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THE GOLD
By Charles
President Eisenhower is
cussing from men in the armed Hervices.. To reduce the
exodus of American gold to foreign countries, he is recall
ing .the families of . married
upending many millions of
the flow of gold from Ft. Knox is causing tremendous eco
nomic headaches.
Overseas military spending last year was slightly in
excess of $3 billion. At the
put out $3.2 billion in government loans and non-mililary
foreicrn aid.
During the period the U.S.
ed to $3.8- billion, the sum with
able to buy American gold.
Gold is accepted the world
There isn't enough gold, however, to be used in all com
mercial transactions. Consequently the American dollar,
"as good as gold," is used to supplement the gold supply.
One reason our dollars are acceptable is that they have a
backing of gold. We keep about
port our' domestic money supply. We have peggea ine
value of gold and as long as gold remains at that value we
have a "solid" dollar, acceptable as a substitute in the
channels of trade.
But when the price of gold is advanced on the foreign
market, as has recently been the case, there then is a de
mand for gold rather than the dollar.
Interest Rate Hurts
We currently have around $18 billion in our gold re
nerve. Of that amount we need $11.5 billion. That leaves
us ?f.5 billion to meet demands abroad.
The rate of gold outflow dropped during the first half
of I960. But it picked up in the third quarter. The third
quarter rate, if continued for a whole year, would be some
$4.3 billion. That wouldn't leave us much gold on which
In operate. Consequently some drastic measures are called
for immediately. One of those measures has been an or
. dor to reduce the number of military families abroad, and
we can be sure that the order will evoke some loud and
vigorous griping. -;
; But there is another angle to this gold situation that,
to my mind at least, indicates some of our domestic think
ing to be exceedingly. fuzzy.
During our recent election campaign there was a lot
bf talk about "cheap money" and "high interest rate."
! But a major cause for the flow of gold from the United
fUales is the fact that the interest rale now existing in this
country is far below the rate charged for money in some
bf the' more prosperous arcas in Europe,
'American Money 'Invested i
' Consequently it becomes possible for the large financial
concerns in the United Stales to borrow American money
at an interest rate of 4, 5 or 6 per cent, and invest that
money in European areas where the borrowing rale is 8,
30 or 12 per cent, or even more in some cases. Thus our
American investors are profiting from the existing interest
i'ate. If the new administration carries out its promise to
ower the interest rate and provide cheap money, it will
greatly increase the opportunities for profits in the Euro
pean money market, Hpccd the rate of American invest
ments abroad and thereby further deplete our outward
flow of gold, weakening the place of the American dollar
ns a substitute for gold which would, in turn, virtually
wreck our domestic economy.
The United Stales was in a favorable spot so long as
European economy was poor. We spent billions to strength
fcn foreign economy. Now, however, many spots in Europe
re stronger financially than the United States. They need
110 more aid. Eisenhower is suggesting they assume part
if the burden for extending help to the needy parts of the
Vorld a task that has been almost exclusive with the
United States.
; Ike has taken upon himself the ill-will of thousands
ttpon thousands of service men and their families. His is
a lame-duck administration and he'll personally take criti
cism and abuse to give the incoming administration an
font." But his own sacrifice of popularity will be of little
avail unless the new administration is willing to take a
realistic view of the world's economic situation. .
Hal Boyle
America's Blindest Prejudice
: Is Prejudice Against The Blind
v NEW YORK (AP)-A sightless
Joung educator here believes one
- -of America's blindest prejudices
is its prejudice against tho blind.
,". "It is prejudice there is no
oilier word for It." aaid I)r. Her
bert M. tireenberg, 31, s.istant
professor of sociology at Long Is
Jand University.
Z "The blind are the most dis
criminated against minority in the
Xnilcd Slates."
' Dr. Grecnbcrg, who lost his own
Muht at 10 after a mastoid opera--linn,
objects to the isolation of the
blind in special schools and Insti
..tutions and the reluctance oi
many employers to hire blind peo
ple for other than menial tasks.
"Three-quarters of all blind
y h i I d r e n are In segregated
M'huols." he pointed out. "But
they don't want to be Isolated in
"this way, H gives them a psychol
ogy nf defeat.
J "You can't spend 18 vears In
.a school for the blind and then
come out and adjust to a world
lof the sighted.
"So many end up going from
"schools for the blind lo workshops
.for the blind, whero they tend to
spend the rest of their hies weav- i
;ing baskets or making mats.
"It is a tragic waste nf human
skills, a waste we can't afford.
.This prejudice hurts not onlv the
blind it hurts society bv robbing!
; it of talent which is available, and !
.needed." j
Dr. Grecnbcrg, nigged, ath-
' Ictic man of 31 with a boyish !
. crew cut, is living proof nf hi I
'contention that a blind student!
.ran compete on equal terms in 1
elassci with children who can
"tee. !
' He was 1 Phi Beta Kappa col- i
Ore. Fri., Nov. 25, 1960
PROBLEM
V. Stanton
eetlinft a solid and . liberal
men. Ihose families are
dollars abroad at a time when
same time, the United States
deficit in payments amount
which foreigners nave been
over as a medium of trade.
$11.5 billion on hand to sup
'
lege graduate at 20. He attended
kraduate school while working as
a consultant on rehabilitation for
the city department of welfare
hero and took his doclorato de
gree with honors at 24.
Aided only by a slender alumi
num cane. Dr. Grecnbcrg daily
travels alone by train, and subway
tho 70-mile round trip between
his home near New Brunswick,
N. J., and the Brooklyn campus
where he teaches. Ho sees nothing
unusual about this.
"If you really need help, you
ran always ask for it and get it,"
he said crisply.
Popular with his students, Pr
Grcenbcrg found carrying a full
teaching load wasn't enough for a
man with his energy and
dreams.
So he pursues two other ca
reers. He maintains a private
practice in psychotherapy and
acts as research director for a
Manhattan marketing firm,
"This doesn't leave me much
time with my wife and two sons,"
he said, smiling.
Nevertheless, he does find lime
to participate In local politics and
pursue his hobbies swimming,
bowling, hridgo and chess.
Dr. tireenberg is robustly criti
cal of what he regards as false
pity for the blind.
"Losing your sight is not aa bad
as the feeling you get later
when people siam doort in your
fate when all you ask is not a
favor hut merely a chance 1 0
prove jour ability. That really
hurts.
"The funny thing about oreiu-
dire is this: Once you gel the
job, the prejudice melts away.
You are treated as an equal."
r
In The Day's News
f FRANK
Foreign affairs:
In Leopoldville, in the embattled
Congo, the forces of Colonel Jo
seph Mobutu, the Congo STRONG
.MAN, attack the diplomatic pre
mises of the Republic of Ghana
which were guarded by U.N.
troops. A rather bloody battle en
sues. Mobutu's men were gunning lor
Ghana'a charge d'affaires (a
charge d'affaires is a diplomatic
official somewhat below the rank
of ambassador) who, Mobutu
charges, was conspiring 1 against
Mobutu and for Lumumba, who in
the Congo ruckus appears to have
been a playmate of the commun
ists. The point is that Mobutu won the
battle and the U.N. command had
to agree to expel the Ghanian of
ficial. Questions:
Who is right? Who is wrong?
Who'a on our side? Who's against
us:
It's all rather obscure. But
CUBA'S ambassador (represent
ing the Castro government in the
Congo) is against Mobutu and his
protege Kasavubu, whom he blasts
as "anti-African colonial leaders
and tools of the imperialists."
That gives us a fairly depend
able hint as to who is on our side
and who is on the communist side.
Anyway, it's 1 mess.
Let's get closer home.
In Oregon (as, of course, almost
everywhere) a lot of money was
spent in the general election cam
paign that closed at midnight on
November 7. Oddly enough, the
biggest expenditure was by the
organizations opposing the initia
tive measure that proposed to ban
billboards on freeways.
The Oregon Council of Outdoor
Advertising and the Council of
Highway Regulation jointly report
contributions of $107,967 and expen
ditures of $106,129. These organi
zations led the campaign to defeat
the anti-billboard measure.
The campaign committee "for
James Marlon)
Gold Problem Could Spell
Satisfaction For Commies
U. S. troubles with the drain
on its gold and dollar resources
could create an atmosphere
of apprehension among America s
mentis ana satistacuon tor me
Communists.
Unless the United Stales finds
means of correcting the situation.
the squeeze in which it finds itself
conceivably could accomplish for
the Communists some of the things
they have been unable to do
themselves.
The situation could create
embarrassment for America's
friends. It could raise worry about
the health of the North Atlantic
Alliance. It could arouse uneasi
ness about the future of U.' S. aid
programs for underdeveloped
countries.
We are spending, investing or
giving away abroad more than we
take in from foreign spending and
investments. This is called an
unfavorable balance of interna
tional payments." The nagging
question arises: How long can
0. S. economic strength withstand
the strain of vast investment in
a global cold war contest?
European business circles seem
confident of the soundness of the
U. S. economy. Actually, U. . S.
exports in the fiscal year ended
this summer exceeded imports by
a rnnust margin.
But the deficit comes from
spending for military, economic
and technical aid, maintenance of
troops and bases, V. S. travelers'
expenditures, short-term invesl
term investments in things like
the West European construction
boom and other U. S. private cap
ital investment. Since 1938. the
over-all deficit has been well in
excess of $3 billion annually.
To stem some of the dollar out
flow, President Eisenhower or
The Cartoonist Says: ,
MutualTATd at First Sight
JENKINS
Senator Maurine Neuberger, the
Democratic candidate for U.S. sen
ator from Oregon, reported the sec
ond highest totals contributions of
$96,208 and expenditures of $96,-
208. Which, 11 might be aaaed,
amounts to 1 rigidly balanced
buduet.
Republican Candidate Elmo
Smith s campaign committees re
port contributions of $89,944 and
expenditures of $84,612. That could
De cited as a Budget aurpius. out
, . . Maurine won and Elmo lost!
The next largest camnaign ex
penditure was for Secretary of
State Howell Appling, Jr., who de
feated Monroe Sweetland (Appling
is a Republican and Sweetland is
a Democrat. Appling won.)
Sweetland's committee reports
that it received $20,817 and spent
$22,361. The Appling committee re
ports that it received $47,368 and
spent $49,383.
Both committees went into the
red.
A lot of money?
It certainly is in Oregon,, at
least.
Is it bad? '
' I think not.
In Oregon, candidates have to
rcoort how much thev got. and
where it came from. As long as the
neonle know bow much is being
spent to get elected and WHERE
THE MONEY COMES FROM,
they ought to be able to draw their
own conclusions, ine jaw piuviu
es that information.
But
Campign contributions don't
have lo be reported until AFTER
tho election. By that time, the wa
ter has all gone over the dam.
Which means that AT THE TIME
OF CASTING THEIR VOTES the
DeoDle don't know how much mon
ey was contributed, AND BY
WHOM, and how much was spent.
It would be a lot better if cam
paign contributions AND WHERE
THEY CAME FROM had lo be re
ported publicly BEFORE election
day.
I
dered a reduction in the number
of families of U. S. servicemen
overseas. Already this has brought
guarded European speculation
about future unity of the Atlantic
Alliance. How long, some Euro
peans ask, will the next U. S. ad
ministration be able to withstand
pressure to bring home American
troops, too?
There are other haunting ques
tions. Will U. S. aid to under
developed nations be cut? Will
there be new U. S. restrictions
on imports? Will U. S. aid now
lake on a frankly political char
acter, pinpointed as Soviet pro
grams are to areas where it will
do the most good the soonest?
The Russians, exuding satisfac
tion, openly boast that they hope
to undermine world confidence in
the dollar. They speak hopefully
of an imminent "general crisis of
capitalism."
Soviet Finance Minister Vastly
Garbuzov in a Pravda article dis
cussing the recent ruble revalua
tion laid all U. S. monetary prob
lems to military spending and
"the arms race, which he said
would undermine Western curren
cies while the ruble's prestige
would soar.
The Soviet ruble revaluation, in
fact, reflects Moscow's own trou
bles, indicating that even the
planned Soviet economy suffers
from inflation.
But the fact that Moscow has
its own fiscal troubles is little
solace for Americans facing a
complex international payments
situation which could have last
ing adverse impact on U. S. cold
war efforts.
The situation, say experts in
such complicated affairs, simply
must be corrected, to guarantee
future confidence abroad in the
dollar's value.
1 960 Forest Fire
Season In NW
Worst Since 1931
PORTLAND (AP) Acreage
burned in the1 1960 forest fire sea
ton in Oregon and Washington
was the greatest of any year since
1931, J, Herbert Stone, regional
forester, revealed.
He aaid 1,869 fires burned 76,716
acres of Forest Service-protected
land by Nov. 1 and 61,271 acres
of that was within the boundaries
of national forests.
The average acreage burned in
each of the past five years was
12,016 acres and the previous high
er mark in 1931 was 106,631 acres
burned by 1,516 fires.
Stone aaid this year there were
745 man-caused fires, much more
than the average of 373 in each
of the past five years. However,
he aaid, the most troublesome
were lightning-caused fires.
The rash of mid-July and early
August fires that included hun
dreds of blazes was touched off
by lightning. It hit hardest in the
Wallowa - Whitman and Umatilla
national forests.
The lightning caused 681 fires
in July in Oregon and Washing
ton, with S8S of them in Oregon.
Hypnosis May Be
Aid To Dentists
DETROIT (AP)-The next time
your child goes to the dentist he
may tune in on a mental re-run
of his favorite television program
completely oblivious to the work
being done on his teeth.
The dentist, however, will have
(0 be a practitioner of hypnosis.
Dr. Malcolm Campbell of Dear
born, Mich., a dentist who uses
hypnosis, described the practice
Tuesday at a symposium on psy
chosomatic dentistry, at the an
nual review of the Detroit Dis
trict Dental Society.
Campbell said that before hyp
nosis the child tells the dentist
which TV program he would like
to watch. Alter hynnosis, the child
reviews in his imagination the
program previously seen.
Campbell said "the main things
are so comforting the average
child is conditioned in five min
utes so that pain won't bother
him. He won't know it exists."
He said mental TV works on
children at any age from three
up, but added that older children
can be diverted by hypnotizing
them to imagine they just fin
ished playing an exhausting game
and are so tired they just want
to sit and relax.
Adult Education
Courses Slated
The General Extension Divison
of the University of Oregon, an
nounced today the list of courses
to be made available to Douglas
County residents during winter
quarter, according to Kennein Bar
neburg, county school superintend
ent.
Diagnostic and Remedial Instruc
tion in Reading. $33. will be offered
in Glendale. It gives three credit
hours, is held on Monday's begin
ning Jan. 9, 7-9:45 p.m.
In Roseburg: Painting, two cred
it hours, $22. Tuesdays, beginning
Jan. 3, 7-9:45 p.m., at the high
school.
The Mentally Retarded Child,
three hours, Wednesday, beginning
Jan. -4. 7-9:45 p.m., $33, at Rose
burg High School.
World Literature, three hours,
Thursday, beginning Jan. 5, 7-9:45
p.m., $33, high school.
Introductory Geography, three
hours, Monday, beginning Jan. 9,
7-9:45 p.m., $33, high school.
Music Fundamentals, three hours.
Tuesday, beginning Jan. 3, 7-9:45
p.m., $33, high school.
Individual Intelligence Testing,
three hours, Monday, beginning
Jan. 9, 7-9:45 p.m., $33, high
school.
Supers Cc?rt Ruling Opens New
Avenue To Reapportionment Fans
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) The
U.S. Supreme Court's decision to
hear the Tennessee reapportion
ment suit is ' a milestone in the
struggle of cities lo break rural
control of state legislatures,
spokesmen for the plaintiffs said
here.
The court agreed Monday to a
hearing on a suit by 10 Tennessee
vmera wilu seek 1 euiau luuiiuu ui
legislative seats to reflect t b e
shift of population from the farms
to the cities.
The decision has significance
far beyond the borders of Tennes
see. "The Supreme Court has never
before agreed to hear a legislative
reapportionment case," said Har
ris Gilbert, one of several lawyers
for the plaintiffs. v
"This is a great hurdle for
ward," said Z. T. Osborn, another
attorney for the group.
The court in a 1946 Illinois re
apportionment case said that
"Courts ought not to enter this
political thicket."
Should the court now agree the
plaintiffs' constitutional rights
Interior Dept. Dumps Cold Water
On Snake River Power Proposals
WASHINGTON (AP) The
Interior Department recently
dumped cold water on two pro
posals for building power plants
on a stretch of the Snake River
where it forms the border be
tween Idaho and Oregon.
Undersecretary Elmer F. Ben
nett, in a letter to Chairman Je
rome Kuykendall of the Federal
Power Commission, said a pro
posed treaty with Canada would
permit other major hydroelectric
development on the Columbia
River system;
Referring to the proposed High
Mountain Sheep or Nez Perce
sites on the Snake, Bennett said:
"We believe it is unnecessary
at this time and for some years
to come to undertake any project
in this area."
Bennett said this would provide
needed time which could be de
voted to further efforts lo solve
fishery problems posed by appli
cations to build plants at the two
sites.
An FPC hearing involving the
two conflicting application! is in
recess until next Monday.
Pacific Northwest Power Co.
seeks a license to build the High
Reader
Consumption Of Alcohol
To The Editor:
In The News-Review on the front
page it stated recently that nine
of the young people of our city
were brought before the court lor
iho nnsspgsion of liauor and beer.
How did these 18 year old men
get a hold of it? Who orone ine law
and sold it to them? Where were
their parents? 1 would be willing
in Biiess that thev were out some
where drinking also. What can you
expect from our young people
when they see Mother and Dad do
it? It is only natural that a child
wants lo do what his or her par
ents do. You can tell a child not lo
,in m- that but thev will al
ways do what you do and not what
you say. This is especially true of
the leen-age group, nmi i
as Christians doing to turn uie
tide for these young people? Here
are some hard facts to think
about:
Sale nf hard liauor in the State
of Oregon for the year ending Dec.
31, 1959, total $48,711,664.57. We ccr
minlv are in the liauor business.
The dispensers are our agents; the
customers our customers, r-xcepi
for the infinitestm.il amount pre
orihrf that $48,711,664.57 repre
sents waste; for regardless of what
point of view one takes, the same
conclusion is evident, that nothing
constructive was ever built on
hard liquor. The sum is inconceiv
able. Let us break it down into
something understandable, into
items that all can see and inter
pret in the light of experience.
If sDent wisely, this sum of $48,-
711,664.57 could buy this:
Each of 10.000 families in the
state of Oregon could yearly pay
for: $1800 housing. $4.10 education.
$180 church, $180 bread, $120 fruit,
turn Aairv m-nHiifl SKOO ment.
$450 clothing it shoes. $120 doctor
bills. $150 books it magazines, $120
daily papers. S240 vacations &
recreation, $120 life insurance pre
miums.
These are direct figures and rep
resent what could have been addi
tional business for the firms men
tioned. Let us look at savings to
business from other angles. The
revenue from liquor becomes a
terrific burden upon business. One
state found that for the $13,000,000
it took in from revenue from liquor
it spent $62,000,000 to care for he
consequences. What false economy
lo spend nearly $5.00 to win SI .00.
Surely there are economists in the
country who can devise better sys
tems for revenue getting.
Taxation is killing business slow
ly but surely by its ever-increasing
demands to build us bigger and
belter penitentiaries, larger insane
asylums, more reform schools,
mure nouses oi correction oi one i
kind and another, clinics, hospitals:
for the drunkards, and various oth-
er undertakings brought upon us unofficial tallv of the Nov. 8 vol
in large measure directly and in-ling and stretched his lead to 666
directly by induleenre in liquor. ion the basis of absentees.
Aoscn.ceism ineniciency. incapa-
city, muddled thinking, increased
insurance rates, broken families.
deserted children, even untimely
death all attributable to insobri-
any business. Yet. business itself!
w mien to oiame icr covering in
toxication with i cloak of re
SDeclahilitv. elamormni and en.
couraging' drinking. One wonders,
why?
(Sale of beer and wine in Mores
and taverns, etc., is not included
in the above figures I Thee ar
m ine aoove ngures l. 1 ties are
in. lacia as given oui oy t. a.
have been denied, a new avenue
would be opened to advocates of
redislricting in states where rural
lawmakers have blocked every ef
fort at reapportionment.
The Tennessee Legislature has
not been redistricted -eince 1901,
despite a provision in the state
constitution that requires a count
of qualified voters every 10 years
and apportionment of seats in the
assembly accordingly.
The chief issue before the Su
preme Court is whether the federal
courts have authority to compel
redistricting of state legislatures.
A special three-judge federal pan
el here, in dismissing the Tennes
seans' suit last Dec. 21, held fed
eral courts lacked jurisdiction.
The plaintiffs base their case for
federal jurisdiction on the conten
tion the failure of the legislature
to reapportion its seats has de
prived them of equal representa
tion as guaranteed by the 14th
Amendment.
State Atty. Gen. George McCan
less, a defendant in the suit, asked
dismissal on grounds no federal
question is involved.
Mountain Sheep plant one-half
mile upstream from the conflu
ence of the Snake and Salmon
rivers.
Washington Public Power Sup
ply System proposes to build the
Nez Perce project 24 miles
downstream.
Bennett said that as between
the two proposed dams, the Nez
Perce project would have greater
impact on anadromous fish
those that go upstream trom
oceans to breed, such as salmon.
He suggested both projects be
deferred while full advantage is
taken of the opportunity lor wa
ter storage and power develop
ment presented by the proposed
treaty with Canada.
Bennett said President Eisen
hower has indicated he plans to
submit a treaty embodying the
recommended proposals to the
Senate in January for ratification.
These include construction of
storage reservoirs on the Colum
bia River in Canada.
Tbey also, the department said,
would clear the way for construc
tion of the Libby project on the
Kootenai River in Northern Mon
tana. Opinions
Held Needless Waste
McCall. Draw your own conclu-
sln
After reading this report bv E.
S. McCall also think about those
who have been killed richt here in
Douglas County because some one
had to drink. The blood is just
as reo on ine nanas of the man
who made it as it is on the hands
of the man who sold it. It is just
as red on the hands of the man
who sold it as it is on the hands
of the man who bought it and then
gave it to another or drank it him-
seii ana men went and drove his
car and killed innocent people. A
writer in a syndicated nanP n.
pearing here locally calls wine
the "Grapes Of Joy." Wine has a.
cohol in it and drinking it will only
bring sadness so I would like to
know where he gets his title. This
nation spends an enormous amount
for that which tears down nH
does not build up. It weakens this
nation beyond comprehension. If
we do not change our ways, God
win ueai wun mis nation severely
Just the fact that we must enn
tinually be building even larger
mental hospitals is proof of this
before our eyes.
Read again the figures and real
ly stop and think! Then get out
ana wore to stop mis needless kill
ing and murderl
Mrs. Lester Gale
1744 N.E. Klamath Ave
Roseburg, Ore.
Mrs. Rausch Thanks
Local Blood Donors
To The Editor:
I would like to take thi methnH
to thank The News-Review and all
the many kind and thoughtful peo
ple who had anything to do with or
who donated hlood for my late hus-
j band, Bill Rausch. I would also
like to report his knowledae and
appreciation of the efforts to help
him before he passed away Nov.
20. For the children and myself I
would like to express our most
heartfelt thanks.
Mrs. Wm, F. Rausch
P.O. Box 545
Elkton, Ore.
Recount Slated
In Tight Race
SEATTLE (AP) A recount
will begin Monday in the tight 7th
Congressional District race in
which Rep. Don Magnuson, D
Wash., has apparently edged out
Republican John Stender by 116
votes.
Republicans requested the re
count, and the King County elec
tion board agreed Tuesdav. R.
suits are expected Dec. 2.
Stender led bv M vnie. In ih
Bul Coiintv Auditor Rob , M
ri, id Sunday , error n,d
discovered which gave Magnuson
an aaamonai ail votes,
Britannic On Last Trip
NEW YORK (API The Cunard
liner Britannic sails on her last
transatlantic voyage on Friday.
I ...The ship, ast of the old British
j JJJL'I" "ners, is heading for
S0',, ,rIc!n- " "r l?t port
l j "". '";" " tnrougn 3U aqitaling min-
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Editorial
Comment
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Capital Journal, Salam
America never before has had a
president who plays touch football
regularly in his backyard.
But except for this strange ad
diction John Kennedy, 'during his
first week and a half as president
elect, is performing like any num
ber of his predecessors.
He quickly made peace with the
man he defeated. He hurriedly set
up a meeting with the old adminis
tration to iron out transition prob
lems. He immediately moved to
b briefed on affairs of stale. And
only hours after victory appeared
assured he calmed fears of a total
purge by announcing he will keep
two of the most popular agency
heads, J. Edgar Hoover and Allen
Dulles.
His promise to halt the practice
of awarding ambassadorships to
campaign donors also has a fam
iliar ring.
In fact, President Eisenhower al
most exactly eight years ago to the .
day made the same promise. The
promise was old even then. Herb
ert Hoover talked about it. And
Woodrow Wilson. And even Teddy
Roosevelt.
Each made a start and then with
drew. The situation has improved
slowly, however. It used to be that
career men achieved too rank only
(-by taking embassies in the back
waters of the world, the guttering,
prestige capitals of the world all
went to the wealthy. Every once in
awhile now a career Foreign Serv
ice officer gets a post with hot and
cold water.
But the pressures still are im
mense. How else do you reward
rich backers? They won't take .
postmasterships. They already are
bored with federal advisory com
mittees. And they rarely want to
serve on federal regulatory com
missions, which have dull work, to
do. You can't risk their fumbling
in Cabinet positions. 7
Kennedy's pronouncement, wheth
er he is able to follow through or
not, had impact in his own home.
Hit father, Joe, two decades ago
bought the world's most desirable
embassy, in London, with contribu
tions to FDR's campaign chest.
And the impact must have been
felt among the son's wealthy New
England friends, too, for some of
them must have been expecting
some such reward.
History is against the new chief
executive. But we wouldn't be stir- .
prised to see some progress. Young
Jack is a cool one experienced in
fending off the exhortations of
wealthy, favor seekers. And he'll
have plenty of chance to test his
ability within the next several
months, for ambassadors tradition
ally forward their resignations in
advance of inauguration day.
SATURDAY, CLOSING '
Oregon Statesman. Saltm '
Starting Jan. 21st next banks in
Oregon will close on Saturdays,
thus ending a long and rather
bitter fight among banks in t h a
state. The First National of Ore
gon group held to Saturday open
ing, inougn its rival, the U.S. Na
tional and most independent banks
favored Saturday closing. The is
sue boiled up in the Legislature
as the latter group sought a law
to require Saturday closing, with
out success. Legislators told ine
bankers to settle their own house
keeping rules. This they have done
following a change in the office of
president of the First National.
Banks say they have had trouble
getting the keeping help for six.
day operation. Some engaged part
time help for the extra day. They
anticipate having better worker
morale with a five-day schedule.
and less expense. They point out,
too, that state, county and city of
fices are closed on Saturdays as
well as many other offices and
some businesses. Retail stores,
however, liked to have the banks
keep open. Customers will have to
accommodate themselves to t h e
changed schedule which now will
conform to prevailing custom . in
neighboring states.
USELESS INFORMATION
Oregon Statesman, Salem ,
Add this to your supply of com- '
pletely useless information: The!
editor of the Old Farmer's Alman- '
ac never puts his name in his pub
lication. The practice started in
1667. The year before, two Alman
ac editors in London predicted the
city would burn that year. When it
did, the editors were hanged on
suspicion of arson.
Ford May Be Jolt
To Gold Program
WASHINGTON (AP)-The gov
ernment's battle to stem the gold
drain and reduce this country's
balance of payments deficit will
get a $307-million jolt if the Ford
Motor Co.. goes through with its
plan to buy Ford of England.
The gold drain items directly
from the payments deficit, which
represents the difference between
the amount that Americans pay
out abroad and the amount re
ceived from foreign sources. As
i foreigners collect more dollara
than they pay out, they use soma
lo buy American gold.
Ford of the United States is of
fering $361 million for complete
control of its British affiliate.
Ford Motor Co., Ltd. U.S. Ford
already owns 55 per cent of the
common stock of the British com
pany. If the deal goes through, most
of the $361 million will be paid to
foreigners since thev own most of
the shares which U.S. Ford wants
lo buy. This would add directly to
the payments deficit.
Pigeon Gets Cleaned
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -Gloria
McGown of nearby Car
michael opened her ui,hin
! machine, removed some sheen
1 nd the cleanest pigeon in town.
I The bird apparently had
perched inside the waher. in the
McGowns' open garage, before
Mrs. McGown put in the laundry.
Dean said it rallied splendidly.
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