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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Fats, Ore.
Friday. February . IKi
EPSON H WA5HIN6TOH . . .
import Fees Affect
dihftiaL (paqsL
Bigger Role For Food
: ; Persistent unemployment in excess of 5
p'cr cent of the work force affects this country
ti many ways. It should occasion no surprise
tjiat grants of food to persons on public assist
ance rolls reached an all-time high last year,
r Some 7.4 million persons got food under
so-called "direct distribution" programs. If
food for charitable institutions and school
lunch programs be included, more than two
billion pounds of it were handed out in 1962.
With some prospect that further enlarge
ments of food assistance may be called for, the
Kennedy administration appears concerned at
the amount of food distribution now taking
place outside regular commercial channels.
Consequently, in President Kennedy's
1963 farm message, he proposes to shift a
substantial part of this distribution to the
food stamp program.
' Up to now this has been a limited, experi
mental effort begun in 1961 under which
needy persons are issued stamps which they
can use for food purchases at local stores.
Administration spokesmen pronounced
this plan a success in such places as West
Virginia where it has been tried. The new pro
posal would not wholly replace the direct dis
tribution of food by government agencies,
but would do so in all areas where it is con
sidered feasible.
THESE DAYS . . .
European Nations
By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN
Political patterns Are like the
Rorschach Inkblot lest the inter
preter reads his own hopes and
(cars into the smudges and curli
cues that he sees before him.
' Thus, when De Gaulle maneuv
ers to keep Britain out of the
European Common Market and
insists that France must have a
nuclear striking force under its
oltn control, our policy makers in
Washington fear for the future of
our; common western defense as
represented by NATO.
.To certain Europeans, however,
the international Roischach ink
blot yields quite a different set
of fears. What they see is a Unit
ed Slates that is bent on setting
all of the elements of interna
tional decision into its own hands.
And they (car what might come
oul of il all is not an enhanced
western alliance, but a super
Yalta accommodation with
Khrushchev that would render
Western Europe powerless to (end
for itself if an emergency should
vrr make it necessary.
- Such an interpretation f the
diplomatic inkblot may he lar
fctched. but the smudges and cur
licues that encourage It are all
there to he seen. What is not
visible is the motivation of Presi
dent Kennedy, which lo many
seems an enigma wrapped in a
riddle inside a mystery.
The Western European's fears
of a super-Yalta rise from the
idea, which may he mistaken,
that President Kennedy is wig
wagging lo Khrushchev certain
signals that a "solt" accommoda
tion from Uie United Slates is ul
tiinalely possible. The first wig
wagging signal, lo this way of
thinking, was the denial to the
Btilish of the promised Skyboll
air-to-ground missile. Although
the denial was couoled with the
promise that Polaris missiles
would he made available as com
pensation for the lost Skyhnlts,
THEY
SAY...
When ou look out ahead as to
what the next steps are in this
nuclear and missile field, there
aie steps that already lax the
capacity of the mind of man.
and they involve enormous re
sources . . . committed lo the
antimissile missile.
Secretary of State Dean Husk.
In recently released remarks he
fora a Senate committee.
"... We must plan for a future
With ail of Asia behind Oie Iron
Curtain. We cannot p r d i e I
one security and our future on
fjie hup for a Russian-Chinese
plil. . . . Il is best to overesti
mate, rather than underestimate,
the strength of our enemies.
-Rep. William Jennings Bryan
Horn. DSC. discounts pres
ent Iliusia-Chlne dissension.
Fear Super-Yalta In Process
the fact that Britain will have to
build a fleet of Po aris-carrying
submarines from -scratch lent an
ominous air to the cancellation
of the Skyboll program. It will
be years before the British can
have an effective missile-carrying
submarine fleet. Certain interpre
ters have gathered Irom all this
that Kennedy was obliquely wig
wagging lo Khrushchev that he
need not take an independently
armed Britain into his calcula
tions for many years to come.
The second element in the super-Yalta
interpretation of the dip
lomatic Rorschach inkblot was the
announcement that our own Jupi
ter land-based missiles were be
ing removed from Turkey and
Italy. Though the Administration
insisted that the removal was
strategically meaningless, inas
much as the Jiipltcrs would he
replaced by Polaris submarines
kept "on the ready" in Mediter
ranean waters, the gesture, when
coupled with the assertion that il
bad no connection with Khrush
chev's withdrawal of rockets Irom
Cuba, seemed like a confession
of wholly voluntary "softness."
This implication was strengthened
by the fact that the U.S. had not
ocnly demanded a quid pro quo
horn the Soviets on Berlin in ex
change lor the removal of the
Jupitcrs. Where we might have
made a shrewd horse-trade, we
apparently have abstained from
taking a tough trading line out of
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Expansion of the food stamp plan would
seem to have an automatic appeal for all those
who think it a mistake for the federal govern
ment to be in the food distribution business on
a large and growing scale. Food retailers evi
dently would feel substantial benefit if this
program is approved.
Present direct distribution involves food
valued at around $365 million in a year's
time. The President says the costs of switch
ing to the food stamp plan in many sectors
will be largely offset by saving in direct dis
tribution. Chances are, however, that the off
set will not be complete.
Even if it is not, however, many in the
food field may conclude that some additional
cost would not be too high a price to pay for
reducing sharply the government's own food
operations.
A shift to greater reliance on food stamps
may get new impetus also from some recent
reports that certain private food handlers are
reaping excessive profits from handling the
government food packages which are too
bulky for needy persons to carry home.
All in all, the proposal to turn far more
federal food assistance into private channels
through use of food stamps seems a desirable
change assuming always that the inevitable
red tape costs can be held to a tight minimum.
consideration for Khrushchev's
sensibilities.
The third element in the super
Yalta interpretation of the ink
blot has been our failure to press
for on-the-spcil insection of pre
sumptive missile sites and storage
caverns in Cuba. And a fourth
element is the revival of atomic
test-ban negotiations in Wash
ington, which, however desirable
an atomic testing armistice may
he, promises to run up .against
De Gaulle's program for testing
his own arsenal of atomic weap
ons. Whether the super-Yalta inter
pretation of the diplomatic inkblot
makes sense depends on .Mr. Ken
nedy's own private feelings.
When Mr. Kennedy assures Khru
shchev that wc have no desire
to turn small disputes into a
big atomic blow-off, it is not
necessarily a confession of weak
ness. Nor does our desire to con
centrate the nuclear striking pow
er nf the West in NATO necessari
ly mean that we can't he counted
UH)n to keep the western alliance
diplomatically as well as mili
tarily potent.
Nevertheless, Franslin I). Roos
evelt misjudged the character of
Stalin at Teheran and Yalta and
the tears will not down that Ken
nedy may have a "grand design"
lor peace in mind that dues not
reckon with the real character of
Khrushchev.
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By RALPH de TOLEDANO
As I used to write in my days
as a reporter, "It will be denied,
. but ..."
It will be denied, but the pres
sure is on again to force FRt
Director .1. Edgar Hoover out of
his job. The explanation being of
fered is that Mr. Hoover is not
as young as he used to be, that
youth should lake over.
This is, of course, nonsense. For
decades, John Edgar Hoover has
been devoting most of his waking
hours to the FBI. When he took
over, it was corrupt and ineffi
cient. Today, it is a model among
law enforcement agencies, linlike
By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
A magazine I was reading in
the barber shop not long ago
asked a dozen prominent men in
various fields. "W hat do you first
notice in a woman?"
Some o( the answers, of course,
were suggestively facetious, and
others were solemn; but the only
reply that showed any i-eal in
sight was made by Oleg Cassini,
the dress designer.
He did not mention tlie figure
or the posture or the clothes or
any other superficial aspect that
might be expected from one con
nected with costuming. He said,
rather:
"What I notice first about a
woman is her mouth, then her
eyes. . . . Her mouth tells me
how she feels about herself. Her
eves say how she lecls about
other people including me."
11 is astonishing how many
women utterly tail to comprehend
tliat what shows in their mouths
and eyes can totally cancel out
the eflect of their clothes and
their cosmetics. In fact, the bet
ter groomed and the more careful
ly made-up. the greater the con
trast between their external ap
pearancc and their inner appeal.
Such women spend billions ev
ery vear on devices and decora
tions to improve their figures and
tlieir looks yet if the mouth is
i-esenttiil and discontented, if tlie
eyes are greedy and calculating,
all of their v.T-t expenditures of
motley and energy and time might
as well have boon tossed down the
dram.
This is es()ecially true of older
women, who unmistakably reveal
in their eyes and moutlis the way
they have coired with hie. the
adjustments or maladjustments
they have made, the philosophy
lliey live by. the attitude tliey
have adopted toward men and
other women and status and jxi
sessions and the wlnrle fabric of
tlieir emotional cXTiencr
If such adjustments and alti
tudes have lxen healthy and hon
est and generous ami hunfcirnii
and compassionate, then tlie lig
ore and tlie dollies become w bul
ly suboi'dmale to the ivrsonalitv ;
after awhile, we see nothing brrt
the spirit shining oul from smh
a person.
Contrariwise, if the emotional
stiiictiu'e has been ravaged by
envy or petulance or self-pity or
excessive vanitv. tiien the ex
pensive and wril-iailinprl cliM'vx,
Oust
er
other government agencies, it dis
courages clock-watching and time
serving. Against tremendous dif
ficulties and a steady sniping from
the bleeding hearts, the FBI has
held espionage and subversion in
check, helped improve the caliber
of local police forces, and (lecly
given its expert help to other
agencies in the apprehension of
criminals. It has done this with
out Heading on the toes of citi
zens and with a scrupulous re
gard for the Constitutional rights
of law breakers and the law-abiding.
Why, then, is (lie attempt lo
shuttle olf Mr. Hoover being re-
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
the impeccable make-up and hair
styling seem like a clown's cos
tume, showing up in pitiless con
trast tlie bitter mouth and the
tortured eyes that disclose a basic
dissatisfaction with one's self and
with the world.
POTOMAC
FEVER
Don't worry about World War
III. First we have to have tlie nu
clear tryouts to see who's left to
represent our side, the U.S. and
Britain or France and Canada.
Franklin Roosevelt Jr. Is
named t'nderseeretary of Com
merce. He's a sports ear sales
man and that's his job for 'M
selling the racy JFK with
the huttondnwn rhetoric.
The Senate blocks a drive to end
filibusters. A senator's dream of
Heaven is a machine that will
produce instant talk on I.. P. rec
ords. Sen. Hairy Byrd fears the big
deficit may lead In inflation.
You'll know it's inflation when
they start putting out the dollar
hill in morning and evening edi
tions. Maine Republicans have their
name for Washington. D.C.:
Krnnerivbunkport.
Canada's Prime Minister Dief
enhaker blasts the L'.S. very un
sportsmanlike He's supposed to
wail in line. This month it's De
(iaulle s turn.
Taul Rrown is fired as coach
of the Cleveland Browns after 17
years. He won US names, but he
tailed In mold strong minds in
strong bodies 4S times.
One kid prefers Ben Casey
to Dr. Klldare. He savt with Ren
Casey's brand of surgery, xnu
gel prettier nurses.
Teddy Kennedy is seated as a
I'S. Senator. The Kenneclvs en
toy public service. Thev should.
They're the nation's last unregu
lated public ulihtv
Fl.Fn HF.lt KNEKKL
Making
In
newed? To answer the question,
you have to go back lo one of tlie
cardinal principles he imposed
when he was called in, many
years ago, to lake over the FBI.
That principle was: stay out of
politics.
No matter who was in the
White House or who ran the Jus
tice Department, Mr. Hoover
would not permit FBI files to be
used for the kind of quiet pres
sure which will hold in line a
legislator, an olficial in the Execu
tive branch, or a private citizen.
The FBI fUes were to be used
for one purpose only: the appre
hension of criminals.
In loyalty-security cases, Mr.
Hoover and the FBI made it a
point never to pass judgment on
those whose activities and asso
ciations were being reviewed. The
FBI, Mr. Hoover has said re
peatedly, is the investigates arm
of the Justice Department not a
national police force. The FBI
has reported to the President,
the Attorney General, and on
some occasions to Cabinet mem
bers. But it does not recommend
action.
It is not telling tales out of
school to recall that from time
to lime strenuous efforts have
lieen made lo use the FBI as a
club with which to beat political
opponents. Now those efforts are
being repeated but with a cer
tain degree of subtlety. Senators
on one important committee are
being asked by the Justice De
partment to request the FBI files
of individuals on the Adminis
tration's "drop dead" list. The
contents would therefore be avail
able for political purposes without
tainting the Justice Department
of the White House
As I said, "it will he de
nied. . . ." But the FBI has re
fused flatly lo cooperate. The
liles, as always, are not to be
opened up for this kind of use.
Whether Mr. Hoover will be
forced out is a matter for con
jecture. I have not discussed
this story with him or with any
one at the Bureau. 1 feel (hat it
would lie insulting for me to put
the question to a man with a
career so unblemished that to ask
it would amount to an insult.
But if the mliticians succeed
in "getting" John Edgar Hoover,
they may be hoist by their own
petard. For one thing, the open
ing of the files would hurt men
of all parlies and all stations.
Pandora's box would be nothing
in comparison. Lives would he
ruined, but the ruination would
he bipartisan.
Secondly and this is just a
guess I don't think that Mr.
Hoover would sit idly by as his
life's work was destroyed. There
would he men of power and
stature to stand al his side. In
tlie long run. his detractors would
suiter.
To repeat: "It will be de
nied. . . ." As a correspondent
w ho has seen the FBI at work. I
hope it is. The important thing
for all Americans is lo see that
Mr Hoover continues to be the
FBI direx-tor. V. !'n he retires, he
should be consulted on tlie choice
of a successor. There are otlxrs
m the Bureau who have been
(rained by Mr Hoover and who
share his principles. One of them
and not a man selected for h:s
political services to (his or any
orher Administration should car
ry (ire M'ch.
Chicken
By PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON iNEM Many
Americans couldn't care less about
the hassle between French Presi
dent Charles de Gaulle and Brit
ish Prime Minister Harold Mac
millan over Britain's admission
to the Common Market.
But there's one angle of this
that every American has an in
terest in. It's how mch Ameri
can fried chicken the Common
Market countries will ea. and what
the price will be.
Export nf America! poultry
meats to the six EEC European
Economic Community or Com
mon Market countries has dropped
nearly 50 per cent in the last year.
It was over 29 million pounds a
month at the end of lfliil, only 15
million pounds a month at the
end of 1!K2 and headed down
ward. A principal reason for the drop
was a 25 per cent price increase.
This was caused entire'y by new
Common Market trade restrictions
in the form of import fees.
Before the Common Market laid
down its agricultural xlicy last
August, American poultry broil
ers, fowl, frozen and canned meats
could be landed in Europe at
.11.4 cents a pound on the aver
age. The Germans levied a 4 5
cents a pound tariff on that to
protect domestic poultry raisers,
but the 35.9 cent price was com
petitive with European wholesale
prices.
Under the Common Market, the
4.5 cents duty has been dropped,
but four additional import fees
have been added.
These extras add up to 13.3
cents a pound. The pri.c of Amer
ican poultry delivered in Europe
thus goes to 44.7 cents a pound
average. This is far higher than
EEC domestic prices. II. S. poul
trymen can't compete with it
and their European market is fast
disappearing.
The U.S. government is kicking
about this, naturally. It wasn't
mentioned in the official commu
nique, but when German Chancel
lor Konrad Adenauer was in Wash
Letters To
Not Quiet
It was stated in the Herald and
News Jan. 25. I!)fi3 that those op
posed to government zoning would
not quiet down and "listen to an
explanation of the facts."
It is true that those opposed
are not going to quiet down. But.
they have listened and are not
under any misconceptions. They
are definitely not uninformed. On
the contrary, people opposed to
government planned zoning are,
without a doubt, tlie most well
informed people on this subject.
These people have, through sheer
indignation at tlie whole concept
of government zoning, gone out of
their way to avail themselves of
all the facts available. Yes, these
people are much better informed
than those who say they are for
government zoning because they
want lo get rkl of their neigh
bor's cow.
We are also told that some sac
rifices must be made. Webster's
dictionary defines sacrifice as,
"goods sold at a loss." No. we
do not plan to barter our basic
rights. We plan to save our free
dom. I. personally, feel that we. the
suburban people, are now in the
process of being mentally condi
tioned to the idea and facts of
government planned zoning. In
fact, one might call it, brain
washing. Suburban government zoning is
an insult to the intelligence of
the American people. Are we in
the suburban area so gullible that
we will swallow this hngwash?
Are we so lacking in ersonal
Almanac
By United Press International
Today is Friday. Feb. a. the
3nth day of ISM with 326 In fol
low. The moon is full.
The morning star is Venus.
The evening stars are Mars
and Jupiter.
Those horn on this day are un
der the sign of Aquarius.
On this day in history:
In 1SH7. Mary. Queen nf Scots,
was beheaded after being charged
with plotting the murder of Brit
ain's Queen Elizabeth I.
In IC40. every 10th person was
shot in two villages near Warsaw,
Poland, in reprisal for the deaths
of two German soldiers.
In linf. an Air Force jet bomb
er flew across the United States
in three hours. 46 minutes the
fastest transcontinental Might to
that dale.
In l'.'V). in a surprise move. So
vie Premier Malenknv resigned
as chief of state.
V tboiisht for the day Greek
story leiirr Aesop said: "It is
easv to despise what vou cannot
get"
Shipments
ington last fall. Presiden Kenne
riy complained to him about it. Af
ter a long debate in t.ie Bunde
stag, German import (ces were
cut two cents a pound.
Whether Adenauer and De
Gaulle discussed this when they
signed their historic treaty of co
operation also was not mentioned
in their communique.
Other things are involved,
though chicken has becon e a sym
bol in this battle. The Common
Market has thrown up restrictions
on U.S. wheat and wheat flour,
feed grains, rice, tobacco and veg
etable oils. Cotton, soybeans, hides
and skins, tallow, oil cake and
meal are getting a belter break.
France has restrictions against
American apples, pears, prunes,
citrus fruits, canned f'uits and
juices as well as many industrial
products.
New U.S. "trade czar." former
Secretary nf State Christian A.
Herter. has gone to Europe as
Kennedy's chief negotiator under
the U.S. Trade Expansion Act
passed by the last Congress. One
of his principal jobs will be to
work for removal or lowering of
all EEC trade restrictions.
This is done by filint; what are
known as Article 23 proceedings
under the General Agretment on
Tariffs and Trade.
The United Slates already has
started such proceedings against
France. West Germany and Bel
gium. Earlier proceedings against
Italy resulted in withdrawal ot
their fees.
The new Trade Expansion Act
set a firm policy in attacking re
strictions against exports of both
industrial and agricultural prod
ucts. It provides that the U.S. may
take "protective action" by rais
ing similar restrictions on imports
from countries that discriminate
against American exports
In the case of France, the Unit
ed States might impose import
fees on such things as, well
French wines, goose liver and
cheese. That would create a real
test on who would chicken out
and be the first to cry "Uncle
Sam!"
The Editor
pride, integrity and good old fash
ioned guts, that we w ill stand still
and let our constitutional "right
of property" be taken from us?
I hope not.
Government planned zoning is
unconstitutional. Even if brought
to a vote each of us would b
voting for or against our consti
tutional rights for anything aj
silly as a pretty view or what my
neighbor docs for his living.
Private enterprise has made
this entire country whal it is to
day. America, and our way of
lite is envied by the people o(
almost every country in the
world. It is high time that each
and every American citizen gets
over his apathetic outlook to
wards government. We can pro
tect our constitutional rights only
if we make the effort to be well
informed on all issues, register to
vote and slop letting George do it.
Mrs. Pauline Ijibbe,
3313 Altamont Drive,
North Altamont Precinct.
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
Q What type social philoso
pher! collaborated In Issuing th
Communist Manifesto of 1HII?
A Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels.
Q Whal type of star Is a
nnva?
A A star which undergoes a
sudden and enormous increase in
brightness: about 25 appear every
year in our galaxy.
Q What U.S. president deliv
ered a speech In which he used
the term "muckrake"?
A Theodore Roosevcll used
the term "muckrake" in attack
ing the practice of making
sweeping and unjust charges of
corruption against public mrn
and corporations.
Q-llow long did the Allied
evacuation of Dunkirk last?
A Begun May 26. 1940. it was
completed June .1 when some
.l.m.ono British, French and Bel
gian troops reacr.ed English
ports safely.
Q W hat is the origin of the ei
pressinn "spie and span?"
A "Spic" is short for "spike"
and "span" originally meant a
chip. So a "spic ar.d span" new
ship the way the phrase a
first used was one in which all
the hardware and boards were
brand new.
Q How did the "punnsej
hut" get its name?
A From (he naval base at
Quonset Point, R I. where it a
developed.