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Newspaper Page Texti y-ixij-ixi.' i.rinrwi-i nmrt-i-r ----- PAGE -A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Thursday, April 25, 1963 NOTHING SPECIAL "How Dare You Bypass Me?" fcdii&uaL (paqsL Somebody" Is Concerned (W. B. S.I Reports from the U.S. General Account ing Office roll out two and three a day, faster than anybody can read them. These reports do not necessarily audit irregularities, but are aimed it carelessness in the handling of millions of government dollars. It cost $41 million to run the GAO for the fiscal year ending last June 30. But it collected $48 million in refunds and effected other savings of $114 million for a total of $162 million, which is nearly a four-to-one ratio of return. The comfort in this for taxpayers at this time of year is that there is really somebody in Washington who is concerned about govern ment spending, mistakes, inefficiency and waste and tfies to do something about it. Though Comptroller General Joseph Campbell, who has headed GAO since 1954, Is the servant of Congress, his day - to - day, blue-bound paperback reports, ranging in size from only a dozen pages to fat books over an inch thick, are so voluminous that no con gressman can keep up with them. There were 822 GAO reports to Congress last year and 113 to the Budget Bureau. There were 766 investigations of 411 government contractors. There were 152 reviews at 611 U.S. military installations. There also were 459 reviews at 1,359 civil government locations. There were audits of 4.5 million bills of lading and of 2.3 million requests for government trans portation. A total of $30 million in over charges was recovered.' And so on. A few of these reports make brief sen sations, but most get routine news coverage. Carelessness in handling government funds is old stuff and the conscience of the country is caloused to it. The impact is not what it should be. It takes something like the annual report of the comptroller general, which has just come out, to get a perspective on this whole effort and its magnitude. The report itself is not dramatic reading and it will never become a best seller ($1.75 from the Government Printing Office), even with rave reviews. But it is scandalous read ing just the same. It takes nearly 5,000 government em ployes to staff the General Accounting Of fice, more than 3,000 in Washington and the rest in some 120 field offices in the United States and in 22 foreign countries where military and economic aid projects were checked into. The 365 lawyers on the GAO staff handled 4,400 decisions last year. They set tled 15,000 claims against the government and helped Department of Justice on 60 cases in which suits for $4.4 million were settled for $2.6 million at a $1.8 million saving. More than 150 GAO lawyers were as signed to congressional committees to help in their investigations. Among the important savings which GAO is credited with last year are these: Reduction in Air Force proficiency flying costs, $13 million last year with anoth er $32 million to be saved this year. Cancellation of planned procurement, $18 million. Cancellation of requisitions for sup plies not needed, $12 million. Transfer -of materials from one agency, to another, $30 million. Reclamation of parts from excess air craft engines, $8 million. GAO has no authority to audit the ac counts on U.S. government contributions of nearly $100 million last year to international organizations. That, in the opinion of Camp bell, is one of the major loopholes in his oper ations, since the United States is the biggest contributor to most of them. The Creation Of Instant History One of Dwight Elsenhower's former speech writers, Enimelt Hughes, Is stirring a few feathers with his fairly intimate memoirs of life around the White House under "Ike." Il is reported that President Kennedy quickly devoured Hughes' book, "The Ordeal of Power." Aside from his natural Interest in what his predecessor did, Kennedy may be curious about the role of writers In high . places. He has a few close by himself. One is Arthur Schlesinger, historian, who says he has already learned enough to cast in doubt his old historian's techniques. Another is Mc George Bundy, foreign affairs specialist. One could forgive Kennedy for wonder ing, in the light of Hughes' effort, whether fellows like Schlesinger and Bundy whip out their little notebooks the .moment they leave the President's office. After all, if good history is getting hard to write as Schlesinger says, putting the stuff clown quick seems vital. But the new method involves another problem how to keep the historian himself from now and then upstag ing the other. White House performers, s IN WASHINGTON All iance Slogans Failure By RALPH dc TOLUDANO In politics, old slogans ncvor die (hey just become Institution alized, Most of the economic poll, cies being touted today by learned liberal ideologues arc based on the slogans of the 1930s and imposed by badgered legislators on situa tions of a fur different nature than those which obtained them. And so it is with the Alliance for Progress, President Kennedy's "answer" to Communism In.Latin America. Tho slogans on which the Al liance for Progress are based have become so accepted that few bother to determine (1) if they are valid, and (2) if the solutions to which they Inevitably point will help or hurt In the fight against Communist penetration.. In answer to charges of a "do nothing" Cuban policy, the" Presi dent and other Administration spokesmen have said ropcutcdly that the only way to defeat Com munism south of the border Is to Improve living standards and eco nomic conditions. As a general proposition, every American will endorse tho betterment of life among our Latin neighbors. But historically, the theory of "belly Communism" has never been found to apply and this Is dem onstrably so in Latin America. Look at the facts and figures. Cuba under Batista was the fourth most prosperous country in Latin America, basing tills figure on the per capita share of tho Gross National Product. Yet Cuba went Communist. Venezuela, with the highest per capita share of GNP, is among the Latin Ameri can nations most threatened. Ac cording to some experts, it Is Esed on a razor's edge and may Into the Red abyss at any mcnt. (Venezuela's GNP Is more than double that of ita clos est rival.) Brazil, which ranks eighth, and Is among the moro prosperous Latin nations, is In a period of crisis and could be vic timized by Communist revolt on the so-far withheld signal of Niki ta Khrushchev. Some of the poor er nations of the inter-American alliance are among the freest from Communist Infiltration or ag itation. So much for the basic thesis ol the Alliance (or Progress namely, that improving economic conditions will forestall a Com munist takeover. But what of the procedural whereby the Alliance for Progress proposes to bring prosperity to Latin America? U.S. foreign aid officials south of the border are pressing a pro gram designed In Washington. Tho exports say that one important phase of it is more likely to hurt than to help the economics of the participating nations. , Here again, an old slogan dom inates. Tile answer to poverty and tho way to win over the lower classes which are presumably picy to Communist agitation is, we arc told, "land reform." (It used to be called "agrarian re form" until Mao Tsc-luug and the Chinese Reds look over that phrase. I But "land reform" as pushed by the Alliance for Progress will do precisely the opposite of what it is intended to do. Very briefly, it w ill simultaneously decrease ag ricultural production and the in come of the Latin American farm er. It will also depress the econo my by forcing the countries in volved to import more- food thereby reducing their foreign ex change and the capital accumula tions necessary for-the industrial growth so badly needed. Tho reason for this is very sim ple. As former Under Secretary of Commerce Philip A. Hay points out In his careful study of Latin America, "South Wind Red," Lat in American leaders arc Increas ingly "recognizing that the intro duction of modern farm techniques In mechanization, irrigation, and fertilization rather than fragmen tation or 'land reform'" is tho sole means of increasing farm productivity. Modern tech niques require capital and large land holdings to be workable. At present roughly 50 per cent of the Latin American labor force is providing an inadequate supply of food. If the farms of today are chopped up thut percentage will rise. The labor force necessary for urban and rural industrializ ation will not be available and Latin America will find itself in the same kind of economic bind as Red China and the Soviet Union. If these points are not sufficient ly convincing, there is one clinch er. Country after country in Latin America has attempted laud rclorm by fragmentation. It has never worked. If the U.S. wants to encourage individual initiative in Latiit. America, it should prevail on the governments there to turn over to venturesome souls some ol its vast holdings of uncultivat ed land as America did in the days when we opened the West. Al manac By United Press International Today Is Thursday, April 23, the 115th day of 1W3 with 250 to follow. The mo'on is approaching its first quarter. The morning stars are Venus and Saturn. Tlie evening stars are Mercury and Mars. Those born on this dale include the Italian Inventor of the wire less, Marconi, in 11174. In 1H4H, the first shots of the Mexican War were lircd. in 1!KU, New York became the first slate to require license plates on automobiles and 954 cars were icRisterod. In V.M5, the U.S. First Army and Russian troops joined forces over the Elbe River. In lt'45. delegates from 46 coun tries met at San Francisco to form Ilic United Nations. PROPOSED f MSHIWTW-MOSCOW V HOT LIKE r STRICTLY PERSONAL By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Purely Personal Prejudices: The two rarest public types in the world of politics are the lib eral who knows what requires to be changed and the conservative who knows which things are worth conserving but these are only one out of a thousand, in both camps. i Small children instinctively feel more at home with animals than with adults; and this natur al affinity, I think, is simply that animals do not pretend to be, or feel, what they arc not. Some critics pay so much ven eration to the authors of antiquity . not so much out of reverence for the dead as out of spite and envy toward the living. The fatal flaw that forever pre vents the clever man from becom ing the wise man is his refusal to accept the truth of La Roche foucauld's maxim: "On pent etre plus fin qu'un autre, mais non pas plus fin que tons les autres" "One person can be astutcr than another, but not astutcr than all . the others." A person may not believe your flattery, and may like you no bet ter for it, but still he cannot help being pleased that you consider him worth flattering. When we say that someone has "Independent means," we usually mean precisely the oppo sitethat he or she has inherit ed or married money and is de pendent upon the legacy achieved through another's ef forts. Such "independence" most often exacts a high price. Watching a beautifully groomed and skillfully madc-up woman in an elevator keep patting her hair with her fingers and adjusting her coat collar, it occurred to me that if woman lacks repose all her contrived appeal turns to ashes in the beholders' eyes; and a woman who is overly-conscious of being well turned out, and preoc cupied with the impression she is creathr;, utterly destroys what she is trying to achieve. (And wasn't it Madame Rcca mier's definition of a "lady" that "she never thinks of being one?") To explain away a mistake is a more grievous error than making the mistake in the first place I he consequences of making a mis take can usually be rectified, but the habit of explaining away 'prevents all future learning and growth. If people were prevented from chattering about the recent books they have read, nine tenths of the volumes on the best-seller list would perish in their first edition. Knowledge is power only when it is based on self-knowledge; other wise it becomes either ineffectual or self-destructive. THE GLOBAL VI EW Red Agents Plot Latin Strategy By LEON DENNEN Newspaper Enterprise Analyst WASHINGTON i.NE.V - While President Kennedy seeks to re vitalize the Alliance for Progress, Soviet agents are plotting another "round of revolutions" in Latin America. The long range strategy to be used in the Kremlin's new thrust below the Rio THEY SAY... The average John Bircher would not know a Communist if he met Khrushchev face to face in Moscow's Red Square. -Hep. Carl Elliot, D-Ala. Tree Talk Answer to Previous Puxile ACROSS . 36 1 Coniferous US plant 42 5 Acorn producer 43 8 Coconut tree 45 12 Arabian gulf 47 13 Sh Pep fold 14 Trees cover 49 much of the earth's fit 15 Peruse 52 16 Boy's name M 17 Military sile oh 18 Playing cards firt Ii0 Christmas song 57 21 Female saint 5ft lab 1 59 22 Certain tree B0 product 25 Chemical suffix , 26 Stray 2ft Candies 31. 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Who knows, we may lick this 1 zoning problem yot. , The American Medical Associ ation reports that accidental poi sonings, mostly in the home, have become one of the major causes of accidents in America, particularly to small children. It's no wonder a quarter of a million products used in the home and in industry are potentially hazardous. The products aren't to be blamed they serve wanted, use--ful and essential purposes. The fault lies in the way they are handled. The AMA offers a set of simple rules to prevent poi soning in the home: Keep all drugs, poisonous substances and household clicmi . cals out of reach of children. Do not transfer polnsonous sub stances to unlabeled containers. Never re-use containers of chemical substances. Do not leave discarded medicines where children or pets might get' at them. Never tell children you are giving them candy when you arc actually giving them medicine. Read the labels before using chemical products. Never give or .take medicines in the dark. " Another important stricture is that speed is essential to stop ab sorption of a puison. If possible. Grande was spelled out at a secret round ta ble of top Latin American Reds : held recently in Moscow. Chairman of the conclave was A. Rumyantsev, a member of the Central Commit tee of the Russian Communist Party and Niklta Khrushchev's top international trouble shooter. The architects of Russia's power plot, according to a secret blue print now studied by U.S. special ists on communism, stressed the importance of wooing and even carrying on "an illicit love affair with democracy," to speed the Red takeover in Latin America. Communists must bring into the fight against American imperial ism "as many allies as possible even temporary and unsteady al lies," Uumyantsev urged the Lat in American Red chieftains. "We must form a single National-Democratic Front which unites all the progressive and patriotic forces in your respective countries." The delegate from Brazil. J. Go render, chided Latin American Reds for directing their main as sault against their "national bour geoisie" and not against the Unit ed States. He criticized them for their failure to fight for a united front which "must always be un der the leadership of the Commu nist pfi-ty." O. Ghioldi, Argentina's Red chieftain, informed the meeting that the aim of his party has al ways been the creation of a Na- . tional-Democratic Front of Com munists, followers of the ousted dictator Juan Peron and other po litical groups formed "as a result of splits among the traditional democratic parties." Every speaker at the Red con- clave spoke of the need for a union of industrial workers and campesinos (peasants'. This could only be attained if the Commu nists "raised the flag of the fight lor land." Cuba's top Red, Bias Roca, ' said the undisguised revolutionary brinkmanship of Red China's Mao Tse-tung was the main obstacle in the way of (lie creation of a single National-Democratic Front in Latin America. Uruguay's representative J. Masscr said that even some capi talists and land owners could Like part in association uith Commu nists in such fronts. He hastened to add that "these fronts are to be temporary in nature." They w ill be backed by the Communists until conditions for revolutions in Latin America have been created. Moscow's new long range plan for action in the Western Hemis phere was obviously devised to counteract the growing support for President Kennedy's Alliance (or Progress. But it is also designed to check in Latin America the rising influence of Mao Tse-lung who is backed by Fidel Castro but not bv Cuba's pro-Muscovite He.lv one person should begin first aid while another calls a physician. And the poison container with its label and remaining contents should be saved and given to the physician or the hospital. The final point is that pre vention is much easier than treat ment. Take a look around your home for potential hazards and correct them today. The following "creed" or vari ations of it are finding more and more circulation. 1 first heard of it during last November's political campaign. Then, again, it popped up when a Ro tary speaker used it earlier this , spring. Even more recently, it has been in several exchanges of one sort or another. It goes: "I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon if I can. I seek opportunity not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, hum bled and lulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to suc ceed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the chal lenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment ' to the slate calm of Utopia. I will not trade freedom for benefi cence nor my dignity for a hand out. It is my heritage to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations, and to face the world boldly and say this is what I have done. All this is what it means' to be an Ameri can." High sounding words. It Is unfortunate that many of the people who mouth this and sim ilar statements arc those who work hard at ripping apart the structure that made America great. A couple of die-hards are Wes Guderian and Mel Howie. Wes has a Unandcr sticker on the front bumper of his horseless carriage and Mel still plugs Bob Chandler for Congress on his Volks. EDSON IN WASHINGTON . Arab Area Seekinc Stability, Direction By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA) While the new United Arab Republic of Egypt. Iraq and Syria is of im mediate concern to the Near East, it has a longer range interest for the whole Aral) world. The entire area from Morocco to the Persian Gulf is now in a state of ferment arid growth. No one can foretell whether it will explode into many little wars or even a big one. It might emerge more or less peacefully into a new Pan-Arab force the rest of the world will have to appraise anew. When the phrase "Arab world" is used, it means all people who speak Arabic and are Mohamme dans. There are from 80 to 83 million of them. The new U.A.R. will have 45 million 28 million in Egypt, 12 million in Iraq, five million in Syria. Other Arab countries cast of the Suez Canal have a total pop ulation of from 12 to 15 million. Saudi Arabia lias seven million, Yemen perhaps three million. Leb anon a million and a half. Jordan ender a million. Kuwait 230,000. The Federation uf Southern Ara bian Slates Aden, Oman. Muscat and 23 other sultanates the Brit ish protectors are trying to put together may have a total popu lation of only 600,000. But they have a place in any redi awing ol the Arab world map. In North Africa west of Egypt are 22 million Arabs. Libya, Al geria, Tunisia and Morocco are the big units. But northern Sudan is Arabic, as are Mali. Spanish Sahara and Maurctania. The Arab world has no idea where it is going collectively. Nor do its individual members know their own future. There are loose alliances every where. The 13 principal Arab countries 11 if you now count the U.A.R. as one are joined in an Arab League. It is a regional organization patterned alter the Organization of American States and having similar delects and w t aknesses. Egypt is the principal power in the Arab League and its main support. The Voice of Cairo dom inates the Arab world airwaves and the transistor radio is the alarm clock that awakens the gi ant, The Casablanca group, in which the King Hassan 11 of Morocco is rnme mover for "Magrcb" or western unity, includes also Alge ria. Tunisia, Ghana, Guinea and Mali. There are also larger, Inter African and Malagasay organi zations of former French and British colonies. They wrote a charter last December but are still in the negotiating stage. The .United Slates would like to have Britain and France play tlie largest possible role in the development of Africa, since American aid can't do it all. Still, U.S. aid to Arab world countries has totaled $2 billion since 1945 $100 milliion of it mili tary assistance to Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Tunisia. This does not include the cost of U.S. bases in Morocco, which will be evacuated at the cud of 1963. The kingdom of Libya, which could have the most viable econ omy in tlie Arab world, is still an uncertain quantity. Old King Idris! I, a former Arab emir whose family has ruled East Libya for 200 years, was enthroned with British help in 1951. Egypt has long hoped that this eastern half eventually will join U.A.R. Tunisia has hopes it might form a union with western Libya. In 1(155 Libya granted oil con cessions to one French, two Brit ish and tluee American compa nies. Tiiey have developed rich producing fields. But Libya has not used .its oil revenues wisely. It has no development plan, no drive, no leadership.' Principal American interest in l.ibva is Wheeius Field, where NATO pilots can train year-round la perfect flying weather. There is no pressure from the Libyans c have this field evacuated. Whee ius was the main staging area for U.N. operations in the Congo. On top of all the purely Arabian political rivalries and alliances, there is a large movement (or more African unity. Thirty two heads of African nations have now accepted invitations to attend a Pan-African organization meeting in Addis Ababa May 23. What might come out of this meeting in the way ol a charter for permanent organization cannot be predicted. Due of its most useful purposes could be tu offset a Communist organized Afro-Asian solidarity conference held in Nairobi, Kenya, last February. Its principal development was a Russia-Red China clash. And that points up the most disturbing ele ment to watch in African cvolu. turn the ever present threat of Communist agitation and infilUa' lion. '.