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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore.
Tuesdav, February If, 1961
EPSON IN WASHINGTON . . .
Minimum Wage Fight
The Melody Lingers On and On
m Looms During Session
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Challenge
These days the world struggle against
communism dominates the federal budget,
consumes 80 per cent of the President's lime,
preempts the thoughts of millions of citizens
as 'international matters never did in decades
past.
C Our very survival can hang in the bal
ance as vital decisions are made. The strength
ofour free world alliances is under constant
tqst. The race to beat our adversaries in
space commands our highest resources. The
future independence of people struggling up
ward may hinge on what we do.
: Yet it is misleading to suggest from this
that those decisions which affect principally
the domestic sphere of life are by comparison
easy choices.
A notion seems to be afoot that, not
sjjnply on the surface but in reality, our
ttnVne front arguments are almost wholly over
money. Programs bearing on housing, ed
ucation, welfare, highways and the like revolve
largely around how much to spend.
: But some thoughtful appraisers of 1 0f3
America are venturing to suggest that our de
iisions in these fields need to be invested
filh much more qualitative judgment than
they are getting.
For example, we are spending not much
fcss than $4 billion in federal funds this year
for our interstate highway system. That is a
fair-sized piece of the U.S. cash budget.
' The decision to spend sums of such size
on U.S. highways was made years ago. But was
it the only crucial one?
;' , Around one big eastern city a complete
WASHINGTON
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; Vewspapcr Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON tNKAi Under
Secretary of Agriculture Charles,
j. .Murphy unconsciously or in
stinctively expressed what it takes
to he a period government serv
ant and bureaucrat.
"Anything I tell you that differs
from anything the secretary of
agriculture may have told you,"
aid Murphy, "is wrong."
The following is a notice in the
Defence Department press room;
NOT KOIl ATTRIIHITION.
The Department of Defense w ill
hold a background bricling at
3 pm. EST today on the subject
(.' Ivackgmiind hrielmgs. Aulhori
talive spokesmen will he avail
able. The briefing will Ive held in the
usual background brieling room.
Sign in the Pentagon: "Have a
piohlom'' (in that way." Arrows
Mint vaguely olf in every direc
tion. A new old story on Puerto Hiro's
(lov. Munoz M.nin came to light
during his visit to Washington lor
a little politicking nit the future
status nl his booming island.
As the governor tells it. he
asked his secretary to call the
be.iil of the San .loan nil ice ol the
FBI, named Bishop, to sec if
lie could dtop in about six one
evening. Sieaking in Spanish, the
bilingual governor used the Eng
lish name "llishop" and thought
everything was clear.
When 6 n'clivk rolled around,
however, the secretary came in
to announce thai "Hie archhishop
is liere."
To make the best of an em
barrassing situation, Cov. Mono;
M.irin went out to greet his guest
and told him about die niixup.
Equally fast in his thinking, the
anlihisup replied, 'That's a wnn
ilciful story. I'm going to tell it
to my constituents who are meet
ing tonight "
"Please don't." asked the gov
ernor, "until 1 can ligure nut
what I'm going In tell my constilu
cnls about it tomorrow."
The Washington grapevine tele
graph llom Ah tea is source lor
several stones going the round
on bow Russian aid to the under
develood countries is backliring.
In liuinea. which is now com
pletely disillusioned about com
munism, a shipment of small ltu
sun vehicles was delivered. They
bad been made lor Arctic service,
however, with the muffler and
rliaiisl under the driver s seat
to keep him hum freezing to
death When African drivers in
tiopn.il shorts got behind the
vhrel, thry look a fast burn
Navy Scuetaty Fred Kotlh ol
Te.a has wntlcn a letter to
On The Home Front
NOTEBOOK
Out Of The Middle!
( apt. L. It. Gcis, commanding
officer n( the aircraft earner For
restal, which leads in part:
"Dear Captain (iris: During my
visit to your great ship just he
fore Christmas I was maneuvered
into making a public (closed tele
vision prognostication regarding
the probable outcome of t h e
Texas - LSI! Cotton Howl game
.Ian. I. As I recall, I predicted
Texas would win by a score of
seven to six." (editor's nolo LSI!
won. 1,1-0'.
"Now we do things thoroughly
here in the Pentagon, as you nl
ready know. Kven so. I can find
no way of altering the result ol
the game, or of avoiding responsi
bility (or a rather gross error in
judgment which may well have
inconvenienced lor even intiv
erished' some or those who heard
my prediction.
"Since such inconvenience or im
poverishment is a dueel result of
my own error 1 feel that some
restitution is called lor Although
llv SY!NKY .1. HARItlS
The Chinese community in Chi
cago and in New York and S.m
Ki ani'iMi., and other cities lh.it
have one cc Initiated its e w
Year on Jan. 27. Ami what a Ini.vl
it was.
Tlw Chinr.c New Yr.ir fotivi
lies included Ihiee dins of intro
ducing the year ol the labhit, ((.
Hut it wasn't an thing like the
way m which we celebrate the
Cluislun era in l!v't 1 guess
the 1 lune.se just don't know an
better.
There were no wild parties, nn
di unkennesv no auloniohile col
lisions at high ami erratic peed.
Instead, the heathen had a pa
rade, fnlloued hy special mmies
and a Chinese opera
The men didn't put on m!Iv hals
and slobber all oer a night club
table Instead. follow mg an old
pa Kan tiaditiou, they paid n((
their outstanding debt to meet
tlte new rar with a clean slate.
And the women dtdn'l even
bae seiw enmuh to pet loaded
on (h.trnpak'ne and nun thru new
party gowns Instead, i.icy ni.nle
then homes .spotlcsv ptep.iniu
to greet the nr ear by turn
mg a new domestic leaf.
Theie weie also absolutely no
reports of Chinese jmemle delin
quents hitting the beer bottles,
hit iimg their paients' i at., or
similarly celebrating the Christian
etas welcome In tlx year l'vl.
Kor a long time nn, the Chi-
Si
belt highway now serves motorists. Around
another, a similar belt is partially finished.
But already skeptics are saying it should have
been designed for eight lanes rather than six,
to meet rising traffic loads.
At a recent session of the Highway Re
search Board, which studies a broad range of
highway problems, Charles Zwick of the Rand
Corporation suggested in a paper that trans
portation systems for tomorrow can be prop
erly conceived only if some very refined
judgments are made.
It is not enough just to make projec
tions of future population, numbers of cars
expected, and so on.
What kind of dwellings will people be liv
ing in? What change swill occur in the make
up of industry? Will people have more time
for recreation? Will their current urge for
privacy in Iransportation (the automobile) con
tinue to diminish?
Engineers may argue persuasively about
ways to move large numbers of people cheap
ly and effectively. But before vast sums are
laid out, says Zwick, we had belter know what
people really want, where they will in fact
wish to go in leisure time and where they will
have to go in work hours.
The immense traffic burdens which often
descend quickly upon "highways of the fu
lure" suggest that some of these matters are
being foreseen only dimly.
Domestic concerns are in the background
today. Yet their complexities, properly
weighed, are hardly less challenging than
those of the international scene.
regulation of leave and liberty is
the sole responsibility of the CO
I would consider it a personal fa
vor to me if you would grant a
spcciul 48-hour "Cotton Bowl Lib
erty" to all hands, on nn orderly,
nol lo-inlerfere basis. . , ." Sin
cerely, Fred Knrlh.
"P S. Undeterred by 1 his tem
porary setback I freely predict
that Navy will make it live in a
row over Army this fall."
Radio Free Europe reorls this
one heard ill East Rerlin:
Two citi.ens are looking criti
cally at a new bust of Walter I'l
In i. lit.
"What do jou think of it'.'"
asks one.
"It has two laulls," Hie other
replies.
"What are they'.'"
"Well, in the first place there is
no inscription: 'Rest in peace.' "
"Rut Comrade IMhrioht isn't
dead yet." the first points nut.
"That's the second lault."
STRICTLY
PERSONAL
ncx community has heen a hint
on the civic records of American
communities. They just don't
seem to Want to participate in our
national folkways.
They refuse to accept their
nghtlul share of our alcoholics,
our reliefers, our prostitutes, our
delinquents, our deadbeats, our
criminals, our reckless drixers,
our fraudulent insurance claim
ants, our whole resplendent tapes
ti y of tn twin living.
They won't even celebrate the
new year in the American Way
and in what has conn1 to be the
accepted Christian spirit. The po
lice blotter on any hohda Chi
nese or Westernis almost total
ly devoid of their names. And
live lamtly courts and welfare
a pern-ics are shamefully .snubbed
by them.
1 think we have a sacred obliga.
(ton to send ro,c missionaries to
these bemphted eopie. True, they
seem to be backward in picking
up our ctwhed practices, but
with a little Guidance and pood
will, 1 am sure we tan pet them
to take part in our communal
activities.
And, when tltey have forsaken
their o'.d - fashioned heathenish
ways, maybe net year, or the
sear alter, they will join the test
of us m proclaiming the Christian
new ear as decent, forward
looking people Mvuld hats,
bonis, hooch, homicide and all
We can but .
IN WASHINGTON
J?f Unjustified Attack On YAF
By RALPH rie TOLEDANO
In the days before the nation
prew bored with the Communist
problem, it was a matter of al
most daily lamentation from
academic groups to bewail the
loss of America's freedom. If a
professor was dismissed hy a col
lefie for taking the Fifth Amend
ment, there were always voices to
predict that "anti-Communist hys.
teria" had gripped the nation.
"Academic freedom" a much
misused term was the battle
cry.
The bleeding hearts insisted that
to expose to student eyes the
workings ot tlte Ited conspiracy,
and to force it out into the open,
was an abridgement of academic
freedom.
I hear no outcry today from
the same quarters over the banish
ment of a student group from
Niagara Cniversity. Young Ameri
cans lor Freedom, the organiza
tion in question, is dedicated to
the American way of lite, to the
fight against Communism, and to
the free enterprise system. It has
chapters in many of the major
colleges and universities. Despite
Irequent and sordid efforts to
smear its leaders and its program.
YAK has weathered the attack
and continues to grow. It is a
legitimate student organization
pursuing a legitimate cour' of
action.
Yet the Rev. John ('nine, direc
tor ol student activities at Niaga
ra L'niversity. has banned Young
Americans lor Kreedom Ironi the
campus on the grounds that its
principles are "contrary to the
American way ol hie" and to
"sound Catholic principles." My
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best information is that YAK has
not been allowed to answer
Father Caine's charges in the stu
dent newspaper.
1 am more than a little startled
by the nature of the attack. I am
also precious curious to deter
mine in what way YAK and-or I
are un-American and anti-Catholic.
Father Cainc takes exception to
two of YAK's tenets: a "That
liberty is indivisible and that poli
tical freedom cannot long exist
without economic Iroedom." and
i2' "That when lite government
interferes with the work of the
market economy it tends to re
duce the moral and physical
strength of the nation; that when
it tikes from one to bestow on
another, it diminishes the incen
tive of the first, the integrity of
the second, and the moral auto
nomy of both."
Do you find anything subversive
or anti-Catholic in either of those
two tenets, as the lathers at Ni
agara contend? Certainly. Amer
icans for Democratic Action and
the Socialist Party would debate
the validity of the points made
hy YAK. Rut millions of Ameri
cansProtestant, Catholic, and
.lew .subscribe to the first. In our
complex society, the political and
the economic become increasingly
inlor-depondcnt. That the loss of
the one follows on the loss of the
other has been argued by some
of our most respected political
economists.
The second tenet cited by Nia
gara L'niversity. in its statement
banning YAF has been taken to
mean that the organization op
poses all legislation involving gov-
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my, all foreign aid, and all as
sistance to those in need of public
help. This happens not to be a
true statement of the YAF record.
As Robert E. Bauman, YAK'ij
national chairman, put it, "It
would have been more correct to
say that YAK favors a free mar
ket economy with the least
amount of government regulation
compatible with public order. We
would much rather support sound
programs of public welfare on
the town, county, or state levels,
lather than by a centralized fed
eral government. . . . We approve
and siipHirt military and economic
assistance to free nations on a
selective basis."
These are positions which a
substantial number of Senators
and Representatives as well as
grassroots Americans support.
But even if YAK had a monopoly
on them, it still would not he
premier to stifle these ideas. Those
w ho opposed them could say they
were zany or impractical or what
have you, but hardly subversive or
anti-religious. A true believer in
academic freedom would .still give
them a stall in the marketplace
of ideas. YAF openly espouses its
principles. Therefore, YAF has
a right on every college campus
in America.
It is particularly ironic that
YAK should lie banned by a Cath
olic university. Kive of its 21
memlter board of directors are
Catholics. On its advisory hoard
are prominent members of the
Catholic clergy and laity. Why
then Father Caine's attack on a
reputable and dedicated youth or
ganization? LETTERS
TO THE
EDITOR
Not Legal
In view of the patriotic inler
p.st shown in the remit month
in this area. I am now sure that
every ntten w ants an honest
election. In my opinion the re
ivnt vector election was not lo
cal. Many means are being ued
to cnntiiM and control citizen.
Actually they are handling this
like a hot potato. They are mak
ing it wore all the time.
There are a number of real
queviionable items in the Vector
Amendment. House Bill 1281. I will
list only three,
1 If petition is made for dis
solution of a vector ditrict and
an election is held and does not
pas. the hoard can require that
the people who signed the peti
tion pay (or the election.
2. .Notice of an election is (o be
only two weeks in advance. This
i- not enough time for an election
police.
The vector board is given the
right to appoint judge?, and
clerks of election and make Mut
able arrangement (or4 the con
din t of elections.
1 ak von in t this third item
a dandv? The board personal
runs its own flection and counts
Hs own votes. What chance would
we have!
Andrew R. (ti:!er
By PETER EDSOV
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON I NE A Presi
dent Kennedy's announced inten
tion to ask Congress for authority
to bring more workers under the
minimum wage law points up a
major dispute on this issue be
tween the U.S. Department of La
bor and the U.S. Chamber of Com
merce. Most frequently mentioned pro
posal is to provide Fair Labor
Standards Act coverage to 500.000
hotel, motel, restaurant and laun
dry workers, which Congress re
fused to do in 1961. Other pro
posals have been made to ex
tend coverage to over six mil
lion workers in retail and whole
sale trade, local transportation,
industrial and white collar work
ers. Next Sept. 3 the day after La
bor day. incidentally the mini
mum wage will advance from
$1.15 an hour to $1.25 for some 24
million workers already covered.
This will be the second advance
from the $l-an-hour rate author
ized by I1 amendments to the
Fair Labor Standards Act.
Two million workers received
the first 15 cents an-hour raise and
(iiw.000 retail trade and construc
tion workers not previously cov
ered were brought under the act
for the first time at $1 an hour.
These newly covered workers will
have their wages raised to $1.15
Sept. 3, KM and to $1.25 an hour
a year later.
They'll also be eligible for time-and-a-half
pay for work over 44
hours a week after Sept. 3, IBM,
for over 42 hours a year later,
and for over 40 hours two years ;
later.
.All these increases were made
applicable to retail and service
industries with $1 million or more
annual business receiving $250,000
wnrtH of goods across state lines.
For the first time, this broadened
the act to cover industries not
wholly in interstate commerce.
Secretary of Labor W. Willard
Wirlz has just sent to Congress
an annual report on the effects
of these Iflfil amendments.
He finds that the 1H61 raises had
no inflationary impact nn wages
WASHINGTON REPORT . . .
Africa Lobby Spends
Huge Sums In States
By Fl'LTON LEWIS JK.
The honorable "Soapy" Williams
may be interested in some very
significant figures on file in a
Justice Department office located
a stone's throw from Capitol Hill.
So. loo. might Carl T. Rowan,
another State Department oflic
ial who teamed up with Williams
little more than a year ago 4o
expose "a clever, big money cam
paign" waged in this country in
behalf of Katanga President
Moie Tshomhe.
Messrs. Williams and Rowan
threw spotlight of "exposure"
upon Michel Stnielens. the artic
ulate chief of Tshomhe's Katanga
Information Services, located ,n
New York. Both Williams and Ro
wan charged that Stnielens had
"spread around" $140,000 over a
period of twelve months in a vain
attempt to convince Americans
they should support Katanga's se
cession. Reports on ile with the Foreign
Agents Registration Section of the
Justice Department, 101 Indiana
Avenue. N. W. disclose that the
Slate Department backed Cen
tral Congolese government has
"spread around" money in this
country at twice the clip of
.Stnielens.
Three separate organizations,
operating in behalf of Premier
Adoula's Central government,
spent a total of $219,552 from De
cember. 1961 to November, 1962.
Struelens's "Katanga lobby"
spent less money '$216.5.19.75' in
two years than the Central govern
ment did in eieven months.
At the very time that Rowan
and Williams launched their cam
paign of vilification against .Stnie
lens. in December, 1961. a New
York firm was receiving large
sums of money Irom tlte Con;o A
(wo man operation. Overseas Re
gional Association 'ORS.V, regis
tered with the Justice Department
on November 9. reporting its
lunrtinn was to "coordinate the
public relations campaign" of the
Adouia government.
From IVccmber 12. 1961 to Mav
.11. 1962. ORSA received M.o5T 44
from the Central government.
ORS, in turn, hired a New York
public relations firm to help build
Cynl'e Ackmia's image.
Between Decemiier. 19M. and
November. 1962. Mdhurn Mr "ar
ty .Vwriates received iliw.fne 86
liom ORS. Thin went for "ad
vice, printing, travel and enter
tainment." I'nder term of the eonnact.
Milburn McCarty Associates pre
pared press releases for thud
t onto agent, the Congo Informa
lion Bureau. This outhlt wa
in general. Also, he finds that the
raises had few detrimental ef
fects nn the levels of employ,
ment in affected industries.
Only in the southern sawmill
industry was any drop in employ
ment noted, but this merely contin
ued a decline that has been going
on for a number of years.
Of 36 industries affected by
minimum wage increases in the
South, prices dropped in eight and
increased by an average of three
per cent in nine. But living stan
dards by all covered workers are
reported to have been, increased
by about 10 per cent.
Employment has actually in
creased in all other industries
covered since the 1901 minimum
wage increase took effect, Wirlz
reports. He finds that workers
not covered by the act did not
benefit indirectly from the in
crease. He uses this fact to un
derline the necessity for further
minimum wage law coverage.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
however, has announced its op
position to any further extensions
of minimum wage law coverage
until effects of the 1961 increases
have been fully dissipated. This
would probably mean no action
before 1966.
Employer arguments against
minimum wage laws are princi
pally that they tend to create
unemployment among unskilled
workers and that they reduce
purchasing power by promoting
inflation. Little evidence is offered
to support these theories, how
ever, and the assertions are in
direct conflict with the report
just sent to Congress by Wirtz.
Employers also advance the ar
gument that government should
have no part in setting wages in
a free economy even minimum
wages. H is conceded by the
chamber, however, that the $.'!
billion increase in the national
wage bill attributed to minimum
wage raises is only one per cent
of the $325 billion total.
These are the main lines n(
argument that will be heard as
the Kennedy administration pre
sents details of its plans for fur
ther expansion of minimum wags
coverage.
beaded up by Maurice Kasongo,
who spoke no English and who
lived at New York's hotel Bel
mont Plaza. His salary fluctuated
from $700 to $1,800 a month.
Note: Despite the defeat hy
by U.N. troops of Tshomhe. Ad
ministration officials continue in
their efforts to deport Stnielens,
who has violated no laws and who
was allowed to enter this country
on a valid visa.
State Department spokesmen
admit frankly that Struelens has
been ordered to leave because he
has heen "too effective" in selling
Tshomhe's case to the American
public.
Stnielens has appealed an Im
migration Service ruling that he
must pack up and get out. He is
under subpoena to a Senate Com
mittee, however, and cannot be
deported until that subpoena is
lifted.
Indiana Congressman Richard
Roudebush says that "multi-million
dollar new Federal buildings
are rising in Washington like
mushrooms in the springtime."
"Twelve new Federal buildings
were started the first year of the
New Frontier." he says, "and
the spenders plan to have 61 ad
ditional buildings under way by
June of this year.
"These ai-e amazing figures, but
line . . . They simply need floor
space to handle all the 235.000
new employes being added, and
already added, to the Federal
payroll at the rate of one new
worker everv two minutes."
Almanac
By I niled Press International
Today is Tuesday, Feb. 11). the
SOIh day of 1963 with .115 to follow.
The moon is approaching its
new phase.
The morning star is Venus.
The evening slars are Mars and
Jupiter.
On this day in hitory:
In 1RT8. Thomas Edison re
ceived a patent lor his invention
of the phonograph.
In 1941. radio Berlin's propa
ganda division short-waved an ap
peal to the United Slates to send
messages colled In Cermany.
More than l.ono Americans re
sponded, most f whom were
highly critical of the Na?i regime.
A thoucht for the day I' S. In
ventor Thomas Edison said: "sen
ilis is one per cent inspiration and
"i per cent perpiral,on."