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o f&P JnUft let1 jfctfr deceedfng fo smKBBjaBaarasaBSRisMSKiAe Mo7 r7o77 AfllOnO zw.- 7"Ae Eisenhower critics are not too pleased with Kennedy performance WASHINGTON One of the criticisms most often heard of the administration of Dwight D. Eisen hower was that lie failed to drive hard enough in pushing his pro grams in Congress. Much of the criticism came from members of the Democratic party. Some was from Republicans. The Democrats, in par ticular, claimed the President out lined a reasonably good program in his various messages to Congress, then failed to put pressure upon members of his own party to get the program passed. Mr. Eisenhower, In fact, on some occasions got as much help from Lyndon Johnson Bnd Sam Rayburn, Democratic lead ers in Congress, as he did from his own party. All this, they felt, would be changed under the administration of John F. Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy, they reasoned, knew the ropes in Congress better than any President In the current century, with the pos sible exception of Harry Truman. The new President had served in both houses. Johnson and Rayburn were out of the picture, but Mans field and McCormack, who had taken their places, were skilled op trators. But it hasn't worked out that ay. A couple of days spent around Congress, talking to members from both parties, will uncover a rather strong disaffection. This Congress Is limping along, not accomplishing much of anything, and the country is becoming aware of it. Congres sional mail contains considerable more criticism than is normal. Con gress will not formally adjourn this year. A couple of short recesses are scheduled, but Congress will stay in session, formally, until the second session opens in January. Legislation to which a high de gree of importance was attached by the administration is hopelessly bogged down. Civil rights is involved in a hassle. The foreign aid program is in deep trouble. There will be no tax cut this year, in spite of an ef fort by the President to place his own not-inconsiderable influence be hind it. Medicare is sunk. Two Ore gonians, Wayne Morse and Edith Green, have managed to blast loose an education bill, but it is only a part of the package the President requested. Congressional members of both parties are somewhat less than en thused about the leadership extend ed by the White House. Some Demo crats, in particular, are highly dis satisfied. Members of that party from the South, of course, are un happy over civil rights, are doing everything possible to scuttle the program. But Northern Democrats are quite frank in their criticism of the President and the "Irish Mafia," his lobbying corps on Capitol Hill. "Here we sit, accomplishing nothing, while a few people in our own party seem to be holding up the whole legislative process," one Democratic Senator told this news paper. The next question was a natural one. Had the Republican leadership been less responsible than the Democratic leadership when the situation was reversed, when a Democratic President lias replaced a Republican? "No, not particularly," was the response. "The Democratic leader ship of this Congress (Mansfield and McCormack) is less able to handle the situation than the previous top men (Johnson and Rayburn)." Whether this appraisal is right or not, and there is little reason to doubt it, the fact remains that Con gress is stumbling pretty badly this year. And many of its own members are not much more pleased with their lack of accomplishments than is the rest of the country. Better get an expert sion or in its employ. Bend's city commission has been asked to approve a rate increase for the teevee cable company which serves the city. City permission is necessary because the company got a 20-year franchise in 1956. More properly, It took one over from an earlier organization which decided not to go into the business. The franchise was requested in order to limit competition. This is why most franchises are sought. They are given by regulatory authorities to enable heavy capital investments without the fear of competitive rate-cutting. Under franchises, Investors usually accept a relatively low rate of return, about six per cent on the cost of facilities used In the business. ,'Ustially, the city turns this chore, in effect, over to the State Public Utilities Commission. The power company, the gas company, and the telephone company have franchises from the city. But rates are adjusted by experts, working full time on the job. The city of Bend has no rate experts, on its commis- I O In this case, if the commission is so disposed, it might be worth wlille to insist the company furnish the funds for the city to hire a rate expert. Such an expert could de termine the profit picture of the company on standard rate-making bases. Are salaik . j paid by the company in effect dividends being paid to stockholders? Is the evalu ation of its facilities for income-tax purposes being confused with the real replacement cost of the system? Should stockholders bo required to put up more equity capital, reduc ing the company's debt load? This is the sort of question a rate expert would pk. If he got the answers, he would be able to con struct a financial statement which would be useful for the city com mission, in its new role as a utility rate-maker. Without such a state ment the city would be on pretty shaky grounds in granting the in crease asked. And if the company didn't want to follow such a proce dure, it could forego the increase. Here's how Goldwater stands on some of top issues in U.S. politics Third of 5 Parts By Harry Ferguson UPI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen. Barry Goldwater regards the federal government as a spend thrift giant who devotes too much time to poking his big nose into the private affairs of the taxpayers who support him. He wants the giant to flex his muscles a bit and slap down the Communists. "The farmer is told how much wheat he can grow," Goldwater says. "The wage earner is at the mercy of na tional union leaders whose great power is a direct consequence of federal labor legislation. The business man is hampered by a maze of government regula tions, and often by direct gov ernment competition ... in creasingly the federal govern ment sets the standards of edu cation, health and safety." It would require a small book to set down in detail Goldwa ter's entire political philosophy. But here is a summary of how he stands on the big issues to day. FOREIGN POLICY Favors breaking diplomatic relations with Russia and all other Communist governments. Lukewarm toward the United Nations and would advocate withdrawing if Communist Chi na were admitted. A tight block ade against Cuba, establish ment of a single Cuban govern ment in exile and the equipping of a Cuban exile army. Supplies and equipment to be supplied by air by the United States if the exile army attempted to overthrow Fidel Castro. Foreign aid is too "scatter gun" and should utilize a "rifle approach" aimed at specific areas where we could gain advantage over the Russians. Approves of tech nical assistance to foreign na tions and the concept of the Washington .Merry-go - ro und Mme. Nhu's intransigence caused revolt in Viet Nam By Drew Pearson WASHINGTON There was a lot more to the last hectic ef forts of Madame Nhu to keep her family in control in South Viet Nam than the public knew about. At the very last moment she had a warning that the Viet Nam special forces, long paid by Central Intelligence, but re cently cut off, were likely to turn against her strong-man husband and President Diet., her brother-in-law. She rushed from San Francisco back to Los Angeles and phoned Saigon. She got through to the palace, but no one answered the phone. The revolt had just started. Earlier than this, and before Mme. Nhu left for the United States, she had flatly refused to make any of the concessions urged by Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge. Kennedy had per suaded Lodge, a Republican and a Protestant, to take the most difficult of all diplomatic assignments and straighten out Viet Nam. Too many Americans were being killed; too much money was being spent; too many Buddhists were being per secuted by the Catholic Viet namese Government. Lodge had demanded drastic reforms freedom of religion, freedom of the press, free speech, and more economic aid for the masses of the people in stead of the reigning aristocra cy. Without this, he argued, there could be no defeat of communism. U.S. troops would have to remain in Viet Nam indefinitely. President Diem and his broth er were willing to go along, but Mme. Nhu said no. She put her dainty foot down so vigor ously that the male members of the truimvirale gave in. After that, the United Stales pulled the plug on the $250,000 quarterly installments to the special forces which had been raiding Buddhist pagodas cut off money to Nhu's secret police and scrimped the $2,000, 000 monthly import of surplus U.S. food. This meant that the downfall of the Diem regime was only a matter of time. Lonely Lady A lot of people are now feel ing sorry for Madame Nhu, lonely, mourning and reported broke in California. Unques tionably she put up a gallant fight. She had come to the United States to reverse, single handed, the weight of the Ken nedy financial boycott of her family's government. It was har hope by rousing public opinion, and through her good friend, Cardinal Spellman, chief patron of Saigon, to force the Kennedy Administration to change its mind. In some respects she was the Madame Chiang Kai-shek of Southeast Asia. Mme. Chiang, also with a strong religious background (a Methodist), came to the United States in the postwar years to win support for her husband and Nation alist China. The two strong willed women both refused to let their husbands yield to the changing times of their country. Had Chiang Kai-shek initiated some of the social reforms in China that he has since adopted in Formosa, he would still be governing the Chinese main land. And had Mme. Nhu per mitted freedom of religion, the press, and used some of the U.S. aid millions for the benefit of the Vietnamese people, her hus band and brother-in-law would be alive today and she would not be living lonely in Los Angeles. Long, hard look is planned into farm, business future By Gaylord P. Godwin UPI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Agriculture Department will take a long, hard look at eco nomic prospects for agriculture and business during the 41st annual Agricultural Outlook Conference here Nov. 18-21. Department economists will examine economic fac1 and in terpret them from a standpoint of agriculture for the coming year. In fact, the conference considers primarily "the agri cultural outlook for 1964." The conference is a fact finding and fact interpreting workshop which is based on a continuous year-round activity. Agricultural and home econ omists from state extension services and land grant col leges, along with representa tives of farm organizations and businesses interested in farm prospects will attend the four day meeting. . The Economic Research Serv ice (ERSi, which issues outlook and situation reports about ag riculture during the year, is co ordinating the conference. Oth er department agencies with speakers at the conference in clude the Federal Extension Service, Statistical Reporting Service, Foreign Agricultural Service, and the Agricultural Research Service. The extension service is the department's educational arm which helps spread agricultural economic information through out the country. Outlook is part of the depart ment's intelligence system. To ge'her with crop and livestock reports and market news, out look provides a continuing flow of information of the situation in agriculture and the most probable developments in the future. O The 1964 outlook issue of the poultry and egg situation re ports there will be more eggs, more broilers, and more tur keys next year than in 1963. Egg production next year is expected to exceed the 176 mil lion cases in prospect for 1963, the department said. Egg prices early in 1964 probably will be lower than a year earlier. Broiler production early In 1964 likely will be about the same as a year earlier, the de partment said, but output for the whole year likely will be above 1963. The 1964 turkey crop is ex pected to be somewhat larger than the 92.7 million birds ex pected this year, the agency said. In a projection report to 1968, the department said per capita use of eggs five years hence would be 5 to 10 per cent lower than the 316 eggs this year. The number of broilers for 1968 is expected to be almost 2.5 bil lion birds, up more than 15 per cent from 1963. MICE NO PROBLEM STAFFORD. Kan. (I'PO Mice, the scourge of hen houses across the nation, are no prob lem for Kurt Mueller. He re ported this week that Biddy, a white hen, has learned to kill mice. Peace Corps. More foreign aid money should be put into loans, less into trants. Against the nu clear test ban treaty. CIVIL RIGHTS Goldwater personally is an in tegrationist. The Goldwater De partment Store in Phoenix em ploys about 25 Negroes and as adjutant general of the Air Na tional Guard he was instrumen tal in desegregating the organ ization. Opposes the civil rights bill now before Congress and believes there are already enough laws on the books if the executive branch of the gov ernment would only enforce them. Favors leaving, as much as possible, all civil rights mat ters to the individual states within the framework of the Supreme Court decision on schools, and would not go any further than "moral persua sion." TAXES Opposed in theory to the graduated income tax but, re alistically speaking, realizes it cannot be abolished. Opposes any tax reduction without a substantial cut in federal expen ditures. Believes the proposed top corporation tax of 48 per cent is too high and the top of 70 per cent on individual in comes is confiscatory. Believes present tax laws are too com plicated and favors a complete new tax code. Strongly favors reduction in federal expendi tures and deplores trend toward giving more power to federal government which he says has been going on for 30 years. Be lieves the agricultural program would be one of the best places to cut federal expenditures. WELFARE Does not favor repealing any of the existing welfare pro grams, but would bar the in troduction of any new ones. Would try to persuade the states that they should gradual ly take over the welfare pro gram because they can do cheaper. Social Security shou! be made "flexible and volui tary." A man who thought 1 could provide better retiremei for himself should not be forc to pay Social Security taxes. LABOR Union leaders have too mu power derived from federal le islation. Would not propose national "right to work" la but has an amendment to tl Taft-Hartley law giving tl states the right to decide whet er there should be an op shop. In the absence of sta legislation calling for a uni shop, there would be an opi shop. POLITICS Would support a liberal R publican for president in 19 and would expect liberal Repu licans to support him if non nated. Next: Perils and pitfalls on tl road to the nomination. U.S. expecting big new drive by Vietnamese By Phil Newsom UPI Staff Writer Notes from the foreign news cables: VIET NAM OFFENSIVE: American intelligence sources in Southeast Asia look for the new military regime in South Viet Nam to start a big new drive against the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas some time this month. They say that Lt. Gen. Duong Van Minh, or "Big Minh," the chairman of the rev olutionary council, is a soldier's soldier who likes to attack. The sources say that following the overnight coup, Vietnamese trops showed fore esprit de corps than at any time since the war with the Viet Cong broke out. Men of the 7th Divi sion marched out of Saigon car rying their rifles reversed, bar rel end first, a traditional infan try symbol that the battle was fought and won. COLD STORAGE: It now appears that the Amer ican - proposed multi - nation nuclear force will be put into virtual cold storage until next year. Little concrete progress has been made in exploratory talks. Britain, approaching a general election, still is cool to the idea and only the Germans appear to believe in its effec tiveness. NATO ministers will discuss it again when they meet for their annual review of NATO defenses next month. SHOWCASE: British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas - Home's excellent showing in winning his own seat in the House of Commons means that the Conservatives will push him into the limelight at every possible opportunity to build a winning image for the upcoming general elections. By implication and by direct at tack they will seek to contrast Home's forthrightness as against the alleged devious methods of Labor leader Harold Wilson. There will be some plain speaking from both sides when Home and Wilson con front each other in Commons. Both will be talking right at the voters. ON WAY OUT? Western political experts are speculating that East German Communist strongman Walter Ulhricht at last may be on his way out of power either vol untarily or involuntarily. The speculation is based on the fact that Ulbricht missed meetings of the East German politburo and the state council, both of which he heads. Why has if taken Senate so long to do so little? By William Theis UPI Staff Writer WASHINGTON (UPI) - Why has it taken the Senate so long to accomplish so little? Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, D Conn., triggered a spate of soul-searching oratory when he charged that Democratic Lead er Mike Mansfield. Mont., was responsible for the Senate's "dribbling" pace. "If we're going to get about our business, he's got to be a leader and say no sometime," Dodd said. He did not spare Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen, 111. He said the oppo sition "has become so compla cent, so soft, so cozy that it doesn't amount to much." As is his custom, the mild mannered Mansfield turned the other cheek, insisting that Con gress' record required no apol ogies. Dirksen blasted Dodd and said the Connecticut Demo crat was displaying "cerebral incoherence." The Dodd outburst and the ensuing debate pointed up the mounting frustration on Capitol Hill over the legislative slow down, however. It appears that this session will end without fi nal action on either civil rights or tax cut legislation the two big issues President Kennedy wanted settled in J963. Some Blame Others Mansfield and to a lesser extent Dirksen are easy tar gets, fellow senators say, but neither should bear the blame for the slowdown. They say the blame should be spread farther afield the White House, the House of Rep resentatives, Southern lawmak ers fighting civil rights legisla tion, not to mention the Sen ate's system of rules branded "archaic" by liberals. You can put 90 per cent of it down to civil rights," one veteran senator declared. "And the blame belongs as much downtown (the White House) as in Congress." Once President Kennedy switched his 1963 program in midstream and decided to push for an omnibus civil rights bill "a lot of people began to sit on things," he said. That meant a little delay here, an extra batch of witnesses to be heard there anything to produce a stretch-out of congressional business. "The only way Southerners have of modifying the civil rights bill so they can perhaps live with it is to force it into the election year," the senator said. "And there isn't too much that Mike Mansfield or anyone Barbs 1776 else can do about it, under oi system." Blames Archaic Rules - Senate Republican Wh Thomas H. Kuchel, Cali blames the Senate's "archa rules" for most of the troubl "You couldn't put Paul tl Apostle in the majority leadei scat and have him conduct tl business of the country wi the rules we have," he said. Mansfield has suffered in son appraisals because he follow t h e flamboyant Lyndon I Johnson as floor leader. Joh son, now vice president and I moved from the legislative b tleground, likecf to dramati his victories and screen his d feats. Mansfield, a pipe-smo ing former college professc admits that "glamor is not tl hallmark" of his performance Part of the leadership pro lem on the Democratic side li in holding together the differii wings of the parly. Northe: liberals and Southern conserv lives take a lot of organizatio al trouble-shooting to keep voting harness. Mansfield's problem in til regard was magnified recent by the departure of the majo ity secretary, Robert G. (Bo by) Baker. Now under invesi gation for possible conflict interest' because of outside but ness deals. Baker resigned h post Oct. 7. His outside activities asid Democratic senators agree th Bobby provided a needed co duit for action orders and coo eration among Democrat members. A South Carolini. who had spent 21 years aroui the Senate, he was an agi and effective go-between ai aide to the leadership. But the legislative problen already had gotten out of liar when Baker stepped out. H real loss may be felt more ne year. From time to time there hi been speculation that Mansfie misht give up the major! leadership, even give up h Senate seat to return to ac demic life. He is a cane date for re-election in 1964 ar favored to win, however. The current spate of criticis; will not cause him to step oi of the leadership, intimati said. "Even if he wanted to. v wouldn't let him," said a Der ocratic senator. "He's to easy-going at times for his ow good, but that can change. B sides, we're all to blan for this situation. And some i us are ashamed of what ju happened " Answer to Previous Puzzle ACROSS DOWN So is the cost of Christmas shopping, General Sherman. Come winter and anybody worth his salt will throw it on icy sidewalks. 1 "Light Horse 1 Tropical fruit Harry" 2 Muse of poclry 4 Breed's 3 Finisher Battle 4 Chance 8 British General 5 Iris ( comb. form) 12 Marine cafile fi Enticement 13 African wild 7 Tongue-shaped sheep 8 Greek seasonal 14 Spoken divinities 15- Anthony" D Valuable Wayne minerals IB Weaver's reed 10 Lumps 17 Communists 1 1 Otherwise 18 New Zealand 19 Soul barrier reef (Hinduism) 20 French admiral 21 Stock buying 3E;TiM vJQ Si Alp MM1 I A Uo!e I eva bIo i- gl MlSLEJSjJvylAiRL. SITE W -APT tiCySSl- W A F E r IF. AfiA Il -.e P JiQXiJHr: ojBielR P or PS.'5,i;ST -TJj KljRjE SjgjEiKraSiUJNIiS Hsu P E'NlNl 1 iSMB E'l AiTlEjg inIeWe'aTRp STiA:gsfcaPBAMijB Wl I InID IT O.P"1 JD ETA AIMIMIOI E R, El V A SIT B'e'a'KI RM!p1 IgR S,E It's great to be out in the woods in the Fall getting close to nature, but when it rains it's too close. There are still a lot of one party lines and the one party is either a teen-age son or daughter. 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