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Sunday, April 7, 1963
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SPECIAL
'Don't Rush Me!"
(W. B. S.)
It is a commonplace that the president
of the United States gets no easy matters
for decision. More commonly than it is, the
same ought to be said of the United States
Supreme Court.
Hearing only some 200 cases a year, it has
no time for small things. It must focus on
questions of broad import.
The pressures of time, however, are not
crucial in compelling this concentration on
large judicial affairs. The fact is, this is the
high court's function.
A former American Bar Assn. president,
Charles S. Rhyne, who has tried a hundred
cases before the Supreme Court in the past
25 years, calls it this country's great "organ
of decision."
He argues that any free government
needs such a final arbiter. For, inevitably,
there will be many potential stalemates as
major conflicting interests battle for position
in the arena. Who is to break them or prevent
them if there is no place of last resort?
Not the least reason for this nation's pre
Constitution paralysis under the Articles of
Confederation, suggests Rhyne, was the ab
sence of anything like the present high court.
He sees it as fitting and necessary that
we shape our great controversies for ultimate
decision at this level. We cannot leave them
undecided. The other courses would be cither
a new paralysis or conflict approaching war.
The Supreme Court's role as final re
sort is not an enviable one. The great contro
versies it hears are almost certainly charged
with emotion. The court knows powerful,
sometimes socially disruptive consequences
(Hartford Ceurant)
The special Senate subcommittee on
aging has been hearing some pretty discon
certing testimony on the way old folk are
being bilked by swindlers and quacks. To this
unconscionable breed of scoundrels Whistler's
Mother would have been not just a nice old
lady, but a target for a phony land deal . . .
They might well have tried to sell her a plot
of land in the Mojave Desert 50 miles from
the nearest river. . '. . Thousands were duped
by this "lakeside" development
Those who add a chronic ailment to their
other worries are specially vulnerable. Food
and Drug Administration officials figure that
$500 million a year is spent by old people on
IN WASHINGTON . . .
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By RALPH dc TOI.EDANO
' There is general agreement
across the country that something
must be done to provide employ
ment for young people. They make
up tlie largest single group In the
nation's unemployed. And they
have the least chance to get the
almost five million jobs which are
today going a-begging because of
a shortage of qualified labor.
The Domestic Peace Corps is
President Kennedy's answer to
the problem. I am sure that he
sincerely believes in it. Hut labor
everts are almost unanimous in
their insistence that anv kind of a
Al
manac
By United Tress International
Today is Sunday, April 7, the
Win day of ISM with Sfl to
follow.
Tlie moon is approaching full
phase.
The morning stars are Venus
and Saturn.
The evening star Is Mars.
Those born today Include Eng
lish poet William Wordsworth, in
Till).
On this day In history:
In 1927, an audience at the Bell
Telephone laboratories In New
York witnessed the first success
ful long distance demonstration of
television as Secretary of Com
merce Herbert Hoover spoke Irom
his desk in Washington.
In 19.W, Italy invaded Albania.
In l!M7, telephone workers In 3!l
(tales started a 23 day strike.
In 1953, Dug llammnrskjold was
elected Secretary General of the
United Nations.
A thought for the day Norwe
gian author Henrik Ibsen said:
"There can be no freedom or
beauty about a home life that de
pends upon borrowing or debt."
The Final Arbiter
Special Targets
worthless health foods, or bogus vitamin spe
cialties. . . . Last year it is estimated that
9 million persons over 45 spent as many mil
lion dollars on quack remedies. . . .
It has been suggested that postal laws
be tightened so that officials can move more
quickly against the charlatans. Food and drug
officials would also like to have the laws
streamlined so they can get phony drugs off.
the market quickly. But the committee is not
at a law-writing stage now. It has struck a
rich vein of villainy and, as chairman McNa
mara says, "This field is larger than we ex
pected." Like everything else in our coun
try: Robbing the old is a big enterprise.
Training Program
new CCC will merely aggravate
the problem. It will take young
people and put them to work (or
a period of time certainly. But
it will not train them in the
skills necessary to mako them
employable. They will leave the
corps just as helpless and unem
ployable as when they went in.
The tragedy is that the govern
ment, the schools, and the labor
unions are not doing anything to
make useful citizens, instead of
unemployment statistics, of tlie
young men and women looking
(or work today.
In a significant article appear
ing in this month's Harper's, Kd
ward T. Chase points out one rea
son why. He decries a system
"that produces unnccded farmers,
cabinet - makers, and weavers
while the demand is rising for
business machine repairmen,
chefs, auto mechanics, and elec
trical servicemen to mention only
a few of the skills in shurt sup-
ply-"
"Skills" Is. of course, the key
word. Every year the nation s
need for blue collar workers di
minishes. At the same time, while
collar workers and technicians nl
all sorts are increasingly in de
mand. But the vocational schools
are dealing in skills Unit are clear
ly obsolete.
"So archaic is most of Hie train
ing given in vocational schools."
Mr. Chaso writes, "that unions
in tlie printing, plumbing, food
and other trades refuse to give
credit (or it. Graduates from vo
cational schools must start from
scratch on apprenticeships often
running from three to five years "
Those apprenticeships, more
over, are pitifully (ew in ntimlicr
ami all bound around by favorit
ism and trade union mumho-jum-bo,
Tlie vocational education sys
tem is still way back in 1917 w lion
Hie Smith-Hughes Act Was passed
Al that lime, one-third of the
American labor lorce was cm
ployed in agriculture. Today, it
is only one-eighteenth. Vet half of
the Federal money spent under
the still-existent Smith . Hughes
Act goes toward the training o(
may follow its decision. Its members know,
too, that they are human and can make mis
takes. This is perhaps the key reason it so often
moves slowly. Yet the time for choice always
comes when the end of the road is at hand
and deeply entrenched stalemate threatens
to become permanent.
Inescapably, critical decisions are un
popular with many. If they were not, the high
court's interest in the issue involved probably
would be misplaced.
But here Uhyne makes a significant point.
It is every citizen's right and privilege to as
sail the court's rulings, especially when it is
recognized that human judgment can err. Nev
ertheless, the lawyer argues, it is wrong to
direct this attack against either the court as
an agency or the judges as individuals.
They, sitting as a court, are acting in the
difficult, unpopular task for which they were
chosen. We must presume they are doing so
according to their oath, and to the best of their
ability.
If we do not place our faith in them, as
individuals and as a body, then in whom may
we place it? Should the president, leading
the nation, be the judge of affairs he often
initiates? Should the Congress, embroiled in
politics and passing many laws whose lan
guage it hardly knows, be the appraiser of its
own acts?
Only the Supreme Court stands at all
aloof. Even it can be jarred from its vital de
tachment. But it is still the only great organ
of choice our system of government has given
us.
Vita
new and unnecessary farmers.
We're getting the farmers, but
the U.S. economy, as Mr. Chase
points out, will need 50,000 new
carpenters, 5.000 tool-and-die-mak-ers,
and 10.000 new plumbers! ev
ery year in the UXMs. And our vo
cational schools are not turning
them out simply because an edu
cationist lobby, which beats its
breast over juvenile delinquency,
is far behind the times but still
has a powerful voice in Congress.
The head of this lohby insists
that there is nothing wrong in a
system which trains young Amer
icans for jobs that don't exist any
more but refuses to give them
the needed skills.
The girls who study home eco
nomics 20 per cent of Smith
Hughes funds go for that, Mr.
Chase says are learning how to
lie the kind of housewives who
would lie considered efficient in
the day of home-churned but
ter and the crank-type ice cream
(recer. Typing, tiling, and of (ice
work arc not considered "voca
tional" to the lobbyists so no fed
eral funds are spent in training
girls to do these essential jobs.
Congress is deeply concerned
over the lack of work for mil
lions of young people who just
don't know how to do anything
except use tltoir hands. But a
Domestic Peace Corps, which will
put these youngsters to work at
leaf-raking jobs and manual la
Ixir. is hardly the answer. The
problem is a big one ami. in fact,
should not lie surrendered to Con
giess. The nation's schools, locally
run, are tlie place lor giving a
new generation the tools (or eco
nomic survival. And the schools
can do it if they slop listening to
the butter-churning educationist
lobby and look to themselves for
on answer. More and more, the
educationist lobby is shutting the
rioors of vocational schools to
those who most need them. It's
about lime Mr. and Mrs. Citi
icn and tlie lival PTA stop wor
rying about the John Birch So
ciety and devote themselves to
this vital job.
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By SYDNEY J. HARRIS
Exactly one hundred years ago,
in a burst of typical 19th Century
optimism, Victor Hugo wrote an
essay on the "future of man" in
which he predicted:
"In the 20th century, war will
be dead, the scaffold will be dead,
hatred will be dead, frontier boun
daries will be dead, dogmas will
be dead; man will live. He will
possess something higher than all
these a great country, the whole
earth, and a great hope, the
whole heaven."
These ringing words were
inspired by the industrial Revolu
tion, by the discoveries of Dar
win and -Huxley, by the advances
in science, medicine, and technol-j .
.ogy,In the latter. half of: t!ir:
19th Century, it seemed as; if
man might at last conquer tlie
conditions of his existence and
create a new Eden based on Ra- .
tionalism, Progress and Human
ismthe three reigning deities in
the pantheon of that era.
But it was not to be. Hardly
more than a dozen years after
the turn of the new century, the
Western world was plunged into
the fiercest and bloodiest of all
wars. Twenty years after the
end of that, another war engulfed
half the world. And now, again 20
years later, we are poised on the
brink of tlie most calamitous con
flict that can be imagined in
deed, it cannot even be imagined.
War is more virulently alive
than ever, hatied is greater and
deeper than ever, frontier boun
daries are more sharply defined
and more passionately defended,
and the new dogmas o( com
munism and fascism have become
pandemic. The savagery, butch
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ery and irrationality of the 20th
Century have outstripped anything
known to man since the dawn of
civilization.
Never before has one age been
so wrong about the next. Except
for the rare dissonant voices of a
Nietzsche or a Kierkegaard, all
the sages of the 19th Century
failed to foresee the upsurging
of our primitive drives, the re
crudescence of hatred, the bloody
tides of racism and nationalism,
the fears and anxieties that would
plague modern man.
Why did this come about? The
reasons are various and compli
catedbut the main reason, in
my opinion, is that men concen
. . (rated too mucb on control of-'
their environment, and too little
on control of themselves. Thus,
every advance in our supremacy
over nature only increased the
distance between the perfection
of our means and the confusion
of our ends. Our capacity for
doing evil outstripped our desire
to do good.
The central problem of our age
is not political or economic or
military. It is the problem of
raising our humanhood to the lev
el of our technology or else hav
ing our technology obliterate our
humanhood. Our failure to see this,
and to act upon it, is the sin of
our time.
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WASHINGTON REPORT...
JFK Didn't
Get Letter
From Hosmer
By FULTON LEWIS JR.
Two weeks ago Congressman
Craig Hosmer dispatched to
President Kennedy a letter of
vital importance.
Hosmer is ranking Republican
on the Joint Atomic Energy
Committee and one of the coun
try's best experts on nuclear test
ing and disarmament. He laid
his cards on the table in the very
first paragraph of his March 18
letter:
"I sincerely hope this letter
may reach you because it con
tains information relating to the
national security which I feel you
' oiay not otherwise receive."
The President did not, however,
receive that let
ter. It was in
tercepted by an
anonymous aide
and t h e Con
gressman re
ceived a stand
ard, thank
form letter
you
for
his troubles.
Here is what Hosmer told the
President:
"Your disarmament agency nf
1 ficials recently outlined to the
Joint Committee many of the
provisions of a revised test ban
treaty under preparation which
they state will soon be offered
to the Soviets. This proposal con
tains a loophole through which
the Soviets can move clandes
tinely to nuclear weapons su
periority and its equivalent, Com
munist world domination."
Hosmer told the President that
government witnesses had testi
fied that the verification system
to be proposed "is inadequate to
detect and identify underground
test cheating at yields equiva
lent to 3 kilotons and below if
tested in alluvium formations
K20 miles within the Soviet
Union."
According to Hosmer's calcu
lations, this gives Russian scien
tists at least 2.5 million square
miles in which to test to their
heart's content.
Under terms of the U.S. "draft"
treaty, the United States would
forego wholly any and all weapons
development: and as a practical
matter, simply trust the Soviets
to keep their word not to carry on
undetectable tests and secretly de
velop nuclear weapons of vast mil
itary significance.
Listed below are tlie signifi
cant weapons which Maj. General
A. W. Belts, director of militarv
applications for the Atomic Ener
gy Commission, told the Joint
Committee could be clandestinely
tested and developed in this unde
tectable area:
1. Relatively low-yield weapons
of tlie tactical type.
2. High - yield tactical wea
pons that could be developed by
extra-polation from explosions as
small as t kiloton, without the ne
cessity for proof testing.
.1. At least one - half of all
strategic weapons of all yields and
types of interest to the military
all without the need for proof
testing.
As an indication of where
weapons development interest lies.
General Belts revealed that 5(1
per cent of all U.S. underground
testing in Nevada is carried out
in this low. undetectable, below
3-kiloton range.
Actually tests much larger than
3 kilotons can be carried out clan
destinely under terms of the pro-
1
A Prayer For Newsmen is this
unusual invocation of particular
meaning to newsmen (and I think
to our readers, who undoubtedly
w ill get a message from these re
marks) was delivered by Mon
signor John B. Cavanagh, editor
of the Catholic Register, at a re
cent meeting of the Colorado
Press Association at Colorado
Springs. In these days of "man
aged" news and other attempts
at manipulating the news, the fol
lowing paragraphs have particu
lar significance.
"Almighty God, the fountain
head of truth, give us convictions
that are forged of steel, that can
not be bent or twisted or snapped
by venal expediency, callous in
difference, sanguine self-interest,
or a cancerous betrayal of our
trust as purveyors of truth. The
devil is no fool, and his recruit
ing program never stops. There
are no coffee breaks in hell. His
hours are the length of the day,
and his years are the measure of
eternity. In the beginning, he ap
propriately assumed a becoming
image, a talking snake. He be
trayed and won his first victim,
a woman, and the lie became the
badge and hallmark of every liar
of both sexes from Adam and
Eve to this atomic era.
"We have succeeded in mak
ing our progenitors in the liars'
sweepstakes look serenely an
gelic. There can be no such
thing as virtue in any misrepre
sentation. The father of lies
knows his disciples. He may
give a knowing wink to the man
who lifts a paper off the news
stand without paving for It. He
may give an encouraging smile
to the man who plagiarizes a
story or lifts a column. He may
give a rattle of his tail to the
man who pads his swindle sheet.
Undoubtedly, he has a hand
shake for the man who lives a
lie in sheer hypocrisy.
"But he has a serpentine em
brace for the newspaperman who
perverts the truth in his columns:
who creates an ad that misleads
or corrupts; who pollutes the
clear stream of truth in news
columns by injecting innuendoes,
suggestive and inflammatory de
vices of deceit, and by leaving un
said monuments to slander and
character defilement. May we not
so much wonder whose side God
is on, but with a renewed pledge
to honesty and integrity, may we
never wonder whose side we are
on. Amen."
That $15 billion the House
passed recently to be spent for
military purchases probably
doesn't sound like much of a
hunk of the $108 billion dollar
budget proposed. But, reduced .
to some simple terms, we see
BERRY'S WORLD
"Why can't you get a job in a field with growth
potential like, tay, the Internal Revenue Service?"
posed U.S. treaty. Simply by
"muffling" their explosions in
underground cavities, the Russians
could "reduce" 30-kiloton explo
s;ons below the 3-kiloton threshold
of non-dctectability.
In his letter to President Ken
nedy, Congressman Hosmer
wrote:
"So again, I urge you to talk
directly with General Betts . . .
I am certain that what he will tell
you will substantiate the proposi
tion that an effective test ban
treaty one which will in fact
cause the Soviets to stop nuclear
weapons development if we do
will require manned seismic ob
servatories inside the Soviet Un
ion as well as on free world
soil.
"Again, in rinsing. I reiterate
the dancer of missing the chance
for an effective, risk-reducing
treaty by the proposal of an ef
fective, risk - increasing treaty."
But the President, sad to say,
has not seen the letter.
what it could mean, if that mon
ey were directed into other chan
nels (and I'm not saying it should
be). To use all of that money
in a single year, tlie military will
have to spend at the rate of
$6,000,000 an hour or $141 million,
a day, or $988 million a week.
The money would buy 3.4 mil
lion $15,000 homes. Or 12.74 mil
lion $4,000 automobiles. Or more
than 150 billion loaves of bread.
At the rate of $1,000,000 a day
it would take 140 years to spend
it down to the last dollar. And
if it were stacked up in silver
dollars, measuring a silver dollar
at one-eighth of an inch, it would
tower to a height of some 100.000
miles, or circle the earth four
times.
Any way you look at It, It
adds up to a pretty penny.
Jack Guinn is a columnist on
the Denver Post. He is one of
the wittiest, sharpest writers of
the time. And he's clever. He
has come up with a heck of a
novel idea which, he alleges, will
solve the world's problems. He
is leader of a dedicated band of
Coloradoans among them former
Colorado Gov.' Steve McNichols
who are organizing the World's
First Seminar on Inconsequential
Matters.
The seminar is designed tail
ored by Guinn to conflict with
another seminar at Aspen, Colo.
At this seminar, the topic of dis
cussion will be "The U.S. Im
age Abroad."
While eggheads are busy dis
cussing "The U.S. Image
Abroad," the World's First Sem
inar on Inconsequential Matters
will be deep in examination of
"Irritating Ways to Haggle With
French Postcard Salesmen and
Other Tricks to Keep Europe
ans From Taking Our Money."
Other topics will include, "How
To Rexlax While Republicans
Drive, or. After Novocain e.
What?" Also, "Songs for Sit-ins
at Saloons," and "Courage In Our
Times: Would Bertrand Russell
Sit on A Wet Sidewalk to Help
Ban the Double Martini?"
The real drawing card is bound
to be the panel discussion on
"How To Load An Elephant On
An Airplane." Valuable informa
tion on this vital matter comes
from an elephant expert who
claims that by placing a chicken
on the head of the elephant, it
will remain calm during the load
ingand even during the flight.
Guinn asks the logical question:
"Would not the world be a bet
ter place if the leaders wore
chickens on their heads?"
LETTERS
TO THE
EDITOR
Thank You
I would like to thank the staff
of the Herald and News and the
chamber of commerce, and all my
friends for all of their support
which they gave me in the Mrs.
Oregon Contest.
It was wonderful and thrilling
to be chosen one of three finalists
but it was far more rewarding
to know I had the support of my
home town and friends.
I wish Mrs. Sandra Ostcrdain
of Salem a successful reign and
all the luck in the world toward
the possibility of becoming Mrs.
America.
Virginia McGaughey
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