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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath t alia. Or.
Tuculaf. March M. 1961
EDSON IN WASHINGTON
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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
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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."
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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 "
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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.
Yet the irony in this situation
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is that the more effective the
company is in promoting t h e
name, the more quickly it be
comes an accepted part of the
language. In many such cases,
the courts have unanimously ruled
that what was once a brandname
has passed into the public do
main because of usage.
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?"
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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.
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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-
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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.