Uniform of fhe day
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Pearson says talks wifh
Khrushchev bearing fruit
THE BEND BULLETIN
4 Wednesday, February 14, 1962 An Independent Newspaper
Phil P. Brogan, Associate Editor Jack McDtrmott, Advertising Manager
Glenn Cushman, General Manager Leu W. Meyers, Circulation Manager
Loren E. Dyer, Mechanical Superintendent William A. Yates, Managing Editor
Robert W. Chandler, Editor end Publisher
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In one sense HaJght is right in his
criticism, in another he's wrong
State Rep. Clint Haight, Jr., Baker
Democrat, is always ready to see
some bad things in whatever a group
of Republicans do. The Oregon Land
Board is composed of the governor, the
secretary of state and the state treas
urer, the current occupants of those
offices being Republicans. So one can
expect Haight to be a little more critical
of the board than he would be if a
couple of the members were from what
is to him the "right" political party.
Haight the other day criticized the
board, saying there is "hardly a sem
blance of management" by the board of
700,000 or so acres in Eastern Oregon
which are under its jurisdiction.
Most of these lands are grazing
lands, leased to owners of adjoining
ranches. Haight might also have point
ed out, but apparently did not, that
most are marginal lands, of extremely
low value.
Haight, chairman of the Legislative
Interim Committee on Natural Re
sources, said "about the only attention
these lands get from the land board,
If any, is a brief reappraisal through
the windshield of a car by its staff when
the leases come up for renewal every
10 years.
Haight said ho hoped that Gov.
Mark Hatfield, land board chairman,
includes in his 10-ycar program of goals
for Oregon "some specific recommen
dations for the modernization of the
State Land Board."
One suspects the kind of manage
ment to which Haight is referring is
a type never engaged in by the land
board in the past, no matter what the
political complexion of its membership.
Such management would Include range
improvement programs, for example, or
water development efforts.
And it's not at all certain that
present Oregon law would allow the
land board to carry on such programs.
The board's basic job is to manage the
lands for the benefit of various school
funds. This is a job of financial man
agement, which the board has done
pretty well, but not a resource manage
ment job, which Haight apparently
would like to see undertaken.
It is true a higher degree of re
source management could bo applied to
state-owned lands in Oregon. It's true
in all the Western stales, so far as we
know. It's also true that BLM-managed
lands could stand better management.
And the Forest Service could do a
better job than it is now doing. In much
of the state private farm lands could be
handled better than they now are being
managed.
But any big program of improve
ment of public lands would have first
to depend upon appropriation of funds
sufficient to do the job. It is rather
doubtful that any improvement pro
gram would ever pay itself off. The
storage of water which doesn't fall from
the clouds is rather difficult to accom
plish. And in the case of state-owned
lands this would require a complete
statutory change of direction for the
land board, a change of direction the
legislature has never seen fit to make
in the past, and is unlikely to make in
the future.
Hard look due at farm plan
When he was a member of t lie Sen
ate, John K. Kennedy did not strictly
follow the party line on farm issues.
On many votes he was closer to the
position of then Secretary of Agricul
ture E.ra Taft Benson than he was to
the views of his parly.
Sen. Hubert Humphrey, D-Minn.,
taunted Kennedy with this record
when both men were campaigning in
the Wisconsin presidential primary in
1960. He charged that Kennedy was "at
best a fair weather friend of agricul
ture" and tagged him a "Jack-como-recently
to agriculture."
The drastic new farm program un
folded by President Kennedy bears the
trademark of Secretary of Agriculture
Orvllle Kreenian, who may have con
vinced the President of its soundness.
The history of farm programs makes
it difficult for anyone lo make quick
Judgments on so enormously a com
plicated problem as this. Neither the
President nor anyone else is to bo
blamed if he has changed his mind on
the basis of the experience of recent
years, for it has been obvious that
neither party has yet found an answer.
The President now lakes the view
that nothing will do short of a sharp
curtailment of production in commodi
ties where the major surpluses now ex
ist. He would give the farmers their
choice of more extreme controls
than have ever been in effect before or
the loss of severe reduction of farm
supports. At the same time he would
seek to stimulate maximum use of ag
ricultural products at home and abroad.
His idea is lo cut inlo existing
tirpluses while restricting current pro
duction.
We have not seen detailed recom
mendations on wheat, but the Presi
dent's proposal is believed to approach
the plan sought by wheat men general
ly, including the Oregon Wheat Grow
ers League, which would establish a
separate, lower price for feed wheat,
while maintaining strict acreage con
trols. This would be a boon to turkey
and other poultry growers who have
been caught in the squeeze between
high feed prices and low returns on
their products.
Members of the poultry industry,
however, will eye with some suspicion
the President's proposals for federal
controls on their production. Many of
them have indicated a dislike for fed
eral intervention in their industry, de
spite their problems.
Wheat men share with others a dis
like of the present farm program.
They are willing to make some sacri
fices really to get at the surplus prob
lem, if they are given something that
will allow them to survive. They would
like a program which does not change
from year to year, which would allow
them to plan on a long-range basis.
Congress is certain to take a long
look at the Kennedy program, as it
should. Both Congress and the Presi
dent are caught between the urgency
of changing something that isn't work
ing and the risk of getting into sume
thing new that has no real assurance
of success. We have been living with
unsuccessful farm programs for a long
time. It is hard to be optimistic about
anything that is proposed. (Oregon
Journalf
By Drew Pearson
WASHINGTON - When I talked
to Premier Khrushchev on the
shore of the Mack Sea last sum
mer, I asked him when he would
invite President Kennedy to Mos
cow. Replied: "After Berlin is set
tled. Then we will invite President
Kennedy to Moscow and give him
the greatest reception in history."
When I reported this, plus my
belief that in the person of Nikita
Khrushchev the United States had
an important potential friend, a
storm of abuse was heaped on my
head from right-wing quarters. 1
had also reported that Khrushchev
might have more problems with
the Red Chinese than with the
USA.
About six months have now
passed, and recent events in Mos
cow, Peiping and Washington are
worth diagnosing to sec just what
has been happening along this
line.
The walkout of the Red Chinese
from the 22nd Communist Party
Congress last October is one well
known significant event. Not so
well known, but equally signifi
cant, has been the withdrawal of
Soviet technical advisers from
China. This Is a mass evacuation
of some 3,000 experts who had
been training the Chinese to oper
ate factories, science laborator
ies, and state farms. Along with
their exit has been cut off Soviet
technical aid hitherto totaling sev
eral millions annually.
Also Important have been the
cartoons and editorials In Peiping
newspapers depicting Khrushchev
as a buffoon and referring to him
in veiled terms as a "revisionist"
the Communist jargon for trai
tor. He has also been referred to
indirectly as "imperialistic and
reactionary," the same phrases
used against the West.
If Khrushchev Loses
At first Kennedy's conservative
advisers inside the State Depart
ment were inclined to minimize
the Chinese-Russian split. Some
even described it as an attempt to
fool the West.
As events have progressed, how
ever, even these heads-in-sand os
triches have admitted that vital
revolutionary changes are taking
place inside the Communist world
and that a power struggle is on
between Khrushchev and China
which would be disastrous for the
United States if Khrushchev lost.
The battle is not unlike that in
side tho USA which finds the
American right wing viciously at
tacking the liberal-moderate line
up behind the Kennedy adminis
tration. The right wing in the USA
believes in preventive war. The
right wing in the Communist world
believes in the inevitability of war
between capitalism and commu
nism. It violently disagrees with
Khrushchev regarding coexistence.
The cleavage inside the Commu
nist world has cut deep. On the
side of the Red Chinese in favor
of the inevitability of war are the
North Koreans, the North Vietna
mese, tho Indonesian Commu
nists, and, it's reported, some of
the East Germans. Inside the
Kremlin, Khrushchev is reported
having trouble from the diehard
Stalinists of which Molotov was
tho leader; possibly also a seg
ment of the Red Army.
On the moro moderate side, the
sutcllito countries, plus the Com
munist parlies in France and
Italy, all support Khrushchev.
At one point the controversy
was so hot that the American
embassy in Warsaw received a
suggestion from Polish leaders
that a gesture of Kennedy support
for Khrushchev's policy of coex
istence would be appreciated. The
implication, reading between the
lines, was that, without some such
gesture, Khrushchev might bo in
trouble,
Kennedy Reacts
This has partly influenced some
of Kennedy's recent moves
namely, the withdrawal of Amer
ican tanks from the front line in
West Berlin: the sending of White
House Press Secretary Salinger to
Paris to confer with Soviet Infor
mation Chief Kharlamov; the
White House luncheon for Alexei
Adzhubei, Khrushchev's son-in-law:
the plan for a joint telecast
lo the Soviet and American peo
ple by Kennedy and Khrushchev:
and the release of Francis Gary
Powers, the U-2 pilot.
While it is true that Powers was
released In a swap for Soviet spy
Col. Rudolf Abel, actually it was j
a lopsided swap. Not only were '
two Americans traded for one '
Russian, but Moscow had express
cd no interest in Abel, had made i
no effort to defend him. and his '
return home was embarrassing j
because it amounted to an admis
sion of Soviet spying. j
When Moscow announced that
Powers was released to better So
viet American relations, there
fore, it was telling tlte truth. Pow
ers was the greatest espionage
catch in Russian history and he
would not have been sent home
in exchange for a Soviet spy ex
cept that other, far more import
ant factors were involved
Khrushchev is fully aware of
the impact on American public
opinion by the release of Ameri
can prisoners. Last summer he
told me: "In the first stages of
your presidential election, the
American ambassador asked us to
release tho American RB-47 fliers.
"But I could see that the effect
would be to help Nixon and that
he would tell the voters he could
best improve Soviet - American
relations.
"We did not want to hurt Ken
nedy, so we said 'no'."
Shortly after Kennedy took of
fice, Khrushchev did release the
RB-47 fliers in an obvious gesture
of friendship to the new Presi
dent. Now it is equally obvious
that he wants to start over again
with Kennedy to improve rela
tions.
And the big question is: Will
Kennedy listen to his Old Guard
advisers in the State Department
once again? Exactly one year ago,
when the RB-47 fliers were re
leased, Adlai Stevenson, Gov.
Averell Harriman, Sen. William
Fulbright of Arkansas, and Sen.
John Sherman Coooer of Kentucky
urged the new President to take
advantage of the thaw by assum
ing the initiative immediately on
Berlin.
Conservative advisers at Uiat
time urged the opposite. This time
Kennedy Is veering away from his
conservative advisers.
Wait and see
attitude taken
by economists
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Govern
ment economists today adopted a
wait-and-see attitude toward the
business outlook following disap
pointing roporls on jobs and in
comes in January.
The reports were not terribly
bad in themselves. But in com
parison to tile rosy developments
of late 1061, they looked a little
pale.
The Labor Department said the
factory workweek dropped in Jan
uary, for the second consecutive
month, to 40 hours. It was 40.4
hours in December and 40.6
In November. The department
blamed the now drop on "a sharp
cutback in overtime work in the
automobile industry as well as
more moderate declinos" else
where. Watch Factory Hours
The expeils were esecially in
terested in factory hours because
in the past they havo been an ad
vance tipoff to business recessions
and upswings. "We'll be watching
this one closely in February." one
official commented. "Remember,
two montlis don't make a trend."
Also disappointing was a report
from the Commerce Department
that personal income fell in Jan
uary by $1.5 billion to an annual
rate of $430.3 billion. Commerce
Secretary Luther H. Hodges em
phasized a $Knn million cutback in
corporato dividends, at annual
rates, which followed heavy divi
dend disbursements in December.
Wages, Salaries Decline
But there also was a decline in
wages and salaries at a SHOO mil
lion yearly rate. Payrolls fell most
in manufacturing, especially autos
and machinery, and to a lesser
extent in lumber, tcxtile.s, clothing
and stono-clny-glass. Payrolls rose
in chemicals and primary metals.
The January slippage was not
seen as a harbinger of a reces
sion. It could moan that the cur
rent rate of rise is not quite up
to the administration's optimistic
expectations.
WITHDRAW INVITATION
NEW YORK UPD Young
Americans for Freedom, a na
tional bipartisan conservative or
ganization, lias withdrawn an in
vitation to resigned Maj. Gen. Ed
win A. Walker lo address a Madi
son Squaro Garden rally March 7.
Richard A. Vigtiorie, executive
secretary of the organization, sent
Walker a telegram saying that his
appearance might be interpreted
as an indirect endorsement of
Walker's candidacy for Uie Dem
ocratic nomination for governor
of Tex;ts.
j Letters ,
to fhe Editor
Th. Bulletin welcomes contribution.
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cretion, letter may bo edited lo eon-
tnrm to too dlctulea of luato and atyle.
Curtail liberties
to meet Red threat?
To the Editor:
This letter is relevant to the op
portunity to have Gus Hall, a
Communist, speak at COC, a Bend
Bulletin editorial about Mr. Hall's
speaking engagements, the action
of the COC student body council
rejecting the offer to have Hall
speak here, and a letter to the
editor appearing February 12
which applauded this action.
The American founding fathers
and an Immense list of our na
tional heroes have believed in
freedom of speech. This "freedom
of speech" didn't mean that any
one was free to say anything as
long as the leaders and the rest
of the populace liked to hear it,
nor did it mean that unpopular
expressions could only be ex
pressed by some "expert" who
had a little bit of knowledge but
no conviction in uie unpopular ex
pression. It did mean that anyone
could say anything even if his
expression tlireatened democra
cy's most sacred foundations. This
belief in freedom of speech is bas
ed upon a sometimes fantastic
faith in us, the common man. It
is a faith that wo can be subject
ed to an open, free, discussion and
come away from that discussion
with convictions which we will im
plement in the most correct, tlie
noblest and the most just political
action.
There are some sad by-products
of the sincere, well meaning, senti
mental super Americans who de
sire to restrict expression. One Is
that they label everyone they don t
agree with, don't understand, or
don't like the looks of as a Com
munist. Some of these lists of
'Communists" are quite amaz
ing. The unfortunate thing is that
these lists would give Soviet inter
national communism far too much
credit for the wisdom, cleverness,
vitality and breath of expression
of persons who are actually not
in their camp.
Another sad by-product is one
which, if I remember correctly,
the writer of tho editorial men
tioned above pointed out. It is that
you often actually do a service to
(lie position which you publicly try
to suppress. You give the ex
pression publicity which it may
not deserve and you may kindle
that cantankerous vein in man
which says "if they don't want me
to hear it there must be something
to it."
It seems to me that the coun
try's founding fathers' democratic
dream is tlireatened today from
two primary directions. One is in
ternational communism. The other
is the creeping belief among us
that in order to meet the Commu
nist threat it will be necessary to
curtail some of tho liberties in
herent in American democracy.
This belief is indicative of intel
lectual slothfulness or a puny faith
in the American democratic
dream or a combination of both.
Freedom of speech is one of the
cornerstones of our republicanism.
'There arc no tyrants, only
slaves."
Sincerely,
Jim Nuchols
Tumalo, Oregon,
Feb. 12, t9t
MOLOTOV TAKES WALK
MOSCOW (UPI) Former For
eign Minister Vvachcslav M. Mol
otov, who was hospitalized Jan.
24 with influenza, was seen Sat
urday taking a walk in the Krem
lin gardens, a Western diplomat
said Monday night.
The diplomat said the 72-year-old
Molotov was alone and look
ing at Uie new Palace of Con
gress Building. 11 was in liiat
building last October that Molotov
was severely criticized for his
Stalinist activities.
RED LEAVES HOSPITAL
SANTA MONICA. Calif. tVPP
Comciiian Red Skeltou was dis
charged from St. John's Hospital
Tuesday night after undergoing
what attendants described as "a
routine checkup."
Attendants said the television
funnyman was originally sched
uled to be released next Thurs
day but results of the checkup
proved favorable and he was sent
home earlv.
Spud growers plan meeting
The Central Oregon Potato
Growers' Association will meet
Monday evening. February 19 at
the Westminister Hall in Redmond
at 8 p.m.
Roy Hirai of Ontario, who has
recently been apinted on Secre
tary Freeman's Potato Study
Commission, a member of the
Oregon Potato Commission, and a
grower of potatoes and onions,
will be present to report on the
actions taken by the National Po
tato Advisory Committee in draft
ing a proposed national program
for industry consideration.
Terms of three Central Oregon
Potato Growers' Association di
rectors expire at this meeting and
elections will be held. Directors
whose terms expire include
Lloyd Priday, Deschutes County;
Dr. Steelhammer, Crook County;
and Lester Lydy, Jefferson County-
A grower member and an al
ternate from each of Deschutes
and Jefferson counties to serve on
the Marketing Order Committee
will also be elected. Expiring
terms on this committee are Jef
fr.rcnn rmmtv. F. J. Carpenter
1 member and Lester Lydy, alter
inatc. From Deschutes County, C.
M. Barnum member and Archie
Mastorson alternate.
Growers are urged to attend
this most important meeting to
express their opinion in regard to
the Marketing Order proposal.
ORDER COMMAND SHIP
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
Navy has ordered a second com
mand ship of the sort President
Kennedy and military leaders
: could use during a war.
The only such electronics-laden
ship in the fleet now is the cruis
I er Northampton. The second is to
be converted from the aircraft
transport Wright at Bremerton,
Wash., at a cost of $25 million.
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