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Newspaper Page TextPAGE I HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Monday, October 30, 1961 UP TO HERE . . . Total taxes in I960 were $629 for every man, womai end child. CROMLEY IN WASHINGTON ... , . 1 . a I V- X' Micci p Jfitensives . r a Farm Economy Looks Good Despite the vagaries o weather and a host of other ups and downs, the American farm economy goes on exhibiting remarkable resilience. A fresh batch of figures from the Agricul ture Department underscores this character istic. : The market value of all farm land in the nation is up about $3.3 billion from a year ago. Farm real estate debt .comes to barely 10 per cent of total value. Foreclosures and distress sales in a recent 12 months were prob ably no more than 0,000. Farm sales for de linquent taxes are now virtually unknown. Demand for farm land is extremely strong, yet only about 100,000 sales took place in the year that ended this March 1. That represented an 8 per cent drop from the prev ious year, and the smallest number of trans actions since the early 1930s. There is perhaps one artificial note in the picture. Farms standing in the projected path of urban sprawl around our growing communities are said to bear inflated price tags. Some of this land may remain in agricul ture much longer than the prices suggest. The "farm, profile" provided by recent, figures offers no encouragement to those pol iticians who will, in 1962, issue new clarion calls for rescue of the "family farm." Nearly half the farm land sales in a 12 month period embracing 1960-61 were for the purpose of enlarging existing farms. Ten years ago only a fourth of reported sales had that objective. With the steady enlargement of U.S. farms, the small parcels are becoming rarer. . And not for a long time have they been capable of sustaining families which do not have other major income sources. As part of this process, the tenant farm er is slowly disappearing in most regions of the country. Owner-operators bent on making their farms more efficient in use of machinery are buying up many tenant-operated tracts. Right now 79 per cent of U.S. farm oper ators own part or all of the land they operate. That proportion is the highest since farm sta tistics began to le tabulated 81 years ago. The movement of people from farm to city goes on. But, though this shift has both economic and psychological causes, it clearly does not reflect a decline in the over-all health of our agricultural economy. The American farm seems to be in the grip of forces that are making it steadily stronger. Back To Goon Days? (Portland Oregonian) j President James R. Hoffa of the Team stjers Union has been talking for several years ill terms"of alliances with other transporta tion unions, notably Longshoremen, and of common nationwide or regionwide times of expiration of labor-management contracts. Thus, it was not unexpected that the talk should be heard at the Western Conference meeting of the Teamsters in Portland, or that Harry Bridges, president of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, should be here to confer with Hoffa. Both unions are "outlaws" by definition of the AFL-CIO. Both were kicked out of the feder-. ation, the Longshoremen on charges of Com munist infiltration or worse, and the Team sters on charges of corruption and gangster tactics attributable to some officials. Discussion of affiliation of the Teamster ajjd Longshore unions of the West Coast arous ck memories of the pfe-World War II days when Teamster Dave Beck's goon squads and Harry Bridges' dock hands were battling with more than words to organize the warehouse workers. This was one of the inter-union jur isdictional fights which caught employers in the squeeze and was part of a pattern involv ing conflicts on many fronts between John L. Lewis' Congress of Industrial Organiza tions and Bill Green's American Federation of Labor. Now, with the AFL and CIO again in the same "house of labor." if uneasily so as in the case of sawmill and woods workers, the Team sters (ex - AFL), the West Coast Long shoremen (ex-CIO), and a few other big un- ions are on the outside. The big independents did not "choose to disaffiliate," as did Lewis and his United Mine Workers. But they are out and the AFL-CIO is not about to take them back until they clean up the conditions which led to their ouster. . ' None of the dissident leaders of unions outside the AFL-CIO, including the powerful Hoffa, has the stature in labor enjoyed by John Lewis in his heyday. It will not be smooth sailing for them to buck the federa tion, if that is their intention. Teamster locals in several cities have been "disaffiliating" with Hoffa. But the AFL-CIO has hesitated to set up a rival union for truck and taxi-drivers. There may be rough times ahead whether it does or it doesn't. And, as usual, employers and innocent workers will be caught in the middle of a power struggle of union leaders. JIM BISHOP: REPORTER . . . Interesting, But We Get Them Most of my reading Is done In the lato hours. Last night, after riffling through a book called "The Great Ideas Today," the light was extinguished and I spent a few minutes, while waiting for consciousness to tiptoe from the room, asking lrow much 1 could remember of what I had read. The book is a sclwlarly review of new facts, new discoveries In the sciences and arts. I was shocked to find Uiat the first thing which popped out of the memory file was two old lines of poetry written by Emily Dick inson: That love is all thcro is Is all we know of love, It had been stuck in the litem- -ture section of the book on the whim of Mark Van Dorcn. unbid den, the sweet, sad truth tripped through my mind. The next thing I recalled was a hypothesis about dreams. Everyone dreams, even those w'ho think they don't. Sig mund Freud thought that dreams discharged accumulated energy which might otherwise disturb the sleeper. Two psychiatrists, William De ment and Nathanial Klcltman, made tests on sleepers. They at tached electrodes to the eyelids. When the lids flickered, it was assumed that a dream started. The patients were promptly awak ened. They were permitted plenty of dreamless sleep, but were aroused when dreams began. J'or two nights, they showed no effects. On the third and fourth nights, they had hallucinations. The more their dreams were In terrupted, the more severe the mental changes. Dr. Dement a thinks that dreams have been un derrated. They may preserve san ity. Another remembered item was the work of Dr. Anna Asian, a Ru manian researcher, who experi ments with aged people. She claims to have arrested Uie de generation of old people by daily injections of novocnine. At Rock land State Hospital, doctors tried the novocnine on schiiophrcn ics who resisted all other therapy. The patients improved If the in jections continued tor several months. No one knows what induces can cer, but the virus theory got a boost when men at the National Institute of Health isolated one from mico who had leukemia. When it was injected in other mice, they got not leukemia but solid tumors. Other cancer tests, in Los Angeles, tend to show that cigarette smoking alone may not cause lung cancer, but that smok ing plus polluted air will do it. At this stage, I was beginning to be happy over what I remem bered of what I had read. An other fact that came to mind was an article on the speed of por poises. One was clocked racing off the bow of a ship at 19.7 knots. Porpoise speed averages about 12 knots, although the gray ri itinera can move for short dis tances, at 21 knots. The Black fish Whale, much faster, circled a ship moving at 22 knots. Scientific tests have shown that birds do not migrate according to changes in weather, or availa bility of food. The experts are beginning to believe that birds In addition to animals and dome fish have built-in calendars and How Do Stacked? clocks. Hamsters, for example, who sleep all day and play all night, were kept in utter darkness for ten days. They awakened at sundown each day, and went to sleep at dawn. Most of the rest of what I re called was fragmentary. Rattle snakes can delect a difference of one one-thousandth of a degree in temperature. They can sense a warm-blooded animal nearby in stygian darkness. Thousands of stubby-winged moths flew from the Sahara where the French had detonated an atom bomb to Eng. land, a distance of 1,500 miles. All had radioactive bodies. One of the problems in Amer ica is that the old imitate the young, instead of vice versa. When the first space stations arc built, they will be In the form of a wheel. The floors will point out ward: the ceilings will be toward the hub. The spin of the wheel will create a centrifugal force, so that scientists will be able to walk and work in comfort, side-saddle. This supports a theory of Ein stein's, that gravity and accelera tion are indistinguishable. The earth requires 365 days to go around the sun, but the sun and its satellite planets require 230 million years to complete one round trip around the universe. The sun is a cool body, as stars go. A mass of human beings, com parable in site to the sun, would generate 5,000 times as much heat. Sleep came suddenly, in mid thought. For 7' hours, I floated in a dreamless void. When I awak ened. I couldn't remember any thing, even the name of the book , , . WESTERN EUROPE, CRISIS OF 1961 ... Long-Term Berlin Talks In Offing As Stalemate Sets (Crisis 1961 Part III) Editor's Note: Besides their differences with the Soviet Un ion over Berlin, the Western Allies have problems among themselves as well as pressing . problems at home. What are some of these differences? What are the prospects of East West talks? Who will conduct them? UPI Foreign News Ana lyst Phil Newsom discusses them in the following dispatch, the last of three dealing with ' Al manac By United Press International Today is Monday, Oct. 30th, the 303rd day of the year with 62 to follow in 1961. The moon is approaching its last quarter. The morning star is Venus. Tile evening stars are Jupiter and Saturn. On this day in history: In 1735, the second president of the United States, John Adams, was born. In 1929, heavy selling was ob served on the New York Stock Exchange following the "big bust" of the day before. In 1938, actor Orson Welles caused a national panic with his radio dramatization of an invasion of New Jersey by men from Mars. In 1941, a German submarine torpedoed and sank a U.S. naval destroyer although the United States' was not yet at war with Germany. In 1948, an Army transport from Germany arrived in New York City with the first refugees to arrive in the United States un der the Displaced Persons Act of 1948. A thought for today: America's second president, John Adams, said: "The happiness of society is the end of government." "Western Europe, The Crisis of 1961." By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst LONDON UPI)-The prospects for East-West talks over Ger many look like this: no major de velopments between now and Nov. 15. Later, possible negotia tions at the foreign ministers' level. A summit session perhaps in 1962. The forecast is based on per sonal conversations with top American officials in Western Europe and with Foreign Office .spokesmen in Bonn, Paris and London. Soviet Premier Nikila Khrush chev is expected to be tied up with affairs of the 22nd Commu nist party congress until at least the end of the first week in No vember. In Western capitals, Khrush chev's withdrawal of his Dec. 31 deadline for the signing of a sep arate peace treaty with Commu nist East Germany came as no surprise. Not in so many words but in effect it was being pre ' dieted in Paris and London three weeks ago. Even before a foreign minis ters' conference can be consid ered, other differences remain to be ironed out. One is the insist ence of the United States shared by both Britain and France that no negotiations can be undertak en under Russian threat. Another is the differences among the three Western Allies themselves. Roughly their posi tions may be lined up with the French on one side, the British on the other and the United Slates in the middle. French President Charles de Gaulle feels that the Russians generated the present crisis, now let them get themselves out of it. Meanwhile, the West should sit tight. The Anglo-American positions Travel Talk Answer to Previous Piil ACROSS 1 Thailand t Angeles, California 8 French resort 12 River in Tuscsnv 11 "Honest president 14 German river 15 American educator IS Golf device 17 Gong IS Superficial SO Cheer 21 Exist . 22 Mineral rock 23 Thorny 2(1 Jails 50 Peruvian city 31 American patriot 32 Fish efurf as Biblical name 34 Scandinavian 33 Confined M Meddles 38 British isles division 39 Conjunction 40 Mstched group 41 Avoids 44 Countries 48 Rabbit 49 Rodent 30 Ostrich 51 Ffvshaped 52 Monkey 53 Church part 54 Lampreys 33 Dane step M Waste allowance DOWN 1 Houston's nsmeeskeff Trouble spot iiAaiaivarJ 3 British princess 4 Western state 5 Turning device e Mind 7 Walrh 8 l.ords 9 Notion 10 Scotsmsn 11 Author Gardner 18 Weep 20 City in Pennsylvania 22 Heraldic band 23 Narrow board 24 Site of Leaning Tower 25 Moslem priest 2 Vessels 27 Russian city 33 Zero di&l&ciijA . Male S L. I pEISLJ OP fa M E pi a m d ee aaV- tIl. a T e 5 r3 a g 1 2 ell CJ Q T E U llClOE IEB ggXgg 20 Pisces 31 Solid .14 Lairs IS Invalid 37 Discussion Stwpi olst 40 Cloys 41 Footgear 42 Possess 43 Russisn river 44 Cslifornia city 43 General BradleJ 48 Glacial in 47 Animal fat 48 Knock I ji 11 4 I K K pi t li ll ra rj rj ii rj - i b r- S a p h rJr b p. M' si ri ns a- nF ii 4l. IU HIT IS W j4 a y gs n n n a a a l l l I I I I I I La range downward from there, with tile British probably the most anxious to talk. Serious problems at home color the actions of both Britain and France so far as the Berlin cri sis is concerned. In France it is the continued preoccupation with the war in Al geria. That war has run nearly seven years and drains France not only of manpower but of around a bil lion dollars a year. In Britain, the problem far out ranking Berlin in the public mind is that of membership in the European Common Market. Under the Treaty of Rome, the present six members of the Com mon Market bind themselves not only to economic agreements but also to work toward an eventual political union. They are Italy, France, West Germany, Luxem- bourg, The Netherlands and Bel gium. All are Britain's allies in NATO. British Commonwealth mem bers for whose agricultural prod ucts Britain has been the chief market dislike the idea thorough ly. Pressed to extremes their op position could result in the even tual break-up of the British Com monwealth system, one of the world's greatest stabilizing fac tors. Who would be the Western rep resentatives at any foreign min isters' meeting with the Soviet Union's Andrei Gromyko? They would include French For eign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, an experienced diplo mat who also is a loyal follower of De Gaulle and who would fol low De Gaulle's hard line. Representing the British would be Lord Home, British foreign secretary. When Macmillan announced Home's appointment several months ago, British newspapers were derisive. They described Home as a nobody and a know nothing. Home has fooled them all and turned out to be a tough spokesman and bargainer. On the sidelines would be the German foreign minister whose identity will remain unknown un til the new West German cabinet is formed. The voice, however, will be that of Adenauer, one of communism's most unyielding op ponents. For the United States it would, of course, be Dean Rusk. In European eyes, he is still largely untried. Berlin will be his big test. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q How long does it take sub soil to turn into topsoil? A It may take nature from 200 to 1,000 years to build a single inch of topsoil. 4 What does the new word "FreVee" denote? A Pay television. Q How fast dors klood circu late? A All blood in the body passes through the heart every two or three minutes. department, part in another; some pieces are in one section, some in another; part in this in dustrial firm and part in that, in dozens of little bits, pieces and boxes, with little co-ordination and no overall leadership. , The program therefore limps and shuffles along aimlessly. Good work done in one laboratory isn't tied in with work done in another. When a promising lead does come to light there's no ASW czar to jump in and overthrow routine, transfer a shock force to take ad vantage of a possible break through. The Navy learned the value of a ramrod task force when Vice 1 Adm. Hyman Rickover took over its nuclear sub program. The Navy learned it again when Rear Adm. William Frances Raborn Jr. successfully pushed through Polar, is ahead of schedule. These men made sure nothing stood in their way. The Army learned the same lesson in the Manhattan Project which developed the atom bomb. These lessons so far have not carried over into the antisubma rine warfare program. The Soviet Union hasn't made the same mistakes. For more than a decade, Soviet ships have been roaming the seas in numbers gath ering basic knowledge. They've been studying the ocean bottoms, currents, the propagation of sound. The Reds have been stressing ba sic science. Whether or not the Soviet Union is now ahead of the U.S. in ASW, the Reds have for this long period been building up the basic knowl edge they requite for a break through. Indications are that the Reds have this research assigned to a task group. They've set up a sys tem by which all work in this field is quickly correlated for pos sible breakthroughs. There is a danger the Reds will find this breakthrough first and be able to detect and effectively defend against Polaris-type subs before the U.S. can do the job. Think for a while of what that will mean. By RAY CROMLEY Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) - The United States has only itself to blame for the nakedness of Amer. ican defenses against missile-carrying enemy nuclear subs. First of all: Basic research on the sea has been neglected for two decades. Now, U.S. scien tists trying to solve antisubma rine warfare problems don't know the fundamentals. They aren't sure just how sound acts in the oce an. They don't know the sea currents precisely. They don't know the exact character istics of plant and fish life. They don't know the different thermal layers of the ocean or the pre cise effects these layers have on electromagnetic waves. This is knowledge that should have been built up over 20 years. Without it, U.S. experimenters have to work almost by trial and error. They try one thing. If it doesn't work, they try another. An excellent program of basic research has been down on paper for two years. If it's actually car ried out, it should bear real fruit in 12 to 16 years. It will be a big help in six to eight years. Most of the heavy spending for antisubmarine warfare research and development the past few years has not gone into basic re search. The real money has gone for the cut-and-try tinkering. Tin kering is costly. It leads into a lot of blind alleys. It is slow. It leads to half answers. Tinkering doesn't point to the real breakthroughs that will make the U.S. safe against atom-powered subs armed with ballistic missiles fired underwater. But having started too late, the U.S. is now trying to make up the lag with huge expenditures. This leads to waste in buying equip ment. It leads to buying systems that are quickly obsolescent. Second: The U.S. antisubmarine defense program is hit-and-miss and disorganized. Part of the program is under one THE DOCTOR SAYS Wives Should Not Be Blamed For Alcoholic By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D. Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Sometimes I get as provoked with advice-givers as some of my readers do with me. For example, a recent writer in the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol pre sumes to say that the wives of alcoholics can usually be placed in one of the four following cate gories: The Suffering Susan whose need to punish herself is her dominant characteristic. Controlling Catherine who is driven by an unconscious need to marry a man whom she feels to be inadequate or inferior. Wavering Winifred whose chief characteristic is self-doubt and a need to be needed. And Punitive Polly, usualh a career woman, who is rivalrous and ag gressive with men. Then, too, the article avers, there are the fiancees who be lieve that, once happily married, the husband will have no further need for excessive drinking; who may be displaying simple ignor ance rather than an unconscious need for an alcoholic mate. In these instances, it goes on, marriage itself "may hasten the progression of alcoholism." And, after marriage, the categorized wife may fight her husband's at tempt to gain help and "knock the props from under him at all turns, seemingly needing to keep him ineffectual." This column, being for family consumption, cannot be written as I should like to write it. But if these views are a fair sample of the scientific studies being made on alcoholism, maybe we ought to call quits and make a fresh start. For, of all the long suffering and abused women on earth, there are none to compare with the wives of alcoholics. And, as a matter of fact, no more long suffering and abused males than the husbands of alcoholic wives. Of course, the wife of an alco holic may exhibit, at some time in her life, one or more of the characteristics of the women cate gorized by the writer of the article. Driven to desperation by eco nomic privation, shame, worry, lack of sleep, insecurity and con cern for her children, she may try any and every device known to womankind. And, when each of these fails, she may try the opposite. Kind ness instead of nagging. Affection instead of coldness. Submission in stead of aggressiveness. But to shift the responsibility for a man's alcoholism to these de vices and to state authoritatively that wives "break down quite rap idly" when alcoholics "achieve so briety" has the same hollow sound to my ears as the speeches of Castro and Khrushchev when they label us the "aggressors" and "warmongers." For a copy of Dr. Hyman's leaf let "Your Heart: angina pectoris," send 10 cents to Dr. Hyman, care Herald and News, Box 489, Dept. B, Radio City Station, New York 19, N.Y. Other Editors' Opinions The Wasteland tThe Wall Street Journal) Once upon a time the whole of our continent was a w ilderness, in accessible to all save the hardy and venturesome, its timbers un touched by the lumberman's axe, its plains unfurrowed by the farm er's plow and its hillsides unsul lied by tfie miner's shovel. In Senator Morse's phrase, it was a place of grandeur. So now the Senate has just passed a bill to preserve up to 15 million acres of what's left of this wilderness. The idea is bound to have its appeal to those, like ourselves, who sometimes regret that our lives take us far from nature. The idea can even move men to rhetoric, as it did Mr. Morse, who proclaims that no one can walk in the wilderness without being "a better man for having come that close to the spir it of the Creator." The idea seems to have also moved the Senators to forget that if we had left this continent in all its grandeur it would still be a wasteland. This bill doesn't stop at merely preserving natural beau ties from unwise "exploitation.' These 15 million acres could be put to no use whatsoever. Every inch of its land would lie fallow; all its minerals remain untouched; its trees grow old and die not enly unused but unseen. This million of acres would be serving nothing. For even roads would be prohibit ed, and only a handful of the hardy and venturesome would be able even to see its beauties. And we can't help wondering, nov that the bill moves over to the House, if it ill occur to any one to ask what sense it is. in the name of preserving a wilder ness, to create a wasteland.