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Newspaper Page TextPAGE HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Or. Friday. March :9, 196J "So It Flies Faster Than Light, Never. Needs Refueling, and Can Wipe Out Mankind, ButCan We Be Sure It Isn't Obsolete?" WASHINGTON REPORT . . . V Reds Benefit From Strategic Materials. fcdii&rijodL (paqsL mmense Americans are always being chopped at for not making a real effort to find out what other people in other lands are like. But this is a two-way street, and there is not much evi dence that foreign folk are traveling it either. That the Russians, the Red Chinese and other Communists have some weird notions of us is to be expected, since their propagandists specialize in peddling false information about everything. What is more astonishing is the depth of ignorance about us which is found in Western Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. Edward R. Murrow, director of the United States Information Agency, documents this ig norance both broadly and in detail. We think our moral tone has slipped in recent decades. But some foreigners find us unbelievably moral. They do not understand how we can leave coins "out in the open" at street corner newsstands, or why we wait patiently at un attended stoplights. (Frenchmen, for instance, ' often run on the red if no one is around.) They are baffled to hear that most Amer icans really pay their taxes and, of their own experience, they can't believe these monies reach the federal treasury without being sluiced off. Yet the open intermingling of the sexes which is common to our life is read by many foreigners as incontrovertible proof of promis cuity. Some who visit here take pains, there- " A nararlox afflicts us in the ; oi me um ceniury. 11.. nmL i We have developed an astonishing tol- BiinriA ts hiimnn IVnlttr ic it nvhihile itcnlt in Individual private lives even when that frail ly leads to the commission of crime. But we show surprisingly little tolerance of human mistakes and weakness when they crop up in public life. Admittedly the standards among our public men are intended to be high. If we are sensible we do not deliberately put in posi tions of authority our weaklings and misfits. yci even men cnosen ior :-(jigncr cauuer nave men naws. moreover, ;they are plunged today into a welter of prob lems whose size and number are without any -shadow of a Drecedent. Why should it be assumed, fjf ta uy auinu, Liitu -inii-j icuu uiucidia Ldll Out of the blue quickly master the delicate, tary, political and economic aid to a small Asian land like South Vict Nam, a country which has only half a will to help itself? In our national lifetime, this is an effort . loiauy new. wnv is Ihprp sum nastp In visiDie economic improvement m bouth 7 America, a continent that has lancuished for centuries in poverty and political immaturity? The Russians, using the most crushing - juccdiunai uuwer ever amass, trying to lift their own millions mire for 45 years and have not IN WASHINGTON li nl mi .1. i-ni I'nivn ' Thn njtitlnnnH TUtB nnnnroli " and admirals who have not vet .' been cowed Into total submission "-hv Tlofonwn KniTninrv Hnhprt Mi'. ' Namura continue to note that the new policy ol "creeping disarm anient" initialed by the New Frontier may lead straight to a war which Hie U.S. can't win. They point oul lliat military now. er. not negotiation nor foreign aid, stopped Hie Kremlin In its tracks when it went adventuring. tTvr avamnln. TmioU art inn n Greece by the U.S. caused the : Soviet withdrawal. Military con ', tlict in Kurea prevented a com- oleic Communist takeover of the Far East. thouch suhseouent ne- gotialion precluded the possibili- ly of complete victory. The So ; viels did nothing to prevent U.S. InntlK nni-irolnmnnl nf It, flCCl) joey ma not slop inc Benin air lilt. The Hods stood back when the U.S. convoyed men and tup plies to Quemoy and Mauu. They did not start a World War 111 over American Intervention In Vietnam or the Cuban blockade. In short, the Kremlin has retreat ed every time the U.S. has showed determination. What, (he military asks, will happen when Ufa lei rlmin mil rtutirA - ui sotu. -. tmoaaay now: uimese tvalion- ilist Intelligence sources say that ;uiit is the time for a return to the Mainland. According to their ' Information, corroborated by oth ; r Intelligence nervices. the Chi . nse Communists have been lorceq w oepioy ineir great land . Armies ever the vast Chinese ter Gulf Remains fore, not to be left alone with an individual of the opposite sex. Since they have no comparative model of modern capitalism, many are inclined to dis believe what they see of our economy here. They filter the evidence through 19th century glasses. It goes without saying they do not under stand our system of government, with its cur ious checks and balances. The 50-state fed eral system is even more confusing. In most foreign lands, a provincial leader, compar able to our governors, would be quickly sacked if he spoke out as some of ours do. A system of politics which fills the air with hostile criticisms but puts everybody be hind the President on the big national matters is too much for foreigners to figure. We mutter about "managed news." They wonder why USIA is not in full control of what the press puts out. And, oddly, they puzzle over why so many millions of Americans jump into all kinds of voluntary programs. A common approach elsewhere seems to be, don't pitch in unless you are compelled. The jets have telescoped lime and re duced the oceans to lakes. Yet the gulf among humans of differing cultures remains im mense. Our friends appear to know us little better than enemies who deliberately try not to. To Err Is Un-American late decades yet. Their massive fann problem is unsolved. Is there any reason we should not make mistakes when, in an unparalleled upsurge, more than 50 new nations suddenly appear on the world scene and we try to cope with them? We have the rough job of nurturing their in dependence in a world beset by aggressive communism. The guideposts are few. When, ever before, did we have to figure how to defend a great free city like Berlin, totally encompassed by a hostile enemy? Spin the globe and note such other trouble areas as Korea, Laos, Indonesia, India and, highest in our thoughts now, Cuba. Each raises unique problems. All can be labeled critical in varying degrees and diltcrcnt ways. Not even Franklin D. Roosevelt in World War II had a daily agenda so staggeringly complex as has confronted Dwight D. Eisen hower, John F. Kennedy and their free world counterparts in other lands. And hovering over these men today is the awful knowledge that error can be com pounded, in hours, into the near nuclear ruin of this planet. Surely those persons unable to tolerate imperfect effort must have sure-fire proposals of their own to make Viet Nam securely free, turn Latin America toward booming prosperi ty, snuff out all threat to Berlin and erase the last vestige of Castro from Cuba. Let's have the perfectionists' plans, right now. Human frailty obviously has already cost us dearly. ineir eviaeni as it evident- rinmanrt pruat nave ueuu out of the succeeded A Reporter's Notebook ritory to put down spontaneous revolts which have broken out as a result of food shortages and the lock of other necessities. It the Nationalists mounted an invasion today, it is estimated, less than a third of the Ited Chinese army would be able to counterattack and the reliability of those troops is questioned. The Nationalists, on the other hand, have the best trained and equipped army in the Far East and its morale is high. Only Hie Slate Department prevents military action which could collapse half of the Commu nist empire. Senate Cloakroom: Republican and Democratic Senators are still hopping mad over a Pentagon "counterattack" led by "n e w s manager" and Assistant Defense Secretary Arthur Sylvester against the Senate Permanent In vestigations subcommittee in gen eral and Senator Henry iScoopi Jackson In particular. Sylvester tried to blame the investigation it the Increasingly malodorous TKX contract on Senator Jack son. But lie smeared w ith such a broad brush that lie also attacked Chairman John McClellan and the ranking OOP member. Senator Karl Mundt. Neither man has any personal or state interest in the TKX controversy, and they are now lying in wait lor Mr. Syl vester'! boss. Secretary McNa mara. .Mr. Sylvester's tendency to sound off first and think later which got him Into no trouble when he was a Washington cor respondent has become an In creasing liability to the Adminis tration. The Pentagon (Ante-Room Di vision): A lesson in how the mon ey goes can be found in the re cent report of the Comptroller General. The Defense Establish ment, which insists that not a nickel can be cut from its budg et requests, is the offender. The facts: Between I'.HiO and 1962, the U.S. Army Engineers spent more than $2 million (or 103 crane shov els. Must ol these shovels were still new and unused when they were sold as surplus at prices less than one-third of acquisition cost. But the Army now wants to buy several hundred of the same kind of shovels for $12 mil lion. Another $j million went down the drain hecanse of U.S. Army carelessness in the handling of iuIiIkt tank tracks. (But it's only money, i House Cloakroom: Kcpresenta tio Donald Bruce of Indiana, a hard-hitting Republican, has been getting some attention for his at tacks on the way urban renewal funds are being spent. Mr. Bruce H)ints out that the poor families dispossessed by so-called slum clearance never bench!. "T h e money actually provides windfall pruht.s to shun landlords, execs sue foes to planning consultants, and opportunities for great protils with minimum risk for large cor porations," he has been saying. What Mr. Bruce does not point out: Studies show that in newly built low-cost housing develop ments, the crime rate is higher than in the housing they replaced. MEAl EDSQN By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) - One key principle in President Ken nedy's tax reform program. Treas ury officials say. has not been fully appreciated by the general public. It is intended to ease the tax burden on people who are not fully sharing in the nation's pros perity. Included here are not only those with incomes less than $3,000 a year who would have to pay no taxes at all hut also those with incomes up to $10,000 a year who use the minimum standard de duction instead of itemizing de ductions. Working mothers, wid Kennedy's Tax Cut Plan And Its Effect Upon You The e fleets of President Kennedy's proposed income tax reduction program on taxpayers in various income strata are shown in the accompanying table. The figures reflect the changes which would be made in the returns of persons itemiz ing average deductions and the proposed rate reductions lor both 1961 and 196a. Married, Two Dependents With Average Itemized Deduction 1964 196S Toi Percentage cut Annual Preient To Tax Seduction when program Income Tan liability Liability by 1965 fully in eHecr $0-3,00(1 o 0 0 0 5.000 1 310 $ 279 $ 252 $ 58 18.7 7,000 640 574 52a 112 17.5 10,000 1,240 1,125 1,050 190 15.3 15,000 2.252 2.059 1,940 312 13.9 20,000 3.500 3.208 3,024 478' 13.6 50,000 15,136 13.998 13.410 1.996 13.2 100,000 41,274 37,936 35,700 5,574 13.5 -1 ne igpicoi iremizer in inu income proup Has no tax liability noui and would continue to have none under the proposal. Kitchen Talk ACROSS 1 Kettle 4 Brcf or lamb dish A a cook 12 Dutch uncle 13 Polynesian Rod 14 Martian (comb, form. 15 Capacity meaiure (tb.) lAOvihliei 18 Flouter 20 Require me nti 21 Gun (fling) 22 Goads 24 Girl namt lab I 26"Auld lang 27 Bird 30 Slylt of type 32 Swim city 34 Photographic device 35 Redactor 37 Asiatic sea 39 Low sand hill 40 Shoshoneans 41 Stv 42 Fa pun Re 45 Salve 49 Throwback 51 Island iKr.l 52 Hebrew month 53 Odd (Scot t 54 Palm leaf 55 Fewer 5ft Refute 57 Sneoze DOW 1 Supports 2 Muscat n its capital 3 Wires 4 Begin 5 Pomesticate ft Spirit 7 Small tumor (I Palm fruits t) Great Ukc 10 the familv i2 3 R 5""6 7 I 18 19 110 111 12 13 U n is i7" 21 p'2i 23 J. I J ST 2a p'pn r""i 28 29 35 31 ""3l 33 n J35 3i rp b" j3g hT" ri45 4o W 55 56 57 21 Mi :1 77'.v"ai? IN WASHINGTON Some Will Get ows or widowers with dependent children or disabled dependents also would benefit. So would the aged. The present minimum standard deduction is 10 per cent of the taxpayer's income or $1,000, whichever is less. Under the proposed reform the minimum would be $300 for a single taxpayer. $400 for a mar ried couple and $100 more for each dependent, up to $1,000 for seven dependents. These changes would benefit 13 million taxpayers now using the minimum standard deduction. They would apply to taxpayers with incomes of less than $3,000 and no dependents, $4,000 a year Answer to Previous Puril 3X3 11 Hurl ITVonlv IS Bird of prfy 2:1 1'plostial be ing 24 Mineril 23 Indonesians of Mindanao 21! Frishlf n 27 Hindrance 28Shakrpearran Mream 29 Merchandise .11 More enraiied M Pheasant nejte .111 Tower 40 Kmployerl 41 Island in Philippines 42 Pertaining to an age 43 Intel pret 44 Hawaiian Erppen erelt 47 Kenunine appellation 45 Harvest SO Tiirf D AITiEl Fj l G PIE AIR 5LEA AlglO E l M1Q feSfeiStSS TiQg'Tl OMEJ EjA T SI : ' !f V Vi ATax Break and one dependent, $3,000 a year and two dependents and so on up to $10,000 a year and seven dependents. People who must pay for the care of a child or a disabled de pendent of any age in order ' to hold a job would benefit. Instead of the present $600 maximum for dependents' care, people with two dependents could deduct up to $!)00 and those with three or more the full $1,000. The maximum income which a married couple may have and still be allowed to take the deduction if the wife works would be raised from the present $4,500 limit to $7,000. The age limit of children (or whom a dependent's deduction could be claimed would be raised from 11 to 12 years. A married man whose wife is in an institution or a wife whose husband has deserted her would be able to claim these deductions, the same as widowers and em ployed widows. The president's tax reform pro gram would extend new bene fits to all people over 65 years old, including the 13.5 million low income aged who pay no taxes under present law. Social Secur ity, railroad retirement and oth er benefits now excluded from taxable income would continue to be exempt. With the exception of a few older people in the top income brackets, all the 3.4 million aged who now pay some income taxes would benefit from the general tax cuts. The present retirement income credit and the $(100 exemption for those over 65 would be elimi nated. In their places there would be a straight M00 cut in taxes (or single people over 65. For a mar ried couple, both over 65 and fil ing a joint return there would be no taxes on income up to $5,778, whereas they must now pay taxes on all taxable income over $2,667. Even tlie people over 65 with income from wages, private pen sions and dividends would get a tax reduction. Although the tax exemption on the first $50 of income from divi dends and the 4 per cent tax credit on all dividends above that amount would be ended, the 5 per cent cut in corporation tax rates which the President proposes would more than offset present benefits. All ceilings on medical expense deductions would be removed, although medical expense below 4 per cent of adjusted gross in come could not be counted as a deduction. People who retire before reach ing ago 65 would be permitted to continue using the present re tirement income credit till they reach 65. People between 62 and 65 who receive social security or railroad retirement benefits would continue to receive them tax ex empt, but they would be taxed on other income, the same as all other people under 65. In summary, the special tax credit proposed for the aged would give 50 per cent of its benefits to people with incomes under $5,000. People over 65 with incomes from $5,000 to $10,000 would get a 37 per cent tax cut. Incomes trom $10,000 to EO.000 would get a 17 per cent tax cut. llicbcr incomes would got cuts of from 8 to t per cent. By FULTON LEWIS JB. Little more than a month ago, bureaucrats in the Department of Commerce granted an American firm permission to sell synthetic rubber valued at $460,000 to Com munist Czechoslovakia. Informed the rubber was to be used in t h e "manufacture of tires," Rep. Glenn Lipscomb op ened a one-man investigation into recent trade and discovered that U.S. shipments to Iron Curtain countries are continuing at a shocking rate. To the Soviet Union. U.S. firms ship industrial chemicals, petro leum coke, technical data of all kinds. To Hungary, industrial chemi cals, pneumatic metalworking lools, microfilm, scientific in struments, automotive parts. To Poland, chemical concen trates, spectrum measuring in struments, precision boring ma chines To Czechoslovakia, crude sul phur, carbon black, semiconduc tors, raw cotton, optical measur ing devices. One of the biggest recipients of U.S. goods is Yugoslavia's Josef Broz Tito, who recently kissed and made up with Premier Khru shchev. On Feb. 21, the Commerce De partment issued a license author izing the shipment to Yugoslavia of rolling equipment worth $3.6 million to be used in a steel mill under construction at Jescnice. The license, which had been ap plied for only three weeks earlier, covers equipment and spare parts for a combination blooming, slab bing and plate mill. This type of mill, Lipscomb dis covered, is used to reduce steel ingots to intermediary sizes and shapes before further processing into steel plates, rails, wheels, sheets, bars, tubes, rods, and a variety of other items. "Obvious ly," says Lipscomb, "such equip ment is essential to the manu By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Speaking at a college recently, I became involved in the fami liar controversy about a "liberal arts" education versus vocational or technical training. Or, more succinctly stated, education for living versus education for mak ing a living. I am wholly on the side of the liberal arts, and the older, I get the more I observe the melan choly consequences of. too early specialization. It forces a man into a mold from which he is rarely able to break out in later years. The French have a phrase in deed, the French have a phrase for everything "une deforma tion professionelle." This means a professional deformation, a kink of personality, that afflicts men who too closely identify their whole selves with their occupa tion. This is a dangerous tendency, for oneself and for others, espe cially among professional people for it subordinates the whole man to the function of the man, and his spirit soon loses its in dividually and its authenticity. In his interesting brief book on depth - psychology and pastoral care, Father Josef Goldbrunner makes this point most tellingly: "Professional life compels the soul to put on a u n i f o r m. For example, the teacher must al ways know more than the pupils. His task bestows authority and power upon him. The preponder ance of person as teacher, applied Al manac By United Press International Today is Friday, March 29. the 83th day of 1963 with 277 to follow. The moon is approaching its first quarter. The morning stars are Venus and Saturn. The evening star is Mars. Those born today include John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States in 1790. On this day in history: In 1R24, Hie Society for the Re formation of Juvenile Delinquents was incorporated in New York City. In 1847. Gen. Winficld Scott cap tured Vera Cruz, Mexico. In 1867, the Act of Confederation was passed by the, British Parlia ment, creating tlie Dominion of Canada. In wa. comedian Jack Benny made his radio debut. A thought for the day Ancient philosopher Pubhlius Syrus said: "Every one excells in somethin; in which another fails." facture of many strategic goods." On Feb. 25, four days after Commerce first approved the ex port of equipment for that mill, another license was granted. The department authorized the shipment to Yugoslavia of a 7,000-horsepower electric motor, two 600-horsepower electric en gines, and special purpose con trols and parts. Total value: $685, 120. These products, too, will be used at the Jesenice steel mill. According to the Department of Commerce, products of this mill will be used in the ship con struction industry. Incredibly, the Yugoslav pur chases are being financed through credit extended by the Export-Import Bank, which has just "loaned" Marshal Tito $50 mil lion. Congressman Lipscomb told my office: "The American tax payer is therefore contributing greatly to the economic and mili tary buildup of the Soviet bloc." On Feb. 19, Commerce issued 12 licenses approving the ship ment of copper scrap worth $2 million to Yugoslavia. When Lip scomb asked the department for what purpose the copper would be used, he was told it would be converted into copper sulphale and used in an agricultural spray. The Special House Committee on Export Control, of which Lip scomb is a member, disclosed last year that Yugoslavia supplies the USSR with copper rods, cop per plates, copper tubes and pipes. "All of course are import ant in the manufacture of many strategic commodities," he notes. Since the beginning of January, the Commerce Department has approved the shipment to Tito of the following: electron tubes, com munications equipment, construc tion machinery, electrical testing machinery, petroleum drilling parts, coaxial cable, waveform measuring instruments, copper al loy wire, aircraft parts, scientif ic and professional equipment. STRICTLY PERSONAL to begin with at the right time and place, gradually becomes a habit and taken for granted. "The husband and father, the whole man, acts like a teacher. He gradually begins to school master everything and everybo dy Instead of leaving his 'uniform' at school and becoming a 'civilian' again, instead of be ing the man Nature intended him to be, there is the danger that the teacher may identify him self with his role and become in capable of separating himself from it. "He no longer knows he is play ing a role and always wearing a mask in front of his spiritual face. The mask inserts itself be tween his real nature and the world, as the Greek actor wore the persona (mask). Thus, we have the persona of the official, the clergyman, etc. The weaker a man's nature is. and the greater his personal vanity, the more he runs the danger of mistaking his persona for himself. "His character fails to develop, it gets set in a groove. The vital energies of the soul are forced into a strait-jacket and fullness of life is rendered impossible. Anything that does not fit into the persona is repressed and slips back into the unconscious." 'Other Editors Say talkers (Register-Guard, Eugene) In a less complicated era. Con gress was, hands down, the talk ingest body in the world. But now it's barely holding its own. with the United Nations coming up fast. The Congressional Record usually runs to about 20.000 pages a session, plus, of course, the swollen appendix. The last ses sion of the U.N. is recorded in 19,200 pages of speeches and sum maries. The U.N. is already the winner of the race for sheer bulk. Rec ords must be produced in three languages, French, Spanish and English. Many more must be translated into Russian and Chi nese. And a few arc also pro duced in less common languages. Altogether last session the U.N. filled 306.307.000 pages witft speeches, records and supporting documents. Some U.N. officials are con cerned about this. They'd like to cut down the debate. But they're afraid the debate in t h e ques tion would just take up more space.