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TACZ-4 HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Friday, February 1, 1963 EDSON IN WASHINGTON Economic Report Does Little Predicting This Is (North Missourian, Gallatin, Mo.) A few clays ago the editor received a letter from one of his newspaper's readers and advertisers, a substantial booster of this (Jountry. j The letter said its author believed in supporting a newspaper that takes a stand on the Issues of the times, hut that a recent editorial expression differed so far from his thinking that he, in good conscience could no longer support this newspaper. He ordered his advertising stopped. : This is a prime example of how freedom of expression and the exchange of frank opinion has all but ceased in the hometown press of America. This is why so few small town newspaper editors hazard to express editorial opinion on controversial matters. ; They simply cannot afford to irritate and offend advertisers, because there are so few of them left. It is sad reflection of the times we are in and of the sincerity of purpose of so many self-proclaimed disciples of press freedom. It all boils down to one simple fact. Many people approve of freedom of expression so long as it coincides with their own thinking, flut once the views expressed become contrary tb their own, they find that freedom of the press is a burden far too hard and costly to tear. Budget: (The Christian Science Monitor) President Kennedy's $98,800,000,000 budget has received a chilly reception in Con gress. Criticism from Republicans could be expected, but it has been withcringly sharp. And sentiment among many Democrats has ranged from lack of enthusiasm to direct op position. ; Rep. Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and a mem ber of the President's party, deplores "spend ing money we do not have for things we could gel along without." The disposition to demand reduction in government spending is evidently widespread. But if retrenchment is to be effective it must he accomplished in specific places in the budget; mere blanket denouncements of spending achieve little. If members of Congress really wish to pare down the President's budget, and if people at home wish it 1o do so, they should start section by section. Defense expenditure Is the biggest sec tion by far, and in this is $2,400,000,000 of the Increase from last year. Rut if Congress is to avoid going even further into the red it will have to restrain some of its own im pulses and support Secretary McNamara ou the junking of Skybolt, on caution about the RS-70 and Nike-Zeus, and on reorganiza tion of the reserves. ; Space exploration accounts for another ji.OOO.OOO.OOl) of the increase. Least defens ible in this is a rapid stepping up of the ni.in-rjii-lhc-tmion program. This project should be field to a normal, efficient pace rather than THESE DAYS . . . Just What -Hy JilllM ( IIAMI-KHUMN .The oilier day Kay Hrnlc. nil oj-ncw spapcr Rirl who as a radio irpprcsario has lieconie accom- 'tilled at Inline unsuspecting souls imysclf inrludodi mlo her broadcasting rl. threw n dis concerting question at mr. Aim I modern corporations, she asked, singularly uninvcntivc and unen terprising when it comes In dreaming lip new products for llie consumer? J-ince I luid to lumble for an answer the only thins that came immediately to my mind was the cimpact car I am alrald 1 did htr radio program no pood. Hut could there hac hern a salislactu ly answer? Thinking it over on the way home, I tried to make a list ol i omp.uiics in my mind that hae prospered in recent ycai s out o their capacity for .sheer inven tiveness. They seemed to shake down into two categoric. One typo of inventive company has lCrii very busy creating new rrjiiipmont lor automating every Ijrpe of industrial and business prticess. Thus we have had a prolifctalion of new electric and electronic ralco'iting machines, and new "Thointnlax" mid nlher copying devices that enable bust nesj ollirrs In reproduce lu u mriits without employing whole batteries ol stenographers. In the printing business, mere aie into nvdtons of mechanical marvels Hut will set type directly fitim a reporter's tvpewritcr, eliminating alt III x'ed-oul false starts and How It Happens What Should a wasteful, "crash" basis, even at the calcu lated risk of a Soviet spectacular. Farm programs are expected to decline in cost, but payments still would run near $6,000,000,000 which may be part of what Sen. Clinton P. Anderson, a western Demo crat, calls "a little discouraging." These costs can hardly be lowercd'materially without low ering price supports and facing more of a free market. Foreign aid also comes in for a minuscule cut in the executive estimates. This news paper has argued strongly for the general policy of foreign aid. But a point has proba bly been reached where sharp examination of the program would be wholesome and where more of the load should be assumed by other countries. Education involves several programs. Probably there will be no serious loss if fed eral aid again runs on the shoals, since major postwar needs have been met. But vocational education seriously needs renovation, rehabili tation, and expansion if requirements for technical skills are to be met. Among other factors, "medicare" or hospital insurance for 1hc aged under social security would be outside the budget but is a cost that need not be added in view of present welfare provisions. Public housing develop ment is moving adequately; urban renewal should he sustained; and subsidies to mass transportation arc much needed. It is only by getting down to cases, and recognizing that some who urge economy will not like where economy pinches, that signifi cant budget control will bp accomplished. Are We Getting? even inserting hyphens at the end ol lines, And. of course, devices Inr facility assembly-line automa tion are being improved every day. The oilier tyiv of inventive mm pany is busy dreaming up mal ic ious new alloys and electronic con trol devices (or use in what the government calls the "aoi'ospacc program." Zirconium, titanium, molybdenum, beryllium ami oili er exotieally named metals are combined with ordinary chiome. nickel and iron to make alloys that are capable of withstanding llie incredible hc.it icleased by fragmented atoms in suhmat me nlomliird engines ant the tor i ible cold of mtci stellar space. And transistors have been im proved to the oiut where elec tronic conliol and communication will not Ine.ik down as our new soaiemen hurlle into and out oi orbit. But as our inventive onginrois mid businessmen prniecd lo make industrial and ollke processes more cllicienl. and a (he govern ment subsidizes a liewildci ing ere ativcncss in the m.intil.irtui e ol lotkcK- spate tapsuli's and strange new solid luels, what is lying done Inr the average house holder nlwiiit giving htm some new drramstiiff Tine enough, lite hou-.oliolder in our alduent sukiili,,!i com nmnitics gels a mtw.int stream of improvements in mi. It things as washing maihines. do it-vnur self tools, power movers and xBy this individual's own action he has con tributed further to the destruction of a valua ble freedom he professed to cherish as if, in deed, it would he possible for one person to see eye to eye with every other person on every issue. It's like economy. Everybody's for it especially if it affects somebody else. Writing thought-provoking editorials is hard work. Trying to achieve peace of mind with some of the things you've felt compelled to put down on paper is not a simple task. Trying to maintain a newspaper in which the community can take pride in the face of rural decline and decay; fighting people who do not really want an editor but a polly-parrot trained to make change, has taken most of the fun out of being a smalltown publisher. When the time comes that this editor can no longer write how and what he feels about conditions in his own community, with out worrying too much about where the money is coming from to meet the bills, a Golden Era will have come to an end in Gallatin. Sadly, it is an era which has already ended in far too many communities in this land. Further, if the time ever comes when a Gallatin editor has to prostitute the principles of freedom of expression to keep advertising in the paper, we hope he chooses to dig ditches. Be Cut? boats Willi plastic hull'.. Hut he's had these things in some lorin or other for a long tune now. If I had been quick-v illed on tli.it radio (ucsiou-ani! answer prngiam I might have suggested the vast ciealiveness that has gone into making new toys Inr iliililien The new Talker Tov and the ingenious plastic Slax sets enable curious 5 lo-9 year oM boys to put together the movl lautastic things Out ol wheels, sinks ard elastic bands they can make realistic merry-go-rounds, complete with mochan'cal hors es, lh.it cm In- tinned with a ci .ink Or they can tear huge modernistic cities on the living loom caivl. F.vcn in tlie case of the new !ms, however, the ingcilllltv of the manufacturer has boon p.!. hod towaid banishing certain existing lorms of rVHM' hv means of bringing the ' do it-vnur silt" movement into the play room The kid who can make his mm licet of tun ks and cars out of bits of wood, plastic or metal will not ly- in Hi,, market lor toy it-pin as ol the Hunk or llie Kai on Why shou'd a lather buy this i luid a toy strain shovel when he can help the kid make one in ts minutes of entov.ihie eviMMt tnent at what used to tie the cock tail hour ' M.ivlie lav llenle hail something when sir aked me 1iv.il nwcMion, It businessmen really have some new things tor the consumer, lit . hear alnnit it lly PKTER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEAl Presi dent Eisenhower's salty Secretary of the Treasury George Magoffin Humphrey had a favorite saying that, "Economists can t tell you where you're going they can only tell you where you've been after you get there." President Kennedy's economic message to Congress and the ac companying report of his Council of Economic Advisers are like that. The report has page after page about where the economy lias been since the Democratic administration took over. It also has a very useful, con densed compilation of what this administration lias done to try to make things better. But when you start looking for what it says about where the country is going in the years ahead, the picking is slim. So much depends on what Congress does in the next six months in relation to what the President says it should do to make things better. Trying lo get at the heart of the mat economic report as it is, lo simplify its sophisticated lan guage, is not easy. One approach might be through IN WASHINGTON . . Hy RALPH de TOLEDANO Alliance for Progress officials are watching with some concern a revolutionary build-up in Mexi co. At the core of this movement is the (.'astro - Communist al liance. At its head is former President Lazaro Cardenas, one of Fidclismo's staunchest sup porters in Latin America, winner of the Stalin Peace Prize, and a man who dreams ol a return to (lower. The issue on which this move ment, the Independent Farmers Central (CCD, is making its pitch is "agrarian reform." This is Ity SYDNEY .1. HAHRIS A college student majoring in music asked me alter a lecture not long ago, "What would you say is the chief difference be tween the artist and the layman?" I gave him some long, clumsy and not quite satisfactory answer. The question rang a dim bell in my mind, however, and upon re turning home I hunted through my library and eventually found what I had been looking for. II was a paragraph from the preface lo a collection of short plays. "The Angel That Trou bled the Waters," published by Thornton Wilder nearly 40 years ago. In speaking of the anguish in volved in the creative process, W ilder says: "An aitist is one who knows how hie should be lived at its best and is always aware of how badly he is doing it. An aitist is our who knows lie is failing in liv ing and Imls his remorse by making something fair, and a lav man is one who suspects he is tailing in living b.it is condoled hy his sin cess in gulf, in love, or in business." It is the degree of talent, of i nurse, that delermiiiis how much ol an artist one really is. Hut it is the inability to be consoled by other forms of endeavor that sharply distinguishes the artist ti-oni the layman. It he cannot be, he wants to make rather than to have. 1oM of us fail a' living, lie i .iitso movt of us (all l.tr shoit of being what humans iiighl to be. the artist not only knows this, but he letu-es to accept substitutes in tlie way of ioss!ons. This is ii i to say that he does n o t enjov Hiscssinns but they do not sa;i-ly him He i.uinot delude lunwlf that they compensate for lus l.uluio at living or his tailuie in making "something lair." li lend of mine, many yens ago. showed great promise as a P'lt t l!:it he listened to Hie siren song of ll.illwvissf. an, mov-d thi-ie. s,on auiiiMg a va-t iti lome. aomg with i V apniopuate swimming p,ol, psu hian.cvM and e - vv ile - who - w,,s an actres "hen I saw hull, a ti!m he had wiiiten had just won an i.ulcmy Aw an! Hut lie was miM-i.tVr because a Isvk ol poems he had just pub-'i-heil had been p.t-ncd in an ohsuue liteiary joi.inal n.t icad its "gross national product" fig ures. GNP is llie sum ol all the goods and services produced in the United States. This is a big concept, but simple enough for any one to understand. It's llie total of all expenditures, government and private, on a yearly basis. In I960, last year of the Eisen hower administration, GNP was $503 billion, $21 billion higher than the year belore. In 1961, first year of the Ken nedy administration, it was $518 billion, a gain of only $15 billion because of a hangover from the late I960 recession. In 1M2, GNP was $554 billion, a jump of $36 billion in spite of the stock market collapse and what everyone said was a busi ness slump. Actually, it was a pretty good year except for four million unemployed and 16,000 business failures. President Kennedy's economic message predicts that 1963 GNP will be $578 billion. This will be a gain of $24 billion over 1962. But it will be $12 billion less than the 1962 GNP gain over 1961. So the net effect of President Kennedy's new economic pro gram, as spelled out in his previ ous State of the Union and budg et messages, is that the economy will not grow as much in 1963 as it did in 1962. Mexico Reform the big thing among Latin Ameri can leftists, and a complete phon ey. In most countries south of the border there are vast areas begging for cultivation. The "ag rarian reformists," however, pre fer to clamor for the division of existing farms and ranches. After all, it takes hard pioneering work to reclaim the wilderness. It's much easier lo grab what some one else has developed. Mexico presents another prob lem. As one of the most advanced of Latin American nations, it does not have at its disposal these vast undeveloped tracts. Over the STRICTLY PERSONAL by more than a lew thousand people. His commercial success might have consoled him for his failure in his personal life; it could not console him for his de terioration as a poet, as a maker. One reason that civilization has always valued the ails is this prickly conscience of the artist, which gives him no rest unless he is working, and working at Ins highest pilch, not to possess something but lo distribute it. not lo collect or amass hut to scat ter for all people and for all limes. He pays with art Inr his deficien cies in life. POTOMAC FEVER Along with smaller taxes. .IKK propose to limit deductions. In tact, everything is being low. ered. Instead ol paying through the nose, you'll now pay Ihtoiuh gritted teeth. Angry women taunt Admiral Hieknvr for calling the I'TA a "nuisance." Now the Navy's railing him Admiral Picked over. To figure out your lax cut un der Kennedy's plan, divide this year's lav by two. ac'd your age. subtract your Social .security num ber, multiply by what you owe llie paper hoy then be' the whole thing against Congress parsing the bill anyway . Automation has gone so far, they've mm got a liook out (or coiiiputei s on how to itndei stand people. Eisenhower proposes In limit I .S. Senators to two terms. The Idea is to give lirmoerals ritual timr in relirrmrnt with Kepuhlo cans. I n,ier the new evnse amnint ru'es, llie on v gov who can prove thai a t.iniy d.nner for a isi initial customer hrips his bu-i ncss is (he (kvtor ir the unocr taker. H.L'TCHLH KNKHl.K As for the economy as a whole this year, the Prcsidc.1t predicts business investment will rise "at least modestly," home construc tion will continue at 1962 levels, government spending will rise by H billion, and consumer purchases should rise in line with gains in business and government activity. The great drag on the econ omy is still said to be the $30 billion to $40 billion oi usable productivity, idle for lack of suf ficient markets or incentives. This, it is claimed, is what holds back economic growth and full employment. Dr. Walter W. Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Ad visers, anticipates that full em ployment might be attainable in 1963, although Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon had previously said that it might not be attain able before 1967. Beyond this the Council of Eco nomic Advisers the experts don't crawl out on any limbs of business prediction. There is good reason for this. In their last report, the President predicted that gross national product for l2 would be $571 billion. He was $17 billion too high. The GNP rose less than half of the $50 billion increase predicted. Now go back and read that first paragraph again. Backfires years, it has systematically broken up the big estates, turning over the land to the peasants. The present conservative president, Adolfo Lopez Mateos, has dis tributed more land than any other Mexican leader in decades. Mexico, in fact, has reached the point where any further subdi visions would be economically harmful. When land holdings be come too small, it becomes im possible to work them profitably. Agricultural machinery, which increases yield and reduces cost, cannot be used on tiny farms. The Alliance for Progress, how ever, has made "agrarian re lorm" one of its major shibbol lelhs and now the Cardenas-led CCT has scooped up llie ball and is running with it. Tlie CCI is en couraging those who already have received farm land from the gov ernment to demand more. It is organizing landless peasants into "action groups" which make raids on the larger holdings and battle the police. The slogans being used are the tired old ones, yet. they still seem In appeal to many Latinos. Though most of the bigger farms in Mex ico are owned by natives of the country, the rallying cry is "yan qui imperialism" and the charge is made and repeated that the na tional agriculture is owned and dominated by the gringos. That more than two million peasants have been settled on community farm holdings and large coopera tives does not seem to matter to those who shout the anti-American and pro-Communist battle cries. Since 55 per cent o! the Mexi can population is agricultural, po 'itical power has frequently re sided in the rural areas. No gov ernment can remain in oflice with any degree of stability if the t.umers are opposed to it The The Castro - Communist alliance is aware of this. It also knows that outside of the cities, lew people are informed of Cuba's tragic de cline under Communism. So far, the Moxicai government has been able lo retain tlie loyal ty of most ot the country's peas ants. But the CCI is growing in stiength as its agitators move about the farm areas inventing or encouraging grievances. Senor Cardenas, though he holds no official post with the CCI has given it direction and the prestige of his name. Working with him is Vicente Iimbaido Toledano. his longtime ally and head of a confederation of Communist-dominated unions. Senor Iximbardo was once the most powerful lalior leader in all of Ijtm America. Ile can still mobihe the Com munisl cadres in Mexico and make serious trouhle. He is working be hind the scenes with the CCI in the hoie ot mountirg a Lenin stvle "workers and peasants" re volt The success of a Cardenas bmi-hardo-CCI coalition would lie a se rious blow at Western Hemtspheie unity and I S. security. Kidelis mo has many adherents in Mex ico enough to force Pie-ulent Ui v; to act vciy i.iiei'ully in any moves against the C'ib.iii Commu n,.t regime I! the Kevls aie ah to establish a strongl.oid in Mex ico. Central Ameiici will rapid ly go into a C.istio-Comniunist oi hit and the experiences in Cuha w:!l he repeated Sv;et nn-siv a'ler a.!, i an be hidden in t ie Moxuan cnun'ry-ide with far rater ca.e than en a sni.e: t arihVan is and. INOCX. lM7-!flN 100 - "."o tS.. 90 " A, V y If cot"- "'ct f it .k-iHm . lut USTHTrvt RATES 1947 1949 1951 1953 1955 1957 1959 1961 - Oross National Product, Actual and Potential MJJOW Of DOLLAR Quarterly Changes in Gross National Product and Disposable Personal Income M1KU10FMLUK IS - CMSS HAT rOHAL PRODUCT S gl CtVOSAM.EPIJOMAL I I J H 4 5 INCOME " I 3 - v i i V to - ' 1 ' 1 ' 1 1 ' 1 1 ' ' 1 ' ' 1 1 ' t ' ' 1 ' 1 ' 1 1 ' ' WASHINGTON REPORT By FLLTON' LKWIS Jit. The diplomats who represent this country in disarmament ne gotiations with the Soviet I'nion have L'ncle Sam in danger of los ing his nuclear shirt. Such is the verdict of Congress man Craig Hosmer. ranking He publican on the Joint Ati.mic En ergy Committee. "The whipsaw tactics of Soviet negotiators." he says, ' have erod ed away tlie L' S. determination to achieve an enforceable treaty with ellective machinery" to catch and punish those who violate test ban provisions. Hop. Hosmer points to Jerome Wiesner. the MIT professor who serves as chief science adviser lo the President, as a member of what he calls Ihe-lreaty-for-trca-ty's-sake school. Five years ago. wlin I'.S. -Soviet talks first ocncd, American negotiators held out for a mini mum of 20 annual on-site inspec tions of Soviet soil lo investigate seismic signals which could repre sent clandestine underground tests. Uist week, when Messrs. Khru shchev and (iromyko said the So viet I men might permit three but no more such inspect ions a year, Wiesner was joytul. We are. lie bubbled, "within shooting dis tance' of a lest ban. The American concession on in siection is only tlie latest such step backward taken by V S. ne gotiators in tieneva and Wash ington. As secret negotiations lake place in the nation ? capital, it is imperative, soys Rep. Hos mer. that I S. olttctals review and compare our posi'rin in ItCta, when test ban talks frst began, with our present position. I. Then negotiations t.iened af ter the C S had completed a cum piehensive series of niulear tests and alter suflicient analysis of the last Soviet series by I'.S. ex (lerts to determine wliMher or not any weaKins break. tliroughs had lioen aihieved Negotiations now proceed, however, alter an made o'tate I S te-1 soi ics and with mi' suftiuent time for thorough analvsis of tiie la-t Soviet seiies, w tin h ended only a mouth ago. ; Then a network ot 1RO seis mic stations around the globe was planned to deteit secret nui 'ear tests Sich a plan has now been abandoned by I S .iovicis. In siead a svstem v hi ivhv theat Price Developments in the Postwar Period l...1.,.l.,.l...f...f...l...l..l...1...1...T...1...l...ll CWJS NATIONAL PRODUCT f CAP' . ACTUAL I i t t ' i ,t t j f t t I t r i i t t, i t t j i t t i I t 1953 1954 1953 1956 1957 1956 I9&9 I960 1961 1962 US Moving Backwards In Test Negotiations ers would be expected voluntar ily In submit seismic evidence is being discussed. Then nineteen internationally manned and controlled detection stations were to be dotted across the Soviet I'nion. Now. a Soviet proposal for three unmanned "black box" seismic devices in the Soviet Union hrings shouts of joy from I' S. officials. The tamper-prone black boxes will be shuttled back and forth by Soviet airplanes and installed by Soviet personnel. .1 'Ilicn. as mentioned earlier. I'.S. negotiators held out lor Sit annual on-site inspections of mvs lerious seismic disturbances. President Kennedy has reduced this to ten; Khrushchev wants but three. "Compromise" is possible, say administration sources. 4 Then investigators could nlilie any method desired in cluding aerial photography, above and underground sii-veillanir, radiation monitoring equipment, and so on during on-site inspec tion. Now, inspection would be hamstrung by Soviet limitations on personnel and equipment. 5 Then inspections would I held at any suspected location. Now inspection teams could lie re stricted or completely denied en try into suspicious areas on grounds of "danger In the seem ity interests" of the Sov iet I nion. Teams would travel on Soviet air lines piloted hy Itusstan crews and, according to Premier Khru shchev, be further restricted hy "screening of windows in Hie planes, prohibitions to carrying photn-iameras. etc '' "Then." concludes licp. Hos mer. "tlie negotiation: started with tiie ob)ecttve ot iing such serious risks of getting i aught to i heaters that cheating would be deterred. Now negotiations are carried on m a Irame ol tefer ence encouraging c'le. ting be iause risks of getting caught would lie so nominal "In short, m gotiaiie.is he:an on a relatively sale basis or In line I nited Mates soctnity. Now they are being i.irried on from a i datively unsafe basis Had Presi dent Kennedy exhibited the same uitivessncss in im;io-ir.g his will at te test ban negot.atmg tables as he has against American busi-"cs-roen tlu s.tuation would not i'ave come about " v
