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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
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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, '
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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. . Friendly, modest and out
going, with more California
than Cambridge in his man
ner and accent, Bell begins
his tenure as AID chief with
perhaps fewer enemies than
any high official in Washing
ton. But he has been around
Washington too long to ex
pect that he can run the for
cign aid program without
drawing his share of brick
bats. :
"We'll do our best," he
said, spreading both handy
outward in a gesture of philo
sophic resignation. "That'
all we can do."
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