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Newspaper Page TextPAGE t- HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Wrdnrsday, March 13, 1963 fcdikfiiaL (paqsL Food Without Fear The fight against food faddism is an ex ceedingly difficult one. All manner of exag gerated, unsupported and plain misleading claims are made for diets which the medical fraternity, out of its wealth of research and experience, regards as dangerous to health and life. But great numbers of people inno cently accept the claims and follow the advice. And the problem has become steadily worse in ;recent years. : Writing in Today's Health, Dr. W. W. jBauer, Director of Health Education Emeri tus of the American Medical Association, put Uhe case for a sound diet in simple and un- equivocal terms: "Anyone whose diet contains : items in sufficient quantity from each of the four basic food groups can forget all the ex traneous worries about food. ... He can rest, assured that if he is a normal individual and will eat as he should he will suffer no de ficiencies of vitamins or minerals or pro teins. He need not be disturbed by fears of cholesterol and other substances which are of concern mainly to the abnormal individual un der medical treatment .You can and should sit down to a well-cooked, well-chosen, attractively-served meal in a happy frame of mind and enjoy yourself in reasonable modera tion. : . ." This means that the normal- individual needs for both mental and physical health and general well-being meat, dairy products, fruits and vegetables. The food faddists who would change this represent a danger to health and, frequently, their unsupported claims have a' commercial origin. They have a product to sell. Special diets should be es tablished only under the direction of a quali fied physician. Medicare Is Oversold (Tulsa, Okla., World) The Medicare issue ... is one where bad information, or none at all, has tended to confuse the entire plan with the average .American taxpayer. ;; If we are to, believe those who advocate medical care under Social Security, the whole ; nation is rapidly falling victim to disease ; .without any treatment or cure being avail able. This is typical of the exaggeration that accompanies most efforts to Invoke new laws upon an unwary public. The fact of the medical care issue is that most Americans are now protected from illness and hospitalization under private mcdi-i cal care programs. The Health Insurance In-' stitute of America, in a survey completed just the past week, says that as of last New .Year's Eve more than 140 million Americans :are protected under health insurance. This not only represents 75 per cent of the entire ; population of the nation, the Institute reports, but meant in 1962 that $7.1 billion in benefit : payments had been made. ;: Let's break the figures down a little further. During 1962 five major types ot health insurance were in existence and use. Some 140 million are protected by hospital expense insurance, another 130 million by surgical expense insurance, 97 million under Tegular medical expense insurance, 38 million under major medical expense policies, and 43.5 million by loss-of-income insurance. These figures seem to us to show in black and white clarity that the claims of the Kennedy Administration, and others, that health insurance as a vital field into which the United States Government must enter are not only exaggerated but, in truth, uncon scionable. Medical care under Social Security pro gram does not, as its advocates have stead fastly failed to explain, provide general health insurance coverage for all Americans. Only those persons within the Social Security pro gram would be covered and only then to the extent that the program can be built up over the years by increasing taps upon the weekly paycheck. , It is evident from the figures produced by the Health Insurance Institute that the American people are well able to par ticipate in their own way and with their own. money in private hospitalization and medical plans. The general effect of a Medicare pro gram as envisioned by the Administration would be nothing more than Uncle Sam climb ing into the saddle as health administrator. We resist this approach on the common sense ground that experience has shown time and again the United States Government can not substitute competently in fields where free enterprise has done well. Why should Uncle Sam move into a field where 75 per cent of the American people are now caring for themselves? U.S. Hopes Defeated (Sacramento Bee) The recent election In Nicaragua of the hand picked presidential candidate of the 'Somoza family is tragic proof that the Alliance .for Progress initiated by President John F. Kennedy Is failing. : The basic goal of the alliance is to elimi jnate the inequities of life in Latin America through social and economic reform .;id give the peasant an appealing alternative to Cas troism. The United States stands ready to pour billions of dollars into these countries to help achieve this aim but all the gold in Ft. Knox will not halt the spread of Castroism if the Latin American countries continue to be ruled by the likes of tho Somoza family. The election was a farce. The winning candidate, Reno Schick, formerly secretary to Tacho Somoza, made a victory statement when tho results from three precincts were .in. There were 1,383 precincts still to be heard ;from but the opposition candidate understood ;the system and promptly conceded. ' Tacho Somoza was the nation's dictator rfrom 1932 until he was assassinated in 1956. Since then two sons, Luis and Tachito, have ruled the roost. Luis has been serving as president but since his successor is something of a family retainer no changes aro expected. Tachito Somoza continues as head of the na tional guard. The Somoza dynasty owns much of the land and industry in Nicaragua. It controls the armed forces, selects government officials and rules in a brutal and repressive manner which has bred corruption and inefficiency. Tho fact it trumpets anti-communism and anti-Castroism and has been friendly to Amer ican businesses should not hide the threat it poses to our national self interest. This is the breeding ground for Castro ism. The situation parallels that in Cuba under Batista. The conclusion will be the same un less President Kennedy can transfer some of the goals of the alliance from his speeches into reality. Any support we give to the Somoza dy nasty will be money down the drain and more clearly and fatally will establish in the eyes of the Nicaraguans that the United States stands beside oligarchical dictators who are repressing the people. BERRY'S WORLD THEY say:.. "Mummy, you mean u t'd be in ibis rat race tvt it rfaiMv weren't Preiltlent" The sacc center could bo as important to western Penn.s Ka ma as coal was in the past. Dr. Edward II. Litchfield, chancellor of University o( Pitts burgh, on nlmis lo build a $30 million pare research renter. Whore is Australia ami New Zealand ami Croat Britain and Kranco and Italy and intr other allk's'.' Why sjunild tho American taxpayers bo paying most of tlio cost of protecting freedom in South Viet Nam? Ait wo the only ones that have a-stake in free dom? Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Urr. Labor is behaving excessively in America today, just as busi ness, tlio txuiks. Uo stuck market. Uie utilities, the railroads did ui their tuiKv Louis II. .Nellirr, editor of the Cleveland Press. .Still Another Spring ( i f Sil: STRICTLY PERSONAL By SYDNEY J. HARRIS "It seems so obvious that we're going to blow up the world if we keep on this way," said the man at lunch. "I can't understand why the loaders of powerful states can't sit down together and work out a sensible plan for survival of the species." Speaking of the human race's seeming inability to "learn from living," as I was yesterday, it strikes me that such a proposal is too simple, too sane, too prac tical, too realistic. It is not the way things have ever been done, by states or by individuals. In one of his books written shortly after the First World War, George Santayana made the fol lowing bleak and trenchant ob servation on the history of hu manity: "Each generation breaks its egg-shell with the same haste and assurance as the last, pecks at the same indigestible pebbles, dreams the same dreams, or others just as absurd, and if it hears any thing of what former men have learned by experience, it corrects their maxims by its first impres sions, and rushes down any un trodden path which it finds al luring, to die in its own way. or become wise too laic 'and to no purpose." What the theologians call "orig inal sin" may very well be the persistent and fateful tendency to learn nothing from the past., to repeat the same mistakes in dif ferent ways, to commit the same old errors under new names with improved techniques and even more disastrous conse quences. "The only thing we learn from history," said Hegel, "is that we learn nothing from history." Statesmen today behave in ex actly the same way as' the slates men who wrecked the civilized world in the war bclwecn Athens and Sparta 2.500 years ago. The same rivalries, enmities, fears, passions and superstitions are loose in the world today as in the era of the Persians and the Baby lonians; and what happened to them does not deter us from pur suing a similar course. The world has always been run by its "practical" men and its practical men have almost al ways turned out to be tragically wrong. For what the world has always desperately needed has been more idealism and less prac ticality, more belief that men can sit down together and map their own survival, and less reliance on treaties and alliances and arms and strategies which fad apart at the first assault of un reason. We are pocking at the same in digestible pebble today but this pebble, at last, is different: it contains its own ultimate destroy ing agent, and the end of all dreams, absurd or otherwise. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q During what war did Flor ence Nightingale "become famous? A The Crimean War. 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I 51 Portuguese irvva 1 2 13 14 I 5 6 17 IS 19 i 10 U 12 13 ' H 15 16 U 18 19 r 20 2?" 1 22 ',23 . ui , i . 2 25 26 H27 TT28 29 30 3 ",wj35 jV-l 36 37 39 W !"3 41 42 143 144 45 46 147 148 Imj , 49 50 51 52 5l 54 55 56 5T 58 1? LETTERS TO THE EDITOR , Fine Citizens Friday night, March 1, it was my pleasure to attend the King sley Field Mardi Gras held in the Air Force maintenance hangar. As you know, this evenl was con ceived and conducted by Kingsley Field personnel solely as a bene fit for the Intercommunity Hos pital. There were perhaps 1,000 Air Force personnel, including wives and children, in attendance. , I believe the people of Klam ath Falls, in their complacency, tend to take for granted our Air Force installation and its impact or. the community. We should take time to review a little of the past participation of these won derful people in our community endeavors. As a group Kingsley Field people have consistently ex ceeded their United Fund quotas. They have a phenomenal record of giving to the Red Cross blood bank. During the bloodmobile vis it last fall, for instance, they do nated more blood than all the rest of the community combined. In addition, men and women of the base have contributed their time to the Boy Scout, Girl Scout, Camp Fire and YMCA programs in an outstanding way. So again the oilier night, it was truly a heartwarming experience to see Kingsley Field so cnthusi asticijly supporting another one of our community projects. Most of these people spend not more than two or three years with us and the majority, therefore, will never see the hospital. Vet in no way dues this fact seem to dampen their enthusiasm, f o r aaain this week the wives of officers and airmen are putting on a variety show for the benefit of the hospital fund. I would like, therefore, to con gratulate the base personnel and their families for their continued efforts to make Klamath Kails a belter place to live and I here with commend them to you as fine citizens and good neighbors. Robert E. Vcalch, Mayor. No Bed Your last Thursday. March 7. edition of the Herald and News' pave some good coverage on the front page to the railroad manage ment's reasons why the Oregon full-crew law should be amend ed, or more specifically, why liieir Senate Bill 275 should be passed. As a trainman with 17 vears' experience. I don't quite agree with their reasons. Inci dentally, in those 17 years I haven't been able to fiiid the featherbed they have referred to so frequently. Wednesday night. March 13. the railroad men are going to pre sent their reasons why Senate Bill 275 slxmld not he passed in a hearing at the State Capitol. Tliev will have one hour and a half in which In do this before the legislative committee appointed to handle this bill. I hope that your ncwpapcr will see lit to give their reasons for retaining Oregon's railroad full new law as much front page soace as ou did ITI s report o the management's version. This.' I am sure, is a wish shared by all of the railroad men in the Klamath Basin We are a little tired of being called "leatlierhedders" in law print on the hunt luge of the newspaper, especially Since the job e have is amthing hut a Icatliertxd. B. L. Jones EDSON IN WASHINGTON Kennedy Scheduled To Central America By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON ( NEA '-President Kennedy's scheduled visit to San Jose, Costa Rica, March 18 20 will mark the first time a U.S. president has met with the presidents of Panama and the five Central American republics east of Mexico. When this region first obtained independence from Spain it was known as the Province of Cen tral America. Panama was part of Colombia. Later the area split into six republics. Some years hence they may again unite politically. But their big problem now is economic integration and firm establish ment of a Central American Com mon Market by 1966. The coming conference of seven presidents also will discuss inter national political questions, par ticularly the bitter pill of Cas tro and communism in the Carib bean. The Central American presi dents may have some plain talk for Kennedy on this subject be cause their countries are prime targets for subversion from Cuba. What is expected to emerge .from the San Jose conference is not a series of resolutions but a more conventional communique. It might call on the several coun tries to double their internal se curity efforts. There will be positive action on economic integration which was called for by Kennedy two years ago in his original Alliance for Progress speech to Latin Ameri can diplomats at the White House. Excepting Panama, which is expected to join later, Central America is technically a free trade area now. Tariffs between the five countries have been abol ished on all but about 50 principal items of trade. Tariffs on them are expected to be removed with in five years. In the meantime, it is planned to negotiate common external tar iffs and a customs union which Will make Central America a true common market area. Eight treaties and protocols have been signed since 1958 to bring eco nomic integration to this present status. Agreements have been rat ified by all governments except Costa Rica, which is moving slow cr. Major obstacles still hamper full development. All six countries de pend on similar exports. Coffee is the principal export of Costa Rica. El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. Bananas are the ma jor export of Panama and Hon duras, second in Costa Rica and Guatemala. Cotton and textiles are developing in Nicaragua and El Salvador. Panama has large shrimp exports. Honduran cattle are moving to neighboring coun tries. But the volume of this trade, two per cent of total exports in 1950. was still only seven per cent in 1960. Lack of communication is one handicap. Air transport bears the heaviest traffic. Such railroads as there are run principally from coastal cities inland. There is no through line from Panama to the Mexican border and there would be little for it to haul if it could be built. All bridges are completed on the Pan-American highway, but it is by ho means a paved free way for tourists. There are many gravel stretches and numerous landslides in bad weather. A caravan moving from Pana ma to Mexico by motor vehicle and thence by air is expected in Washington for the Pan American highway conference opening May 6. The U.S. Congress, paying two thirds of the cost, appropriated $60 million in 1958 to complete the highway and made it plain this was to be the last contribu tion. A Central American Bank for Economic Integration was estab lished in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in 1961. U.S. Agency for Interna tional Development AID has advanced it a $3 million grant and a $5 million loan to get go ing. AID has opened a Central Amer ican office in Tegucigalpa for re gional planning. A. U.S. advisory mission has been set up to work with the Organization of Central American States in Salvador and the Council of Central American Universities in San Jose. The first project is printing over two mil lion textbooks to supply the first six grades of all Central Ameri can schools bv 1965. WASHINGTON REPORT Congress Scrutinizes Foreign Aid Program By FULTON LEWIS .lit. Soon after John Kennedy plucked him from relative obscur ity and named him Director of the Budget, charming, debonair David Bell told a West Coast audience that America could af ford to double its annual outlay for foreign aid, increasing it from $5 to $10 billion. Recently promoted to Foreign Aid Director, Bell must be con tent with far less than $10 billion next year, however. From all in dications. Congress will sharply pare the "modest" S3 billion the Administration has asked for lis cal year 14. Ohio Senator Steve Young is typical of many lawmakers who have undergone an "agonizing re appraisal" on foreign aid. Demo crat Young last month returned from a Geneva conference on "un derdeveloped nations" convinced that the foreign aid program was stalled w ith incompetent, unneces sary bureaucrats. He demands a cut ot $1 billion in the Presi dent's aid request. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield is another to voice severe mis givings about the program. He says that more than SOT million in recent aid to Vietnam has failed to make the Asian land any more stable than before. Intellectuals, too. have begun to pan tlic whole scheme. Harvard Professor Edward Banfield re cently completed a scholarly study, concluding there s: no justification for a multi-billion dol lar program of the type America has run for many years. One of the most telling indict ments came last month from Dr. D. A. Fitzgerald, a top-ranking foreicn aid ofticial for 14 years. Dr. Fitzgerald, deputy director of tlie International Cooperation Ad ministration, stepped down last August. While praising the Mar shall Plan he helped originate. Dr. Fitzserald says tlie current pro gram is wasteful and harmful to the host interests of the United Slates. Congressman "Gene" Snyder, freshman P.epuhlican from Louis ulle, Ky.. has compiled a long list of foreign aid projects that he calls "typical of tlie whole program." IS. taxpayers, he claims, hne paid for the fol lowing: 1. A luxury yacht kqst: $.1 1 million', repiete with gold wall paper, for a millionaire Emperor ol Ethiopia. 2. Suita for Greek undertakm. 3. Troughs for Egyptian camels. 4. A sawmill for Nationalist Chi na that could not cut the type of logs native to that area. 5. Two rifles for every soldier in the Cambodian Army. 6. Educational TV for Nigeria, a country with almost no TV sets. 7. "Multi-laned highways for countries where there arc very few, if any, automobiles." 8. Five professors to teach an ll-man class in Rhodesia. 9. A splendid new sports stadi um located in the heart of equa torial Africa that lacks a single modern road leading up to it. 10. "Extra wives for officials of the Kenya government." Republicans plan to fight the foreign aid program with extra zest this year and think that a minimum of $1 billion can be trimmed from the Administration request. They will receive con siderable help from Rep. Otto Passman. Louisiana Democrat, who is the number one Congres sional expert on foreign aid. His worldwide travels have convinced him that more than a billion dol lars can be "easily" cut. Al manac By United Press International Today is Wednesday, March 13, the 72nd day of 1963 with 293 to follow. Tho moon is approaching its last quarter. The morning star is Venus. The evening star is Mars. Those born on this day include Joseph Priestley, the British chemist who discovered oxygen in 1733. On this day in history: In 18K8. impeachment proceed ings against President Andrew Johnson got 'underway in the Senate He later was acquitted by one vote. In 1933. banks throughout the United States began lo open fol lovwng the "bank holiday" pro claimed on March 5 by President Roosevelt. In I9h2. a M.flnu.ooo.ouo foreign aid bill was sent to Congress. A thought for the day: Author Thomas Paine said: "Society in eei y state is a blessing, but gov ernment, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil ... In its worst state, an intolerable one."