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Newspaper Page TextPAGE-4 HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falll, Ore. Monday, March 4, WJ EDSON INI WASHINGTON . . . Creating Jobs Slow, Costly Development "Wouldn't It Be Funny if They Both Disarmed?" f Uproar ' Like the subject of weather among the lias for years been an ideal conversation open er among lovers of the national pastime. ; That is, is the ball of today really livelier than the one that Cobb and Wagner and Ruth and the other old-time greats played with: Tjic subject is still good for a running argu ment in the local bar during the course of a televised ball game. I Recently, another bone of contention within the physical set has been the new glass fiber pole vaulting pole. Opponents of it claim it is like a catapult, making champs out of vaulters who would otherwise be chumps. You just can't compare recent records with those made with the old bamboo or aluminum poles, they say. ) This argument waxes hot, despite the fact fljal at least one pole manufacturer has pro duced statistical evidence showing no signifi What You Set For Stamps (Hartford Courant) You are now paying the same postage rate for a first-class letter as citizens paid back in 1851. That five-cent, rate was later lowered as the postal service became more efficient. Postal operations now cost 4.5 bil liDns a year. Consider the fact that the en tire federal establishment, including debt serv ice, was just a little more than that in 1932! The Magazine Publishers Association has just issued a scathing indictment of postal inefficiency. It insists that, with proper re search, the postal service can cut its costs. For example a long distance telephone call from coast to coast can be made today for only $2.25. A few decades ago this call would have cost $16.50, seven times as much. This reduc tion was made by A.T.&T. in a period of tre mendous expansion, during which the number of people employed nearly tripled. , In contrast the postal service has spent relatively tiny amounts for research into bet ter methods of handling and sorting mail. New sorting machinery is now operative, but this report shows private industry invests ap proximately ten times as much as docs the Post Office in research. Using another analogy with private enterprise, the report shows how WASHINGTON NOTEBOOK . . . No Takers By WASHINGTON STAFF Newspaper Enterprise Asmi. WASHINGTON INEAt - Every year for Uic past nine tlierc has been an anniversary meeting of the congressmen who were hit liy stray shots l'lier lo It n an families i filed wildly from I the visitors' ca W.V lery while ,nHjrrltiis House of Ropre 'ffijJferS Motives , , !iSfer!wS session March I, Convening lor the usual speeial luncheon in the House riimnj room this year arc the four men who arc slill members: Reproscn laUvo Clifford Davis, Tenn., Ken neth Roberts, Ala., George Fal lon. Md.. and lien Jensen, Iowa. Most of the victims susiaincd wounds Uiat were moderate lo wnoiu. Tlie most seriously w mind ed, Alvin Bentley of Michigan, is no longer in the House, though lie tried f.ir reelection last l.ill. Originally Hie group styled themselves "The five Chili." Mince Dent ley's departure they haven't IniUierod to lake a new name. They think of Die group us prop ei iy exclusive Uic only House members in history wlui were ecr shot at while perlomiing Uieir du ties on the floor. Says one: "We hoie no one else will ever lie eligible for membership." Delrnse I)p analysts are puz zling over Uie Dnfense Suiply Agency's older for 3i7,tki2 pair of men's shoe?, placed shortly alter the long-hike craze liegan. Says one Delrnsc Department wag "Shows what tlie 50-mile Inks will do." lien. , . Norris Cotton, R-N II , says that Uk who rest their hopes nn Uie panaceas ol politi cians could profit from this thank you letter lor a package arnt lo European family. "FT UK-Till On The Sidelines cant difference between the old and the new equipment. Vet another sport now in dispu'ui ia bowl ing, where pros are complaining about plastic coated pins that bounce all over the alley, turning poor hits into strikes. They even charge that some bowling establishments have built barely perceptible troughs into the alleys to help guide balls to the center pin. The philosophy, they explain, is that the higher the scores, the more delighted people are. The more delighted they arc, the more they will bowl. Similar controversies exist, or have exist ed in the past, in practically every sport you can name. They begin every time some new type of equipment, some innovation in play ing, some revised rule is introduced. Despite howls from the purists, the game is usually the better for it. A pro is a pro, no matter how "easy" they make a sport. one chain of supermarkets cut costs and in creased employment by cutting the number of retail outlets from 15,709 small units to 4,409 supermarkets. Again in contrast, the postal service maintains 35,000 distribution points. Other examples of private industry, like the use of electronic equipment in banks where checks are sorted on a no-hands basis, are cited to show that the Post Office has not kept step with private enterprise. Instead each succeeding postmaster has gone to Congress with a plea for higher rates. One can only wonder why this one department, which serves all the people, is supposed to operate at a profit or at least break even, when no other department is called on to do so. The implications of the Magazine Publishers' study are evident: That if the Post Office were run like a private industry millions would have been ploughed into study and research; and the methods of sorting and distributing would be better than they are now. Several Congressmen have declared their belief that we have gone far enough in the building of pork-barrel projects. And with costs as high as they arc, something new has got to be done. Let's hope it is. For Vacancy "Please send more of those pills. We didn't know what they were until cousin lx-nipi. who studied Knglish, read Uie name lor us. Then we gavo them all lo un cle Paul, who sutlers from rheu matism. He feels bettor now, and says il's Uie best medicine he ever took. If you don't remember the name of Ilie pills, they are called Life Savers." A grammatical flub by Rep. Wil. ham R. Widnall, R-N J., in one of his recent newsletters, using the word "club" where it should have been "climbed," inspired a Ridge wood. N J., constituent, Frank M. Ballon, to these epic lines: "Observing how our debt has cliinib The taxpayer now is nearly numb. Bui still the planners plan sup port For Tito, Nehru. Notancmul, II seems our strategy, in whole, Is aimed to frustrate Khrush chev's goal. Continuing on our way so men v. There'll lie nothing led for him lo bury." Controversial nuclear submarine boss Vice Adm. Hvnun (i. Hick over is Uie subject of many hack room Navy discussions, pro ami con. On the wall of one nlliie in the Pentagon, a newspaper head line reading "Navy Wants Kick over to Stay" has been altered lo road, "Navy Wants llukover lo Slay on the Moon " Highlight of VriKveulan Presi dent liomulo Hclancouit s visit to Washington was the presentation lo him of a (ox terrier puppy which was promptly named "Lit tle Guy Two. " Behind tins un olllcial unsolicited gill by an F.I bolt City. Md , dog lover is a real tear jerkcr story . When llelancouri was a politi cal relugee, living in Washington Imni January 1949 to June "m. he got a fox terrier lor his young daughter Virginia, who promptly named the puppy "Lit tle Guy." He was the Kotancourt family's best friend and compan ion throughout (heir exile and accompanied them on their return to Venezuela. Little Guy lived to the ripe old nge of 14. His recent death was a severe blow lo the Retanrourt family. The BetancouiTs daugh ter, now Senora Jose Uiiriuo Perez, has children of her own. So when Little liny Two was pre sented lo the president and Se nora Bclancourt, it was an emo tional moment. The dog remind ed them loo much of Ihc original Little Guy. "We will give Little Guy Two lo our grandchildren," said Retail court. When Sen. Thruslon R Morion, R-Ky., spoke More the Georgia Press Institute lie told tlie edi tors that, "Your profession and mine leave a lot In common. News and legislation are being fully au tomated. There is a gianl new ma chine thai grinds mil both com modities, serves tliom up. ties a bib around your neck, spoon feeds vou and even sends a doctor around lo examine you if the diet happens lo disagree with you. " the new s;wH'i m,in is expected In pass the ackage along to his readers. Tile legislator is expect ed to pass the package along lo his constituents. The liuolie ma chine and tlie legislative ma chine, in this grain! design, can both be replaced by rubber stamps. They are kept in the exec utive branch of government. And vour old friend Arthur Sylvester 'Assistant Secretary of lclen-e for Public Atfairs', wImi used lo le a newspaperman himself, is one of their chief operators." Sen Kujenr McCarthy, 1) Minn , lalnls New York Sen Kenneth Keating criticism ot the Kenne dy administration s Cuban policy "Republican roulette." Ty- )mmMmm By SYDNEY J. HARRIS "That was a most amusing niece you wrote the other day." re marked an acquaintance at lunch. "You must have been in a very good mood." I nodded, and turned In some other subject. As it happened, I remembered that day quite well and I had been in a terrible mood. My cold was worse, my plane was late, and my funds were low. One of the deep and unfathom able mysteries of the creative process (if I may use so pompous a phrase to describe my own lil lle efforts) is that it seems In bear no direct and immediate re lationship lo one's mood or feel ing, situation or circumstances, at the lime. Most of Robert Louis Steven son's endearing and amiable tales were written while he was writh ing on a bed of pain. Some of Mozart's gayest and most fclici ous melodies were composed while he was in the slough of despond, seriously ill, deep in poverty, utterly depressed. Glor ious sonnets of exaltation have been written in prison, and rol licking comedies have come out of the most wretched personal conditions. It is ton easy to say thai the creative process acts as a com pensation for reality, sn that we use art to counterpoise the weight of life. For just as often, happy works are created in happy times, and tragic works in tragic times. Coins ACROSS 1 Japanese ruin 4 Persian coin 9 Bulgarian coin 12 Faslern nam IS Koropean river 14 Suffix 15 United Free, Church lib ) 1 Kilns 17 Musical direction 1R Orren dya -!0 All 22 Abide 24 Proofreader's marks t.fv;al degree 2 Also 2fl Manner' direction 29 Musical tnMiiiments 31 Slairt 32 Puet 35 Cs'iiinatf point 36 Biblical character 39 Coin of 1486 41 Valley 44 AttacVt 45 Pennies 48 Possessive . pronoun 47 Knglish coin M Pawn goddess 52 Well 53 Penetrate 54 Acti ess Hacen 55 Knglish letter 56 Denominations 57 Terrace lobs.) DOWN 1 Alert iSent.l 2 Small bird of the Southwest 5 American coin 4 Talk foolishly 6 On this word iih t Fish e kcs 7 Hostelry 8 Basket used in Spanish name 9 Mark! 10 povMion 1 12 13 I 14 15 16 17 IT" 19 10 111 il F3 14 15 16 17 18 19 I ' 1M 21 z ih-frn 31 j7" IT 3rij35 "IT 38" IT 40 I 141 42 43 46 7T 43 49 W " 51 . STRICTLY PERSONAL What seems lo be true, how ever, is that creation is largely a process of the unconscious mind, with the conscious holding only a light hand upon the reins. And just as a horseman with a heavy hand cannot get the most out of his steed, so an artist who tries loo consciously to manipu late and direct this process finds himself stumbling to a halt. The only rule in the world of creating is thai '.here is no rule. Some work best in one mood, some in another; some need the spur of failure, others the glow of success; some require stimula tion, and others solitude; some respond to the pink of sunrise, others to the purple of twilight, and slill others to the blackest midnight. Every writer, compos er, painlcr, needs to "get in the mood"; and this is effected by various magical rites and incan tations sharpening a certain number of pencils, eating apples, taking a long walk, drinking co pious quantities of tea or coffee, or some equally absurd (and equally effective) preparation for the deep plunge into the uncon scious for the buried treasure of the mind. Rut not the bad cold, nor the laic plane, nor the low funds, can account for what is written or painted or composed at any giv en time. The forces here al work know nothing of such matters; they are busy translating the past into the future: and the present is quite forgotten when Ihe dive hegins. Answer ia Privloot PotiI GEO It Calves 19 Vestment 21 Swedish coin 23 4th Century B C. coin 24 Pennv 27 Smelting products 29 Certain doctors iab ) 30 Sunday school tab I 32 to sav 3.1 Bodice 34 Ancient .tfi Biblical woman 37 Football formation. 3ft Knlirclv 39 Article of food 40 Slaves 42 Maples and box elden 43 Literary composition 48 Single 49 Peurce in chemistry 5fl Allow THE GLOBAL VIEW... Khrush's Fertile Ground liy LKON DENXEN Newspaper Enterprise Analyst UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (NE.i In the surprising view of Sen. William Kulbright, D-Ark., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Ihe United States faces the "real problem" in West Europe and not in Cuba. In his view, Cuba is merely an "irritation" that "diverts us from Europe." Senator Fulbripjit's estimate of the' international situation docs not contribute to a far-sighted American foreign policy, accord ing lo well-informed diplomats. The fact is that despite Ihe cur rent rift in the Western alliance with or without a sulking Presi dent de Gaulle Russia lias reached a stalemate in Europe where communism is clearly on the decline as a political force. Little room for Red expansion re mains in the West without the risk of an atomic conflict. To be sure there is always the problem of West Berlin which Russia would rather leave un solved. Like a quack doctor who profits more by keeping his rich patient ill than well, Nikita Khrushchev does not really seek lo end the Berlin crisis. Why should he? The Russians are al ways in a position to turn the "unsolved crisis" on and off whenever they want lo black mail Ihe Wesl and gain new con cessions from the United States. But there is hardly n country in West Europe today where Mos cow could engineer a successful revolution. And the Russians have no illusions about it. The situation is vastly differ nit in Ihe Western Hemisphere, According to Khrushchev's Marxist-Leninist doublelalk, Latin America is already "ripe" for revolution and "national wars of liberation." In this case the So viet premier agrees even w ith his Chinese rival. Mao Tse-tung. Cuba will thus remain the key to Soviet aggressive policy in the Western Hemisphere until Com munists seize power in some oth er Latin American country. This is the chief reason why the Russians are so determined to retain a foothold in Fidel Castro's dictatorship even after their fail ure to establish missile bases there. In the view of United Nations specialists on Russia, this is also the real significance behind Moscow's announcement last December that a Soviet jet iTl-1141 made a nonstop Ilight from Havana to Russia. Premier Khrushchev, obviously in an attempt to appease Presi dent Kennedy, decided to with draw some Soviet combat troops stationed in Cuba Bui al the same lime, the Russians are speeding the establishment of direct air communications with Havana without the need to hind al "capitalist" airports and risk a search of llicir airliner tarry ing weapons (o 1-Hin America. Nothing, in fact, illustrates bet ter the in'crest o( Russia and her f.ast European satellites in tlie ' Inline'' of Ihe Western Hemis phere than the elforts they devote to beaming radio propaganda in Spanish and Portuguese. Ijtm America is now ibe primary tar get of this pernicious lorm of Red offensive Broadcasts by Radio Moscow aimed at Latin America increased By PETER EDSOV Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. W ASHINGTON NEA - Pres ident Kennedy's request to Con gress for another $300 million for the Accelerated Public Works program APW, but not WPA raises the question of how effec tive this kind of assistance is in relieving depressed area unem ployment. A preliminary answer is not much. When legisiatu.a setting up t!,v. . onc-siioi, one-year program was passed last fall, Congress author ized $900 million for it in federal funds, but appropriated only WOO million. This was to get it start ed and see how it worked out. The job of Area Redevelop ment administrator William L. 3att Jr., is to convince Congress it is working all right. Bait acts as coordinator for the 14 govern ment agencies operating pieces of the business. He has to make sure there is no publication and that all approved projects meet conditions of the law on their es sentiality and public financing. The 2.900 projects so far accept ed for consideration are in various stages of progress from planning to financing to actual construc tion. The law specifies one-third of the funds must go to rural and low median family income level areas. Two-thirds go to ur ban areas of high, long-term un employment. Projects which U.S. government agencies like Soil Conservation Service, Bureau of Public Roads, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bu reau of Reclamation, Corps of Engineers, Forest Service, Na tional Park Service and Post Of fice Department do or supervise directly on contract are farthest along because they get 100 per cent federal funds. So far, about a third of the allocated funds have gone to such projects but this proportion may be cut to a fourth of the total. The other two-thirds of the projects approved so far have been for community facilities, sewers, water systems, public buildings or hospitals not qualify ing for Hill-Burton funds which could not be built now without federal aid. For these the federal government puts up 50 to 75 per cent of the money, local govern ments the balance from available funds or by authorizing special bond issues. - - By FULTON LEWIS JR. The White House is rapidly tak ing on all the appearances of a retreat (or unemployed politicians. With monotonous regularity, the President announces that a one lime Administration workhorse has been appointed to a top-ranking administrative job. With one exception Nebras ka's Phil Weaver all have been Democrats. Weaver, a liberal Re publican who met primary defeat last spring, received a $17,925 job as "special consultant to Agri ricullure Secretary Orville Free man." A possible reason: Weaver was the only House Republican lo vote for the control-laden Administra tion farm bill. by 00 per cent between 19ti0 and 19ii.1. They now total 45 hours a week in Spanish and 17 hours a week in Portuguese. Over the same period tlie Red Chinese increased their radio propaganda to Latin America by live times. Radio Peking now transmits for 35 hours a week in Spanish and 10 hours a week in Portuguese. A similar stepping up of radio warfare in Latin America has lieen carried out by Moscow's East Euroiean satellites. Togeth er the Red transmissions total over 55 hours a day, or nearly 400 hours a week. In addition. Fidel Castro has IS stations at his disposal which broadcast over 40 hours a day. mostly in Ihe direction of Latin America. Radio Havana's daily programs include instructions to armed guerrilla groups in Vene zuela and Panama. The Cuban broadcasts are tailored In the countries to which they are licamed. Tlie Russians and their satel lites would hardly expend such vat sums of money on a bank rupt Cub and on radio propagan da to Latin America for noth ing They make no secret of their M.trxist-l.cninisl conviction that the next "round of revolutions and national wars of liberation" will occur in Latin America. Premier Khrushchev's tempo rary Cuban setback last October, it is now believed, caused the po-tncmenl of a series of co ordinated revolts in Veneruela, Panama and other lim Ameri can countries. So far, $250 million federal funds have been allocated for 1,100 such piojects to supplement $125 million in local funds. With the $110 million for 1,800 wholly fed erally financed projects, total al locations to date are $485 mil lion. Average cost for the 2.900 projects is $167,000, but the range is from $10,000 for a post office repair job to $2 million or more for a mjor community facility like a water system. . If.'.ie .thrJW"hnsuVi-n,ftforV tional for less than live months, it is a little difficult to tell what its full effects will be in relieving un employment in distress areas. Paul Southwick, in direct charge of APW at Department of Commerce, estimates that about 580,000 man-months of employ ment will be needed to complete the projects approved so far. This is only 49.000 man-years of em ployment. The average project will take about a year lo com plete. This isn't very many jobs, when it is considered there are four million unemployed. But it is pointed out this is for only a lit tle more than a third of the program. Also, every on-sile job is prob ably backed by one off-site job cutting the lumber, making the sleel and cement used on-site. Every completed project will cre ate some permanent new jobs. Nobody has any idea what the multipliers will be. As for the "cost" of every job created by this accelerated pub lic works program, with 49.000 man-years of work created by the $485 million worth of projects so far approved, the average is $10,000 per man per year, which is high. Southwick thinks the average might be brought down to $8,500 per man-year of labor. But on public roads where a lot of ma chinery and a lot of materials are used, the cost might be $20. 000 per man-year. And on hospi tals where a lot of specialist la bor and costly equipment is need ed, the cost might be higher. Using the $8,500 average, some thing over 101,000 man-years of labor would be created by the $900 million expenditure. About half of this, maybe less, maybe more, would go for wages to mostly semiskilled but consider able skilled construction labor in areas of excess lahor supply. WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Defeated Nominees In White House Spheres One of the first Democrats to get on the federal payroll was Robert Morgenthau, the political nonentity who took on Nelson Rockefeller for the New York Stale governorship last fall. Mor genthau, who lost by half-a mil lion votes, got back his old job as U.S. Attorney for Ihe South ern District of New York. Congresswoman Kathryn E. Granahan, who lost her Philadel phia seat through redistricting, was named Treasurer of the Unit ed States on Jan. 9. She was a loyal Democrat who never once crossed the Administration while in Congress. Mrs. Catherine Norrell is an other Democrat who lost her scat through redistricting. Reluctant to return to Arkansas, Mrs. Norrell hooked on as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Stale for Education al and Cultural Affairs. Congressman Sidney R. Yates, a seven-term Chicago Democrat, took on Senator Everett Dirkscn only after he was guaranteed a federal job if as seemed like ly he lost. Dirkscn scored handily over Yates, who went off on a much needed vacation, then returned to be selected as U.S. represen talive to the United Nations Trus teeship Council. When Connecticut's Frank Ko walski was named lasl week to the Subversive Activities Control Board at $20,000 a year, it was repayment for a political debt in curred last summer. Kowalski. a far-left Democrat, sought un successfully the Senate nomina tion that went to Abraham Ribi eoff the Administration's Secre tary of Health, Education and Welfare. Persuaded not lo run for the Senate as an indepenoent peace candidate. Kowalski got his new job last Wednesday. He was named to SACB despite the fact that he had advocated foreign aid to Castro's Cuba and opposed bills of the House UnAmerican Activ ities Committee. Kansas' J, Floyd Breeding, de feated for re-election by Republi can Bob Dole, was just made spe cial consultant to Agriculture Sec retary Freeman at $18,000. Colorado's John A. Carroll, un seated by Republican Peter Dom mick. also expects an Administra tion job. He has turned down a spot on tlie National Medication Board.