-man pulse-taker, demonstrate an even more decisive switch to the President on the part of pro-Goldwater forces...

...This provision not only can wipe out all court-ordered reapportionment which has taken place in legislatures so far, but can expel the courts from this field forever...

...Russell Baker, writing in The New York Times from the capital, put it this way: "They have begun to lob the big ones in...

...Programs of this kind "present grave constitutional and civil liberties problems," the AGLU policy statement contended, because they confer "substantial benefit" upon sectarian schools and "because of the joint involvement by secular and church authorities in decision-making on matters affecting religion...

...One year later we find ourselves again ranged on the side of the Chamber on two counts...

...The second count on which the Chamber rates a cheer is its two-to-one stand in favor of abolishing the Con-nally Reservation, which permits the United States to use its own discretion in exempting cases to which it is a party from the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice...

...And there is a growing recognition that a world ruled by law provides a healthier climate for business than one ruled by the constant threat of force...

...Dirksen One face of Senator Everett McKin-ley Dirksen seems to be turned north, the other south...

...They met, said Willis, to discuss "the facts of life covering advertising-media relationships" and he informed them of the "interde-pendency" of editorial and business departments...

...Some of these evils already exist in the South and with adoption of the Dirksen amendment they would have Constitutional sanction...

...Chamber officials asserted that our current noncommunication policy does not advance U.S...

...Johnson now than he did in November...

...Supporters of Gold-water," he reported, "have been particularly pleased" by "the continued bombings of North Vietnam...

...Johnson and his campaign team denounced so eloquently all last fall...

...Ethnic and racial groups, North or South, could be deprived of voting parity with other citizens...

...The facts reveal how Senator Long made a shambles of the truth...

...The ACLU board of directors coneluded that some "shared time" proposals "may present no substantial constitutional problem...

...Senator Hart wrote to Gardner Cowles, the magazine's editor-in-chief, asking for an opportunity to refute Mr...

...Who needs a truth-in-packaging bill...

...He found that "of the Goldwater voters interviewed in the last month, more than a third say they now think better of Mr...

...Along with Look, Willis has named Reader's Digest, Life, Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, and others as magazines whose editors agreed to cooperate with food advertisers...

...It is very risky venturing out with an un-Pentagon opinion once the language is escalated...

...The Chamber's foreign policy committee observed that the Connally Reservation had hampered efforts to build a world rule of law, especially since it had led other countries to exclude cases from the world court...

...Supreme Court decision must be backed up by appropriate legislation, and that the will of Congress must be implemented by direct action on the part of the executive branch...

...When it comes to managing public opinion, no group manipulates it more ruthlessly than big advertisers in league with the high cockalorums of publishing and broadcasting...

...We find the businessmen's resolution on China somewhat short of our own position, but wholly commendable, coming as it does from such a conservative organization...

...Under pressure from the food advertisers, the major media have virtually closed their columns and air channels to Senator Philip A. Hart, Michigan Democrat, and his truth-in-packaging bill...

...Once the voters approved such patterns in a referendum, the inequality of franchise could be frozen in perpetuity...

...It seems likely that the administrative act of the Office of Education will accomplish more in the next two years than all the efforts of the preceding eleven to desegregate the nation's schools through action by the courts...

...The ACLU said that the use of public funds for these programs violates the principle which the U.S...

...Polls of public opinion, for example, reveal that he is steadily losing the support Qf Democrats and Independents who worked and voted for him in the Presidential campaign of 1964 while he gains the approval of Republicans who supported Barry Gold-water...

...The most disturbing recent example of this subservience appeared in Look magazine, whose thirty million readers on most occasions benefit from reading its distinguished, truthful, and courageous articles...

...With this background as a true believer in competition, Mortimer used Look's editorial space to laud the free enterprise system for bringing the American housewife "the purest, most nutritious, easiest-to-prepare food the world has ever seen...

...This article might have been more accurately called "compelled...

...Stung by their failure to whip up greater fervor for our adventure in Southeast Asia, Administration spokesmen have taken to spreading the word that critics of the Johnson policy of bombing our way to the negotiating table are furthering the cause of the Communists and betraying our boys in battle...

...While winning plaudits (including a rare accolade from The Progressive) in the north for helping to guide the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to passage, and some recent approval for his efforts on behalf of the voting rights bill, Senator Dirksen has been employing his unspent energy in a campaign to overcome the enfranchising effect of the "one man, one vote" decisions of the Supreme Court...

...Johnson than they did last November...

...Created by mergers in the 1920's, General Foods is now the nation's largest food combine...

...Using this provision as a stick, Francis Keppel, the Commissioner of Education, has announced a directive that requires desegregation of at least four grades by next fall, and all twelve grades by the beginning of the 196768 school year...

...In the last twenty-five years the company has been charged with twenty-eight violations of the Federal Food and Drug Act...

...It has been estimated that at this painfully slow pace complete integration would take a hundred years...

...Paul Willis, president of the Grocery Manufacturers Association, told television advertising men at their convention two years ago—when Senator Hart's committee inquiry into truth-in-packaging already had exposed many kinds of food industry deception in packaging and labeling—about a Willis session with sixteen top men from national magazines...

...Cheers for the Chamber It is not often we find ourselves riding the same horse as the arch-conservative U.S...

...Then he asked: "What national forum do we have...

...Chamber of Commerce in taking these positions...

...Goldwater, who was denounced by Democrats last year as impulsive, reckless, and trigger-happy, has announced his "whole-hearted" endorsement of the President's escalation policy in Vietnam...

...The ACLU board expressed equal concern that in programming "shared time" there would be "a substantial reordering of public and sectarian schools" through joint decision-making by public and religious authorities...

...This Janus-like performance by the Senate Minority Leader, which has gone unnoticed by all but a few Dirk-sen-watchers, is one of his masterpieces...

...The Hart bill is now before the Senate Commerce Committee...

...The housewife who is concerned about being cheated by deceptive packaging, and aroused by the food industry's moves to black out the subject, would be wise to make her opinions known to the Committee and her Senator at the earliest opportunity...

...He has lined up more than thirty co-sponsors, from both parties, for his Senate resolution to amend the Constitution so that the states can apportion seats in one house of their legislatures "upon the basis of factors other than population...

...Instead of "the handful of Senators," a score or more, including Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Senator J. W. Ful-bright, chairman of the Foreign RelaSwitch in Support President Johnson's increasing commitment to hard-line foreign policies is causing a significant regrouping of the forces backing and opposing his Administration...

...Mortimer was discussing, but I could be wrong...

...Most of them protest, as did one merchant seaman, 'Goldwater campaigned on bombing Vietnam and we voted against it...

...Office of Education, proceeding under the authority of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, has laid down firm rules that may well shrink this time span to two years...

...The first is a policy statement, adopted by this year's convention without dissent, urging the U.S...

...In the January 26 issue they were exposed to an article called "Let's Keep Politics Out of The Pantry," under the by-line of Charles G. Mortimer, chairman of General Foods Corporation...

...Doris Fleeson, the noted Washington columnist, saw it as "a new sickness like McCarthyism" stirring again in the country...

...interests, and that consideration should be given to reciprocal visits of journalists and the initiation of cultural and educational exchange programs...

...Supreme Court stated in Everson v. Board of Education that "No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion...

...The language of the Dirksen amendment could permit a state to apportion one legislative house by geographic areas, or by race or national origin through gerrymandering...

...The prospect of opening trade with three quarters of a billion customers in China is, we suspect, sorely tempting to businessmen...

...The Gallup Poll reported in May that in three months the President's popularity dropped from seventy-one per cent to sixty-seven per cent—the lowest mark since he became President...

...He poured on the s^rup of flattery, extolling her as a clever buyer who "can give lessons to a Yankee horse trader," and assured Look's millions of readers that present laws give housewives all the protection they could want at the supermarket and grocery...

...Their criticism, he said, led the Communists to believe the United States would "surrender all of Asia...

...Its opposition applies "to those plans which permit pupils in sectarian schools to enroll as part-time pupils in public schools and to satisfy the compulsory education requirements of their state through a combination of public and religious school curricula...

...In actual practice, the Dirksen amendment could do the most lasting harm to the Southern Negro...

...If this amendment, or even a compromise version of it, becomes part of the Constitution, rural minorities—and in the South that means racist minorities—will be able to continue blocking progress by retaining control of state senates even if they should lose their grip upon the state assemblies...

...Among Democrats interviewed, Lubell found that "one in five thinks less of Mr...

...Facing south, he presses for adoption of a Constitutional amendment that would make an urban vote worth only a fraction of a rural vote, thereby greatly depreciating the Negro vote, which, on a national scale, is overwhelmingly urban...

...Cowles replied that if after several months the public should evidence strong interest in the subject, he might want the Senator to prepare something...

...But whatever the motives, both of the Chamber's actions are moves in the direction of world peace...

...The Federal law designed to give the Negro the vote in the South—the very measure that the Senator is credited with helping to fashion—would be robbed of much of its purpose...