July 25, 1963 (16 pages)

The as-yet-untold history of the swift march of events coincidences, oo heart is as captivated with visitor days as it is with board of recent weeks shows some remarkable The last long private letter from Khrushchev to President feet. spondence was reIn a way the threat of the recreation explosion reminds Kennedy in their extraordinary corre serceived at the White House on Sunday, June 9. The letter me of the threat of atomic war: everybody pays lip the meeting in the Kremlin vice to the dangers we face, but nobody makes the suproposed theJuly 15 date for forewith the Western negotiators. preme effort that seems to be needed if we are to are On that night the President was to fly back from Honostall them. (In either case, our basic resources the conference of mayors threatened--in one case, the human resource, in the lulu where he was to speak to a five-hour difference in time other the natural resource upon which our lives depend.) on the race issue. With of between Hawaii and Washington the Khrushchev letter Canwe truly and sincerely set ourselves to the task it is was transmitted to him. And then there began a rapidsolving this recreational problem, recognizing that I am fire exchange over the instantaneous communication syslater than we would like to think? I think we can. of a tem with which the President is always linked no matter not sure that we will. But I hope we will, (Last series of articles on problems of recreation in California.) where he is. On the White House end was McGeorge Bundy, the The Nugget. . July 25, 1963.P ™ But I just wonder whether in general the professional's Pa ~ ) ) = WASHINGTON CALIING — SKIP DUTY OF VOTING Back in 1960, when the Kennedy-Nixon Presidential contest brought out a record number of American voters, some 40,000,000 of our adult population failed to cast President's adviser on security affairs, As much as any a ballot. Last year, inour "off-year” Congressional vote, less than half our citizens voted. This record contrasts with the experience of our friends overseas. Elections last spring in Italy and in Austria brought out more than 90 per cent of the voters in those countries; in Canada last April, better than 80 per cent balloted to choose their country's new government. To try to find out why this contrast exists is the main individual, aside from the President himself, Bundy has on job of the new Presidential Commission on Registrati had a handin the correspondence with the Soviet leader. Secretary of State Dean Rusk from his office in the State Department participated in the electronic discussion across a continent and a long stretch of the Pacific, al and Voting Participation. Appointed last March by Presi dent John F. Kennedy, the Commission is a bipartison group of Americans whose job will be to spell out the “why” of American non-voting and suggest ways in which TS EN EV OF H RC MA T IF SW the voting record of our country might be bettered. make to ‘Naturally, a big problem with which the Commission though Rusk had to leave in the early afternoon SCOW a commencement address dence and receive a degree at Rhode LED TO TALKS IN MOiman . . left WashIsland University in Provi willbe concerned isthat of registration. Generations ago WASHINGTON ---When Averell Harr num-~ington for Moscow he had no idea who his opposite aps the most ber would be in the. negotiation that is perh ving he found crucial since the end of the war. If on arri ty for that the Soviet delegation was to be led by a depa eign minister, then the rising hopes of what might come At the heart of the discussion was the President's American University speech, which he was to deliver on the following day in Washington. Should the speech includea reference to the now -agreed-upon negotiation-agreed upon since Prime Minister Macmillan had all along been eager? It was finally decided to include it with a statement toward the close "that high-level dis . out of this confrontation would be cooled at the start ier Prem with The fact that the talks are be ginning ow looking toward rtance. It cussions will shortly begin in Mosc impo st utmo the of is r chai the in ev shch . Khru sae agreement on a test-ban treaty. early the on on tati repu onal pers his ed stak isa sign that he has The President $poke in Honolulu at 5:30 p.m. An hour outcome. At 9 a.m. will be and a half later he took off from the airport. ngton This does not guarantee that an agreement Washi near the he arrived at Andrews Air Force Base r unde and re sphe atmo the in ban test a reached for what is surely ors. and a little after 10:30 he began to read water that can be signed by the Western negotiat the most significant utterance of his term in the White fact the and r, aine barg ed rmin dete d, ahar Khrushchev is negotiation now going own hands House, with the disclosure of the that he has taken the negotiations into his e unac~ on. could mean tough demands for conditions quit Many elements entered into the decision to engage in Soviet the that kely unli is it But . West the to able cept private report Harriman picuous concurrent talks. One was the on Premier would deliberately invite a second cons made when he returned from his Moscow discussion d. worl ide outs the with s tion rela his in re failu public cor we =: deadLaos with Khrushchev in-late April. -The -Sino-Soviet talks*have ended in complete , both gists This was at a time when the Kremlinolo rs powe t unis Comm big two the een betw k brea lock, The Soviet come amateur and professional, were saying that the could not be more publicly advertised. They have n withi leader's position was so weakened by the quarrel of issue tal amen fund the on ways the of to the parting Behind the Communist bloc that he would probably be replaced thermonuclear war versus peaceful coexistence. there was no registration required in America. A man simply went tohis local voting place, picked upa ballot, and voted. But this kind of system often produced fraud, so registration was introduced as a protection for the ballot. However, the very fact of registration has very naturally cut down turn-out in our elections, Especially has this been true where there are long delays between the closing date for registration and the actual date of the vote itself. But there are problems beyond registration which will concern the Commission as well. Location of polling places, hours of voting, length of the ballot, ease of voting--all of these problems will be within the scope of its work. So too will be such new proposals as voting on Sunday, or voting by mail, or voting on two days instead of one. The Commission will also have a task beyond the purely mechanical aspects of voting. Problems of voter apathy willbe examined with an effort to determine the causes for indifference to elections. Is such apathy due toa feeling everything is going along well enough?. Or is he just uninterested in public affairs? These will be some of the “non-mechanical" aspects of the problem of non-voting which will be investigated in detail during the summer. Inthe fall, areport and recommendations will be sub mitted to President Kennedy. Since the great part of » American electoral administration is under State and lo ng exthe Communist gobbledygook of the Moscow*Peipi changes that is the fact. In recent The Soviets have long anticipated this result. icularly from “months repeated hints have come, and part Khrashchev Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, that the break. would need something to offset the shock of cow to lessen The "hot line” between Washington and Mos l was a small gain. But it was war the danger of accidenta hardly sufficient. ct the bya hard-liner, Whether Khrushchev is able to affe situation in Laos or not, Harriman reported to the President, one thing is certain--he is in full control in the Soviet Union. It is a moment of astonishing fluidity such as could hardly have been envisaged even a few weeks ago. Not perhaps since 1917, when the Communist revolution began, hasthe world seen such a potential and swift alter doubtedly be forwarded as well to those who supervise the election-day operations of our vdting system at the grass roots level. In the final analysis it is here at the grass roots that both the mechanical and "nof-mechanical" problems of voter turn-out will have to be met and solved. Richard M. Scammon on Chairman; President's Commission on Registrati and Voting Participation ---Marquis Childs ation. (Copyright 1963) , BUT SOCIAL LT Waptep To sere VRE EY¥CYCLOPEDIAS DOOR calcontrol, the recommendations of the report will un TAT MY 4 fo)(c Cc TATED VOCATION. (+) “ MANBE F could TAKE A NI6HT COURSE cee STieec wexcilimss ES ee ae ama, \ e rem x ree LE ARN. Dap OWE IE Z

The as-yet-untold history of the swift march of events coincidences, oo heart is as captivated with visitor days as it is with board of recent weeks shows some remarkable The last long private letter from Khrushchev to President feet. spondence was reIn a way the threat of the recreation explosion reminds Kennedy in their extraordinary corre serceived at the White House on Sunday, June 9. The letter me of the threat of atomic war: everybody pays lip the meeting in the Kremlin vice to the dangers we face, but nobody makes the suproposed theJuly 15 date for forewith the Western negotiators. preme effort that seems to be needed if we are to are On that night the President was to fly back from Honostall them. (In either case, our basic resources the conference of mayors threatened--in one case, the human resource, in the lulu where he was to speak to a five-hour difference in time other the natural resource upon which our lives depend.) on the race issue. With of between Hawaii and Washington the Khrushchev letter Canwe truly and sincerely set ourselves to the task it is was transmitted to him. And then there began a rapidsolving this recreational problem, recognizing that I am fire exchange over the instantaneous communication syslater than we would like to think? I think we can. of a tem with which the President is always linked no matter not sure that we will. But I hope we will, (Last series of articles on problems of recreation in California.) where he is. On the White House end was McGeorge Bundy, the The Nugget. . July 25, 1963..P ™ But I just wonder whether in general the professional's Pa ~ ) ) = WASHINGTON CALIING — SKIP DUTY OF VOTING Back in 1960, when the Kennedy-Nixon Presidential contest brought out a record number of American voters, some 40,000,000 of our adult population failed to cast President's adviser on security affairs, As much as any a ballot. Last year, inour "off-year” Congressional vote, less than half our citizens voted. This record contrasts with the experience of our friends overseas. Elections last spring in Italy and in Austria brought out more than 90 per cent of the voters in those countries; in Canada last April, better than 80 per cent balloted to choose their country's new government. To try to find out why this contrast exists is the main individual, aside from the President himself, Bundy has on job of the new Presidential Commission on Registrati had a handin the correspondence with the Soviet leader. Secretary of State Dean Rusk from his office in the State Department participated in the electronic discussion across a continent and a long stretch of the Pacific, al and Voting Participation. Appointed last March by Presi dent John F. Kennedy, the Commission is a bipartison group of Americans whose job will be to spell out the “why” of American non-voting and suggest ways in which TS EN EV OF H RC MA T IF SW the voting record of our country might be bettered. make to ‘Naturally, a big problem with which the Commission though Rusk had to leave in the early afternoon SCOW a commencement address dence and receive a degree at Rhode LED TO TALKS IN MOiman . . left WashIsland University in Provi willbe concerned isthat of registration. Generations ago WASHINGTON ---When Averell Harr num-~ington for Moscow he had no idea who his opposite aps the most ber would be in the. negotiation that is perh ving he found crucial since the end of the war. If on arri ty for that the Soviet delegation was to be led by a depa eign minister, then the rising hopes of what might come At the heart of the discussion was the President's American University speech, which he was to deliver on the following day in Washington. Should the speech includea reference to the now -agreed-upon negotiation-agreed upon since Prime Minister Macmillan had all along been eager? It was finally decided to include it with a statement toward the close "that high-level dis . out of this confrontation would be cooled at the start ier Prem with The fact that the talks are be ginning ow looking toward rtance. It cussions will shortly begin in Mosc impo st utmo the of is r chai the in ev shch . Khru sae agreement on a test-ban treaty. early the on on tati repu onal pers his ed stak isa sign that he has The President $poke in Honolulu at 5:30 p.m. An hour outcome. At 9 a.m. will be and a half later he took off from the airport. ngton This does not guarantee that an agreement Washi near the he arrived at Andrews Air Force Base r unde and re sphe atmo the in ban test a reached for what is surely ors. and a little after 10:30 he began to read water that can be signed by the Western negotiat the most significant utterance of his term in the White fact the and r, aine barg ed rmin dete d, ahar Khrushchev is negotiation now going own hands House, with the disclosure of the that he has taken the negotiations into his e unac~ on. could mean tough demands for conditions quit

Many elements entered into the decision to engage in Soviet the that kely unli is it But . West the to able cept private report Harriman picuous concurrent talks. One was the on Premier would deliberately invite a second cons made when he returned from his Moscow discussion d. worl ide outs the with s tion rela his in re failu public cor we =: deadLaos with Khrushchev in-late April. -The -Sino-Soviet talks*have ended in complete , both gists This was at a time when the Kremlinolo rs powe t unis Comm big two the een betw k brea lock, The Soviet come amateur and professional, were saying that the could not be more publicly advertised. They have n withi leader's position was so weakened by the quarrel of issue tal amen fund the on ways the of to the parting Behind the Communist bloc that he would probably be replaced thermonuclear war versus peaceful coexistence. there was no registration required in America. A man simply went tohis local voting place, picked upa ballot, and voted. But this kind of system often produced fraud, so registration was introduced as a protection for the ballot. However, the very fact of registration has very naturally cut down turn-out in our elections, Especially has this been true where there are long delays between the closing date for registration and the actual date of the vote itself. But there are problems beyond registration which will concern the Commission as well. Location of polling places, hours of voting, length of the ballot, ease of voting--all of these problems will be within the scope of its work. So too will be such new proposals as voting on Sunday, or voting by mail, or voting on two days instead of one. The Commission will also have a task beyond the purely mechanical aspects of voting. Problems of voter apathy willbe examined with an effort to determine the causes for indifference to elections. Is such apathy due toa feeling everything is going along well enough?. Or is he just uninterested in public affairs? These will be some of the “non-mechanical" aspects of the problem of non-voting which will be investigated in detail during the summer. Inthe fall, areport and recommendations will be sub mitted to President Kennedy. Since the great part of » American electoral administration is under State and lo ng exthe Communist gobbledygook of the Moscow*Peipi changes that is the fact. In recent The Soviets have long anticipated this result. icularly from “months repeated hints have come, and part Khrashchev Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, that the break. would need something to offset the shock of cow to lessen The "hot line” between Washington and Mos l was a small gain. But it was war the danger of accidenta hardly sufficient. ct the bya hard-liner, Whether Khrushchev is able to affe situation in Laos or not, Harriman reported to the President, one thing is certain--he is in full control in the Soviet Union. It is a moment of astonishing fluidity such as could hardly have been envisaged even a few weeks ago. Not perhaps since 1917, when the Communist revolution began, hasthe world seen such a potential and swift alter doubtedly be forwarded as well to those who supervise the election-day operations of our vdting system at the grass roots level. In the final analysis it is here at the grass roots that both the mechanical and "nof-mechanical" problems of voter turn-out will have to be met and solved. Richard M. Scammon on Chairman; President's Commission on Registrati and Voting Participation ---Marquis Childs ation. (Copyright 1963) , BUT SOCIAL LT Waptep To sere VRE EY¥CYCLOPEDIAS DOOR calcontrol, the recommendations of the report will un TAT MY 4 fo)(c Cc TATED VOCATION. (+) “ MANBE F could TAKE A NI6HT COURSE cee STieec wexcilimss ES ee ae ama, \ e rem x ree LE ARN. Dap OWE IE Z