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Meaday, Jaatury It. IM1 Down to the Sea in Negligence I0SON IN WASHINGTON Economic Experts n Disagreement m HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Oregon hPi President-elect Kennedy could make dip lomatic history if he succeeded in persuading th neutral nations to adhere to their pro claimed neutrality. The "uncommitted" countries of Europe, Asia and Africa already hold the balance of power in the United Nations. It is inevitable that in time they should also wield greater in fluence In other international councils. It is thus increasingly vital for American foreign policy to determine who is in truth "uncom mitted" in the cold war and when a nation ceases to be "neutral." ' Yugoslavia is a case in point. President Tito is an avowed Communist. But ever since Yugoslavia was expelled from the Soviet bloc in 1948 he has been posing as a model neutral ist and opponent of all blocs. Like President Nasser of the United Arab Republic, another "neutralist," Marshal Tito even claims leadership of a "third force" of uncommitted nations. Yet despite his neutral ism he never has said a. friendly word about the United States although, since 1948, Yugo slavia has received close to a billion dollars in American aid. , ; . . Also, like Nasser, Tito never passes up a chance to attack the "imperialist" West, espe cially the U.S., while paying homage to Rus sia. On every major international issue Laos, the Congo, Cuba and disarmament Yugoslav ia's representatives in the U.N.. consistently have opposed American policy and backed Moscow. ' Belgrade's regimented newspapers have been extremely critical in recent weeks of the United States for backing the anti-Communist forces in Laos. But not once did they mention the fact that the Soviet Union has been air dropping arms to the Communist troops of, Capt. Kong Le. , , '-. . There was indeed irony in Tito's latest anti-Western outburst At a special session of the Yngoslav parliament he attributed the present "aggravation" of the international at mosphere exclusively to "war-mongers in the West." Yet less than 24 hours later he in formed the same parliament that several Western nations have pledged credits totaling $275 million to aid Yugoslavia's economy. The U.S. share alone totals $100 million. i ' - Here is where the irony comes in. While announcing Western aid Tito also had to de No one remembers Ambrose Bierce except Clifton Fadlman and ma. Bierce was a cynic and a writer, in that order. He wrote many things in the yean el his 1 life (1842-1914). but his Devil's Dictionary is the beat known el them all. It ii included In a new book of the Collected Writings el Ambrose Bierce (Citadel Press) and Fadlman edited the material. When it came to Judging human beingf , Bierce was fierce. His def initions, all left-handed and mean, can bring tears of laughter to , my eyes no matter how many times I read them. Here then are some, and those that do not fit . . in this column will be used in the next one. ABASEMENT. A decent mental attitude In the pretence of , wealth and power. ABORIGINES. Persona of little worth encumber ing the toil of a newly discov ered country. They soon cease to cumber. They fertilize. ABRUPT. Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are affected by ft. . ABSOLUTE. An absolute mon archy is one in which the sov ereign does as he pleases as long aa ha pleases the assassins. AB STAINER. A weak parson who yields to the temptation of deny st himself a pleasure. ABSURDI TY. A statement or belief incon sistent wKa one's own opinion. ACBCVSaCNT. The death of wJesrwr mi the birth of disgust. ACC7AZ.TAM3C. A person we taow w3 mm& at barrow from, bat art wefl enocjl lend to. ADAMANT. A mineral frequently bund bomwZb a caraet. Soiurile la nUeJtate of gold. ADHERENT. A et2owvr who Ium not yvt obtained 9 that a hopes to got AGE. flat pried f Uk le which we Put "Neutrals' On JIM, BISHOP: REPORTER,...' Ambrose Bierce Wrote 'Dictionary' With Acid compound some vices while revil ing those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit. - AIR. A nutritious substance for the fattening of the poor. ALLI ANCE. The union of two nations who have their hands so deeply in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. ALONE. In bad company. APOL OGIZE. To lay the foundation for a future offense. APPEAL. In law, to put the dice into the cup for another throw. AUCTIONEER. A man who proclaims with a ham mer that he has picked your pocket with his tongue. BACK. That part of your friend which It is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity. BEAUTY. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. BEFRIEND. To spawn an ingrate. BIGOT. One who is obstinately attached to an opinion you do not entertain. BIRTH. The first and worst of all disasters. BORE. One who talks when you wish him to listen. BRAIN. An apparatus with which we think that we think. BRIDE. A young lady with a fine pros pect of happiness behind her. , CABBAGE. A kitchen vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. CALLOUS. Gifted with fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. CHILDHOOD. The period of human life inter mediate between the Idiocy of in fancy and the folly of youth two removes from the sin of man hood and three from the remorse of age. COMFORT. A state of mind produced by contempla tion of a neighbor's hard luck. COMMERCE. A transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensa tion B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E. CONGRAT ULATIONS. The civility of envy. CONSERVATIVE. A statesman Spot fend himself against the charge by the recent Moscow conclave of top Reds that he is a "re visionist" guilty of a "variety of international opportunism." . Soviet Premier Khrushchev and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko were, of course, parties to the anti-Tito charge. However, this did not prevent the marshal from avowing that Yugoslavia and Russia have "identical views on the most important issues of the day." Since according to the Marxist-Leninist creed everything a Communist says means the contrary of what he claims to mean, there is more behind Tito's pro-Soviet tactics than appears on the, surface. The marshal is obviously not convinced that Russia and Red China have buried the axe for good and that there will now be "unity in the socialist camp." By praising Soviet policy while condemning China's, Tito clear ly hopes to play off Khrushchev against his bitter enemy Mao Tse-tung. The Russians also want to keep open their line of communication with Yugoslavia in the apparent belief that one day they may need the "revisionist" Tito to help counter-balance the "dogmatist" Mao. This explains why Gromyko, in his speech to the Supreme Soviet, went out of his way to praise Tito as a "far-sighted socialist states man" less than a month after he denounced him as a traitor. But do Tito's maneuvers in the Red bloe make him a neutralist? . For the present it may serve American policy to aid Yugoslavia financially. 'But we must never lose sight of the fact that the Yugo slav leaders are Communists not neutralists. Today they believe in the right of a Com munist country to work out its destiny inde pendently of Moscow while adhering to the basic teaching of Lenin. But what would hap pen should Tito disappear from the Yugoslav scene? , ! ' Many of the men around him are old-line Communists who spiritually belong to the East and want to make peace with Moscow. Yugoslavia's return to the Soviet fold would help seal the doom of all the captive nations in Eastern Europe who are now reluctant . satellites of Russia. who Is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. AMBASSADOR. A person who. having failed to secure an office from the people, is given one by the administration on con dition that he leave the country. CONTEMPT. The feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable to be opposed. COWARD, One who, iff an emer gency, thinks with his legs. CURI OSITY. An objectionable quality of the female mind. DAWN. The time when men of reason go to bed. DEBAUCHEE. One who has so earnestly pursued a pleasure that he has had the misfortune .to overtake it." DEPUTY.; The male relative of an office holder. DIE. The singu lar of dice. DISTANCE. The only thing which the rich are willing for the poor to call their own, and keep. DRAGOON. A soldier who makes his advance on foot and his retreat on horseback. EAVESDROP. Secretly to hear a catalogue of your own vices. EGOTIST. A person of low taste, more Interested in himself than in me. ENVELOPE. Tha night gown of a love letter. FA MOUS. Conspicuously miserable. FIB. A lie that has not cut IL teeth. FIDDLE. An instrument to Uckle human ears by drawing a hone's tail across the entrails of a cat. FIDELITY. A virtue -peculiar to those about to be be trayed. Mr. Bierce, untamed and. un changed, went to Mexico in 1913 to write about the Pancho Villa revolution. He was last heard from in 1914. It is possible that Pancho Villa, who had a short fuse, did not properly appreciate the acid on Bierce's tongue. (The first of two parts on The Devil's Dictionary). Hi Venezuela's Opposition To Castroism Encourages Hope . By WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated Press News Analyst , CARACAS. Venezuela (AP) -Venezuela today is going through a test pf profound importance to the United States and Latin America. While the rest of the continent -watches, President Romulo Betan- . court and his supporters are cast ing aside their fear of Castroism and its potential for mischief in alliance with communism. 'j. , The president's forces appear to be confusing and outwitting the Communist-Castroist combine. They now have a good chance 'of inflicting a decisive defeat on the extremist alliance and of mak ing it stick. If they do this, they will have ' damaged Communist attempts to use Castroism for a heavy cold war offensive throughout Latin "America. Venezuela's example can give courage to other conti nental governments fearful of Cas tro's hold on the imaginations of violently impatient young men. The Communists might even-' tually resort to tactics of despera tion and this could mean more trouble for Venezuela. - But for the moment, the Com munists and their Castroist allies .' are quiet. They suffered defeat in their early December attempt to topple the Betancourt government with a general strike. Betan court's party, the Accion Demo cratica, supported by Social Chris tians of the Co pel party, showed how tough it could be. The Communist-Castroist com bine knows it Was beaten, and the Communists have shifted to the soft line. Obviously they are try ing to disassociate themselves from the stigma of defeat, evon THE DOCTOR mm y Prevent ItC J In Child mm By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D. Written Mr . '' ( ' . Newspaper. Enterprise Assa. ' Few of us reach years of dis cretion without suffering the aches and pains of foot and back trou bles caused by faulty body me-, chanics and even faultier shoeing. Since our difficulties are due. for the most part, to errors that date back to infancy and child hood, we are obligated Jo pro-' tect the rising generation from repeating our mistakes. Here are some suggestions that may prevent your youngsters from ' later developing foot miseries ami back strains: Don't urge the infant to stand or walk until he indicates pre paredness for weight bearing. Never mind what the books say about when he ought to make the . effort. His instincts are bcttet guides. , Don't start him in on a me chanical walker. The straddling position fwces him to walk incor rectly on the inner part of the font. Despite the ideas of faddists. It is not a good idea to encour age barefoot walking, especially if you have a house pet. Your floors and floor coverings are bound to be contaminated. When you shop for stockings, buy them 4-Inch longer than the longest toe, in the standing posi- N to blaming all the violence on their allies in the Movimiento de . Izquierda Revolucionario, made up of young hotheads who admire Cuba's Fidel Castro. . . -. . Betancourt's government ' sus pended .constitutional guarantees during . the recent explosions of . violence. Those guarantees re main suspended. And the Commu nists obviously fear that the gov ernment has the power now to ' paralyze them and Castro follow ers by imprisoning key leaders and cracking down on their propa ganda and subversion efforts. Betancourt a quarter century ago was himself a Communist, so he knows how they work. Today he is probably the man the Com munists hate most in all Latin America. He is hated because he can block extremism of the Cas tro type which might lead to the chaos and confusion which is a classic Communist weapon of cold war. ' - ' ' They hale him. too. because Betancourt has set out to demon strate that constitutional govern ment can work, in Venezuela. ' Betancourt has brought his gov "Other Editors' Opinions ."Drop Outs' Beware v - (MINNEAPOLIS STAR) , There is a grim warning to teen-agers in the survey of school "drop outs" just completed by the United States Department of Labor. They are going to have a tougher and tougher time get ting jobs. Also they will earn much less over their life spans, and job satisfaction will be ap preciably lower than it might SAYS . . . Later Woes Care Now - tion. Use frames to be sure that ' the stockings don't shrink after washing. . Observe thee specifications for shoes: V-inch. wider and M to "4-inch, longer than foot in stand-' ing position, broad toe, straight inner margin, adjustable laces, broadest at level of ball of foot, flat, firm, flexible sole that is not slippery. Examine shoes frequently. If "worn unevenly, especially along outer heels, have lift added and correct walking stance, as de scribed below. Teach voungsler to walk wiih feet parallel, toes pointed straight forward and weight shifted along outer border. '.' Bathe feet morning and night with soap and water. Dry care fully, particularly between toes. Anoint with albolcne or lanolin, especially if prone to sweat. Cut toenails straight across when they extend beyond fleshy portion of toe. Do not round cor ners. Do not trim too severely. And he sure to provide new shoes as soon as the grow ing foot begins to be crowded by the old pair. For a copy of Dr. Hyman's leaflet "How to Combat the Com mon Cold," send 10 cents to Dr. Hyman, care Herald and News, Box 49, Dept. B, Radio City Sta tion, New York 19, N.Y. ernment through two years of storm in the wake of the fallen Perez Jimenez dictatorship. It has survived an attempt at a military coup and an attempt on the presi dent's life laid to plots by dictator Rafael Trujillo of The Dominican Republic At the same time the Betan court government wrestled with problems inherited from an econ omy of waste and corruption un der the Perez Jimenez regime. It is struggling with difficulties brought on by a flight of capital from the country at a time when many w ere unsure that Venezuela would not go the way of Cuba. But today there is scarcely a man in Betancourt's Accion Dem ocratica party who has any use for Fidel Castro. There is far less fear of the power of Castro than existed only eight or nine months ago. Above all, the vigorous and determined men who are Betan court's top aides in Venezuela's struggle for economic and politi ' cal stability, are exuding confi dence thai, no matter how formid able the problems ahead, they will get the job done. - have been with ,a finished high school education. The Labor Department studied 26,000 students in seven widely -scattered areas of the country. The conclusions of the survey are plain and unequivocal: Less money; fewer skilled jobs; less rapid advancement, greater chances of unemployment. One of the surprising items turned up in the survey is the reason most youngsters leave school early. It is not economic necessity. It is just plain bore dom. In part this may be due to the lower IQ't (on the aver age) of those who fail to finish high school. . ' In .Minnesota, a. state advisory committee on employment of youth already is working on a state program to meet the chal lenges of youth employment in the 1960s. It is well recognized that the untrained and the un skilled will have a much more difficult time of it from now on. In a highly technological society there will be fewer and fewer unskilled jobs available. The bright side to this picture is that the demands for the trained, the educated, the compe tent promise a good future to al most any youngster willing to pre pare himself. Studies show, in fact, that the demand for skilled youth will exceed the supply in the next decade. The warning -is plain: Stay in school, get a high school diploma, go to college if you can, make a definite preparation for your lifework. This would be good ad vice any time, of course, but it Is particularly compelling in this fast moving, rapidly advancing age in which we live. QUESTIONS. . AND ANSWERS . Q What it the difference ta length between the Gregoriai year and the solar year? A The Gregorian is 26.S sec onds longer.' Q Whlrh U.S. vice president refused to nit with the cabinet? A Vice President Charles 6. Dawes. By PETER EDSON Waialagtea CortespeMeal Newspaper Enterprise Aua. - WASHINGTON (NEA)-The Eis. enhower administration's last will and testament to its heirs in the Kennedy administration is con tained in the retiring president's final economic report to Congress. Chapter Three is entitled, "Poli cies for the Future." . W It's a good peacetime formula for economic growth, says Dr. Raymond J. Saulnier, chairman' of the Eisenhower Council of Eco nomic Advisers who prepared the -report. He hopes the new adminis tration will give it heed, though he won't flatly predict trouble for them if they don't. ' Dr. Walter W. Heller, who will succeed Saulnier. has been in to see him and talk about how to run the council. They have not discussed the Eisenhower report. But the general assumption is that the new bunch of economic doctors .won't agree with -either diagnosis or cure for what ails business today. If that's the case, it is just as well to know what medicines the Kennedy economists pour down 'the drain There seems to be agreement on the symptoms. The growth rate should be higher, idleness unemployment lower, i Saulnier points out that since 1955 the Eisenhower administra tion has had before Congress pro posals for relief in depressed areas, measures to stimulate the housing industry, aid to educa . tion, extended unemployment in surance coverage and similar cor rectives. Along with these specifics, the Eisenhower administration has prescribed general treatment to hold prices stable, curb inflation, -keep the dollar sound and, above everything else, keep federal gov ernment interference with the pa tient's normal recovery at an ab solute minimum. - These are. the things the last three Democratic-controlled con gresses have refused to agree on. ' They have wanted more govern ment dosing, nursing and pam pering of the patient. If there had been just a little compromise between the execu tive and legislative branches of government on this, instead of YOUR POCKETBOOK Plan In Advance For Retirement By FAYE HENLE For you who may not be re tired for one, two or three dec ades, let it never be said that ad vance planning was not devoted to the problems you may face when you can no longer work. For you who face retirement sooner, let it not be said that you have not been made aware of the possible problems you may . encounter. The most searching airing of what might be done to bring add ed prosperity and happiness to older persons took place at The . White House Conference on the Aging. Long hours of preparation by government officials, professionals ' and lay advisers preceded the con ference. There is little doubt but that years of work andstudy will follow, for the welfare of older folk is of grave importance not merely 'o the individual involved but to the economy as a whole. The fact that the national spot light has shone so penetratingly on planning for later years should inspire you who have not set up a program of your own. From the areas of discussion, I would like to point up several facts for you to consider: There' is a likelihood in the dec ade ahead that you may be em ployed for a longer period. Throughout most of our national history the number of middle aged workers has increased ma terially in each decade, thus meet ing most of the need for addition al workers with skill and experi ence. It will not be so in t h e years immediately ahead. To you this should signal :. up grade your skills, acquire new knowledge in the areas our econ omy is stressing and you will have something to offer that will be of value to employer after the "normal" retirement date. , The timing and financing of re tirement are intimately related. Those persons who are forward looking when it comes to financ ing retirement years are pushing for instruments that will adjust with fluctuating living costs, that is, pay you more when prices rise. G. Warfield Hobbs, president of the National Council on Aging, has made several such recommen dations in the past. However, as in the case of his proposal for a . Treasury bond whose interest and principal payments would be tied to a cost oi living index, several of hut proposals would require congressional action. political buUheadedness aa bora sides, something might have beea done instead of nothing. This is really the big policy for the future that the Kennedy administration might pay mora .attention to. with the roles of the president and the Congress re versed. If Kennedy and his economic specialists propose recession cures that the conservative old family "docs" in Congress can't go along with, the two might accommodate their view so as to help the long suffering economy instead of leav ing it to Father Time, Mother Nature and its own devices for correction. . Saulnier and his. colleagues are of the opinion that the present business weakness will be of short duration. "I would expect resumption of growth will occur early in tha year," he says. The decline of last November and December he calls a cyclical movement. There is nothing in this situation which or dains further change in a down ward direction. This is where the Kennedy ad ministration seems to differ. Soma of its practitioners think this is a real depression the country is in and that it is going to get worse. Drastic surgery is recommended to remove high unemployment trends. Some Kennedy advisers think the remedy is a transfusion of greater government expenditures to make more jobs and put mora people back to work. The approach of the Eisenhower advisers is that such a stimulus would not last. It is considered artificial respiration. The patient may suffer a relapse when it is discontinued, or it could result in price increases and inflation which are considered worse than the original, malady. There is -only one point on which the two schools of econom ic medicine men seem to be in agreement. Saulnier, in discussing the Eisenhower report, puts it in this way: "This bunch," meaning the Kennedy administration "would like to see greater use of our productive capacity." He goes along with that. Everybody can go along with that because busi ness conditions, no matter bjoW good, are never good enough. In view of the fact that no gov ernment pension plans and but a few private retirement plans take rising living costs into considera tion, this is an area in which yoii must work. Considerable emphasis at tha conference was focused upon health problems and the cost of ill ness. Stress was laid upon the sad fact that medical costs, more than -any other expense, can upset the retired person's budget. Here too, personal planning is a must. Specific suggestions were mads to have: The government's old-age assis tance prog! am keep pace with liv ing costs by increasing t h e amount of liquid assets an old-age recipient may hold. Tax legislation studied for the possibility of increasing retirement ' income exemption- to help offset the erosion of purchasing power due to inflation. Even if adopted in a modified manner, msny such proposals set forth by the conference will not only be a boon to oldtimers but also a blessing to the young for it will lessen their burdens, too, and add to the dynamics of the growth economy of the 60s. Al manac By United Press International Today is Monday, Jan. 23, lh 23rd day of the year with 341 more in 1961. The moon is in its first quarter. The evening stars are Mars and Venus. , On this day in history: In 1845, Congress ruled that all national elections should take place on the first Tuesday follow, ing the first Monday in Novem ber. In 1920, Ignoring a demand made by delegates to the Ver sailles Peace Conference, the gov ernment of Holland refused to sur render the ex-Kaiser of Germanf to the Allies for punishment. In 1943. famed author and dro malic and literarv critic Alexander Woollcott died. In 1949. Gen. DwiRht Eisenhower said he'd promised to serve as president of Columbia University and would not accept a presiden tial nomination. Thought for today: American educator J. Frank Dobie said: "Reading great books whets but never slacks the thirst for greatness." 4 M
