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Friday, May 10. 19M
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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."
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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
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recriminations and self-pity from
one parent or the other? How is
the child to know that this exag
gerated verbal response is not a
faithful portrait of conditions in
adult life?
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.
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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
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