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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore.
Tuesday, January 1, 1963
Unfinished Business . . .
NOTHING
SPECIAL
(W. 6. S.I
He Can't Be All Bad
Whether you read your paper on New
Year's morning with an ice bag on your head,
or watch the other fellow do so from the smug
sanctuary of an early-to-bed's self-righteous-ness,
infant 1963 is going to be a tough, new
:year.
Like so many of his predecessors we'd
like to forget, he comes into the world a born
"fight promoter, ready at the drop of an un
guarded moment to sponsor a scrap in any
corner of the world.
In his bag of woes inherited from 1962 are
budget deficits, hard-core unemployment,
problems of automation, farm problems, hous
ing difficulties, population and food problems
; the world around and a host of other dilem-
: mas too numerous to list.
; , To each one of us the New Year will dish
out our own share of personal headaches and
; leave us with the problems of how to resolve
' them.
However, the kid can't be all bad. No
child is.
Within the 365 days spun out for him on
the loom of time there may well occur some
dramatic breakthrough in medicine in any one
of several critical fields, such as leukemia and
heart disease. It is certain that patient, plod
ding research behind the breakthroughs will
go on.
Man will increase the sum of his knowl
edge in many fields.
Movements in the area of religion will
contribute to the vitality and growth of man's
spiritual concepts.
In business and industry, trends will be
established, changed or abandoned, all in the
long-range interest of a viable economy.
Personal triumphs in each of our own
little worlds will help offset the tensions and
frustrations of our all-too-swiftly-moving
times.
But the greatest thing of all to come from
this new year would be a dramatic break
through in waging peace between the two
great ideologies in the world. Being human,
we not only pray, but hope that this thing of
transcendent importance comes to pass.
If we can just manage to live with little
1963 until his successor takes over next Jan
uary, we might even grow to like 1963.
The Need Beyond More Necessity
When you go behind the neat rows of
welfare statistics in some of our big cities,
you often find something pretty close to chaos.
Many cities are astir with great concern
' over "relief cheaters" and are trying, one way
, or another, to get them off the welfare rolls.
; Cheating can never be condoned. Besides be
ing inherently wrong, it penalizes the honest
ly needy.
But attending to welfare matters involves
much more than just separating the cheat
ers from the nonchcatcrs. The human diffi
culties that fall under the "welfare" heading
are frequently so tangled as to defy orderly,
rational handling by welfare officials.
A Washington woman who runs a small
private agency aimed at tiding destitute Ne
gro families over the rough spots says that
in a quick count she ticked off 18 families
which for all practical purposes are now "on
the street."
This means they have been evicted from
their previous living quarters, their furni
ture is usually standing outside, and they are
sleeping with such neighbors and helping
agencies as will have them.
In one instance, a family of eight has tak
en up temporary residence in a relative's
basement. Net total in the house: 18. Neigh
bors are complaining, and the housing in
spectors disapprove.
The husband makes $52 a week as a jani
tor. The other day he brought it to the private
welfare outfit and offered it to the manager,
saying: "You spend it for me and see if you
can do it better than I."
A woman who thus far has staved off
eviction has four children, age six years to
14 months, and is living in an apartment
which since September has had no heat, no hot
water, no cooking gas. She gets $15 a week
from a deserting husband, takes in ironing,
picks up day work when she can foist the
children off on her mother.
The woman says she wants to make a de
cent home for her children, wants them to get
a good schooling and keep out of trouble.
The binding thread running through most
cases like this is that the people in question
have been refused further aid or any aid
by the official public agencies. Generally the
prime reason is that one or both parents are
considered eligible to work.
Yet too many times the people in the
worst need arc the least skilled and few jobs
are offered them. Some, of course, are in areas
of chronic labor surplus.
Where male breadwinners have deserted,
mothers are hard put to care for children and
do paying work outside. One woman got a job
for $1 an hour, only to find the sitter charging
exactly that.
The dispensing of welfare nid, public and
private, is today an enormous business. There
in lies the chance for cheating. But it seems
clear that, big as it is. the welfare effort is
still not geared to assist many who honestly
need help.
EDSON IN WASHINGTON
Bungling Solidifies Support
By PETER EPSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON ( NEA -Achievements
of the 171 h I'nitrd
Nations General Assembly are
considered "spectacular" in com
parison with results of the two
previous sessions. This is the opin
ion of Assistant Secretary of Slate
Harlan Cleveland, in charge of
international organization affairs.
He qualities this with an ad
mission that colonialism and the
Congo arc tlx most troublesome
Issues for the United States in
the U.N. On these matters, re
results of Die session just ended
aren't all good, from the Ameri
can point of view.
Cleveland also admits that the
most Important developments
while the General Assembly was
in session this year did not hap
pen at the U.N.. although they
affected its proceedings.
Dismantling of the Russian mis
sile bases in Cuba and Red Chi
na's attack on India threw the
Communist bloc delegations at the
U. N. into deep disarray. Re
peatedly the Russian delegates
under ambassador Valerian A.
Zorin were caught unprepared and
had to ask Moscow for new in
structions to clarify Kremlin con
fusion. Zorin's denial that there wore
Russian missiles in Cuba was
masterfully exposed and de
nounced by U.S. Ambassador Ad
lal Stevenson. That threw doubt
on the credibility of all Russian
statements in a: m ibly debate and
committee delibcrat. "v..
At tin beginning v. -he session
Washington feared ', .1 the Latin
American caucus jiild lie split
in pieces and scarerod all oer
the floor. Cuba put it together
again.
At the beginning of the session
it was feared there would be
trouble from tlic Russians oxer
the issue of espionage from space
vehicles. Disclosure of the Rus
sian missile bases in Cuba made
the case for the need of recon
naissance, however, and the ex
pected big debate never came
off. Similarly, (lie need for on
site inspection of nuclear test
explosions was impressed on most
of the U N. delegates.
The Indian delegation which had
caused the western powers con
siderable trouhle at previous Gen
eral Assemblies did a 180-dcgiee
turn this year after Red China at
tacked on India's northern fron
tiers. The about-face was not quite
perfect, for the lHins still vot
ed for admission of lied China to
the U N. Hut it was a spiritless
presentation and the issue was
defeated.
All the neutrals went through
agonizing reappraisal o their pol
icies alter it was shown that
Cub was no liberal independent
but a full-fledged Communist sat
ellite. As a result. General Assem
bly vote on all the anti-Communist
issues Red China. Hun
gary. Korea won recoid major
ilies in support of U.S. positions.
On substantia issues before the
General Assembly this y e a r.
Cleveland believes results of the
session were also good.
U Thant was elected secretary
general and the Russian propos
al tor a three-man "troika" sec
retariat of anti-Communist, Com
munist and neutral representa
tives was sacked, probably ior
flood. A new U.N. training insti
tute for international civil ser
vants was authorized tins year,
but the new secretary general
.savs he will not allow it to lie
stacked with Russians.
The disarmament issue was re
ferred back to Geneva where the
U.S. wanted it. with a demand
(or a comprehensive treaty. The
assembly's resolution on nuclear
testing also called (or an acree
ment under "enforceable con.
trols." This was a victory, even
though the Geneva conferences
have adjourned without agree
ment. A start was made on intei na
tional cooeiation in outer space
with agreement to establish a
fust center on the geomagnetic
equator, probably in India.
There was an overwhclmiugly
good General Assembly vote back
ing up the World Court opinion on
Uie obligation of all members to
pay all U.N assessments. U
lhant now- will lie in a position
to dun momlws who are in ar
rears and keep the world organi
zation solvent as well as going.
IN WASHINGTON
Strikes And Public Interest
By RALPH dc TOI.EDANO
A relatively small group of peo
plemembers of the AFL, - CIO
printers union has imposed
a news blackout on New York
City. Since Dec. 8, none of the
city's newspapers has been pub
lished. It hardly seems likely that
the printers' strike will be settled
in the near future.
Some 60,000 longshoremen have
shut down the nation's Atlantic
and Gulf Coast ports. Only "mili
tary" and "emergency" cargo is
being unloaded. The International
longshoremen's Association
(AFL-CIO) has said that it will
make every etfort to prevent ships
now in port from going out to sea.
The aerospace industry, which
makes the missiles that give tiiis
country its arms lead over the
Soviet Union, teeters on the edge
of a crippling strike.
These are some of the labor
stories reported in the daily press.
What they mean to the public
that is. you and me hides be
hind the slogan of "collective bar
gaining." The printers want a
raise in pay which will probably
destroy one to three of New
York's dwindling number of pa
pers. The longshoremen object to
the introduction of automation
which will make the flow of water-borne
goods cheaper and more
efficient (and will prevent the
multi - million dollar pilfering
from the docks which has alarm
ingly boosted freight and insur
ance rates). The aerospace- un
ions want contracts which will
impose compulsory membership
on all w'o work in the industry.
The newspaper strike is the
most dramatic example of how
a strategically placed but tiny
, minority of several thousand peo
ple can make decisions for a
city of over eight million people.
New Yorkers must get their news
superficially and on the run from
radio and TV. This is not only
inadequate but subjects John Q.
Public to a highly opinionated
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
Hy SYDNEY J. HARRIS
A man I know, who has been
the executive officer of a large
company for many years, is being
"automatically" retired in a few
weeks, when he reaches the age
of (a. It is my prediction that he
may "automatically" die before
he reaches the age of 70.
One of the crudest features of
modern society is the compulsory
retirement of men who are still
energetic and healthy. It seems
unnecessary to point out that
many of the world's greatest cre
ative geniuses have done their
best work alter ti.V
It was in these later years that
Goethe completed his Faust, that
Verdi comiosed his finest operas,
tlint Michelangelo painted h i s
most notable pictures. The field
ot science and invention has many
comparable cases.
In the public mind, artists are
supposed to die young but actual
ly, creative men tend to live leu;
cr than others. The poet, the paint
er, the composer never "retire."
in any real sense of the word,
but keep working unttl the day
of their death.
With few exceptions such as
Moarl or Keats, who were
racked with early illness', the
creative artist p.ies into old ai:e
with less of a reach than the
man wlio is cctnpclled to with
draw from his litework whether
or not he wants to.
Consider at random a few of
tlie world s most eminent wi it
ers ail of whom were workiiK
at top sHvd 'ami some with in
creased powers' when death cut
them down:
Hawthorne had two books c.v
ing "Dr Gnmshawe's Sestet"
and "The Doii;er Rom.ince "
Conrad was involved m the mid
dle of one ot h:;- most prom. sun;
novels. ' 'Susnse." when he (hoi!
Stevenson's "Weir of Hcim's
ton" bie.iss oft in the orv mi,Mie
of a scntenv-e. written on the morn,
inc of his seizure and death. Sir
Walter Scott began ' The Siege of
Malta" a few weeks before he
died.
.lane Austen was writing "San
dition." Charles Dickens left "The
Mystery of Edwin Drood" unfin
ished, Thackeray was working on
"Denis Duval." Balzac had begun
"Le Depute d'Arcis." and Ibancz
was beginning his sequel, called
"The Fifth Horseman."
Charlotte Bronte had roughed
out "Emma." Flaubert left a
fragment of "Bouvard et Pecu
chct." Stendhal gave us the be
ginning of "Lamia." De Maupas
sant, Henry James, Wilkie C o 1
lins, all passed away trying to
get completed books to their pub
lishers. This is the way a man
must live his life "automatic"
retirement is for automatons, not
for human beines who may he
entering their ripest hours at 63.
POTOMAC
FEVER
Urgently needed New Year's
resolutions Nikila Khrushchev:
To retire from the overseas real
estate business and keep his
feet on the ground inside his
John F. Kennedy: To take the
"R" out of Cuba and put it
hack In vigor.
Chief Justice Earl Wan en- To
smuggle a prayer for guidance
into the next Conference of the
Supreme Court.
Fidel Castro: To search through
those big crates of medicine "and
try to find a cure for whiskers.
Republican Chairman Hill
Miller: To find an attractive
candidate for M who hji a
good job In go hark to.
Democratic Chairman John
Bailev: To try to find a lew b.g
hoMness contributors besides the
rocking chair manufacturer
ri.En.HF.lt KNEBEL
sampling. (Listen to Chet Hunt
ley's reportage for NBC of the
issues involved in the Congo-Katanga
crisis and you get the
point. )
But this is only part of the
story. Most people take newspa
pers for granted, but they af
fect the daily lives of every read
er. Small and large businesses
are hurt, all phases of economic
and political life feel the pinch.
As business slows down, people
are thrown out of work. The
housewife who has planned on
taking advantage of post-Christmas
sales must tramp from shop
to shop or pay higher prices.
And what of the papers them
selves? Over the years, news
print and labor costs have risen
steadily, while advertising reve
nue has declined. This has led to
a steady collapse of newspapers,
thereby depriving readers of the
clash of views and the competi
tion which makes the American
press great.
In the longshoremen's strike,
another important issue is in
volved. For the 1LA ha', stated
flatly that it is not going to al
low its members to be "automat
ed out of work." This "turn back
the clock" attitude is like the
attempts of workers during the
Industrial Revolution to destroy
the new machinery which liberat
ed them from backbreaking labor,
long hours, and the six-and-a-half
day week.
Though automation temporarily
dislocates individual industries
and jobs, in the long run it cre
ates more work and a higher
standard of living for the vast
majority of people. Europe is
undergoing the greatest prosper
ity in history because in recon
structing war damage it installed
the most modern machinery avail
able. At the same time. U.S. econ
omists deplore the steady obsoles
cence of America's industrial
plant and its bad effects on our
world trade.
The problem is a complex one.
There are few today who would
want to destroy labor or abolish
free collective bargaining. But
the rules under which unions op
erate are as outdated as much
of our industrial machinery. They
were enacted at a time when the
labor movement was weak.
Nowadavs unions have multi
million dollar treasuries. They are
tightly organized for political ac
tion. They have skillful lobby
ists in Congress. Yet they arc
subject neither to the anti-trust
laws nor to the tax statutes. And
they have behind them the pow
er of government and the fear of
C.iniress to antagonize union lead
ership. The trade unions deserve no
los and no more protection
than any other segment of the
population. 'In the US., there
are 1" million stockholders. U
millK-n unionists, i Supported by
an informed public opinion. Con
gress should legislate equal treat
ment under the law. Shouting
"lahor-hauer" at those who seek
t ns eventua'itv is hardly educa
tional and helps no one.
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
Q Why does it never snow or
rain on the moon?
A The moon has no atmos
phere or water
This isn't worth reading.
Before you read any further I
wish to make it clear that the
foregoing statement is clearly the
truth, the whole truth. There is
nothing within the body of this
string of type that could possibly
justify your taking time to read
it.
Now that you have been fore
warned you might begin to feel
a little uneasy at the thought
that what is stated in the first
sentence is true and you are
just wasting your time. Well,
don't just sit thinking about
this idiotic situation. Save your
self some time and stop before
you get too engrossed in the
nothing that is to follow.
I see you're still with it. Y'ou're
really hooked now. You must be
some kind of reading addict. Or
is it just that you don't believe
it when you see such an opinion
ated and negative statement in a
newspaper as "this isn't worth
reading"? There is still time to
back out and save yourself some
time because there are still a
half dozen or so paragraphs ot
nothing to go.
Maybe at this point 1 should
reward your loyalty to the print
ed word. But apparently this loy
alty is to the material printed
word, the paper and the ink, and
not to the writer. It isn't loyaly
to the meaning of these words or
yci would have stopped reading
after you read the first sentence.
At any rate I said I would reward
your loyalty. I'll do this by mak
ing a profound statement that will
make all this nonsense seem
worthwhile you should have done
your Christmas shopping earlier;
and there are only 300 shopping
days left so get busy.
What? You found that bit of
advice profound enough and in
triguing enough to justify your
wasting time by reading fur
ther? I must say that in all
my days I have never run
across a reader with the tenaci
ty you have.
I'm sure that by now you
will agree with me that all of
this chuckleheaded meaningless
blabber is honestly a waste of
time and newspaper space. But
I will commend you for not be
lieving everything you read or
else you wouldn't have read past
the first sentence. I believe that
1 am to be commended, too, for
having written this far and hay
ing said nothing.
At the same time, I feel a lit
tle hurt at the fact that you
wouldn't believe what I first told
you. When you stop and honestly
consider the situation, which is
more important my feelings or
your seemingly unquenchable
thirst for the truth? If you have
read this far apparently you con
sider the latter more important.
It puts me to wondering, too, if
you have no more faith than
evidenced here in everything I
write in this corner.
But can you honestly say that
you always seek the truth and
that you never accept at face
value what you read, see or
hear? Or was it just the fas
cination of such an unusual
sentence that led you this far?
As I said before there is noth
ing in this bit of prose worth
reading. And that's the truth, the
whole truth. For those of you who,
have finally come around to be
living this fact after the para
graphs of nothing, I give you my
hearty congratulations for finally
seeing the light. But whether you
believe me or not, my final state
ment might give you some com-'
pensation for all your wasted cf-'
fort. It might be a bit trite but
it serves the purpose of conveying
the message exceedingly well:
diahhiL
!
WASHINGTON REPORT . . .
Red Jets Remain
In Castro's Cuba
By FULTON LEWIS JR.
Soviet jets, capable of blasting
U.S. cities off tlie map, remain
in Cuba.
Forty two IL-28 bombers, slow
moving, ot limited range, are
said to have been shipped back
behind tlie lion Curtain. Whether
more remain is not known, and
cannot be until on-the-spot inspec
tion is accepted by Castro and
Company.
Some 100 nuclear-armed MIG
jets, capable of reaching any city
in the southeast United States, do
remain, however. Administra
tion sources report they do not
plan any action to get those jets
out.
The planes are MIG 17s. MIG
I'.is. and MIG 21s. All are use
ful as lighter interceptors and
can. therefore, be classified as
defensive weapons. They possess
a mighty offensive punch, howev
er, and can be easily outfitted
with conventional or nuclear arms,
including rockets and bombs.
The MIGs pose a clear and
present danger to U.S. troops sta
tioned at Guanlanamo Bay Naval
Base
To survey the situation there.
I recently sent my assistant. Bill
Schulz, to that base He re
ports that thousands of I ,S.
troops i the exact figure is classi
fied' are in mortal danger.
Tlie Americans, pinned togeth
er on "Gitmo's" 45 square miles
could be wied out in one raid.
Short-range missiles, known as
Fro;:s. are known to be hidden
in Cuban caves. The nuclear
tipped. 25-miic range missiles are
classified by the Administration
as "defensive'' weapons. Few at
uuantanamn agree.
There are some IS.OoO Soviet
troops now stationed in Cuba.
They are hard at work fortifying
Cuban defenses and perfecting of
fensive stations. Troops based 35
miles from Guanlanamo Bay re
cently completed a road from
their camp to the U.S. base.
The American fighting men are
battle-ready. Their morale is high,
tempered only by the hesitation
they see in Washington.
"We had the biggest victory of
the Cold War in our grasp, and
blew it." one Marine Lieutenant
said.
"I don't know what they tell
you back home." offered one top
ranking officer. "But we can't
know whether or not they got
those long-range missiles out.
"And some of tlie intelligence
we receive, from usually accur
ate sources, says they've got
lHBMs intermediate range bal
listic missiles' stashed away."
Note: Castro's cries to the con
trary. Guantanarno Bay is U.S.
territory. American Marines first
occupied that base during the
Spanish - American War. when,
with the help of Cubans, they won
control of the base from the Span
ish The new Government of Cuba
siened a treaty with President
Theodore Roosevelt in 1003 giv
inc our Navy use of Guantanamo
Bay for a coaling station and
base of operations for the At
lantic Fleet.
In 1934. President Franklin
Roosevelt signed another treaty,
this one givins the United States'a
permanent lease for the base.
Guantanamo is now the closest
ma jor base to the Panama Canal.
It guards the heavily traveled
windward passage between Ha'ti
sH Cuba. It is a major anti
submarine center and the train
ins headquarters for the entire
Atlantic Fleet. All ships in the
Atlantic Fleet stop at Gitmo for
resular overhauls.
"Without Guantanamo." mvi
one admiral, "we'd be lost."