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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY |
&7 18, 1961
Chie Fovest Park Free Press
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JACK TROY, EDITOR x : ! :
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ATLANTA—The Highly repu
table New York Times, whose
slogan “All the News that's Fit
to Print” has established it, for
nearly three quarters of a Cen
tury, as the most responsible
newspaper in the United States,
has been publicly accused by
Governor Ernest Vandiver, in a
telegram to President-elect Ken
nedy, with “irresponsible jour
nalism”.
| Since 1917 the New York Times
or members of its staff have won
22 Pulitzer prizes for distin
guished journalistic work.
“Irresponsible journalism” in
truth is at the foundation of
what the National Broadcasting
Company described as “a comedy
of errors causing embarrassment
to everyone” from President
elect Kennedy down to Gar
land (Throttlebottom) Byrd over
mention of Governor Vandiver
as a candidate for Secretary of
the Army.
(Throttlebottom, it will be re
called, was the character in the
Broadway play “Os Thee I Sing”
in the role of vice-president who
was always trying to become im
portant but never quite made
it.)
It was not “irresponsible jour
nalism” on the part of the New
, York Times, which had no role
beyond reporting news from
Kennedy’s headquarters, but ir
responsible journalism on the
part of the Atlanta Newspapers
in trying to unload Vandiver
| upon the Kennedy administra
tion and get him out of Georgia
so he would not have to fulfill
either his promise to the people
to maintain segregation in the
schools or repudiate that prom
ise.
The whole scheme to shift the
state government from Vandiver
to Garland Byrd, who is tied to
the notorious advocate of school
race-mixing, John Greer, of
Sibley Committee shame, was
fostered by the Atlanta News
papers and its execution was
attempted by its Washington
Correspondent Albert Riley
through Congressman Vinson.
Riley tied the odiferous plot
directly to Vinson in having Vin
son accept responsibility for the
news that Kennedy would name
Vandiver as Secretary of the
Army.
Senator Russell was also in
volved and the New York Times
became aware that pressure
from the two Georgians, who
are members of the Armed Serv
xlces Committees of House and
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Senate, was such that Kennedy’s
Secretary of Defense, Robert
McNamara resented it.
Members of Kennedy’s staff in
Palm Beach “leaked” the presi
dent-elect’s displeasure to the
New York Times. It is customary
practice in Washington circles
“to leak” stories either to exert
or to relieve pressure.
If “Irresponsible Journalism”
on the part of the New York
Times is poor Buster’s alibi for
failing to get the job in Wash
ington, Buster had better con
sider the irresponsible journal
ism of the Atlanta Newspapers
for publishing the New York
Times story without obtaining
verification of its contents when
verification was possible in their
own back yard.
There was no compulsion upon
the Atlanta Newspapers to pub
lish an item of news which ac
curacy might have been in doubt
simply because it is a subscriber
to the news service supplied by
the New York Times.
The Constitution is alsv a
subscriber to the Associated
Press and to the United Press
International and it receives
some 60,000 words in news dis
patches over teletype daily from
each and from which it makes
selections.
Properly it is the responsibility
of the editor of The Ccnstitution
to evaluate news and select the
most important and accurate
from all the facts available.
If the Constitution editor did
not evaluate the accuracy of the
report of pressure by Vinson and
Russell on Kennedy when Vin
son and Russell were available
to him for checking the facts,
then it is with poor grace that
he seeks to shift responsidility
to the New York Times.
Should anyone wish to refer
to the files of The Atlanta Con
stitution of Wednesday, January
4, 1961, in which the New York
Times “irresponsible journalism”
article about pressure on Ken
nedy was printed, there will be
found printed in italics on Page
one, inserted in the New York
Times story the following.
(“Pierre Salinger, Kennedy’s
press secretary, had no com
ment on the Times story when
contacted by the Constitution
at Palm Beach late Tuesday).
So the Constitution did try to
verify the pressure story with
Pierre Salinger and, being un
able to do so, decided to accept
the New York Times article as
fact. .
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OF INTEGRITY
} If it was considered important
by the Constitution editor to
telephone to Palm Beach to
check with Salinger about the
accuracy of the report by The
Times that Vinson and Russell
were applying pressure, why
wasn’'t it important enough to
telephone to Washington to
check the Times report with
Vinson and Russell?
Was it because the Atlanta
newspapers were part of the
pressure and were putting it on
Vinson and Russell to make
them put the pressure on Ken
nedy to get Vandiver out of
Georgia?
The “irresponsible journalism”
alibi of Vandiver belongs at the
doorstep of the Atlanta Con
stitution. It was the Constitu
tion’s editor’s duty to make the
choice between the New York
Times story and Kennedy'’s press
secretary’s refusal to amplify the
situation when questioned.
In the meantime in the edi
torial rooms of the Atlanta
newspapers preparations were
being made for the transition
of the State Government from
Vandiver to Garland (Throttle
bottom) Byrd. ¢
The editors told “Good Old”
Charlie Pou, Maggie Shannon,
Douglas Kiker, Eddie Barker and
their newest trained seal, Reg
Murphy, to attempt to convince
the people of Georgia that it
would be only a matter of mo
ments when the 19-gun salute
and four ruffles and flourishes
accorded the Secretary of the
Army, would be given to Van
diver and the moving vans would
start rolling from Reynolds to
Atlanta to bring Garland and
Gloria and all their trappings to
the great grey mansion on the
Prado.
It is well known around the
State Capitol that when the
editors give “Good Old” Charlie
Pou rope with which to try to
hang someone he usually ends
up hanging himself in a maze
of conclusions hazy as the Milky
Way, as he did in this Vandiver-
Byrd affair. “Good Old Charlie”
even had the legislature ad
journing for several days to per
mit Byrd to prepare a legislative
schedule.
Maggie Shannon tried to find
homey touches to things at
Reynolds as a few of Byrd’s
friends gathered to figure on
splitting the patronage and cut
ting out Bobby Russell once Gar
land moved down to the second
floor of the capitol. It wasn’t a
large crowd, the radio said 30,
and soon the left overs from
lunch were put away in the
freezer by Gloria.
Aubrey Morris was dispatched
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from WSB to get Byrd’s first
golden words as governor the
moment Vandiver announced he
had accepted Kennedy's ap
pointment.
The tragedy, as far as the
newspaper personnel is con
cerned, was in the unfortunate
initiation of Reg Murphy as the
new political pundit for the At=
lanta Constitution. Murphy got
off to a bad launching and was
assuring one and all around the
capitol that Vandiver's appoint
ment was imminent. He deserved
a better opportunity to go into
orbit after a course as a Niegman
fellow at Harvard University. If
the problem of running a bureau
for a Macon newspaper proved
harassing, then trying to keep
up the shifting ideas of the edi
tors of the Atlanta Newspapers
will be worse.
On the editorial side the At
lanta Newspapers were exercis
ing “irresponsible journalism” in
the best Cox tradition but made
the situation a little more asi
nine than usual by the inane
editorials of that little old piece
of an editor, Gene Patterson,
trying to extricate himself from
the scheme that had been
hatched to shove Buster off
upon Kennedy.
A series of three editorials ap
pearing on succeeding days re
vealed how this little old piece
of an editor squirmed and
figeted and they provide an ex
ample for young journalists how
to avoid the pitfalls of trying to
run everything from City Hall to
the White House from Forsyth
Street, Atlanta.
The outstanding féature of
these editorials is that if any in
gredients were previously lack
ing to make Garland Byrd ap
pear as a perfect ass, Patterson
supplied what was necessary.
Patterson, likewise, showed
Vandiver what the Atlanta
Newspapers think of him after
they had used him for two years
as a tool to contrive and plot
against Marvin Griffin, |
The series of statements issued
by Vandiver and the exchange
of telegrams between Vandiver
and Kennedy in which Vandiver
got himself out of the predica
ment the Atlanta newspapers
got him into when they tried to
ditch him for Garland Byrd,
contribute to what Huntley-
Brinkley of the NBC Television
news tedt called “a comedy of
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introduced last fall—=together with the tremendous
success of the 60 Chevrolets—has sent Chevrolet
passenger car sales to an all-time yearly high.
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“Look up and live,” Commissioner of Labor Ben T.
Huiet reminds Georgians who work near electric lines.
Here, W. S. Pruett, right, of William S. Pruett Con
struction Company, points out a hazard to Commis
sioner Huiet involving a crane and electric lines.
“Carelessness with electricity and irrigation pipes,
derricks, nut poles, TV antennas, drilling rigs, cranes,
scaffolds, house moving, tree trimming and other oper
ations causes accidents which result in needless injury
and death, bringing grief to many Georgia families.”
Mr. Huiet said that employers now are legally responsi
ble for the safety of their workers around high-voltage
{ines. A new booklet on the subject is available by
writing to the Inspection Division, Georgia Department
of Labor, 287 State Labor Building, Atlanta 3, Ga.
errors to the embarassment of
everyone.”
The formal. exchange of tele
gram between Vandiver and
Kennedy are so much political
balderdash. What Kennedy ac
tually said to Vandiver over the
telephone is something approxi
mating the following:
“Governor this is Jack Ken
nedy. Because of the opposition
to you as Secretary of the Army
from all over the United States
I am not going to be able to ap
point you. I am so sorry it
worked out this way. I am going
to leave Palm Beach tonight and
go to New York where I will
confer with Secretary of Defense
McNamara who really has the
job of appointing the Army Sec
retary and who doesn't like
pressure. If you will send me a
telegram tomorrow withdrawing
your name from consideration
that will settle matters. Some
other time when I have a job
open that you can fill and when
you need one I'll see if I can’t
find a place to fit you in.”
Now that is just what took
place over the long distance
telephone and not the way it is
made to appear in the formal
exchange of telegrams between
the governor and the president
elect.
It provides another chapter in
the long story of irresponsible
journalism in Atlanta.
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preference for, Chevrolet. Your record-breaking
purchases of Chevrolets have significance to
everyone thinking of buying a new car this
— year, and—since sales of new 1961 Chevrolets
s and Corvairs continue at record-breaking levels
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strength and vigor of our national economy.
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A REPORT BY economists of
the Depsrtment of Agriculture
graphically points up the urgency
of early action by Congress to
write a new farm program.
Department experts projecting
the next five years on the basis of
! present farm
- laws could
: foresee no
break in the
. agricultural
i depression
which is ac
knowledged to
I have reached
crisis propor-
tions. They forecast a continuing
decline in the number of farms,
further increases in farm produc
tion costs and accumulation of
greater surpluses and held out lit
tle hope for any significant in
crease in farm prices. It was their
opinion that only one out of 10
male farm youths could look for
ward to operating a farm earning
as much as $5,000 a year and that
more than the present one-third
of farm families would have to
look to nonfarm income to balance
their budgets.
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IT IS THUS obvious that con
tinuation of the present program
would be disastrous to our agri
cultural economy and that the na-.
tional interest demands bold, de
cisive action to put the farmer
back on his feet.
Toward that end T have this
week introduced for the third
time since I became a member of
the Senate my farm bill which en
visions a free-enterprise agricul
tural program with three objec
tives—(l) to let the farmer farm,
(2) to guarantee the farmer his
proportionate share of the na
tional income and (3) to place
American agricultural commodi
ties back on the world markets at
competitive prices. They would be
(not prepared or printed
f| accomplished by freeing the farm
-2 er to plant and sell as he pleases
7| and supporting him in the amount
)| of the difference between the price
he receives for basic commodities
rlgrown for consumption in this
f| country and 100 per cent of parity.
1| A feature of my revised bill is
I{a provision to liquidate the farm
| surplus by allowing farmers who
el agree to put their land into con
1| servation practices to sell the
1| equivalent of their domestic pro
-| duction quotas from surplus
| stocks held by the Federal Gov=
1| ernment.
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x| THE PREMISES OF the Tal
,|madge Farm Plan are that there
-|is no justification for the Govern
f{ment to be in the business of buy
-|ing, transporting, storing and
-| selling farm commodities and that
*| the only reason for having a farm
)| program is to increase farm in
-lcome. It would restore the re
| sponsibility for marketing to the
.| farmer and private enterprise
|| where it belongs and can best be
)| handled and would seek to chan
[nel every farm program dollar
into the pockets of the farmers
themselves.
.| The American standard of liv
|ing is the highest in the world
{and to deny the American farmer
| legislative protection in the en
| joyment of it would amount to
‘| putting him into direct competi
tion with farmers in countries
;| where living standards are minute
| fractions of our own and to make
lof him a virtual peon in a land
|of plenty. It is my earnest hope
|that my bill will prove to be a
|basis for deliberations resulting
|{in new farm legislation to give
[the farmer the protection he de
| serves and has a right to expect.
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