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J g SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 3, 19B3 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDEORD, OREGON Senator Carlson Believes Sold Outflow greatest Problei SEN. FRANK CARLSON Discusses Economic Problem Ceylon Prime Minister Is Woman First, Politician Next By MICHAEL T. MALLOY United Press International COLOMBO, Ceylon (UPI) -The only woman prime minister in the world a woman first and a politician second but she combines the two roles as a firm and knowing matriarch. After three years in the "Man's world" of high states manship and low politics, Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike has lost none of the femininity which earlier made her a loving wife and mother. When three of her acquain tances were asked to describe the prime minister's character, each of them started out with something like this: "To begin with, she is very much a wom an." Equally ' descriptive was a newspaper account of a spirited debate in the Ccylonesc Parlia ment last year. "The prime minister," the re port said, "was seen to be in tears." Other tearful scenes have giv en the prime minister the un fortunate nickname of "The Weeping Widow." But this picture of weak wom anhood is fading fast. "Think of her as a widow wllh 10.S million children," one diplomat said. Concern For People Mrs. Bandaranaike is deeply concerned with her people's wel fare. This has led to the socialist-style takeover of many indus tries, but ft also has given the Ceylonese the widest range of social welfare benefits in Asia. Mrs. Bandaranaike's 10.5 mil lion "children" get free educa tion to the university level. They get cheap or free medical care. Their fish, kerosene, cloth and local transportation is sub sidized. Fully 20 per cent of the budget goes to provide rice to the public at hardly one-fourth the open market price. Her strong moral feelings arc those of an ideal wife and moth er of an. aristocratic Ceylonese family. They fit in with her. avoidance of tobacco, her re fusal to wear cosmetics and her reluctance to meet strang ers. lorn in Wealth Mrs. Bandaranaike was burn in 1016 to the Ratwatte family, at the very top of Ceylon's pyramid of wealth, caste and social tradition. In 1010, a match was ar ranged to unite Sirimavo's clan of highland nobles with the wealthy lowland family of W. R. D. Bandaranaike. Bandaranaike was much older and he was one of Ceylon's fastest-moving politicians. While Sirimavo stayed at home, he stumped the island for Cey lonese nationalism, the Bud We're Selling . . . LOTS OF CARPET It must be our Lower Prices We almost never TWIST (Utt Home Furnishings CASCADE SHOPPING CENTER, White City dhist religion and welfare-state socialism. Bandaranaike's coalition won an upsel victory hi the IO.'jO elcclions. lie became prime min ister with a big parliamentary majority. Four years ago the daily swarm of visitors to his home included an embittered Bud dhist "bhikkhu" who had been denied a political appointment. As Bandaranaike bowed to the monk in the approved religious manner, the bhikkhu whipped a pistol from his yellow robes and shot the prime minister to death. Turn To Widow The prime minister's des perate allies were then driven to the expedient of using Ban daranaike's widow as a symbol to whip up support for their party. They made ncr titular head of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and ran her for the senate in the MHO elections. Sirimavo toured the country with her political mentors, con stantly reminding the voters of her martyred husband s popu Bids Called for Fence Construction KLAMATH FALLS - Bids for construction of 17.5 miles of range fence on the Winema Na tional Forest will be received by the regional forester before 3 p.m. Nov. 14. Also included in the proposed contract will be the installation of six cattle guards. In announcing the project, Su pervisor Alex Smith advised that the fence locations are lo cated on the Chiloquin, Klamath and Chemult Ranger Districts, and eight separute short seg ments ol fence are involved. "Completion of those fence projects," Smith said, "will be another step toward gaining control of the grazing use on Hie National Forest lands and will aid materially in the over all range management pro gram.' The project is made possible through the Accelerated Public Works Program administered jointly by the Forest Service and the Area Redevelopment Administration of the Depart ment of Commerce. Interested bidders will have an opportunity to review speci fications on tlie ground with Forest Service personnel. A "show me" trip to the fencing I sites will originate from t h e i Chemult Hanger Station at 9 i a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5. customers' OPEN JW'- rK rM t TODAY rC; , By ROY McGIIEE United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) -What is the single moot serious prob lem facing the United States today? Civil rights? Unemploy ment? Communism? An American who selects any one of those possibiliti; IV nation's No. 1 crisis will find a sizable number of his coun trymen who agree wholeheart edly. But a highly respected, senior Republican in the United States Senate disagrees with all of them. To Sen. Frank Carlson of Kan sas the greatest cause for alarm and one of the least under stood is that gold is flowing away from U. S. shores faster than it is collecting here. This causes what is Known in economic circles as a "balance- of-payments" deficit. "Balance-of-payments" deficit is a nine-dollar phrase which simply means that the United States spends, lends, invests and gives away more to foreign larity and frequently breaking into tears in the midst of her campaign speeches. The tactics won a national victory for the I SLFP. I Once in power, the SLFP lead ers made Mrs. Bandaranaike the j prime minister and sat back to run the country in tneir own way. They assumed that the widow would stay out of govern ment business. At first tney seemed to be right. At the beginning, she leaned heavily on her young, ambitious nephew. Felix Dias Bandara naike. As her parliamentary sec retary, Felix became Mrs. Ban daranaike s spokesman in tne more important Lower House, while she stayed in the more tranquil Senate. As tinance minister, r enx con trolled the economy. It was gen erally believed that he also con trolled the prime minister. Starts Villugc Tour Then Mrs. Bandaranaike be gan to tour the villages to sell her social welfare programs. She discovered the popular adul ation which gives relish to pol itics. When she drove along the dusty island roads, the cry of "Sirimavo's coming" ran ahead of her car, and knots of peasants gathered to cheer. Mrs. Bandaranaike also found that her example was freeing the rest of her sex from lis restricted place at the fam ily hearlh. Housewives who had never attended a political meet ing would turn out in thousands to see their woman prime min ister. They began to vote in election-swaying droves. Today the prime minister's public appearances can be pow erful and moving events. Crowds will wait for hours in a village square to hear her. Moves With Deliberation Often the sun has set and hiss ing pressure lamps light up the crowd as it parts for the prime minister's arrival. She wears a white sari to set off her dark skin, and moves with delibera tion. Farmers who have come from miles away reach out to touch her garments. Some kneel to kiss the hem of her sari. That Mrs. Ilandarnnnikc now uses her political magic in nor own way is scarcely disputed in Ceylon any more. Her neph ew, Felix, has lost his finance minister's job. He still repre sents his aunt in the Lower House, but it is now understood that he speaks (or her instead of himself. Felix's replacement both as finance minister and Mrs. Ban daranaike's chief advisor is a Marxist named T. B. llangar atne. But it is believed that the prime minister makes the de cisions herself, though she lis- , tens io iiangaralne s advice, es I penally on economic matters. -. ..... Jr" 4 arms . -. . K-,. lift countries than foreign countries spend, lend, invest or give to the United States. Number One Problem "Mir balance of payments situation is the number one problem as far as the future of the count! y is concerned," Carl son told United Press Interna tional in an interview. "If we don't reverse the trend quickly j we're likely to face a depres sion that will make all our oth- cr problems pale into insignifi j cance." j At the outside, he says, the j country has two years to get I its foreign fiscal affairs in or j der, or face possible economic catastrophe. Carlson speaks from a orc- eminont position. He is ranking Republican, behind Sen. John Williams of Delaware, on the Senate Finance Committee. He is third ranking GOP member of the Senate Foreign Relation; Committee. In those posts he is privy to the nation's prime eco nomic information. The jobs also make him partly respon sible for solutions of both do mestic and foreign economic problems. Recent Assignment His most recent assignment in the international field was representing the United States, along with Sen. J. W. Fulhright, D-Ark., at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) confer ence in October. Carlson has been heartened a little but just a little by the modest improvement in the balancc-of-payments deficit in recent months. In the second quarter it was running at a Sy trsrV- k Tops In Taste! For S5 billion annual rate and was reduced to a $2.5 annual rale, estimated, in the third quarter. "Even so," he predicted, "this will still be our worst year. We'll probably wind up about $4 billion behind." For several years the defi cits have been averaging about $.1 billion. They have drained U.S. gold stocks by about $15 billion. How did the United States get in such a situation? Complex Combination To find the answer to that, one would have to unravel a complex combination of cir cumstances that have been years in the making. The more pertinent question, according to Carlson, is how to get out of the situation. Conceding that there are no easy answers in today's world, he said nevertheless that an swers must be found. He sug gested a few: Cut back American troops commitments overseas. Increase U.S. sales efforts on a nation-to-nation basis in the free world. Boost trade in non-strategic commodities with the Commu nist bloc countries. Raise U.S. interest rates to a point where they are on a par with or very close to Euro pean rates. Most Important Of all these, approaches, he said, the Uoop cutback is the most important. American military forces overseas are the greatest sin gle conduit through which U.S. gold flows abroad. They will ac I? Finer Dairy Products . . Ash for 1 or veil count for about SI billion during this year. "I am hopeful we can re duce our overseas soldier com mitments," the senator said. "We have nearly 400.000 troops in Europe alone. With our abil ity to transport whole divisions by air, as the recent exercise Big Lift proves, we .ihould be able to cut back significantly." As for trade, the United States exports more than it im ports and has had a favorable balance in this respect for years. But the balance is nar rowing. And this trend must also be reversed if the overall payments deficit picture is to be improved. Trade Bi-Lalerally Carlson's suggestion: "I think we arc going to have to send some people out with brief cases to trade bi-lalerally. We are simply going to have to compete on a bigger and b-oad-er scale." As to trade with Communist bloc countries, the senator thinks the United States might have to re-examine its whole philosophy about such ex changes. He favored the sale of wheat to the USSR, and not, he says, jurt because he repre sents the nation's largest wheat growing state. In a recent Sen ate statement, Carlson de clared: "Our nation lost $423 million worth of gold from Jan. 1 to Aug. 31, 10G3. Our gold reserve has dropped from $24 billion in 1054 to $15.7 billion in 1063. 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Keep plenty of colorful, convenient packages on hand for parties, family desserts, between-meal snacks. nism. But the facts are that Russia is obtaining not only foodstuffs, but industrial prod ucts from our allies in ever increasing quantities. Trade Agreements "For instance, statistics for 1902 show that West German trade agreements with Russia alone totaled about $700 mil lion. Germany is now the third largest industrial nation in the world. "Italy has a four-year trade agreement with the Soviets for St. 11 billion worth of goods. France has signed a three-year trade pact with Russia for $100 million in trade. India has a four-year trade pact with Rus sia which provides annual trade of $440 million. Japan has a three-year trade pact with Rus sia that calls for $305 million. GIRLS & BOYS SWIM LESSONS FALL SERIES BOYS Classes Start Nov. 4 GIRLS Classes Start Nov. 6 Beginners it Intermediates Advanced Classes Meet Twice per Week (One Class During Week-One Class Sat.) For Information or Registration PHONE 772-6295 Instructor . . , Gone Learn Now and Be Ready Y J O w W a T?k v 3 The United States and Russian trade last year was $16 million each way. "I am not advocating the sale of strategic materials to Rus sia, but I do urge that our na tion give every consideration to expanding our trade with Russia and her satellites in non-strategic items." Returning to the wheat ques tion, Carlson said the United States sells wheat to Germany, France and other European countries. Processed and Sold "Much of this wheat is proc essed into flour and foodstuffs by these countries and then sold to Russia. Therefore, Rus sia gets our wheat whether we sell it to them or not," the Senator said. Another leading factor in the Cronin , To Join the Fun Next Summer! fin, .4 1 gold-outflow problem, Carlson said, is the interstate situation. Overseas, opportunities look mighty tempting to American investors, particularly in stable West European countries. Inter est rates there are higher than' they are here. This led Presi dent Kennedy recently to raise the rediscount rate for shoil term borrowing. This, in turn, so the theory goes, will lead American investors to put more of their money in domestic is sues. Coming as close as he ever did to a partisan statement in the interview, Sen. Carlson not ed this was the classic Republi can position. "They (the ad ministration) hated tn Hn il ! but they found there was just no omer way. mey had to raise the rates," he said. INSIDE POOL sens' fS w 522 y W. 6th 51.
