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A TOUGH PROGRAM
; By Char!es V. Stanton
I President-elect Kennedy, we are told, has been given a
feport containing: much criticism of the many federal agen
cies, departments, administrations and authorities, and ad
vocating a sweeping overhaul.
- If he can 'correct the abuses recited in the report, more
power to. him! But I'm skeptical!
I Kennedy is a youngster, so far as the age of Presidents
concerned. It is one of youth's attributes to be a "snake
Eiller." The older a man grows, the less he is inclined to
light the status quo. The younger man seeks change, re
form, improvement.
So, it will be interesting to observe whether Kennedy's
youthful enthusiasm attempts to "reform" the entrenched
bureaucracy, currently costing the American taxpayer a
most handsome' sum of money.
The President-elect authorized a one-man study by
James M. Landis, formerly active in various governmental
departments and agencies. As he had personal contact with
the Federal Trade Commission, Securities and Exchange
Commission, Civil Aeronautics Board, Office of Civilian De
fense, and other."!, it might appear that Landis was kicked
from "pillar to post" because of some personal tendencies.
Delays Reported
Perhaps he was impatient with what he says are "in
ordinate, interminable delays characterizing the handling
of cases before nearly all regulatory agencies." If he ex
hibited such impatience, then we may understand the rea
son he served in so many places,
We had enough federal emp'oyes before Franklin Roose
velt became President. But
in the relief of the Great Depression, we had. a staggering
growth of federal bureaucracies. And each agency, with
only minor exception, has continued to flourish and grow
under subsequent administrations. Every attempt toward
reorganization toward reducing the size of government
has failed miserably.
Today we have hundreds of
eral employes. We have placed them under a Livii bervice
Commission. Theoretically they can be discharged for in
competence, but proving incompetence is worse than getting
litigation into the U. S. Supreme l ourt.
Most of those who head federal bureaus are paid on
the basis of the number of employes serving under them.
Consequently, it is to their personal advantage to make
just as much work as possible and hire moiyj clerks and
supervisors.
Anyone who has had to do paper work with one or
more of these commissions, authorities, agencies, adminis
trations etc., knows that a
more than to have a comma put in another spot. But that
keeps more clerks busy!
Money Wasted
The inefficiency one encounters in dealing with some of
these federal organizations, the delays, vacillations, 'pro
crastinations, etc., is enough to set one wild.
A private business wouldn't tolerate such costly inef
ficiency for a moment. But, seemingly, it is encouraged
in the federal family. It makes jobs. Those in jobs aren't
easily fired and, besides, who wants to fire them? The
more the better!
And that brings me to another pet peeve!
The only place where Landis had a good word for a fed
eral agency, according to news accounts, concerned the Na
tional Labor Relations Board. But again one is inclined to
take a second look at his report. It would seem that he is
proposing to put more politics into the NLRB rather than
getting it out of politics. That, to me, makes his whole
report suspect.
If there is one place in which the federal government
DOESN'T belong,- in my opinion, it's in the labor relations
field. Why should the federal government set itself up as
the third man in the ring with Capital and Labor? Why
should taxpayers be spending their money for government
interference. Capital and Labor are perfectly capable of
settling their own disputes without a third party meddling
in and making matters worse. We're prolonging and em
phasizing labor troubles, paving the way for racketeering,
simply because of governmental muddling. We could be
saving billions of dollars if we'd get the federal government
out of the middle.
Kennedy, it is to be hoped, with the enthusiasm of
youth, attack the entrenched bureaucratic system and
strives to produce a higher degree of efficiency. However,
it is my guess thai he'll meet a stubborn, solidly entrenched
system that "will give him plenty of headaches before, and
if, he succeeds.
Hal Bovle
Unknown Lassitude Virus
Hits All After Christmas
NEW YORK (AP) Whatever rusty bugle,
happened to "Jingle Bells'" I Who wants to lie up and doing?
There was a I line that was! At home the housewife takes a
sweeping the country from coast loncor atternoon nap on the couch
to coast last week. But it seems ! than usual. In the evening she
tn have died out in the last couple i sits and stares at (he winking,
of days. Maybe too much over I blinking Christmas tree, which
exposure.
"Have a nice Christmas?" asks
llie pretty secretary, returning to
work a day late from the holidays.
"No thanks!" grumbles the of
fice grouch. "Just had one."
An unknown virus of lassitude
sweeps the nation between the de
parture of Santa Clnus and (lie ar
rival of the New Year.
II is the week of "the great
leinown. r.veryoody rests on nisi
oars in the doldrums of desire. J
No one wants to sing carol.
No one yearns (o throw a snow-j
ball. Life settles down into a vast!
aluggishness of -mind and body!
and spirit. It becomes a big fat
yawn.
tveryonc Is seasonally worn ut
from welcomes and wassail and
turkey and pudding and good will
and shopping and mailing pack-
ages and opening packages.
Everyone secretly wants tn ;
riawl into a cocoon and dwell (
there and dream there tint il the i
first robin of spring blows his !
545 S.E. Main St.. lUMDurf, Oi..
Ore. Wed., Dec. 28, 1960
under Roosevelt, and as a step
thousands of entrenched fed
paper conies back for nothing
nns mi only begun to shed Us
needles. She knows she should he
scribbling Happy New Year cards
to the people she forgot to send
Christinas cards lo, but somehow
she doesn't feel quite up to it.
At the olficc you'd have to fire
a 2lgun salute throughout the dav
lo keep the stnfl awake. The task's
Ihey now spend all week noslmm
ing they'd ordinarily romp through
in half a morning any other time
uf the vear
Yep, 'the hired hand knows he
ought lo buckle down and wind up
his ycaiend report. Hill instead he
puts his feet on his desk and
stares vacantly mlo snace. robbed
of all will to performance.
I ne noss rs m the same fix. He
knows he ought to he planning the
firm's progress in the year ahead,
but he doesn't want to. He knows
that at least he ought to go out
and bawl out the hired hand for
doing nothing,
But is it worth the trouble? No
not now. So the boss puts hn feet
In The Day's News
Br FRANK
In this space yesterday we ask
ed HOW MUCH IS A BILLION
DOLLARS? The generalized,
broadly inclusive answer is that it
is a LOT OF MONEY.
So, today, it might be interest
ing to ask another question?
WHAT IS MONEY.
The commonest definition of
money is that it is a MEDIUM
OK EXCHANGE.
Primitive men had no use for
money. Nor did he do much trad
ing. He ate the meat of the ani
mals he killed. He clothed him
self in their skins. He dwelt in
a cave. In other words, he was
a rugged individualist. He lived by
his own efforts.
But, as time passed, primitive
man began to discover that he
could improve his standard of liv
ing by swapping what he possess
ed in surplus for what his neigh
bor possessed in surplus. It was
thus that TRADE arose.
, At first, trade in. the world was
all swap and barter. But, as trade
grew, swapping and bartering be
came bulgesome and burdensome.
It wasted too much time. Even
tually, it occurred to some primi
tive cave man with a Phi Beta
Kappa tyoe of brain that a MED
IUM OK EXCHANGE would come
in mighty handy.
How he got the idea is lost in
t'.ie mists of antiquity. He may
have noted that his neighbors were
fond of stringing shells around
(heir necks as ornaments. And
. . . he mav have known where
j there was quite a shell beach.
I Anvway, shells were among the
earliest "media of exchange. Our
own Indians, who came along
eons after the earliest cave men,
used shells as a medium of ex
change. They strung them on
threads and called them wampum.
It was thus that MONEY came
into being. All kinds of things have
been used as media of exchange.
For centuries, CATTLE were used.
The use of cattle as money is
still shown in our Language.
The word "pecuniary" (mean
ing having to do with money trans
actions! is derived from the Latin
word "pecus," meaning "cattle."
Edmond LeBreton
J FK's Texas Team To Have
Chance To Show Its Mettle
WASHINGTON (AP) John F.
Kennedy's Texas team should
have an early chance to show
whether it can line up Southern
lawmakers for the president
elect's program as effectively as
it kept Southern political leaders
behind his candidacy.
When Kennedy talked about his
legislative program, with the vice
president-elect, Sen. Lyndon jonn-
son, D-Tex., and House Speaker
Sum Rayburn, u-Tex., at his side,
lie mentioned first a Social Security-based
health care program for
the aged.
This is the legislation killed this
year in the House Ways and
Means Committee headed by Rep.
Wilbur D. Mills, D-Ark., and the
Senate Finance Committee head
ed by Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D-Va.
Southern voles figured heavily in
the committee decisions.
Backers of the kind of bill Ken
nedv favors contended and many
sideliners agreed with them that
if such legislation had ever
reached the floor of the House
and Senate with commitlee ap
proval both chambers would have
passed it.
To redeem its campaign pledg
es, the incoming administration
must lead another try. The com
ing struggle affords a second test
of Kennedy's major strategic de
cisionto offer the vire presiden
tial nomination to Johnson, his
great convention rival for the
presidency, and not to write the
South out of his calculations.
In terms of the election, the de
cision has been proven inspired.
Johnson, and Johnson's redoubt
able manager, Speaker Rayburn.
certainly helped keep Texas and
the majority of the South in the
regular Democratic fold. The vole
turned out so close, even elector
ally, that if Kennedy had lost just
two states rated in advance as
most doubtful, Texas and North
Carolina, he would have lacked
an electoral majority,
Rut the chances are that Ken
nedy, a long-range planner, was
looking beyond the election when
j he made his dramatic bid to the
aenaie majority leader.
Suppose he had offered Johnson
no luilm afler beating him for the
presidential nommalion, hut had
been elected anyhow. He would
then have had to deal wi!h a
Congress whose two lop Demo
crats, loyal parly men lo be sure,
might still be nursing private
wounds.
Instead, he has given Johnson,
and, through Johnson. Rayburn,
a substantial personal slake in
the new administration's aticcess
I or failure in Congress.
The struggle will open soon.
; presumably in the Ways and
I Means commitlee, which this year
: met for months behind closed
! doors before irrevocably turning
i down the Social Security' approach
to health care for the aged. No
! variation of the Social Security
; plan ever mustered more than 9
voles in the 2.i-nian rommiUee.
The 10 Republicans voled solidly
I againstit. Chairman Mills auth-
!on his desk, too, and stare n
jseeingly at the puturcs on his
! wall.
Ennui holds the race of man
kind from its usual promise. It
i is easier lo postpone everything
; than to do an thing.
' The virus will pass. The great
I letdown will end. In another few
days the world will hum as busily
' and shout as stridently as ' usual-;
; ly does. '
But in the week between Christ !
mas and New Year's, personal !
j chancier plus a few' teaspoon-1
I fuls of bicarbonate of soda-are i
about all that keep the human '
, race going. i
JENKINS
Cattle were perfectly good monev.
They had INTRINSIC value. If
you didn't want to use 'em as a
medium of exchange, you could
EAT 'em. You could make leather
out of their hides. Their horns
made pretty good drinking cups.
For quite a period of our own
West, beaver skins were used as
money. They too had intrinsic
value. You could make hats of
their fur. In early colonial Vir
ginia tobacco was used for money.
It also had intrinsic value. If you
didn't need it for money, you could
smoke it or chew it.
One of the principles of GOOD
money is that it must have intrin
sic value which is to say that
it must be capable of being used
for some purpose other than as
a medium of exchange. Also it
must be reasonably scarce, be
cause if it becomes too ABUND
ANT it depreciated in value. But
it mustn't be TOO scarce.
That brines us around to eold
which for centuries has been the
world's basic medium of exchange.
Gold has INTRINSIC value. It is
beautiful, which gives it value as
ornaments, it is capable ot neing
worked easily, so that almost
ANYTHING can be made of it.
It doesn't rust away. It resists
acids. It can be beaten out fabu
lously thin for use as gold leaf.
It is durable.
And, since the beginnings of
trade and commerce, it so hap
pens that gold production over the
world has tended to increase about
as last as the volume of world
trade and commerce has increas
ed. Thus it has tended to be neith
er too scarce nor ' too abundant.
For all these reasons, gold has
tended to become the IDEAL med
ium of exchange, the ideal basis
of value for other things that are
used as money (including paper
with PROMISES written on it),
the ideal medium for the settle
ment of international balances.
So, in these days, we have come
to think of gold as MONEY. We
have confidence in gold as mon
ey. We have confidence in paper
money that is hacked by gold. We
have little confidence in paper
money that isn't backed by gold.
orcd the quite different and sharp
ly restricted grant-in-aid plan for
needy aged which finally emerged.
So Rayburn's work, if ho in
tends to back Kennedy all (he
way on this issue, is cut out for
him. It begins when the House
Democrats caucus Monday, since
there are two Democratic vacan
cies to fill on Ways and Moans
The two who left the committee
are the author ot the Social Secur
ity health plan, Rep. Aime J.
J or and of Rhode Island, and one
of its strongest supporters. Rep.
Lee Metcalf of Montana. Forand
did not seek re-election. Metcalf
was elected to the Senate.
There is a Republican vacancy
on the committee, too, but it is
hardly likely the opposition parly
will name to this blue ribbon tax
writing committee anyone who
might waver in opposition lo the
Democratic program.
Backers of the Kennedy plan,
however, think that if they can
get their measure to the floor they
will have support from some GOP
colleagues, since there will no
longer be in the White House a
Republican president publicly and!
strongly opposing any link of So-
via, kji-vumjr uiu C lll'llllll
care.
South Korea Cuts Army
SEOUL, South Korea (AP)
The South Korean army today re
tired 1.534 officers and noncom
missioned officers as part of its
plan to cut 30,000 men from the
army., Each was given two years'
salary.
The Cartoonist
PORT ECONOMY
Coos Bay World
We heartily concur in the view
expressed during Congressman
elect Edwin Durno's local-problem
conferences at Reedsport and else
where that public works appropri
ations and projects could do some
thing to alleviate the distress of un
employment which has hit lumber
industry areas with a sickening
wallop. But while the lines of ap
plicants for unemployment compen
sation checks each week may rep
resent stimulus for pushing such
projects, we believe that the pub
lic works needs are justified on
their own merit, and that harbor
improvements such as the Siuslaw,
Umpqua, and Coos jetty projects
merit priority consideration under
the economic and social philosphy
advanced by the Kennedy Admin
istration in November.
This paper has long urged these
harbor repair and improvement
needs, nor have we ever felt that
support for one was inconsistent
with support for the others. We
believe that the economy of South
western Oregon is weakened by the
unsolved problems of th-i Umpqua,
Siuslaw, Coos or other harbor en
trances, we believe that the cor
rection of the harbor problems of
any community will enhance the
security and prosperity ot every
citizen or every other community
At no ooint is our national secur
ity more surely served than at the
basic community level of our in
dustry and commerce.
As a nation, we can hurl billions
into a frantic race for supremacy
in outer snace: we can pour other
billions into our frenzied effort to
concoct the latest and must lethal
nuclear weapon; we can pour other
Billions into maintaining an cin
cient military and naval system,
to the end that as a nation we will
be invincible.
We can do all of this, and meet
disastrous defeat in a crumbling
economy at home in the port com
munities of our nation, in the mills
and factories of our lumber and
other industries.
We hope that the forthcoming
federal budget will have substan
tial items for the Southwestern har
bor projects, and that the Oregon
delegation of Democratic and Re
publican senators and congressmen
will work together for the appropri
ation of funds for the early start of
construction of these first-line-of-de-fense
projects.
THE GOOD GUY
The Sun, Edmond, Okla.
What would happen if this nation
turned her microscopes away from
studying the selfish, the lazy, the
crafty and the confused and focus
ed them instead on the industrious,
the able, the honest and the mor
ally strong? What would happen
if we stopped psychoanalyzing the
chicken-chested punk who knows
only to sneer, and paid some gen
uine attention to the squares who
have never stabbed a teacher or
mugged an elderly woman?
Think of the millions of dollars
we've spent trying to find out what
makes the delinquent. Think of the
time our sociologists have spent
trying to analyze the alcoholic, be
lay the broken home, and compre
hend the criminal. Breeders of ani
mals are smarter than this. No
body develops winning racehorses
by an intensive study of the losers.
Nobody breeds prize pigs by re
searching the runts.
We ve taken the good guy for
granted for so long in this country
that we apparently know nothing
whatever about him. Is he reli
gious? Sometimes hut quite oft
en not. Was he properly whaled by
his parents when he was a kid
Again sometimes - but quite often
not. Was he a sheer joy to his
teachers? Not always oflen he I
was the lad who turned their hair scheduled to make Us first flight
prematurely gray. But do we know! late in 1962. will be the father of
about the bad guy? You bet we a series of supersonic civilian jet
do. We know he is misunderstood, j liners that in another decade will
misguided, misdirected, and miser-! be taking passengers coast to coast
able. a victim of his environ-; in little more than one hour. So
ment. We know we must pity him I inevitable is this development that
and pamper him and pay for his I airlines executives already are pon
rehabilitation. dering arrangements for financ-
We must at all cosls and the ling their 1970-model Mach 3 trans
costs are becoming outrageous j ports. The thermal barrier can't
be nice to him. I say nuts to him halt the progress of aviation, mili-
Says:
Editing the Message
iditoricsl
and to our national fetish of the
overwrought and discontended the
neurotic personality . . .the upset
physyche . . . and the complex com-
Dlex. Couldn t our grade schools,
give at least as much extra time
to developing the brilliant, the gift
ed, and tne natural leaders as they
give to those who haven't yet ad
justed to group play?
Must our high schools continue
to flood our colleges with the well
off, the show-off and goof-off. . .
along with the talented ... the
able . . . and the devoted? I be
lieve it is high time for our edu
cators, our ministers, our business
men, and our journalists to launch
a mammoth talent hunt. Shouldn't
we ensure that every gifted boy
and girl gets at least as much
attention as we give our classier
criminals?
SECOND BARRIER
Portland Oregonian
Two years ago the X-15 rocket
plane was a high-priority, highly
classified space age project. A per
son needed lop security clearance
even to get a peek at it. Only now
are the manufacturer's tests com
plete and the X-15 ready to be
turned over to the National Aero
natics and Space Administration.
But so swift is the progress of
aerospace research that the X-15
is obsolete even before it has had
an opportunity to reach its goal
of taking a man 100 miles into
the sky. It no longer has any de
sign secrets wortb keeping.
The X-15 will be remembered,
however, as the plane which allow
ed the U. S. aviation industry to
hurdle another "barrier" and move
into a new field.
Only a few years ago it was
widely believed that airplanes
could not fly faster than the speed
of sound. Planes that did approach
the "sound barrier" in high speed
dives were subject to severe, de
structive buffeting. But as design
ers learned more about high speed
airflow they found they could build
planes that would fly faster than
Mach 1 with no ill effects. For ail
practical purposes the borderline
between subsonic and supersonic
flight no longer exists.
Now we must deal wilh a new ob
stacle, the "thermal barrier". We
know that when an object moves
through the air at high speed it
heats up through friction. A 2.500
m.p.h. airplane will build up a skin
temperature in the neighborhood
of 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. If
built of conventional aluminum, it
literally will melt. So ways must
be found to design wings, fuselages,
electronic gear and even rubber
tires for landing wheels that will
withstand intense heat over long
periods.
Many of the lessons rearnea Dy
engineers for North American Avi
ation. Inc.. in building the X-15
have helped in the design of the
2,000 m.p.h. B-70 bomber the firm
now is building tor tne strategic
Air Command. The problems of
avoiding heat damage and dissi
pating excess heat are much the
same in-bolh "aircraft.
The X-15 is built of heavy plates
of nickel alloy to resist the extreme
temperatures it will encounter at
its designed top speed. But this
little plane weighs 15 tons, and a
B-70 built tn a similar fashion
would be too heavy to get of the
ground. The desired light weight
and heat resistance will be achiev
ed in the B-70 through the use of
stainless steel, honeycomb con
struction. Thousands of gallons of
jet fuel carried in the hollow wings
will absorb much of the heat, and
refrigerated air circulating through
the cellular fuselage walls will
keep the outer skin below the melt
ing point while letting the crew in
side work in a shirtsleeve environ
ment.
No one doubts that the B-70.
Comment
tary or civilian. But the airport
ramp operator, when he moves up
to the cabin door of an arriving
airliner, may need asbestos gloves
NO SUBSTITUTE FOR STEAK
" Band Bulletin
When the State Board of Edu
cation last week decided to seek
legislation calling for five years of
couege preparation lor uregon
teachers, members overlooked a
few of the problems.
In the first place, no mention
was made of upgrading the salary
along with the professional stand
ards. And, in the second place, it looks
as if little consideration was given
to elementary school teachers.
Nobody will argue with raising
standards in any profession, es
pecially the teaching profession.
Oregon, with an excellent school
program, still has more than its
share of marginal teachers.
And perhaps upgrading of stand
ards will have to come before sal
aries are upgraded. But, they
should go hand in hand.
The problem is pretty basic. Why
should a young man, or woman,
spend five years in an institution
of higher learning for peanuts? A
four-year graduate in almost any
thing else can do better financial
ly. We know, teaching shouldn't
be measured by a financial yard
stick. But soup and sandwiches
are no substitute for steak, either
in the stomach or in raising the
prestige of a profession.
The problem of a five year col
lege course is serious for elemen
tary teachers.
Elementary teachers, as we un
derstand it, are mostly concerned
with the methods and the psycho
logy of children. Perhaps a five
year course could teach more sub
stance, but couldn't a four-year
course do the same thing?
And the five year course will
probably mean fewer elementary
teachers when we really need
more. 1
Most young women, for example,
look more to marriage and a fam
ily than a lifetime of teaching.
They take education because they
like the profession and because it
gives them a job after college and
before marriage.
A teaching certificate is also a
pretty good insurance policy for a
young woman, who might someday
have, or want to go back to teach
ing. V
When these young potential
teachers see what a girl can do
financially with a business college
education, and weigh that against
five years in college, the dropout
rate could be pretty high.
There's no doubt that teaching
standards should be continually
screened and probably raised, es
pecially in the secondary schools.
But so should pay and prestige.
which go hand in hand. We -don I
know which will have to come
first, the carl or the horse.
The State Board of Education
has put itself but on a long limb,
one which the legislature will prob
ably cut off.. .
SEA WATER FOR SALE
dragon Statesman, Salem
Now that the State Land Board!
has been told by Attorney General
Thornton that it can't sell the oilj
under the ocean (which mav not;
be there anyway), it has bounced
right back by selling the ocean it
self (which is in plentiful supply).
It would be interesting to know
by what process the board arrived
at a price of S60 for 60,000 gal
lons. Even more interesting would
be its reasons for charging a per
gallon royalty for anything over
that figure. Do they want to dis
courage the man from taking too
much? After all, we may get a
complaint from the Siberians 'if
we lower the water level. It's their
ocean, too, you know.
The Land Board showed rare de
termination in selling the ocean
water. Surely they could see they
are heading into a jurisdictional
dispute of the first water oops,
magnitude. The State Water Con
trol Board surely isn't going to
take this invasion of its domain
floating on its back.
As long as someone is willing to
buy it, ocean water must be a re
source. So, the matter may be
come a three-way struggle with
the State Committee on Natural
Resources joining in.
Obviously, this is all a matter
which Attorney General Thornton
wilt need to settle with another
opinion. While he's about it, he
had best consider the possible
claim of Ihe State Highway De
partment. The man who would be
pumping water from the ocean
would be using the beach to park
his truck. As every fan of Os West
knows, the hearh is a public high
way and the Highway Department
long has had jurisdiction over
what borders the highways.
Thornton will find another com-
filication in that the permittee
ives on federal land at Chemawa
Indian School. Doesn't this lift him
nut of state jurisdiction? Like
Portland General Electric, perhaps
he should have gone over the
heads of state authorities and ap-.
plied directly to the Federal Pow
er Commission. The FPC doesn't
have control of ocean water, nor
mally. They have assumed juris
diction over Oregon's rivers, how
ever, so perhaps they are ready
to grab off a little more.
On second thought, the man
would have been better off if he
had just taken his truck down to
the ocean and started sucking up
sea water without asking anyone.
Then he would hive saved the
Land Board. Water Board. Re
sources Board. Highway Commis
sion and Attorney General Thorn
ton all this trouble.
GOLDBERG IN CABINET
Capital Journal, Saltm
President-elect John F. Kennedy
has selected Arthur Joseph Gold
berg of Chicago. 52 year-o!d lead
ing attorney for labor unions for
appointmeni as Secretary of La
bor in the President's Cabinet He
was chief counsel and strategist
for Ihe Sleelworkcrs Union in its
record nationwide strike last year;
chief counsel for the oM C I O.. a
key man in merging the CIO and
Al l. into the world's biggest labor
organization.
Mr. Goldber U chief enonivl to
Ihe A.F.L-C.I.O. Industrial Union
Department headed by Walter
Reuther, about as ruthless and un
scrupulous a labor czar as the
U.S.A. has produced.
Mr. Goldberg has however often
expressed other sentiments which
associates insist he really means
such as "Labor must recognize
that automation fs necessary and
indispensable." "The labor move-'
ment," he is quoted as saying,
"should be prepared lo stimulate
rapid replacement of obsolete
plants and equipment. Economic in
jury can occur when too great bar
gaining power exists on either side,
labor or management."
Mr. Goldberg declares that he
will break his relations with the
A.F.L.-C.I.O., the Steelworkcrs and
other unions he represents and
that he will never return to his la
bor organization career, even when
his government service ends. "You
have to consider that one career
is over," he states.
Senator Barry Goldwater of Ariz
ona, leading Republican conserva
tive, anathema to most labor boss
es, is quoted as having privately
said that Mr. Goldberg is the man
he' trusts the most and finds it
easier to talk to throughout the la
bor movement.
Many . of the labor bosses are
cool towards Goldberg's appoint
ment. They insist Ihe cabinet job
should go to a "union man," and
they don't consider Goldberg fits
the description. Goldberg's name
was not on the list of five candi
dates submitted to Kennedy by the
AFL-CIO by its president, George
Meany, earlier this week all the
five were elective officials of fed
eration affiliates.
Mr. Goldberg is reported to have
told President-elect Kennedy that
he did not want to run the labor
department but greatly preferred
to become Attorney General so
the decision was Mr, Kennedy's
own. G. P.
TO CLEAR STREAMS
Capital Journal, Salem
The Public Health Service esti
mates that $10,600,000,000 would be
required in the next decade to
clean up the nation's streams of
pollution. About half the expendi
tures would come from public
funds, federal, state and local, for
construction or improvement of
municipal waste-treatment plants.
The other half would be spent by
industry for construction of treat
ment facilities.
The estimates are taken from a
Public Health Service study report
entitled "Clean Water" prepared"
lor the National Conference on Wa
ter Pollution. The three-day confer
ence at Washington concluded this
week. It was attended bv loOO rep
resentatives of about 300 national
organizations.
The. ennfprenpp wai pallpH hv
Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney
at the request of President Eisen
hower to review the water pollu
tion problem' and to make recom
mendations for solving it.
n a foreword to the report Dr.
Burney noled "water pollution has
become one of the pressing social
and economic problems of our
time. It is most importantly a pub
lic health problem, also a problem
in water management, for without
pollution control our country can
never have, enough water for its
needs, in addition it is a problem
in conservation and esthetics."
The study found that pollution of
the water sources in the nation had
shown a six-fold increase in the
last 60 years and was still rising
because of rising population, ex
panding industry and inadequate
waste treatment by cities and in
dustries. In the next decade the study re
port estimates cities will have to
spend $5,280,000,000 or about 3 per
cent of the total municipal budgets
for the period, if they are to meet
for -waste treatment facilities a
60 per cent increase over the past
level of such expenditures.
In the 1950s, an iggregate of
$3,200,000,000 was spent on muni
cipal sewage-treatment facilities
against an estimaled need of $5,
100.000,000. Besides the funds re
quired to wipe out the $1,900,000,
000 deficiency, the report savs $2,
250.000.000 will be needed in the
coming decade for new plants and
$1,130,000,000 for replacement of
obsolescent plants.
The report says the money being
spent for research in sewage treat
ment is "entirely inadequate."
G.P.
1961
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