MONDAY. AUGUST 15. 1960
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE.
Drummond Reports
(Welter Lippman is on vacation,
from Washington in his absence.)
A VALUABLE TREATY
Washington - The 21 votes
which were marshalled
against the Antarctic Treaty
just eight short of enough to
block it-shows how perilous
ly near we can come to hav-
Ing important foreign policies
ruled by minority opinion.
The fact is that the consti
tutional requirement that a
treaty can come into force
only by a two-thirds vote of
the Senate today operates to
exactly the opposite effect it
was originally intended.
Certainly the purpose of
the two-thirds rule was to
make sure that major foreign
policy commitments would
rest upon overwhelming pub
lic and Senatorial support.
But the effect of the two
thirds rule in today's world
is that it is always within the
reach of a small minority to
determine some major U. S.
course in foreign policy.
This may sound paradoxical
but I think I can demonstrate
that it is true.
HERE is the reason:
Take the Antarctic Trea
ty in which the United States
joins with 11 other nations to
make the subcontinent an
area free of military bases in
spectable without veto, and
devoted exclusively to scien
tific exploration.
This treaty represents a sig
nificant venture in relations
between the Soviet Union and
the free world. It provides an
experiment in unlimited in
spection and free access. It
provides that the Antarctic
will be a peaceful preserve to
be studied for the advantage
of the whole world. It guar
antees that there will be no
nuclear testing under, on, or
above its surface. The treaty
surrenders no territorial
claims by the United States
to any other country and pre
vents the Soviets and others
from making territorial claims
during its duration.
Now, what I am suggesting
is that there are two courses
of action which the Senate
could take and that either one
is a tremendously important
decision.
The Senate could reject it.
This would mean that he Unit
ed States would be leading
the world away from an op
portunity to try out a signifi
cant, veto-less agreement with
the Soviet Union. This course
of action would have very far
reaching consequences.
The Senate could approve
U-as it did. This means that
the United States is helping
the world carry forward the
patient and painful negotia
tions on which we have been
working on many fronts for
several years. We will soon
be able to see whether a safe
aereement with the Soviets
will be a workable agreement
THE point I am making is
that either decision-either
rejection or ratification-commits
the United States to a
very meaningful course of ac
tion.
Reiection would commit
the U. S. to a reversal of the
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whole effort to negotiate with
the Soviets and to try to reach
useful enforceable agree
ments. Approval commits the U. S.
to carry forward its efforts to
reduce and resolve the con
flicts between the Soviets and
the free world.
Either decision is a very
large commitment.
But under the two-thirds
rule the commitment of doing
something must be approved
by a majority of 2-to-l while
the commitment of doing
nothing, which can have
equally far - reaching conse
quences, can be made by a
minority of one-third of the
Senate plus one.
UNDOUBTEDLY the time
was when it did not mat
ter a great deal that a one
third minority of the Senate
could prevent a nearly two
thirds majority from author
izing American initiative in
foreign affairs. But in the
kind of world we are living
in today the consequences of
inaction are as great as the
consequences of action.
This is why it is no longer
wise or safe, it seems to me,
to invest so much negative
power in the hands of so few
members of the Senate.
This time a valuable treaty
narrowly escaped death,
(c) 1960, New York Herald
Tribune, Inc.
Unemployment To
Be Program Topic
Who pays for Oregon's un
employment insurance pro
gram? More than $312 mil
lions have been paid to job
less workers in the state since
the program began zs years
ago. Who pays? The answer
will - be on "Dateline State
house" tonight at 10:45
o'clock over KBES-TY.
Appearing with regular
moderator Bob Richter will
be Don I. McKennan, tax di
vision supervisor of the Ore
gon department of employ
ment. They will discuss the
nature of the state's jobless
pay program, its scope, value,
and how it is conducted, with
a specific look at the employ
ers tax.
Each week on "Dateline'
different agencies take turns
reporting on their operations
and services, in an effort to in
form citizens how state gov
ernment in Oregon works.
Mae Murray Remains
In Serious Condition
Hollywood - IlIPD-Mae Mur
ray, silent film star who gain
ed fame in the 1927 movie
"Merry Widow," remained in
serious condition today at the
Motion Picture Country hos
pital.
Miss Murray, described va
riously as 61 and 71, entered
the hospital Wednesday suf
fering from a stroke.
New York - IUPD - Dr. John
Garb, 70, associate clinical
professor of dermatology at
New York University Medical
center died Saturday.
Assn. of Medford
Robert F. Kyle, Manager
Foreign Notebook: Italian Split; ROK
Discontent; East German Food
By WILLIAM J. FOX
United Press International
From the foreign editor's
notebook:
Italian Communist!
The Italian Communists
may use the situation in the
Congo as a weapon in an at
tempt to split government
supporters. The Communist
press has bitterly attacked the
Italian government for ab
staining in the United Nations
vote on Katanga. It claims
the abstention was ordered by
Foreign Minister Antonio Seg-
ni against the will of Premier
Amintore Fanfani. The semi-
fficial explanation for Italy's
abstention Is that Rome want
ed to be nice to Belgium for
the sake of NATO unity and
because of the large number
of Italian miners working in
Belgium. But the Social Dem
ocrats and Republicans, who
support the Fanfani govern
ment, are known to be un
happy over the move, which
they see as a concession to
Belgian "colonialists." And
the Communists have lost no
time in trying to widen the
rift.
South Korean discontent
Another place where the
government seems certain to
be in new trouble is in South
Korea, where popular discon
tent is expected to develop Im
mediately with the new re
gime. Some sources predict
possible new demonstrations
such as those that toppled the
Syngman Rhee forces. The
reason: Many Koreans are dis
gusted, or at least disappoint
ed, with the bickering within
the Democratic party over the
posts in the new government.
In fact, it's already being said
the new regime will be little
different from the corruption
oi the Rhee government, and
that kind of public attitude is
not one to promote stability.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Modern business note:
The University of Chicago
planning to use an elec
tronic computer in an effort
to find out WHY stocks go up
and why they go down.
Hmmmmm. D'ya reckon the
igger will also WHEN they're
going to go up and when
they're going to go down?
If so, it would be a handy
gadget to have around.
M
ORE modern world stuff:
communications satellite that
puts us one up on the Rus-
skies, is whizzing around the
earth about 1,000 miles out.
Its speed, the dispatches tell
us, is 15,442 miles per hour.
It takes it only about two
ticks of the clock longer than
two minutes to circle the
earth.
Note to highway speed dem
ons: You might sa well give
up and slow down. You can't
beat that record.
OVER in' the John Day coun
try of Eastern Oregon the
other day, Congressman Al
Ullman of the Second Oregon
district suggested to a com
mittee of miners that the fed
eral government should make
INCENTIVE PAYMENTS to
encourage domestic produc
tion of gold as an increasing
ly possible answer to the
mounting problem of gold
withdrawals from this coun
try.
The monetary nature of
gold, he said, "has created a
bottleneck in the solution of
the gold problem because only
the banking and currency has
jurisdiction over the problem
Meanwhile, our gold keeps
slipping away while our gold
miners remain idle.
TJE ADDED:
"As a member of the house
interior committee, which has
jurisdiction over mining mat
ters, I plan to have legislation
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
A PATRON got out of a beautiful special model of a Euro
pean sports car at a swank Miami Beach hotel, handed
the doorman a $50 bill and threw over his shoulder, "Take
good care of this buggy,
Buster. They're not easy
to come by."
"I know," said the
doorman respectfully.
"I've got one just like it."
The great Shlophonnes
Wound up his piano recital
in a blaze of glory and the
audience there because the
host was also the boss of
the town's only factory
applauded manfully. At the
reception that followed, the
foreman, who couldn't tell
classical music from the
clanging of s hot water pipe,
you sUnk!"
The boss elbowed him away
no attention to that lug, Mr.
everybody else tells him."
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Air Defense
The recent defection of a
North Korean MIG 15 jet pilot
posed the question of whether
the South Korean air defense
system is adequate. Military
sources in Seoul say indica
tions at this time are that it
may not be. These sources say
that when the MIG landed on
the east coast of South Korea
on Aug. 3, it was 40 miles
south of the demilitarized
border zone and was on the
ground before its presence in
the south was known. The
sources say the plane first was
reported by children who
passed the abandoned airstrip
on which it landed. They add
that military authorities, who
claimed to have tracked the
plane into South Korea, ac
tually did not know about it
until notified by police.
Food Shortage
Look for Communist East
Germany to seek a way out of
its current food shortage
troubles through "unlisted"
imports from Hungary and Ro
mania. The institute of Ger
man industry says the two
latter Communist nations have
been ordered to send their
"crop reserves" to East Ger
many. To avoid having the
transfer show in statistics,
East Germany, will not pay
for the imports. It simply will
balance them against aid given
to Hungary after the 1956 re
volt. Hungary will reimburse
Romania for the same aid
fund. The purpose is to con
ceal how much East German
farm production has dropped
since the collectivization drive
earlier this year.
Party Split
Don't be too surprised if
there is a split soon in the
Liberal - Democratic party in
Japan. Some political sources
in Tokyo say a small group
within the party will split off
to form a pro-Russian seg-
ready for introduction by
early next year to implement
this approach (meaning the in
centive payments approach) to
the problem. It would offer a
great boon to the small min
ers of the West and would
make feasible many mining
operations now lying dor
mant."
mHAT calls for
little ex
-S. Dlanatfnn.
The price of
gold, as fixed by the federal
government, is 35 PAPER dol
lars per ounce of the yellow
metal. At that price, It is no
longer PROFITABLE to mine
gold, because on the average
it costs more than $35 to get
an ounce of gold out of the
ground.
So, as Mr. Ullman says,
gold mining lags and our sup
ply of monetary gold is. no
longer augmented by produc
tion from our mines. Mean
while, as he says, foreign de
mands on our gold supply are
Increasing.
TJERE is our State
of Jef
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ferson, we can't help turn
ing an interested ear toward
his 'proposal. A century ago,
the miners looked off into the
blue distance and ' muttered
there's gold in them thar
hills." There's STILL gold in
them thar hills.
But it doesn t interest us
MUCH because we know by
sad experience that it costs
more than 35 paper dollars
to get an ounce of gold out of
the ground. Maybe, if the
price of gold was raised to say
70 paper dollars for an ounce,
we'd again reach for our picks
and our shovels and go after
it.
But here in our State of
Jefferson we are inclined to
realists. We find it hard to be
lieve that doubling the price
of gold in terms of printing
press money could add any
thing to our PERMANENT
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announced honestly, "Sblophonni
indigently and pleaded. "Don't py
Shlophonnes. He ony repeats what
fitju-ttnittl by JUif rattens trasJesU
ment. Theres some specula
tion this new grouping then
might try to form a popular
Aging Process Stumps Experts
San Francisco - Two thou
sand of the world's experts on
the aged spent last week com
paring notes-and then agreed
that they simply do not know
for sure how to keep them
selves from growing old.
The experts had lots of
ideas. But none could prove
his theories to the satisfaction
of everybody.
The disagreements concern
ed everybody from what to
eat, what medicines to take
and how long to sleep.
The experts presented re
ports to each other at the third
triennial congress of the Inter
national Association of Geron
tology. About the least controvers
ial advice they could offer
was summed up by Dr. Louis
Kuplan, the association presi
dent. He said that a person's
attitude means as much-and
possibly more than anything
medical science can do to halt
his aging.
To live long, he urged main
taining a constant, active in
terest in life, rather than
"let's give up" attitude.
As examples, he cited
Grandma Moses, who is still
painting at 98, and Tommy
Manville, who recently mar
ried his 11th bride at 65.
Kuplan wasn't endorsing the
Manville method, but men-
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front with leftists after the ex
pected national elections this
fall.
tioned him as a person with
"motivation." Grandma
Moses, he said, was always
looking forward, never look
ing in the past.
In the body, he said, "we
don't really know what the
process of aging is."
4-H NEWS
Ruch Livestock
The meeting of the Ruch
Livestock club was held on
Aug. 10 at Cantrall's house.
Mrs. Cantrall checked and
helped us with our record
books. We talked about buy
ing a wheelbarrow for the
4-H county fair, and decided
to do so.
We also talked about the
barn duties and decided Mrs.
Cantrall should make out the
list.
Thursday, Aug. 11 was
clean-up day at the Jackson
County fairgrounds. After our
work was done at the fair
grounds the sheep and dairy
members from Ruch went
around to the various stores
and finally purchased a red
and white wheelbarrow.
Kathy Larson,
Reporter
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Back Stairs: Presidential Callers
By FRANK ELEAZER
Washington - IUPD - Back
stairs at the White House:
Presidential callers are con
sidered fair game for White
House reporters. In fact, if re
porters ever quit badgering
White House callers, the de
mand for audiences with the
President might fall off con
siderably.
Sometimes I get the im
pression that most of the Pres
ident's guests, after the proper
show of modesty and reluct
ance, simply can't wait to be
interviewed.
Take Sen. Everett McKlnley
Dirksen of Illinois, the gray
maned, sad-faced Senate Re
publican leader. He and Rep.
Charles A. Halleck of Indiana,
the business-like GOP leader
of the House, call on Ike every
Tuesday to talk things over
and in the process to garner
some headlines and a few
moments of free TV time by
submitting themselves after
wards to the press.
Called Interviews
These sessions are referred
to loosely as interviews. What
they tend more to be is
speeches.
Dirksen is generally con
ceded to hold without chal
lenge clear title as the Sen
ate's most oleaginous orator.
His intimate, kindly, melliflu
ous delivery would put the
average mortician to shame.
Well, after this week's
White House breakfast for the
GOP leaders, he came forth
for a few pleasant words with
the press.
These words stretched out
benignly for some 40 minutes
or so. It would not be correct
to call this a question and
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answer session, although re
porters did work in a few
questions. And Dirksen, it is
true, made some extended re
joinders, but not all of them
could rightly be called an
swers exactly.
Smiles at Tormentor
Dirksen announced finally
that he was putting into the
Senate hopper in another hour
or so a couple of civil rights
bills which Ike wanted passed.
Mindful of Democratic conten.
tions that a civil rights debate
in the Senate now would
merely serve to tie up legis
lation on other things, a re
porter asked if this procedure
had the President's endorse
ment. Ev smiled ever so gently at
his tormenter. He allowed
dolefully that this question
put him in mind of a fellow
who approached President
Lincoln with a new and better
mousetrap.
If Lincoln would only en
dorse his invention, the fel
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Lincoln's Endorsement
President Lincoln, accord
ing to Dirksen, said certainly
he would do this small favor.
So he took up his pen, Dirk
sen said, and wrote his en
dorsement as follows:
"For the sort of people who
want this sort of thing, this is
the sort of thing that that sort
of people will want."
Leave 'em smiling is Dirk
sen's motto, and he did.
NAMED JWV HEAD
Miami-fflPD-The Jewish War
Veterans named I. L. Feuer,
60, of Youngstown, Ohio, as
national commander at the
close of the group's annual
convention Saturday. Feuer,
director of the Mahoning
County Welfare Department,
will preside for one year.
Ralph Plossky, 42, of White
Plains, N.Y. was named na
tional judge advocate, that
JWV's second highest position.
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