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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
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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 "
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