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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.
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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
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CtVOSAM.EPIJOMAL I I J H
4 5 INCOME " I 3
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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
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f CAP' . ACTUAL
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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