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ell Shakiest overlnirfiht. Seo4 By LOUIS CASSELS United Prett International Washington-IUPMt is wide ly assumed, both in America and abroad, that the best way for a country to obtain large quantities of U.S. aid is to get itself into a hopeless mess. . ' At the risk of depriving satirists of a topic that has inspired several funny movies and Plays, David . Bell has set out to correct that im pression. Bell is an amiable Harvard economist and former Marine, 6 feet 4, and 44 years old. He served until recently as President Kennedy's budget director. He now occupies one of the shakiest scats of gov ernment, as administrator of Hie Agency for International Development (AID). This means that he's re sponsible for running the U.S. foreign aid program. The perils of the job are attested by the fact that he is the 11th man in 15 years to have a go at it. Good Investment Bell is convinced that the billions this country expends on foreign aid can be a very good investment, with a high return in terms of U.S. se curity. But he is determined to see that the taxpayers get their money's worth. One way to do that, he told UPI in an exclusive inter view, is to concentrate eco nomic development '-ans and other U.S. assistance in coun tries which are able and will ing to make good use of them. The effect of this policy, he acknowledged, is "to put a premium on not being in a hopeless me.j." He said the realities of in ternational life will make it necessary for the United States to continue giving as sistance to some countries which are vital to our se curity, even though their in ternal affairs are badly dis organized and their govern ments show no real willing ness to undertake the refon s necessary to sustain genuine economic progress. Favor Self Help "But first priority for long term development loans and other major economic aid will go to countries which are really trying to help themselves, and are follow ing ' policies which will en able them to make effective use of American aid," he said. Bell's office is on the fifth floor of the old wing of the State Department building, in huge paneled suite which was occupied by. the Under secretary of State before the building was enlarged.' He draped his lanky frame onto a leather sofa in a corner of the room for the interview. Q. The Washington Post said in a recent dispatch that President Kennedy feels that the United States can no longer "afford" to aid other countries ."for. purely hu manitarian reasons," and that foreign aid henceforth must be. given only in instances where it is clearly "in the national interest of the Unit ed States." Is this a fair state ment of the policy you pro pose to follow? A. The President has said publicly, and so have I, that we are in the business of assisting other countries be cause it is in the U.S. nation al interest to do so. However, it should be emphasized that our national interest lies in helping countries to become free, strong and prosperous -which is what they want to achieve for them '-es. A great deal of what we do in our foreign aid programs, al though undertaken In the name of 'enlightened self-interest', does serve humani tarian ends. You might say that these are not 'do-gooder' projects - but they do a lot of good. ' ' President Kennedy has ask ed Congress to provide near ly $5 billion for foreign aid during the 1064 fiscal- year which begins July 1. Past ex perience indicates that Con gress is likely to slash this sum considerably. Each year it seems to get a little harder lor tne wnue nouse to get SECTION D PAGES 1 to 8 Medford Tribune MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1963 Police Car Damaged In Local Accident Western Writing Popular Among Red Chinese By PETER HANN Tokyo-IUPlI- Red China may not care for America's brand of politics, but she's not averse to letting her people read American books. Works by Mark Twain and poets Henry Longfellow and Walt Whitman have been translated into Chinese and are steady favorites with the Chinese public. According to the New China News agency, these writers' books are among about 6.000 foreign volumes translated and sold in China since the Communists took over in 1949. Other Western authors to have parted the Bamboo cur tain include Britain's Charles Dickens, W. M. Thackeray and Thomas Hardy and France's Honore de Balzac. Gustave Flaubert, Emile Zola and Guy de Maupassant. Shakespeare Shakespeare's plays are special favorite in China. New China said 37 titles and 603, 1)00 copies have been put on sale across the country. Romeo and Juliet-in three different translations-has sold 84,000 copies and Hamlet has been snapped up by 65,000 eager buyers. The New China News agen cy said two well-known schol ars are now working separate ly on translating Shake speare's tragedies and com edies. Besides these modern class ics, Red China also has made ancient ones available. Homer s Iliad, Plato's Dia logues, Aristotle's Poetics, Milton's Paradise Lost, Dan te's Divine Comedy, Molicre's comedies and Cervantes' Don Quixote have been translated. Nor are the Russian authors left out. although Peking sel dom sees eye to eye with Mos cow these days. Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace and Anna Karcnina ar,e on sale. Pushkin's lengthy Docm entitled Gypsies has snlrf 240.000 copies and his tvcicni and Oncgin and The Captain's Daughter have sold 70.000 copies each. The only thing the Chinese f.nled to say In their proud an. nouncemcnt of these transla tions was whether anybody is getting any royalties. ALAMO AlHCONDITIONED San Antonio, Tex. - TW -The Alamo was never like this when Davy Crockett fought in it. Now a shrine, the 'amo has been air conditioned. A Medford city police car was damaged Tuesday after noon when it was involved in an accident at the intersection of King and Tenth sts. The accident was one of six investigated by Medford po lice Tuesday and Wednesday. Operator of the police car was Lt. Lyle Chance Perkins, 40, of 1248 Vawter rd. Oper ator of the other vehicle. Nina Belle Hisel, 46, of 345 Apple St., was cited by offi cers for 'disobeying a stop sign. The right front fender and door of the police car was damaged. The accident oc curred about 3:30 p.m. Earlier the operator of a ve hicle was treated at Rogue Valley hospital, then lodged in the city jail on a charge of drunk, in public after his vehicle was involved in an accident at the intersection of Fourth and Grape sts. Lodged In Jail Lodged was Robert Quin ton Fletcher, 42, of 642 Pine st. His vehicle collided with a car operated by Roy Edward Deverell, 69, of 833 West Jackson St., at 10:45 a.m. Fletcher was cited for follow ing too close and no oper ator's license in possession. . About 2:20 p.m. vehicles operated by Edward Watson Kubli, 61, of route 4, box 413C, Medford, and Fawn Lorraine Cox, 30, of 784 Ash- Population Gains Through Space Age Farmingdale, N. Y.-0IPH- Wearout - proof shoes and clothing, rooms illuminated glowing walls, worldwide tel evision and telephone sys tems, accurate weather fore casting and, ultimately, wea ther control-these are among scientifically feasible "fall out" benefits from the nation s space program, ac cording to aero-space execu tive Mundy I. Peale. The massive mobilization of science, industry and govern ment resources required to hurtle 75 tons of men and ma terial to the moon is caus ing an explosive chain rcac tion of civilian applications of the new knowledge as it funnels into everyday life, ' the president of Republic Av iation corporation told a wo men's convention. Popularity of outdoor grills has helped reduce the former hot weather drop in demand for red meal. land ave., Ashland, collided at the intersection of McAn drews rd. and Riverside ave., police reported. Fawn Cox was cited by officers for making an improper left turn. At 3:30 p.m. vehicles oper ated by Joseph Edward Bar rett, 54, of 138 South Grape St. and Bertha Ellen Hibbard, 79, of 32 Myers ct., collided near 131 Highland dr. No ci tations were issued. Investigate Accident At 7 p.m. Medford police investigated an accident at the intersection of Third and North Front sts. Lyle Vernon Doty, 24, of 421 Oak St., was cited by police for, failing to yield the right of way after his vehicle was involved in an accident with a vehicle operated by Arthur William Barth, 32, of 125 Wimer ave., Ashland. Early today a truck and trailer, owned by Minchs Wholesale Meats, Red Bluff, Calif., parked on Riverside, ave., was hit by a vehicle that did not stop. A city po lice officer observed the inci dent and cited Mildred Faye Hafer, 37, of route 1, box 1, Eagle Point, - for failing to leave information at the scene of an accident. Evangelist to Stay In Hawaiian Islands Honolulu - IUPD - Evangelist Billy Graham, who was forced to withdraw from his planned Far East crusade because of illness,, plans to spend the next several weeks in seclu sion of the Hawaiian Islands. Graham was released from St. Francis hospital Tuesday after five days of tests and treatments for inflammation of the large and small intes tines. His physician. Dr. Richard Chang, said the evangelist was under strict orders to rest and continue his conva lescence in Hawaii, "I believe God has set me aside for a brief time so he can speak to me," Graham said. "I hope to renew my evangelistic activities in Paris on May 10 with renewed spiritual and physical vigor." The Graham Far East cru sade is scheduled to open in Manila this week end, but the evangelist said he would return to his home in North Carolina after resting , in Hawaii. a foreign aid bill through. Bell is well-liked and re spected on Capitol Hill be cause of his forthrighmess and the competence he displayed as budget director. It has been suggested by several com mentators that if anyone can sell ' the legislators on the need for a continuing foreign aid program, he's the man. But he doesn't care to be billed as a "salesman." I don't regard it as my job to sell this program to Congress," he said. "The members of the House and Senate have the same obliga tion to consider the natioi.al interest that I have, or that the President has. All I intend to do is to lay the facts before Congress the opportunities and the costs, as we see them. Then they'll have to make up their own minds. 'I must say I've been very impressed so far with the ex tent to which congressmen recognize the fundamental va lidity of the aid program, and its importance to U.S. se curity. I think that a soundly conceived, well-managed aid program will always find a lot of support on Capitol Hill." Some Boondoggles Q. Do you agree with con gressional critics that there have been some costly boon doggles in the program dur ing the past? A. Oh, sure. We ve pulled some beauts. And I wouldn't claim that we won't pull some more. This is an enor mously complex endeavor, new in U.S. history, and no one knows enough to operate this program without error but we have learned a great deal during the past 10 years, and we can and should be expected to operate more ef fectively in the future. Q. Is there any end to this thing? Once we start aiding country, do we have to keep it up forever? A. Well, I'd hesitate to try to set a terminal date for the entire aid program. In the kind of world we live in, for eign aid like heavy defense spending - is likely to be with us for quite a long time. But in terms of specific coun tries, yes, we can see an end In sight. The western Euro pean countries, which we helped through the Marshall plan, are already back on their feet and thriving - and several of them are conduct ing foreign aid programs of their own. And there are sev eral countries which we are still assisting - Greece, Israel and Taiwan, for example - which have about got it made. I think we can figure on phasing out our aid to them in the next few years. When To Quit? Q. How do we determine when a country can get along without aid? A. That's a good question. A lot of people have the mis conception that we are trying to raise everybody to a par ticular standard of living. But that's not the objective at all. Our aim is to help a country get to the point where it can begin to make steady economic progress on its own, using its own resources, ob taining capital through nor mal sources. This point can be reached while living stand ards are still relatively low. For example, look at Japan. It has great economic vitality, and is making tremendous progress. But its average per capita income is still about $300 per year, compared to about $2,500 a year in the United States. Kennedy Wires When Bell was sworn In as AID chief four days before Christmas, President Ken nedy sent him a congratula tory telegram from Palm Beach, Fla. "I'm sure that my troubles with AID are over, and I hope that yours will never I There was more than rou-1 Kennedy looks upon Bell as I ablest men on his "New Fron- begin," said the President.' line courtesy in that telegram, one . of the brightest and tier" team. It was because DISPLAY CERTIFICATE David E.. Bell, 43, sworn In as administrator of the Agency of International Development, -shows his certificate of office to son, Peter, daughter, ' itr j ill Ik This is the . seashore. Color the sea blue. Maybe it will remind you to start saving for your vacation now at tiitinv tnmttru' tiitiiitiitint III! mii!!lU rffniiitiiutiti Susan, and Mrs. Bell. New AID boss is trying lo correct the impression that the best way to get U. S. aid is lo get into a-hopeless mess (UPI) Kennedy regards him as an ace troublcshooter that Bell was willing to give up his services as budget director -a post of tremendous impor tance to the White Ho"se - to get AID running smoothly. Bell was born In James town, N.D., but grew up in Palo Alto, Calif., where his father was a professor at Stanford univcrstiy. He was graduated from Pomona col lege and got a master's degree in economics from Harvard in 1941. Wu a Marine After wartime service In the Marine corps, he went to work for the Budget Bu reau under the Truman ti ministration. His ability at tracted high level notice, and he was brought i-vto the White House as a presiden tial assistant. When the Re publicans came into office in 1953, he went to Harvard to teach economics in graduate school. When Kennedy was elected. Bell returned to Washington as budget direc tor. . 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