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PAGE t HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath t alia. Or. Tuculaf. March M. 1961 EDSON IN WASHINGTON fcdiioiwL (paqsL Republicans Play It By Ear The able, clear-headed state Republican chairman of Alabama, young John Grenicr, has an Idea which could contribute something to a better understanding of the GOP's work- ings at the presidential level. The party condition he characterizes with ijjhis idea is not new, but it has seldom if ever J; been so well expressed. He argues that Republicans are not divid fed basically between conservatives and lib erals, but between liberals and two major categories of conservatives. One group comprises those conservatives who either do not believe, or can fairly readi ly be talked out of the notion, that a conserva tive candidate can be elected president in the current era. ) : The other consists of those conservatives vvho think a conservative can in fact win. A careful reading of GOP nominating history since 1940 suggests that this charac terization of the party's make-up is sound. The nominees in that span have all been mod crates Wendell Willkie, Thomas E. Dewey, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon (in his later phase). They were not chosen by the party liber als alone, for these have never been in the majority, though often they have had pres tige and vocal power well beyond their num bers. The moderates have in fact been picked by a briefly forged coalition between the lib Open season on weathermen is rapidly coming to a close. While they still occasionally stick their necks out and get them lopped off by a watchful public weathermen can look forward to the day when wrong fore casts will be virtually nonexistent. Latest straw In the wind is the U.S. Weather Bureau's announcement that a new system is being tested that can measure rain fall as far as 100 miles away. When in operational use, the device, A Need (The Christian Sclenca Monitor) The King-Anderson bill carries a more accurate title this year than it did last year. If enacted it would be called the Hospital In surance Act of 1903. But there is indication that it will not be enacted in 1963, and there are reasons why it should not become law in 1964 or after. Embodying the Kennedy administration's proposals for health care for persons over 65 through the social security system, the bill goes somewhat beyond its provisions of last year but it still docs not live up to the nick name "medicare." It never did include medi cines, surgery or doctor bills. In that respect the state-by-state program of medical assistance for the aged under the scorned Kerr-Mills Act of 1900 is more gen erous. In states which cooperate, these funds can be used to provide any needed form of health care for those who cannot afford it. As of the end of the year, 25 states had Kerr-Mills programs in operation and five :more needed only minor legislative action to .become eligible. The 47 Legislatures In ses sion this year have an opportunity and re BERRY'S 110 i Urn jr , "Did At toy thai jigure uat h!s new teltphont numbtr or nexl year't fcurfjrt?" erals and the conservatives who do not think a conservative can win. That is why it is undoubtedly accurate, historically, to say that in 1940 the GOP con vention delegates were far more friendly to the late Robert A. Taft than to Willkie. In 1944 they preferred Ohio's John Bricker, but chose Dewey. In 1952 they liked Taft again, but named Eisenhower. Signs are already well advanced that a .similar setup may produce the nomination of New York's Gov. Nelson Rockefeller in 1964. Obviously, Republican conservatives can dominate any GOP convention if they choose to unite on one of their own as nominee. That they have not done so in the last two decades leads to charges from some ar dent right-wingers that their more flexible brethren are "abandoning their principles." But, as Grenier points out, a political party is not a garden club. II is in business to win elections. If it is not, its "principles" will not save it for long. Nothing is static in politics. With GOP strength on the rise in the South, the political mix is changing. Attitudes may also shift. Hollering "stick to principles" will not affect middle-range conservatives who try to pick winners. They are shrewd bettors. They may try a genuinely conservative candidate some day. But they will have to believe that he has at least an even chance of getting those 270 electoral votes needed to land him in the White House. Better Crystal Balls called a "radar precipitation integrator," could provide instantaneous measurements of pre cipitation at many points over a broad area. The measurements would be used in modern computers to prepare substantially improved river and flood forecasts. What with radar, electronic brains, satel lites, sounding rockets and all the rest, we may have to change the expression from "right as rain" to "right as the weatherman." Increasingly sponsibility to add their states to this list. From another direction, that of voluntary insurance, financial protection is rapidly being supplied. Ladd Plumley, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and head of an insurance company, pointed out recently that more than 125,000,000 Americans have insurance for both hospital and surgical expenses, 92,000,000 have hospi tal insurance and insurance services other than surgery, while 34,000,000 have major medical insurance. This coverage is broader and more flexible than the proposed govern ment service. It is often said in behalf of the social se curity plan that more than 55 per cent of the older population have incomes, of less than $1,000 a year. In this statistic a housewife is counted as having "no income" though her husband may be earning a large salary. On a family basis, half of the 6.200,000 households headed by persons over 65 had money incomes of $2,900 or more in 1960, and 65 per cent of them owned their homes completely paid for. The figures change somewhat the picture of indigence often painted by advocates of "hospicare." Met Al manac II v I nlkd Pitm International Today is Tuesday. March 26, the Kith day o( l!xl with 2W In lollow. The moon is approaching its first quarter. The morning stars are Venus and Saturn The evening star Is Mars. Those born on this day include American poet Robert Frost in 18T5. On this day in history: In v.2. famed American poet Walt Whitman died at the ag o 7.1. In l!l. lien. Ferdinand Koch of Fi ance was named commander o( all Allied armies against Ger many in World War I. In l2, tlte Supreme Court gae V S. judges the power to rule on appropriations ol seats in sidle legislatures. A thought lor the day: Irish author Oscar Wilde said: "What is a cynic? A cynic is i man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing " - ... .. U.- mm By SYDNEY .1. HARRIS That simple and platitudinous phrase, "learning from life." is so difficult in practice because the consequences of our acts arc often so contrary to our intentions. For even when our intentions are good, and our techniques are adequate, there is a spirit of whimsy (if nothing worse! in the universe that brings unforeseen consequences. We learn so slow ly because there is no obvious cause-and-effect in human events, much as the historians and ideo logues would like to think there is. Karl Popper, in his inaugural speech at Oxford some years ago, made the interesting point that in some cases what we do has pre cisely the opposite effect of what we intend to do indeed, the very act engenders its contrary, For instance, he explained, a man who puts his house on sale intends to get the highest possi ble market price for it. Yet the very act of putting it on sale tends to lower the market price for every additional house that goes on the market depresses the price in that area. Contrariwise, a man who wants to buy a house (at the lowest possible market price) is raising the price of houses simply by becoming a potential buyer for the more buyers, the higher the price. A wryly amusing example of this odd phenomenon has been seen in the nation's courts over the last 50 years. Fjrms devise a new name for a product like zipper or nylon or cellophane and spend millions not only in publicizing the names hut in de fending them from infringements. 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So here, too, we see that the very act of picking a highly sale able and descriptive name for a product tends to defeat itself in the end. and the consequences of such skill and imagination are quite the contrary of what was intended. And much the same contradic- lions can be observed in mar riage, in education, in politics, in diplomacy, in all the areas of iwrsonal and social endeavor. To day's greatest problem, indeed, is the "escalation" of armaments, in which spending more for de fense as a deterrent only spurs the enemy to do likewise, and cre ates the very conditions it seeks to eliminate. How much have we rcallv "learned from life?" THEY SAY... I don't believe we can afford anoUier wild ride down the road of deficit spending in a sti eel car named despair. Rep. Donald G. Brntzman. Obviously we have a new breed of economic thinkers Uie New Dcficiteersmen. Sen. Kverett Dirksrn, H ill., on the administration's proposed $98.8 billion budget. Answer to Prvioui Puttlt 21 Combined 22 Trew 23 Pant violently 24 Aleutian island 25 Roman road 30 Guides 42 Storehouse 43 German city 44 After 45 Alwayi 46 Ancient Irish capital 48 Operatic solo 49 Danger 50 Individuals 52 Toddler M Chevalier's 28 Otiose 29 (..irl s name 30 Allowance for waste 33 Caesar (ab.) 33 While 37 Accustomed 38 I "nit of weicht summer fFTA r 5 Ms n, O w M I L Hi THE GLOBAL VIEW... Sukarno Mess . Again Proves U.S. Bumbling By LEON DENNEN Newspaper Enterprise Analyst UNITED NATIONS (NEA) -President Sukarno's war erics against the new Federation of Malaysia points up again the fu tility of appeasing dictators by feeding them other peoples' ter ritory. American dip lomats, accord ing to tJ.N. re- ( w polls' a,e cur" t i ,i f I behind l n e iffj scenes" to dis- i i i MldUC 1IIUUIIC3- ia's dictator from attacking the anti . Hed federation. Unit Singapore, Sara iiig Malaya. wak, North Borneo and Brunei, the federation is scheduled to come officially into being Aug. 31. Only last summer Sukarno man aged through his typical bluff and bluster to gain control of Dutch ; West New Guinea and its 700,000 Papuan inhabitants. Papuan lead ers pleaded desperately in the U.N. councils against this injus tice that will doom their people to living under a greedy dictator. They claimed that Indonesia had no racial, religious or historic grounds for annexing West New Guinea, a territory long adminis tered by the Netherlands. The Papuans' protests, alas, were ignored because Sukarno threatened to grab West New Guinea through military means. Behind this dubious piece of diplomacy was also the Kennedy Administration's pressure on the Netherlands to sign over the ter ritory to Indonesia. As the Dutch premier declared at the time. "The Netherlands could not count on the support of its allies and for that reason we had to sign." President Kennedy's advisers seem to have difficulty in recog nizing a Red imperialist so long as he mouths anti-colonialist and neutralist cliches. They obviously hoped to buy Sukarno's goood will and "peace" in Southeast Asia. But, of course, it is not in .the nature of dictators, whatever their color, to stay appeased (or long. Sukarno's threats to disrupt the Federation of Malaysia, accord ing" to some U.N. observers, are aimed primarily at distracting the 96 million Indonesians from their own plight. Pro-Communist Indonesia is nearly bankrupt. Its economic affairs are in chaos. And Sukarno can do nothing to. improve the lot of the hungry masses as long as 80 per cent of his budget goes on the armed forces. Southeast Asia's political acro bat wilh his astonishing ego must solve his pressing domestic prob lems or find some other distrac tion like West New Guinea (or tile starving Indonesians. He thus seeks again to divert the attention of the people from their sulferins with an appeal to "national uni ty" in the interests of confront ing the "colonialist" Federation of Malaysia, the most pro-Western alliance in Southeast Asia. Tins may seem like a trasi comcdy so long as it does not gel out of hand But under the pressure of Aidit. chief of the powcrlul Indonesian Communist Party, and Red Chinese men tors. Sukarno may launch an at tack on the federation at any time Will the t'.S diplomats work- Administration Lacks Information Policy By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON lNEAi-"News Management!" now has become a kind of derisive political slo gan or cuss word which is tossed at the Kennedy administration like the other catch all phrases of government spending, deficit military muzzling and the no-win policy. Assistant Secretary of Defense Arthur Sylvester is credited with recent revival of the "news man agement" term, although its ori gin is attributed to New York Times correspondent James B. Reston in 1955, criticizing Eisen hower policy. The current implication is that f government now has a hard and fast news management or censorship policy which it is car rying out to suppress news the public ought to know. It is now suggested, however, that a more accurate definition would be that the administration has no information policy at all. It is operating on a day-to-day, crisis-to-crash basis of improviza tion that has no plan at all. After the Bay of Pigs fiasco, an Office of Emergency Planning censorship code prepared during the Eisenhower administration was dragged out and given a look. It was found to be com pletely inadequate to deal with existing or future emergencies, but little has been done to bring it up-to-date. The sad attempts to -manage the news during the second Cuba crisis were the result of hasty decisions by top public affairs nlficers in the White House, State and Defense Departments. That they backfired is no surprise. Examples are the 12-point direc tive on what not to print, the re quirement that officials report their talks with reporters, first refusals to let reporters go aboard the blockade ships or visit Guan tanamo. the final failure to re lease aerial survey photos of Cuba during the intelligence gap in ear ly October. But what is now considered far more important than these is the fact that if the United States got into a third Cuban crisis, which is entirely possible, there would be no good news management By FULTON LEWIS JR. Somewhere in this great land just where nobody seems quite sure a mysterious Chinese has been teaching U.S. farmers how to grow fish in rice paddies. He is said to be a representa tive of the United Nations Special Fund, an agency financed to the tune of 40 per cent by Uncle Sam. A master psychologist he advo cates feeding vitamins and hor mones to the fish to make them "happy." The little-known "ex pert" was discovered by Congress man Durward Hall, who is now completing an exhaustive investi gation of the Special Fund. When Hall discovered that Fi del Castro had received 12 U.N. grants, he asked sarcastically why this country was not eligible for similar assistance. But we are, Hall learned. He was assured by several U.N. officials that, contrary to popular opinion, the United States has been the recip ient of U.N. largesse. This aid consists of one Chinese "expert" who was told to instruct U.S. farmers on growing fish in rice paddies. Hall was told by the U.N. Information Center in Wash ington that the project was con ducted in Kansas a startling revelation since Kansas has no rice paddies. Hall was then informed by Uie New York oflice of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organiza tion that the project was carried out not in Kansas, but in Arkan sas. Paul Hoffman, the American businessman turned global pundit, disputes that. In a recent book. Hoffman, who is Special Fund Director, said the project was lo cated not in Kansas ... not in Arkansas . . . but in Louisiana. Says Hall: "The U N. tells me ing quietly "behind tlie scenes" he able to stop him? What price is the Free World prepared to pay Sukarno now to keep him Irom employing armed force against Malaysia? On May 15, Indonesia will offi cially take over West New Guinea, from the Dutch. Under Sukarno's pact with tlie United Nations, the Papuans have to wait six years before they get Die right to vote whether they desire Indonesian rule But the pact never spellerl out the fate of West New Guinea should a majority of Papuans eventually vote against Sukarno s tvrannv. policy to guide either government or press. The House Government Infor mation subcommittee under Hep. John E. Moss, D-Calif., has been trying to do something about this situation for eight years. It hasn't had too much success, but . il is making another try in cur rent hearings. Discussion by a panel of. top newspaper publishers, editors and broadcasting officials, was intend ed to find out what kind of ncs management controls tlie ncs media would accept in a hypothet ical Cuba III situation or in any other cold war crisis that might develop. This is a follow-up on Presi dent Kennedy's request to the American Society of Newspaper Editors two years ago when they were asked to get together and figure out an acceptable volun tary security censorship. The edi tors would have none of it. Sylvester and Robert Manning of the State Department wem scheduled to tell the Moss com mittee their side of the Cuba mixups once more. White House press secretary Pierre Salinger is expected to testify after Easter, when the Moss committee will go into executive session. It will then hear intelligence officers of Defense and State Departments who made the estimates on which news management policies were based for Cuba I and II. Space administration and atomic ener gy officers dealing with na tional security information also will be heard. In the late spring, Moss com mittee staff hopes to issue a re port on what can be declassified and concluded from all this se cret testimony. It is not expected to present a draft censorship or news man agement code that will be accept able to both the government and the news media. But it should point up the facts on past mis- takes and emphasize the need for establishing a cold war govern ment information policy. It's water over the dam now, but if the editors had drafted their own code in 19fil, there might not have been as many news management hassles as there were in 1962 and 1963. WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Congressman Hunts For Lost Fisherman those take-your-pick locations are all they can recall about the mat ter. And the American depart ments of State and Interior have been unable to provide me with any details about the scale of this fish story which outdoes even my favorite Ozark fish tales." Subsequent investigation has led Hall to believe the project was probably carried out in Louisiana and that the Chinese expert was assigned to the Fish and Wildlife Service. Hall unearthed the fact that U.S. taxpayers paid the Chinese's whole salary. In return, the lat ter wrote a manual on raising fish: "In their wild state Uie fish only spawn when they are happy. Our problem is how to make them happy in captivity. We might have to feed them special vitamins, make sure they get their calories, and give them hormone injections to make them happy." Unable to get any satisfaction from U.S. or U.N. officials on the whereabouts of this Chinese "expert," or his favorite paddy. Hall asks the help of mystery fans from coast to coast. "I appeal to them to apply their magnifying glasses in Uie vicinity of Topeka. Little Rock. Baton Rouge. Schenectady w ho can tell where this piscatorial paddy mav turn up? "Look for fish," Hall tells the sleuths, "even Uiough the spring trout season is not yet open in your area; look for a mysterious Chinese expert, perhaps wearing a light blue U.N. helmet; be alert for while jeeps with Chinese driv ers carrying goldfish bowls." Any clues may be forwarded to Rep. Durward Hall, House Office Building. Washington, D.C. Mortimer Caplin, professor turned tax collector, continues to hear from citizens angered over his so-called tax reforms. A group of major hotel and res taurant ow ners told Caplin recent ly they had suffered a business loss of almost 20 per cent because his Internal Revenue Service has failed to clarify its rules on ex pense account entertaining. The Greater North Michigan Av enue Association, which represents some of Chicago's most expen sive restaurants and hotel dining rooms, warned that severe unem ployment will result unless Uie IRS clarifies its regulations en tax deductions for business and good-will entertainment.
