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HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore.
Sunday, January 6, 1963
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The
Strikes, like wars, represent the failure
of diplomacy. They are tests of strength and
will between the opposing parties an appeal,
not to arms and physical force, but to an
equally resource-sapping warfare in the eco-
nomic field.
:' Like wars, strikes may be unavoidable;
there may be principles of right and wrong
involved, there may be aggressors and defend
ers. This was especially true in the early days
of the labor movement.
Today, however, the area of "right and
wrong" Is often an exceedingly hazy one and
drastic action, instead of being retained in
the background as the ultimate weapon, may
be seized in haste in an attempt to force ne
gotiations out of stalemate.
. : Three major strikes currently disrupt the
lives of millions of persons beyond the parties
immediately concerned. Two major newspa
pers are struck in Cleveland; nine are shut
down in New York. Seaports from Maine to
the Gulf of Mexico are closed.
' The first two strikes are setting records
for length each day they continue. The mari
time strike, just begun, had been in abeyance
for the previous 80 days under the Taft-Hartley
law the eighth time since 1947.
- In only this last dispute does there ap
pear to be an issue of real bedrock importance
to the strikers the threat of automation
which could throw thousands of dock workers
out of jobs. The strike of editorial personnel
in Cleveland hangs upon matters of union and
job security; that of printers In New York is
largely about compensation.
If these strikes continue far into the ses
sion of the new Congress, some observers feel
that proposals to tighten labor laws undoubt
edly will be introduced laws to protect the
THESE DAYS . .
Superhighway Sightmissing
By JOHN CHAMREULAIN
The big federal interstate road
building project, which is inching
its- way toward completion in
some places, may be needed to
(io the nation together in the auto
mobile age. But, paradoxically,
it means that travelers will hence
foe ward be seeing less of (he
country.
the loss has already been felt
in the travel books written by per
ambulating authors. In 12 John
Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize
for literature. Financially, this
was an extra lucky break (or him,
foe it advertised his recently pub
lished diary of a jaunt from Long
Island to California and back,
'Travels With Charlie in Search
of America." The Nobel Prize,
however, could not have Rone to
LETTERS
TO THE
EDITOR
Sharing
To all Uie folks of Klamath
County who have contributed in
various ways to making Christ
mas at the Klamath Nursing
Home a glorious atfair we. the
Mutt and patients, wish to thank
each one of you most sincerely.
To me Christmas is a lime to
set aside our troubles, thoughtless
ness and petty grievances, a time
where gaiety, laughter and music
should prevail. Muny persons dis
cover that, for them, supreme
happiness is derived through milk
ing others happy. As Uie saying
goes "They arc twice hle-vxcd who
delight in bringing joy to others
for the gift without the giver is
hare."
With humbled hearts and radi
ant souls, worshipers all over the
world sing praises to the Higher
Being whose great gift to Uie
world planted the seeds of Christ
mas. In sharing the blessings of lite
with others and in sincere wor
shipherein lies die true meaning
ol Christmas for every individual.
Thanks to the hard working
crews at the Herald and News
Mr. Sweettand, Huth King. Don
Kcltlcr-many long lost friends
have been rediscovered.
Madclyn H Brown. R.N.
Administrator of
: Klamath County
; Nursing Home
; QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
O What Inspired Krowt Hem
tnirway to write "For W hom the
Bn Tolls"?
X His experience In Spain
during Uie Spanish Civil War,
Future Of Labor
public from serious shutdowns in transporta
tion and communication.
Stricter laws, whatever form they might
take, are the last thing labor wants. Yet,
while it is fighting to put bread in the mouths
of working men, it cannot long maintain a
holding action against progress and automa
tion, like it or not, represents progress these
days.
In the other instances, where automa
tion is not involved, the strikes seem to harken
back to the old days when worker and em
ployer were virtual enemies. The philosophy
then was to get the most from each other that
they could while the getting was good.
There are signs important signs that
this is changing. Latest instance is the new
pact between Kaiser Steel Corp. and the
United Steelworkers, which some are hailing
as a major step toward a new team concept in
industry.
The plan will give workers a share in dol
lars earned through increased productivity. It
makes room for technological improvements
but not at the expense of human values. Work
ers displaced by automation or for other rea
sons will not be thrown on the streets but re
tained and retrained in a special employment
pool.
The details of the Kaiser-Steelworkers
plan, which is essentially an experiment, are
not as important as the thinking behind it
the realization that men are,' even in busi
ness and industry, dependent upon and re
sponsible for each other.
There should be no problem in America's
economic life that cannot be resolved through
mutual trust and concern on the part of man
agement and labor. Perhaps some day the
strike will be relegated to the museum, along
with other abandoned weapons of a primitive
age, like the crossbow and nuclear bomb.
Mr. Steinbeck (or his travelogue
which, though it was written with
some charm, told his readers
more about truck drivers, gas sta
tions and motels than it did about
any of the country that lay with
in a mile or so on either side
of the express highways. The fast
er Mr. Steinbeck went, the less
he saw. This was also true of
another literary traveler in 1!12.
Mr. T. S. Matthews, who wrote
something called "0 My Amer
ica!" Returning to the United
States after living for several
years in England, Mr. Matthews
carried an adopted Londoner's
prejudices with him as he went
west from New York. The preiu
dices were never corrected, lor
Mr. Matthews found few conver
sationists in Die motels he so mi
nutely described.
My own traveling for the year
included a trip to Maine. In the
old days a motor trip to Maine
from southern New England nor
mally included a slow-motion pro
gression through little towns
around Boston. One would see
the rude bridge that arched the
flood in Concord, where the lust
shots ol the American Revolution
were lired. Or one woukl go
through tradition-encrusted, so.i
ports on the North .Shore of Mas
sachusetts, which would give the
children opportunity to exclaim
over the "witches' houses" in old
Salem. Then there was Cape Ann
to look at, with the C.loucesler
iishing Meet and the clam Hals
at Ipswich. Today, however. Hie
temptation is to slide quickly
around Boston and into Maine by
way of Route 12H. True enough.
Route IM is interesting as a
"linear city" consisting of a high
speed highway running past a
blur of new electronic plants. But
there is no past hislorv clinging
to a super-highway, and at sixty
miles an hour you can absorb
lew details.
In limes gone by it was aiwavs
a visual pleasure to drive wcl
through New Yoik State to Buf
lalo. One could study the rise
and fall of American archilcc
lure if one chose the Cherry Val
ley Route: the old houses built
in the day of the Greek Revival
in central New York still keep
their spacious and digmltcd lines,
hut lurther west. Uie classically
propoi tinned homes gie wav to
the haphazard construction ol the
unlettered "caipentet -builder" pe
riod, when good models were
considered an aflcct. tion.
In the old days ol slower ti.ivcl
I remember eating in Rochester,
where I was introduced to the
Irondiquoit melon and a delicious
salad made of the local John Raer
tomato. But the last time I drove
through New York State, bunging
a daughter home from a summer
ice skating session in Ontniin.
we slid past Rorn-strr without
even seeing it. And what we had
lor dessert in a Howard Johnson
or, as the kids call it, a Ho-Ju
restaurant was. as I recall il,
a peppermint stick ice cream of
a kind served in every Howard
Johnson everywhere I am not
knocking peppermint as a flavor,
and I admire the Howard Johnson
brand of efficiency, but it would
have been nice to try one of Ro
chester's siwcial melons again.
My daughter will probably never
taste one in a lifetime of driving
on supcr-highunv,
Going south to Florida, the com
pletion of new federal highways
will kill a few more delightful
features. When (he new bridge is
completed from the tip of the
Delmarva Peninsula over miles
of sea water to Portsmouth, Va ,
something more than a ferry serv.
ice will disappear. As of the
moment, one may still order spe
cial Norlolk crab cakes in the
ferry dining salon. But when Uiis
is gone the traveler will he
thrown back on the familiar road
side hamburger joint.
Thus the new highway program
makes us gastronomically and
visually poorer, and helps to ali
enate us both Irom past history
and distinctive regional culture.
And. for the stay-at-homes who
doiend on published travel dia
ries, it means flatle,- and flatter
lilerary fare.
POTOMAC
FEVER
l'K2 man-oflhe year awards:
Politics Peter Law lord. Despite
the handicap ot famous In laws,
he performed admirably In shav
ing commercials without rutting
himself oni-e.
I'svclmlngical warfare Vlnce
l.nmharril. roach ol (he Green
Bay Packers. He gave the
plavrnT wives mink wrap.
Medu ine Adlai Stevenson. In
the interests of science, he posed
for two weeks with a knile in his
hack without once asking the
President which close friend ought
to take it out.
Television The Republicans'
Kv and Charlie. They stayed nil
it lor almost three months.
Culture J F K. No man since
the He' Mcdtrt awakened such
sudden interest among the mu
nitions. makers In the ballet, op
era and sculpture.
Philanthropy Jake the Barber.
He contributed fcB.nmi to the Dem
ocrats without getting so much as
a thank you note along with hu
presidential natrinn.
FLETCHER KNEI'.EL
"My
IN WASHINGTON
No
By RALPH de TOLEDANO
The State Department's "ex
perts" on the Soviet Union have
been burbling gayly about Uie new
Soviet Ambassador to the United
Nations, Nikolai Trofimovitch Fe
dorenko. They describe him as ur
bane, witty, a soft-sell type who
knows how to get along with capi
talist monsters. And Uiey are al
ready predicting a new era of
good feeling at the U.N. because
of Comrade Fednrcnko's appoint
ment. Now it may be fun to be fooled.
But if the striped-pants boys real
ly believe that the Eedorenko ad
vent on the East River scene
means a change in Kremlin poli
EDSON IN
By PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON NKA - Ka
tanga President Mouse Tshom
be's climactic blast at the United
States is contained in a cable to
President Kwame Nknimah of
Ghana, made public by its em
bassy in Washington.
Tslwmbc charges that "The Unit
ed Nations, under the influence of
the United States, is preparing
a third war in Katanga with a
view to exterminating the black
people in this region ol Africa.
"Behind the ostensible motive
of unification of the Congo."
Tshombe continues, "is hidden
the desire of the United States ol
America to plunder the r hos
of Katanga and to paralyze the
economic life of Africa."
Any similarity between these
charges and the ranlings of Cuba's
Fidel Castro against the United
States is, of course, coincidental.
Tshombe is an extreme rightist,
cooperating with the old Belgian
colonial interests and the leading
industrial oHTntors in the Congo.
Sncicte Generate de Itelgique and
Union Miniere de H.iut Katanga,
whose taxes finance his govern
ment. Castro and Nkiuniah are close
collaborators with Russia. To the
(ihana presidents credit, however,
his reply to Tshombe's cable re
pudiates the tatter's charges
against the U. S and the U. N.
and urges the Katanga leader to
oin Congo Premier Cyrille Adoula
to work (or central government
unity.
There is some basis for
Tshombe's concern, however, just
as there was in Castro's charges
that the United States was pre
paring to invade Cuba before the
Bay of Pigs landing.
There are numerous Americans,
also, who believed with Tshombe
that the United Slates is prepar
ing to go into the Congo with
both feel
Dispatch to the Congo of a I S.
military mission under U Gen
l.ouis W. Truman was ctted as
evidence of American intent to
increase direct military assistance
to the United Nations and the
Congo to force Katanga s acces
sion It is officially denied in Wash
ington that there is any intcn-
Pop Can Lick Your Pop!
Reason For
cy, they and the United States
are in for trouble.
To begin with, Soviet foreign
policy has been unchanged since
Lenin and Trotsky overthrew the
democratic Kcrensky regime.
From time to time, the Krem
lin has lulled the West by put
ting on an appearance of sweet
reasonableness but later events
have always shown that behind
the scenes the Communists con
tinued unabated their program of
subversion, imperialism, and hid
den warfare.
During the quiet periods. Stalin
used to trot out Maxim Litvinov,
a "friend of the West." But it
should not he forgotten that at
WASHINGTON
Tshombe Charges U.S.
With Katanga Mess
tion to send U.S. troops to the
Congo at this time.
W hatever military action is nec
essary to keep peace in the Con
go will be left to the United Na
tions Operation in the Congo
UNOC apparently successful in
its initial engagements. Its forces
now include 13.700 combat troops
from 10 countries, 3.H0O support
troops from lit countries and 420
civilian officials.
About 40 per cent of UNOC
troops come from India. Most of
them arc in Katanga, but they
may have to be replaced soon
as they are needed at home for
the war with Red China.
Kennedy's policy back of his
decision is that there is no known
alternative to making a complete
success of U.N. Secretary Gen
eral U Thant's Congo unification
policy.
If this can be achieved by ne
gotiation, no matter how long
drawn out. or if it can be achieved
by a Katanga boycott or other
economic sanctions, well and good
and all credit to UNOC.
It U Thant's plan fails, either
through overthrow of the Adoula
central government or lack of
funds to support the U N. op
eration or the defeat of its forc
es in the field, then the United
States might have In intervene
directly.
Plans are unquestionably being
made for such a development. It
is explained that if such action
were taken, it would be on a
preventive basis to keep the Rus
sians out.
Intelligence reports Irom Africa
indicate that the Soviet ambas
sador to l,eopoldville has already
been dropping hints that Russian
military aid would he available
to any coalition that overthrows
the Adoula government and adopts
a more left-wing. anti-UN. and
anti-U S. policy
Curiously enough. loth the left
wing deputies' in Congo's parlia
ment and those supporting Tshom
be's policies have been watting
and working for just such an op
portunity. An added reason for the Russian
desire to establish a Communist
presence in Central Africa is to
gain tlie position it tried to es
tablish in the Congo in two and to
recover the world prestige it lost
altrr heme forced to withdraw
Us missiles, aircraft and mill
larv forces Irom Culva.
J
' V, . ;;' . Vr'- ,:SS
Optimism
the time Conrade Litvinov was
signing the agreements with Presi
dent Roosevelt which led to U.S.
recognition of the U.S.S.R. and
promising to behave the Kremlin
was setting up a vast espionage
ring in this country. During the
wartime "honeymoon," Commu
nist infiltration and betrayal
reached a sinister high in the
U.S.
This is only part of the story.
For Uie Stale Department should
know that however adept at dip
lomatic baby-kissing Comrade Fe
dorenko may be. his ambassador
ial record in Tokyo is hardly one
to reassure Americans. He may
bluster a little less than his
predecessor, Valerian Zorin, but
he is far more dangerous.
Comrade Fedorenko served in
Tokyo for three and a half years.
He arrived there in September
1938 with a beautiful statement on
Japanese - Soviet friendship, a
smile on his face, and a solemn
promise not to interfere in the
domestic affairs of his host
country. That was as far as he
went.
Frorr that moment, the Soviet
Embassy became the command
post for a violent attack on the
United States and for stepped
up activities among Japan's Com
munist and leftist groups. Fedor
enko agents took over significant
positions in Zengakuren, the ex
tremist student group. Rioting and
violent demonstrations became the
order of the day.
We know today that the terrible
riots which shook Tokyo and
forced President Eisenhower to
cancel a goodwill trip to Japan
in 19K0 were planned by Ambas
sador Fedorenko and his aides in
the Soviet Embassy. He himself
never passed up an opportunity
to seek the overthrow of the pro
American government by waving
the bloody shirt and demanding
an end tn what he called "foreign
military bases and rocket launch
ing sites" on Japanese territory.
He charged that the U.S. was us
ing Japan as a "base for aggres
sion" and warned Tokyo in high
ly undiplomatic language that it
had better throw the Americans
out or else.
He intervened so openly in do
mestic affairs that the Tokyo gov
ernment was finally forced to take
notice of it. When Deputy Pre
mier Anastas Mikoyan visited Ja
pan in August, 1981, there were
international repercussions over
the insolence of his manner in
dealing with the Japanese. But
Ambassador Fedorenko oienly
aligned himself with the Mikoyan
policy and. according tn reliable
reports, actually egged on the
traveling salesman of Commu
nism. When Ihe Fedorenko appoint
ment to the U.N. post was an
nounced, it came as a double
shock lo Embassy Row. First,
Ihe more knowing members of the
diplomatic corps were startled
that Comrade Fedorenko should
have been tapped. Second, they
were puzzled by the State Depart
ment's happv reaction.
It may be that Comrade Fedor
enko is a witty man. As such, he
can trade jokes with Ambassador
Adlai Sievenson. But il. in these
Irving and serious times, humor
is lo he the yards! ick for measur
ing diplomacy, the State Depart
ment had better hire a good gas
man Nikita Khrushchev can be
pretty funny at limes, hut he still
wants to burv us.
Q
1 knew it would happen and it
did. A reader called right away
to inform me that Uie column in
which I claimed nothing would be
said, was typical. In fact, he as
sured me, it wasn't a bit different
than any of the others that I had
written.
With the holidays coming on
Tuesday this season, it seemed
to me like we had an unending
succession of "Mondays."
We welcome letters to the edi
tor, and nope they keep coming.
But I'm somewhat alarmed at the
number of requests we get to
withhold names from publication.
. If the trend continues it means
that we might have to adopt a
policy of not publishing any let
ters unless the names are pub
lished with them. I'm inclined
to be in sympathy with the idea
that sometimes a person wants
to get a thought in the paper, but
doesn't want his or her name
broadcast generally, sometimes
for valid personal reasons.
We never publish a letter with
"name withheld" unless it is
clearly understood that we will
furnish the name to an inquirer.
We have had several instances
where interested persons have
been told the name of an uniden
tified letter writer.
I think that most of us will
agree that any person who has
something to say for public con
sumption should be willing to
lend his name to the utterance.
But, I don't think that because
some writer asks that his or
her name not be used is an indi
cation of cowardice or intellec
tual dishonesty. Most of the re
quests I see are good. If I think
someone is asking just to be
cute, I do not publish the letter.
How do I love thee? Let me
count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and the
breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling
out of sight
For the en'1? of Ruing and ideal
Grace.
WASHINGTON
Scientists Lash Out
At Role Of Advisors
By FULTON LEWIS JR.
The military and scientific ad
visors of the President have come
in (or some much deserved criti
cism in recent weeks.
That criticism should step up
as members of Congress return to
Washington, angered at Adminis
tration plans to cancel develop
ment of the Skybolt air-to-ground
missile.
Committees of House and Sen
ate will probe the decision. De
fense experts Stuart Symington
and Barry Goldwater have served
notice they will oppose the Sky
bolt cancellation. They know full
well that most members of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff oppose the
Administration scheme.
Only Maxwell Taylor, an Army
general appointed by President
Kennedy as Chief of Staff, enthus
iastically supports the Skybolt de
cision. Taylor has long been re
garded as a foe of Air Force
modernization.
General Thomas White, former
Air Force Chief of Staff, ripped
into Presidential advisors in a
recent talk to San Francisco civic
leaders. "Young Ph.D.s in the De
partment of Defense whiz kids
and junior whiz kids" have en
tirely too much authority in choos
ing America's military weapons,
he said.
The military men who use the
weapons, he thought, should have
more to say about their selection.
Too much authority and respon
sibility in the hands of While
House advisors is a major rea
son. White finished, that America
is slow getting weapons into
space.
The most serious indictment of
present policy comes from two
top ranking U.S. scientists. James
Van Allen of Iowa State Univer
sity and James Warwick of the
University of Colorado.
Van Allen, discoverer of the nat
ural radiation belts that hear his
name, severely criticized the Pres
ident's Science Advisory Commit
tee, headed by Jerome Weisner.
That group, said Van Allen in a
Philadelphia speech, was such "a
big and authoritarian machine
that il decidedly intimidates the
small man" against bringing forth
his scientific findings.
Van Allen continued to a.ssail
the group as hasty, government-dominated,
speaking a dif
ferent language from that of the
common man."
Both he and Warwick said the
members of the President's ad
visory groups were autocrats who
sometimes choose tn ignore scien
tific findings m reaching their decisions.
NOTHING
SPECIAL
(W. B. S.)
I love thee to the level of the
day's
, Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive
for Right;
I love thee purely, as men turn
from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put
to use
In my old griefs, and with my
childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed
to lose
With my lost saints, I love thee
with the breadth,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! and,
if God choose, i
I shall but love thee better after
death.
That is one of my favorite
poems and it comes from Son
nets from the Portuguese by Eliz
abeth Barrett Browning.
If all our misfortunes were laid
in one common heap, whence ev
ery one must take an equal por
tion, most people would be con
tented to take their own and de
part. Some of us bewildered fath-
ers can take heart from a
statement ascribed to Mark
' Twain. He said: When I was a
boy of 14 my father was so
Ignorant I could hardly stand
to have the old man around.
Rut when I got to be 21 I was
astonished at how much the old
man had learned In seven
years.
A minister says that most men
are masters in their homes. And
there, Mom, is your laugh for the
day.
Our own rather clement wea
ther is a reminder that nowadays
when folks go south for the win
ter, there's a good chance they'll
really find it there.
With the New Year a week gone,
one can't help but recall that the
fellow who is always bragging
about turning over a new leaf
usually loses his place complete-
REPORT
To back up their charges, they
pointed to the government's han
dling of its high-altitude nuclear
test program before and after a
July 9, 1962, blast 230 miles
over Johnston Island in the Pa
cific. Soon after that blast, the gov
ernment issued a statement say
ing, in effect, that Uie blast cre
ated an artificial radiauon belt
that was much more intense and
longer-lived than had been pre
dicted. The fact of the matter is that
the effects closely matched what
had been predicted. Data from a
half-dozen satellites now shows
this to be true.
The government findings, said
Van Allen, were hasty and ill
considered. Ignored were the re
ports of brilliant scientists, includ
ing Van Allen and Warwick, on
Uie tests.
Both those reports were ignored
as government scientists rushed
out their own findings findings
which have since been disproved.
Says Warwick, a member of the
University of Colorado's Astrophys
ics and Uie High Altitude Ob
servatory at Boulder, Colo.:
"I would like to suggest . . .
that we don't overlook the indi
vidual and become so organized
that we forget the diversity ol
our science and the possibilities
we have for checking our scien
tific data."
Almanac
By United Prrs International
Today is Sunday. Jan. . the
sixth day of 19M with J5 tn
follow.
The moon In approaching its
full phase.
The morning stars ar Mars
and Venus.
The evening stars are Jupiter
and Saturn.
Those born on this day include
American poet and writer Carl
Sandburg, in 1878.
On this day in history:
In 1759. Martha Dandrige Cus
tis, widow of Daniel Parke Custis
of Virginia, was married to
George Washington.
In 1912, President Howard Taft
issued a proclamation admitting
New Mexico tn ihe Union as the
47th state.
A thought for the day Ameri
can paleontologist Henry Fairfield
Oshorn one aaid: "We do not
liva to txtenuata the miseries of
the past nor to accept as Incur
able those of the present."