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EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1960
The Danger of Easy Answers
Former Gov. Elmo Smith, Republi
can candidate for the U.S. Senate, has
suggested a "cold war academy" to train
young people for careers in the foreign
service. The idea is appealing. But we
cannot go all-out for it, just as we have
been unable to go all-out for it when
it has been proposed by others. While
it is true that we need more and better
people who will devote their lives to
furthering Uncle Sam's interests around
the world, it does not follow that crea
tion of an "academy" is the answer.
Although we have not talked to Gov
ernor Smith about the details of his pro
posal, we do know that most of these
suggestions envision a big school like
West Point, Annapolis or the Air Force
Academy. Our objection to those pro
posals has been that they arc too likely
to turn out foreign service officers who
are as alike as so many sausages turned
out of the same machine. The need is
not for a certain type man, but for ex
cellent men of many backgrounds and
types. These good men should be picked
not from an undergradutc academy but
from Harvard and Cal and Michigan and
O 'Cgon and Tulane and North Carolina
and other schools that can offer the kind
of broad academic training a foreign
service officer needs. They should not
be trade school men. Then perhaps, after
their undergraduate programs are com
pleted at schools around the country,
they could be assembled for a graduate
program at some "academy."
But the above paragraph does not ex
plain the main reason we hesitate to get
excited about an "academy." The main
reason is that we fear the easy answers.
It's an American failing, this too ready
acceptance of easy answers. Heads of
slate travel around the world. Khrush
chev comes here and we feel so good
because he smiles. Then we're aghast
when he torpedoes the next easy answer,
the summit meeting. Ike goes to India,
where he is welcome, and we feel all
aglow because world problems are so
easily solved. When the story is different
in Japan, we fall into a fit of depression,
a feeling we would not have had if we
had not bought the easy answer. We do
it even in our clubs here at home. When
something goes wrong, we appoint a com
mittee and forget about it. We don't want
that to happen with a foreign service
academy. That won't solve the problem.
The colleges right now are full of
young people who would be a credit to
Uncle Sam overseas. In the lower ranks
of the foreign service are dozens, even
hundreds, of people who would like to
make a career of representing America.
The people are there. We have the raw
material, even without the academy. The
tragedy is not that we don't get the re
cruits, but that we don't get the experi
enced people. We have too few who can
look back on full careers in Uncle Sam's
service.
More important than the founding of
an academy is the creation of a climate
in which these people can work and pros
per and hold their heads up and provide
for their families. If we do not have this
climate, and we do not, it is because the
shadow of Joe McCarthy still hangs over
America. The young man considering
the foreign service as a career, must re
member the taunts and insults, the hours
spent in answering the questions of con
gressional committees that were the lot
of foreign service people less than a
decade ago. We cannot have this good
climate if we, through our congressmen,
regard them as time-servers, cookie
pushers, and feeders at the public
trough. Nor can we have it if foreign
service people are paid substantially less
than other professional men.
The academy idea could be a good
one, but only if it is accompanied by a
general recognition of the importance
and dignity of a governmental career. If
it is not accompanied by that, we'll com
pound our error accepting the easy
answer while at the same time educating,
at public expense, a greater number of
young people who will work for Uncle
Sam a year or two and then go on to
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Spectator Sport
.The boys from EWEB stopped past
the other afternoon to trim limbs on the
big maple tree by the Register-Guard.
The limbs were in the way of power
wires. The workmen wheeled up a truck
with one of those extension ladders of
the type firemen use for rescuing ladies
in distress from burning buildings.
A man with a hard-boiled hat was
squirted in the tree limbs, where he ma
nipulated a frightening number of gadg
ets, sawing, chopping, pruning, trim
ming. Such an array of power tools the
ordinary mortal is unlikely to see again.
A couple of other fellows in bright yel
low hats waited below to move the truck
around and to take care of the winter's
wood supply that dropped from above.
A crowd gathered with craned necks
and appropriate comments. Sidewalk
superintendents all, dignified looking
men proved there is something of the
boy in everybody. Admiringly they
watched the tree trimmer at work. They
had only one criticism: Why shouldn't
that fellow, on the ladder be made to get
down and give the others a chance to
have some fun?
Who's Bain?
Doug McKean, the Oregon Journal's
political expert, has found a bad situa
tion. It seems that a James A. Bain got
11,695 votes for Multnomah County con
stable. He lost the election to John Bain.
John Bain really exists and has been
constable for several years. Maybe James
A. Bain exists, too. But Mr. McKean
hasn't been able to determine that he
does. The strong possibility exists that
James A. Bain is the man who wasn't
there.
Oregon law does not require that a
candidate appear in person to file for
office. He can do it through an attorney
or other representative. He doesn't have
to appear any place if he doesn't want
to. Parties don't have to be responsible
for their candidates.
James A. Bain's ballot slogan was a
lulu. It said, "Will continue policies
established past four years." It did not
say, at least exactly, that those policies
were his policies. And they weren't.
Sometimes we get a better govern
ment that we deserve.
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Childs
WALK IN THE SHADE An aide holds a protective
umbrella for King Bhumibol of Thailand (at left) as His
Majesty arrives at a palace function. The King presents
a starchily formal face to the public but at home he plays
Buddhist Monarch Visits America
with his four children and toots a saxophone in his jazz
band. Pretty young Queen Sirikit of Thailand (at right)
plays a pebble game with her youngest daughters,
Princess Sirindhorn, 5, (left) and Princess Chulabhorn, 2.
Thai King Mixes Eastern Customs, Western Life
As the Oregon State Correctional In
stitute, the medium security institution
east of Salem, ends its first year of oper
ation, officers there are taking a reflec
tive view of the job they have been do
ing. Jack Frost, superintendent of re
ception and guidance, says the short sen
tences so often meted his charges work
a handicap on the program. They're not
there long enough to benefit from the
program, he says. A fellow with a year's
sentence may come up for parole in a
little more than three months. He can
not, thus, get much out of the vocational
program. Rehabilitation is often keyed to
vocational training, and rehabilitation is
the purpose of the new institution.
Mr. Frost's point is well taken, al
though it would be wrong to force voca
tional training down the throat of a man
who neither needed it nor wanted it, if
in the opinion of the parole board he
showed promise of making good back
in the mainstream of society.
However, we do see the short sen
tence as a handicap of another kind. It
limits the institution severely in dealing
with the individual as an individual.
We'd like to see the longer sentences,
to keep behind the fence those who
ought to stay there, and then see more
paroles to provide for those who demon
strate their willingness and ability to ad
just to normal society.
The best idea came last Legislature
from Sen. Robert Straub. He would have
paroled everyone who is let out of the
penitentiary. No longer, under terms of
the unsuccessful Straub bill, would a
prisoner be allowed to serve his sentence
and then go scot-free. All would be re
leased only under parole conditions, thus
guaranteeing society that each released
man would have the help, and possibly
the restraint, that he needs.
Air Force Problem
The U.S. Air Force does wonderous
things. It soars to new heights and it
travels at speeds that were the science
fiction of only a few years ago. It's a
great outfit.
Perhaps that's why it's a source of
satisfaction to the rest of us to know
that the Air Force is having a dickens
of a time with the poison oak at Camp
Adair.
By DAVID LANCASHIRE ,
of the Associated Press
BANGKOK I Thailand's
King Bhumibol Adulyadej, born
in the United States, is a starch
ily formal Buddhist Monarch in
public and a foot-stomping jazz
musician at home.
His 23 million subjects regard
him with awe as the personifica
tion of Thailand's traditional mag
nificence. But on occasion he has
shaved his head and begged bare
foot in the streets.
"His majesty is a fine man and
a righteous king," a sarong-clad
bazaar merchant ventures respect
fully, touching his umbrella-like
straw hat.
"The King is a great guy, a real
musician," says New York jazz
man Max Kaminsky.
The Siamese sovereign is visit
ing the United States for the first
time since he was born 32 years
ago in Cambridge, Mass. At that
time his father, the late Prince
Mahidol, was a medical student
at Harvard.
With the King is Her Serene
Highness Queen Sirikit, a lis
some beauty of 28, Thailand's
first lady and a devoted, efficient
mother of four.
BROTHER KILLED
Bhumibol, who succeeded to a
shaky throne after his elder
brother's assassination 14 years
ago, has been a major force in
keeping his rich, tropical country
united despite continuous poli
tical turmoil and a series of
military coups d'etat.
Widely read and with a deep
interest in Thailand's future,
Bhumibol has only limited power
as king, far less than his an
cestors of the Chakri Dynasty,
who ruled with powers of life
or death when the country was
called Siam.
The young couple were raised
abroad, and both speak several
languages. Bhumibol, who stu
died science in Switzerland, saw
Thailand only twice before he
took the throne. Conditioned by
centuries of court tradition, they
Other Editors' Views
live a mixture of Western and
Asian ideas.
"I would like to have been a
scientist if I were not king,"
Bhumibol confided to a foreign
educator. A strong supporter of
tradition, he would nevertheless
like to see Thailand become a
modern nation.
Royal functions are held in
Bangkok's grand palace, home of
the Emerald Buddha, where gold
en spires rise in Oriental splend
or about the Chao Phya River.
Bhumibol and Sirikit live in
the more modest, European-styled
Chitr Lada (heart of the flower)
Palace, a former golf club set
among palm trees with mon
keys, parrots and whimsically
sculptured bushes for the chil
dren and ringed by slow-flowing
canals.
FOUR CHILDREN
The couple are devote par
ents, spending hours playing with
the children Crown Prince Va
jiralongkorn, 7, Princess Ubol
Ratana, 9, Princess Sirindhorn, 5,
and Princess Chulabhorn, 2 a
pert, black-eyed foursome who
resemble their mother.
Bhumibol is the first Thai king
to have made a real effort to
reach the people. Far more than
any pevious monarch, he has
loured the nation's jungle and
rice paddy villages, chatting with
the peasants who sometimes trek
three days through the jungle
just to get a look at him.
Sirikit, president of the Red
Cross and busily involved in
charity work, makes even more
public appearances than her hus
band. Her bright silk dresses set
the fashion pattern for Bang
kok's society.
In 1956, Sirikit held the throne
herself as regent unheard-of for
a woman while the king took
the saffron robes of a Buddhist
priest and temporarily entered a
monastery. Then, as other monks
do, he shaved his head and
walked the streets with a begging
bowl. ,
Unlike his ancestors, who kept
wives and concubines by the do
zen Bhumibol's father was the
69th son of King Chulalongkorn
Bhumibol has only one wife.
"He doesn't need any more,"
the Queen once quipped. "For
him, his orchestra is one big
concubine."
The 13-piece swing-style band
is Bhumibol's passionate off-duty
hobby. Lawyers, businessmen, a
secret service agent and a former
ambassador to Washington get
together twice a week in a studio
in the palace to play American
dance band arrangements, jam a
few jazz tunes or run through a
new piece by the King. He once
wrote several tunes for the late
Mike Todd's "Peep Show" on
Broadway.
Thailand's royal family is a
wealthy one, with rich landhold
ings and inheritances from the
days when the kings were all
powerful. Bhumibol's ancestors
ruled as absolute monarchs until
1932. A revolution then reduced
their status, established a parlia
ment and submitted the kings to
the power of military politicians
who have run the country ever
since.
Bhumibol was 19, leading a nor-
Roscoe Drummond
Just Follow the Pink Road
From the Bend (Ore.) Bulletin
Some of these days instead of
taking a trip on Highway 30, or
some other numbered route, we
may travel by way of the "Pink
Route," or select a combination
of colors to fit the trim of the
family bus.
At the National Highway
Transportation Congress, meet
ing at Salem, an engineer pro
posed that it would simplify high
way transportation considerably
where the routes ran through
large cities to build highways in
color. The motorist traveling a
main highway in a color differ
ent from that of other routes
CARMICHAEL
better, loap up
IT LOOKS LIKE A
would run less chance of becom
ing confused.
This revolutionary idea opens
up a whole new world of color
ideas. How about a color of your
choice for the sidewalk in front
of the new home you propose to
buiild? After all the property in
which the sidewalk is located is
your own. You pay the cost of
the sidewalk. Why shouldn't it be
constructed in a color to har
monize with the color scheme of
your new home?
As a tourist attraction in your
city, too, there could be multi
colored sidewalk refreshment
booths spotted on multicolored
sidewalks, serving multicolored
bubble-drinks, strawberry ice
cream, red raspberries topped
with cream and served by at
tractive red-heads, brunettes, and
vari-shaded blondes.
There is no end to the possi
bilities when adventuring into the
land of cardinal colors, and their
combinations.
mal student's life in Switzerland,
when his brother, King Ananta
Mahidol, was murdered in 1946.
Determined to preserve the
monarchy, Bhumibol abandoned
his science studies and accepted
the throne. He returned to
Switzerland to study political
science and law. An automobile
accident prevented his graduat
ing. His small Italian car crashed
under a truck, leaving the young
King blind in one eye.
Still wrapped in bandages, he
asked for visitors, particularly
Ying Sirikit, a pretty music stu
dent in Paris, a minor princess
and the daughter of Thailand's
Minister to France.
The convalescense became a
romance, and the couple were
married in Bangkok, where
Bhumibol was crowned May 5,
1950.
The family's American visit is
the most visible sign yet of re
lations that Thai kings have kept
with the United States ever since
Bhumbol's great Grandfather,
King Mongkut, offered to send
Abraham Lincoln an elephant to
help fight the Civil War.
Japanese Leftist Minority
Threatens Rule by Violence
Drummond
Eaton's Labor Views
From the Taroma (Wash.)
News-Tribune
Cyrus S. Eaton, the Cleveland
industrialist who has gained no
toriety by his attitude toward the
Soviet Union, predicts that the
day is coming when most corpora
tions will have labor representa
tion on their boards. He ex
presses this view in an article,
"A Capitalist Takes a New Look
at Labor," in an AFL-CIO periodi
cal. Eaton is not the first business
notable to speak in favor of the
idea, though most businessmen
balk at any such proposal. His
expression of the opinion at this
time arouses particular interest,
however though not necessarily
favorable interest. Eaton's ac
ceptance of a Soviet award, and
his kindly feelings toward the
Soviet regime, give a special
coloration just now to his views
on labor-management relations.
His advocacy of having labor rep
resentation on corporate boards
will be widely viewed with rather
a jaundiced eye.
WASHINGTON Planned vio
lence by which a small minority
imposed its will on the elected
government of Japan and forced
President Eisenhower to . cancel
his visit to
Tokyo has clear
ly not run its
course.
Having used
violence success
fully to coerce
the Kishi gov
ernment, the ex
tremist student
and labor
groups man
aged by Communist professionals
can be expected to continue
violence as long as it works.
The immediate consequences
are bad enough; what lies ahead
could be worse unless the Japa
nese people and press become
aroused in time to say: "Thus
far, and no farther."
There should be no minimizing
the grave danger which has been
done to the authority of the Japa
nese Parliament and the grave
harm which has been done to the
prestige of the United States.
When he left Washington in
tent upon carrying through his
trip to Japan, the President
warned that "demonstrations and
threats by minorities" must not
be allowed "to deflect world lead
ers in their quest for peace."
But minority violence did de
flect these leaders from their
quest for peace.
KISHI YIELDS
As the student disorders and
rioting were reaching their peak
in Tokyo, Kishi declared that "if
the Prime Minister yielded to
this violence, public confidence
in the government would be de
stroyed." Kishi yielded to violence. He
conceded one of the demands of
the demonstrators that the invi
tation to President Eisenhower
be withdrawn. It remains to be
seen whether public confidence
in the Kishi government can be
restored.
These are only the first effects
of the month-long campaign of
the Socialist members of the Diet
and the Communist agitators who
quickly took charge. The great
er dangers are these:
That the elected government
of Japan will be brought down,
not by an orderly vote in Parlia
ment, but by organized violence.
That the proclaimed "noutralist"
purposes of the Socialist leaders
of Japan will then come out into
the open whereupon the Japanese
people will find they have been
saddled with i government which,
far from being neutral in the
Nehru sense, is pro-Communist,
pro-Peiping, and pro-Moscow.
Pl'BLIC VIOLENCE
That the Japanese Socialists,
disdainful of democracy, ire per
fectly willing to substitute rule
by public violence for rule by
Parliament if that is the only
way they can achieve their ends.
So far this has been the only
way they could' achieve their
ends. At no time had they-been
able to persuade the Japanese
voters to follow their leadership.
They had ' lost every post-war
election and their Parliamentary
minority has shrunk at every test.
They have now started to win
by force what, they were unable
to win by votes. This is why the
events of the past few days point
a gun at the very heart of Japa
nese democracy.
PRO-WESTERN :
. It remains to be seen whether
the worst can be averted. There
are some favorable factors. The
Japanese people are basically pro
Western in their outlook. The
Liberal-Democratic Party, pres
ently headed by Kishi, would
undoubtedly be reelected if or
derly elections in Japan are still
possible.
The most disturbing factor is
that through all the political riot
ing the Japanese press and pub
lic seem to have taken a most
casual, indifferent, plague-on-both-your-houses
attitude. As a
result the government and the
police have felt constrained to
give the rioters a nearly free
hand.
Unless the Japanese people as
a whole are prepared to defend
their democracy loyally and alert
ly, those who are out to subvert
it will succeed.
(Copyright 1960 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
So They Say-
We are working to convince
people that it does not matter
how they dress when they come
to church, so long as they will
come.
Rev, George D. Younger f Baptist),
on how to dress for church.
I was in a hurry to get home
to keep my pizza pie hot.
Alan U Shifter, of North RaM-
more. Ohio, arrested for speeding
at 110 m.p.h.
If you can run the government
with 4,000 people, now is the
time to get rid of the rest of us.
Rep. Albert Thomas (D-Tei.), on
Civil Defense plan to operate the
government Kith a few thousand
key personnel in case of atomic at
tack. I'm not subject to natural bio
logical laws ... I could have a
baby at any lime, even at 100.
Grass juice-drinking; vegetarian Dr.
Barbara Moore, M, walking across
tht United States.
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U.S. Ignores
Pressures
In Orient
WASHINGTON The sound
out of Asia are like the rumbling!
of a volcano about to erupt. The
subterranean roar, breaking out
into the open in Korea and Ja.
pan, is a deep
seated symptom
that American
policymakers in
recent years
have either ig
nored or have
failed to face up
to.
They have be
lieved that by
backing "strong"
men and nrnvid-
ing military assistance for mili
tary pacts the line could be held.
What is hapening today belies
this comfortable assumption.
The easy explanation is com
munism the Communists have
been at it again. Certainly com
munism is the trigger. But an
explosion could not be set off if
in the mass there were not the
potentialities for an outburst.
In the view of this observer,
America's China policy, ignoring
the existence of 600,000,000 peo
ple and hoping that something
would turn up, preferably that
long-promised internal revolution,
is at the root of the trouble. The
effect of the Chinese revolution
throughout Asia has been incal
culable. The material achieve
ments of the Red regime, trumpet
ed by a powerful and unceasing
propaganda, have had a far-reaching
influence.
A VAGUE WORD
Those achievements seem In
the west to have come at an ap
palling cost in human values, re
ducing human being to ants or
bees entirely at the mercy of an
all powerful dictatorship. But in
Asia, where all but a tiny frac
tion of the people live close to
the hunger line and where "free
dom" is only the vaguest word,
this has nothing like the same im
pact. The mass of Asians sec the
highways, schools, research cen
ters, modern weapons achieved
by an Asian people who breathe
defiance at the West.
The surprises for policy makers
in Washington, such as the upris
ing that drove Syngman Rhee
from Korea, are far from ended.
Knowledgeable analysts in the
top echelon of government be
lieve that something like this may
happen in the not too distant
future in Vietnam. Or, at any
rate, the potential is there to be
fired by a Communist fuse.
It is a familiar situation. The
head of the government, Presi
dent Ngo Dinh Diem, is a man of
integrity and courage dedicated
to a free Vietnam oriented toward
the West. But recent reports in
dicate that grafting by officials
of his National Revolutionary
Party is reaching an intolerable
stage. In some areas the govern
ment exercises authority during
the day and the Communists take
over at night, as in the last phase
of the French Indo-China war.
What is disturbing is to hear
from slate department officials
something like the following:
Yes, there is graft. Perhaps it is
not as bad as some sources repre
sent it to be. Anyway, in the Ori
ent you have to accept degree of
graft as a matter of course.
This was exactly what was be
ing said by apologists for Chiang
Kai-Shek before the Communists
triumphed in 1949 and drove Chi
ang and a remnant of his force
to Formosa. Certainly in China
the graft had reached an intoler
able level, with members of Chi
ang's family amassing enormous
fortunes as a ruinous inflation
ran riot and contributed to the
ultimate tragedy.
Graft in the Philippines is re
ported to be at such an oppressive
level that some sources advised
the President against visiting
Manila lest he seem to sanction
what is going on. Richard Dud
man of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
staff, traveling with the
President, reports that leaders of
the opposition Liberal Party were
kept away from Eisenhower, al
though the likelihood is that they
will come to power in elections
next year on a wave of discon
tent. FORMAL FRIENDSHIP
That illustrates one handicap of
the personal diplomacy of these
presidential tours. The visiting
American president sees only
those sitting currently in the
scats of power and he hears only
their formal protestations of
friendship at big, showy ceremon
ial functions.
Too often, too, American am
bassadors are insulated from all
but a few English-speaking offi
cials at the top who tell them ex
actly what they want them to
hear and nothing more. The ov
erthrow of Adnan Menderes and
his dictatorship in Turkey is said
to have come as a stunning blow
to the American embassy in An
kara where it had been assumed
that Menderes was unassailable.
There are two ways to react to
what is happening. One is to learn
from it and to try to formulate
new and more realistic policies
to be carried out by those who
understand what recent events
mean. The other way is to bela
bor the communist scapegoat, tt
go on ignoring the present trend
away from the West and to be
shocked and surprised when, the
volcano erupts again.
(Copyright, 1960, by
United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)