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Foreign
Congress has wielded the ax so often on
the foreign aid budget that the Agency for
International Development is extremely de
fensive in arguing for a 1864 fiscal year pro
gram that actually calculates slightly smaller
outlays.
Anticipating the usual congressional as
saults, AID officials have mustered perhaps
an unprecedented array of selling points. Yet
the view of seasoned observers is that these
will not avail, and Congress will repeat its now
customary performance cutting upwards of
$1 billion from the program as it did last year.
President Kennedy himself contributes,
of course, to AID's new persuasions by assert
ing in his budget message that foreign assis
tance expenditures for fiscal 1964 are esti
mated at $3.75 billion $100 million less than
the current fiscal year.
The President stresses, too, that the
money will be used very selectively, favor
ing projects "crucial to the rapid development
of countries . . . important to the mainte
nance of free world security, and which dem
onstrate willingness and ability to marshal
their own resources effectively."
Frank M. Coffin, deputy AID administra
tor, making the agency's case, bombards Con
gress with these arguments.
The foreign assistance budget request
(not the same thing as expected expenditures)
is down $13.5 million from last year and is a
smaller part of the total federal budget.
Foreign aid programs today constitute
three-fourths of 1 per cent of the U.S. gross
national product, whereas in the 1949-52 pe
riod they represented one and a half per cent.
The average cost of aid programs In the
THESE DAYS
Washington
By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN .
They are teaching something
called the "new arithmetic" in
the schools. The new arithmetic
begins by introducing algebraic
symbols into simple problems ol
addition and subtraction. The idea
behind this is to get firth-grade
students to think about the real
ities of balanced equations in
stead of learning addition and
subtraction by rote. When you
say two plus "x" equals four,
you have to figure out the
meaning of addition lor your
self. Maybe, if Uic new arithme
tic takes hold, the politicians of
20 years hence won't be able to
pull the wool over people's eyes
when they toss grandiose budget
and tax figures around. The po
liticos may even learn not to de
lude themselves. But at the
present moment, when everybody
talks arithmetic like parrots, lew
lieople in Washington seem to
understand the principles of bal
ancing an equation when it comes
to making programs for tax cuts
and budget increases.
The illusions fostered by pres
ent arithmetical nonsense begin
with President Kennedy, who
must have worked (or a spell In
Macy's basement in his youth.
In Macy's basement they learn
that a $I.!M price lag on tome
thing sounds a lot cheapter than
$2 price tag. With a subtle re
course to department store psy
chology, the President has put
a B billion price lag on his
budget instead of a flat $100 bil
lion. POTOMAC
FEVER
White House roumel Ted Sor
ensen says a tax cut will mean a
Democratic victory in '(A. It's the
old story. There's no pleasure
without a little suflering.
Twelve Kcnnrdvs watch Boh
Kennedy argue his first ease
before the .Supreme Court.
The Justices better decide It
Bob's way or next time he'll
threaten them with the whrde
family.
The British want to build a
tunnel under the English Channel.
Thanks to De Uaullc. it's tlie only
way they can sneak into the com
mon market. '
In the automation age. It's an
advantage to he a beautiful
girl. One look and the older
manager decides to lire some
of the machines.
doe Kennedy's name for W ash
ington: Boys Town.
Pro football probes player con
nections Willi gamblers. There's
some suspicion tho fellows us
ing the phones on the sidelines
are calling Iheir bookies
FLETCHER KNEBEL
AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore.
.
Aid's Annual
1962-64 span is figured at slightly less than the
1949-52 average. Yet that roughly parallel
sum came in the earlier period from a $305
billion average annual GNP. Today it comes
from an estimated average $575-billion GNP.
Economic aid puts mounting stress on
loans rather than grants. Last year Kennedy
asked that loans make up 51 per cent of the
economic total, and Congress upped the ratio
to 54. This time he wants the aid divided 59
per cent for loans, 39 per cent for grants.
Finally, the point is made that aside from
the Alliance for Progress, under which more
money is sought this, time for Latin Ameri
ca, the U.S. economic aid program for the
world comes to $1.5 billion of the requested
total of $4.9 billion in foreign assistance. Much
of the rest, of course, is military assistance or
support for military effort.
Coffin says the Defense Department uses
$1.5 billion in 11 days.
There seems little chance, however, that
tough congressional foes of foreign aid will
buy these finely spun statistical arguments.
They are usually Impressed more by hard-lo-cradicate
evidences of waste, mismanagement
and confusion in the program.
They tend to favor military aid. The new
budget has relatively more economic aid in
it. And the estimated saving in expenditures
would come from reduced military aid.
Furthermore, lawmakers may get some
new critical fuel almost at the moment the
specific AID budget comes to them around
March L For that is the target date for a re
port from Gen. Lucius D. Clay's commission
named by the President to take a hard look at
foreign aid.
Mathematics
But two cents saved on a
Macy's basement bargain won't
even buy a useful postage stamp
in 1963, and $1.2 billion saved on
a federal budget can be wiped
nut in a jilly by a Congressional
deficiency appropriation.
What is wrong with lax and
budget figures as used in current
discussion is that they ignore
cash flow. To begin with, (lie only
reality for the 1063 Congress,
which can't commit its' succes
sors, is the first phase of the
President's proposal (or a three
fold bite. For lata President Ken
nedy hopes to get a tax cut of
$fi billion. This money would be
lelt in people's pockets to spend
and invest.
But when we balance nut the na
tional cash flow equation in terms
o the realistic new fifth-grade
arithmetic, we quickly sec thai
the President has no intention of
leaving $6 billion to jingle in peo
ple's pockets. In the firs', place.
Hie social security whack at our
paychecks went up on Jan. 1
and some people we know have
already cut down on their house
hold help to avoid paying out
the required increase to servants.
Secondly, postal rates have al
ready gone up One rra';stic fis
cal export, Eliot Janewny, has
estimated that the government's
increased take for social security
and live cent stamps will deftly
remove more than $2 5 billion
from the people's pockets in
l!K3. This means that only '15
billion of Kennedy's proposed $fi
billion tax cut will hav-j any pow
er lo flush the economy.
LETTERS
TO THE
EDITOR
Teaching
I would like to express mv opin
ion on tlie ten-age models and
oilier games which we have op
portunity to buy today.
What is the matter wilh you
adults? A child's world is a world
ol dreaming. If your children
hae immoral thoughts toward
these toys, (hey would probably
have them regardless of the toys
they play with. All (our of my
children have teen-age models
and they spend endless hours
dressing tliem and enfoymg litem
I wish I would have had hall the
toys to play uith that are avail
able to my children
When you were a child, did you
never dream you were a rince
or a queeir What is the difler
once between Ihis and protending
you arc an Indian ready lo scalp
or sltoot someone1
If you are going to try and
hide the facta of lite from your
children, you better lock them up
ami not let tliem communicate
with anyone else It is impossible.
You can teach your children right
from wrong
Irene Kca
Sunday, January 27, ISfiJ
Battle
Well, $3.5 billion is a sizeable
sum. But, with a proposed budget
deficit of $12 billion, it will not
he a sum that can be reckoned in
hard dollars. When a government
goes into the red, it pays its
bills with 1.0. U. slips, which are
used by the banking system as a
basis for inflationary credit. So
the $3 5 billion in tax savings w ill
be a "rotting" or a "melting"
sum.
Putting all the fol-de-rol into
filth-grade algebraic form, as
taught by the realistic "new"
mathematicians, we get a mean
ingful statement. On one side of
the equation we place the pro
posed lMtf tax cut of $6 billion.
On the other and "balancing"
side, we begin with the extra
social security and post office
bite of $2.5 billion, add to it an
"x" to cover the depreciation of
(he currency resulting from the
$12 billion budget deficit, add a .
"y" to account for lower depre
ciation allowances to oil and gas
and mining companies, add a
"z" In cover the (act that busi
nessmen are being scared by the
lax collector into ordering the
$1 blue plale special (or their
clients at lunch instead of the
M 50 steak, and the (akery of the
promised (ax "r e 1 1 e (" comes
lear. It ain't a goin' lo amount
lo much. If industry continues to
boom in low. as may well be
Hie case, it will be because il
buds new ways to cut costs and
increase volume on ils own.
Almanac
By I nited Tress International
Today is Sunday. Jan. 27. the
27th day of M with 338 to fol
low Tlie moon is approaching Its
first quarter.
The morning stars are Venus
and Mars.
The evening stars are Mars,
Jupiter and Saturn.
Those born on this day Include
Wollgang Mozart, great Austrian
musician and composer, in 175S.
tin this day in history:
In lma. President Abraham Lin
, coin issued general v nr order No.
I. instructing Northern Army and
naval duces to lie ready to make
their first moves in the Civil W ar.
In 18(H). Thomas E Edison was
granted a patent lor an electric
incandescent lamp.
In l!M.l. the I'.S. Eighth Air
Force staged' first all-Ametiean
air raid o( World War II on (rf-r-many,
bombing Wilhelnishavcn in
broad daylight.
In 1!J. a I S Hanger spme
cr.itl missed the moon by 22.000
miles.
A thought (or the dav Abraham
Lincoln once said "Let us have
faith that ndit makes michf, and
in that fault let us lo the end
dare to do our duty as we under
stand it. '
Respite
A-
Me-1,.
i WASHINGTON NOTEBOOK . . .
kjl Kennedys Learn How It Is
By WASHINGTON STAFF
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON (NEA) - Pres
ident Kennedy, his brother Bobby
and Chicago's Mayor Richard J.
Daley are principals in the lat
est presidenUal "boat story" go
ing the rounds.
According to this one, the three
are on Lake Michigan in a small
craft which capsizes offshore.
There is just one life preserver.
The President says: "We'll do
this the democratic way. We'll
take a vote to see who gets it."
By PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON (NEA) - While
President Kennedy in his State
of tlie Union message puts tax
reduction and reform as the most
important issue, unemployment is
still one of the most serious prob
lems for the Kennedy administra
tion, tlie new Congress, manage
ment, labor and the national
economy.
Preliminary figures (or 12
sliow that unemployment dropped
only 274.000 to an estimated 3 D
million as of Doc. 31.
Employment increased by I I
million jobs during the year w hile
tlie civilian labor force increased
by (ton.000. Actually, nonlarm em
ployment increased by 1.4 million
jobs to a i7.o million total. But
farm employment dropped by
300.000 to four million total at
year end. Solving the slowly but
steadily decreasing agricultural
employment problem is one of the
harder-lo-eure apsects o( the situ
ation. Labor Secretary Willard Wirlz
admits it is really surprising there
are not more protests from the
liHir million and more Americans
w Im have been unemployed in the
past two years.
One reason given is that un
employment is not general hut
concentrated in depressed indus
try and area pockets. Another
reason there is not more protest
is that unemployment insurance
cushions tlie iniiact. Also, most
of the unemployed are unskilled
workers, the uneducated and
young workei"s without job train
ing or experience. Unemployment
rates in these groups are twice
as high as among skilled work
ers Government programs lo reduce
unemployment so (ar have been
unable to do the whole job alone.
Area redevelopment and manpow
er training programs are just
getting started.
Not enough conli acts have been
lei and construction started on
the accelerated public works pro
gram to create many new jobs.
Congress took no action on the
Kennedy administration youth
employ n)ent opportunities pios
al test year. It will be pre
sented again to tlie new session.
Il is aimed at ceciling more
jobs and reducing high unemploy
ment lor wickers under 20
Business leaders talk in opti
mistic tones about Uie poNsibuity
The results: One vote for the
President, one for Bobby and
seven votes for Daley.
Francis Keppel, new commis
sioner of education, was asked at
his first Washington press con
ference whether he is a "New
Frontiersman."
"I guess I'd better be!" he
replied with some emphasis.
Asked if he had taken up per
manent residence in the capital
yet, Keppel said no:
EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . .
Jobless Problem Is
Still Major Concern
that a tax cut will stimulate indus
try to create new jobs. The same
claim was made for the tax cred
it on new investments and the
new depreciation allowance
schedules put into effect last
year, but there hasn't been enough
tune to measure their effects on
employment and unemployment,
if any.
The other 6idc of this coin is
that new investments may be
channeled into labor saving ma
chinery that will cut employment
instead of reducing unemploy
ment. W'irtz is of the opinion
that something will have to he
done soon to offset unemployment
caused by automation.
Organized labor leaders are
counting on a tax cut (or low in
come workers to stimulate con
sumer spending enough to create
more jobs. The other big pitch in
the union's program is to reduce
the work week to 35 hours so as
to spread available jobs among
more workers.
Industry leaders oppose this as
an effort to put over a disguised
pay raise less work (or tlie same
money. Wirtz also says. "I do not
think this is tlie right answer."
A factor that concerns h i m
more is that about 7 per
cent ol today's industrial produc
tion comes Irom overtime work.
This is slightly above unemploy
ment rates of around 6 per cent
during the last two years.
If tlie unemployed could be giv
en this work, everything might
he dandy. But it isn't that easy.
Much o( the overtime production
is temporary like the current
drive on manufacture of new
models in tl)c auto industry. Most
of the unemployed in chronically
depres.sed aiwis aren't located
where the overtime work is avail
able and, besides, don't have the
skills to do it
Also, from tlie employer's point
of view, it has been estimated
that it costs up to $1,500 tlie first
year to add a new- worker to tlie
payroll.
If a new worker has to be
bid oft after a temporary woik
rush is over, lie gels unemploy
ment insurance, low or. tig the em
ployer's rating. In some indus
tries the worker would hae to
be paid supplementary benefits.
Tliose are jusl a lew o( the
m.iny practical problems lh.it
have to be solved beiixe unem
ployment can he reduced to the
manaceable proportions of a 4
vr cent rale or ie.-ss.
"We have a 15-year-old daugh
ter (Susan) whoso intellectual
life we don't wish to confuse by
moving in the middle of the school
year."
He paused a second, then add
ed: "It's not only her intellectual
life we don't wish to confuse."
Roger Hilsman, a World War
II Office of Strategic Services op
erator and now State Department
director of intelligence, is known
as a man leery of predicting
coups. The reason, as he explains
it, is that, "a coup which you can
find out about and predict will
not come about because if you
can find out about it, other people
can find out about it, too, and
take steps to prevent il."
National Associalicn of Manu
facturers first full-time president.
W. P. Gullander, has decided
not to change NAM'S name. Edi
tor and Publisher, the newspaper
trade paper, recently reported a
suggestion from American News
paper Advertising Executives that
NAM wasn't aggressive enough
and that it ought to be renamed
"Makers of America." NAM'S
staff did a little research on
what the new initials might stand
for and discovered that there was
a prehistoric 12-foot bird which
scientists had named "moa." It is
now extinct.
Air F'orce circles in the Penta
gon have gagged uo the Skybnlt
ballistic missile project cancella
tions. They say it will be re
placed by research into the bow
and arrow.
It's a tradition in the Navy
that the first entry in a ship's
log (or a new year must be in
verse. In the best sea-going tra
dition Cmdr. Edmund L. Castillo,
who had the midnight to oa.10
watch on January I, l!i3, in As
sistant Secretary (or Public Af
fairs Arthur Sylvester's office in
the Pentagon, wrote a three-page
poem. Here are some sample
lines:
"Every court has displayed
its professional jnkesmen.
Should we be afraid to be
Pentagon spokesmen?"
"If the answer is cleared.
you don't need to believe il.
Just fill up your shovel, take
aim and then heave it!
Democracy's durable, newsmen
are wise,
Neither mufti nor khaki will
deaden their eyts."
Washington restaurateurs are
all set (or the new federal in
tome tax regulations on expense
account deductions. One restau
rant manacer has hired a blonde
with a camera In take pictures of
businessmen at lunch. The prints
provide them with evidence for
next year's tax report on their
business entertainmtnl expens-
A reporter's call to the office
of Brooks Hays. White House aide
on congressional liaison and for
mer Arkansas congressman,
brought this exchange:
Hays himself answered the tel
ephone. Said the newsman: "Oh.
sorry. Mr. Hays. I thought I
weld get your secretary."
Replied Hays "Oh. no She's
loo busy to answer the tele
phone." 4
Letters To
Answer
In response to the Open Letter
to Toy Dealers:
As a toy dealer I feel called
upon to state an entirely differ
ent side of the matter of the
type of toys now on the market.
I am not defending myself or oth
er toy dealers we need no de
fensewe are only selling what
the parents continuously ask for,
what the parents tell us their,
children demand because they
have seen it on TV, heard it on
radio, read it in magazines, etc.,.
and yes, because it is an item
that will sell. I must de
fend the little teenage type doll
which has been so severely criti
cized. Do you really believe this
doll has given your children any
ideas they didn't have? Can it,
a little 10 inch piece of, china or
something similar, actually make
suggestions to your children?
There is nothing vulgar about
this little toy. The child is merely
projecting herself through the
doll. Don't your realize your chil
dren would probably Indulge in
the very same conversation
whether expressing themselves
through a little doll or playing
grown-up in their mommies
clothing? This particular doll
neither talks nor sings nor does
anything, in fact. This doll is
probably the least expensive doll
we, and most other toy dealers,
carry, so how can you, Mr. Mil
ler, claim it is sold for greed or
money?
The worst I can say of tlie line
is that her clothing is a little ex
pensive, but many parents
and, yes, children themselves
make their own clothes for her.
We do not sell this doll; it has
been sold before it ever gets into
the store. How many parents
have come in, I wonder, stood at
the door and asked if we have
this particular doll, only to go
elsewhere for it when we are
out of the item?
The small allotment we re
ceive is mostly tagged with a
"sold" sign (for a waiting custo
mer) and never gets out to the
counter.
The favorite doll in the store,
as far as my wife and I, as
veil as our employes, are con
cerned, is a little baby doll in
a snow white dress who says
Mama, and sells for under $3,
nobody wants her because she
doesn't do anything! The little
lor big) talking dolls make such
average remarks as "I love you";
if she's lying, who knows?
I have in my warehouse some
of the monster type toys which
so many people called (or, but
which 1 couldn't feel would be
any advantage to any youngster.
I am sure you w ill find the same
situation with other toy dealers.
As to cowboys and Indians, we
make these products available
to the child, if he wants them.
Apparently he doesn't; very few
parents ask for this type toy. The
guns (I question their worth lo a
child in his growing up) must be
the Rilleman. W'yatt Earp, nr
whoever is top man on the local
TV channel at the lime.
As to a child living in an adult
make believe world haven't
children, always lived in a dream
world? Haven't tey always
played "house" and mommy
and daddy? Lsn't the teen
age bracket a step before the
mommy and daddy stage?
Wouldn't you just as soon have
your little girl play she is her
teenage sister, whom she prob
ably idolizes, as well as your lit
tle boy playing he's a cowboy
shooting off our now almost ex
tinct Indian?
Finally, may I point out that
we do not sell the majority o(
these toys: we simply make
them available to the public who
requests them. 'And even here
we draw the line if we (eel the
toy is a "monster" type toy1.
Ernie Sessnm,
Ernie's Toy Shop.
Guesser
Coinword puzzles I did make
Words ten thousand for the take.
Only twenty, no rhyme or reason
To wm easy bucks this season.
Words, roars glows a lucid kernel
These words seem eternal.
Combinations, a thousand used
One word printed wrong. ABUSE.
Only nuts like you and I
Waste our time on this pie.
I've grubbed the "diet" lor mean
ing more
To (ind the words and end up poor.
Twisted meanings. I have learned
My cars are wider and really
burned.
Be an idiot at your best
And you too. ran win this test.
Steven Peters.
1414 Oregon.
Get Off
1( anyone were lo ask our pub
lic officers how they came to be
elected to office they no doubt
would .say: "A majority of people
had confidence enough in me to
vote (or me ."
Just how inconsistent can they
get?
Afier tliey have lieen elected to
office land at Salem, too, slale
officers as well1 they seem to (eel
that this same majority o( people
do not have sen- cnotieh to know
wbetlier we want zoning forced
down our throats! Were e richt
in electing such people to oilier1
I wonder
Tins law and any enforcement
of it is a disservice on the part of
The Editor
those who brought such a law
into being and as much so of
those whom would force it upon
us! It is unconstitutional. Accord
ing to our national federal law
we have a guarantee of life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happi
ness, our own happiness too if
you please.
Further for tlie minority who
love the thought of zoning and
the regimented way of life it
should cause tliem less inconve
nience let tliem trade for
such zoned and regulated proper
ty with some owner who would
love to trade the well-regulated
bliss for our yet unfiltered way
of lite.
Don't tell us it would not raise
taxes! We know better! It would
be classed as improved properly
and that would be cause enough.
Who would pay tlie wages and
expenses of all tlie inspection and
codes, regulations and all the
thousand and one other ways of
extracting money for the privilege
of being regulated!
Zoning is not Die answer to in
dustry. Do something about the
lax system we have here and you
won't have any trouble attracting
industry. No firm in sane mind
would come here under the pres
ent system. Give tliem a decent
tax climate and some unfiltered
sites upon which to build and
and they will come!
Zoning and a lot of other gov
ernmental regulations are a
creeping paralysis. It must be
grand! The Communists even1
shoot people to help them enjoy
their way of life and build walls
to protect them so they cannot
get away from what government
knows is best for them!
In closing, please get off our
backs! and leave us in our peace.
I want to see our American way
of life stay what our forefathers
intended it to be!
We have the best national gov
ernment in the world. Let's keep
it that way!
Ray I. Jones,
4058 Shasta Way,
Suburbanite!
Issue Defined
For those who may be able to
view the current zoning contro
versy dispassionately, and for
what it may be worth to learn
the opinions of a professional
in the field of industrial develop
ment, I would like to pass along
some thoughts on zoning expressed
in a letter from D. T. Daggett,
industrial agent for the Southern
Pacific Co. in San Francisco.
"Business men who are charged
w ith tlie responsibility of selecting
sites where their companies in
vest large sums of money in new
plant facilities want to be sure
that they are: (1) locating in a
city or town with a good business
climate, and 2 that the intended
plant investment will not be jeo
pardized by conflicting land uses
such as encroachment of homes
or objectionable, nuisance-type in
dustries. "Good community planning is
evidence of good business climate.
Conversely, a community with
out a general plan to guide ils
future growth or a zoning ordi
nance lo enforce the restrictions
implicit in the planning process
is suspected of having a poor
business climate, or at least a
lack of leadership and understand
ing of the mistakes that have
been made in other places.
"Industrial prospects expect
protection for their intended plant
investments, much the same as
residential and commercial buy
ers. This protection can be pro
vided by zoning restrictions and
in some cases by deed restric
tions or covenants such as are
applied in industrial parks. The
Klamath Falls area is not at that
stage of industrial develop
ment where there is a demand for
the amenities o( an industrial
park, therefore it should be think
ing of establishing a sound zon
ing ordinance."
George T. Callison
Blue Plate
I look at it now, on my shelf,
and wonder, and ponder, if I
could be half as brave, and self
reliant, as those who came the
long trail to our land here. Of the
hardships, loyalty and dignity
that brought it here, lo sit in safe
security, many generations later,
as bright and solid as when many
years ago it came with master
and mistress across the long trail
from Tennessee to Oregon.
There arc many years lo count
and so many problems to sur
mount. But we of today have no
high wall to surmount or dividing
us. with guns guarding it, to say
you shall or shall not. Ours is a
free world, that we may cross a
street as we choose and not have
to say, "May we?" We can pray
to our own chosen God of belief
for guidance and help without
fear.
So like my little blue plale
that stands with so much dienity
on my cupboard shelf, let us
who are here now look back lo
the time that tlie little blue plate
crossed the plains.
Tliey did not falter, or grow
w-eak. although sometimes afraid.
They knew they were going to a
land of freedom, with hardship.
Ixit their hearts wee true and
brave even as the colors on my
little bine plate generations later.
Y Colleen Kile,
211 Nevada Avenue.