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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Oregon Friday, May 10. 19M EDSON IN WASHINGTON j The Hand That Rocks ... .'?:' ''".?--'-i0';;:-V'"': ' " V'.', '"j Kaiser Plan Could dihftmL (paqji rj Bring Steel Change PAGE f-A The America's space program, and particular ly its man-on-the-moon project, is being thrust Increasingly into the arena of public debate. President Kennedy has reasserted and not for the first time the government's in tention to stay with it. But this is not likely to quell the argument. . The least plausible contentions against ine moon project are those which state the money saved from cutbacks could and would be used to finance important domes tic programs. No measure of congressional intent, judged by past performance or current atti tude, suggests that any such result would fol low. The more thoughtful argument, joined in by many scientists, is that our heavy concen tration on the moon program and other space projects is diverting too many engineers and scientists from fruitful contributions to the icivilian economy. ; That the concentration exists no one rdoubts. It may also be true, as certain scicn tists are saying, that civilian technology docs .liot get nearly, as much "by-product effect" from this effort as some government officials assert. Yet the complainants have not made their case. There is no ready proof that scientists and engineers drawn into special space labors IN WASHINGTON By RALPH de TOLEDANO , Those who criticize President Kennedy's Cuban policy and that criticism seems to grow with ev ery passing day are called "ir responsible," "reckless," and worse by tho Administration. Some even call them "w a r whoopers." They are asked to come up with alternatives to tlx Kennedy do-nothing policy or remain silent. ; In the interest of historical ac curacy, it would be of value to recall some of the truly tough statements made about Cuba in the past and to assess them in the light of the Administration's current Ferdinand-the-Bull docil ity. Here is a sampling: "I am not satisfied to have the hand of the Communists move 3,000 miles from East Ber lin to our former neighbor in Cuban, only 90 miles away from the coast of Florida, only 8 min utes by jet." (Sept, JO, I960). : ' "Castro has transformed the Island of Cuba into a hostile and militant Communist satellite a base from which to carry Com munist infiltration and subversion throughout the Americas ... He has transformed the Island into a supply depot for Communist arms and operations throughout Soirth America." (Oct. s, iwoi. "If Communism should obtain a permanent foothold in Latin America . . . then the balance of power would move against us and peace would be even more in secure." (Sept. 14, 190). "We must end tho harassment which the government has car ried on of lihrrly lovinc anll-Cas-tro forces in Cuba and oilier ;lnds . . . Tlicso exiles and reb els represent the real voice of .Cuba and should not bo constant ly handicapped by our Immigra BERRY'S WORLD Debate On Space Brave Words About Cuba tion and Justice authorities." (Oct. 15, 1960). "Should It ever appear that the lnter-Amcrlcan doctrine of non Intervention merely conceals or excuses a policy of non-action; if the nations of this Hemisphere should fail to meet tlioir commit ments against outside Commu nist penetration, then . . . this government will not hesitate in meeting lis primary obligations." (April 20, 1961). "Should the time ever come, we do not intend to be lectured on Intervention by those whose character W'as stamped for all time on the bloody streets of Budapest." (April 20, 1961). "The American people are not complacent about Iron Curtain tanks and planes less than 90 miles from our shores. The evi dence is clear and tlie hour is late. We cannot postpone any longer the real issue of the sur vival of freedom in this Hemis phere. On that Issue, (here is no middle ground." (April 20, 1081). "By helping you Uhc Cuban freedom lighters', the United States has been given the oppor tunity to demonstrate once and again that all men who light for freedom are our brothers, and shall be until your country and others are Irce." iDec. 29, 12. All of these "reckless." "ine sponsible" and "war wliooping" statements come, of course, Irom the speeches of Candidate Kenne dy and President Kennedy. They were made before he began ha rassing the Cuban exiles by con fining their leaders forcibly to Mi ami, by unleashing the Coast Guard and oilier government agen cies In prevent any raids on Cuba, and by informing on those nitr ating outside of U.S. coastal wa- if h i would, if not thus occupied, be now engaged in civilian research and technology. The space field today is loaded with young specialists who have found its extra ordinary challenges a powerful magnet. No one knows how many are there in re spoase to carefully framed appeals stressing the drama of space. No one knows how many would enter science and engineering at all if the prospect were simply to seek the absolutely silent ice box, the dirt-free carburetor and the shock proof television set. One problem in the modern mass produc tion civilian economy is that it is organized, from research through distribution, around the idea of the "big team," with individuals played down. Space programs, too, are team efforts. But their goals are in the realm of high ad venture, affecting the standing and the securi ty of nations caught in a vital struggle. Even the man in the white coat pushing minor but tons on a console has the feeling of crossing new frontiers. Without better evidence, therefore, it is unreasonably presumptive to argue that the moon project and other space work produces damaging scientific undernourishment in the civilian world. If the undernourishment is a fact, let industry find new lures. With our booming population, there will be plenty of men look-' Ing for rewarding work. ters (thereby leading to intercep tion and arrest by the British). They were made, it should also ho noted, before Mr. Kennedy be gan his long and secret corres pondence with Nikita Khrushchev before he made It clear that lhi Administration would not tol erate any invasion of Cuba from llic U.S. or the other American He-publics. "Communism is not negotiable in this Hemisphere," Mr. Kennedy said in April, 1961. To round out the picture, however, one more quotation must be added: "In what way have we retreat ed. one may ask. Socialist Cuba exists. Cuba remains a bastion of Marxist-Leninist ideas in the West ern Hemisphere. Tlie United Stales lias given a pledge not to invade Cuba ... Is this a retreat?" Tlie speaker: Nikita Khrushchev. THEY SAY... I do not expect to hibernate or stagnate. 1 plan to become a missionary . . . preaching the Sosiel of conservatism to those members (of Congress) who will listen and who may yet be saved to a happier future. Rep. Noah Morgan Mason, R III., retiring aftrr 13 terms In the House. Two hundred years ago we made a practice of treating luna tics as criminals. Nowadays we arc more inclined to treat crimi nals ns lunatics. Ilrllain'i Lady Woollon. The treasury of a union is not at the disposal of its olficers to bear the cost of their defense against charges of fraudulently depriving tlie members of their rights as members. Judge Charles Fahy of V S. Appeals Court tn Washington. In a case Involving the Teamslrrs. The motion picture industry's kettle of brew is being spoiled by too many cooks. And studios have become goulash houses where all the cooks o( Hie trade the established stars are wor shipped. Director Edward Dniylnk. We are in the midst of a na lional "Confidence (lame" in which the atlitudcs and emotions of our people are the stakes. Busi ness, labor and tlie government are each accusing the other of losing it. . . . It seems lo me tlwt the .time has come (or us all lo stop talking about ronfi dence and act as if e have some in ourselves and in our future. J. Doyle DeHIU, Insurance company president. OTHER EDITORS' OPINIONS Hof fa's Truck Still Rolls (The New York Times) James R. Hofla. president of the Teamsters Union, has repelled what many observers considered the most serious challenge to his prestige since the union's expul sion from the AFL-CIO for cor ruption in 1957. Truck drivers in Uie Philadelphia area voted 2 to I to reject a secession movement that was organized by anti-racket lorccs and was backed by George Mcany of tlie AFL-CfO. Hoffa's practices and associa tions are so offensive that it may seem difficult to explain why the rank and file should once again rally to his support. But we think the most obvious and also the most valid reason is that Hofla worked harder than any of his foes at mobilizing voles in the government-run election. He spent most of the last 13 weeks in Philadelphia, endeavor ing lo persuade the 8,000 team sters and their families that their interests would be best protected by sticking with him. He also . spent a good deal of his union's money and he made many reform promises he may find hard to keep. But, unlike the federation's high command, he did not con tent himself with Issuing stale mcnts from afar. Hoffa relied on the same vigor and perseverance that have made him invulnerable to the crit icisms heaped on him by two presidents of the United Stales, three secretaries of labor, the at torney general, dozens of con gressmen and many top unionists. Until his opponents within labor show an even greater determina tion, they are unlikely lo shake his grip on the country's biggest and slrongest union. Almanac By United Press International Today is Friday. May 10, the 130th day of I9i'v1 with 235 to lollow. The moon is approaching lis last quarter. The morning stars are Venus, Saturn and Jupiter. Tlie evening slar is Mars. On this day in history: In 1775. Ethan Allen and his "Green Mountain Boys." the colo nial militia of Vermont, stormed Die British-held fortress at Tiron deroga, N.Y. In ISM. Jefferson Davis, ton federate president, was captured and arrested as he was lleeing from Irwinville, t",a. In 194. a German army of HO divisions, moving by land, air and water, began a surprise invasion of Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. In 19,2. former President Dwich! Eisenhower accused President Kennedy of seeking too much power. A thought lor tlie day Ameri can lawyer Robert lngersoll said "In nature there are neither re wards nor punishments . . . there are consequences." 7m By SYDNEY J. HARRIS Parents simply do not know how children hear them. The things husbands and wives say to one another in the presence of children sound quite different to the ears of the children than to Uie ears of adults. This point was forcibly borne upon me a few Sundays ago, when my income tax man came over to help me prepare my re turns. We spent a few hours clos eted togelher, and when he left I walked into the kitchen for a badly needed cup of black coffee, and told my wife the grim news. My 8-year-old was munching a cookie in the pantry and over heard my wailing of voice, my gnashing of teeth, my pulling of hair. He then quietly walked over to me and slipped a quarter in my shirt pocket. "What's this for?" I asked in surprise. "It's all I've got lelt of my allowance for this week." he said. "If we're so poor, you'll need that to pay your taxes with." I was much moved. "Now it isn't all that bad." I explained tn him. "We're really not poor compared to many people, and actually I'm very grateful that we have what we have. It's just that income lax time makes most dad dies feel broke and hard put-upon. Tbanks, anyway." What picture must a child get of adult reality alter hearing a con slant stream of complaints and On Stage ACROSS 1 none on Iter 4 sun bn i I Shakeapeareao character 12 Vehicle 13 Skin openlnf 14 Skin affliction 15 Manner's direction 16 Hiywrlihti ! 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I was able to tell my boy about real poverty in the world and not too many blocks away from us with the assurance that we are an especially lucky family, and should thank God for our good for tune. This was a relatively easy matter to straighten out. But I happen to know, for in stance, a little girl whose mother is always complaining about a housewife's role how hard it is, how thankless, how martyred she has become to home and husband and children. Most of tlie lime, the woman docs not even know she is whining it is so much a part of her temperament. The lit t fe girl, however, will take her life's-cue from the moth er. Site will nqt accept her fem ininity, she will always feel cheat ed at not being a man, and will unconsciously resent men in later life. This kind of emotional crip pling is much more common than we think. Tlie only permanent gifts we can give our children are courage and cheerfulness and an accept ance of difficulties. If parents con stantly vocalize and exaggerate their resentments in th home, this becomes the child's inevitable concept of the world at large. Answer to Previous Punt. firm 10 Pnkrr dikt 11 ScMtith sheepfold 17 Pruned 19 Strainer 2A Juilet'i lover 24Tkiu fanat ) 2S Diimounted 2A Genus of gets 27 Ironical 2fl Hich cards : Mtrrteg .11 Mistake .1.1 Valueless Item .IB Nullify 40 Twists 41 Sphere of action 42 Formerly 4.1 r, unlock catch 44 Pronn 4ft Followers 47 Foot part 4 Give ear to MSrottnh can By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent - Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEA)-There's an important new factor in Unit ed States labor relations. It s Kaiser Steel's announcement of an $80 payment for March to 3,900 Fontana, Calif., plant work ers who already receive an aver age of $540 a month. This amounts to paying 46 cents an hour on top of a $3.14 hourly average wage for a 173-hour work month. The Kaiser plan was negotiat ed with United Stcelworkers Un ion beginning in 1959. but it was put in final form only last De cember and became effective March 1. From here on, the company and the union will In effect be negoti ating every month for a new sup plementary wage. It will be pay able from savings on current pro duction as compared to the cost of making a ton of steel in the base year 1961. As one industry spokesman com ments, "This . practically elimi nates strikes at Kaiser on econom ic issues." The company could still have strikes on working con ditions or fringe benefits, but eco nomic issues are the principal cause of all labor disputes. The big question is: What ef fect will this have on all other American labor relations and ne gotiations? More specifically, what effect will it have on the Stcelworkers' reopening their contract with big sleel? A key factor in the situation is David J. McDonald, Sleelworkers' president. He has been suffering from a virus, complicated by what has been called "negotiating hypo ehonria." But he is expected to take part in coming "human rela tions" talks between labor and management that are intended to head off a strike. Whether there will be a strike depends a great deal on McDon ald's leadership. The contract can be reopened on questions of wage rates, pen sions, job security questions such as subcontracting, overtime, and assignment of work lo supervisory personnel outside the union, it also can be reopened on fringe issues like the 13 weeks paid va cation every five years for work ers with IS years or longer serv ice. This lasl provision was negotiat WASHINGTON REPORT . . . Communists Ready To Take Over Haiti By FI LTON IEU1S JR. Castro agents, ferried across the Windward Passage to strife-torn Haiti, are hurrying the downfall of Dictator Francois Duvalier. A corrupt, tyrannical, brutal leader, Duvalier is the target of enemies right and left. It is an open secret that VS., as well as Cuban, agents are working behind the scenes to overthrow his re gime. Mat happens when Duvalier topples no one can he sure, but a New York Congressman thinks tlie Kremlin w ill have its second Caribbean satellite. Little more than a month a;o, Rep. John Pillion iR.. N.Y.i div patched to Secretary of State Dean Rusk a detailed letter in which he wrote that the "vital in terests of this na vi are at stake in the current struggle for politi c.il power in Haiti." 1'ilhon predicted a revoiutiunai v crisis in which Duvalier would be overthrown, in that case, he con t nued. Communist members of Duvalier'f cabinet would assume power and convert Haiti into a Castro-style regime. "I am authoritatively advised." Pillion wrote, "that neither the National Security Council. Uie State Department, nor the Central Intelligence Agency have formu lated any practical policies or strategies to prevent a Castro-type Communist takeover in Haiti in the event of insurrection." He told Rusk that Duvaiier's cabinet is honeycombed with Com munists and pro-Communists. Du vaiier's Minuter of Finance. Herve Boyer. is a longtime mem ber of the Communist Party w bo was expelled from Paris lor sub versive activities. He brought a Communist wile to Haili with him The Minister of Commerce and tjbor. Clovis Desinor. is one of IHivalier's closest advisers Dcm nor, sas PiKion. was leader ol the Haitian Communist Perrty in lM. Paul Jules Blanche, who ha served under Duvalier through eight cabinets, makes no secret of his Castro sympathies Dr Jacques Fourcand. chief adv is er to the "president," i violently anti-American. Shortly alter Rusk received Pil lion letter he sent Assistant Sec ed by the sleelworkers with can manufacturers. If applied to the whole steel in dustry, its cost has been estimat ed at the equivalent of 10 cents an hour average, or a 2.2 per cent wage raise. On the basis of steel industry productivity increases of 4.7 per cent over the last two years, steel workers might be entitled to de mand a "noninflationary" wage increase. Over tlie past five years, productivity has increased only 2.2 per cent. Over 15 years it has risen 3.4 per cent. Also, the cost of living increase might justify demands for a five to six-cents-an-hour increase. But the big question is what ef fect the steel companies' selective price increases may have on col lective bargaining. President Ken nedy has given these increases tentative approval. The Joint Eco nomic Committee under Sen. Paul Douglas. D-I11-, is investigating this problem, but has come up with no conclusions. The recent steel price increases , have been calculated as the equiv alent of only about 1 per cent, spread across basic steel pro duction. This in itself might not justify a wage increase. But the record shows that ever since the' bigger steel price in crease was announced and then withdrawn under White House pressure last year, the industry has been building up a case that price increases have been justi fied lo cover labor and materials costs. The statements, speeches and articles of U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough in particular, and the Iron and Sleel Institute's re search reports in general, em phasize justification for lasl year's announced price rise after the la bor contract w-as signed.. This contract provided for no wage increase the first year, end ing next July 1. Limited as the current price rises are. they have increased speculation that a wage increase will be asked. The only alternative would be something like the Kaiser long range sharing plan. It probably would be resisted to the last slag heap by big steel management, which frowned on the maverick Kaiser plan when it was first an nounced. It would give sleelwork ers far more take-home pay than they could possibly get from a straight hourly wage rise or any fringe benefits. retary of Slate Edward Martin to pacify the Congressman. Pillion pointed lo the country's strategic position: Should Haiti fall into the Communist orbit, then the most important channel in the Caribbean, the Windward Pas sage, would be flanked on one side by Red Cuba and the other by Red Haiti. Pillion today told my assistant Bill Schulz of Martin's visit: "I was hlunt. The Administration. I said, has formulated no plans to rescue Haiti from Soviet rule. Martin's explanations were un satisfactory. "I told him that three of Duva iier's ministers are pro-American, that we should do everything in our power to see to it that they win government control. I told mm. mo. inai we naa lorcea uuva lier In move to the left by cutting off all economic aid to his coun try." Pillion is aware thai Castro has trained Haitian "sugar workers" in the art of suhversion. He knows thai shipments of Soviet arms have been smuggled into Haiti in high speed vessels from Cuba. A State Department intelligence rert mumbcr 4489R-I2) earlier this year revealed that at least tun clandestine Communist politi cal organizations have become in rreasingly active in Haiti: Iba Party of Popular Accord and the People's National Liberation Par (v The Rroups, while relatively small in number, appear to be well organized and growing Thera is al-o increasing evidence of Com munist infiltration in the country's labor movement, the report revealed QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS A Acmrdlm tn the Bible, him lone diil Adam live? A-To Ihe je of n O-Wh.t material replaced cop per la t . renta Urla( World r II A -Ail prnniea in imi were mwl. of ,te , ,IW ,,
