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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Writer' Discusses ressDOod ersfia SUNDAY. AUGUST 19. 1962 Coiio Leod mat? Editor's Not: Ii it tru that President Kennedy h been plagued by weak party leadership in getting his New Frontier program through Congress? The Chief of the UPI staff in the House of Representa tives answers this and kin dred questions in the fol lowing exclusive dispatch. By FRANK ELEAZER United Press International Washington - fllPP - Demo cratic Congressional leaders, battered by adverse publici ty about their legislative per formance this year, plead guilty to nothing much worse than sorry public relations. It appears they have indeed blown the publicity bit. But (with some weeks to go and some big issues still to be set tled) the record at adjourn ment could show they have not done at all bad with man agement of a difficult second session of the 87th Congress. It is true Congress has not bought a whole lot of what President Kennedy wanted to sell. It is a fact that admin istration forces took a drub bing on the President's farm bill. It Is no Joke that the government for a while look ed like it might run out of money because two octogen arian Democratic committee chairmen could not agree where to meet or who would sit at the head of the con ference table. State of Inaction And it is an embarrassing fact of Congressional life that a few strong-minded members again have demonstrated how easy it is to talk the Senate into a state of temporary, total inaction. Some people seem to con clude that this all adds up to undeclared war between the White House and Congress; that the government how func tions by stalemate; and that this kind of thing never hap pened before, or at least not nearly so bad. All of which is baloney. And some top Congressional Democrats now are pretty un happy about their failure to say so in a way to be heard and believed. No Congress ever rubber stamps presidential requests. Presidents always ask for more than they can get. Some times as in the case of Kennedy's Medicare bill they ask it knowing very well they can't get it and count ing their loss for use as an issue next time at the polls. Other Presidents Harry Truman plastered the Capitol with , Fair Deal Bills predestined for nowhere. Dwight D. Eisenhower want ed school aid. Then as now, "Congress didn't." Of course this still is Ken nedy's first Congress, and he was elected on a promise to get America "moving again," and any reluctance by Demo cratic lawmakers to help him make good on that promise is fair game for Republican taunts. Kennedy admittedly Is not overjoyed at the overall Con- I WHITE OAK LODGE J NUDIST RESORT I invites you to a special clothed OPEN HOUSE. B j Bring your swim suit and enoy our facilities from j 1-5 P.M. SAT. AUG. 23 FREE! ! f an Turn rink uaIIaiu m!l ksv 1 7 mi M-tlt vf m " ' "" HI gressional performance so far. Last year, his first in the White House, he got more re sults sooni-s. This was natural. Also, he put off until this year some of the hard ones. Some people claim things would have gone better this year had the late great Speak er Sam Rayburn still been around. They say Rayburn and former Senate Leader Lyn don B. Johnson, now mere ly the Senate's presiding of ficer as Vice President, held a closer rein on Congress than Speaker John W. McCor mack and Senate Leader Mike Mansfield. This is true, es pecially as to Johnson. It is possibly true also thai Rayburn would not have tol erated this year's long money deadlock in a protocol strug gle between chairmen of House and Senate Appropri ations committees. It is even possible that Johnson would have found a way to shut up the Telstar communications bill filibuster before it made the Senate begin to look sil ly. Farm Bill Seme observers claim Ray burn would not have let Ken nedy's farm bill go down the drain by a handful of voles in the House. Maybe so, maybe not. But farm bills have had a way of getting licked in the House, with or without Mr. Sam on the rostrum. Nobody could have steered through the House a foreign trade bill any more pleasing to Kennedy that the one Mc Cormack pushed, through and sent to the Senate. The foreign aid authorization Congress sent to the White House look ed amazingly like what the White House requested. In between the publicized bouts on the big ones, the lit tle ones have been rolling through by -the score, just as always. The Congressional Record recently tallied up 163 new public laws enacted this year, not counting private re lief bills. Most of them were routine, but one man's routine bill, given the proper public re lations buildup, can be an- other s big issue. In some luuietcr dav. even the House's mnpnl onstin-f. Inufnrl nminl ' pay for equal work done by I women might have been pass ed off as a legislative achieve-Iment. ; - inn-i urn n -""-t ' . i Frzri rn ? Aft ;jft CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS - Democratic Congressional leaders, (above) battered by adverse publicity about their legislative performance this year, plead guilty to nothing much worse than sorry public relations. Here House Speaker John W. McCormack (D-Mass., left) and Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-Mont., right) meet the press along with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. By contrast with Republican House Leader Charles Halleck (R-Ind., left, be low) and Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen (R-Ill.), party leaders in their respective houses of Congress never seem to be caught without somthing handy to say about lack of action in Congress, while Democrats regularly walk out to face the press with nothing succint to report. (UPI) AUTOMATIC all the way! - I A e MUM' - ' MWW VI, TOP BURNERS CONTROL HEAT I :1 1: j. t...-. -.jr. 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NOW! 25 DISC-OUT On All Ranges (limited Time Only) lale New Dealer Harry Hop kins an envious green. Educational TV It has approved federal grants totalling $50 million to help start educational TV stations. It has increased fed eral payment for relief of the blind, disabled and aged. It has expanded the Presi dent's Peace Corps. U has committed the country to sending a man to the moon, I if possible before Russia does i it. I Naturally it is not up to Re- j publican leaders to explain all this to the voters. Their job is to point out Democratic i shortcomings, and nobody has I accused Rep. Charles A. 1 1 ; 1 -: leek and Sen. Everett M. j Dirksen of falling down on ! the job. ' The Ev and Charlie show is j possibly a little less known j on TV than the Huntley- ! Rrinkley Report. Despite the ; fact that Ev and Charlie speak 1 for a party that controls nei- ther White House nor Con-1 Kress, their weekly press con ferences - recorded for la'er broadcast get better air-! ing than the White House meetings of McCormack and Mansfield with President Ken nedy. One big reason is that Ev and Charlie do their public relat ions homework. MeCor- mack and Mansfield frequent- i ly don't. ' Something Handy The two Republican lead i ers would as soon be caught at n Democratic fund raisine rally as walk into the TV ; floodlights without a tittle something handy to say about the lack of action in Congress , and how it would be better all around if the lawmakers closed up shop and w e n t ; home. ! Hy contrast, MK'ormaek and Mansfield, after their : Tuesday breakfasts with K.-n-! nedy. regularly walk out lo : fare the press with not bin-. ; succinct to report. Tins does i not mean they have devoted the breakfast hour solely 1o hot biscuits and sausage. II does mean they have not packaged their thoughts to make headlines or fit the evening news slots on TV. McCormack holds a daily press conference just before the House meets at noon. Fol lowing the example of the late Speaker Rayburn he puts most of his remarks off me record. The lesser Democratic lights, Reps. Carl Albert and Hale Boggs and Sen. Hubert Humphrey, are better suited by nature, age and back ground for this publicity struggle than McCormack and Mansfield. However, they are part of the team, not its co captains. "I don't know what we can do about it," said one highly placed Democrat who con ceded the problem. "I don't even know whether we ought to do anything. We Democrats never have been a match for Republicans at the P.R. game. Rut you might conclude from the Congressional elec tion results for the past 30 yea rs that in the end we aren't usually hurt too much by this at the polls." FAMILY COUNCIL Adele F. - I want to nip our remodeling job right now and go no further. Newton F. I admit it's dragging on, but it will be worth the mess. Adele F. - I know Newt waited a long time to have our basement remodeled and I was as happy as he when work was begun in June. We knew the children would be away at camp, we wouldn't be doing any entertaining, and we'd be away from the house j ourselves for part of the time. ! But things have dragged on and the work is barely begun. Meanwhile the pathways and doorways are piled up with brick, pipes, wire and other mess. There's a big hole in one wall of the house which the inspector says can't be closed up until the electrical I work has been okayed. And the kids are back, school's about to start, with no end of this confusion in view. If Newt and the builder can't hurry things and give me a definite date for finish ing, I'm in favor of patching things back and dropping the whole change. - Newton F. - Adele should realize that a big renovation like this doesn't proceed ex actly on schedule like a rail road train. We started off fine. We got the floor leveled off and the walls knocked down. But then it was one delay after another - all for good reasons. The painter's brother died, the plumber couldn't get a part. Deliveries of lumber were held up by a local strike. Certain key mechanics were on vacation. In fact, our in sulation can't be installed for another month for that rea son. Sometimes I feel as hope less as Adele does about this whole undertaking. Here win ter is around the corner and what if we still have that gap ing hole in our wall? The set backs are unbelievable and discouraging. But I think the worst part is behind us. Now that our plans are approved and we have the permit and all, there's no turning back. ... The Council: Anybody who sits around waiting for the perfect time to do a complex job will just sit around wait ing. "Carpe diem," said Hor ace, the poet. "Seize the day reasoning was their confi dence that things would pro rather than trust tomorrow." So Newton and Adele settled upon June as the season most likely to succeed in seeing them through a remodeling project which they'd dreamed of and, no doubt, delayed for years and years. The only fallacy in their ceed evenly. They forgot that there were not only mechani cal factors to be checked off, but also human ones - and there's no predicting those. So the experienced home reno vator knows that when an in stallation comes off exactly on schedule, it's both an excep tion and a miracle. Adele is upset because her best-laid plans - to have the mess cleared away before fall-have "gang agley." Her error was to have placed too much faith in those plans, which are better left fluid and flexible. No matter when the first axe descended, there'd have been delays. While other seasons might mean faster de liveries and more available hands, they also bring snow and colds and other hitches in the smooth flow of construe--, tion. 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