Friday, Nov. 15, 1963
University Daily Kansan
Page 9
$70,000 Donated for Goldwater Drive
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Anybody who doubts Sen. Barry Goldwater's appeal to millions of voters should visit the National Draft Goldwater headquarters here. The mail and the money pour in from all over the country and petitions asking Goldwater to run for president, accompanied by $1, already have produced $70,000.
This is a voluntary organization, formed without Goldwater's advice or consent, and is headed by Peter O'Donnell, an investment business man from Dallas, Tex., who also is state Republican chairman. On July 4 O'Donnell staged a Goldwater rally at the National Guard Armory here with an audience of 9,000 persons from 44 states.
Another source of income for the committee is the sale of campaign supplies. You can buy Goldwater auto bumper stickers, color posters,
copies of the Senator's books, ball point pens, lapel buttons, pictures of Goldwater in all shapes and sizes and necktie clasps. The committee has 14 regular employees, lots of volunteer helpers and occupies office space on Connecticut Avenue for which it pays $1,000 a month rent.
OFFICIALLY, Goldwater does not recognize this organization and will not do so until he is ready to announce his candidacy for the nomination. It can be assumed, however, that O'Donnell can get the Senator on the telephone any time he has something important to discuss.
Leaving out the activities of the Draft Goldwater Committee, the Senator's presidential campaign until recently was a haphazard affair headquarters for it was wherever Goldwater happened to be. He would get up in the morning, have his
maximum breakfast of one glass of orange juice and start a whirlwind round of activity.
Lunch usually would consist of a sandwich, frequently at the airports as he was departing for a speaking engagement in a chartered plane. More often than not he wouldn't get any dinner but would grab another sandwich. His speeches usually were off the cuff because there was nobody available to write a text in advance.
IN RECENT weeks all that has been changed. William Flythe, a former newspaper man, has been installed as speech writer and general assistant to Goldwater's hard pressed press secretary, Tony Smith. Denison Kitchel, who official title is manager of the Goldwater campaign for re-election to the Senate, has moved from Phoenix to Washington and is beginning to think on a national scale.
Errol E. Harris, professor of philosophy, said last night that a system of deterance to war based upon a balance of terror is unstable and tends to become even more unstable.
Waging War of Fear No Basis for Peace
Prof. Harris made this remark in his latest lecture in the "Philosophy of War and Peace" series.
"Not only must the balance of terror be a constant stimulus to the competition in armaments, a constant source of mutual suspicion and irritation and a constant cause of nervousness, but also the very type of strategy involved constantly narrows the diplomatic safety margin to the thimest of tight-ropes," Prof. Harris said.
Neither can it be assumed that nuclear weapons would not be used in any encounter. Prof. Harris said.
Crisis tend to grow and spread until either one side backs down or until the maximum weapon capability is used, he said. The enormity of the weapon is no safeguard against the use of nuclear weapons, Prof. Harris said.
"Desperation on the part of the party in danger of defeat will not dictate prudence or restraint," Prof. Harris said.
Prof. Harris said it is the present attitude in the United States that if preparations are adequate, the necessary civil defense precautions are taken, and the U.S. plays its hand skillfully, war can be staved off for a long time, it can be won when it comes, it can be survived and the country can recover from it.
This attitude, he said, represents thermonuclear war as "an acceptable risk."
"My contention is that a thermonuclear war would be a disaster so total and complete that it can, in no imaginable circumstances, be regarded as an acceptable risk.
"It is a risk that we cannot afford to take for ourselves, and a fate which, as civilized people, we could not contemplate inflicting upon our potential enemies," he said.
Prof. Harris said the attempt to represent war as an acceptable risk is a "descent into the abyss."
Prof. Harris gave two reasons why war cannot be viewed as an acceptable risk:
- no population can be adequately protected against nuclear halocaust.
consultants to advise Goldwater on pre-convention strategy.
- Nuclear destruction is so vast.
It is ridiculous, Prof. Harris said,
that the means for defending civilization is also the means by which civilization can be destroyed.
- Nuclear destruction is so vast.
Prof. Harris will discuss controlled disarmament at his next Thursday lecture.
Some Goldwater men already are at work out in the country. Sen. Norris Cotton, R.-N.H., is in charge of strategy in his native state. William F. Knowland, former Republican Senator from California, heads a Goldwater advisory committee on the West Coast.
One of Kitchel's projects is to compile a microfilm library of what Goldwater has said in two books, 800 speeches, countless press conferences and numerous television interviews and speeches. It will be card indexed so you can push a button and find out what Goldwater said on every conceivable subject and to whom he said it. This is a precaution against Goldwater being forced to sit down and eat an unpalatable meal, consisting of his own words. Kitchel also is considering the acquisition of a computer which will compile the names and addresses of persons who have written to the Senator and break the letters down by subjects.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to estimate the total amount of money that is being donated to the Goldwater cause. The Draft Goldwater Committee says it needs much more money than it is receiving, but there never has been a political organization yet naive enough to concede it had all the financial backing it wanted.
Goldwater is not personally rich in the sense that President Kennedy (estimated fortune $17 million) and Gov. Nelson Rockefeller (estimated fortune $250 million) are wealthy. Neither is he on the dark brink of poverty. He is chairman of the board of Goldwater stores in Phoenix, Prescott and Scottsdale. Last year the Goldwater interest were acquired by Associated Drygoods Inc., in a stock exchange deal on which no details have been made public. Goldwater's brother, Robert, is president and active executive officer of the stores. The Senator has a home in Phoenix which probably would bring at least $100,000 in the current real estate market.
There is strong Goldwater support in Texas and the rumor factory says the Senator is getting big contributions from the oil and cattle millionaires. Goldwater told the New York Times this was a myth on the basis of trying to raise funds for the G.O.P. senatorial campaign committee of which he is a former chairman.
The latest to join the Goldwater camp is Edward A. McCabe, a 45-year-old Washington lawyer who was an administrative assistant to President Eisenhower from 1956 to 1960. His title will be research director and he will assemble a group of
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